James by Percival Everett My rating: 4 of 5 stars This historical novel follows Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, but through the eyes of Jim, the runaway slave. In this story, Jim taught himself to read and write and is quite the intellectual. Revisionist? Perhaps, but that’s another matter. I would strongly encourage readers to try […]
Austen at Sea by Natalie Jenner My rating: 3 of 5 stars Clean historical fiction with some romance, set in 1965 Boston and Hampshire, England. Some interesting data about the reserved Austen family, but readers should be familiar with Jane’s work in order to appreciate the many references to her books. When listening to an
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Tough Luck by Sandra Dallas My rating: 4 of 5 stars Charming historical fiction about a young woman in 1863 who is determined to find her wayward father in the Colorado Territory. After the death of their mother, 14-year-old Haidie and her little brother, Boots, are dumped in an Illinois orphanage by older brother Cheats.
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Touched By Fire by Irene N. Watts Historical fiction Published September, 2013 by Tundra Books Hardcover, 206 pages This is the story of a young woman named Miriam Markovitz, whose family lived in Russia in the early part of the last century. Wanting to escape the horrible conditions under which they lived and the persecutions
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Description from the Author: The Other Alexander is the first book in the epic trilogy, The Bow of Heaven. Alexandros, a young Greek philosophy student, is wrenched from a life unlived to submit to the will of an empire – as a slave of Rome. In a world without choice, he must use his cunning
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Spring House (Westward Sagas, Book 1) by David Bowles My rating: 4 of 5 stars Based on historical facts and real people, this well-written, fictional account of the Mitchell family during the American Revolutionary War is both heartwarming and heartbreaking. Through good times and bad, they stick together, and along with their neighbors, fight for
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