Best Selling Books by Lee Roddy

Between two flags series. Join Gideon, Emily, and Nat as they face the struggles of growing up during the Civil War.

Hildy Corrigan, almost a teenager, returns home to discover that her stepmother has abandoned her and taken her brother and four sisters. Fighting anger and self-blame, Hildy refuses to stay with her backwoods grandmother and runs away with her cousin Ruby in hopes of finding her family.

A petty quarrel and efforts to foil poachers who are after some rare birds seem unimportant as members of the Ladd family separately struggle to survive when a powerful hurricane hits the island of Kauai.

Three young friends including an orphaned northener, a poor southern farm boy, and a secretly educated slave encounter diverse but intertwining experiences during the Civil War in Virginia in 1862.

Edward Chiera was that most remarkable of men, a competent and respected scholar possessed of an ardent desire to make his research readily and entertainingly available to laymen. More remarkable, Chiera had extraordinary gifts to equal to his desire. They Wrote on Clay combines fascinatingly the fruits of sound and painstaking archeology with the natural-born storyteller''s art. As transmitted by Chiera, the message of the recently discovered Babylonian clay tablets becomes an absorbing exrusion into the common life of a vanished civilization. Few will read They Wrote on Clay without becoming infected with something of Chiera''s love for the rich archeological lore of the ancient Near East. "The book presents, briefly and clearly, a vivid picture of a long-dead people who in numerous ways were very like ourselves."—L. M. Field, New York Times "No mystery story can be as exciting."—Harper''s "Plainly and fetchingly written."—New Republic

Hildy''s dream of a happy life with her family and new stepmother is threatened when they travel to California as migratory workers with no money and no available jobs.

A young Christian inadvertently places his family in danger on Hawaii''s Kona Coast when he videotapes the dramatic rescue of two drowning children which leads to his father''s kidnapping.

Two boys learn more about trusting God when they are captured by the inhabitants of a tropical island.

Struggling with school and a lack of money during the Depression, seventh grader Hildy is overwhelmed when the little girl she cares for after school is kidnapped, but God steps in in a remarkable manner.

Gideon, a farm boy living in Virginia during the Civil War, overhears three men plotting a slave rebellion.

Murder. Mystery. Spiritual values. Laurel Bartlett, a spy for the Pinkerton Detectives, is thrust into peril while investigating a murder during the construction of the transcontinental railroad in this post-Civil War era novel. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Josh Ladd joins officers of the Alaskan Fish and Game Department to fly a tranquilized "nuisance" bear from Anchorage to be released in a primitive area. Bad weather forces the float plane down where it sinks in a remote mountain lake.

Shiloh Laird has one dream-to build the California stagecoach business her murdered husband started. But San Francisco in 1850 is a rough town, especially for a widow expecting her first child. In this dramatic second volume of the "Giants on the Hill" trilogy, Cinnabar is the story of love, revenge and the faith to overcome impossible obstacles.

Josh Ladd encounters a series of life-threatening situations when he befriends a mysterious young surfer named Duke.

Returning to the Ozark Mountains to visit their grandmothers, Hildy and Ruby encounter old mountain hatreds, danger, and God''s marvelous forgiveness.

The Ladd family''s Hawaii adventures are ending, but not before they once more swim with the whales, scuba dive, and outwit their antagonists--two drug-smuggling sea-turtle poachers.

When Josh and his family move to Alaska, the twelve-year-old explores his new neighborhood, gets caught up in wilderness adventures, and learns lessons of friendship and trust.

Joining her cousin Ruby on a search for Ruby''s missing father leads Hildy to a confrontation with wealthy cattleman Ozzie Kessick.

D.J. learns a powerful lesson about responsibility and doing what is right.

Despite the objections of her family, 14-year-old Karen is convinced that her love for the wild, unbroken horse Cheetah will enable her to tame the animal.

Between two flags series. Join Gideon, Emily, and Nat as they face the struggles of growing up during the Civil War.

After Josh and Tank crash their snowmobiles in the Alaskan wilderness, they must try to make their way to safety while being stalked by wolves and wild dogs possibly infected with rabies.

When Hildy finds a stolen watch concealing a crude, hand-drawn map, she is accused of the theft and must try to clear her name.

In the Sierra Nevada Mountains, a thirteen-year-old Christian boy and his new friend discover that keeping a bear cub as a pet creates problems as the cub matures.

A dangerous adventure begins for the Ladds when mammoth waves hit Oahu and they rescue a father and daughter in very strange circumstances.

When Josh witnesses the sinking of a Soviet sub off the coast of Hawaii, he becomes the quarry of Soviet spies trying to beat the Navy to the sub.

Twelve-year-old Josh and his friends face danger and gain a greater understanding of the importance of winning and losing when their challenger to an outrigger canoe race in the Hawaiian islands tries to win by any means.

Several acts of disobedience against his father''s orders plunge twelve-year-old Josh into terrible trouble during a search for a long-lost Hawaiian treasure guarded by sharks.

Thirteen-year-old D.J. would rather have a collie than an ugly hound dog until he and Zero join a Christian preacher on a bear hunt in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Josh and his friends investigate mysterious lights on Molokai and try to figure out how to get a valuable surfboard back from the neighborhood bully, Kong.

Concluding the dramatic Giants on the Hill trilogy, the author paints a gripping plot that takes place in San Francisco during the turbulent Civil War era. As the novel begins, Shiloh and Clay have built a successful stagecoach business and developed a thriving mining operation. But now, in Shiloh''s Choice, they see that citizens are being forced to choose sides as the Civil War causes southern states to secede from the Union.

On a cruise from Los Angeles to Mexico, twelve-year-old Josh Ladd and his friend Tank find themselves involved in a dangerous adventure after a mysterious stranger slips a computer disc into Josh''s bag.

"Laurel has promised to take one more assignment as a Pinkerton Detective before she marries Ridge. But before she can start a new case involving the building of the transcontinental railroad, she discovers the murder of someone extremely close to her. She vows to find the murderer and bring him to justice.Could the murder be connected to Laurel''s war-time spying? And who could have learned her carefully held secret? She''s told only three people what she did--and now one of them is dead. As Laurel searches for the killer, she also struggles over her love for Ridge. Is love enough to overcome the bitter wartime memories of a Northerner and a Southerner?Her aunt says that there comes a time when no one can help except God. What will it take for Laurel to reach that point? And will God answer her prayer when she hasn''t been on very good terms with Him?"

In this story of the Bear Cub Disaster, D.J. learns that letting go of something you love is the hardest part of caring.

D.J. Dillon''s latest adventure begins one night in the darkened woods when D.J. and his buddy Alfred hear a weird noise. Suddenly, a strange new boy appears and tells them he''s just seen a white racoon. Is he telling the truth?