Undertow
Maggie Ambrose is a fifty-six-year-old career politician who plans to run for president. To kick off her presidential bid and introduce herself to the masses, she's writing a revealing memoir. Her publisher insists she divulge more than her political pedigree to gain the nation's attention, but Maggie's not eager to confess the details of her challenging childhood, complex familial relationships, or her failed first marriage. Will the nation embrace a female lesbian candidate after she opens the door to a painful past?
Let the Dominoes Fall
People are not happy with the machine in Washington. The government is supposed to watch after its people, but instead taxes are up, food prices are up, gasoline is up. The people think it's great that wages are up but does everything else have to go up with wages? Someone is going to attempt to make changes in Washington. One by one the dominoes in particular Congressional seats will be taken down, until the President and his cronies make the proper changes to please their constituents. How many Senators and Congressmen will have to fall before the people are happy again? An Army marksman and combat veteran is home from the war. He aligns himself with individuals wanting to make those changes, but he is not doing it for the politics. He has hired himself out as a gun for hire. The highest bidder will make the changes the country needs. But how many dominoes will have to fall before all is well, and how many will remain in the House, or the Senate?
The Fourth Bible
"James Acton: A little bit of Jack Bauer and Indiana Jones!"FROM USA TODAY & MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR J. ROBERT KENNEDYA VIOLENT REACTION TO A PRICELESS DISCOVERY KILLS SCORES.AND THE WORLD BLAMES A FAMOUS ARCHAEOLOGICAL COUPLE.In the 7th century, three Bibles were painstakingly created by Wearmouth-Jarrow Abbey monks. Over the years, one was destroyed, one remains today in tatters, and the third, still intact, became known as the Codex Amiatinus, the oldest surviving Latin Vulgate translation of the Bible.Until today.A fourth Bible, unknown to history, has been discovered.Invited to inspect the priceless find, Archaeology Professors James Acton and Laura Palmer head for the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and while there, eco-terrorists overrun the location. Under threat by the terrorist leader, the professors are forced to steal the ancient bible to save the hostages.But something goes horribly wrong, and the hostages are killed.Caught on video escaping moments before the bombs detonate, with the Bible in hand, the world believes the professors are to blame, and an international manhunt begins.Now it is up to their friends to prove their innocence, and bring the true perpetrators to justice.In The Fourth Bible, award-winning USA Today and million-copy bestselling author J. Robert Kennedy once again mixes history with today's headlines in a pulse-pounding international thriller sure to leave you sacrificing sleep to finish. If you enjoy fast-paced adventures in the style of Dan Brown, Clive Cussler, and James Rollins, then you'll love this thrilling tale of archaeological intrigue.Get your copy of The Fourth Bible today, and see what happens when fake news is used to fuel the outrage of those looking for an excuse to lash out at humanity...About the James Acton Thrillers: ★★★★★ "James Acton: A little bit of Jack Bauer and Indiana Jones!"Though this book is part of the James Acton Thrillers series, it is written as a standalone novel and can be enjoyed without having read any other installments.★★★★★ "Non-stop action that is impossible to put down."The James Acton Thrillers series and its spin-offs, the Special Agent Dylan Kane Thrillers and the Delta Force Unleashed Thrillers, have sold over one million copies. If you love non-stop action and intrigue with a healthy dose of humor, try James Acton today!★★★★★ "A great blend of history and current headlines."
Cop Corner
Gregory George Notso Normal, and five of his buds, after a couple of beers at the American Legion Post, decide to take on the woke, politically correct crowd. These woke, politically incorrect whippersnappers fill the World Wide Web with their truth. Which in most cases is not the truth at all. Notso and the five form COPs, Curmudgeonly Old Poops. They decide to put the real truth, COP-truth out there. That will set the whippersnappers straight. It doesn't take long, though, before the COPs run into trouble with the American Legion Post Commander, the police (real cops), and their own spouses, The Hermudgeons.On the other side of the ledger, the Old Poops develop a required reading list for membership in COPs. The Hermudgeons are amazed to discover their Poop husbands will turn off Gunsmoke to read books. The Hers read the books, too, and are even more amazed.
The President Attacks
When U.S. President J. Washington Rock decides that his legacy will be resolving the Middle East conflict by destroying Israel without needing to fire a shot, he embarks on a program of leaking sensitive Israeli information, cutting funding to Israel, and proposing a Palestinian-Israeli peace plan that would destroy Israel. Aided by the United Nations and Iran, Rock's efforts back Israel into a corner. As Israel prepares for possible war, the efforts of two individuals who are unaware of each other may turn the tide--if they are in time. Set against a confrontation between Russia and Israel, dual terrorism threats against the United States, and a surprise offer from some of Israel's enemies, the story sweeps the reader through a frightening array of twists and turns that could someday really happen.
