Author: Margaret Irwin
Publisher: Sourcebooks
ISBN: 978-1-4022-2996-1

Young Bess is the beginning of a trilogy by Margaret Irwin being republished over the next year. It relates the early life of Elizabeth Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, from her early childhood years up until her brother Edward VI’s death

Author: Susan Higginbotham

Publisher: Sourcebooks

ISBN: 978-1-4022-3766-9

This is another wonderful novel by Susan Higginbotham and it covers a very interesting and active period in British history – the Cousins War (or as we call it, the Wars of the Roses)

Author: Simon Mawer
ISBN: 978-1-59051-396-5

Simon  Mawer, the author, instills his characters with such realism that you believe these people really existed. And maybe they did!

Author: Marlen Suyapa Bodden
ISBN: 978-1-4302-5583-4

The Wedding Gift is a powerful tale of bondage, slavery, cruelty and ultimately freedom

Author: Glenn Boyer
Publisher: Legendary Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-887747-40-0

This partially autobiographical novel provides a realism to historical dates and famous Americans. Abraham Lincoln, Sitting Bull and Franklin D. Roosevelt are just a few of the historical characters that are blended into this masterful tomb of history. Glenn Boyer is a master storyteller at weaving the fabric of America's history and mesmerizing the reader.

Run to the bookstore and buy this for yourself.  This is a 'must-have' after-Christmas present for you readers out there

Author: Thad Carhart
ISBN: 978-0-385-52977-8
Publisher: Doubleday

The plot is well-developed while maintaining integrity to history. When fictionalized there is continuity and connection with the separate plots

Author:  Susan Violante
ISBN:  978-1-4415-1319-9

Author's Name:  Thad Carhart
ISBN:  9780385529778
Publisher:  Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

This book is recommended for lovers of historical fiction. I enjoyed getting to know Jean-Baptiste, and I think others will also

Author: Ruth Rymer
ISBN: 978-1934938416
Publisher: Langdon Street Press

The historical detail never trumps the story, but instead intertwines perfectly to support this engaging tale

Author: Florence B. Weinberg
Publisher: Twilight Times Books
ISBN: 978-1-60619-114-9

Author: Florence B. Weinberg
Publisher:Twilight Times Books
ISBN: 978-1-933353-46-3

An extremely good writer!  Bravo Florence Weinberg!  I hope they carve out a section of my local library just for your books

Author: Steven R. Lundin
Publisher: BookSurge Publishing
ISBN-10:1439228000:  13:1439228005

Steven Lundin's new book Shooting An Albatross has a little of everything. There is mystery, golf, romance, history and murder. I had slight trepidations with the golf theme of the book, as I do not play, but I am a sucker for historical novels

Author: Dr. Willian B. Stanford
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 978-0-595-43311-7

Author: BJ Hoff
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
ISBN: 978-0-7369-2646-1

 
What is the American dream?  To many of us it represents wealth and comfort, but in the 1870’s, it often meant simply having food for the children and a good roof over the whole family’s head.  This book, American Anthem, is actually three books in one.  The books tell about the lives of three immigrant families, how they lived, and how they finally meet up together and help each other achieve the American dream.

Author: Larry Buttram
ISBN: 978-0-0755050-1-0
Publisher: New Virginia Publications

Here’s a little known fact: Robert Carter III of Nomini Hall Plantation on the Northern Neck of Virginia, freed more slaves than any individual in American History.

Author: John Brackeen
Publisher: PublishAmerica
ISBN: 1-60703-896-X

A Night Drive is not just a story or a novel. It’s a testimony about the Vietnam war, which we (the readers) make out what life was like through the author narration. John Brackeen knows what he is talking about, he served two tours of duty in Vietnam. This book is based on a operation in the Que Son Valley in 1967.

Author: Mary Paulson
Publisher: Eloquent Book New York, New York
ISBN: 987-1-60693-200-1

Author: Gloria Waldron Hukle

ISBN: 1-4259-4260-1

Publisher:AuthorHouse, Bloomington, IN

This novel dusted away the cobwebs settled on this reader’s long-ago seventh grade social studies lessons, refreshing my memories of Dutch colonization in North America, adding much new information and painting faces and hearts on that history.

Author: Persis Granger

ISBN: 978-0-9742085-0-3

Publisher: Beaver Meadow Publishing

Persis Granger is a master of historical fiction and Adirondack Gold is a prime example.  Her realistic characters make her books come alive with realism and energy.   Her writing talent puts you right in the center of each heart-warming and heart-throbbing situation.

Author: Mike Kearby

ISBN: 978-0-9788422-9-1

Publisher: Trail’s End Books

The Last Renegade is historical adventure fiction at its very best.  Mike Kearby brings realism and chills to his readers in this wonderfully exciting tale of the Old West.  His characters are straight off the rugged plains of a time all but forgotten.

Author: Elizabeth Carroll Foster

Publisher: iUniverse

ISBN: 978-0-595-48384-6

Elizabeth Carroll Foster’s Southern Winds A’ Changing is historical fiction at its best.  Her realistic characters come to life in a life and death struggle with the harsh farmlands of Arkansas and the racial changes that are trying desperately to take hold in a community that fights change of any kind. 

This is one new author who stands up to be recognized.