True Time

On a spring afternoon in 1985 in Gary, Indiana, a fifteen-year-old black girl kills a white elderly bible teacher in a violent home invasion. In a city with a history of racial tension the press swoops in. When Paula is sentenced to death, no one decries the impending execution of a tenth grader. But the tide begins to shift when the victim's grandson Bill forgives the girl, against the wishes of his family, and campaigns to spare her life. This tragedy in a midwestern steel town soon reverberates across the United States and around the world—reaching as far away as the Vatican.

You can thank Jimmy Moree for helping to feed America’s insatiable pot habit. Nicknamed “Jimmy Divine” for his teetotaling ways, he would become one of the most successful marijuana traffickers of the 1970s, smuggling high-grade South American weed across the tempestuous seas into North American ports of call.

Kitty, It’s Cold Outside is a romance with a serendipitous twist at the end. I’m betting you’ve never read a story like this before: past, present, or future. A lost kitten travels through time to bring deliverance to Victorian heiress Katherine Gills. She’s waited through hundreds of Christmases for her lover to return. When 21st-century mailman Mick Jolly delivers a mysterious package to an abandoned mill house, she believes he’s the man to deliver her from her endless cycle of Christmas heartbreaks. Together, Katherine and Mick uncover a devastating family secret. While ...

Life is made up of billions of moments linked together. Each moment is important. Once a moment passes you can never recapture it. The moments of your life pile together to form your world, good or bad. Now, what if you took each moment and wrung the beauty and potential from it? Imagine this life. But how do you know what potential lies in the moment? Through fear and indecision, and perhaps laziness, we let these moments slip away.

In The Mysterious Murder of JFK's Mistress, Ron Rosenbaum investigates the murder of Mary Pinochet Meyer, whose affair with President John F. Kennedy became tabloid fodder, and who was found shot to death on October 12, 1964. Immediately after her death, one of the CIA's top priorities was finding the diary in which Meyer chronicled her relationship with the late president and the secrets they shared.

Who was behind the brutal murder of my great-grandmother? wondered Wayne Hoffman, a New York City-based journalist and novelist. The crime wasn’t just a family legend - it made headlines across Canada in 1913 - but her killer had never been found. In The End of Her, Hoffman meticulously researches this century-old tragedy, while facing another: his mother’s decline from Alzheimer’s.

In The Grave Robber, Tim Carpenter, former FBI Lead Investigator on the Art Crime Team, recounts one of the most extraordinary and unsettling cases in the history of art theft. Over the course of five decades, a lone graverobber accumulated an illicit trove of over 42,000 artifacts from cultures across the globe, including Native American, Haitian, Chinese, and others. The stolen items included nearly 500 ancestral remains, carefully looted from sacred burial sites and cultural heritage locations.

"Glimpses in Time: A Collection of Memoirs and More" Step into a world where memories shimmer like ethereal gems and emotions dance off the pages. Glimpses in Time beckons readers to dive into 25 poignant moments of introspection and discovery, each a treasure trove of human experience. Through a blend of personal narratives, poetry, and fictional snippets, this collection weaves a tapestry of raw honesty and unfettered emotion. As you lose yourself in these tales of loss, resilience, and hope, you'll find yourself reflecting on your own journey and the universal threads that bind us all. ...

Delve into the story of Bob, “The Most Notorious Cattle Rustler of Our Time” and the “nicest guy you’d ever wanna meet”. A man who has managed millions of dollars of illegal cash, most of it said to be buried under his north Texas ranch in 55-gallon drums. Meet the man who survived 19 prison stabbings, poisonous hamburgers, tear gas attacks, and being thrown over a third story railing in jail. A tough hombre, for sure. But also a man generous to a fault, often showering those he knew with gifts and financial help.

Our lives are like a complex tapestry, with many threads weaving each of our unique and individual pictures. There is, however, one thing that we all have in common, one thread. The GOLDEN THREAD is God’s thread in our lives. It is always there, even when we feel that it isn’t. Just turn your tapestry over and you will see it continuing on the back. Always there!

