Who Are You, Trudy Herman? by B.E. Beck is a YA story set during World War II. It’s 1943. To Trudy, a young girl about to become a teenager, the war has no meaning. All she is interested in is boys, friends, and schoolwork. All...

It's always fun to take a refreshing, nostalgic look at a bygone era. John F. Bronzo gives us just that with a taste of the 1960s in Sagahawk by the Sea. The story is told from the viewpoint of Joe Carr, a fifteen-year-old boy who...

In an exciting setting in ancient Greece, Shadow of Athena by Elena Douglas is a tale of adventure and romance, with hints of Greek mythology. Marpessa is a maiden chosen by lot to appease the goddess Athena for a sacrilege committed hundreds of years ago,...

In his novel Where Summer Strives, Thomas Thornburg takes us on a journey to a working class neighbourhood of a Midwestern city, towards the end of the Second World War, where social and racial divides are very much still the norm. When a wealthy, educated,...

Ratlined is the first book in the Inspector O’Leary Series by Shane McCartney, a gripping crime novel with historical underpinnings and a setting in the period following the fall of Germany. We are introduced to a clandestine network of criminals from the fallen Nazis, running...

When Richard Winters points his Harley away from New York and heads south, looking for peace and a release from the memories of a devastating love affair, he wants nothing more than solitude and an opportunity to find himself again. The small town of Summitville...

Mae Keaney returns to her childhood home in the out-of-the-way Chappaquiddick region of Martha’s Vineyard with only one thought: rebuild her life and leave the darkness of the past behind, and she is determined to count on no one. A cottage overlooking the water offers...

The Lily and the Lion is an award-winning work of historical fiction by authors Catherine A Wilson and Catherine T Wilson. The first book in the Lions and Lilies series, the plot follows a pair of sisters separated before they could even remember one another....

The Angel of Death's Abyss is an historical fiction novel written by Craig R. Key. Corporal David Brandt had survived the Normandy landing in 1944, and while no one would have questioned his decision to take some time off, particularly since his sister had been...

Destiny’s Whirlwind by Catherine Ulrich Brakefield follows the life of Collina McConnell as she faces the task of taking over the running of the estate following her father’s death. Collina had always been dedicated to the farm and the animals and the land, until Franklin...