The On The Bookshelf Podcast

Detective/Apologist J Warner Wallace & son Jimmy with "Case Files GN"

It's a unique project with reowned detective and apologist J Warner Wallace and his son, Jimmy, who is also a detective in Los Angeles County. Their first collaborative effort, a graphic detective novel called CASE FILES: Murder and Meaning. They partnered with great comic book artists (some of whom helped craft The Chosen comic book series), and created a story subtly communicating a Christian worldview with a gripping visual story about the hunt for a serial killer. They’ve written CASE FILES with the following objectives:

1. To address important questions: Why does human life have value? Are some lives more valuable than others, and if not, why not?
2. To provide an entertaining and thought-provoking graphic novel that makes a case for human dignity and value from a Christian worldview.
3. To create a book that will compete in the secular comic book space; something Christians might give their unbelieving friends.
4. To encourage Christian worldview conversations. We’re even offering a free conversation guide to help kickstart discussions, and the book contains a link to a free copy of CASE CLOSED, our brief case for the Resurrection of Jesus.

.You can learn more about the book on their landing page: www.casefilesgraphicnovel.com.  Tthe printed version has been beautifully crafted by Crux Comics and David C Cook Publishers.

J. Warner Wallace
Dateline featured Cold-Case Detective, Author, Speaker, Senior Fellow at the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, and Adjunct Professor of Apologetics at Talbot School of Theology (Biola University), Gateway Seminary, and Southern Evangelical Seminary

Jimmy and J. Warner’s new graphic novel, CASE FILES: Murder and Meaning is available wherever books are sold

 

DC Homicide Tec Marko Zorn is back-"Black Sun Rising" by Otho Eskin

Otho Eskin https://othoeskin.com/  has written a pulse-pounding, timely thriller in the tradition of Baldacci, Clancy and Patteron about Nazis in the White House called, “Black Sun Rising” publishing June 10 which fully draws upon his 20 years of experience in the U.S. Foreign Service

 A long-buried Nazi weapon resurfaces. America stands on the brink of destruction. One man must stop history’s darkest nightmare from happening again. When Washington, DC, homicide detective Marko Zorn’s partner is murdered, his search for justice leads him deep into Black Sun, a violent neo-Nazi movement built from the ruins of World War II’s most sinister forces. Their goal: unleash a catastrophic attack that will plunge the nation into chaos.

 To stop them, Marko must outwit a woman known as the Bride of the Apocalypse, navigate the treacherous ambitions of two of the world's richest—and most ruthless—men, and confront a conspiracy stretching from Washington’s corridors of power to the shadows of the city’s underworld.

 Before he turned to writing fiction, Otho Eskin served in the U.S. Army and in the United States Foreign Service in Washington and in Syria, Yugoslavia, Iceland and Berlin (then the capital of the German Democratic Republic) as a lawyer and diplomat. He was Vice-Chairman of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, participated in the negotiations on the International Space Station, was principal U.S. negotiator of several international agreements on seabed mining and was the U.S. representative to the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. He was a frequent speaker at conferences and has testified before the U.S. Congress and commissions. Otho’s career in the Foreign Service unknowingly prepared him for thriller writing later in life as he witnessed political corruption at every strata of society. (Contains Adult Language)

 

Bob Edsel returns with "Remember Me" true story of sacrifice and devotion in WWII Holland

Remember Us, by Robert Edsel-#1 New York Times bestselling author of The Monuments Men (which was turned into a blockbuster film with an all-star cast including George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray and Cate Blanchett) -begins in the pre-dawn hours of Hitler's invasion of Western Europe on May 10, 1940, when his forces rolled into the small rural province of Limburg in the Netherlands shattering more than 100 years of peace. Their freedom gone, the Dutch lived through four-and-a-half years of occupation until American forces reached Limburg in September 1944, the last portion of Western Europe liberated by the Allies before their advance on Nazi Germany slammed to a halt.

Like The Monuments Men, Remember Us is an ensemble piece that follows twelve main characters over a six-year span, zeroing in on ordinary people including Frieda van Schäik, a teenager who falls in love with an American soldier; Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cole, the first member of the 101st Airborne to receive the Medal of Honor; and Sergeant Jeff Wiggins of the 960th Quartermaster Service Company, who escaped the poverty and racism of Alabama for yet another indignity-digging graves.

