Hello, Slavery
In this controversial and highly inappropriate book, the setting is an alternate universe where the United States is now the United States of Dick. In this society, men are the masters and own women as slaves and treat other nationalities as second class citizens. The main character is Dick Van Cock. He is the Dictator's son and at 18, he is living the life, and has no problems. His life changes when he meets Nina Hill, the new black girl in his school. They quickly fall in love, but with love comes drama and responsibility. This is a modern version of Romeo and Juliet that will both shock and enrage the reader and also make them think.
Mmeza Fupa
Riwaya ya Mmeza Fupa ni riwaya iliyoshinda an kupewa tuzo ya Mabati-Cornell ya Fasihi ya Afrika kwa mwaka 2017. Katika tangazo la ushindi wa riwaya hii jopo la majaji lilitoa sifa zifuatazo: Si mno mtu kukutana na riwaya ya Kiswahili ambayo mwandishi wake amejidhihirisha kuwa ni mbuji wa lugha fasaha na ya kisanii, inayotiririka kitabia kwa hiari yake, na bila ya kuonesha dalili zozote kwamba imelazimishwa. Wahusika wake wote wamebuniwa kwa ustadi, na kupewa kazi muwafaka za kuziwakilisha tanzu na matabaka mbalimbali ya jamii - pamoja na mikinzano na mazingira yao ya kihistoria, ya kisiasa, ya kisaikolojia, ya kitamaduni, ya kimjini au ya kijijini. Licha ya kwamba matukio ya riwaya hii yanatokea katika kisiwa cha kubuni, maswala yanayojadiliwa humu ni miongoni mwa yale maswala sugu yanayoendelea kulisumbua bara la Afrika kisiasa, kijamii na kiuchumi. Riwaya hii inatudhihirishia mandhari mapya ya utanzu huu wa Fasihi ya Kiswahili.Uzito wa mivutano ya karne na migongano ya zama hubebwa migongoni mwa mwanadamu. Huchuana na wakati, katika kupapatuana na tsunami ya matendo ya mwanadamu. Ndivyo alivyoibuka Bi. Msiri kwenye joto la visasi, akaponea chupuchupu kumezwa na chatu-binadamu. Siku ya kuteketezwa kwa familia yake yeye alikuwa mtoni kufua. Aliporudi nyumbani alipokewa na simanzi nzito na rekecho la harufu ya damu. Hapo hapakumweka, huo ukawa mwanzo wa yeye kuwa mfungwa huru, akalimeza fupa ndani ya mapito ya karne mbili zilizompitia utosini. Kwa kuwa kwake mgubia chumvi nyingi chini ya jua, aliyajua mengi yaliyotiwa kapuni wakati ule. Akaweza kuja kuyasimulia wakati mwengine kwa vijana wengine aliowaamini.
Us Marines in the Congo-Beni War
A US marine sent to the Congo by the Pentagon to be part of a team of military instructors selected to train a battalion of Congolese Special Forces boarded a UN plane in Goma. He was travelling to the training center in the city of Kisangani, in the DR Congo. However, the aircraft crashes in the middle of the jungle. The crew perishes in the accident. The Marine and other passengers survive, only to be attacked and captured by merciless Simba militiamen. However, the Marine, a captain who had fought in Iraq and Somalia, succeeds in subduing their captors, helped by a CIA agent who was a former Marine, a Congolese army lieutenant, and a child-soldier. They escape through the Congolese jungle until they reach the city of Beni. The previous night, the city had been devastated by ferocious rebels who abducted an American missionary. The Marines team up with valiant Congolese soldiers, pursue the rebels, and uncover "blood gold" transactions linked to money-laundering by Islamist terrorists' partners based in Kampala and Nairobi. The Marines and the Congolese soldiers engage in a breathtaking battle against Ugandan Special forces in the town of Mutwanga in the Beni terrtory. They overwhelm their foes and expose the involvement of some rogue Congolese and Ugandan top army officers in these "blood gold" deadly dealings. The Congolese government has to make a bold decision...
Us Marines in the Congo-Beni War
A US marine sent to the Congo by the Pentagon to be part of a team of military instructors selected to train a battalion of Congolese Special Forces boarded a UN plane in Goma. He was travelling to the training center in the city of Kisangani, in the DR Congo. However, the aircraft crashes in the middle of the jungle. The crew perishes in the accident. The Marine and other passengers survive, only to be attacked and captured by merciless Simba militiamen. However, the Marine, a captain who had fought in Iraq and Somalia, succeeds in subduing their captors, helped by a CIA agent who was a former Marine, a Congolese army lieutenant, and a child-soldier. They escape through the Congolese jungle until they reach the city of Beni. The previous night, the city had been devastated by ferocious rebels who abducted an American missionary. The Marines team up with valiant Congolese soldiers, pursue the rebels, and uncover "blood gold" transactions linked to money-laundering by Islamist terrorists' partners based in Kampala and Nairobi. The Marines and the Congolese soldiers engage in a breathtaking battle against Ugandan Special forces in the town of Mutwanga in the Beni terrtory. They overwhelm their foes and expose the involvement of some rogue Congolese and Ugandan top army officers in these "blood gold" deadly dealings. The Congolese government has to make a bold decision...
