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In 1978, a VA hospital clerk named Thomas Crane made a discovery that would change everything. While processing the personal effects of James "Rabbit" Morrison—a Vietnam veteran who had died alone in Richmond's VA hospital—Crane found something extraordinary: forty-seven letters that had been written but never sent. These weren't ordinary letters. Hidden in Morrison's footlocker were confessions that five soldiers from Firebase Charlie had carried in secret for a decade. Letters to fiancées explaining why gentle farm boys had become efficient killers. Letters to parents confessing to ...

They walked into the jungle as strangers. They walked out as brothers. The jungle forgot them the moment they left. They will never forget. November 1967. Six American soldiers disappear into the Vietnamese highlands on a five-day reconnaissance patrol. What happens in those five days will haunt them for the rest of their lives. Reed carries a Bible he hasn't opened since his brother bled out at Ia Drang. Jefferson walks point, running from a secret he's never told anyone—the truth about how his brother really died on a burning Detroit street. Delacroix reads the jungle like he reads his ...

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Grisham meets To Kill a Mockingbird. I couldn't put it down." When defending your family means destroying everything you've built, how far will you go? Commander Jake Morrison has spent twelve years running from Mississippi—and he's built the perfect life to prove it worked. Naval Academy graduate. JAG Corps prosecutor. Promotion to Commander at thirty-one. Clean record. No mistakes. No looking back. Then the phone rings at 0200. His aunt, crying. Danny's been arrested. Murder. He confessed. The victim: Their childhood mentor, the one white man in Harmony Creek County who...

She was sold into sexual slavery at age seven. By thirty-five, she commanded 80,000 pirates and negotiated with empires as an equal. In 1801, Shi Yang was property—a flower boat prostitute in Canton with no future and no hope. By 1810, she was Zheng Yi Sao, the Pirate Queen, commander of the largest criminal fleet in history. This is the true story of how one woman transformed herself from victim to victor, building an empire on the South China Sea that neither the Chinese government nor European powers could destroy. Starting with nothing but intelligence and ruthless pragmatism, Shi ...

A dying man. Ten thousand miles of road. One question that will not let him rest. In August 1784, Father Junípero Serra lies dying in a small adobe cell at the edge of the world. He has walked farther than any missionary in history. He has founded nine missions along the California coast. He has baptized thousands of souls and buried hundreds of children who died from diseases he carried in his breath. Now, with his final hours approaching, he looks back on a life consumed by holy fire—and asks the question he has avoided for fifty years: Did the good outweigh the harm? The Burning Road ...

AN IMAGINATIVE JOURNEY INTO THE GOSPELS ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "This novel made the Gospels come alive for me in ways I never expected." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Beautifully written, theologically sound, and deeply moving." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Sent me straight back to my Bible to read the real accounts with fresh eyes." A HUMBLE ATTEMPT TO IMAGINE JESUS'S PERSPECTIVE This is not Scripture. Only the Bible is the Word of God. But what if you could walk through the Gospel accounts from a new perspective? What if a gifted novelist attempted to imagine what Jesus might have been thinking and feeling during the ...

She smiled at the men who killed her brother. Then she destroyed them. Stockholm, 1942. While Europe burns, neutral Sweden has become the world's most dangerous chessboard—a city where German, British, Soviet, and American spies circle each other in an endless shadow war. Karin Lindqvist is a celebrated actress with a secret: she works for Swedish intelligence, gathering information from the Nazi officers who court her at diplomatic receptions. It's her way of avenging her brother, torpedoed by a German U-boat in the North Sea. But when a German pastor arrives with an extraordinary ...

"Masterful character development and impeccable historical detail. Ferrier has created something rare—a Pearl Harbor novel that's as much about identity as it is about war." "THE WEIGHT OF WATER delivers on every level—psychological depth, moral complexity, and the kind of prose that reminds you why you fell in love with literary fiction. This is Pulitzer-caliber work." "Ferrier doesn't just write about the USS Arizona—he makes you feel the weight of command, the cost of transformation, the burden of becoming real. Unforgettable." On December 7, 1941, at 0755 hours, Lieutenant Thomas ...

He didn’t conquer California. He named it—river by river, memory by memory. In the early 1800s, Spanish lieutenant Gabriel Moraga rode deep into the wild, unmapped heart of California. What he discovered would shape the future of the West—but what he left behind was something far more enduring than conquest: names that still ripple across maps, city signs, and courtrooms today. River-Maker is a breathtaking historical narrative that brings Moraga’s forgotten journey vividly to life—from the sweeping silence of the Central Valley to the tangled wetlands of the Delta, from ...

El Capitán: José Francisco Ortega and the Birth of California sweeps you onto a saddle beside the little-known scout who changed the map of the American West—then asks why you’ve never heard his name. Ride shotgun on Spain’s last great gamble. Feel fog sting your cheeks as Ortega becomes the first European to glimpse the vast, hidden harbor we now call San Francisco Bay—and watch an empire pivot on his hastily penciled sketch. Build a frontier—in real time. March into wildfire heat, mix adobe alongside Chumash brickmakers, and raise the guns of Santa Barbara’s presidio before ...

