“Wake up, O Hindus, wake up! … Let us pick up rifles and become soldiers worthy of defending our country,” exhorted Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, a Brahmin Hindu yogi, poet, playwright, political prisoner, and founder of the secret... Read More

Interweaving ancient and contemporary events through the lives of two women in "The Beach at Herculaneum", first-time novelist Susan G. Muth takes a page or two from Anya Seton’s Green Darkness and Daphne du Maurier’s The House on... Read More

As wonderful and elegant a saga as Chronicles of Iona: Exile was, Paula de Fougerolle’s sequel is even better. The first volume in the series took its twin protagonists from boyhood to early manhood; the second brings them to their... Read More

In "The Runaway Horses", Joyce Kotzè tells a fictionalized account of the Second Anglo-Boer War in South Africa, a war in which her own grandfathers fought on opposite sides. Dutch (Boer) settlers in Transvaal and the Orange Free State... Read More

Detailed and fantastical story and drawings of grave robber’s son’s research of congenital deformities. The nineteenth century is remembered in American culture as a time of optimism, expansion, and scientific advancement. But one... Read More

End of a Silence: Full Moon over Fox Prairie, by Willard D. Gray, is an absorbing historical tale set in a small Illinois town shortly after the Civil War. The citizens struggle against the forces of nature, corruption, and greed as they... Read More

The “glory seekers” of 1861, as David C. Reavis calls his ancestors and others who answered the call to the colors, soon learned that war was anything but glorious. In "Upon These Steps", Reavis chronicles the experiences of two... Read More

Shakespeare’s MacBeth and the character who slew him, Malcolm, were based on real people. In his novel "Saints and Heroes", Andrew Schultz brings his king slayer to life in a far less heroic but much more accurate manner than... Read More