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Author: Colette Rossant

It is 1947 and Paris is recovering from the war. As soon as Colette's family arrive from Cairo, her mother abandons her yet again. Terribly homesick, Colette finds solace in the kitchen with the cook Georgette, and disco ...

Author: Seingalt, Jacques Casanova de

This is an account of Casanova's travels that take him back to France. He vividly captures the landscapes through picturesque imagery. Narrated in the most unique style, this is a work that brilliantly portrays the sight ...

Author: Colette Rossant

Paris, 1947: Colette Rossant returns to Paris after waiting out World War II in Cairo among her father's Egyptian-Jewish relatives. Initially, the City of Light seems gray and forbidding to the teenage Colette, especiall ...

Author: Rosemary Goring

"In Patagonia," Bruce Chatwin's tale of a journey from Buenos Aires to Tierra del Fuego, is one of the most popular travel books of all time and has fostered extraordinary interest in this remote region at the souther ...

Author: Dick C.

Return To Sanity is the second book of the trilogy dealing with the life and events of the author, Dick C. The book begins where the first book of the trilogy, Headlong Through Life ended. Dick C has just walked himself ...

Author: author of Retail Hell Freeman Hall

Bigger, Fancier, and more cutthorat than ever!When Freeman Hall left The Big Fancy to pursue his screenwriting dreams, he thought the horrors of working in a handbag department were finally over. But instead of fame and ...

Author: Frank Kingdon-Ward

Legendary botanist and explorer, Frank Kingdon-Ward records the details of his last expedition, including a fascinating account of the flora, fauna and human cultures one of the most remote corners of Asia.

Author: Carol Drinkwater

After sixteen months of travelling round the Mediterranean in search of the ancient secrets of the olive tree, Carol returns to her beloved olive farm in the south of France, to her husband Michel and his burgeoning fami ...

Author: Webb Chiles

Renowned sailor and author Webb Chiles, whose adventures were previously chronicled in A Single Wave, returns with a beautifully written account of his fourth circumnavigation. Chiles departs with his wife, Carol, leavin ...

Author: Seingalt, Jacques Casanova de

This travelogue revolves around Casanova's visit to Venice. The beauty of the landscape and the historic significance of different places has been skilfully depicted. This heavenly beauty has been glorified through his w ...

Author: Linda G. Myers & Arthur H. Myers Veteran USMC

Art Myers is a Viet Nam veteran with memories. In 2005 he and his wife Linda traveled to Viet Nam with a group led by a psychotherapist who works with veterans affected by Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). From the ...

Author: Marnie O Mamminga

Five generations of Marnie O. Mamminga's family have been rejuvenated by times together in Wisconsin's Northwoods. In a series of evocative remembrances accompanied by a treasure trove of vintage family photos, Mammin ...

Author: Scott O'Grady

An account of the author's ordeal when, as a US Air Force Captain helping to enforce the NATO no-fly zone above Bosnia in June 1995, his aircraft was shot out of the sky by Bosnian Serbs and he had to spend six days and ...

Author: Chris Nand

Author: Dan Wakefield

Dan Wakefield was a successful writer of novels, nonfiction, and screenplays when he awoke to a private life that was disintegrating in alcohol, depression, and isolation. He fled Hollywood for Boston where he reclaimed ...

Author: Dennis W. Shepherd

The march to Baghdad, Iraq in 2003 was a military operation like no other. High tech weapons and old fashioned Marine infantry combined to lead coalition forces to victory in twenty-one days. Returning Son is the story o ...

Author: Dennis W. Shepherd

The march to Baghdad, Iraq in 2003 was a military operation like no other. High tech weapons and old fashioned Marine infantry combined to lead coalition forces to victory in twenty-one days. Returning Son is the story o ...

Author: Corinne Hofmann

Fourteen years after fleeing Kenya with her baby daughter, Corinne returned in the summer of 2004 to meet Lketinga and his family again in their village, Barsaloi. Nervous as she was, and uncertain as to how he would rea ...

Author: Haggai Eshed

This is the story of Reuven Shiloah - the man who established the Mossad, and laid the foundations for the intelligence community of the State of Israel. Although he was head of the Mossad for only two years, from its in ...

Author: Haggai Eshed

This is the story of Reuven Shiloah - the man who established the Mossad, and laid the foundations for the intelligence community of the State of Israel. Although he was head of the Mossad for only two years, from its in ...