Beyond the Rio Gila by Scott G. Hibbard is a historical and coming-of-age story that features multidimensional and exquisitely developed characters. The main protagonist is seventeen-year-old Moses Cole who leaves home and walks from the Shenandoah farmland to Pennsylvania and eventually becomes a First Dragoons...

"He had hoped that working at a concentration camp would give him a reprieve from graffiti. The guests were normally quiet and respectful while touring the grounds. He had hoped they would respect the memory of the murdered Jews and refrain from leaving graffiti in...

Chris Guest's 36 Moons is a novel set in Massachusetts in 1692, a cleverly-plotted and emotionally rich story of love with a strong conflict. Fabian Shawe lives a quiet life with his family in Beverly. One day, Fabian sees a girl sitting in the shade...

Paul Buchheit's 1871: Rivers on Fire is an emotionally involving account of true fires--physical and emotional. Set against the backdrop of the historic fires of Chicago and Peshtigo, a married couple is caught up in the flames, and the social issues that come before and...

Sinner’s Cross: A Novel of the Second World War by Miles Watson is a no-holds-barred account of one of the lesser-known actions in Europe of the Second World War. Prior to the well-publicized and dramatized Battle of the Bulge in the Ardenne Forest, an equally...

The Secret of the Grand Hôtel du Lac by Kathryn Gauci is a beautiful historical novel about the German occupation of France. Between 1943 and 1944, the Nazis occupied France, inflicting varying degrees of hardship on the French in the name of Hitler. England stepped...

Gold Mountain Express is a work of fiction in the drama, wartime, and historical fiction sub-genres, and was penned by author Gene Lassers. Set between contemporary times and the latter half of the Second World War, the story revolves around a fascinating piece of true...

Manchuria was a region of northeastern China that had long been the subject of territorial disputes and wars. China, Russia, and even Japan had, at times, imposed their wills on this giant portion of the Asian continent. In Special District: Harbin by Tim Stickel, we...

After the defeat of Tyrace, Navessa was at peace once again. The emperor, Moroweth Vergana, named his adopted son, Ilruyn, as his successor instead of his birth son. This didn’t go down well with his children, Rufyllys and Petrea, who hated and saw their adopted...

The Book of Uriel by Elyse Hoffman is a mesmerizing work of historical fiction. Set during the Holocaust of World War 2, a ten-year-old boy named Uriel has always been on the outside looking in. He was born mute and ironically lives in a village...