Based on the experiences of his father, Growing Up Tough is a coming-of-age novel by Roderick Saxey. The story is set between the early 1920s and 30s, the time of the Great Depression, when America underwent revolutionary cultural, economic, and societal changes. Shirley Edwin Taylor's...

Sherlock Holmes' Lost Adventure (The True Story of the Giant Rats of Sumatra) by Lauren Steinhauer is the story of two beautiful women, one missing and another rescued to become the personal secretary of Holmes and Watson. Seemingly unconnected, Holmes turns away cases involving a...

Linda Joy Myers' The Forger of Marseille is set in WWII, as Europe falls into the terrifying grip of Hitler and Nazi Germany. The story is inspired by the historical figure of Varian Fry, an American journalist who helped countless refugees escape from France. Sarah...

A Pyrrhic Victory: Fate by Ian Crouch immerses readers in a distant past beginning with King Pyrrhus’ victory over the Romans at Asculum in 279 BC. This period was extremely volatile, and the Hellenistic world was in constant conflict. Pyrrhus, the king of Epirus, had...

Dickie Erman’s historical fiction novel, The Adventures of Sunny Washington, wastes no words and spares no feelings regarding the attitudes and treatment of black people by whites. So many times, I shook my head in disbelief, beginning with the heartbreak of Sunny’s mother when she...

Song For Someone is a fascinating love story of two people who defy the odds. It's the first book in the Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler Mysteries by KD Sherrinford. It follows Charlotte Sapori, who learns her parents' long-kept secret. Charlotte knows her mother, Irene...

Beneath the Darkening Clouds is a work of fiction in the historical, interpersonal drama, and family saga subgenres. The work is best suited to the general adult reading audience owing to some moderate use of explicit language, scenes of a sexual nature, and some mild...

The Golden Manuscripts by Evy Journey follows a young woman named Clarissa who feels connected to two medieval manuscripts and wants to solve the mystery around their disappearance in this sixth stand-alone book of the Between Two Worlds series. Two point-of-view characters narrate in the...

Lullaby (Book I) written by Consuelo Hamilton is a historical fiction novel that would appeal most to a mixed audience of young adults and adults that enjoy historically accurate Civil War romance stories. Nady was a slave in Wilmington, North Carolina who was well known...

The Girl From Huizen is a historical fiction drama novel by Paulette Mahurin. Set in Nazi-occupied Netherlands in the 1940s, the story follows Rosamond Jansen (Roz), a young woman living on a farm in the small village of Huizen. Roz and her family feel disillusioned...