John Proctor is about to turn seventy when he decides to buy a small farmhouse on the outskirts of the now mostly desolate mill town where he had grown up. Nostalgia haunts his waking hours and he often reminisces about the happier times in his...

Madame Curie's Piano Tuner by Steven Barron is a literary fiction novel of epic proportions that follows alongside, behind and often out ahead of one Raymond Dover, an amnesiac and member of the honorable profession of piano tuning, who happens to be an outsider in...

Mango Blood by Maryvonne Fent is the historical fiction sequel to Fent's novel, The 35-cent Dowry, and picks up where the previous book left off. For those who have not read the first book, the main protagonist is Minouche, a young Frenchwoman, who married her...

Mind the Gap by Thomas Maurstad is a novel with plenty of drama and action that will keep you entertained for hours. Justin Mayhaps was not over the death of his wife and the constant dreams about her being just out of his reach were...

Magnolia Song: A Saga of the New South by J. Robert Towery is a monumental saga of love, loss, community, and familial relationships, set in Memphis, Tennessee, and elsewhere around the deep south of the United States. It tells of the interlocking relationships within a...

Maggie's Story by Diana Stout tells us about a young girl from the Bowery, an impoverished suburb of New York. The events take place at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. Maggie lives in poverty. She struggles to get...

My Dearest Miss Fairfax: What Jane Austen's Emma Didn't Know by Jeanette Watts is a love story revolving around Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill. Jane is a poor girl but has been allowed to grow up in a rich family. Frank is a young man...

Nick Adano, a college graduate, is a pretty average young guy, who is at a life crossroads, torn between enjoying the carefree lifestyle caused by unemployment after getting out of college and finally marrying the girl of his dreams. When life chooses for him,...

When I reflect on Moss by Joe Pace, three words come to mind immediately: deep, unique, and extraordinary. All three adjectives apply to Pace’s characters, plot, themes, and style...in fact, everything about this novel. Quite honestly, I cannot get this exquisite literary novel out of...

My Name on a Grain of Rice by Richard Voigt is a slice-of-life drama novel that follows the story of Harry Travers, a young man trying to find a place for himself in life. Tired of the lifestyle envisioned by his parents, Harry Travers leaves...