‘A Year to Remember’ recalls the events experienced by the author during a one-year journey, through Europe and the Middle East, covering approximately 25,000 miles in a converted Land Rover.
The countries visited, now over forty years ago and often with a totally inadequate period of time allocated to them, included Belgium, Holland, Northern Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Northern Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Southern Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia, Albania, Austria, Switzerland, and France.
The reader will note that the geography of several international borders has changed and will be aware that wars and mass tourism have rendered some of the places described as almost unrecognisable today.
Perhaps this is the value of this memoir, for in spite of the lure of these locations for the modern day traveller, so many of the most memorable places that were visited, regretfully now no longer have the same attraction for the author to revisit. Where lasting friendships were made, many have moved out or died. Their homes, into which we were freely invited, have been reduced to rubble.
This is not intended to be a depressing introduction, but the natural beauty of so many places has also been altered and so it does perhaps, illustrate the value of what was experienced. The world has changed and the events of the past cannot really be re-created. Nevertheless, the memories remain. We are now lucky to be able to remember those times through the medium of words and pictures.

Why is Africa so poor? I'm sure that you have asked yourself this question a number of times. And I'm sure you have heard a lot of answers, mostly from Western media's propaganda. Westerners don't really know what's going on in Africa. How can people starve on a plentiful continent? How, on a continent full of natural resources, people live below the poverty line? On such a beautiful continent how can people have such low living standards? Who is to blame? What caused all this? Is there a solution? What is the solution?
These are some of the questions that will be answered in this book. You will be surprised at the number of lies you have been told about Africa's poverty. You don't really know Africa until you have read this book. I present to you this book “The Untold Truth About Africa's Poverty”, plainly and clearly, after years of research on the African, Western and Chinese economies. What are you doing to help alleviate poverty in Africa?

“America after America” is a book of travel notes, impressions about American way of life in comparison with European lifestyle. They are thoughts that crossed the author's mind during his second travel in the United States. It is not a description of sites or happenings, there are no portrayals of characters, or exciting adventures. Thoughts fly far away while the plane, bus, or train carries us over miles and miles. Those long American roads through desert are excellent for putting down our thoughts. Accordingly this is more a book of travel thoughts than one of travel adventures.
The author of this book, Cristache Gheorghiu, is an accomplished painter living in Romania. Click here to visit his picture gallery.

Benjamin Lapp was shunned by the Amish because of his love for learning and knowledge. Now, living amongst the English, Ben assesses our culture from a unique perspective. His experiences raise questions about our culture's understanding of concepts such as honor and honesty, as well as an examination of religious extremists.
If you're looking for a contemporary novel which takes on the religious right, and includes a fair amount of Bush and Republican bashing, this would be it. This novel is a mixture of fictional and actual occurrences. The characters and their actions are fictional, their topics of discussion are meant to provide fuel for thought. This book is thought-provoking, to say the least.

An ex IRA bomber Shaun is in Northern Spain working for ETA and blows up a rail track as a train goes by. It goes slightly wrong, as only one carriage is derailed but this can be explained away as intentional. However he leaves his fingerprint and so has to leave the country. On the train is Peter Harding, an investigator working for the International Monitory Aid Foundation. The (IMAF) fund construction projects in third world countries. Peter is only inconvenienced and slightly hurt in the rail crash but saves a nun, who was in the same carriage, from severe injury or death. Meanwhile a U.S. senator’s assistant Drew Roband goes missing in a South American country whilst on a fact finding mission for the senator.

Neil Mullin is a telecommunications engineer and U.S. Air Force veteran with an educational background in history and the technical sciences. His objective is to take the reader on a thrilling journey of adventure and suspense that he hopes is an enjoyable and learning experience.
‘Georgia Republic On My Mind’ is an action adventure (spy) thriller based on current events and historical facts.
A young schoolteacher in the Republic of Georgia is a witness to the illegal transfer of radioactive materials. The only person that she could confide in was her brother, who is an electronics surveillance engineer with for the CIA in the U.S. They are soon swept up in a mission to pursue the terrorist buyers of the deadly substance. The adventure takes them from Georgia to Azerbaijan and back as they follow the terrorists with the help of a radio-controlled predator spy plane. The sellers of the radiocative materials are using the money to finance the theft of a Christian relic that is buried under a cathedral.

