When Max and his wife, Melissa, come to the Navajo reservation in Arizona for a teaching job, nothing prepares them for the world they enter. Storms with hot winds, but no rain, blind travelers and coat everything in sand. At school, Max butts heads with the crusty principal, Miles Cavenaugh, and he makes powerful enemies when he uncovers a predator in the children’s midst. And at Church, where he is made branch president, Max finds powers outside the priesthood at work. When mysterious forces and tragedy take Max’s wife, then his daughter, fleeing the reservation appears to be the only escape. 
But Max learns that the reservation holds the key to his past and future, and he can only face them by going back. After two broken marriages, Max returns to the reservation to teach his final three years before retirement. A rekindled friendship leads to a relationship and Max’s excommunication. During his period of excommunication, Max sees one of his old Navajo friends die of old age, and his mourning and remorse combine to help him repent of his sins. Late one Christmas Eve, he receives a call from a family looking for their Navajo exchange student, who has returned to the reservation without permission. Max heads up to the mesa in a blinding snowstorm, facing great peril and the final challenge of his life.

Go In Beauty

Michael Fillerup

Palmyra Press

The inspiration for the upcoming motion picture of the same name, Fire Creek crackles with emotional and spiritual tension. Spared by a God he didn’t believe in, Jason Chang comes home to Utah carrying shrapnel wounds in his legs and the memory of his best friend dying in combat. Jason’s girlfriend, Alison, and his mother reach for him, but Jason mourns his friend, a husband and father of two girls, and wonders, Why? Across the street, Paul Coldwell is moving into the rundown house he grew up in. He has a son, 13-year-old Lou, a back-breaking job at the Esperanza Copper Mine, and a need for fast money . . . because of a brain tumor that is threatening his life. On the mine property is an old fort, built years ago where a park once stood. Lou Coldwell believes the fort has answers that he needs. But the mine company has fenced off the area and won’t tolerate trespassing. Lou also learns that Jason knows the way to the fort. An improbable friendship develops between the two, and as Jason serves Lou and Paul, he begins to find hope and purpose, even in the midst of Paul’s suffering and impending death.

Fire Creek

Nathan Keonaona Chai

Ying and Chan, siblings and fierce rivals, are growing up just as Mao Tse Tung takes over China. An arranged marriage to a Chinese man from America saves Ying from the horrors that follow. But life for Ying in Orem, Utah, is not easy. She is torn between the need to support her husband and children and the desire to help her extended family in China. 
When her husband is killed in a car accident, Ying finds herself alone in a strange land to raise her children. Through her ingenuity and strong work ethic, she gets by, and over time she finds fulfillment in the family she is rearing. Back home, Chan has enough grit and anger to survive the reeducation and work camps run by the Communists. With Ying’s help, he escapes China and comes to America. Still, he cannot help but resent Ying, nor can he forgive his extended family that lived off him in China. He believes, as well, that his family has stolen from him his inheritance—the family jade stones that his mother kept. He refuses to help his extended family come to America. 
Little does Chan know that, years before, Ying’s mother gave her the family stones, a prize she has kept secret for years because of her love and longing for her mother. Seeing no other way to unite their family in America, Ying heads to New York to see Chan, the stones in hand.

Walk Without Notice

Karin Mei Li Inouye

The story of Joan Carson’s murder trial is the first of the powerful, new 12 Judges courtroom novels by bestselling author Ron Carter (Prelude to Glory series, et al). The Sixth Amendment to the US Constitution guarantees that all accused of crimes have the right to a jury trial. Historical precedent, dating back to the judges of the 12 tribes of Israel as well as the 12 apostles, set the number of jurors at 12—the number most often used today. While the result is a man-made, less-than-perfect system, it’s probably the best on earth. The 12 Judges novels draw on Ron Carter’s study of the Constitution and his 30 years of legal experience to show real-life dramas played out in this heaven-inspired, but human system. Ben Cooper and Les and Joan Carson have been friends since they were children. So it stuns Ben when Joan shows up in his office badly beaten and admitting that she has just shot her husband to death. Ben takes up her defense, and the odds are stacked against him—all evidence points to Joan, and he sees no use in disputing it. To defend her, he embarks on a legal go-for-broke strategy that may exonerate Joan or send her to prison for life. And while he gambles in the courtroom, outside the courtroom he learns the terrible truth about Les: he had more than likely murdered his business partner. But was Les actually responsible for murder and for his wife’s beatings? Last-minute forensics evidence shows that Les Carson had a brain tumor that most likely robbed him of his capability to rationally think. The revelation in open court stuns Joan and the court as a whole and brings the trial to a thundering conclusion. In Joan’s Defense is based on a landmark trial that Ron Carter himself handled. The incident, the strategy, the trial, and the verdict are represented as they actually happened.

In Joan's Defense: A Twelve Judges Courtroom Drama

Ron Carter

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Go In Beauty

Fire Creek

Walk Without Notice

In Joan's Defense: A Twelve Judges Courtroom Drama