Historical Humor

He was named Don John Blackthorn, but his family call him Black Jack (although not within earshot), because of his mysterious ways, yes, but mostly because he allows no one close to him, reveals nothing of himself. But Jack has a problem, and her name is Tess Fonteneau. She's the daughter of his mentor in the fine art of clandestine adventure, and she sees him all too well. Now his mentor, his friend, this man who knows too many dangerous secrets, has disappeared, and it will take Jack and Tess both to find him, save him, before it is too late. Even if they both believe it's already too ...

Richard Milhous Nixon lived one of the most improbable lives of the 20th century. He faced down the Russians, the Chinese, and, ultimately, his own government. The man went from political mastermind to a national joke, sobbing in the Oval Office, leaving us with one burning question: How could he have lost it all? Here, for the first time, is the tale told in his own words: the terrifying supernatural secret he stumbled upon as a young man, the truth behind the Cold War, and the truth behind the Watergate cover-up.

But when Claire arrives in Cripple Creek, she realizes there are different definitions of adventure. As sickness wreaks havoc on her family, Claire suddenly finds herself an all-day caregiver. Her brief moments of relief come from her uncle Patrick’s handsome farmhand, Henry Adam. The connection between them is undeniable, and Claire is falling fast. But when Henry’s past come back to haunt him, Claire’s new world is turned upside down and she faces losing Henry forever. Only Claire’s faith in God will keep her going and give her the strength to fight for Henry’s very life and his...

There is very little that Lizzie Patterson wouldn’t do for those she cares about. That is especially true for her two neighbors in the quiet corner of the canyon that’s been her home for over fifty years and her refuge since she retired from the profession she loved but was more than ready to walk away from. Recently she’s accepted a role in a movie her first husband is producing after years of turning down all the other offers that came her way since her retirement. Many believe that her reason for doing so is because Clay Tobin has agreed to play the lead character in the same movie...

On November 9, 1989, Bernd Zeiger, a Stasi officer in the twilight of his career, is deteriorating from a mysterious illness. Alarmed by the disappearance of Lara, a young waitress at his regular café with whom he is obsessed, he chases a series of clues throughout Berlin. The details of Lara’s vanishing trigger flashbacks to his entanglement with Johannes Held, a physicist who, 25 years earlier, infiltrated an American research institute dedicated to weaponizing the paranormal.

It is 1940. France has fallen, and only a narrow strip of sea lies between Great Britain and invasion. The war could go either way, and everyone must do their bit. Young copywriter Catrin Cole is drafted into the Ministry of Information to help write women into propaganda films - something that the men aren't very good at. She is quickly seconded to the ministry's latest endeavor: a heartwarming tale of bravery and rescue at Dunkirk. It's all completely fabricated, of course, but what does that matter when the nation's morale is at stake?

This is the story of a drug deal gone bad. Having committed the crime of selling a potent poison to a desperate youth, a destitute apothecary must decide how to spend his ill-gained fortune. Resolving to start his career afresh, he flees to the city of Verona to set up a new shop of medicinal healing and alchemical discovery. Plans go awry when he finds himself in the middle of a woeful tragedy he had unwittingly helped to cause.

Sleepy Brat With Her Dearest Friend & A Stranger~ Abigail: A Sleep Sex With Permission Short An evening tryst leads to so much more... Abigail wants one thing, and confides in her best friend Jason. Now Jason sets out to give her what she so desires... She longs for this to happen yet again, but Jason has other ideas and invites another gentleman along, a stranger, a hired hand from the nearby farm... and things take a turn towards a full on menage! A Victorian friends with benefits story. Apprx. 5000 words.

Not only disappointed in love, but brutally and publicly punished for having reached so far above his supposed station in Society, Oliver "Beau" Blackthorn believes in two things. He will never be foolish enough to give his heart again. That, and revenge. Enter brave, cheeky, and desperate Lady Chelsea Mills-Beckman. Younger sister of the once love of Beau's life—and certain he's her only hope of escaping her brother's plans for her— she offers him the perfect path to his revenge. She and Beau will elope to Gretna Green. With the brother in hot pursuit, Beau questioning his own sanity ...

Spreading democracy takes more than cutting-edge military hardware. Winning the hearts and minds of a troubled nation is a special mission we give to bewildered young soldiers who can't speak the native language, don't know the customs, can't tell friends from enemies, and, in this wonderfully outrageous Iraq-era novel about Vietnam, wonder why they have to risk their lives spraying peanut plants, inoculating pigs, and hauling miracle rice seed for Ho Chi Minh.

Having fled Japanese-occupied Korea for the gleaming promise of the United States with nothing but four dollars and a suitcase full of Shakespeare to his name, the young, idealistic Chungpa Han arrives in a New York teeming with expatriates, businessmen, students, scholars, and indigents. Struggling to support his studies, he becomes a traveling salesman, a domestic worker, and a farmer, and observing along the way the idealism, greed, and shifting values of the industrializing 20th century. East Goes West casts a sharply satirical eye on the demands and perils of assimilation.

