In love with her cousin Emily’s husband, Laura Hewitt travels to India in the winter of 1856-1857. She does not want to travel with Emily and Charles on their honeymoon trip, but family pressure and family affection compel her to accompany the newlyweds as Emily’s companion. Laura is, above everything else, a resilient and pragmatic…
These Is My Words is the wonderfully moving coming-of-age story of young Sarah Agnes Prine told in diary form. Sarah is seventeen when the story begins and she and her family begin to travel from the Arizona territory to Texas on a wagon train. Sarah begins a diary on the trip and the entire novel…
Originally published in 1986, Dessa Rose was recently republished with an eye toward the booming book club market. The cover touts its status as a book group selection, and the inside provides information about a free discussion guide. But I’m not sure I would recommend it to the members of my book club. It’s an…
Prophet Annie is a tall tale told by one of the most engaging heroines I’ve met in a long time. Annie Pinkerton Boone is a young woman who lives in Iowa with her cranky, crabby and downright hateful Mama. Annie had run off with a gandy dancer a while back, but he got killed and…
The title of this book, Charity, is drawn from two sources. The first is the setting, which is turn of the century Charity, South Dakota. The second is the text from First Corinthians, referring to charity as the pure love of Christ. The harsh South Dakota climate plays an important part in the plot, as…
The Randolph Legacy is a powerful early-American novel that started a little slowly, but quickly picked up steam until I became totally absorbed in the story and its wonderful characters. In 1803, a young boy from an American ship is impressed on a British ship. When he refuses to obey the captain’s orders, he is…
Lord of Sunset is an historical novel about the life of Harold of Wessex, the last Saxon king of England. Harold is a shadowy historical character, best known as an embroidered figure on the Bayeaux tapestry. Parke Godwin takes this figure and brings him to three-dimensional life. Harold is the second son of a powerful…
I frankly don’t know what to say about this book. But, if you’re willing to stay with me here, I’m willing to take a stab at it. Have you read James Fenimore Cooper’s, The Last of the Mohicans? Voluntarily? Or did you study only parts of it in the tenth grade, as I did? This…
I discovered Persia Woolley by accident about six years ago, before I even dreamed of writing a novel of my own. A small notice appeared in the local Valley Press announcing publication of a trilogy of historical novels published by Poseidon Press. I went out and bought the first book, Guinevere trilogy, and it took…
this review is by Arnette Lamb The first time I read Border Lord, I was about twelve. I fell in love with both the Border Lord (Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell) and Sir Patrick Galbraith; and I loathed the Earls of Morton and Maitland (the king’s wicked advisers and Bothwell’s worst enemies), and wondered…
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