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In the autumn of 1901, our protagonist, Percy Hope, ventures off to New York City’s Lower East Side in search for his six-month-old son Walter, and his mother, the fugitive Peggy Greenburg. Along the way, Percy stumbles upon a journal left behind by the late Magnus Vega chronicling his adventure into Alaska’s wilderness, along with a cryptic map that sends Percy and his friend Liam upon a quest, where they must track down a lost fortune of gold, outmaneuver gangsters, and decipher the mysteries of what happened to Magnus under North America’s tallest peak—Denali mountain.

On February 17, 1909, in the dark heart of winter, the great Apache leader, Geronimo, dies of pneumonia after 23 years as a prisoner of war of the United States. Days later, a highly decorated young Marine corporal named Frank Kidd learns of Geronimo’s death. Kidd’s real name is Chaco, and he is Geronimo’s nephew. Orphaned at birth, Chaco was toughened by the cruelties of the white man’s Indian school, battle-hardened by guerrilla warfare, and severely wounded in the 1906 Cuban Pacification Campaign.

While on a bus tour on the Scottish moors in the mid-1990s, amateur sleuths John and Sara Todd overhear what sounds like a plot to murder. In a castle hotel, they wake to a scuffle in the hallway. When a body is found in the pond the next morning, Scotland Yard and the local constabulary are called in. John and Sara, with their traveling friends the Slaters and Arthurs, form the "Committee", and they are on the case! Using all their wits, unique personalities, and talents, they stay one step ahead of the detectives and close in on the murderer, placing themselves at risk. 

Soaring through smoke-filled skies to douse the flames – Fire Angels. At the Fire Angel air base in Pocatello, Idaho, a ragtag group of aerial firefighters face increasingly intense forest fires. These skilled airmen fly in low, targeting water drops on raging wildfires with post-war, military surplus airplanes. 

Ötzi’s Odyssey: The Troubled Soul of a Neolithic Iceman opens in the year 1991 with the remarkable sighting of a mummified man, half-frozen in glacial ice, whom two hikers stumble upon. Along with this profound archeological discovery, the soul of this 5,000-year-old iceman is awakened. Ötzi the iceman’s adventure takes him to the modern era, where his observant soul tries to comprehend why it remains tethered to the frozen mummy, as well as to make sense of a technologically advanced world.

Thomas and Othello Fraction are brothers and best friends who had heard, and let no one forget, that they were descendants of an African nobleman whose tribal scars looked like tiger stripes. But here they were in America, considered three-fifths of a person, and fighting two battles: one for the nation and one for themselves. Hear the story that leads up to a “guns drawn” standoff, and learn how the Fraction family came to America, contributed to the Civil War, survived murder attempts on their lives, and eventually settle outside of Blacksburg, Virginia, as Southern refugees.

It’s 1898, and one of history’s most abundant gold discoveries has shaken awake the desolate city of Cape Nome, Alaska. This monumental find by John Brynteson, Jafet Lindeberg, and Erik Lindblom earns them the moniker of the Three Lucky Swedes. News of their good fortune spreads swiftly, and by the summer of 1900, tens of thousands of dreamers trek over land and by sea to the mines surrounding Anvil Creek and upon the Bering Sea beaches, where gold deposits pepper the soft sands.

On the 12th of October 1492, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus landed in the Bahamas, and enslaved the native population. This was the start of the greatest crimes against humanity. For 400 years, 12 million men, women and children were sold and shipped across the Atlantic Ocean; this was known as the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

This volume is the first novel in a sweeping epic that portrays the romance, adventure, glory, and suffering of the Mormon people from the beginning in the sacred grove in Palmyra, New York to the establishment of the great Mormon empire, which covered the territory of Utah and parts of California, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, and Hawaii. This monumental work commemorates the Mormon sesquicentennial - 150 years since the organization of the Church. These Were the Valiant spans the early years from Kirtland, Ohio to the tragic expulsion of the Mormons from Jackson County, Missouri.

