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.

   

When Environmentalist and Research Scientist, Macauley Gray befriends Susannah Potter, the mentally disturbed niece of lifelong friends, Lord and Lady Butler, her orderly life is torn savagely apart, and her professional world is threatened. Highly respected for her work with Bradcliff Enterprises, an Australian blue chip company, Macauley becomes the prime suspect in an industrial espionage conspiracy. Bradcliff's formula has been hailed as the world's greatest environmental breakthrough and rocketed James Bradcliff, to the top of the corporate ladder. Shocked when James ends their relationship, Macauley flies to New York where Journalist, Steve Lombard, helps her re-examine the circumstances surrounding the drowning death of Susannah's mother.

   

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.

   

‘A Year to Remember’ recalls the events experienced by the author during a journey through Europe and the Middle East, covering 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.

   

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few, and Rudy Sammarco, a British lawyer of mixed Italo-Somali origin and a writer manqué, will soon discover that nothing is what it seems. His wife, who to all appearances is so attracted to him, has dumped him for a fat cat. Then it’s a coup de foudre with Paola, the graceful, enchanting Tuscan girl with a touch of Renaissance glamour who has just showed up at his office for legal advice as a victim of brutal harassment: but he cannot tell if she too feels for him, or is still bewitched by her psychopathic persecutor, or worse, has had a fling with his own father. He cherishes the memory of his mother, because his father walked out on her, or because she loved his uncle, a physician turned herdsman who has downshifted to the countryside?

   

When his business partner, Jake Collins, is murdered, Duncan Scott, a successful financial advisor, becomes a prime suspect. Senior Sargent, Tony Vascelli and Senior Detective, Mark Newman, have their work cut out, sifting through the evidence of a blood speared jacket, matching Jake’s DNA, and a threatening letter sent to him, just prior to his death.
Jake’s life passions were women and gambling. After a run of bad luck, his debts had rocketed to half a million dollars and Danny Brewster, the casino boss, got a little jumpy and started yelling for his money. Scott’s son, Zac, throws away college, for life in the drugs-and-brothels fast lane. Brewster, and his associate, Mike Truscott, take the kid under their wings and prime him for a career in their seedy world.

   

This ambitious work analyzes the past century of immigration policy in the United States in an effort to create a coherent framework for reform. After reviewing the last century of immigration law, Falit goes on to present a morally and economically based lens for analysis. Falit then uses this lens to analyze recently implemented immigration policies, focusing largely on the era following IRCA. In the last chapter, Falit proffers well-reasoned policy recommendations. This innovative and carefully researched novel was originally presented to the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University as an undergraduate thesis. If one is looking to become acquainted with the immigration policy debate in the U.S., then look no further than Falit’s book.

   

“Hell Bent” is a fast past crime thriller based around one man’s desire for revenge on eight people. Right at the start of the story those eight people are thrown together into a life threatening situation. Most of them had never met before. Through a series of flashbacks sprinkled into the story, the reader gets to know these characters. Five of them manage to escape is plans to kill them and it becomes their turn to be intent on revenge. Those five erronously believe that he thinks they are all dead. So as the story builds to a climax it becomes a race to see who can ge their revenge in first.

   

At the end of the Huri Wars the Dragons were betrayed and locked in crystal orbs by Duman, an elf who had been seduced by the Black Arts.
However, one of the Dragons evaded capture and hid his power until centuries later it found its' way to a young orphan girl.
Together with a small band of friends, Alyse must find a way to free the Dragons and unite the Races against Duman.
In the age old battle between good and evil will her suffering and sacrifice be enough against the arcane might of the Dark Elf?

   

When Jim Henderson wins over five million pounds on the lottery, he decides to buy an uninhabited Scottish island. Instead of making it a millionaire's paradise, he sets about establishing a self-supporting community to bring it back to life. First he advertises for volunteers who will share his dream of living simply and working hard for no money – and he has a surprising response. Practical people like farmers, an engineer and a vet are eager to make a new start away from the stresses of the mainland, but Jim also accepts a topless model (with other attributes), a cockney tearaway and a single teenage mum. Best of all, two former crofters sign up to move back. The great day arrives, the islands flag is raised and the chosen fifty begin their huge task of settling in together.

   

The story follows Sabine and Jordan, a private detective team on their first case together. It starts out as a missing person’s case but quickly turns into a murder mystery. Sandi, the young lady who is the victim of this murder, seems to have been quiet, polite and kept herself to herself from what Sabine and Jordan find out about her from chatting to the few people who did know her.
However reading Sandi’s journal gives them much more of an insight into her life and from this the story takes shape. It is her best friend Scarlet who has alerted the detectives to the danger Sandi was in. Yet by the time the investigation begins there is no sign of Scarlet either. The journal seems to clear up exactly what happened to them and the identity of the murderer.

   

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.

