Vital Targets
Success means all loose ends must be tied.Journalist Tierra Campos and FBI Special Agent Victoria Larsen find themselves desperately battling to save their careers and their lives from forces looking to destroy them in the third book in this high-octane series.Six months after the events in Devious Measures, both women are moving on with their lives...or so they thought. Fearful of their abilities, they will find out that the most powerful and devious cabal ever assembled in American history has other plans for them. With the clock ticking to November, Tierra and Victoria must fight to survive the onslaught unleashed against them by dark forces bent on eliminating their Vital Targets.Vital Targets is the third novel in a five-book serial drama. Readers are encouraged to begin the journey with Justifiable Deceit and enjoy the Tierra Campos Thrillers in the order they were written.Cancel culture has come for Tierra and Victoria. One targets a career. The other targets a life.America is still reeling from the events that transpired during the New Hampshire Democratic Primary. With the immediate threat of election interference neutralized, spring turns to summer, and the nation awaits the nominating conventions, utterly unaware of the danger lurking in the long shadows.A flamboyant and popular pundit moves against Tierra Campos as she transitions to her new role at the iconic political television program Capitol Beat. After a controversial interview lands her in hot water with her network, he calls for boycotts and mobilizes a social media mob to cancel her. With her future as a journalist hanging in the balance, she must realign with old friends to uncover the hidden truth behind her cancellation before her career is left in ruins.As Tierra struggles, Special Agent Victoria Larsen abandons her plans to leave the FBI when a team probing manipulation in the New Hampshire election approaches her with an offer. Something doesn't add up, and a feeling is growing that the mysterious Machiavelli may have co-conspirators. After a trio of shocking murders, she finds herself in the crosshairs of a deadly new enemy with one assignment: ensure that she isn't alive to continue investigating.Vital Targets is a fast-paced political suspense thriller with twists and turns that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the final chapter. Buy it now!The Tierra Campos Thrillers (in order): Justifiable DeceitDevious MeasuresVital TargetsRevealed SecretsDecisive Endgame
Bhashani, the Maulana Bhashani, the Comrade
"Moulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani was unique in many respects. He was a political activist who had never allowed himself any respite in hispolitical struggle since the age of 14 till he died at 91. And unlike most political leaders of our region, he was more than a politician; he was indeed a statesman with a dream to which his commitment was unflinching. Bhashani's interest was not in gaining power for himself or his party; he did not work for electoral success, his dream was of a social revolution. That is precisely where he travelled beyond the other political leaders we have known. We Bengalis have been fortunate in having leaders of the stature of Chittaranjan Das, Subash Chandra Bose, A. K. Fazlul Haque and SheikhMujibur Rahman, all of whom were great and unique in their own ways; but it would be neither unfair nor an exaggeration to say that Bhashani was thegreatest among the great. He was a hero, not of a tragedy, but of an epic,"-written in the foreword by professor emeritus SERAJUL ISLAM CHOWDHURY, Dhaka, Bangladesh, in the book Moulana Bhashani Leader of the Toiling Masses, a publication of Moulana Bhashani Foundation, New York, USA
The Gutted Majesty
The Gutted Majesty is a riveting play about tim's unscrupulous behaviour. The play tactifully uncovers the government minister's roguish activities which subsequently backfire on him. All his ambitions are thwarted.
Shades of Resistance
Set in 1973 Greece during the military dictatorship, Shades of Resistance follows thirty-year-old American Jonas Korda as he stumbles blindly into the islands of the Aegean. Attempting to physically escape from a life--a disillusioned engagement with 1960s politics and an ill-fated sort-of-marriage--that he has long since emotionally fled, Jonas is instead faced with the question of his capacity for true human connections.Unwittingly he becomes involved with two expatriate Greek musicians who had self-exiled from their homeland six years before, when the military junta took power, but are now returning to create oppositional energy through the form they know best: traditional Greek poetry set to the music of a composer who's been banned by the brutal and surreal junta. Through the force of their commitment and sacrifice, Jonas is reacquainted with the relation between the heart and the larger world.Jonas is also confronted, sequentially, by two women who in very different ways bring his emotional struggles into focus. One--a Greek-Canadian searching for her father lost somewhere to the depredations of the dictatorship--who seeks to draw him in. The other--an alienated Belgian painter turning her back on a life of artistic and gender frustrations--who holds him away.The novel's lyrically evoked Greek islands are counterpoint to political terror captured with both shuddering intensity and mordant black humor. Shades of Resistance is that rare work of fiction that explores the relationship between the personal and the political, the heightened responses of a man trapped in a moment of history.
