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The Last Laugh Is Mine
$2.99This novel is about the struggle by a young man to change an age-old traditional matrilineal system of inheritance and its consequences. The hero Owia Atta is forced to become a farmer, contrary to his wish to be educated to play a leadership role in this fictionalized African community of Wofakurom. He works to create his father’s wealth but is disinherited at his father’s death when the assets are given to his father’s nephew in accordance with tradition and customs. Owia Atta’s resistance against this practice provides moments of tension in the novel, leading to his clash with tradition and consequent felony for which he is punished. But his daring efforts have a big impact on his society. The novel reflects the reality of an ethnic group’s worldview and draws attention to its potential to create social unrest. It interweaves political, social, cultural, and economic issues, bringing together historical developments and the place of the traditional African society in the modern world.
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Pirates, Privateers, and the U.S. Navy
Price range: $3.99 through $25.99The primary problem of the American Colonies in their quest to win independence from Great Britain was not the British Army, though it was formidable. Instead, it was how to deal with the overwhelming might of the British Navy. The Continental Congress had no ships and no taxing authority to fund the creation of nay in 1775. The first U.S Navy was a combination of the few merchants ships Congress was able to acquire and a large number of privateers who joined the cause of independence. The privateers were privately owned and operated by individuals and business. By the end of the war there were more than 2000 of them. The British called them pirates. From the Boston Tea Party to the battle of the U.S.S Bonhomme Richard with the British man-of-war, the H.M.S Serapis, this is their story.
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Turning Points: How Deception Steals Freedoms
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99Ever wonder what is happening to our country? In Turning Points; Terry W. Bettis, takes you through the history of this country, looking at how through the years our Republic has had its ups and downs. As you read, you will learn about things that have given life to this country, as well as things that have drained the life from it. You will discover things that you thought were a blessing to this country, only to find that in fact, they are destroying our freedoms, and our Constitution, turning our country from one filled with God’s blessing to one of slavery. Discover those things which are causing our Republic to fade completely away. The United States was founded on Christian principals, though far from perfect, it has been blessed by God because we had put Him first. Being attacked on many fronts God is being pushed out the door of America. We are seeing the results. In Turning Points, you will learn how this is happening, plus the effect it is having on our country, churches, families and the future generations, yet to be born. It is a deep desire of Terry’s to awaken the American people to what is happening to our beloved United States. You will learn and be blessed with this book as well as with, Terry’s first book, Guards at the Gate hopefully finding understand about what our country is experiencing and what we are leaving for our children and grandchildren.
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We’ve Done Them Wrong: A History of The Native American Indians and How The United States Treated Them
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99“From the mountains, to the prairies
To the oceans white with foam,
Every Native American
Must leave his home.” I.
Imagine that someone comes to your home and forces you at gunpoint to leave. Your response might be termed “savage”
“Savage” was how the New World invaders described American Indians. Settlers chased them across the continent, as the government signed treaties that they later broke. They also subjected the native inhabitants to horrible atrocities.
Author George E. Saurman, a World War II veteran and proud American, explores what really happened to Native American Indians, examining
- Native American Indian tribes and their customs;
- the actions of early settlers, including William Penn and his holy experiment;
- contributions of the Native American Indians; and
- conditions on reservations today.
Saurman also considers how the Bureau of Indian Affairs handled relations between natives and settlers, as well as what Native American Indians from the past and today have had to say about events.
Even today, broken promises obscure what’s really going on in Native American Indian Communities, It’s time that a serious effort be made to rectify the situation, and it starts by realizing that We’ve Done Them Wrong.
