As the United States expanded in the 1800s, Native Americans lost their customs and culture, as well as their lives, to disease and warfare. Set during that tumultuous period, Barnard McEntire’s Journey to Oxford: A Love Story is the... Read More

"A Whale Goes Down" traces the story of a man through five tumultuous decades. The book opens as readers are introduced to the harsh environment of the Chukotka frontier. The main character, Igor, the son of a Russian/Polish father and a... Read More

…Nor Shall My Sword… by Aldreg Welles has the feel of a nineteenth-century British novel. The author’s project, a modern imitation of an old beloved English novel, is successful but flawed. Welles tells the story of an English... Read More

Civil War fiction from a Southern perspective will always find legions of readers among history buffs and battle reenactors. However, such novels risk obscuring the unsavory aspects of Southern culture in favor of continuing reverence... Read More

Fans of combat-based video games and action movies will find Peter Soronen’s The Vulture’s Crucible a satisfying read—one that’s focused on engagements between the Nazis and the British armed forces and Dutch resistance fighters.... Read More

John Loranger knows how to start a story. From the very first line of his new novel, The Odyssey of Art O’Hara, he grabs readers and pulls them right along with his protagonist, Petty Officer Art O’Hara of the US Navy. The narrative... Read More

This unconventional historical novel set during the Russian Revolution focuses on Lenin’s wife, Nadya Krupskaya, and not her more famous husband. Nadya is already committed to the revolution when she meets Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, the... Read More

At its best, historical fiction allows the reader to become immersed in another world, presenting a character’s life and issues in a way that fully develops the setting. The Raven’s Heart, the story of a disinherited, tenacious girl... Read More