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A Novel of Anton Chekhov - Blog Tour and Book Excerpt for "The White Deer"
BOOK EXCERPT When we were still children and it was raining, Petya and I stayed in the kitchen. Aniuta would clear spots for us at a rough wood table, place a lamp between us, and we would draw pictures. It was apparent right away that Petya had a talent for drawing. I would often put my pencil down and watch him, awestruck, as he drew. Sometimes I lay my head on my arms on the table, watched the movements of his pencil and listened to its soft breathing as it grazed the dry
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The Real History of Wartime Federal Nurses - an Editorial Review for "Sparrow's Song"
Book Blurb: Shortly after Kathryn Scheibel leaves her cigar‑making job in 1917, she enters the Army School of Nursing, a pioneering WWI nurse‑training program that offers the education she’s longed for but couldn’t afford. More than two decades later, her career carries her, as an instructor, into the Cadet Nurse Corps, the federal WWII nursing‑education initiative created to support the war effort. There she sees the same pressures she once felt now directed at students with
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Oct 184 min read
The Price of Survival in America - an Editorial Review of "The Refugees: Family Threads"
Book Blurb: Two centuries. One family. The price of survival in America. When sixteen-year-old Mary Johnson arrives in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630, she dreams of freedom and a new life. But when a desperate act of violence forces her into exile, she must choose between family loyalty and forbidden love, setting in motion a legacy that will haunt her descendants for generations. A century later, the family is thrust into the upheaval of the Revolutionary War, a time f
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Oct 174 min read
Lives Colliding at the Chicago World's Fair - Blog Tour and Book Excerpt for "Learning to Breath Again"
BOOK EXCERPT Chapter 1: Mary – March 1933 Mary’s bare feet paced softly across the yellow pine of the living room floor as she cradled her daughter, Janie, in her arms. A week ago, she and her husband, Edward, had celebrated Janie’s first birthday. Paper streamers still clung to the painted walls. But now, Mary stared at her wristwatch and counted each of her daughter’s breaths. “Sixty-nine. Seventy. Seventy-one.” The second hand completed its circle. Janie’s breathing rate s
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Oct 164 min read
A Multigenerational Epic Tracing the Great Migration - an Editorial Review for "Divining Freedoms"
Book Blurb: Divining Freedom is a multigenerational epic tracing the Great Migration and its aftermath — the journey of Black Americans who escaped the Jim Crow South, built institutions in the promised cities of the North, and discovered that freedom in America is never granted, only contested. Set across 128 years and five generations in Detroit, East St. Louis, and the rural South, the novel follows the builders and the betrayers — the men who constructed churches, politic
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Oct 155 min read
A Young Queen's Struggle to Balance Duty and Desire - Blog Tour and Book Excerpt for "What Love E'er Meant"
BOOK EXCERPT December 14, 1558 Elizabeth made her way down the gallery, determined to appreciate the waning hours of her stay at Somerset House and gird herself for the symbolic start to her responsibility. Today was Mary’s funeral, the last Requiem Mass that would be sung in England, and only now would Elizabeth move into an official royal residence. What started out as convenience had turned into brilliant political strategy: with Mary’s final debts presented in the days af
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Oct 133 min read
Revealing the Man Behind America's Most Enigmatic Founding Father - an Editorial Review of "The Thunder and the Silence"
Book Blurb: A sweeping historical novel revealing the man behind America’s most enigmatic Founding Father—Benjamin Franklin, whose brilliance built a nation but shattered his family… From Boston’s candlelit print shops to Paris’s glittering salons, The Thunder and the Silence follows Benjamin Franklin’s rise—from runaway apprentice to statesman—and the family torn apart along the way. For readers of Wolf Hall and The Book of Lost Names, this is Franklin’s story as you’ve neve
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Oct 125 min read
A Sweeping Italian American Story - an Editorial Review of "Beyond the Copper Horizon"
Book Blurb: What would you do for your family? An epic saga inspired by real lives. BEYOND THE COPPER HORIZON brings a sweeping Italian-American immigrant story vividly to life. Opening at the Battle of Novara in 1849, conscripted farmer Domenico Zanotto returns home to his alpine village of Cuceglio anticipating domestic peace in a burgeoning Italian nation. The war-scarred, cavalryman is instead devastated by lost love and violent nightmares. He questions God and labors in
