Fiction, Historical
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Deception of the Gods
by Richard Fraser
“There’s a saying: 'How do you know when a spy is lying? His lips are moving. . .'” Spring, 1944. Squadron Leader Michael Simpson (codename Thor) is just shy of his twenty-fifth birthday when an air mission in occupied France ends with a glimpse...
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Von König's War
One Man, One Vision by Karl Müller and Thomas Butler Anderson
Von König’s War examines the extraordinary rise of Aldrich von König—one of Germany’s most enigmatic and influential figures in modern history. Told through the meticulous chronicles of his friend and fellow officer Karl Müller, this volume...
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An Unfound Door
by Nicholas Varner
In An Unfound Door, Gabe evolves from a shy, sickly loner to a thoughtful, empathetic young man as he makes his way through the turbulence of 1960s America, beginning a quest to understand the purpose of his existence and the mystery of his...
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The Healing Tree
by Frances Kelly
Ireland, 1546, and Saoirse Brennan, now Chieftain, is saddled with the care of ten-year-old Edmund Fitzroy, the illegitimate son of Henry VIII. The dying king has named nine-year-old Edward Tudor as his successor, but palace intrigues to control...
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The Women of Harvard Square
by M. Lynn Greene
It’s July 1775, the start of American independence from the British Crown, and George Washington’s Continental Army has set up headquarters in Cambridge Massachusetts, the home of Harvard University. When eighteen-year-old Hannah Bradford,...
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Destroying Max
by Robert Sanderson
Montreal, 1960. Max Marchand’s life is seemingly perfect. He has a beautiful wife, Erin, and together with their four teenaged children, they live in a large house in Westmount—Montreal’s most desirable neighbourhood. Max is successful in his...
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The Long Way Home
by Michael Murphy
After years away, Ragnar returns to his home of Oslo, Norway, with a pregnant Sayiina. Wanting to retire from sailing, set his roots down, and raise a family, he finds gainful employment as Oslo’s new harbor master. But trouble soon finds him...
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The Governor's Granddaughter
by Theresa Redmond
Margaret Gordon is born around the year 1800 on Prince Edward Island, a British colony under the shadow of her grandfather’s shameful political misdeeds and actions, leaving the Island’s settlers caught in an unjust landholding system and...
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Matriarchs of the Hoople Creek Loyalists
by John Sliter
“Matriarchs of the Hoople Creek Loyalists” is a series of historical fiction stories about seventeen women and their families who helped to settle Upper Canada along a small creek in eastern Ontario. Their stories reflect their struggle to...
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Kate and the Composers
by Joanne Culley
A blend of fact and fiction, Kate and the Composers follows Kate Bourke, a young girl who emigrates from Ireland with her family to make a new life in Toronto in the late nineteenth century. After leaving school in Grade 8 to help support her...