A Feast of Wolves
The Handmaid's Tale and 1984 set the table for A Feast of WolvesThere is a guillotine on the steps of the U.S. Capitol building.Three hundred members of Congress and the Supreme Court are locked in the basement.It's a city divided.It's a new American Civil War.The first Civil War was just practice. A Feast of Wolves is a page-turning thriller built around a terrifying idea: What if there were a French Revolution in today's America? Imagine an 18-foot-high guillotine on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, a sea of Americans camped out across the Washington Mall reveling in the carnage, and CNN broadcasting the nightmare 24-7.We enter this new Civil War through the eyes of young historian Chase Selby. Chase and eleven others have been appointed "Reasoners" - basically, the last reasonable people left in America. Their task is to broker peace between what's left of the U.S. government and well-armed citizen revolutionaries called the Changers. As the story starts, the Changers have already created havoc across the country, burning down banks, health insurance companies, and government offices, eventually splitting the U.S. capital in two. They've killed hundreds of Congress members by guillotine and locked up the rest in the Capitol basement.Right away, Chase has doubts about the Reasoners' ability to solve the crisis, particularly since the Changers may have their hands on something far worse than a guillotine: nuclear weapons. This pits Chase against one of the Changers' leaders, the charismatic and spellbinding young Sister Sheena, who preaches a gospel of perpetual violence in the name of liberty. Chase soon begins to suspect there's another force at work. But can he defeat that force before the country is utterly destroyed?In the spirit of The Handmaid's Tale and 1984, A Feast of Wolves is both a great read and a cautionary tale taking readers from one surprise to another and exploring the most explosive issues facing our world today.
The Great Reimagination
As the world approaches the middle of the twenty-first century, octogenarians Donald Lasserman and Richard Adamo maintain unbridled hope and vision for a more promising future. They unite several retired world leaders, including a former nemesis, to brainstorm ideas for a better world. While this happens, Donald's self-made billionaire nephew, Nate, goes up against a terrorist kidnapping in the Panamanian rainforest and a coup in Cuba.Packed with intellectual stimulation and thrilling action, hopefully the content highlighted in this book will prompt readers to consider solutions and improvements for our everyday lives.This is the author's second fiction work, following The Great Divorce (2018). While a sequel, it is also an entry point if you pay attention to the prologue. This book builds on the chaos of the first, fostering ideas and dreams for a more united and civilized world.
Year of the Earth Dragon Changing Colors. a Novel.
The whole Communist world is in the middle of a democratic revolution. Hall Gardner's novel depicts the protests taking place prior to the June 1989 Tiananmen Square repression--a subject still taboo in China. Hired to teach English, Mylex H. Galvin records his experience in his "Anti-Marco Polo" journal after he meets expats from around the world, while trying to come to grips with the Chinese language, history, and politics. Galvin becomes disillusioned with the poverty and environmental destruction that he finds in China; his barefoot doctor heroes are not capable of treating AIDS; Chinese and African students clash in Nanjing--with no sense of international solidarity. As the democracy movement heats up, he is torn between the love of Tao Baiqing, a Daoist, and Mo Li, a student of English Lit, and unwittingly betrays the ties between the journalist, Hayford, and the democracy activist, Chia Pao-yu--accused of leaking "top secrets" to Hayford. As Galvin studies China's relations with the Western world since Marco Polo, with emphasis on the "hundred years of humiliation," he becomes haunted by nightmares of a "clash of civilizations" and warns against a coming Apocalyptic Color War between the Balding Eagle and the Chinese Dragon--as the latter transmogrifies from Red into shades of Red-Brown-Black.
The Syrian
The Syrian is a powerful contemporary novel of passion and betrayal, set against the brutal and bewildering outbreak of the Israeli-Hezbollah war in Lebanon, 2006. Nadia, a woman who has waited 13 years for a husband who was "disappeared," finally decides to declare him dead so she can marry an American physician, Andrew Sullivan. On the eve of her engagement party, her best friend Sonia, a well-connected war correspondent, rings to tell her that her husband may still be alive in a Syrian prison. Out to get Andrew for herself, Sonia draws in the powerful head of the Syrian secret police to help her in her Byzantine manipulations. Thus begins a series of dangerous plot twists that become increasingly bloody as Nadia attempts to rescue her husband, and the border conflict with Israel escalates.
