"Some Damn Fool Thing" is excellent and nuanced historical fiction. The first in a planned series, J. William Whitaker’s historical novel "Some Damn Fool Thing" explores the historical and social changes and conflicts leading up to... Read More

"Wild World" is an able portrait of a divisive era, one in which characters sympathetically work to find meaning through chaos and to effect positive change. "Wild World" by Peter S. Rush is a riveting exploration of one man trying to... Read More

Absorbing, memorable, and moving, "Echo of the Past" is a fully imagined tale of lives caught in the jaws of history. The tragic and entwined histories of twentieth-century Russia and Germany are brought poignantly to life in in Polina... Read More

"The Last Crusader Kingdom"’s ultimate seduction is the enchantment of Cyprus itself. "The Last Crusader Kingdom" by Helena P. Schrader is a complex, intriguing historical novel. Taking place after the events in Schrader’s Jerusalem... Read More

The book’s riveting main character proves to be Haight-Ashbury itself, at its tumultuous peak. Susan Knapp’s "The House on Masonic" goes back to the summer of love to explore the hippie movement from its ground zero: the... Read More

"A Prophet without Honor" takes an approach to history that is both inventive and meticulous. Joseph Wurtenbaugh’s A Prophet without Honor: A Novel of Alternative History depicts a world in which the rise of Adolf Hitler in the 1930s... Read More

A riveting page turner, "Rhode Island Rendezvous" delights and informs, offering a fresh take on the seafaring novel. Linda Collison’s "Rhode Island Rendezvous" thrills as a hard-to-put-down historical novel of nautical derring-do.... Read More

This is a significant book that resurrects a painful past and makes pertinent a little-known but crucial act of rebellion at Auschwitz. "The Trumpets of Jericho" by J. Michael Dolan is a complex historical novel that examines the revolt... Read More