Melbourne: 85 books

When Ana signed up as a schoolteacher in California, she thought she was going to be working in a schoolhouse near Sacramento. Instead, it was a far more difficult task she would attempt to undertake.

Immigration to America is an issue that often sparks intense emotional reactions_from passion and compassion to anger and even rage. Often missing from the dialogue, however, is discussion of the strengths of immigrant newcomers_the abilities and positive characteristics they bring as individuals...

This concise text presents a focused, well-rounded, and clear-eyed introduction to the concept of human security. Questioning the utility of traditional national-security frameworks in the post–Cold War era, Paul Battersby and Joseph M. Siracusa argue that we must urgently reconsider the principle...

Speed Sex: A racecar champion is always in control, both with his cars and his women, and always on his own personal strict schedule; but when he meets a redheaded, gorgeous woman, he is matched, and starts to lose both his grip and control of his sex life.

This is a wonderful, rich, and deeply emotional novel about a young English ladies’ maid who falls in love with the son of her mistress, when an enemy betrays her and causes her expulsion from the household. With no options left, she decides to ship out to the US and become a mail order bride, where nothing in her short life prepares her for what happens next.

Trapped in a loveless marriage, and after her husband’s suicide, Emma decides to become a mail order bride and after finding a rancher, she boards the train for California. There’s only one thing on her mind though; the rancher wants a family, and she’s thirty-five.

A woman living in the Klondike Territory decides to head down to San Francisco after getting an apparently legitimate treasure map from a local character, and when she determines that her theoretical claim is real, she runs into a charming but shady character laying claim to the very same piece of real estate, which happens to lie under the cold waters of the bay.

Mail Order Bride: A Hard Fought Journey To Love - An English woman fallen on hard times decides to travel to America and her soon to be husband, but along the way there are many hazards including a life-changing train journey.

Acknowledged as one of the most memorable novels about Thailand, “A Woman of Bangkok” was first published to critical acclaim in London and New York in the 1950s and is a classic of Bangkok fiction. Set in 1950s Thailand, this is the story of an Englishman’s infatuation with a dance-hall hostess...

The recent commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s election as the thirty-fifth president of the United States serves as a reminder of a period of time that many Americans perceive as idyllic. Just as his election, despite a near-run thing, had instilled a pervasive sense...

The Battle To Stay On Top, Two billionaires clash in the boardroom and the bedroom, until one of them comes out on top. Life Lessons Taught By A Master, is about a young woman willing to take lessons in love from a very wealthy man, so she’s invited to stay a few months in his mansion. Once...

A former prostitute from London decides to pass herself off as an upper class woman on the voyage to America, and then in her new life in New York. The only problem is, she thinks she was recognized by one of her former clients.

A Mind Is A Wonderful Thing To Waste, is a spicy Sci-Fi romance about a little boy who suddenly develops ESP, and it’s not until his twenties that he knows how he wants to use his talent; getting any woman he wants into bed with him. There’s a terrific little twist at the end of this story.Love...

The story of U. S. nuclear testing between 1945 and 1963 is a vivid and exciting one, but also one of profound importance. It is a story of trailblazing scientific progress, weapons of mass destruction, superpower rivalry, accidents, radiological contamination, politics, and diplomacy. The testing...