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Book Modern Romance December 2023 Books 5 8  Claimed by the Crown Prince  Hot Winter Escapes    A Nine Month Deal with Her Husband   Undoing His Innocent Enemy   In Bed with Her Billionaire Bodyguard

Download or read book Modern Romance December 2023 Books 5 8 Claimed by the Crown Prince Hot Winter Escapes A Nine Month Deal with Her Husband Undoing His Innocent Enemy In Bed with Her Billionaire Bodyguard written by Abby Green and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2023-12-07 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Red-hot romances from Mills & Boon!

Book Claimed by the Crown Prince

Download or read book Claimed by the Crown Prince written by Abby Green and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2023-12-26 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Falling for the king’s brother could be her undoing! Give in to the craving of this royal romance from USA TODAY bestselling author Abby Green. Marooned in Malaysia… with a forbidden princess! Fleeing an arranged marriage to a king is easy for Princess Laia—remaining hidden is harder! When his brother, Crown Prince Dax, tracks her down, she strands them on a private island. But Laia isn’t prepared for the overwhelming attraction she feels, especially once she realizes Dax protects his heart as fiercely as she does… Legendary playboy Dax has always remained loyal to the Crown. Until the alluring Laia’s fiery temperament and kindness tests his duty. And with ten days alone in paradise, it becomes increasingly difficult to avoid temptation… From Harlequin Presents: Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds. Read all the Hot Winter Escapes books: Book 1: Bound by Her Baby Revelation by Cathy Williams Book 2: An Heir Made in Hawaii by Emmy Grayson Book 3: Claimed by the Crown Prince by Abby Green Book 4: One Forbidden Night in Paradise by Louise Fuller Book 5: A Nine-Month Deal with Her Husband by Joss Wood Book 6: Snowbound with the Irresistible Sicilian by Maya Blake Book 7: Undoing His Innocent Enemy by Heidi Rice Book 8: In Bed with Her Billionaire Bodyguard by Pippa Roscoe

Book Claimed by the Crown Prince   a Nine Month Deal with Her Husband

Download or read book Claimed by the Crown Prince a Nine Month Deal with Her Husband written by Abby Green and published by Mills & Boon. This book was released on 2023-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marooned with her forbidden prince... Fleeing an arranged marriage to a king is easy for Princess Laia--remaining hidden is harder! When his brother, Crown Prince Dax, tracks her down, she strands them on a private island. But Laia isn't prepared for the overwhelming attraction she feels...and with ten days alone with him in paradise, it becomes increasingly difficult for her to avoid temptation! Negotiations...for an heir! Millie Piper's on-paper marriage to CEO Benedikt Jónsson has given her ownership over her life and her billion-dollar inheritance. Now Millie wants a baby, so it's only right that she asks Ben for a divorce first. But she doesn't expect to be completely blindsided by her attraction to her convenient husband! Does she dare propose that Ben fathers her child?

Book Modern Box Set 5 8 Sept 2023 Back to Claim His Crown Their Diamond Ring Ruse A Son Hidden from the Sicilian Her Convenient Vow to the Billionai