Shades of Resistance
Set in 1973 Greece during the military dictatorship, Shades of Resistance follows thirty-year-old American Jonas Korda as he stumbles blindly into the islands of the Aegean. Attempting to physically escape from a life--a disillusioned engagement with 1960s politics and an ill-fated sort-of-marriage--that he has long since emotionally fled, Jonas is instead faced with the question of his capacity for true human connections.Unwittingly he becomes involved with two expatriate Greek musicians who had self-exiled from their homeland six years before, when the military junta took power, but are now returning to create oppositional energy through the form they know best: traditional Greek poetry set to the music of a composer who's been banned by the brutal and surreal junta. Through the force of their commitment and sacrifice, Jonas is reacquainted with the relation between the heart and the larger world.Jonas is also confronted, sequentially, by two women who in very different ways bring his emotional struggles into focus. One--a Greek-Canadian searching for her father lost somewhere to the depredations of the dictatorship--who seeks to draw him in. The other--an alienated Belgian painter turning her back on a life of artistic and gender frustrations--who holds him away.The novel's lyrically evoked Greek islands are counterpoint to political terror captured with both shuddering intensity and mordant black humor. Shades of Resistance is that rare work of fiction that explores the relationship between the personal and the political, the heightened responses of a man trapped in a moment of history.
Anna Hastings
The riveting tale of one woman's journey and her rise to power, Anna Hastings gives readers an inside glimpse into the workings of journalism in Washington. Drury takes his own experience in the field to reflect on the state of journalism in the 1970s. In contrast to his other series', notably Advise and Consent, he humanizes the very field he often calls into question. Anna Hastings is a magnificent novel of Washington journalism, shown through the eyes of vivid, fascinating, and humanly likable characters. From Allen Drury, the master of spellbinding political fiction, author of Advise and Consent. "Anna Hastings is both a fresh face and a fresh start in Drury fiction" - John Barkham, The Victoria Advocate 1977
Latter-Day Pamphlets
Thomas Carlyle wrote a series of writings titled "Latter-Day Pamphlets" that discuss numerous social and political topics in Victorian England. The present-day topic of the first essay, "The Present Time," is society's moral and spiritual deterioration. According to Carlyle, people have lost touch with higher principles and are instead preoccupied with worldly success and individuality, which has created an atmosphere of confusion and discord. The second article, "Model Prisons," critiques the English penal system, which, according to Carlyle, fails to rehabilitate offenders and instead makes them into jaded criminals. Carlyle analyses the shortcomings of the British government in "Downing Street," specifically its corruption and bureaucracy. The collection also includes writings on subjects including education, slavery, and the Irish Famine. Carlyle focuses on the value of morals and spirituality in society throughout the pamphlets and critiques the excesses of industrialization and capitalism. Carlyle calls for a return to old values and a more moral and spiritual approach to social and political concerns in "Latter-Day Pamphlets," which is essentially a criticism of Victorian society and its institutions.
Discourses On The First Decade Of Titus Livius
The Italian philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli wrote "Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius" in the early 1600s. It is a book about politics. The book is a commentary on the first ten books of the "History of Rome" by the Roman historian Titus Livy. Machiavelli wrote this book to give practical advice on how to set up and run a republic. He did this by looking at the Roman Republic, which Livy described. He says that a republic can only work if its citizens are good and are willing to put the needs of the community ahead of their own. Machiavelli talks about many different parts in this book of republican government, such as the importance of law, the role of the military, and the need for good leaders. The author also talks about the problems that come up when trying to set up a republic, like the risk of corruption and how hard it is to keep public support. Thus, readers can find this novel highly analytical and often confrontational, challenging conventional wisdom.
