by Lauren Sheldon | Jan 10, 2025
In late June 1914, two gunshots in Sarajevo have changed the course of history. Archduke Franz Ferdinand is dead, and World War I begins. Across the world, the German dreadnought SMS Emden is sent to the Far East to disrupt Allied shipping. The Emden is outnumbered...
by Suzanne Bradshaw | Jan 9, 2025
Chickie and Maddy are aging in their typical yin and yang styles when old friend Lena’s husband, Edward, suddenly dies. Maddy, a retired social worker, is eager to offer support; Chickie, a chronically underemployed journalist, is peeved at the inconvenience....
by Catherine Herold | Jan 9, 2025
Part action-adventure novel, part political thriller based on historical facts, Drinking from the Stream is set during 1971 and 1972, a time of violent upheaval when the Vietnam War and the Chinese Cultural Revolution marked a generation. The action leapfrogs from...
by dalitopia | Dec 31, 2024
Fiercely independent and passionate, Brigid feels hindered by her family and the strict society of her small Irish town in the early 1900s. Brigid and her cousin Molly, who is more like a sister, dream of a new life in the seemingly unlimited land of opportunity they...
by dalitopia | Dec 31, 2024
In April 1949, gifted silversmith Moishe Azani presses a note into the hand of an American pilot who has just delivered hundreds of Yemeni Jews like himself to the Promised Land of Israel. For over sixty years, the note sits untranslated and unread, until it comes...
by Lauren Sheldon | Dec 30, 2024
In 2017 Jennifer and her husband Michael relocated to a small town in the north of Italy, immersing themselves in Italian culture and cuisine-passionate about food quality and regional recipes-while making close friendships with an eclectic group of Italians and...
by Lauren Sheldon | Dec 20, 2024
Dr. Jack Forester has seen his share of trauma as an emergency physician. He’s now the dean of a medical school and a single father still grieving the death of his wife. But the real abyss opens when a brilliant former colleague that Jack had flushed from cover...
by Catherine Herold | Dec 16, 2024
A Life Made From Scratch is a brutally honest, frequently funny memoir about Marie Newman’s rise to “controversial” congresswoman, mother of a transgender daughter, antibullying activist, and CEO. Marie shares the stories of her hard-fought business and political wins...
by Catherine Herold | Dec 4, 2024
Would-be soccer star Sean McLaine knows what it’s like to still inhabit a child’s body in high school. Well into junior year, he remains woefully puberty-challenged, and it’s messing with his soccer dreams. Ignored by his coaches, he faces daily...
by Catherine Herold | Dec 4, 2024
Raised in a law enforcement family, Detective Darlene “Dee” DiBenedetto has lived her life based on tenets of fairness and justice and the triumph of good over evil. She is fearless, hardworking, and driven. But after suffering unspeakable atrocities at...
by Lauren Sheldon | Dec 2, 2024
It begins with a monkey. It ends with an inescapable tragedy. In 1957, Gwendolyn is living the domestic dream as the prized wife of the dashing Dr. Paul Stanley Bollinger, with three beautiful, healthy children and a charming Edwardian home in the historic town...
by Lauren Sheldon | Dec 2, 2024
After almost three decades of suspecting he might have a son he had never met, Nathan Aguinaga, retired master sergeant, husband, and father, got a call that changed his life. Through the miracle of DNA testing, his son had found him. A short and sweet tale of...
by Adrienne Folkerts | Nov 26, 2024
Love and adventure don’t mix, or so thinks Eleanor Morgan, a teacher of poetry in 1918 Oklahoma. And she’s heard the call to adventure all her life: through books, through histories and fairy stories, entering their worlds and their fancies. This kind of...
by Adrienne Folkerts | Nov 26, 2024
Many of us experience heartbreak, abuse, and a variety of “unmentionable” challenges in trying to make our relationships successful. For many couples, these challenges are daunting, especially when your partner becomes someone you despise as much as you adore. If that...
by Adrienne Folkerts | Nov 26, 2024
I could probably use a thousand words to try to describe how it is over here and never really quite explain it at all. Sergeant at War: Letters Home from Vietnam depicts the true story of Sergeant Michael Gordon’s time in the Vietnam War, as shared in letters written...
