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THIS BOOK CAME ABOUT EIGHT YEARS AGO WHEN I WOULD MAKE UP STORIES ABOUT MY ONE YEAR OLD SON, AJ, WHILE I TRIED TO GET HIM TO SLEEP. HE LOVED TO HEAR HIS NAME IN THE STORIES AND HE WOULD GET SO EXCITED WHEN HE DID SOMETHING GOOD IN THE STORIES I TOLD HIM. AS AJ GOT OLDER, I BEGAN TO USE OUR EVERYDAY LIFE IN THESE STORIES. I TRIED TO LEAD HIM INTO THE RIGHT DIRECTION ON HOW TO HELP PEOPLE EVEN THOUGH WE DID NOT KNOW THEM OR HOW TO DEAL WITH PEOPLE WHO WERE NOT SO NICE TO US. WHEN I WOULD HEAR ABOUT A TRAGIC STORY OF A CHILD WHO WAS TAKEN FROM A MALL OR HIT BY A CAR OR LOST AT A CROWDED ATTRACTION, I WOULD INSERT AJ S NAME WHILE TELLING HIM THE STORY TO HELP HIM UNDERSTAND HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO LISTEN TO ME WHEN I SAY NOT TO WONDER OFF WHILE IN A STORE OR GO OFF WITH A STRANGER. OF COURSE THESE STORIES WOULD END WITH A GOOD OUTCOME BUT DURING THE STORIES, I COULD SEE HIS WORRY. THIS LET ME KNOW THAT HE WAS GETTING THE MESSAGE. BUT NOT EVERY STORY WAS A LESSON. I HAD TO MAKE UP STORIES ON A NIGHTLY BASIS. SO, I HAVE LOTS OF STORIES TO TELL. I HOPE YOU ENJOY THIS ONE. THIS STORY IS ONE OF HIS FAVORITES."

A band of 10 shooters and looters bulldozes its way inside the Compumercobrs facility, hammering down thunder on the entire security guard staff. The chaos unfolds fast and hard, with SWAT teams, rocket launchers, rampant use of high explosives, and enough twists and turns to cause whiplash.

Two sisters discover startling secrets in their mother’s old journal in this “poignant” novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of Garden of Lies (Debbie Macomber). Emily and Sarah Marshall are cleaning out their dying mother’s attic when Emily finds an old leather diary. Their mother’s handwriting on the yellowed pages takes them back to a small Nebraska town in the summer of 1951, where sheltered, almost-engaged Elizabeth Harvey is swept into a clandestine romance with AJ, her rebellious childhood friend. When AJ becomes the prime suspect in a neighborhood fire, Elizabeth has to make the most difficult decision of her young life and choose between passionate but unpredictable AJ and her stable, longtime beau, Bob. Shocked to learn that their mother was in love with a man other than their father, Emily and Sarah must confront painful truths about their mother, their father, and ultimately, themselves. Moving and uplifting, with a surprise ending readers won’t see coming, The Diary is a novel about the mysteries of romantic love and the unassailable bond between parents and children.

Family Tragedy On Sunday May 2, 1993 in Lantana, Florida, a town in the Palm Beach area, the naked body of ten-year-old Andrew "A.J." Schwarz was found floating facedown in the family's backyard swimming pool. But how could he have drowned when the water level was only four feet deep? And why was his body covered with cuts and bruises from head to toe? Wicked Stepmother Suspicion soon fastened on the dead boy's stepmother, Jessica Schwarz, who boastfully described herself as "loud and crude." She was a brute and a bully--but was she a torturer and child killer? Investigators unearthed a pattern of nightmarish physical and mental abuse that she had inflicted on the boy, one that left even hardened police sleuths sickened. Day Of Reckoning During her trials, Jessica Schwarz was smugly defiant, until convictions for criminal child abuse and second degree murder wiped the smirk off her face. She is now serving a seventy-year prison term. Carol J. Rothgeb, author of Hometown Killer, and Scott H. Cupp, the prosecutor who successfully convicted Jessica Schwarz, now tell the riveting inside story of how a brutal killer's reign of terror was finally brought to an end. 16 Pages Of Photos