Fly Away Snow Goose by Juliet Waldron and John Wisdomkeeper In the early 1950’s four 1st Nation’s children are taken to the Indian Residential School in Ft. Providence, NWT. Two believe this will be a good thing. The other pair are older, almost grown, and so far they’ve avoided white man’s school. On a visit […]
Featured Book: War Unicorn by S. L. Carlson
About War Unicorn by S. L. Carlson Aldric is content working in his family’s apple orchard—or as content as a fourteen-year-old-boy can be doing chores and dreaming up new magic—when he digs up an antique ring and releases a rude spell-bound unicorn. She claims she belongs to the king, but after her long imprisonment, she […]
Another Tribe by Simon Rumney
Another Tribe by Simon Rumney Julii, a beautiful, insecure and victimized Tennessee Indian is caught up in the white man’s world after saving the life of a Confederate captain wounded at the battle of Shiloh. Overcoming great disadvantage, cruel prejudice and bitter persecution, Julii harnesses her intrinsic genius to become the Confederate States’ most aggressive […]
A Master Passion by Juliet Waldron
A Master Passion by Juliet Waldron A MASTER PASSION is the story of the marriage of our brilliant first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, and his wife, Elizabeth Schuyler. It begins with a whirlwind Revolutionary War courtship at Washington’s headquarters. Conflict, however, is built into this marriage. “…And hence one Master Passion in the […]
Olivia, Mourning by Yael Politis
Olivia, Mourning by Yael Politis Olivia wants the 80 acres in far off Michigan that her father left to whichever of his offspring wants to stake a claim. As Olivia says, “I’m sprung off him just as much as Avis or Tobey.” The problem: she’s seventeen, female, and it’s 1841. Mourning Free knows how to […]
Featured Book: Another Tribe by Simon Rumney
Julii, a beautiful, insecure and victimized Tennessee Indian is caught up in the white man’s world after saving the life of a Confederate captain wounded at the battle of Shiloh. Overcoming great disadvantage, cruel prejudice and bitter persecution, Julii harnesses her intrinsic genius to become the Confederate States’ most aggressive blockade-runner. Using conspiracy, manipulation and […]
Featured Book: The Nero Prediction by Humphry Knipe
Free ebook June 6-10 You live in an age when Rome rules the world and astrology rules Rome. You are a sixteen-year-old apprentice in the Great Library of Alexander, a slave, when you hear that your Roman masters are searching for 16-year-olds with a particular birth time, just as king Herod searched for two-year-old Jesus […]
Featured Book: Surviving the Fatherland: A True Coming-of-age Love Story Set in WWII Germany by Annette Oppenlander
Spanning thirteen years from 1940 to 1953 and set against the epic panorama of WWII, author Annette Oppenlander’s SURVIVING THE FATHERLAND is a sweeping saga of family, love, and betrayal that illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the children’s war. SURVIVING THE FATHERLAND tells the true and heart-wrenching stories of Lilly and Günter […]
Featured Book: LINES— by Geralyn Hesslau Magrady
In 1871, Chicago is unaware of the great tragedy ready to unfold. The class struggles that were evident prior to the fire will be strengthened during the city’s rebirth, and an obedient Livia Haas must find her own strength during the transition. Affected by a first love, a deceased brother, and a sinister acquaintance who […]
Featured Book: The Ohana by C.W. Schutter
A child is dying. Her life depends on an explosive secret her grandmother has kept from their Ohana (family). As Mary Han wrestles with the toxic revelations, she must finally face the past she fought so hard to forget. A secret that opens windows to an emotionally powerful saga that reveals three generations of Hawaii’s […]
Gift Guide: Shadow of the Raven by Millie Thom
Targeted Age Group:: Adult Category: Historical About Shadow of the Raven: An adventure tale of Viking raids, ill-fated thralls, noble kings and their sons, and friendship and love . . . But, above all else, a tale of unforgivable betrayal and the ever-present desire for revenge. The life of Eadwulf, ten-year old son of the […]
Gift Guide: Mozart’s Wife by Juliet Waldron
Targeted Age Group:: Adult Category: Historical About Mozart’s Wife: Giddy sugarplum or calculating bitch? Pretty Konstanze arounsed strong feelings among her contemporaries. Her in-laws loathed her. Mozart’s friends, more than forty years after his death remained eager to gossip about her “failures as wife to the world’s first superstar. Maturing from child to wife to […]
Gift Guide: Lord Esterleigh’s Daughter, Book 1, “The Serpent’s Tooth” trilogy by Kathy Fischer-Brown
Targeted Age Group:: 16 and up Category: Historical About Lord Esterleigh’s Daughter, Book 1, “The Serpent’s Tooth” trilogy: In the impoverished loneliness of her youth, Anne Fairfield dreams of the father she never knew, the hero who died fighting the French and Indians across the sea. Until one winter night, a strange man comes to […]
