Primarily set in early eighteenth-century London, The Adventures of Tom Finch, Gentleman by Lucy May Lennox is a picaresque tale of a blind music master who triumphs over his disability to lead a thoroughly (dis)honorable life. It is a merry romp from start to finish....

The Dead Kids Club is an intense thriller by Rich Hosek. A divorced father narrates how the life of his young son ended too soon. As he drops his son Nick at school, the boy grabs his backpack and rushes to join the other first...

The Band Room is a coming of age story written by Bob Seay. Angel is a typical teenager and high school football player whose life is turned upside down when he gets a court-ordered sentence of 90-hour community service due to an accidental scuffle with...

The Narrows by Mark Zvonkovic takes us back to the late sixties/early seventies in a psychological tale about cult addiction. Larry Brown and his longtime pal Hal, in a Cambridge, Massachusetts bar, witness a ruckus in which two oddly clean-cut young men wrestle with another,...

Pete Dawson, a British man in his mid-fifties, is dealing with a number of changes in the past few years. He was recently divorced; his ex-wife moved to New York and only one of his grown children lives with him, while the other two live...

The Market Stall Girl by AnneMarie Brear centers around Beth Beaumont, a young woman who lives with her middle-class family on a farm and spends her day at the stall selling their fruits and vegetables. Noah Jackson is a coal miner living with his brothers,...

The daughter of humble parents, Ginny never in her wildest dreams believed she could study at a place as prestigious as Wilson Grange. When one of her teachers applied for financial assistance, Ginny was thrilled to be accepted into such a school. The prime target...

The Fitzgeralds of Dublin series box set by Lorna Peel is comprised of the first three books of this historical family saga, taking place in Dublin in the 1880s. The protagonists, Will Fitzgerald and Isobel Stevens, meet in the first book, A Scarlet Woman. Isobel,...

The FBI is called in when a young boy disappears from his New York City high-rise apartment, and readers of The Boy Who Cried Christmas by Dennis Bailey are off on an adventure that might be described as “It’s a Wonderful Life” meets “Polar Express”...

The Travels of ibn Thomas depicts a man's struggle to save his soul, gain recognition as a physician, and learn the truth about his father in a medieval world disrupted by the contrasting interests of Christians, Muslims, and Judaists. Born a Muslim and baptized in...