In October Fury, a U.S. Navy officer shares his first-hand account of the Cuban missile crisis. Using his own experiences as well as the personal accounts and observations of U.S. and Soviet officers and sailors, Peter Huchthausen transports us to the deadly center of this showdown at sea, in which four Soviet submarines were equipped with nuclear-tipped torpedoes. In a vividly detailed narrative worthy of Tom Clancy, Huchthausen takes us on board the U.S. destroyers and Soviet submarines, re-creating the all-too-real events that brought the two superpowers to the very brink of mutual annihilation. Thrilling, unsettling, and ultimately inspiring, this extraordinary expose tells an unforgettable story of skill, heroism, and dedication to duty.

Launched into existence by Mark Twain in 1835, Huck Finn and Jim have now been transported by Norman Lock through three vital, violent, and transformative centuries of American history. As time unfurls on the river s banks, they witness decisive battles of the Civil War, the betrayal of Reconstruction s promises to the freed slaves, the crushing of the Native American nations, and the electrification of a continent. Huck, who finally comes of age when he s washed up on shore during Hurricane Katrina, narrates the story as an older and wiser man in 2077, revealing our nation s past, present, and future as Mark Twain could never have dreamed it.

"The Boy in His Winter" is a tour de force work of imagination, beauty, and courage that reenvisions a great American literary classic for our time."

A unique and compelling examination of the Civil War s turning point forty crucial days in the spring of 1864 that turned the tide for the Union

In the spring of 1864, Robert E. Lee faced a new adversary: Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant. Named commander of all Union armies in March, Grant quickly went on the offensive against Lee in Virginia. On May 4 Grant s army struck hard across the Rapidan River into north central Virginia, with Lee s army contesting every mile. They fought for forty days until, finally, the Union army crossed the James River and began the siege of Petersburg.

The campaign cost ninety thousand men the largest loss the war had seen. While Grant lost nearly twice as many men as Lee did, he could replace them. Lee could not and would never again mount another major offensive. Lee s surrender at Appomattox less than a year later was the denouement of the drama begun in those crucial forty days.

Martin Odum is a CIA field agent turned private detective, struggling his way through a labyrinth of past identities legends in CIA parlance. Is he really Martin Odum? Or is he Dante Pippen, an IRA explosives maven? Or Lincoln Dittmann, Civil War expert? These men like different foods, speak different languages, have different skills. Is he suffering from multiple personality disorder, brainwashing, or simply exhaustion? Can Odum trust the CIA psychiatrist? Or Stella Kastner, a young Russian woman who engages him to find her brother-in-law so he can give her sister a divorce? As Odum redeploys his dormant tradecraft skills to solve Stella s case, he travels the globe battling mortal danger and psychological disorientation. "