THE SOUND OF JOY Book Five · The USS Arizona Series “Haunting, restrained, and quietly devastating—The Sound of Joy captures the fragile beauty of a life just before history shatters it, and I couldn’t stop thinking about it long after the final page.” Before the war. Before the fire. Before the silence that would echo across the Pacific. Vincent DeLuca learned early that music could do what words could not. Raised in a quiet Brooklyn apartment by a father who spoke through his trumpet, Vincent discovers that sound can comfort the grieving, move the hardened, and hide the pain no ...

★★★★★ "A masterpiece of historical fiction that deserves every major literary award." Some journeys measure a thousand miles. Others measure the distance between who you were forced to be and who you refuse to become. In 1883, twelve-year-old Nayeli is ripped from his family and imprisoned at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School—an institution designed to systematically erase Native American identity. His hair is cut. His name is taken. His language is forbidden. Children who resist are beaten. Children who remember are punished. Children who fight back disappear. But Nayeli ...

BEFORE THE WATER ROSE In the literary tradition of The Things They Carried and All Quiet on the Western Front—a devastating portrait of a young man learning to disappear. Calvin Webb stands at windows. In small-town Kansas during the Dust Bowl, watching is safer than participating. Observation is easier than action. When a boy falls from a roof and Calvin freezes instead of running for help, he learns what paralysis costs. The U.S. Navy promises to fix what's broken. Boot camp will teach him to act without thinking. To move without hesitating. To become useful instead of frozen. And it ...

For readers who loved The Nightingale, Orphan #8, and All the Light We Cannot See comes an unforgettable novel of one boy's silent resistance against a system designed to erase him. England, 1930s. Some children are born into families. Elias is delivered to an institution. At just six years old, Elias arrives at the Sanctuary—a preventorium for children deemed too frail, too sickly, too much of a burden for their families to bear. His parents' hands slip away. The car door closes. And with it, his childhood ends. In the Sanctuary's echoing halls, children are measured by bells and bathed ...

January 1941. Lou Gehrig is dying. The man who played 2,130 consecutive games—who never missed a day, never complained, never stopped—can no longer hold a pen. His hands, which once drove 493 home runs, now tremble with the disease that will soon bear his name. With his wife Eleanor at his side, Lou begins to tell his story. Not the legend. The truth. About the mother who sacrificed everything and demanded he sacrifice more. About living in Babe Ruth's shadow while quietly becoming a better man. About the moment he finally chose love over duty. And about standing at home plate on July 4...

THE GRAND OLE OPRY: How Nashville and Country Music Found Each Other in the 1920s Volume 1 of The Country Music Chronicles In 1920, Nashville was a city where music came and went. By 1930, it had become the permanent home of country music. This is the story of how that transformation happened—and why it changed American culture forever. Before the Grand Ole Opry, before WSM Radio's 50,000-watt signal reached millions, before the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers became legends, Nashville was just another Southern city listening to sounds passing through. Country music existed only in ...

In 1942, two men turned paperwork into the most powerful weapon against the Holocaust. Colonel José Arturo Castellanos never intended to become a hero. As El Salvador's consul in Geneva, he was supposed to process routine diplomatic business—not forge thousands of documents to save Jewish refugees from Nazi death camps. But when desperate families began appearing at his door, Castellanos faced an impossible choice: follow orders and watch innocents die, or risk everything to fight evil with nothing more than ink and official seals. Based on the incredible true story that Hollywood has ...

Two men. Two forecasts. Four hundred deaths. In the summer of 1944, a Black meteorologist from New Orleans and a Japanese American physicist from San Francisco have never met—but their work is about to collide in a disaster that will haunt them both for forty years. Samuel Delacroix earned his way into the Army's weather program despite every barrier Jim Crow could build. Now stationed in England, he's forecasting missions for the same military that won't let him eat in its mess halls. His predictions help keep bombers in the air and pilots alive. Until the day they don't. Kenji Yamamoto ...

Ohio, 1916. Sam Archer sees the world in numbers. He can calculate a hawk's trajectory mid-dive, predict weather patterns from cloud formations, reduce any problem to elegant mathematics. When America enters the Great War, the Army sees exactly what they need: a pilot who can turn killing into calculus. By his thirtieth kill, Sam is an ace. By his thirty-first, he can no longer count to ten. What the mathematics gave him, the war takes away—piece by piece, number by number, until the boy who could calculate anything can't remember his sister's name. Discharged and discarded, Sam finds ...

What if your worst betrayal was preparing you for your greatest purpose? Thrown into a pit by his brothers. Sold into slavery for twenty pieces of silver. Falsely accused by his master's wife. Forgotten in an Egyptian prison for years. Joseph had every reason to believe God had abandoned him. He was wrong. "This is not punishment. This is preparation." JOSEPH OF GENESIS: PREPARATION, NOT PUNISHMENT reimagines the biblical story of the dreamer who lost everything—his family, his freedom, his future—only to discover that every wound was a doorway, every descent a rehearsal for rising, and...