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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
DK Marley
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
DK Marley
Oct 174 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
DK Marley
Oct 155 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
DK Marley
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
DK Marley
Oct 114 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
DK Marley
Sep 255 min read
The Last Christian King of Jerusalem - an Editorial Review of "Blood and Faith"
Book Blurb: On July 4, 1187, Guy de Lusignan led twenty thousand men into the desert and lost everything. His army was annihilated at the Horns of Hattin. Jerusalem fell within months. The most sacred relic in Christendom was captured. History remembers Guy as the king who destroyed the Crusader States. But that is only half the story. Blood and Faith follows Guy from his arrival in the Holy Land as an ambitious younger son from France through his marriage to Princess Sibylla
DK Marley
Aug 315 min read
An Medieval Epic of Love, Loyalty, and Betrayal - an Editorial Review of "Lady of the Castle"
Book Blurb: GOLD MEDAL WINNER — Readers’ Choice Book Awards (2026) GOLD BOOK AWARD — Literary Titan (2026) ★★★★★ HIGHLY RECOMMENDED — The Coffee Pot Book Club (2026) SHORTLISTED — Historical Novel Society First Chapters Competition (2026) For a woman, holding power in a man's world is dangerous; holding faith in an intolerant one is deadly. England, 1185. Nicola de la Haye, constable of Lincoln Castle, commands her fortress with hard-won authority. Determined to protect her f
DK Marley
Aug 306 min read
Coming of Age and Fighting for the Resistance During WWII - an Editorial Review of "When the Light Flickers"
Book Blurb: They took her from her home. Now she must survive. Thirteen-year-old Madeline has already lost her mother during the Nazi occupation of France. When her father is arrested for a crime he didn’t commit, she is taken from her farm home and forced into the estate of the Oberführer responsible for the loss of both parents. Inside the estate, every move carries risk, and as Madeline struggles to navigate a world of fear and manipulation, she is drawn into something eve
DK Marley
Aug 294 min read
A Queen's Ambition Sets Portugal Ablaze - an Editorial Review of "Leonor"
Book Blurb: A queen’s ambition. A kingdom on the edge. One woman’s hunger for power will set Portugal ablaze—unless she’s devoured first. A queen’s ambition. A kingdom on the edge. One woman’s hunger for power will set Portugal ablaze—unless she’s devoured first. Portugal, 1367. The court is a powder keg, and Leonor Teles de Meneses is the spark. Born noble, married off for duty, Leonor aches for more—freedom, passion, a place at the heart of power. Her wit is sharp, her enem
DK Marley
Aug 285 min read
A Novel of Love and Intrigue During Wartime - an Editorial Review of "Flight to Eternity"
Book Blurb: We tend to think of spies as being either James Bond or George Smiley: suave secret agents or orchestrators of betrayal. But what about everyday people who find themselves in the wrong place, at the wrong time, surrounded by lies, deceit and murder? In Flight to Eternity, Sally Edwards seeks to uncover the truth behind her grandfather’s role in World War II naval intelligence. She discovers more than she bargained for. "If you like fiction that captures a time and
DK Marley
Aug 274 min read
The Shameful Realities of an Orphan's Life in 1940s Canada - an Editorial Review of "Wildflowers Grow in Broken Places"
Book Blurb: Told in multiple viewpoints is a story that begins on a cold winter December night in Quebec 1941, the Jardin sisters, three-year-old Josephine and six-year-old Collette, were abandoned by their parents in a freezing cold house with scraps of food. They fell upon the mercy of Canada’s Ministry of Children and were quickly sent into the province’s Catholic-run orphanage system. When Premier Maurice Duplessis was voted in a few short years later, new radical laws of
DK Marley
Aug 264 min read
Espionage, War, and Passion in 1920s China - an Editorial Review of "The Dragon Gate Conspiracy"
Book Blurb: Wuhan, 1926. Civil war has reached the Yangtze. A Nationalist army sweeps north out of Canton, warlord regimes crumble ahead of it, and foreign gunboats ride at anchor off the Hankow bund while inside the concessions the great powers watch one another across the river. Second Lieutenant Jack Gaines came out to protect American lives and property, not to involve himself in other men's secrets. Then a Japanese businessman who claims to trade in wood oil keeps turnin
