Publisher: Wildside Press
When a young engineer is forced to leave his father's shipyard in Scotland under a cloud of suspicion, he travels to Canada and starts a new life working for the railroad. Romance and adventure are never far from the forefront in this exciting historical novel.
Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. In this volume English women have begun the long haul to be treated as equals, even though some see others as beneath them. Class still has its boundaries and its distinctions. Our authors show that the decade brings much to revel in but also much to worry our hearts. 01 - The Top 10 - The 1920's - The English - The Women - An Introduction 02 - The String Quartet by Virginia Woolf 03 - Miss Ogilivy Finds Herself by Radclyffe Hall 04 - Her Murderer by Mary Cholmondeley 05 - Hodge by Elinor Mordaunt 06 - Blessed Are the Meek by Mary Webb 07 - Young Magic by Helen Simpson 08 - Sylvia by Bessie Kyffin-Taylor.wav 09 - The Black Crusader by Alicia Ramsay 10 - Decay by Marjorie Bowen 11 - The Night of No Weather by Violet HuntShow book
Chasing through Bluebell Woods after a strange green-furred rabbit, twelve year old Bryony and Bethany, her eight year old sister, inexplicably end up in the 'olden times'.Life in the village where they find themselves is hard under the wicked lord of the manor. The two girls are thrown into a desperate struggle in which the evil lord will stop at nothing to hold onto his power over the village.Soon everyone's hopes are pinned on Bryony and her new companions, Toby, who is under a 'severe warning' for humiliating the disliked village pastor, and Tommy, who mysteriously arrived in the village one day and can't or won't speak.Together they set out on a mission to bring help from a higher authority, but their journey is beset with difficulties. Will they be in time to save their friends from the hangman's noose?A thrilling story for readers aged 10 and above, and for anyone who enjoys losing themselves in a fantastical adventure!Show book
From a seven-time Spur Award–winning author: Two brothers experience the action of Texas’s revolution against Mexico in this collection of two classic Westerns. Texas Sunrise brings together two of Elmer Kelton’s acclaimed novels novels and tells the story of the Texas Revolution as experienced by brothers Thomas and Joshua Buckalew of Tennessee. In Massacre at Goliad, inevitable tensions mount between Mexican authorities and the American newcomers to Mexican lands north of the Rio Grande. Revolution is in the air—something Thomas Buckalew welcomes but Joshua fears. Joshua, who has Mexican friends and is in love with a Mexican girl, pledges to take up arms with his brother if necessary. The story touches on the immortal battle of the Alamo, but centers on the infamous Goliad massacre of March 1836. The massacre led ultimately to Sam Houston’s decisive battle of San Jacinto, where Texas became an independent republic. After the Bugles continues where Goliad ends—on the battlefield at San Jacinto. Along with other settlers whose lives have been disrupted by the revolution, Joshua Buckalew tries to put the pieces back together, but finds that starting over in the aftermath of war can be as challenging as the war itself. The racial differences that helped foment the conflict have not disappeared, and being an independent republic can be far more difficult than being a colony of Mexico. Praise for Texas Sunrise “As with all of Kelton’s westerns, characters are colorful and well drawn, the action is fast and bloody, and the plotting carefully thought out, making this another supercharged yarn.” —Publishers WeeklyShow book
“Singing with atmosphere and with scholarship . . . gives us an enigmatic heroine who fascinates at every turn, and immerses us fully in a world long-gone.” —Romantic Intentions Quarterly Cleopatra’s slave girl—and an enemy Roman soldier . . . Egyptian slave Wen-Nefer is wary of all men. But she can’t help but be captivated by handsome Titus, adviser to Julius Caesar, even though he is commanding and intolerant of bold women like her. Their affair is as all-consuming as it is forbidden. But is he a man who will go to any lengths to love her despite their boundaries . . . or a sworn enemy she must never trust? “The engaging characters, impossible situation, and the power exchange between master and slave will have readers up past their bedtime.” —RT Book ReviewsShow book
Invitation from a Mobster is inspired by real events. It tells the story of one of the most important and feared journalists of the 1990s and is set during the Wild West Gold Rush era of Czech politics following the Velvet Revolution. Vitas is a journalist who uncovers injustice and crime in the chaos of democratic beginnings in a formerly Communist nation. He works in an environment in which all things are affected by the pursuit of money and all human values fall to the wayside. Vitas uncovers various scams involving by one of the biggest mobsters in the Czech Republic, Kromen. The story moves to Tibet and its forcible annexation during the last century by China. A young girl is being raised in a monastery of Tibetan Buddhists near the Indian border. No one in the monastery has any idea that a destiny of great historical significance lies in wait for her. Because of the girl the monastery becomes a significant source of interest for Chinese officials.Show book
Eighteen-year-old Lee Thompson has a chip on his shoulder and a mission in his heart to save his dad, an aging sheriff who's lost control of his town. Lee's plan is a dangerous one — mix in with the desperadoes and risk death at their hand. But sometimes, the only way to restore the law is to break it. Take the law — and the action — into your hands, as the audio version of Under the Diehard Brand takes you into a town gone wild.Show book
