Posts Tagged ‘Crime’

Nancy Mullane

July 10 . 2012

Life After Murder is Nancy Mullane‘s compelling story of five convicted murderers sentenced to life with the possibility of parole, who discover after decades in prison that their second chance, is also the challenge of a lifetime.

David Talbot

July 9 . 2012

In Season of the Witch, David Talbot recounts the gripping story of San Francisco in the turbulent years between 1967 and 1982—and of the extraordinary men and women who led to the city’s ultimate rebirth and triumph.

Deanne Stillman

July 5 . 2012

Deanne Stillman’s Desert Reckoning is set against the backdrop of two competing visions of land and space, and explores what happened when a desert hermit who loved animals and hated civilization took his last stand, gunning down a beloved deputy sheriff when he approached his trailer at high noon on a scorching day.

Shari Johnson, Alex Grecian

June 29 . 2012

Christians can change their minds on homosexuality says Shari Johnson who is the author of Above All Things and is president of the PFLAG chapter in Odessa, Texas.  Alex Grecian‘s debut novel, The Yard is an imaginative historical thriller that takes readers to London, circa 1889, in the years of the city’s legendary police force.

Robert Mazur

June 26 . 2012

Robert Mazur began infiltrating  bankers behind the Medellín cartel and meticulously gathered evidence for years until, during a fake wedding, federal agents arrested over 40 high-ranking criminals and he tells how in The Infiltrator.

Paul Zak, Jerry McGill

May 21 . 2012

The Moral Molecule is Paul Zak’s  first-hand account of the discovery of a molecule that makes us moral revealing that compassion is part of our nature and what it means to be human. Then, Dear Marcus is a reflection on Jerry McGill’s childhood, and written as a letter to the man who shot him, whom he calls Marcus; it was the event that changed his life in an instant and left him with a disability.

Larry Hancock

May 18 . 2012

In The Awful Grace of God, Larry Hancock chronicles a multi-year effort to kill Martin Luther King Jr. by a group of the nation’s most violent right-wing extremists.

Col. Thomas J. Foley

May 11 . 2012

The news of the notorious gangster Whitey Bulger’s capture—after sixteen years on the FBI’s Most Wanted list—swept the nation Col. Thomas J. Foley tells what happened in Most Wanted.

R. Andrew Chesnut

May 1 . 2012

R. Andrew Chesnut shows how Santa Muerte, a skeleton saint with millions of devotees, has become the patron saint of drug traffickers in Devoted to Death.

David Corn, Mark Potok

April 16 . 2012

In Showdown, political journalist David Corn captures the dilemmas faced by a president assailed by disappointed progressives and defiantly obstructionist Republicans determined to see his defeat. Then, Mark Potok with the Southern Poverty Law Center talks about the rise of racial intolerance in the Trayvon Martin case.