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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Charlie Fitzgerald is sixteen years old. He lives in Norman, Oklahoma, with his mother, his father, his dog Belle, and a 1967 Chevrolet pickup that's been promised to him since August.On a Saturday morning in October he takes the four-wheeler out to check the deer cameras. He hits a stump. He hits his head.When he opens his eyes, the field is a different field, the year is 1947, and an old man with a cane is standing over him speaking a language Charlie does not understand.Two months and three weeks later, Charlie comes home. He has been gone four hours.He has a promise to keep. A 16-year-old Oklahoma boy crashes a four-wheeler and wakes in 1947 Germany, on a farm with an old man who speaks no English. Two months and three weeks later he comes home - gone four hours. He has a promise to keep. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Some truths are worth killing for. Some are worth dying for. Atlas Drummond is about to learn which is which.Atlas Drummond walked into McGinty's Bar on a rainy Thursday night trying to forget his problems. A failed marriage. Two kids he barely sees. A career in Navy intelligence that ended badly, leaving him working security at a strip mall and pretending it was enough.Then Hollis Brooks sat down beside him - a woman whose father had been murdered under circumstances no one wanted to explain - and Atlas's quiet ruin of a life ended in a single conversation.Her father had been investigating Project Genesis, an illegal genetic research program that had already killed over two hundred people. Atlas's own father had been investigating the same program. Now both men are dead, Atlas's family has been kidnapped, and a faceless billion-dollar conspiracy has given him forty-eight hours to hand over evidence he doesn't have - or watch everyone he loves disappear.To get them back, Atlas will have to become the soldier he used to be. The one he buried after the divorce. The one who knew how to track, how to disappear, how to kill when there was no other way. He'll need every skill he ever had, and a few friends he wasn't sure he still deserved.But the people behind Project Genesis aren't afraid of soldiers. They've been buying them, breaking them, and burying them for decades. And they're not about to let one washed-up Navy intel officer take them apart.Atlas Drummond: Fragments of Deceit is a relentless conspiracy thriller about fathers and sons, the cost of second chances, and the brutal arithmetic of getting your family back when the people who took them count their losses in zeros.For readers of Brad Thor, Lee Child, and Daniel Silva. Atlas Drummond walked into McGinty's Bar to forget his problems. He walked out with 48 hours to stop a billion-dollar conspiracy, save his kidnapped family, and become the soldier he used to be. A thriller about what some truths cost. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Hank Blankenship jumped out of a plane in 2024. He landed in 1870.Henry "Hank" Blankenship is seventeen years old, a Wyoming cowboy at heart, and the proudest member of the Buffalo Sky Devils - six teenagers who jump out of a rented Cessna on weekends because the sky is the only place where Hank feels like he was born in the right century.His friends say he should have been born a hundred years earlier. On a Saturday morning in May, he finds out exactly how right they are.The freefall is normal. The opening is normal. The landing is not. Hank touches down alone in a meadow along Clear Creek - the same valley, the same Wyoming - 154 years before he was born. No town of Buffalo. No roads. No fences. Just open range and the saddest little cabin he has ever seen, with smoke rising from a tin chimney and a sixty-four-year-old retired ranch hand named Joshua Bettington living inside it.Joshua takes him in without too many questions. Hank takes a job with Herman Thamon, the biggest rancher in the valley. He makes a best friend in Jim Cotton, a young cowboy with bigger dreams than the territory can hold. He makes an enemy in Claven Clower, a bitter ranch hand whose jealousy turns dangerous when cattle start disappearing from the range.And he builds a life he never planned, in a world he never chose.A year passes. Hank loads muskets and stands watch and rides out at first light. He buys a cabin for Joshua so the old man doesn't die alone. He learns that the real Old West is heavier than the movies - the guns weigh more, the winters kill more, and the cost of violence is a weight that never lifts.He also learns that the movies got one thing right. Loyalty, hard work, and the bonds between people who choose each other can build something that lasts.Even across 154 years.Hank Blankenship and the Longest Fall is a young adult historical adventure about a boy who fell out of his own century and had to grow up in a harder one - and about the old man, the best friend, and the family of strangers who taught him what home was actually made of.For readers of Gary Paulsen, Will Hobbs, and Louis L'Amour. Perfect for middle school and high school readers, and anyone who has ever wished the Old West were real. Hank Blankenship jumped out of a plane in 2024 and landed in 1870 Wyoming. A year of cattle, friendship, and a winter that nearly killed him. A young adult novel about growing up, letting go, and finding home 154 years from home. