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  Hidden History of Texas 1836 –...

  Hank Wilson

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  The Texans have defeated Santa Anna at San Jacinto and now start the process of establishing an identify for themselves. First as a Republic and then as a new state and part of the United States. 
   
  This was a chaotic time in Texas history. There was infighting among the leaders, violent and bloody clashes with the native peoples, distrust of the Mexican population, and a lust for power among the new Anglo immigrants. This book covers the policies of one of the great Texas political leaders Sam Houston and one of the most power-hungry leaders in Texas history Mirabeau B. Lamar. 
   
  Topics include a look at the Comanche, Apache, Kiowa, and Cherokee peoples, how they lived and how they were affected by this new country. I also take a preliminary look at a group who is, depending on your point of view, either famous heroes or infamous villains, Los Diablos Tejanos, AKA, the Texas Rangers. I talk about how Texas was formed into an actual independent nation, and I look at exactly how Texas finally ended up being annexed by the United States not as a territory but rather as a state. 
   
   
  Track List 
  Introduction 1:48 
  Chapter 1 – Independence 7:37 
  Chapter 2 – Sam Houston and the New Republic 12:11 
  Chapter 3 – The Republic and Relations with the Tribes 8:33 
  Chapter 4 – The Comanches - Finest Horsemen on the Plains 10:24 
  Chapter 5 -  The Apaches - Fierce Warriors of the Southwest 15:56 
  Chapter 6 – The Kiowa - Nomadic Warriors of the Plains 11:52 
  Chapter 7 – The Cherokee – The Principal People Part 1 10:28 
  Chapter 8 – The Cherokee – The Principal People Part 2 6:31 
  Chapter 9 – Los Diablos Tejanos – 6:54 
  Chapter 10 – Texas Finally Becomes a Nation 12:34 
  Chapter 11 – Texas Becomes a State 11:03 
  Conclusion 00:54

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  A Shamed Sissy - Feminization

  Kinky Press

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  Get caught watching some hot tranny action, and your girlfriend seems to think you want it that way. 
    
  Intro Rick, bent over and receiving some not so tender attention from his suddenly dominate girl. She thinks just because he likes watching it that he wants it, too. He doesn’t. But dang, he does have darned good legs in that dress she’s making him wear. 
    
  He can’t believe she’s making him go out in public all dolled up like this, but hey, it’s nice to draw all the hungry attention. 
    
  Destination? A couple of dudes in sweatpants. Things are about to get awkward. But, Rick wants to keep his girl, so he mimics her and gets down on his knees. 
    
  The boys aren’t satisfied with their mouths, though, and Rick and his girl are laid side by side – rear up – to get some true man love. 
    
  PSA: This story contains a desperate man who feels forced into an undesirable situation. He’ll be dominated and humiliated by a bossy woman and another man, and gall darned if he doesn’t get off on... things... he never thought possible.

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  Lancashire - Exploring the...

  Chris Moss

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  'A fitting tribute to the greatest county in England' DAVID SWIFT, author of Scouse Republic
  
  
  Cotton, coal and canals.
  
  Trains, technology and television.
  
  Lancashire has shaped the modern world.
  
  
  Liverpool was once the world's busiest port. Manchester powered the industrial revolution and became a symbol of global free trade. Blackpool invented the working-class seaside resort. All three are situated in the historic county of Lancashire: unique, often misunderstood, sometimes maligned – and at the heart of our national story.
  
  
  In Lancashire, travel writer Chris Moss returns after an absence of four decades. As he visits familiar and unknown corners of his home county, he reaches beyond the clichés to trace lines from the deep past through to the present day.

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  Marco Polo – The Man Who Brought...

  Stephen Clarke

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  Few explorers have shaped history like Marco Polo. His journey from Venice to the court of Kublai Khan opened the door to the East, forever changing trade, culture, and knowledge in Europe. But how much of his story was real? 
  This audiobook takes you on a thrilling journey through historical records, Polo’s own accounts, and modern discoveries, uncovering the truth behind one of the greatest explorers of all time. Discover: 
  ✅ The legendary Silk Road journey and the wonders Polo encountered 
  ✅ His relationship with Kublai Khan and time spent in China 
  ✅ How his tales influenced Renaissance explorers like Columbus 
  ✅ Why some historians believe Polo exaggerated or fabricated his accounts 
  Marco Polo – The Man Who Brought China to Europe is a must-listen for history lovers, adventure seekers, and those fascinated by exploration and discovery.

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  Good God - Suffering faith...

  michael brooks

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  How can Christians believe in an all-powerful, all-knowing and loving God whilst there is so much suffering in the world? Contemporary theology books refer to the problem of theodicy as a significant and unresolved problem. Engaging with theology, biblical study, physics and biology, and philosophy and producing a cohesive synthesis of these subjects, Good God offers an answer that has the potential to re-integrate Christian theology with science and philosophy for the first time since the Enlightenment.
  
   
  Michael Brooks writes with both academic rigour and pastoral sensitivity. As a science and medicine graduate who is also an ordained minister, he makes science and theology comprehensible to those not trained in either discipline.
  
   
  The book opens the reader to the notion of a wonderful creation that is so full of the miraculous that this is taken for granted. Good God provides an answer to a very important question in a way that edifies faith and offers eternal hope.

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  Women Of Nazi Propaganda

  Jim Colajuta

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  German women played an essential role in the Nazi movement that outweighed the Nazi Party's propaganda that a woman's position was solely in the home as mothers and child-bearers. Thirteen million of the projected forty million German women in the Reich were active in Nazi Party organizations that promoted the regime's goals of racial purity, imperial conquest, and global war. The Nazi party was about as male-centered as any political party in history. Its ideas on women and women's rightful responsibilities in society were novel and, at best, radical. Despite this, the Party received widespread and active support among women in Germany at the time.This book investigates Magda Goebbels, Leni Riefenstahl, and Winifried Wagner and how they became enchanted by Hitler and obliged [his] Nazi philosophy. These three ladies were not ordinary Germans. Magda was hitched to Joseph Goebbels, the Reich Minister of Enlightenment and Propaganda and perhaps the most influential man of the Third Reich. An entertainer and famous movie chief, Leni was liable for a key publicity film. Winifred was hitched to author Richard Wagner's child and assumed responsibility for Wagner's inheritance. Hitler was captivated by every one of the women and used them to add his longing to reestablish Germany to its past brilliance. The women concurred with Hitler's longing to renew Germany's significance and perceived that once he became Chancellor, they would benefit enormously. These women didn't act as indicated by the standards of the times. They got out of the endorsed jobs relegated to ladies.

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