Paige Stevenson is a survivor, caring for her sister since she was seven years old, blaming herself for her mother’s addictions. But all of her survival skills will be tested when she’s sent to live in Indonesia with a father she’s never met in a country completely different than her own. Paige swears to get her and her sister home, but the cost of getting a flight is over one million rupiah. The promise of help from a treasure hunting Australian, lucky lizards, and Indonesian legends aren’t enough to make Paige believe she can depend on anyone but herself. But when her sister goes after a legend of a treasure on her own, Paige will learn the truth about loss, loneliness, and the path to forgiveness.
As Laurie Cass continues the national bestselling Bookmobile Cat mystery series, librarian Minnie Hamilton is happy to take her bookmobile for a spin with her rescue cat, Eddie—but her tenacious tabby always seems to find trouble... As the bookmobile rolls along the hills of Chilson, Michigan, Minnie and Eddie spread good cheer and good reads. But when her faithful feline finds his way into the middle of a murder, Minnie is there, like any good librarian, to check it out. Eddie turns a routine bookmobile stop into anything but when he makes a quick escape and hops into a pickup truck…with a dead body in the flatbed. The friendly local lawyer who was driving the pickup falls under suspicion. But Minnie and Eddie think there's more to this case than meets the eye, and the dynamic duo sets out to leave no page unturned.
The surprising story of how George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson came to despair for the future of the nation they had created Americans seldom deify their Founding Fathers any longer, but they do still tend to venerate the Constitution and the republican government that the founders created. Strikingly, the founders themselves were far less confident in what they had wrought, particularly by the end of their lives. In fact, most of them—including George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson—came to deem America’s constitutional experiment an utter failure that was unlikely to last beyond their own generation. Fears of a Setting Sun is the first book to tell the fascinating and too-little-known story of the founders’ disillusionment. As Dennis Rasmussen shows, the founders’ pessimism had a variety of sources: Washington lost his faith in America’s political system above all because of the rise of partisanship, Hamilton because he felt that the federal government was too weak, Adams because he believed that the people lacked civic virtue, and Jefferson because of sectional divisions laid bare by the spread of slavery. The one major founder who retained his faith in America’s constitutional order to the end was James Madison, and the book also explores why he remained relatively optimistic when so many of his compatriots did not. As much as Americans today may worry about their country’s future, Rasmussen reveals, the founders faced even graver problems and harbored even deeper misgivings. A vividly written account of a chapter of American history that has received too little attention, Fears of a Setting Sun will change the way that you look at the American founding, the Constitution, and indeed the United States itself.
Most Americans don't look far beyond Christopher Columbus when it comes to the discovery of America, yet the simple fact that we bear the name of Amerigo Vespucci suggests there is more to the story. And indeed, there is: a trio of young Italian pioneers who were merchants more than explorers and who, while in search of glory and vast profits, battled to become the first to cross the western ocean. David Boyle reveals in Toward the Setting Sun, that the race for America was as much about commerce as it was about discovery and conquest. When Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1453, the long established trade routes to the East became treacherous and expensive forcing merchants of all sorts to find new ways of obtaining and trading their goods. Enterprising young men took to the sea in search of new lands, new routes, and of course, new fortune. The careers of three young men--Columbus, Vespucci and Giovanni Caboto (known to us as John Cabot) would change not only their personal destinies, but that of the New World. Contrary to popular belief, the three not only knew of each other, they were well acquainted--Columbus and Vespucci at various times worked closely together; Cabot and Columbus were born in Genoa about the same time and had common friends who were interested in Western trade possibilities. They collaborated, knew of each other's ambitions and followed each other's progress. The intersection of their dreams and business ventures led the way to our modern world and ushered in the end of the medieval age. David Boyle skillfully brings together for the first time the three stories that shaped the race for America and in doing so adds a unique economic and business dimension to the earliest days of our country.
This is the third book published by Mr. Parker on his true life adventures throughout world as a mercenary and a hunter of big Game animals on every continent except for Antarctica. In many cases there were life and death encounters with not only the four legged animals but two legged as well, but also diseases such as Malaria and Bahasia. The fi rst part of this book is about teaching his grandchildren to hunt and to hunt with the grandchildren of his friends. Bryce started hunting at age four and has never slowed down. Mr. Parker has taken more species of big game than any one that has ever lived. He served as President of Safari Club International in 1990 and 1991. You will read an in depth look of hunting in war torn Cambodia and Laos during 1963 to 1968, shooting tigers as they were feeding on dead soldiers, taking charging elephants at just two feet away. In this part of the world the CIA conducted a secret war; this is where the world’s greatest pilots and mercenaries gathered to fi ght for hire against China, Russia and North Vietnam. With vertically no money appropriated through the US Congress to fi ght this clandestine war the CIA Turned to the drug trade, selling it to the world at that time period, the CIA, was the largest drug dealer in the world, even selling it to our own solders in South Vietnam. You will follow Warren as he hunts all the wild sheep of the world, into dense jungles to hunt Africa’s most elusive animals of all, then into the Desert Mountains of Asia. This is one of the most exciting books to ever be written on hunting the world.
The young monk Zendhi has grown up in a sheltered monastery but takes on a great journey into the world with his master Zarnguri in a dark time. The country is on the edge of war and pestilence is hovering over everyone. Is this the end that will cast the people into a dark age with no return? Follow Zendhi on an epic journey and personal quest to rise above his own and everyones downfall.
You mustve read about the magic of the wizards. But have you read about the magic of the wild? Become friends with various wild creatures, know about their life-cycles and be a part of their adventurous and deadly journeys through these eight stories. Will Ayan solve the six riddles and find his dead fathers treasure? What does a scorpion have to do with it? For Madhu, the only way to take revenge on his class bully is to sacrifice a horned owl. What will be saved Madhus respect or the owl? The jungle has turned against Scarab, the dung beetle. Will he escape the murderous mob and find the Land of the Setting Sun? What is the shocking secret that Gloaty, the wild goat, discovers of Pan, the God of the mountain wilds? These and more chilling and thrilling stories
The Wrong Side of Paris, the final novel in Balzac’s The Human Comedy, is the compelling story of Godefroid, an abject failure at thirty, who seeks refuge from materialism by moving into a monastery-like lodging house in the shadows of Notre-Dame. Presided over by Madame de La Chanterie, a noblewoman with a tragic past, the house is inhabited by a remarkable band of men—all scarred by the tumultuous aftermath of the French Revolution—who have devoted their lives to performing anonymous acts of charity. Intrigued by the Order of the Brotherhood of Consolation and their uplifting dedication to virtuous living, Godefroid strives to follow their example. He agrees to travel—incognito—to a Parisian slum to save a noble family from ruin. There he meets a beautiful, ailing Polish woman who lives in great luxury, unaware that just outside her bedroom door her own father and son are suffering in dire poverty. By proving himself worthy of the Brotherhood, Godefroid finds his own spiritual redemption. This vivid portrait of the underbelly of nineteenth-century Paris, exuberantly rendered by Jordan Stump, is the first major translation in more than a century of Balzac’s forgotten masterpiece L’Envers de l’histoire contemporaine. Featuring an illuminating Introduction by Adam Gopnik, this original Modern Library edition also includes explanatory notes.
