In the darkest years of the Great Depression, two unlikely companions wander the American West aboard freight trains and through forgotten towns. Their lives change forever when they stumble upon a mysterious map connected to an ancient Aztec legacy.As rivals close in and long-buried secrets emerge, the trail leads far beyond the hardships of the 1930s-into a saga of conquistadors, frontiersmen, and generations bound by blood and legend.Boxcars and Bloodlines is a sweeping ...

Simon versus Simon is the coming-of-age story of Lucius, a wealthy young citizen of Rome with a rebellious edge, whose father sends him away to apprentice as a carpenter in Judea. His father intends that the hard work teach Lucius a lesson. Instead, Lucius meets James, who becomes his mentor, teaches him about Christianity, and who takes him on a mission across the Mediterranean. Magicians, soothsayers, and druids are just some of the characters he meets along the way. Most import...

The year is 1999 and the world is on edge as it waits to find out if a simple computer programming oversite could cause the collapse of modern civilization.But first: it's the mid-90s and Gordon Hamilton is a college freshman with big dreams, eager to soar well beyond the confines of life in Lincoln, Nebraska. A pivotal conversation with his new college friends around the bonfire one night sparks a new venture: Sagan Software, with Gordon as CEO. It's the same night Gordon also mee...