Slavia is not immune to the wave of changes across the Eastern Bloc countries brought about by Perestroika. Even the police, who had been trained to suppress demonstrations against the regime, looked on, as this was what the people wanted. Ionescu had been the president...

Facts serve as the inspiration for Rowena Kinread's The Matchstick Boy. Jakob began working in a matchstick factory at a very young age. Ramun, the manufacturing director's ten-year-old son, was always getting into trouble. Whenever Jakob saw Ramun, a negative event would occur. Before Josef...

A Winter Gathering by Marina Koulouri is a collection of short stories that display the complexities of human nature, history, culture, and music. Its protagonists are seen engaging in a variety of problems, including unrequited love, loss, war, prejudice, loneliness, and societal expectations. In The...

Till I Come Home by Gail Combs Oglesby is the second book of The Centenary Chronicles, Tales of American Women series, and is set during the impending American Revolutionary War against the British occupation in the mid-1700s. It is the story of an American-born wife...

Lottie Crawford would much rather sequester herself in her employer's library to read the books, but that is a nearly unattainable goal. Her mother's health issues and her wayward brother make life difficult for the family, who barely manage to make ends meet, much less...

In Anna Bright Is Hiding Something by Susie Orman Schnall, Anna Bright, the smart and well-known creator of BrightLife and a biosensor pioneer, is the epitome of achievement, and she is everything Jamie has ever dreamed of being. After an interview at Vanity Fair, Jamie...

Mary had no idea how her life was about to change when a mysterious man took her from the Barlow home for a midnight ride in a carriage because she "had the look.” What look did she have? The distinct features of the Sommelroux family,...

Though she is no longer flying because of occasional blackouts, Kate Fisher is a pilot, just like her father. Currently, she is working with search and rescue and is helping investigate a plane crash in Adirondack Park. What she doesn't know is that the plane...

Todd Knight’s The Posh Prepper is a dystopian novel featuring crisis planner Nick Ritter. He learns that his boss promised he would check the mining operation. After a disaster in the mine, Nick opens his disaster preparation firm for high-paying clients. His brother calls him...

An Island Long Ago by Julie Burnette Feingold is a heart-wrenching story that spans many decades and multiple generations, following the lineage of one family. Each person in the family goes through experiences that shape their being, from an ambitious man to a cold-hearted mother...