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100 years after the most infamous shipwreck in history, imagine: What If Titanic Didn't Sink? Perhaps no disaster in history has endured the scrutiny reserved for the sinking of the RMS Titanic on her maiden voyage on April 15, 1912. Yet nearly a century after the disaster, there is perhaps one question that remains unanswered about the legendary British steamship: What if Titanic didn't sink and the rich and poor she carried had survived that terrible night? Titanic was a marvel of luxury and innovation. But it was the names on her passenger list that said it all. The British Liner's first trek across the Atlantic was not just an adventure for the well to do. It was a happening. The voyage was a gathering of pre-war power and influence where deals were done, markets were made and futures were set. Titanic was the world's greatest symbol of wealth and success for the very fewest. For those who could afford the enormous price of a first class stateroom, it was the place to be. But after colliding with an iceberg while recklessly racing across the North Atlantic, eminent Captain Edward J. Smith learns that his ship is doomed -- unless he makes decisions that can save Titanic and her remarkable cargo against all odds. Twenty years later, Titanic has enjoyed a successful career and the privileged who sailed on her maiden voyage have become the world's wealthiest financiers and industrialists.. All have one thing in common: the power to influence history. A new President, himself a Titanic survivor, is slowly leading the United States out of economic depression but international hostilities are building again and another World War is inevitable. He reaches out to his fellow Titanic survivors. Together, can they rewrite the course of history? Or have they once again unwittingly boarded Titanic for her final voyage?
When Charles Lindbergh's tiny, fuel-laden "Spirit of St. Louis" barely lifted off from a short Long Island runway on May 20, 1927, the world held its breath. Lindbergh and a host of post-war fliers were determined to win the "Orteig Prize" -- an award of $25,000 for the first pilot or pilots to cross the vast Atlantic Ocean between New York and Paris. Tragedy has already struck numerous attempts prior to Lindbergh's. At least six men have died in the pursuit. In America, victory in the First Great War less than a decade before has already become a distant memory. But in defeated Germany, torn and humiliated by the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, rearming has already begun in secrecy. It is only a matter of time before Europe explodes in war again. The Orteig Prize - seen by the Germans as an Allied attempt to seat Paris as the capital of Europe -- is the final humiliation. The Germans sabotage several attempts at success even before Lindbergh's attempt. Will the same fate await Lindbergh? Or can the Allies harness their might and resolve to protect the young pilot - and crush a German super-plot to seek revenge against America?
F. Mark Granato's gut-wrenching novel, The Barn Find is the touching yet raw story of three generations of a once loving New England family that has survived countless crisis' - only to be torn apart by violent tragedy and a baffling disease. It takes their courage and resolve, an old man's hallucinations, an antique car and the boundless love of a young man determined to heal them to make the Evans' of Willington a family again.
When aimless, nineteen-year-old boyhood friends catch war fever at the height of the Vietnam conflict, they dream of adventure, glory and the romance of victory. Within weeks of beginning their combat tour as U.S. Marines, one is dead, a hero who has selflessly sacrificed his life to save his friend. Grievously wounded, the comatose survivor fights to stay alive for the girl they both loved. "Finding David" is the touching story of young, unfinished lives, unquenchable love, broken hearts and haunted minds, and an enduring devotion to "Semper Fi" - always faithful. Although "Finding David" is a work of fiction, it is based on a war that fifty years later is still a source of pain that changed America forever. For many of those who fought the battles of Vietnam and returned to a deeply divided country, the scars of their service are often unhealed and untreated. It was in the wake of Vietnam that we began to recognize and confront one of war's most horrific legacies: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. "Finding David" is a story dedicated to a nineteen-year-old friend and classmate, David Michael Kirk, who survived just fifty-five days in the jungles of Vietnam as a U.S. Marine, in the hope that it helps to continue to raise awareness of the desperate need for greater efforts to help those suffering from PTSD.
September, 1938: An angry hurricane is racing across the Atlantic as the fledgling US Weather Bureau scrambles to track the monster storm. Inexplicably, the forecasters lose sight of the typhoon, which unfathomably grows more powerful and takes direct aim at an unsuspecting New England. Even as the deadly storm approaches, on the wealthy Rhode Island summer retreat of Napatree Point, there is another kind of evil lurking. With a trail of blood marking his every eerie advance, a man of equally terrifying proportions is being hunted by lawmen dedicated to stopping the crazed murderer's killing spree since his escape days earlier from the State Prison in Wethersfield, Connecticut. No one is safe from the threat of man and nature as the insane killer and an epic hurricane descend together on the unsuspecting beaches of the Rhode Island coastline, bent on death and destruction.
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