Targeted Age Group:: 18+ Set in a world where women of the KKK betray their neighbors, where horrors of unscrupulous foundling homes come to light, and buried mysteries are not all that hidden. It's Georgia 1921. Mute since birth, fifteen-year-old Willow Stewart has one task to complete—to leave … [Read more...] about It Happened in Silence by Karla M. Jay
Featured Book: The Upside of Hunger, a true tale by Roxi Harms
At 15, fleeing from a domineering father yet again, Adam found escape at the military recruitment station in Vienna. From a frozen foxhole on the Eastern Front, where a Russian bullet found its mark, he was catapulted into a series of terrifying captures and daring escapes from enemy forces as he … [Read more...] about Featured Book: The Upside of Hunger, a true tale by Roxi Harms
Featured Book: After the Voyage: An Irish American Story by Brenda Murphy
At the heart of After the Voyage is an arranged marriage poisoned by well-intentioned lies. From different counties in Ireland, Maggie Qualter and Richard Terrett both sail to America as young adults in 1870 after surviving Ireland’s Great Hunger as children. Maggie works as a maid for a wealthy … [Read more...] about Featured Book: After the Voyage: An Irish American Story by Brenda Murphy
Featured Book: After the Voyage: An Irish American Story by Brenda Murphy
Maggie Qualter and Richard Terrett both sail to America as young adults in 1870, having survived Ireland’s Great Hunger as children. After the death of the young wife he loves passionately, Richard marries Maggie with the help of a deceptive go-between who brews trouble in their marriage that never … [Read more...] about Featured Book: After the Voyage: An Irish American Story by Brenda Murphy
Featured Book: Becoming Carlotta: A Biographical Novel by Brenda Murphy
Intensely shy, Hazel Tharsing learns to meet the world as the glamorous actress Carlotta Monterey, by far the greatest acting role of her twenty-year career. Her fierce determination to succeed in the theatre takes her from 1900 San Francisco to London, New York, and Paris, with marriages to a … [Read more...] about Featured Book: Becoming Carlotta: A Biographical Novel by Brenda Murphy
Featured Book: The Displaced: Fall of a Fortress by Frieda Watt
A gripping tale of love and survival, not for those who need to work the next day. Enter the Fortress of Louisbourg in 18th century colonial New France. Lovers torn apart by war. Can they survive all that the British throw at them? Most reviewers describe this book as a real page-turner with vivid … [Read more...] about Featured Book: The Displaced: Fall of a Fortress by Frieda Watt
The Old Cape Hollywood Secret by Barbara Eppich Struna
Targeted Age Group:: Adult 18+ In 1947, Maggie Foster and her cousin, Gertie, leave Cape Cod for Hollywoodland in search of glamour and fame. One girl returns home and the other disappears. Seventy years later Nancy Caldwell travels to Hollywood and discovers the paths of Maggie and Gertie. A … [Read more...] about The Old Cape Hollywood Secret by Barbara Eppich Struna
Featured Book: Miss Redmond’s Deception by Sandra Cox
When Captain Richard Greyston encounters three figures in a graveyard, he takes them for a spectral visitation until he realizes it’s two young ladies—in their nightgowns, no less—and their spinsterish companion. A spinster with slender limbs and an enchantingly velvety voice. Pembra doesn’t care a … [Read more...] about Featured Book: Miss Redmond’s Deception by Sandra Cox
Featured Book: Away at War: A Civil War Story of the Family Left Behind by Nick K. Adams
A true story of survival during the American Civil War, which tells of the difficult life on a mid-nineteenth century Minnesota homestead for a mother and her three young children while her husband is away, having answered President Lincoln's call for volunteers to help preserve the Union. This … [Read more...] about Featured Book: Away at War: A Civil War Story of the Family Left Behind by Nick K. Adams
