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Ruby’s Prosecutor thrusts you inside the courtroom no camera ever captured—and into the conscience of the man who tried the most infamous killer on live television. Dallas, March 1964. Assistant District Attorney Jim Bowie stands a heartbeat from the nation’s rawest wound, determined to prove that nightclub owner Jack Ruby murdered Lee Harvey Oswald with cold intent. Every fact you remember from the headlines is here—captured shells, time-stamped Western Union slip, KRLD film flashing its muzzle-bloom frame by frame. So are the moments the public never saw: late-night strategy ...

"I forgive him. I want him to be with me in Paradise." These were the last words of an eleven-year-old girl dying from fourteen stab wounds—spoken not in hatred, but in love for the man who murdered her. From the hills of Corinaldo to the marshes of Le Ferriere, from a prison cell to the steps of St. Peter's Basilica, this is the story of Saint Maria Goretti—virgin, martyr, and witness to the transforming power of grace. Italy, 1902. Maria Goretti is a peasant girl who carries water, minds her siblings, and prays the rosary with wooden beads worn smooth by her mother's hands. She is ...

For readers who loved The Nightingale, Orphan #8, and All the Light We Cannot See comes an unforgettable novel of one boy's silent resistance against a system designed to erase him. England, 1930s. Some children are born into families. Elias is delivered to an institution. At just six years old, Elias arrives at the Sanctuary—a preventorium for children deemed too frail, too sickly, too much of a burden for their families to bear. His parents' hands slip away. The car door closes. And with it, his childhood ends. In the Sanctuary's echoing halls, children are measured by bells and bathed ...

He proved the Earth was moving. The world called him crazy. History proved him right. In 1930, Alfred Wegener stood alone at the edge of the world with a theory that would revolutionize science—and cost him his life. The continents drift across the Earth's surface like ships on an ocean. To everyone else, it was geological heresy. To Wegener, it was undeniable truth supported by overwhelming evidence: identical fossils separated by thousands of miles of ocean, matching rock formations across impossible distances, ancient glacial evidence in tropical regions. The proof was everywhere—if ...

From struggling actress to master spy—the untold story of America's most dangerous double agent Nashville, 1863. When desperate actress Pauline Cushman agrees to toast Jefferson Davis for three hundred dollars, she has no idea she's about to become the Civil War's most legendary spy. Arrested, tried, and banished from Union territory, she seems like the perfect Confederate recruit. But Pauline is playing the role of her lifetime. Secretly working for Union intelligence, she must convince Nashville's Confederate elite that she's their most loyal supporter while gathering intelligence that ...

LOVE, JOE The Story Joe DiMaggio Never Told A Novel by William Ferrier Jr. ★ A legendary life. A love that haunted him. A confession the world was never meant to hear. ★ Joe DiMaggio was an icon—America’s quiet hero, the Yankee Clipper, the man whose talent seemed untouchable. But behind the legend lived a man who built walls so high even those he loved could not reach him. Not his son. Not his brothers. Not even Marilyn Monroe—the woman whose memory he could never let go. On the final day of his life, Joe begins to speak the truth he spent decades burying. What unfolds is a ...

August 16, 1948. Memorial Hospital, New York City. Babe Ruth is dying. And he's finally ready to tell the truth. Not the legend. Not the sixty home runs or the Called Shot or the House That Ruth Built. The real story—the one he's never told anyone. The story of a seven-year-old boy abandoned at the gates of a Baltimore reformatory. The story of the hole that never filled, no matter how far he hit the ball. The story of the daughter he lied to, the wives he betrayed, and the best friend he lost to pride. Before he was the Bambino, he was George—a scared kid nobody wanted. In this ...

What if a boring field trip became the adventure of a lifetime? Twelve-year-old Charlie expects nothing but dusty barns and dull lectures from his class trip to Jack London State Park. Instead, a mysterious storm hurls him back over a century into the rugged California wilderness of the early 1900s. Stranded without modern conveniences, Charlie must survive in a world of ranches, hard work, and genuine danger. When he meets the legendary writer and adventurer Jack London himself, Charlie faces an impossible choice: stay in this exciting but harsh past with people he's grown to love, or find...

You Got This: The High School Survival Guide is the book every middle schooler needs before stepping into high school—and every parent will be glad they found. Packed with honest advice, relatable stories, and zero cheesy lectures, this guide helps teens navigate the real stuff: making friends, handling pressure, staying organized (sort of), and staying true to themselves in a world that’s constantly trying to shape them. Whether your student is excited, anxious, or somewhere in between, this book offers something better than a blueprint—it offers reassurance. With short, digestible ...

Leaving for college is one of life’s biggest transitions—and one of its greatest adventures. This thoughtful, funny, and practical guide was written for soon-to-be freshmen taking their first steps toward independence. Packed with honest advice and comforting wisdom, this book covers everything from managing time and money to finding your people and surviving homesickness. It’s the conversation every parent, mentor, and older sibling wishes they’d had—and now you can give it to someone you love. More than a how-to, it’s a reassuring reminder: they’re ready for this.

