From the sun-scorched shores of the Mediterranean to the revolutionary battlefields of South America and Europe, one man's life burned with a ferocity that reshaped the modern world. This is the autobiography of Giuseppe Garibaldi, soldier, sailor, outlaw, and visionary, told in his own electrifying words. Born in Nice in 1807, Garibaldi spent his early decades navigating treacherous seas, fleeing death sentences, and fighting beneath foreign flags for causes he believed were worth dying f...

He fought with a sword in one hand and a dream in the other. Giuseppe Garibaldi, the legendary liberator of Italy, was not merely a soldier or a statesman. He was a force of nature, a man whose iron will and unshakeable belief in human freedom shaped the destiny of an entire nation. In this remarkable third volume of his autobiography, presented as a supplement to his full memoirs, readers are granted something extraordinarily rare: intimate access to the final chapters of a revolutionary ...

From the smoking ruins of the Roman Republic to the sunlit shores of a unified Italy, this is the story of a man who refused to let a nation die. Volume II of Giuseppe Garibaldi's own autobiography covers the years 1849 to 1872, the most electrifying and consequential decades of his extraordinary life. Here, in his own words, the legendary commander and liberator recounts the heartbreak of exile, the thunder of battle, and the slow, hard birth of a country forged from sacrifice and sheer h...

Across these fever-bright memoir fragments runs one restless life: a boy raised amid Florida dust, bruising humor, stubborn kin, and animal chaos grows into a young drifter chasing freedom through outlaw scrapes, broken loyalties, and the false glitter of Hollywood. Farm mischief ripens into roadside danger, cheap schemes, nightclubs, violence, and hard lessons, yet the voice remains alive to absurdity, tenderness, and sudden grace. Gritty, darkly comic, and deeply human, the story becomes...

Two thousand years after the coming of Jesus Christ, believers continue to find comfort in the lessons derived from his birth, ministry, crucifixion, and resurrection. Matthew — A Poetic Rendition: A New Beginning conveys those lessons in verse, helping us to follow in our Savior’s footsteps—footsteps that will lead us to eternal life.In these pages, every chapter of Matthew is distilled into poetry, each poem inviting readers to experience familiar passages with fresh eye...

From a majestic mermaid to a clay woman, the creator of glaciers to the mother of gardening, discover powerful wāhine and how their stories shaped the world around us.Wāhine introduces readers to twelve pūrākau of brave, bold, and inspiring women of Aotearoa.A beautifully illustrated collection that will delight the whole whānau, from award-winning illustrator Isobel Joy Te Aho-White.Praise for Isobel's previous collection, Whenua:...

Even the most restless reader will find peace and quiet in this breathtakingly illustrated book about the magic of nature, nighttime, and a duck who can’t sleep, based on a poem by the renowned author of Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White, which was published in The New Yorker in 1928 and now appears for the first time in book form.How surprised I was to seeA duck as wide awake as me.Long past bedtime, two creatures slee...

It started with a 3 am waking that made no sense. Then came the surge of anxiety behind the ribs, the hot flash in a cool room at noon, and the question you did not want to ask out loud: is this menopause, or am I falling apart? Every shelf offered a different answer, and the doctor said everything looked normal while you knew nothing felt normal at all.55 Tips for Menopause, Insomnia, and Anxiety connects the 3 problems most systems treat separately into 1 triangle. You will learn...

From Edgar Wallace's relentless pacing to John Buchan's espionage classic The Thirty-Nine Steps, this sweeping collection gathers thirty stories of danger, pursuit, and hidden agendas. Erskine Childers's proto-spy intrigue, Louis Joseph Vance's gentleman-crook capers, Mary Roberts Rinehart's had-I-but-known suspense, and William Le Queux's invasion thrillers sit alongside contributions from Henry Rider Haggard, G. K. Chesterton, and Edgar Rice Burroughs, tracing the suspense and thriller s...

From Edgar Allan Poe's pioneering tales of ratiocination to Arthur Conan Doyle's peerless detective fiction, this sweeping collection gathers thirty stories of crime, deduction, and hidden truth. Gaston Leroux's locked-room ingenuity, Maurice Leblanc's gentleman-thief capers, G. K. Chesterton's paradox-laden puzzles, and Wilkie Collins's sensation-novel suspense sit alongside contributions from Mark Twain, Jules Verne, and Thomas Hardy, tracing the mystery and investigation short story acr...

After a scream draws him into a house, a troubled narrator finds a woman in distress—then returns moments later to discover her dead, her real killer vanished, and himself marked by a dropped handkerchief and damning circumstantial evidence. Wrongly accused, convicted despite a sympathetic attorney's efforts, and denied a new trial, he enters prison bitterly aware of how easily innocence can be crushed by false testimony and fear. Inside, he is stripped, overworked, starved, and sent to so...

How the turmoil of revolution and war created the London we know today – the world’s first truly global city.The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars changed London beyond recognition, turning it into the capital of the world – the centre of international finance and trade. Victory over France in 1815 ushered in the ‘British Century’: the next hundred years would be defined by Britain’s capitalist innovation and financial might, naval supremacy and imperial amb...