Ludwika: A Polish Woman's Struggle To Survive In Nazi Germany is an historical novel written by Christoph Fischer. The author based this novel on the actual life and experiences of Ludwika Gierz. In the later part of 1939, Ludwika was 22 years old and the...

Set primarily in the small cotton community of Money, Mississippi, the story begins in 1925 on Estella’s eighth birthday and follows her life through tribulation and triumph as she grows into a young woman. With her family to support her emotionally, Estella escapes virtual slavery...

Growing up, Victoria Woodhull — the sixth of ten children — knew nothing but abuse at the hands of her father, poverty, and all sorts of dysfunctional family ties. Her first marriage proves even worse than the family she was born into. In spite of...

To Live Out Loud: A Novel by Paulette Mahurin is not only a novel, it’s a good primer on the Dreyfus case, a cause celebre in late 19th century France that highlighted the issue of French anti-Semitism. In To Live Out Loud, the story is...

The Abduction of Nelly Don by Patrice Williams Marks is a historical fiction novel based on the real kidnapping of Nell Donnelly during the 1930s Great Depression. Nell grew up poor, but had a knack for making her own clothing. When she was old enough,...

The Austrian: A War Criminal’s Story by Ellie Midwood opens with a short prologue entitled “Nuremberg prison, October 1946.” Ernst Kaltenbrunner, a former leader of the Austrian SS, has been tried by the International Military Tribunal and sentenced to hang. He is preparing to meet...

This story is accurately and graphically set against the bitter and bloody battles that comprise the Wars of the Roses, and the tangled politics of a disputed throne. Queen of Trial and Sorrow begins with Susan Appleyard showing Elizabeth Woodville as the placidly contented wife...

Till Father’s Found by Jackson Adams is a novel set against the backdrop of a distant historical period with political turbulence and wars. But the author has done a remarkable job in creating a riveting story within the context of an almost forgotten history. Two...

Wynfield's Kingdom: A Tale of the London Slums by Marina Julia Neary is a historical fiction set in the 1830s in the heart of one of London's most notorious slums. Dr. Thomas Grant adopts a ten-year-old thief who was beaten for disobeying his gang leader....

Flowers and Stone by Jan Sikes is a historical fiction and romance rolled into one enticing true story. It shares an intense love story that takes place in the loud and fun Texas honky-tonks in 1970. Darlina Flowers isn't prepared for any man to come...