A wide-ranging anthology of travelers' accounts in thirty-eight of the world's most fascinating cities, from ancient times through the twentieth century.This entertaining new anthology includes travelers' tales from thirty-eight cities spread over six continents, ranging from Beijing to Berlin, Cairo to Chicago, and Rio to Rome.The volume features commentators across the millennia, including the great travelers of ancient times, such as Greek geographer Strabo; those who undertook extensive journeys in the medieval world, not least Marco Polo; courageous women such as Isabella Bird and Freya Stark; and enterprising writers and journalists, including Mark Twain. We see the work of famous travelers, but also stories by ordinary people who found themselves involved in remarkable situations, like the medieval Chinese abbot who was shown around the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris by the king of France.Some of the writers seek to provide a... Views: 78
GET A CLUE WITH THE CAMP CLUB GIRLS! Join McKenzie and the Camp Club Girls as they embark on a series of clue-filled adventures and crack the case in this entertaining and action-packed 4-in-1 mystery collection.Is there a horse thief on the loose?The Camp Club Girls are thrust into the throes of a Wild West who-dun-it. Can the girls combine their skills to solve this mystery and save the ranch—and rodeo—for Sunshine Stables?Where have all the sea lion pups gone? McKenzie and Alexis travel to the Oregon Coast to complete a video report on Stellar Sea Lions where they witness a strange string of events. Will the Camp Club Girls discover the pups' whereabouts before it's too late?What do you do when a family member goes missing? McKenzie and Sydney meet in Branson, Missouri, where McKenzie has been recruited to help at the Dixie Stampede, and they soon become involved in the search for a teen... Views: 78
People who say they were born in the wrong time always annoyed me. Until I fell through a time warp and found the girl of my dreams in the distant past of the early ‘90s!It was supposed to be a fun night out with friends at a skating rink. Only I hadn’t skated in years and sort of hit my head. Hard.I don’t know if that’s what did it. I sure as hell didn’t hit 88 miles per hour on those skates. George Carlin didn’t invite me to check out his phone booth. I didn’t walk into a police box that’s bigger on the inside. But I still wound up in the early ‘90s, that weird in between time when the ’80s were refusing to die off, which wasn’t the greatest for a modern girl.We’re talking the neon colors everywhere, poofy hairsprayed hairdos on the women and the men, Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer being played unironically, early 1990s.I love retro, but time travel? That was a bit much. Until I met Jenny. Beautiful Jenny. My perfectly awesome retro girl. Who totally lives in a time before I was born! A time when people weren’t as cool with the whole LGBT thing as they are these days.My life was complicated enough before I found myself in the middle of a time traveler’s girlfriend situation! And that time might be running out.The question is, am I running on Terminator rules where time a closed loop, everything’s already happened, and I don’t have a choice about the future? Or is there still a chance I might find a loophole that lets me Terminator 2 this thing and make my own fate?Yeah, and you thought you had love trouble!90s Girl is a 62,000 word lesbian time travel romance featuring a trip back to that magical time that wasn’t quite the ‘80s, wasn’t quite the ‘90s, when Vanilla Ice and New Kids on the Block dominated the charts, bright neon colors were everywhere, and people actually thought parachute pants were a legitimate fashion choice! Views: 78
"Hickman proves to be a master of suspense, plot twists, exhilaration and killer climaxes." —RT Book Reviews, 4.5 Stars Top Pick After one too many failed relationships, businesswoman Bernadette Gibson is resigned to singlehood. Yet on the heels of her fiftieth birthday she meets Cooper "Coop" Dennis, a charismatic nightclub owner who literally sweeps her off her feet. But just as they're ready to make the ultimate commitment, a secret from Coop's past threatens to end their relationship . . . As her fortieth birthday approaches, bestselling novelist Testimony "Tess" Sinclair is hurting—especially since her ex-boyfriend got married. For a change of scenery she travels to the sleepy southern town of Bourbon, NC, to visit her cousin, Bernadette—and finds unexpected love. Yet as wedding bells promise to ring, Tess wrestles with a secret that could end their happily ever after before it begins . . . Up-and-coming... Views: 78
"A WINNER." —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY"FIENDISHLY CLEVER." —THE TIMESIn this heart-stopping installment of Peter May's award-winning China Thrillers, the Beijing Olympics are the setting for fierce competition, national pride—and murder.THE SUFFERERA prodigious Chinese swimmer kills himself on the eve of the Beijing Olympics. Days later, a champion weightlifter suffers a fatal heart attack prior to competition.THE LISTENERDetective Li Yan senses a conspiracy surrounding the fatalities, and finds a female athlete willing to talk. But she will only trust one person: Li's fiancée, Margaret Campbell.THE RUNNERWhen Campbell's contact herself vanishes, the gun is fired on a race against time. And Li must now outrun—and outwit—an enemy bent on pushing him beyond endurance. Views: 78
It is 2226AD and it's Autumn on Mars. The 3rd Fleet of the InSystems has landed and brought new technologies with them to aid the Terraforming that the 1st Fleet and the 2nd Fleet began since Earth-flight. Mars_Starmind runs the Mars Channel Network and owns almost all the contracts of the cyber-enhanced InSystems culture. Esteban Perez is the MCN Weatherman but is he just another MCN machine cog? Views: 78
