A beautiful nurse. A lethal injection. A gruesomely charred corpse. Nothing could have shocked the sleepy community of Morgantown, West Virginia, more than the lurid details that surfaced after a house fire claimed the life of Shelly Michael’s husband Jimmy. Local authorities suspected possible arson. Then...

Deal Me In: Twenty of the World'sTop Poker Players Share the Heartbreaking and Inspiring Stories of How They Turned Pro
Author: Stephen John, Marvin Karlins
ISBN: 0982455801
Recommended Retail Price: $24.95
Deal Me In showcases 20 of the world's top poker players as they share their colorful and inspiring stories of how they became professionals. Poker's biggest players, such as Phil Ivey (2009 WSOP Main Event Finalist and potential winner), Johnny Chan, Phil Hellmuth , Doyle Brunson and Daniel Negreanu give first-person...

Way of the Turtle: The Secret Methods that Turned Ordinary People into Legendary Traders
Author: Curtis Faith
ISBN: 007148664X
Recommended Retail Price: $27.95

“We're going to raise traders just like they raise turtles in Singapore.”

So trading guru Richard Dennis reportedly said to his long-time friend William Eckhardt nearly 25 years ago. What started as a bet about whether great traders were born or made became a legendary trading experiment that, ...

Comeback Churches: How 300 Churches Turned Around and Yours Can, Too
Author: Ed Stetzer, Mike Dodson
ISBN: 0805445366
Recommended Retail Price: $17.99
Research shows that over time, most churches plateau and then eventually decline. Typically, they start strong and experience periods of growth, then stagnate and lose members. Since 1991, the North American population has increased by 15 percent while the number of "unchurched" people has increased by 92 perce...

The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
Author: Jane Mayer
Recommended Retail Price: $27.50
A dramatic and damning narrative account of how America has fought the
"War on Terror"

In the days immediately following September 11th, the most powerful people in the country were panic-stricken. The radical decisions about how to combat terrorists and strengthen national security were made in a st...

The Summer I Turned Pretty
Author: Jenny Han
ISBN: 1416968237
Recommended Retail Price: $16.99

Some summers are just destined to be pretty

Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and mos...

The Unexpected Journey: Conversations with People Who Turned from Other Beliefs to Jesus
Author: Thom S. Rainer
ISBN: 0310257417
Recommended Retail Price: $16.99
A narrative interview story of how a dozen people moved from various forms of spirituality to come to Christ as Lord. Listen in on the interviews of individuals who had been part of Mormonism, Judaism, Hinduism, atheism, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Wicca, agnosticism, Buddhism, Islam, Unitarianism, new ageism, and Satanism.

Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam
Author: Stephen W. Sears
ISBN: 0618344195
Recommended Retail Price: $17.00
The Civil War battle waged on September 17, 1862, at Antietam Creek, Maryland, was one of the bloodiest in the nation's history: in this single day, the war claimed nearly 23,000 casualties. In Landscape Turned Red, the renowned historian Stephen Sears draws on a remarkable cache of diaries, dispatches, and letters to ...

Trump Never Give Up: How I Turned My Biggest Challenges into Success
Author: Donald J. Trump
ISBN: 0470190841
Recommended Retail Price: $19.95
In Never Give Up, Donald Trump tells the dramatic stories of his biggest challenges, lowest moments, and worst mistakes—and how he uses tenacity and creativity to turn defeat into victory. Each chapter includes an inspiring story from Trump’s career and concludes with expert commentary and coaching from adversit...

Who Turned Out the Lights?: Your Guided Tour to the Energy Crisis
Author: Scott Bittle, Jean Johnson
ISBN: 0061715646
Recommended Retail Price: $16.99

From the editors of PublicAgenda.org, an entertaining, irreverent, and absolutely essential nonpartisan guide to the energy crisis

Energy: It's a problem that never goes away (despite our best efforts as a nation to ignore it). Why has there been so much talk and so little action? I...