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Stopping Mass Killings in Africa: Genocide, Airpower, and Intervention - Somalia, Rwanda, Hutus and Tutsis, Ivory Coast    by Progressive Management
Price: $9.99 USD. 52200 words. Published on June 19, 2012. .

This monograph seeks to contribute to the urgent task of developing realistic strategies for preventing and stopping genocide and mass killings. Neither humanitarian operations in a passive environment nor combat operations serve as appropriate models for interventions geared specifically at stopping genocide.
Land-Based Air Power in Third World Crises: A Look at Different Types of Crises, Mayaguez Incident, Bay of Pigs, Yom Kippur War, Sub-Saharan Africa    by Progressive Management
Price: $9.99 USD. 77560 words. Published on June 19, 2012. .

The basic thrust of this study is to demonstrate the utility and limitations of land-based aircraft when used to attain political objectives in crises occurring in the third world. Crises, when used in the context of this study, are viewed primarily as a series of interactions between or within states for which there exists the perception of a high probability of war.
Moni The Monkey    by Angelika Wohlrab
Price: $4.99 USD. 10330 words. Published by E-Books Publisher on July 2, 2012. .

Moni a young, abandoned, white Monkey is adopted by Nana. Nana’s own baby is thought to have been taken by humans. But Moni feels that she doesn’t fit into her new troop because of her colouring and the taunts of another young monkey in the troop, so she befriends animals of different species. Her new friends, Impi the Impala and a Ground Squirrel called Suni take her on life-learning adventures.
The Lonely Woman    by Sa’id Ahmad
Price: $0.99 USD. 8550 words. Published by WSIC EBooks Ltd.  on July 5, 2012. .

Zainab was intelligent, beautiful, and ambitious. But unfortunately for her, she was born into a race that considered women to be a man’s plaything and slave. So at a very tender age and without any serious education, she was given out in marriage to a man chosen for her by her father. She got nothing but disaster from that. She had a second one that was worst and reduced her to a nervous wreck.
BUT HE CALLS ME BLESSED! When the Unbelievable Happens to Believers    by Sarah Udoh-Grossfurthner
Price: $5.99 USD. 45900 words. Published by firsteditiondesignebooks on July 8, 2012. .

These are stories of redemption and victory over incredible adversity.
The Alchemy of Fuchsine    by D Reeder
Price: $0.99 USD. 5430 words. Published on July 10, 2012. .

Salima, a beautiful Somalian girl, captures the heart of a nomadic seller of carpets. A man with an extraordinary sensitivity to colours, who later becomes a witness to all that befalls his people. What tragic fate befalls Salima in this heart wrenching story is based on real events.If only it were not so. This story is dedicated to the memory of Halima Ibrahim Abdurrahman who died aged 20.
Entrepreneurs in Africa - Hopes and Mirages    by AAE Africa Team
Price: $4.99 USD. 72430 words. Published on July 10, 2012. .

Part one of two, this book outlines the roles and ambitions of entrepreneurs in the African continent. Consists of several 'overview' articles followed by detailed analysis of the business environment and opportunities available in each country in Africa. The anaysis is well supported with statistics and data drawn from a wide variety of international sources.
Entrepreneurs in Africa - Hopes and Mirages (Pt2)    by AAE Africa Team
Price: $4.99 USD. 73370 words. Published on July 10, 2012. .

Part two of two, this part completes the detailed analysis of the business environment and opportunities available in each country in Africa. The analysis is well supported with statistics and data drawn from a wide variety of international sources. An assessment of SEZ's and the role played by China in the development of business in Africa completes the book.
On the Footprints of the Ghost Clinique    by Serban Margineanu
Price: $9.99 USD. 26610 words. Published by Florin Alexandru Radu on July 11, 2012. .

ON THE FOOTPRINTS OF THE GHOST CLINIQUE is, above all, a social novel. It is constructed with the style of a crime novel, to facilitate the public access towards a more digestible literary type of fiction. The majority of the characters are marked by an immense social trauma.
Kingsley Calendar's Experiment in the Field    by S.K. Epperson
Price: $0.99 USD. 15550 words. Published on July 15, 2012. .

A determined billionaire takes people from refugee camps in the poorest areas around the globe and brings them to the U.S. to live in a grand humanitarian experiment that finds him strung from a tree, bloodied by the Taliban, haunted by an albino African witch then kidnapped by a homeless man with a tattoo on his butt that reads 'No Embalming'.