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1 Corinthians 7:23 You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of human beings. When bright-eyed child prodigy Gavin Njike loses his family and pursues a hazy path of vengeance, he never imagined he could end up serving his family’s killers. However, that is the case after he joins the country’s intelligence. Things start to go wrong when he finds himself in the dark about operations. But, it is the death of the dissident visionary Vincent Chi that opens the floodgates of his memory, forcing him to grapple with the tragedies suffered by his family. Now, there is unrest boiling ...

Marrying Sancho, the love of her life, is enough reason for Tatiana to forgo a desire to serve The Lord. So, the last day of their honeymoon in the exotic Windward and Leeward Caribbean islands of the Lesser Antilles is expected to be special. However, a terrorist attack calls into question this young couple's idyllic honeymoon. Suddenly Tatiana and Sancho find themselves in an atmosphere where love also entails killing for a set of beliefs. An escape from the reality of their world is all that Tatiana seeks. And she is determined to take Sancho with him. "The Sweetest Madness" comes before...

The name Gandhi towers above every other in the political landscape of India for very good reasons. The “Soul” of modern India—Mahatma Gandhi— bore that last name; India’s first and only female prime minister or head of state—Indira Gandhi—married into the name; and Rajiv Gandhi reluctantly made it into politics and became the Prime Minister of India as a Gandhi. They left positive legacies, yet they were assassinated by extremists with exclusive and twisted agendas. And as it turned out, their deaths contributed to the advancement of humanity. What was it about these three ...

In EVEN HIS ENEMIES CRIED: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin of Israel, Janvier T. Chando provides the reader with a succinct and insightful account of Yitzhak Rabin that helps us understand his world, the turbulent region he was born in, the complexity of geopolitics and what leadership entails ― confidence, courage, compassion, inspiration, knowledge, understanding, integrity, fairness, motivation. The mind-blowing account takes us through Yitzhak Rabin's journey as a shy boy pushed by the exigencies of his time to become a soldier and play an outstanding role on the battlefields in ...

When Lois Wyse wrote that “A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.”, she had no idea her words could be expatiated upon and applied in real life. But that is the case in “THE GRANDMOTHERS: and Perfect Love “, an extraordinary story of the influence of three remarkable grandmothers in the lives of their grandchildren, and their uphill battle to mitigate the negative influences of their irresponsible children. Janvier Chouteu-Chando takes the reader ...

In a world where attitudes and behaviors that were taboo not long ago are now acceptable in a world where the future is frightening to many, we appear to be the helpless onlookers of a process we have no control over. So, finding out that there are underlying efforts by governments, the media, or private groups to influence particular attitudes and social behaviors on a large scale, for the purpose of producing desired results or certain characteristics in particular segments of the population, would be shocking to many people. It is even more shocking when the social engineers are ...

A young king is desperately trying to hold his kingdom together in the backdrop of his diminishing powers owing to the influence of the new French colonial masters. He flexes his muscles and takes his sister out of her conjugal home by arrogating to himself the use of his traditional powers over the issue of the bride price. Her overzealous uncle with an overactive imagination challenges the new king in a French court, thereby highlighting a bizarre but insightful case of the clash of occidental and African cultures. The beleaguered princess finds herself at a crossroads and acts the best ...

When the debased Njoumen seeks sanctuary in his grandfather's royal palace, her number one concern is her mental health. As she glosses in her recovered status as a princess and unleashes the full force of her free-spiritedness, her unfamiliar ways make her the source of attention. But nobody has an idea of what would make her contented in life. That is until she engages her grandfather the king. What she wants most is a man to make her feel fulfilled in life, a sense of worth her husband never stirred in her bosom. So, when three years later, Njoumen's dejected husband challenges this ...

En este relato innovador, el autor lleva al lector por el pasillo de los acontecimientos y la historia innovadores hasta la realidad de que hoy es Ucrania, el conflicto de Ucrania, la Europa posterior a la Guerra Fría y el controvertido mundo unipolar liderado por Estados Unidos. La complejidad de Ucrania, su historia, su política y la guerra multifacética que el dividido pueblo ucraniano no anticipó hace dos décadas se vuelve fácil de entender, sentando las bases para una solución a lo que muchos expertos piensan que es un conflicto intratable. El autor lo logró con una perspicacia...

Jeremiah is a sage with a job that many people envy, even though hardly anyone understands the true nature of the burden the occupation heaps on his soul. As the emissary of ancestors and divines, he thinks he is doing okay until he shepherds the clueless Joseph on a journey that brings him face-to-face with the horrors of his ways. Joseph needs a lifeline. His earlier life as the inheritor of a legacy that involved wealth, power and goodness has been tainted by his embrace of evil, which leaves death and grief in its path. He knows what he is about to face and thinks that Jeremiah, a man ...

