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Tombstone, Arizona Territory, 1881. Fourteen-year-old Ben Mercer works wherever he can find a few coins—cleaning stalls, carrying messages, and delivering parcels through the crowded streets of a town built on silver, ambition, and violence. His closest friend, thirteen-year-old Rosa Delgado, sees danger where Ben often sees adventure. As tensions rise between the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday, Sheriff Johnny Behan, and the men known as the Cowboys, Ben and Rosa find themselves close enough to hear the threats, witness the arrests, and watch a political rivalry become personal. Then, on ...

Twelve-year-old Caleb Turner grows up in his father’s Boston print shop, where arguments about taxes, liberty, and loyalty arrive first as words on paper. But as tensions with Britain deepen, those words spill into the streets, dividing neighbors, families, and friends. Through Caleb’s eyes, readers experience the defining moments of the American Revolution—from the Stamp Act, Boston Massacre, and Boston Tea Party to Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill, Trenton, Saratoga, Valley Forge, Yorktown, and the difficult work of building a new nation. As Caleb grows from a printer’s ...

As the United States moves toward civil war, young printer’s apprentice Thomas Garrett discovers that history is not made only in capitals and battlefields. It is also made in hidden cellars, divided homes, crowded hospitals, newspaper offices, and the choices ordinary people make when the law protects injustice. Beginning in Frederick, Maryland, in 1852, Tom’s life changes when a frightened mother and her two sons arrive at his family’s home while fleeing slavery. Their appearance draws him into the secret routes of the Underground Railroad and forces him to confront the human cost ...

In the aftermath of the Titanic disaster in 1912, the cable ship Mackay-Bennett recovers bodies from the North Atlantic, including a small, unidentified child whose recovery haunts the crew. In the present day, forensic anthropologist Emma Reardon dedicates herself to solving this century-old mystery, using modern DNA technology to identify the 'Unknown Child' buried in Halifax's Fairview Lawn Cemetery. The story weaves between the past and present, highlighting the emotional and scientific journey to uncover the truth. Emma, a sharp-eyed and resolute scientist carrying her own personal ...

This book describes how a public school district or office of education, can create and run a successful military-style boot camp academy for "at-risk" students, based on how the author created that Alder Grove Academy in Auburn, Ca.

Thirty-five kilometers off the coast of Brazil lies a forbidden island where nothing survives by accident—and nothing leaves unchanged. When disgraced former narcotics officer Jack Mercer is offered a high-risk job harvesting rare golden lancehead vipers—each worth tens of thousands on the black market—he sees a chance to rebuild what’s left of his life. But Snake Island isn’t just dangerous. It’s lethal. Joined by a small crew of opportunists, a haunted guide who barely escaped the island once before, and the one woman who still sees something worth saving in him, Jack pushes ...

As the vengeful ghosts grow increasingly active, the remaining guests embark on a desperate quest to find a means of escape, all while Frederick Loren's hidden cameras capture the night's terror, intending to expose the fraudulent psychics. But as the house's sinister forces close in, survival takes precedence over unveiling the truth, and the guests must confront their deepest fears and unravel the secrets that bind them to the House on Haunted Hill.

The Holocaust: What Really Happened? follows thirteen-year-old Daniel Lewin and his Jewish family in Warsaw as ordinary life is gradually dismantled by Nazi persecution. Before the war, Daniel worries about school, football, his younger sister Ruth, and the usual frustrations of family life. But after Germany invades Poland in September 1939, Warsaw is bombed, occupied, and transformed. Restrictions on Jews grow more severe. Businesses are seized. Forced labor begins. Jews are marked with armbands, driven from their homes, and eventually confined inside the Warsaw Ghetto. There Daniel ...

Living in the Hall of Fame follows veteran FBI profiler Jeannie Loomis as she investigates a series of murders staged with chilling precision. When a brutal double homicide is discovered posed like a carefully arranged display, Loomis realizes the crime scene is only the beginning. Each killing is being recreated as a macabre “exhibit” inspired by history’s most infamous crimes—from Bundy to the Tylenol murders—documented and cataloged as part of a twisted museum dedicated to notoriety. As the exhibits escalate, Loomis discovers the mastermind behind the killings is Andrew Halpern...

Absolution is a gripping thriller set in a rain-soaked city where the boundaries of faith, justice, and morality blur within the corridors of power. The story revolves around Father Michael Donnelly, a tormented priest with a military past. Haunted by his experiences as an Army chaplain in Iraq, where he witnessed atrocities that shattered his faith. As the killings escalate, Detective Sofia Alvarez, a sharp and dedicated homicide investigator, leads the case. Alvarez is drawn into a complex web of clues that point to a killer with intimate knowledge of church rituals and military precision...

