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Ötzi’s Odyssey: The Troubled Soul of a Neolithic Iceman opens in the year 1991 with the remarkable sighting of a mummified man, half-frozen in glacial ice, whom two hikers stumble upon. Along with this profound archeological discovery, the soul of this 5,000-year-old iceman is awakened. Ötzi the iceman’s adventure takes him to the modern era, where his observant soul tries to comprehend why it remains tethered to the frozen mummy, as well as to make sense of a technologically advanced world.

With a bit of insight into the Native American culture, paired with a larger understanding of how the settlers of the west actually lived, you'll be able to decipher what happened to the Oatman family of your own accord, empowering an honest understanding of this history. In The Captivity of the Oatman Girls, you’ll discover powerful insight into the truth of the relations between the settlers and the Plains Indians of North America, why the actions of the colonists in the late 18th century bordered genocide - and how this shifted the landscape forever, and more.

When you’re in love with a beautiful woman, you’ll do anything to keep her - even face the hangman! When one man finds himself fighting for the woman he loves, he goes up against seemingly unbeatable odds. Secrets, lies, and pain force him to face the barrel of a good man. Will her hero survive? Or will he die facing the hangman of Bloody Ridge?

Nineteen-twenties Mexico and the American Southwest hold many dangers, as the last Apache strongholds persist against the foreign invaders. Hard-as-nails Confederate serviceman Jock MacNeil receives an unexpected invitation to guide runaways from a reservation to a stronghold in Sierra Madre. Facing both Mexican and American authorities, and the Apache Wars raging around them, Jock witnesses first-hand the terrors of war, and his own transformation from a man of faith to Apache spirituality.

Our minds are conditioned to create chaos. They often convince us to quit long before we reach our goals. Unless we can gain awareness and interrupt these "chaos" scripts early, they will consume our thoughts and drive us towards decisions we will regret. This book will give you the ability to open your awareness, apply several tools to calm the chaos, and increase the momentum towards your goals.

When the Chaparrals decide to relocate to the small town of Waverly, Indiana, they inadvertently sign their son up for a trial-by-fire. Coming of age at the dawn of the new millennium, Jay Chaparral must also come to terms with the strange sights and sounds that occur in Waverly. These odd occurrences have nothing to do with the unfulfilled Mayan or Christian prophecies hanging in the air at the time. Are they like rocks, thrown at random, into a solitary pond? Or are they like stepping stones across Waverly's stream, leading Jay toward something greater?

Thunder Falls chronicles the transformation of Leopold Wolf from a naive young man into an outspoken advocate for Native American rights during the late 1800s. Leo works for the Carlisle Indian School, an institution governed by the motto “kill the Indian, save the man”, and notorious for its harshness of its abuse, neglect, and victimization of the children under its care.

The sun beats down on a father and son…together on the road, and on the run…intertwined in a life of crime. While navigating the twists and turns of the choices they make, they never know which direction to take once the dust settles. In the chaos, their family foundation is built on barren land.

In this age, turning hard data into a compelling narrative is no longer a luxury. It has become a necessity. Visual communication is no longer enough. Presenters need to kick things up a notch and find effective ways to turn hard-to-chew insights into compelling and persuasive stories that influence your audiences’ decisions and push them to want change to happen.

While John Salmon was busy building a small town empire, he and his six very different children kept the town gossip alive. Private investigators look for one missing son. The town Sheriff, who happens to be John's brother, arrests another son for possible murder, and a mortified mistress flees town. The Salmons watch their business partnership crumble, but John's loyal wife remains by his side.

After viewing the summer solstice at sunset from Oregon's Larch Mountain in the mid-1990s, amateur sleuths John and Sara Todd are run off the road while navigating the scenic highway. The driver, barreling down a long gravel driveway from an abandoned sawmill, doesn't stop. As John and Sara track down the person who wrecked their car, they stumble into a case of illegal waste dumping and a desperate business owner. The Todds stay a step ahead of the DEQ, local police, and FBI, but as they put together the pieces, they find themselves in the crosshairs of a man with nothing to lose.

