Tag: historical

  • Crossing Fifty-One by Debbie Russell

    Book Description (Amazon.ca) A week before Christmas 1951, Dr. Ralph Russell risked everything to voluntarily enter a locked federal drug-treatment facility known as a “narcotic farm.” Sixty-five years later, Dr. Russell’s granddaughter Debbie suffers a debilitating crisis of identity when her father (Dr. Russell’s oldest son), always her biggest fan, is accepted into hospice. Debbie’s…

  • Trini! Come! by W. Michael Farmer

    Book Description (from Amazon.ca) Held captive by the Apache, a young girl discovers the courage to survive… and the strength to choose her own path. In the rugged borderlands of northern Sonora and southern Arizona, twelve-year-old Trinidad Verdín’s life is forever changed when a brutal Apache raid claims her family and leaves her a captive…

  • Desperate Warrior by W. Michael Warrior

    Book Description (from Amazon.ca) In the untamed pages of history, the saga of Pedes-klinje-known to the Mexicans as the relentless Chato-blazes a trail through the blood-soaked annals of the Apache wars. From 1877, his name was etched in the fiery heart of battle-a figure brimming with ferocity, hunger for power, and a disdain for peace with…

  • Sister Lumberjack

    Book Description (From Amazon.ca) Bottle fever has Nels Jensen by the throat. Swindled out of his summer’s pay, he heads to the logging camps of Northern Minnesota, only to discover he is blacklisted at reputable operations. He is neither a thief nor a liar, but he cannot prove his innocence. Widow Solveig Rognaldson is left…

  • TILL MY LAST DAY

    Review of “Till My Last Day”