Posts Categorized: Historical

The Big Question By

The Big Question New York City. The late 1950s. Live TV. When a prime-time quiz show win could be the difference between poverty and prosperity…

And Peter Roland, making his way through the levels of difficulty, toward a half-mill win and stardom, is the perfect contestant for audience appeal and high ratings: Young, clean-cut, photogenic, smart. Especially in the wake of all the attention the producers and their team pour into burnishing that on-camera image. But his real life is proving as challenging...because he has some dark secrets that he doesn't want revealed.

Quality By

Quality "She has written the most profound approach yet to the race issue. A superior piece of literature from all angles. Every word she writes is true." Birmingham News

Boston nursing school graduate Pinkey Johnson has blond hair, blue eyes and a secret-- she's actually black. She's managed to fit in naturally among her new friends in the North, but she never quite fit within the small, southern town she came from. But now, on the eve of marrying a white doctor, and forced to tell him the truth about herself, she returns to Mississippi, where she must face the racism and inequities that are a way of life for blacks in the south of the 1940s. And yet she stays, struggling to find both herself and her place in a world that's dangerously black and white.

Flame of the Osage By

Flame of the Osage A bold, brawling story of three strong women and the men who tried to tame them, and their oil-rich land, during the desperate rush for black gold in roaring 1920s Oklahoma...and the shocking violence wrought by raw lust and naked greed.

Originally published in 1958, Flame of the Osage is inspired by the same bloody, historical events that would be depicted, over sixty years later, to great acclaim in the book and movie Killers of the Flower Moon.

"Authentic color. Grove knows Indians, their problems and feelings, as do few other writers." Oakland Tribune

RAM By

RAM "Bosoms and brawn...a rich and rangy novel. Like the heroes of all good yarns, Ram is triumphant in both battle and bed. " Raleigh News and Observer

The epic story of swashbuckling soldier-of-fortune Ram Anstruther, living a life of bloodshed from the moment he's found as a baby in the arms of his dead mother on the battlefield of Ramilles, Belgium in 1706. He's adopted by a young English soldier, who names him after the battle and raises him in Yorkshire, where Ram becomes an expert horseman, swordsman and soldier. His exceptional skills, his lust for adventure (and women), and his unquenchable thirst for revenge, will drive him around the globe, from England to Austria, from India to the American frontier, to his meet his unforgettable, heroic destiny.

The Frightened Fingers By /

The Frightened Fingers Don Cadee, as head of security for a large New York department store in the 1950s, is always on the look-out for pick-pockets, thieves and swindlers...but now, as he investigates the deaths of two women, he has to take on a gang of ruthless killers.

"Fast-paced and fascinating. In the midst of the breathless, and sometimes slightly wild, action you'll be absorbed by the intricacies of a store detedrtive's job." New York Times

Tell Me About Women By

Tell Me About Women Newsman Harry Reasoner's first and only novel, published in 1946.

Joe Wilson is a tough, cynical reporter whose life is all bourbon, beer and easy blondes. But then Maris Nordeen, warm-hearted, self-assured and golden blonde, blows into his life and changes everything, leading to a rollercoaster courtship, a whirlwind marriage  and then a slow, tortuous awakening to the harrowing reality of their young lives.