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War of 1812: Writings from America’s Second War of Independence (LOA #232) [EPUB ebook] 

The amazing true story of Blackbeard, Calico Jack and all the other pirates of the Caribbean and Captain Woodes Rogers, the privateer turned governor of the Bahamas, who brought them to book. ”Both …

In this life-affirming book, author David Shaw explores ten major themes that affect us all – and offers a unique way to engage with them.Whether it’s fear or forgiveness, credence or clarity, materi …

A novel chronicle that speaks of cruelty and torture in Uzbekistan. …

On September 11th2001, 32-year-old Elizabeth Turner was working at Channel 4 when news broke of the attacks on the World Trade Centre. Surrounded by TV screens, like her colleagues, she watched as th …

‘I could hardly believe my eyes. A cold mantle of white was rapidly transforming our sunny paradise into a bizarre winterscape of citrus Christmas trees, cotton wool palms and snowball oranges.’ When …

_____________ A charming account of the life of Dorice Greenfield; dancer, wife, mother and now, author. At fifteen, Dorice runs away from her evacuated school campus, and the relative safety of the …

How did a big-game fishing trip rudely interrupted by sharks inspire one of the key scenes in Hemingway”s The Old Man and the Sea? How did Robert Louis Stevenson”s cruise to the cannibal-infested S …

A former Chicago cop exposes shocking truths about the abuses of power within the city”s police department in this memoir of violence, drugs, and men with badges. Juarez becomes a police officer bec …