by Ken Steele Rating: ***** The Promise of Unbroken Straw  unfolds the rags-to-riches story of the Landrum family through the eyes of the...

by Jim Bates Rating: ***** Bates’s On Rainy Lake  is a collection of eleven short stories mainly set in and around the Hennepin County...

by Kathryn Amurra Rating: **** When Erin Dovetree’s grandmother, Rose, mentions her new landlord, Will Abbott, to Erin, she is clearly...

by Erik Larson Rating: ***** The World’s Columbian Exposition, hosted by Chicago in 1893 and known as the Chicago World’s Fair, was a...

by Wendy Waters Rating: ***** With her entrancing singing voice and heavenly face to match, fifteen-year-old serving girl Miriam Tilby...

by Adam Cosco Rating: **** Barbara and Teddy O’Brien desperately want to believe their daughter, Ava, an anxious, watchful...

by Emilia Rosa Rating: **** Finding Cristina: Treasures on Earth  is the third installment in Rosa’s Finding Cristina  series *. It’s...

by John A. Heldt Rating: ***** Grieving the loss of their grandfather, Rory, who had raised them following their parents’ death eight...

by Christy J. Breedlove Rating: **** Desperate to escape their bleak existence in Cloud’s Rest , a dystopian city built in the sky and...

by Cecelia Tichi Rating: **** When a Newport society picnic hosted by their normally charming friend, Theo Bulkeley, takes a strange turn...