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.

"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...

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...

“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 ...

A magisterial dual biography of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, the two most legendary and consequential American Indian leaders, who triumphed at the Battle of Little Bighorn and led Sioux resistance in the fierce final chapter of the ""Indian Wars.""Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull: Their names are iconic, their significance in American history undeniable. Together, these two Lakota chiefs, one a fabled warrior and the other a revered holy man, crushed George Armstrong...

After Dark Box Set – 4 Short NovellasWhat would you do if your dreams became REAL?Jeremy Patten discovers he has a unique power. When others sleep Jeremy is able to enter their dreams, a world where those around him are asleep, and Jeremy is conscious of the world and events around him. He is able to use his power to bring realism to the dream world he enters, seek out and help solve the mysteries around him.The Story Begins...

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. ...

Valor features the thrilling stories that are the fruit of Mark Lee Greenblatt’s interviews with brave American servicemen from twenty-first-century wars. These soldiers, sailors, and Marines have risked their lives several times over for their country as well as for their fellow troops and civilians. Still, until now, their stories have largely gone unnoticed by the public, perhaps lost in the frenzied and often nasty debate surrounding those conflicts. As the author writes, “This generat...

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.But since he was programmed relations between Russia a...