The edifice of colonial Africa starts cracking as the Black experience with colonialism becomes intimately personal. There is Martin Paul Samba, whose adopted German aristocratic home as a student does not consider him material for a son-in-law. There are also Prince Rudolph Douala Manga Bell and Dr Bele who go to school with Samba in Germany. And then, of course, Princess Zara, the youthful Amazon warrior who is rescued from a slave ship on the shores of Kamerun. Supported by the Douala princes, Martin Paul Samba champions the cause of the exploited, in a central drama pitting Kamerunian nationalism against German colonialism. This is the story of youthful endeavours and loves, of some of Africa's best and brightest, immediately before and after the First World War.

Destiny's Shadow published by Books We Love. Montana Territory 1867 ~ When Laura Hewett follows her father out of the mountains she never expects to lose him to an avalanche before they reach their destination of Helena, in the Territory of Montana. With the help of her friend Raven Quiver, Laura arrives at the Prickly Pear Ranch on her sixteenth birthday.

YOU ARE DESIGNED FOR DESTINY! Designed for Destiny offers exciting opportunities for all who wish to live life to the full. At last! A book on the practical purposes of God for everyday living. Designed for Destiny is simply written with the ordinary man and woman in mind and is full of relevant illustrations and anecdotes from the author's own experiences. During the last ten years some fine books on God's eternal purposes for man have appeared on our bookshelves, but none have adequately addressed the practicalities of pleasing God and fulfilling His plans in the humdrum of everyday life. The author discovered the secrets he shares in this book as a young man, eager to fulfill his personal potential. For nearly fifty years he has walked the talk, living a life of rich diversity and fulfillment. The book is soundly biblical in its approach. Designed for Destiny contains easy-to-understand worksheets and diagrams, with clear, step-by-step instructions on how to discover and fulfill your potential and achieve the purposes for which you were uniquely designed. The author offers new hope for those who feel that they are past their use-by date and life has passed them by.

When Steve Bertmen has to leave his wife Marcy and travel to Missouri for a business meeting, he finds that all the hotels have no vacancy. Only one outside a small town is empty. Steve checks in, but when paranormal events cause him to develop insomnia he gives up on everything. Steve begins to think there is more to the manager that checked him in and believes he is hiding more than what he told him about the motel. He starts to investigate the motel and it's history, but by doing so, he might of put himself in something he isn't ever getting out of.

What is your lifes purpose, your reason for being here, and how do you know what it is? Do you have a destiny, and, if so, how was that determined? How do you reach it? Are there choices, and if so, how does one make them? Is there a power which steers you down the right path toward your destiny, tells you which fork in the road to take? What difference in the grand scheme of things will your life make? The author asked himself the same questions, over and over, throughout most of his seventy-seven years, and only recently has he learned the answers. In When Destiny Comes to a Fork in the Road, Demus, the authors guardian angel, describes the authors thoughts, words, and actions as he travels down lifes road, seeking to discover his reason for being, his calling, his destiny. Share with him his happiness and sadness, emotions, indecision, uncertainty, discoveries, accomplishments, failures, his experiences, the people he met on his lifes journey and his quest to learn and to fulfill his destiny, and his eventual understanding of the meaning of his life.

Seventeen-year-old Jared leads a normal but boring life. Then, one night, an oval-shaped stone with strange markings lands in his backyard during a strange thunderstorm with green lightning. As Jared explores the power of the stone, known as an Incognal, it begins transporting him to and from a strange alternate world called the Kingdom of Onteria. Jared attempts to keep the Incognal and Onteria hidden from his family. But when Jared’s mother discovers the Incognal’s presence, the secret life she’s been living (for over ONE HUNDRED years!) becomes exposed. It turns out that the Incognal did not appear randomly but rather chose Jared for a destiny previously unknown to him. Will Jared overcome a difficult odyssey to fulfill that destiny, or will dark forces in Onteria prevent him from doing so? Read and find out.

Like never before, author Shayla Brantley, captivates her life experiences into her love for writing. Through her poetry she explores and reveals the struggles of day to day life. From the trials of being a wife, mother, and daughter, to her struggles to overcome rape, suicide, poverty, homelessness and the infidelities of her marriage; she bares it all. Through her poems, readers will find inspirational strength, hope, love and romance, as well as an emotional bond with the writer. Shayla consolidates all her life experiences, the bad and good, as the building blocks, which has provoked her to write this intricate piece of art. She inspires everyone to not only dream, but to take, step by step actions to make their dreams become reality.