This novel is set in present day Chicago. The protagonist is a middle-aged black man, Ashanti Ra, who, because he is on the run from the law accused of a crime he did not commit, is forced to live with a young Puerto Rican gay man, Phillip a.k.a. Phyllis, whom he met at a Latin bar a couple of days earlier. He was at the bar because he had just had an argument with his white girlfriend of several years. She wanted to get married; he did not. The story concerns Ashanti’s slow realization that, although he himself is not gay, he does care for Phyllis, and eventually accepts Phyllis as a lover.
The theme of the book is that things in life happen, often with no explanation or apparent reason, and the story is laced with philosophical and religious musings.
There is a subplot obliquely told in alternate chapters of Ashanti’s sexual abuse as a boy by an older male cousin. Much of the protagonist’s childhood characterization is revealed in these chapters.
This novel is for adults only, as some scenes depict explicit sex.

G Ram Kumar works with Affiliated Computer Services, Inc a Fortune 500 company providing premier IT solutions in the US at Bangalore. Prior to this, he was with Juno Online Services, one of the top Internet Service Provider in the US and he had a short stint with ICICI Bank, India’s largest private sector bank.
Ram’s work as a spam buster during the course of work gave him ample opportunities to come across spam – fun email. Collecting avidly such emails over a period of time culminated in the concept, design & content of this book The Best of Forwarded Email.
Ram is an MCA and also he is certified by Cisco Systems Inc, USA as Cisco Certified Network Associate.
His first major book Career Excellence in two volumes for everyone interested in career development has been published by Atlantic Publishers & Distributors, New Delhi and it has been well-received.
Ram’s other books include FAQs in Interviews epublished by Independentbook.com, USA and Getting IT Right epublished by Globusz Publishing of USA.
Ram Kumar is one of the founder trustees of SKetch, a Tamil Nadu-based NGO involved in women education and empowerment initiatives and sits on the board of the Governing Council of Trustees of SKetch.

Twilight City of the Futurist Mind, a long poem divided into 3 books and over 150 segments tells the story of Zebba Whitsen and his eccentric crew of space explorers. It serves as a metaphor for the future: the space explorers spend their entire lives in the strangest regions of outer space and forget the way back home to Earth. They activate a computer program called the Memory Holder to help them find their way, but it develops a mind of its own. The year is 3976 and a search for new independence amongst the stars has led a group of freedom seekers into a captive existence as pawns in a computer program. Now, not only are they struggling to find their way home to Earth, they must face the embodiment of their fears and insecurities. Book II continues their journey home, while Book III follows The StarFlower as he traverses the Yachhalaccha Galaxy. This is the surreal science fiction odyssey of a (different) lifetime!

Luis Silva is a veteran of the U.S. and Portuguese military. Holds a degree in History and Politic Science. His military writing reflects the wide range (and excellent quality) of writing on various topics. Luis has clearly chosen his topics with an eye to educating readers about the most pressing military issues of our time. For serious students of military science, the result is an absolute treasure trove.

The story of my so called life. Try as I might, I am destined to always be the girl next door. The story begins in Toronto, where I was born to my hardworking immigrant parents, talks about my kindergarten days and childhood memories of Barbies and Donny Osmond...Then stay tuned for the teenage days, dating, disco dancing and singing, leading up to the blues singer that I am now.All fun reading if you are really, really bored.

As time passed and as I managed to grow up and understand things, I still was puzzled by defining the difference between religion and politics. Most humans are constantly hearing about the separation of church and state, especially here in the United States. What made this such a puzzle to me was that both sides of this issue used each others beliefs to justify their answers. It was somewhat amusing to see their belief in a God as the catalist for developing their concept in either forming a religion or government. Does this mean they are both one and the same? Well after many years of study and contemplation, this author came to the conclusion that indeed they both are the same. It also gives light as to the many variations of concepts in both religions and governments.

Controlling the Emotions Of a Serious Illness
by Alan Yarbrough

A serious illness can be devastating for the patient and family members alike. The reader of this book will learn little known but amazingly effective techniques from the newly emerging field of energy psychology. These techniques are easily learned and are designed to quickly reduce or eliminate the anxiety, trauma, sadness and emotional hurt that typically accompany a serious illness. Dr. Yarbrough also offers insight and advice, drawing from both his professional training and his own struggle with ALS [Lou Gehrig's disease], a life threatening illness.

This book is appropriate for both family members and patients who are dealing with a serious illness. It is also appropriate for mental health professionals who wish to integrate energy psychology techniques into their current treatments.

The skin is the largest human organ. It is also the most often overlooked and abused. Your Skin From A to Z teaches you how to care for it and keep it healthy. In these pages Dr. Litt offers comprehensive, informative, witty, and , above all, helpful advice on taking care of skin ailments. Your Skin From A to Z explains the causes and treatments for a variety of skin conditions raging from acne and insect bites to scars, cellulite, wrinkles, and cancer.