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THE GRANT In 1830, William Moore sails from Ireland to the Swan River Colony with a land grant, four servants, a dog, and seeds wrapped in canvas. He is given five hundred acres of ground already inhabited for forty thousand years. What follows is a fifty-four-year reckoning. Told through the spare, precise entries of Moore's journal, The Grant traces one man's attempt to farm, govern, and bear honest witness to a colony built on a foundation the law cannot name and will not see. He learns the Noongar language. He watches a burial across the river. He stands between fires on both sides of ...

The President's Doctor: The Untold Story of America's First Black Presidential Physician What if the most important medical case in American history was treated by a doctor the country tried to forget? In 1881, when an assassin's bullet struck President James A. Garfield at a Washington D.C. railroad station, one man stepped forward to save the leader of the free world. Dr. Charles Burleigh Purvis—the only Black physician in the room—would spend the next 80 days fighting not just for the President's life, but for his own place in American history. This is the extraordinary true story ...

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 ...

Eight Navy SEALs. Five days on a hostile island. Forty mines that will close the Strait of Hormuz. One man who refuses to destroy them — because the children sleeping above the mines are the reason he can't press the button, and the sailors who'll die in the strait are the reason he must. Chief Mercer has a targeting laser pointed at a fishing village on Larak Island. Beneath the village: forty Iranian mines that will shut down one-fifth of the world's oil supply. Command wants him to mark the target. The airstrike is fourteen minutes away. There's a family inside the house. He puts down ...

When the Strait of Hormuz closes, most captains leave. Captain Rodrigo Delgado does not leave. He has 1.9 million barrels of crude and a schedule to keep — and the schedule is the only thing holding his life in a shape he can recognize. His wife died three years ago while he was at sea. He was twelve days from port. He did not turn back. His daughter has not spoken to him since. Now the war burns around him. A Greek tanker catches fire two miles to his northeast. A drone circles the ship for forty-two minutes. Ships empty from the anchorage one by one. Eleven days. One anchor. The strait ...

Divorce is more than an ending — it is a kind of grief. The loss is not only of a partner, but of identity, home, stability, and the story you thought would last forever. Broken, Yet Whole: A Guide to Divorce Recovery is a compassionate, grief-informed roadmap for navigating that loss and rediscovering life on the other side. Drawing on years of research into grief and resilience, as well as the lived voices of those who have walked this road, William Ferrier Jr. offers both comfort and practical tools for rebuilding. Through vivid stories, evidence-based insights, and step-by-step ...

On a rainy class trip to the California State Railroad Museum, eleven-year-old Clara Hernández just wants to disappear into her sketchbook. New school, no friends—she feels as out of place as an old caboose on the wrong track. Then she sees it: a scratched silver compass in a glass case, said to guide people where they are needed most. When the needle spins and the museum floor vanishes, Clara is hurled into the fog of 1862 Sacramento—the year a flood nearly washes the city away. There, among collapsing levees, galloping horses, and streets turned to rivers, Clara meets Sammy and Anita...

Charlie hates field trips. Especially boring ones to dusty old ranches where nothing ever happens. Then the storm hits. One moment he's ducking into an abandoned barn to escape the rain. The next, he's waking up in 1910—face-to-face with Jack London himself. The famous author is alive. The legendary Wolf House still stands. And Charlie is trapped over a hundred years in the past with no way home. As he works alongside Jack London on the living ranch, Charlie discovers that history isn't something you read about in textbooks—it's built by dreamers who refuse to quit. But when another ...

Ruby’s Prosecutor thrusts you inside the courtroom no camera ever captured—and into the conscience of the man who tried the most infamous killer on live television. Dallas, March 1964. Assistant District Attorney Jim Bowie stands a heartbeat from the nation’s rawest wound, determined to prove that nightclub owner Jack Ruby murdered Lee Harvey Oswald with cold intent. Every fact you remember from the headlines is here—captured shells, time-stamped Western Union slip, KRLD film flashing its muzzle-bloom frame by frame. So are the moments the public never saw: late-night strategy ...

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....

August 16, 1948. Memorial Hospital, New York City. Babe Ruth is dying. And he's finally ready to tell the truth. Not the legend. Not the sixty home runs or the Called Shot or the House That Ruth Built. The real story—the one he's never told anyone. The story of a seven-year-old boy abandoned at the gates of a Baltimore reformatory. The story of the hole that never filled, no matter how far he hit the ball. The story of the daughter he lied to, the wives he betrayed, and the best friend he lost to pride. Before he was the Bambino, he was George—a scared kid nobody wanted. In this ...

