Tragedy Time

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.

As a survivor of a traumatic event, the remainder of your life is depended upon how you navigate the untimely events that occur. Your ability to persevere after being thrust into bleak circumstances and uncertain outcomes is the most valuable trait you must absorb. Your capacity to live through the unforeseen hardships and challenges that accompany tragedies will test you daily. This book is educational and empowering. You will learn how to turn your tragedy into working strategies to create the life you desire, in spite of any challenges you may be facing. You will walk away understanding ...

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 ...

It's 412 BC, and Athens' invasion of Sicily has failed catastrophically. Thousands of Athenian soldiers are held captive in the quarries of Syracuse, starving, dejected and hanging on by the slimmest of threads. Lampo and Gelon are local potters, men with no work and barely two obols to rub together. With not much to fill their time, they take to visiting the nearby quarry, where they discover prisoners who will, in desperation, recite lines from the plays of Euripides in return for scraps of bread and a scattering of olives. And so an idea is born: the men will put on Medea in the quarry.

What happens when love crosses centuries—and time refuses to let go? Marine biologist Colette Monroe is swept through time to 1714 Scotland—into a world of danger, secrets, and a Highland laird who could change everything. When the Loch Remembers is a time travel romance of passion, peril, and fate, where love crosses centuries and destiny ripples through the depths.

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 ...

Scientists throughout history, from Galileo to today's experts on climate change, have often had to contend with politics in their pursuit of knowledge. But in the Soviet Union, where the ruling elites embraced, patronized, and even fetishized science like never before, scientists lived their lives on a knife edge. The Soviet Union had the best-funded scientific establishment in history. Scientists were elevated as popular heroes and lavished with awards and privileges.

A firsthand, never-before-told account of the creation of OceanGate, the heartbreaking Titan tragedy, and the supposed villain behind it all, Stockton Rush, as told by the only person who can: his cofounder and friend.

The only thing predictable about life is its constant unpredictability. One moment you could be living the American Dream; the next, you could be immersed in grief. Regardless of where life takes you, it’s important to maintain faith in God. Tim Orr’s life came crashing down when his wife passed away, leaving him to raise his young daughter by himself. However, an immovable faith in God guided him through the heartbreak, and he and his daughter found a new way forward. In Letters to My Daughter, Orr tells the story of how he escaped a life of sin and depression and found one of faith ...

In Whispers Across Time, Civil War soldier Nathaniel and spirited Sarah cling to love through secret letters, even as war, betrayal, and fate conspire to keep them apart. Over a century later, historian Hannah Parker uncovers their story—and her own path to love with guarded archivist Andrew Knight begins to unfold. As past and present intertwine, two love stories echo across time in a tale of passion, redemption, and the unbreakable bond between hearts.

The Veil – A Story of Love, Loss, and the Weight of Fate Lisa Schlormann has never believed in luck—only in pain. Her father vanished in a tragedy she’ll never understand. Her brother’s life is a battle against disability. And now, after surviving a brain tumor, she faces a future in a wheelchair, the life she once dreamed of slipping further away. Out of love, she pushes Matt away, determined to spare him a lifetime of caring for her. But fate is cruel—when Matt meets with a devastating accident, Lisa is left questioning everything. Was her sacrifice worth it? Did she only doom ...

In Betrayed by the Light, a historian and an enigmatic archivist uncover a powerful secret that could rewrite history—and cost them their lives. As they race against time and betrayal, their unlikely alliance deepens into a love neither expected. But can their hearts survive the truths they’re about to uncover?

Eamon Redmond is a judge in Ireland’s high court, a completely legal creature who is just beginning to discover how painfully unconnected he is from other human beings. With effortless fluency, Colm Tóibín reconstructs the history of Eamon’s relationships - with his father, his first "girl", his wife, and the children who barely know him - and he writes about Eamon’s affection for the Irish coast with such painterly skill that the land itself becomes a character. The result is a novel of stunning power.

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...

On a dismal day at the end of October, 1968, a weekend sailor by the name of Donald Crowhurst set out from England in a flimsy trimaran, hoping to become the first solo sailor to circumnavigate the world nonstop. His was an exercise in over-arching ambition, delusion, and tragedy such as the world has seldom seen. Before it was over, the world media would be subject to a fraud of enormous proportions, and Crowhurst would die a madman in the middle of the Atlantic. What he left behind was a shattered boat, a shattered family, and this incredible story.

When Steven McNeil inherited his grandfather’s aging East Mesa home in 2002, he never dreamed it would change his life forever. But the discovery of an old orange crate full of secrets from his grandfather’s past, hidden in the tiny attic for sixty years, would do just that. He was about to become part of a war-time love story, with an unbelievable ending, over half a century later. “I have missed you so terribly much, my darling Yank,” Beatrice Ashbrook, pulled back, and looked at him with those adoring blue eyes. “My dear, there is a war on. We don’t know from one day to the ...

Everyone in the neighborhood feared the hanging judge, whose spectral form sometimes appeared in the window of the room in the large old house where he had killed himself a hundred years earlier. Stevie Francis, a small boy whose father had recently drowned at sea, knew the legend of the hanging judge and feared him more than anyone, as he frequently had to pass his house and couldn’t prevent himself from looking up at the window to see if he was there. Then, one day, he saw him, a sighting that would change his life forever. Some said that the hanging judge was cursed, some said that ...

This classic novel describes an ambitious poor relative of a rich man who secures an opportunity in his uncle’s factory and has a social leap to prospectively marry another rich man’s daughter in town. Similar to Gatsby and published in the same year, 1925.

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 ...

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 ...