Tiena
Tiena

Author: Regina Oli Igbo

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2011-07-17

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 1462034594

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A preacher once asked, What makes you believe that you are your mothers child? What proof have you? The same preacher answered the question: The only proof you have is because your mother told you so. And you believe her. The Q&A set me thinking and I arrived at the idea that there could be a possibility where even the mother could not prove that the baby she is holding in her arms is hers. This is the case with Tienas mother who was ranting and raving, How can anybody prove that I am not the mother of the baby I carried in my womb for nine months and had her delivered in a recognized maternity hospital by a qualified midwife, and there are records to show for that? Read all about the story behind Tienas mothers ranting and raving in the book TIENA.

The Letter
The Letter

Author: Regina Oli Igbo

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2011-09-20

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 1462045545

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In The Letter, which is a follow up on the story of Tiena (her first published novel), Regina Oli Igbo has deftly indicated the possibility of successfully handling a crisis in the family within the confines of the family, even when the crisis is full of intricacies. It is encouraging to read through The Letter and feel Tiena's Practical Paradigm. The Letter manifests itself as a 'love story' ending with the renewed pledge of, "We fall in love once again... For ever and ever you are mine." The novel is also imbued with 'moral adjuncts'

Mafia Queen
Mafia Queen

Author: Rusty Kontos

Publisher: Archway Publishing

Published: 2014-11-18

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 1480813036

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When twelve-and-a-half-year-old Nickole Martinos best friend Sally Malone is brutally murdered in a park in Bedville, Illinois, in October of 1938, Nickole is devastated. The two girls did everything together and shared their innermost secrets. But Sallys murder is just the beginning of Nickoles nightmare. A late-night trip to the hospital in Chicago to visit a dying man turns her life upside down. Nickole discovers the truth about her birth and her real father, Nick Colletti, a man deeply affiliated with the mob. When Colletti dies, Nickole stands to inherit his money and his estate. But before Colletti can die a natural death, someone pulls the trigger. Nickole vows to stop at nothing to avenge not only her fathers murder, but Sallys as well. What follows is a trail of crime and terror that frightens even the heartiest of the mob men. A story of crime and revenge, Mafia Queen follows Nickole Martino as she shows everyone whos boss.

Coming Out of Birchwood
Coming Out of Birchwood

Author: Howard D. Meadows

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2012-10

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 1479715115

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For the past thirteen years, I have considered becoming a spokesperson for HIV/AIDS. I was treading in unknown waters, having been recently diagnosed HIV positive, so I figured some experience might be required before I spoke up. I have been positive for thirteen years and I am now in my junior year of college with Ashford University pursuing my Bachelor's degree in Social and Criminal Justice, with a minor in Psychology. With that said, I believe that I have the experience to stand up and speak out. My first step is to introduce myself with this simple autobiography. I hope you enjoy reading of my imperfections.

Bearing Witness
Bearing Witness

Author: Wendy Griswold

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2000-06-19

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9780691058290

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Greed, frustrated love, traffic jams, infertility, politics, polygamy. These--together with depictions of traditional village life and the impact of colonialism made familiar to Western readers through Chinua Achebe's writing--are the stuff of Nigerian fiction. Bearing Witness examines this varied content and the determined people who, against all odds, write, publish, sell, and read novels in Africa's most populous nation. Drawing on interviews with Nigeria's writers, publishers, booksellers, and readers, surveys, and a careful reading of close to 500 Nigerian novels--from lightweight romances to literary masterpieces--Wendy Griswold explores how global cultural flows and local conflicts meet in the production and reception of fiction. She argues that Nigerian readers and writers form a reading class that unabashedly believes in progress, rationality, and the slow-but-inevitable rise of a reading culture. But they do so within a society that does not support their assumptions and does not trust literature, making them modernists in a country that is simultaneously premodern and postmodern. Without privacy, reliable electricity, political freedom, or even social toleration of bookworms, these Nigerians write and read political satires, formula romances, war stories, complex gender fiction, blood-and-sex crime capers, nostalgic portraits of village life, and profound explorations of how decent people get by amid urban chaos. Bearing Witness is an inventive and moving work of cultural sociology that may be the most comprehensive sociological analysis of a literary system ever written.

The Apostles
The Apostles

Author: Y. Blak Moore

Publisher: One World/Strivers Row

Published: 2009-03-25

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0307513165

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The Apostles run Chicago’s streets. Their leader, “Solemn Shawn” Terson, is the most revered–and feared–man in town. Because of his past exploits, the Apostles have a loyalty among its members that has reached mythic proportions. When Insane Wayne, a former member of the rival gang, the Governors, comes groveling for admission to the coveted Apostles, he’s quickly turned down. His reaction is violent: He shoots a Governor and plants evidence that lays the murder rap on the Apostles, setting off a bloody series of retaliations. Solemn Shawn is ready to give up the gang world. His pregnant girlfriend wants another way of life and the cops are hot on his tail; he knows the time has come to step aside. But he must fight one more street war before handing over the reins of his empire. The head of the Governors has a score to settle with Shawn that dates back to their prison days–and Shawn and the Apostles must fight or flee as the streets around them erupt in violence. . . .

Playing in the Light
Playing in the Light

Author: Zoë Wicomb

Publisher: The New Press

Published: 2008-01-30

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1595582215

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By the Windham Campbell Prize winner Set in a beautifully rendered 1990s Cape Town, Zo Wicomb's celebrated novel revolves around Marion Campbell, who runs a travel agency but hates traveling, and who, in post-apartheid society, must negotiate the complexities of a knotty relationship with Brenda, her first black employee. As Alison McCulloch noted in the New York Times, "Wicomb deftly explores the ghastly soup of racism in all its unglory--denial, tradition, habit, stupidity, fear--and manages to do so without moralizing or becoming formulaic." Caught in the narrow world of private interests and self-advancement, Marion eschews national politics until the Truth and Reconciliation Commission throws up information that brings into question not only her family's past but her identity and her rightful place in contemporary South African society. "Stylistically nuanced and psychologically astute" (Kirkus), Playing in the Light is as powerful in its depiction of Marion's personal journey as it is in its depiction of South Africa's bizarre, brutal history.