The Mouse and Elephant’s Awkward Dilemma
The Mouse and Elephant Trilogy is speculative satire / dystopian comedy / alternate history set in Canada and the USA in the near future. These books are filled with hope for future generations. Warning: Do not read these books if you would: start a war to enrich your company's shareholders; or rape the planet's resources and leave a polluted mess in your wake; or, if you own more than two rapid fire automatic assault weapons with bump stocks. If that's not you- then read away. These books have hockey socks full of great ideas to save our planet for future generations- politically, environmentally, economically....The suggestions and proposals in the books will work: we just need to find the moral courage to demand change. I wrote these books because what we are doing now in developed western nations is not sustainable or defendable. The books are a road map to effective governance, and a survival guide for the eventual Trumpocalypse. Currently, the majority of elected officials of all political stripes in developed nations serve only their corporate masters. The Mouse and Elephant Trilogy explains how we can transfer Power to the People!Mark PiperThe Mouse Who Poked an Elephant (2017), Mouse, Bear and Elephant Games (2019), and The Mouse and Elephant's New Neighbours (2021) are now available wherever fine books are sold.
The Survivor, 14
The #1 New York Times bestselling novel that picks up where the "tight, right, and dynamite" (Star Tribune, Minneapolis) The Last Man left off, The Survivor is a no-holds-barred race to save America...and Mitch Rapp's finest battle. When Joe "Rick" Rickman, former golden boy of the CIA, steals a massive amount of the Agency's most classified documents in an elaborate betrayal of his country, CIA director Irene Kennedy has no choice but to send her most dangerous weapon after him: elite covert operative Mitch Rapp. Rapp quickly dispatches with the traitor, but Rickman proves to be a deadly threat to America even from beyond the grave. In fact, mysterious tip-offs are appearing all over the world, linking to the potentially devastating data that Rickman managed to store somewhere only he knew. It's a deadly race to the finish as both the Pakistanis and the Americans search desperately for Rickman's accomplices, and for the confidential documents they are slowly leaking to the world. To save his country from being held hostage to a country set on becoming the world's newest nuclear superpower, Mitch Rapp must outrun, outthink, and outgun his deadliest enemies yet in this heart-pounding adventure that proves that Vince Flynn "is a master--maybe the master--of thrillers in which the pages seem to turn themselves" (Bookreporter).
Democracy
Democracy: An American Novel (1880) is a novel by Henry Adams. Published anonymously, Democracy: An American Novel draws on Adams' experience as a political journalist in Washington, DC who worked to expose corruption in American government. Although fictional, the novel is viewed as a commentary on the presidential administrations of the 1870s and political atmospheres surrounding each. "For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington. She was in excellent health, but she said that the climate would do her good. In New York she had troops of friends, but she suddenly became eager to see again the very small number of those who lived on the Potomac. It was only to her closest intimates that she honestly acknowledged herself to be tortured by ennui." Madeleine Lee, a young widow from a prominent clerical family, moves from New York to Washington, DC in search of a better life. There, she hosts a popular salon and draws the attention of several suitors. While John Carrington, an honest man from a working-class background, shows true romantic feelings, Silas P. Ratcliffe, an aspiring politician, proves dangerously attractive. As their competition grows heated, Madeleine begins losing interest in the life of fame and fortune she has pursued for herself. This edition of Henry Adams' Democracy: An American Novel is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers. Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.
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When we see evil, when it is thrust in our face, it's easy to recognize. But when it sneaks up behind us and whispers in our ear, it is almost impossible to identify. When those in authority, even our own heroes tell us we're not seeing evil, we grow bitter and strike out in defiance. For if we do not question the narrative we're being given, we cease to be part of the human race. Danny and Billie MacDougal want only to have peace; to begin their lives together. They soon realize they have no hope in attaining true peace unless they stand up and defend the most vulnerable among us, our children.
A Senate Journal 1943-1945
Allen Drury (Advise and Consent) is perhaps the greatest political novelist of the 20th century. A young and idealistic Drury was assigned as a reporter to the U.S. Senate for three of the most turbulent years in our history. He was an eyewitness to World War II, FDR's New Deal, attempts to pack the Supreme Court, and bitter partisan divides in the face of global war. Drury's astute observations and insights bring history and politics to life in this truly remarkable account.
The Ultimate Londoner
A 51-year-old pub landlord from Hammersmith, a DJ from Lambeth, a prize-winning novelist influenced by Charles Dickens and Iain Sinclair, a young British intelligence officer: just four of the ten contenders in 2018's truly fabulous 'Ultimate Londoner' competition! With a 瞿5 million prize-pot and an awards ceremony on the top floor of The Gherkin, it's the last word in up-to-the-minute kudos. Or perhaps not. To begin with, no one has the faintest idea where it came from. Or how it garnered so much publicity. And not even the 'candidates' themselves know how they were selected. For the intelligence officer, John Mordred, its unsolicited exposure is profoundly unwelcome. So far, so irritating. But then the candidates start dying. As Mordred investigates, the truth slowly emerges. And it's stranger and more shocking than anyone could possibly have imagined.
