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After her very wealthy and renowned parents are brutally murdered, five year old Anna McCrystal is left homeless and orphaned. Escaping with her from the war-torn capital city to Grand Cape Mount, a faraway western region, her determined maid will remain there with her for the next five years. When news reached Cape Mount that the peacekeepers, ECOMOG had finally secure Monrovia, the maid takes Anna and returns to the city. But this is a misca...

If a girl runs away or dies, she must be replaced by another girl from within the same family. Some girls in ritual servitude are the third or fourth female in their family suffering for the same crime, sometimes for something as minor as the loss of a trivial property. In spite of being outlawed in 1998, which carries a minimum three-year prison sentence, Trokosi is still practiced today in the Volta region in Ghana. Beside the Ewes that carr...

A trilogy of Christmas Lawrence's reflection into his past behaviors and negative practices that consequentially brought him from a thirteen room mansion into the most deplorable part of the Liberian refugees' camp. Betraying some editorial accuracy to emphasize his character's grumpy retrospect, the author cleverly managed to depict Christmas' unique prospective on life and relationships, while frequently exposing the base of man's inimitable...

A trilogy of Christmas Lawrence's reflection into his past behaviors and negative practices that consequentially brought him from a thirteen room mansion into the most deplorable part of the Liberian refugees' camp. Betraying some editorial accuracy to emphasize his character's grumpy retrospect, the author cleverly managed to depict Christmas' unique prospective on life and relationships, while frequently exposing the base of man's inimitable...

A trilogy of Christmas Lawrence's reflection into his past behaviors and negative practices that consequentially brought him from a thirteen room mansion into the most deplorable part of the Liberian refugees' camp. Betraying some editorial accuracy to emphasize his character's grumpy retrospect, the author cleverly managed to depict Christmas' unique prospective on life and relationships, while frequently exposing the base of man's inimitable...

After living a completely normal life for twenty-eight years, Victoria Weiss is suddenly thrust into a maze of underworld conspiracies and the age-old conflicts between heaven and hell. Stubborn, determined and refusing to accept the rapidly evolving chain of events threatening to consume her, the ascetic young lady futilely tries to rationalize the mysterious spiritual dangers challenging her beliefs. Convinced there is nothing remotely spiri...

Caught within the twisted conviction that his survival and those sharing similar pigmentation of his so-called blueblood line are under threat, Emile Rhinelander believes it is his God giving right to eliminate anyone that wasn?t his kind. But Dawood Brown, although he is no saint, for some strange reason will stop at nothing to bring his spiteful racist commander around to his way of viewing the world. As the unexplained obscurities of fate k...

The lion, a warrior, born of dust, of a time and culture yet unchanged is far detached from the true reality embodying the heritage of his existence. And he will remain so until the daring tropical beauty of Gabrielle Ayisi captures his eyes, shattering the dead stare that left him frequently characterized as a vagabond as opposed to the social elite he actually is. After twenty-three years of complete self-imposed social isolation, Jonathan V...

Whanga Mitchell's singular passion is to become a US Marine. Dexter Bryant's only desire is to bring his unyielding mother to accept his black wife before the baby comes. John Mitchell's one regret is raising his daughter near a marine base. Susan Bryant's lone mission is to destroy her black daughter-in-law before her black daughter-in-law destroys the proud Irish bloodline of the Bryant's ancestry.Will the honesty and purity of Whanga's hear...

Genesis and Revella are twins with identical genes, but somehow, somewhere, something went horribly wrong. As their grandmother does everything in her power to keep the girls above the fray and away from public eyes, Genesis persistently dogs her sister, attempting to portray her as a conniving, underhanded cheat, whilst projecting herself as a lovable consistent child any adult would cherish. As the girls grow into adolescence, the scheming a...

Until nineteen ninety-one, fifteen republics made up the Soviet Union.In December nineteen twenty-two, Byelorussia, Transcaucasia, Russia and Ukraine were the four founding republics that signed a treaty creating the USSR. During the nineteen twenty-four national demarcation, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan were formed from parts of Russia's Turkestan and two Soviet dependencies: Bukharan, and Khorezm. Five years later, Tajikistan was divided from...

The ten years old whose virginity Koko violated is now his wife and finally bringing his seed into the world. He is proud, happy, and filled with anticipations until the reality of the other side of his ruthlessness catches him off guard. Suddenly, his enthusiasm fades, pride and happiness escaping to a place he'd kept them all his life. Now, he yearns for his seed to belong to that other side, far away from the brutal world of his existence. ...

I started off wanting to write a story about rats, roaches and lizards constantly disturbing me whenever I tried to sleep. But the persistent gnawing idiosyncrasies of the Christianson brothers compelled me to stop and take a closer look at the threesome.The Christiansons are half-cast and belong to the Ghanaian elite. Alex, the youngest of the three brothers is a delusional narcissist, whose lust to impress leaves him frequently overextended....

Augustine Sherman tells in his new book, War of Morality, why the teachings of the church need to be readjusted to fit the true history of God's intent, who and what God actually is, and how to achieve oneness with God through understanding and not faith. The book, targeting those persons who are of religious persuasions and those without religious beliefs, summarizes a personal battle between what people think God is, versus what the church t...

Excerpt from The Protection Forests of the Mississippi River Watershed and Their Part in Flood PreventionThe Mississippi River, from time immemorial and until prevented by artificial barriers, was accustomed every few years to inundate about square miles of land. This ancient ¿ood plain, which under levee protection had been developed into a very rich territory, was the scene of the ¿ood of 1927 (fig. The greatest physical disaster in American...

Excerpt from The Protection Forests of the Mississippi River Watershed and Their Part in Flood PreventionThe Mississippi River, from time immemorial and until prevented by artificial barriers, was accustomed every few years to inundate about square miles of land. This ancient ¿ood plain, which under levee protection had been developed into a very rich territory, was the scene of the ¿ood of 1927 (fig. The greatest physical disaster in American...