Imagine receiving a phone call from President Monson's secretary informing you that the prophet wants to meet with you in his office. President Monson has requested a moment of your time because he has something important to tell you. Would you be curious to hear what the prophet wants to say to you? Would you be filled with wonder? Concern? Excitement? Anticipation? Would you consider his message for you extremely significant, perhaps even critical?...

The story tells of two teams competing for a prize of $10,000,000 for the first start-up group to send up a rocket to near inner space carrying three passengers. The rocket must fly up sufficiently high that on descent the passengers will be weightless for three minutes. The two teams are made up of rocket science graduates but go about the rocket construction in different ways. One is completely straightforward and is funded by a businessman, also...

This may be the most important book you will ever read. Whether you're an up-and-coming manager full of ambition and ideas, or an independent entrepreneur with big dreams of your own, you need to master the art of the perfect pitch. Why? It's your one opportunity to present yourself to potential clients or employers- your one chance to make a positive first impression, sell your personal vision, and, ultimately, close the deal. And sometimes, you...

Wiese's visit to the devil's lair lasted just twenty-three minutes, but he returned with vivid details etched in his memory, capturing the attention of national media, including the Christian Broadcasting Network, Daystar Television Network, Trinity Broadcasting Network, the Miracle Channel, Sid Roth's It's Supernatural!, Sean Hannity's America, Charisma News, and many others. Awaken to the realities of hell, the afterlife and the urgency to live...

From the Pulitzer Prize winning Washington Post comes a meticulously detailed, insightful report on the killing that brought the nation's attention to a city coming apart at the seams. 12:00PM: Officer Darren Wilson turns his Chevy Tahoe police cruiser left on Canfield Drive. 12:01PM: Wilson orders two young men, Dorian Johnson and Michael Brown, to get out of the street. 12:04PM: Michael Brown lays dying from bullet wounds. Three minutes in middle...

New York Times–Bestselling Author: An "enthralling" account of the three world-class athletes who became the first runners to break the four-minute mile (The New York Times Book Review).
A San Francisco Chronicle and ESPN Best Book of the Year
There was a time when running the mile in four minutes was believed to be beyond the limits of human foot speed, and in all of sport it was the elusive holy grail....

An epic lunch period leads to a fateful showdown as small, skinny seventh-grader Sam's former best friend--now a popular athlete--promises to beat Sam up at recess in exactly thirty-three minutes.

"The author's search for the annihilated Polish community captured in his grandfather's 1938 home movie. Traveling in Europe in August 1938, one year before the outbreak of World War II, David Kurtz, the author's grandfather, captured three minutes of ordinary life in a small, predominantly Jewish town in Poland on 16 mm Kodachrome color film. More than seventy years later, through the brutal twists of history, these few minutes of home-movie footage...

Short stories designed for people who enjoy stories but are short on time and like to be thrilled and delighted quicky. They have the Williams' signature style which is a bit Twilight Zone with unexpected twists and surpises even in the way the words are used. A mixture of light and dark but each a unique original tale from the most extra-ordinary imagination. Designed to hook you immediately and get you thinking.