Laura Fahey
Clarence Olgibee
Alan Kessler’s Clarence Olgibee splits its narrative between 1974 and 1954: in 1974, teenager Jimmy Tate Sullivan is sentenced to…
Longing for Home
Irena, the main character in Lisa Wayman’s debut work of fiction, Longing for Home, is living a variation of the…
Four Nails
Young Ashoka is an elephant trainer in India when the broader world of international politics intervenes in his life. He…
Two Frontiers
The Mexican-American War (1846-48) forms the tense dramatic backdrop to Chris Pepple’s Two Frontiers, in which Elizabeth Dodd and Daniel…
The Jossing Affair
L. Oakley’s rich, satisfyingly atmospheric novel The Jossing Affair is set in the midst of the Second World War in…
Harper’s Donelson: The Shiloh Trilogy, Book 1
Sean Kevin Gabhann ingeniously weaves three converging story lines together against a backdrop of dramatic history in Harper’s Donelson, the…
Firebrand
The narrative of Firebrand by Sarah MacTavish is split between drought-ridden Texas in the summer of 1860 and comfortable suburban…
Under the Sugar Sun (The Sugar Sun Series, Book 1)
Strong-willed and determined Georgina Potter is the central character in Jennifer Hallock’s Under the Sugar Sun, the intensely absorbing first…
Unto the Breach (The John Paul Jones Saga, Volume 1)
In the first volume of a series intent on dramatizing the life of the “father” of the American Navy, John…
Wealth & Privilege
“Money. Family. Love. Hate. Obsession. Duty. Politics. Religion – or the lack thereof. Sex — or, once again, the lack…
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