The strength of the human spirit weaves a magical spell in The Puppet Maker’s Daughter, a mesmerizing work of historical fiction by Karla M. Jay. It’s March of 1944 and like most Hungarian Jews, nineteen-year-old Marika Tausig and her family don’t seem overly concerned that...

In Connie Wesala's A Far Away Star, Sarah and Maggie are best friends. They're about to graduate from high school and already have their college plans made, sharing a dorm room and all. Sarah’s blue-eyed boyfriend from out-of-town flies in for the prom, and everything's...

Frances Finkel and the Passenger Pigeon by D.M. Mahoney is an absolute gem that will have you hooked from the moment you delve into this poignant and powerful novel. In Oregon in the early 1940s, being female, half-Jewish, as well as being a teenage pilot...

Do Over by Juliet Rose is the story of Samantha Rutliff, a woman who struggles with an undiagnosed mental illness. Sam made a terrible mistake and hurt some important people in her life. Devastated and regretful, Sam packed her bags and left her house. She...

Rita H. Rowe’s Never The Moon is a romantic novel featuring Jennifer, who dreamed of leaving her small town for New York City. Then she met David, who was everything that Jennifer wanted in a husband. Throughout the summer, the couple was always together. David...

Broken Pieces by Judith B. Pinkard is a biographical novel that began in February 1950. Helen responded to a newspaper clipping that offered a bookkeeping position and she met Ernest when she went for an interview. They fell in love, but when Helen realized she...

Following up on the two characters, Craig Keller and Jane Mercer, who kept us turning pages in Adele Royce’s previous book, Camera Ready, this time Royce focuses her narrative on Craig. What a complex guy he is: a dashingly handsome marketing genius with OCD who...

Jacquie Biggar’s Hold 'Em: A Gambling Hearts Romance is a sexy opposites-attract adventure that die-hard romantics will devour. Matthew Shaughnessy loves his family and to make his way in the world supporting his family’s ranch, he becomes a high-stakes poker player. Cassandra Gardener is in...

Glissando by Debbie Burke is the story of Ellie Greenberg. Ellie was 23 years old when she fell in love with Rudy DeSantis and married him. However, that bliss was short-lived as Ellie caught him cheating and got divorced. Now Ellie was in her mid-fifties,...

Ninon lost everything in the Second World War through horrible circumstances, but she survived. After the war, Ninon joined The Organization formed by a coalition of allied countries to arrest war criminals. She lived a double life. Ninon was a successful architect to regular people...