Engelstalige historische romans

1. Noalani Helelā

Aloha Kaua

Noalani Helelā is a severely neurodivergent Hapa Hawaiian-Japanese-Chinese artist whose work includes filmmaking, playwriting, music, and poetry. After competing in several national poetry slams, she made her playwriting debut with Demigods Anonymous at Kumu Kahua Theatre in 2018 which saw a second staging at Palikū Theatre in Fall 2022. She also wrote, directed, and starred in the short film Yellow Fever Aftermath in 2020 for Windward Academy of Creative Media.

1. Bernard , Cenney

Timeless Prophecy

Timeless Prophecy is the time-warping sequel to Timeless Goddess and part nine in the epic Sparrow's Tears saga. "Lin Sparrow is a witch." That's what people say. In her dreams, Lin has a seer's ability to foretell the future from the ashes of the past. Lin does it with her mind. The Nazis did it with a time machine codenamed Die Glocke. Green Beret Captain James Ross and his clairvoyant girlfriend Lin Sparrow join forces with Israeli Mossad commandos in a race against time to stop a crazed Russian Colonel known as the Sorcerer. The Sorcerer has emplaced nuclear weapons throughout the Middle East in the hopes of starting Armageddon. Can James and Lin stop the Sorcerer and prevent World War Three? Only time will tell.

1. Kavi , Ocktiiv

The Omission of Billy Seldom

Born in 1892 in McHenry, Mississippi, December Williams is the youngest of eleven children in a family hardened by poverty and terror. The son of a sharecropper and maid, he grows up under the looming menace of white hoods and burning crosses, witnessing racial violence that forces his family to flee north to Memphis, TN. After the untimely death of his aunt, December inherits a juke joint while still barely a man. What begins as survival becomes education. Behind the music, liquor, and night life, he sees the machinery of Jim Crow up close: shakedowns, police brutality, extortion, and white men who profit from Black labor without consequence. Every dollar he earns is squeezed. Every success is taxed by fear. But December refuses to be broken by violence. Rather than surrender to brutality; he chooses a far more dangerous path... one of psychological warfare. Noticing the quiet infatuation white women have with him, he devises a plan-not to love them, not to save them, but to weaponize the one thing Southern white men value most: the white woman's purity myth. From the shadows, December builds a clandestine empire, positioning himself as the unseen architect while a white front man shields the operation. His rule is simple and ruthless... his women entertain only white men. It is revenge through psychology, profit reclaimed through subversion, and power seized without firing a single shot. But in early twentieth-century America, a Black man who manipulates the racial order, even invisibly, plays a deadly game. As December's underground empire grows, it draws the attention of the Irish mob, and the balance of power begins to shift. In a world ruled by terror, taboo, and tyranny, December must decide: is he reclaiming dignity... or becoming the very thing he despises? A sweeping historical novel of ambition, race, power, and the dangerous cost of calculated revenge.

1. Colleen , Mccullough

The Thorn Birds

“Beautiful… Compelling entertainment.” —New York Times One of the most beloved novels of all time, The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough’s sweeping family saga of dreams, titanic struggles, dark passions, and forbidden love in the Australian Outback, returns to enthrall a new generation. The Thorn Birds is a chronicle of three generations of Clearys—an indomitable clan of ranchers carving lives from a beautiful, hard land while contending with the bitterness, frailty, and secrets that penetrate their family. It is a poignant love story, a powerful epic of struggle and sacrifice, a celebration of individuality and spirit. Most of all, it is the story of the Clearys' only daughter, Meggie, and the haunted priest, Father Ralph de Bricassart—and the intense joining of two hearts and souls over a lifetime, a relationship that dangerously oversteps sacred boundaries of ethics and dogma.

1. Caroline Russell-King
2. Maria Crooks

Selma Burke

1. Dominica Annese

Dominica's Story