When cybersecurity expert Sophia Chen inherits her estranged grandmother's lakeside house, she expects to find old furniture and family photos. Instead, she discovers forty years of meticulously documented evidence pointing to a century-long murder conspiracy that claimed dozens of victims—and got her grandmother killed. Elena Chen spent her life as a respected architect, but she died as an amateur detective who got too close to the truth. Hidden in her files are architectural plans, victim profiles, and financial records that reveal a systematic pattern of disappearances around Millbrook...

You Got This: The Essential Guide for Couples Getting Married By William Ferrier Jr. Planning a wedding is easy. Building a marriage? That takes real work. This honest, practical guide cuts through the fluff and gets to what really matters—love, conflict, money, sex, faith, and the everyday habits that shape a lifelong bond. Perfect for engaged or seriously dating couples, You Got This offers real talk, key questions, and simple tools to help you start strong and stay close—no matter what life throws your way. Before you say “I do,” read this. Because forever starts now.

Legacy of the Badge One son. One truth. One department built on lies. When Jack Callahan returns home after years in the Navy and special forces, he isn’t just another academy recruit—he’s the son of a legendary cop who died a hero. But the deeper Jack goes into the ranks of the department his father once served, the more he realizes something is off. Secrets are buried behind badges. Files are sealed. And the men who once called his father a brother now look at Jack like a threat. Haunted by the past and driven by the need for answers, Jack uncovers a hidden network of corruption ...

Mae’s Story: Little Sister’s Prayer Faith, Music, and the Quiet Between Applause By William Ferrier Jr. She didn’t chase fame—she chased the truth. And the world stopped to listen. When Nashville singer-songwriter Mae Parker steps onto the Grand Ole Opry stage with nothing but her guitar and a prayer for her fallen brother, she doesn’t expect the silence that follows—or the standing ovation that comes after it. Her song, “Little Sister’s Prayer,” sweeps across the country like a revival, touching hearts far beyond the stage lights. But fame has a price. And when the noise ...

Tom Hale: The Weight of Names A Novel of War, Silence, and Translation by William Ferrier Jr. In a war built on lies, his only weapon is the truth—and even that can kill. Madrid, 1937. The city burns from the inside out. Bombs fall, alliances shift, and every word is dangerous. American linguist Tom Hale is sent to translate for a foreign tribunal, believing language can bridge chaos. But in a world where each sentence is a verdict and every signature seals a fate, he discovers that neutrality is a myth—and silence has its own cost. As the war tightens its grip, Tom becomes witness to ...

The Plague Rider plunges you into a forgotten chapter of the American Southwest—when deserts were roadless, smallpox was a death sentence, and one unsung doctor dared to gallop straight into the epidemic’s maw. In December 1803, Basque-born surgeon Dr. Cristóbal María de Larrañaga receives a fragile vial of cow-pox lymph and an impossible order: carry living vaccine 1,400 miles from Chihuahua to the edge of the Rocky Mountains before it dies in the cold. With a mule train of orphan “courier” children, a scarred Navajo scout, and a midwife who trusts science more than saints, ...

On a rainy class trip to the California State Railroad Museum, eleven-year-old Clara Hernández just wants to disappear into her sketchbook. New school, no friends—she feels as out of place as an old caboose on the wrong track. Then she sees it: a scratched silver compass in a glass case, said to guide people where they are needed most. When the needle spins and the museum floor vanishes, Clara is hurled into the fog of 1862 Sacramento—the year a flood nearly washes the city away. There, among collapsing levees, galloping horses, and streets turned to rivers, Clara meets Sammy and Anita...

London, 1938. Munich, 1938. Two families. One war. And the ordinary choices that become unforgivable. Arthur Ashworth is an air raid warden pulling bodies from the rubble of the Blitz. Karl Bauer is a housing administrator processing the paperwork that makes Jewish families disappear. Neither man thinks of himself as a villain. Both are about to discover what they're willing to sacrifice — and who they're willing to sacrifice — to keep their families safe. As the war tightens its grip, the Ashworths fracture: Tom flies night-fighter missions and stops sleeping. Elsie, evacuated to a ...

Ernesto "Neto" Vargas has been painting the walls of Boyle Heights for fifty years. His murals hold what the neighborhood cannot say for itself — its veterans and its dead, its mothers and its music, the freeway fights it won and the sons it lost. Now seventy-four and losing his sight, he watches as his greatest work, a four-story mural called La Madre de Todo, is scheduled for demolition to make way for luxury condos. A graduate student named Isabel Cruz arrives at his kitchen table with a recorder and a notebook. She wants the history of the walls. He needs something else — someone to...

ONE HUNDRED YEARS A HOME Six Lives. One House. A Century of Love, Loss, and Legacy. What if the walls of a house could remember? In 1923, a grieving husband builds a home with his bare hands, believing it will hold what he cannot. He is right — but not in the way he expects. Over the next one hundred years, the house will witness newlyweds and wartime letters… children measuring themselves against doorframes… a mother slowly disappearing into illness… a young man discovering who he is… a marriage restored… and a final child who understands that home is not where you begin, but ...