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Peculiar Affinity: The World the Slave Owners and Their Female Slaves Made
Price range: $3.99 through $11.99The theory of peculiar affinity implies that Black people and White people in the 21st-century United States are connected by family, kinship, surnames, and genes. Peculiar affinity is profoundly implicated with racism in the United States. Peculiar affinity remained after the demise of slavery, but it transformed and adapted to the system of separate but equal. Peculiar Affinity: The World the Slave Owners and Their Female Slaves Made presents the discovery of a vital socioeconomic interconnection and interrelationship between White slave owners and enslaved Black women of the antebellum South during the second slave era of the 19th century, the domestic slave era. This interconnection and interrelationship consisted of a very strange dialectic of sex, which led to the reproduction of the bodies of the slave owners and their female slaves.
On a grand scale, and implemented on a consistent basis, this dialectic of sex transformed to a nexus of sex and reproduction of human bodies as commodities. The visual aspects appeared as a kind of veil that obscured actual family and kinship relations. In the antebellum South, the slave owner was the father, and the female slave and his wife were the mothers. The children from the slave owner’s female slave and the children from the slave owner’s wife were real and objective brothers and sisters with the same biological father.
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The Patriarchy of White American Slave Owners
$3.99The Patriarchy of White American Slave Owners: Family and Kinship with Black, Negro, and Colored Americans in the U.S.A. South provides the scientific certainty that during the U.S.A. “domestic slave era”, 1807-65, (the U.S.A.’s second slave era) the systemic patriarchy and the fatherhood practices of the White American slave owners of the U.S.A. South produced, fathered, over 10,000,000 Black, Negro, and Colored American children. During the same time, these same slave owners fathered over 5,000,000 White American children. This book’s scientific certainty verifies all these White, Black, Negro, and Colored American children were brothers and sisters to each other. Siblings! The South’s White American slave owners were the fathers of all these children.
Traditionally, the primary method used by the White American slave owners to distinguish among their own children to buy and to sell was skin color distinctions. Historically, those slave owners’ decisions of skin color exemplify the origin of white racism in the U.S.A. These White American slave owners and all their children constituted various White, Black, Negro, and Colored American families in the South. The relations between and among all their children constituted their kinships in the South.
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Colors
Price range: $3.99 through $14.50If a book can help provide a measure of insight into this dark turbulent age we find ourselves engulfed as a Nation this historical-fictitious read fits the bill. At a time when the Nation is on the brink of Moral Bankruptcy and on the verge of a second Civil War.
The truth be told Joe Valachi’s loose lips did not sink the Flag Ship and the last 4-years of the Presidency reviled where the Buck actually Stopped, proving that there are no Referees or Judges to pretend that social Just-Us and racial equality ever existed, nor will it ever prevail as long as the Red-rag blue-rag Rooster shot-calling gangster counterparts to the Crips and Bloods keep squabbling in the barnyard there can be no peace in the Hen House.
The racially charged divisive state of our Nation coupled with
the devastating fall-out from the disastrous Pandemic has caused unprecedented upheaval of a nature that what is needed is unprecedented help of a Godsend nature from the unlikeliest of Hero’s to step up to the plate.
Simply speaking this is the opportune moment for the Crips and Bloods to become Heroes not only of their perspective, concrete Jungle communities but the Nation as a whole is clearly out-of-control.
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Reparations for Black, Negro, and Colored Americans
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99The meaning of this book is that it provides a scientifically based affirmation for reparations. The overall conclusion is this! Reparations for Black, Negro, and Colored Americans must be based upon the money, profit, and wealth created by the buying and selling of any Black, Negro, and Colored Americans as a “commodity”, “a thing”, or as “commodities” in the open financial markets solely during the U.S.A. “domestic slave era”. The White American slave owners’ money, profit, and wealth was grounded in the slave owners’ systemic patriarchy and fatherhood practices during the “domestic slave era”, 1807-65. Finally, the South’s White American slave owners’ system of patriarchy and their fatherhood practices equate to family and kinship with Black, Negro, and Colored Americans. These fathers transferred all the wealth, money, profit to their White American children; and, these fathers transferred nothing to their Black, Negro, and Colored American children. Reparations!
