How the West Was Really Won is no dusty and boring history tome. It’s a raw, unflinching ride through the blood, grit, and glory of the American frontier from 1802 to 1890. Chronicled year by year, this book lays out the bare and honest brutality of the Indian Wars and broken treaties. It unearths bizarre and little-known facts, while peppering the narrative with sharp-witted tall tales, folklore, and quips to keep you entertained. From the Lewis and Clark expedition to the closing of the frontier, every page pulses with vivid stories of triumph, tragedy, and treachery. You'll also learn about the everyday people who made the West their home, from farmers to cowboys to Native Americans. Co...

When bon vivant Italian opera star-turned-pilot Pietro is shot down during World War II he nearly loses his life. Worse, he's lost his passion for music and is close to losing his sanity in a soul-crushing prisoner-of-war camp in South Africa when he meets Iris. He has a vision of love worth dying for - worth living for - and realizes he must find his voice if he ever hopes to see her again. Iris's dreams are at stake when she meets Pietro. All she wants is for her brother to come home alive from the war and to fulfill her destiny as a costume designer. She has her dream-come-true Hollywood invitation in the pocket of her hospital-volunteer uniform.  But this redhead's life turns u...

Jordan Whitler, newly returned home from the American Civil War, is excited to return to the Rocky environs of Colorado that he has spent the last 4 years being able to only dream of, and to the family that he loves more than life itself. Anticipating a time of peace, where he can reconnect with his parents and older sister, and re-engage with those in the community, he comes home only to find that there’s a new battle ahead to face, that nothing could have prepared him for, and one that would threaten the unity of his family as much as the war had threatened the unity of the country he just fought in defense of. Unlike the battle he had just been immersed in though, this was one that was ...

In June 1775, amid the Revolutionary War’s early stirrings, Irish Yankee Jeremiah O’Brien, seizes a British-armed schooner off the Maine coast to thwart the cargo of lumber she was escorting from reaching British forces in Boston. Inspired by this daring victory, Jeremiah leaves his lumber business to command privateer vessels, relentlessly pursuing British merchant ships across dangerous waters.Defying the British navy’s tightening grip on the Massachusetts coast, he risks his life and his ships to capture many prizes. Yet his greatest battle may lay onshore: winning the heart of Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, a fiercely independent woman who loves the freedom he fights for. Only a man worthy...

A celebration of a few of the female geniuses, artists, innovators, goddesses, and, not to be overlooked, villains. If men were there, women were too in the revolutions, discoveries, and progress. Every one of their stories deserves recognition in history class, a book, and a statue.

Six characters meet in Jerusalem during the final tumultuous decade of Ottoman rule: Jamail, the Sunni aristocrat; Natalia, the Russian Jewess from the best brothel in Constantinople; Wassif, the Christian Arab who keeps the journal; Thomas, the English archaeology student who will later lead armies; Joseph, the Sephardic builder of railroads; and David, the radical socialist fleeing from the Csarist regime who dreams of building a homeland.

They all came here...

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A new audiobook is laced with world history, original music and allegories. Over two decades, James Allan Krause, a former university professor and professional writer produced Wetion (2nd edn). The author describes the historical fiction based on fact as  “timely and worldly.”Addy is the main character and wants to understand the family’s genealogy. He asks, what influenced ancestors to migrate to the flat prairies of Saskatchewan in Canada? And before that, Scotland, England and France? Where did all those cultural peculiarities originate? Seeking answers, he conducts an experiment.DNA provides the map. Research, imagination and good old fashioned storytelling combine to explain...

Put yourself in the shoes of a young man from a Small Town, in the USA, who found himself in the middle of the Vietnam War in the jungles & rice paddies of the Mekong Delta region... Relive his experience as an American soldier in the years 1968 and 1969 with his account of his time spent in Vietnam.

Find out what it was like in the day-to-day life of a soldier in the Vietnam War. The book begins with his experiences in training, taking you through his service in Ft. Bragg, Ft Polk, Vietnam, Hawaii and Ft. Lewis. You will find yourself captivated by the missions he performed in the jungles of South Vietnam.

Arabus Drake, Greek vampire for 500 years, shares tales of his adventures, but unlike in the first book, “Love Stories,” here all he seeks is to belong somewhere. The adventures begin in 1505, where Arabus befriends a thief in Italy in his desire to be destroyed, until he realizes that too much time has passed since Althea left him. In 1603, Arabus travels back to Greece to find what became of his family bloodline. He meets a wandering poet who becomes obsessed with this man he thinks is a god. Arabus learns how his family died after he became vampiric, and uncovers the truth of the boy’s obsession with him.Along the way you will hear from three narrators who a...

Duty was his life until she arrived in Japan.
Step into 17th-century Japan, where honour and loyalty are code.
Junsaku Aoyama, driven by an unshakeable belief in his destiny, is determined to become Japan’s greatest samurai. However, when a foreign woman arrives on a Dutch merchant ship, she awakens emotions in him that he never knew he could feel and desires that threaten to alter the course of his life.
Caught between his loyalty to his country and his love for his family, Junsaku must navigate the treacherous waters of honour and duty even as a mysterious ghost draped in black warns him that his path ahead will require more than just the skill of a blade.