Southern Adventures

Thirteen-year-old Dove Boone has always known there was something different about her talent with plants. But on an island where old magic is forbidden and ancient family rifts run deep, some secrets are better left buried. When her aunt's elaborate society wedding brings the divided island families together, Dove's carefully hidden gift becomes harder to control. Something dark is stirring on the forbidden side of Knot Island, where Dove's father vanished nine years ago. As the summer solstice approaches, Dove and her cousins uncover an ancient journal that hints at the truth: the three ...

Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want to try something new? Would you like some guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Greater Than a Tourist book is for you. Greater than a Tourist - Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA by Amy Sylvestre offers the inside scoop on Myrtle Beach.

Fans of the New York Times bestselling Addison Holmes Mystery Series will love the final installment of The Scarlet Chronicles, featuring Scarlet Holmes and her days as a spy during World War II. Scarlet Holmes and the love of her life are secretly married at the height of the war. But wedded bliss is short-lived when her husband is captured as a French spy and imprisoned at Bergen-Belsen. It's up to Scarlet and an unlikely group of war heroes—women—who devise a plan to liberate the camp and save hundreds of lives.

In this personal account of the Civil War, William G. Stevenson was impressed into the Confederate Army, serving in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama in the hospital service from mid-1861 until June 1862, when he escaped to the North. This is a "narrative of personal adventures in the infantry, ordnance, cavalry, courier, and hospital services, with an exhibition of the power, purposes, earnestness, military despotism, and demoralization of the South". First published in 1862.

In this sweet romance, could she dream of a beach wedding? When Donna Turner and her two girlfriends leave Alabama for California, Donna runs out of money. Her girlfriends continue their journey, leaving Donna in Needles, California, to work in a diner. Donna worshipped the ground Tommy Crowley walked on when she was fifteen, and now he shows up at the diner where she works. Will he remember her and still think of her as her brother’s skinny kid sister? Tommy Crowley is an architect driving to California to join his uncle’s company. The mature Donna’s beauty and courage appeal to ...

OUR TWO MAGNETS FOR MAYHEM ARE AT IT AGAIN! Shell Isle’s celebration of July 4th began with the wrong kind of boom. While cousin sleuths Page Wright and Betsy Ross await the cannon firing at Shell Isle’s July 4th celebration, Page gets one of her inklings. A murder is imminent, which lands her and Betsy in the middle of another escapade. This time it’s charter Captain Jake who managed to anger five dodgy suspects, all possessing enough motive to take him out. Ignoring the threats of too handsome Detective Tanner not to meddle in the case, the determined sleuths chart a course to ...

Agent Danielle La Rue got her first chance as a field agent on a Agent Danielle La Rue got her first chance as a field agent on a low-risk assignment for the DEA. Her new reckless partner has the desire to avenge another agent's death, screwing up her opportunity to shine. Agent Rick Tarrango long ago went Mustang as a field agent for the ATF. Rick doesn't like to follow the rules; they're more like guidelines. As Dani and he butt heads over a Mexican drug cartel blood bath, he's drawn to the sexy and smart ex-Navy SEAL. But Rick will do whatever he can to bring his friend's murderer down, even go against orders.

Two buddies go on vacation for some much-needed R&R. Even those from the tip-of-the-spear Special Operations community of America's elite Tier One units have to go on vacation to destress and decompress like the rest of working stiffs. Not all vacations go according to plan, unfortunately, and this one went from sun, fun, and pretty girls to FUBAR quickly. One man is missing; the other is on the run from unknown assassins. What went wrong?

Moins connu que Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer, Les Aventures de Huckleberry Finn est souvent considéré comme le chef-d'œuvre de Twain, et comme le livre fondateur de la littérature américaine moderne. Il est raconté à la première personne par Huckleberry "Huck" Finn. La Vie et Les Aventures de Robinson Crusoé, l'un des romans les plus publiés de l'histoire, raconte l'histoire d'un jeune Anglais naufragé dans une tempête et contraint de se débrouiller seul sur une île isolée... du moins le croit-il.

Enclavada en la región norte de Sudamérica, Guyana es un país heredero de las tribus indígenas arawak, de cuya lengua proviene su nombre: Tierra de agua. Rodeado de un clima tropical y dotado de una amplia planicie costera y una región selvática rica en recursos minerales, el territorio guyanés posee diversos fenómenos geográficos tales como antiguos cordones montañosos, una abundante red hidrográfica y extensos bosques, que se han salvado de la tala indiscriminada de árboles.

Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want an edible experience? Would you like some culinary guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Eat Like a Local audiobook is for you. In these sections, you will discover advice on having a unique edible experience. This audiobook will not tell you exact addresses or hours but instead will give you excitement and knowledge of food and drinks from a local that you may not find in other travel food guides.

Kendra, an art-school dropout, brands herself for a nanotech marketing program; Lerato, an ambitious AIDS baby, plots to defect from her corporate employers; Tendeka, a hot-headed activist, is becoming increasingly rabid; and Toby, a roguish blogger, discovers that the video games he plays for cash are much more than they seem. On a collision course that will rewire their lives, this story crackles with bold and infectious ideas.

Zinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 419 scam habit and a talent for finding lost things. But when a little old lady turns up dead and the cops confiscate her last paycheck, she’s forced to take on her least favourite kind of job – missing persons. Being hired by reclusive music producer Odi Huron to find a teenybop pop star should be her ticket out of Zoo City, the festering slum where the criminal underclass and their animal companions live in the shadow of hell’s undertow.

Visiting Costa Rica on a budget is a dream come true! You can surf at the beautiful sandy beaches, hike amazing trails complete with waterfalls, and eat the best homemade food in the world. With its hospitable people, amazing ecotourism, and something new around every corner, Costa Rica is the perfect journey for the traveler on a budget. In my audiobook, Thrifty Traveler’s Guide to Costa Rica: A Perfect Journey for the Budget Traveler, I will show you how to have the vacation of your dreams while saving a buck or two.

A faraway land. A brutal dictatorship. And a missing teacup. In America, a Korean immigrant church is teetering on brink of bankruptcy. Its only hope is to recover a valuable onyx teacup that had belonged to its minister’s grandfather decades ago, before the division of the Korean peninsula. The problem: The treasure has been located in North Korea, one of the worst countries in the world. Its people have only known poverty, propaganda, and starvation. But there’s no time to waste. Someone needs to recover it—fast. Enter Ainsley Walker. In her most thrilling mystery yet, Ainsley ...

Can one person change a reality? Her father killed because of the color of his skin. Harassed by the mercenaries hired to control their streets. The county run at the whim of the billionaire oligarchs. Nadia is living the American nightmare. Even sleep offers no escape as her waking dreams transport her to a past reality where she is being groomed to manipulate fate. Worse than her own reality, she is trapped by an unknown entity in a different kind of nightmare where any hope of escape seems impossible. But she begins to realize she isn’t alone or powerless, that there are others like ...

A changing climate brings heavy rains to West Texas and gives river guide Robbie Ducharme the opportunity to take his clients down a never-before-run arroyo. The landscape they enter, the people they encounter, and the relics they find give these modern-day explorers the thrill of a lifetime. They also threaten Robbie’s relationship with the woman he loves and the life of the assistant he admires. Solitario: The Lonely One asks if we are right to be bold with our lives and the lives of others when the potential rewards are great—or are we venturing where we should not?

Culture shock hits you in ways you never expect. I guess that's why it's so...well, shocking. Living in another country is a fascinating experience. Southern China is absolutely beautiful and Chinese food is figuratively to die for. A native of Minnesota, the transition to mega-city-China was challenging, but it was a challenge which allowed me to grow. It opened my eyes with new experiences, new sights, new sounds, and my hope is that I'm able to share some of that with you in this audiobook.

50 Things to Know about the Birds in South Africa by Author Bonnie Kaplan Kaufmann offers a beginners approach to finding the most common species of birds in the country. Most books on birding tell you to travel to specific locations and hotspots for one or two prize species on your life list. Although there's nothing wrong with that, this audiobook takes another approach. Here, we present you with the regional view of the whole of South Africa, and help you to locate the habitats and special locations near your travel destination.

¿Qué sucede cuando todas las estrellas en el cielo están fuera de lugar y la tierra a nuestros pies también? Miguel, un joven de una humilde aldea en México, sueña con convertirse algún día en astrónomo. Ese sueño le parece tan lejano como la distancia que separa la luna de la tierra. Sin embargo, las oportunidades llegan de formas insospechadas. Miguel sabe que siempre que mantenga una idea clara de dónde está, la verdad se revelará por sí misma. Acompaña a Miguel en esta aventura que lo llevará hasta lugares que jamás pensó conocer.