Jennifer L. Wright’s intelligent and arresting historical novel focuses on two girls who witness the atomic bomb test in New Mexico. In 1944, the US Army claims Olive’s family ranch through eminent domain. Against her will, she’s... Read More

A Civil War soldier endures tough losses and faces a long moral reckoning as a ghost in the historical novel "Long Shadows". A Confederate ghost confronts his Civil War memories when a couple moves into his childhood home in Abigail... Read More

"Drawn into Danger" is a lush historical thriller in which a man goes to great lengths for his found family. In Keith Costelloe’s thriller "Drawn into Danger", a man travels to North Africa, where deep personal relationships and a... Read More

A Southern man’s coming of age is marked by his struggles against white supremacy in the historical novel "Redemption in the Morning". In Phillip Lyman’s robust historical novel "Redemption in the Morning", two men refine their... Read More

A girl with big dreams encounters women pilots and witnesses cultural roadblocks to progress during World War II in the illuminating historical novel "Flying Fillies". In Christy Hui’s powerful historical novel "Flying Fillies", a girl... Read More

In this touching historical novel, a long-distance couple works to keep their family together in the face of adversity. In Gail S. Fraser’s historical novel "Song for the Widowmaker", a Scottish emigrant to the US pursues mining work... Read More

"Sonnish" is a musing novel in which a genealogical search is used to show how knowledge increases empathy. Mary Capper’s mystical historical novel "Sonnish" represents a compassionate search for a family’s roots. Dozing near a... Read More

The etiological historical novel "Tallstone and the City" re-imagines the emergence of human civilization via four ambitious young hunter-gatherers. A tribe of hunter-gatherers starts an agricultural civilization in Dennis Wammack’s... Read More