Raphael earns his living as a butcher in a hillside village in rural Trinidad. He is also a would-be author, but there have been so many distractions to the novel he has been writing for forty-one years that many of the characters have lost patience and gone off to do their own thing. But somehow, miraculously, the novel, as Raphael has planned it in one hundred chapters of a thousand words, seems to write itself...Time in this richly ambitious and multi-levelled novel is both circ...

The poet and musician Anthony Joseph met and spoke to Lord Kitchener just once, in 1984, when he found the calypso icon standing alone for a moment in the heat of Port of Spain's Queen's Park Savannah, one Carnival Monday afternoon. It was a pivotal meeting in which the great calypsonian, outlined his musical vision, an event which forms a moving epilogue to Kitch, Joseph's unique biography of the Grandmaster.Lord Kitchener (1922 - 2000) was one of the most...

"Tirant lo Blanch" is a seminal work in the realm of medieval literature, attributed to the Valencian author Joanot Martorell. This chivalric romance intricately weaves themes of love, honor, and adventure, set against the backdrop of the Mediterranean. The narrative follows the exploits of the knight Tirant, who embarks on a quest filled with battles, courtly intrigue, and romantic entanglements. Vaeth's study delves into the text's rich tapestry, exploring its influences and the historic...

Examine the inflection points in Chicago's history of protest. A word packed with meaning and emotion, "protest" can be synonymous with both free speech and rioting. Chicago's citizens and city officials have a long and reactive relationship based on the tension between those differences of perspective, from the 1855 Lager Beer Riot to the conversation surrounding Black Lives Matter and the flashpoints of extreme political polarization. But what led to pivotal events like 1886's Haymarket ...

Elements of the government have discovered that former FBI Special Agent Dominick Buonomo and imprisoned Mafia Capo Joseph "Joey Nails" Neglia have colluded to prove that the Kennedy assasination was indeed a conspiracy. In 1963, the FBI, CIA, and the Mafia conspired to eliminate JFK as a threat to their power and position. Read about the painstaking process they went through to travel back in time to 1963, and once there, to do everything possible to derail the government's and the Mafia'...

This comprehensive history examines more than a century of politics and protests from centennial garment workers to millennials with megaphones.As the major industrial center of the Midwest, Chicago provided a welcome home for Socialism in America. The city provided a soapbox for firebrand speechmaking, a home for political exiles, and a springboard for activism. When Josephine Conger-Kaneko began printing The Socialist Woman in 1909 and then ran for alderwoman in ...

Are you looking for a children's book that is highly entertaining, great for beginning readers, and is jam packed with stories, jokes, and more? Yes, your child will be entertained for hours!In ‘The Dino Time Travelers’, four young dinosaurs Leo, the courageous leader, Luna, the agile flier, Tiny, the curious thinker, and Spike, the steadfast protector embark on a thrilling journey across prehistoric lands to stop Malakar, a tyrannical shadow-dinosaur intent on seizing the legendar...

The drones appeared from nowhere dispensing hard justice. The police didn't know where they came from or who controlled them and the public was scared. Only Mike Ventura, a hardboiled Phoenix detective haunted by a dark past, and Carlos Pelligro, a street smart kid from Phoenix, have any hope of solving the mystery. But to do so, they have to put aside their differences and find a way to work together.

In Kill The Balloons, Anthony Joseph Morrone takes the reader through one Saturday in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The dawn of a new century has delivered opportunities on a silver platter, but for one group of friends, whatever. Where's the party? More importantly, what bar is everyone meeting at beforehand? The two most important questions of these modern times. Yet, underneath the superficial, these friends will lay bare their hopes and dreams in the face of an entire borough's apathy. Kill ...

Righteous Man is a true story. It tells of a good man who is God fearing, a pray warrior and has a compassionate heart for others. ----Because of his goodness, he melted the heart of Almighty God in heaven, causing God to send down his angels from heaven to earth so the angels could help the man when his store was about to be robbed.-----Even though the man died, due to his goodness, today millions of souls are being saved throughout the world because of his actions. -----The author wrote ...

The only thing you really need to know is that all is God and all is good. For those of you who understand this, there is no need to read any further. This book is for those who are seeking greater understanding about the nature of God at work in their world and in their lives.Joseph Anthony's spiritual unfolding began in his early twenties with a profound experience of cosmic unity in which he saw everything as a single divine, loving, conscious energy.Nothing was excluded; even t...

The Heavens Above: A Popular Handbook of Astronomy is a comprehensive and accessible guide designed to introduce readers to the wonders of the night sky and the science of astronomy. Authored by the Reverend James Baikie, this classic work provides a thorough overview of celestial phenomena, making complex astronomical concepts understandable to the general public. The book covers a wide range of topics, including the structure and movements of the solar system, the nature of stars and neb...