The book chronicles Jim and Joans fiftieth-year anniversary of marriage. There are celebrations of all typesspiritual, religious, traveling, family vacations.

THE STORY... An Irish alcoholic father walks out on his wife and daughter. Falls in love with his soulmate. After successfully fulfilling his dream as a writer, recovers from alcoholism, and spends his life trying to build a relationship with his daughter. THE PEOPLE... Jimmy Francis McGettigan-husband and father. The three women in his life, Maureen-his wife. Delanie-his daughter. Quinn-his soulmate. THE PLACE... Galway, Ireland where Jimmy is born. As his alcoholism develops, he becomes ...

Take a tour across America for some haunted hospitality with this collection of stories about hotels and inns that cater to guests from the other side.Frances Kermeen bought the Myrtles Plantation of St. Francisville, LA, with the dream of turning the historic site into a cozy inn. But she was shocked to discover that the property was haunted. Instead of losing customers, however, business exploded.Since then, Kermeen has traveled to over 150 haunted inns a...

After many happy years of marriage and raising a family, Brian and Kathleen suddenly find themselves a bit lost in life. Midwesterners who’ve never traveled, Kathleen decides that what she and Brian need is a vacation, and with the help of an enthusiastic travel agent she plans a trip to Ireland in search of her roots. In beautiful, quaint Lisdoonvarna, to the couple’s surprise, they find themselves in the midst of a joyous yearly gathering dedicated to celebrating the life and work of a l...

A gripping short story from master storyteller and #1 New York Times bestseller Jeffrey Archer, released for the first time as a stand-alone e-original.#1 New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Archer again conquers the short story form in the thrilling Never Stop on the Motorway. This classic story will have readers’ hearts racing along with single mother Diana, attempting to escape a dangerous van on the highway. However, the unplanned high-s...

Causeway is Linden MacIntyre’s evocative memoir of his Cape Breton childhood. At once a vibrant coming-of-age story, a portrait of a vanishing way of life and a reflection on fathers and sons, the narrative revolves around the construction of the Canso Causeway that would link the small Cape Breton village of MacIntyre’s childhood to the wide world of the mainland. Shot through with humour, humanity and vivid characters, Causeway is an extraordinary book, a memoir that ha...

The Iron Butt Rally, run every two years by the Iron Butt Association, is regarded as the ‘world’s toughest motorcycle Rally’, the Olympics of long-distance motorcycle-riding. Riders are given a long list of bonus locations; points are awarded for each bonus location ‘captured’, with higher points for more difficult / distant locations; and riders must make it back to St Louis within a strict time-frame, each covering in excess of 11,000 miles in 11 days. Selected from thousands of applica...

The Land Of Fun & Sun: As the story goes, Hollywood grew and prospered and with it, the local resorts, country clubs, and tennis facilities until everything was so overcrowded, so expensive and so exclusive that even the members of the Hollywood movie colony found it difficult to get some peace and relaxation. Two of those celebrities, Charlie Farrell and Ralph Bellamy, began to look for something better. They found it in a small, sun-drenched community in the desert east of Los Angeles a pla...

In 1912, Carl Stearns Clancy undertook the longest, most difficult and most perilous journey ever attempted on a motorcycle. By June 1913 he had made history, becoming the first person ever to travel round the world on a motorbike. A century on, bestselling author and biker Geoff Hill recreates Clancy’s historic journey and ends up on the road trip of a lifetime. Following the same route, and with Clancy’s account of the journey echoing in his head, Geoff travels through Europe and north A...

Ten for the Road gives you a mix of travel and adventure stories and observations drawn from my many years of motorcycle jaunts throughout the United States and Canada to popular destinations and rides down roads less traveled.Even if you don't ride a motorcycle, you'll finds plenty of travel information, adventure stories and lots more to enjoy in this book.Experience with me…Visit Woodstock decades after the summer of 1969…View Bannerman Ca...

How a privileged son of Newfoundland became one of the world’s most efficient marijuana traffickers—and then gave it all up.An intriguing ad ran in the Employment Wanted section of a Toronto newspaper in February 2001:FORMER MARIJUANA SMUGGLER*Having successfully completed a ten-year sentence, incident free, for importing 75 tons of marijuana into the United States, I am now seeking a legal and legitimate means to support myself and my famil...

The Wish List is a quirky little gift book that sounds an irresistible call to get out there and start living. In the same chunky format as the authorfs bestselling 14,000 Things to Be Happy About, The Wish List presents a compulsively readable list of unexpected goals. There are wishes large--retrace Odysseus' route around the Mediterranean--and wishes small--find a genuine arrowhead. There are artistic wishes--write a sonnet. Athletic wishes--learn to box. Prac...