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PREVAILED: Donald Trump’s 2024 Victory makes a compelling read right from the opening chapters, as it encapsulates the political journey of Donald Trump in an insightful and electrifying manner. The author takes the reader hand-in-hand through the 45th president of the United States of America's journey to become the 47th president in a process that seems to defy lawsuits, assassination attempts, the machinery of the legacy media, the political establishment, and the “Powers without a Face”. Defying propaganda, staying indifferent to opinions not based on facts, ignoring outright lies...

When it comes to Cameroon, there seems to be an international conspiracy of silence regarding the destiny of this land variously described as "Africa in Miniature" or "The Microcosm of Africa". It is as if it truly embodies the haunted existence of Africa. When talking about dictators, the media giants apparently fail to mention the world's longest-serving non-royal head of state---Paul Biya of Cameroon, as if there is something to hide or as if there is something shameful about the Biya story and the anachronistic system that France and its geopolitical allies imposed on Cameroon by using ...

"I am Hated" is a luminous story with unexpected twists that explores security, love, family, loss and the realization that life holds no permanence and guarantees, especially the bitterness that comes with finally discovering the truth about those we love who are not there when we need them the most. In this story shedding light on the relationship between man and his best friend, the distraught Billy recounts his story to the Grand Master about an affluent life lived and about betrayal at the hands of his parents. "I am Hated" is the seventh account of the short story collection entitled ...

Apodado por muchos expertos como "La guerra más estúpida del mundo", el conflicto de Ucrania es uno que casi nadie vio en el horizonte en 2010. Sin embargo, ahora tiene casi una década. En este conflicto en Ucrania dividida a partes iguales, la política arriesgada por parte de los actores locales en el país, por parte de Occidente que quiere arrastrar a Ucrania a su órbita, y por parte de Rusia que teme perder Ucrania y su seguridad, en el proceso es la norma. Al mismo tiempo, el mundo observa con aparente impotencia cómo Ucrania se desgarra por las costuras. La mayoría de los ...

In EVEN HIS ENEMIES CRIED: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin of Israel, Janvier T. Chando provides the reader with a succinct and insightful account of Yitzhak Rabin that helps us understand his world, the turbulent region he was born in, the complexity of geopolitics and what leadership entails ― confidence, courage, compassion, inspiration, knowledge, understanding, integrity, fairness, motivation. The mind-blowing account takes us through Yitzhak Rabin's journey as a shy boy pushed by the exigencies of his time to become a soldier and play an outstanding role on the battlefields in ...

Jeremiah is a sage with a job that many people envy, even though hardly anyone understands the true nature of the burden the occupation heaps on his soul. As the emissary of ancestors and divines, he thinks he is doing okay until he shepherds the clueless Joseph on a journey that brings him face-to-face with the horrors of his ways. Joseph needs a lifeline. His earlier life as the inheritor of a legacy that involved wealth, power and goodness has been tainted by his embrace of evil, which leaves death and grief in its path. He knows what he is about to face and thinks that Jeremiah, a man ...

En este relato innovador, el autor lleva al lector por el pasillo de los acontecimientos y la historia innovadores hasta la realidad de que hoy es Ucrania, el conflicto de Ucrania, la Europa posterior a la Guerra Fría y el controvertido mundo unipolar liderado por Estados Unidos. La complejidad de Ucrania, su historia, su política y la guerra multifacética que el dividido pueblo ucraniano no anticipó hace dos décadas se vuelve fácil de entender, sentando las bases para una solución a lo que muchos expertos piensan que es un conflicto intratable. El autor lo logró con una perspicacia...

Janvier T. Chando provides a succinct and illuminating account of the transformation of men of war into leaders of peace in a region with a chronic history of conflict. The reader comes out from this presentation of the humble origins and rise to prominence of Yitzhak Rabin of Israel and Anwar Sadat of Egypt with a better understanding of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the motivation of the key players, their hopes, their fears, and dreams, as well as the hidden and untold forces compelling the players to seek salvation or damnation. This brilliant narration of the two assassinated heads of ...

In Fire and Lamentations, Janvier T. Chando offers readers succinct accounts of the lives, ideals, and untimely deaths of the towering political figures whose assassinations shocked American society, triggered domestic political transformations, and fundamentally altered America foreign policy, so that the United States of America lost its innocence forever. Spanning a century, the shooting deaths of four United States Presidents — Abraham Lincoln, William McKinley, James A. Garfield, and John F. Kennedy — and the country’s soul and the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. brought...

When the ingenious Hugo made it his mission to save the souls and lives of his fellow humans, he is not like most sanctimonious people out there. So, when he tries to stop a massacre, he is only protecting the sanctity of life and preventing the tainting of a soul. However, his self-sacrificing act ignites a haunting impulse that sees him blazing a path through life in pursuit of a cause against evil, which raises mixed feelings and questions his beliefs. But who is the searching soul to himself in a conflict with his world that mirrors man's pilgrimage through life? Is Hugo a "Man of God",...

