Asia Adventure

The remarkable story of the heroic effort to save and preserve Afghanistan's wildlife - and a culture that derives immense pride and a sense of national identity from its natural landscape.

Join the How to Catch kids as they try to catch a notorious dragon by setting trap after trap during the Spring Festival, also known as the Chinese New Year!

Embark on a thrilling journey to the remote jungle temples of Laos and Cambodia with renowned author Rose Hawthorne.When a familiar symbol on a shard of ancient glass piques her interest, Rose sets out to unravel its mysteries, leading her and her daughter Holly and granddaughter Samantha on an adventure through the jungles of Laos and Cambodia. With the help of a knowledgeable professor and Holly's ex-husband, this daring team will stop at nothing to uncover the truth behind the glass. But as they delve deeper, they must also confront personal demons and find closure from events in their ...

Twelve-year old Lia Park just wants to fit in. Her parents work with a mysterious organization that makes them ridiculously overprotective. Lia’s every move has been scrutinized since she was born, and she’d love to have the option of doing something exciting for once. So when she gets invited to the biggest birthday party of the year—and her parents say she can’t go—Lia sneaks out. But her first act of rebellion not only breaks her parents’ rules, but also an ancient protection spell, allowing an evil diviner spirit to kidnap and ransom her parents for a powerful jewel.

From pirates battling sea spirits to ongoing futuristic wars. Sacrifices will be made and lives will be lost. As these characters weave through their own adventures, their honor may be questioned. But what would you give to live to see another day? This anthology focuses on East Asian warriors. Featuring stories by A.N. Myers, Belinda Crawford, Barend Nieuwstraten III, Edgar Mahaffey, Bethany van Sterling, and Lillian Csernica.

This is a story of a father and his teenage son and daughter solving a mystery deep in Burma. The mystery involves an unknown language and Christian faith. Join the adventure as they travel in Asia and discover amazing things in a remote valley in the jungle. The mother and another son join the adventure and share a wonderful experience, a solved mystery, and a joyful homecoming. Join this scientific and linguistic mystery hunt! Ages 10-14.

The electrifying sequel to THE OPENER! Don Rouse is young, rich, happily married and lives the life of a jet-setting expatriate in Southeast Asia. He also happens to be a master con artist, a manipulative swindler who controls a fictitious firm that convinces unsuspecting clients to place all their money into bogus investment opportunities. Aided by corrupt government officials, crooked cops, and unscrupulous bankers, Don lives a whimsical life of leisure and luxury with his alluring wife Jessica. When a mundane business meeting suddenly turns deadly, Don must use all of his cunning and ...

Greater Than a Tourist - Israel, by Lilia Gaufberg, offers the inside scoop on what to experience while traveling in Israel. This audiobook will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

China: 1200 AD. Guo Jing has confronted Apothecary Huang, his sweetheart Lotus' father, on Peach Blossom Island, and bested the villainous Gallant Ouyang in three trials to win her hand in marriage. But now, along with his sworn brother, Zhou Botong of the Quanzhen Sect, and his shifu, Count Seven Hong, chief of the Beggar Clan, he has walked into a trap. Tricked by Huang into boarding an unseaworthy barge, they will surely drown unless Lotus - who has overheard her father's plans - can find a way to save them.

Watch out, Stanley! Ouch! Stanley accidentally caused twin acrobats Yin and Yang to take a tumble, right before their Chinese New Year show. Yang's foot is broken, but luckily Flat Stanley is flexible enough to take his place. To make up for his mistake, Stanley travels to China to help out, but can he learn all their amazing tricks in time?

Rogue Policemen. Soulless Gangsters. Lethal Drugs. Samantha Townsend appears to have a perfect life. Married to her loving husband Michael Townsend, Q.C., and living in a $25 million mansion, life has never been better… until Michael is murdered in cold blood by the Hong Kong Triad. She. Vows. Revenge. Still, it won’t be so easy. The Triad is a highly dangerous organization that stretches across the world. Drug smuggling, trafficking, and blackmailing are in the mob’s DNA, but Samantha’s coming to serve them justice…her style of justice. Karma.Is.Revenge If you like intrigue, high...

