First Published in 1968. This book charts the sea voyages of John Tradescant the Elder, Sir Hugh Willoughby, Richard Chancellor, Nelson and Others. Starting at the mouth of Dwina in 1553 and ending with expeditions for the Russia Company from 1612 and an account of the companions of Tradescant in his voyage to Archangel.

Questions of company governance have been examined over the years, but this has generally been in areas concerning shareholders. Meanwhile the management team and board of directors remain comparatively unexplored. This book has been written to provide a way into this relatively unknown world of executive committees.

International efforts to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD)—including nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons—rest upon foundations provided by global treaties such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). Over time, however, states have created a number of other mechanisms for organizing international cooperation to promote nonproliferation. Examples range from regional efforts to various worldwide export-control regim...

Book Two of The Ravenshaw Chronicles. Boston, 1722. The harbor runs on tar, tide, and trust-until "respectable" losses begin happening with uncanny precision. Elizabeth Fairchild arrives quietly from the south carrying fragments of proof and a vow to stop Edmund Ravenshaw, the polished predator who steals like a merchant and vanishes like a ghost. Edmund has reinvented himself as a gentleman agent, trading in manifests, favors, and borrowed names; his hands stay clean while other men do th...

In 2015, Alabama state researcher Claire Whitaker finds an impossible anomaly: a thirty-mile radius around the small town of Cedar Hollow shows zero documented birth for two full years, 1946-1947. She assumes it's a reporting error, until courthouse ledgers, church books, and newspaper archives reveal the same blank gap. Claire travels to Cedar Hollow and partners with Thomas Reed, the town's guarded records clerk. As they interview residents, a stranger pattern emerges - no one can recall...

Book Three of Twenty Lives at War tells the Great War through 20 stand-alone stories-twenty ordinary people trapped in one extraordinary storm. A Kansas farm boy meets the trench line. A French baker hides ration bread for hungry children. A Harlem bandleader plays jazz for sleepless wounded men. A German conscript writes letters he cannot send. A Serbian girl runs messages through shelled streets. A nurse in a canvas hospital counts time by ambulances. A British chaplain bargains for one ...

Find encouragement and inspiration with 50 bits of wisdom from adorable, charming, and fluffy therapy chickens.Life can be profound but also funny, exasperating, and downright weird—much like living with a flock of hens. Drawing inspiration from her own flock, authorTedra Hamel’s charming chicken art will make you laugh and teach you to be a good companion. With 50 bits of wisdom throughout this beautifully illustrated book, you will learn h...

Legion of One: The Reincarnations of General George S. Patton is a cinematic WWII thriller for fans of the 1970 film Patton - a fresh, immersive portrait that follows Patton as he drives Third Army across Europe while flashes of past lives on legendary fields (Tyre, Crécy, Waterloo) shape every decision. As rain lashes Metz and ice grips the Ardennes, Patton turns speed into stewardship: bridges before headlines, bread before flags, engineers before glory. Mirroring ancien...

Set between 1926 and 1931, this story moves from San Francisco to Honolulu, where a newly opened luxury hotel promises perfection, discretion, and control. Its general manager, a man defined by discipline and restraint, is chosen not only to run the property but to protect its reputation at all costs. Every system is designed to eliminate disorder. Every detail is managed. But perfection, once established, becomes something that must be defended.As the hotel opens and begins attrac...

Book Three of The Caravello Family Saga. In 1968, Havana's neon glamour hides a disciplined criminal state, and Dominic Caravello wants more than survival-he wants expansion. While Dom courts Rome's grieving Rinaldi clan and probes New York's docks, his heir Sandro runs the island machine, balancing celebrity-fueled legitimacy, tightening security, and a romance that makes him human in the worst possible way. A Cuban security chief, a patient Italian investigator, a rumor-trading CIA opera...

Set between November 1892 and November 1922, this historical mystery unfolds across three decades, anchored in one of America's most enduring unsolved hotel deaths. The novel draws inspiration from the real-life case of Kate Morgan, a woman who checked into the Hotel del Coronado in 1892 under mysterious circumstances and was later found dead near the seaside stair, her death quickly labeled a suicide but never fully explained.Thirty years later, in 1922, a quiet and observant woma...

In this 2024 conversation with Justine Willis Toms, Tedra Hamel tells us that keeping chickens in an urban setting has become increasingly popular in recent years. They not only produce eggs, they give us the delightful pleasure of their company. When feeling stressed and anxious just take a moment or two to pull up a chair outside a chicken coop and let these feathered friends entertain you, erase your anxiety, and connect you to nature. Chickens are full of surprises in their intelligenc...