Lady Catherine’s Lover by Margaret Lynette Sharp is a short story about a love affair that takes place very quickly after the death of Hubert de Bourgh’s wife, Maria. Hubert sends for Catherine to join him in London. Elizabeth and Darcy, Catherine’s niece-in-law and nephew,...

The Wolf and the Lion: A Medieval Novel is the first entry in The Chronicles of the Coin by Alaric Longward. It is a powerful tale with characters of substance, set against the backdrop of feudal Germany in the medieval era, a society characterized by...

Katharine’s sister had gifted her a journal for Christmas in which she would be writing as a garden journal. However, Katharine wondered what she could write about related to her garden, as she believed it to be very little. Therefore, Katharine begins this journal on...

Circle of Time by Debra Shiveley Welch is a fascinating time travel story with powerful historical hints, a sensational romance, and a painful betrayal, a tale with compelling characters like Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and Bridget Littleton. Bridget Littleton is a twenty-one-year-old girl and...

Poignant and hypnotic, Following Shadows: A World War II Novel about Japanese Concentration Camps, the Impact on Families and Triumph of the Human Spirit by Janneke Jobsis Brown is a historical novel that explores the damaging effects of an experience of a Japanese concentration camp...

Vala's Bed by Joyce Faulkner is a historical fiction novel that looks at the aftermath of the Second World War from a refreshingly unique angle. A young German girl, Vala Hess, finds herself alone with her two little boys, Emo and Milo, when Germany lost...

Despite his privileged life and a prepared position in the lucrative family business in Boston, Rolfe Honeywell is disillusioned with his future. Unable to take his nonchalant approach to life any longer, Rolfe’s stepmother, Metta Maria, sends him to Mira Loma, her family's ranch in...

Paris, Adrift by Vanda is an engrossing novel about a woman in the 1950s, working as an artist manager for a famous singer. The singer, Juliana, was trying to recover after a poor career move, and it’s Al’s job to help her. They head to...

David Cornish's 1980: The Emergence of HIV is a novel of historical fiction that begins with an introduction to the titular virus 14 million years prior on an East African island, and continues in a chronological and detailed timeline to its proliferation in the 1980s...

Reading a novel like Escape From Vietnam: For Some The Vietnam War Never Ended by Howard Cohen is so much more than enjoying an intricate, riveting plot and engaging with realistic and touching characters. It’s an opportunity for enlightenment, not just about the horrors experienced...