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In the near future, men and women are in a Federal prison facility. Jasp Odle incarcerated for race rioting, Rey Amin for treason, Turner for mass murder. They wonder if they have a future and hope for their lives. Jasp is paroled into the City where he tries to pick up the pieces to his prior life. Turner and Rey, however, are released into the Wilderness, a part of the prison facility. There they must fight for suvival against nature, wild animals,...
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Signed, sealed...;forever!
Being sold into marriage by her stepfather is Leila's one chance to escape. But instead of freedom, Leila finds herself bound by deep passions ignited by her inscrutable new husband.
Australian billionaire Joss Carmody knows the rules of this game-;he'll shower his new wife with diamonds and in return he'll use her land to expand his business. That's all he ever wanted from this exchange, but he hadn't banked on the...
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"Perfect for readers who enjoy love stories with substance and a classical supernatural touch."Escaping one madman she runs into the arms of another... In mid-Victorian England a contagion runs rampant, unbeknown to its citizens. Those afflicted are either killed or confined to a desolate pile of stones on the Yorkshire Moors called Breckenhill Keep. The denizens of that Keep loath the monsters they have become. None more so than Jasper Horton, a...
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The final book of the House of Durand Series.
Things are really heating up for Piper and the guys.
Just when she thought that she'd finished with the vampire council, things got a bit more...complicated.
Forced to stay with three insane vampires for her own safety, Piper will have to figure out how to deal with her new situation before the hunters come for her.
Unfortunately, for the council and the hunters the Durands have had enough. They won't...
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Imprisoned: By My Own Damn Mind is a journey through the life thoughts of a child arriving to adulthood, who is unable to maintain any kind of relationship with any human being because of the negative thoughts in his head.
How did those thoughts get in his head? Who put those thoughts inside his head and made him believe that the thoughts were absolutely true?
Labels were inaccurately placed on this young child without any explanation. Educators accepted...
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Over the last several years, we have experienced a surge in bystander videos of incidents of police brutality directed largely at Black men. Public outrage surrounding police action continues to increase. As public discourse around police brutality and racial inequality largely centers on specific events, there is less information within the public discourse about systemic racism and how race and racism pervade every single aspect of American life....
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Prisons constitute one of the most controversial and contested sites in a democratic society. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the industrialized world, with over 2 million people in jails, prisons, and detention centers; with over three thousand on death row, it is also one of the few developed countries that continues to deploy the death penalty. International Human Rights Organizations such as Amnesty International have also...
8) Government Bullies: How Everyday Americans are Being Harassed, Abused, and Imprisoned by the Feds
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Government regulations are out of control. They dictate how much water goes into your commode, and how much water comes out of your showerhead. They determine how hot the water needs to be in your washing machine, and how many miles to the gallon your car must achieve. Since the Patriot Act, your banking records, your gun registration, and your phone bill are easily accessible by government snoops. Mothers are arrested for buying raw milk. Families...
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Grossly unsanitary living conditions, cruel and abusive treatment by camp officials, the withholding of medical treatment - these were common experiences for refugees imprisoned at internment camps in Britain and Canada. Walter Igersheimer's memoir exposes this bleak period in the British and Canadian war record.
After escaping from Nazi Germany with his family, Igersheimer was completing his medical studies when he was caught in the panic that...
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