Let's Kill the Teacher
In its readiness to listen in on the speech of a wide variety of ordinary, working people, and to give us insights into the texture of their daily lives, Dent's writing is not merely unfashionable, it is like very little that is currently being written (or anyway published.) It does however remind me of that fine, scandalously neglected American writer, Nelson Algren. Like Algren, Dent's socialism, while never reductive, is integral to his vision of what life is and what it could be. And like Algren, he makes satisfying stories out of what happens to happen to the kind of people whose existence, when it's noticed at all, is for the most part caricatured or sentimentalized. In other words, Dent testifies to the value of Camus's claim that art is nobody's enemy, because it opens the prisons and gives voice to the sorrows and joys of all. John Lucas
The Social Magus
Everyone knows UK general elections aren't what they used to be. British politics - Westminster in particular - is mired in an integrity crisis. Enter Real Alternative, a bold new party with a youthful, charismatic leader and a radical manifesto. True, it stands to win very few seats, but what really matters is that it has galvanised the young and apathetic. And it apparently has the establishment running scared. Yet there may be more to it than meets the eye. For a start, who's funding it? No one quite knows. If its backers are foreign, that would constitute a clear breach of electoral commission rules - which would please a lot of people in Whitehall.Agent John Mordred is assigned to investigate. And what looks at first like a routine probe soon becomes anything but.
World War O
"World War Offshore" - no one knows how it started, or who's behind it, but one thing's for certain: it's the biggest anti-capitalist demonstration the world has ever seen. Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators, spread across six continents, demanding an end to the "non-accountability of the 1%", re-regulation of the world's financial services, and a new era of social justice. MI7 takes the view that it's a problem best left to the appropriate law enforcement agencies - with the exception of one little detail. In order to get off the ground so effectively, its organisers had to bypass GCHQ in Britain, and the NSA in America. A breathtakingly impressive achievement, and possibly an ominous one. Next time, whoever does that may not be so benign. Agent John Mordred is assigned to investigate.
The New Europeans
London, 2016, and the lead-up to the EU referendum. The liberal consensus in Europe is breaking down and no one knows exactly what will replace it. As always, there are those with an eye on the main chance. In the course of investigating the disappearance of a prominent Eurosceptic MP, MI7 agent John Mordred finds himself under hostile scrutiny from obscure figures within his own organisation. It quickly turns out that his investigation and theirs may not be entirely independent of each other. Behind all the intrigues, arguments and accusations, much greater, darker forces are coming into play. Forces whose existence hardly anyone suspects. ... Yet. And the stakes are high enough to make even MI7's best agent dispensable. Set (and written) in the run-up to the 2016 UK referendum on EU membership, The New Europeans deals with the shifting global power-balance in the second decade of the 21st century.
Our Woman in Jamaica
Jamaica, 1980. With a general election looming, the left-of-centre People's National Party stands to win a third term of radical social reform. Ties with Russia and Cuba will be strengthened. The IMF will be shown the door. Newly hatched revolutionary movements, like the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, and the JRG in El Salvador, will be encouraged. Neither London nor Washington wants any of that. Unfortunately, however, the only person who could conceivably do anything about it is someone the Brits would rather not acknowledge. Ruby Parker's just twenty-five, but she and MI6 already have a shared history. And she's been written off by everyone there who matters. Written as a prequel to the other books in the Tales of MI7 series, Our Woman in Jamaica can be enjoyed by old and new readers alike.
The Square Mile Murder
After a chance skirmish with an armed killer in central London, agent John Mordred ends up in hospital, condition critical. Six weeks and a full recovery later, he's persuaded it's purely a police matter, one he should forget about. But nothing in MI7 is ever that simple. There's more to this particular incident than meets the eye and unnamed people in high places want it investigating. They believe Mordred's the man for the job. Add to the mix five missing IMF officials, the kidnapping of a top British financier in Venezuela, evidence of a related cover-up in Whitehall, a young and unpredictable London Lord Mayor with acute delusions of grandeur, plus - most bizarrely - persistent rumours of local UFO sightings. Things threaten to spin radically out of control.
Little War in London
After an acrimonious US election whose outcome Moscow may or may not have influenced, can it really be that a few maverick intelligence agents from Russia and the United States are fighting a discreet battle-to-the-death on some of London's back streets? And that the corpses are piling up, out of sight of the British police? Or is that just more "fake news"? ... Well, luckily, no it isn't. Not yet, anyway, because the media still hasn't heard about it. But that could change. When MI7 agent John Mordred is assigned to investigate, he uncovers a veritable Schr繹dinger's Cat state of affairs in which the relevant facts are neither wholly present nor entirely absent. And where some of the evidence lies closer to home than is comfortable. Along the way, he is forced to address one of history's oldest questions. Just what is the truth anyway, and why do we care?
The Kramski Case
When someone starts assassinating paparazzi in three countries, MI7 sits up. Apparently, the killer is none other than Dmitri Vassyli Kramski, retired SVR field-operative and former Kremlin prot矇g矇. True, the Cold War is long finished, but everyone knows Vladimir Putin is as unhappy for Russia to play second fiddle on the international stage as even the most strident of his Communist predecessors. In 2010 therefore, East-West relations remain as tortuous as ever.Kramski's trail leads deep into London's 矇migr矇 community, forcing his pursuers into conflict with an unknown organisation bent on protecting him. Bit by bit, he begins to look less like a professional assassin and more like someone plotting to scupper the foundations of Western democracy itself. To compound matters, the Russians are as baffled by him as anyone.
