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Sent to investigate mysterious encounters that are disrupting international shipping, Professor Aronnax, his servant Conseil, and disgruntled harpooner Ned Land are captured when their frigate is sunk during an encounter with the “monster.” The submarine Nautilus and its eccentric Captain Nemo afford the professor and his companions endless fascination and danger as they’re swept along on a yearlong undersea voyage.
Sidney Carton is almost the only case in which Dickens has drawn a hero on the true heroic scale, and his famous act of self-sacrifice is unmatched in fiction. The book must be ranked very high among the great tragedies in literature.
The drifting journey of Huck and his friend Jim, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River on their raft may be one of the most enduring images of escape and freedom in all of American literature. Although the society it satirized was already history at the time of publication, the book was quite controversial, and has remained so to this day.
Life gets weird when you’re adopted by an alien. One million years in the future, young human Antaska and her psychic cat are adopted as pets by a gigantic alien. Traveling in outer space, she becomes telepathic in a world where that’s dangerous. Then she gets into a love triangle that’s even more dangerous. Her cat tries to tell Antaska what she’s doing wrong, but will she listen?
Balayi
Adults who go through traumas sometimes exhibit disruptive behaviors of all kinds. What if the victim is a child?
Meri experiences an excruciating trauma at the age of four. Her life takes a nosedive. In the next 12 years of her life, she unleashes vengeful terror on everyone around her. Her wickedness is so severe that instead of describing her as a troublemaker, everyone rather referred to her as Balayi (calamity). To her father Isa – a once respected Imam; she is the symbol of shame. Meri hates school for many reasons; from the teachers who insist on keeping her in school despite their clear show of hatred for her, the students who see her as a monster with no brains, to the school building that serves as a starvation camp. Meri badly wants to quit school. But the guilt of leaving Ayi, her only sister behind, holds her back.
A ray of hope appears when Miss Fathia, a newly posted PE teacher announces at a closing assembly that a bronze medalist in an upcoming Inter-District Marathon competition stands the chance of winning a bicycle. As a chubby and almost fat girl, will Meri make it to the school’s athletics team? Will her long-held dream of quitting school ever come to fruition just by winning a bicycle as a parting gift for Ayi? Can athletics heal Meri of her traumatized past? Let’s dig in.
True love blooms in this three-dimensional adaptation of a beloved fairy tale. Amazing paper structures and classically styled artwork lead readers through a magical tale. Magnificent pop-ups of a life-like Beast, a mysterious castle and a spectacular rose garden make this all-new pop-up masterpiece a must-have for your family’s library.
CANDID Anthology of Poems
ISBN: 978-9988-3-9800-2
CANDID Anthology of Poems is a choice selection of poetic thoughts that share themes centered around Africa’s hopeful awakening, both in the political arena and in the internal psyche of human consciousness, being brutally honest, satirical and didactic.
In this book is a collection of poems for Africa and four distinct volumes of The Secret Opera House. This book also has a concise literary review as a guide to understanding the poems;
This critique is especially useful in the study of literary devices and figures of speech; with a focus on Metaphor, Simile, Imagery; Irony; Satire; Personification; Enjambment; Alliteration: Allusion; Allegory; Symbolism; and Hyperbole.
Also in this Review:
1) Meaning of the Poems
2) Possible Themes
3) Similar Poems/Books
4) Possible Adaptations
This book is suitable for both entertainment and educational purposes.
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Brenna yearns to follow her brother to the states. Suddenly her dreams seem within her reach. But what happens when dreams turn to nightmares?
Prequel novella to highly acclaimed romantic thriller novel, Dark Secrets.
Praise for Dark Secrets:
“A fantastic riveting read.” Russell James
“Had me addicted from the first chapter and couldn’t put it down!” Lozzag
“A fantastic debut novel. If you love a fast paced read that is both unpredictable and engrossing this book is for you.” Juicy Books
“Gripping, amazing, raunchy, nail biting thriller. Couldn’t put it down but didn’t want it to end.” Nat Worth
“It was very well written and the story flowed in a manner that never left me bored and ever eager to turn the next page.” onlinebookclub.org
Synopsis of Dark Betrayal:
Brenna Monaghan is unhappy with her life.
He mother is emotionally abusive.
Her stepfather gives her the creeps.
Her beloved brother is on the other side of the world.
She is amazed when she is singled out for a modelling opportunity and transported on a glittering path to fame and fortune.
However, is everything really as it seems?
ECLIPSE OF THE LAST FRONTIER
This developmental thriller – Eclipse of the Last Frontier – and its sequel – The Last Frontier and Lingocracy – present a captivating story involving a young man, NnicK, whose trajectory through Europe and North America in pursuit of knowledge, intercepted love, and the residual effects of Linguistic Fragmentation, prompting him to look deeper. The more NnicK scrutinized, the deeper he got submerged in the ramifications and the linkages between Linguistic Fragmentation and stagnation, poverty, and desperation among the citizenry of Nublanuistan – a mythical country in Africa under the prevailing system of government. With Africa’s unique situation as the most linguistically fragmented continent in the world, exemplified by over 2000 languages across countries on the continent, NnicK got his cousin, Njor, convinced about the extent to which even the roots of governance challenges in many countries in Africa, have been deeply embedded in and entangled with Linguistic Fragmentation. NnicK and Njor joined forces to passionately deliberate on factors that have eclipsed the true developmental potential of the African Continent for centuries to decipher possible solutions.