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Colby Utterback is fifteen, broke, and invisible - until he walks into a forest that shouldn't exist.Colby stocks shelves at Lloyd's grocery store in Corbin, Idaho. He puts money on the kitchen table for his mother Wanda and his five younger siblings. He counts his little brother's breaths at night because nobody else will. He eats free lunch at school and doesn't talk about why.One evening, he steps through the back of the storeroom on his break - and steps into the Kentucky wilderness of 1781.There is a fire burning low and steady, tended by hands that know what they're doing. There is a man named Skunk who takes him in without too many questions. There is a one-eared dog named Founder whose crooked tail lays across Colby's ankle like a comma at the end of a sentence that isn't finished yet.For nine months, Colby learns to track, hunt, skin, trade, and stand his ground in a world where survival depends on what your hands can do - not what your last name is. He builds a competence ledger in his head, one pelt at a time. He earns a place at the fall gathering of frontier families on the river. He faces a man named Jenks with a knife, and a flood that nearly takes everything he has built.And he learns that the wilderness of 1781 is no easier than the kitchen on Spruce Street. The cold kills. The water kills. The men kill. But the people who choose you - they are the only currency that matters in either century.When Colby finally comes home, he is fifteen years old and broke and invisible in the same body he left in. But the math is done. The gold in his pack is enough. And the boy who used to count his brother's breaths at night now counts something else - the number of ways a family can be saved when one of its own walks into the woods and refuses to come back the same.Colby Utterback: Finding His Place is a portal-fantasy adventure about poverty, courage, and the brutal arithmetic of pulling a family out of the hole they were born into - one trapped marten, one stretched hide, one stubborn boy at a time.For readers of Gary Paulsen, Will Hobbs, and Carl Hiaasen's Hoot. Perfect for middle school and high school readers, and anyone who has ever wondered what they would carry home if the woods let them keep what they earned. Colby Utterback is fifteen and invisible. One evening he walks through the storeroom of his grocery store and into the Kentucky wilderness of 1781. A portal fantasy about a boy who walks in with nothing and comes home with everything. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Retired Army Colonel Logan Whitaker has spent three years alone in a Tennessee mountain cabin, trying to put behind him the one night from 1969 that he never could. The manuscript he wrote - 187 pages about a war crime in a village called Thanh Phu - was never meant for anyone else's eyes. It was an act of exhaustion, not courage. A way to set down what he had carried for fifty-five years.Then a Nashville publisher arrives with a five million dollar offer and Logan understands two things immediately: someone has read the manuscript, and the money is not an offer. It is a burial contract.The man behind it is Victor Hale - media mogul, philanthropist, and one of four soldiers present at Thanh Phu that night in March 1969. Hale has spent half a century building an empire on top of what he did there. He is not prepared to let one retired colonel's memoir take it apart.When the publisher turns up dead in Logan's storage room and the manuscript disappears, Logan finds himself at the center of something larger and more dangerous than he anticipated. With the help of his daughter Wendi, a Knoxville journalist with her own reasons to pursue the story, Logan must decide how far he is willing to go to put the truth on record before Hale buries it permanently.Set against the rugged hollows and bare October ridges of eastern Tennessee, Echoes of 1969 is a story about silence, accountability, and what it costs a man to finally say what he should have said fifty-five years ago. Retired Colonel Logan Whitaker wrote 187 pages about a 1969 war crime no one was meant to read. Then a $5 million offer arrived, and the publisher turned up dead. A Tennessee thriller 55 years in the making. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Jack Mercer was just doing his job.As a risk compliance analyst at a regional logistics firm, he had built a career on finding problems before they became crises. Routine. Methodical. Safe. Then a shipping audit revealed something that was none of those things - missing documentation, suspicious payments, and shell companies that existed only on paper. Twelve million dollars in customs fraud. Money laundering. Organized crime.And his boss was running it.Jack did what any responsible employee would do. He documented everything, reported it through proper channels, and waited for the system to work. Instead, the system worked against him. His employer manufactured accusations that destroyed his professional reputation. The FBI investigation moved too slowly to protect him. Anonymous threats began targeting his children at school. And the criminals he had exposed - men with connections that reached into law firms, federal offices, and private security - were powerful enough to make inconvenient people disappear.Professionally. Financially. Or permanently.Now Jack faces the choice that no ethics training ever prepares you for: stay silent and keep what remains of his life, or fight back and risk losing everything that matters - his career, his family, his safety, and possibly his life.As the conspiracy unravels and the retaliation intensifies, Jack discovers that the most dangerous thing a man can do in corporate America is tell the truth to the wrong people. And that integrity, once you decide it matters, carries a price tag nobody posts in the job listing.Based on real whistleblower cases, The Customs Conspiracy is a gripping corporate fraud thriller about one man's fight for justice in a system specifically designed to silence him.For readers of John Grisham's The Firm, Scott Turow, and anyone who has ever wondered what really happens when someone decides to do the right thing. Jack Mercer found twelve million dollars in customs fraud. His boss was running it. Reporting it destroyed everything. A corporate fraud thriller about one man's fight for justice in a system designed to silence him. