Never trust an accountant with a gun.Crooked accountants, a detective stuck in the eighties, and shell corporations with dubious ties. These are the least of Winnie Hackleshack’s problems as she tries to keep herself out of jail.After her brush with death at Yellowstone, Winnie needed a change, and Glacier National Park was just the place. With visions of moose foraging along the shores of pristine waters, bighorn sheep dotting the mountains, and mirror-like lakes fed from ...

Motivation is what human need to challenge their dreams into reality. Each of the motivational poems in this eBook is powerful and detailed enough to drive you to your zenith. Its positive motivational efficacy is unmatched. Each poem comes along with graphic sketches that uncovers deep meaning.Each poem compare and contrast vision with reality, then draws out motivational advices to keep readers fuelled up when challenges arise on their journey to vision fulfilment. As a man of in...

Bears aren’t the only predators in Yellowstone.After twenty-one years of being overshadowed by her ex-husband, Winnie Hackleshack never had the opportunity to explore her adventurous side. But what does a forty-something divorced woman do to revitalize her spirit? She gets a rescue dog, buys a motorhome, and sets off for adventures unknown. Except the adventures include getting mixed up in a murder investigation.Arriving at Yellowstone, Winnie anticipated bubbling geysers, ...

The wrong vintage can be deadly.A mysterious blonde in a supercar, a wine competition gone horribly wrong, and disappearing owls. Winnie Hackleshack’s week of spas, wine, and relaxation takes a back seat as she searches for a killer.After another narrow escape at Glacier National Park, Winnie Hackleshack needed a break, so when her sister offered a vacation at a resort in Napa, California, she couldn’t refuse. But after arriving, Winnie’s quest to eat, drink, and be pampere...

In Featherstone, reputations are earned with a light hand and a steady oven temperature. Flour-dusted rivalries are expected. Murder is not.Bake-off contestant Flora Wren arrives at the village's much-anticipated regional baking competition with one goal: to prove her quiet talent can stand alongside the showiest sponges and boldest flavours. With her beloved Pekingese, Dotty, tucked under the prep table, Flora is ready for nerves, scrutiny, and stiff competition. ...

PEKE, AN ADORABLE little Pekingnese, has a boo-boo. But when he uses his imagination, he’s no longer a pup with a broken leg, he’s a pirate with a peg leg on the high seas! Can he find the buried treasure? In her picture book debut, Brie Spangler celebrates the power of imagination and introduces a lovable Pekingnese puppy who refuses to let his boo-boo keep him from having fun.

This epic novel of a wide-eyed missionary and a rebellious woman thrust into China's Communist revolution is "an excellent read, panoramic in scope" ( Financial Times).In 1931, young English-born missionary Jakob Kellner brings all the crusading passion of his untried Christian faith to a China racked by famine and bloody civil war. He burns to save the world's largest nation from Communism.But when he is swept along on the cold, unforgiving Long M...

Lana Lee and friends return for a fiery Chinese New Year celebration that rattles their quaint community. After all, an Asia Village party wouldn’t be complete without an explosive finale.Chinese New Year is supposed to be a time of fresh beginnings and celebrations of good fortune to come. Naturally, the shop owners of Asia Village jump at the chance to participate in creating a memorable holiday event that will bring positive light to the plaza, and prosperity fo...

'A first novel of rare quality – beautiful, grave, humorous, exciting, and wise.' -- Observer Laura Leroy, wife of a British attaché, leads a divided existence, torn between her beloved home in England and diplomatic society in Peking – an ancient city of exquisite allure, bordered by the violent conflicts of the civil war. When Laura joins a group of expats on an expedition to the great monastery at Chieh T'ai Ssu, they become intoxicated by the mysterious beauty of the Chinese landscape ...

Am 25. Februar 1911 lief bei Blohm & Voss im Hamburger Hafen einer der letzten großen Hamburger Viermaster vom Stapel: die Peking. Für die Reederei F. Laeisz segelte sie bis zum Jahr 1932 unzählige Male zwischen Hamburg und Südamerika, um wertvollen Salpeter nach Europa zu bringen. In ihrer über 100-jährigen Geschichte hat sie 34 Mal Kap Hoorn umrundet, zwei Weltkriege überstanden und mehr als 40 Jahre als Museumsschiff am Pier von Manhattan verbracht. Sie wurde von den Menschen dort viel ...

Tafeltennis is jouw sport. Je bent de nummer twee van Europa, achttien jaar oud en zit barstensvol ambitie. Dus wil je naar China, het Mekka van het `ping pang qiu . Duizenden profs die het spel tot in de perfectie beheersen. Bettine Vriesekoop reisde in 1980 onder barre omstandigheden naar China, een voor het Westen gesloten communistisch land. Iedereen op de fiets en in Mao-pak. Laverend tussen onbegrip, fascinatie, humor en sympathie beschrijft ze haar ervaringen vanaf haar eerste stap ...

The trail of discovery began when Hugh Trevor-Roper received the memoirs of Sir Edmund Backhouse, the celebrated Chinese scholar, in somewhat unusual circumstances. They described a very different person from the one who had apparently lived such a respectable life until his death in 1944. In them, Backhouse claimed that he had been intimate with characters as diverse as Verlaine and Lord Roseberry, and that his many lovers (of both sexes) had included the Dowager Empress of China. It grad...