Peace before DestructionUploaded: 08/27/2009 by nathancage Book - Drama, Foreign, Political Events surrounding synchronized terrorist attacks bring former Tel Aviv police detective Eli Heber and young Mossad agent Yoram Tal together
to help Israel hunt for those responsible. The evidence they uncover points to a connection between the Israeli mafia and an evangelical Christian leader in America. But the investigation comes with costs to the two men, as Heber’s wife is murdered as a warning to stop his work, and Yoram’s stability is shaken when his father-like mentor may also have been a victim of the attacks. Pressing on, the two contend with mafia thugs, Hezbollah insurgents, a Palestinian mercenary, and an anxious Israeli military that is ready to take retributive action against the wrong target. The men learn that the mafia, who had lost access to Palestinian resources after a peace agreement between Israel and Palestine, tried to recapture its territory by destroying the peace using funds from unknowing evangelical ministries in America and the brutal force of the mercenary to remove those in its way. By the time the investigation is finished, the two men have developed a father-son-like bond that helps them overcome the greed, hate, and carnage that surround them.
Type: Book Genres: Drama, Foreign, Political Length:
552 pages
The Apricot TurnerUploaded: 04/09/2009 by Jim LaMattery Book - Drama, Historical, Political A 70's draft dodger seeking an idyllic war-free life finds no safe haven in Old Time Religion. Should this rebel's
asylum be Hell? Based on a true story. Jim, an eighteen year old farm-hand, is forced to make the most important decision in his life. If he stays on the farm, he'll be drafted into the Vietnam War. To avoid the draft, he can enroll into college, but rejects both alternatives as arranged marriages. Unexpectedly fired, he takes it as a sign to hit the road. Hitchhiking out of his small town, he is optimistic about what life has to offer, but leaving means losing the family he loves. Jim meets a beautiful girl who lives in a commune of unorthodox Christians holded up in an abandoned hotel in Skid Row Los Angeles. He falls in love with Tabitha and finds her cohorts are kindred soul-mates who've refused to go down with the system's shipwreck. He joins their mutiny from the world to take on a spiritual life. Life is good:he marries and fathers a child. At first an egalitarian's dream, he suspects his compatriots' mission is being hi-jacked by their "Prophet," a self-styled guru who's errant genius and predatory sexuality forces the group's attractive women into using sex to lure new members and swell the ranks with children. Paradise is stolen and Jim wants out, but it can cost him his soul.
Type: Book Genres: Drama, Historical, Political Length:
507 pages
Earth Inc.Uploaded: 11/28/2007 by rerlick@hotmail,com Book - Adventure, Political, Sci-Fi/Fantasy In 2049, Anthony Burrows has a chance to save the world. Hidden on the outskirts of the Phoenix Corporation, he
waits to expose Earth Incorporated. Burrows' epic journey begins in 2014, when a series of events unravel an excoriating truth. As an army helicopter pilot on the Mexican-American border he is catapulted to the forefront of a horrific conspiracy of world domination and soon finds himself reassigned to a secret base in Iraq, where he uncovers a truth so powerful life as he knows it will change forever. As the world's industries and governments combine and walled cities sprout, Burrows races to fight a power so overwhelming that is has taken everything he has known.
Type: Book Genres: Adventure, Political, Sci-Fi/Fantasy Length:
425 pages
African RoosterUploaded: 11/20/2007 by allfools Book - Drama, Foreign, Political Jed’s new home, Lesotho, is a country nearing collapse from crippling drought and whispers of revolution. After Jed teaches his
host-brother and confidant Tsediso how to grow a high-grade marijuana, Tsediso disappears. Abandoning his CARE work, Jed’s search leads to South Africa—from dangerous laborer flats to the city morgue, from city hospitals to shady bars. He finally learns that Tsediso is languishing in prison where beatings and abuse have left him a shell of a man. Desperate, Jed seeks help from the one man Tsediso has told him never to contact—Ernest Ntiska, a crooked associate of Tsediso’s who is also aiding the opposition forces in Lesotho. With Ntsika’s blood-money and the help of a corrupt cop, Johann Luyt, Jed buys Tsediso’s freedom, but in the process saddles Tsediso with crippling debt. The pair returns to Lesotho just as rebels seize the government and the violence convulses the country. Their already tenuous loyalties are tested, and when Luyt shows up in the village in the midst of a violent storm, Jed must choose between saving himself or his brother.
Type: Book Genres: Drama, Foreign, Political Length:
322 pages
THICKER THAN BLOODUploaded: 11/12/2007 by M.A.Newhall Book - Action, Political, Sci-Fi/Fantasy Joe Vallone is an ordinary car mechanic who loves nothing more than fixing cars and loud music. There's just one
tiny problem...he can't get hurt. Ever. With a condition like hemophilia, one cut or scratch while he's alone on a job could cost Joe his life. So when an explosive car accident nearly leaves him for dead, Joe can't explain why he's still alive...or why he can suddenly run faster than any human being on earth. Joe quickly discovers that his aunt saved his life by secretly injecting him with restricted nanites. Nanites that the government claims don't even exist. There's just one problem. When the people trying to control nanotechnology - including the U.S. military - discover Joe's superhuman secret, they will stop at nothing to get him. Thrust into a world of treason, deception, and lies, Joe will need to use every resource available to him - including his newly found powers - if he wants to escape with his life.
Type: Book Genres: Action, Political, Sci-Fi/Fantasy Length:
326 pages
American Poet LHEUploaded: 11/12/2007 by Ruben_Alexander_Barron Book - Crime, Historical, Political "For those of us that believe there is a higher pupose for existence and our reason for being here, Ruben...offers
a comforting reassurance that there are others like you, varying on the path to spiritual development and insight. If you are a little less convinced,...(he) has something to offer you in terms of raw, gritty, reality and a commitment to truths.Ruben...isn't a common human being. He's a multi-talented poet/organizer/artist/everything.... "America Poet"...is an insightful, haunting, powerful and intelligent look at todays society, poetry, spirituality, politics and so much more." -Shamako Noble (www.hiphopcongress.com)
Type: Book Genres: Crime, Historical, Political Length:
85 pages
AMA'S STORYUploaded: 11/11/2007 by manuherb Book - Foreign, Historical, Political Bahia, Brazil, 1810. Ama, a prematurely aged enslaved African woman, blind in both eyes, dictates the story of her life
to her only son, whom she has not seen for many years.
Type: Book Genres: Foreign, Historical, Political Length:
174 pages
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