Bookventure Publishing Llc: 228 books

This is a memoir of my career written from a peculiar point of view, indicated by the title.During my teaching career, I was a teacher of the Greek and Latin classics and also a teacher of classical Greek philosophy, particularly that of Plato. The memoir is basically the story of taking on three somewhat...

This is the story of a Kanaka, a Samoan warrior caught up in the illegal practice of Blackbirding to acquire pacific islanders as unpaid workers.Mel Milo is the son of the king of Samoa. His life of privilege came to a sudden end when he was taken aboard a slave ship bound for the cane fields in the...

Between 1994 and 1997, Canadian company Bre-X Minerals, sponsored and promoted to listings on the TSX and NASDAQ by JPMorgan, Lehman, BMO, and others, was exploring for gold on the Busang property on the Indonesian island of Borneo.Bre-X's efforts bore the discovery of a lifetime: a mammoth deposit estimated...

In The Caliph's Favorite, author Naava Mashiah sets her work of historical fiction in Andalusia, Spain, during the Muslim Caliphate of Abd al Rahman III at Medina al Zahra. The Caliph ruled with his vizier, Hasdai Ibn Shaprut, a devout Jew, by his side. In Cordoba's atmosphere of peaceful-coexistence,...

Dangerous Journey is a story of two friends who set out on an adventure to race their vintage Corvette in the Moscow to Beijing Road Race and end up as the means for al-Qaeda to make nuclear bombs to destroy ten famous American landmarks and to kill millions of Americans.When nuclear scientists Dr....

Cruise Ship Murders tells the story of two retired couples, Sonny and Jane and Gene and Susan, who are taking their lifelong dream of a world cruise to all seven continents. They planned and dreamed about taking this trip for a very long time to see places they had only read about in books or seen...

Drs. Shane Smith and Elizabeth Browning, talented veterinary research scientists, begin a passionate affair when they are brought together by the CIA and British intelligence to foil an al-Qaeda plot that threatens to infect America's beef supply with an aggressive strain of mad cow disease. In...

The idea for Fiction or Prophecy was born through a casual discussion with a neighbor in the author's family room. The discussion was based on the news that one of the terrorists claimed that they were secretly developing a backpack nuclear bomb and planned on bombing ten of our largest city. Our officials...

Two Left Shoes. Chief of Investigations of the Army Criminal Investigation Division, CID, Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Jorgensen is vacationing at a ski resort on the west slope of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. He no sooner arrives there, than he is involved in a murder investigation and romance. The...

A deadly force has wiped out most of the N'harmae (carer's of the ocean). A young N'harmae male named Penure brings the inhabitants of the ocean together so they can save themselves from extinction at the hands of a jellyfish-like race called the Vi'red. For young Penure, this means finding out if...

Examines the contested expansion of the Western United States through the perspective of two important historical figures. It is the story of a time when open land, resources, and wealth west of the Mississippi captured the imagination of everyone in nineteenth century America. The United States government...

I was inspired and influenced by women I had been in contact with. Not necessarily meeting them in person but generally via the internet. If they were on dating websites they generally used pseudonyms in order not to be recognized by anyone who may know them. _ is intrigued me as to why they felt or...

Hans Metzger, nicknamed Cowboy by his U.S. Army Sergeant buddy, Pete, gets in and out of trouble, because of his hunting experiences on the farm and training as a marksman in the army. With a rocky love life and bad luck on the farm, Hans reunites with his army buddy, Pete. They become good, bad guys...

Armand Dillon, the evil master mind of PTP Inc. reaches the pinnacle of his success and is still not satisfied.Manipulating his friends and enemies alike, he tries for the impossible: social acceptance in an upper class culture using the same tricks that won him success in business. Just when he thinks...