Madam Vice President
Victoria Pierce is not the person she claims to be. As a beautiful farm girl, living in desolation on the Oklahoma range, she escapes her draconian "parents," hitchhikes to San Francisco, and enlists in the United States Marine Corps. After surviving the rigors of basic training, Victoria is promoted through the ranks from Private to Brigadier General. Throughout her evolution, General Pierce and United States Senator Sam Eagan carry on a torrid love affair. Victoria joins Sam's campaign for president, first as his military consultant and later as his vice presidential candidate. No one, not even Sam Eagan, is aware of Victoria's clandestine past, except for one anonymous and demented caller. During the presidential campaign, Victoria befriends reporter Grace Brandon, but Grace becomes increasingly suspicious of Victoria's urban sophistication which belies an agrarian past. This leads Grace into investigative reporting that eventually unravels the truth about Victoria's past. However, before Grace can get to the bottom of the story, Sam and Victoria win the presidential election. Not long afterwards, Victoria ascends to the office of acting president under the 25th amendment. Grace finally completes her investigation and convinces her editor to release a bombshell of a story. America is shocked. Victoria reacts. Will the story require Victoria to resign or can she survive the revelation?
Madam Vice President
Victoria Pierce is not the person she claims to be. As a beautiful farm girl, living in desolation on the Oklahoma range, she escapes her draconian "parents," hitchhikes to San Francisco, and enlists in the United States Marine Corps. After surviving the rigors of basic training, Victoria is promoted through the ranks from Private to Brigadier General. Throughout her evolution, General Pierce and United States Senator Sam Eagan carry on a torrid love affair. Victoria joins Sam's campaign for president, first as his military consultant and later as his vice presidential candidate. No one, not even Sam Eagan, is aware of Victoria's clandestine past, except for one anonymous and demented caller. During the presidential campaign, Victoria befriends reporter Grace Brandon, but Grace becomes increasingly suspicious of Victoria's urban sophistication which belies an agrarian past. This leads Grace into investigative reporting that eventually unravels the truth about Victoria's past. However, before Grace can get to the bottom of the story, Sam and Victoria win the presidential election. Not long afterwards, Victoria ascends to the office of acting president under the 25th amendment. Grace finally completes her investigation and convinces her editor to release a bombshell of a story. America is shocked. Victoria reacts. Will the story require Victoria to resign or can she survive the revelation?
Nature’s Bite
It's April 2024, and a quiet evening at Dr. Phineas Mann's dinner table is interrupted by a mysterious visit from FBI agents.As worsening climate change leads to more difficult asthma cases, Phineas has been tasked with investigating a novel treatment in a Phase 3 trial with SynMedical's Dr. Marie Porter. Marie has just returned to North Carolina 26 years after her single mother abruptly extracted her from the sixth grade to disappear into the rural Northwest.Meanwhile, the Republican U.S. President, in the final year of his second term, develops alpha gal syndrome, a life-threatening allergic condition from Lone Star ticks that find their way north as the planet warms. Then a surprising assignment sends Phineas and Marie, against their wills, into intrigue at the highest levels in a hotter, dirtier, and more polarized country.
Deathday
England in 2045, a country where euthanasia is not just legal but compulsory. Severe economic depression in the wake of the Great Pandemic and Brexit, a collapse in the care system and inter-generational conflict had changed attitudes to death and old age. Ten years earlier, a right-wing Government, supported by the shadowy League of Youth, had won a majority in Parliament for the mandatory termination of life at the age of ninety. A decade later, people who still accept the law plan for 'Deathday Parties', 'Evaders' try to escape abroad, and 'Remainders', people already over ninety and who were spared at the time the law came in, live in colonies in rundown seaside resorts. Meanwhile, the young King plots with politicians opposed to the laws which are enforced by the sinister National Age Regulation Authority.Will the law be changed? Will the League of Youth still hold sway over the politicians? Who will live and who will die? But the overriding questions remain. Quality of life versus length of life. The right to die versus the sanctity of life. And the rights of the young versus the rights of the old.
Advance Man
Advance Man is an evergreen political adventure. Set in the hard-fought early days of the 2008 Democratic primary season, it is an insider's look behind the scenes at seventy-two hours in the most challenging and secretive, yet most public part of American presidential politics-the Advance operation that creates and controls the media image of a presidential candidate, as well as everything that happens within a quarter-mile radius. Although this book is explicated in the tradition of autobiographical fiction it is a must for anyone eager to understand the guts of an American political campaign.
Sakhbo
Sakhbo was presumably written by 'A. B.', and is autobiographic; we can presume it is reporting on the 1920s. Thus the story is one hundred years old, and in reflection we can we how human progress was made in that interval of time. We can also imagine the progress of Muslim, Russian and English people.