An Enemies to Lovers, Action & Adventure Romance. She shot him. He arrested her. A match-made in …NOT heaven? FBI Special Agent Cassie O'Brian and Navy SEAL Raj Gupta are in a high-stakes game of passion and pursuit. Their tumultuous relationship begins with an unexpected gunshot wound during an arrest gone wrong. Every second they're forced together sparks fly. But they're battling more than bullets and terrorists—it's their own stubbornness and a matchmaking mother determined to bring them together. As Cassie and Raj race to uncover a secret terrorist group, their feelings cross a ...

“Overall . . . a book in which to lose oneself, as the prose is dense in detail and steeped in atmosphere . . . a book by a writer who is clearly having fun. A worthy contribution to its genre, tailor-made for armchair Indiana Joneses.” Kirkus Reviews, December 4, 2024 “Epic-scale, action-packed, historical adventure novel with a ‘you-are-there’ feel!” D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review "RECOMMEND!" Passionately rendered. Memorable characters. Unrelenting conflict." Kate Robinson, US Review of Books "Amazing! Epic! 5 Stars out of 5 Stars!” Online Book Club “A ...

When Darin Dunn first moved to Thailand at age 22, little did he know all the adventures in store for him. In listening to this book, you will find yourself smelling the environments, tasting the food, and feeling the joy and frustration that he experienced as he made his way across the Lao frontier, down the Mekong River, through insurgent military camps in Myanmar, kayaking the mangrove forests of Southern Thailand, and dodging landmines in Cambodia and Myanmar.

Born with an insatiable wanderlust and inspired by an addiction to travel writing, but restricted by the demands of a full time job, Matthew Lightfoot set out to explore the world using his annual holiday allowance. The Two Week Traveller tells the tales of his adventures in almost 150 countries. Often described as ‘one of those people that things just happen to’, he lives up to his reputation with a collection of humorous, hair-raising and thought-provoking travel tales that span the entire globe. Being chased by rogue elephants and robbed at gunpoint by a stoned policeman; ...

Complete Edition Containing Shadow’s Rise, Shadow’s Descent, and Lords of Light! Yip Chi Chuan, a young martial and spiritual ascetic, must flee as the only home he has ever known, the ancient monastery of the Priests of K’un Lun, is destroyed by a newly ascendant extradimensional evil. Cast out and alone, Yip strikes out on a quest spanning the breadth of his home world of Ea’ae and into the greater macroverse beyond in an attempt to unseat an all-consuming Darkness rooted in his once vaunted order’s distant past. Will Yip, the last of his kind to walk the wide world beyond his ...

An interstellar assassin finds himself on the other end of the blade. His killer, the one person he thought he could trust. His only hope of survival, the technopathic abilities that had made him an outcast. Turns out Jin’s would-be killer is the genetically altered assassin, Black Mamba. Now his only goal is to stay alive long enough to find out who wants him dead. And with her help, maybe he can beat the odds. Dragging Mamba along for a joyride through the Venus sector, a sexed-up province of space run by women, he finds himself intoxicated by more than just her venom. But time’s ...

"A smart, magnetism-driven SF/fantasy tale that gives a new series admirable power." — Kirkus "A fantastic new YA Fantasy that fans of The Poppy War by R.F Kuang will love." — Independent Book Review "A literary diamond begging for you to unearth it." — Indies Today When the sun rains fire down from the sky, only a Faradant can keep you alive... Three hundred years after the radical upheaval of the Earth’s magnetosphere, a cataclysmic event known as The Shift, the remnants of humanity struggle to endure. The world’s middle latitudes are uninhabitable, bombarded by lethal levels of...

“Great Tits I’ve Known (And Other Species)” is the new edition of “Collected Selected Words” and is a combination of travel, memoir, autobiography and fiction, taking in three countries on its travels. It is also a book for ornithologists. Its humour and satire travel the world even ending up on the island of Cuba. Cambodia makes an appearance, too, and its hornbills get noisy. Overshadowing the book are the grim islands of Great Britain and the long Italian peninsular, but undaunted Jonathan Finch sings a song few birds can sing which embraces Thailand and especially Pattaya and ...

“Darkcliff is obviously a master storyteller, knowing how to keep the reader riveted the whole time.” - Jason P. Crawford, Amazon reviewer Mortals die easily. Gods must be killed twice. When he moves to Turkey, Braze prevents a suicide attempt and falls for a local girl - two mistakes with horrific consequences. As they plunge into a spiral of madness and depravity, Braze and the beautiful Mehpare understand why that man wanted to kill himself. A mysterious stranger stalks them during the day. At night, evil magic traps them in a temple that should have never been built. Their failing ...