As 6 o'clock hits, the employees of the town's Be-Lo grocery store are going through their closing tasks. A cleaning crew loads their equipment in as they prepare to wax the store's floor. What they don't know is that someone else is in the store with them. With the sun falling below the horizon, a call is placed to 911. The caller, fighting to get each word out, has been shot. Police descend on the store to find a grisly scene: three people are dead, two more are seriously injured.

Imagine what could be done for the kingdom of God if we could get this right! God's work and every Christian's personal spiritual walk would see floods of blessings if we could only get the matter of tithing settled. In this timely and distinctly biblical book, Dr. Pollock shares insights from four decades of ministry.

Much as it disappoints me, a Sherbet poster is my earliest memory of pop music fandom. It was given to me in exchange for two chocolate biscuits, and I can tell you who got the better of that deal. They were very nice chocolate biscuits. 'So begins Anthony Griffis' fateful love affair with pop music, but by the 1980s he's fed up with hairspray rock and the likes of Adam Ant and Duran Duran. Growing up in a country town where trucking songs rule the airways, he's forced to bid his time with the solitary pursuit of air guitar.

In the early 1970's an upstart professional hockey league known as the World Hockey Association was formed to challenge the well-established and long-standing National Hockey League. The WHA set its sights on competing with the NHL for players, fans and dollars. The Minnesota Fighting Saints were one of the WHA’s original franchises, playing their games downtown St. Paul at the newly built Civic Center. They were the first major professional sports team to be based in St. Paul, at a time when Minnesota’s other major professional sports teams were based across town in Minneapolis. ...

Victor Alvarez follows few rules, the real deal. A bounty hunter par excellence, and with the backdrop of 1980s Tucson, Arizona, he tracks and hunts some of the most ruthless and dangerous criminals free on bail - with many narrowing escapes and jaw-dropping shootouts and the most thrilling car chases ever penned. It's what Alvarez's fans have come for - and he doesn't disappoint. The retired army cop and detective returns in six thrilling stories of high adventure and suspense, with some brazen, sensual, and at times steamy love scenes.

Lisa lived her life since she was nine years old knowing information that might have changed the outcome of the one accused of her momma's murder. As a child, she was never asked anything and didn't know she held important information until years later, when her grandmother finally told her the details of the murder. Unfortunately, at that time her brother had also been murdered. Two unsolved murders five years apart would haunt Lisa for years until one statement unraveled both crimes.

She thought being pulled back in time was an accident. He thought marriage was out of the question. Neither expected to find true love. Danielle McIntyre is thrilled to spend a week in Twickenham England at a full immersion historical retreat. When she and a friend are pulled back in time by the Fae magic, she just knows it’s a mistake. Though Aunt Nellie, the guardian of the magic, encourages her to have an open mind, Danielle is adamant that she’ll return to her own time and not fall in love with someone like her friend did.

Since the first Christmas, angels have been delivering messages of God's extravagant love. They watched over the Christ Child so long ago, and they are watching over us all today. We Hear the Christmas Angels presents inspiring, personal stories of angels still delivering tidings of comfort, protection and joy, particularly at Christmas time.

Listen as five criminals tell their stories. Jay Jay found trouble young, very young. Serving time at age 12 is not the beginning of Jay Jay’s descent into criminality. Cjay has been in nearly as many prisons as she has fingers, yet nothing in her upbringing predestined her for crime. Lawrence, a child raised in American ghetto circumstances, became the epitome of extreme violence while at the same time holding tight an inner secret of female identity. Brian was a young man with a twinkle in his eye and a propensity for getting caught.

Do you have a fantastic idea for a startup, but not sure where to begin? Quitting your full-time job to pursue your business aspirations can be daunting, but author, podcast host and money coach Serina Bird says it's the best thing she ever did—and you can do it, too! Within The Joyful Startup Guide, Serina reveals what to do (and what to avoid) to ensure your new (or growing) business is not only prosperous and sustainable, but also highly rewarding.