Bookventure: 241 books

After eight years as a pilot in the Royal Navy flying jet aircraft from the decks of aircraft carriers, the writer moved to a new challenge---that of starting a farm in the wilds of the African bush in Northern Rhodesia. After nearly twenty years as a successful farmer growing tobacco and maize and...

1980's - The Texas war on drugs.Drug dealers have taken control local Texas governments and are sending innocent police officers to prison.Eddie Donevan, former Air Force Fighter pilot and veteran of the drug wars in Southeast Asia, is trying to save his career in law enforcement.A tight-knit group of...

Poetry is so personal. It is hard to convince readers to take the time to feel the words, not just read them. The Eighth Wonder of the World presents something we all possess and don't realize its value. So, for this fourth book, The Eleventh Wonder of the World, to resonate with the buyer/reader,...

This book was written primarily for those young people; both, boys and girls and their parents and/or mentors who, for whatever reason believe they have no chance at a successful life. This book is the story about a young boy who believed he was in that category while growing up. I hope you will continue...

The way businesses reward their employees needs to adapt for the digital age. Jobs are changing fast and employees now expect more than just financial reward. Reward is part of a complex eco-system but is still managed as if it were predictable like a clock. Because it depends on human behaviour it is...

This book is the second of a series of six, which focuses on the emotional experiences of the author's journeys through life. The main metaphor is a tree, of which the 'narrowing straight' is the trunk. The branches are the 'offshoots', the various tracks of his life. The leaves are his emotional...

As you can see there's a vase. The vase also has a face turning it sideways, there's a fish to add to the face making a fish face. From the fishes' mouth, there's a scute. The scute is also a daisy accompanying the vase. It's shooting fish in a vase because if you know farms are land locked and you don't have any other way of eating protein found in fish there.

As I witness day is born. I breathe new life. Into a world unknown. Let there be eternal light over darkness. Each dawn brings new life. The day that starts the part. May time be filled with star filled days. With each new dawn I breathe new life. Now my soul is filled to the last rights. My journey is just the tip of the ice. My journey as a poet is never over.

This book represent a piece of me in my quest for what inspires me it could be the beach or reading about different authors in their lively work these are also through my experiences with the things I experienced in life.

This book is about the author's unrevealed emotional experiences, which are manifest only by the poetic writings. The book's metaphor is that of the Roman God, Janus, with the two faces of the God facing in opposite directions representing the two distinct perceptions of the emotional expressions...

Let Us Give Thanks is a collection of everyday experiences that we go through without even thinking about them. Like seeing a fire truck speeding passed us on the street, without even giving thanks for these people who protect us in times of dire need. Or family and friends who lift us up when we...

What could make a person become a poet? It wasn't my first idea, originally I wanted to be an archeologistspecializing in Egyptology when I was in middle school I studied everything I could about the culture the history and even how to read hieroglyphs but for all my studies and hard work fate had a...

This book is a result of entertaining various audiences over 60 some years by Mr. Ellis. 'My hope is that much laughter is generated in these pages. The patience of my wife, who's heard most of these jokes numerous times is much appreciated. My thanks go out to the folks who laughed at the audacity of...

Will Will and Me contains eight fictional stories about the amusing actions of grade-school boys in the 1950s and '60s. The first story tells how Will Will, the main character, gets his peculiar name. The next three describe Will Will's mischief, which gets him and his pal, Johnny, into ridiculous predicaments....