Salt Lake City, Utah, 1895 is the setting for Fort Douglas by Nancy Foshee. It opens with the death of a prostitute, but quickly moves to the arrival in Salt Lake of Abigail Randolph, daughter of Colonel Randolph, the man in charge of Fort Douglas....

Emma Donoghue’s Frog Music is as raucous and ebullient as its title implies. The cast of characters is a hardscrabble, resilient and eccentric never-say-die cast including Blanche, a French dance hall girl not entirely above selling her favors, a cross-dressing frog catcher named Jenny (hence,...

From Laborer to Author: The Flowers in Heaven are Rooted in Hell by Hoa Ming Truong is a heart-wrenching memoir about the author’s real-life experiences surviving the tyranny of the Viet Cong. Organized into eight detailed chapters, the book spans the time just before the...

Freedom Reins by E.M. Spencer gives us the story of eighteen-year-old Charlotte (Charlie) Logan. Charlie has suffered more than her fair share of loss, and often felt confined by the strict rules of the nuns at the Saint Vincent orphanage where her father's friend Big...

For the Cause: The Cold War Gets Hot in Korea and Why Young Men Went to War by Alfred Wellnitz is about two young men from South Dakota who join the marines because they don't really know what else to do with their lives. Chris...

Forgotten Soldiers: What Happened to Jake Walden by Warren Martin is an intriguing story, one that is portrayed as fiction but could so easily have happened – and may well have done for all we know. It’s the story of Jake Walden, an American soldier,...

With the frontier in Pennsylvania undefended, the lives of the settlers there are at risk as parties of the Delaware tribe take advantage of an opportunity to regain what they had lost to the English settlers. Forest Sentinels by S. Thomas Bailey is an exciting...

Flight of the Uberbites: No Time for an Epiphany by Ms Gabriele Martin is set in a small quaint town, Pastacula, in Italy. Algernon Uberbite, along with his wife, son, and two dogs leaves England to hide from Instapol. He decides to stay in Pastacula...

Freedom’s Long March by Paul F. Murray is a great read, full of adventure and high fantasy. Paul presents a good tale, one that will keep you interested all the way to the last page. I found the tale a good story that is worth...

When we first meet Sheila, the main character in Sheryn MacMunn's contemporary fiction novel, Finding Out, she's enduring the public humiliation of being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, in front of her neighbors, on the street outside their co-op building. Sheila is shocked to find...