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Unsinkable:
A Young Woman’s Courageous Battle on the High Seas

On January 23, 2010, sixteen-year-old Abby Sunderland set sail from Marina del Rey, California, in an attempt to become the youngest person to sail solo, nonstop, and unassisted around the world. Immediately, her trip sparked controversy. What was a girl her age doing undertaking such a voyage? What her parents thinking?

Abby’s critics predicted she’d made it a few weeks at most. But she proved them wrong and became the youngest person to solo around Cape Horn, the “Mt. Everest of Sailing.” Crossing the Southern and Atlantic oceans, she battled vicious storms and equipment breakdowns. She bested the wicked waters at the southern tip of Africa and then entered the Indian Ocean – all twenty-seven million square miles of it.

Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space. It is a challenge so immense that many have died trying, and all have been pushed beyond every physical, spiritual, emotional and psychological limit.

In Unsinkable, you will follow Abby into those depths through a gripping and evocative firsthand account. Today, when the most productive thing a teenager may do is play video games, Abby’s courage and tenacity shows us all what can happen when we choose to challenge our own limits, embrace faith, and aim for what our critics say is impossible.

Heaven is for Real:
A Little Boy’s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

When Colton Burpo made it through an emergency appendectomy, his family was overjoyed at his miraculous survival. What they weren’t expecting, though, was the story that emerged in the months that followed—a story as beautiful as it was extraordinary, detailing their little boy’s trip to heaven and back.

Colton, not yet four years old, told his parents he left his body during the surgery—and authenticated that claim by describing exactly what his parents were doing in another part of the hospital while he was being operated on. He talked of visiting heaven and relayed stories told him by people he met there whom he had never met in life, sharing events that happened even before he was born. He also astonished his parents with descriptions and obscure details about heaven that matched the Bible exactly, though he had not yet learned to read.

With disarming innocence and the plainspoken boldness of a child, Colton tells of meeting long-departed family members. He describes Jesus, the angels, how “really, really big” God is, and how much God loves us. Retold by his father, but using Colton’s uniquely simple words…Heaven is for Real will forever change the way you think of eternity, offering the chance to see, and believe, like a child.

Same Kind of Different As Me:
A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together

“I had a dream last night,” Deborah Hall told her husband. “A wise man who changes the city. I saw him.” She gazed at him warily, as if afraid he might think she was losing her mind.

Ron Hall knew better. His wife was the sanest person he knew. “You saw the man in your dream?”

“Yes,” she said cautiously. “I saw his face.”

It was the face of a homeless man who came to the shelter where the Halls served meals once a week. A street bum who refused to sleep inside or talk to anyone at the shelter. An angry dangerous loner who frightened everyone he came in contact with.

His name was Denver Moore.

Deborah had a passion for reaching out to the homeless. Ron, a wealthy international art dealer, would rather have just written a check.

Same Kind of Different as Me is the true story of how Deborah’s compassion forged an extraordinary friendship between two men from the opposite ends of society. It is not the story of how a wealthy white man rescues a poor black man…but the story of how they rescue each other.

What Difference Do it Make?
Stories of Hope and Healing from the Authors of Same Kind of Different as Me

What Difference Do It Make? continues the story of hope and reconciliation that began with Same Kind of Different as Me with untold anecdotes that enrich the original story. What Difference also shares stories from people who, inspired by Ron, Denver, and Deborah have gone on to make a difference in their own worlds, serving the poor, and even adopting children from foreign lands.

The Prodigal Comes Home:
My Story of Failure and God’s Story of Redemption

In 1994, amidst scandal, adultery and shattered lives, Grammy-winning singer Michael English fell from the heights of Christian music. But what most people know about Michael is only the beginning of the story. Suddenly divorced and desperate to escape his crumbling life, Michael turned to alcohol and drugs – addictions that cost him his fortune, his home and nearly his life. In and out of rehab, Michael struggled to reconcile his personal failures and troubled childhood with the idea of a loving and merciful God.

The Prodigal Comes Home is the honest, gripping story, a testament to God’s mercy and the enduring love of family. Michael’s story shows that God can make even sin-broken relationships whole again – and that His grace shines even in our darkest hours.

Never Surrender:
A Soldier's Journey to the Crossroads of Faith and Freedom

In 1978, Jerry Boykin joined what would become the world’s premier Special Operations unit, Delta Force. The only promise: “A medal and a body bag.” What followed was a .50 caliber round in the chest and a life spent with America’s elite forces bringing down warlords and war criminals, despots, and dictators.

In Columbia, his task force hunted the notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar. In Panama, he helped capture the brutal dictator Manuel Noriega, liberating a nation. From Vietnam to Iran to Mogadishu, Lt. General Jerry Boykin’s life reads like an action-adventure novel.

Boykin’s powerful story will keep you riveted as he reveals how his military duty worked in tandem with his faith to bring him through the bloody storms of foreign battle—and through the political firestorm that ambushed him in his own country.

The Blood of Lambs:
A Former Terrorist’s Memoir of Death and Redemption

How does an innocent boy grow into a hate-filled terrorist?

At age four, Kamal Saleem learned at his mother’s table that his highest calling was to be martyred while killing infidels – particularly Americans and Jews.

Shunned by his father and bullied by neighborhood thugs, Kamal was befriended by imams of the Muslim Brotherhood and recruited into jihad.

When he was only seven, he went on his first mission, smuggling weapons into Israel as a child soldier for Yasser Arafat.

As a young man, Kamal’s reputation for ruthless violence grew, and he pursued the cause of jihad in Paris, London, Afghanistan, and the opulent palaces of Saudi sheikhs, raising millions to fund the Palestine Liberation Organization’s exploits in global terror.

Though his ties with terrorism were severed more than twenty years ago, it was not until 9/11, when radical Muslims rained terror on American shores, that Kamal Saleem stepped out of the shadows and revealed his true identity. Today, he is a different kind of warrior. He now stands on the wall and shouts to America, “Open your eyes and fight the danger that lives among you.”

Going Rogue: An American Life

On September 3, 2008, Alaska governor and vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin delivered a speech at the Republican National Convention that electrified the nation and instantly made her one of the most recognizable women in the world. As chief executive America’s largest state, she had built a record as a reformer who cast aside politics-as-usual and pushed through changes other politicians only talked about.

But as the 2008 presidential campaign unfolded, Palin became a lightning rod for both praise and criticism. Supporters called her “refreshing” and “honest,” a kitchen-table public servant they felt would fight for their interests. Opponents derided her as a wide-eyed Pollyanna unprepared for national leadership.

Going Rogue paints an intimate portrait of growing up in the wilds of Alaska, meeting her lifelong love, her decision to enter politics, the importance of faith and family, and the unique trials and joys of life as a high-profile working mother. Palin also opens up for the first time about the 2008 presidential race, providing a rare mom’s-eye view of high-stakes national politics. The book traces one ordinary citizen’s extraordinary journey and imparts Palin’s vision of a way forward for America and her unfailing hope in the greatest nation on earth.

Donkey Cons:
Sex, Crime and Corruption in the Democratic Party

Shameless bribery, illicit sex, sweeping corruption. In this raucous, head-spinning look at the follies and felonies of today’s most famous and infamous liberals, journalists Lynn Vincent and Robert Stacy McCain chronicle for the first time the rampant crime, sex, and corruption of the Democratic Party. Thoroughly researched, using outrageous anecdotes and intimate details, Donkey Cons shows that the serial corruption of the Clinton presidency wasn’t an anomaly but a developing, unnerving pattern in the modern Democratic ethos.