Book Blurb: MISSING IN ACTION—EIGHT MEN BEHIND ENEMY LINES... After Pearl Harbor, W.T. Eaves swaps the West Texas oil fields for the skies, earning his silver wings as a bomber pilot in the Army Air Corps. While training in Galveston, the beautiful, dark-eyed Jean captures Eaves’ heart and they marry—just months before he’s sent to war. Called to aerial combat in the Fifteenth Air Force, Eaves and his B-24 crew run the gauntlet of flak and battle the Luftwaffe to deliver thei

Book Blurb: Save. Kill. Live. Die. How much do I give? 1944 , and war rages in the Pacific. Two young recruits from opposing sides destined to cross paths without ever meeting, changing their lives forever… Honolulu —Devoted nurse Lieutenant Jeannette Crawford has been working tirelessly, with dedication and wisdom beyond her years, to help wounded US servicemen on home soil face their greatest enemy—time. Wanting to do more, she volunteers to serve on a hospital ship, hoping

Book Blurb: A chilling historical horror novel of witch trials, survival, and the true monster hiding among us. Connecticut Colony, 1662 During a midnight witch trial, an unsettlingly woman confesses to making a pact with the Devil—after encountering a terrifying beast in the woods. Her words send a shiver through newcomer Rebecca Easton. She’s seen that creature too. But when Rebecca dares to speak the truth, suspicion turns on her. Accusations fly. The townspeople whisper.

Book Blurb: Her father vanished along the Silk Road. Now, his secrets from a painful past return with the appearance of a mysterious weaver. After her mother dies in childbirth, Saina’s distraught father sells her into servitude and disappears on the Silk Road . Now a young woman, she has gained favor serving the head wife in a bustling roadside inn outside the ancient trade city of Samarkand. When a mysterious weaver and his handsome grandson arrive from a distant city, brin

Book Blurb: Psychologically abused Helena escapes her peasant upbringing in the olive groves only to become a slave in the house of General Sulla. When her natural genius is spotted by Sulla’s ailing spymaster, Demophon, he trains her to be his eyes and ears in Rome. After the only man who treats her with respect is crucified by Sulla, Helena is set on a path of vengeance. Always riddled with self-doubt, she manipulates hand-picked agents to make herself rich and powerful. In

Book Blurb: A true story. A forgotten heroine. In a time when women were told to stay silent, could she become the saviour her people need? 12th-century England. Nicola de la Haye wants to do her duty. But though she’s taught a female cannot lead alone, the young noblewoman bristles at the marriage her father has arranged to secure her inheritance. And when an unexpected death leaves her unguided, the impetuous girl shuns the king’s blessing and weds a handsome-but-landless k

Book Blurb: Margaret Dashwood, the youngest sister of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, has grown up in the shadows of her two siblings, and is thought by her family, when we first observe her in Sense and Sensibility at the tender age of thirteen, to be ‘a good humoured well-disposed girl; but as she had imbibed a good deal of Marianne’s romance, without having much of her sense, she did not, at thirteen, bid fair to equal her sisters at a more advanced period of life.’ But Marg

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Book Blurb: 1932. Natalia is 16 and a bootlegger's daughter, playing the mermaid mascot on a rundown paddlewheel used to entertain brewers and distributors. A sequined costume hides her scarred and misshaped legs, but it can't cover up the painful memories and suspicions that haunt her. An eccentric healer who treats patients with Old Country tonics, tries to patch wounds, but only adds to the heartache. A fierce storm threatens to destroy everything, including a stash of sto

Book Blurb: An Echo of Ashes is a story lost to time, then found again in century-old letters that lay in a tattered box. Based on actual events taken from the pages, this story tells of when the Great War and the Spanish Influenza forever altered the lives of millions, including a family of subsistence farmers who also worked the oil fields of Pennsylvania. Ella and Almon make their home in the backcountry. Almon and his sons work in the oil fields, just as their forefathers

