Poinsettia Girl by Jennifer Wizbowski Read an Excerpt

Publication Date: October 18, 2025
Publisher: Historium Press
Pages: 336
Genre: Historical Fiction

Book Description

Venice, 1710

Poinsettia Girl is based on the story of Agata de la Pieta, an orphan musician of the Ospedale de la Pieta.

Ten-year-old Agata's world is shaken at the sudden death of her mother. Left only with her egregious father, a working musician in Venice, her ailing grandmother sends her to the well-known orphanage, hidden from everything she's ever known.

Agata auditions for the conservatory style music school where music is both salvation

Bright One by Lisajoy Sachs Read an Excerpt

Publication Date: October 18, 2025
Publisher: Historium Press
Series: Bright One Series, Book #1
Pages: 322
Genre: Historical Fiction

Book Description

When desperate choices mean the difference between life and death.

Inspired by true events, Bright One tells the story of Jetti Finkelthal, Lisajoy Sachs’ great-grandmother. In Czernowitz, Romania, this young Jewish mother is forced to face impossible choices as the world begins to collapse around her. As antisemitism tightens its grip and war edges ever closer, Jetti holds fast to her daughter, Berta, with the fragile belief that love and courage might still carve a way through the darkness.