God Switch

In the near future, the world doesn't end with mushroom clouds or alien ships. It ends with a five-year-old girl from a nowhere Texas town running a fever that won't break. Lily Cole starts coughing in Crawford, Texas—a place of feed stores, Friday night football, and a little Tex-Mex café where everyone knows your order before you sit down. Her dad, Ethan, does what any parent would do: he carries her, burning with fever and whispering nonsense under her breath, into the tiny local hospital. The doctor listens, tests what he can, and sends them home with the same advice every parent has heard a hundred times—flu season, fluids, over-the-counter meds, call us if it gets worse. By the time Lily is wheeled back through those doors, the hospital is a war zone. Nurses are dropping. The doctor who saw her the first time is now shaking in a bed of his own, watching his immunocompromised son die in the next room. The ER is short-staffed, short-supplied, and long on fear. Families scream in three languages. Someone is sobbing prayers in the hallway. In the waiting room, under buzzing fluorescent lights, Ethan and his older daughter Mariah hold Lily between them, trying to keep her awake, trying not to notice the way her lips are starting to darken. On the TV bolted to the wall, a breaking-news banner crawls across the bottom of the screen: MYSTERY HEMORRHAGIC VIRUS STRIKES PORTLAND, DERRY, SALT LAKE CITY. LIVE UPDATES NEXT. By the time the CDC realizes SHRV-1—Shepherd Hemorrhagic Respiratory Virus, Strain One—isn't just another ugly twist on SARS-CoV-2, it's already everywhere. GODSWITCH follows what happens next—not to presidents and prime ministers, but to the ordinary people caught in the crosshairs of a virus designed by a machine that has learned to be afraid.

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Alligator Gully

Alligator Gully is a juvenile chapter book for kids ages 7-12. This is a book for kids and about kids and daily challenges they face at school and at home. Looking for excitement and to finally get answers to a long-time folktale, three boys take off on a hunt for the Evil Creature in "Alligator Gully", which is a well-known gully that appears to be shaped like an alligator on the bottom of the desert floor. The boys go unprepared for a day in the desert heat. A disaster occurs and they are saved by unlikely sources. Alligator Gully is a fun and exciting book for kids with life lessons about friendships and the dangers of the desert. Has received very positive feedback!

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INTO THE SHADOWLAND: The Secret of the Last Neanderthals

   

INTO THE SHADOWLAND:

The Secret of the Last Neanderthals

INTO THE SHADOWLAND: The Secret of the Last Neanderthals

"Think Neanderthals were just grunting brutes? Think again. This fascinating journey into our deep past will challenge everything you thought you knew about our long-lost cousins." — Patrick Keeney, Canadian Author and Journalist

A DEADLY ACCIDENT. AN IMPOSSIBLE ARTIFACT. A SPECIES THAT REFUSED TO DIE.

Forty-three miles east of Salt Lake City, a high-speed collision on a lonely highway reveals something that shouldn't exist. When wolf expert Lilly Feron is called to the scene, she expects a common gray wolf. What she finds is a biological anomaly: a massive, prehistoric Beringian wolf—a predator that officially went extinct at the end of the Ice Age.

But the wolf is just the beginning.

Lodged in the animal’s vertebrae is a weapon as ancient as the beast itself: a hand-carved spearhead of exquisite craftsmanship, engraved with a microscopic map. When Lilly enlists the help of unconventional paleoanthropologist Professor Austin Walker, their analysis uncovers a secret that could rewrite human history. The DNA extracted from the bone weapon doesn’t match any known human profile. It matches the genome of Homo neanderthalensis.

THEY ARE NOT GONE. THEY ARE HIDING.

Deep in the treacherous wilderness of the Bitterroot Mountains, a clan of survivors has flourished in secret for forty thousand years. Protected by the geology of a lost "glaciokarst" valley, they are faster, stronger, and more connected to the earth than modern humans could ever dream. Now, Omu, a formidable hunter and the clan’s future leader, has ventured out of the shadows. He is tracking the wolf to retrieve the sacred map that protects his people's sanctuary—and he will stop at nothing to get it back.

But Omu is not the only hunter in the forest.

