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A Funding Guide for Explorers, Adventurers, and Would-Be World Travelers
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Christopher Columbus needed a sponsor for a dangerous expedition, but the king of Portugal wasn’t interested. He repackaged his proposal for the queen of Spain. She put Columbus on retainer, and the rest is history. Columbus may not have been the first to discover America, but he had a great publicist.
That’s...
Manhunters
Criminal Profilers and Their Search for the World?s Most Wanted Serial Killers
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Author Colin Wilson opens this illuminating psychological discussion with the development of the 1977 Behavioral Science Unit, which was set up in order to answer the many questions surrounding serial killers: How does someone become a serial killer? How do they choose their victims, and why do they...
We Wanted to Be Writers
Life, Love, and Literature at the Iowa Writers' Workshop
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
We Wanted to be Writers is a rollicking and insightful blend of original interviews, commentary, advice, gossip, anecdotes, analyses, history, and asides with nearly thirty graduates and teachers at the now legendary Iowa Writers' Workshop between 1974 and 1978. Among the talents that emerged in those...
To Knit or Not to Knit
Helpful and Humorous Hints for the Passionate Knitter
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
To Knit or Not to Knit is a unique Dear Abby/mini-knitting essay collection, offering humorous tales of triumph and terror on the needles, with a witty nod to the famous and infamous throughout history.
As Mrs. Wicks happily quotes everyone from William Shakespeare to Beatrix Potter, she adds...
Literary Miscellany
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Wouldn’t it be great to be a fly on the wall as the great writers took pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard)? While reading this work, you’ll be just that. Here are behind-the-book stories and facts about authors, publishing and everything literary that will entertain both casual and serious readers....
by Steven D. Price
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Quotations from famous authors about the writing process—to inspire you, advise you, or just make you laugh.
“Writing is easy; all you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until the drops of blood form on your forehead.” —Gene Fowler
Anyone who has ever wanted—or been...
The Enchantment of New York
75 of Manhattan?s Most Magical and Unique Attractions
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
New York is the city where every visitor and native is bound to fall in love-whether with the thousands of colorful yellow cabs, the aromas of foods from every culture sizzling, or a secluded, relaxing spot hidden among the skyscrapers. It is the ultimate melting pot, and it is overflowing with magic...
by Edward Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
For fans of Don DeLillo and Joseph O’Neill, an enthralling debut about the one percent, what they’ll do to stay on top, and the callous gaze they turn on those below them.
Burned-out and alienated, Kilgore associate attorney Stephen Harker spends his work days defending insurance companies...
Wicked Leaks
A Thriller
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
A Wickedly Funny Thriller about a Website Leaking Government Secrets, a Man Who Claims to Have Killed Princess Diana, and a Nurse on the Run for Her Life
Assigned to care for a terminally-ill patient who claims to have killed Princess Diana, nurse Kelly Carter dismisses him as nothing more...
Where the Sun Shines Out
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
A raw, unflinching literary debut for fans of Dennis Lehane and Tom Franklin examining the aftershocks of survival, and the price of salvation.
In the blue-collar town of Chittenango, New York, two young boys are abducted from a local festival and taken to a cabin in the woods. One is kept;...
A Pint of Plain
Tradition, Change, and the Fate of the Irish Pub
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
After meeting an Irishwoman in London and moving to Dublin, Bill Barich?a “blow-in,” or stranger, in Irish parlance?found himself looking for a traditional Irish pub to be his local. There are nearly 12,000 pubs in Ireland, so he appeared to have plenty of choices. He wanted a pub like the one...
Long Way Home
On the Trail of Steinbeck's America
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
“We do not take a trip; a trip takes us,” John Steinbeck noted in his 1962 classic, Travels with Charley. In 2008, Bill Barich decided to explore the mood of the United States as Steinbeck had done almost a half century before. He set off on a 5,943 mile cross-country drive from New York to his...
by Myles Dungan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
From the Emerald Isle to the Wild West—true tales of the Irish who forged the American frontier in “a very enjoyable romp through the tumbleweed” (The Irish Story).
Everyone knows how the Irish came to America in the 1800s seeking a new life. But less known are the stories of the Irish immigrants...
The Volunteer
The Incredible True Story of an Israeli Spy on the Trail of International Terrorists
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2007
He came to Israel a stranger, but would soon join the Mossad in its fight against terror—in this “insider’s wrenching insight into a very private club” (Jewish Book World).
When Canadian army veteran Michael Ross decided to go backpacking across Europe, he had no inkling that his vacation...