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A Coloured Canvas
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99A Coloured Canvas is a trilogy; Book I Common People. Book II Lions and Eagles. Book III The Rainbow. Throughout this trilogy, for reasons only known to Lidy she used pseudonyms for the characters and members of her family, A Coloured Canvas is not a fictional account of the de Vries and Verboom families but an oral history of events beginning early in the twentieth century in impoverished Friesland.
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Nightmares
Price range: $3.99 through $13.99Nightmares will keep you wanting to read more. If you never truly understood what a soldier went thru during the Vietnam war, this will give you a good idea. This is about a unit of the 9th Infantry Division. The unit goes on patrol looking for Viet Cong or NVA regulars. They are put under fire and lost members while out. They learned to survive both mentally and physically, as death on both sides of the war could happen at any moment. Yes, it is a fiction! The names were also changed, but it is based on facts. You will go on patrol with these young men, age range of 18-24, as they become exposed to the horrors of war. Their lives were changed forever, then returned home to supposedly forget it. I lost many friends who became Brothers in Vietnam. Some were shot, some were taken by booby traps, now called IED’s. We continue dying now due to age and exposure to Agent Orange since returning home. Agent Orange (is a blanket term for 15 chemicals used as a defoliant) a large variety of illnesses such as various cancers, diabetes and many more deadly diseases are a side effect of our exposure.
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Battle of Britain
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Another look at one of the battles during WW2, where Hitler thought he could invade and conquer during his reign of terror on the world. He decided to try and knock out the Royal Air Force of Britain. He was not expecting the resistance that the British Air Force and Navy were to give him in his quest for annihilation of Great Britain.
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A Fleeting Glimpse of Paradise
Price range: $3.99 through $45.99If ever there were an expert in the history, beauty, and overall best places to visit in Hawaii, Craig E. Burgess would be that person. His first visit to the islands was in 1974, the first of forty-one in total!
Providing a glimpse of Hawaiian culture, history, music, art, and daily lifestyles to the reader, A Fleeting Glimpse of Paradise was inspired by Craig’s time spent with special residents of Hawaii who shared a special “Spirit of Aloha” during his forty-one visits to the islands. His hope is that during your visit, you spend time with local residents of the islands and “talk story” with them, rather than simply going there for an “Aloha” shirt, flower lei, or some other souvenir.
This beautiful collection of anecdotes, inspired poems, and special stories you can’t get from travel books encourages readers to find ways to conserve the natural beauty of the islands-and to make the very best of their experience in this magical utopia.
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Paradise in Ruins: A Novel (View) of the Pacific War
Price range: $3.99 through $26.99Paradise in Ruins offers readers a look at the Pacific Theater of World War Two by introducing them to military and naval leaders from both sides of the conflict, as well as local populations of the Pacific islands whose lives were suddenly disrupted by the brutal events that exploded eastward from Japan in 1941.
Perhaps you had family members among the many thousands of young men and women who got transported across the Pacific Ocean to those mysterious islands that they were ordered to recapture from the Japanese.
If you have occasionally wondered what Grandpa (or Grandma) did in the war, you are not alone. The generation that experienced World War Two is notorious for not speaking about what they saw and learned in that previously unimagined multilingual, multicultural environment. They just didn’t know how to describe their adventures to loved ones at home afterwards, so they chose silence instead.
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The War We Almost Lost
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99In the War We Almost Lost the author explains how badly we were prepared for war in 1941. He discusses the areas in which we could have done much
better and how the responsibility could have been shared by many politicians and military leaders.
The author writes about mistakes and blunders as well as brilliant moves made during the war by both sides that allowed us to win, but almost cost us victory. Better planning and execution by the Axis countries could have had disastrous effects on the Allies. But in the end, through some good design, lucky breaks and bad-decision making by our enemies, we rallied and came through the terrible war with flying colors led by the “Greatest Generation” of all times.