In the autumn of 1901, our protagonist, Percy Hope, ventures off to New York City’s Lower East Side in search for his six-month-old son Walter, and his mother, the fugitive Peggy Greenburg. Along the way, Percy stumbles upon a journal left behind by the late Magnus Vega chronicling his adventure into Alaska’s wilderness, along with a cryptic map that sends Percy and his friend Liam upon a quest, where they must track down a lost fortune of gold, outmaneuver gangsters, and decipher the mysteries of what happened to Magnus under North America’s tallest peak—Denali mountain.

On February 17, 1909, in the dark heart of winter, the great Apache leader, Geronimo, dies of pneumonia after 23 years as a prisoner of war of the United States. Days later, a highly decorated young Marine corporal named Frank Kidd learns of Geronimo’s death. Kidd’s real name is Chaco, and he is Geronimo’s nephew. Orphaned at birth, Chaco was toughened by the cruelties of the white man’s Indian school, battle-hardened by guerrilla warfare, and severely wounded in the 1906 Cuban Pacification Campaign.

While on a bus tour on the Scottish moors in the mid-1990s, amateur sleuths John and Sara Todd overhear what sounds like a plot to murder. In a castle hotel, they wake to a scuffle in the hallway. When a body is found in the pond the next morning, Scotland Yard and the local constabulary are called in. John and Sara, with their traveling friends the Slaters and Arthurs, form the "Committee", and they are on the case! Using all their wits, unique personalities, and talents, they stay one step ahead of the detectives and close in on the murderer, placing themselves at risk.

A peaceful mountain getaway turns deadly as John and Sara Todd hike in the high desert of Central Oregon during the spotted owl and War on Drugs controversies of the 1990s. Stumbling upon a deserted shack, the Todds find a wallet stuffed with hundred-dollar bills. In their attempt to return the money, they unwittingly stumble into a web of missing persons, illicit drugs, and murder. John’s military police training and Sara’s love of mysteries keep them one step ahead of Sergeant Hansen and the FBI, but make them targets of a drug cartel.

Soaring through smoke-filled skies to douse the flames – Fire Angels. At the Fire Angel air base in Pocatello, Idaho, a ragtag group of aerial firefighters face increasingly intense forest fires. These skilled airmen fly in low, targeting water drops on raging wildfires with post-war, military surplus airplanes.

Thomas and Othello Fraction are brothers and best friends who had heard, and let no one forget, that they were descendants of an African nobleman whose tribal scars looked like tiger stripes. But here they were in America, considered three-fifths of a person, and fighting two battles: one for the nation and one for themselves. Hear the story that leads up to a “guns drawn” standoff, and learn how the Fraction family came to America, contributed to the Civil War, survived murder attempts on their lives, and eventually settle outside of Blacksburg, Virginia, as Southern refugees.

It’s 1898, and one of history’s most abundant gold discoveries has shaken awake the desolate city of Cape Nome, Alaska. This monumental find by John Brynteson, Jafet Lindeberg, and Erik Lindblom earns them the moniker of the Three Lucky Swedes. News of their good fortune spreads swiftly, and by the summer of 1900, tens of thousands of dreamers trek over land and by sea to the mines surrounding Anvil Creek and upon the Bering Sea beaches, where gold deposits pepper the soft sands.

On the 12th of October 1492, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus landed in the Bahamas, and enslaved the native population. This was the start of the greatest crimes against humanity. For 400 years, 12 million men, women and children were sold and shipped across the Atlantic Ocean; this was known as the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

This volume is the first novel in a sweeping epic that portrays the romance, adventure, glory, and suffering of the Mormon people from the beginning in the sacred grove in Palmyra, New York to the establishment of the great Mormon empire, which covered the territory of Utah and parts of California, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, and Hawaii. This monumental work commemorates the Mormon sesquicentennial - 150 years since the organization of the Church. These Were the Valiant spans the early years from Kirtland, Ohio to the tragic expulsion of the Mormons from Jackson County, Missouri.