Synopsis 1944, Poland. Jacob Stein and Zalman Mendelson meet as boys under terrifying circumstances. They survive by miraculously escaping, but their shared past haunts and shapes their lives forever. Years later, Zalman plows a future on a Minnesota farm. In Brooklyn, Jacob has a new life with his wife, Esther. When Zalman travels to […]
Category: Historical
A delicious and delightful narrative history of pie in America, from the colonial era through the civil rights movement and beyond From the pumpkin pie gracing the Thanksgiving table to the apple pie at the Fourth of July picnic, nearly every American shares a certain nostalgia for a simple circle of crust and […]
THUNDER ROAD by Colin Holmes Noir / Suspense / Historical Fiction Publisher: CamCat Books Publication Date: February 15, 2022 Page count: 384 pages Scroll down for the Giveaway! In this gamble, more than a few poker chips are at stake. When an Army […]
Synopsis Inkerman, Queensland, Australia Fall 1889 Jennie Stewart, an unemployed governess, is looking to escape the rule-abiding town of Inkerman. After the death of her childhood friend, Grace, Jennie takes refuge with several other friends at a beach house, needing to embrace the freedom she so craved…and hopefully find a clue […]
Synopsis Caroline McAlister, college professor and life-long skeptic, is reeling from the loss of her father and her marriage. Her once promising career has come to a standstill. When her father bequeaths the family cabin to her, it comes with a ghost who haunted her childhood. When she discovers a century-old journal […]
Synopsis 1863, Victorian England. Susan Mottram lives an idyllic existence until her eighteenth birthday when her father’s sudden death plunges the family into penury. To support her mother and younger sister, Susan takes employment as a teacher at a remote Yorkshire boarding school, Matterdale Hall, owned by the radical Dr. Claybourn and […]
Synopsis It’s 1967, the Summer of Love. When twenty-one-year-old guitarist Stephen Cane’s promising band falls apart, he is forced to move back home with his Christian mother. Unwilling to give up on his rock and roll dreams, however, Stephen flees to New York so he can patch things up with his former […]
SWEET JANE, JUST ONE LOOK, & I’LL BE SEEING YOU by Joanne Kukanza Easley SCROLL DOWN FOR THE GIVEAWAY! Sweet Jane Joanne Kukanza Easley’s debut novel 2019 Wisdom-Faulkner Award finalist 2020 Adult Fiction winner Texas Author Project 2020 Sarton Award Finalist […]
Death on a Deadline (A Homefront News Mystery) Historical Cozy Mystery 2nd in Series Setting – Pennsylvania Crooked Lane Books (November 8, 2022) Hardcover : 288 pages Synopsis Editor-in-chief Irene Ingram pencils in her newest mystery in Joyce St. Anthony’s second captivating Homefront News mystery, perfect […]
LIBERTY BELL AND THE LAST AMERICAN by James Stoddard Alternative History / Science Fiction Pages: 347 pages Publication Date: April 4, 2021 Scroll down for the Giveaway! Americans love their Constitution. In seventeen-year-old Liberty Bell’s era it has become a myth. Centuries after the Great Blackout obliterates the […]