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From Backpacker to Traveller : Drew Prineas
From Backpacker to Traveller
Drew was preparing to become a marketing genius when he left Australian shores to work in the UK, only for travel to get in the way. With his first footsteps on the plane, his two-year overseas trip changed to a travelling lifelong obsession.
A decade on and over 120 countries later FROM BACKPACKER TO TRAVELLER discovers key moments that triggered a life on the road.
Arriving in Turkey just after the Iraq war began, Drew's story covers his travel experiences that opened his eyes – Leading to moments of self-discovery not only whilst on the road but upon his unexpected returns home. With his innocence gone. Drew looks back at these poignant moments as he smoothly ebbs and flows through his first five years as a young man travelling Europe, India and South America.
Drew uses his wicked sense of humour to overcome his fears and preconceptions to discover the greatest gifts travel can offer. There was no time for self-pity, only time to live and make the most of his time on earth. No matter what the world threw at him a strong resolve was obtained, refusing to let fears and misfortunes dictate his travels.
Instead, FROM BACKPACKER TO TRAVELLER moves beyond highlighting the awkwardness of – being stuck in a dorm room with two New Zealanders and a lady of the night, sleeping at bus shelters under the midnight sun in Norway or getting robbed numerous times in South America – by putting things into perspective and seeing the brighter side to life in the most obscure of moments.
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Coffin Dirt : Jack Moon
Coffin Dirt: A Tale of Winter
Finalist for Best Short Horror Story (Preditors & Editors), described by noted editor Sarah Glenn as “Near literary”. Find what you love and let it kill you…
Dearl stood at the door of his isolated cabin trying to think of a better way to die and coming up empty. Tyson, his young son, had mysteriously ran out of the cabin and into the snow during a killer freeze.
Now Dearl was preparing to set out on a final journey to find and retrieve the body of the one person he loved, but he wouldn’t be going alone. He would be kept company by the memories of a life not worth living, and he would find what he was looking for – though it would not be what he expected.
A short story of regret, redemption, and the love of a father for his son.
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The Bank Holiday Murders : Tom Wescott
The Bank Holiday Murders: The True Story of the First Whitechapel Murders
This multiple award-winning work of literary archeology lifts the veil of history and presents fresh discoveries and new revelations regarding the early murders of Jack the Ripper.
It eschews the tired approach of unsatisfying ‘final solutions’ in favor of solid research and logical reasoning, and brings the reader closer to Jack the Ripper than ever before. Indie Reader named The Bank Holiday Murders the Best True Crime Book of 2014.
Among the revelations are: New information linking the murders of Smith & Tabram to the same killer(s). • Proof that the police did not believe key witnesses in either case. • Proof that at least one of these witnesses was working with the murderer. • New evidence connecting many of the victims that may lead to their actual slayers. • Information on Emily Horsnell, the ACTUAL first Whitechapel murder victim. • The hidden truth of ‘Leather Apron’ and its role in unraveling the Ripper mystery. • Proof of a corrupt police sergeant who thwarted the investigation. Was he protecting the Ripper?
Available in paperback and eBook format.
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It Takes a Village : Leonard M. Alexander and Peter C. Alexander
It Takes a Village – The Integration of the Hillburn School System
Hillburn is a village of approximately 1,000 residents, just 40 miles northwest of New York City and, until 1943, its elementary school children were sent to separate schools, divided by race.
The Hillburn Main School (known locally as the “white school”) was a modern 2-story stucco building with many amenities necessary to foster learning. Brook School (known locally as the “colored school”) was a rundown, small building that looked more like a house than a school and it lacked indoor plumbing, physical education space, or even a library.
The integration of the school system was the result of the efforts of Alexander family patriarch, Thomas Ulysses Alexander, who was the president of the local NAACP chapter, along with representatives of the NAACP legal department, including attorney Thurgood Marshall.
The book tells the story of how these two men, and others, successfully forced the school board to close Brook School in 1943, over a decade before the historic U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
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Dark Sweet : Keishi Ando
Dark Sweet – A Collection of Poetry
Love has a dark sweetness. The romantic beauty is sometimes erotic, sometimes egoistical and sometimes painful. It is sometimes sickly sweet and entices, like a poison, the sweetness consumes your entire body and soul, bringing to the surface something… different, sometimes dark.
Maybe it is a natural human instinct, maybe the reasons are contained within the inky blackness of the soul. These things are all the inspirations for this collection of Keishi Ando’s work.
The dark world that is Keishi Ando’s own is portrayed within this poetry. If someone dares to categorize it as an existing genre, it would be a combination of gothic fiction and dark romance with cyberpunk undertones.