When the ingenious Hugo made it his mission to save the souls and lives of his fellow humans, he is not like most sanctimonious people out there. So, when he tries to stop a massacre, he is only protecting the sanctity of life and preventing the tainting of a soul. However, his self-sacrificing act ignites a haunting impulse that sees him blazing a path through life in pursuit of a cause against evil, which raises mixed feelings and questions his beliefs. But who is the searching soul to himself in a conflict with his world that mirrors man's pilgrimage through life? Is Hugo a "Man of God",...

"I am Hated" is a luminous story with unexpected twists that explores security, love, family, loss and the realization that life holds no permanence and guarantees, especially the bitterness that comes with finally discovering the truth about those we love who are not there when we need them the most. In this story shedding light on the relationship between man and his best friend, the distraught Billy recounts his story to the Grand Master about an affluent life lived and about betrayal at the hands of his parents. "I am Hated" is the seventh account of the short story collection entitled ...

Janvier T. Chando provides a succinct and illuminating account of the transformation of men of war into leaders of peace in a region with a chronic history of conflict. The reader comes out from this presentation of the humble origins and rise to prominence of Yitzhak Rabin of Israel and Anwar Sadat of Egypt with a better understanding of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the motivation of the key players, their hopes, their fears, and dreams, as well as the hidden and untold forces compelling the players to seek salvation or damnation. This brilliant narration of the two assassinated heads of ...

INCLUSO SUS ENEMIGOS LLORARON: El asesinato de Yitzhak Rabin de Israel, Janvier T. Chando proporciona al lector un relato sucinto y perspicaz de Yitzhak Rabin que nos ayuda a entender su mundo, la región turbulenta en la que nació, la complejidad de la geopolítica y lo que implica el liderazgo --- confianza, coraje, compasión, inspiración, conocimiento, comprensión, integridad, justicia, motivación. El alucinante relato nos lleva a través del viaje de Yitzhak Rabin como un niño tímido empujado por las exigencias de su tiempo para convertirse en soldado y desempeñar un papel ...

This succinct narrative effortlessly takes us through a millennium and a half of the formative history of the land that is at the center of geopolitics today. As the first part of a breathtaking account that takes us hand-in-hand through the landmark history of the land variously described as "The Holy Land", “The Promised Land", Israel and Palestine, this narrative provides unique insight into plans — attempted and not yet articulated — to resolve the conflict between two peoples or nations with deep connections to the land, but who are not living there in peace because they are ...

Apodado por muchos expertos como "La guerra más estúpida del mundo", el conflicto de Ucrania es uno que casi nadie vio en el horizonte en 2010. Sin embargo, ahora tiene casi una década. En este conflicto en Ucrania dividida a partes iguales, la política arriesgada por parte de los actores locales en el país, por parte de Occidente que quiere arrastrar a Ucrania a su órbita, y por parte de Rusia que teme perder Ucrania y su seguridad, en el proceso es la norma. Al mismo tiempo, el mundo observa con aparente impotencia cómo Ucrania se desgarra por las costuras. La mayoría de los ...

"The Ancestry Factor in American Elections" es una obra pionera que nos muestra el aspecto menos comentado de la composición demográfica estadounidense, que aunque complejo en sí mismo, proporciona una visión única de cómo se ganan y pierden las elecciones en los Estados Unidos de América. Descubrimos que este curioso aspecto de la ascendencia es algo en lo que los medios de comunicación, deliberada o inconscientemente, no se detienen, centrándose en cambio en las agendas económicas, políticas y sociales específicas de las fuerzas que están empeñadas en moldear la sociedad, el...

A conflict is haunting the East Slavs, the Slavic world, Europe, and the people of European ancestry elsewhere in the world. It is the conflict in Ukraine. How the peoples of Ukraine and Russia, countries that are offshoots of Kievan Rus, took the engineered path that led to the largest military conflict in Europe since World War Two, is presented succinctly by this authoritative account. The author takes the reader through the nature of the grievances, policies, and actions—covert and open—that led the Ukrainian people to the primrose path that culminated in a civil war and a war with ...

In this story of family bonding which sees siblings, parents, children and grandparents find common ground in a world where the capacity for awareness outside the focus of attention appears to grow less with successive generations, a cultured child is a rarity. Tatiana discovers that all is not so from his haunted uncle.

“The Ancestry Factor in American Elections” is a pathbreaking work that shows us the least-talk-about aspect of the American demographic makeup, which though complex in itself, provides a unique insight into how elections are won and lost in the United States of America. We find that this curious aspect of ancestry is something the news media deliberately or unknowingly fail to dwell on, focusing instead on the economic, political, and specific social agendas of the forces that are bent on molding society, the state, and the world. In a seemingly effortless manner, this work reveals the...