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.

'Are these the best gay stories since Tennessee Williams' One Arm?'' – Booklist Selected for the first time in a single new edition, these sensual stories by prize-winning author John Sam Jones reveal lucid prose and complex lives. Moving through city steam rooms, rugged North Wales mountains and estuaries facing other places. Risky sex, new romance and easy understanding, a mortgage on a semi or keeping a lid on it all for the sake family, status and belief... Including previously unseen ...

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...

Love meat but love the planet more? Sam Jones’ carnivore-friendly plant-based cookbook is a must-have for the enlightened eater.Sam Jones is on a mission to show meat-eaters that going plant-based can be sexy, sustainable, and simple. His “7 Ingredient Vegan” series on Instagram and TikTok was a viral sensation, simplifying plant-based cooking into flavor-forward recipes using no more than seven ingredients. This debut cookbook builds on the success of his viral cr...

The definitive guide to one of the most iconic barbecue traditions—Carolina-style chopped pork—from the third generation pitmaster of Sam Jones BBQ and the legendary Skylight Inn, featuring more than 20 family recipes for large-batch barbecue, sides, and desserts.In the world of barbecue, Carolina-style pork is among the most delicious and obsessed-over slow-cooked meats. Yet no one has told the definitive story of North Carolina barbecue—until now. In Whole Ho...

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...

Using the Education for All (EFA) global movement as the setting, this book surveys the complex labyrinths of international education policy making, the design and implementation of system-wide educational reform, and the assessment of learning outcomes in the African context. It addresses the following questions: what does it mean for African states to reform their educational systems to meet the global agenda of Education for All and the Millennium Development Goals? Under what structura...

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 ...

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'.

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...

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...

Forged in dime novels, Wild West shows, and Hollywood films, the image of the American cowboy is largely a myth. But behind it were real men whose hard work and hard play, stoic toughness, and code of honor helped tame the American West. The epic cattle drives that were so much a part of the cowboys' heyday lasted only an astonishingly brief two decades. But the cowboy is still a basic part of the American character. Here, from historian Grayson Wyatt, is their surprising and little-told s...