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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 ...

Two men. Two forecasts. Four hundred deaths. In the summer of 1944, a Black meteorologist from New Orleans and a Japanese American physicist from San Francisco have never met—but their work is about to collide in a disaster that will haunt them both for forty years. Samuel Delacroix earned his way into the Army's weather program despite every barrier Jim Crow could build. Now stationed in England, he's forecasting missions for the same military that won't let him eat in its mess halls. His predictions help keep bombers in the air and pilots alive. Until the day they don't. Kenji Yamamoto ...

A dying man. Ten thousand miles of road. One question that will not let him rest. In August 1784, Father Junípero Serra lies dying in a small adobe cell at the edge of the world. He has walked farther than any missionary in history. He has founded nine missions along the California coast. He has baptized thousands of souls and buried hundreds of children who died from diseases he carried in his breath. Now, with his final hours approaching, he looks back on a life consumed by holy fire—and asks the question he has avoided for fifty years: Did the good outweigh the harm? The Burning Road ...

Cole came home from the war. He has not come back. He doesn't sleep. He leaves restaurants without warning. He checks every exit in every room he enters. He stands at the kitchen window at three a.m. staring at a parking lot like he's still on watch. When his girlfriend asks how he is, he says fine. He says it every time. He means something else. Anna has been waiting for thirteen months. She kept the apartment. She paid the rent. She imagined the homecoming. The person who walked off the plane is not the person who left. He will not talk. He will not stay. He wakes up swinging in the dark....

When sound is the only truth you can trust, every second is a verdict. 1943, Western Pacific. A damaged U.S. submarine stalks enemy waters on fumes and nerve, commanded by a skipper who believes courage is restraint. Through the headphones of Ash, the boat's sonarman, we enter a patrol of split-second choices: slipping a mined harbor by inches, shadowing an unmarked transport, and surfacing under smoke to pull survivors from burning water while enemy destroyers close. Ash hears death before anyone sees it—hedgehog patterns stepping closer, a torpedo turning back to hunt its maker, the ...

In 1942, two men turned paperwork into the most powerful weapon against the Holocaust. Colonel José Arturo Castellanos never intended to become a hero. As El Salvador's consul in Geneva, he was supposed to process routine diplomatic business—not forge thousands of documents to save Jewish refugees from Nazi death camps. But when desperate families began appearing at his door, Castellanos faced an impossible choice: follow orders and watch innocents die, or risk everything to fight evil with nothing more than ink and official seals. Based on the incredible true story that Hollywood has ...

"The Arizona Series belongs alongside the great works of WWII fiction. The Last Witness is its devastating, perfect conclusion." I'm the last one. And in seven days, I'll be dead. At 102 years old, James Marsh is the final surviving crew member of USS Arizona. He has one week to live. One week to tell the truth about the five novels that defined how America remembers Pearl Harbor. They weren't just stories. They were confessions. For eight decades, Marsh has carried the weight of five men's lives—Calvin Webb, Thomas Avery, John McAllister, Percy Cole, and Vincent DeLuca. Five sailors who ...

THE GRANT In 1830, William Moore sails from Ireland to the Swan River Colony with a land grant, four servants, a dog, and seeds wrapped in canvas. He is given five hundred acres of ground already inhabited for forty thousand years. What follows is a fifty-four-year reckoning. Told through the spare, precise entries of Moore's journal, The Grant traces one man's attempt to farm, govern, and bear honest witness to a colony built on a foundation the law cannot name and will not see. He learns the Noongar language. He watches a burial across the river. He stands between fires on both sides of ...

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.

In the summer of 1942, Johnny Ferris boards a train to war with nothing but a duffel bag, a baseball glove, and a promise whispered to the girl he loves: I will see you again. Told through tender letters that cross oceans and silence, I Will See You Again captures the heartbreak and hope of a love tested by World War II. Johnny writes from barracks and battlefields; Claire answers from their small town, her words steady as prayer. Each envelope becomes a lifeline—carrying devotion, courage, and the vow that distance cannot erase. As weeks stretch into months, censored lines and missing ...

