Letters to Whitman: A Short Story by Margo Laurie is a moving, brilliantly conceived short piece imaginatively composed of a Union soldier’s Civil War letters from hospitals and battlefields to Walt Whitman. The letters are written by one Private Nat Gwynnett who hypothetically meets Whitman...

It's the 1880s in the US. Not long after her lover is killed in a racial dispute, Sequoia contemplates ideas about improving how her fellow Native Americans are treated by the Whites. With a supposedly brilliant idea in mind, she markets her almond milk in...

Kennedy Girl by Caitlin Hicks is a gripping story about Annie Shea, a young woman who gets mixed up in the social and political unrest of the 1960s. Annie is having a hard time figuring out where she fits in a world that is changing....

Margaret Anne: Child of the West Wind is a work of fiction in the historical fiction, Western, and interpersonal drama subgenres. It is best suited to the general adult reading audience. Penned by author Ronan James Cassidy, this captivating historical drama delves into the life...

A Star to Sail By is an LGBTQ romance novel by Joy Lynn Fielding set in the 1700s that follows the story of Crispin and Billy. Crispin Merrick, a former naval officer, knows exactly what he wants from life: get called back to the navy,...

The Drau River Flows to Siberia: The Victims of Victory by Marina Osipova exposes barely known aspects of World War II through fictional characters and experiences that are inspired by real stories. We follow two main characters seeking to escape the inhumane acts that surround...

Samuel Quist sells everything he owns and leaves Independence, Missouri, for Oregon for a new beginning and greener pastures. With the tense political climate and war, the move seems like the best option for his family. He takes his wife, Elizabeth, children, Zeke and Mary,...

On the Wings of the Red-Tailed Hawk by Gail Combs Oglesby is set in the founding days of colonial Massachusetts. Told in the voice of a fictional Mayflower passenger named Sarah, it vividly depicts the tremendous challenges, hardships, and suffering the colonists faced as they...

In Bailed Up by Michael Beashel, Irish stonemason Gerry Riordan seeks approval from Anne Donovan's father, James Donovan, to marry her. While working on crafting doors for St. Mary's Cathedral, Donovan negotiates a contract with Sean Hughes, hiring Dougal Simpson, who conceals his ties to...

Lee Richie writes a story based on certain true events in the book Black Bones, Red Earth. Told in two parts, the author follows a ten-year-old English girl, Katherine Bowers, to the Stewarts’ homestead in Australia. Nursing a sad past, Katherine hopes only to find...