This Slavery
Ethel Carnie Holdsworth's 1925 novel, This Slavery, is a radical feminist and socialist tale of love, loss, poverty and politics. The action follows two sisters, mill-girls Hester and Rachel Martin, whose lives are thrown into turmoil when a fire at the mill leaves them unemployed. As the material poverty of their home-life deepens and the girls are forced to confront the difficulties of their economic circumstances, Hester and Rachel make romantic and political choices that will place them on opposite sides of the great class divide.
Come Nineveh, Come Tyre
The Advise and Consent series is a landmark of political fiction, displaying a depth of insider Washington knowledge and a canvas of compelling characters that catapulted each novel to the top of the bestseller lists. At the end of the previous novel, Preserve and Protect, Allen Drury left his readers with one of the greatest cliffhangers of all time. After an assassin's bullet rings out, we are left to wonder who was killed-the Liberal Vice President Ted Jason, or staunch Conservative Presidential Candidate Orrin Knox? The answer to that question was so large that Pulitzer-Prize winner Drury had to write two novels, one exploring the full ramifications of each outcome. In Come Nineveh, Come Tyre, China and the Soviet Union are waiting and watching for any sign of weakness from the untried Ted Jason, survivor of the assassination attempt that took the life of Orrin Knox and catapulted him into the Presidency. Ted Jason has been thrust into this position of power-is he up to the challenge of leadership in such a time of crisis? Or will he bend too far toward appeasement, at the cost of freedom around the world? Looking at the stakes for the United States against the backdrop of war, politics, and scandal, President Jason must play winner-take-all in this game of politics.
Capable of Honor
It is one of the most fundamental questions facing America today: How justifiably, or irresponsibly, do the volatile and unbiased American media-press, television and radio-attempt to interfere with, and control, the political process and the foreign policy of the nation? In a hotly fought Presidential primary, the news media fractures along ideological lines, supporting and distorting the candidates' records, manipulating the news rather than covering it. Capable of Honor, the third novel in the grand, bestselling Advise and Consent saga, is a compelling blockbuster that shines a harsh and revealing spotlight on how the media shapes the news, guides public opinion, creates policy-and tries to shape history itself.
Mark Coffin, U.S.S.
The epic story of a Senator's rise and fall. Mark Coffin of California was barely thirty years old when he won a startling upset victory in his race for a seat in the U.S. Senate. A bright, handsome, energetic idealist with a passion for decency in government, he thought his honesty and dedication would see him through anything. But Washington, DC, was all too eager to teach him the hard lessons of gamesmanship and compromise. Neither Mark Coffin nor his wife were prepared for what Washington had in store for them: the bizarre sex scandal that would threaten to destroy not only Mark Coffin's career and his personal life, but all of the political reforms he was fighting so desperately to achieve. Mark Coffin, U.S.S. is a magnificent novel of Washington politics-an insider's view of power at the top, shown through the eyes of vivid, fascinating, and humanly likable characters. From Allen Drury, the master of spellbinding political fiction, author of Advise and Consent
Diana Of The Crossways Book 1
Diana Of The Crossways Book 1 is a feminist novel written by George Meredith. The plot introduces you to the life of Diana in Victorian work of fiction, based on the life of notorious socialite Caroline Norton, who married a bad man, wrote pro-feminist literature, and got involved with several political figures. In a Victorian culture that sexualizes all relationships between men and women. Diana is a singular heroine who is impulsive, passionate, and in every way in jeopardy. On the other hand, Diana's friendship with Lady Emma, her best friend, is one that can be compared to romantic love in that it is both physically tactile and emotionally strong. But, how will Diana manage her relationship? Will she ever get overcome by society's taunts? Read to know how Diana will help herself from his bad husband and how she will be the heroine of this story!