Download or read book Modern Box Set 5 8 Sept 2023 Back to Claim His Crown Their Diamond Ring Ruse A Son Hidden from the Sicilian Her Convenient Vow to the Billionai written by Natalie Anderson and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mills & Boon Modern — Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds. Back to Claim His Crown - Natalie Anderson He’ll claim his kingdom...and anyone that stands in his way! After ten years in hiding, Crown Prince Lucian returns from the dead to reclaim his throne. His first task? Stopping his usurper’s wedding! As a media frenzy ensues, Lucian feels honour-bound to provide jilted princess Zara with shelter in his palace... Abandoned in disgrace by her controlling family, Zara has no option but to trust the new king. She knows restoring his rule is Lucian’s sole priority, but behind his lavish castle walls, the chemistry between the ruthless royal and the virgin princess sparks an urgent, irresistible desire... Their Diamond Ring Ruse - Bella Mason Black sheep billionaire seeks fiancée. Only heiresses need apply. Self-made Julian Ford, a ruthless entrepreneur from the wrong side of the tracks, needs to secure funding from a group of traditional investors. His solution: announce an engagement to a woman from a long-established San Francisco family...and Lily Barnes-Shah fits the bill perfectly! Julian’s business proposal provides Lily with an escape from an unwanted convenient marriage. But she couldn’t have envisioned the burning heat between them. Or that she’d be craving something outside of the bounds of their temporary agreement: a passionate surrender between Julian’s billion-dollar sheets... A Son Hidden from the Sicilian - Lorraine Hall Her secret is out...and now he wants his heir! Two years after a scorching summer with Brianna Andersen, Lorenzo Parisi discovers the son she’s hidden from him. And the world he’s carefully controlled since his volatile childhood implodes... It wasn’t until she discovered she was pregnant that Brianna learned of Lorenzo’s billions and his notorious reputation. Wary of his power, she vowed to protect her baby at any cost. But now the Sicilian is back and determined to prove himself as a father. As their blazing chemistry reignites, Brianna must admit the real risk is to her heart... Her Convenient Vow to the Billionaire - Jane Holland The shock twist to their reunion...she must marry the tycoon! Playboy CEO Rafael is determined to demolish the biggest demon from his past: the Greek orphanage he once called home. It’s a cruel reminder of all he’s lost, including his childhood sweetheart Sabrina. But then she shows up to stop him! When Rafael offers to hand over the orphanage if Sabrina becomes his convenient bride, she scoffs! She’s still healing from the heartbreak of their last passionate encounter and marrying him will test her every limit. But as long-buried secrets are unveiled, Sabrina has no choice but to trust him...

Book Modern Box Set 5 8 Mar 2023 The Boss s Stolen Bride The Prince s Forbidden Cinderella A Convenient Ring to Claim Her The Nights She Spen

Download or read book Modern Box Set 5 8 Mar 2023 The Boss s Stolen Bride The Prince s Forbidden Cinderella A Convenient Ring to Claim Her The Nights She Spen written by Kim Lawrence and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mills & Boon Modern — Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds. The Boss’s Stolen Bride - Natalie Anderson Today is not only Darcie Milne’s last day working for her insufferable yet infuriatingly handsome boss, billionaire Elias Greyson...it’s also her wedding day! She must marry to take custody of her orphaned goddaughter but, arriving at the registry office, Darcie finds herself without her convenient groom. Renowned businessman Elias’s solution: he’ll wed his irreplaceable assistant — immediately! After all, taking a bride will help him secure an important contract. But then their first eye-opening kiss as man and wife suggests this marriage arrangement may not stay strictly professional... The Prince’s Forbidden Cinderella - Kim Lawrence Consumed with guilt after his wife’s death, Prince Marco fears he can’t be the parent his little girl needs. But so used to being in command, this royal is surprised to be brought to task by his daughter’s new nanny, fiery Kate Armstrong! Kate is refreshingly honest and undeniably attractive. But Marco is most intrigued by the vulnerability that sometimes slips past her barriers. And when their forbidden connection turns to intoxicating passion, Marco finds himself dangerously close to giving into what he’s always promised to never feel... A Convenient Ring to Claim Her - Dani Collins Life has taught orphan Quinn Harper to trust only herself. So, whilst her secret fling with billionaire Micah Gould was her first taste of passion, it wasn’t supposed to last forever. Although it gets harder and harder to pull herself away from his bed... The abominable actions of Micah’s father have left a permanent mark. Love isn’t in his future. Then his relationship with Quinn is suddenly exposed and, in Berlin, a new possibility presents itself. Quinn could be the convenient bride Micah needs. But can he be what she deserves? The Nights She Spent with the CEO - Joss Wood With two sisters to care for, chauffeur Lex Satchell can’t risk her job. Ignoring her ridiculous attraction to CEO Cole Thorpe is essential. Even when it’s clear that attraction is mutual. So, accompanying him on a business trip to his luxurious ski resort is pure torture! Everything changes when a snowstorm cuts them off from reality. Suddenly, their passion becomes inevitable. But Lex never imagined Cole would let her see into his hardened heart. Or that what she sees would make her dream beyond a few forbidden nights...