Sophia
Sophia has just enjoyed a cup of coffee in the university canteen with her close friend Cathy when her laptop screen becomes infested with a swarm of bee-like insects; unknown to her this is the signal that her first visit from the voice, an extra-terrestrial agent, is about to take place. The voice calmly asks her to take on the role of diverting humanity away from its present self-destructive course which, if left unchanged, will lead swiftly to the sixth extinction. Sophia is shocked by the enormity of the request, and challenges the voice about why she has been chosen, and whether she is up to the job, but eventually reluctantly accepts, having consulted at length with her boyfriend Matt. The story then charts Sophia's life, the internal struggles she faces, and her multiple conversations with the voice, her mentor, as she sets up Domum amid growing opposition; she is found often in the carefully depicted domestic settings of her and Matt's families, where there are many moments of high comedy. In parallel a number of paranormal events occur around the world; examples are lightbox advertisements changing their messaging to stark reminders of the damage being reeked by humanity, collective suicide by puffins in Iceland whose older members plunge themselves into the caldera of a volcano, apparently in protest at the industrial fishing of sand eels, and bees deciding en masse to leave their hives in Patagonia to escape to wilder terrain unspoilt by farming. These incidents shock most people into thinking seriously about the wellbeing of the planet, but with the consequence that they usually divide into one of two camps, the survivalists and the hedonists. Some of the key characters in the book are Mark, an advertising agent with whom Sophia gradually falls in love, Boghilder, an Icelandic barmaid with a hilarious and sensuous humour, and Sir Carl Layman, her deadly opponent who founds Project Guillotine in order to dispose once and for all of Domum and Sofia. The denouement happens when the prime minister, a close friend of Sir Carl, finds that even members of her own party cannot accept her decision to label Domum as a proscribed terrorist organisation; this leads to her defeat on a vote of confidence, a general election, and at the end of a long night of waiting, a victory for the coalition of opposition parties who support Domum. But Sophie is left wondering where the seismic forces she has unleashed are going to settle as time moves forward.
Tremors and Transformations
Maybe it is the fact that I witnessed one of the major revolutions that highlight a turmoil-full Bolivian history, maybe it is my education, I am sensitive to political turmoil. My political seismograph is acute. This explains my despondency over recent developments in the country that was once perceived as the north star for democracy. This book refers to this and other political tremors as the setting within which heroes and heroines need to live their lives. Their stories, their transformations could inspire or intrigue the reader. I have always been impressed with personal growth.This book contains stories of individuals from disparate places and upbringings, different economic conditions, and diverse educational backgrounds. They all try to sort out the conditions that challenge them and seek to rise to the occasion.The reader will also find two stories written with a healthy dose of sarcasm--one about a country that is lifted from horrible misery, only to crash soon thereafter. The other about a tiny dog whose life is terribly affected by a misguided owner, and a selfish girlfriend. One can also find a short story with a touch of dark humor- hopefully, it will bring a smile. Finally, we find a collection of men complaining about their amorous misfortunes. I can imagine the reactions will split along the gender divide.
Black Wonder
Black WonderBy: Thomas DavisFound as an abandoned baby, Tawanna grows up seeing all the injustice and wrong in the world. When she loses everything, she becomes a hero who fights racism, sexism, corrupt cops, and corrupt government. Through the teaching and training of her adoptive father, Tawanna fights for truth and equality and is a message of hope in the story of Black Wonder.About the AuthorBorn and raised in Charleston, South Carolina, Thomas Davis, thirty-five, grew up questioning everything, then started researching spirituality. His characters fight for truth and equality.
Centuries After Nostradamus
ALL NEW 21st CENTURY QUATRAINS. The most fascinating collection of quatrains was published in the year 1555. 'The Prophecies' by Nostradamus. Published at a time when the world had struggled with a devastating plague, a ruling class had full control over the people, uttering opinion and truth was severely punished, and a religion demanded belief from everyone. His quatrains were written about the degradation of mankind and what the future could hold. He teased everyone with his cryptic way of writing but it left too many of his quatrains misunderstood or completely lost to any understanding. He wrote nearly one thousand quatrains arranged in ten centuries. Nearly five hundred years later, K R Alfrey is adding five centuries to the collection, under the same circumstances and for the same reasons. 500 verses of culture, entertainment, religions, countries, politicians, media, futures, and reason. Each quatrain awaits a fertile mind and thoughtful interpretation. For those who tried and failed to understand Nostradamus, don't worry, you will find LESS PROPHET TEASE.
