About your Book: An old man presents his life's story starting from the time he meets a showgirl named Ruby during her diving act on the Steel Pier in Atlantic City and ending with the tragedy caused by a fire that destroyed the German airship Hindenburg at Lakehurst, New Jersey. RC Franklin travels as a young man with a band of marginal musicians playing gigs in roadhouses all over the country. Ruby was raised as a spy in a German youth camp. She leads a group that needs additional … [Read more...] about Book Excerpt: Atlantic City Nazi by Charles Frankhauser
Book Excerpt: Far Across The Sea by Carmel McMurdo Audsley
About your Book: Far Across The Sea follows the McMurdo family in Ayrshire Scotland through two world wars and eventually leads to a life in Australia. It provides a snapshot of the time when rationing was in place in Scotland and the aftermath of war that was felt many years after the conflict had ended. Australia put out the call for young men and families in its 'Populate or Perish' campaign, to build the country up again in case of another war. Many Scots took up the challenge. Our … [Read more...] about Book Excerpt: Far Across The Sea by Carmel McMurdo Audsley
There Comes a Season Volume 1 by John Kachuba
There are consequences of war that remain hidden, buried deep within the minds and hearts of not only the soldiers, but those who wait for them, those who may be many miles removed from the front lines. In two volumes, There Comes a Season tells the stories of some of these people, such as the jaded newspaper reporter who is shaken to his core by the massacre of Lakota Indians at Wounded Knee in 1890; or the personal photographer of Adolf Hitler, who fears for his Jewish wife in 1930’s … [Read more...] about There Comes a Season Volume 1 by John Kachuba
Rebels on the Mountain by Jack Durish
Rebels on the Mountain is an epic tale of a forbidden romance set in the time of Fidel Castro's insurrection to depose the U.S.-backed dictator, Fulgencio Batista. An interracial couple, a Cuban mulata with African roots and an American soldier/spy, seek a safe haven in a world in which their love is not welcome in either of their native lands. Based on historical events, it reveals men and women fighting and loving amid the chaos and uncertainty of revolutionary Cuba. The action and adventure … [Read more...] about Rebels on the Mountain by Jack Durish
Rebels on the Mountain by Jack Durish
Rebels on the Mountain is the story of Castro's revolution to wrest control from its dictator, Fulgencio Batista, as seen through the eyes of Juan Tumbas, a Fidelista (one of the revolutionary foot soldiers), and Nick Andrews, an Army spy sent by the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee to untangle the diplomatic mess created by the State Department and its incestuous relationship with American businessmen and the mafia, as well as the Cuban dictator. Nick avoids being drawn into the fight … [Read more...] about Rebels on the Mountain by Jack Durish
The Cry For Freedom, Book One Winds of Betrayal Series by Jerri Hines
A rousing family saga for the fight for America's independence. Follow Hannah and Jonathan Corbett path to Freedom! The winds of change brews over the colonies. Tension against the crown is mounting daily. In Williamsburg, the rebellion burns strong in the hearts of two siblings, Jonathan and Hannah Corbett. Spirited and headstrong, Hannah finds herself thrust in the middle of a conspiracy when her father receives a strange package from Philadelphia. Jonathan, a physician for the Continental … [Read more...] about The Cry For Freedom, Book One Winds of Betrayal Series by Jerri Hines
Spy Island by Sophie Schiller
Spy Island is a spy thriller set on a Caribbean island during WWI. If you can imagine "Summer of My German Soldier" on a tropical island replete with German spies, Old World Danish characters, colorful West Indian characters, blazing luger pistols, a mad Voodoo Queen, and a brave and resourceful heroine, then you get the picture. In 1916, Abigail Maduro is a down-on-her-luck orphan who plunges into the dangerous world of German spies when she rescues Erich Seibold, a deserter from a German … [Read more...] about Spy Island by Sophie Schiller
How Angels Die by David-Michael Harding
In the darkest days of World War II, when France found itself at the mercy of a brutal dictator, the frontlines of resistance may just have been in the grasp of a few good women. How Angels Die, the epic work of historical fiction by author David-Michael Harding, delivers a highly inventive and uncommon take on the French Resistance that is certain to appeal to anyone who relishes a blood-pumping drama, which also sheds searing new light on the astounding bravery, profound passion, and … [Read more...] about How Angels Die by David-Michael Harding
