"The bestseller is coming! The bestseller is coming!"- Paul Revere"Wish I'd had this book at the Alamo. We needed a hearty chuckle - and more bullets!" - Davy Crockett"I laughed, I cried, I picked up my ax. A head splitting good yarn!" - Lizzie Borden"Astounding and stimulating like the light bulb and the ever-evolving variety of Chia Pets - I felt like I was there. Wait, I was...." - Thomas Alva Edison"My new favorite book, sehr gut!"- Johan...

What lies hidden in the spaces between light and shadow?Step into Echoes in the Dark, a hauntingly atmospheric poetry collection that bridges the mortal and the mystical. Through stark, evocative verses, Derek A. Smith invites you on a journey through ancient myth, esoteric wisdom, and the quiet depths of the human soul. From the whispers of forgotten gods to the brooding ache of gothic romance, each poem serves as a mirror reflecting the eternal duality o...

When Emily Gillon kills her abusive husband - making it appear to be suicide - she hopes the shotgun blast will free her finally to find the happiness and normalcy she never knew in rural Pierpont, Georgia.Against a canvas of the north Georgia mountains and the ageless beauty of the coastal city of Savannah, Gallica's Thorns is the modern-day story of Emily's quest - a journey laden with innocent love, violent evil, personal tragedy and heart-rending deceit.Beginni...

Savannah is one of America's most beautiful and historic cities. Yet underneath the mint juleps, oaks bearded with Spanish moss and the splendor of colonial architecture, there lurks a deadly undercurrent. This is a first-person account of an award-winning newspaper crime reporter's career, covering scores of murders in the Savannah area, including one of the bloodiest eras in the city's history: in 1985, metro Savannah earned notoriety with the nation's highest homicide rate. The author d...

About the book"The Compliance Blueprint" is a comprehensive anthology resource to the dedicated community of compliance professionals during a time of unprecedented disruption." Compliance professionals have never been more important in a world marked by rapid change and unprecedented challenges. An evolving global landscape and complex regulatory webs have made governance, risk management, and compliance practices non-negotiable for organisations.For those responsible for ...

The incidents described in this book, however improbable or implausible they may appear to be, are all completely true and have needed little or no embellishment on the part of the author.They all took place during a two year period between 1952 and 1954, and helped to transform a callow, naive, possibly diffident youth, into a tougher, more worldly, self confident young man, teaching him along the way, the importance of discipline, self-reliance and loyalty.For readers who r...

It's the slowest race on record when Lucy-Anne becomes a tortoise and has a race with a snail. She becomes a statue and doesn't like pigeons at all. In another tale, she's a cat on the rooftops trying to stop the howling cats keeping her awake. And then a book in a library, treated badly by a girl and boy who have only come in to mess around. 'Highly recommended' says The Book Trust.

As a bartender at exclusive country clubs in Atlanta and Savannah, Cass Cassidy has perfected his art of seducing "golf widows," the wives of high-roller golfers whose only real love is the mistress that is their sport. Over cocktails, these ladies chatter about their Louis Vuitton purses, Ferragamos, designer jewelry, and who among them has had "work done," all the banter masking their boredom. Cass has the looks and the bold confidence to make some of them forget their boredom - and thei...

July 1, 1863. The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia under General Robert E. Lee advanced across the Pennsylvania countryside toward the small town of Gettysburg--less than 90 miles from Washington, D.C.--on a collision course with the Union Army of the Potomac. In Lee's ranks were 5,000 South Carolina troops destined to play critical roles in the three days of fighting ahead. From generals to privates, the Palmetto State soldiers were hurled into the Civil War's most famous battle--hun...

This is the true story of a nine year old boy who, at the height of the Birmingham blitz, is transported from his ‘all mod cons’ big city home to the safety of a house in a remote south Staffordshire hamlet, a mile and a half from nowhere, where he finds himself living in domestic and sanitary conditions that have remained unaltered for over a thousand years – the culture shock to end all culture shocks.It describes his acceptance of and assimilation into the country ways of life; ...

Lucy-Anne's world is a magical place where a blanket on the washing line becomes a hungry elephant, where buses fly, where snowmen talk, where you might find yourself as small as a doll, or invisible, or turned into a runner bean.'Half a dozen gently told tales of Lucy-Anne and her Daddy' (School Librarian)

Full-cast adaptations of three of Winifred Holtby’s best-known novels, plus short stories and bonus programmes about the authorWinifred Holtby was an acclaimed novelist, journalist, feminist and social reformer. Her work encompasses six novels, two short story collections, a play and the first critical study of Virginia Woolf, but she is best known for her posthumously published masterpiece South Riding, which won the James Tait Black Memorial Award. She d...