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Oct 114 min read
Back to the Dangerous Days of Marie de Medici - an Editorial Review of "Serpent's Teeth"
Book Blurb: It's Paris, 1617, and Maria is desperately trying to avert the execution of her physician husband Manuel. Despite her friendship with the young King Louis XIII, his execution cannot be delayed indefinitely. Who could have added hemlock to the medicine Manuel had given the tailor? Concino Concini seems the most likely suspect, but when he is murdered by order of King Louis, and his wife Leonora sentenced to death, all hope seems lost. Leonora denies all knowledge o
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Oct 104 min read
Two Women Linked 150 Years Apart - an Editorial Review of "What Time Has Kept"
Book Blurb: Two women, 150 years apart, linked by an enduring archaeological mystery "An intriguing and absorbing novel, meticulously researched." -Fiona Valpy, internationally bestselling author of The Sky Beneath Us In 1870s Scotland, Christian Maclagan--one of Britain's first female archaeologists--struggles for recognition in a world determined to silence her. Emboldened by her acquisition of a rare Neolithic carved stone ball, she becomes obsessed with unlocking its anci
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Oct 96 min read
Three Brothers Swept into the Firestorm of Civil War - Blog Tour and Book Excerpt for "The Roll of the Dice"
BOOK EXCERPT The memory of the heated arguments of the last two hours between Johan and the President still hung in the room. Johan had volunteered for Andre to be his personal secretary, but because he could not be on active duty, Andre had no choice but to accept. By being with Johan almost every waking minute of the day, he had a front-row seat to Johan’s new “ideas” and Uncle Jefferson’s anger at many of them. Andre sat uncomfortably at Johan’s desk while his friend paced
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Oct 82 min read
Artistic Ambition Clashes with Life's Harsh Realities - Blog Tour and Book Excerpt for 'The Lark'
BOOK EXCERPT Chapter Nineteen June 7, 1901 Macatawa, Michigan In Michigan, in Michigan, I would that I were rich again. A ticket I'd buy, and away I'd fly, to the far-off fields of Michigan. —From The Wizard of Oz opera, “In Michigan,” lyrics by L. Frank Baum and Glen MacDonough Baum and I boarded the boat for his summer home in Macatawa just after sunset. We stood at the rail for hours, gazing out at the moonless sky and marveling as the stars winked on, at first one by one,
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Oct 83 min read
New Releases from Historium Press - War, Intrigue, Spies, and Politics
New Releases from Historium Press Historium Press is excited to announce the latest additions to our catalog, featuring three captivating titles that are sure to engage readers with their unique stories and perspectives. Below is a brief overview of each new release: Murder in Petrograd by Asya M. Pereltsvaig Petrograd, 1916. As Russia is swept up in the maelstrom of war, Oswald Rayner, a bookish Oxford graduate, is sent by British Intelligence to Petrograd. His mission is to
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Sep 304 min read
A Story of Two Worlds - an Editorial Review of "Island of Silver"
Book Blurb: A story of two worlds – one of darkness as the First World War rages in Europe – and one of ineffable light, where a little girl named Lorley lives through her jewel bright imagination. Lorley has a golden life on the island of Guernsey. Blessed with a wondrous imagination, she sees magic all around her. She dreams of mermaids in the waves and angels in the mist, a young girl who sees heaven in the wildflowers. But beyond this tiny island in the sea, the First Wor
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Sep 255 min read
What Became of a Lost Colony - an Editorial Review for "A Strange and Terrible Wonder"
Book Blurb: Eleanor Dare, daughter of Roanoke's Governor John White, has no choice but to accompany her overly ambitious husband Ananias and her idealist, yet inexperienced father to England's new colony. Manteo of Croatoan wants nothing more than to cast off his association with the English and return home. Haunted by memories of an unexplainable event, he sets out to find the truth about what was brought to Roanoke by the English two years before as a weapon against the Sp
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Sep 234 min read
A Featured Blog Tour for "Golden Flight" by Lisajoy Sachs
BOOK EXCERPT Anka walked beside the rattling wagon along the uneven road to Odessa. Her face calm and her mind racing. She watched Berta pull her shawl tighter to ward off the morning chill, unaware of the treasures in her trunks. She longed to comfort Berta, but knew that the truth would have to wait until the time they parted. And when that time came, she would pull her aside, away from Solomon’s watchful eye, and tell her about the valuables.
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Sep 211 min read