True Adventure

No. 1 bestseller on Amazon Spain Enter a world of magic, adventure, action, love and betrayal that will leave you breathless. “Sonthorn is the last Drugan, a race now extinct, defeated by the forces of evil. However, this lineage of winged humans is the most powerful ever created. He is the heir to ancient conflicts that he neither understands nor shares. The young man is raised among humans who struggle to hide their abilities from the rest of the world, but when they become impossible to hide, his life begins to be in danger. Unbeknown to him, he is the key to the liberation of the ...

**Awards:** New Mexico-Arizona Book Award Finalist, 2024; Royal Dragonfly First Place in Letters, Diaries, and Journals, 2024; Global Book Awards Silver Medalist in Biography and Memoir, 2024. Do you want to get away from it all? Meet Kent. Overwhelmed by the indifference of his South Dakota undergraduate students and fed up with American politics of the 1980s, he yearns for a life of adventure. Then, he discovers sailboats. While retirement seems financially out of reach, living on a sailboat opens up a world of exhilarating possibilities. Imagine letting the wind guide your family ...

Entertainment Weekly calls acclaimed author and essayist J. Maarten Troost a "funny, candid, and down-to-earth travel companion". Both witty and poignant, Headhunters on My Doorstep follows Troost as he retraces Robert Louis Stevenson’s path through the South Pacific. Somewhere between AA meetings in Tahiti and discovering how the Island of Merrymaking got its name, Troost reconnects with himself, his family, and the beauty of life.

High on a cliff in Hawaii in 1807, an irrepressibly curious native boy dives into the sea and swims to an American merchant ship anchored offshore, embarking on an extraordinary adventure that will change history.

Best-Selling Author KJ Waters shares her love of water and the beauty of nature in a short story collection that will make you yearn for the great outdoors. In this heartwarming and often humorous collection of true short stories, KJ Waters takes you on a journey through the adventures and mishaps that come with family life—and a deep love for all things water. When KJ moved to the landlocked town of "Dirtville" seventeen years ago, she found herself miles away from the ocean, rivers, and lakes that had always been her sanctuary. To cope with the sudden absence of water in her life, she ...

As the summer of 1993 begins, Sam and Swami Brecht roll into town with a twenty-six-foot Winnebago camper van, their three young kids, and the deed to Woodchuck Rafting Company. Sam and Swami met as young adventurous river guides but, a decade later, find themselves weighed down by money worries and the demands of adulthood. The town of Thunderwater, in Wisconsin’s Northwoods, could be the fresh start their marriage needs. But Woodchuck, once the property of Sam’s eccentric uncle, has seen better days and will need a serious overhaul if it is going to stand a chance at survival.

Young and in love, their lives ahead of them, Tami Oldham and her fiancé, Richard Sharp, set sail from Tahiti under brilliant blue skies, with Tami’s hometown of San Diego as their ultimate destination. But the two free spirits and avid sailors couldn’t anticipate that less than two weeks into their voyage, they would sail directly into one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history.

A collection of 11 award-winning short stories concerning the true adventures of California fish and game wardens and the wildlife-destroying outlaws they pursue. These stories illustrate the wide variety of wildlife-related problems wardens face in California, which has a greater diversity of wildlife and wildlife habitat than any other state and is second only to Alaska in its vast expanses of wilderness.

“Sharks are as timid as rabbits,” says a superintendent of the Coast Guard, dismissing the possibility that a shark could be the culprit in an unprecedented fatal attack at the Jersey Shore. It’s July, and swimming in the sea is a popular new pastime, but people up and down the East Coast are shocked and mystified by the swimmer’s death. A prominent surgeon at the shore, Dr. Edwin Halsey is the one who examines the victim, and the only one who believes the perpetrator was a shark—and that it will strike again.

Witch Vs. Mage. The battle continues... Once upon a time, there was a gingerbread cottage in the middle of the woods. The Big Bad Wolf had built it for his Wicked Witch, a place where they could have their Happily Ever After.
 But life isn’t a fairy tale. And there are no Happily Ever Afters for witches whose mother and aunt-in-law are coming for tea and procreational advice on Tuesday. When Drake stands her up one time too many, Penny runs away to Darkside and the games really begin. Witch Vs. Mage. Winner takes all.

