Publisher: Wildside Press
Hagger is not a good man, and he's on the run, branded a thief and a would-be killer. Then, in the snowbound high country, he finds a white bull terrier abandoned in a cabin. From that point on, his life begins to change for the better.
In a time of legends, a new hero emerges as an unlikely warrior rises from the ashes of a village destroyed by invading Saxons. Set in the late Sixth century, Saxon Dawn is a thrilling story about the last flames of resistance to the Anglo-Saxon invaders. King Arthur and the last of the Romans have gone but King Urien fights on. When three orphans join his warriors then the tide begins to turn and, despite overwhelming odds, they begin to defeat the Saxon hordes. Based on the history of the period, Saxon Dawn is a fast moving story with graphic battles scenes as well as complex characters and devious plot twists.Show book
In the wee hours of a December morning in 1914, fifteen-year-old Edna was poisoned, shot and her body and that of her partially born baby were burned in a neighbor's barn. Her beau, twenty-five-year-old, Roy, denied all acquaintance with her. This is the story of the four trials it took to convict Roy as told by her friends, family and neighbors of the Cow Creek Valley.Show book
The third audiobook in Griff Hosker exhilarating Soldier of the Queen series. Being a soldier of the queen at the end of the nineteenth century meant spending much of your time abroad. Jack Roberts is a hero and a good soldier but he is torn between his career and his son who is looked after in England. When the Mahdists begin to enlarge their empire Jack is recalled to the desert regiment he helped to form. Fighting behind enemy lines where nature is as much an enemy as the fierce Dervishes, Jack begins the campaign that will, ultimately, lead to the Battle of Omdurman in 1898.Show book
This book presents a number of short, comedic sketches of a country life in middle America in the late 1800s. The hilarious twists and turns endear our adorable, naive married couple to the reader; and the orphan servant Pomona - dear, odd, funny Pomona! - is the focus of several of the stories. Imagine a honeymoon in a lunatic asylum, and you’ve got Rudder Grange!Show book
When Miss Bingley arrives at Pemberley in a state of alarm, Mr. Darcy is quick to learn that his friend's future may be in jeopardy. Convinced that Jane Bennet intends to secure Charles Bingley by any means necessary, Darcy determines to intervene—unaware that his actions will only deepen the divide between himself and Elizabeth Bennet. Elizabeth is certain that Darcy's interference proves him proud, meddlesome, and determined to deny her sister happiness. Darcy believes Elizabeth would gladly entrap his friend if given the opportunity. Each is convinced of the other's worst intentions, and neither is prepared to concede error. Yet the truth has a way of asserting itself. When unsettling revelations concerning Mr. Wickham come to light, Darcy is forced to confront the possibility that he has been gravely mistaken. With Georgiana Darcy's courage and Elizabeth's resolve bringing hidden matters into the open, long-standing deceptions unravel, and Wickham's hold over Hertfordshire is finally broken. As misunderstandings fade and trust is slowly rebuilt, Darcy and Elizabeth must face not only their flawed judgments, but the growing affection they have been reluctant to acknowledge.Show book
In 1938 Hitler visits Italy. An expatriate Irish art historian is obliged to guide Mussolini and his guest around the galleries. Half fascinated, half repelled, he watches the tyrants, wrestling with the uneasy conviction that he ought to use the opportunity to “do something” about them yet lacking the zeal that might transform misgivings into action. Thirty years later, his daughter comes across a compromising clipping showing her father with the dictators. Exposed as a collaborator, the narrator explains what happened, what he did and did not do, and why, revealing in the process the part the girl’s mother played in promoting the digestive disorders that were to influence the course of the war. To help his daughter understand, he conjures a time before the crime that would define the century, a time before these men became monsters inflated to fit that crime, showing her the tawdry little people behind the myths, the real Hitler and Mussolini, the Flatulent Windbag and the Constipated Prick. Based on historical events and using the tyrants’ own words, Hitler, Mussolini, and Me brings the dictators down to earth, describing the murkier, more scurrilous aspects of their careers, and using jokes and scatology to weave a crazed pathway toward a cracked kind of morality. It is the story of an ordinary man living in extraordinary times—times when being ordinary was an act of rebellion in itself.Show book
