War Story by Rolf Margenau takes us on a journey through WWII with four young people who are faced with the horrors of a world at war and learn to grow up quickly because of it. All four participants are linked to each other either...

A Soldier's Quartet is a work of fiction in the historical, contemporary, and interpersonal drama subgenres, and was penned by author Colin Baldwin. We find ourselves with protagonist Conrad Bentley, a retiree who happens upon an old letter from World War 1. In a novel...

The Apocryphal of Lazarus is a work of fiction in the historical and literary subgenres and was penned by author Pablo Zaragoza. The work is best suited to the adult reading audience for its complex themes and serious emotional content concerning death, faith, and torment....

In David Loux’s immersive historical novel, Chateau Laux, the fate of a young family is changed by a heinous crime that leaves a trail of far-reaching and devastating results. It is the early 1700s and Lawrence Kraymer is one of Philadelphia’s successful merchants after inheriting...

Life in seventh-century Northumbria was a challenge. Boys were brought up to take over their father’s trade and then expected to carry on the family business. But, when the king demands all men and boys respond to his call to arms and fight a war...

Joseph Horiuchi, a second-generation Japanese American, liked being a sailor in the merchant navy. He had to accept discrimination for being Japanese, and his crewmates rarely socialized with him. In May 1942, Captain Merrill Kendrick commanded a convoy destroyer on the Atlantic run fighting off...

Byron: A Play in Three Acts by Nigel Patten is really a novel dressed up as a play. The long speeches, particularly by George Gordon, Lord Byron, British Romantic poet (1788-1824), would be almost impossible to follow by a theater audience, though they make for...

Libertas by Danuta Pfeiffer is the first book in the epic Pocketful of Seeds trilogy. It follows the journey of Fredericka, a young mixed-race uneducated slave raised on a plantation in antebellum South Carolina, and Horace, an emancipated well-educated young black man raised from childhood...

For Freedom's Sake by Aleida Socarras is a historical fiction novel showcasing the impact of the Cuban revolution on the lives of a mother and daughter. Anne Murphy always felt a little different. Raised by an affluent family, she struggles to feel a sense of...

In the historical romance novel Greetings from Asbury Park: A World War II Love Story by Luigina Vecchione, a young Italian woman and an American soldier fall in love during his brief assignment in war-ravaged Italy. Even though Mariella is just a teenager, the war...