Sheldon Greene’s "Pursuit of Happiness" is a rousing, richly detailed piece of historical fiction set during the American Revolution. Equal parts adventure and romance, and teeming with colorful characters, the novel tells the story of... Read More

Author Kelly J. O’Grady puts faces and personalities to individual soldiers in this historical novel that is based on the true story of the 54th Massachusetts, the Union’s first Negro unit of the Civil War. On a stage in... Read More

It is rare that a book is palatable like a well-sauced scaloppini that demands to be enjoyed slowly, bite by bite. "Early Pleasures" by Frederick Kohner is such a book. Kohner was born in Bohemia in 1905 in a family and place that,... Read More

The Vietnam War is one of the most tragic events in modern world history. The war spanned three decades, cost nearly 60,000 US soldiers their lives, and wounded another 150,000. The number of Vietnamese casualties is staggering... Read More

Like any pivotal battle, the story of the Alamo has been relentlessly retold by countless authors. The Battle of the Alamo also appears in the latter half of Chuck Rosenthal’s new novel, Coyote O’Donohughe’s History of Texas, but... Read More

The forced assimilation of Native Americans into white culture is one of the most horrific acts in the history of the Americas. As settlers came from Europe, Native people were brutalized in a multitude of ways. Europeans brought disease... Read More

Countless works of literature have been inspired by the medieval mystique of King Arthur. Blockbuster films and commercial fiction, set in this fascinating period, meet a receptive audience even in the twenty-first century. Though... Read More

Treasures: Gold, Oil and Wives tells the compelling historical tale of Thomas Chatfield, a sixteen-year-old boy from Cornwall, New York, who is discontent with his lot in life. Thomas works at a cotton mill and is a younger son in a... Read More