Bookventure: 241 books

In 1954 the author, aged 18, spent a year as an 'au pair' in a French chateau. From there she went to East Berlin at the height of the Cold War to work for two years as a translator. During these two years she travelled to Moscow and across Siberia and Mongolia to China. In 1958 she spent seven months...

'To Blossom out from Hiding' - Especially for Woman, addresses and examines this phenomenon and aims to open eyes to certain truths which have been discounted and ignored, and to bring those truths front and center. It guides to explore and examine feelings and opinions which have remained undisclosed and unspoken.

Duane Kinkade's search for his father leads him to the Confederate Army at Corinth, Mississippi, and into battle near a church called Shiloh at a place called Pittsburg Landing. The circumstances of battle land him with the Union Army in the care of an army surgeon.UP FORM CORINTH is the story of that...

Duane's decision to set out on his own to join Bragg's army at Tullahoma proves to be a mistake when a rapid chain of events carries him to Lee's Army of Northern Virginia in its winter camp around Fredericksburg.As 1863 stretches into summer, the army moves north into Pennsylvania. Duane finds himself crossing the valley at Gettysburg in a great charge against the Union Center on Cemetery Ridge.

Tradition had the League of Star Warriors being rooted in the Tejas Rangers of the Statea United on the mythical First Earth. However, while the Tejas Rangers rode horses over the vast wastelands of a single planet, Star Warriors flew and lived on their thunderturkies, as their class of battle starships...

My name is Lillith Kern. I was stolen away from my father when I was four years old. I am a princess my bloodline goes back to the vampire goddess herself. It took a long time for my father to find me. When he did and I went home with my friends the Misfits. This was the beginning of me become the...

Michael came back from England with more than just a hangover.Having just survived a car accident on returning to Australia musician and part time article writer Michael Taylor is looking forward to well needed recuperation. Yet there are those strange dreams of his and the maddening thirst. Also that...

This is a memoir of my career written from a peculiar point of view, indicated by the title.During my teaching career, I was a teacher of the Greek and Latin classics and also a teacher of classical Greek philosophy, particularly that of Plato. The memoir is basically the story of taking on three somewhat...

An innocent beauty Hannah Burnes has spent six months in hiding from a past that is relentlessly chasing her down. With no-one to trust, alone she must find a way to prove her innocence and free her brother from a framed conviction.Wealthy detective Deklin Routh, with a heart of a hero, knows what he...

This is the story of a Kanaka, a Samoan warrior caught up in the illegal practice of Blackbirding to acquire pacific islanders as unpaid workers.Mel Milo is the son of the king of Samoa. His life of privilege came to a sudden end when he was taken aboard a slave ship bound for the cane fields in the...

Between 1994 and 1997, Canadian company Bre-X Minerals, sponsored and promoted to listings on the TSX and NASDAQ by JPMorgan, Lehman, BMO, and others, was exploring for gold on the Busang property on the Indonesian island of Borneo.Bre-X's efforts bore the discovery of a lifetime: a mammoth deposit estimated...

In The Caliph's Favorite, author Naava Mashiah sets her work of historical fiction in Andalusia, Spain, during the Muslim Caliphate of Abd al Rahman III at Medina al Zahra. The Caliph ruled with his vizier, Hasdai Ibn Shaprut, a devout Jew, by his side. In Cordoba's atmosphere of peaceful-coexistence,...

Dangerous Journey is a story of two friends who set out on an adventure to race their vintage Corvette in the Moscow to Beijing Road Race and end up as the means for al-Qaeda to make nuclear bombs to destroy ten famous American landmarks and to kill millions of Americans.When nuclear scientists Dr....

Cruise Ship Murders tells the story of two retired couples, Sonny and Jane and Gene and Susan, who are taking their lifelong dream of a world cruise to all seven continents. They planned and dreamed about taking this trip for a very long time to see places they had only read about in books or seen...