He didn’t conquer California. He named it—river by river, memory by memory. In the early 1800s, Spanish lieutenant Gabriel Moraga rode deep into the wild, unmapped heart of California. What he discovered would shape the future of the West—but what he left behind was something far more enduring than conquest: names that still ripple across maps, city signs, and courtrooms today. River-Maker is a breathtaking historical narrative that brings Moraga’s forgotten journey vividly to life—from the sweeping silence of the Central Valley to the tangled wetlands of the Delta, from ...

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...

January 1941. Lou Gehrig is dying. The man who played 2,130 consecutive games—who never missed a day, never complained, never stopped—can no longer hold a pen. His hands, which once drove 493 home runs, now tremble with the disease that will soon bear his name. With his wife Eleanor at his side, Lou begins to tell his story. Not the legend. The truth. About the mother who sacrificed everything and demanded he sacrifice more. About living in Babe Ruth's shadow while quietly becoming a better man. About the moment he finally chose love over duty. And about standing at home plate on July 4...

July 4, 1967. A chaplain gave him a notebook. He did not ask for it. He was a mechanic from Michigan and he had nothing to write. The chaplain said write to yourself. So he wrote to himself. He wrote in the monsoon and he wrote in the dry season and he wrote on the wire at night when the treeline was dark and the dark was the thing you watched. He wrote after the first man he knew was killed and he wrote after the village burned and he wrote after Hue when there was nothing left to write and he wrote anyway. The notebook held the things his hands could not. Danny Kovalchik is nineteen. He ...

Sixteen years of sacrifice. One moment that decides everything. And the silence that follows when the dream finally ends. Cole Hendricks has spent his life chasing perfection on the wrestling mat. From a middle school basement that smells of rubber and bleach to sold-out arenas under blinding lights, every ounce of his identity has been forged through discipline, pain, and relentless ambition. Wrestling gave him clarity. It gave him purpose. It taught him how to endure. But it never taught him how to stop. As Cole rises through the ranks—outworking, outlasting, and outgrowing nearly ...

"Masterful character development and impeccable historical detail. Ferrier has created something rare—a Pearl Harbor novel that's as much about identity as it is about war." "THE WEIGHT OF WATER delivers on every level—psychological depth, moral complexity, and the kind of prose that reminds you why you fell in love with literary fiction. This is Pulitzer-caliber work." "Ferrier doesn't just write about the USS Arizona—he makes you feel the weight of command, the cost of transformation, the burden of becoming real. Unforgettable." On December 7, 1941, at 0755 hours, Lieutenant Thomas ...

What if Jesus Himself walked you through the opening pages of Genesis? Before Bethlehem. Before the Cross. Before the Fall. There was the Word. In Genesis with Jesus, the story of creation, Eden, and humanity’s fall is retold through the voice of Christ—the eternal Word who was present before the beginning. With reverence, clarity, and profound insight, this book invites readers to experience Genesis not as distant history, but as a living, purposeful story that leads directly to the heart of God. This is not a replacement for Scripture. It is a Christ-centered retelling—a theological...

What if Jesus Himself told you the story of the Exodus? In this groundbreaking work of biblical fiction, experience the greatest liberation story in human history through the eyes of the One who was there from the beginning. Jesus Christ narrates the epic journey from Egyptian slavery to freedom, revealing intimate details, profound connections, and theological insights that only the divine Word could provide. "Come back to me. Sit here again beside these ancient sands, where the wind carries echoes of chains and the memory of tears..." From the burning bush encounter with Moses to the ...

Divorce is more than an ending — it is a kind of grief. The loss is not only of a partner, but of identity, home, stability, and the story you thought would last forever. Broken, Yet Whole: A Guide to Divorce Recovery is a compassionate, grief-informed roadmap for navigating that loss and rediscovering life on the other side. Drawing on years of research into grief and resilience, as well as the lived voices of those who have walked this road, William Ferrier Jr. offers both comfort and practical tools for rebuilding. Through vivid stories, evidence-based insights, and step-by-step ...

When a broken veteran steps off a bus in a small Texas border town, he's looking for his friend—but finds something he never expected: home. Ghost Patterson arrives in San Benito, Texas, with everything he owns in a duffel bag and no plan beyond visiting his army buddy. Haunted by Vietnam and hollowed out by loss, he's a man barely surviving—until a tight-knit Mexican-American community begins to work its quiet magic. Between Spanish lessons with the brilliant and beautiful Esperanza Delgado and emergency calls with the volunteer fire department, Ghost discovers what he's been missing: ...