Sister Carrie by William H. Coles is a touching family saga of love in the midst of clashing cultures. When young Carrie Broward is orphaned and taken in by her sister Jessie, she experiences a difficult adjustment to life in her sister’s community and finds...

Sail to My Heart: An Adult Folk Tale about a Fisherman, a Mermaid, and an Unexpected Life's Lesson by Patty Lesser is a fantastic story that explores themes of rejection, anger, and a fisherman’s journey to beat failure. Jim Moore, commonly known as Dim Jim,...

Spider Season by Billy Hanson is a compilation of short stories and (surprise!) three screenplays. Hanson delivers each piece accompanied by a cover-style illustration and, with the screenplays, a personal note on how they came about. Ten tales of horror in total, all narrated independently...

Set in Long Island’s East End, Sparrow Beach by Shelby Raebeck shows the strain felt by locals as they try to keep up with the powerful force of commercialization while also exploring family relationships. As the real estate industry continues to grow, Willie, the oldest...

South of Little Rock by George Rollie Adams is a novel set in a small town called Unionville in Arkansas during the forced desegregation of Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Changes are coming and not everyone is happy about them. Hatred is being...

Stefan’s Destiny by Rosemary Gard is set in Chicago in 1915, a novel with strong historical hints. Count Stefan Vladeslav waits while his wife is being fitted for a dress at Marshall Fields department store when he sees an art gallery. A sign announces paintings...

There is something startlingly but identifiably satisfying about Cindy Burkart Maynard’s historical fiction novel, Soyala: Daughter of the Desert. Because of the inherent mystery and widespread interest surrounding Native American stories and legends, much of which has become embedded in the greater inclusiveness of a...

Song Hereafter: 1153: Hispania and the Isles of Albion is a work of historical fiction penned by author Jean Gill and the fourth book in the Troubadours Quartet series. In this stunning finale to a complex tale of European politics, war, love, peace, knights and...

Chester Hart worked in a prison. He understands the unique culture and attitudes that dominate among staff running correctional facilities, and he holds nothing back in this extraordinary story. Screwed: A Prison Story is fiction, but it's a fact-based, no-holds-barred exposure of the realities of...

As daughter of the mukarrib of Maryaba, Makeda's life could only ever be atypical. Her mother's status as a slave diluted the prestige Makeda's birthright possessed, but even that is irrevocably changed when raiders sweep through the fields of Maryaba, their presence and the destruction...