Living in the Grip of Fear tells the story of Jenny, a loving woman and police officer, trapped in a relationship of mental and physical anguish. She knows that even if she could flee, he would find her...and take it out not only on her, but on her children. This gripping story is the true account of one woman's fight to freedom.

Living in the Grip of Fear: When Love Turns Violent

Parenting & Relationships

Ledford, R. L.

Family Relationships

Mandrill

In the town of Eze, girls are crudely circumcised and twins are given to the gods of the forest to die from exposure and starvation. In this gripping true story, a young African girl, Nina, is circumcised by a wicked sorceress, Ada, whose evil deeds are inspired by the gods of the forest, the oracle of the hills. . . and greed. Through superstition, voodoo, and intrigue, Ada rules Eze with an iron fist, and is feared by men and women alike. She convinces the entire town that twins are a bad omen who will bring disease and disaster to the living. She also declares that circumcision is beautiful and every girl's rite of passage into womanhood. Nina grows up and travels to England where she studies medicine. She returns to her home town to run a new hospital and to attempt to abolish some of the outdated practices that endanger the lives of women and innocent children. She is the voice of change. Her passionate concern for people and her intense desire to grasp the meaning of life lead her to explore the secret depth of evil practices. She quickly discovers that Ada and the local chief are lining their pockets through the practice of circumcision. Discovered in their perfidy, the chief and Ada set out to do away with Nina, who has challenged their supremacy. Trapped between good and evil, Nina faces a public trial for blaspheming against the gods of the forest and the oracle of the hills. If convicted, she will be blindfolded and forced to leap 200 feet into the raging torrent of the gorge of the oracle, from which no one has ever emerged alive. This fast-paced, suspense drama is an insider's portrait of the tumultuous life of children and women in a small African town. It takes the reader into the depth of a crude culture, and a women's fight to free herself and her people from their past. Sam Asinugo is the author of The Transgressors. The Women of Eze is his most ambitious work to date.

The Women of Eze: Chasing the Evils of Female Circumcision

Politics & Social Sciences

Asinugo, Sam

Social Sciences

Diamonds

When Sophia Windrath traveled to Templar Hall to meet her intended husband, she was a well-heeled gentlewoman doing her duty in marrying for social position and security. That sameday, however, she was to meet a mysterious stranger who would chage her life forever. His name was de Wolf, a man of dubious intentions and scandalous reputation. But he opened up for Sophia a world of sensous pleasure and dangerous living. And then there is the diamond necklace, and a trail of stolen jewels from Buckinghamshire, England, to glittering Paris. Traeling with de wolf, a journey begins that is to take Sophia far from her safe world within Regency England to a new life of adventure amongstcountry places and Parisian high society. De Wolf, at once rake and gentleman... Sophia, thrust upon his mercy... A forbidden love blossoms.

Temple-West, Mariga

A young Portuguese mariner is captured by pirates of the Mediterranean. His ship is taken, and his captain is killed. A wondrous tale, based on early fifteenth century historical fact, of adventure, seamanship, love, slavery, torture, and the life and beliefs of a man who lives to compare the freedom of his slavery with the bondage of his liberty.

Bojador

Tilston, G. Edwin

In Pinzon, the dynamic sequel to Bojador, G. Edwin Tilston brings vividly to life the turbulent years that lead up to the sailing of the Pinzon fleet in August 1492. He rivets your imagination with adventure, war, sea battles, love, and burgeoning terror of the Spanish Inquisition.

Pinzon

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

The Transgressors is as current as today's headlines, but it takes the reader behind the front page stories into the inner workings of international fashion and drug trafficking. It deals with the political and social turmoil of a corrupt African state, and the glamorous jet-set society of Parisian fashion.

The Transgressors

Terror strikes a small town in central Virginia, which has been immobilized by a deadly outbreak. 
People are dying like flies because the vast array of known medicines are not working. Unable to stop the deaths, the hospital team in charge begins a frantic search to find the source of and the defense for this deadly bacterial strain that is causing people's bodies to overload. 
This timely story illustrates the on-going challenges faced by the worldwide medical community as it desperately tries to keep pace with the ever-increasing new strains of viruses and antibiotic resistant diseases.

Outbreak

Jahn, E. T.

"Your husband is under arrest", the policeman said. "He is charged with stealing money from the United States Post Office." That's the way the day began as Dot Packer realized she was facing another crisis in her married life. This is not the first time Ed Packer had been in trouble. He had a roving eye and it focused on many women-women on whom he wanted to spend money-money he didn't have! This time the problem was more desperate. Money had been stolen from the federal government. There was no way to pay it back, no way to keep him out of jail. She works out an ingenious solution but the problems continue. The story told by Dot's daughter, Kate, who is struggling to find love and acceptance in her own life. A struggle in which she is constantly thwarted by her father. It is a story of life and of death, of greed and selfishness, of seances and visits from the grave. It begins in the depression era and reflects the economic needs that compounded families woes. The passage of time is not measured in years but in a series of tragedies and loves that seek a happy ending.

Where the Road Leads

Kernan, Mary

Half-wit Half Wisdom

Humor & Entertainment

Runfola, Peter N.

Humor

Louie's Son

Levinson, Seymour

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