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Vietnam, 1968. Carl Hayes is nineteen years old, from Macon, Georgia, and has thirteen months to survive. Assigned to an infantry squad in the Mekong Delta, Carl carries sixty-one pounds on his back and everything else where it doesn't show. A pebble from a dead friend's hand. Unsent letters in a plastic bag. A photograph of a woman he's not sure will wait. The quiet teachings of a sergeant who speaks in silences and keeps men alive by reading the ground the way other men read books. Over thirteen months with the 25th Infantry Division, Carl will learn what the jungle sounds like when it ...

"Roots of America: Three Centuries, One Tree" - Book Description For Maximum Organic Sales From the ancient oak that has witnessed it all comes an unforgettable American epic spanning three centuries of love, loss, and the unbreakable bonds that make us family. In 1681, a Jumano boy named Aiyana plants a promise beneath a mighty oak tree in the Texas wilderness. Three hundred and twenty years later, that same tree shelters the descendants of Spanish colonists, Mexican ranchers, and American dreamers—families who learned that survival means bending without breaking, that home is something ...

January 1778. No meat in eleven days. The shoes are done. The dead horse by the commissary road is covered in snow. The Continental Army is starving at Valley Forge — and Elias Finch is still here. Elias is twenty-two, a private from Bucks County who enlisted after his father died and hasn't been home since. He shares a smoke-filled hut with eleven men, eats flour-and-water paste baked on a stone, and writes in a journal he bought in Morristown with a pencil he keeps sharp with his knife. He doesn't think about independence or the rights of man. He thinks about fire, shoes, and whether ...

Ernesto "Neto" Vargas has been painting the walls of Boyle Heights for fifty years. His murals hold what the neighborhood cannot say for itself — its veterans and its dead, its mothers and its music, the freeway fights it won and the sons it lost. Now seventy-four and losing his sight, he watches as his greatest work, a four-story mural called La Madre de Todo, is scheduled for demolition to make way for luxury condos. A graduate student named Isabel Cruz arrives at his kitchen table with a recorder and a notebook. She wants the history of the walls. He needs something else — someone to...

★★★★★ "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 ...

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 ...

ONE HUNDRED YEARS A HOME Six Lives. One House. A Century of Love, Loss, and Legacy. What if the walls of a house could remember? In 1923, a grieving husband builds a home with his bare hands, believing it will hold what he cannot. He is right — but not in the way he expects. Over the next one hundred years, the house will witness newlyweds and wartime letters… children measuring themselves against doorframes… a mother slowly disappearing into illness… a young man discovering who he is… a marriage restored… and a final child who understands that home is not where you begin, but ...

What if Jesus Himself walked you through the most misunderstood book in the Bible? Before the manger. Before the miracles. Before the cross. There was a tabernacle in the wilderness — and a sacrificial system that Christ Himself designed, knowing He would one day fulfill every offering, every ritual, every drop of blood. In Leviticus with Jesus, the eternal Word opens the book that most readers skip and reveals it as the beating heart of the gospel. Through His voice — warm, authoritative, and deeply personal — Jesus explains why the Father required blood on the altar, what the priest...

He built the system. Then the system replaced him. For twenty-two years, Ray Lomax kept the machines running. State contracts. Government databases. The invisible infrastructure that moved millions of dollars and millions of lives through pipes he designed and maintained and never once questioned. Then, at 11:47 PM on a Wednesday, an email arrived. Subject: Meridian Systems — Workforce Restructuring Notification. The word the email used was deprecated. Not fired. Not laid off. Deprecated — the technical term for software that still functions but has been marked for removal. Present but ...

The fog doesn't hide the truth. It just makes the truth harder to prove. Nolan Cross has spent his career preserving other people's secrets. As a senior archivist at the California State Archives in Sacramento, he catalogs the past with the same careful distance he keeps from everything else in his life. Then a federal judge presses a flash drive into his hand — and turns up murdered the next morning. The drive contains fifteen years of buried evidence: thirty-seven Delta landowners stripped of their properties, fourteen people imprisoned for crimes they never committed, five people dead....

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 ...

They walked a thousand miles to find a harbor that didn't exist. They found San Francisco Bay instead. They didn't want it. In 1769, a Spanish expedition of sixty-four men left San Diego under orders to locate the harbor of Monterey. Their engineer, Miguel Costansó, kept a diary of measurements: distances, latitudes, the depth of every pool, the height of a dead grizzly bear. He did not record feelings. He recorded facts. The facts are these: the men walked for six months through canyons and mountains and fog. They ate their mules when the food ran out. Seventeen soldiers were crippled by ...

