When a summer storm leaves a tiny owl alone, one family gives it a second chance. Inspired by a true childhood story, We Taught an Owl to Fly is a heartfelt picture book about kindness, patience, and learning that sometimes the greatest act of love is letting go.
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The mountains caught fire in August. He had already seen the end of the world.
Chicago, 1903. On the coldest afternoon of the year, fireman Silas Dunne climbs the marble stairs of the Iroquois Theater and finds a wall of the dead. He carries out one small girl who is still breathing. His own daughter is not among the living.
Idaho, 1910. Seven years later, Dunne is a drifter with thirty-one cents in his pocket and a brass badge he can't bring himself to throw away. In the mining town of Wallace he signs on to a Forest Service crew for twenty-five cents an hour, cutting fire line in the Bitterroot Mountains under a hard, quiet ranger named Ed Pulaski.
It is the driest summer anyone can remember. The sun rises red and gives no warmth. Ash falls on the town like snow. On the mountain, Dunne takes a red-haired Irish boy from Butte under his wing, and he stands between the crew and a lynch rope when they turn on the immigrant they blame for the fires. Someone is setting them. Dunne begins to suspect who, and he doesn't want to know.
Then, on August 20th, hurricane winds drive three thousand fires together into a single wall of flame. In two days it will burn three million acres and destroy a third of Wallace. Cut off on both sides, forty-five men follow Pulaski into an abandoned mine tunnel, hang wet blankets across the entrance, and wait for the fire to arrive.
What happens in the Nicholson tunnel that night is history. What it costs Silas Dunne, and what he carries out, is the story.
Based on the true events of the Big Burn and the heroism of ranger Ed Pulaski, A Country of Ash is a novel of fire and faith, guilt and mercy, and the terrible arithmetic of survival. It asks what a man owes the dead, and what he still owes the living.
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Paul and Louise, “Lou”, have been homicide detective partners for ten years. He is the analytic thinker and she is an ex-military, take-charge badass. He figures who did the crime, she cuffs them.
Paul is murdered at his home and returns as an apparition to help his partner find the killer. The Devil will give Paul’s spirit the powers needed, if he can take a soul for the Devil. Or, Paul can go to heaven if he saves a soul. His choices are clear, take a soul or save a soul. The consequences will last for eternity.
Lou’s investigation leads her to take on a biker gang, a paid assassin, and a crime boss……she uses her sharp tongue and loaded Glock without hesitation.
Paul’s best friend is accused of the murder and his attorney gets help from a mysterious witness.
The story is filled with surprise twists, sub-plots and plenty of action – from shootings to court room drama – to chases and explosions. It’s an easy read you won’t put down.
ELEVEN ELEMENTS BOOK ONE HEALING WATERS:
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What If Humanity’s Peaceful Future Already Exists—But Is About to Be Erased?
At a time when war, division, and environmental crises dominate headlines, Eleven Elements: Book One – Healing Waters imagines a radically different future—one where humanity has overcome conflict and built a peaceful global society.
Set in the 26th century, the novel follows Commander Maxilon Renner and a team of time travelers sent back 500 years to protect a manuscript believed to have shaped humanity’s future. But when the mission fails, operatives are lost, Renner suffers partial amnesia, the author disappears and the manuscript vanishes—threatening to erase their utopian world from existence.
The lost document, The Manifesto of Eleven Elements, contains ideas that ultimately guide humanity toward environmental stewardship, global cooperation, and lasting peace.
Early reviews have praised the novel’s ambitious vision and philosophical depth.
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📰 Kirkus Reviews calls it “plans for a better Earth packaged as a time-travel SF thriller.”
Beyond its time-travel premise, Eleven Elements explores broader questions about humanity’s trajectory. Can civilization consciously choose cooperation over conflict? Are lasting peace and environmental balance truly impossible—or have people simply stopped imagining them?
The book is the first installment in Joshi’s planned seven-volume Eleven Elements saga, a speculative series examining how human decisions shape the long-term destiny of civilization.
For readers drawn to science fiction that combines philosophical inquiry with high-concept storytelling, Eleven Elements: Book One – Healing Waters is a thrilling sci-fi adventure that dares to imagine lasting peace.
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