Book The Ultimate Submission

    Book Details:
  • Author : Zev de Valera
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013-06-26
  • ISBN : 9781490544526
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book The Ultimate Submission written by Zev de Valera and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you know who you are? Diego Manning thinks he does, until the high school senior enrolls in an exclusive summer study program at the Mission of San Bernardino Realino. Within the walls of this converted monastery, Diego will discover a world of sexual license and secrets with roots as old and deep as those of the Mission's winery, La Viuda Riseuna. Diego will discover that, sometimes, you don't know who you are until you lose yourself.

Book The Memory Keeper s Daughter

Download or read book The Memory Keeper s Daughter written by Kim Edwards and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A #1 New York Times bestseller by Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter is a brilliantly crafted novel of parallel lives, familial secrets, and the redemptive power of love Kim Edwards’s stunning novel begins on a winter night in 1964 in Lexington, Kentucky, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy, but the doctor immediately recognizes that his daughter has Down syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. He asks his nurse, Caroline, to take the baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child herself. So begins this beautifully told story that unfolds over a quarter of a century—in which these two families, ignorant of each other, are yet bound by the fateful decision made that winter night long ago. A family drama, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter explores every mother's silent fear: What would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you? It is also an astonishing tale of love and how the mysterious ties that hold a family together help us survive the heartache that occurs when long-buried secrets are finally uncovered.

Book Putinomics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Albrecht Rothacher
  • Publisher : Springer Nature
  • Release : 2021-05-20
  • ISBN : 3030740773
  • Pages : 315 pages

Download or read book Putinomics written by Albrecht Rothacher and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sheds new light on the political economy of Russia under Putin’s rule. The author, a former EU diplomat, presents a historical review of the Russian economy and 60 years of state-communist mismanagement, followed by oligarchic privatization. The book offers profound insights into Putin’s rule and the power mechanics of the state-dominated management of the Russian economy. It identifies and assesses the lack of rule of law, together with an arbitrary and often corrupt administration that systematically discourages entrepreneurship and the emergence of an independent middle class. Furthermore, the book discusses Russia’s budgetary policy, its dependence on the export of natural resources, state-owned enterprises and their privileges, and Russia’s external trade. This hard-hitting, substantial analysis debunks the myth of Russia’s economic might and is a must read for anyone seeking to understand the economic realities of the Eurasian continent, or considering doing business with Russia.

Book Britain

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrew Whittaker
  • Publisher : Thorogood Publishing
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 1854186272
  • Pages : 373 pages

Download or read book Britain written by Andrew Whittaker and published by Thorogood Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British culture is strewn with names that strike a chord the world over such as Shakespeare, Churchill, Dickens, Pinter, Lennon and McCartney. This book examines the people, history and movements that have shaped Britain as it now is, providing key information in easily digested chunks.

