The Day I Saw the Hummingbird by Paulette Mahurin follows the adventures and life of Oscar, a young black slave in the heartlands of Louisiana around the time of the Civil War. Oscar and his mother dream of freedom and a life of dignity and...

A Newfound Land by Anna Belfrage is the fourth book in the time travel series The Graham Saga, which is preceded by book one, A Rip in the Veil, book two, Like Chaff in the Wind, and book three, The Prodigal Son. Time traveler Matthew...

Some authors possess a very subtle but potent knack for continuously compelling their reader’s attention, a talent for plotting and presence that makes the avid reader almost unwittingly keep turning pages. Most assuredly, author Ben Wyckoff Shore possesses this particular knack, and his desperately good...

In The Shadow of Two Gods is the first book in the Solar Wind series by Oleg Krasin. This is the story of the last good Emperor of Rome, where his story began and how he became a ruler. From the time Marcus was a...

Andro, A Knight of Tenby by Ronnda Eileen Henry takes the reader back to medieval times to the mysterious island of Penruddock. Andro Erhard was just eight years old when he was orphaned and sent to live with his grandparents. His heart was bitter over...

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...