Posts Categorized: Historical

It Was Like This By

It Was Like This A powerful, romantic drama set in the deep south of the late 1800s, a novel the Lexington Herald hailed as "a tiny masterpiece of style, of subtlety, of studied artistry." Back in print for the first time in nearly 75 years.

The lives of widow Louisa Martin, her two adult sons Hugh and Lawrence, and her adopted daughter Anna on an isolated pecan plantation in Southern Mississippi in the late 1800s.  

The Ward Greene Reader By

The Ward Greene Reader Four highly-acclaimed, literary masterpieces, some of them out of print for over 70 years, now collected for the first time on one ebook volume.

CORA POTTS * RIDE THE NIGHTMARE * DESIRE IN THE DEEP SOUTH * ROUTE 28

“For years, Ward Greene has been doing amazing things with words. He has depicted the heights and depths of human emotion with uncanny skill.” Tucson Citizen

Bold Water By

Bold Water The only novel by the beloved, and influential, Millikin University English Department chairperson and professor Davida McCaslin, back in print for the first time in 70 years. It's the deeply-felt, intimate saga of Bold Water, a town on the Maine coast, and the turbulent, storm-tossed lives of the people who live there, all deeply rooted in the history and beauty of the land.

"A beautiful story of Maine. The book has color, excitement and reality." Decatur Daily Review

"Her writing is marked by a delicate quality," Decatur Herald & Review

Ride the Nightmare By

Ride the Nightmare Southerner Jake Perry is a successful, married comicbook artist living the good life in New York in the 1930s. But, bored and restless, he falls under the sway of Bellerophon Cawdor, a 'Bohemian love-cultist' in Greenwich Village, and the sadistic, erotic world he offered. Jake can't let go, pulling his dutiful high-society wife, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy family, into his tragic obsession with forbidden pleasures, trapping them both in a whirlpool that could destroy their lives.