September 1775. Two hundred and forty people walk out of Sonora into the desert. They are soldiers, wives, children, priests, and a thousand animals. They are carrying everything they own. They are going to found San Francisco. Fray Pedro Font is the expedition's chaplain and astronomer — a man with a quadrant, a diary, and orders to record what he sees. What he sees is the hardest overland journey in the history of the American West: the crossing of the Colorado River, the killing sands of the Imperial Dunes, three children born on the open road, and a commander named Anza who holds 240 ...

London, 1938. Munich, 1938. Two families. One war. And the ordinary choices that become unforgivable. Arthur Ashworth is an air raid warden pulling bodies from the rubble of the Blitz. Karl Bauer is a housing administrator processing the paperwork that makes Jewish families disappear. Neither man thinks of himself as a villain. Both are about to discover what they're willing to sacrifice — and who they're willing to sacrifice — to keep their families safe. As the war tightens its grip, the Ashworths fracture: Tom flies night-fighter missions and stops sleeping. Elsie, evacuated to a ...

Lost in the Valley of the Oregon Trail What if a history assignment could change your life forever? Twelve-year-old Matthew never cared much about dusty textbooks or wagon-train pioneers. But when a school field trip takes an unexpected turn, he finds himself thrust into the middle of 1840s America—where survival is real, choices matter, and the Oregon Trail stretches farther than he ever imagined. Caught between two worlds, Matthew must learn to adapt quickly: crossing rivers, braving storms, and discovering courage he never knew he had. Along the way, he forges bonds with settlers whose...

Before dawn on May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls made a choice: steal a Confederate warship or die trying. He was twenty-three years old. Enslaved. A ship's pilot who'd memorized every signal, every channel, every gun placement in Charleston Harbor. That night, he put on a stolen captain's hat, loaded his family and crew aboard the CSS Planter, and sailed past Fort Sumter's cannons in the darkness. If the Confederate sentries saw through his disguise, sixteen people would die—including his wife and children. They didn't. He delivered the ship to the Union Navy, became an instant hero, and met ...

You Got This: The Essential Guide for Couples Getting Married By William Ferrier Jr. Planning a wedding is easy. Building a marriage? That takes real work. This honest, practical guide cuts through the fluff and gets to what really matters—love, conflict, money, sex, faith, and the everyday habits that shape a lifelong bond. Perfect for engaged or seriously dating couples, You Got This offers real talk, key questions, and simple tools to help you start strong and stay close—no matter what life throws your way. Before you say “I do,” read this. Because forever starts now.

Vietnam, 1969. The same prisoner. The same wounds. Again and again. Flight medic Robert Kendrick has treated thousands of casualties in the air over III Corps. He knows how to observe, catalogue, and move on. A chemistry student turned combat medic, he sees the world in patterns — molecular structures, scar tissue, the geometry of wounds. So when he treats a Vietnamese prisoner with a distinctive tiger tattoo on a Tuesday, then treats the same man with a fresh wound the following month, then again three weeks after that, he doesn't panic. He documents. What Kendrick uncovers isn't a ...

June 1967. Joseph Ward watches his nineteen-year-old son board a bus to Fort Polk, Louisiana. It's the last time he'll see Daniel as a boy. For the next nineteen months, Joseph fights a war from his driveway in Kokomo, Indiana—checking the mailbox twice daily, watching Walter Cronkite count casualties, drinking alone in the basement while his son screams through nightmares eight thousand miles away. This is not another soldier's story. This is the war nobody writes about: the fathers who stood helpless while their sons walked into the jungle. The mothers who slept in empty bedrooms. The ...

July 4, 1967. A chaplain gave him a notebook. He did not ask for it. He was a mechanic from Michigan and he had nothing to write. The chaplain said write to yourself. So he wrote to himself. He wrote in the monsoon and he wrote in the dry season and he wrote on the wire at night when the treeline was dark and the dark was the thing you watched. He wrote after the first man he knew was killed and he wrote after the village burned and he wrote after Hue when there was nothing left to write and he wrote anyway. The notebook held the things his hands could not. Danny Kovalchik is nineteen. He ...