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Based on the remarkable true story of Irish convict John Graham, WHITE SPIRIT is an epic historical adventure set in 19th Century Australia. After escaping from the notorious Moreton Bay Penal Settlement, Graham finds refuge with the Kabi, a tribe of Aborigines who eventually accept him as one of their own. Attempts to recapture Graham are orchestrated by a variety of contrasting characters working for the all-pervasive British Empire. They include Moreton Bay's tyrannical, opium-addicted commandant Lord Cheetham, the dashing yet warlike Lieutenant Hogan, native tracker Barega and the penal...

True Crime Stories You Won't Believe-Omnibus Edition s brings together three critically acclaimed volumes—Books One, Two, and Three—into a single, unflinching collection of true crime stories that dig deeper than most. From forgotten killers and overlooked trials to psychological profiles and courtroom spectacles, this is a journey through the darkest corners of criminal history. Written by forensic psychologist and author Romeo Vitelli, Ph.D., this omnibus offers a sweeping look at real-life crimes that defy easy explanation. These aren’t just tales of murder—they are explorations ...

Matilda Koontz cherishes her life as a wife and mother on a Missouri farm, but her hardworking husband wants to claim free farmland in the Pacific Northwest. When he suggests selling the farm to trek two thousand miles across the Oregon Trail, she balks. But in the spring of 1847, Matilda and Nicholas Koontz and their sons embark on a grueling journey westward. Fresh graves testify to dangers of disease, accidents, starvation, and a multitude of hazards threatening her family and her beloved’s dream.

At seventeen, he was thrown into the deadliest front of World War II. In 1942, a young German soldier was sent to the Eastern Front—into the icy Caucasus Mountains. Surrounded by cold, fear, and despair, he faced horrors that no teenager should ever endure. Wounded three times, every day could have been his last. More than eighty years later, his memories come to light—a raw and unfiltered testimony of survival, fear, and resilience—also available as an unabridged audiobook on Audible and Spotify. Inside this powerful World War II memoir, you will discover: • Survival against all ...

The American West was never just a man’s world. In The Forgotten Frontier, bestselling author Richard Fleischman uncovers the extraordinary lives of women who braved the harsh realities of the 19th-century American frontier. Through vivid, deeply researched storytelling, this powerful volume gives voice to the women who crossed mountains, deserts, and boundaries—both physical and social. From midwives who delivered babies on dirt floors to widows who defended their homes with rifles in hand, these women lived at the intersection of grit, grief, resilience, and resolve. Some followed ...

America’s Most Notorious Insane Asylums: The Dark History of the 10 Most Horrifying Psychiatric Institutions in U.S. History is a gripping and eye-opening journey into the darkest corners of American mental health care. From crumbling Kirkbride buildings to mass graves, this book exposes the brutal conditions, forgotten patients, and shocking practices that defined psychiatric institutions across the United States. With chilling detail and historical accuracy, this comprehensive guide explores ten of the most infamous insane asylums—including Willowbrook State School, Danvers State ...

INTO THE AMERICAS (A novel based on a true story) is a gritty, real-life adventure based on one of history’s greatest survival stories. It was inspired by the diary entries of young English blacksmith John Jewitt during his time aboard the brigantine The Boston and also during his sojourn at Nootka Sound, on North America's western seaboard, from 1802 to 1805. Written by father-and-son writing team Lance & James Morcan (authors of The World Duology and The Orphan Trilogy), INTO THE AMERICAS is a tale of two vastly different cultures – Indigenous North American and European civilization ...

She was four steps from the gate when the dog crossed the road. Ravensbrück, 5 March 1945. Two thousand women are stood on a road for three hours and walked past a bored man who looks at each of them for a second and a half and says one of two words. Left, and you go back to the block. Right, and nobody sees you again. Nina Farkas is sent right. And then seventy kilos of Great Dane comes ninety metres across that road, stops dead in front of her, and will not move. She lives. Nobody can say why. And it will take her fifty-one years to forgive it. — Budapest, 1944. Nina is twenty-two, a ...

Step into the darkest corners of history in 21 Gripping True Crime Stories of Brutal Murders and Infamous Killers from the 16th Century. What murder was solved when a corpse began to bleed at the touch of its killer? Which teenager changed the course of French history with two murders and a single gunshot? What serial murderer met his end beneath the executioner's wheel in a German town? And what poisoner committed a crime so horrifying that King Henry VIII changed English law simply to devise a more terrible death for him? The answers lie within these pages. Journey into the violent heart ...

On the morning of August 4, 1892, one of America’s most infamous murder mysteries began inside a quiet house at 92 Second Street in Fall River, Massachusetts. Andrew Borden was discovered brutally murdered on the sitting-room sofa. His wife, Abby, was found upstairs, killed earlier that morning. The house showed no clear sign of forced entry. No stranger had been seen escaping. The murder weapon was never conclusively identified. Suspicion soon settled upon Andrew’s thirty-two-year-old daughter, Lizzie. Through the eyes of Nellie Walsh, a fictional fifteen-year-old newspaper messenger, ...