2034A Novel of the Next World War
An instant New York Times Bestseller! "Consider this another vaccine against disaster. Fortunately, this dose won't cause a temporary fever--and it happens to be a rippingly good read." --Wired "This crisply written and well-paced book reads like an all-caps warning for a world shackled to the machines we carry in our pockets and place on our laps . . ." --The Washington Post From two former military officers and award-winning authors, a chillingly authentic geopolitical thriller that imagines a naval clash between the US and China in the South China Sea in 2034--and the path from there to a nightmarish global conflagration. On March 12, 2034, US Navy Commodore Sarah Hunt is on the bridge of her flagship, the guided missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones, conducting a routine freedom of navigation patrol in the South China Sea when her ship detects an unflagged trawler in clear distress, smoke billowing from its bridge. On that same day, US Marine aviator Major Chris "Wedge" Mitchell is flying an F35E Lightning over the Strait of Hormuz, testing a new stealth technology as he flirts with Iranian airspace. By the end of that day, Wedge will be an Iranian prisoner, and Sarah Hunt's destroyer will lie at the bottom of the sea, sunk by the Chinese Navy. Iran and China have clearly coordinated their moves, which involve the use of powerful new forms of cyber weaponry that render US ships and planes defenseless. In a single day, America's faith in its military's strategic pre-eminence is in tatters. A new, terrifying era is at hand. So begins a disturbingly plausible work of speculative fiction, co-authored by an award-winning novelist and decorated Marine veteran and the former commander of NATO, a legendary admiral who has spent much of his career strategically outmaneuvering America's most tenacious adversaries. Written with a powerful blend of geopolitical sophistication and human empathy, 2034 takes us inside the minds of a global cast of characters--Americans, Chinese, Iranians, Russians, Indians--as a series of arrogant miscalculations on all sides leads the world into an intensifying international storm. In the end, China and the United States will have paid a staggering cost, one that forever alters the global balance of power. Everything in 2034 is an imaginative extrapolation from present-day facts on the ground combined with the authors' years working at the highest and most classified levels of national security. Sometimes it takes a brilliant work of fiction to illuminate the most dire of warnings: 2034 is all too close at hand, and this cautionary tale presents the reader a dark yet possible future that we must do all we can to avoid.
Danger in the Air
Danger in the Air is the first book in the Alice Ott Mystery Series.Author Dusty J. Miller's passion as an activist, and life-long addiction to fiction compelled her to write the adventures of Alice Ott, Raging Granny and cyber sleuth. Danger in the Air takes the reader on a fast-paced adventure from the quiet villages of Western New England into the epicenter of biological warfare, the high security labs at Ft. Detrick, Maryland. Alice Ott, with the help of a small band of concerned senior citizens, exposes a lethal cover-up. Alice successfully eludes dangerous covert operatives in her quest to reveal the origins of the infamous anthrax letters. Along the way, she reunites with her long-lost French lover and co-conspirator, Gerard, and proves that age is a state of mind.
Gary The Go-Cart
Author is the winner of the Literary Titan Award and the International Impact Book award.This book is a compilation of two children's books that teach kids on one level and teenagers and adults read it on a different level.The Gary the Go-Cart books give a different perspective on energy and the environment from the one that is normally heard. Wind Energy is actually horrible for the environment, and climate change is really all about power and money and has nothing to do with the environment. This perspective is shared by large numbers of experts who are not having their voices heard. It is written as a fun story, with poetry, rhyme, and cadence. Gary the Go-Cart tackles Wind Energy, Climate Change, and Fake News in a manner that is simple enough that even a child can enjoy it. The intention is to educate the adult reading it.There is a page at the end of each story entitled, "For the Adults in the Room." These pages give information and quotes showing the problems with wind energy and carbon capture.Get it for your high schooler to read! They need to hear this before they get to college and are totally indoctrinated!It is 68 pages of full-color illustrations. It is illustrated by the late, award-winning Sidnei Marques.
He Lost, He Lost!
HE LOST, HE LOST! features four major reasons that Trump lost - not just the election but popular support, based on a series of cartoons with a spirit of levity. The commentary is written in this same spirit, while providing some background to explain the comparisons made in the cartoons. The four reasons Trump lost are these: - Trump is Bats in that he is like a bat flying in the dark so he can't see what's real very well, and he's running or running away like a bat out of hell. - Trump Is Nuts in that he is like a variety of nuts from peanuts to cashews and pecans, and finally he is carted off to the nuthouse. - Trump Is an Animal in that he is like a male animal fighting for power, women, and territory; - Trump is like a Variety of Extinct Animals or Humans in that he is like a variety of dinosaurs and other extinct creatures. He Lost, He Lost! is a fun, yet insightful look into the malignant narcissist that just left the White house. It is an easy read that 80,000,000 of us can enjoy." Charles E. Hooper, Speaker Coach, Sacramento, California"If you need a good laugh during this trying time, check out this new book. It's an SNL literary approach with great illustrations and satire." John Covert, Crystal Image Variety Band, Jackson, California"This book brings some laughs and light in a dark time. Sure to make you smile. For me it's a must read." Mark Gagnon, Film Critic, Los Angeles, California Sandi Derring is an author who has long been following the ups and downs of Trump's 2016 campaign, White House years, 2020 election, and final defeat. She also supports science, preserving the environment, recognizing climate control, and eradicating the coronavirus -- all things Trump is against or has chosen to ignore.
Fifty Essays
Fifty Essays (1946) is a collection of wartime pieces by George Orwell. It covers a variety of topics in English literature, and also includes some pioneering studies of popular culture. It was acclaimed by critics, and Orwell himself thought it one of his most important books.
