Historical Fiction
No Choice but Freedom: A Novel of Treachery and Triumph in Colonial America
by Pat Mattaini Mestern
ISBN: 1932158766 Trade Paperback - Regularly $16.00, $12.00 online
Epic tale of a strong woman's adventures among pirates, slavers and plantation owners of the Colonial South. Based on the true stories of English woman Elizabeth Bagley Morrison and William Servos Hult, an African slave who won his freedom and rose to prominence in the spice trade: Joanna Showcroft, a principled woman with a sense of adventure, leaves her ancestral home in England to live in Colonial Virginia. While trying to make good a marriage carrying an unusual nuptial agreement, Joanna becomes embroiled in the issue of slavery, a practice she finds abhorrent. Her life is complicated by threats of murder, the need to protect friends and the attentions of several admirers, including a dashing slave trader. The tangle unravels and justice finally prevails among the Highland Scots of the North Carolina mountains.
"A story of choices. Joanna's choice among the cruel Talbot, the entrancing Makem, and the quietly heroic Bucknell, is neatly paralleled by the choices among her principles, the welfare of the plantation, and the unhappy fate, in the American colonies, of freed Africans. Both romantic and thoughtful, has characters that shatter stereotypes to turn their "acting" into behaving like human beings." – Carolina Mountain Living
Magdalena's Song
by Pat Mattaini Mestern
ISBN: 0971304580 Trade Paperback - Regularly $16.95, $12.95 online
The respectable facade of a traditional Ontario village falls apart when Count Vincent Cudzinki pays a visit. Is he the ghost of a gypsy back for revenge or a labor organizer with a slick cover story?
"As Mestern spins out her mystery, she lures you to turn page after page, entrancing you with unusual characters. What secrets – from the past or future – do they hide? Gypsy lore adds an enticing fascination... but the overall tale is about freedom and dignity and an all-powerful love that crosses generations... Luscious segments of description and plenty of realistic dialogue make the book hard to put down." – Deborah Quale, Discoveries and Destinations
Getorix: The Eagle and The Bull
by Judith Geary
ISBN: 193215874X hardcover - Regularly $24.95, $18.71 online, Claystone Books
A Celtic adventure in ancient Rome.
When friendship and honor collide Getorix has one last opportunity to gain his father's respect and earn welcome into the Otherworld as a man. At almost fifteen winters, he marches beside his father, a defeated Celtic leader, in the Roman triumph parade – a celebration that ends in death. To face the ordeal of death before the Romans will truly be his man-making. Instead, the gods throw him an entirely different challenge.
"Getorix is a compelling tale of ancient Rome. The fully-realized characters make the past come alive for readers of any age." – Sharyn McCrumb, best-selling author of St. Dale and the Ballad Series
"Exciting ride through ancient Rome, in a novel of intrigue, adventure and history. ...Geary's deep knowledge of the historical period and her understanding of the emotional quest of hero, as well as the political intrigues of the period, gives readers a book that has a contemporary feel and urgent sense of the times. Readers will find the book difficult to put down." – Gloria Houston, internationally award-winning author of The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree, and many other works
Historical Fantasy
Windmaster's Bane
by Tom Deitz
*ISBN: 1932158715 Hardcover - $50.00
ISBN: 1932158723 Paperback - Regularly $17.95
Collector's edition of the first in the celebrated Adventures of David Sullivan. David Sullivan, a north Georgia teenager, reads about the gods of Irish myth and enjoys fantasies drawn from these stories. When a chance encounter with a funeral procession – viewed from an eccentric angle – gifts him with Second Sight, however, the reality of the world of Faerie proves as dangerous as it is fantastic. When David's brother is stolen and his beloved uncle felled by faerie magic, David enlists friends Alec McLean and Liz Hughes as companions on the quest to save their lives.