Book Connectography

Download or read book Connectography written by Parag Khanna and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the visionary bestselling author of The Second World and How to Run the World comes a bracing and authoritative guide to a future shaped less by national borders than by global supply chains, a world in which the most connected powers—and people—will win. Connectivity is the most revolutionary force of the twenty-first century. Mankind is reengineering the planet, investing up to ten trillion dollars per year in transportation, energy, and communications infrastructure linking the world’s burgeoning megacities together. This has profound consequences for geopolitics, economics, demographics, the environment, and social identity. Connectivity, not geography, is our destiny. In Connectography, visionary strategist Parag Khanna travels from Ukraine to Iran, Mongolia to North Korea, Pakistan to Nigeria, and across the Arctic Circle and the South China Sea to explain the rapid and unprecedented changes affecting every part of the planet. He shows how militaries are deployed to protect supply chains as much as borders, and how nations are less at war over territory than engaged in tugs-of-war over pipelines, railways, shipping lanes, and Internet cables. The new arms race is to connect to the most markets—a race China is now winning, having launched a wave of infrastructure investments to unite Eurasia around its new Silk Roads. The United States can only regain ground by fusing with its neighbors into a super-continental North American Union of shared resources and prosperity. Connectography offers a unique and hopeful vision for the future. Khanna argues that new energy discoveries and technologies have eliminated the need for resource wars; ambitious transport corridors and power grids are unscrambling Africa’s fraught colonial borders; even the Arab world is evolving a more peaceful map as it builds resource and trade routes across its war-torn landscape. At the same time, thriving hubs such as Singapore and Dubai are injecting dynamism into young and heavily populated regions, cyber-communities empower commerce across vast distances, and the world’s ballooning financial assets are being wisely invested into building an inclusive global society. Beneath the chaos of a world that appears to be falling apart is a new foundation of connectivity pulling it together. Praise for Connectography “Incredible . . . With the world rapidly changing and urbanizing, [Khanna’s] proposals might be the best way to confront a radically different future.”—The Washington Post “Clear and coherent . . . a well-researched account of how companies are weaving ever more complicated supply chains that pull the world together even as they squeeze out inefficiencies. . . . [He] has succeeded in demonstrating that the forces of globalization are winning.”—Adrian Woolridge, The Wall Street Journal “Bold . . . With an eye for vivid details, Khanna has . . . produced an engaging geopolitical travelogue.”—Foreign Affairs “For those who fear that the world is becoming too inward-looking, Connectography is a refreshing, optimistic vision.”—The Economist “Connectivity has become a basic human right, and gives everyone on the planet the opportunity to provide for their family and contribute to our shared future. Connectography charts the future of this connected world.”—Marc Andreessen, general partner, Andreessen Horowitz “Khanna’s scholarship and foresight are world-class. A must-read for the next president.”—Chuck Hagel, former U.S. secretary of defense This title has complex layouts that may take longer to download.

Book Dead Lies Dreaming

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles Stross
  • Publisher : Tordotcom
  • Release : 2020-10-27
  • ISBN : 1250267013
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book Dead Lies Dreaming written by Charles Stross and published by Tordotcom. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When magic and superpowers emerge in the masses, Wendy Deere is contracted by the government to bag and snag supervillains in Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross' Dead Lies Dreaming: A Laundry Files Novel. As Wendy hunts down Imp—the cyberpunk head of a band calling themselves “The Lost Boys”— she is dragged into the schemes of louche billionaire Rupert de Montfort Bigge. Rupert has discovered that the sole surviving copy of the long-lost concordance to the one true Necronomicon is up for underground auction in London. He hires Imp’s sister, Eve, to procure it by any means necessary, and in the process, he encounters Wendy Deere. In a tale of corruption, assassination, thievery, and magic, Wendy Deere must navigate rotting mansions that lead to distant pasts, evil tycoons, corrupt government officials, lethal curses, and her own moral qualms in order to make it out of this chase alive. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Book Barbarians at the Gate

