This book of poetry will take you on the heart's journey of dealing with a deceptive relationship.From falling madly in love, to being alone in shambles of self-hate and unworthiness, this book will rip down your emotional barricades and have you admitting true feelings that have been shoved to the bottom.Each poem explores particular feelings; from giddy admiration to self-sabotaging desire, with great use of powerful sensory, and vivid metaphors. The metaphors are masterf...

Pig Fat Soup is a testament to the inner strength of a Kansas boy, thrust into the sudden horrors of becoming a POW of an inhumane regime. Steven Woelk's compelling story is not only of the brutality of his captors and the bond that developed between his fellow shipmates, but of the challenges of the U.S. Navy, sending the USS Pueblo in harm's way before its mission in the Sea of Japan, off the coast of North Korea.

ISTANBUL, 1591 -and Sultan Murad III has been robbed! The Staff of Moses, used at the parting of the Red Sea, has been stolen from under his imperial nose.To track down the thieves, an elite band of hand-picked warriors is assembled. Among them are friends Awa and Will. Awa, the studious daughter of a noble family from West Africa, once a slave but now a whirling force with a scimitar, and Will, snatched as a child from his home in London at the age of 5, is now 16...

It is an analytical study evaluating the books in the Bible from a sociocultural and particularly sociopolitical viewpoint. A thorough research of the doctrinal formula of the Old Testament, that simplifies the much complex mystical composition of the New Testament.

Have you ever been kissed by a refreshing white cloud? Do you remember how its caress would leave you wanting more and waiting for its next lingering touch? White clouds were not strangers in the projects during the summer months. These refreshing vapors provided a welcome break from the sweltering heat of the sun's rays beating down on the concrete palaces that St. Louis called the projects. The fluffy mist was the unifying factor in the projects that all the kids loved. We inhaled the cl...

"Where do they go? And to where? We'll never truly know."Under the Mango Tree follows the journey of self-realization by a girl who has recently lost her best friend.This is an uplifting and heart-freeing book for anyone who has ever experienced loss."No blame of explanations will change that day, you are now with me in a different way".Loved ones do not simply go away... they live on in our memories and in our hearts forever.

A story of young men and women struggling to survive in a culture that places them at the bottom of every category told from their own perspective. Their struggle leads them to many perilous circumstances which they must overcome. Although this is a work of fiction there are many historical situations depicted that are not discussed in conventional history classes which this work reveals

She's always done what she had to. Now, she's doing what she never dared, choosing herself.Willow is a survivor. Raised in the foster system and shaped by a lifetime of bad breaks, she's made more wrong choices than she can count-but every one of them was made in the name of survival. When her decisions finally catch up with her, and she's staring down the possibility of jail, Willow is forced to do something she's never done before: put herself first.Determined to rewrite ...

Huey P. Newton's Family: Roots of a Revolutionary Suicide. was undertaken by the author at the request of Prof. Emeritus Melvin Newton (older brother of Huey Newton), Melvin's daughter Tracy Newton and son David Lautaro Newton. The project involved extensive family interviews and research to cover the background of Melvin and Huey P. Newton's parents, Walter and Armelia Newton, the tribal nature of family interactions, the lives of their siblings and other close relatives, their s...

River Fulton's life has become one big secretEvery girl wants him. Every boy wants to be himLies come easy, girls even easierBut at great cost to him ... a despicable curse he can't escape fromHe can hold his breath underwater, indefinitelyHe could unleash a Tsunami and part the seas, if only he knew how.Only one guy holds the answers - Skye Buchannan, an irritating Australian, with secrets of his ownFast forward twelve months and all...