The Truth About Family by Victoria Ichizli-Bartels is a no frills, very directly written story about a young man from the Ukraine during World War II. He is looking back on his life and trying to find the family he was separated from, but doesn’t...

The Secret Diary of Mrs. John Quincy Adams: Wife of the Sixth President of the United States by Beatrice Cayzer takes us into the life of our sixth president, John Quincy Adams, who married the lovely English born Louisa Johnson after a two-year-long engagement. During...

The 5K Zone by Gary R. Hall is a misleadingly arid but keenly knowledgeable and subtly gripping account of provocative, breathtaking events occurring in the Sudetenland – later known as Czechoslovakia. In 1944, Peter (11) and Trudi (12) two ethnic Germans living in the town...

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...

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...

The Long Way Home is an inspirational and harrowing historical fiction drama by author Kevin Bannister. The novel’s central plot focuses on two slaves during the American revolution, who make their escape in a bid to enlist in the British army. There is young Murphy...