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  KERI 5 - The Original Child...

  Kat Ward

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  CHILD ABUSE TRUE STORIES PRESENTS: VOLUME 5 OF KAT WARD'S SENSATIONAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY! 
  Following her disastrous first year in the adult world, it's hard to imagine how seventeen-year-old Keri's life could possibly get any worse. However, as anyone who's ever been down can attest to, getting back up can often be difficult without a helping hand... 
  But what if all the hands around you only want to push you down further? 
  DISCLAIMER: This is a true story of child abuse. Reader discretion is advised.

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  Pit Bull Nation Special Edition

  Cindy Marabito

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  What goes on behind the scenes at a well-funded city shelter? Cindy Marabito tells the story from the trenches. Big money organizations shade the truth while millions of dogs are being destroyed because they look like a pit bull. Take this journey and peek inside the clanging metal doors where animals who have no voice are given a face and a story. Cindy Marabito makes it personal. 
  Pit Bull Nation is the story of a woman who found a pit bull and how that one dog changed the course of her life. The chain of events which follow would discourage most people, but Cindy finds a connection with these dogs that gives her the strength to overcome adversity and confront her own fears. She finds a comrade and soul mate in these unwanted dogs whose very name and image inspire media frenzy.This book is a journey over the hills and valleys of rescue work and a tell all look from behind the scenes in the killing fields where most of these dogs are being slaughtered simply because they look like pit bulls. Cindy Marabito believes there is a solution for America's first native dog breed, the American Pit Bull Terrier. This book is Cindy's story about these extraordinary dogs and the people who believe in them.

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  Jack Ruby - The Many Face's of...

  Danny Fingeroth

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  Jack Ruby changed history with one bold, violent action: killing accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV two days after the November 22, 1963, murder of President John F. Kennedy. But who was Jack Ruby—and how did he come to be in that spot on that day? As we approach the sixtieth anniversaries of the murders of Kennedy and Oswald, Jack Ruby’s motives are as maddeningly ambiguous today as they were the day that he pulled the trigger. The fascinating yet frustrating thing about Ruby is that there is evidence to paint him as at least two different people. Much of his life story points to him as bumbling, vain, violent, and neurotic—a product of the grinding poverty of Chicago’s Jewish ghetto, a man barely able to make a living or sustain a relationship with anyone besides his dogs. By the same token, evidence exists of Jack Ruby as cagey and competent, perhaps not a mastermind, but a useful pawn of the Mob and of the police and the FBI—someone capable of running numerous legal, illegal, and semi-legal enterprises, of acting as a middleman in bribery schemes. Cultural historian Danny Fingeroth's research includes an in-depth interview with Rabbi Hillel Silverman, the clergyman who visited Ruby regularly in prison. His findings will catapult you into a trip through a house of historical mirrors. At its end, perhaps Jack Ruby’s assault on history will begin to make sense. And perhaps we will understand how Oswald’s assassin led us to the world we live in today.

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  Crime and Punishment

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the tsars, is determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammeled individual will. When he commits an act of murder and theft, he sets into motion a story that, for its excruciating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its depth of characterization and vision is almost unequaled in the literature of the world. The best known of Dostoevsky's masterpieces, Crime and Punishment can bear any amount of rereading without losing a drop of its power over our imaginations. 
  Dostoevsky's drama of sin, guilt, and redemption transforms the sordid story of an old woman's murder into the nineteenth century's profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel. 
  Award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky render this elusive and wildly innovative novel with an energy, suppleness, and range of voice that do full justice to the genius of its creator.

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  We Are the Fallen - A...

  Cage J Madison

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  "The destiny of humanity relies heavily on how everyone reacts to certain events that are now being experienced. There is a desperate need for change within the society and the opportunity for change is now! It is humanity's responsibility." (Cage J. Madison)
  
  So begins the author in a letter to the listener in this thought-provoking essay written by life coach and author Cage J. Madison (An Evolutional Journey for the Modern Man, Balance Incarnated, Masterclass Seduction, Eye of the Snake, and the Shades of Reflection poetry series). In perhaps his most controversial work, Madison plunges deep into the ways of humanity and societal influences that he believes are the main problems we are all now facing in the world.
  
  The author speaks deeply about how certain damaging thoughts eat away at everybody, leaving most with an enraged pain that storms deep within the mind. The society, as we know it, has become a dominant structure, which does in some ways create an individual, but can also ruin them because of these damaging thoughts. The society has done this by creating a good strategy: judgement.
  
  A majority of humanity has turned to wearing masks to hide their true self from the rest of society because of this strategy. Ever since we were babies, the society and its influences have worked their way into our minds with lies being fed to us through TV or speeches from the so-called leaders of the world. These influences have simply allowed all people to concentrate on their individual demise rather than the life they have been given. We search for what has been lost, but how can something be found while trapped in this instance of self-indulgence?
  
  Corruption within the world seems to eat away at all humans and yet we still think we are free. Consumerism blares out from all walls of society as men and women, boys and girls march like slaves down the streets in rows.
  An Author's Republic audio production.

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  Yellow Book The - Vol 2

  Kenneth Grahame, Charlotte Mew,...

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  During the Victorian era the publishing of magazines and periodicals accelerated at a phenomenal rate.  This really was mass market publishing to a hungry audience eager for literary sustenance.  Many of our greatest authors contributed and expanded their reach whilst many fledging authors also found a ready source for their nascent works and careers. 
   
  Amongst the very many was ‘The Yellow Book’.  Although titled as ‘An Illustrated Quarterly’ it was sold as a cloth-bound hardback and within were short stories, essays, poetry, illustrations and portraits.  It was edited by the American author Henry Harland, who also contributed, and its art editor was no less that the formidable Aubrey Beardsley, the enfant terrible of illustration. 
   
  Its yellow cover and name gave it an association with the risqué and erotic yellow covered works published in France.  It was a visual shorthand for ideas that would push many boundaries of Society to more open interpretations. Being complete in each volume and slightly aloof it stayed away from serialised fiction and advertisements.   
   
  Within each lavishly illustrated edition were literary offerings that included works by such luminaries as Henry James, H G Wells, W B Yeats, Edith Nesbit, George Gissing and many others from the ascetic and decadent movements of the time.   
   
  The other notable inclusion was women both as contributors and amongst its editing staff, which was at odds with the then patriarchal gender norms.   
   
  Although it only survived for 13 issues its reach and influence were second to none.    
  1 - The Yellow Book - An Introduction. Volume 2 
  2 - Passed by Charlotte Mew 
  3 - Apple Blossom in Brittany by Ernest Dowson 
  4 - Second Thoughts by Arthur Moore 
  5 - The Papers of Basil Fillimer by H D Traill 
  6 - Suggestion by Mrs Ernest Leverson 
  7 - The Crimson Weaver by R Murray Gilchrist 
  8 - A Pen and Ink Effect by Frances E Huntley 
  9 - The Inquity of Oblivion by Kenneth Grahame 
  10 - Dies Irae by Kenneth Grahame 
  11 - A Resurrection by H B Marriott Watson 
  12 - A Journey of Little Profit by John Buchan

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