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Book continues on from first book. Focus is on Italian immigrants in Southeastern Colorado and the life of the new immigrants near Ludlow and Trinidad, Colorado. Author raises questions about unanswered questions that still permeate around the Ludlow Massacre. The life of the immigrants is underscored as we explore how the immigrants went for being citizens of Italy to citizens of the United State. The life of these immigrants centered around ...

On a tea journey with old friends along the foothills of Colorado.

Second half of the adventure. The Gardenia Islanders are racing across the South Pacific to get home. They face sharks, both human and those of the sea, hunger, thirst and pirates.

Polynesians struggle to rebuild their land. From the Coral Sea to Gardenia Island they cross the sea in their war canoe racing for freedom.

Jack, Olive, VIolet, and Judith are youngsters in this first novel in a series set in the fictitious world of Northwest England. They have met a mysterious Burmese gentleman and the town librarian who have stolen a plant with rumoured alchemic abilities from a grand old estate in the Holly District. If the plant were to fall into the wrong hands it would have dire consequences reaching far beyond the little country town of Roseberry Topping.

Jack, Olive, and Violet continue their adventures. From England to New York City to the Azores and Kashmir, they struggle to repair the new telegraph line damaged in a horrendous geomagnetic storm. There is a somber message for society in a strange and perplexing world that exists on an island of hope near the South Pole. From one end of the world to the next the hair-raising adventure is matched by a certain somber undertone. This book is mea...

Two Chinese-American doctors return to China to take over their ancestral home. Story of heros and valour. You will fall in love with China through the characters. Non-stop adventure. Gives window into departing Europeans and a rising China.

4 young English are out to celebrate Picnic Day. They face storms, pirates, and intrigue but prove, again, the indomitable spirit of the English people. Their adventure begins along the fictitious English river, The Brightly, and ends at the sea.

Olive and Violet Bright are off to Blue Cay to solve the mystery of the destruction of the ancient Bimini Road. They meet the legendary race of pirates known as the boucanier who have been living in the Caribbean ever since Columbus dropped them off over 500 years ago. The young sleuths encounter a hurricane, tidal waves, and danger in this former enclave of pirates known as the Purple Sea. The cays are both enchanting and mysterious hiding th...

Home-schooled family travels South. Later Cub Scouts work on achieving historical trails hikes badges

Jack, Olive, Violet, and Judith are off to attend a circus near Butter, England. They and the circus become lost in a great storm but find their way home using the Emperor Hadrian's old and forgotten stone road. Along the way, they encounter dangerous rivers, meteor fields, scalawags, and much more. They are saved by heroes, great and tiny, who fight for England as the fight for themselves.

Violet and Olive, Jack and Judith have come to Hong Kong to visit an old friend, Peachy Wu. As soon as their ship arrives in port, they meet an old chum who has inadvertently become involved in the smuggling of priceless art treasures out of China. The quartette immediately begins a hunt for the exquisite objets d'art. They must travel to the beautiful Floating City to save the treasure of China and its people from an evil mandarin, who has no...

Olive, Violet, and Jack are off to Florence to meet with an old friend, Professore Rasenna di Eutria. They are on the hunt for a society tied to the Book of Names and the ancient Etruscans. The society plans to divide Italy, cutting off Tuscany as their own country. The English trio travels across Italy, from Florence to Ferrara to the beautiful azure waters of Italy's Amalfi Coast. They must endure earthquakes and dangerous kidnappers to find...

Author travels to Italy for four days during Easter Week. She shares her journal, paintings, images, and insights as she travels through Italy's heartland. She is meeting her son who is a student in Ferrara as they both acquaint themselves with a land so many of their friends and grandparents left when only children. Mother and son travel together from Ferrara to Florence, Rome, and Bologna. The author hears "bombs" on Easter Sunday only to di...

First of two part history and travel book on Ludlow Massacre and the life of the Italian immigrants in Southeastern Colorado in the early 20th c. Story is filled with joy and terrible tragedy related to the life of the miners in Ludlow, Colorado. The author compares American immigration with that of South Africa. Biography of two friends of the author whose aunt lost all of her children in the Ludlow Massacre. The importance of immigrants in t...

Boulder City and Louisville are threatened by striking miners. Wages are low, hours are long, and the whole northern fields are set to ignite...but hold onto your ten gallon, sit back, and have a scratch and a chaw. You'll bust a gut laughing through your tears at this unusual version of the very wild West...you might even recognize a relative or three...Meet Johnny Bautista, the sometime advocate for the miners, meet Sheriff Braniff who tries...

The wild dogs of the Serengeti Plain are used as an allegory for the lives of the humans who film them in their natural habitat. Whether it is the lives of the humans or those of the animals you are hit in the gut by both. Backdrop of the Korean War and a

Olive and Violet Bright are leaving England to visit their cousins in Bavaria. They are expecting a traditional Christmas high in the Alps with balls and a wedding to attend. But they soon discover that the Christmas trees of Winter Lake are being destroyed by a blight brought in by a mysterious count. Olive, Violet and their cousins, Franzie, Little Willy, Lorelei and Freya escape an avalanche, travel to northern Germany, Budapest, Venice, an...

This innovative volume explores the essential similarity of imperialist ideologies in Britain and France from 1890 to 1940. These nations attempted to sell the concept of empire to their respective peoples as a means of overcoming pressing internal problems. The author documents the development of imperialist ideology in both countries, analyzes its methods of propagation, and assesses its popular appeal. Beginning with the 1890s, when faction...