   

Hogback is a suspense novel, which explores the age-old dilemma of good versus evil. The story begins recounting two seemingly unrelated events happening in different parts of the world on the same day: The first in Vietnam and the second in the small, eastern Georgia town of Washington. The son of the town drunk was an easy target for an over-zealous lawyer and a weak judge who were manipulated and bought by the ruling family of the county. The teenager’s desire for revenge on the family that framed him was unfulfilled because of their death from car accident just prior to his release from prison. His anger and quest for revenge takes him on a trail of vengeance to seek out any wealthy father and son who controlled small towns in Georgia.

   

Dr. Jerome Z. Litt is Assistant Clinical Professor of Dermatology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr Litt has published more than forty articles in scientific journals dealing with diseases of the skin. He is frequently quoted in newspapers and magazines, and has appeared as guest on more than 1,200 TV and radio programs. The skin is the largest human organ and 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. He explains the causes and treatments for a variety of skin conditions raging from acne and insect bites to scars, cellulite, wrinkles, and cancer.

   

When Ali Muhammad a school teacher in rural Afghanistan leaves his family to go to work one Tuesday morning, he has no idea he is about to fall victim to the most sinister conspiracy in the world today. In a terrible turn to what should have been an ordinary day he is abducted by gunmen, handed over to the Americans and in the space of a few hours shipped to Guantanamo as a terror suspect. Unknown to the rest of the world there exists a secret cold war bunker in Guantanamo called Sector V. It has been handed over to a group of Christian Fundamentalists headed by an enigmatic figure simply known as The Shephard. They use this site to torture, brainwash and ultimately convert the detainees to their twisted version of the Christian faith. But all is not as it seems.

   

Ifenna passed through high school without depending on himself for any exam he ever took. His final exams was not different. With the aid of his great friend Fidelis, Ifenna did incredible things to make sure he scaled through the Senior School Certificate Examination. He even went to the extent of buying the exam question papers beforehand. However funny happenings prevented him from achieving his goal. To enter the university, he needed a good SSCE result, or alternatively, the private General Certificate of Education. Having failed to make good the SSCE, he opted for the latter, from home. Ifenna and his pal, Fidelis joined an 'exam team' to travel to a faraway town to take the exam. The secluded town allowed them the convenience to cheat in the exam to their satisfaction.

   

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. 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. The (IMAF) have recently funded the building and completion of a dam the Presa Milagro in a South American country, Cordilla.

   

An employment advertisement for fisherman to work the Northern Queensland winter season is the catalyst to set the wheel-of-fortune spinning and the saga unfolding.
Attracted by the promise of a tough and lucrative lifestyle, the young Sharp embellishes his resume with a bundle of skills drawn straight from his imagination, and he’s delighted when his creativity is rewarded and he gets the job.
After handing over two hundred and fifty Australian pounds, as a returnable sign-on bond, to Captain McKenna, and his partner Leo, Sharp joins fifteen other young hopefuls and takes his place on the team. The hefty bond money, paid by all the workers, except for Sharp, is designed to deter the crew from jumping ship.

   

The King and the Italian warlords abandon Rome to the brutality of the German forces, taking refuge with the Allied armies in the South, but a group of men and women don't run away, and fight hard. Among them, between history and fiction, is the thirty-four-year-old Carlo Rufus Williams, a cavalry major, a letterato, and a broadcaster in civilian life, born in London the son of a cockney composer and a papal noblewoman. The first of his rank in the history of the Italian Kingdom to take the floor in a Crown Council, he manages to persuade them into declaring the Armistice with the Allies, only to be severely wounded in the battle for Monterotondo against the crack paratroopers of the XI Fliegerkorps and find himself held, outside the protection of the Geneva Convention, by the war criminal Kappler.

   

An Anglo-Italian reporter is on the news in the Roman summer, but cannot write the story of violence and murder he’s unearthed…and in the attempt at patching up his marriage, ends up enacting the drama of his life Debby is too critical of the Italian way of life to make do with her husband’s sexual problems. Paul, an Anglo-Italian reporter with a magazine in Rome, does his best to please her. He is well-meaning and intelligent, but a man also needs willpower and emotional stability, and he has got neither. He is a loser; and indeed when the discovery of a dead man in the boot of a car leads him to unearth the cover-up of a murder, he finds himself unable to win back his wife as well as file the outcome of his investigation for fear of endangering the life of his half-sister, Lelia.

   

Many people are consumed with the idea of being in love. But they don’t really know or understand the true meaning of love. A better insight into this subject will lead to better relationships. Most relationships break down because were based on false love. And most people get heartbroken because they didn’t really know what they were getting into. People are pressured into falling in love by romantic movies, by family, by friends and by the media. So many folks rush into it.
They are so rapt by the idea of being in love that they end up being in love with the phrase: ‘I am in love’ but are not truly in love with the person. Or they don’t realize that the other person doesn’t love them. A lot of relationships break down due to misunderstanding.