When Lois Wyse wrote that “A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.”, she had no idea her words could be expatiated upon and applied in real life. But that is the case in “THE GRANDMOTHERS: and Perfect Love “, an extraordinary story of the influence of three remarkable grandmothers in the lives of their grandchildren, and their uphill battle to mitigate the negative influences of their irresponsible children. Janvier Chouteu-Chando takes the reader ...

When the debased Njoumen seeks sanctuary in his grandfather's royal palace, her number one concern is her mental health. As she glosses in her recovered status as a princess and unleashes the full force of her free-spiritedness, her unfamiliar ways make her the source of attention. But nobody has an idea of what would make her contented in life. That is until she engages her grandfather the king. What she wants most is a man to make her feel fulfilled in life, a sense of worth her husband never stirred in her bosom. So, when three years later, Njoumen's dejected husband challenges this ...

Marrying Sancho, the love of her life, is enough reason for Tatiana to forgo a desire to serve The Lord. So, the last day of their honeymoon in the exotic Windward and Leeward Caribbean islands of the Lesser Antilles is expected to be special. However, a terrorist attack calls into question this young couple's idyllic honeymoon. Suddenly Tatiana and Sancho find themselves in an atmosphere where love also entails killing for a set of beliefs. An escape from the reality of their world is all that Tatiana seeks. And she is determined to take Sancho with him. "The Sweetest Madness" comes before...

In a world where attitudes and behaviors that were taboo not long ago are now acceptable in a world where the future is frightening to many, we appear to be the helpless onlookers of a process we have no control over. So, finding out that there are underlying efforts by governments, the media, or private groups to influence particular attitudes and social behaviors on a large scale, for the purpose of producing desired results or certain characteristics in particular segments of the population, would be shocking to many people. It is even more shocking when the social engineers are ...

INCLUSO SUS ENEMIGOS LLORARON: El asesinato de Yitzhak Rabin de Israel, Janvier T. Chando proporciona al lector un relato sucinto y perspicaz de Yitzhak Rabin que nos ayuda a entender su mundo, la región turbulenta en la que nació, la complejidad de la geopolítica y lo que implica el liderazgo --- confianza, coraje, compasión, inspiración, conocimiento, comprensión, integridad, justicia, motivación. El alucinante relato nos lleva a través del viaje de Yitzhak Rabin como un niño tímido empujado por las exigencias de su tiempo para convertirse en soldado y desempeñar un papel ...

This succinct narrative effortlessly takes us through a millennium and a half of the formative history of the land that is at the center of geopolitics today. As the first part of a breathtaking account that takes us hand-in-hand through the landmark history of the land variously described as "The Holy Land", “The Promised Land", Israel and Palestine, this narrative provides unique insight into plans — attempted and not yet articulated — to resolve the conflict between two peoples or nations with deep connections to the land, but who are not living there in peace because they are ...

"The Ancestry Factor in American Elections" es una obra pionera que nos muestra el aspecto menos comentado de la composición demográfica estadounidense, que aunque complejo en sí mismo, proporciona una visión única de cómo se ganan y pierden las elecciones en los Estados Unidos de América. Descubrimos que este curioso aspecto de la ascendencia es algo en lo que los medios de comunicación, deliberada o inconscientemente, no se detienen, centrándose en cambio en las agendas económicas, políticas y sociales específicas de las fuerzas que están empeñadas en moldear la sociedad, el...

A conflict is haunting the East Slavs, the Slavic world, Europe, and the people of European ancestry elsewhere in the world. It is the conflict in Ukraine. How the peoples of Ukraine and Russia, countries that are offshoots of Kievan Rus, took the engineered path that led to the largest military conflict in Europe since World War Two, is presented succinctly by this authoritative account. The author takes the reader through the nature of the grievances, policies, and actions—covert and open—that led the Ukrainian people to the primrose path that culminated in a civil war and a war with ...

The 2016 Presidential election will be remembered for ages not only for producing the biggest upset in the history of American politics, but also for the colorfulness of the primaries of both the Democratic and the Republican parties. When Bernie Sanders, the little-known Independent senator from small state Vermont boldly stated that he was a Democratic Socialist, and then began his race for the White House as a Democratic Party candidate, hardly anyone took him seriously. After all, he was up against the entire Democratic Party machinery and their favored candidate Hillary Clinton. Many ...

In this story of family bonding which sees siblings, parents, children and grandparents find common ground in a world where the capacity for awareness outside the focus of attention appears to grow less with successive generations, a cultured child is a rarity. Tatiana discovers that all is not so from his haunted uncle.