It began simply enough. Breeze's old friend knew right where the gold was. All he had to do was pick it up. He enlisted Holly for her diving skills. The mission would only take a day. That's not how it turned out. First, it was the shark. Then it was the curious golden idols. Then it was the ex-con treasure hunter. Holly's patience wears thin as Breeze drags her deeper and deeper into turmoil. Can their tenuous relationship survive? Can Breeze turn the mission around? Will he live long enough to make them all rich?

The true story of how I partied my way into having a massive stroke, and how I proved the doctors wrong by completely recovering.

Based on True Events My first stroke of luck came from the Stardust Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, which unbeknownst to me was owned by mob bosses. FRANK “LEFTY” ROSENTHAL, the inspiration for the book “Casino” by NICHOLAS PILEGGI, managed all its operations.Based on True Events. I'm the host of the most exclusive High-Stakes Gaming event, flying to casinos all over the world. My travels took me everywhere, ensuring that the most extravagant VIPs had everything they desired: plush suites, private jets, and stretch limousines. I provided them with every amenity you can think of (...

The flaming hot romantasy featuring a ruthless alphawolf mafia prince, his fated mate from another dimension, and the secret baby that could change everything. Perfect for fans of Jennifer L. Armentrout and Sarah J. Maas! When an interdimensional warrior meets her fated mate in the heir to New York's deadliest mafia shifter family, worlds—and hearts—will collide in this steamy, action-packed romance! KARA I crossed dimensions with one mission: kill the monster who will go on to destroy worlds someday. I didn't expect to find my fated mate stopping me. I definitely didn't expect to end ...

Este libro esta basado en hechos reales de como un estudiante pacifista participa en uno de los ejercitos mas eficientes y duros del mundo y se convierte , inintencionadamente, en un soldado eficaz y, por culpa del destino, lo lleva a participar en la Guerra de los Seis Dias en 1967. Aunque lo que anhelaba era convertirse en un exitoso Barman, sus planes se ven alterados. Sus aventuras contadas en prosa comica, se convierte en un drama porque esta rodeado de heroes reales que nacieron en una tierra dura y estan perfectamente adaptados a las duras circunstancias. Nuestro principal caracter ...

Aged just seven, Suzanne Heywood set sail with her parents and brother on a three-year voyage around the world. What followed turned instead into a decade-long way of life, through storms, shipwrecks, reefs and isolation, with little formal schooling. No one else knew where they were most of the time and no state showed any interest in what was happening to the children. Suzanne fought her parents, longing to return to England and to education and stability. This memoir covers her astonishing upbringing.

Vera, a Guatemalan young woman, decides to travel to the old continent after a sentimental failure. Nevertheless, fate plays a trick on her, and loaded with a baggage of disappointments and sadness, she decides to return to her native country. After she returns to her land, Vera meets a man of Lebanese descent; an enigmatic person who has a special gift, and who changes her worldview forever. After hearing the anecdotes about his grandparents, she becomes obsessed with knowing the story of his new friend's Lebanese ancestors, and to find it, she has to travel to Lebanon. There, unexpectedly...

This book will keep you sitting on the edge of your seat. It is filled with amazing divine interventions of God's mercy. Dr. Michael H Yeager and his family have been rescued again and again by the supernatural hand of God. Powerful true stories and testimonies of Gods divine ability to deliver his people in the most difficult circumstances.

K9 handler Arin Siri doesn't like taking orders, and she works best when it's just her and her dog, King, out in the field. But when she discovers a wounded soldier of fortune during a search-and-protect mission, she has no choice but to get him to safety. The last time she and the roguish, sexy Jason Landon tangled, they were on opposite sides of the conflict, but this time, he's claiming to need her help.

Based on a true story, Found at Sea is the account of how 19-year-old Pete O’Brien, while attempting to circumnavigate the globe, is interrupted on his journey by his arrest on drug charges in Bangkok, Thailand and incarcerated in a prison in the heart of that city, along as what follows when he is eventually deported to the custody of a U.S. Consul in Singapore. Once arrived there, he is offered employment aboard an American merchant vessel as an alternative to a flight back to the United States in disgrace and the day that he boards a consulate launch for a trip out into Singapore ...