"The Winter Sisters" is an entertaining historical fantasy in which lives change and minds open. Tim Westover’s eccentric novel "The Winter Sisters", pits Hippocratic medicine against folk remedies with tall-tale flair. The story is... Read More

"Son of the Sea, Daughter of the Sun" is an exciting historical romance of epic proportions. A princess and a pirate uncover secrets from the past in Marc Graham’s historical romance "Son of the Sea, Daughter of the Sun". Kidnapped by... Read More

A headmistress moonlights as an author and meets her match in Sarah M. Eden’s delightful Victorian romance, "The Lady and the Highwayman". The novel pairs savvy Elizabeth with former urchin-cum-writer Fletcher. When Fletcher learns... Read More

Melissa Hardy’s irreverent and funny novel "The Oracle of Cumae" is a layered tale wherein the present collides with the distant past. Coming to the end of her life, Mariuccia calls for a priest—but not because she wants to confess... Read More

In Mark Barr’s engrossing historical novel "Watershed", personal and social changes lead to tension in a rural Tennessee town where a post-Depression federal dam project brings work, strangers, and electricity to the region. Claire is... Read More

Maya Abramovna Klotsvog, a Jewish Ukrainian mathematics teacher born in 1930, comes of age during the Soviet Union’s post-war era of power and becomes an exemplary Russian woman, wife, and mother in every respect. If you believe this,... Read More

Teresa Radice and Stefano Turconi’s "The Forbidden Harbor" is an epic labor of love—and a classic story of love—told in graphic novel format. "The Forbidden Harbor" is a book anchored in history. Although it is fiction, details of... Read More

This focused historical novel ably captures a tumultuous period of American history. Kimberly Collins’s impressive historical novel, "Blood Creek", retells events surrounding the West Virginia coal mine wars through the escapades of an... Read More