The first of the series: Tales of David Sullivan, Windmaster's Bane was originally published in 1986 as an Avon paperback. This collector's edition has been updated and re-written lightly by the author, but retains the charm and energy of the original. The new cover is from a painting by Val and Ron Lindahn, whose images have graced work by Piers Anthony, Isaac Asimov, magazines and movies. The Lindahns currently serve as judges in the L Ron Hubbard Illustrators of the future contest.
Gloria: The Merlin and The Saint (From the Joan of Arc Tapestries)
by Ann Chamberlin
ISBN: 1932158618 hardcover - Regularly $24.95, $18.71 online
If Joan of Arc really was a witch!
From Ann Chamberlin, winner Critic's Choice Award for Best Overall Historical, this fictional account of the life of Joan of Arc from her emergence at the court of Charles the Dauphin, through the lifting of the English siege of Orleans, to the crowning of Charles as king of France.
Ann Chamberlin is known for her many fine historical novels, including Sofia, the Sultan's Daughter, Reign of the Favored Women, Leaving Eden and Tamar. Her trilogy concerning life in the Ottoman harem caused a sensation in Turkey, where all three book simultaneously occupied the top of the bestseller lists.
"A rich weaving of fantastic elements with accurate historical detail and imaginative reinterpretation (for Merlin of St. Gilles Well) Battle sequences are formidable both in vividness and detail, as are the magic sequences... credible and absorbinh." - Publishers Weekly
Marian Coe is the award-winning author of six books, a former staffer with the St. Petersburg Times, in Florida, is an Alabama native and a transplanted North Carolinian. She lives on Sugar Mountain with her artist husband, Paul Zipperlin.
Rachel's Story: A Southern Girl in Pre-Civil War Boston
by Marian Coe
ISBN: 1932158642 Trade Paperback - Regularly $18.95, $14.21 online
Transcendentalist authors come alive in this young woman's quest.
A "feel good" book. Her mother's death thrusts Rachel from a Carolina plantation cabin into Boston society. In her search to belong, and to understand her Cherokee grandmother's prophecy, she encounters Elizabeth Peabody, Thoreau, Whitman, Louisa May Alcott and Emerson -- bringing alive the Transcendentalists and this pivotal age for the reader.
"On many levels, this romance goes beyond the genre, weaving not only history with fiction, but also philosophy with spirituality, and literary excellence with supurb storytelling." – Carolina Mountain Living
Once Upon a Different Time
by Marian Coe, illustrations by Paul Zipperlin
ISBN: 1932158537 Trade Paperback - Regularly $12.95, $9.71 online
NCSH Award-winning romantic adventure based on 1880s travel articles in the Atlantic Monthly.
Join a spirited group on a romantic adventure in the Appalachian mountains in 1884, as they travel on horseback from Abingdon, Virginia to the fashionable resort of Asheville, North Carolina.
Novelist Marian Coe and artist Paul Zipperlin have woven an imaginative odyssey based on the true account by Charles Dudley Warner of just such a trip published in the Atlantic Monthly of the time.
Book of the Year: High Country Writers Organization
North Carolina Society of Historians: Clark Cox Award for Fiction
Eve's Mountain
by Marian Coe
ISBN: 0963334174 Hardcover - Regularly $18.95, $14.21 online, Southlore Press
A novel of passion and mystery in the Blue Ridge.
Can serenity be found in secluded places of natural beauty, away from urban concerns and world realities? Follow Marian Coe's rich cast of characters to a summer hideaway in the Southern highlands where the mystery of Eve's life and death is about to unfold, changing lives.
Winner: Clara Award for Contemporary Mystery
"This well-crafted saga belongs in all fiction collections." – Library Journal
Key to a Cottage
by Marian Coe
ISBN: 0963334190 hardcover - Regularly $19.95, $14.96 online, Southlore Press
A Southern woman's confessions and discoveries from the 1960s
As the determined survivor in the marketplace, Rai hides mounting dis-ease behind her public face. This pose screeches to a halt as Rae risks her hard-earned success in upscale South Florida to seek the truth. She returns to her childhood sanctuary, the Carolina cottage bequeathed to her by Aunt Vyola. Waiting is the Pandora's box of the past.