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Cade Thompson is fourteen years old, and he has learned three things from his father: how to flinch, how to hide, and how to survive.When Cade chases his dog Sammy through a gap between two boulders in the woods behind his house, he stumbles into a world that shouldn't exist - an ancient valley where dinosaurs roam, a civilization lives in partnership with creatures that went extinct sixty-five million years ago, and the portal home has sealed shut behind him.Taken in by the village of Verdant Haven, Cade begins to heal. A quiet farmer gives him work. A fierce girl with a bow teaches him to fight. An old tracker sees the damage in him and decides to fix it. For the first time in his life, Cade learns what it means to be seen, to be valued, and to belong.But the village harbors a traitor - a trusted advisor whose charm hides a ruthless plan to seize power. Cade has seen this pattern before. He lived with it for fourteen years. And this time, he's not going to keep his head down.The Fractured Path to Emerald Vale is a story about a boy, his dog, and the world that put him back together. It is about courage, healing, and the truth that the hardest journey is the one that takes you home. Fourteen-year-old Cade Thompson chases his dog through a gap in the woods and stumbles into a hidden valley where dinosaurs roam, an ancient civilization fights to survive, and a traitor's plot will force him to finally stop running. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Cyril Butterworth spent forty years fixing buildings for Kern County and fifteen years trying to fix his daughter. He kept a notebook - every dollar, every date, every prayer - hidden in the bottom drawer of his desk. The last entry read: "$0 - God help me."Two weeks later, someone he trusted walked through his front door and killed him.When Cyril's eldest son, Archie - a Marine veteran turned Wall Street trader - is arrested for the murder, the evidence is damning: no alibi, financial motive, and a sister who points the investigation straight at him. Facing life in prison for a crime he didn't commit, Archie calls the only people he trusts with his life - three fellow Marines who drop everything and come to Bakersfield to find the truth.What they uncover is a trail of meth money, motorcycle club violence, and a family secret that runs deeper than any of them imagined. At the center of it all is a daughter who gave away the key to her father's house - and a porch light that never stopped burning.The Last Whisper of Innocence is a gripping family crime thriller about brotherhood, betrayal, addiction, and the devastating cost of silence - from the author of Brynn Thornwick: Guardian of the Crimson Crown and Atlas Drummond: Fragments of Deceit. A Marine veteran is framed for his father's murder. Three brothers-in-arms come to Bakersfield to find the truth - and a family secret no one wants told. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. WILBUR NORTHCUTT KNEW EVERYTHING ABOUT FORT BOONESBOROUGH.He'd been reading about it since fifth grade. He knew about the Great Siege of 1778, when four hundred warriors surrounded the fort for eleven days and forty settlers held them off. He knew about Daniel Boone's capture by the Shawnee, his adoption by Chief Blackfish, his escape and the desperate ride back to warn his people. He knew the names, the battles, the dates. He was fifteen years old and he knew more about the Kentucky frontier than most adults.He just didn't know what it felt like.On a family vacation to Fort Boonesborough State Park, Wilbur slips away from the tour group, finds a section of the old fort grounds that looks untouched, and falls - literally, through a rotted section of flooring - into 1779.Not the reconstruction. The real fort. The one with mud on the walls and smoke in the cabins and settlers who look at his jeans and sneakers like he's from another world. Because he is.What follows is a year inside the walls of one of the most dangerous places in early American history. Wilbur earns his place alongside BUGGER STAMPS, a plain-spoken frontier carpenter who takes him in without too many questions, and MOLLY STAMPS, whose garden and kitchen become the closest thing to home a boy from Kingsport, Tennessee, can find in 1779 Kentucky. He befriends JAMESON COOLIDGE, a fifteen-year-old hunter who becomes the kind of friend you'd take an arrow for. And he runs headlong into JASPER BARRY, a bitter, dangerous man whose grudge against the fort threatens everyone inside it.He also lives through the hard winter of 1779-1780 - one of the coldest on record - and the Shawnee raids that followed. He loads muskets. He stands on the walls. He does things that no amount of reading about Daniel Boone could have prepared him for.WILBUR NORTHCUTT AND THE BOONESBOROUGH FALL is a young adult historical adventure about a boy who thought he knew history and had to live it to understand it - and about the ordinary people who built something extraordinary in a wilderness that wanted to kill them.For readers of Gary Paulsen, Joseph Bruchac, and Laura Amy Schlitz. Perfect for middle school and high school readers and anyone who has ever wondered what the frontier really felt like. Fifteen-year-old Wilbur Northcutt knew everything about Fort Boonesborough until a vacation to the state park dropped him inside the real fort in 1779. A year of Shawnee raids, a brutal winter, and history he thought he understood. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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