In This Troubled Ground, retired Lt. Col. Les Carroll offers a deeply authentic tale of war’s aftermath, following an Air Force officer and a grieving mother through loss, hope, and the search for meaning.
BookTribJuly 9, 2025
For 12-year-old Benjamin Coolahan, it feels like just yesterday he was enjoying life in 1873’s Boston, sailing on the Charles River with friends while his father worked in the Coolahan Gold Mine. But now Ben’s father is dead, and his will dictates that Ben move to Gold Flat, California, to…
BookTribMarch 28, 2025
More than historical fiction, The Immigrant by Frederic Petrovsky can be defined as a fine bit of motivational philosophizing -- and a most satisfying read. The Immigrant follows an admirable and eclectic list of previous works by Petrovsky: The Clinton Diaries, speculative fiction about former president Bill Clinton, his obsessions…
Sherri DaleyNovember 18, 2022
Golda races off the ship at Ellis Island, frantically searching for her brother-in-law Ben. Chaos has already struck and launched the main characters into emotional turmoil – just what they don’t need as they prepare with trepidation to face their new, uncharted lives in the United States. Florence Reiss Kraut’s…
Erin McGetrickNovember 15, 2023
The son of a Virginia plantation owner and an enslaved woman flees west after he is accused of killing his father… but that is only the beginning of his misadventures in Dan Schafer’s Western homage, Sun Walker. In 1821, Joshua Beck is one of a hundred volunteers for a large…
Peggy KurkowskiMarch 14, 2025
A grandmother’s album of photographs and postcards reveals the Belle Époque in Berlin — a time of unrivaled promise, peace, and prosperity — through the eyes of a young Prussian Jewish woman, as told by her grandson Stephan R. Frenkel in Clara’s Secret (LAEV). In 2016, Frenkel discovered an album…
Peggy KurkowskiSeptember 7, 2023
“The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children.” —William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice In the desolate landscapes of the Oklahoma Panhandle, Alex Woodard’s Ordinary Soil (Greenleaf Book Group Press) is a powerful and haunting story that delves into themes of generational trauma, family, love, global…
Dawn IusNovember 14, 2023
It is a grey November morning when an American foreigner in the Peace Corps makes his way through Ukraine aboard a cramped bus. Here, in an unfamiliar land, he hopes he can start fresh and leave his Army days and the war behind him, but he has yet to reconcile…
Megan BeauregardNovember 7, 2024
In A Clan Chief’s Daughter, Sarah V. Barnes returns to the windswept steppe for a powerful coming-of-age tale. As a bold young rider faces tradition, betrayal, and the stirrings of revolution, this richly imagined prehistoric novel delivers emotional depth, breathtaking scenery, and a heroine who dares to shape her destiny.
BookTribJune 25, 2025
Gatsby’s Rival by Richard Guimond is an epic adventure story that rivets the reader from page one, with a high-stakes plot and an ensemble cast of characters as iconic as the great Gatsby himself. Set in the 1920s as a prequel to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s seminal 1925 work The Great…
Anne Eliot FeldmanAugust 2, 2024
Inspired by snippets from the author’s life, Ida Mae and Her Passage to Chautauqua (Koehler Books) is a historical nonfiction narrative by award-winning poet and author, Rick Taylor. The story spans two generations, recounting the journey of Ida Mae Glockley and that of her son Adrian from their childhood to…
Natalia KavaleMay 22, 2024
The Berlin Airlift is just taking off in the summer of 1948, but challenges abound on land and in the air as unlikely allies work together to feed a starving city in Cold War, historian and award-winning author Helena P. Schrader’s thrilling sequel to Cold Peace and middle volume of…
Peggy KurkowskiAugust 9, 2024
America’s 1960s were revolutionary years marked by anti-war protests, flag-burning, civil disobedience and assassinations. Many young people lost their dreams and ideals in the maelstrom, some emerged enlightened, but all were affected by the turbulence.Authors who chose to write about the era have a head start if they lived through…
Joanna PoncavageJuly 24, 2024
Set during the height of the Berlin Airlift, Cold Victory by Helena P. Schrader delivers a powerful, character-driven portrait of postwar courage, justice, and survival. This gripping novel blends meticulous historical detail with emotionally rich storytelling, offering readers a vivid and unforgettable glimpse into one of the Cold War’s most…
BookTribJune 13, 2025
In Sandy Hope Stewart’s brand new novel, Entertaining Angels, Rebekah Lang learns lessons about life that shape her belief system forever. We meet Rebekah at 70 years old as she’s confronting her lifelong guilt, seemingly for the first time, in therapy. What a prologue! I didn’t quite know what to…
Kristin KeatonSeptember 17, 2025
A Polio Story: Davy Crockett, Rock ‘n’ Roll and the Devil’s Disease is a poignant, coming-of-age tale — inspired by true events — about what it was like for a little boy growing up in America during the 1950s. Yes, there were coonskin caps, Elvis Presley, I Love Lucy and…
R.G. BelskyJune 12, 2024