This powerful first novel tells the story of David Mather, a charismatic relief worker who believes that a mysterious group of African nomads are the descendants of the legendary Lost Tribes of Israel. Mather organizes An expedition to find the tribe; it includes an anthropologist, an African shaman; and Ben Chase, the young journalist who is the book's narrator.Traveling north through a chaotic, war-torn country, these modern pilgrims encounter soldiers and guerrillas, a deranged ...

Blood & Shadows: The True Story of Billy’s War by Mark A Lee In Blood & Shadows, Billy, a 1 9 -year-old from a working-class family in Cardiff, is thrust into the chaos of World War II . Called to serve as a soldier, he embarks on a journey that will take him from the harsh deserts of North Africa to the battlefields of Italy, and eventually to the heart of a war-torn Austria. With each chapter, Billy’s story unfolds in the midst of unimaginable challenges — facing the brutality of combat,...

Daniel McFarland has refined the life of a war correspondent down to an art. He knows how to get information out of officials who won't talk. He knows how to find the one man with a car who can get you out of town. He knows how to judge the gravity of a situation in a war-torn area (it's a bad sign when the dogs are gone). And he knows how to get to the heart of an explosive story and emerge unscathed. To Daniel, getting the story is everything.When a trip to a warlord's camp in Ug...

After arguing with his best friend about which game to play, a boy decides it's time to find a new best friend. So he tries to becoming the best of friends with his other pets. He learns to eat on the floor with his dog, take naps with his cat, and watch the world from underwater with his goldfish. But none of these animals measure up to his true best friend. He may just discover that being different from each other is okay after all.

Shot All to Hell by Mark Lee Gardner recounts the thrilling life of Jesse James, Frank James, the Younger brothers, and the most famous bank robbery of all time.Follow the Wild West’s most celebrated gang of outlaws as they step inside Northfield’s First National Bank and back out on the streets to square off with heroic citizens who risked their lives to defend justice in Minnesota.With compelling details that chronicle the two-week chase that followed—the near misses, the...

"Fast-paced and highly absorbing." —Wall Street JournalA magisterial new history of the fierce final chapter of the American Indian Wars, told through the lives of the two most legendary and consequential American Indian leaders, who led Sioux resistance and triumphed at the Battle of Little BighornTrue West magazine's "Best Nonfiction Book of the Year"Winner of the Colorado Book AwardCrazy Horse and Sitting Bull: Their names are iconic, their significance i...

“So richly detailed, you can almost smell the gunsmoke and the sweat of the saddles.”—Hampton Sides, New York Times bestselling authorFrom Spur Award-winning author Mark Lee Gardner, his classic dual biography of Billy the Kid and Sheriff Pat Garrett, detailing Garrett’s riveting chase of the notorious bandit—now updated with a new afterword covering new developments in the Billy the Kid story.Billy the Kid—a.k.a. Henry McCarty, Henry Antrim, and William Bonney—was a horse ...

Another backpacker murder!When Jan and Rodney Wiltshire purchased the Manor in 2002 they thought the history of murders associated with the old establishment was behind them. But when a backpacker is murdered whilst they holiday in the UK the Manor is again in the spotlight with a long list of murders associated with the Manor dating back 60 years.Jeremy Patten uses his unique skill to help Police investigators solve this long running mystery by visiting people after dark. ...

What if your dreams become REAL?Following a freak accident Jeremy Patten discovers he has a unique power. When others sleep, he can summon their subconscious or be summoned to help those in need … enter their dreams, communicate with them, unlock their deepest memories and truths. Not only is he able to learn and understand what is happening in other people's lives, he is able to influence their actions in the pursuit of justice and fair play.Committed to l...

Steam on Britain’s railways ended in 1968 – and the fifty years since have been a period of controversy and debate; has it been a time of progress and development, or under-investment and political meddling? Some would say that Beeching’s cuts led to an era of corporate monotony, whereas others would claim that the last half century has witnessed remarkable technological advancements, with innovations like the HST 125 and Crossrail. Taking an often controversial viewpoint, and utilising a ...

The book is a short, silly satire of the Military-Industrial Complex. A crazy Mexican-American general joins forces with a crazy French-Canadian general to refight the Mexican-American War between northern Mexico and America for control of southwest North America and the Seven Years War between the French and the English for control of Canada. The North American Anglos will be given all of Alaska. This idea is based on demographics, which ultimately controls everything. This could take pla...

Tom Bracks is a product of the CIA. Seriously injured in a motor accident, his body intact but his brain severely damaged, he was reliant upon life support to keep him alive. With no living family he became an ideal target for the CIA to repair his brain functions with their latest scientific development - a microchip that compensates for his damaged brain cells. He is programmed to do as they say, kept alive as a walking robot.Relations between Russia and the USA have heightened, ...