The (In)Convenient Truth About The World You Live In
A compelling new novel from the author of the #1 Amazon Mass Media Bestseller BREXIT: The Great British Tax Avoidance Swindle.Inspired by John Lennon's following verses: "Imagine there's no countries, It isn't hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for, And no religion, too." Isa Iri is the United Nations' last resort to avert the imminent World War III prompted by the economic necessity of Russia and the United States to control the world's largest natural gas reserves in the Persian Gulf.However, this benevolent global effort soon becomes a devastating initiative, jeopardising the UN's future existence after Isa's fictitious country erupts into an ethnic war, whereby his Christian Orthodox father leaves his Muslim mother. As a result, Isa suffers a nervous breakdown, whereby he publicly condemns God, religions, and the human race, unaware that his entire life is being broadcasted to a worldwide audience 24/7.The UN sections Isa to a mental institution. After falling in love with Judith, his psychiatrist, Isa experiences a bipolar setback and reveals profound insights into how hatred infiltrates us in myriad, insidious ways, curtailing our penchant for leading a happy life.Ultimately, Isa drafts a new global constitution based on laws of nature and discloses conclusive evidence of God's existence, but will it be sufficient to unite humankind or avert a nuclear war?Endorsements"The satire is brilliant, an understanding of reality in a way that would miss most in normal text!"Walking the Breadline, UK"This unique concept is to be applauded - it's a story of struggle, inner retrospection, social injustice, and more. The author has a brilliant imagination and uncanny talent for storytelling."BabyBook, US
A Passage To India
A Passage To India, ' the greatest novel of all time, depicts a scenario set in pre-independence India, when British restrictions were obeyed. The premise centers around the question of whether Indians and Brits can ever be friends. Through the friendship between Aziz and Fielding, Forster utilizes this subject as a framework to explore the general issue of Britain's governmental domination of India on a more intimate level. It also untangles the rising racial tensions between Indians, who are wary of colonial power at best, and the British, who are mostly ignorant of and scornful of the community they are penetrating. Forster effectively defined the friendship between British and Indians and also discuss the Indian-British-Muslim interaction, culture, and religion in India through this Novel.
The White Stone
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The White Stone
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Reign of Trump
Dante's Inferno and the Spanish Inquisition rise from the dead in Reign of Trump by Bensa Magos, published by nereusmedia. Magos turns his inimitable demagoguery upon the future President Trump, in a fantastic casting of Trump's populist revolt as the French Revolution. Magos contends there is a coming Terror with public Tribunals of the ancien regimes of both Bush and Obama. Trump's Terror will be a televised witch-hunt with Trump at center stage. In a brilliant bi-partisan gesture, Trump brings the justice of auto-da-fe to 88 enemies from both the seditious Left and the traitorous Right in a global media event. But will Trump transcend his presidency for an even higher goal of empire or godhead? For Trump, the world is truly not enough. Editor Julia de Stijl writes "Bensa Magos is terrible, just terrible, but what delicious heights of historical webs, hints of conspiracies and tragic truths revealed behind the humor. We learn even when we don't agree to start thinking critically of all authority."
Revival in the Rockies
Volatile politics of the Reagan era connect America's female terrorist group to a plot to set off the feared super volcano in Yellowstone Park. A young Native American girl running for governor of Montana and the pianist for a Southern gospel quartet discover and spoil the plot during a revival in the Montana Rockies. They also discover one another. But he is a potential FBI agent from Washington, DC, and she is a rodeo queen from Montana. The course of love does not run smoothly, but a love for Big Sky Country and a drink of creek water brings them together.
Old News
Seventeen-year old Piper Hampton visits an old newspaper building, takes a corner into the past, and wishes she'd paid more attention to her history classes.What she does remember is all the TV cop/crime shows she's watched, and with her quick wits and the help of the "good guys" she learns what it's like to be an adult in a world speeding towards war, where love and fear can be as dangerous as the Nazi spies who mistake her for a New York investigator for the German American Bund. Who killed Edwina Blackledge, daughter of a Bund-supporting east coast shipping magnate? And where is the 100K she was taking to New York?
The Assassination of Political Robocalls
The Assassination of Political Robocalls is futuristic fiction. Everyone is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the latest Constitutional Amendment. Life is good. There is plenty of energy and drones are everywhere. But then the President is shot. You will wonder who did it and why while you follow the various plot twists.