Download or read book Barbarians at the Gate written by Bryan Burrough and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at the Gate is the classic account of the fall of RJR Nabisco at the hands of a buyout from investment firm KKR. A book that stormed both the bestseller list and the public imagination, a book that created a genre of its own, and a book that gets at the heart of Wall Street and the '80s culture it helped define, Barbarians at the Gate is a modern classic—a masterpiece of investigatory journalism and a rollicking book of corporate derring-do and financial swordsmanship. The fight to control RJR Nabisco during October and November of 1988 was more than just the largest takeover in Wall Street history. Marked by brazen displays of ego not seen in American business for decades, it became the high point of a new gilded age and its repercussions are still being felt. The tale remains the ultimate story of greed and glory—a story and a cast of characters that determined the course of global business and redefined how deals would be done and fortunes made in the decades to come. Barbarians at the Gate is the gripping account of these two frenzied months, of deal makers and publicity flaks, of an old-line industrial powerhouse (home of such familiar products a Oreos and Camels) that became the victim of the ruthless and rapacious style of finance in the 1980s. As reporters for The Wall Street Journal, Burrough and Helyar had extensive access to all the characters in this drama. They take the reader behind the scenes at strategy meetings and society dinners, into boardrooms and bedrooms, providing an unprecedentedly detailed look at how financial operations at the highest levels are conducted but also a richly textured social history of wealth at the twilight of the Reagan era. At the center of the huge power struggle is RJR Nabisco's president, the high-living Ross Johnson. It's his secret plan to buy out the company that sets the frenzy in motion, attracting the country's leading takeover players: Henry Kravis, the legendary leveraged-buyout king of investment firm KKR, whose entry into the fray sets off an acquisitive commotion; Peter Cohen, CEO of Shearson Lehman Hutton and Johnson's partner, who needs a victory to propel his company to an unchallenged leadership in the lucrative mergers and acquisitions field; the fiercely independent Ted Forstmann, motivated as much by honor as by his rage at the corruption he sees taking over the business he cherishes; Jim Maher and his ragtag team, struggling to regain credibility for the decimated ranks at First Boston; and an army of desperate bankers, lawyers, and accountants, all drawn inexorably to the greatest prize of their careers—and one of the greatest prizes in the history of American business. Written with the bravado of a novel and researched with the diligence of a sweeping cultural history, Barbarians at the Gate is present at the front line of every battle of the campaign. Here is the unforgettable story of that takeover in all its brutality. In a new afterword specially commissioned for the story's 20th anniversary, Burrough and Helyar return to visit the heroes and villains of this epic story, tracing the fallout of the deal, charting the subsequent success and failure of those involved, and addressing the incredible impact this story—and the book itself—made on the world.

Book One Wild Night  Magnate s Mistress   Accidentally Pregnant    Hot Boss  Boardroom Mistress  Strictly Business    The Good  the Bad and the Wild  Mills   Boon By Request

Download or read book One Wild Night Magnate s Mistress Accidentally Pregnant Hot Boss Boardroom Mistress Strictly Business The Good the Bad and the Wild Mills Boon By Request written by Kimberly Lang and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magnate's Mistress... Accidentally Pregnant! Ally Smith may have dumped a cheating fiancé, but she refuses to miss her Caribbean honeymoon! One night with sexy stranger Chris Wells is the perfect heartbreak cure – until she finds out she’s pregnant with the billionaire’s baby!

Book Trump  The Art of the Deal

Download or read book Trump The Art of the Deal written by Donald J. Trump and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2009-12-23 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: President Donald J. Trump lays out his professional and personal worldview in this classic work—a firsthand account of the rise of America’s foremost deal-maker. “I like thinking big. I always have. To me it’s very simple: If you’re going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big.”—Donald J. Trump Here is Trump in action—how he runs his organization and how he runs his life—as he meets the people he needs to meet, chats with family and friends, clashes with enemies, and challenges conventional thinking. But even a maverick plays by rules, and Trump has formulated time-tested guidelines for success. He isolates the common elements in his greatest accomplishments; he shatters myths; he names names, spells out the zeros, and fully reveals the deal-maker’s art. And throughout, Trump talks—really talks—about how he does it. Trump: The Art of the Deal is an unguarded look at the mind of a brilliant entrepreneur—the ultimate read for anyone interested in the man behind the spotlight. Praise for Trump: The Art of the Deal “Trump makes one believe for a moment in the American dream again.”—The New York Times “Donald Trump is a deal maker. He is a deal maker the way lions are carnivores and water is wet.”—Chicago Tribune “Fascinating . . . wholly absorbing . . . conveys Trump’s larger-than-life demeanor so vibrantly that the reader’s attention is instantly and fully claimed.”—Boston Herald “A chatty, generous, chutzpa-filled autobiography.”—New York Post

