Mattie by Betty Willis is a heartwarming and heart-wrenching story of love, loss, hardship, abandonment, and survival. Mattie McAlister, a ten-year-old girl, loses her mother in a tragic accident. Her grief-stricken father begins drinking and ignores the needs of his children. Mattie's two brothers are...

Ophelia by Charlene Raddon, the sixteenth book in The Widows of Wildcat Ridge, follows the life of Ophelia, the wife to Mortimer Crane, a wealthy but brutish mine owner. After enduring his continuous deceit for years, Ophelia decides it is time to call it quits...

In Our Duty by Gerri Hilger set in the midst of WWII, two women, Polly and Aggie, meet during nursing school. At a time when all Americans are called upon to help Uncle Sam overseas, we follow along with these two nursing students who are...

I’m sixty years old. I was a kid during the turbulent ’60s. I graduated from high school in 1976. I missed the Vietnam draft by about a year. So, I lived through the times described by John Hansen in The War Comes Home. Never have...

Victoria has been living with her rich aunt and uncle and cousins since she was 12 years old and has enjoyed a life of prestige. She is now a young woman and she is beginning to look around her and realize just how privileged...

In Coulee Abolitionists by Steven Kent Olson, a historical story set in 1854, 14-year-old Anton Narvik was living a normal life until one day his life was changed because of a simple truth. Fugitives were hiding in a coulee valley on their farm, and there...

“Even now, after almost forty years, I still hurt. And I’m one of the lucky ones.” Friendly Casualties is a novel consisting of short stories compiled to create overall vivid imagery of author Tom Glenn’s experience and memories of Vietnam. As a rare strategy often...

Susana Aikin’s We Shall See the Sky Sparkling tells the tale of a young Edwardian girl who was disowned and removed from her family for wanting to pursue her dream of becoming an actress. Lily Throop quickly finds out how hard it is to be...

Hickory Trail (Memories of a Home Book 3) by Scott Douglas Vaughan is a novel based on the author's time growing up on Hickory Trail, a place situated two miles from downtown Acorn in north Georgia. Frank Wilcox is the author's alter ego and the...

The Trickster Dreamer by S.C. Tzavella is a short supernatural novella. Shallowland is a magical world where a spirit photographer lives. Known as the Man in the Stovepipe Hat, William Mumler, along with Magiana, his wife, is trying hard to prove that ghosts do exist....