Nearly fifty years before women were granted the right to vote, Victoria Woodhull ran for President of the United States. The ballot in 1872 included the Equal Rights Party; Victoria was the presidential candidate and Frederick Douglass, a former slave, was the vice-presidential candidate. This...

Can people from different worlds co-exist together within the confines of a specific geographic area? In the historical fictional story, My Father's Kingdom: A Novel of Puritan New England by James W. George, in the 17th century, the Native Americans and the whites not only...

During the early 1930s, machine gun-toting bank robbers like John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Bonnie and Clyde terrorized the American Midwest and Southwest. But there were plenty of smaller fry, too. Meet Me in Tulsa by Christopher Davis describes two hardened criminals, Atlee Dodge...

Mission Song: Chenoa's Story, Book 2 from the Ladies of Mischief series is a lovely historical fiction by Karen Dean Benson. Impetuous twelve-year-old Chenoa Sandoval’s adopted father, Padre Tomas, dies and she reluctantly goes to live with Don Sebastian at his ranch in Monterey. Her...

It is said that God works in mysterious ways and that was certainly the case when ‘Joan of Arc’ became the savior of France in 1429. Maiden General: How a 17-year-old Girl Saved France at Orleans: A True Story by Mike MacCarthy tells the true...

My Divinely Decadent Duke is a historical romance from The Duke Series by Sandra Masters. Lady Cassandra Montgomery’s plan to secure a better future for herself and her ward, Alicia, goes awry when she is jilted. She also knows her sister-in-law, Felicity, is vindictive and...

Miss E. is a young adult coming of age novel written by Brian Herberger. Elizabeth was fifteen years old when her family moved to Forestville, California, a sleepy little town several hours north of San Francisco. While rural and isolated, it was a big difference...

Mollie: Bride Of Georgia (American Mail-Order Brides Series Book 4) by Lorrie Farrelly is a wonderfully written mail order bride tale that takes place in Georgia, a few years after the Civil War. Mollie Winters responds to an ad placed in the Groom's Gazette and,...

Rebecca Monhollon’s Mischief on the Mountain is a story set late in the nineteenth century on a homestead in Tennessee in the shadow of what the locals called the Smoky Mountains, though the name was still unofficial until 1934. A mixture of history, pathos and...

Melting the Blues by Tracy Chiles McGhee is a beautiful story set against the backdrop of Arkansas in the 1950s. Augustus Lee Rivers dreams of leaving his town and wants to fulfill his ambitions of reaching fame in Chicago. The Duncan family is his biggest...