Racism in America Why?
Mitch had been dreaming his whole future as a white man but in reality he was actually a person of color. While Mitch spends his time speaking about Racism in America and a vaccine for Covid-19, he found True Love. The author, Charles Cook Jr., was born in the month of July. Fast forward through time and life's journey, was drafted into the army, received an honorable discharge and retired 33 years from the United States Postal Service. He has one grown son, Terrance C. Cook. Co-author, Terrance C. Cook was born in Decatur Georgia, March 19, 1986. His mother's name is Demecia Jones, and he has two brothers Michael Jones and DeMario Jones. Co-author, Felecia R. Bush is a mother of a son, Ronald D. Bush (Pam), a daughter, Alecia B. Rhone(John), grandmother to two granddaughters, Jahnesha and Alenna Rhone. One grandson, Isaiah J. Bush and an adorable great-grandson, Asaiah Rhone. She is a native of Cleveland, OH, and her ancestors are natives of Georgia. Ms. Bush was born under the zodiac sign Aries. This book is dedicated to her mother Grace Vincent-Smith.
Socialism
We all know dogmatic self-righteous radical leftists, and if we don't, we get to watch them in action every day on the news. This book attempts to show the left's immoral tactics and hypocrisy as seen through the eyes of an innocent young dog. His master, the book's antagonist, is an over educated and under employed avowed socialist who seeks to undermine the constitution and destroy his political opponents by any means, fair or foul, using the excuse that the end justifies any means. His dog is not so sure and asks far too many uncomfortable questions. This sets up a series of humorous discussions that shows the Master's ideology for what it really is. Cheer for the pup as he unwillingly engages in his campaign for rights and freedom!
Doodleman and the Tail of Two Kingdoms
Two fictional worlds exist side-by-side. One is home to a united population that follows science, inclusion, and common sense. The other is led by a want-to-be king who styles himself as the Emperor and is only interested in his own concerns. Narrated from a future perspective through memoirs and other media, Doodleman and the Tail of Two Kingdoms juxtaposes how the history of these two lands unfolded. What kind of disasters might arise from policies that encourage hate and discrimination? Watch the fallout unfold as people are pitted one against the other and pushed to the brink of rebellion.Doodleman and the Tail of Two Kingdoms will challenge readers to carefully consider the state of their own nation and governing authorities.
Doodleman and the Tail of Two Kingdoms
Two fictional worlds exist side-by-side. One is home to a united population that follows science, inclusion, and common sense. The other is led by a want-to-be king who styles himself as the Emperor and is only interested in his own concerns. Narrated from a future perspective through memoirs and other media, Doodleman and the Tail of Two Kingdoms juxtaposes how the history of these two lands unfolded. What kind of disasters might arise from policies that encourage hate and discrimination? Watch the fallout unfold as people are pitted one against the other and pushed to the brink of rebellion.Doodleman and the Tail of Two Kingdoms will challenge readers to carefully consider the state of their own nation and governing authorities....
Protect and Defend, Volume 10
Counterterrorist agent Mitch Rapp is on a collision course with America's most feared enemy in this white-knuckle thriller from "the best pure adrenaline-charged action writer out there" (The Providence Journal) and #1 New York Times bestselling author of American Assassin. No longer willing to wait for the international community to stop its neighboring enemy, Israel brings down Iran's billion-dollar nuclear program in an ingeniously conceived operation. The attack leaves a radioactive tomb and environmental disaster in its wake, and has Iranian president Amatullah calling for blood--American blood. Seeing opportunity where others fear reprisals, Mitch Rapp devises a brilliant plan to humiliate Iran's government and push the nation to the brink of revolution. But when a back-channel meeting between CIA director Irene Kennedy and her Iranian counterpart goes disastrously wrong, Rapp is locked in a showdown with a Hezbollah mastermind in league with Amatullah--and he is given twenty-four hours to do whatever it takes to stop unthinkable catastrophe.
The Trial of George W. Bush
THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL POLITICAL NOVEL IN AMERICAFollowing the worst terrorist attacks in American history on September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush pledged to bring those responsible to justice, especially the mastermind behind it all, Osama bin Laden. After failing to capture bin Laden in Afghanistan, George W. Bush shifted his attention and that of our country to Saddam Hussein and Iraq, neither of which had anything to do with the 9/11 attacks (as history has proven). Bush, Jr., wanted a war in Iraq, and with the help of others in his administration, he succeeded in waging one regardless of its price in human lives or expense to his country's treasury. George W. Bush's Iraq War lasted eight and a half years, killed tens of thousands of people, and cost the United States trillions of dollars.In Terry Jastrow's new novel, The Trial of George W. Bush, past evil deeds are exposed and reckoned with in a most unexpected way. At a time when America's political leadership has alienated itself from the rest of the world, the scales of justice respond in a trial at the International Criminal Court in which former President George W. Bush is accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. This fascinating trial brings together eyewitness testimony from a former Secretary of State, the Commander of US Central Command who oversaw military operations, an American counterterrorism expert, and a female Iraqi blogger, who reads from the blogs she wrote while Bush's war was destroying her country.As the trial ends after weeks of contentious statements and nonstop coverage by an overzealous media, a captivated worldwide public awaits the determination of Bush's fate. Will he be found guilty or not? The surprising verdict is revealed in Terry Jastrow's new novel, The Trial of George W. Bush.