The Death of Hitler: What Really Happened? takes readers inside the final collapse of Nazi Germany through the eyes of two fictional Berlin teenagers, Karl Weiss and Anna Fischer, while remaining closely grounded in the historical record. The story opens not in 1945, but with the July 20, 1944 assassination attempt at Hitler’s Wolf’s Lair headquarters. Lieutenant Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg carries a bomb into a military conference and comes within inches of changing history. Hitler survives, the coup collapses, and the failed attempt only deepens his distrust, paranoia, and ...

When a brutal double homicide is discovered posed like a carefully arranged display, Loomis realizes the crime scene is only the beginning. Each killing is being recreated as a macabre “exhibit” inspired by history’s most infamous crimes—from Bundy to the Tylenol murders—documented and cataloged as part of a twisted museum dedicated to notoriety. As the exhibits escalate, Loomis discovers the mastermind behind the killings is Andrew Halpern, a former criminal psychology student who once attended her lectures at the University of San Francisco.

The Murders, the Manhunt, and the Mystery That Never Died In the autumn of 1888, fear settled over the narrow streets of London’s Whitechapel district. Women were being murdered. Police searched lodging houses, questioned suspects, followed witnesses, examined letters, and walked dark streets night after night. Newspapers competed for the most frightening headlines. Rumors spread faster than evidence. Then a letter arrived signed with a name that would become one of the most infamous in criminal history: Jack the Ripper. But was the letter actually written by the killer? More than a ...

South Carolina, 1780. Charleston has fallen. The British believe the American Revolution in the South is over. They are wrong. Retreating deep into the deadly Carolina swamps, Colonel Francis Marion refuses surrender and begins waging a brutal guerrilla war against the most powerful army on earth. Striking supply lines, ambushing patrols, and vanishing into the blackwater wilderness before the British can retaliate, Marion and his ragged militia soon become legends throughout the colonies. To the British, he becomes something else entirely: The Swamp Fox. But the war inside the swamps is ...

In "13 Ghosts Awakened," the chilling legacy of Dr. Plato Zorba looms large over a contemporary setting, setting the stage for a harrowing journey into the unknown. Dr. Sullivan, a renowned skeptic psychologist with a knack for debunking fraudulent spiritualists, finds himself thrust into a world of the supernatural when he's approached by the last surviving member of the Zorba family. Tasked with ridding the infamous Zorba mansion of its spectral inhabitants, Dr. Sullivan reluctantly agrees, drawn by the challenge and his thirst for unraveling the mysteries of the mind.

The Alamo: What Really Happened? follows fourteen-year-old Tomás Navarro, a Tejano boy trapped inside the old mission as Santa Anna’s army surrounds Béxar. While his father helps defend the walls, Tomás witnesses the growing fear, divided loyalties, and desperate hope for reinforcements that never arrive. Outside the Alamo, fifteen-year-old Miguel Herrera serves with the Mexican army as a drummer and messenger. As the red flag of no quarter rises and El Degüello sounds across the battlefield, Miguel begins questioning the difference between duty, obedience, and cruelty. Told through ...

In homage to the original classic horror movie, Return to the Black Lagoon follows a team of scientists led by Dr. Alan Richards, who embarks on an expedition deep into the Amazon rainforest to uncover the secrets of a mysterious lagoon. Among the team are Dr. Sarah Blake, a seasoned paleontologist, and Dr. Emily Carter, a geologist with a past she's trying to forget. As they delve deeper into the jungle, the team uncovers ancient fossils and remnants of a lost world, hinting at the existence of a prehistoric creature thought to be long extinct. Their excitement quickly turns to terror when...

The Romanovs: What Really Happened? follows the final years of Russia’s imperial family through the eyes of two fictional young witnesses whose lives unfold on opposite sides of the palace gates. Anna Morozova grows up near Tsarskoye Selo, where her family’s work brings her close enough to the Romanovs to see them not as distant rulers, but as parents and children. She witnesses the fear surrounding young Alexei, the heir to the Russian throne, whose hemophilia makes even a minor injury potentially deadly. Through Anna, readers see Empress Alexandra’s desperation and the growing ...

On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, and America changed in an instant. For sixteen-year-old Michael Carter, the tragedy begins in Dealey Plaza, where he witnesses the presidential motorcade moments before gunfire erupts. Hundreds of miles away, fourteen-year-old David Mitchell is eating a hamburger and drinking a chocolate shake in his high-school cafeteria when students are suddenly ordered back to homeroom. There, gathered around a black-and-white television, David watches Walter Cronkite deliver the news that will define a generation. What ...

9/11: What Really Happened? — The Attacks, the Heroes, and the Day That Changed America places young readers inside one of the most important and devastating events in modern history. Told through fictional characters living alongside documented events, this I Witness History (Short) volume brings readers into classrooms, offices, stairwells, firehouses, the Pentagon, rural Pennsylvania, and the streets of New York as the attacks unfold. Sixteen-year-old Daniel Bennett begins the morning worrying about a history test. Firefighter Thomas Callahan climbs into the North Tower carrying heavy ...