Voyager

Voyager
Author: D. R. VerValin
Publisher: Author House
Total Pages: 855
Release: 2014
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1491848618

Bane Skiles is a handsome young man from a wealthy Hawaiian family in the early 1940s. On the verge of graduation from college, he makes plans to fulfill a boyhood dream and sail around the world alone in the family's sailboat, Voyager. He begins his journey in the fall of 1941--only to have his voyage interrupted by the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Bane enlists in the Navy and soon becomes a PT boat captain with PT Boat Squadron 10, fighting in the Solomon Islands. While in love with a beautiful red haired Australian girl he finds himself having mysterious visions of a dark-haired woman covered in gold. After the war as Bane completes his voyage, he is pulled into the retrieval of a lost Biblical artifact stolen by the Nazis who believe it holds supernatural powers. In this historical novel, a world traveler is embroiled in the turmoil of World War II finds himself caught up in an adventure he never dreamed.

Somewhere on the Dark Side of the ID

Somewhere on the Dark Side of the ID
Author: V. Miles Capiston
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2017-02-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1480936189

Somewhere on the Dark Side of the ID by V. Miles Capiston Joanna was strong, independent, beautiful, and successful. Most men were intimidated by her success or drawn only to her curvaceous figure, while most women were envious of her. So several sightings of a mysterious, handsome man who didn’t seem either intimidated or captivated by her body piqued her interest. She soon found herself craving his attention and longing to know more about him. What Joanna didn’t realize is that Robb Michael knew exactly who she was and how she could change his life. After an erotic encounter and an unusual proposal, Joanna finds herself falling headfirst in love and into the cryptic, secretive world of Robb Michael. What Joanna doesn’t know is that Robb Michael’s plans will take her places she never thought possible and challenge the concepts of social norms and moral codes. Will Joanna ultimately love or hate the man Robb Michael is once she discovers his hidden motives?

Wings for J.R.

Wings for J.R.
Author: Joel Levinson
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2006-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595404448

She was 22 years old when in 1941 her brother disappeared mysteriously while at work in St. Mary's, Pennsylvania. Six years later-while working in Pittsburgh's Allegheny Air Traffic Control Tower-J.R. Saunders got the phone call she'd been waiting for. "You've got to come home right away," her dad, a pilot, exclaims. "I found the wreckage of a plane, and I think it may explain Mark's disappearance." With the help of her dad and boyfriend, J.R. treks deep into dense woodlands searching for clues leading to her brother's death. As one of only a handful of female air traffic controllers, J.R. uses her governmental connections, determination, and independent spirit to chronicle the disappearance of her brother against the backdrop of the Second World War. J.R.'s exposure to the political and cultural environment of the late forties provides not only the opportunity to solve the mystery but also an awakening experience that changes her life forever.

Tarmac Tales

Tarmac Tales
Author: Wendy Laing
Publisher: Writers Exchange E-Publishing
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2016-04-28
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1925191613

In this fact-based collection of experiences in the airline and travel industries gathered by authors with a combined fifty-two years working in all capacities of the business, you'll be given a behind-the-scenes look at the inner operations of this sometimes funny, sometimes sad, but always entertaining trade.

The Beijing Games

The Beijing Games
Author: Pat DePaolo
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 590
Release: 2007-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1434340872

THE BEIJING GAMES is a break-neck international thriller depicting a China-led conspiracy involving the most unlikely cabal of Washington insiders, a giant U.S. retailer, a private European banker, and a Chinese conglomerate controlled by the PLA. Their black goal is to eliminate all import restrictions on Chinese-made goods, and effectively destroy large segments of the U.S. manufacturing industry in order to dictate spending decisions of millions of Americans for years to come. Set in 2008/2009, the only person standing in their way is 48-year-old failed businessman, Justin Gatt, an unlikely hero whose life is thrust into turmoil when he is recruited to travel undercover in China to attempt to gather information critical to the U.S. Aided by three remarkable women who risk their lives to help him, Gatt escapes a Shanghai death-squad and a Chinese SAM missile. Finally, he's caught in the cross-hairs of an assassin's sniper rifle, as he attempts to warn US officials of a conspiracy to unlease biological and financial attacks designed to stagger the US economy. When chaos follows the Olympics, Gatt must find a way to warn the President-elect of an even more deadly threat. SEE READER COMMENTS BELOW:

Rapid Descent

Rapid Descent
Author: J. P. Polidoro
Publisher: Longtail Publishing
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2000-09-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780967761909

Duxford and the Big Wings, 1940–45

Duxford and the Big Wings, 1940–45
Author: Martin W. Bowman
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2009-10-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 1783469501

A pulsating account of the young RAF and American fighter boys who flew Spitfires, Hurricanes, Thunderbolts and Mustangs during 1940-45. It is unique in that the story is told using first person accounts from RAF, German and American Eagles who fought in the skies over England in the Battle of Britain in the summer of 1940 and the great air offensives over occupied-Europe from 1942 onwards. The first five and a half chapters cover the Battle of Britain period when the RAF squadrons fought dog fights with the Luftwaffe and then fought them in gathering strength using the Big Wings to meet the bomber fleets attacking London. The second part of the book covers the Eagle squadron period, which was expanded with Americas entry into the war. The action moves to the USAAF Big Wings of Thunderbolts and Mustang fighters that flew escort missions and dueled with the Luftwaffe over the continent during the massive bomber raids on German targets in France, the Low Countries and the Reich itself. A whole host of incredible first hand accounts by British, Polish, Czech, German and American fighter pilots permeate the action and describe the aerial battles as only they can. This unique book also includes many accounts and photos that have not previously been seen before while the rich mix of combat accounts from all sides are brought together for the first time in one volume.

River of Time

River of Time
Author: Jon Swain
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2010-05-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1407072803

Between 1970 and 1975 Jon Swain, the English journalist portrayed in David Puttnam's film, The Killing Fields, lived in the lands of the Mekong river. This is his account of those years, and the way in which the tumultuous events affected his perceptions of life and death as Europe never could. He also describes the beauty of the Mekong landscape - the villages along its banks, surrounded by mangoes, bananas and coconuts, and the exquisite women, the odours of opium, and the region's other face - that of violence and corruption.

Adventures of a Small Game Hunter in Jamaica

Adventures of a Small Game Hunter in Jamaica
Author: Max Overton
Publisher: Writers Exchange E-Publishing
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2016-01-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1925574172

An eleven-year-old boy is plucked from boarding school in England and transported to the tropical paradise of Jamaica where he's free to study his one great love--butterflies. He discovers that Jamaica has a wealth of these wonderful insects and sets about making a collection of as many as he can find. Along the way, he has adventures with other creatures, from hummingbirds to vultures, from iguanas to black widow spiders. Through it all runs the promise of the legendary Homerus swallowtail, Jamaica's national butterfly. Other activities intrude, like school, boxing and swimming lessons, but he manages to inveigle his parents into taking him to strange and sometimes dangerous places, all in the name of butterfly collecting. He meets scientists and Rastafarians, teachers, small boys and the ordinary people living on the tropical isle, and even discovers butterflies that shouldn't exist in Jamaica. Author Max Overton was that young boy. He counted himself fortunate to have lived in Jamaica in an age very different from the present one. Max still has some of the butterflies he collected half a century or more ago, and each one releases a flood of memories whenever he opens the box and gazes at their tattered and fading wings. These memories have become stories--stories of the Adventures of a Small Game Hunter in Jamaica.