This collection of 11 personal essays, memoirs, and true stories from Townsend 11, a group of award-winning writers, takes readers on emotional journeys and adventures from California to Croatia to China and back, Ethiopia to Egypt, England to New England, and Hawaii to Hot Springs, Arkansas. Laugh out loud on a family camping trip with an irascible dad, travel down the Nile and through history, take a hilarious and poignant peek inside the airline industry, race a motorcycle across a Chin...

The Townsend 11 collective of award-winning writers is back again with eleven true stories that will delight, entertain, amuse, and inspire readers of all ages. If you like the essays published in Travelers' Tales, Lonely Planet, and other creative nonfiction anthologies, you'll love Townsend 11's second volume, No Set Boundaries.The first volume, No Fixed Destination, took readers from China to Croatia and beyond with heartfelt memoirs, stories of romance, and lessons learned. The...

Dive into an epic of suspense and mystery spanning centuries! From the mysterious arrival of a shipwrecked Viking in a 10th-century Mayan city, where he is revered as a god and triggers an epic saga, to a contemporary Mexican archaeologist uncovering unexpected genetic connections. This novel takes you from the Amazon jungles to the highland forests of Peru in a desperate quest for El Gran Paititi, the legendary lost city of the Incas. Face dangerous conspirators and a millenarian group de...

In the bustling heart of New York City, Keisha, a stunning curvy black woman, crosses paths with a young white foreigner. As their eyes meet, a passionate and forbidden affair ignites amidst a changing landscape of societal acceptance toward interracial couples. Sweet Keisha will awaken your hidden fantasies and satisfy your innermost desires.. The undeniable chemistry in the couple sparks a torrid affair.Navigating the complexities of their burgeoning relationship, Keisha confronts deeply...

"So you are the despicable human who prayed hard to be mated to us?" King Kian sneers, and my gaze snaps to him.✧So it's true, what I have been thinking all along. I am their mate! I am the vessel, the one with the special blood. The one they have been looking for all these years.✧"A beautiful female vampire was the least we expected. You possess nothing of value to us,"✧"I'l...

"So you are the despicable human who prayed hard to be mated to us?" King Kian sneers, and my gaze snaps to him.So it's true, what I have been thinking all along. I am their mate! I am the vessel, the one with the special blood. The one they have been looking for all these years."It's truly regrettable that after years of searching for our mate, we end up with something as pitiful and weak as you." King Aston states, his voice laced with disgust just like the last time we m...

This eBook edition of "9/11 Through The Lens" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for all devices. 250 high resolution color photographs arranged in a chronological sequence and showing the disastrous aftermath of two airplanes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan after being highjacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. Includes the burning towers seen from uptown; the photographer's trip to the ground zero area; and the...

In "The Eagle's Nest," a series of chilling ritual murders across the globe sets off alarms within the United States government, especially in volatile regions. Desperate to understand the cryptic nature of these crimes, authorities turn to the Bluthund Community—a secretive organization of unconventional experts.As investigators uncover eerie parallels linking the murders to the ancient Sect of the Nizaris, founded in medieval Persia by the enigmatic "Old Man of the Mountain" and ...

If you love historical fiction, this novel will seize your imagination from the very first page. In the eleventh century, a Viking longship, swept from the misty shores of Markland, finds itself drawn to the vibrant heart of Mayan civilization on the Yucatan Peninsula. There, Bjarni, by marrying the daughter of a tribal chief, uncovers whispers of a hidden treasure nestled within the ruins of an ancient temple.Years later, as Bjarni sets sail for Greenland, fate intervenes, and his...

In the aftermath of the Bolshevik revolution of 1917, a Russian nobleman, shrouded in the mystique of a warrior's spirit, finds himself embroiled in a daring struggle in Mongolia. His mission: to restore the monarchy amidst the chaos of revolution. With the shadow of Communism looming, he secures Mongolia's ancient treasures, sending them into hiding to safeguard their legacy.A century later, the enigmatic Bluthund—a fellowship of intrepid scholars and adventurers—unravels the nobl...

En los remotos orígenes medievales conectados con los Caballeros Teutónicos en la Rusia del norte, una intrigante saga familiar comienza en un castillo de entrenamiento de las SS durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial en Alemania. Desde allí, una trayectoria misteriosa lleva a científicos y militares alemanes a la enigmática Antártida, revelando propósitos oscuros que cambiarán el curso de la historia. Tras el conflicto, una expedición estadounidense liderada por el Almirante Byrd sigue los pas...

In the year 1240, Sven, a Viking warrior, and his girlfriend Chemig arrive in the city of a powerful Mongol tribal chief. In that tribe, Chimeg's mother, High Priestess of the cult called Black Tengrism, has disappeared, kidnapped by the followers of a warlord named Bataar Khan, who is reuniting the tribes to conquer the entire Central Asian steppe, following in the footsteps of Genghis Khan.The protagonists manage to free the High Priestess, and through her revelations, they find ...