Book Blurb: What Remains is a haunting dual-timeline mystery that bridges centuries-and secrets-between ancient Rome and the modern world. Forensic anthropologist Tori Benino has just landed the opportunity of a lifetime: leading a dig at a long-buried Roman village lost to the eruption of Vesuvius. But when she uncovers the remains of a Praetorian guard hidden in an ancient latrine-clearly murdered-Tori realizes she's stumbled onto something far more sinister than a routine

Book Blurb: In 1792, an escaped slave, raised and living as white, is discovered and forced to flee into the Great Dismal Swamp. Barely escaping a bounty hunter, a Maroons community of fugitive slaves rescues him. Over time, Nathanial comes to accept his true identity while fighting to overcome the suspicions of his new community. Because of his pale skin, he becomes a conductor on the underground railroad, slipping runners onto ships going north. On one of his missions, fate

Book Blurb: In the tradition of Wilbur Smith and Patrick O’Brian —a sweeping tale of men driven by empire and undone by conscience. A powerful novel of greed, loyalty, and survival in the brutal world of the seventeenth-century Dutch slave trade. West Africa, 1687. On the lawless edge of the Dutch colonial empire, the West India Company tightens its grip on the coast, its ships filled with gunpowder, muskets—and ambition. Skipper Aldemar Burghoutsz , a battle-hardened seaman

Book Blurb: A game that spread communism. A secret that spans generations. About the Book: A Barnes & Noble Top eBook & NOOK Indie Favorite In the early 1950s, ping pong wasn't just a pastime - it was propaganda. A quiet weapon in the battle for influence, power, and ideology. Alternating between the pivotal 1971 Ping-Pong Diplomacy - where a simple game of table tennis thawed the icy relations between the U.S. and China during the Cold War - and the present-day struggles of

Book Blurb: "If you love Michael Crichton, James Rollins, or Preston & Child, you'll dig Buzan." - Gin Coleman, author of Desert Bold Chenoa Winterhawk is a battle-hardened member of Oregon's elite U.S. Army Indian Scouts, sworn to protect travelers across treacherous mountain terrain and dark forests whispering of ancient terrors. As the daughter of legendary Civil War hero Chief Jolon Winterhawk, Chenoa is also a warrior bound by duty, struggling with injustices brought upo

Book Blurb: A poet haunted by grief. A lover marked by blood. A sister silenced behind asylum walls. In the decadent heart of fin de siècle Paris, Averill Charron makes a devil's bargain. To rescue his sister—locked away by their father—hejoins forces with the last man he should trust, Blaise Dancier, the crime lord who once ordered his death. No longer enemies. Now they are lovers. Together they descend into the underworld, searching cabarets and crypts, brothels and back al

Book Blurb: The world was catching its breath from a war that had redrawn borders and left too many empty chairs at too many tables. It was the 1950's. Girls donned poodle skirts; boys sported crew cuts. People sought comfort in familiar routines, traditional roles, and black-and-white images from a box called television. Not Cate Clark. Restless and searching for something more, Cate leaves behind an Ireland still scarred from its struggle for independence and steps into the

Book Blurb: A Love Affair Inspiring the World's Most Unforgettable Operas Experience the intense, lifelong love affair between Giuseppe Verdi and Giuseppina Strepponi, the brilliant and seductive soprano who shaped his legacy. As his muse, lover, and wife, Strepponi was the inspiration behind Verdi's most iconic works, including La Traviata and Aida. Her influence was pivotal, as she became the architect of his creative triumphs and the heart of his operatic genius. Set again

Book Blurb: London Oxford was prepared to do whatever it took to get to the promised land, but can he get his family safely across the border? Young Abner Oxford has kept something of his mother's. Something else needs what he has. It's patient, can be quite disarming, and has a monstrous, fierce appetite. Abner and his family, along with a caravan of sleighs, are moving north. The frigid cold and the blinding white have made the adults slow, weary, and numb. Very few questio

Book Blurb: Berlin, January 1949. The city stands divided, its future uncertain. In the icy grip of winter, the Soviet Union blocks all road, rail, and canal access to the Western sectors of Berlin. Cut off from the outside world, the people of West Berlin teeter on the edge of survival. But three air corridors remain—narrow lifelines the Soviets dare not close without provoking war. From the skies, the Western Allies launch a bold response: a massive airlift of food, coal,