In a gay nightclub in Orlando on June 12, 2016, the shooter, Omar Mateen, murdered 49 people and wounded 53 others. The attack was the deadliest act of violence against the LGBTQ+ community in US history and the deadliest terrorist attack in the United States since 9/11. But there’s a story you haven’t heard. The FBI had a secret history with the shooter and his father. To obscure that history, the FBI pushed a false story that the media dutifully carried—that the attacker was a secretly gay Islamist extremist who had chosen to target Pulse and planned the attack for weeks.

Two women. Two timelines. One story of resistance, art, and courage in the face of tyranny. Marseille, August 2004 When Sil Anderson arrives in Marseille to attend the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts, her only goal is to heal through painting. But when she finds a vintage suitcase in her new flat, filled with wartime letters and sketches, everything changes. The letters belonged to Lise de Baissac, a real-life SOE agent in Nazi-occupied France, whose legacy has long been forgotten. Through Lise’s eyes, Sil is swept into the world of WWII female spies, French Resistance missions, and the...

One family's search for freedom became a legacy that would shape generations. In 1845, Johann and Mary Struss face an impossible choice. Remain in Germany and watch their dreams slowly disappear... or leave everything they have ever known for an uncertain future in the Republic of Texas. With only faith, determination, and the hope of a better life for their children, they board an overcrowded sailing ship bound for America. But the Atlantic Ocean is unforgiving. Violent storms, disease, heartbreak, and danger test every passenger long before they ever see land. The voyage is only the ...

Western Australia, 1876. Six Irish soldiers have spent eight years in a British penal colony for the crime of trying to free their country — forgotten by every pardon that freed the men convicted beside them. Then one of them smuggles out a letter that calls their imprisonment a living tomb, and an ocean away, a stranger decides that isn't a metaphor he's willing to live with. What follows isn't a jailbreak. It's a year-long conspiracy hidden inside a whaling voyage — a real ship, a real captain who owes Ireland nothing, a crew with no idea what port they're actually sailing for. Eleven...

In August 1892, two people were brutally murdered inside a locked house in Fall River, Massachusetts. The case that followed would become one of the most enduring mysteries in American history. Lizzie Borden: A True-Crime Historical Account returns to the original record to examine what is known—and what remains uncertain—about the deaths of Andrew and Abby Borden. Drawing exclusively from police reports, inquest testimony, trial transcripts, and contemporary accounts, this book traces the lives, routines, and tensions within the Borden household, the events of 4 August 1892, and the ...

★★★★★ "I really enjoyed the fast-paced storyline, which made it unputdownable. The descriptions are raw, powerful, and heart-pulling. The author doesn’t shy from showing the ugliness and cruelty of the war and real-life situations. At the same time, we witness the beauty of true love, even through the worst of times." Gosia Nealon, the acclaimed author of "The Resistance Wife" and "The German Next Door" Two lovers ripped away from their families by the Nazis must survive slave labor and concentration camps in Germany during WWII to find each other again! In Nazi-occupied Poland,...

Beneath the surface of every city, behind the locked doors of grand hotels, within the quiet walls of old houses — something lingers. This hauntingly elegant collection of true ghost stories is drawn from eyewitness accounts, historical records, and folklore. Each chapter invites you into a real place where history refuses to die — from the bloodstained stones of the Tower of London to the snow-lit halls of the Stanley Hotel, the whispering tunnels beneath Paris, and the dark heart of Yorkshire’s Black Monk of Pontefract. Told in a lyrical, literary Gothic style, these narratives move...

Always Greener is an exquisite portrait of Kate Grenville's complex, conflicted grandmother, who she feared as a child and only in adulthood came to understand. Born in rural Australia, Dolly Russell becomes a successful businessperson, mother and troubled wife. Then came the depression, bankruptcy and World War I. Yet, in a way, those disasters freed her. They allowed her to use her intelligence and ambition to make a space for herself in a man’s world.

A heartbreaking saga of hope, family, and longing set in one of the untold parts of war-torn Europe. Rhodes, 1940. Sixteen-year-old Dora Behar and her cousin Sarah are as close as sisters, planning their future and painting the sunsets that wash over the Mediterranean. But that was before the...

A rousing tale of espionage and unsung valor, this is the captivating true story of Vera Atkins, Great Britain's spymistress from the age of 25. With her fierce intelligence, blunt manner, personal courage, and exceptional informants, Vera ran countless missions throughout the 1930s. After rising to the leadership echelon in the Special Operations Executive (SOE), a covert intelligence agency formed by Winston Churchill, she became head of a clandestine army in World War II.