Category: Historical

New Release – The Best General in the Civil War by Conrad Bibens

  The Best General in the Civil War By Conrad Bibens Historical Fiction Publisher: Stoney Creek Publishing Pages: 256 Publication Date: November 6, 2024     Synopsis The North might have lost the Civil War if not for the heroics of a Southern-born general. The Best General in the Civil War tells the true story […]

Review – Between the Clouds and the River by Dave Mason

  Synopsis 1943 Twenty-four-year-old Bernhardt Lang is swept along by the currents of war until an unexpected ally helps him live a life of his own making in a place he could never have imagined himself existing. 1965 Twelve-year-old Joseph Holliman is drowning in a life no one should have to endure. When he crosses […]

New Release & Giveaway – Richard Coke: Texan by Rosser Coke Newton, Sr.

  RICHARD COKE: TEXAN By Rosser Coke Newton, Sr. History / Biography Publisher: Stoney Creek Publishing Pages: 300 Publication Date: November 4, 2024   Synopsis Richard Coke played one of the most crucial roles in Texas history. His leadership of his beloved Texas still resonates today—150 years after he became governor. Richard Coke: Texan weaves […]

New Release & Excerpt – Thistle in the Mistletoe by Margaret Izard

  Synopsis A kiss under the Mistletoe brings good fortune, but can a Christmas wedding stop a deadly feud? The soft beauty beside him at the altar would make the perfect bride. Roderick MacDougall would do anything to stop the feud without more bloodshed. Too bad the gorgeous woman is the daughter of his greatest […]

New Release & Giveaway – The Nine Lives of Tito d’Amelia by Ettore Farrattini Pojani

  The Nine Lives of Tito d’Amelia By Ettore Farrattini Pojani Italian Literature / Historical Fiction Publisher: Bayou City Press Pages: 326 Publication Date: October 11, 2024     Synopsis This is the first (and only) English-language version of the award-winning Italian novel, The Nine Lives of Tito d’Amelia. Nine Lives is a love story […]

Review & Giveaway – Ink and Intrigue at the Ivy Tree Inn by Ellen Butler

    Ink and Intrigue at Ivy Tree Inn: An Ariadne Winter Mystery Historical Cozy Mystery 1st in Series Publisher ‏ : ‎ Power to the Pen (October 2, 2024) Print length ‏ : ‎ 323 pages Synopsis Stumbling across a dead body could be the making … or breaking of an aspiring reporter. During […]

New Release – Sleeping in the Sun by Joanne Howard

  Synopsis In the last years of the British Raj, an American missionary family stays on in Midnapore, India. Though the Hintons enjoy white privileges, they have never been accepted by British society and instead run a boarding house on the outskirts of town where wayward native Indians come to find relief. Young Gene Hinton […]

New Release – The Book of Witching by C.J. Cooke

  Synopsis A mother must fight for her daughter’s life in this fierce and haunting tale of witchcraft and revenge from the author of A Haunting in the Arctic. Clem gets a call that is every mother’s worst nightmare. Her nineteen-year-old daughter Erin is unconscious in the hospital after a hiking trip with her friends on […]

Review – The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern by Lynda Cohen Loigman

  Synopsis It’s never too late for new beginnings. On the cusp of turning eighty, newly retired pharmacist Augusta Stern is adrift. When she relocates to Rallentando Springs—an active senior community in southern Florida—she unexpectedly crosses paths with Irving Rivkin, the delivery boy from her father’s old pharmacy—and the man who broke her heart sixty […]

Review – Pintsized Pioneers by Preston Lewis and Harriet Kocher Lewis

    PINTSIZED PIONEERS: Taming the Frontier, One Chore at a Time By Preston Lewis & Harriet Kocher Lewis Young Adult / Nonfiction / History Publisher: Bariso Press Pages: 184 Publication Date: September 24, 2024   Synopsis Children tread lightly through the pages of Old West history. Pintsized Pioneers: Taming the Frontier, One Chore at […]