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Portland Police Detective Wayne Deetz and son, Brandon, a rookie officer, are investigating a vicious drug ring that may have ties to notorious gangster Sidney Grimaldi. With each startling piece of evidence the Deetz boys uncover, Grimaldi’s noose rachets tighter and someone else turns up dead. Meanwhile, the life of Police Sergeant Dolby Tidwell is unraveling before his eyes. His adult son is a walking timebomb. His longtime wife appears to be seeking a relationship outside the marriage.

Retired FBI agent Jeremy Winter spent his career chasing serial killers. Now, he finally has a chance to go after the one murderer who matters most - the killer of his wife and unborn daughter. With few clues and nowhere to start, Jeremy tests the legal limits of his investigation, risking arrest and angering his FBI agent girlfriend Maggie Keeley. His determination to find the killer leads him on a twisting path of weak leads and strong doubts.

Firsthand accounts from Japanese WW II soldiers, sailors, and pilots who fought in the battle for Iwo Jima and survived. Some were evacuated before the Marines landed, and others were taken as prisoners of war. The Japanese army and navy combatants are given a voice to share their experiences in the battle that coined the phrase "uncommon valor was a common virtue".

Firsthand accounts from interviews conducted in Japan with five WWII Japanese Naval aviators. All are veterans of the pivotal battles of the Pacific War including; USS Panay, Nanking, Pearl Harbor, Wake Island, Rabaul, Port Darwin, Indian Ocean Raid, Ceylon, Midway, Guadalcanal, Marshall Islands, Tarawa, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, the kamikaze in the Philippines, the home defense and the dropping of the atomic bomb. Includes an introduction to the Japanese pilot training system for both officers and enlisted men.

This groundbreaking study of agriculture's role in the war defies long-held notions that Northern industrialization and urbanization led to clashes between North and South. Huston argues that the ideological chasm between plantation owners in the South and family farmers in the North led to the political eruption of 1854-1856 and the birth of a sectionalized party system.

High school teacher Tyson Cooper is just dismissing his class when a student flashes his phone. "Another shooting, Mr. C." And this one is too close to home. Tyson races to Pioneer Square...but he's too late. The light of his life has been snuffed out—and so has his faith. Veteran Portland PD Investigator Wayne Deetz, two years shy of retirement, is charged with leading the interrogations. When he meets 19-year-old shooter Rogan Sneed face-to-face, his life is changed eternally.

Rogan Sneed is spending life in prison for the mass shooting he committed at Pioneer Square in Portland, Oregon. The copycat shooter who attempted a similar attack on the anniversary of the event is dead. Time has passed. Wounds are healing. But then a blip on the screen. A teenage girl is kidnapped in Portland. Her diary says there may still be someone out there who helped plan the original attack that killed 21 innocent people.

Eighteen-year-old Hale Frodele is presumed braindead from a tragic church bus accident in which he lost his younger brother, Nate. Little does anyone know—Hale hears and understands everything with crystal clarity. Hale remembers when his mom died at age 44 of pancreatic cancer and his dad turned his back on God.

A year from retirement and still reeling from daughter Leena’s kidnapping, Portland PD Detective Wayne Deetz is called upon to check on a domestic violence case. From the moment Deetz and his friend Callie Freeland show up to help Sonny Carlisle, they are blindsided by a lawless, toxic steamroller named Blaine Milligan.

After the Portland terrorist attack, the kidnapping of his daughter, and the domestic violence case that almost killed him, Detective Wayne Deetz and his wife Joanie escape for a long overdue vacation in Sedona, Arizona, to make some monumental career decisions. When Joanie’s childhood friend, Suzanne, acts euphoric and distant, Deetz and Joanie become suspicious of her boyfriend, the beguiling millionaire artist Octavius Hunt. The more Wayne and Joanie dig into Octavius’ corrupt and scandalous background, the darker and more twisted Suzanne’s reality becomes.

In his final year behind the badge, beloved Portland Police Investigator Wayne Deetz, and his wife, Joanie, are shocked to learn their youngest son, Brandon, 23, has signed up to follow in Deetz’s footsteps, by joining the Portland Police Bureau - especially amid the city’s recent riots, violence, and cancel culture. When Deetz goes back in uniform, to ride with Brandon during his field training, the father-son duo is dealt a harrowing, demonic case, involving an unlikely gunman, and a brash, corporate executive.

A CIA officer is assassinated in a village outside Paris. But before he is killed, Atcho learns of a dangerous conspiracy unfolding in Moscow. Now Atcho must outwit Russian military and intelligence agents and prevent disaster. If he fails, nuclear annihilation will follow. But when his fiancee - a former CIA operative - unexpectedly appears in Siberia to save him, Atcho must decide whether he can sacrifice himself to win...or lose everything he holds dear.

A nuclear-armed terrorist is out for revenge against a CIA operative and his family. When an infamous terrorist surfaces in the wake of three massive international bombings, the hunt is on. But as Atcho closes in on his quarry, everything changes. Shocking new information reveals hidden targets. The hunter has become the prey. Only the next attack won’t be in a distant land; it will be on Atcho’s doorstep. If Atcho can’t stop this madman, his family, and millions of innocents, could be wiped out in the white flash of a nuclear weapon.

After Eduardo “Atcho” Xiquez’s daughter is taken hostage by Russian operatives, the former West Point graduate is forced to become a KGB sleeper agent. If he resists, his daughter will be killed. His handlers have orchestrated Atcho’s rise into the elite social circles of Washington DC. There, he must navigate a labyrinth of conspiracy and betrayal. Spying for a nation he despises. All the while, secretly working to turn the tables on his KGB masters.

Is something missing in your relationship? Do you look longingly at the early days of your marriage, wishing you still had that spark? You wish you could snap your fingers and magically return to the happiness of your honeymoon days. You've hoped, begged, even prayed to God for a return to a brighter, more passionate relationship, but you just don’t know how to get there. With 38 years of experience helping nearly-weds and established couples, Pastor Bill Hutcheson is ready to help you have the happy relationship God intended for your marriage.

Van Childs’ accidental discovery of an alien cache of advanced technologies thrusts him into the role of reluctant hero. Learning of an extra-terrestrial race, the Host, who visited Earth some 200 years before, Van is forewarned of an impending invasion by the Arkon, an expansionist race. Van’s quest to prepare Earth meets with opposition by a powerful human adversary with conflicting goals. 

We live in a world that encourages impatience. From pizza joints that promise your pizza will arrive in 15 minutes or it’s free to ridiculously rapid (if not highly dubious) three-month online MBA programs, it seems that more and more services seek to cater to our perceived "need for speed." While it's true that most Americans are busy and there doesn't seem to be enough hours in a day, are we burning ourselves out physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually with this speed obsession?

Everyone has habits. Some of these are good, others are not. Considering that we are all defined by our actions, it is important that we lose our bad habits. By doing that, our lives will be much better. By changing your habits and tagging new ones onto existing ones, you piggyback your way to opening up those neuron areas and increasing the range of your own possibilities. Discover how you can be the better version of yourself by building empowering habits.