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  Stand Watie: The Life and Legacy...

  Editors Charles River

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  Stand Watie’s life connects the traditional Cherokee homeland in Tennessee and Georgia, the fight within the tribe over leaving for the West or staying on their homeland and trying to resist, and the Trail of Tears. At the same time, his life also includes the ongoing split between mixed-blood and full-blood Cherokee in the Cherokee Nation, and the chaos of Indian Territory during the Civil War.  
  	On the surface, Indian Territory was peaceful and fairly prosperous, but old resentments simmered under the surface. The most dangerous of these was in the Cherokee Nation. Following the Cherokee removal, the leaders of the faction of the tribe that had actually signed the Treaty of New Echota suffered violence. There had been a law that giving away Cherokee land was punishable by death, and several of the leaders who signed the treaty were murdered. Stand Watie was one of the signers, and he barely escaped, but one of his brothers was executed. 
  	The Principal Chief was John Ross. He and his faction managed to retain political control of the Cherokee tribe, but there was lasting enmity between the Watie and Ross factions of the tribe. In a broad sense, the signers of the hated treaty were mixed-blood Cherokee, and the resistance had been led by full-bloods. Stand Watie headed the mixed-blood faction and John Ross the full-blood faction. Ironically, John Ross himself was mixed-blood and Watie was a full-blood, but regardless, this tribal split had important ramifications for the Cherokee in the coming war. 
  	Like the country as a whole, the Cherokee Nation was split over the question of slavery, and with an estimated 100 slaves owned, Watie was the biggest native slaveholder in the region. At the start of the war, Watie was commissioned as a colonel in Confederate service and later as a brigadier general. His 1st Cherokee Mounted Rifles Regiment fought more engagements than any other Confederate unit west of the Mississippi River.

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  Losing My Mind - My Story of...

  Calvin Dunn

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  This book is an inspiring and empowering story about the struggles and adversity Calvin experienced after being diagnosed with bipolar disorder. It is a compelling memoir that chronicles his entire life up to age 34, but the main premise of this book focuses on the thirteen year period following his bipolar diagnosis, and all of the experiences he had as a result. After enduring a difficult childhood, Calvin became not only a great student but also an outspoken, intelligent, and talented young man with a bright future in front of him. All of that changed when he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1995. Calvin had just turned 20, was a soon to be father, and in the prime of his life, but saw all of his hopes and dreams go out the window. He would spend the next 13 years of his life struggling just to maintain his sanity and mental stability. Calvin recalls his manic episodes with incredible detail, expressing what he saw and heard during psychosis. He also describes his clinical depressions, and the many places his illness took him. He experienced incarceration in jails and mental institutions, homelessness, many trips to the psych ward, living in group homes, and substance abuse. He eventually overcame his illness and now leads a relatively normal and productive life, but getting there was not easy. Calvin decided to share his thought-provoking and impactful story with the world in hopes of encouraging and inspiring others who suffer from bipolar disorder as well as other mental disorders, and to educate those who may not know much about it. His story and testimony is very powerful and groundbreaking, and his experiences are profound. This is a very insightful and important story that he felt needed to be told, and he hopes to spread a message of strength, faith and resilience against all odds, and hopes to empower and positively affect everyone who reads this book.

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  Outwitting The Hun; My Escape...

  Pat O'Brien

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  A true war narrative, published in 1918 while WWI was still going on. (Summary by David Wales)

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  3 Years in Pakistan - The Erik...

  Erik Audé

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  "3 Years in Pakistan: The Erik Aude Story" offers a riveting account of Erik Aude's tumultuous three-year journey through the heart of Pakistan. Falsely accused of drug trafficking, Aude's life takes an unexpected turn as he finds himself thrust into the unforgiving depths of a foreign prison system. Amid the harsh realities of death row, Aude discovers unexpected pockets of humanity and kindness that illuminate the darkness surrounding him. Through the trials and tribulations of incarceration, Aude's resilience shines as he navigates the complexities of the Pakistani legal system with unwavering determination. "3 Years in Pakistan" is a gripping tale of survival, redemption, and the enduring power of the human spirit to find light in the darkest of places

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  Beatitudes The: Oh the Joy

  Donna L. Young

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  The Beatitudes illustrate the ways of God. With genuine faith, true Christian disciples willingly embrace what many choose not to experience out of fear, conformity, or slothfulness. And in return for their desire to magnify God’s glory in a darkened world, God blesses them with His presence, peace, comfort, and encouragement, culminating in an abundance of heavenly joy! Oh, the joy that comes from living out the Beatitudes!

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  Travels in Alaska

  John Muir

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  In 1879 John Muir went to Alaska for the first time. Its stupendous living glaciers aroused his unbounded interest, for they enabled him to verify his theories of glacial action. Again and again he returned to this continental laboratory of landscapes. The greatest of the tide-water glaciers appropriately commemorates his name. Upon this book of Alaska travels, all but finished before his unforeseen departure, John Muir expended the last months of his life. (Summary by William Frederic Bade)

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