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I’m a second-rate artist living a solitary existence in my late parents’ rundown house. So why would a team of killers want to murder me and frame it as a suicide? Seems a fact worth knowing. I survive the ordeal only to discover my would-be executioners left behind a suicide note written in words that sound uncannily like mine. But that’s not the most disturbing part. The note reveals a secret from my past nobody could possibly know about—one that’s been haunting my life for eighteen years.

Di Di Mau is Darren’s unabashed personal account of warfare, survival, and brotherhood—and the enduring reflections that followed. It is unlike any book about the Vietnam War.

E. C. Abbott was a cowboy in the great days of the 1870's and 1880's. He came up the trail to Montana from Texas with the long-horned herds which were to stock the northern ranges; he punched cows in Montana when there wasn't a fence in the territory; and he married a daughter of Granville Stuart, the famous early-day stockman and Montana pioneer. For more than fifty years he was known to cowmen from Texas to Alberta as "Teddy Blue." This is his story, as told to Helena Huntington Smith, who says that the book is "all Teddy Blue.

This is the true story of my Great-Grandfather George Calloway, a slave in Cleveland, Tennessee, before and during the Civil War. It is written as historical fiction, based on George’s life, and stories I heard growing up. It is a tale of determination, perseverance, and achievement. George protected his family through war, famine, and plague; he risked his life repeatedly to protect his owner’s family, and thus his own wife and children. More fact than fiction, George’s story has also been my journey, grappling with the humiliation of slavery.

An explosion rocks Yellowstone. A strange disease begins to spread. A supervolcano threatens to erupt. And none of it was an accident. A reclusive Yellowstone park ranger is forced into action, teaming up with a beautiful woman from the CDC. Harvey Bennett isn't a trained killer, but he'll fight for what's right. And he'll do anything to take down the terrorists behind the attack. From Yellowstone across the American landscape, Harvey and Juliette must do what it takes to survive, before it's too late.

He just saved his son. Together, can they save their country? Lawson Holland has returned from rescuing his son Tony in Afghanistan, hoping to finally live a normal life. But when war breaks out close to home, Holland, Tony, and company are caught up in it. The resulting fight will decide the future of their country, but it may cost them everything.

Locked in a desperate struggle against overwhelming odds, Lawson Holland is in a tug of war: on one side is his sense of duty to a country he’s served for his entire life; on the other, his desire to protect his son from further harm.

Retired Navy SEAL Lawson Holland has lost everything. Disillusioned and wrestling with demons from his past, he goes deep into the wilderness to quiet his own nightmares. But Holland’s search for solace is interrupted when a freak accident puts him face-to-face with the one man he holds responsible for his loss—the president of the United States.

In the aftermath of an assassination and a spate of terrorist attacks, Lawson Holland finds himself chasing a ghost, daring to hope that a lost family member can somehow be found. With his country on the brink of destruction at the hands of enemies both foreign and domestic, Holland pursues justice, revenge, and healing. Finding any or all of them, however, will exact a heavy price. Holland will soon learn that the most precious things in life are not free—and they sometimes require payment in blood.

Newly qualified Navy SEAL Lawson Holland finds himself in harm's way on his first real-world mission. In a daring prison rescue in the middle of an urban combat zone, Holland's training and determination will be the only things standing between life and death for him, his team and the innocent civilians they encounter on the way.

This novel, based on a true story, is about more than baseball and about more than fathers and sons. You cannot listen to it and ever be the same. This novel is also about mothers and daughters, parents and children, about time that passes all too quickly. This heart-touching, inspiring saga reveals that there are no insignificant events in a child's life.

On Christmas Eve night years ago, a F-16 departed a Canadian AFB bound for McConnell AFB in Kansas, a flight of around 1,300 nautical miles. It was supposed to be a routine mission for the pilot of the Viper (F-16). He had been delayed on his departure, due to a mechanical issue with his aircraft and was anxious to get home and spend Christmas with his wife and daughter.

This one follows Tucker and Shiloh, two young horses during the American Civil War. Young listeners will certainly enjoy this story and learn a thing or two about American History while they're at it! Meticulous research promises historical accuracy in the facts spread throughout this book, and yet the end of the story will leave listeners asking for more.

In this, the second installment in the How to Steer Your Kid series, M. P. MacDougall returns with a cast of irreverent characters and hilarious, only slightly embellished stories. There’s something for everyone who ever grew up in a somewhat weird family. MacDougall relates a variety of slapstick adventures—from taxidermy gone horribly wrong, to near-drownings while encased in a sleeping bag, to being hunted by a mythical monster with a sadistic sense of humor.

M.P. MacDougall is the youngest of twelve kids. He grew up surrounded by obnoxious cows, Big Meanies, perilous expeditions, ravenous Sasquatches, mindless herds of picnickers, and meals that would make Julia Child roll over in her grave.

Lost and forgotten in a thankless and gruesome war, southern soldier Eli West wakes in a cave and discovers he is held captive by a soldier of the Union. Shot, drugged, and tortured, he descends into the darkness and the beauty of his unconscious.