Racial prejudice drives the action of this historical novel. In "The Cottoncrest Curse", the debut novel by Michael H. Rubin, an old family curse explains a murder-suicide on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation. The official explanation... Read More

Romance and history blend in this story of a 13th-century queen. Despite her significance in the history of Turkey, Mahperi Hatun is not a familiar name in the West, nor is that of her husband, the Seljuk Sultan Alaeddin Keykubad I.... Read More

Rich historical detail roots this story of a strong, sassy woman in Tudor England. England during the reign of King Henry VIII was a treacherous place. One minute it’s the Catholics who are in favor, the next it’s the Protestants.... Read More

With this group of colorful characters, readers can become immersed in Patterson and O’Connell’s detail about oil-drilling work. Drilling for oil is a rough job, and the novel "Roughnecks", by James J. Patterson and Quinn O’Connell... Read More

Parallel stories regarding the sinking of the Titanic elegantly show the grief process and how we reflect on mortality. Michelle Baker’s "The Canoe" takes us from land to sea with its dual narrative voices of Katherine Chambers, a... Read More

Bell examines the ugly clash between civilizations on the American frontier through an artistic, lyrical prism. With intense characterizations and a solid grasp of time and place, Catherine Bell’s literary historical novel delves into... Read More

The detailed setting of this historical romance creates the atmosphere of a Victorian novel. Quicksand: A Family Foundation, by Victoria Thomas, is a story of love, marriage, and family in mid-to-late 1800s France. With close... Read More

In this fictional memoir, Podovinikoff crafts a humane portrait of a stigmatized and misunderstood group, the Doukhobor. Intimate, revealing, and educational, In the Greenhouse: A Doukhobor Story of the 60s through the Eyes of the 80s,... Read More