In the tranquil seaside town of Asbury Park, New Jersey, ten-year-old schoolgirl Marie Smith is brutally murdered. Small-town officials, unable to find the culprit, call upon the young manager of a New York detective agency for help. It is the detective's first murder case, and now, the specifics of the investigation and daring sting operation that caught the killer is captured in all its rich detail for the first time. Occurring exactly halfway between...

Presents the true story of a friendship that has spanned three decades, recounting how the author, a harried sales executive, befriended an eleven-year-old panhandler, changing both of their lives forever.

The true story of how one woman talked a school shooter down from the brink and how her faith in God prepared her for that moment.

The author recounts how after fifty years he discovered that the mother that he was given to in the mistaken belief that he was her kidnapped son was not his real mother and describes his search for his identity and the whereabouts of the mother's original kidnapped child.

Oliver for Young Readers shares the heartwarming true story of a man searching for a beloved lost dog and finding more than he'd ever hoped for. When Steven Carino discovered his dog, Oliver, had been stolen from his car, he knew he would do anything to get Oliver back. The friendly Yorkie-Shih Tzu mix-with his bundle of black and brown hair, long floppy ears, and big round eyes-had been Steven's companion during even the loneliest days. But it took...

El 10 de diciembre de 2009 me ingresaron en el hospital por un dolor abdominal. Tras varios exámenes, los médicos me diagnosticaron una pancreatitis. Sin embargo, estando aun en Emergencias, un dolor terrible se apodero de mi de tal modo que perdí la conciencia. Una de las enfermeras intento reanimarme sin éxito, por lo que se vio obligada a declarar el Código Azul, el máximo nivel de emergencia hospitalaria. De los frenéticos minutos que...

An inspirational memoir of near-death experience, rebirth, divine mercy, and finding faith. On December 10, 2009, McVea, a thirty-two-year-old mother of four, went to the hospital for a routine procedure. While undergoing treatment, her face suddenly turned a dark shade of blue, then black. Her mother screamed for help, and a nurse tried to revive her...to no avail. Today, Crystal does not remember what happened in that hospital room during...

A man desperate to know his true identity struggles to solve the infamous kidnapping that nearly destroyed his family-and find his twin sister, who has been missing for more than fifty years. When he was ten years old, Paul Fronczak was snooping around for Christmas presents in a crawl space in his family's Chicago home. There, he found hundreds of old newspaper clippings about the kidnapping of a one-day-old infant in a hospital in 1964. He also...

From New York Times bestselling authors Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski comes the young listeners' edition of an unbelievable memoir about an unlikely friendship that forever changed the lives of a busy sales executive and a hungry eleven-year-old boy. On one rainy afternoon, on a crowded New York City street corner, eleven-year-old Maurice met Laura. Maurice asked Laura for spare change because he was hungry, and something made Laura stop and...