The New York Times best-selling author of The Men Who United the States traces the geological history of the Pacific Ocean to assess its relationship with humans and indelible role in the modern world.

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Israel and the United States have been devastated by nuclear attacks, and it seems as if the prophecies of Ezekiel are finally being fulfilled. Taking off where the action-filled Distant Thunder ends, Magog Rising delivers a spectacular new installment in The Lightning Chronicles. After the United States is bombed in multiple locations, Pastor Ty Dempsey is convinced that God has begun the countdown to the end of days. Meanwhile, in Israel, F-16 fighter...

Our world is brimming with sound: from the detonation of distant thunder to the drip, drip drip of a rusty drainpipe. Once we've been shown how to listen more attentively and creatively, we can access a deeper, more lasting meditation. Our thoughts, dreams and daydreams might be carried along a stream of birdsong, or punctuated by a rush of unexpected laughter. Learning about sound——where, how and why it comes into being——is learning about...

Freedom's Sons is the fifth and last in underground cult novelist H.A. Covington's series of Northwest Independence novels. In the first four novels--A Distant Thunder, A Mighty Fortress, The Hill Of The Ravens, and The Brigade--we followed the path of the War of Independence when in the not-so-distant future, the people of the Pacific Northwest fought a five-year guerrilla war against the overbearing tyranny of Washington, D.C., and finally established...

Something Strange Lurks in a Shadowy WorldDeb Powers settles into her new mountain home town, hoping to build a new career to match.But her cousin brings a case too eerie and weird to ignore. A return to a childhood haunt that now lives up to the name.And an unconventional friend to help Deb see the other side.What will the Otherworldly PI discover in the underworld?Also available in the collection Investigations Beyond Belief An excerpt from A Cave...

In 1812, Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner mark the return of Nathaniel's daughter Hannah, while her half-brother Daniel joins the militia and his twin, Lily, falls in love with a dark and dangerous stranger.

"In the years between 1912 and 1914, King Edward VII is dead and war looms"--Container.

"After decades spent assuming that the conquest of infectious disease was imminent, people on all continents now find themselves besieged by AIDS, drug-resistant tuberculosis, cholera that defies chlorine water treatment, and exotic viruses that can kill in a matter of hours. Relying on extensive interviews with leading experts in virology, molecular biology, disease ecology, and medicine as well as field research in Sub-Saharan Africa, Western Europe,...