Please drink deeply from the well of darkness contained within these pages. Maybe you too will find the sweet center of the shadows…
Poems:
Radiant Night
Bondage Flavor
A Love Recipe
Hey ChouChou
Velocity of Instinct
Supermoon
Frozen Onyx
Vertigo at the Grave
Mask and Kimono
Meow
His Words
Ghost of Romance
Heartmark
Meteor Stream: Woe
Killing Ourselves
Gothic & Dark Fantasy Poetry with Romantic undertones. New-style Poems by an up-and-coming Japanese Poet/Author. Check this out right now!
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The Xerces Factor : Rodney Page
The Xerces Factor
Author Charles Arrington was taken off sedation and told about the explosion. He instinctively knew the motive for the attack. It didn’t make sense, but it was the book, the damn book.
The first draft of The Thieves in the Pentagon…Corruption that Threatens Our National Security was far from complete. Arrington had no proof, just unsubstantiated rumors and conjecture…a lot of unconnected dots. He planned to abandon the project…then the bomb killed his wife and maimed him for life.
The Xerces anti-missile system was the country’s most powerful deterrent in an increasingly hostile world. However, the president had his own radical plans for the system’s deployment. No one could be allowed to obstruct his naïve quest for world peace.
But the president and his loyal minions were not alone. Others had keen interest in Arrington’s book…some to satiate their personal greed, others for far more sinister purposes.
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Mountaintop USA : William Graney
Mountaintop USA
As a comet is about to pass by Earth, the people of who live in Mountaintop learn that their location will be perfect for viewing the icy orb.
The quirky residents gather together with their telescopes to gaze at the comet and have a party. To their surprise, the night will be illuminated by revelations.
The town of Mountaintop is populated with chess players, astronomy enthusiasts, runners, and donut lovers.
Roots run deep in the peculiar town and the stories from the past that helped to form the fabric of the chilly mountain community are shared through chapters that alternate with the America of the early 1990’s.
A tangled web connects experiences from the past with life in the present and as relationships are explored, the town’s undercurrents begin to bubble to the surface.
The Comet Terrapin serves as a purveyor of mystery that exposes The Mountain’s darkest places and brings to light the beauty in those who have been unable to accept their gifts.
Staring into space and feeling the affects of the comet are a donut shop mystic, a Russian immigrant with a longing for her homeland, and a family that has suffered the devastating loss of their matriarch.
Everyone in attendance at the comet party will have an altered perspective after the passing.
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Masturbating With Strangers : Bodhi Alvarez
Masturbating With Strangers
Kevin Saunders did everything right. He had followed the rules, got good grades, and stayed in school like the commercial said. He should have been well on his way to fulfilling the American Dream, but somewhere along the line the dream took a hiatus.
A year out from graduation he was set to join the sea of underemployed masses, while his diploma likely would garner all the pomp and circumstance of a license plate frame. It didn’t take Kevin long to realize he was more likely to live a life of mediocrity than one filled with flashy cars, loose women and white picket fences- so he decided to blow it all up! Leave the American Dream in shambles, leave his student loan companies searching for payment on their bills, and march off into the sunset to build his better tomorrow. All adventures to be paid for by his final living expense disbursement from Financial Aid.
It was time to find his own definition of success buried somewhere deep in a foreign land. Only he wasn’t entirely prepared for all the places his journey would take him…
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Cold Hollow : Emilie J. Howard
Cold Hollow
The Barner family relocates to Cold Hollow, a quaint town nestled in a Vermont mountain range. They find it to be quite charming and the inhabitants endearing, except for a few residents.
Odd laws are enforced, confrontations begin, and insanity reigns as a madman sits upon his imaginary throne, trying to keep the threads of his dream from unraveling. Will Sophia and Angus Barner be able to protect their children from the malevolence that lurks within the small township?
This is the story of Cold Hollow, a place you’ll never want to visit.
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Where Angels Prey : Ramesh S Arunachalam
Where Angels Prey
While the rest of the world reels under a severe financial crisis, India’s microfinance sector enjoys an unprecedented boom. Why on earth are people investing such huge amounts of money in an obscure industry, especially at the time of global recession? And why is Wall Street suddenly so interested in India’s poor?
That is exactly what Robert Bradlee, senior correspondent with The New York Post, sets off to investigate, along with his journalist friend, Chandresh. Little does he know that his search for a scoop would lead him through a complex multi-pronged web of deceit, fraud, manipulation and financial crime, remote controlled from distant lands by an entire chain of financial sector stakeholders.
Gripping, racy and meticulously researched, this financial thriller weaves in and out of the affluent world of high-powered boardrooms and the gruelling poverty of the remotest villages of India, to reveal the devastating truths that often lurk behind “good intentions”.
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