A bondade de Deus e a for癟a dos homens
Conceber pol穩tica 矇, antes de tudo, olhar para o ser humano em a癟瓊o. Os humanos interagem em busca de uma dada plenitude de direito, de acesso ao poder, de participa癟瓊o e atua癟瓊o no campo decis籀rio, de consumo dos bens produzidos e de uso dos recursos dispon穩veis. Escrevendo entre 1635 e 1638, a atua癟瓊o do Cardeal Richelieu gerou o "Testamento Pol穩tico", um documento de orienta癟瓊o ao Rei Lu穩s XIII da Fran癟a. Neste documento registra posicionamentos enf獺ticos, descreve como um governante deve agir, como deve se posicionar e o tratamento dispensado aos inimigos. Um homem de f矇 inquebrant獺vel, afirmava que "O reino de Deus 矇 o princ穩pio do governo dos Estados: e com efeito 矇 uma coisa t瓊o absolutamente necess獺ria, que sem esse fundamento n瓊o h獺 pr穩ncipe que possa bem reinar, nem Estado que possa ser feliz".Discutir os fundamentos do Estado moderno 矇 um desafio marcado pela solid瓊o do pesquisador. Neste distanciamento Alexandre Pierezan se envolve e escreve "A bondade de Deus e a for癟a dos homens: o Testamento Pol穩tico do Cardeal Richelieu", uma obra marcada pelo agir de Richelieu que "sempre recorreu ?s combina癟繭es religiosas e estrat矇gicas, deixando nas m瓊os de Deus as conquistas que a prud礙ncia e a for癟a dos homens n瓊o pudessem garantir".
Dead Fish
It's 20 -a changed yet still complacent America-and Lorraine Mulderon is mad. She's mad that dying fish litter the shores of her small Connecticut coastal town. She's mad other birds seem to be dying, possibly indirectly related to fish deaths. She's still mad about a wave of crow deaths over a decade ago. Oh, and Lorraine is also mad about small local irritants-four-way stop signs, rude "flocks" of bikers clogging up roadways, water wasted on lawns, too much alcohol consumption. But, mostly, Lorraine is mad at the lack of madness. Lorraine writes letters, contacts agencies that no longer employ people, only manage voicemails. She types discursive comments on blogs and websites. She makes speeches. She phones lazy, and now corrupt, legislators. She is ignored. What has happened to passion? What has happened to our country? And, now, what has happened to Lorraine? Lorraine disappears after a large New York protest march. Her daughter, Haley, is desperate to find her, and ultimately writes a letter to Lorraine for publication, hoping her mother will read it and return. Perhaps Lorraine's favorite birds-blue jays-can fill in these blanks. Actually, a bird's eye view reveals certain truths too difficult for all of us immersed, anchored, and egocentric humans to understand. The blue jays know Lorraine's is a story about our country's greatest sin-the normalization of tragedy.
Satyagraha 2020
Satyagraha is a short story of dark shade of politics and resistance developed by a person over the time.
The Prague Protocol
A shocking assassination. A lethal cover up. Can a prominent British lawyer smash a conspiracy before he becomes the next victim?Human rights lawyer Scott Mitchell's idealism has turned to cynicism. So when a top UK politician is assassinated, he's not surprised to discover an incriminating list of names linking his wealthy Russian oligarch client to the crime. But he's shaken to the core when the victim's lawyer is brutally tortured and killed. With MI6 and the police determined to string him up for the murder, Mitchell uncovers evidence of a worldwide money-laundering operation. But as the people with the truth die one-by-one, he must choose his allies carefully...or pay with his life. Can Mitchell prove his client's innocence before he winds up in the killer's crosshairs?The Prague Protocol is the third book in the riveting Puppet Meisters Trilogy, a political conspiracy thriller series. If you like pulse-pounding espionage, authentic characters, and rich international intrigue, then you'll love Adrian Churchward's epic suspense novel.Buy The Prague Protocol to unmask corruption today!
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?
Gary The Go-Cart
"Carbon Comes out of the Closet" is a humorous conservative "Children's Book" that tackles Climate Change, Energy and Fake News in a manner that is so simple, even a child can understand it on some level. (Hopefully, the parent will get it as well!) It tells the inconvenient truth about the carbon controversy. It clearly illustrates how it is all about politics and money and nothing to do with the environment. It is a fun story, written in poetry with rhyme and cadence. It is illustrated by the late, great award-winning Sidnei Marques, who passed away shortly after completing the illustrations for this book. It is titled the way it is because the author was tired of hearing people being vilified for not believing in man-made catastrophic climate change and she wanted to "Come out of the closet" and go ahead and say out loud that she didn't believe it either. This book shows how carbon dioxide is actually good for the environment. It presents a side of the climate change argument that isn't often heard. The book can be read on one level to a child, and on a much deeper level by a teenager or an adult. It will likely make you laugh out loud. There is a section at the back of the books, "For the adults in the room" that helps explain the concepts in more depth.The Gary the Go-Cart series was written to balance the conversation surrounding energy and the environment. BB's goal was to simplify some rather complicated ideas about energy and climate change.
