True Travel

A child who never quite fit in, Rebecca Dana worshipped at the altar of Truman Capote and Nora Ephron, dreaming of one day ditching Pittsburgh and moving to New York, her Jerusalem. After graduating from college, she made her way to the city to begin her destiny. For a time, life turned out exactly as she’d planned: glamorous parties; beautiful people; the perfect job, apartment, and man. But when it all came crashing down, she found herself catapulted into another world....

In January 2015, Dick and Angel Strawbridge embarked on the journey of a lifetime when they swapped their cosy two-bedroom flat in East London for a derelict château with 12 acres of land in the Loire valley. Where Sunday Times best seller A Year At the Château told the entertaining and heartwarming beginning of the family's French adventure, as they found their forever home and began to restore and renovate the dilapidated castle, Living The Château Dream is about the years of hard graft that followed.

* * * New Edition * * * Tyema Reznar, a Narovian feline was kidnapped from Earth and sold into slavery in Sargus Empire. A Narovian agent stationed on Earth by the Alliance to fight human trafficking by alien slavers, she is not about to accept her fate without a fight. That fight lands her on the prison planet Julconi where she believes she is going to die the first day. On Julconi there are no guards and no rules just imates who rule by suvival of the fitest. Though a trained warrior, Tyema is only on woman. Then she picks up a scent that stuns her. There is a man in that fearsome crowd ...

Whether you're a Vegas regular or have only heard the city's tales through whispers, this book will surprise and astound you... It's not just the five-star dining, or the casinos, or the clubs, or the crowds. It's the electrifying chemistry of America's most round-the-clock city. In this dazzling 24-hour journey, James Patterson lifts the lid on America's notorious hub of gambling and excess. Fuelled by original interviews and in-depth reporting, What Happens in Vegas uncovers the vice, crime and entertainment that made Sin City an infamous desert mecca.

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 ...

Sometimes in life you may get to live some of your dreams. Standing on my front gallery on St. Croix I look across the channel. On a sunny day I can see St. Thomas and St. John off to my left about 39 miles away. These two islands make up two sides of the three island trinity of this the Virgin Islands, a U.S. possession. St. Croix is the third island. Gazing slightly to my right I can see Tortola in the distance, too. Tortola and so many more islands are located in the British Virgin Islands. These two separate island chains are remarkably close geographically together. These tiny bits of ...

Luxor, Friday the 13th of April 2007, 09:15 am, the accident… At the hotel, the elevator cabin was not there, and a fall of five floors then destroyed my life… Through my testimony, I do not wish to highlight my tragedy, but to make people aware of the risks incurred when one goes on an adventure in another country. The restriction on insurance coverage reserves us, then, many surprises… Everything can suddenly stop. It doesn’t just happen to others. And when we lose everything, it is very difficult, even with courage, to face the meanders of modern society in order to regain ...

Indelible Love Series - Book 1 Emily Logan - An adult orphan, foodie, and a believer in happily ever after - gets dumped by Max, her college boyfriend of four years, the night of their graduation, the night he was supposed to propose. Her world shattered, she picks up the pieces when she finds love again with Jake. Dr. Jake Reid - Successful doctor, loving boyfriend, the one who wants to fulfill Emily's happily ever after - falls in love with Emily at first sight and pushes their relationship fast and furious. Max Davis - Reserved, indecisive, Emily's first love - believes he let go of his ...

A routine hitchhiking trip into town brings a new person into Andrew’s life that just might have the perfect opportunity for him. His new friend is a volunteer at a Vipassana meditation center. She invites him to join her on a 10-day silent meditation course and then live near the meditation center afterward, doing a very different kind of work-trade than he’s ever done.

After losing his job, girlfriend, and life as he knew - it all within the span of two short months in early 2013 - Tom Edwards decided it was time to live out his lifelong dream of traveling the world. Follow the hilarious tale of travel-gone-wrong, debauchery, and adventure in Planes, Trains, and Broken Strings, as a broke indie-musician tries to find his place in the world with the help of a cast of colorful characters he meets along the way.

As a true crime book, Tracks to Murder is witty and informative and enriches these classic American murder cases by placing them within their original settings. Goodman also plays them against their locations as they are today, resulting in a series of character sketches both contemporary and historical. As a travel book, it presents the seasoned reflections of a cultivated English writer on American manners and morals observed during his serendipitous transcontinental journey.

Whether your taste runs to crocodiles, ancient relics, or flying saucers, you’re sure to find entertainment and illumination in this collection of 21 true travel stories.Join in the author’s adventures as she makes a pilgrimage to see a 2,500-year-old tooth, considers the fate of a three-legged elephant, learns the chilling secrets of the Jamaica Inn pirates, participates in a shamanic ayahuasca ritual, talks alien spaceship propulsion with a SETI scientist, and more.

Some guys show up to fish with Captain Mike and they can't seem to get untangled. But when The Lords of the Lake arrive, it is #FishOn. Read why some groups of client anglers seem to get all the picture fish and trophies, while others aren't so lucky. The story "The Big One" is Lords of the Lake 1.

#BigFishThursday is short story that takes place in 2013 on Lake Texoma the Striped Bass Capital of the World. Based on the true account of one of my biggest striper taken at that time, and my cousins biggest fish ever, I take you through the methods and tactics we used and tell you how it all went down. I include the good, the bad, and the ugly, and at the end of each story, the info to take a fishing adventure there is included. Lake Texoma is my home base for all things fishing. There will be multiple stories from this and other locations, but almost all of the stories start and end at ...

This audiobook contains the journeys of the mystical and out-of-body traveler as she confronts the various states of the dead in the afterlife and then presents the manner of assisting them in both the mystical and the physical realms.

Travel Tales: France — Paris & the Riviera! is a collection of travel stories of one of the travel world's most favorite destinations, if not certainly among the world's handful of the most popularly visited places anywhere. Without a doubt, Paris is by far my favorite city, not only in Europe but in all the world.

Travel Tales: Russia & The USSR is a collection of travel stories of one of the travel world's most, shall we say, duplicitous destinations—a bit mysterious, somewhat alluring, yet still demanding a modicum of caution.

Travel Tales: Wild Animals is a collection of wildlife-viewing stories including some very scary tales of often coming close to serious trouble with wild animals in your travels but managing to just barely escape. It is also a collection of the fearful sorts of things that can and do happen to travelers, but, mostly, these will not happen to you. But if they do, you get to experience real raw fear, including sometimes fear for your very own life. These are very unsettling occasions that may pop up now and again in your travels.

She thought being pulled back in time was an accident. He thought marriage was out of the question. Neither expected to find true love. Danielle McIntyre is thrilled to spend a week in Twickenham England at a full immersion historical retreat. When she and a friend are pulled back in time by the Fae magic, she just knows it’s a mistake. Though Aunt Nellie, the guardian of the magic, encourages her to have an open mind, Danielle is adamant that she’ll return to her own time and not fall in love with someone like her friend did.

Curious about the modern love affair with criminal personalities, investigative reporter Conor Woodman spent four years exploring the hidden depths of dynamic cities across the globe. Sharks takes us on a journey through the lawless backstreets of cities as diverse as Mumbai, Bogotá, New Orleans, Barcelona and London. In each he uncovers the people and the scams that keep the global black economy moving.