Drawing on never-before-seen letters, diaries, and other historical records, Edsel shows the painful price of freedom, on the battlefields and inside American homes. In this rich, dramatic, and suspenseful story, he captures both the horrors of war and the transcendent power of gratitude, showing the extraordinary measures the Dutch have taken to thank their liberators. Remember Us is exactly the book we need-a reminder that grief is universal, that humanity knows no national or racial boundaries, and that we all want to be remembered, somehow, someway, by somebody.

Robert M. Edsel is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of four non-fiction books including Rescuing da Vinci, Saving Italy, and The Monuments Men (also with Bret Witter), which served as the basis for Academy Award recipient George Clooney's 2014 film. Mr. Edsel has been honored with the Texas Medal of the Arts; the President's Call to Service Award; the Hope for Humanity Award, presented by the Dallas Holocaust Museum; and the Foundation for the National Archives' Records of Achievement Award. In 2022, the United States Army and the Smithsonian Institution made Mr. Edsel an honorary graduate of the first Army Monuments Officer Training Program, an idea Mr. Edsel advocated for nearly twenty years. Mr. Edsel is also the Founder and Chairman of the Monuments Men and Women Foundation, recipient of the National Humanities Medal, awarded by President George W. Bush.

Brandon and David Lindell with Challenge for men to be Lionhearted!

LIONHEARTED
A Man's Guide to Living Focused, Fulfilled, and Fearless
by David Lindell and Brandon Lindell (Revell, a division of Baker)
A Call for Men to Live with Maximum Purpose and Passion
· Authors are lead pastors at James River Church, with a
weekly reach of more than 300,000 people
· Authors receive 5 million monthly impressions on
their social media platforms
· Will be the featured book for the 2025 Stronger Men's
Conference, with an estimated 9,000 attendees
In our age, it's difficult to know what it means to be a
man. From internal struggles with fear and distraction
to external pressures to hold back essential parts of
our masculinity, we often find ourselves in a position
of defensiveness, tiptoeing around as we try to do the
right and avoid the wrong. This is not an external
problem. It's a heart problem. And the condition of a
man's heart changes everything.
God calls us to more. We were meant to live fulfilling
lives driven by purpose and passion. We were meant to
be lionhearted. In this energetic and inspiring book,
David and Brandon Lindell of James River Church show
you how to shift from operating from a place of
uncertainty to actively creating the future you desire,
free of struggles and external pressures that hold you
back.
It's time to stop living defeated, discouraged, dejected,
and disheartened and harness the power you already
have to live focused, fulfilled, and fearless in the Lord.

Jude Warne on Legendary Musician Boz Scaggs

 

Boz Scaggs has always been a musical artist of complexity.

Scaggs founded his connection to music through the blues, but his lasting legacy is one of glamorous and romantic pop songwriting. He possessed a somewhat shy and sensitive demeanor never totally at home in the public eye, yet his claim to several chart-topping singles and albums, particularly the millions-selling and critically acclaimed Silk Degrees (1976), demanded constant exposure. The persona he expressed through his music was laid back, effortlessly cool, sophisticated, stylish, romantically charming, and suave. But the immense success he achieved in his career pointed in part to the driven and determined artist within.

Lowdown: The Music of Boz Scaggs examines the uniqueness of these contradictions throughout Boz Scaggs's sixty-plus-year career and his rich and diverse musical catalog. Over the decades, Scaggs collaborated with an array of talented heavies, from the Steve Miller Band to the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section (which included a young Duane Allman) on Boz Scaggs (1969), from the session players on Silk Degrees (1976) who would form the hit band Toto to Donald Fagen and Michael McDonald on the Dukes of September's 2010 Rhythm Revue tour.

This first-ever book on Boz is constructed around intensely thorough analysis of his complete discography, and new and exclusive in-depth interviews with a selection of Scaggs's music colleagues from his vast career.

Jude Warne was born and raised in Manhattan, amidst two parents who were (and still are) rock 'n' rollers, so she believes very strongly in the power and importance of rock 'n' roll and high-quality music and art criticism. Warne is the author if "America, the Band: An Authorized Biography" and a contributor to the anthology "Rag and Bones; An Exploration of The Band." She has written numerous reviews for top magazines,and was  the music columnist at Red Paint Hill Journal from 2015 until 2017.