Our minds are conditioned to create chaos. They often convince us to quit long before we reach our goals. Unless we can gain awareness and interrupt these "chaos" scripts early, they will consume our thoughts and drive us towards decisions we will regret. This book will give you the ability to open your awareness, apply several tools to calm the chaos, and increase the momentum towards your goals.

David McCallum mistakenly picks a wrong briefcase from a train. He finds out that the briefcase belongs to the KAFA Terrorist organization. David McCallum suffers terrible losses as KAFA sides with the FBI to track him down, but he emerges victorious and has the last laugh.

Will Robinson is tasked with the responsibility of rescuing several Mormon families from mobsters. Rachel Ramsey, the talented singer/actress daughter of an English lord, must choose between someone of her own nobility class and the tall, ruggedly handsome Will Robinson, a Mormon frontiersman.

Life for Blacks in Southern Indiana in the 1820s could be brutal, but Mary Bateman Clark’s victorious lawsuit helped advance change. This book is a must-listen which looks beyond typical stories about slavery. The book includes genealogical information about numerous African American and White pioneer families in Knox County, Indiana, before 1820.

With a bit of insight into the Native American culture, paired with a larger understanding of how the settlers of the west actually lived, you'll be able to decipher what happened to the Oatman family of your own accord, empowering an honest understanding of this history. In The Captivity of the Oatman Girls, you’ll discover powerful insight into the truth of the relations between the settlers and the Plains Indians of North America, why the actions of the colonists in the late 18th century bordered genocide - and how this shifted the landscape forever, and more.

Ten tales of bugs and spirits, witches and monsters, and the inevitable holiday we all know and love. From giant insects looking for something to eat in Mosquitoes to a monkey toy that comes to life and has a tendency to bite in "A Gift for Emily", everyone has something to be afraid of in this collection of creepy stories and come to life in 10 Tales of October.

Dunn’s life becomes forever entwined with the rough and tumble prairies of the Nueces Strip of 1860. As an immigrant-turned-lawman, Dunn continues his quest to deliver justice, as murderers, swindlers, whores, robbers, and savages are wrapped into this exciting tale set on the Texas frontier stretching from Corpus Christi west to Laredo and south to Brownsville.

Because Thomas Bishop was born to a slave mother, he is condemned to a life of slavery even though he has a White father out there somewhere he has never met. But he has a dream - an impossible one. His dream to one day be free and prosperous enough to offer a secure future to the woman he loves seems unlikely.

It’s 1858. The Kansas-Missouri border seethes with racial hatred between antislavery and proslavery factions. Amid this unrest, Mia arrives in Kansas Territory from Indian Territory to visit her grandparents at the Shawnee Friends Mission. The pleasant trip she has planned turns into a terrifying ordeal as she finds herself in the clutches of slave traders. Coming from a Quaker upbringing, her antislavery convictions are tested when she escapes slavery and certain death through the quick wit and sharpshooting of David Taylor - a slave owner.

To find the only kin she has left, protect the abolition movement - and survive - Abeona Browne must endure treacherous ocean voyages, outrun wild beasts, and elude bounty hunters in a frantic 1860 journey which takes her across the African wilds...and through her famous family’s terrible past. A Thin Porridge is a Homeric tale of second chances, forgiveness, and adventure that whisks listeners from the filth of tweendecks, into the treachery of Cameroons Town, across the beauty of Table Bay, and deep into the heart of the fynbos.

For as far back as young Jimmy Sawyer could remember, he heard stories about buried treasure on Sawyer Key. Living in Key West in the 1950s and being a commercial fisherman, he was on the water almost every day, often just a stone's throw away from Sawyer Key. It turns out that there were others interested in the rumored treasure, including Jimmy's father, Willie, and Willie's best friend, Johnny Albury. When Johnny turns up dead, things turn ugly as the hunt becomes a much more dangerous affair.