Two Plays
Two plays about financial goings on in the oil industry. The world is run by the rich. Their influence over government policy in the so-called democracies is far greater than the voters'. Elsewhere, there isn't even a pretence that aren't in control. They defy the law and are praised for it. They are embraced by politicians who claim to represent the people. Yet where are they in literature? In drama, the kitchen sink movement kicked off the trend of focusing on the lives of the poor, the working-class, the common folk. Once excluded from drawing-room drama, it was assumed that bringing their experience to the stage would alert social conscience. Decades of this doesn't seem to have slowed the slither rightwards. Meanwhile, in literature, the rich are more or less invisible. Their way of thinking is unexplored. By and large, the people who rule the world are absent from the stage.
Society, Suspicious
Let's excise our old, unpleasant, burdensome history. Let's invent an American past we can rally around and get back to that place. Let's bring back Fonzie and those Happy Days. Or get us back some 1864, and some all-out Civil War. It's your choice, America. Go back or move forward. Human rights or nationalism. Freedom or slavery. Truth, progress and democracy or fantasy, fairy tales and fascism. Save the planet, or slave away under the heat of an angry Mother Earth stripped of her rights and soon to be denied birth control. And oh my, here comes a lonely, superfly Father Sky. He too, is unprotected. We're all unprotected. Society, Suspicious is an experimental, genre-bending novel told by a sometimes insufferable, yet well-meaning, hilarious, formerly dead, formerly narcissistic poet, music idol and antithetical Quixote, fabricating imaginary social media windmills, and seeking revenge on America by starting a cult through conspiracy culminating with an insurrection on 1/6/21 at the wrong building.
Notes From Underground
Notes from Undergroundalso translated as"Notes from the Underground" or "Letters from the Underworld"is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky, and is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels. Notes from the Underground is a fictional, first-person confession told by a hateful, hyper-conscious man living underground who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg.The first part of the story is told in monologue form through the Underground Man's diary, and attacks contemporary Russian philosophy, especially Nikolay Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done?.[2] The second part of the book is called ""Apropos of the Wet Snow"" and describes certain events that appear to be destroying and sometimes renewing the underground man, who acts as a first person, unreliable narrator and anti-hero.
Society, Suspicious
Let's excise our old, unpleasant, burdensome history. Let's invent an American past we can rally around and get back to that place. Let's bring back Fonzie and those Happy Days. Or get us back some 1864, and some all-out Civil War. It's your choice, America. Go back or move forward. Human rights or nationalism. Freedom or slavery. Truth, progress and democracy or fantasy, fairy tales and fascism. Save the planet, or slave away under the heat of an angry Mother Earth stripped of her rights and soon to be denied birth control. And oh my, here comes a lonely, superfly Father Sky. He too, is unprotected. We're all unprotected. Society, Suspicious is an experimental, genre-bending novel told by a sometimes insufferable, yet well-meaning, hilarious, formerly dead, formerly narcissistic poet, music idol and antithetical Quixote, fabricating imaginary social media windmills, and seeking revenge on America by starting a cult through conspiracy culminating with an insurrection on 1/6/21 at the wrong building.
The Father's Footsteps
Elias has achieved the power he has always desired. But how much farther can he go? How much farther dare he go?
A Man, A Ghost
To whom do we owe our intended good nature? Where do we scrape the courage to engage others in cynical pursuits? Arnold Esche, the sole possessor of an acclaimed media giant guides his readers and woefully employed into a world that all believe to recognize indiscriminately. Social cues force these characters into navigating instances where residents of detached thought and action clash and splatter their ideals together to produce a murky outcome of delicate proportions. Enclosed are pieces and fragments of events that have taken place in the world of the esteemed Mr. Esche. Created to be read by the fantastic character of the 'American Aristocrat' readers will be taken through the fortnight leading up to a cataclysmic event that young/adults can surely resonate with in the trying times of infinite change that are constantly upon them. Not only does this CEO of a prosperous company affect an all too willing crowd, but we also catch a glimpse of his personal relationships; simply one person engaging one other. In turn, he will relay his inadvertent motivations to the greater environment.
