An edifying, lesson-filled historical novel, "Olivia" focuses on a girl’s efforts to make her community an equitable one. Covering a decades-long path toward social equality, Alejandro Benavides’s inspired historical novel "Olivia"... Read More

A message of love and equality is centered in "Magda Revealed", a piquing alternative historical novel that reconstitutes a figure whose significance was buried in the Bible. In Ursula Werner’s illuminating novel "Magda Revealed", Mary... Read More

A teenager on a farm shoulders increasing responsibilities to help her family and community in the moralistic historical novel "Gold". The fourth book in a series, Linda Jane Niedfeldt’s standalone historical novel "Gold" is about an... Read More

Men’s morals are tested during the Revolutionary War in the thoughtful novel "The Monmouth Manifesto", about loyalty, espionage, and the consequences of following orders. In James Arnett’s dramatic historical novel "The Monmouth... Read More

A once ordinary dentist courts intrigue with his inventive spying technique in the amiable thriller "The Saudi Oil Gambit". In Reginald Nelson’s thriller "The Saudi Oil Gambit", unlikely heroes concoct an unusual plan to thwart... Read More

Spanning decades, including China’s Cultural Revolution and the Vietnam War, the historical novel "Wu Lou" is both poignant and tragic. In Lu Xinhua’s affecting, ultimately hopeful historical novel "Wu Lou", love, philosophy, and joy... Read More

In Cécile Desprairies’s disquieting historical novel "The Propagandist", a woman reflects on her mother’s experiences as a World War II collaborator. Coline, Lucie’s youngest daughter, contrasts her mother’s duplicitous past... Read More

A whaler and his wife experience a tragedy and new beginnings in Cynthia Reeves’s poignant historical novel "The Last Whaler". Tor loves whaling. Each summer, he leaves his family in Norway and sails to icy Svalbard to hunt. But... Read More