Crystal Ships by Richard Sharp is a new GREAT in the way of the epic American novel. Reading mainly as historical fiction with layers of drama, critique, and a general human focus, this book is deeply emotional while maintaining a kind of grace and fluidity...

In Actium’s Wake, Ralph Jackman uses the voice of Roman senator and soldier Marcus Rutilius Crispus to tell the story of the events following the battle at Actium. In this battle, Octavian - son of Julius Caesar - defeated Marc Antony and Cleopatra, leading to...

Dance The Moon Down begins in the spring of 1914. Victoria's parents are deciding whether or not to continue her education by sending her to college. They could not know that their decision would change her life forever. At college she makes many friends and...

Hank of Twin Rivers was such a delightful read that I hated to see it end. It's the story of young Hank Heaton, and takes place in 1855. Hank and his family live in a soddy along Buck Creek in a small Iowa settlement. It...

If you've been looking for something really different, take a peek at Eric Stannard's novel The Patriotic Assassins. It features two men who are seemingly unimportant figures of their time. In the mid-century 1900s, Sparky is a Mafioso figure who is determined to impress his...

In his historical novel, As a Lily Among Thorns, Rudy Martinka has accomplished a milestone in documenting the life of King Solomon. His novel is unique in its historical and archaeological accuracy, its clear chronology of events, and its variety of perspectives on events during...

Shardfall: The Shardheld Saga (Volume 1) by Paul E. Horsman is the story of two men, Muus and Kjelle, who are trapped in an avalanche which leaves them stranded on the icy mountain slopes, fighting cold and starvation. Kjelle knows about the small blue shard...

For the Cause: The Cold War Gets Hot in Korea and Why Young Men Went to War by Alfred Wellnitz is about two young men from South Dakota who join the marines because they don't really know what else to do with their lives. Chris...

Willow, by Lori Roberts, is the story of Cordelia Barlow, who was born in 1844 in Fairview Plantation in Gallatin, Tennessee. Losing her mother at a young age, the little girl finds solace in the arms of her late mother’s black slave, Priscilla, and her...

The Scanlons, Fitzpatricks, and Quinns represent a segment of American society in the latter half of the 19th century and their interaction with friends, neighbors, and others broadens our view regarding what was happening throughout most of the United States. In Beyond the Divide, J.P....