The true story of the 1923 razing of a black town in Florida, many of its people murdered over a lie. But some escaped and survived because of the courage and compassion of a few extraordinary people.

A bride's dilemma in Friendship, Tennessee: Thinking he is an intruder, Heaven Wharton accidentally shoots Travis Logan at her father's home. Travis has a surprising message for her, though now he must take his time to reveal it. A bride's flight from Virginia City, Montana: Rancher Charlene Spence needs Zephaniah Parker's help on a journey to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania to find the Amish relatives of two children orphaned during a vicious massacre....

Predawn, April 30, 1871, a party of Americans, Mexicans, and Tohono O'odham Indians gathered outside an Apache camp in the Arizona borderlands. At first light they struck, murdering nearly 150 Apaches, mostly women and children, in their sleep. In its day, the atrocity, known as the Camp Grant Massacre, generated unparalleled national attention--federal investigations, heated debate in the press, and a tense criminal trial. This was the era of the...

"Amid an alarming rise in xenophobia, Ana Maria Spagna stumbled upon a story: one day in 1875, on a high bluff over the Columbia River, a group of local Indigenous people murdered a large number of Chinese Miners and pushed their bodies off a cliff into the river. The incident was dubbed the Chelan falls Massacre. Despite having lived in the area for decades, Spagna had never before heard of this event. In Pushed, she sets out to discover what really...

A dispossessed young man joins the Glanton gang, a band of bloodthirsty mercenaries who massacred Native Americans and others along the border of Mexico and the United States during the 1800s.

Justin Kurzel’s latest is a devastating look at a troubled young man. In mid-90s suburban Australia, Nitram (Caleb Landry Jones) lives with his mother (Judy Davis) and father (Anthony LaPaglia). A loner who’s never fit in, he passes his days in isolation, until he unexpectedly strikes up a close friendship with a reclusive heiress (Essie Davis). But when that relationship meets a tragic end, and Nitram’s loneliness and anger grow, he begins...

September 5, 1972. In Munich, West Germany, it was the second week of the Summer Games; an "Olympics of serenity" which the Germans hoped would eclipse the memory of the Nazis' 1936 Berlin Olympics. On that day, however, an international television audience watched a real-life drama unfold in real time as a group of Palestinian terrorists murdered two Israeli Olympians and held nine more as hostages for 21 hours. The world became both smaller and...

Vernon Gregory Little has secrets, but none of them - or so he assumes - have anything to do with the recent massacre of 16 students at his high school. This novel depicts simple humanity in a complex world and poses questions about culpability and priorities in a hypocritical, media-saturated world.

Paco Sullivan is the only man in Alpha Company to survive a cataclysmic Vietcong attack on Fire Base Harriette in Vietnam. Everyone else is annihilated.

When a medic finally rescues him almost two days later, Paco is waiting to die, flies and maggots covering his burnt, shattered body. He winds up back in the United States with his legs full of pins, daily rations of Librium and Valium, and no sense of what to do next.

One evening,

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"Published by Oxford University Press in 2008, Massacre at Mountain Meadows relied on new and exhaustive research to tell the story of one of the grimmest episodes in Latter-day Saint history. On September 11, 1857, southern Utah settlers slaughtered more than 100 emigrants of a California-bound wagon train. In this much-anticipated sequel, Richard E. Turley Jr. and Barbara Jones Brown follow up that volume with an examination of the aftermath of...