Tragedy Time

Adam chose to meet life’s tough breaks and cruel realities with stand-up comedy; his older sister, Anna, chose law; while their youngest sister, Lydia, struggled to find her place in the world. Beautiful and whip-smart, Lydia was witty, extremely sensitive, fiercely stubborn, and always somewhat haunted. She and Adam bonded over comedy from a young age, running skits in their basement and obsessing over episodes of The Simpsons.

In a world full of drama comes more drama. It is like the curtain never closes for Tim as he walks through life with a heavy heart and a mind full of voices that have been directing his paths all of this time. It’s nothing that everyday people are facing except one of the voices, Tim, became his everyday persona. First came the smile then the laughter. His motto is going through life with a smile on your face. Can Tim continue to keep the smile and laugh through the hurt and pain or will the final curtain call give him the answers he seeks?

Helena Somerset never expected to inherit a castle—let alone uncover a Highland warrior, forbidden magic, and a romance that spans centuries. Bound by the Highland Secret is a sweeping time travel romance of ancient vows, haunting secrets, and love powerful enough to defy fate and rewrite destiny itself.

In the 11th century, York was an important northern English city. At this time, English Jews were subject to considerable religious prejudice and primarily worked from cities in which there was a local royal castle that could provide them with protection in the event of attacks from the majority Christian population. When Richard I was crowned King in 1189, there were rumours that the king had ordered that the English Jews be attacked. Shortly afterwards, in York, tensions broke out into violence and York became the location of one of the worst pogroms for Jews in England during the ...

If you’re hurting, you know how hard it is to see your way forward. Suffering has a way of clouding your vision. It can make you feel isolated, forgotten, confused, aimless, and even hopeless. How do you navigate the heartache in your life when you can’t control it or make sense of it? That’s the question Pastor Mike Novotny answers in When Life Hurts. This real and sometimes raw journey through the book of Job tackles the tough questions about how pain affects your life and what to do when it does. Complete with study questions at the end of each chapter, this book offers more than ...

Based largely on documents declassified in only the last few years, One Man Against the World paints a devastating portrait of a tortured yet brilliant man who led the country largely according to a deep-seated insecurity and distrust of not only his cabinet and Congress but the American population at large. In riveting, tick-tock prose, Weiner illuminates how the Vietnam War and the Watergate controversy that brought about Nixon's demise were inextricably linked.

Wrong Place, Wrong Time: The Tragedy of the West Memphis Three tells the haunting story of a small-town murder case that spiralled into one of the most notorious miscarriages of justice in American history. In 1993, three eight-year-old boys were found brutally murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas. Within weeks, three teenagers—Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley—were arrested, tried, and convicted, not because of hard evidence, but because of their appearance, music taste, and the town’s fear of the unknown. What followed was a decades-long fight for truth, as cracks in...

The Christ Cure is comprehensive handbook of healing for victims of trauma and their families, guiding the listener through a unique path of true restoration, inspired by the life and works of the Apostle Paul (a survivor of multiple traumas), by modern day mentors, the humbling personal experiences of the author, psychologist, Navy veteran, and former member of Congress Dr. Tim Murphy, and reinforced by solid scientific research.

They say that everything happens for a reason, no matter how tragic. What if it took thirty years for you to be able to figure out that reason and you were given a chance to have it all change? Tragedy strikes the close knit community of St. Francis Catholic Church and things spiral out of control quickly. Thirty years later, Christina Acosta is confronted with a rare opportunity to relive what she thought was the last gathering of her beloved group before it all fell apart. It doesn’t take her long to realize that things were not at all as they had seemed. There’s murder, larceny and ...

An emotional time-travel tragedy of reincarnation, redemption, and timeless love. Elena has always known love was dangerous. Every man she's ever loved has died under mysterious circumstances. When her latest partner perishes and haunting dreams begin to surface, Elena discovers the truth: all her lovers have been the same soul—Lucas—reincarnated across centuries and cursed to find her again and again… only to die. Determined to end the cycle, Elena dives into her past lives—through medieval betrayal, ancient rites, and echoes of forgotten vows—to unravel the truth behind the ...

