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Teenager Josie Gonzales is viciously raped and impregnated by an uncle in the Northern Philippines, and is taken to Manila by her mother out of embarrassment and for an abortion. She is placed under the tutelage of her auntie, Anna, who introduces her to the world of prostitution in an Ermita brothel....

Satyapal Anands poetry is cerebral rather than emotional. It reveals a many splendored splash of color and sound. His poems reveal the essential mythopoeic self present in the poet himself, as in all humanity. Again, his personae are all inside his poems. Here and now or there and beyond combine and...

In the spring of 1949 Warren Hearst can no longer play shortstop or ride his bike. The polio epidemic has claimed his body. Bundled in a blanket in the back of the family Chevy "Woody" station wagon, Warren rolls along Highway 30 toward Omaha and hospitalization. He will be a miserable "crip"....

In 2009, a mountain lion visited the St. Croix/Indianhead county of Wisconsin. Although cougars roamed through the area in the early frontier days of the 1800s, overhunting and human population growth drove the cougars out of Wisconsin. This particular, Cougars visits generated a great interest because...

The book is a tapestry of realities we can relate to and dreams that are filled with profound wisdom; coagulating experiences of singular expression and universal unity. Tangibles meet the intangibles. This unique journey fuses together the body/mind/soul connection through contraction and expansion...

Gaia is a poem of epic proportions following the journey of specially designed creatures for repairing the earth after an unknown cataclysm leaves the crust in ruins. Written entirely in rhyme, with alternating verses of sonnets and original meters, the interlocking words refl ect a connection with...

This is a daily journal of a young Pole who risked everything to search for a better life for his family. At the age of 22 and speaking only Polish, he defected from a pilgrimage to Rome to join a refugee camp on the outskirts of the city. He had no plans, very little money and only a small backpack...

Morven is desperately afraid of two things: the mad old man who wanders the neighbourhood and Social Services who has the power to tear his family apart. When he realizes that the old man is merely a pitiful victim of teenaged bullies, he does his best to help him in practical ways while continuing...

As children, we are captivated by stories of huge, fantastical creatures, such as the wooly mammoth and the pterodactyl. The prevailing wisdom is these species are long extinct, but new evidence uncovered by author Gerald McIsaac casts doubt on these widely held assumptions. McIsaac gathered stories...

Tenja of the Red Paint People tells the story of a teenage girl living long ago in what is now northeastern Canada. Tall, strong, and lanky, Tenja loves to run and has exceptional speed and stamina for her age. She also has an unusual thirst for knowledge, learning a great deal particularly from the...

This novel, while fiction and, as such, may at times strain at dates and take small liberties with the personalities of historical personages, will, nevertheless, endeavor to be true to the actual events as they occurred. It is woven around the life and times of one Robert Bruce, (1274-1329), originally...

After sixty years, Leni Schick-Grehl opens a window to the secrets of her past in Love, War & Curling Irons. Journey with Leni through some most memorable stories of her parents lives before she was born, playful moments during her childhood, and becoming of age during Nazi Germany and World War...

A forest fire forces the Cameron family to leave their home on the trapline near Pikangikum, Ontario and travel the waterways by canoe to find a new home in Red Lake.

FROM HATRED TO HEALING, A PRISONER'S DIALOGUE is a series of conversations between two men in a prison cell in an undisclosed country. One is the epitome of hatred, the other the epitome of love. It is a metaphor for the world in which we live and purposely has no ethnicity, names or time references....