DK Marley
Aug 255 min read
An Irish Immigrant Family Raising Seven Boisterous Children in 1900 - an Editorial Review of "Growing Up O'Malley"
Book Blurb: From Mary Frances Fisher comes Growing Up O’Malley, her companion novel to Paradox Forged in Blood. Both are compelling works of historical fiction based on true events and stories passed down from the author’s family. Growing Up O’Malley is a poignant story of an Irish immigrant couple raising seven boisterous children in the early 1900s. Their antics provide the backdrop for a story filled with humor and determination to navigate life’s challenges—the Great Depr
DK Marley
Aug 244 min read
Capturing the Sephardic Jewish Experience During WWII - an Editorial Review of "Vidal"
Book Blurb: Part Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, and Art Spiegelman's Maus, Danila Botha's powerful debut graphic novel, follows young Vidal who grows up in Tiberias (Ottoman Empire and then British Mandate Palestine) and moves to Paris to pursue his art and freedom and gets trapped there during World War II. Botha traces the steps of Vidal's life through Chagallian vignettes, from his Sephardic upbringing in Tiberias to studies in the Technion in Haifa, his artistic life in Pa
DK Marley
Aug 234 min read
For Those Who Believe History is Hiding Something - an Editorial Review of "The Matriarch Mission"
Book Blurb: A girl. A goddess. A question that will cost everything.1913 Crimea. Thirteen-year-old Oksana Mangupli enters the legendary cavern of blue light and answers an ancient calling from a forgotten goddess.From the polar north to Moscow to the Black Sea, she will search for Her truth.As revolution tears Russia apart, Oksana is haunted by Zoran Murometz — a man of terrifying power who will destroy everything she loves to take the truth she carries.The man seemingly dest
DK Marley
Aug 226 min read
Four Strangers Intersect in Detroit of 1963 - an Editorial Review of "The World As It Is"
Book Blurb: From the award-winning author of Savage City, The Arsenal of Deceit, and The Ghosts of Detroit, the gripping final novel in Donald Levin’s Detroit Quartet. Detroit 1963. The lives of four strangers intersect when a shocking act of police violence inflames the city: Amp Hamilton, aspiring Motown musician and eyewitness to the killing of a Black woman by a white cop, torn between King's nonviolent resistance and Malcolm X's radical Black nationalism, Hannah Posner,
DK Marley
Aug 214 min read
A Reader's Favorite 'Must Read' - an Editorial Review of "Unbroken Hope"
Book Blurb: Finalist for the Prestigious Literary Globe Book Awards. Reader's Favorite Must Read The prestigious Kirkus Reviews says "Get it..." "Any book that treats the Okie experience does so in the shadow of the master, John Steinbeck, which is not a knock on Wells. In fact, he takes a page from the master in that he begins many chapters with moving set pieces (think of Steinbeck's famous tortoise crossing Route 66). Chapter 5 begins, "US Route 66 was the ant trail to the
DK Marley
Aug 205 min read
The Genius and the Tramp Versus Germany - an Editorial Review of "Midnight Patriots"
Book Blurb: GERMANY WANTS EINSTEIN ALIVE. CHAPLIN DEAD. Spies, assassins, a femme fatale board the Super Chief. The Genius and the Tramp race west into danger. Last stop: showdown at midnight. Blending fact and fiction, Midnight Patriots follows real-life friends Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin as they confront powerful enemies threatening America. It's 1940. Europe is in flames. Germany occupies much of the continent, and the Blitz rains terror on London. Fritz Duquesne,
DK Marley
Aug 196 min read
A Family Saga in East Tennessee - an Editorial Review of "The Scott Boys"
Book Blurb: The Scott Boys was recognized as a Finalist for the AWA Hawthorne Prize; a Finalist for the Chanticleer Laramie Award for Americana Fiction; a Finalist for the IAW Book of the Years; received the Editors Choice Award from iUniverse; and a Distinguished Author designation from the International Impact Book Awards.The Scott Boys: A Civil War Novel- Inspired by Actual Events is an iUniverse Editor's Choice. From East Tennessee, the Scott family faces Civil War confli
DK Marley
Aug 185 min read