As many believed that Linguistic Fragmentation has a supernatural origin, NnicK did not hesitate to explore the derivatives of a fantastic concept he stumbled across during his visit to the other side of life – the spiritual realm – in his dream. With that, Lingocracy emerged as a kind of governance architecture and promised to provide the leverage for Africa to embark on its unique trajectory of accelerated socioeconomic transformation.
In the first part of this two-volume developmental thriller, NnicK returns from Canada to Nublanuistan, a mythical country in Africa, after his PhD, leaving behind his beautiful German girlfriend, Sofia, who wanted them to get married and settle in Canada or Germany.
Subsequently, NnicK gets married to the stunningly beautiful Ese. The couple had two boys, and Ese was pregnant with a third child when NnicK escaped several poisoning attempts that left him questioning his decision to return home to Nublanuistan in the first place. The multiple failed attempts on NnicK’s life accentuated his preoccupation with the fact that he had even failed in his original purpose for returning to Nublanuistan, to contribute his quota to the socioeconomic development of his country and his continent, code-named ‘The Last Frontier’ by his former girlfriend.
When it gradually dawned on NnicK that Linguistic Fragmentation, especially under the rudder of Multi-Party Democracy, probably constitutes the greatest obstacle to the social, economic, cultural, and technological transformation of Nublanuistan and the entire African Continent, he found sufficient statistics to support this supposition.
To the extent that Linguistic Fragmentation has a divine origin, designed by God to eclipse the true potential of humans in the process of its misapplication by man, NnicK was of the perspective that the exploration of the derivatives of a fantastic concept he stumbled upon during his visit to the other side of life, the spiritual realm in his dream, could generate strategic actions and programs for Nublanuistan and Africa to circumvent the hurdles associated with Linguistic Fragmentation and ultimately gravitate the entire African Continent and Nublanuistan towards accelerated social, economic, cultural and technological transformation.
Inan Deluna – twenty-eight – was a humble woman, married with two children, Salmai 6, and Graegori 8. Her husband Brandt, 32, was on his way to becoming a very rich doctor. He was contracted to head a medical research team and they would be leaving soon. Inan was a stay-at-home mom, dedicated to her family and was looking forward to a change of scenery. One morning Brandt sits her down after she comes back from taking the children to school.
“I’m not taking you with me. I’m in love with one of my interns and I’m taking her. The house is yours and whatever is left in the accounts.”
“Okay, I hope she makes you happy.”
“She does and we are expecting our first child.”
“Well goodbye then.”
Footprints in Concrete is a Christian based South African short story of a young boy and his mother in the apartheid era, who turned to crime due to his circumstances and pain.
A must read tragic fiction of a heroine founded on real-life issues, principles and concepts. Cascading a plot well woven with the twist of suspense so captivating right from the beginning as though one is spellbound to walk the tragic countryside path with her to the end.
God, were you pleased? (Memoir of a Zongo boy) Is a tragic political satire that stars Gaawa a rare genius, born to two outlaws and raised distinctly in Zongo, one of the backward slums of Bachola. Gaawa sees problem with everything around him – right from his own parents’ penury; the community’s staunch attachment to a religion whose god he believes only punishes the poor for the wrong of the rich; the system of education that only educates in order to subjugate; to everyone accepting mediocrity as faith. He questions everything including the existence of God. In fact his problem is with the entire 21st century civilization. No school could contain him.
But little did Gaawa know that daring to bring change to the very philosophy that birthed society requires more than just vociferous arguments. His antagonists would be both nature and man. The true test of his beliefs comes when at the age of 15, he tragically loses both parents in a space of 3 months and wrongfully gets convicted of murder and sentenced to death two years after. Gaawa is just starting but it seems he is the kind of hero that is born dead.
Is this the end of a genius who was notoriously raised to force change or his destiny transcends the prison walls? Let’s dig in!
Gaawa is a rare genius, born to two outlaws and raised distinctly in Pupul, one of the many slums dotted in the cities of the fictional Bachola. He finds problems with everything around him. Right from his own parent’s penury; the community’s staunch attachment to a religion whose god he believes only punishes the poor for the evils of the rich; the system of education that only educates in order to subjugate, everyone accepting mediocrity as faith. He questions everything including the existence of God.
No school could contain him.
But little does Gaawa know that daring to bring change to the very pillars that hold society would require more than just vociferous arguments. His antagonists would be both nature and man. The true test of Gaawa’s beliefs comes when at the age of 15, he tragically loses both parents in a space of three (3) months and wrongfully gets convicted of murder and sentenced to death two years later. Gaawa is just starting but it seems he is the kind of hero who is born dead.
Does Gaawa’s destiny go beyond the prison walls, or is this the end of a genius notoriously raised to force change? Let’s dig in!
She fell in love with a man she thought never noticed her, he was her boss and she a valued employee. He was always there to help, always had a kind word to offer, he gave solutions to her problems. She kept her feelings in check, she could never let anyone know she wanted him in the worst way and when he proposed marriage, she felt betrayed and hurt. To think he could stoop so low as to put a figure to her feelings.
She had to say no but as life would have it… you can’t keep a secret forever and when two people have the same secret, it’s bound to some out at some point. How they deal with it, is never what they had planned but at the end of it all, all they had was their love and the determination to keep it.
Amara is a beautiful, smart, young woman. Being highly sought-after, she enjoys a life she tags deluxe. When pregnancy knocks on her door at thirty-two years of age, her horizon widens, and she realises love has multiple definitions. What is it to love? What is it to be loved? What definition of love is true? Find out in this inspiring book, LOVED.
