Dr. Richard Burack is a local author and doctor from Jackson, NH. New Book Dramatizes 19th Century Belgian Murder Case Dr. Richard Burack authors historical fiction based on court transcripts Love, longing, class consciousness, insanity, and death by nicotine poisoning are focal points in Dr. Richard Burack’s debut novel “Lydie of Peruwelz.” Lydie Fougnies is…
ON THE SICKLE’S EDGE By Neville D. Frankel ISBN: 978-1-944884-10-9 (pbk.) ISBN: 978-1-944884-11-6 (ebook) 471 pages: $25.95 Special Preorder price: $19.95 January 16, 2017 With the current refugee crisis in Europe reaching a scale unknown since World War II, ON THE SICKLE’S EDGE illuminates today’s issues, even as it sheds penetrating insight from the past….
Recently released, The Lost Girls by Heather Young is a novel that switches between past and present and one that provides characters marked by disturbed minds rivaling those in Gone Girl or The Girl on the Train but with the added satisfaction of actually being believable. This is the story of a young six-year-old girl who vanished without a trace…
I’ve indulged in a number of books on Tudor historical fiction including the Philippa Gregory novels – and who didn’t watch The Tudors on Showtime? Wolf Hall, Tudor-inspired historical fiction revolving around the life of Thomas Cromwell and the first in the Thomas Cromwell trilogy, was published fairly recently and quickly won a bevy of awards including…
This book has been added to my list of absolute favorite books of all time. I cannot remember the last book I read that immersed me so deeply into a story. The characters felt like people I knew from my past, circa early 1900s. Wecker blends historical fact, captivating fantasy, and myths from ancient…
The Son: Cowboys and Indians, the great wild west, and a whole bunch of scalping. This 2014 Pulitzer Prize nominee is a sweeping saga through generations of a wealthy Texan family, from the mid-1800s to present day. This is not a ‘feel good’ book. It is cold, savage, and ultimately brutal, a book to leave…