True stories Books

This book is a collection of 32 true-to-life anecdotal short stories about intriguing people author Charles H. Norman has known, special places he's traveled, and providential experiences that has come his way. Charlie writes as he talks, so as to...

To escape a life of poverty, and to avoid getting trapped in a seasonal agricultural lifestyle where just gettin’ by was all you could ask for, I chose the only way out available to me: enlisting in the United States Air Force. That was the start...

A monster was on a killing spree. In just nine months, seven people went missing; all of their bodies eventually discovered in a wooded lot behind a suburban strip mall. But the investigation that led law enforcement to their suspect, William Devin...

A percentage of sales benefit The Greatest Generations Foundation. A World War II veteran in the twilight of his life stands once again on the soil where he fought the Nazis when he was young man. He remembers those long-gone days of terror and...

When Sly Harrell sets out to find a cabin cruiser to entertain his new girlfriend, he finds them expensive and buying one full of possible regrets. The boat broker suggests renting or borrowing a vessel for a trial trip so Sly can be sure of what he...

A cross between "Medium" and "Unsolved Mysteries," this award-winning book is now available in paperback for the first time... In WITNESSES TO THE UNSOLVED, author Edward Olshaker turns to some of the world's most accomplished psychic detectives and...

Ed Brown is a Canadian Forces veteran of Tsimpshian First Nations and Scottish-Canadian heritage. During his 19-year military career, he served on peacekeeping missions to the former Yugoslavia, Israel, Syria and Turkey (in support of Afghanistan), and...

The advancement of information and communication technology has led to a multi-dimensional impact in the areas of law, regulation, and governance. Many countries have declared data protection a fundamental right and established reforms of data protection...

During the last few decades, corrupt financial practices were increasingly being monitored in many countries around the globe. The past few decades have been eventful for these issues. Today, tackling money laundering and terrorism financing are...

'SILVER EAGLE', the official biography of "Band of Brothers" veteran Clancy Lyall, written by his friend Ronald Ooms. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and seeing every young man leave town to join the army or the merchant marine, Clancy, who...

America's first African American heavyweight boxing champion, Jack Johnson, has a chance encounter with a mysterious Irishman, named Altamont, when they meet at the boxer's restaurant, Café de Champion, in August 1912. Johnson's new relationship with the...

What happens when you put a normal person into an abnormal situation? Do they break, or do they harden up? This memoir exposes the underbelly of a part of the hospitality industry in Australia, covering the five years the author spent as the unpaid night...

The Fierce Country holds no malice, but neither pity. It just sits, and bakes, and waits. We do the rest. We provoke it when we mine above its aquifers. Weaken it, and ourselves, when we leave mountains of asbestos to blow away in the wind...

Your significant other just announced they joined the military. After getting over the shock, you have questions, lots of questions.What is it like living in the military?What happens when my spouse deploys?How do I handle moving all the time?This honest...

Michael Chapel is the tragic, infuriating, and explosive true story of a decorated veteran and former Gwinnett County (Georgia) police officer, with over thirty (30) letters of commendation from his police department, for meritorious service. In 1995...

Description: <p>Drifter Henry Lee Lucas broke into the national headlines in the summer of 1983 when he claimed to have murdered more than 100 women across the country.</p><p>Languishing in a Texas county jail, he continued confessing...

Destroyerman is a candid look into the everyday life led by the people that man these small versatile ships of the United States Navy-the perils and challenges they face and the daily routine of life at sea on a Navy destroyer. Through...

The Forgotten Soldier is a true life story of a young male adolescent who struggles through life and overcomes many challenges and difficulties to become a successful military officer. The story is an epic adventure of a Black male who grew up in the...

Don't Die Before You're Dead is Joy Blessing's miracle story of hope in God's plan and purpose for those who trust in Him. "I shouldn't be alive; I was dead 39 minutes after suffering a sudden cardiac arrest," Joy said. "We must never give up being and...

Grasp This Salt is a collection of poetry that seeks to explore what it means to be a mother and the complexities of trying to understand our own mother’s experience of mothering us, while following the life and trial of Susan Smith, convicted in...

Some of these tales are about genuine heroes. Some are about dastardly villains. Others you’ll have to decide for yourself: hero or villain? You’ll recognize these people, even if you don’t remember their names. They are Spanish...

Marines Don't Cry recounts Daniel Garcia's early life in Spanish Harlem, which makes his journey of walking more than 52 million steps on six continents for children and world peace such an incredible story.

Eadweard Muybridge pioneered the field of the movie picture--it's because of him that we have movies today. He also got away with murder ‒ literally. In 1874, he shot and killed his wife's lover and got away with it for essentially saying the guy...

During the depths of the Great Depression in Ypsilanti, Michigan, a seven-year-old boy is found frozen to death under the Frog Island footbridge in Depot Town after being reported missing the night before by his parents. Upon examination, the Washtenaw...

Thomas E. Alexander was among 20,000 military service personnel ordered into the Strategic Air Command, formed in 1946 as US military and political leaders began to understand the growing nuclear threat posed by Stalin’s USSR. Alexander served for...

The Holocaust was the systematic murder of six million European Jews by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party. The horrors of the Holocaust have documented been many times. Even those that were not killed, mutilated, or starved in concentration camps were...

From Farming to Federal Prison is the personal memoir of author L V Eduardo and her husband. Though they were both drug users before they met, together they descended into heavy addiction, using marijuana, cocaine, and opioids. Their addiction grew...

Yulduzkhon Ahmar tells the story of her favorite uncle, Khoji Ahmar, in this biography that celebrates her love of family.Ahmar, a director, writer, linguist, actor, and artist, had an abiding love for his homeland of Uzbekistan, a former Soviet republic...

When part of a five-man unit of special operatives learns that Master Sergeant Avery Franks is being held in a mountain compound in France, the team sets operations in motion to get Franks out.The bandits, holding Avery, are under some illusion that the...

A true-crime masterpiece which crosses James Ellroy with The Wire

New York Times Bestseller: The “astonishing” true story of the notorious “black widow” who preyed on her husband and daughter and faked her own death (The Washington Post Book World).Pretty, smart, and pampered, Audrey Marie...

True stories - real life drama! - of Foxtrot, the San Antonio, Texas, Police Department aviation unit formed in the 1970s, today called Blue Eagle... Between 1975 and 1981, the author, a police officer and commercial pilot, helped pioneer the use of...

This book delves into four interconnected murders, each of them unsolved, in which the common denominator is the underground world of sex trafficking. Using police and FBI records never before made public, underworld links are made between numerous...

This memoir novel is a piece of actual history that not only surprised the teller of the tale with its terrifying truths, but also influenced the legal system in this great country of ours.It involves a young Italian girl who finds herself in agonizing...

Detectives and CSI crews may work for weeks, months, sometimes years searching and piecing together forensic evidence to find the vital clues in solving a crime. With the use of planetary positions, houses, fixed stars and Arabic parts, forensic...

The Men of Fox Company: History and Recollections of Company F, 291st Infantry Regiment, Seventy-Fifth Infantry Division describes the actions of an infantry rifle company fighting in Europe during World War II. Sometimes the Seventy-Fifth Division was...

A collection of the finest examples of the work of Ambrose Bierce, full of horror, death, bravery and war.

Ambrose Bierce enlisted in the Union Army at the outbreak of the American Civil War and fought with distinction for 4 years, even earning recognition of his bravery in the newspapers of the day for a daring rescue attempt of gravely wounded comrade. His...