Spies, Espionage & Explosions is a what-if page-turner with a compelling historical proposal at its center. Don Kane’s Spies, Espionage & Explosions is an excellent historical novel about one of the lesser-known tragedies in... Read More

For all its courtly manners and Renaissance intrigue, "Love That Moves the Sun" distills into a delicate portrayal of one woman’s search for depth. Linda Cardillo’s "Love That Moves the Sun" centers on Vittoria Colonna and... Read More

"Beer and Gasoline" is a fun Cold War mystery that cruises through the desert with some old-school spies. John Knoerle’s engaging historical mystery "Beer and Gasoline" blends 1960s Cold War spying and western counterculture. The novel... Read More

"A Time to Remember" is a dramatic historical romance with endearing characters. Jan Hendrix’s engaging romance "A Time to Remember" follows star-crossed lovers as they navigate a postwar world, separated by society but always thinking... Read More

Red Dove is the adolescent heroine of this thoughtful historical novel for middle grade readers set in the Dakota Territory in 1890-91. She is the daughter of a white settler and a Lakota Sioux mother, though she and her half-brother... Read More

"Darling Girl" is an often engrossing and heartbreaking story of neglect. Terry H. Watkins’s novel "Darling Girl" follows a girl through her dysfunctional childhood and toward escape. The novel opens when DG is five. Her mother has a... Read More

Jim Halverson’s "Trials and Trails" is a panorama of the Old West overlaid by psychological theory. In Jim Halverson’s "Trials and Trails", two disaffected cowboys search for new lives in the post–Civil War West. LeRoy is an... Read More

Ultimately heartwarming despite its macabre circumstances, "No Straight Thing" is an engrossing historical mystery. In F. Nelson Smith’s character-driven novel, "No Straight Thing", a murder mystery connects a war veteran and a young... Read More