Nearly fifty years before women were granted the right to vote, Victoria Woodhull ran for President of the United States. The ballot in 1872 included the Equal Rights Party; Victoria was the presidential candidate and Frederick Douglass, a former slave, was the vice-presidential candidate. This...

Alexander of the Ashanti is an historical fiction novel written by Ken Frazier. Frazier, a toxicologist and pathologist, has first-hand experience with the Ashanti gained from his months spent in Ashanti villages in Ghana. A momentary lapse of vigilance in a pub had left Alexander...

The Great War by Dawn Knox is an ambitious undertaking that recounts 100 stories, each told in exactly 100 words, on the 100th anniversary of WWI. At precisely 10,000 words, the book is a quick read, but the scenes that Ms. Knox’s sparse, yet vividly...

Handsome Dr. David Gosfield has returned to London after a two-year tenure studying abroad in Boston. He’s set to teach psychology and psychiatry at Johns College, and has also been elected to head up the college’s new Society of Psychical Studies program. Despite his excitement...

Fenian’s Trace by Sean P Mahoney is the story of two young boys, Rory and Conor, and their journey into adulthood told through the exquisite voice of the local publican, Mr. Clancy. The early 20th century was a tumultuous period in the long and often...

Where Dew Drops Shine Bright: A Dramatized Family History (Tall Cotton Rising) by Reginald C. Holmes is a fictionalized memoir of Reginald’s own family and ancestors, ranging back to three or more generations. Where Dew Drops Shine Bright begins with an introduction by Reginald of...

A Passel of Trouble: The Saga of Loyalist Partisan David Fanning by Joe Epley is a stunning work on a historical personage, a story that captures in vivid and compelling language some facts about the American Revolution that have often been ignored by most American...

Wow! Just, wow! That’s exactly what I thought when I finished reading Reign of the Marionettes, the first published novel by author Sheena Macleod. This book hooked me from the very first pages and kept me up all night, obsessively reading until the very end!...

Tales of Titans: Vol. I: From Rome to the Renaissance is a non-fiction biographical work written by Rich DiSilvio. In this first volume, DiSilvio presents a biography and discussion of eleven Titans; individuals in history who profoundly affected Western civilization. He begins with Augustus Caesar...

Jelly Bryce — The Man In The Mirror is the final installment in Mike Conti’s Jelly Bryce trilogy and, if you have read the first two, missing out on this one would be like reading a murder mystery and not bothering to read the final...