Does time heal all wounds? Or do some last forever? Pennsylvania, 1971: Graham Davidson is a young man with survivor’s guilt after the death of three siblings. Estranged from his father and seeking a direction in his life, Graham learns about vision quests from a Crow Indian. He secures seasonal employment in Yellowstone National Park and embarks on a spiritual journey. Wyoming Territory, 1871: Under a full moon at a sacred thermal area, Graham finds himself in Yellowstone a century earlier - one year before it was established as a national park.

Only Tuesdays A haunting love story about memory, loss, and the hour that time forgot. Margot doesn’t know why it happens—only that it does. Every Tuesday, for exactly one hour, time bends. The coffee is hot, the sunlight hits Booth 9 just right, and Theo—her best friend, her almost, her once-in-a-lifetime—walks through the door like he’s not supposed to be dead. In the present, he’s gone. But in the diner, he’s still hers. They drink coffee. They talk about everything and nothing. And each week, she falls in love with him all over again, knowing he’ll forget—and she never...

Her life ended the same day his did. Kristina Tessa needs to find a way to move on after losing the one person who made her life make sense. She wasn't doing a very good job of embracing her MC family after this loss, and she was ready to get the heck out of dodge. A sudden discovery, that didn't stay a secret, forced her to stay in town and face her grief. As her nightmares get worse, the guys convince her that she needs to see a therapist. What they didn't understand was, it wasn't the nightmares that were her enemy. It was her reality. Can Kris move on with her life without Trance? Or ...

In this sweeping history, Ireland's best-known historian, Tim Pat Coogan, tackles the dark history of the Irish Famine and argues that it constituted one of the first acts of genocide. In what the Boston Globe calls "his greatest achievement", Coogan shows how the British government hid behind the smoke screen of laissez faire economics, the invocation of divine providence, and a carefully orchestrated publicity campaign, allowing more than a million people to die agonizing deaths and driving a further million into emigration.

Considered by Ty Cobb as the "finest natural hitter in the history of the game," "Shoeless Joe" Jackson is ranked with the greatest players to ever step onto a baseball diamond. With a career .356 batting average - which is still ranked third all-time - the man from Pickens County, South Carolina, was on his way to becoming one of the greatest players in the sport's history. That is until the "Black Sox" scandal of 1919, which shook baseball to its core.

When floods rage, fires consume, and storms shake the very ground we stand on, one question echoes through the chaos: Where is God? This timely and compassionate book was born from a heartfelt sermon and inspired by real tragedies—floods in Texas that claimed young lives and wildfires in Maui that devastated communities. Through biblical reflection, personal experience, and pastoral insight, Pastor John E. Miller guides readers through the emotional and spiritual wreckage that disasters leave behind. Rooted in Wesleyan theology and anchored in Scripture, this book offers a path forward ...

The sands of time never fall the same way twice. Jessie thought he’d lost it all, but what if there was a chance to save Scarlet, however slim? There is a time machine in the subterranean levels of the tower. The only problem is that it kills everyone who tries to use it. If he could figure out how to activate it without being turned into a mass of quivering flesh, he could go back. He could fix things.

From the moment he laid eyes on her, he knew she was the one. But fate had other plans. Wade Walker's life was meticulously mapped out: earn a law degree, marry his high school love, and lead an ideal life. But life doesn't always go according to plan. Betrayal was about to derail Wade's well-laid plans, and he would soon discover that he'd been on autopilot heading in the wrong direction. Melissa Ryan had never been in love. A car accident that robbed her of the full use of her legs left the grown woman too shy to date. Melissa spent her time building up her photography business, but ...

From award-winning author Tim Jeal comes a vivid examination of the six larger-than-life men and one extraordinary woman who set out to find the source of the White Nile in the 19th century.

This is a new translation of a popular French classic. Jocasta is a short novel that tells the story of a young woman whose lethargy under paternal pressure causes her to make a mistake, one that leads on inevitably to intrigue, murder and tragedy. It's a gripping story of star-crossed lovers, sinister and mysterious plots, complicity and guilt.