Tweet It all starts when Jack London steals a watch from a shabbily dressed man. She doesn’t know he’s actually someone powerful in disguise. All she wants to do is sell the watch to help pay a doctor to care … Continue reading
Category Archives: Historical Fiction
Tweet Elly Sparrow is the mother of four small children and the wife of a man who travels and works long hours at a law firm. Often finding herself the sole caregiver for days at a time, she begins to … Continue reading
Tweet It’s early 1930s Germany and Hitler’s Nazi Party is just beginning to gain power. People turn to him because he seems to have answers during tough economic times. The trouble is, his answers often involve blaming others, particularly Jews, … Continue reading
Tweet Most of us are familiar with the stories of the major Christmas classics. We may have seen The Nutcracker performed as a ballet, watched one of the many versions of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, or listened to a … Continue reading
Tweet Version 1.0.0 It’s 1942, and everything is about to change for the Smith family on Martha’s Vineyard. Brother Tom is off to war, leaving sisters Cadence and Briar to look after their farm and their grandmother. He also leaves … Continue reading
Tweet Ben Bellini gets the Spelling Bee bug when he becomes his school’s champ and advances to regionals. That’s where he finds out that people take the competitions seriously, and most contestants study for them. Ben’s friends don’t really get … Continue reading
Tweet Fascism was gaining ground in Greece in the 1930s, but young Melia and her sister Myrto are more concerned about visiting their summer home by the seaside, where they run free with friends and don’t have to worry about … Continue reading
Tweet Architect Julia Morgan overcame barriers and blazed the way for women in the profession. In the early 1900s, she was the first woman admitted to study architecture at the École de Beaux Arts in Paris and the first woman … Continue reading
