Pirates are often glorified as nautical Robin Hoods, heroes of the seas - and some were great navigators, map makers, and discoverers. But they were also thieves and murderers. They were undoubtedly merciless, but their crimes took place in a cruel age when even children might be hanged for stealing pennies. Here, from historian Sam Jones, the likes of Francis Drake, Captain Morgan, Captain Kidd, Blackbeard, and even some female pirates, such as Mary Reed and Anne Bonny, spring to life.

Behind every locked door, something is waiting to be remembered.When widowed locksmith Arthur Fenwick is summoned to a decaying country manor after the death of its final owner, he expects a strange but simple job: open thirteen sealed rooms that have remained untouched for decades. The house is enormous, silent, and rotting from within, its corridors heavy with dust, its doors marked by age, grief, and secrets nobody in the nearby village is willing to discuss.At first, Ar...

This new biography on the evangelist Sam Jones is the most detailed account of his life and ministry and re-establishes him in his rightful place of prominence among evangelists of the nineteenth century. Like George Whitefield before him, he is largely forgotten today among evangelicals. But also, like the British evangelist Whitefield, Sam Jones spoke to more people than any other preacher of his generation. This new definitive look at his life includes rare and historical photos never b...

Belle's Hell is the story of Belle and Vanessa, two young women and best friends who were brutally attacked while still in high school and who now try to make sense of their world as they've grown older. It's also the story of other's in their lives; friends, relatives, lovers and acquaintances and how they too are affected by the tragedy years before. Belle's Hell is also the story of Cal, one of the young men involved in the attack and how he spends years thereafter running from his demo...

You don’t need another “side hustle.” You need cash. Fast. And that’s exactly what “Reselling on eBay Guide” was built to do. Not theory. Not motivation. Not fluffy “mindset” pep talks. This is a boots-on-the-ground, roll-up-your-sleeves blueprint for turning overlooked junk into steady, predictable profit using eBay. If you’ve ever walked past a garage sale, thrift store, clearance rack, or dusty box in your own closet and thought, “There’s got to be money in here somewhere…” — you were r...

You might have heard a line about genius being 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration - but did you know it came from the mouth of a woman named Kate Sanborn? She delivered it during a lecture on the topic of genius during the 1890s. Kate was a poet, a mathematician and an author who published over 20 books, so she was well placed to be speaking on the topic.One of her books was the 1885 anthology, The Wit of Women which set about to prove the still pervasive idea that women ...

These are the memoirs of a Wisconsin farm boy that grew up during the Great Depression accompanied by a great drought where many of the lakes dried up and much of the Midwests farmland simply blew away. The Depression ended abruptly the year I graduated from high school when WW II was declared and I was drafted into military service where I spent 3-1/2 years. I was critically wounded and spent the first 30 hours in a morgue followed by almost 1-1/2 years in military hospitals before I was ...

The Forest of Dean is a place filled with stories. Stories of fact, stories of fiction and some that bridge that gap. Tales from the Forest is a remarkable collection of four such stories set in the 1950s, borne from cherished memories of the place and its inhabitants and created by a true Forester with a talent for storytelling. The tales encompass village life in a bygone era, intertwining and interacting just as small knit communities of the time did. Nostalgic, heart warming, intriguin...

A fantastic collection of poetry inspired by a life in The Forest of Dean and its various inhabitants. Amusing, inspirational, thought-provoking, nostalgic and heart breakingly magnificent. A must read for fans of lovingly crafted poems and any 'Foresters'.

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