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When Alfredo and Roberto board the Santa Isabella to find work in Havana in 1884, Roberto is brutally robbed before they can disembark, leaving the couple facing an even harsher future than the one they left behind.Eager for any kind of work, they are lured into a year''s tenure at the plantation of Lars Van Linden, where the little kindness Alfredo receives comes from Lars'' overseer, Nathaniel. Jealous that Alfredo is receiving Nathaniel''s attention, the cruel and incensed Lars turns on Alfredo and Roberto, humiliating and denigrating them. But the tables are turned when Lars takes things a step too far, and a death sparks revenge.Set in Spain and Cuba in the late 1880s, Mi Canaria, Adios is a story of love, jealousy and despair amid the search for a better life.
"Write what you know" is Maria Augustus-Dunn''s mantra. With this in mind, she wrote her first book Married Quarter - Boots, Berets and Bloody Uniforms in 2016 which detailed her 21 years as a military spouse. Married Quarter is a glimpse into the world of military families who endure postings, deployments, long periods of separation and often loneliness. A diagnosis of a benign brain tumour in 2008 turned her life upside down and forced some pretty serious issues. It was time to rethink life. What was important? Was it time to think about retirement? After many postings, it was time to think about life after the military. What would it look like?Married Quarter finishes in 2011 when Maria and her husband decided to retire for a life on the road, travelling around Australia as permanent travellers. They sold up and gave away all their worldly possessions and have been travelling around Australia ever since.In 2018 Maria picked up the pen again and started writing her second book Dunnarunna - A Retirement Dunn Right, which follows their first five years of travelling around Australia. The highs, the lows, and everything in between, are written in Maria''s voice. You can hear her talking when you read her personal diaries and experiences of her travelling life. There is never a dull moment, according to Maria. Life on the road is never boring. It can be challenging, rewarding, funny, and sometimes downright scary, but never boring.Dunnarunna will have you laughing, crying, cheering, and may also have you wanting to take that leap of faith and head off travelling too. Dunnarunna is for those who wonder what it is like to give up all your security and become of no fixed address. Travel around Australia with Maria and her hubby while you read Dunnarunna - you won''t be bored!
The ''forever'' zeitgeist is the spirit of the ''century of insanity'' - 1950 to 2050 - the last century before enlightenment. (Or the extinction of human civilisation - whichever comes first.)Sebastian and Virginia are the founders of OWL - One World League - a brave new political movement designed to address the iniquities of the world: political corruption, environmental destruction and overpopulation. Archaic 18th century political thought turns into 21st century revolutionary enlightenment with the abandonment of elections, heads of state and partisan policy formulation. G.G, a phenomenally powerful member of the mysterious global ''elites'', convinces Virginia to embark upon a trillion dollar venture, F4F (Forests for the Future). The formula for the enterprise creates a vast, globally operating public company, of which the shareholders are OWL members - a brilliant first for a political movement. And the fabulous wealth created allows Virginia - who is now the world''s first trillionaire - to infiltrate the elites.But while this prophetic story unfolds, the world''s unwitting masses are being duped by the greatest conspiracy of all, the real-life Rothschild Formula - until the elites unleash a nuclear cauterisation which obliterates vast geographic locations around the world.The Compleat OWL is a hard-hitting political satire which exposes the dangers the real world is currently experiencing and lays bare the implications of the human race''s inability to extricate itself from its brutish evolutionary beginnings and to politically, socially and morally mature. Ignore The Compleat OWL at your - and the world''s - peril!
Priceless nutmeg and cloves were for millennia only found on a scattering of active volcanos rearing up from equatorial seas at the far edge of the world; the Spice Islands of today''s Indonesia.The Portuguese were the first Europeans to put them on the world map in 1512. To warn off the Spanish, they soon built the first Spice Islands fort. The profits were immense for whoever controlled these Spiceries, and a century of conflict and fort building followed as local sultanates, the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch and the English all fought for supremacy. The Spice Islands hold one of the greatest concentrations of colonial forts anywhere in the world.Now the guns are silent, the galleons long sailed away. Many forts are ruined or lost forever. But across the spectacular islands, still thick with the scent of spices, many old ramparts and bastions remain as testament to an historic era of conflict.Spice Islands Forts tells the story of these forgotten colonial outposts for the first time, and includes over 200 stunning photographs, historic maps and contemporary artwork, as well as a catalogue and useful tips for adventurous travellers.
A scientific catastrophe causes people from different places and timelines to be deposited on the world of Perencore. In a constant fight for survival against hostile people and creatures; they form alliances with the planet's original inhabitants.
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