Francis Drake 
Sir Francis Drake, Description of His Landing at Drake’s Bay, Marin County, California, June 17, 1579 [PDF ebook] 

"Hero-Tales of Ireland" by Jeremiah Curtin is a captivating collection of Irish folklore and mythology that celebrates the rich tapestry of Celtic culture and heritage. Curtin skillfully we …

Thirty years ago, Abel Truman found himself on the wrong side in the Battle of the Wilderness, one of the bloodiest clashes of the American Civil War. Its aftermath took him to the edge of the contin …

When Bella, an internationally known fashion photographer, dazzling and aloof, is forced to return to Nairobi to care for her teenage niece and nephew, she feels an unfamiliar surge of protectiveness …

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It”s been years since Skye Elliot has seen her biological father. He left when she was twelve, breaking her heart, and her life has not exactly been going uphill since. A drug user and alcoholic, Sk …

‘Conjuring a wartime Berlin where atrocities get lost against a ground of escalating Holocaust and crumbling rationales, Chris Petit’s nerve-wracking S.S. procedural nurses a dread that penetrates ri …

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It is the summer of 1939, and Dennis and Kathie Hawthorne, who run Westways, a village market garden, are utterly content. But when war arrives, Dennis, a member of the TA, is called up immediately, …

‘Dr. Deborah Serach Gold died on the cross sometime during a night of freezing rain in late October of my last year at Three. It probably wasn”t the worst thing that happened to her that day, but it …