RetailBrutal acts which shocked and horrified the world - exactly as their perpetrators planned...Terror attacks as we know them came into prominence in the 1960s with the activities of the PLO and IRA. These groups like many others used violence against civilian populations in an effort to effect change for either religious or ideological reasons. However, terrorism has been around for many centuries. This book traces its roots and examines the brutal acts that have shocked and horrified the world.PART ONE : Early Terrorism including The Assassination of Julius Caesar, The Assassin Movement.PART TWO : 1600-1899 including Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot, The Boston Tea Party, Assassination of TsarPART THREE: 1900-1969 including Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Black Panthers El Salvador Death SquadsPART FOUR : 1970-1989 including Black September, Bloody Friday, Cambodia Genocide, Aldo Moro, Airey Neave, Iranian Embassy Siege, The Brighton Bomb, Enniskillen, Pan Am Flight 103 LockerbiePART FIVE: 1990-2006 including Ian Gow, World Trade Center 1993, Warrington Bomb, Rwanda,September 11, Moscow Theatre Hostages, Bali Bombing, London Bombings 2005, Mumbai Massacre Views: 8
Review4 Stars "OMG! Wow! I was losing faith in short erotic reads...good lord that was a hot one! It really was quite complete! There was a little story to go along with the delicious bathroom sex among two strangers!" - Bookie Nookie Reviews, Goodreads 4 Stars "THIS WAS HOT!!! I'm going to be looking for more novellas by this author. Not much to say other than a hot fantasy comes true." - Sizzlin Miss Kenjii, GoodreadsProduct DescriptionWhen Katie's car dies in the middle of Nowhere, Texas, she hitches a ride with the hottest cowboy she's ever seen. Some quick down and dirty sex with a stranger might be exactly what Katie needs now that she's stranded--but Joe's not ready to let Katie go on her way just yet.This is a short (5,000 words) erotic romance story by bestselling multi-published erotic romance author Shoshanna Evers. Views: 8
Honky-Tonk Street—a dark, lonely, sordid edge of town where doom and despair reign supreme—a place where Johnny Nickles and the members of his jazz band are playing hot sets in seedy clubs among the whores, winos, and grifters who make up the denizens of the district.But a killer is stalking Johnny and his band, and Johnny finds himself trapped in a deadly game of chicken with local power broker Sam Cowles, his corrupt lackey Sheriff Botello, and a deadly professional thug for hire. What's worse, the group's mysterious Ghost Album, which memorializes and recreates classic jazz songs by long-dead masters of the art, has become almost a curse to the performers.This is a haunting, forgotten classic of the noir crime novel. We can feel the world closing in on Johnny Nickles; we can almost hear the moody jazz riffs and cool music background tightening around his neck. Beckman's text beats a worthy accompaniment to the harsh tempo of Johnny's downward spiral. In... Views: 8
Discover Africa by bicycle in book one of a delightful children's adaptation of Alastair Humphrey's journey around the world. In this charming caricature of Alastair Humphreys’ infamous circumnavigation of the world on his bike, children are swept along with the character of Tom, an adventurous boy who feels there must be more to life than school. The first part of The Boy Who Biked the World follows Tom leaving England, cycling through Europe and all the way through Africa to the tip of South Africa. Along the way, young readers are introduced not only to the various fascinating landscapes he passes through, but also to the various people who so happily embrace him as he traveled on his journey. With engaging illustrations and journal entries throughout, this book provides an immersive experience for any young adventurer. Views: 8
"Just let it go." Everyone in Granite Falls tells Carrie Randall the same thing. Is it a threat, or a warning? Yet even if it endangers her fresh start, Carrie needs to know what secret the town's hiding. There's her troubled student and his disturbing drawings. His fiercely protective father, and the mysterious death of his mother. And Carrie definitely has to find out more about the bad reputation of her standoffish new landlord, Logan Bradley. She wants to trust him, but she's been fooled by charm before. Is the town wrong about him - or is she? Views: 8
In a galactic culture that extends from quasi-Utopian worlds like new Rome to vermin-infested slums like Old Earth, the Star-Pilots are the great heroes of the day, and Grainger has become a legend in his own time, flying the revolutionary ship, Hooded Swan. The rain forest of Chao Phrya seems a more hospitable place than the Halcyon Drift or the underground world of Rhapsody, scenes of Grainger's previous adventures. But the colonists of the jungle planet are crazed and the indigenous population enigmatic; and Grainger must must undertake a mission that requires a lengthy journey on foot through the dense forest. His quest seems awkward, hazardous, and doomed to failure—and that's before the giant spiders make their appearance! Hooded Swan, Book 3. Views: 8
