In 1925, Rita Reilly was born to a middle-class Irish family and grew up in a sheltered home with lots of love. Her family is well-off financially, owning a booming grocery and newsagent store with their living quarters above. When her family travels to Wicklow...

The Shingle Weaver’s Picnic by P.C. Smith is a sweeping murder mystery told through the eyes of a young girl as she and her younger brother sort out the effects of their late mother. Annie Elizabeth Jordan, Cricket to her friends, was just a child...

Ragtown by Kelly Stone Gamble is an excellent historical novel. Helen resides in one of the labor camps alongside the families of the dam employees, attempting to survive the difficulties of the Great Depression. Helen is by herself after her father passes away. She resolves...

Hardened Steel: A Warrior's Odyssey is a work of fiction penned by author Victor Gregor in the historical fiction, military, and cultural subgenres. It is best suited to the general adult reading audience. Readers are invited into a gripping historical novel set against the backdrop...

The Wall at the Sugar Factory by Sherry V. Ostroff is a heartrending and yet ultimately triumphal essay on man’s continuing inhumanity against his fellow man, especially as it pertains to European Jews. Long before the recognized Holocaust, Jews in Eastern Europe especially were already...

Einstein is quoted as saying that “time is relative.” What he meant is that time is dependent on a person’s frame of reference. Thus, if the frame of reference alters, so does one’s perspective on time. That’s what happened to Fran. In Jane O’Brien’s first...

Wilderness of the Heart by Jason Bergeron is a captivating and immersive adventure tale set in the early 19th century. A young Swedish boy named Jacob embarks on a remarkable journey of survival, self-discovery, and cultural transformation. At the tender age of nine, Jacob's life...

The Red-Hot Blues Chanteuse: A Viola Vermillion Vaudeville Mystery by Ana Brazil is a twisting, cleverly plotted murder mystery set in the vaudeville theater of post-World War I, San Francisco. Viola Vermillion and her pianist, songwriter, and lover, Stu Wiley, are determined to reach the...

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...