Before the Court of Heaven by Jack Mayer tells the story of Ernst Techow, a young German who, in the years following World War I, gets caught up in what can be called the pre-Nazi movement. As a youngster before the war, he learns, both...

Becoming Malka by Mirta Ines Trupp is the engaging story of Molly Abramovitz, a 24-year-old, and her journey to her family's home and heritage. Molly is planning to take a side trip to Ukraine during her week-long trip to Moscow for a seminar. Her father...

The war of 1812 was a lost cause nearly from the start, and yet both sides valiantly chose to push forward and fight for their own desires. There were reasons on all sides, though none was a strong enough reason to give one side an...

It’s not unusual for me to cry at the end of a movie. But it’s totally unlike me to cry at the end of a book. How did Glenn Starkey move me so much with his historical fiction novel, Black Sun? Was it the series...

David Kincaid is a young man for whom life no longer has meaning. As he is about to jump into the tumultuous waters of the Niagara River, he hears a voice that tells him ‘beneath the turbulence there is peace.’ This is the beginning of...

Everything about this historical novel, Brothers and Warriors by Geoff Baggett, is thoroughly and pleasingly professional and polished – from the glorious cover to the writing and the precise editing, the impeccable plot-crafting, and the faultless authentic descriptions of locale, along with an abundance of...

Bela’s Letters by Jeff Ingber is a Jewish World War II story with a twist. The protagonist, Bela Ingber (Jeff’s father), never went to the concentration camps. Instead, he survived the war by being conscripted into a Hungarian-Jewish “labor battalion” after Hungary, allied with Nazi...

Blood and Secrets by T.Q. Bernier intertwines the lives of two women in the Danish Virgin Islands on the cusp of World War I. Lily has no memory of her life before Alexander pulled her aboard his ship on the journey from Denmark to the...

Blind Faith: The Gauntlet Runner Book VI was a wonderful reunion with my old friends; Jacob, James, Joshua, One Ear, and Maggie. Once again, I found myself pulled right into the story and I became a soldier, a father, a friend, and a mother. Jacob...

After eighty years of conflict, the War of the Roses is nearing its end. Edward IV made a disastrous mistake when he married Elizabeth Woodville. Her ambitious family did everything to increase their power and suspicions were aroused when Edward died mysteriously at the age...