Marvelous Secrets
by Marian Coe
ISBN: 0963334182 hardcover - Regularly $16.95, $12.71 online, Southlore Press
A rich variety of stories from a Southern novelist who writes from the heart about intriguing places and human hopes.
"In these tales fate and choice enjoy a serendipitous synergy" – Publishers Weekly
Legacy
by Marian Coe
ISBN: 0963334115 - $14.95, Southlore Press
ISBN: 0963334107 Trade Paperback
Family mystery on a 1945 Gulf Shore
Can the power of love – or vengeance – reach across time and space? Or is it madness to hear such a message? A Florida tale of timeless passions and ageless wisdoms played out on a rustic Gulf coast in 1945.
"Marian Coe deliciously involved the reader" – Book Reader Reviews
Weather of the Heart: A Child's Journey out of Revolutionary Russia
by Nora Lourie Percival
ISBN: 0971304505 Hardcover - Regularly $29.95, $22.56 online
ISBN: 0971304599 Trade Paperback - Regularly $19.95, $14.96 online
From the perspective of the 21 century, the author looks back with a clear eye to the turbulent days following the Russian Revolution. Nora Percival's research illuminates her personal story -- the story so many of us long to hear from grandparents unable or unwilling to look back beyond the immigrants' voyage to another life and another world.
"Speaks for so many others who have silently endured the loss of all they valued." – Publishers Weekly
Top Six Guide pick -- Small Press Books by Women Writers - About.com
Memoir Book of the Year - High Country Writers Organization
Silver Pages on the Lawn
by Nora Lourie Percival
ISBN: Trade Paperback - Regularly $19.95, $14.96 online, Kent Hollow Press
A story of forbidden love set in the great depression in the Columbia/Barnard literary community. The true story of a pair of star-crossed student lovers during the difficult days of the 1930s. Their romance endured parental disapproval and lack of time, money and privacy. Their passionate letters, poignant and poetic, form the heart of their history – the steadfast love that survived it all and carried them through to the life they dreamed of.
Nora Lourie Percival met her first love while she was an undergraduate at Barnard college. She has had a long career as an editor and is also the author of Weather of the Heart: A Child's Journey out of Revolutionary Russia, a memoir of her childhood in Russia during the early years of the Communist Revolution.
Herman Gund was a journalism student at Columbia University when he met Nora. A talented poet, he endured many struggles before he became a newspaperman.
Legend of the Feather Pillow
by A. H. Felman
ISBN: 1932158545 Trade Paperback - Regularly $16.95, $12.71 online
ISBN: 1932158553 Hardcover - Regularly $24.95, $18.71 online
Both editions come with a Jewish-American Glossary.
Doctor Milton Diamond, fresh out of medical training and caught up in the conflict between the traditional code of medical ethics and the realities of modern health care delivery, challenges his fellow physicians to restore honesty and credibility to the ancient art of healing. For his labors, he is rewarded with contempt from his peers and scorn from the community of people he is trying to help. To prevail, he must overcome not only deep-rooted, established traditions, but the shadowy demons that dwell within himself.
"Think a Jewish Patch Adams ... on a crusade for medical ethics" – Bradford R. Pilcher, Jewsweek
"Thoughtful examination by a Jewish professional of the everyday compromises people make and the ethical dilemmas they face or turn away from." Rabbi Laurence Edwards
Cookin' Up A Storm: The Life and Recipes of Annie Johnson
by Jane Lee Rankin
ISBN: 0965738728 Trade Paperback - Regularly $19.95, $14.96 online, Grace Publishers
"Annie Johnson came into our lives when I was six weeks old, . . . and everyone in the family except my father had chicken pox. It was a crisis . . . and Annie was the solution."
Jane Lee Rankin warmly welcomes readers into the world of Annie Johnson, the family cook, teacher, lifelong friend and African-American woman who introduced the author to the world of traditional Southern cooking.
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