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Schon mit dem Buchtitel geben uns die beiden Autoren Monika Winter und David Bohl einen Hinweis darauf, dass es Wahrheit gibt, ja Wahrheit geben muss. In der heutigen Zeit ist bereits diese Frage anstößig, denn viele Menschen würden eher fragen "Gibt es Wahrheit?". In fünf Kapiteln wird dem Leser aufgezeigt, wie beide Autoren die Wahrheit gesucht, erkannt, angenommen haben, sie leben und auch, wie man Wahrheit verkündet. Das Buch eröffnet durch die Gesprächsform und den dadurch entstehenden Dialog immer wieder neue Blickwinkel. Besprochen werden die immer gleichbleibenden Themen, die...

Alex wanted me to see what was happening, wanted me to understand - but he wasn't there to show me. All I could do was wander aimlessly, picking up the pieces, hoping they would somehow fit. There was the shack just off the freeway where Alex lived and worked. There was Deana, his strong and enigmatic young girlfriend. There was Jerry, a pathetic little man with a comb-over, who thought he could run everything. There were drugs and sex and violence, and I sampled all of it. The only thing missing was Alex. I would never know what any of it meant until I knew what it meant to him.

Harrisonville, founded in 1837, is one of the oldest towns in western Missouri. Situated just south of Kansas City, it served Cass County as the center of government, commerce, and cultural life for over 150 years. Its geographic proximity to the Kansas border brought conflict and bloodshed during the Bleeding Kansas and Civil War eras, from 1854 to 1865, as jayhawkers and bushwhackers raided, looted, and terrified local citizens. After the war, four railroads brought new settlers and business opportunities. The town flourished as the center of a rich agricultural region and touted...