(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)William Wright
Author
Description
Harvard's Secret Court reveals the controversial true story of an appalling scandal at Harvard University, when a group of deans and scholars attempted to expel a group of students for their sexuality.
In 2002, a researcher for The Harvard Crimson came across a restricted archive labeled "Secret Court Files, 1920." The mystery he uncovered involved a tragic scandal in which Harvard University secretly put a dozen students on trial for homosexuality...
2) The Von Bülow Affair: The Objective Behind-the-Scenes Account of the Shocking Attempted Murder Case
Author
Description
William Wright's true-crime book delivers a chilling, comprehensive account of one of the most scandalous attempted-murder trials of our times. On December 21, 1980, millionaire socialite Sunny Von Bülow was found unconscious on her bathroom floor. She would remain in a coma for twenty-seven years. Although her condition appeared to be the result of hypoglycemia, Sunny's children suspected their stepfather, the debonair Claus Von Bülow, of attempting...
Author
Series
Description
The battle took place at Kerreri, 11km north of Omdurman in the Sudan. Kitchener commanded a force of 8,000 British regulars and a mixed force of 17,000 Sudanese and Egyptian soldiers. He arrayed his force in an arc around the village of Egeiga close to the bank of the Nile, where a gunboat flotilla waited in support, facing a wide, flat plain with hills rising to the left and right. The British and Egyptian cavalry were placed on either flank. Al-Taashi's...
Author
Description
Matthew chose not to write his Gospel in chronological order. Why? How does his presentation of the Gospel differ from the other three? I show that Matthew organized his book into fourteen chiasms, explain how chiasms work, and describe the advantages that Matthew afforded the careful reader. The contrasts and comparisons of the vertical and horizontal aspects of the chiasms provide the reader with new insights into the events of Jesus' earthly ministry,...
Author
Description
Above and Beyond: radio silence is a historical fiction account of an airman's World War II experience. While much focus is given to Generals and those who rise to glory in fierce battles, this story focuses on a select group of airmen. Those who flew in unarmored, unarmed aircraft behind enemy lines, over battles-to drop troops, supplies, and evacuate wounded. This story is based on my father's flight records, his notes, and his stories. The events...
Author
Description
Through sheer grit, Jim Fisher rose from scrapyard worker to controlling the electrical grid of Pittsburgh. Endless shifts restoring power after storms and keeping utility workers safe cost him his family and home. The stress of several near-death accidents pushes him to uproot and fly to paradise to pursue the life of an artist.
Developing diverse friendships with colorful characters nurtures his desire to embark on a new path filled with hope. But...
Author
Description
History repeats itself. That is particularly true in the book of Genesis, a book of beginnings which moves from a dark, cold, watery hopelessness through inspiring highs and incredible lows toward faith in the God who is ever-present and active in the affairs of the men and women of the selected stories that comprise Genesis. This book explores those ups and downs and demonstrates a pattern that allows us to discern God's love and care despite our...
Author
Description
Why do we seek to control events in our lives when so much is determined in the spiritual realm? Highlights the power of turning it all over to God.
Our story derives from a journal kept over the course of one year, November 18, 2018-2019, a year of invasions into an otherwise idyllic lifestyle. The journey begins with an intruder's late night attack after three days without power during an ice storm. Our homestead sits on twenty-two beautiful rural...
Author
Description
All farmers want to be doctors, and all doctors want to be farmers. Bill Wright got caught up in the back half of that statement after buying the pasture next door to prevent someone from converting it into a pig farm or salvage yard. He had several friends who ran cows who offered advice, but mainly he was making it up as he went along.
What happened next is how campfire stories come about. Wright's grandchildren have heard the stories so many times...
Author
Description
Is refuge a place or a state of mind?
An imbalance of energy can wreak havoc in the visible world. So it is with spiritual energies in the invisible provinces. In the eye of a hurricane, there can be peace, even as destruction swirls beyond the eye wall. Only a fool rests in the eye of a storm, for at any time a rogue wave can plunder.
Beyond the wall, beyond the storm, is where true peace can be found in the visible world. So it is with those...
12) Paper Alley
Author
Description
Who throws an old BIBLE away--especially if MURDER is written in the margins?
Conceived in the distant past, forgotten and overgrown, one might be surprised where a paper alley leads. While the obvious is found on well-worn streets, the truth may lie down a path less traveled.
The alley may not look like much. For a hundred years, its value rested in something more precious than money. The townspeople drove by a story forgotten by most, but not...
Author
Series
Description
This third sequel to "From the Diary of an Assassin" focuses primarily on Angel's children: her daughter Gloria, also known as Baby Girl, and her son Little Ramon, also known as King. Both have mastered the art of paper stacking to the extent that most people can only dream of. Being a well-known attorney in Chicago, Baby Girl increased the crime's severity, and Angel emerged from hiding only to be involved in a gun battle with the police. Will Angel...
Author
Description
Daniel Cross Turner and William Wright's anthology Hard Lines: Rough South Poetry centers on the darker side of southern experience while presenting a remarkable array of poets from diverse backgrounds in the American South. As tough-minded as they are high-minded, the sixty contemporary poets and two hundred poems anthologized in Hard Lines enhance the powerful genre of Grit Lit. The volume gathers the work of poets who have for some decades formed...