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A Young Girl’s Promising Future is Put Into Jeopardy in “Dark Hearts, Enlightened Souls”

Rose Buchan, age 12, excitedly prepares to leave home for her new position. The money she earns will be a lifesaver for her widowed mother and three little sisters. Bravely, she promises to write regularly, and enters the carriage of George Galbraith. Upon arrival at his grand Edinburgh residence, however,…

Joanna PoncavageAugust 19, 2021

Fiction

“The Bass Rock:” Family Secrets and Reckonings Across Four Generations of Scotland

Bass Rock is a massive piece of volcanic rock that sits along the eastern coast of Scotland. Home to the largest population of gannets in the world, a lighthouse built by Robert Louis Stevenson’s grandfather, and an abandoned castle, it presents a dramatic backdrop to Evie Wyld’s powerful third novel,…

Anne Eliot FeldmanSeptember 9, 2020

Fiction

Rewilding Wolves in the Scottish Plains Speaks to Empathy in All Its Forms

With incredible writing and a compelling story, author Charlotte McConaghy shines with her new novel, Once There Were Wolves (Flatiron Books). Inti Flynn is a member of a team of people trying to slow down climate change by rewilding wolves in the Scottish Plains. The local farmers are not happy because…

Jennifer BlankfeinNovember 30, 2021

Fiction

A Star-Crossed Romance Surviving in Dreams

Dreams have become popular subjects to analyze over the years, and many psychotherapists have attested to their power of symbolized meanings. Charletta Barksdale, debut author of Desire of Whimsy (Lulu Publishing), takes the agency of dreams to a whole new level. Barksdale bends the power of the mind to fantastical…

BookTribFebruary 10, 2019

Fiction

“Outlander” Origins with Author Diana Gabaldon

Take a time-traveling, fiercely independent, brave British nurse, the Scottish highland, a handsome, courageous, redheaded Scottish warrior, passionate love, conflicted love with two husbands, incredibly exciting history and dozens of riveting characters and you have a genre-defying series encompassing historical fiction, science-fiction, romance, fantasy, and of course time-travel. Bestselling author…

Just The Right Book PodcastNovember 30, 2018

Fiction

Plague Is Coming to Reign – Here’s Two Books of Treachery While You Wait

Look! So many pretty people on The CW, especially on my guilty pleasure show, Reign. It’s a riveting historical tale that follows Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1557 France. Not interested yet? How about adding a love triangle, a borderline psychotic king and a conniving queen with a growing murder…

McKenzie MorrellJuly 26, 2014

Fiction

Premiere nears for epic tale: It’s time for the Outlander cheat sheet

My name is Rachel Carter, and I am an Outlander junky. I read the first book in high school, and after that I couldn’t get enough – it only took me one summer to make it through Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, and The Fiery Cross. And this…

Rachel CarterJune 13, 2014

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Rival Weddings on Remote Scottish Island

Plans for a small and simple ceremony get complicated in An Island Wedding (Avon), the fifth book in prolific bestselling wordsmith Jenny Colgan’s Mure Island series. Give yourself permission to relax and enjoy it as a standalone novel even if you missed the previous four! The author provides a reassuring…

Linda HitchcockJune 23, 2022

A Young Girl’s Promising Future is Put Into Jeopardy in “Dark Hearts, Enlightened Souls”

“The Bass Rock:” Family Secrets and Reckonings Across Four Generations of Scotland

Rewilding Wolves in the Scottish Plains Speaks to Empathy in All Its Forms

A Star-Crossed Romance Surviving in Dreams

“Outlander” Origins with Author Diana Gabaldon

Plague Is Coming to Reign – Here’s Two Books of Treachery While You Wait

Premiere nears for epic tale: It’s time for the Outlander cheat sheet

Rival Weddings on Remote Scottish Island

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