Book Tropic of Chaos

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christian Parenti
  • Publisher : Bold Type Books
  • Release : 2011-06-28
  • ISBN : 1568586620
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book Tropic of Chaos written by Christian Parenti and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun. Extreme weather is breeding banditry, humanitarian crisis, and state failure. In Tropic of Chaos, investigative journalist Christian Parenti travels along the front lines of this gathering catastrophe--the belt of economically and politically battered postcolonial nations and war zones girding the planet's midlatitudes. Here he finds failed states amid climatic disasters. But he also reveals the unsettling presence of Western military forces and explains how they see an opportunity in the crisis to prepare for open-ended global counterinsurgency. Parenti argues that this incipient "climate fascism" -- a political hardening of wealthy states-- is bound to fail. The struggling states of the developing world cannot be allowed to collapse, as they will take other nations down as well. Instead, we must work to meet the challenge of climate-driven violence with a very different set of sustainable economic and development policies.

Book Seized by Love

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susan Johnson
  • Publisher : Fanfare
  • Release : 2010-03-31
  • ISBN : 0307575144
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Seized by Love written by Susan Johnson and published by Fanfare. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweeping from the fabulous country estates and hunting lodges to the opulent ballrooms and salons of the Russian nobility, here is a novel of savage passions and dangerous pleasures by the incomparable Susan Johnson, mistress of the sensual historical and author of the bestselling Outlaw. He was a renegade prince skilled in the arts of sensual persuasion. . . . She knew him by reputation; a man unmindful of convention, it was said he offered sensual delight beyond a woman’s wildest dreams. Yet even forewarned of his wild and reckless past, Alisa Forseus found herself responding to the dark smoldering gaze and the quick warmth of Prince Nikolai Kuzan’s stolen caresses. She knew too well that love between them was impossible—forbidden—but she could not resist the rapturous pleasure of one moment in his arms. . . . She was the exquisite bounty in a scandalous wager of love. . . . She was to be his prize, his ultimate conquest, but when Nikki found himself alone with the lovely and chaste Alisa, he was shocked to discover that it was more than her body he desire to possess. He had three days to win the heart of this proud and passionate beauty, three days—and nights—to steal her from the man she called husband in name only. For what began as a simple challenge had become a dangerous passion for a woman he’d surrender anything and everything to love—even his renegade heart.

Book Brief History of Indonesia

Download or read book Brief History of Indonesia written by Tim Hannigan and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of the World's Largest Archipelago Indonesia is by far the largest nation in Southeast Asia and has the fourth largest population in the world after the United States. Indonesian history and culture are especially relevant today as the Island nation is an emerging power in the region with a dynamic new leader. It is a land of incredible diversity and unending paradoxes that has a long and rich history stretching back a thousand years and more. Indonesia is the fabled "Spice Islands" of every school child's dreams--one of the most colorful and fascinating countries in history. These are the islands that Europeans set out on countless voyages of discovery to find and later fought bitterly over in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. This was the land that Christopher Columbus sought, and Magellan actually reached and explored. One tiny Indonesian island was even exchanged for the island of Manhattan in 1667! This fascinating history book tells the story of Indonesia as a narrative of kings, traders, missionaries, soldiers and revolutionaries, featuring stormy sea crossings, fiery volcanoes, and the occasional tiger. It recounts the colorful visits of foreign travelers who have passed through these shores for many centuries--from Chinese Buddhist pilgrims and Dutch adventurers to English sea captains and American movie stars. For readers who want an entertaining introduction to Asia's most fascinating country, this is delightful reading.