The Propagandists
The Propagandists is an explosive and timely political thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat, questioning whom to trust and how far some will go to protect their beliefs. Steve Jaffe's long-awaited final chapter to his Corrupted Intelligence Series, The Propagandists, pushes the United States to the brink. Not since 9/11 has the intelligence community been caught off-guard. But now, domestic white supremacy militias are simultaneously initiating a series of mass shootings in Manhattan, Washington D.C., and Los Angeles. The death toll of innocent Americans totals over three thousand.When President Thaddeus Thompson unexpectedly dies after six months in office, Vice President Shannon Graham becomes the first female President. Before she could settle into her new role as Commander and Chief, churches, synagogues, and mosques are being bombed during religious services, killing over twenty-five hundred worshipers. Investigative reporter Paige Turner receives an anonymous package detailing an upcoming civil war. Unable to get the intelligence community to listen to her, she decides to go it alone to expose every detail she has been given. President Graham believes that White Supremacists have infiltrated Congress, the West Wing, the FBI, and Homeland Security. She remembers how Sam Collins and Tiffany Glass had stopped the last attempt at a Civil War and asks them to come out of retirement to help her new administration. Is it too late to stop these terrorists before the United States falls into a state of anarchy and a race war begins? Collins and Glass have to decide to risk everything again and jeopardize their lives to save the country they love.
Revealed Secrets
All games are won before they're ever played.Journalist Tierra Campos and FBI Special Agent Victoria Larsen find themselves in a desperate race against the clock to stop a dangerous cabal from rigging a presidential election in the fourth book in this high-octane political thriller series.The long march to Election Day is ending, and the stakes for Victoria and Tierra have never been higher. Old friends become unreliable, and enemies switch sides as a national horror in an otherwise proud state plays out in front of the nation. Can these two strong women stop this powerful cabal from usurping the election, or did their secrets get revealed too late?Revealed Secrets is the fourth novel in a five-book serial drama. Readers are encouraged to begin the journey with Justifiable Deceit and enjoy the Tierra Campos Thrillers in the order they were written.Election Day is now D-Day, and only two women can stop a political disaster that could destroy the country.Fall is in the air, and America has turned its attention to the November presidential election. Candidates crisscross the country, pressing hands and pleading for votes while the media covers their every move. Under the shadow of the attempt to hijack a primary election in New Hampshire, the nation is on guard for more turbulence at the polls - and with good reason.Ian Drucker has a new mission and a small army to help complete it. While the cabal makes moves to prepare for the endgame, he has the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania firmly in his crosshairs. As the election nears, he embarks on his daring plan to desecrate the only thing holding the country together - faith in its democratic process.Meanwhile, Special Agent Victoria Larsen has recovered from her injuries following the disaster in Loughborough to find herself demoted and sidelined by the FBI. Convinced that Drucker is behind an arson in Allentown, Victoria collaborates with a colleague to find and neutralize him while her peers search in the wrong place. Hunted by the Department of Justice, she must take matters into her own hands and face a bold choice that will haunt her forever.While Victoria tracks down Ian, Tierra is helping Front Burner rebuild while ignoring the story of the century - one she no longer has any leads to follow. The cabal applies more pressure when a cryptic new puzzle arrives for her from beyond the grave. As Tierra races to crack a code that she hopes will lead her to the roots of a conspiracy, she must throw a desperation hail mary to stop them from succeeding.Revealed Secrets is a fast-paced political suspense thriller with twists and turns that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the final chapter. Buy it now!The Tierra Campos Thrillers (in order): Justifiable DeceitDevious MeasuresVital TargetsRevealed SecretsDecisive Endgame
The Secret Agent
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is a novel by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1907.[1] The story is set in London in 1886 and deals with Mr. Adolf Verloc and his work as a spy for an unnamed country (presumably Russia). The Secret Agent is one of Conrad's later political novels in which he moved away from his former tales of seafaring. The novel is dedicated to H. G. Wells and deals broadly with anarchism, espionage, and terrorism. It also deals with exploitation of the vulnerable in Verloc's relationship with his brother-in-law Stevie, who has an intellectual disability. Conrad's gloomy portrait of London depicted in the novel was influenced by Charles Dickens' Bleak House. The novel was modified as a stage play by Conrad himself and has since been adapted for film, TV, radio and opera. Because of its terrorism theme, it was one of the three works of literature most cited in the American media two weeks after the September 11 attacks.
