"My Fatima" is a historical novel for young adults and older readers. It describes the friendship between two teenage girls, one from Germany, and the other from the Middle East. Both girls attend a girls school in Beirut, Lebanon in the 1960s. The German girl, Trudy is the daughter of the ambassador to Jordan, while the schoolmate she admires and befriends is a Palestinian named Fatima. It turns out Fatima's boyfriend, Ali, is a PLO militant. Just before graduating from middle school, Trudy is … [Read more...] about My Fatima by Lydia Lin
To Dance in the Glen by Michelle Deerwester-Dalrymple
Top Ten Author Academy Award! Unexpected love and heartbreaking betrayal follow Meg at every turn . . . Meg, a poor crofter's daughter, finds her life taking a tumultuous turn when she is sent to the Laird's castle for her own safety. English marauders, accusations of witchcraft, and treason are just the beginning for her. Meg Lachlan is certain of her place in her clan. When English mercenaries plaguing the Scottish Highlands aim their attacks on Clan MacLeod and Meg herself, the Laird's son … [Read more...] about To Dance in the Glen by Michelle Deerwester-Dalrymple
Eagle Saboteurs by Thor-North Blake
Six months after the Pearl Harbor disaster took place, was the United States of America grasped into the second world war. It changed everything for Nazi-Germany. Abwehr, the secret intelligence organization were forced by Hitler and his staff to act. The result was a master-man plan to destroy the US war industry. By a secret location near Berlin was a secret training facility. It looked like an ordinary farm, but nothing was ordinary with it. For at this facility had shooting ranges, … [Read more...] about Eagle Saboteurs by Thor-North Blake
Heroes of Telemark by Thor-North Blake
The snow was thick and heavy with a frozen layer on top with ice. The wind was howling and the air was thin. Four figures shuffled slowly through no man’s land. “King winter” had unleashed the mountain’s wrath upon the miserly souls. Never had their life hanged so loose. Sent from England to an almost impossible mission, to survive in an extreme arctic environment deep behind enemy lines. This was the reality to the SOE commandos in occupied Norway during world war two. Targeted Age … [Read more...] about Heroes of Telemark by Thor-North Blake
Interview with Author – Tam May
About Tam May: Tam May grew up in the United States and earned her B.A. and M.A in English. She worked as an English college instructor and EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teacher before she became a full-time writer. She started writing when she was 14, and writing became her voice. She writes fiction characters who examine their past in order to move into their future and are influenced by the time in which they live. Her first book, a collection of contemporary short stories titled … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Tam May
The Plot to Save Socrates by Paul Levinson
In the year 2042, Sierra, a young graduate student in Classics, is shown a new dialog of Socrates, recently discovered, in which a time traveler tries to argue that Socrates might escape death by travel to the future! Thomas, the elderly scholar who has shown her the document, disappears, and Sierra immediately begins to track down the provenance of the manuscript with the help of her classical scholar boyfriend, Max. The trail leads her to time machines in gentlemen's clubs in London and in … [Read more...] about The Plot to Save Socrates by Paul Levinson
Interview with Author – Paul Levinson
About Paul Levinson: Paul Levinson, PhD, is Professor of Communication & Media Studies at Fordham University in NYC. His nonfiction books, including The Soft Edge, Digital McLuhan, Realspace, McLuhan in an Age of Social Media, and Fake News in Real Context have been translated into 15 languages. His science fiction novels include The Silk Code (winner of the Locus Award for Best First Science Fiction Novel of 1999), Borrowed Tides, and The Plot to Save Socrates. He appears on CBS News, … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Paul Levinson
Intimate Mozart by Juliet Waldron
Giddy sugarplum or calculating bitch? Pretty Konstanze aroused strong feelings among her contemporaries. Her in-law's loathed her. Mozart's friends, more than forty years after his death remained eager to gossip about her "failures" as wife to the world's first superstar. Maturing from child to wife to hard-headed widow, Konstanze would pay Mozart's debts, provide for their children and relentlessly market and mythologize her brilliant husband. Mozart's letters attest to his affection for … [Read more...] about Intimate Mozart by Juliet Waldron
Her Vanquished Land by Diane Scott Lewis
In 1780, Loyalist Rowena Marsh insists on spying for the British during the American Revolution. As a girl, she must dress as a boy, plus endure devastation and murder as she decodes messages for a mysterious Welshman. The tide has turned in the rebels’ favor. General George Washington appears to be winning. The loyalists are bombarded by threats and lost battles. Rowena stays determined to aid the British cause and preserve her family as they’re chased from their Pennsylvania home. She … [Read more...] about Her Vanquished Land by Diane Scott Lewis
Magnolia Landing by Tamara Mallimo
The Georgia plantation known as Magnolia Landing has been an ideal place to grow up for Malayna and Hattie, two girls of different races born just hours apart. They have been best friends from their first breathes due to the unusual and unpopular beliefs of Malayna’s father that all men are created equal regardless of skin color. Their idyllic youth is shattered by a Civil War that takes their fathers away from home, leaving the girls to survive on their own as they learn to navigate their new … [Read more...] about Magnolia Landing by Tamara Mallimo
Pulling God’s Teeth by Anthony Delstretto
PULLING GOD'S TEETH (1882-1886) Twenty-four-year-old Carlo Como goes out fishing one dawn on the wide river near his northern Italian village of Castrubello. The Pirino has provided a living for the Como family for generations, but this morning Carlo hauls in a very different catch: three large white rocks known as "God's Teeth." The valuable stones, coveted by local ceramic-makers, will allow him to marry his love, Tonia Vacci, a worker in the town's dismal silk mill. But the fisherman's good … [Read more...] about Pulling God’s Teeth by Anthony Delstretto
The Exile of the Glen by Michelle Deerwester-Dalrymple
Banished from his home. Sent to a forsaken island on the edge of the world. A criminal highlander in a strange land. What will become of Alistair when he is exiled to his distant kin? After Alistair falls ill, he is nursed back from the brink of death by an angel named Lioslaith. She and her daughter live on the edge of civilization, and they shelter Alistair in this new land. He befriends her sisters, adores her daughter, and falls in love with the fairy-like woman who sacrificed much to … [Read more...] about The Exile of the Glen by Michelle Deerwester-Dalrymple
