An Ugly Truth

An Ugly Truth
Author: Baron Louis
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2009-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781450565578

The fictional introduction based on the existing true premises in our world. The fictional characters are analogous creations of the author are fact based on underlying places, individuals and premises which do exist in the modern world's enduring historic ugly enterprise of human slavery which has been updated, an enterprise rebranded "Human Trafficking." Human Slavery-Human Trafficking in all its forms has been outlawed, banned in the majority of counties of the world. However today this both ugly and evil enterprise that has more individuals numbering in the millions globally enslaved, earning yearly accounted in hundreths of Billions in insane profits. More than all the criminal drug cartels combined earn with their illegal activities in the production, smuggling, distribution and sale of drugs. Human Trafficing (those enslaved being first used as what in the drug lingo "mules" to transport those illegal drugs) has become a profitable self supporting side business, assisting in the smuggling and distribution of drugs. In is not only those those driven by greed for money those who control this global enterprise, many also are driven by the darkest of base human desires, the allure which comes from dominating, using and abusing other human beings. This fact base fiction is told from the viewpoint of one young Japanese woman who is entangled in the Global Human Trafficking Sex Slave Trade, who has been transformed into an extreme item of merchadise for the Exotic Human Pet Sex Slave sub culture. Told from the viewpoint of of another character her close Japanese girlfriend who now has been targeted by this ugly business for the same fate, as her friend, the young Japanese girl, now an item of property in the form of an exotic human pet Sex Slave. Then from the viewpoint of the fictional Character (representing many men) an American man who has the revelation of his collective responsibility for the existence of this enduring ugly and evil enterprise. Who with that personal revelation opens the path of freedom and salvation for the three characters among others. This fiction is simular to the fictional Manga/Anime Black Lagoon, Roberta's Trail of Blood and Requiem for a Phantom all based on true existing premises in which the dark elements of human behavior direct many of the souls we share the globe. This introduction is unique, presented in the dual format of the Western written word with limited draft illustrations and the Asian graphic Manga style which is read, from the viewpoint of the Western (American-Europeon reading) from the back of the story, right to left as half of the non-Western world does.

The Fellowship of the Ring

The Fellowship of the Ring
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
Publisher: Del Rey
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1986-08-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780345339706

The opening novel of The Lord of the Rings—the greatest fantasy epic of all time—which continues in The Two Towers and The Return of the King. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read The dark, fearsome Ringwraiths are searching for a Hobbit. Frodo Baggins knows that they are seeking him and the Ring he bears—the Ring of Power that will enable evil Sauron to destroy all that is good in Middle-earth. Now it is up to Frodo and his faithful servant, Sam, with a small band of companions, to carry the Ring to the one place it can be destroyed: Mount Doom, in the very center of Sauron’s realm.

Sophie's World

Sophie's World
Author: Jostein Gaarder
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 735
Release: 2007-03-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466804270

A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

The Wisdom of the Shire

The Wisdom of the Shire
Author: Noble Smith
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2012-10-30
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1250026415

In The Wisdom of the Shire, Noble Smith sheds a light on the life-changing ideas tucked away inside the classic works of J. R. R. Tolkien and his most beloved creation—the stouthearted Hobbits. How can simple pleasures such as gardening, taking long walks, and eating delicious meals with friends make you significantly happier? Why is the act of giving presents on your birthday instead of getting them such a revolutionary idea? What should you do when dealing with the Gollum in your life? And how can we carry the burden of our own "magic ring of power" without becoming devoured by it? The Wisdom of the Shire holds the answers to these and more of life's essential questions.

The Color Purple

The Color Purple
Author: Alice Walker
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0735248753

The inspiration for the new film adaptation of the Tony-winning Broadway musical Alice Walker’s iconic modern classic, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award A powerful cultural touchstone of modern literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance, and silence. Through a series of letters spanning twenty years, first from Celie to God, then the sisters to each other despite the unknown, the novel draws readers into its rich and memorable portrayals of Celie, Nettie, Shug Avery and Sofia and their experience. The Color Purple broke the silence around domestic and sexual abuse, narrating the lives of women through their pain and struggle, companionship and growth, resilience and bravery. Deeply compassionate and beautifully imagined, Alice Walker's epic carries readers on a spirit-affirming journey toward redemption and love.

A Game of Thrones

A Game of Thrones
Author: George R. R. Martin
Publisher: Bantam
Total Pages: 835
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0553897845

NOW THE ACCLAIMED HBO SERIES GAME OF THRONES—THE MASTERPIECE THAT BECAME A CULTURAL PHENOMENON Winter is coming. Such is the stern motto of House Stark, the northernmost of the fiefdoms that owe allegiance to King Robert Baratheon in far-off King’s Landing. There Eddard Stark of Winterfell rules in Robert’s name. There his family dwells in peace and comfort: his proud wife, Catelyn; his sons Robb, Brandon, and Rickon; his daughters Sansa and Arya; and his bastard son, Jon Snow. Far to the north, behind the towering Wall, lie savage Wildings and worse—unnatural things relegated to myth during the centuries-long summer, but proving all too real and all too deadly in the turning of the season. Yet a more immediate threat lurks to the south, where Jon Arryn, the Hand of the King, has died under mysterious circumstances. Now Robert is riding north to Winterfell, bringing his queen, the lovely but cold Cersei, his son, the cruel, vainglorious Prince Joffrey, and the queen’s brothers Jaime and Tyrion of the powerful and wealthy House Lannister—the first a swordsman without equal, the second a dwarf whose stunted stature belies a brilliant mind. All are heading for Winterfell and a fateful encounter that will change the course of kingdoms. Meanwhile, across the Narrow Sea, Prince Viserys, heir of the fallen House Targaryen, which once ruled all of Westeros, schemes to reclaim the throne with an army of barbarian Dothraki—whose loyalty he will purchase in the only coin left to him: his beautiful yet innocent sister, Daenerys.

The Wolf of Wall Street

The Wolf of Wall Street
Author: Jordan Belfort
Publisher: Bantam
Total Pages: 530
Release: 2007-09-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0553904248

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Now a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could. From the binge that sank a 170-foot motor yacht and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab, to the wife and kids waiting at home and the fast-talking, hard-partying young stockbrokers who called him king, here, in Jordan Belfort’s own words, is the story of the ill-fated genius they called the Wolf of Wall Street. In the 1990s, Belfort became one of the most infamous kingpins in American finance: a brilliant, conniving stock-chopper who led his merry mob on a wild ride out of Wall Street and into a massive office on Long Island. It’s an extraordinary story of greed, power, and excess that no one could invent: the tale of an ordinary guy who went from hustling Italian ices to making hundreds of millions—until it all came crashing down. Praise for The Wolf of Wall Street “Raw and frequently hilarious.”—The New York Times “A rollicking tale of [Jordan Belfort’s] rise to riches as head of the infamous boiler room Stratton Oakmont . . . proof that there are indeed second acts in American lives.”—Forbes “A cross between Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities and Scorsese’s GoodFellas . . . Belfort has the Midas touch.”—The Sunday Times (London) “Entertaining as pulp fiction, real as a federal indictment . . . a hell of a read.”—Kirkus Reviews

Invisible Man

Invisible Man
Author: Ralph Ellison
Publisher: Penguin Books Limited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780241970560

The invisible man is the unnamed narrator of this impassioned novel of black lives in 1940s America. Embittered by a country which treats him as a non-being he retreats to an underground cell.