Great Westerns

After his surrender to the Royal Navy, Napoleon became the object of massive English public interest. He would live out his last years on the island of St. Helena without ever admitting to being a prisoner. This close study of Napoleon in captivity attempts to reconstruct an authentic portrait of the fallen emperor by examining contemporary documents and records of public opinion.

Do you want to learn about King Herod but don’t have the time or patience to read a thick book? Then this short and concise book “King Herod the Great: A Short Biography” is for you!! During King Herod’s life he has been credited with many great accomplishments and many horrendous acts, including the following: Prince of Galilee at the age of 25, Married the 17-year-old Hasmonean princess Mariamne for political gain, Along with the Romans, he drove out the Parthians when they invaded Judea and the region in 40 B.C., Killed the high priest of the Jews and his brother-in-law, ...

For five years, Ben Coates lived alongside a major channel of the river in Rotterdam, crossing it daily, swimming and sailing in its tributaries. In The Rhine, he sets out by bicycle from the Netherlands where it enters the North Sea, following it through Germany, France and Liechtenstein, to its source in the icy Alps. He explores the impact that the Rhine has had on European culture and history and finds out how influences have flowed along and across the river, shaping the people who live alongside it.

Will Cannon rides to Show Low, Arizona, to check on a shipment of lumber, and he finds some outlaws trying to take over the timber business in Arizona. Will enlists the help of two young men from Oregon to help fight the outlaws. Some ranchers join Will to fight India and his gang of cutthroats. Sam Blaze, The Lazarus Man, arrives from Springerville to help win the battle.Will sets thing right in Show Low and then rides the trail once again in search of the Blackman Gang.

Merle Warner is a real estate investor who has never had a permanent home of his own. When he decides to settle down, he contacts a matchmaker he finds in an old ad, telling her that he plans to travel to the location of his intended. Vanessa Acker isn't well-liked in Pinyon Falls because she's too aggressive for most people. She contacts the matchmaker several others in town rave about, hoping to relocate and start over.

Dorothy Gale doesn't know where she came from. She has only the vaguest memory of her life before landing in the dull, grey world of the vast Kansas prairie. Then a cyclone rips through the night and carries her, her dog, and the farmhouse somewhere a lot farther than Dorothy imagined. She's in a strange land that's apparently cursed, shrouded in shadow. And to get home, Dorothy needs to seek out a wizard, following a treacherous path and watch out for a never-ending list of dangers: forest beasts, witches, a cursed mercenary, and perhaps most dangerous of all, the wizard himself.

With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local, it is never too late to visit Andorra. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the ‘Greater Than a Tourist’ series, this book will give you candid travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

Unearth one of history's most enigmatic figures with Alexander the Great: The Journey of the Macedonian Conqueror Who United East and West. This book whisks you back to an era of unparalleled conquests and towering ambitions, redefining Alexander in a narrative that's both fresh and compelling.

Jake Jackson was a legend in the Old West. His ability with a gun was unmatched. His name brought hope to the oppressed and sent shivers of fear up the spines of outlaws. Jake Jackson was equally as revered among the Comanche where he was raised from an infant to become the Comanche warrior, White Wolf. There were many songs sung around campfires in Comanche villages praising his fierceness in battle. Jake Jackson could revert back to his Comanche ways in the blink of an eye when the situation demanded no mercy to those preying on the weak or unprotected.

Sheriff Harry Cosner and Undersheriff Harry Rutter fought Bill Hardee, a “demented criminal”, to bring justice to the raw frontier of Northeastern Montana. Bill was in the Valley County Jail in Glasgow, Montana, scheduled to be hung for the heinous murder of a teenage boy. He convinced the three other prisoners to escape with him.

Greater Than a Tourist - West Virginia USA by Amanda Wills offers the inside scoop on West Virginia. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this audiobook will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination. In this audiobook, you will discover advice that will help you throughout your stay.

Greater Than a Tourist- Sandakphu, West Bengal, India by Sananda Dasgupta offers the inside scoop on Sandakphu. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this book will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

Barbara Tate was 17 when she heard the whispered word that would change her life: Soho. It would take four years, but when she finally made it to the forbidden streets of Soho - just as London was recovering from the Second World War - things would never be the same. There, Barbara meets the beautiful and capricious Mae. When she takes a job as Mae's maid, Barbara imagines she'll be housekeeping. But down a shabby backstreet, she discovers the secret lives of Soho's working girls....

When did globalisation begin? Most observers have settled on 1492, the year Columbus discovered America. But as celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen shows, it was the year 1000, when for the first time new trade routes linked the entire globe, so an object could in theory circumnavigate the world. This was the 'big bang' of globalisation, which ushered in a new era of exploration and trade, and which paved the way for Europeans to dominate after Columbus reached America.

The end is approaching.... Can Jack West unravel the ancient secrets of the Five Greatest Warriors and save the world? With the end of the world fast approaching, Jack West Jnr must rebuild the final pieces of the fabled ancient Machine - the only thing that can prevent global catastrophe. But he is out of clues, out of leads...until he is presented with an ancient text about five unnamed warriors, great historical figures who were all in some way connected to the mysterious Machine.

Just as the big trees of the Pacific Northwest inspired the legend of Paul Bunyan, so did the Palouse Hills of southeastern Washington--where fantastic fields of wheat were raised on incredibly steep slopes--spawn tall tales about farmers, steamboat men, and the ingenious methods they used to get their grain to market. Though thirty-three-mule hitches and headers (whose downhill wheels were three times larger than the uphill ones) solved the harvesting problems, transporting the sacked grain two thousand vertical feet down to the steamboat landings took sheer genius.

Jake Jackson was a legend in the Old West. His ability with a gun was unmatched. His name brought hope to the oppressed and sent shivers of fear up the spines of outlaws. Jake Jackson was equally as revered among the Comanche where he was raised from an infant to become the Comanche Warrior, White Wolf. There were many songs sung around campfires in Comanche villages praising his fierceness in battle.

Do you want to learn about King George III but don’t have the time or patience to read a thick book? Then this is the short and concise book for you! In the book you will read about the many events that shaped the life and reign of the British king, including: First Hanoverian monarch of Britain to be born in England and to use English as his native tongue. Britain won the Seven Year’s War and greatly expanded the British Empire. Loss of the American colonies during the American Revolutionary War. Fostered growth in British agriculture. Funded the development of the world’s largest ...

Even promises of a new beginning come with a price. Daisy Miller was the belle of the ball until she was involved in scandal. Even her parents have disowned her and she has been reduced to living on the streets of Charleston. Then she overhears a professional matchmaker looking for mail-order brides. Could this be her chance to start over? Could there be a place she could overcome her shame? Ellis Sanders and Lee Chapman are successful businessmen, but each of their past mistakes have the potential to destroy their futures. Though not actively searching for a bride, they’re both smitten ...

Greater Than a Tourist - Lausanne Vaud Switzerland, by Maria Meliné Indjeian Diaz, offers the inside scoop on Lausanne. This audiobook will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.