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Autocracy in Democracy is a fictional story that depicts a story of corruption and narcissism. Democratic leaders seek power as a means to accumulate wealth and deliberately keep the masses in poverty. The leaders are allowed to sip from the seductive chalice of power in a political structure where the system allows "the winner takes all government." This system creates more room for leaders to have decision-making autonomy and lots of discretion. The leader becomes corrupt and uses his or her power to further his or her interests instead of working for the common good.In this beautifully well-written novel, the author gives us a space for dialogue and carefully narrates how Mrs. Akosua Nimako, the fearless founder of the Victory People's Party, wanted to build an empire for herself and her daughters, but was thrown out by the masses. The book ends with a loud voice that the power of the masses matters. Autocracy in Democracy is the debut novel by Ms. Amu.

Sense of Direction offers a memoir, guidebook, and text to readers who intend to help students with unique patterns of learning. The title refers to the author's navigational challenges as well as her decades long quest to understand herself and work with students whose differences were similar to those she experienced. Deception and misinformation were two building blocks of her identity.Sense of Direction has been written to provide this essential information. The author's life is presented and follows the many challenges she has met. The issues inherent in having an" invisible disorder " is explored. Resources for students, including associations, technical assistance, and protective legislation are offered. Finally, a sample of current research in the field is included.

The author gives a vivid description of his parents. He described his father as an alpha, hardworking, truthful, family-oriented man who genuinely believed in the importance of schooling and a ruffler of the feather figure in his community. He labels his mother as possessing uncommon characteristics. She is a dynamic and organized woman and a loyal, submissive wife, a tiger and methodical mother, and a valuable and helpful person as a woman. The author fondly remembers the peaceful, exciting, and tender years of his growing up and how his upbringing and his parents' special care shaped his and his siblings' lives. The Christian background of his parents meant that he and his siblings had to adhere to some nonnegotiable standards of life. His parents firmly believed that a strong upbringing in all its aspects paves the way to a successful life, and they made sure every one of their twelve children had it. The author also depicts the shock he experienced when a new Western culture clashed with his own culture during his trip to the United States of America for graduate studies. He both pleasingly and remorsefully highlights the invaluable life skills he gained during his excellent and helpful stay in the West and the less attractive demeanor of some people in his host population. He got along well with his host mom and mentor, who massively contributed to his making. The author ends his accounts by showing how he is amazed at how many people in his dear country are dealing with life. In the section about Mali Koura or New Mali, the author genuinely longs for the overall well-being of his country. He begs his people to work for justice, peace, and stability and exercise holistic self-control every day of their lives for the good of everyone if they want the Mali Koura they are talking about. He requests his people to practice what they preach and not look good citizens but be good citizens.

Abraham! We know him as the father of three of the world's great religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Yet his story begins abruptly, with two words from Genesis: "Lech Lecha" - "Go to yourself" as it is often translated. Who was the unknown Abraham of before God calls him? This unique novel uses Talmudic legends, Apocryphal writings, and Kabbalistic sources to trace Abraham's footsteps into these hidden corners of his beginnings. We travel with him from Ur to Charan 3,000 years ago. We spend time with his wife Sarai (and Iscah, her prophetess alter ego), Shem and post-Ark Noah, the angel Gabriel. Stops are made in Babylon and at the Tower of Babel, where Abraham confronts his nemesis Nimrod. The Hand Above the Lid may be read as fiction, as historical fantasy. Yet it speaks not only to the past but to the present - in each and every one of us. The Hand Above the Lid challenges readers to "go to yourselves" as well.

In June of 1933, sixteen-year-old Lou Bank was living in Los Angeles with an aunt and uncle after his family had moved back to Philadelphia so he could complete high school. One day he was summoned by relatives and given the money needed to purchase a one-way ticket to board a bus destined for Philadelphia where his father lay gravely ill. With all his worldly possessions stuffed into a tattered suitcase and six dollars in his pocket, Lou hoped the six-day trip would leave enough time to reach his father while he was still alive. The Bus Ride is a tale based on a true story that traverses the length and breadth of the country and while it is primarily Lou's story and that of his family, it is also an account of a populace rich in its diversity, inhabiting a multifarious milieu in America during the early twentieth century.