The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad wrote the book The Secret Agent, which was released in 1907. The main character of "The Secret Agent" is Mr. Adolf Verloc, a clandestine agent working for an unspecified foreign power who poses as a seedy shopkeeper in Soho and lives with his devoted but stoic wife, her ailing mother, her younger brother Stevie, and their family. This polite, soft-spoken man now reports to a new spymaster, a condescending and gloating man by the name of Mr. Vladimir, who gives him a new assignment that will attack the foundation of science and therefore make enough noise to accomplish his deeper, more implicit purpose. Also involved unwittingly in the same conspiracy are Verloc's revolutionary comrades, each one of them quite an enigmatic character on his own, including someone named The Professor but you find out about him after reading the novel! Although, this story sounds like a classic spy story which makes it interesting!
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?
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.
A Tale Of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities, novel by Charles Dickens, distributed both sequentially and in book structure in 1859. The story is set in the late eighteenth century against the foundation of the French Revolution. Despite the fact that Dickens acquired from Thomas Carlyle's set of experiences, The French Revolution, for his rambling story of London and progressive Paris, the original offers more show than precision. The locations of enormous scope crowd brutality are particularly clear, if shallow in verifiable comprehension.
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?
The Assassination of Too Big to Fail
The Assassination of Too Big to Fail, the second of three novellas, is a futuristic fictional thriller. Someone attempts to blow up the Benson Oil headquarters. You will wonder who did it and why while you follow the various plot twists and read about many predictions.
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.
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
This compelling political satire from the author of the widely read The UK Left The EU Because Brussels Decided To End Tax-Avoiding Practices Within Its Member States has been 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
The Girl
Read the revised third edition, published in 2022 by Midwest Villages & Voices, in conjunction with the Meridel LeSueur Family Circle. "Words should heat you, they should make you rise up out of your chair and move!" - Meridel LeSueurThe Girl transports us with resonant authenticity into the head of a young woman struggling to survive the depression of the 1930s in St. Paul, Minnesota. On a backdrop of state violence and poverty, and in a life shaped by desperation and gender-based violence, The Girl illustrates the ways working-class women keep each other alive and seed transformational change through self-organized systems of mutual aid."LeSueur seems in love with the spoken word, and her consummate achievement as an artist, I believe, is her transformation of colloquial speech into musical prose. In The Girl... common street talk turns into exquisite poetic refrains." -Blanche Gelfant, The New York Times Meridel LeSueur (1900-1996) is one of the great literary voices of the twentieth century, and The Girl is her most celebrated novel. In her own words, Meridel came from "abolitionists, agrarians, radical lawyers... dissenters and democrats and radicals through five generations." Meridel was blacklisted in the 1950s because powerful men knew how dangerous it was to have proletariat working-class women writing their own stories. This is one of the stories they didn't want you to read.A new foreword by Margaret Randall-poet, translator, and social activist-and an afterword essay by one of Meridel's great-granddaughters-locate the novel in a current social and political context.NOTE TO READERThis book is written in the vernacular of the era, with no quote marks.WHAT READERS HAVE SAID"Le Sueur seems in love with the spoken word, and her consummate achievement as an artist, I believe, is her transformation of colloquial speech into musical prose. In The Girl...common street talk turns into exquisite poetic refrains."-- Blanche Gelfant, The New York Times"Meridel Le Sueur's work stands, urgent and unique, at that 'bloody crossroads' where politics and culture meet...Modernist literary experimentalism engages a distinctelvly feminist conception of how people defend themselves and organze for change."-- Paul Lauter, A. K. and G. M. Smith Professor of Literature, Trinity College
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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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."
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
Yesterday’s Freedom
A relatable and thought-provoking geo-political tale that revolves around today's major challenges but is set sixty years in the future.When Rosie Walker, the twenty-four-year-old owner of a video games company finds herself on the wrong side of the law for the first time, the only way to turn is towards her family. It comes as a shock that her grandmother is one of the leading figures in an underground network of retired Gen Z climate activists called 'The Force' whose goal is to overthrow the oppressive government.With Rosie as a new recruit, the Force hopes to finally get hold of the younger tech generation needed to succeed. A carefully designed plan is put into motion but Rosie soon realizes that what she's signed up for will affect her personally in a bigger way than she had bargained for.Can they stop the brainwashing machinery in time for the next elections? And at what cost?
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".
