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I am Not Your Slave is the shocking true story of a young African girl, Tupa, who was abducted from southwestern Africa and funneled through an extensive yet almost completely unknown human trafficking network spanning the entire African continent. As she is transported from the point of her abduction on a remote farm near the Namibian-Angolan border and channeled to her ultimate destination in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, her three-year odyssey exposes the brutal horrors of...

Winner of the Australian/Vogel's Literary Award 2005.*'Tuvalu - Everyone has a place like that. A dream land or life they're working towards, however vaguely ... Some people probably have more than one Tuvalu in a life. It changes as they grow. Or maybe they get to the first one and find it's nothing like they imagined and need a new one. You must have had at least one?''No.'*A love story of sorts, Tuvalu tells the story of Noah Tuttle, who is glum...

The poetry collection of "148 of the Best-Loved Poems from the Year 2099" is based on the author's experiences, emotions, observations, hopes, dreams, disappointments, triumphs, pain, joy and faith -- faith in the innate goodness of most people, the never-ending and often subtle balancing of the scales of justice, in the eventual triumph of good and in a higher power.The author is well-traveled, both in terms of locations and unique experiences. From spending four years of active du...

Join our family as we spend our summer vacation driving 1400 miles from South Texas to San Diego! My favorite part of road tripping is all the unique things you can find on the journey if you look for them. We'll stop on the way and see "The Thing", midcentury-modern homes in Palm Springs, Dwarf cars, UFO themed hotels, pyramids, beaches, caves, pirates and even DisneyLand! This book details our trip and some of the funny adventures we had. From the Texas Coast to the California Coast: A F...

Evil does not discriminate, terror is no respecter of persons and hate is often masked by a joyless smile. Such is the dark destiny that has covered the formerly happy town of Piedi d'Argento like a fog of sorrow and fear. As the body count grows, the town invests its hopes in the local police department to stop the killing and force the dark-hearted killer into the spotlight of justice. But, for the investigating team of Mike Orsak and Rusty Smith, the clues appear as scarce as footprints...

In 1981, an overweight, bum-kneed, 25-year-old former missionary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints decided to enlist in the United States Marine Corps. The author was only 35 hours short of completing his college B.A. degree when he tied the next four years of his life to the Marines. This story recalls his boot camp odyssey and some of the reasons for his challenging decision to try to be on of the few and proud.In a second story, the author offers a profile of his...

This is a collection of several shorter diverse works. Lincoln the Musical play is a manuscript for a proposed stage production. The author has written the play and the song lyrics, but still needs to find someone to write the musical score. Other works include a couple of autobiographical experiences put to short story form and a couple of theories, one political and one involving the physics of movement.

Who's to say whether fiction or non-fiction contain the greatest truths? Like the blind men each groping a different part of the elephant to try to describe the whole, so it might be that Frederick Langridge's great observation — "Two men look out through the same bars; One sees the mud, and one the stars" — is the axle around which turns individual perspective and hence individual variances in the ethereal realm lablled reality. It might be that short stories — of which this work is a com...

Tuka Says: For This Alone I Had Striven is a contemplative English rendering and philosophical unfolding of one of Sant Tukaram's most profound abhangs: "Yajsathi kela hota attahas."In a few lines, Tukaram gathers the entire movement of a human life: intense striving, the wish that the final day may be sweet, the end of the running born of thirst, wonder at the life spent, the auspicious grace of the Name, liberation arriving as a bride, and the remaining days passing in p...

The first third of this short entry is surmised from the attitude, habits, actions and demeanor of this wonderful cat. The balance is based on events that occurred from the time he came into our home. He apparently had a very loving home and was given excellent care, then abandon.A story of intelligent survival, adaptions, and acceptance by a caring loving family.

The always-helpful Colin the Crab has many special friends at the home river. It is hard to imagine anyone more beautiful than Stella or more successful than Eddie the Eel. The antique collection of Ms Catfish is the most impressive of the riverside, and the big newt family is certainly the most vivacious of the neighbourhood. Colin the Crab has a gnawing doubt of being too ordinary. The everyday life as he knows it changes instantly when a tidal wave casts Priscilla the Pearl Oyster to hi...

Colin the Crab, the most skilful builder of the eastern riverbank, never hesitated to help his friends. After a week of hard work the blue garden pavilion of his dreams is still unfinished, and a boisterous fish family has taken over his construction site. Colin, exhausted, buries himself under the blanket and refuses to open his curtains. Colin’s friends are puzzled. An emergency meeting is called for. It’s time for the friends to take action. – – – – The Caring Crab has been published al...