The post-Civil War era was a difficult time for people in both the north and the south. Old anger didn’t die easily and this anger fueled many politically motivated activists, particularly amongst soldiers from the south. One group included the man who would become a...

Murcheson County by Rodney Page takes the reader back to the dark days of America’s South when the frontier hinterlands of Georgia were first being opened up for settlement and farming, all on the backs of the Negro slaves. Maureen Salter is reflecting back on...

Promised Land by Mark Warren concludes the well-researched and satisfying trilogy on the life of Wyatt Earp. Promised Land refers to Tombstone, Arizona in the early 1880s, "the town too tough to die", where Wyatt and his brothers hoped to make their fortunes. While Promised...

Evie: Pendleton Petticoats by Shanna Hatfield takes place in Oregon in 1913. Flynn Elliott thinks that courting and falling in love are “sentimental claptrap.” However, soon Flynn meets and is fascinated by Evie, whom he first thinks must be an “astounding figment of his imagination”...

Only seventeen years old, Marilyn VanHoosen, a victim of tuberculosis, was confined to the Trudeau Sanitorium for months. Her mother, Mildred, had refused to have her vaccinated and then seemed angry that Marilyn contracted the disease. Marilyn had recently discovered that her father, Pierre, had...

Veneration of the Hunter by Ren Behan is a coming of age prehistoric fiction novel that follows a young man who has been removed from his clan in order to complete the rite of passage. He is meant to hunt but struggles in accomplishing this...

Enemy At The Gate is a work of historical fiction set during the effects of the Second World War and was penned by author Mary D. Brooks. Written as the opening novel of the Women of the Resistance series, this novel focuses on the invasion...

Billy by Shirley Dawson tells the story of 7-year-old Billy throughout the Second World War. Billy thinks nothing of air raids, they are just a part of his life, until a bomb drops on his school. Scared, he is torn from his family and sent...

Matamoros by James Kahn is a rollicking Civil War adventure with strong hints of romance, set in the Rio Grande in 1863. It is a turbulent period with war going on. With the Confederate ports all blocked by the Union, Matamoros remained the only access...

The Tsar's Locket is written by Ken Czech. In 16th century-London, disgraced sea captain Julian Blunt is coming to terms with losing his young wife when he is called upon by Queen Elizabeth to undertake a dangerous mission. Her request that he delivers a betrothal...