Please Remember What I Told You To Forget

Please Remember What I Told You To Forget
Author: R. Gilbert Greer
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2023-04-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1685625037

Dr. Rhea Morgan, a prominent educator, scholar, and researcher, steps out of the train station in D.C. where she is meeting her research planning team in-person for the first time. To her surprise, she is greeted by the newly appointed grant director, Dr. David Howard, her long ago first love. Handsome as ever and standing tall with his blue-grey eyes unblinking, Rhea feels the daggers piercing her heart as old memories flood her brain. Sporting her ear-to-ear smile on what she calls her negotiations face, Rhea begins plotting a “new lie” to keep David from discovering a 30-year-old secret that would destroy the stability of her family as well as his. While David is perplexed and angered by Rhea’s attitude and behavior, he becomes more determined to uncover the truth—why this poor, Black woman who had driven him, a rich, white man, to almost becoming an alcoholic and two steps away from putting a gun to his own head—had dropped off the face of the earth only to reappear 30 years later, with a new name and playing a totally different game.

Do Me Twice

Do Me Twice
Author: Sonsyrea Tate
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2007-08-21
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1416565183

From the highly acclaimed author of Little X: Growing Up in the Nation of Islam comes a taboo-breaking memoir about a Muslim girl who explores her freedom through the expression of her sensuality and sex, defying the cultural boundaries that denied her a full life. Do Me Twice is the triumphant life story of the highly intelligent, courageous, and charismatic Sonsyrea Tate as she breaks the cultural and religious molds set in place by her upbringing. A former African American Muslim, Tate has raised awareness for that community by bringing personal and enlightening answers to a curious audience. Who are African American Muslims? What do they stand for and why? How far-reaching are their lifestyle choices? With the global focus on terrorism and interest in the Islamic state, readers are hungry for answers that aren't influenced by government spin or newscast ratings. They will find those answers here. Do Me Twice inspires young women while exploring Tate's conscious separation from Islam, her abusive husband, and the prejudices and stereotypes set on her by others' misconceptions.

Dragon Eye Connection

Dragon Eye Connection
Author: Paul Janeway
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2011-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 160976854X

Charlie Johnson is your typical 13-year-old kid, whose favorite pastime just happens to be hunting for mysteries at the library. One day, Charlie finds a book that reveals a secret about his very own town of Dragon Falls. While investigating the mystery, Charlie's conversation with an Indian member of the community leads to the discovery of Roskoff, the dragon of Dragon Falls. Charlie and Roskoff build a wonderful friendship.Through a gift known as the Dragon Eye Connection, Roskoff is able to show Charlie moments from the past, including a battle that changed the future of dragons forever. When Roskoff gives Charlie some gold to help his father's business, greed rears its ugly head amongst some of the townsfolk of Dragon Falls, including Charlie's future step-dad. As events escalate, a fight ensues that may cost someone their life, and put many other's in danger. Will Charlie and Roskoff be able to avert this threat?Dragon Eye Connection is a story that encompasses a sense of family, friendship, love, and acceptance that transcends time and place. This is a book which will convince you that magic is within all of us. Paul Janeway is a first time author who wrote this for his family. Though it is fictional, Dragon Eye Connection relates to all of us in some way. Mr. Janeway hopes and believes this story can be a special part of somebody's life as so many books were for him when he was growing up. http: //sbpra.com/PaulJaneway

Scented Apricot Flowers

Scented Apricot Flowers
Author: Wang Yongli
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2014-01-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1628578521

In remote parts of China, bride price and borrowing seeds were considered quite the norm. The custom gives families a new lease of life especially the coveted baby boys but more often than not, such custom leads to many tragedies of forbidden love. Scented Apricot Flowers is about this story--- one that spans generations of love, lost and found through tribulations. “An amazing love story. Good Characterization, Interesting and well-described settings, and Authentic-sounding dialogue.” By Cynthia Sherman “The book on romance. Wang Yongli’s epic ‘Scented Apricot Flowers’ is the novel that shows true love do move heaven and earth.” By Boudenwijn Heeren

The Trials and Tribulations of a ZIPRA Soldier

The Trials and Tribulations of a ZIPRA Soldier
Author: Mpiyesizwe Guduza
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2021-01-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9956551449

The Trials and Tribulations of a ZIPRA Soldier is a riveting spider web story of courage, determination, pursuit of justice and survival against all odds. The reader is taken on a path of unparalleled heroism and determination of a young Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) soldier, Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza. Churchill was born in Johannesburg to a Rhodesian father, Makhathini Bhekisizwe Guduza and Amy Poppy Lottering, a South African. After attending Fatima Secondary School in Rhodesia, with his father in continued political detention and his mother merely scrapping a living in the rural hinterlands of Rhodesia, he was compelled to leave for Johannesburg in early 1973 where his already shaped political consciousness led him to participate in the June 1976 Soweto student uprisings. At just under 20 years of age, Churchill escaped South Africa to join ZIPRA in Zambia, just in time before the apartheid net rapidly closed in on him. No sooner had Churchill joined ZIPRA than he experienced similar injustices which he immediately opposed with resolute bravery. Upon completion of military training in Angola, he was immediately deployed to the battlefields of Rhodesia where his unit gallantly fought against the Rhodesian security forces. Churchill's nom de guerre was Taffy Carlos. From Rhodesia, Churchill returned to Zambia to face off ZIPRA's High Command, from where he fled to Angola. After his incarceration in Angola, he returned to independent Zimbabwe, from where he again escaped to the United Kingdom via Botswana and Zambia. Today, he leads the Mthwakazi Liberation Front (MLF), which seeks to EXIT Zimbabwe, and establish the Federal Republic of Mthwakazi.

July Corn

July Corn
Author: Richard Hergott
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2002-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595219594

Financial markets meet agriculture. Big-city Chicago meets rural Illinois. Psychological warfare meets punitive action. And through the maze three men attempt to uncover an agri-conspiracy that could threaten the food supply and inflict incalculable damage to the US economy. July Corn wraps it in a two-fisted, street-smart story that takes place in renaissance Chicago. Sal Magglio has watched the city change from “a drafty hustler’s junction” of neighborhoods to the new, soft-shouldered metropolis of gleaming skyscrapers and transplanted residents. His roots make him true to the city he once knew but the influence of the new Chicago leaves him wanting for a better life. Unwittingly Magglio eventually finds himself in the middle of a conspiracy that includes corporate farming, agri-business companies and the futures market that financially support both. He enlists the support of a friend and a foe that turns against the plot to uncover what lies beneath the green fields of grain. July Corn is a cutting edge story for the new millennium.

The Translation of Love

The Translation of Love
Author: Lynne Kutsukake
Publisher: Doubleday
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2016-04-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 038554068X

Against the backdrop of occupied Tokyo, a young girl searches for her missing older sister, who has disappeared into the world of bars and dance halls. In the process, her story will become intertwined with those of others trying to make sense of their lives in a post-war world: a thirteen-year-old Japanese Canadian “repat,” a school teacher who translates love letters from American GIs, and a Japanese-American soldier serving with the Occupation forces. An emotionally gripping portrait of a battered nation, The Translation of Love mines this turbulent period to show how war irrevocably shapes the lives of people on both sides—and how resilience, friendship, and love translate across cultures and borders no matter the circumstances. Winner of the Canada-Japan Literary Award