Dragon Wine Volume One

Dragon Wine Volume One
Author: Donna Maree Hanson
Publisher: Donna Maree Hanson
Total Pages: 460
Release: 101-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0648065030

Shatterwing

Shatterwing
Author: Donna Maree Hanson
Publisher: Donna Maree Hanson
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2018-02-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0648041549

Thirsty Dragon

Thirsty Dragon
Author: Suzanne Mustacich
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2015-11-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1627790888

An inside view of China's quest to become a global wine power and Bordeaux's attempt to master the thirsty dragon it helped create The wine merchants of Bordeaux and the rising entrepreneurs of China would seem to have little in common—old world versus new, tradition versus disruption, loyalty versus efficiency. And yet these two communities have found their destinies intertwined in the conquest of new markets, as Suzanne Mustacich shows in this provocative account of how China is reshaping the French wine business and how Bordeaux is making its mark on China. Thirsty Dragon lays bare the untold story of how an influx of Chinese money rescued France's most venerable wine region from economic collapse, and how the result was a series of misunderstandings and crises that threatened the delicate infrastructure of Bordeaux's insular wine trade. The Bordelais and the Chinese do business according to different and often incompatible sets of rules, and Mustacich uncovers the competing agendas and little-known actors who are transforming the economics and culture of Bordeaux, even as its wines are finding new markets—and ever higher prices—in Shanghai, Beijing, and Hong Kong, with Hong Kong and London traders playing a pivotal role. At once a tale of business skullduggery and fierce cultural clashes, adventure, and ambition, Thirsty Dragon offers a behind-the-scenes look at the challenges facing the world's most famous and prestigious wines.

Dragon Wine Volume Two

Dragon Wine Volume Two
Author: Donna Maree Hanson
Publisher: Donna Maree Hanson
Total Pages: 580
Release: 2018-05-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0648279537

Dragon Wine Volume 3

Dragon Wine Volume 3
Author: Donna Maree Hanson
Publisher: Donna Maree Hanson
Total Pages: 687
Release: 2018-10-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0648279588

This box set contains, Skyfire, Dragon Wine Part 5 and Moonfall, Dragon Wine Part 6 These are the two final installments in the Dragon Wine Series. Deliciously dark fantasy… "Shatterwing has all the fantasy ingredients I love: tormented heroes, a truly twisted villain - and a brand new take on dragons!" Glenda Larke, (award winning author of The Stormlord Trilogy) "Dark and compelling, with strong characters and a sense of grim inevitability that pulls you along with the story." Craig Cormick, (award-winning author of the Shadow Master Series.) Will Salinda and her band of followers find a way to avert final moonfall?

Dragon

Dragon
Author: Rose Gan Rose Gan
Publisher: Monsoon Books
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2021-11-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1912049899

Before Raffles, before Rajah Brooke, there was Francis Light, the 18th-century trailblazer in the Malay Archipelago. The 18th-century Straits of Malacca is in crisis, beleaguered by the Dutch, the Bugis, and the clash between Siam and Burma. Enter Francis Light, devious manipulator of the status quo, joined by a cast of real historical figures from the courts of Siam and Kedah and from the East India Company, including Sultan Muhammed Jiwa, King Tak Sin, Warren Hastings and Martinha Rozells, a young Eurasian woman of noble birth. From humble origins in Suffolk, England, Light struggles against the social prejudices of his day. His subsequent adventures as a naval officer and country ship captain take him from India to Sumatra, the Straits of Malacca to Siam, through shipwreck, sea battles, pirate raids and tropical disease. But Light’s most difficult challenge is his ultimate dream: to establish a British port in the Indies on behalf of the East India Company. Dragon, the first volume of Penang Chronicles, charts Francis Light’s colourful adventures in the decades before the settlement of Penang island, the Honourable Company’s first possession on the Malay Peninsula.

The Dragon's Bane - Volume One - The Prophesy Revealed

The Dragon's Bane - Volume One - The Prophesy Revealed
Author: Scott Kreiger
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2013-06-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1304008312

CrossRoads Castle, located in the far North, is host to the group of adventurers known as the dragon's Bane. Little do these adventurers know how accurate their choice for a name might be and the trouble it will cause them. Hilthguard, a giant of a dragon, awaits them at the bottom of the dungeon, while he has his dragonmen army doing its best to bring these foolish adventures to their doom. Will this new party of inexperienced adventurers truly be the Dragon's Bane? Or will they become his breakfast?

Heart of the Dragon

Heart of the Dragon
Author: Gena Showalter
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2012-06-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459247078

Searching for her missing brother, Grace Carlyle never dreamed she would discover a secret world populated by mythological monsters—or find herself facing a sword-wielding being whose looks put mortal men to shame. But there he was, Darius en Kragin, one of a race of shape-shifting warriors bound to guard the gates of Atlantis, and kill all travelers who strayed within its borders. Now Grace's life was in his hands, and Darius had to choose between his centuries-old vow and the woman who had slipped beneath his defenses and stolen the heart of Atlantis's fiercest dragon.

The Ice Dragon

The Ice Dragon
Author: George R. R. Martin
Publisher: Tor Teen
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2014-10-21
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1466885785

The Ice Dragon is an enchanting tale of courage and sacrifice for young readers and adults by the wildly popular author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Song of Ice and Fire series, George R.R. Martin. Lavish illustrations by acclaimed artist Luis Royo enrich this captivating and heartwarming story of a young girl and her dragon. In the world of A Song of Ice and Fire the ice dragon was a creature of legend and fear, for no man had ever tamed one. When it flew overhead, it left in its wake desolate cold and frozen land. But Adara was not afraid. For Adara was a winter child, born during the worst freeze that anyone, even the Old Ones, could remember. Adara could not remember the first time she had seen the ice dragon. It seemed that it had always been in her life, glimpsed from afar as she played in the frigid snow long after the other children had fled the cold. In her fourth year she touched it, and in her fifth year she rode upon its broad, chilled back for the first time. Then, in her seventh year, on a calm summer day, fiery dragons from the North swooped down upon the peaceful farm that was Adara's home. And only a winter child—and the ice dragon who loved her—could save her world from utter destruction. This new edition of The Ice Dragon is sure to become a collector's item for fans of HBO's megahit Game of Thrones. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Assassin's Accomplice

The Assassin's Accomplice
Author: Kate Clifford Larson
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2011-02-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 0465024475

In The Assassin's Accomplice, historian Kate Clifford Larson tells the gripping story of Mary Surratt, a little-known participant in the plot to kill Abraham Lincoln, and the first woman ever to be executed by the federal government of the United States. Surratt, a Confederate sympathizer, ran the boarding house in Washington where the conspirators-including her rebel son, John Surratt-met to plan the assassination. When a military tribunal convicted her for her crimes and sentenced her to death, five of the nine commissioners petitioned President Andrew Johnson to show mercy on Surratt because of her sex and age. Unmoved, Johnson refused-Surratt, he said, "kept the nest that hatched the egg." Set against the backdrop of the Civil War, The Assassin's Accomplice tells the intricate story of the Lincoln conspiracy through the eyes of its only female participant. Based on long-lost interviews, confessions, and court testimony, the text explores how Mary's actions defied nineteenth-century norms of femininity, piety, and motherhood, leaving her vulnerable to deadly punishment historically reserved for men. A riveting narrative account of sex, espionage, and murder cloaked in the enchantments of Southern womanhood, The Assassin's Accomplice offers a fresh perspective on America's most famous murder.