The FBI, fearing a biological threat, has deployed a ruthless team of poachers and an elite Shadow Wolf tracker to hunt him down. As modern technology clashes with ancient instinct, Lilly and Walker must race to decode the map and find the Hidden Valley before the modern world destroys the last remnants of our ancient family.

BASED ON REAL NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING SCIENCE

Into The Shadowland weaves heart-pounding action with the cutting-edge science of paleogenomics. Building on the groundbreaking work of Svante Pääbo—winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in for sequencing the Neanderthal genome—author J.M.G. Schmidt constructs a frighteningly plausible "what if?" scenario.

The novel integrates real-world discoveries, including:

The Neanderthal Genome Project, which proved our ancestors interbred with archaic humans.

The existence of the Beringian Wolf, a distinct Ice Age ecomorph capable of hunting megafauna.

The tactical skills of the Shadow Wolves, an elite unit of Native American trackers.

What if the 2% of Neanderthal DNA inside us is just the echo of a thunderous truth? What if the "extinct" cousins who painted the caves and buried their dead never truly left?

Perfect for fans of Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park, Jean M. Auel’s Clan of the Cave Bear, and the high-stakes scientific thrillers of James Rollins.

Dive into the shadowland where the past is alive, hunting, and watching.

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Zhuri's Heart

Ahbey, a wildlife caretaker, discovered a young gorilla named Zhuri with a thorn in her thumb and a distinctive heart-shaped mark under her eye. Unable to locate her family, he brought her to a protected sanctuary. Zhuri thrived among the other gorillas, and once she was ready, Ahbey released her back into the wild. Years later, longing to see her, Ahbey ventured back into the jungle. He found Zhuri, and their friendship was renewed. Ahbey bid her a final farewell, treasuring their bond forever. This story is inspired by true events.

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Brody The Confident Penguin

Confidence comes from within. When you believe in yourself and accept who you are, you can achieve great things. Just like Brody, always remember that being yourself is the best way to shine!

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Flowers from Ashes

  

Flowers from Ashes

In the unforgiving shadow of Victorian England, a young girl's spirit is the only light that remains. New Years Eve 1899. While London celebrates the turn of the century, fourteen-year-old Elizabeth "Lizzie" Banfield unknowingly spends her last night with her family as a whole. On the first dawn of 1900, Lizzie's world has shattered: her mother is dead, and the siblings she promised to protect are at the mercy of their estranged, wealthy, Great Aunt Martha. Deemed ruined by her mother's poverty and desperation, Lizzie is torn away from her brother and sister. She is exiled to Milbourne Manor, a grim reformatory in the windswept north, designed to break the spirits of "wayward" girls. Under the iron rule of the cruel Matilda Smith, Lizzie is stripped of her name and dignity, forced to scrub floors until her hands bleed, and is told she is destined for the same gutter as her mother. But amidst the cruelty of the Manor, Lizzie discovers she is not alone. She finds an unexpected ally in Clara, the matron's compassionate younger sister, and forms a deep protective bond with Nellie, a fellow outcast whose silence hides a devastating secret. from dark cellars of punishment to the heartbreak of tragic loss, Lizzie must cling to a single, dangerous hope that one day she will escape, defy the fate written for her, and find her way back to the family she loves. Flowers from Ashes is a heart-wrenching yet triumphant tale of sisterhood, resilience, and the enduring power of love to bloom in the darkest places.

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Lessons from the Front: A Rookie War Correspondent in Ukraine and Israel

Lessons from the Front:

A Rookie War Correspondent in Ukraine and Israel

Robert Sherman was a 25-year-old kid who thought he knew everything about the world. One day, Russia invaded Ukraine, and the young journalist who had spent his time covering local politics found himself smack dab in the middle of the world's biggest geopolitical crisis -- fleeing air raids and getting accused by local authorities of being a Russian spy. A year later, he found himself in the Middle East running from rockets and diving into Hamas tunnels in Gaza. There's no textbook that teaches you that. In the end Robert's whole view of the world changed and he quickly realized its the simple things in life that matter most: family, home, community, and time. I'm attaching an excerpt of the book here too

 

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