A poignant story of love, loss, and survival… Set against the backdrop of the European Holocaust, Teitelman’s impressive book displays her penchant for revealing the darker side of the human heart. It is 1923 when seventeen-year-old Esther Grünspan arrives in… Read More ›
Historical fiction
Criminal Beware (The Lykanos Chronicles Book 1) by Joseph Stone
Highly intriguing and gripping… Stone’s entertaining first installment in The Lykanos Chronicles series set in the 1920s San Diego finds young and ambitious Daniel Archer trying to adjust to his new identity in a city which is rocked by brutal… Read More ›
Reinventing Hillwilla by Melanie Forde
A remarkable page-turner… A moving exploration of relationships, family dynamics, and notions of home, the final installment in Hillwilla Trilogy is a definite hit. It’s been five years since Beatrice Desmond settled on her llama farm in Seneca County,… Read More ›
Bitterwood Commons by Marieke Mitchell
A gripping tale… Mitchell interweaves tangled history of people and places and explores the way lives of real people can evolve into the stuff of legends over time in her engrossing time-travel historical debut. Tragic death of Emma Barker’s… Read More ›
Civil Hearts (Haunted Voices) by Claire Gem
Seductively readable… Claire Gem brilliantly brings forth a blend of contemporary romance, historical fiction, and paranormal in Civil Hearts. Two years after losing her husband to brain cancer, Liv Larson buys a historic mansion in Camellia, a rural southern… Read More ›
When We Were Brave by Karla M. Jay
A powerful evocation of the everyday horrors faced by holocaust victims… When We Were Brave is a vivid, heart-wrenching portrayal of holocaust years, as innocent victims grapple with loss, loneliness, and longing while the English and American forces fight… Read More ›
Decanted Truths by Melanie Forde
With its pitch-perfect evocation of people and places from a bygone era and interesting premise, the novel is a must read for fans of historical fiction… In Decanted Truths, Forde constructs a brilliant historical family saga populated with colorful… Read More ›