In 1911, a young John Shaw from South Carolina had his first taste of flying.In 1926, two years after the plane crash death of his best friend, he attempted a solo flight record in a refitted 1923 Curtiss Jenny. Then, with half the journey completed, his plane was caught in a storm, went down, and for seventeen years he was listed as missing, presumed dead.The Longest Winter is a work of fiction, the tale of one man's life. His story is one of despair...

Nothing much ever happened in Mallen, a small outback Australian town, until 1975 when a teenager was brutally raped and murdered and her body dumped in a swamp. She was deemed a runaway while the townsfolk sighed with relief and the case was closed. Then the hauntings began. The swamp that hides her body also holds a deadly secret that the local Aboriginals have known about for a very long time. It's cursed. What lies in there never dies, and one...

Some promises are easy to break and harder to forget. Billy Shaw lives on the edge of nowhere. Half Aleut, half American, he escapes his old life in Alaska for a taste of the real world, the world his father came from, promising his sister and the remaining elders he will return to lead them into a new beginning, a real future. Just like his American father, flying is in his blood. But unlike his father, he wants more from life. He wants somewhere...

Gray's a country kid who finds Boo, a magical critter that came out of the farm's bore.He's cute, he talks, he's great company, but the best thing about Boo is his poo.Yep, Boo is a little diamond factory, and he's been on the surface too long and needs to go home to his family.But home is deep underground.

"A love story that won't disappoint." Australia, 1867 With baby in arms, Anna follows her husband into their new beginning-a hot, dusty gold mining camp called Bitter Creek. Always dreaming of the hat shop she will have one day, Anna finds new friends in this no-man's land: a Chinese girl, an old American prospector whose son, Sam, often visits. There's a spark, but she is married and Sam's a wanted man with just cause to hate the district's sergeant. When...

Sometimes glimpsing the future can be deadly. US Navy SEAL Kelly Nolan, who commands a small special ops unit, is assigned duty to protect a Presidential candidate during a visit to England. So what has a woman from half the world away seen that makes them seek her out? Rebecca Miller is an especially gifted psychic. Two years ago she 'read' a US Senator's wife and although Elizabeth Glover's fears about her husband's death were real, Rebecca reassured...

In wartime Holland, the Ten Boom family joins the underground resistance to help save persecuted Jewish families and quietly shelters Jews in their small house---until Nazis discover the ''hiding place.'' When they are arrested and imprisoned in concentration camps themselves, they're left with nothing to cling to but their faith. This is the remarkable true story of Corrie and her sister Betsie's endurance of the death camp, and their sure hope that...

Stuart Little is a mouse in the family of the Frederick C. Littles and is a pleasant character, with a shy manner. His adventure starts when he tries to find his friend, Margalo, a little pretty bird.

“West with the Night” is a memoir by British-born author, aviator, and equestrian, Beryl Markham. Friend and fellow author Ernest Hemingway once wrote to his editor Maxwell Perkins asking: "Did you read Beryl Markham's book, West with the Night?... bloody wonderful work." Markham was one of, if not the first, female bush pilots in Africa, and her memoir details adventures in Kenya with a unique perspective both from the ground and the sky. Markham...

A South African pastor and a young teacher from Cape Town battle over the fate of an eccentric elderly widow.