Pharos Books: 6 books

"Kim Aleksander's, FALSE POSITIVES: A Techno Thiller, is a well-paced and imaginative page turner that will appeal not only to techno-junkies but to anyone who likes a well-spun yarn... Try it, you'll have fun." ~ The Kindle Book Review In 1972, a gifted student at Berkeley...

What was it that enabled a few thousand “Jesus followers” to win hearts and minds in an empire entrenched with pagan gods and temples? Why did the Jewish authorities continue to persecute the apostles after Jesus? What forced the Jews into a suicidal rebellion against Rome and why did it allow the...

He began life as the sickly son of a landless Polish immigrant. In the next sixty years he was to wrest from the wilderness a thousand acres along Florida's most breathtaking jungle river. At age 25 Vince Nelson "disappeared" up the wild and scenic Loxahatchee to escape the glare of publicity...

Fort Jupiter and the "Military Trail" of garrisons forged in the wild to push the resourceful Seminole Indians deep into the Everglades. How the army built two camps on the Loxahatchee and tried to open the fickle Jupiter Inlet with shovels and rakes. The wreckers of Key West. How they provided the only...

How did a small band of Jesus followers spring from Judaism and expand across the Roman world? What made the Jews rebel against Roman rule despite impossible odds? Why did Rome almost self-destruct just a few years after reaching the height of its glory? At last, history’s least understood era is revealed in this riveting epic.

When Spanish settlers first arrived on the shores of ''La Florida' in 1565, they would soon be immersed in one of the most dramatic struggles in human history. At first Florida seemed so inviting. A virgin tropical wilderness would be settled and cultivated to yield riches rivaling the bounty of gold...