Foreign Women

Thai women are special. If you don't believe this, please explain to me why men come to Thailand from all over the world to enjoy Thai women and possibly take them home with them. I suggest it's a combination of how Thai culture is reflected in their character ... and how well put together they are. Laos, Cambodia and Indonesia are all SE Asian countries full of available and attractive women who are looking for someone to help them move toward a better life. But it's Thailand that gets all the action. Thai culture somehow turns out women with a strong appeal to foreign men. This book is ...

The Iversleigh Chronicles Book 2. Robert Buchanan takes a leap of faith and converts his brother's ancestral home, Iversleigh Castle into a hotel. When Susanna Van der Leyden from New York comes to stay with her father, Robert becomes involved with the sad trend of young American heiresses being married off to bankrupt English aristocrats. Will love prevail?

A New York Times Notable Book Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age. At the age of sixteen, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as one of the...

'I need you,' the tall, ridiculously good-looking missionary had declared, his words reverberating through the entire church. Wait—he wasn’t talking just to Josey? Oops, because suddenly she’s not in Gull Lake, Minnesota anymore. Instead, she's found herself in Moscow, Russia, as a missionary for a whole year. Oy! Really, she just wanted to escape her chaotic hometown, where her sister ran off and married her ex, and her heart still pines for Chase, 'the one that got away.' But life has a funny way of throwing snowballs, and now she's in Russia, spreading the good word and navigating ...

A murdered brother. A billionaire art collector. A socialite and her daughter on a mission for revenge. Diana Beyer, a former high-flying ‘It Girl’ in Zürich, uncovers the truth about her brother's death: the killer is a billionaire fugitive who has found sanctuary in Switzerland, believing his wealth makes him untouchable. Her grief turns to purpose as Diana realizes she has the perfect weapons to bring him to justice: inside knowledge of the world he now inhabits and her daughter Tanya’s art gallery that provides an irresistible opportunity. From exotic villas to luxury yachts, the...

Mina Barrett is the CIA’s best defense against the Dominion. She’s young, charming, intelligent, motivated… and she’s a vampire. Twenty years ago, vampires revealed themselves to the world. Society hadn’t expected them to be real at all, much less a species entirely separate from humans. The government feared hostile foreign powers would also seek to exploit their psychic talents, and put out a call for recruitment. After a childhood spent in isolation, Mina saw a chance for adventure and signed on the dotted line. Unlike the Dominion, she doesn’t feel humans are inferior ...

Investigative journalist Lee Smith uncovers what he calls the “permanent coup” — a relentless, orchestrated effort by the left to undermine President Donald J. Trump and American democracy. From the fabricated Russia collusion hoax to the violent riots that swept across American cities...

We all know that the best way to study a foreign language is to go to a country where it's spoken, but can the same immersion method be applied to history? How do interactions with antique objects influence perceptions of the modern world?

It took me a long time to write this relatively short book. The subject is complex. This is intended to be the sequel to a previous book I wrote years ago, “Thai Women -What a Foreign Man Should Know.” Time has passed and my perspectives have changed. Living in Thailand can do that. This book is based on my experiences. I provide no statistics. I do not pretend to be objective. My experiences have had some emotional impact on me. What you will read will be very subjective. My intention here is to both educate and entertain. It's hard to live in Bangkok and not have a few juicy stories. ...

This is for the men trying to meet women online before visiting foreign countries and these are my helpful tips for online dating

White House executive chef Ollie Paras has served plenty of meals to foreign dignitaries from around the world. But someone is ready to serve her an ice-cold dish of revenge.... Things are about to really heat up for Ollie. News of a bombing and attempted breakout at a federal prison reveals that the brother of a terrorist she helped defeat is back with a vengeance. And after she gets mugged on her way home from work, the Secret Service won't leave her side, fearing that she is now a target.

29 Stories of Persons of Interest, of Fascination, Guilt and Innocence. The accusers, the victims and those who fall by the wayside; The men and women who love and lust; who scheme and connive; who win or suffer; and plot to spend their gains, or gain their revenge. You're in New York when the cops raid the club, and you suddenly become a Person of Interest, so how do you explain this back home? My money's on the 39th step being as far as this creep gets, but that's just a guess. The rapacious Viking raiders hadn’t counted on Onja being in their next-chosen village. Would two such nice ...

In this emotional mystery-thriller, you'll journey with talented cellist Marie Donovan from the confines of Dallas County Jail to the posh concert halls of the rich and the alluring Seychelles Islands. The harrowing tale begins when the elegant Marie lands in dire straits after her Super Bowl star husband sails off a Dallas high rise—many say in shame after his financial deals go sour. Months later, Marie's grief turns to terror when she's jailed for murdering a lecherous opera maestro. Evidence points squarely at Marie, but she insists she's been framed. A Cellist Loses Her Freedom and ...

When June Kato visits Tokyo, it's with sightseeing in mind. Little does she realize that she is in for a lot more than temples and gardens. Taking one last stab at her past modeling career, June helps her sister open a new fashion company in Japan by doing some posing. Neighborhood crime bosses don't like the idea of foreigners moving into their turf, and quickly take matters into their own hands. When June finds the body of a troublesome coworker in an alley, she takes it as a message from one family to another. Everybody denies knowing anything about the death of the man, but there are ...

A memoir of seafaring in the golden age of the Merchant Navy. Calm seas, flying fish, and wild storms in the days before containers, when cargo ships were loaded by muscle and ancient hydraulic cranes, the days of industrial canals, tropical rivers, lagoons, and shimmering seas.

Looking into the "suicide" of his lover's ex-husband sounds like a hairball to a private investigator. But he never imagined it could get him killed! Alton Rhode travels to San Francisco to investigate an alleged suicide and winds up ensnared in a web of cryptocurrency-fueled murder and international intrigue! The private eye knows a lot about murder and almost nothing about bitcoins. But he soon gets educated about the latter with the help of an unorthodox but brilliant young woman. And his own expertise comes in very handy when he runs into a bunch of Russians and Chinese whose motives ...

Inspired by TRUE Events! - In a historical with romance, action-adventure, family, foreign and national intrigue between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, all kinds of exciting things...Through blizzards, gale-force winds, temperatures falling below -80, and over 700 miles of death-dealing terrain, teams of brave men and courageous and smart dogs of in dominatable fighting spirit, mush sleds across the Alaska wilderness, in an around the clock relay, race with lifesaving serum for 11,000 plague-ravaged people inaccessible by everything, but death and their determined rescuers, warring with the...

More than a quarter of a century ago, Leo Rosten presented the first comprehensive and hilariously entertaining lexicon of the colorful and deeply expressive language of Yiddish. Said to "give body and soul to the Yiddish language," The Joys of Yiddish went on to become an indispensable tool for writers, journalists, politicians and students, as well as a perennial best seller for three decades.

'Well-researched and enthralling, Peter Ricketts brings the wartime Foreign Office to life.’ – Tim Bouverie 'The gripping story of how the men and women of the Foreign Office secured Britain's victory in the Second World War and created a new international order.' – Professor Helen...

When she was just seventeen, independent and ambitious Elizabeth Scarboro fell in love with irreverent and irresistible Stephen. She knew he had cystic fibrosis, that he was expected to live only until the age of thirty or so, and that soon she’d have a choice to make. She could set out to travel, date, and lead the adventurous life she’d imagined, or she could be with Stephen, who came with an urgency of his own.