Factory Girls
A funny, fierce, and unforgettable read about a young woman working a summer job in a shirt factory in Northern Ireland, while tensions rise both inside and outside the factory walls. Winner of the Comedy Women in Print 2022-23 Published Novel Award It's the summer of 1994, and all smart-mouthed Maeve Murray wants are good final exam results so she can earn her ticket out of the wee Northern Irish town she has grown up in during the Troubles. She hopes she will soon be in London studying journalism--away from her crowded home, the silence and sadness surrounding her sister's death, and most of all, away from the violence of her divided community. As a first step, Maeve's taken a job in a shirt factory working alongside Protestants with her best friends. But getting the right exam results is only part of Maeve's problem--she's got to survive a tit-for-tat paramilitary campaign, iron 100 shirts an hour all day every day, and deal with the attentions of Handy Andy Strawbridge, her slick and untrustworthy English boss. Then, as the British loyalist marching season raises tensions among the Catholic and Protestant workforce, Maeve realizes something is going on behind the scenes at the factory. What seems to be a great opportunity to earn money turns out to be a crucible in which Maeve faces the test of a lifetime. Seeking justice for herself and her fellow workers may just be Maeve's one-way ticket out of town. Bitingly hilarious, clear-eyed, and steeped in the vernacular of its time and place, Factory Girls tackles questions of wealth and power, religion and nationalism, and how young women maintain hope for themselves and the future during divided, violent times. Shortlisted for the 2023 Royal Society of Literature Encore Award (for second novels) and the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize
Unleashing America's Potential
Our Government was founded as a democratic Republic and the US Constitution was established to ensure the majority of citizen's were represented in Washington and to protect the minority. Unfortunately, our Republic has been effectively replaced with a two-party system of government that is a purely partisan democracy. The result is that little is done for the majority of the citizens. The majority of the population, those commonly referred to as "The Silent Majority", are no longer represented in Washington. I further believe that the time has come for a third political party to be formed that will represent them and force compromise. This book was written about the establishment, and rise, of a new third political party that succeeds in breaking the partisan gridlock and unleashing America's potential.
Stray Kitten
Milt Erlandsen is trying to turn his life around at age 30. At work, he puts himself forward for more responsibilities. At home, his dating life goes nowhere while the ex-girlfriend of his missing roommate makes a surprising offer. Milt also gets involved in his landlord's seemingly hopeless candidacy for a seat on the city council. Milt tries his hand at media manipulation with more success than he bargained for, leading to the discovery of a dark secret in the past of the girl he loves. When things start to unravel, Milt's charismatic kid sister is there to help.
Bogustan
Newly minted diplomat Rudy Hancock has been given the unenviable task of convincing corrupt officials in Bogustan to allow their small country to become a dumping ground for America's nuclear waste. Rudy's naivete results in his accidentally promising to build an $800 million rail line, drill a hole through a sacred mountain, and free a human trafficker in return for their consent. Then his attempts to cover up these unfulfillable promises are misunderstood by everyone around him, including embassy officials, Bogustani politicians, and an international consultant. Is Rudy an idiot or a genius? Was he really involved in blackmail and auto theft? Did he experience a hallucinogenic cactus and an injury-producing one night stand? Did he organize a massive punk rock rally?Join Rudy and a cast of misfits in Bogustan, where corruption and obfuscation are the national pastime.
Limitation of Human Intelligence
This book is designed to point out all the wrong things we are doing, influenced by politicians, religious leaders, rich people, and puppets leaders. Give some tips on how to improve ourselves and look for ways to improve our lives and deliver a better society to our kids and grandkids.
A Movement is Born
In the last four years of the 20th century, George Burton throws himself into the Herculean task of transforming his newly form organization, the National Association for a Populist America into a nation-wide movement that's determined to remake the conservative movement into a populist-nationalist movement, with the goal of preventing the United States from sinking into the cesspool of socialism. He and a cadre of dedicated followers that he gathered around him tirelessly begin the organization the N.A.P.A. in all fifty states. The conservatives are the first to attack his new movement's activist program of challenging the left on the streets through demonstrations and counter-demonstration and its anti-free trade and anti-globalist program. Burton studies the radical tactics of the left and is determined to use them against his opponents. He organizes professional demonstrators that make-up his Minutemen Militia, and builds-up a highly disciplined intelligence network using the most advance computer technology to collect compromising information to threaten and blackmail elected officials into supporting him. His Minutemen begins a campaign of breaking up leftist assemblies, meetings and rallies, confronting them on the streets of America, stopping them from causing havoc and mayhem by marching through middle class neighbors and challenging leftist leaders and organizations with thousands of lawsuits, and a campaign of harassment, intimidation and threats. He charges the conservative establishment as too cowardly to confront those who deny patriotic Americans their civil rights and that one has to fight fire with fire, using the leftists' own tactics against them. By the turn of the century his N.A.P.A. is rapidly growing into a political force that cannot be ignored. Burton warnings about of an inpending collapse of the United States economy which proves to be farsighted. Just as the world is about to enter the 21st century, it is plunged into the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Tales of American Idiocy
"Soon the humans will all wear muzzles and be chained to their homes by their great glowing boxes!" This announcement by Chester stopped the meeting of the pets of Sunnyside Street cold. Not that they were surprised by the neighborhood conspiracy cat. Chester was full of odd ideas, most of which he announced at inopportune moments. Chester would turn out to be right about COVID, but he is just one of many Orwellian critters and supernatural shorts populating these Tales of American Idiocy, a darkly humorous collection of short stories commemorating the early 2020's. Here you'll find President Brandon's sketch election. Dwight the alligator will fight forced COVID injections. Delilah the deer's own "Dr. Foxi," gets his just deserts, and Black Lizards definitely Matter. Will Chester and friends' warnings make repeating the early 2020s unthinkable? If you like clever allegories, not-so-crazy conspiracies', and darkly humorous satire, you'll love Tales of American idiocy, a work Bookviral calls: "A cuttingly Allegorical Read!" P.R. Infidel is a citizen of the United States of America who writes for fun. She is a professional, a Christian, and for now, that is all she can reveal about herself due to the controversial nature of her work.
