The Seven Year Dress by Paulette Mahurin tells of the rise of Nazism in Germany and the concentration camps, as related by aged survivor Paulette Mahurin to a young nursing student who rents a room in her apartment. There have been numerous holocaust memoirs, but...

Goodbye Russia, Hello America by Janet S. Kleinman is a moving fictional depiction of a family of Russian immigrants. It is a wonderful story of how they adjust to and become a part of their new country. Life had been difficult in Russia and Ida's...

The tides of politics are ever changing and this is not so different throughout the centuries. After the Elizabethan era, the Stuart kings represented a time of great unease. Those who frequented the Royal Court were always on their guard as to what they said...

“The soul has no face, no gender or color, no sexuality, or even a nationality to call its own. Regardless of how many lives it lives, it just simply is.” Bender by Alexander Rigby explores the transcendence of reincarnation, where two people - botanist Riley...

Tennessee Yankee by Herb Hughes is a historical fiction novel set in the era of the Civil War and its aftermath. Tennessee Yankee is essentially the life story of Aaron Richardson, the son of a plantation owner in the South. The story begins with an...

Camelot & Vine by Petrea Burchard is a blend of historical fiction and science fiction. Casey Clemens, a 39-year-old actress, seems to have it all: a solid career, a famous (but also married) boyfriend, and a life in Hollywood. The day before she turns 40,...

Terror Holiday by Simon Guest is a thrilling short story about a family on holiday in extreme circumstances. Caught in a military coup, Simon Tomkins and his family experience a holiday from hell. In the past, they have had delightful holidays on the Turkish coast....

How to Seduce a Queen by Stella Marie Alden is the story of Lady Fay and Nicholas Bruce. Lady Fay is a queen without her true crown, surrounded by rumors and people that just want to control her even though she wants something different out...

Dead Fish Jumping on the Road is a hard-boiled detective mystery novel written by W.L. Liberman. Joe Simpson had worked for the Applewood Gazette for three years now, but Norma Jennings's drowned body was the first death the twenty-six-year-old reporter had covered. She had been...

It's a bold task to take on writing a 400-page plus book based on the life of an obscure English midwife who lived in the 1600s. But that is the challenge Annelisa Christensen gave herself with The Popish Midwife, after studying court transcripts about the...