LOVE, JOE The Story Joe DiMaggio Never Told A Novel by William Ferrier Jr. ★ A legendary life. A love that haunted him. A confession the world was never meant to hear. ★ Joe DiMaggio was an icon—America’s quiet hero, the Yankee Clipper, the man whose talent seemed untouchable. But behind the legend lived a man who built walls so high even those he loved could not reach him. Not his son. Not his brothers. Not even Marilyn Monroe—the woman whose memory he could never let go. On the final day of his life, Joe begins to speak the truth he spent decades burying. What unfolds is a ...

He proved the Earth was moving. The world called him crazy. History proved him right. In 1930, Alfred Wegener stood alone at the edge of the world with a theory that would revolutionize science—and cost him his life. The continents drift across the Earth's surface like ships on an ocean. To everyone else, it was geological heresy. To Wegener, it was undeniable truth supported by overwhelming evidence: identical fossils separated by thousands of miles of ocean, matching rock formations across impossible distances, ancient glacial evidence in tropical regions. The proof was everywhere—if ...

A foul ball, a red ribbon, and one promise that spans generations. When Kaylee catches a screaming pop fly at Woodland’s Clark Field, the world tilts—and she finds herself in 1942 on the eve of Japanese American incarceration. There she meets Emi, a fearless girl determined to play one last game before the buses arrive. What begins as a reluctant afternoon at the ballpark becomes a race to hold on to home, history, and the friend who teaches Kaylee how courage sounds when you say it out loud. Perfect for fans of When You Reach Me, Refugee, and Baseball Saved Us, this heartfelt middle-...

From struggling actress to master spy—the untold story of America's most dangerous double agent Nashville, 1863. When desperate actress Pauline Cushman agrees to toast Jefferson Davis for three hundred dollars, she has no idea she's about to become the Civil War's most legendary spy. Arrested, tried, and banished from Union territory, she seems like the perfect Confederate recruit. But Pauline is playing the role of her lifetime. Secretly working for Union intelligence, she must convince Nashville's Confederate elite that she's their most loyal supporter while gathering intelligence that ...

You Got This: The High School Survival Guide is the book every middle schooler needs before stepping into high school—and every parent will be glad they found. Packed with honest advice, relatable stories, and zero cheesy lectures, this guide helps teens navigate the real stuff: making friends, handling pressure, staying organized (sort of), and staying true to themselves in a world that’s constantly trying to shape them. Whether your student is excited, anxious, or somewhere in between, this book offers something better than a blueprint—it offers reassurance. With short, digestible ...

Leaving for college is one of life’s biggest transitions—and one of its greatest adventures. This thoughtful, funny, and practical guide was written for soon-to-be freshmen taking their first steps toward independence. Packed with honest advice and comforting wisdom, this book covers everything from managing time and money to finding your people and surviving homesickness. It’s the conversation every parent, mentor, and older sibling wishes they’d had—and now you can give it to someone you love. More than a how-to, it’s a reassuring reminder: they’re ready for this.

When cybersecurity expert Sophia Chen inherits her estranged grandmother's lakeside house, she expects to find old furniture and family photos. Instead, she discovers forty years of meticulously documented evidence pointing to a century-long murder conspiracy that claimed dozens of victims—and got her grandmother killed. Elena Chen spent her life as a respected architect, but she died as an amateur detective who got too close to the truth. Hidden in her files are architectural plans, victim profiles, and financial records that reveal a systematic pattern of disappearances around Millbrook...

Legacy of the Badge One son. One truth. One department built on lies. When Jack Callahan returns home after years in the Navy and special forces, he isn’t just another academy recruit—he’s the son of a legendary cop who died a hero. But the deeper Jack goes into the ranks of the department his father once served, the more he realizes something is off. Secrets are buried behind badges. Files are sealed. And the men who once called his father a brother now look at Jack like a threat. Haunted by the past and driven by the need for answers, Jack uncovers a hidden network of corruption ...

Tom Hale: The Weight of Names A Novel of War, Silence, and Translation by William Ferrier Jr. In a war built on lies, his only weapon is the truth—and even that can kill. Madrid, 1937. The city burns from the inside out. Bombs fall, alliances shift, and every word is dangerous. American linguist Tom Hale is sent to translate for a foreign tribunal, believing language can bridge chaos. But in a world where each sentence is a verdict and every signature seals a fate, he discovers that neutrality is a myth—and silence has its own cost. As the war tightens its grip, Tom becomes witness to ...