The Corcoran Affair
The Corcoran Affair is a fast-paced political thriller set in the nation's capital. President Tom Corcoran is a tough-talking conservative Republican who built his career railing against liberals, gays and social activists. However, just as he is about to launch his re-election campaign, the President learns that he is HIV-positive and on the verge of coming down with AIDS. The stunning news not only endangers Corcoran's presidency and threatens his marriage. It also sets off a high-stakes battle between the White House chief of staff seeking to cover up the President's health and an aggressive tabloid reporter hot on the trail of the President's secret. Their battle -- raging from the front pages to the evening news to a hospital ward in the Midwest -- rivets the nation as the President struggles to save his presidency while the media seek to uncover the truth.
Patriots' Call
Democracy in PerilSeven resolute patriots lead a team of security and law enforcement professionals who have tasked themselves with the mission of saving the country when the Administration loses the ideals of a democracy.
Ring Around the Circle
A time of 'Once' or a time 'Forth coming' is within the psyche of you who continues to read on. It covers much adventure, politics that parallels that of today, which entails greed, power and intrigue. Read on and 'Philantasize' how they dealt with politics then. Your imagination will then take you to "My Land of Philantasy".
Fugitive Dreams
Fugitive Dreams is a slightly fictionalized literary memoir illustrating a sweeping 50 years of life under occupation through personal stories. Born in Palestine 'on the "wrong" side of the border, ' Sameer finds his way to America to rebuild his life. His immigrant experience in post-9/11 America is laced to the ongoing conflict at home with the common threads of school shootings, police violence, human rights abuses, activism, and walls. For the sake of his daughter, he decides he must do something.
The Jungle (Read & Co. Classics Edition)
One of twentieth-century America's most politically influential novels, The Jungle is Upton Sinclair's hard-hitting expos矇 of the meat-packing industry. Journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair was a known muckraker who used his work to expose the horrific underbelly of the American government in the early 1900s. The Jungle is the fictional story of Jurgis Rudkus and his wife, Ona Lukoszaite. The couple immigrated to Chicago from Lithuania in the hopes of living the American Dream. Instead, they are met by the hardship and tragedy that awaited so many immigrants at the time. Jurgis secures a job in the meat-packing industry and quickly realises the disgusting treatment of animals and the horrendous working conditions that led to many injuries and deaths. Prior to writing the powerful novel, Sinclair spent seven weeks working in the Chicago meat-packing industry. He used his research to expose the corrupt factories in his writing. Originally published in serial form in 1905 for Appeal to Reason, the socialist newspaper, The Jungle was published as a book in 1906. The novel caused such public outcry that Sinclair's work played a large part in the introduction of the 1906 Meat Inspection Act in the US. Read & Co. Classics has proudly republished this volume for the enjoyment of fans of socialist literature and those interested in the history of America's meat industry.
Accidental Diplomacy
As Commander Wong gazes into the vastness of the South China Sea from the deck of a Chinese Navy ship, he is alerted that a US Navy battleship is approaching. Meanwhile as Admiral Smith stands in the control room of the US battleship, three Chinese jets fly overhead and warn the crew that they are in foreign waters. But neither leader has any idea that in mere seconds, everything is about to change. After a computer glitch prompts a US Navy lieutenant to make a split-second decision to take down two of the Chinese aircraft with missiles, the Chinese retaliate and launch their own attack. While Russia and others push China toward war, a peace summit is called. But can the sworn enemies who are leading the summit find a way to utilize diplomacy, cultural understanding, and friendship to stop a Third World War from unfolding? In this political thriller, a computer error prompts an unplanned battle in the South China Sea between two superpowers with the potential to cause a Third World War.
