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Destiny Achievers: Driven By Purpose ...
Destiny Achievers brings to light what it takes to accomplish one’s purpose and ultimately fulfilling destiny. Many people fall off the path of destiny because they imagine that they can do it on their own.
Don’t be fooled. Human wisdom can’t guarantee you a place in the heart of destiny. When challenges come, man’s wisdom will fail you big time- but God’s love won’t. His counsel beats all odds of life and ultimately usher you to the place of glory.
Joshua Beti discusses at length the different battles every man of destiny encounters. This is in reference to the Ancient Biblical King David, whose tenure as the leader of Israel came with battles from all fronts. However before he was laid to rest, he had served God’s purpose in his time. If you are willing and obedient, just like David was, a man after God’s own heart, you too will achieve destiny.
You will find answers to tough questions like these:
- Am I really equal to the herculean task of fulfilling destiny?
- Does my life really matter?
- What is it going to take for me to pursue my purpose and fulfill destiny?
The Talking Of Trees by Alexander Nde...
This stage play script covers the life, death and legacy of Prof. Wangari Maathai in unsurpassed technicolour. Steeped in research and injected with a heavy dose of imagination (and a double dose of humour), THE TALKING OF TREES will make you laugh, cry, and cheer.
A biographical note on the Nobel Prize's official website, www.nobelprize.org, captures the essence of Prof. Maathai:
"Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. She was also the first female scholar from East and Central Africa to take a doctorate (in biology), and the first female professor ever in her home country of Kenya... Maathai played an active part in the struggle for democracy in Kenya, and belonged to the opposition to Daniel arap Moi's regime. In 1977 she started a grass-roots movement aimed at countering the deforestation that was threatening the means of subsistence of the agricultural population. The campaign encouraged women to plant trees in their local environments and to think ecologically. The so-called Green Belt Movement spread to other African countries, and contributed to the planting of over thirty million trees..."
Kiss, Commander, Promise by Alexander...
In Kenya, an Egyptian defector becomes the focal point of an African Cold War - but is he a player or a pawn in the international game of political chess?
In North Korea, a disillusioned spy plays a cat-and-mouse game against his own secret service…
In Canada, a successful businesswoman must outwit a stalker who has come a little too close for comfort…
In Israel, a secret plan to bioengineer an army of cloned soldiers creates ʹthe perfect storm’ of controversy…
In Rwanda, a young family flees the 1994 in a heart-rending tale of courage, sacrifice, hatred and fear…
Back in Nairobi, an investigator is called in after an Indian family’s wedding plans turn into funeral arrangements…
Ripples of alarm begin to spread when a soon-to-be-crowned Nobel laureate goes missing, believed kidnapped…
A varsity student meets her idol...
A political assassination is investigated...
And a love triangle between a high-strung cop, a naïve writer and a beautiful girl spirals dangerously out of control…
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"A seriously thrilling collection of short stories. From espionage to crimes of passion to tragic love stories. Alexander Nderitu's heavily researched anthology is proof that Kenyan writers have come of age, ready to compete with international big guns." - Ciku Kimani-Mwaniki, author of the Cocktail book series
The Moon Is Made Of Green Cheese by A...
From a writer who was born on William Shakespeare's birthday comes this delightful collection of poems crafted over several years.
'The Moon is Made of Green Cheese' is a literary safari that will take you from the world's beaches to the depths of the cosmos, from human relationships to the feeding habits of crocodiles, from philosophical thoughts to love in the time of malaria...
Like a pot of East Africa pilau, there's something here for everyone, and if this critically acclaimed collection doesn't become an international literary hit, then the world is upside down and the moon is made of green cheese!
When The Whirlwind Passes by Alexande...
Maggie Njeri's encounter with Michael Othaya, the young heir to a multi-billion-shilling fashion empire, marked the beginning of a cataclysmic cycle of events that would involve sex, manipulation, conspiracy...and first-degree murder.
