Opp, Alabama, in 1937, was a boring place in the summer for a ten year old boy.Opp was short for Opportunity, a sad contradiction for a town that never developed beyond a series of small farms and ranches. But it was fertile ground for a kid with imagination and time on his hands, and young Billy Stacy had an abundance of both. And it would soon land him in trouble.

Have you ever wondered what real life might have been like for the people you read about in the Bible? Their lives were difficult, sometimes complicated, and often filled with mystery.Imagine the apostle John in prison taking dictation from God as he writes the letters of The Revelation, Mary and Joseph with a baby on the way and the uncertainty that lay ahead, and Noah and God discussing Noah's role in saving humanity as well as the entire animal kingdom.The following storie...

The apostle John had taken dictation from God before, but this time he challenged the content of what his master was telling him to write. His followers would surely think he had gone mad.

The old woman always woke before the old man to think about their lives and watch the sun come up in their bedroom window.

At the turn of the 20th century a young preacher, Thomas McCade, lost his faith. Years later, led by dreams and visions, he found himself on an unintended mission from God. His appointed task was to save a hopeless Georgia farm town, its church, orphanage and citizens from a ruthless tyrant and his hired guns. His mission was complicated when he falls for a saloon girl.

Adam and Eve are persuaded, by the serpent, to try the forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. Their eyes are truly opened to the truth. They did not die as God had promised. But they did discover their own sexuality in a very humorous way.

Tom, the successful CEO of Global, an international paper company, had a mid-life melt down that caused him to kill his adulterous lovers. His inner demon, locked away in his mind since a childhood trauma, surfaced without warning and transformed him into a serial killer of young women. Now the act of lovemaking triggers in Tom an insuppressible urge to take the lives of his lovers.Detectives David Grant and Paula Wilson struggle to find a common thread with the women, and to discov...

Sometimes it takes drastic measures for God to get a person's attention. So it was with Jonah.

Many books and essays have addressed the broad sweep of Texas music—its multicultural aspects, its wide array and blending of musical genres, its historical transformations, and its love/hate relationship with Nashville and other established music business centers. This book, however, focuses on an essential thread in this tapestry: the Texas singer-songwriters to whom the contributors refer as “ruthlessly poetic.” All songs require good lyrics, but for these songwriters, the poetic qualit...

Before Big Love, before Eldorado, a groundbreaking memoir explored polygamy, not with outrage but with honesty and grace. In 1984, when polygamous groups knew little but the fear and pain of secrecy and hiding, Dorothy Allred Solomon, the twenty-eighth of forty-eight children, went public with her family’s story. Descended from five generations of Mormon polygamy, Solomon evokes the fervor and dedication that bound the Allreds to “living the Principle.” She vividly renders the persecution ...

Paul Mitchell, a senior investigator for the National Security Agency, is tasked with investigating a series of seemingly random suicides of leading cosmologists, which has the science community alarmed. He uncovers a link between the suicides and a benign astronomy project team searching for cold dark matter.As Paul traces the last living members of the research team to take them into protective custody, his curiosity is piqued by an attempt on his life by a professional assassin....

Jeff Lambert wanted to be the best golfer in the world. But he would have to pay a price, a very high price.