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  Growing Into Greatness - A...

  Tanya E Williams

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  In the sun-soaked vineyards of Napa Valley, a daughter’s destiny is held hostage by a father’s secret. 
  Born amidst the dawn of Prohibition, Sofia Russo always dreamed of being her family’s next winemaker. But when her father chooses her reluctant twin brother, Alonso, to carry on the family legacy, Sofia’s world is upended as her hopes for a future in wine crumble alongside the relationship with her father. Feeling the intense sting of her father’s rebuke, Sofia is determined to rise above inequality and the hardships of The Great Depression to prove him wrong. 
  As decades pass and the Russo vineyard stands the test of time and adversity, Sofia and Alonso find themselves at a crossroads when it is officially announced that Alonso will supersede their father as the next Russo winemaker. With the weight of their father’s expectations pressing down upon them, Sofia must confront the ghosts of the past in order to reconcile her relationship with her father and try to claim the legacy she feels destined to inherit. 
  In Growing into Greatness, Tanya E Williams paints a vivid portrait of family and the enduring power of the human spirit. Set against the breathtaking backdrop of Napa Valley, this sweeping saga will take you on a journey through time, where vines whisper secrets of love, loss, and the unbreakable bond of family.

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  Sixty Blades of Grass

  Elizabeth Millane

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  The bond between a Dutch teenager and her father is tested as the Resistance wages its secret war on the Nazis. 
   
   
   
  During the Second World War, Rika, a seventeen-year-old Dutch Resistance fighter, paints in fields overlooking the busy rail yards. Hidden in her artwork is information crucial to the Dutch Underground about the concentration camps and Jewish prisoner transports. 
   
   
   
  But Rika's covert activities aren't the only thing on her mind. In these uncertain times, even trusting family is risky. She suspects her father of collaborating with the Germans and is determined to uncover the truth. 
   
   
   
  Across town, her German-born father is also living a double life. But his desire to keep his daughter safe proves inadequate when he invites a German colonel into his home with terrible consequences . . .  
   
   
   
  With no one to rely on or turn to, Rika knows her greatest challenge has only just begun as she must fight for her own survival . . .  
   
   
   
  Inspired by the author's own family history, this is a riveting, heartrending novel of danger and betrayal that explores what it takes to lay down one's life for another in the most harrowing of circumstances.

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  Gunslinger: Killer's Choice

  A.W. Hart

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  FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE FAST-PACED AVENGING ANGELS SERIES COMES THE THIRD BOOK IN A NEW HEART-POUNDING WESTERN ADVENTURE! 
   
   
   
  An ostensibly simple, but hazardous job of delivering some much-needed nitroglycerin components to a burgeoning railroad town in the Arizona Territory proves problematic for the trio of River Hicks, Connor Mack and his twin sister, Abby. 
   
   
   
  Along the way they rescue a Chinese man on the verge of being lynched by a pack of crooked deputies. Moved by the Chinese man's tale of his quest to free his beautiful fiancée from the savage grip of human traffickers, they are surprised and dismayed to find the girl is being held in the town of Woodman, which is their own destination. 
   
   
   
  The town is run by a brutal, self-aggrandizing strongman who has taken over and renamed the town after himself. This self-anointed Duke also has ties to a mysterious financial backer who, unbeknownst to everyone, has enlisted an unscrupulous Pinkerton detective and a professional killer, known as The Regulator, to track down and kill Hicks, Connor, and Abby. 
   
   
   
  All trails unite in the dusty streets of the small, Arizona town where Hicks, Connor, and Abby come face to face with the vicious array of killers for a final showdown they soon realize has become a killer's choice.

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  Detective Stories – Curious...

  Baroness Orczy, Mark Twain, J...

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  The Detective has been a mainstay of fiction writing ever since we can remember.   
  Their deductive powers, their intuition and fleet-footed grasp of every detail can often turn the unlikeliest situation, or bunch of red herrings, into a breakthrough to capture even the most ingenious and dastardly of criminals. 
  In this series our classic authors explore not only various themes, such as Occult Detectives, Female Detectives, Curious Crimes and a whole host more, but also bring a range and depth to the whole culture of criminality as we send in the Long Arm of the Law to bring justice on behalf of the society it serves. 
  In this volume our intrepid sleuths are involved in cracking open some very curious crimes. 
   
  1 - The Detective - Curious Crimes - An Introduction 
  2 - The Affair at the Novelty Theatre by Baroness Orczy 
  3 - The Stolen White Elephant by Mark Twain 
  4 - A Medical Crime by J Storer Clouston 
  5 - Cheese - Bait For The Beast by Ethel Lina White 
  6 - Sergeant Dobbin Works It Out by J Jefferson Farjeon 
  7 - The Sapient Monkey by Headon Hill 
  8 - The Leak by Jacques Futrelle 
  9 - The Tragedy On the London and Mid-Northern by Victor L Whitechurch 
  10 - Five Hundred Carats by George Griffiths 
  11 - The Invisible Weapon by Nicholas Olde 
  12 - Exchange Is Robbery by Richard Marsh

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  Art Of Fine Dining The - A Short...

  William Makepeace Thackeray,...

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  Food. One of the overpowering needs that we all hunger for. Whether to use as basic fuel or sophisticated tasting, food and its providers, its servers, its guests and our authors are here to converse, deliberate as courses are served, some savoury, some sweet but always to be enjoyed. 
   
  01 - The Fine Art of Dining - A Short Story Volume 
  02 - A Little Dinner at Timmin's by William Makepeace Thackeray 
  03 - A Dill Pickle by Katherine Mansfield 
  04 - On Some Dinners at Paris by William Makepeace Thackeray 
  05 - The Inconsiderate Waiter by J. M. Barrie

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  The Last Lion - A tale of change...

  Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

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  Vicente Blasco Ibáñez was born in Valencia, Spain on 29th January 1867.  
   
  At university, he studied law and graduated in 1888 but never felt the urgency to practice - he was more interested in politics, journalism, literature and women.   
   
  Politically he was a militant Republican partisan and, in his youth, founded a newspaper, El Pueblo (The People). The newspaper was taken to court many times and he made many enemies. In one incident he was shot and almost killed. In 1896, Ibáñez was arrested and sentenced to a few months in prison. 
   
  Despite this colourful background he found time to write novels. His first published work was ‘La Araña Negra’ (The Black Spider) in 1892, a work that he later repudiated although at the time it was a useful vehicle for him to express his anti-clerical views. 
   
  In 1894, he published ‘Arroz y Tartana’ (Airs and Graces), about a late 19th Century widow in Valencia trying to keep up appearances in order to marry her daughters well.   
   
  Ibáñez’s next sequence of books studied rural life in the farmlands of Valencia and failed to gain much of an audience.   
   
  His writing now took on a new direction with its now familiar sensational and melodramatic themes in 1908 with ‘Sangre y Arena’ (Blood and Sand), which follows the career of Juan Gallardo from his poor beginnings as a child in Seville, to his rise to becoming a famous matador in Madrid 
   
  However, his greatest success was ‘Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse) in 1916, which tells a tangled tale of the French and German sons-in-law of an Argentinian land-owner who find themselves fighting on opposite sides in the First World War.  It was a literary and commercial sensation and became the best-selling book of 1919.  It also propelled Rudolph Valentino to stardom in the 1921 film. 
   
  Ironically his fame in the English-speaking world has come not as a novelist but as the stories behind some of Hollywood’s greatest silent movies. 
   
  Vicente Blasco Ibáñez died in Menton, France on January 28th, 1928, the day before his 61st birthday.

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