An anthology about pirates and the open seas.Stories included:Alongside the Coasts of Sumatra by Sergio PalumboCaptain Bs By Pyle HazardLa Conquista by Rob NesbitIn the Name of Free Enterprise by HL DowlessOf Squalls and Sailors by John ToresPirates and Mutiny by Laura NelsonRiders to the Sea by Prabir Kumar RathSail Away by Mariah LyndeThe Salt Cartographer by Ky-oh RangiPoetry By:Dr. Thomas S....

Nei selvaggi Monti Lebombo, in Sudafrica, Ralph e Robyn Ballantyne cercano di sfuggire al malvagio Josef Gerhard, uno scienziato senza scrupoli e assetato di potere che ha combinato il dna di predatori moderni e preistorici, riportando in vita dei mostri che si credevano estinti milioni di anni fa.I suoi temibili predasauri artificiali, però, hanno scatenato un virus letale che ora minaccia di annientare l’umanità, e solo i due fratelli Ballantyne hanno le prove pe...

In this boxset you will find three titles in the beloved Poppy Denby Investigates series from author Fiona Veitch Smith. Perfect for fans of Verity Bright, Helena Dixon and T.E. Kinsey.A Front-Page Murder**:**London, 1920. Starry-eyed aspiring reporter Poppy Denby swapped her quiet northern hometown for the Big Smoke to act as companion for her ailing (but ever-sharp) Aunt Dot, a pi...

God Doing the Extraordinary Through Ordinary Men and WomenWhat does it look like to follow God to the nations? In a world where the call to missions can feel distant or reserved for a select few, To the Nations presents true stories of ordinary believers demonstrating extraordinary faith in some of the most challenging places on earth.These stories—told by contemporary missionaries from their fields of service—tell of adventure, challenge, sacrific...

In The Leaving Gene**, Huck Smith turns toward one of the central questions of his life: what does it mean to be someone who leaves?**A memoir-in-essays about staying, going, and the cost of both, The Leaving Gene examines leaving as wound, inheritance, coping mechanism, and survival skill. Through essays about family history, grief, chosen family, queer identity, singlehood, friendship, r...

The book describes my journey trying to pave a better way for my children and the different obstacles that came my way. Sleeping on the floor in a blanket, not having a place to live consistently, Working fulltime and going to school full time so that I can get my tuition paid. learning to say less and just keep moving against all odds. This is my story. Striving to attain the American dream that so many people speak about. It describes the tears, the hard work, the loneliness and sometime...

What would you do if your "mostly fine" life suddenly flipped upside down, leaving you at a crossroad you never saw coming?Enter Maddie Brown: slightly frazzled empty nester, and, thanks to a class reunion, now smack-dab in the middle of a swirling mess of old flames, family drama, and one impossible-to-ignore second chance.Between dodging the ghosts of University Past and navigating her husband's secrets, flying off to Bali in search of her missing son Ed and saving her fa...

It's 1987.I wake up alone on the desert floor with no memory of who I am… or how I got there.I don't know my name. I don't know the date. I don't even know if someone left me there to die.With no choice but to keep moving, I eventually find help in the unlikeliest of strangers. Brooks Butler offers me a fresh start in a small town where no one asks too many questions. He's running from a painful past of his own. I'm running from one I can't even remember.

It's fifteen years after the Norsunder War. David, one of Detlev's boys, is no longer a boy. He's a man in his early thirties, having served since the war as a teacher and guide at the tiny dyranarya school, revived after a four thousand year hiatus—without having achieved a dyr himself. Much as he loves his work, he is aware that this is not his life path.So, what is? At loose ends presently, his last student having gone off to a new life, he agrees to check out some rumors in the...

Write to Survive! is a collection of interviews and original prose from those who have experienced homelessness as young people growing up in California. Their stories convey the struggle, triumph and aftermath of young lives lived without a safety net and with no clear direction home. Told by a diverse group of survivors and caregivers, Write to Survive! explores how young people find themselves homeless, how they endure the experience and how they overcome.

Rosalie Fenton, the Dowager Countess of Altonvale was turning forty years of age and despite her widowed status, she had never been kissed. The Earl of Altonvale placed patriotic duty before the obligations of his title and the day he married Rosalie in 1804 was the day he left for France, never to return. Deciding enough was enough, Rosalie decided it was time she took a lover.Lord Archibald 'Archie' Williamson, the second son of...

Some girls fall for the villain; she falls into entire worlds.Bound to a prophecy that marks her for death, Seraphine transports to places that shouldn't exist every time she closes her eyes. They're realms filled with magic and monsters―and one cursed man who was never meant to lay eyes on her.Royal is cold, powerful, and dangerous. He's the king of his forbidden world; guarded by dragons, no one is allowed in or out. Seraphine doesn't understand why she c...