They’d won the battle and I held up the white flag of defeat… But the war wasn’t OVER. I suffered the aching loss of what they had stolen from me. OVER and OVER again, my heart broke. The white Queen and the black King had taken OVER the game and ruled for what seemed like eternity. Until one
An extraordinary story of an unknown China; This is Jim Fraser's story: an incredible, often chilling account of his life as an army deserter living through the terrible upheavals of the Cultural Revolution, when China descended into a moral and physical chaos so extreme that cannibalism became,
***PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS PART OF AN ANTHOLOGY*** This SHORT STORY (15k words) was previously published as part of the Heart2Heart Vol 2 Anthology but is now being offered as a single title since the anthology is no longer available. Please make sure you haven't already purchased this story as
Bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir tells the little-known story of Henry VIII’s fourth wife, as a grieving king chooses a bride sight unseen in the fourth novel in the epic and intrigue-filled Six Tudor Queens series. Newly widowed and the father of an infant son, Henry VIII
Colonel Abel Streight, hotly pursued by Nathan Bedford Forrest, pushed his command's tired mules and men towards the railroad near Rome, Georgia, in daring, dangerous, and sometimes comedic mounted Civil War raid in 1863. This book details the story of that raid.
A superb work of adventure and imagination, "The Call of the Wild" tells the compelling story of Buck, part St Bernard and part Scotch shepherd dog. "White Fang" (...) tells of the offspring of an Indian wolf-dog and a wolf.
In the tradition of political and cultural revelation V.S. Naipaul so brilliantly made his own in Among The Believers, A Turn In The South, his first book about the United States, is a revealing, disturbing, elegiac book about the American South -- from Atlanta to Charleston, Tallahassee to
I play fast and dirty, both on the field and in the bedroom. It's all a game. And this is one game I will win. Ava Bennett is stubborn, smart...and has a body that makes grown men weep. I haven't stopped thinking about her since that night. Five years ago. Now that fate has brought her back into
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters co-author Ben H. Winters is back with an all-new collaborator, legendary Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, and the result is Android Karenina—an enhanced edition of the classic love story set in a dystopian world of robots, cyborgs, and interstellar space travel.
Horses have a story to tell, one of resilience, sociability, and intelligence, and of partnership with human beings. In The Horse, the journalist and equestrienne Wendy Williams brings that story brilliantly to life. Williams chronicles the 56-million-year journey of horses as she visits with
