Musical Chairs by Ruth Bures is a historical fiction novel that tells the true story of four musicians, Babette, Freda, Orville, and Walter, who perform a classy vaudeville act in the early 1900s. As vaudeville declines, they settle in a small town in southeastern Minnesota,...

In Valentina Cano Repetto's Sanctuary, Sibilla and Giovanni Fenoglio moved from Torino or Turin to a villa in the Ovada area. Engineer Fenoglio's invention brought them money to buy land with a mill, which needed reconstruction. He hoped to relaunch the mill and put...

The House of Ilya is a fascinating story about an officer and a woman who fall in love and the guide who interacts with them during their separate journeys. Anton is a young officer who travels to Alaska as an intermediary between a well-known Russian-American...

In Max Folsom's crime thriller Death of a Codebreaker, Baker Somerset was the only licensed female private investigator in Ottawa and the owner of Case Closed Investigations. Darlene went missing four weeks ago, and her mother and aunt hired Baker to locate her. Darlene's mother...

Love and Protest by Nancy Klann-Moren is a poignant historical novel that intertwines the stories of two young women separated by generations. Seventeen-year-old Harper Warner discovers a diary in a thrift shop, chronicling Libby Carlson's personal ‘Summer of Love’ during the Anti-Vietnam War Movement in...

One Day a Year by J. Lamont Jones sees Benny Jones thrust back in time where he meets what could possibly be the love of his life. Only how can that be when she lived centuries in the past? And it’s not only time that...

Perspective changes one’s understanding of any situation. This is especially the case in history. Krishna Kumar presents the Indian perspective of bringing down the dominion of British rule over India in his wonderful book, 1942. This book looks at the steps that dismantled British rule...

The Sower of Black Field by Katherine Koch is a historical fiction novel set during the final days of Nazi Germany. The story follows Fr. Viktor Koch, an American priest of German heritage, who is deeply conflicted as he tries to guide his parishioners through...

Thistle in the Mistletoe by Margaret Izard is a holiday-themed novel that blends romance with historical intrigue. The story follows Roderick MacDougall, a laird torn between duty and desire, and Mary Comyn, a woman caught in a web of familial betrayal. Forced into an arranged...

The Days Before Tomorrow by Mark Hass is an epic historical novel that delves deep into the lives of Wolchi and Leja, two siblings caught in the turbulent currents of Eastern Europe between the World Wars. Set against the haunting backdrops of Western Ukraine, 1930s...