   

Artie Knapp’s works have been published by Candlelight Stories, The Piker Press Literary Journal, Nuvein Magazine, Bewildering Stories, Fandangle Magazine, Child Story Hour, and The Chillicothe Gazette – to name a few. Knapp previously wrote and directed the science fiction-comedy movie Pluto’s Plight.
“Pluto’s Plight” is a sci-fi comedy movie about a young girl who has visions of life on Pluto. Meanwhile, actual aliens have left their Solar System, because their star is going to Supernova. The aliens want to make Earth their new home, but crash land on Pluto before they can reach their destination. Eventually the aliens make it to Earth and under the guise of offering helpful information about Earth's Ozone Layer, they try to con their way into taking over the planet.

   

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 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.

   

Eric Chambers was born in Mirfield in the West Riding of Yorkshire, where he still lives. This is a collection of stories written over several years for a variety of reasons. They fall in to science fiction, in the form of There Is Life, its sequel visitation, Band Of Angels and Testament. The others are fantasy, apart from Ragnarok, which has a foot in both camps, and The Lodger, which is a ghost story written as an experiment. Some are derivative, some are wholly original. The most obviously derivative is Band Of Angels, although it was written before the movie When Darkness Falls came out. Eric Chambers hopes the reader gets as much enjoyment from reading the stories as he got from writing them, which in the end is the only reason they happened.

   

A devoted Spiritual practitioner since the age of fifteen, Ella knows what she’s talking about when it comes to what works, and uses her experiences to help others deal with depression, low self-esteem, picking the 'wrong' men, and never finding the right job. An Amateur(’s) Guide to Spirituality is a fresh take on an ancient practice, with tips on how to balance your chakras just by accessorising, healing a broken heart by singing love songs to yourself, and curing your mind-set of Beauty and the Beast Syndrome (if you have it of course). Learn how to incorporate growth into your home, work, and relationships, while having fun everyday in your life. Spirituality is no longer just sitting in a darkened room drowning in candles and sniffing incense; it has been brought into the 21st Century and de-mystified for everyone!

   

T. A. Chappel’s inspiration came from watching The Phantom of the Opera and Timeline. Both the movies set the stage for her first novel Mask in the Corridor. Discovery of a hundred-year-old porcelain mask takes a young archaeologist named Jillian on a mission in the underground passageways of the historic city of Rouen, France, to find out whom the mask belonged to. Deadly traps protect a hidden secret, in a breathtaking underground cave, but the curious and courageous Jillian keeps her team of archaeologists moving until one of them loses his life to an unexplainable incident.

   

There have been many books written on the origin and development of the Universe and the human race. These books include both religious and scientific opinions or beliefs. It is the conflicting views between the religious and scientific communities, which have forged our societies and religious philosophies, and the current concepts of the origin and purpose of the human race. This book is written for the beginning students of philosophy of science. It is not the purpose of this book to add another religious or social concept into the melting pot of human doctrines or beliefs.

   

Many often wonder what it is like to be raised in a home without parents such as an orphanage or a state institution. There are many who feel it is always good for the children placed there by courts for many reasons. Broken marriages, unhealthy homes, child abuse and many reasons, cause children to be taken away from parents and homes and placed in these institutions. Is it always the best thing for the children? Without a doubt, some benefit from the institutions, but some have scars to bear for the rest of their lives. This book is a story of one such child. He was placed in a state home in the northeast corner of Normal, Illinois! It was named the Illinois Soldiers and Sailors Children’s School. This home no longer exists. This is a true story and not one that applies to all children in this home or others.

   

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.

   

“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.

   

"Getting IT Right" is for folks who have no clue about Information Technology and its ability in bettering our day-to-day lives. It introduces novices into the world of IT and helps in knowing what's in store by becoming computer savvy. This book serves as a primer and makes the reader aware of what IT can do and how much can be accomplished by harnessing its power. Learning IT is not that tough as it is being made out. Mind you, without IT skills you are nowhere in today’s workplace. This book would help you form an idea what IT is all about and prepare you to pick up the rudiments of IT.

   

Nineteen-year-old Norman Smith arrives in the East End of London in the summer of 2002. The well educated Art College drop out from Birmingham is to lodge and work with his Uncle Ernest and Auntie Katie. Norman is an indecisive directionless gentle giant of a young man.
Having settled at once into the role of the Son that Ernest and Katie never managed, he continues to drift through life. Within 36 hours of arriving he is seduced by Nancy Trollope, Katie’s best friend. She is twice Norman’s age and their relationship will be the cause of all that happens to him in London and perhaps even thereafter.
Through this relationship, Norman is taken on as the Doorman at a new Stand-up comedy venue in the area, “The Two Buttocks.”