Roxy Stinson, a small-town beauty and brainiac, reaches the highest levels of Prohibition-era corruption-but when her lover is murdered, she takes her revenge on a national stage. Jess Smith, Roxy's ex-husband and a make-believe tough guy, is the best friend (and lover?) of the crooked attorney general. President Warren G. Harding has advanced views on civil rights and world disarmament. How can he not know that the cronies he put in his Cabinet are such crooks? First Lady Florence Harding and a morphine-addicted friend lord it over Washington Society. Yet Mrs. Harding, "the Duchess," lives in fear that her husband will die in office as her favorite astrologer foretold.Stumbling in the Public Square is free of clichés about the "Roaring Twenties." Instead, this startling and witty novel, based on historical figures and real events, is a revelation of how people caught up in public corruption think, feel, and act. It explores the competing ambitions of two early feminists, Roxy Stinson and Mrs. Harding. And it shows what happens to a nation when "truth stumbles in the public square" and "honesty can't enter."

In his youth, when Richard Bank entered his grandparents' bedroom, he would be drawn to a photograph of his grandfather as a young man standing side by side his brother with both accoutered in WWI German military uniforms. Richard always thought that his great-uncle Berthold was Opa's only sibling and more than six decades would pass before he learned otherwise. In fact, Opa had two other brothers and two sisters, all of whom perished in the Holocaust. No one-not his Oma and Opa, nor his mother and her sister, nor extended family members ever spoke of this. Such was the way some survivors coped with living in the aftermath of humanity's most horrific crime. Bank's memoir is a tale about life in the shadow of The Tree of Sorrow.

1965. Young Tito Scaffone loves vintage horror movies more than life itself. He is especially enamored of Lon Chaney's 1925 The Phantom of the Opera-the majesty of the sets, the silent-celluloid beauty of Mary Philbin, but most of all the mastery of Chaney's makeup as the hideously disfigured phantom. But monsters in movies are one thing, in life quite another. And Tito cannot face life. His only friend is Jan Klosek, a good-hearted South Philadelphia roughneck whose uncles run Independent Film Exchange, a distribution hub for low-grade film product. Through IFE Tito is given a chance to manage the Dreamland in the Skid Row section of the city. A century old, the Dreamland hangs on as an all-night movie house. It also happens to be haunted. Living alone at the theater, Tito enters a world of horror more terrifying than any he has encountered in the films he so adores. The story takes place in the shadow-ridden Philadelphia that inspired David Goodis' existential pulp novels, David Lynch's Eraserhead. Along the way, stops are made at the film domains of Rondo Hatton and Val Lewton, the 50-Foot Woman and 4D man, and others. But Tito's journey into darkness truly begins in the pages of a lost diary kept by the theater's owner in the late 1800's. In these tortured pages, Tito unmasks the true face of the Dreamland's horror.The Phantom of Skid Row is a ghost story, of sorts. It is also a love letter to the magic of classic and not-so-classic movies; to the eccentric charms of film exhibition in the days before theaters became homogenized; to the mystery of love in sheltered young hearts.

DRY RUN is a wise and entertaining book that weaves together a story of running the Providence marathon with a parallel story of growing up with an alcoholic parent, its own kind of marathon. The story is told with humor, grace, wit, and self-knowledge, and is essential reading for anyone growing up under less than desirable circumstances and anyone who loves to run.DRY RUN is a story of human transformation from confusion, despair, and brokenness to wholeness, healing, and the beginnings of self-love and acceptance, paralleling a physical progression through self-doubt, exhaustion, power and persistence. Consisting of 26.2 chapters, DRY RUN is coming of age memoir that compares the challenges of running a marathon with the struggles of growing up as an only child with an alcoholic parent.

The Holocaust survivors have important and unique stories to impart about their lives before the war, after Germany invades Poland, liberation, and beyond.The truth narrated in this book by the author, Miriam Segal Shnycer, pass the torch of memories of the young Holocaust survivors to future generation. She strongly believes that forgetting is dangerous.