Amazing stories of how God triumphed in the lives of many who were devastated by 9/11.

In the 13th century, Europe suffered through war, famine, and the evils of the pogrom–acts of hatred that massacred tens of thousands of Jews. In 1346, at the height of corruption, the Black Plague struck the Eurasian continent, wiping out half the world's population while spawning a new legend: The Grim Reaper. Now coming full circle, the Reaper returns in 2012… 666 years later.

This entertaining true crime memoir chronicles one man's redemptive journey from motorcycle gang enforcer to undercover police officer.The only patch-wearing outlaw biker to become a sworn police officer—and live to tell his taleIn 1977, Wayne "Big Chuck" Bradshaw was Jersey tough. He was a member of the outlaw Pagans bike gang, a One Percenter, and had earned his colours in a world of boozing, bloody bar fights, and high-stakes crime. But after getting too...

A collection of stories, funny, stupid, tragic, and poignant; as told by the police officers, paramedics, and lawyers who experienced them first hand. The elderly woman who just lost her husband, the brain-wave people, hoarders, and hidden dead mothers. Police safety lessons, Lyme disease caused murder-suicide, funny court stories, dogs, and other furry critters. Even Abraham Lincoln makes a guest appearance.

About 3,000 people lost their lives in the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C., on September 11, 2001. Thousands more narrowly escaped, their survival a result of eerily prescient spur-of-the-moment decisions, acts of superhuman courage, the unfailing kindness of strangers, and, in some cases, fortuitous strokes of luck. September 11: An Oral History unites the voices of that day. It is at once a dramatic reminder of one of the most devastating events in histor...

When disaster struck at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, Dennis Smith was among the first to arrive on the scene. Report from Ground Zero is his insider's account of the heroic efforts of the firefighters, police and emergency workers who rushed to downtown New York to face the greatest challenge of their lives.In all, 343 firefighters gave their lives. Entire companies were lost. Among the dead were a father and son; the department's beloved chaplain; commanders and r...

"These intimate episodes, written by the law officers who lived them, are funny, sad, moving and powerful . . . everybody should own this memorable book." —Joseph Wambaugh, New York Times–bestselling authorAfter September 11, 2001, Las Vegas Police Sergeant Randy Sutton began soliciting writing from law enforcement officers—his goal being to bridge the gap between the police and those they serve, with a book that offers a broad and thoughtful look at the ma...

This is Barney Smiths second book. HUMOR IN LAW ENFORCEMENT [Factually Speaking] parallels his first book inasmuch as it humorously touches on people who had ties with, knowledge about, or experience with law enforcement.Additionally, this book deals with factual actions of former law enforcement officers, average citizens, not-so-average citizens, and the author. Also included are additional factual law enforcementrelated issues, and law enforcementrelated jokes involving cops and...

About the BookThe Downwind Walk lets you experience the tragic events following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001 through the eyes of an Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) paramedic who went into harms way to rescue the victims, which rapidly included many of his brothers and sisters of the New York Fire Department (NYFD) and Emergency Medical Services (EMS).The author was a member of the EMS FDNY in the Bronx who was deployed wit...

Jeff Struecker, a "Black Hawk Down" hero, the Army's Top Ranger, now an Army Chaplain, relates his own tales from the frontlines of every U.S. initiative since Panama, and tells how God taught him faith from the front in fear-soaked times. As readers go on-mission with Struecker through his harrowing tales, they will learn how to face their own fears with faith in a mighty God. Just as he told one of his charges in Mogadishu: "The difference between being a coward and a hero is not whether...

The SiteMay 30, 2002"How will we ever get through this?" is the question I asked on the night of September 11."How?"Maybe the answer is here, all around me. Not just in the cleanup, not just in the purpose demonstrated by all who came and labored in these months.The answer is in the enduring spirits of all assembled here. That, for me, is the miracle in all of this: having looked horror in the face, we bear the pain without losing heart.-- Th...

Jim Wagner adds a new perspective to his book series on reality-based personal protection with Protecting Others: Self-Defense Strategies and Tactics for Third-Party Protection. Drawing on his experience in martial arts, police, military and special-operations training, Wagner explains how to protect the people you love the most when it matters most. Protecting Others includes: • knife-survival tactics • how to effectively take down hostile subjects