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Starting her journey behind the Iron Curtain in Romania, tracking spider monkeys in Tikal, following the Green March in Morocco, working on Ascension Island in the South Atlantic, riding horses in Umbria, training teachers in Borneo, to living under strict Sharia law in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Afghanistan, Jo takes us with her on inner and outward explorations in exotic locations. She writes of ways to navigate physical, emotional, and even spiritual risks and pain while traveling to parts of the world few have seen or described.

It is the end of the 19th century. Victoria has but a short time before her long reign will be over, but for the people of Knight's Acre, who sits on the throne is of little consequence. Jessica Milligan is weary and needs a way out of the drudgery of helping her mother, of cooking and cleaning for her father. The solution she discovers quite by accident will carry her through her life, but for now, she is looking for love. She finds it in the new estate manager, appointed by the Earl of Harrisford to run his estate.

Imperial Wine is a bold, rigorous history of Britains surprising role in creating the wine industries of Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand. Here, historian Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre bridges the genres of global commodity history and imperial history, presenting provocative new research in an accessible narrative. This is the first book to argue that todays global wine industry exists as a result of settler colonialism and that imperialism was central, not incidental, to viticulture in the British colonies.

It was a marriage of convenience for everyone except the bride and groom. He never wanted to be a laird. She never wanted to marry one.

Once upon a time, Maggie Mackintosh Budge yearned for handsome rogues and breathtaking adventure. Now she dreams only of trading her cold island prison for warmer climes. Desperate to escape a matchmaking father, she stows away on the nearest vessel because sometimes the only solution is running away to sea. Bastian MacLeod never chose a life of piracy, but after coming of age under the brutal regime of Auld Farrand’s Revenge, his world has been limited to placating the volatile captain and staying one step ahead of the Navy, that is until the crew discover Maggie in their cargo hold.