Lord Gascoigne, Le presento mi oferta con toda sinceridad… Sus deberes según los términos de este trato incluyen guiarme a través de las aguas turbulentas del Beau Monde. Confío en mis instintos, pero sería inútil sugerir que tengo experiencia en cómo se maneja la sociedad. Pude ver desde un principio que usted sí. Pude notar a primera vista el peligro de su título, su buen parecer, y sus encantos, pero estoy muy segura de que nunca podría casarme con un hombre como usted. Delfina Delacroix ha vivido toda su vida como pájaro en una jaula de oro, sin poder salir de la mansión ...

¿Qué sucede cuando se mezcla a dos bellas hermanas y tres posibles enamorados, y se añade una pequeña confusión sobre cuál hermana es cuál? El resultado es esta brillante historia de amor. Honoria normalmente es la hermana tímida. ¿Cómo pudo terminar en un embrollo típico de algo que haría la audaz Serena? El Sr. Allison, uno de los solteros más codiciados de la sociedad, llega a la Mansión Fenton para pedirle matrimonio a Honoria, pero ella tiene un pequeño dilema. No se recuerda de la apariencia de su futuro prometido. Agobiada por la timidez, ella casi no pudo verle la ...

Fitz is all about the rigors of science... ...until he's offered a shot at being the Wizard's Apprentice! Step back into the continuing adventures of Kevin Fitzgerald, Deziri, the dazzlingly magical and beautiful wood nymph, and Katie, his spunky and completely uninhibited Apprentice companion as they struggle to avoid the evil of The Shade and figure out what has caused The Imbalance in the universe. What is behind the mysterious disappearances of the Warlock, Brant and the other senior Wizards, Dutch Dunne and Jimmy Burke? With everyone missing, he has nowhere to turn but the Forest realm...

A delightful, sophisticated, romantic bestseller... back in print for the first time in over 90 years! "Lighter than air, and as bouyant and breezy as the wind. It's the icing on the cake, the silver lining on the cloud, the gilding on the lily. And if the whole world soon isn't 'Green' with envy, we don't know a bestseller when we read one." Pittsburgh Press Catherine Douglas is a traditional, American Southerner living with her widowed father and brother in Paris in the 1930s. Her life is complicated by her charming father's affairs, the hopeless literary aspirations of her lovable ...

In 1934, a rabbi's son in Prague joins a traveling circus, becomes a magician, and rises to fame under the stage name the Great Zabbatini just as Europe descends into World War II. When Zabbatini is discovered to be a Jew, his battered trunk full of magic tricks becomes his only hope of surviving the concentration camp where he is sent. Seven decades later in Los Angeles, 10-year-old Max finds a scratched-up LP that captured Zabbatini performing his greatest tricks.

When you haven't had sex in a long time, it feels like the worst thing that could ever happen to anyone. If you're living in Germany in the 1930s, it probably isn't. But that's no consolation to Egon Loeser, whose carnal misfortunes will push him from the experimental theatres of Berlin to the absinthe bars of Paris to the physics laboratories of Los Angeles, trying all the while to solve two mysteries: whether it was really a deal with Satan that claimed the life of his hero and why a guy like him can't get himself laid.

Gravedigger John Gascoigne lives in Downfell Hurst with his wife, Florrie, their three children and his mother, Gran. John is a deep thinker but extremely taciturn - a man of few words and many grunts. Which is why everyone is alarmed when he's hit on the head by a cricket ball, and it suddenly seems as if the words won't stop. What's more, he says he is talking to Saint Christopher - only no one else can see the saint, and they're beginning to worry John's not quite right in the head.

A Kasey Michaels Alphabet Regency Romance. Everyone has read the plot involving a beautiful young runaway debutante masquerading as boy. But in A Difficult Disguise, Rosalie Darley, taking the name Billy, does her hiding in plain sight, working in the stables at the estate of her unknowing guardian, Fletcher Belden. Ah, but is Fletcher really that blind, or is he playing a game of his own? Kasey Michaels Alphabet Regency Romance Titles: The Belligerent Miss Boynton The Tenacious Miss Tamerlane The Rambunctious Lady Royston The Lurid Lady Lockport The Savage Miss Saxon The Questioning Miss ...

World leaders disappear one by one ...including the U.S. President. In this humorous and surprisingly touching romp across France, Iraq, and China, the world hangs in the balance as international leaders are drawn toward an ancient dream, leaving the world in the clutches of a power-crazed madman. Even if the magical land of Shangri-La is a fantasy, the idea of eternal youth has irresistible allure. Who better to exploit the dream than a disgruntled criminal with revenge on his mind? And who better to settle the truth of the matter once and for all than a young American grad student with a ...