A soldier navigates racism in the US military in the revealing historical novel "Mud Men". During World War II, an immigrant soldier in the US Army gets a lesson in leadership and racism in J. A. Nunn’s historical novel "Mud Men". In... Read More

A Black girl comes of age, refining her conceptions of love and family, in Avery Irons’s incandescent historical novel "Belonging to the Air", set amid the Great Migration. In the early twentieth century, Bird is raised apart from the... Read More

In the vivid historical novel "Dancing on the Brink of the World", a man comes into his own in a place teeming with frontier potential and multicultural influences. In Marianne T. Rafter’s intriguing historical novel "Dancing on the... Read More

A Vestal virgin defends her honor to save her life in Victoria Alvear’s "The Cleansing", a riveting novel set in an ancient Rome. At a time when the “truth no longer matters” and misogyny, violence, and superstition reign,... Read More

A sheltered, orphaned heiress begins to question the secrets in her estate’s basement in Isabelle Schuler’s riveting mystery novel "The House of Barbary". Bern’s citizens marked Beatrice as strange in her childhood. Cut out of her... Read More

Romantic subplots are used to explore feminine power in "Lady of Lincoln", a heady historical novel involving high-stakes political maneuvering. In Rachel Elwiss Joyce’s engaging historical novel "Lady of Lincoln", a spirited... Read More

In pandemic lockdown together, family members from four generations are prompted to share their stories in the revealing historical novel V Immigrastsii. Four generations of a Russian Jewish family share their memories of fleeing from... Read More

A woman with deep family ties to the American war machine navigates changing political landscapes with aplomb in the historical novel "The Hidden Front Line". An American wife and mother witnesses the impacts of war on the men in her... Read More