Fall is the big season in book publishing, and when it comes to historical fiction, readers have much to look forward to. This is the lates...

One can’t help but feel for Harry Short, the initial protagonist of André Narbonne’s trim yet sweeping historical tale. He can’t catch a bre...

Vivian Jacobson is beyond overwhelmed. The children of Russian Jewish immigrants, she and her loving husband, Mel, moved from Chicago with t...

The Daffodil Days , Helen Bain’s debut, can be read on different levels.  It's a multi-angled portrait of the small English town of Nort...

Over a century since it sank in the icy North Atlantic in the early hours of April 15, 1912, readers remain fascinated by the Titanic , seek...

One expects some level of eccentricity from the ultra-wealthy, yet Marjorie Lennox’s family sits in a class by itself. In 1927, at their man...

Through their novels, authors can unearth obscure figures from the past and draw the public eye toward their interesting lives. They can als...

Based on her grandparents, Edith and Milton Fieth, Terri Lewis’s When They Came Home is a moving portrait of a Midwestern couple's marri...

“The road Vernice is walking is paved different from yours,” Annie’s grandmother tells her towards the beginning of Jones’s remarkable novel...

With her new novel, Elisabeth Storrs moves from her familiar ground of long-ago Rome and Etruria, setting for her Tales of Ancient Rome tril...

Writing frequent pieces about books, brief reviews included, involves a lot of multitasking. At any given time, I’m typically reading one no...

Reinvention is the name of the game in Smathers’ fabulous epic of Gold Rush California, which sees her heroine, Juanita Castro de la Cruz, f...