Boris Petrenkov, a former Soviet apparatchik and engineer, embarks on a train ride in Siberia that stirs his memory of the heyday of the Soviet Union when he championed the construction of the BAM (Baikal-Amur-Mainline) railway line from the northern...
When the variously-gifted Josef Nana Njike tells his sons that “…a successful man in life owes a lot to society…” he does not imagine the impact those words would have on his legacy after his death. However, his life story as an orphaned whiz...
Tatiana loses faith in her mother and embarks on a path to break a cycle haunting her maternal lineage. But then, she finds that the life she is embracing does not really nourish her soul. Not until she willingly accepts the loving trust of Sanch...
When bright-eyed child prodigy Gavin Njike loses his family and pursues a hazy path of vengeance, he never imagined he could end up serving his family’s killers.However, that is the case after he joins the country’s intelligence. Things start to ...
A young king takes his sister out of her conjugal home in arrogation of his traditional powers over the issue of the bride price. Her uncle challenges him in a French court, thereby highlighting a bizarre but insightful case of the clash of cultures....
In this story shedding light on the relationship between man and his best friend, the abandoned Billy recounts his story to the Grand Master about an affluent life lived and about betrayal in the hands of his parents....
When the strung Jeremiah Nana Njike visits his grandparents in rural Africa in what he planned to be a lazy vacation, and then spends time with his engaging grandfather, his seer friend and his uncle, he thinks he is only paying his respects to the ...
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 is tasked to shep...
Does the action of a fake reflect the centuries-old tradition of a people whose life revolve an icon that suffers from the deception? Custodians of a legacy and a bright-eyed soul seek an answer to that riddle. Ngoko’s Folly precedes The Usurper...
Boris Alexander Hogan, born Boris Alexandrovich Petrenkov is a symbol of financial success in a line that bred revolutionaries and communists. Considered a maverick by many for making his fortunes in the harsh Australian outback after parlaying h...
A teenage girl who is about to take a leap of faith seeks the counsel of his insightful uncle. But all he can provide insights? Does a journey that takes her to the heart of altruism, charity and solidarity, bigotry, racism, and divine providence pro...
In this tumultuous story of a rugged character who retains his zest for life, the postulation that ideas are like fire, holds true here, as we see that ideas can burn the world or they can illuminate it. So, when old man Joe battles with his descend...
Just before Tatiana sets off to start a new life of deprivation, her insightful uncle helps her grapple with the meaning of life and to come to grips with a world where people betray over a fickle, and where the quest for self-gratification supersede...
In this story of men trained to save lives who make it their mission to save humanity, we see their strengths and weaknesses in a world where interests supersedes ideals, where the love of life reveal the trait of treachery even in people with nobl...
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. Howeve...
The gripping story of a German mulatto who seeks refuge in French Cameroun, and then leads his father’s family and Business Empire through Africa’s most brutal colonial war that historians describe as ‘France’s hidden war in Africa”. When ...
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 sanctify of life and preventing the tain...
In pursuit of revenge, former French commando Rene Roccard embarks on a course to assassinate underground leader Ruben Um that takes him from New York to Europe and Africa. Relentless on his heels is veteran American journalist Clement Coulther as th...
Rene Roccard fails to assassinate Underground leader Ruben Um in New York; so he pursues him to Cameroon, trailed by American journalist Clement Coulther.Gavin loses his innocence in a Rene-led campaign by the Franco-Cameroonian army against the Rube...
Simple Folks Extraordinary Heroes Peculiar Deeds Subtle Rewards These short stories that embrace the complexities that make us human, will captivate the reader and expose hidden truths that some of us are indifferent about....
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 expatia...
This collection of exquisite short stories explores life’s temperaments in a dispassionate manner through characters and their actions that give us a better understanding of the enemies of peace―ambition, anger, avarice, envy, and pride―inhabit...
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 up...
En prinsson navigerar hans igenom maktens labyrint för att bli den nya kungen. Är hans blod tillräckligt kungligt för att hejda kaoset i hans kungarike när han står inför utmaningarna från sin fiende som ä...
Hans Wette Heinrich's world turns upside down following the promulgation of the Nuremberg Laws in Nazi Germany, forcing him to seek sanctuary in Africa and embrace a father he barely knows.His new African family and childhood friend help him settle d...
This is a story about a legend in that part of Africa called Africa in Miniature, The Microcosm of Africa.There was a time in the land when the story of Josef Nana Njike's life and death became a popular narration. Different versions of the account h...
In diesem mutigen und erschreckenden Bericht über den postsowjetischen Raum gibt uns der Autor einen faszinierenden Einblick in Russland, die Ukraine, Weißrussland und die anderen Republiken der Sowjetunion durch den überlebensgroß...
Janvier Chouteu-Chando's Fortune's Children is the gripping story of a mixed-race German who escapes Nazi rule and seeks refuge in French Cameroun, and then leads his father's family and Business Empire through Africa's most brutal colonial war that ...
In questo coraggioso e agghiacciante resoconto dello spazio post-sovietico, l'autore ci fornisce una visione affascinante della Russia, dell'Ucraina, della Bielorussia e delle altre repubbliche dell'Unione Sovietica attraverso il personaggio più...
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 i...
Neste relato corajoso e arrepiante do espaço pós-soviético, o autor nos fornece uma visão fascinante da Rússia, Ucrânia, Bielorrússia e outras repúblicas da União Soviética através do personagem ...