As a reviewer, there are times when I feel desperate to read something different, something that will instantly engage me with its unique plot, realistic settings, compelling characters, and unfamiliar cultural practices and beliefs. One Hundred Silent Ways by A.A. Mohammad is the book that...

The year is 1910, and Celia Lutyens is fourteen years old. Her father, the successful architect Edwin Lutyens, has been commissioned to design a castle for the wealthy Sir Julius Drewe who wants to create a legacy for his sons. Celia finds the idea romantic...

Old Cockatoo by C.J. Cronin is a gripping drama novel that follows the lives of an Australian family of horse trainers in the early 1910s. Former British Heavyweight Boxing Champion Joe McCallister's life didn't quite turn out the way he thought it would. Fuelled by...

Only love and forgiveness have the power to re-awaken a heart that has been long dulled by acts of hatred. Out of the Ashes by Samantha Grosser is a historical novel that explores this theme. The year is 1944, and German prisoners are sent to...

On the Bank of the Chippewa: An Evocative Saga of a Midwestern Family by Steven Lomske is a captivating family story set in the tumultuous mid-1900s. Beneath a family saga of heroism, three generations of the Mertz family live on a Michigan farmland by the...

Authors Charles Breakfield and Rox Burkey stun readers with yet another nail-biting suspense thriller from their engrossing Enigma Series. A gripping novella, Out of Poland, is set in Poland in 1939. War-ravaged Poland is witnessing the mass exodus of its denizens. Under the Polish Ambassador,...

Molly Lund never thought she’d see him again. It had been five years since the horrific events that took away her young son and made her husband disappear. She believed he was dead. So, after years of healing in an asylum (where women were sent...

One Dark Night by Anna Faversham takes place in 1821 on the English Coast. Lucy is the star and heroine as we meet her as a young girl living in the prestigious home where her mother is a maid. She is friends with the privileged...

Of Ripeness & The River by Mary F. Burns tells the parallel stories of two women in alternating chapters with date headings. Mary Ferguson was the daughter of a wealthy banking family, happily married to a young carpenter. Her story is told from 1893, when...

Out Front the Following Sea by Leah Angstman is an epic tale that we don’t expect but definitely need. This is the story of Ruth Miner, who lives during the high period of voyages and discovery. It is also a time when superstition and blind...