During World War II the Nazis would go door to door looking for Jews who were in hiding. People were asked if they were hiding Jews. If you told the truth the Jews would be taken away and put to death. If you lied they may have remained safe and you may have saved their lives. This was the scenario put forward on a Christian radio talk show one afternoon. I called in and debated with the host. This book is the result of that conversation. This book examines, from a biblical perspective, wh...

His wife is buried under the cottonwood. His horses are gone. He has nothing left to lose — which turns out to be the most dangerous thing of all.In the winter of 1883, Elias Harlan rides out of the Montana Territory looking for revenge and rides into a reckoning. The Blackfeet who raided his ranch are not the savages the Army describes. They are hungry people on stolen land, fighting a war that was already lost before Elias was born. What begins as a manhunt becomes something hard...

Every life is shaped by a handful of choices. Some we make. Some are made for us. And some follow us for decades.The Two Lives of Robert Littman is a sweeping, intimate novel about the long arc of a man's life—told through two parallel timelines that explore who he becomes depending on the choices he makes as a young man.In one life, Robert pursues ambition, success, and the version of himself he believes the world will respect. In the other, he ch...

In 1849, a seventeen-year-old Irish immigrant named Declan Shea stands at the Powder River and watches sixty million buffalo come over a rise. By 1883, he rides the same country and cannot find eleven.Between those two moments lies a life. Declan learns his trade on the northern plains—the Sharps rifle, the skinning knife, the arithmetic of a hide taken clean. He takes a Cheyenne name he did not choose: Heávohe. He works beside a ruined man named Bill until the day Bill st...

After a lifetime of watching — from the ridge above a Cheyenne village to the barracks at Fort Robinson — Watches Twice seeks only the river, the land, and silence.Then Emėškeha'e enters his life: a Cheyenne woman who walked the long road north, who has buried a child in Oklahoma dust and now works at the boarding school that is slowly unmaking her people. Together they build a home on the Tongue River — two pans on one shelf, two horses in one corral, two scarred souls learning to...

The Ghost Road is the fourth novel in William Mann's The Long Reckoning, a literary historical series tracing the destruction of the Native nations of the American West across the nineteenth century.It is 1890. Billy Lee Grogan is sixty-eight years old, a retired Army sergeant living quietly in the Davis Mountains of West Texas with his horse, his chickens, and a goat he cannot outwit. He has given the Army forty-five years. He does not intend to give them anythin...

Affordable, easy-to-use, and flexible transportation options are vital to older adults' quality of life. Community Mobility: Driving and Transportation Alternatives for Older Persons provides physical and occupational therapists with recent research findings on older driver assessment, remediation/rehabilitation, and the use of alternatives to the car in the event that older adults need to retire from driving. This unique book addresses changes in driving patterns over time, the impact of ...

Clad in a doeskin, alone and unafraid, she stood straight and proud before the onrushing forces of America's destiny: Sacajawea, child of a Shoshoni chief, lone woman on Lewis and Clark's historic trek -- beautiful spear of a dying nation.She knew many men, walked many miles. From the whispering prairies, across the Great Divide to the crystal capped Rockies and on to the emerald promise of the Pacific Northwest, her story over flows with emotion and action ripped from the bursting...

Jim Sundance, half-white, half-Cheyenne gunslinger found himself hip-deep in the big strike that had hit the Dakota Territory. A money-hungry head of a band of buffalo hunters swore he would grab the lion's share of the loot. Before Sundance faced him in a showdown, he would tangle with the conceited General George A. Custer, a kill-crazy Sioux medicine man and Lucille, the beautiful, hot-blooded boss of the Hills' wildest saloon.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The story of Cynthia Ann Parker and the last days of the ComancheIn 1836, when she was nine years old, Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanche Indians from her family's settlement.She grew up with them, mastered their ways, and married one of their leaders. Except for her brilliant blue eyes and golden mane, Cynthia Ann Parker was in every way a Comanche woman. They called her Naduah—Keeps Warm With Us. She rode a horse named Wind...

Through the eyes of a brave and in****dependent young woman, Scott O'Dell tells of the tragic defeat of the Nez Perce**,** a classic tale of cruelty, betrayal, and heroism.This powerful account of the tragic defeat of the Nez Perce Indians in 1877 by the United States Army is narrated by Chief Joseph's strong and brave daughter.When Sound of Running Feet first sees white settlers on Nez Perce land, she vows...

In 1828, Shawn Skip Sullivan is somewhere around fourteen years old when the Indians attack his familys homestead and kill both his mother and father. Warned by the barking dogs, Skips mother forced him to hide in the cabins false floor. Though Skip is unharmed, his journey is just beginning.After burying his parents, Skip knows he cant stay at the cabin alone forever. He remembers that theres a small settlement with a trading post about thirty miles away, but he hasnt been there s...