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?
Stealing The Future
Behind the Berlin Wall a dissident is on the trail of a killer This "compelling" series (Fiona Rintoul, Leipzig Affair) is set in an East Germany that didn't end in 1990. 1993. After forty years of communist rule it's time for change: participatory democracy, citizen's movements and de-centralization are part of a new political landscape in East Berlin. But when a politician's crushed body is found a constitutional crisis erupts. Ex-dissident Martin Grobe turns detective and his investigations point towards the Stasi, the KGB and the West Germans--has he uncovered a putsch against the new GDR, or is it just a conspiracy to murder?
Der Untertan
Heinrich Mann: Der Untertan - Entwicklungsroman eines Obrigkeitsh繹rigen Neu editierte 2021er Ausgabe, mit aktualisierter Rechtschreibung und Fu?noten Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts, Zeit des wilhelminischen Kaiserreichs: Der introvertierte Knabe Diederich He?ling lernt im reaktion瓣ren Klima jener Zeit schnell, sich Autorit瓣ten zu beugen und sich opportunistisch auf die Seite der St瓣rkeren zu schlagen. Bedacht auf eigene Vorteile, nimmt er Schule, Studium und Studentenverbindung als Vorbereitung, um sich im System des Katzbuckelns bei gleichzeitiger R羹cksichtslosigkeit Schw瓣cheren gegen羹ber Vorteile zu verschaffen. He?lings Sucht zur lustvollen Unterwerfung gipfelt in absoluter H繹rigkeit dem Kaiser gegen羹ber, der sich in imperialistischem Gr繹?enwahn zum Weltenherrscher berufen sieht. - Heinrich Mann portr瓣tiert in diesem 1918 erschienenen Roman den Prototypen eines Menschenschlags, der sich in noch 羹blerer Form f羹nfzehn Jahre sp瓣ter, als die Nazis die Macht 羹bernehmen, Bahn brechen wird. (c) Redaktion AuraBooks, 2021
Der Untertan
Der Untertan ist ein Roman von Heinrich Mann aus dem Jahr 1914. Die erste Buchausgabe erschien 1918. Der Roman erz瓣hlt von Diederich He?ling als Beispiel f羹r einen bestimmten Typ Mensch in der Gesellschaft des deutschen Kaiserreichs. He?ling ist obrigkeitsh繹rig, feige und ohne Zivilcourage. Er ist ein Mitl瓣ufer und Konformist. Heinrich Mann erz瓣hlt mit ironischer Distanz He?lings Lebensgeschichte von dessen Kindheit bis hin zur Sicherung seiner Stellung in der wilhelminischen Gesellschaft. Der Untertan persifliert die wilhelminische Epoche und analysiert die Situation der damaligen Zeit. Heinrich Mann diagnostizierte die nationalistische Politik sowie die Machtverh瓣ltnisse seiner Epoche unter der Regierung Wilhelms II.
Whistleblower
Journalist, Jack Parker sets out to capture the truth of the injustices plaguing society. However, as he rises through the ranks of his job earning a comfortable promotion and rubbing shoulders with politicians, the truth spirals out of his grasp. Leaving society to slowly decay in a cesspool of lies and corruption. Get your copy today by clicking the "Buy Now" button right now!
The Six Pointed Star
Manuel Tiago derived much of his material for this book about prison life from the years he spent in detention for his political views during the era of Portuguese fascism. There are three "political" prisoners in this novelistic m矇moire, but mostly we meet men convicted for other types of crimes, many of them violent. But in a backward, repressive society, is stealing food for the poor or trying to demand justice for your fellow workers truly a crime? Many writers have applied their gritty realism to the subject of prison, again, some from personal experience. The Six-Pointed Star, now available to an English-language readership, joins the select company of great books on this theme.The author opens and closes his account on the outside of the prison. On almost every page, he tells stories, some tragic, some even with elements of humor, showing that life on the inside mirrors that on the outside. All the human qualities, both positive and negative, that we see there, we also see here.In this composite tapestry of a place, a time, and a shifting population of 500 men, almost any reader will be able to identify moments in their own lives when they were just this far away from committing a crime, or wanting to, and ending up as these men did. However many reasons there may be why people commit crimes, even heinous ones, prison does not cancel a person's humanity. That may be in itself the single most important "message" this book communicates.
The Stone Book
Everyone there is, receives a text message. And that is all that it took, to bring our world to the brink of nuclear conflict. The global public, succumbing to their own irrational conclusions about two esoteric text messages, begin for the first time in their lives, to actually live. The global politic, see this as their new path; an opportunity to carve from a new stone, the world they always wanted. The President, crippled with fear, becomes open to the insane doctrines proposed by war-hungry generals. Knowing however, that there must be another path, he seeks the counsel and wisdom of three great minds from long ago. In dream, or reality, over dinner with Thucydides, Democritus, and Zeno, he realizes that it was only the fever of fear, and voluntary blindness towards our collective histories, that dictated his decision-making. Now he must stop a war, that may erase history itself.