Accidental Diplomacy
As Commander Wong gazes into the vastness of the South China Sea from the deck of a Chinese Navy ship, he is alerted that a US Navy battleship is approaching. Meanwhile as Admiral Smith stands in the control room of the US battleship, three Chinese jets fly overhead and warn the crew that they are in foreign waters. But neither leader has any idea that in mere seconds, everything is about to change. After a computer glitch prompts a US Navy lieutenant to make a split-second decision to take down two of the Chinese aircraft with missiles, the Chinese retaliate and launch their own attack. While Russia and others push China toward war, a peace summit is called. But can the sworn enemies who are leading the summit find a way to utilize diplomacy, cultural understanding, and friendship to stop a Third World War from unfolding? In this political thriller, a computer error prompts an unplanned battle in the South China Sea between two superpowers with the potential to cause a Third World War.
Holus Bolus
President Michael Fontaine is struggling to preserve his legacy against the threats of rebels, firestorms and floods. The Nomenklatura live safely behind the Protection Barriers, but out in the Wastelands the rest of the population is fighting for food and water.Miriam Sabto, the Minister for Incarceration, aspires to be the first Black president of the Democratic Republic of Australia, and her advisor, Ruth Tran, will do anything to make this happen. And then there is Freddie Wu, envoy from Shanghai, with his demands backed up by a visiting aircraft carrier.As the rebels attack the Fontaine Government, events take a sudden turn that puts the future of Australia on the line.
Đi
..."ĐI" đ瓊 m繫 tả rất thực ho?n cảnh gia đ穫nh nh? văn cũng như cuộc sửa soạn chuyến vượt biển v? những ng?y tr礙n biển Đ繫ng n礙n c籀 sự l繫i cuốn từ người thực việc thực. Những l獺 thư của con ch獺u gửi về tả lại đời sống ở trại đảo cũng như ở xứ người biểu lộ t璽m tư kh獺 ti礙u biểu của những người bị dồn v?o thế phải bắt buộc xa qu礙 hương. Ra đi m? vẫn ngo獺i nh穫n về đất nước với những người th璽n c簷n ở lại. Ri礙ng t繫i, t繫i c籀 cảm nhận rằng t獺c phẩm được viết ra với một tấm l簷ng thương con thương ch獺u v繫 bờ. Người thường nếu c籀 t璽m tưởng như thế cũng c籀 thể viết xuất sắc huống chi một nh? văn nổi tiếng l? đ繫n hậu th穫 sự l繫i cuốn độc giả sẽ l礙n đến mức n?o!... Tr穩ch "DO?N QUỐC SỸ, Kẻ Sĩ Thời Đại Ch繳ng Ta" - NGUYỄN MẠNH TRINH
M穫nh Lại Soi M穫nh
"... Ch繳ng t繫i c簷n kh獺m ph獺 nơi nh? văn Do瓊n Quốc Sỹ những t璽m lượng từ 獺i tuyệt vời, lu繫n lu繫n tin tưởng v?o những gi獺 trị cao qu羸 của truyền thống văn h籀a d璽n tộc: ?ng kh繫ng nu繫i hận th羅 d?i l璽u ngay cả khi 繫ng đang bị giam trong lao t羅 Cộng sản. ?ng chỉ căm th羅 ch穩nh s獺ch của một chế độ t?n bạo đ?n 獺p c獺i nh璽n phẩm con người xuống tầm s繳c vật, muốn d穫m con người trong thiếu thốn để chứng minh nguy礙n l羸 'vật chất quyết định hết thảy'. ?ng kh繫ng căm th羅 những kẻ thừa lệnh đang h?nh hạ 繫ng v? 繫ng quan niệm nếu ch繳ng ta thực sự muốn học hỏi hạnh từ bi nhẫn nhục th穫 n礙n c獺m ơn những người g璽y ra tội 獺c v穫 ch穩nh kẻ th羅 đ瓊 dạy cho ch繳ng ta r癡n luyện l簷ng nh璽n từ. Đối với người c籀 bản chất từ bi n礙n xem như một vốn liếng kinh nghiệm cần thiết m? trong đ籀 kẻ th羅 kh繫ng thể thiếu được th?nh tố đạt đến th?nh c繫ng ..." (Tr穩ch "L簷ng Từ trong C繭i Văn Do瓊n Quốc Sỹ", Th獺i T繳 Hạp (2006))
Stories for Another Day
In his third creative offering, Nkosana Zali delivers a humorous light read that tackles various social themes. In six short stories, the reader is transported through the experiences of a job seeker, issues of love, betrayal, loyalty and more. In a novelette that concludes the book, his journalist character, Loretta Rivera, who features in his previous book, WHEN SEASONS CHARGE, returns and helps us explore the effects of guerilla warfare on combatants who fought against the apartheid system.
