Marie J. Mond's fictional poetic work addresses the aesthetic nature of Haitian life questioning the mental health and physical well-being of its prisoners in its poor jail conditions. MJ's work offers a glimpse into the web of human emotion relating the Haitian experience to human beings around the world.

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Despite attempts to suppress its publication and the advertising ban placed on it, The President’s Daughter enjoyed bestseller rankings after its eventual publication in 1927. Written so that Britton could raise enough funds to support her (and Harding’s) daughter and thus argue for the true legitimacy of children born out of wedlock, this tell-all about the affair between a starry-eyed girl and the man who would eventually become the twenty-ninth president of the United States is...

It is 1892 and most young women from poor immigrant families have little choice about their futures. Many spend long days working in crowded garment factories, earning just pennies a day. Most are expected to marry and produce children while helping family businesses and caring for aging relatives. Only a lucky few are selected to enter nurses’ training in New York City’s Lower East Side during an era of mass immigration.Eighteen-year-old Rosa Campo is the daughter of Italian immig...

I am on a mission to warn psychic's to make sure the spirit guides they are working with are not imposters---mine was. Has your spirit guide caused chaos in your life? Embarrassment? Or tried to get you to do something you don't agree with? These are all signs that you are working with an evil spirit, not your spirit guide. My story begins when I learn I am a psychic. As I work on educating myself on the paranormal and learning what my abilities are, I am faced with many challenges. Even t...

This great tragedy confronts the mystery at the heart of evil and contains some of Shakespeare's most magnificent dramatic verse.Othello, a Moorish general in the service of Venice, has married Desdemona, beautiful daughter of a Venetian senator. But Iago, Othello's malignant ensign, is determined to destroy their happiness. Cunningly bending Othello to his own purposes, Iago persuades the Moor that Desdemona is unfaithful to him. Tormented in a hell of jealousy, Othello moves inex...

Ecce Homo, which is Latin for “behold the man,” is an autobiography like no other. Deliberately provocative, Nietzsche subverts the conventions of the genre and pushes his philosophical positions to combative extremes, constructing a genius-hero whose life is a chronicle of incessant self-overcoming. Written in 1888, a few weeks before his descent into madness, the book passes under review all of Nietzsche’s previous works so that we, his “posthumous” readers, can finally understand him on...

In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Thérèse Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. The numbing tedium of her life is suddenly shattered when she embarks on a turbulent affair with her husband’s earthy friend, Laurent. But their passion for each other soon compels the lovers to commit a crime that will haunt them forever.Thérèse Raquin caused a scandal when it appeared in 1867 and brought its twenty-seven-year-old auth...

On the 8th of January 2012 a man who discovered at 21 that he had motor neurone disease, which usually means a few years' degeneration then death, celebrated his 70th birthday. Stephen Hawking was born January 8, 1942 in Oxford, England. Even as a child, he exhibited a fascination for mathematics, science and the sky. At age 21, while studying cosmology at Cambridge, Stephen was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). In the two years after this live changing announcement; Step...

This book is for every age, anyone who can read and who is interested in what time is, will be the main audience. It explains why people think time is relative, what is time, and gives the audience examples of different devices to "measure" time.If you want to know how to better explain to your kids, your friends or your students about what Time means, then in this book you will find the answers.At first, let me tell you how and why I wrote this book.Long ago, in th...

You see it every night in the night sky, but how much do you really know about the moon? Here are some things you may not know.Do you know:What one thing is different about our moon from every other moon we have found?What kind of atmosphere is there on the moon?How many sides of the moon do we see?What happened to the footprints of the astronauts that stood on the moon?Find out in this book, and surprise and amaze your friends with these fun fact...

The beating heart of the sun is the very pulse of life on earth. And from the ancients who plotted its path at Stonehenge to the modern scientists who unraveled the nuclear fusion reaction that turns mass into energy, humankind has sought to solve its mysteries. In this lively biography of the sun, Bob Berman ranges from its stellar birth to its spectacular future death with a focus on the wondrous and enthralling, and on the heartbreaking sacrifice, laughable errors, egotistical battles, ...