The Book of Uriel by Elyse Hoffman is a mesmerizing work of historical fiction. Set during the Holocaust of World War 2, a ten-year-old boy named Uriel has always been on the outside looking in. He was born mute and ironically lives in a village...

The Narrows by Mark Zvonkovic takes us back to the late sixties/early seventies in a psychological tale about cult addiction. Larry Brown and his longtime pal Hal, in a Cambridge, Massachusetts bar, witness a ruckus in which two oddly clean-cut young men wrestle with another,...

The Market Stall Girl by AnneMarie Brear centers around Beth Beaumont, a young woman who lives with her middle-class family on a farm and spends her day at the stall selling their fruits and vegetables. Noah Jackson is a coal miner living with his brothers,...

When the small rural town of Clover, Texas loses the one man who maintained law and order, the town seeks a replacement. The only problem is they don’t want to have to pay a salary. Darlene Nightingale points this out quite clearly. Their only recourse...

The Fitzgeralds of Dublin series box set by Lorna Peel is comprised of the first three books of this historical family saga, taking place in Dublin in the 1880s. The protagonists, Will Fitzgerald and Isobel Stevens, meet in the first book, A Scarlet Woman. Isobel,...

The Other Side of Eden by Fazle Chowdhury, a family epic, begins in 1947 as Sultan Aslan tries to restore peace and harmony within his province. He is pressured from both East and West who try to convince the Sultan that they can help to...

The Road to Ladysmith: The Last Imperial War by Nigel Seed is the second installment in the gripping Michael McGuire Trilogy. After his life-threatening escapade in Sudan and recovering from his wounds, Captain McGuire sails south as the government is having trouble with the Boer...

The Travels of ibn Thomas depicts a man's struggle to save his soul, gain recognition as a physician, and learn the truth about his father in a medieval world disrupted by the contrasting interests of Christians, Muslims, and Judaists. Born a Muslim and baptized in...

In the little Bavarian town of Fussen, Karl is an intelligent university student whose life is books, learning, and thinking. Karl is also a closet homosexual. His mother is aware of Karl’s preferences and accepts it. His father does not. Despite Karl and his lover’s...

David Hatton masterfully blends history with detective crime fiction in The Exhumation. The year is 1876. A sense of indignation immediately brews inside you as you read in the prologue that a group of grave robbers is stealing Abraham Lincoln from his eternal repose. In...