Books like Ghost Riders by Sharyn McCrumb

In an elite New England college, a charismatic classics professor lures a group of eccentric students into obsessive study, leading them from intellectual curiosity to corruption, betrayal, and ultimately murder.

After being murdered at fourteen, Susie Salmon watches from heaven as her family, friends, and killer grapple with grief and justice, revealing how love and forgiveness shape a family's future.

Sisters Vianne and Isabelle are pulled into the turmoil of World War II, each forging a path of courage and resistance against the Nazi occupation of France.

A family sent to the Belgian Congo in 1959 to spread evangelical faith faces cultural clash, disaster, and eventual rebirth over three decades as the brutal realities of colonialism reshape their faith and lives.

Craig of the Mohicans, a frontier scout turns away from civilization, forming a bond with a Mohican warrior as they escort two sisters across the perilous wilderness of America's frontier.

Behind the Lines is a World War II historical fiction set in the Philippines, focusing on American forces, including the United States Marine Corps, during the 1939‑1945 period.

A woman in the Civil War deserts her farm life to enlist as a Union soldier, facing battle, betrayal, and the struggle to return home.

A thrilling historical spy novel set during the American Revolution, inspired by accusations of venality and featuring a common man wrongly suspected as a spy for the British, who refuses to accept payment for information vital to the Patriot's cause.

After her father's business is destroyed by the KKK, eight‑year‑old Celeste Key moves with her family from Statesboro, Georgia, to Daytona, Florida, where she becomes one of the first students at the newly opened Mary Bethune School for African‑American girls.

Mayme, a slave, and Katie, the daughter of a plantation owner, form an unlikely friendship in North Carolina as the Civil War and Emancipation Proclamation upend their worlds.

Feeling alone since the death of his brother, Josh befriends the adventure-loving Carlos, and the pair of them get into mischief, until a Native American skinwalker warns Josh that he must change his ways.

A World War II historical fiction set in the United States Marine Corps.

Barbara Siegel's juvenile interactive adventure sends readers back to the Wild West, where they confront the Ghost Riders of Goldspur and choose from over twenty possible endings.

During World War II, Brigadier General Fleming Pickering leads his Marine men—and his son—into undeclared danger, a gripping military‑history adventure set against the backdrop of the U.S. Marine Corps' wartime exploits.

In April 1943, Marine aviator Cletus Frade, Army demolition expert Anthony Pelosi, and communications expert David Ettinger are drawn into a dangerous web of intrigue in wartime Buenos Aires, where a German vessel, a sizable postwar shipment, and a coup plot converge, forcing them to navigate Allied and Axis sympathizers to survive.

After his mother dies, 12‑year‑old David escapes into the stories that once comforted him, only for myth and war to collide in a world where a Crooked Man and a faded king rule over wolves and hidden secrets.

This book was written by my uncle, Ivan Lee Kuykendall. Ivan was born in 1910 in Douglas, Arizona, to Dolph and Eva Maude Kuykendall. The family owned a ranch near Douglas. His father, Dolph owned horse and mule teams and freighted from Globe to Holbrook from the 20's through the mid 30's when trucks became the faster means of freighting. After spending his early years in Douglas, Ivan moved to Globe, Arizona. His father, Dolph, had a horse ranch in Young, known as Pleasant Valley. Young was the location of the most bloody sheep and cattle war in western history known as the Pleasant Valley War, or the Tewksbury-Graham Feud. Actual numbers are unknown, but it is estimated that up to 50 men were shot and killed during the war. Roy, who had written articles in the local papers, decided to research the events of the feud between the sheep and cattle families and write a book about it. His grandfather Wills was a good friend and hunting companion of Zane Grey, who had a cabin near Payson, and Roy thought this might be his opportunity to find similar fame. When he conducted his research, it was only 30 years since the war had ended (1892). Many of the survivors were still alive. Since the survivors still living in the valley were cattlemen, his writing obviously took their slant. He wrote the book as fiction based on fact, and used many of the actual names of those who took part in the feud. After years of research and writing he found a publisher and had the first edition printed. According to my uncle, it had gotten out that he was writing a book that favored the Tewksbury clan, and two sisters from the Tewksbury clan became upset and turned for help to their father, a Judge. He immediately slapped an injunction on the sale of the book and all of the books that had not yet been sold were seized as evidence. Ivan didn't have enough money to fight the legal battle, and so finally decided to just let it go. A few of the family had been given copies of the book, and the few others that were sold before the court order remained in circulation. He would have most likely won in court, but the cost of the battle would have been far greater than the proceeds from the book. Ivan was a colorful man who had several careers, including a diesel mechanic in the local copper mine, and chief of Police of Globe. He died of a heart attack in 1961 with no children of his own. He was survived by his wife Skeet, and a step-daughter Beatrice. The value of the book is high due to the few editions that were actually released. It is unknown to me what happened to those that were seized by the court.