"Initial Contact" is the first book in the series "Legend of Oria"Oria was born in the 1400's on the eastern shore of Maryland as a member of the Nanticoke people with a touch of Viking heritage in his past. When Oria was in his late teens a large Susquehanna party attacked his home and begun to torture and kill his family. When Oria was near death, space pirates abducted him.After escaping from the pirates, he joined the Azortec Federation whom subsequently in a mostly failed experiment altered his DNA and his physical capabilities. These changes enabled Oria to have great strength and not age.Fast forward to the 21st century; corruption in the Azortec Federation is permitting another alien species that feeds on humans to take over Earth and convert it into a human farm planet. The Azortec Federation is unable to defend themselves let alone Earth as until recently, they had not engaged in combat for thousands of years.President Shalat realizing the peril facing the Azortec Federation orders Admiral Oria, Azortec’s only true warrior, to travel to Earth and enlist Earth’s assistance in fighting for their existence and the existence of the Azortec Federation."Legend of Oria - Initial Contact" is this story.

Hundreds of hardy people have tried to carve a living in the Alaskan bush, but few have succeeded as consistently as Heimo Korth. Originally from Wisconsin, Heimo traveled to the Arctic wilderness in his feverous twenties. Now, more than three decades later, Heimo lives with his wife and two daughters approximately 200 miles from civilization -- a sustainable, nomadic life bounded by the migrating caribou, the dangers of swollen rivers, and by the very exigencies of daily existence. In The Final Frontiersman, Heimo's cousin James Campbell chronicles the Korth family's amazing experience, their adventures, and the tragedy that continues to shape their lives. With a deft voice and in spectacular, at times unimaginable detail, Campbell invites us into Heimo's heartland and home. The Korths wait patiently for a small plane to deliver their provisions, listen to distant chatter on the radio, and go sledding at 44° below zero -- all the while cultivating their hard-learn...

From the acclaimed World War II writer and author of The Ghost Mountain Boys, an incisive retelling of the key month, July 1944, that won the war in the pacific and ignited a whole new struggle on the home front. In the pantheon of great World War II conflicts, the battle for Saipan is often forgotten. Yet historian Donald Miller calls it "as important to victory over Japan as the Normandy invasion was to victory over Germany." For the Americans, defeating the Japanese came at a high price. In the words of a Time magazine correspondent, Saipan was "war at its grimmest." On the night of July 17, 1944, as Admirals Ernest King and Chester Nimitz were celebrating the battle's end, the Port Chicago Naval Ammunition Depot, just thirty-five miles northeast of San Francisco, exploded with a force nearly that of an atomic bomb. The men who died in the blast were predominantly black sailors. They toiled in obscurity loading munitions ships with ordnance...