The Gold Rush era was an amazing time in our country’s history. California had just been occupied during the Mexican-American War and wasn’t officially a U.S. territory yet when gold was discovered in 1848. Suddenly the whole world was electrified by the news and tales of men digging vast amounts of wealth out of the ground, even finding gold nuggets just lying around. Within five years, 250,000 miners dug up more than $200 million in gold—about $600 billion in today’s dollars.G...

Gold remains a highly prized and impactful resource within the global economy. From the insatiable demand for gold in the electronics that permeate our day-to-day lives to the environmental desolation driven by gold mining in the Amazon, the gold trade continues to touch the lives and livelihoods of people across the world.Bloomfield and Maconachie tell the intriguing story of the yellow metal, tracing the seismic shifts in the industry over the past few decades. They show how huge...

Sam and Annabel are on vacation with Annabel's parents in Italy.While visiting the small hilltop town of Civita, they hear rumors of looted gold from World War II buried somewhere in the town's network of underground tunnels and caves. Once again the two friends cross paths with their old nemesis, Humphrey Battleford, but he is not the only one in pursuit of the gold. An intimidating man named Kurt, the grandson of a ruthless Nazi, is also snooping around. After An...

A heartwarming tale of courage and young love on a rugged frontier...After completing their fort, the residents of Heck's Valley brace for winter. Many speak of spring—and the possibility of staying here and working together to build a town in this breathtaking wilderness.Heck and Hope don't know what the future holds, but so long as they are together, they face it with confidence. But life on the frontier is never easy.They have to guard their stoc...

Gold detecting and adventure in outback Australia. Join John and Jan as they prospect in some of the most inhospitable country in the world. This book also includes photo's of some of their adventures.

A nationally acclaimed historian has his briefcase stolen during a contentious sheriff’s race in Namekagon County, and John Cabrelli is pulled into a murder investigation with more questions than answers. The victim refuses to cooperate, a political rival circles like a vulture, and Cabrelli’s only suspect turns up dead—run down before he can speak.As the case spirals, Cabrelli follows a trail leading through cryptic journals, whispers of lost French gold, and long-buried secrets i...

Princess the Cat must dig deep… for gold!When a mysterious man in black arrives at the same time disaster strikes Princess the Cat’s neighborhood, it can’t be an accident.But if Princess the Cat can find the legendary Rio Grande Gold, her problems will blow away in the wind like a tumbleweed. Too bad a gang of robbers, birds of prey, and a host of other enemies await her in the Canyon where the gold—allegedly—hides.For her fifth adventure, Princess ...

Cup of Gold' is the debut novel of American author John Steinbeck, first published in 1929. Steinbeck, who would later win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962, is best known for his powerful portrayals of human struggle and social injustice in works such as The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men. However, Cup of Gold stands apart as a romantic historical adventure, revealing the young author’s early fascination with legend, ambition, and the nature of glory.The novel is a fictionalized ...

Will and his friends return to the City of the Tripods—and risk their lives—in this second book of a classic alien trilogy ideal for fans of Rick Yancey’s The 5th Wave and Margaret Peterson Haddix’s Shadow Children series.When Will and his friends arrived at the White Mountains, they thought everything would be okay. They’d found a safe haven where the mechanical monsters called Tripods could not find them. But once there, they wonder about the world aroun...

This three-story anthology is packed with all the feels, the Spencer atmosphere, and the holiday cheer you've come to expect from the Aspen Gold authors. The stories will have you in the mood for Christmas as quickly as you can say Saint Nick.The Baby Contract~~Cheryl St.JohnShe thought she knew what she was looking for…until what she was looking for found herShe wants a baby. Piper Newport has made up her mind. It has always been only her ...

Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History was John Steinbeck's first novel, a work of historical fiction based loosely on the life and death of 17th-century privateer Henry Morgan.

Sea Gold is the third book in the Rick Brant Science Adventure series, where young adult Rick Brant and his ex-Marine pal, Don Scott, live on Spindrift Island off the coast of New Jersey, where Rick's father, Hartson Brant, heads the scientists of the Spindrift Foundation. In Sea Gold, Rick and Scotty are off for the summer because college is out of session and all the scientists have temporarily left Spindrift for other research challenges, so nothing is happening there. Rick and Scotty g...