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In the spring of 1884, Jack, an adventurous young man, packs his bags in Victoria, BC, and heads for the prairies, looking for a new life and hoping to get involved in an Indian war. Instead, he lucks into an exciting job in the fur trade and meets and befriends many of the great chiefs of the Cree nation, such as Poundmaker and Big Bear, and ends up between a bullet and a target when the North-West Rebellion erupts. After witnessing the historic...
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This early work by Talbot Mundy was originally published in 1917 and we are now republishing it as part of our WWI Centenary Series. 'Hira Singh : When India Came to Fight in Flanders' is a classic work of wartime novel about a regiment of Sikh cavalry who are captured in battle at Flanders in the early days of World War One. The men escape and make their way back to India, experiencing many adventures along the way. This book is part of the World...
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“Community Voices: Volume V 2024” is a collection of writings by recent graduates of The Story Center's Storytelling Certificate Program. The Storytelling Certificate Program helps people tell their stories, whether those stories are contemporary or historical, real or imagined. Free courses taught by practicing professionals help participants grow their stories from a spark of inspiration into a polished marketable product. Currently, a person...
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1898. The last of the Wild West's famous outlaws, Johnny Wargo and Dakota Sam, make a daring escape from a small West Texas jail. In a desperate effort to lay low, they make the hard decision to go their separate ways. Although occasional sightings were whispered from time to time, the legendary pair eventually faded into history.
Or, so it seemed.
1929. Retired after twenty-five years as a St. Louis school superintendent, Frank, now in his sixties,...
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The Bored and the Cross is Gregory Matthews's tale of triumph and tragedy, of loss and gain, of mistakes made and ones corrected. Gregory, born of tragedy, is raised by a single father. He grew to be a rebellious teen, swearing he'll never be like his dad, bent by a girlfriend's pry of running off to Bible College. It results in him getting bored with it all and she a broken heart. Gregory will decide to leave religion behind for what he thinks will...
66) Killing Ground
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A gripping tale of death, tragedy, survival, courage, love and resilience as we follow 3 lives struggling to escape death in the last year of W.W.-II while the Third Reich is pummeled into ruins.Against the backdrop of post-war Germany Joseph and his daughter Gabrielle emerge from peace-time starvation, his recovery from death defying wounds, 3 years as a P.O.W., while falling in love with Erika who must overcome rape and a bestial Nazi brother's...
67) Missing Sticks
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D-Day - Normandy - behind Utah Beach. Just after midnight the drop began. Come dawn, 18 C-47s and their paratroopers were missing. What could have the missing troopers accomplished if they had landed safely and engaged the enemy?MISSING STICKS tells one story.I have listened to and read accounts written by and about the paratroopers and glidermen, and their aircrews, and wondered who the missing men were. What could, what would the missing men have...
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This early work by Robert Thurston Hopkins and Forbes Phillips was originally published in 1916 and we are now republishing it as part of our WWI Centenary Series. 'War and the Weird' is a novel about strange occurrences on the front lines of the Great War. This book is part of the World War One Centenary series; creating, collating and reprinting new and old works of poetry, fiction, autobiography and analysis. The series forms a commemorative tribute...
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What If Teezae was an assassin?_ not so long ago a boy whose name was Vince had his parents killed by the government by such reason are still unknown, Vince vowed to avenge his parents as he found out the truth, he was adopted by a organisation that keeps the world from safe harm, the world is dirty and vile as this organisation cleans up the mess done by the government, they work in the shadows of earth, This organisation is known as The hidden shadows...
70) Project Firefly
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Secret Service Agent H. Hunter Mahoy interrogates an intruder caught climbing the White House fence. He learns that in two days' time, a top-secret aircraft prototype, code-named Project Firefly, is to be stolen during its maiden flight. The nuclear-powered 747 jumbo jet has endless range and almost unlimited capacity to remain aloft without the need to refuel. It also carries the latest airborne defense systems of the United States.
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Jack London, (12 de janeiro de 1876 à 22 de novembro de 1916), foi um autor americano de grande notoriedade.
Seu nome foi um pseudnimo; ele provavelmente nasceu como John Griffith Chaney.
O autor teve uma vida curta, porém muito produtiva.
Produziu centenas de contos, artigos e mais de 50 livros. Entre eles estão: O lobo do mar, Caninos brancos, A filha das neves.
Tornou-se um dos mais bem pagos escritores no início do século XX.
Seus livros...
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They went to Midian to barter their goods, when the old seer Nimit told them they would return. Moshe was the chosen one to face GOD, and when they returned to their village of Mitzpe Ramon in the southern Sinai plateaus, everything was dust.And so it was as had been predicted, they returned to Midian and Moshe climbed the holy mountain once climbed by Moses, and GOD instructed him to visit the city of those who kidnap humans and demand that the people...
74) Prior Knowledge
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Summer of 1966. The Vietnam war is reaching its height, and Sonny has just enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. On his way home from the recruiting office he meets Joe, a 15-year-old from New York City. The two teenagers form a strong bond and spend every day in each other's company until Sonny leaves for Vietnam.
Years later, Hendricks is on a flight home from the war. A chance encounter with a fellow veteran leads him to upstate New York...
75) The Fame Quest
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"From the shadows of struggle to the spotlight of success, Abigail's journey is a gripping tale of resilience and determination. Haunted by schizophrenia and fueled by an unquenchable thirst for fame, she dares to dream big. Will her unwavering spirit and creative passion be enough to overcome the obstacles and propel her to stardom?"
76) Breakaway
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The ongoing tensions in America have finally exploded and prompted a number of states to breakaway and align themselves with America's enemies where a brief but devastating war between those states and the union that remained ends in a fragile stalemate.
Navigating the turmoil of this uneasy truce through his trips to an ever-shifting front, John Emmett, a burnt-out combat medic, discovers a journal from a woman trapped in a breakaway state pleading...
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A Calan Kennett y a los hermanos Aldington les encanta inventarse juegos de mesa. Uno de ellos cambiará sus vidas para siempre llevándoles a un mundo totalmente desconocido repleto de criaturas increíbles y lugares hermosos por descubrir.Un Colgante Dorado, criaturas fantásticas, un mundo mágico y tres niños que se enfrentan a sus propios miedos, son los ingredientes de esta preciosa aventura. David Mateos: Nací en Madrid el 25 de agosto de...
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It's the year 213 NE, New Era. During an event called the Big Reset, any record of human history has been erased. All religious books have been burned. Even the memory of God has been abolished. Wulf Gungnirsson, an orphan left under an ash tree, dreams of a career in the Europolis, the World City that holds seventy billion people captive. Because work disappoints him, he begins to question himself and his society. After he meets the love of his life,...
79) The Sequel
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This early work by George A. Taylor was originally published in 1915 and we are now republishing it as part of our WWI Centenary Series. 'The Sequel' is a work of fiction about the Australian aviator, Lieutenant Jefson. The author concludes the preface to this book with these sentiments: 'The story is written to impress the people, with their great responsibilities in these wonderful days-when a century of incident is crowded into a month, when an...
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A collar that defines him as property. A weapon that could set his sister free.Enslaved teen Bensin promised his mother on her deathbed that he would free his little sister from the horrors of slavery. But when an escape attempt fails, their owners separate them, and Bensin is sold-powerless to protect the sister who needs him.His new owner, a martial arts coach, trains him to fight in tournaments. As Bensin's skills sharpen, so does his desperation,...
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