To be sure, the Sultans of Fashion had had their fair share of scandals and intrigues in the past. Overly ambitious and genetically predisposed towards greed, the rich and famous Othayas were no strangers to controversy. But it wasn't until Michael and Maggie - a ghetto princess - started romancing that the feuding family's civil war reached its climax...
Easily digested and written with a handle on humour, When the Whirlwind Passes is doubtless one of the best crime novels to ever come out of Africa.
‘Alex Nderitu is one of a handful of young, brilliant writers to come off the Kenyan terrain in the recent past. His books (hoping there will be many more)…are pure commercial escapism, and brilliantly written at that.’
- Saturday Magazine/Daily Nation
Morning Shall Come by Ouma Don Collins
Brief Summary
Struggle is not new to humanity. It has and always will be part of us, whatever form it takes, but the pain.
Struggle measures our resilience and builds our fortitude. The more we overcome, the better we become. Therefore, hold on, it is only for a while. Give it another push, try it differently maybe. Rest if you must, but do not give up.
‘Morning Shall Come’ is about rising above struggle. It is a spring of hope and reassurance for better days ahead. It picks on the little everyday things that make life beautiful.
It tickles the heart, provokes the mind and uplifts the soul.
First Words (Poetry) by Vincent de Paul
Brief Summary
First Words is a 2010 Nairobi International Book Fair (NIBF) Literary Awards winning collection of poems that would ring, reverberate and ricochet long after you have heard them... the inner self seeking your attention and begging to be listened.
Vincent de Paul's first words to the world is through the pen, the sharpest of all swords, to salvage a lost people, to revoke vices, condemn and right a society that's profane and down the oh so ever trodden path to damnation.
Inevitable Desires: First Love by Vin...
Brief Summary
When her boyfriend goes missing without a trace, Hedwig Sanzi Joe is not prepared to face the reality. As she tries to understand what really happened, she is drawn into a vortex of a dark past, secrets, and betrayal.
Every step she makes, everything she does, is a terrible mistake with catastrophic outcomes in her life.
As she navigates through the murky waters of her new life, her dead boyfriend comes back to life at a time her marriage has hit the rocks. Hedwig has a fierce battle to fight—desires of her heart and the ticking bomb that’s her marriage.
Flashes of Vice: Vol III by Vincent d...
Brief Summary
‘Flashes of Vice: Vol III’ depicts society’s ills through flash fiction stories: terrorism, sexual relations, conspiracies, why aliens have beef with humans and the scars of war.
It is a collection of flash fiction stories showing terrorists that the 72 virgins in heaven is a hoax, Allah Himself confirming there are no 72 (sic) hours up there, the untold stories of secret military program that was the Egerton mosquitoes in Nakuru and stories of aliens planning to invade the earth amid conspiracies to control the world population through Zika Virus.
The stories begin and end without warning: like ‘Allah’s Open Letter to Terrorists’, or the story of the virgin girl who vowed never ever to have sex with terrorists in heaven. Or the serial killer military widow who kills her dead husband’s friends for revenge. Or the untold story of Jesus’s resurrection in ‘How Did the Dead Escape?’.
The stories take you into the future, a flash of alien invasion on earth, and the all-time-juicy conspiracies to make the world a better place.
Flashes of Vice: Vol II by Vincent de...
Brief Summary
Life on the fast lane; sex, money and crime – the holy trinity of life. Terrorists and their virgins; love, romance and marriage chastised.
Flashes of Vice tells life as it is in short, punchy, thrilling stories. The switch is flipped on and off before you know what is happening, leave you wanting more and more – something you will never get.
Flashes of Vice: Vol II is the second book in the Flashes of Vice series. It is a collection of flash fiction stories touching on the vices affecting the society today: the holy trinity of life – money, sex & crime; terrorism and relationships.
Twisted Times: The Phantom by Vincent...
Brief Summary
A man is killed in cold blood; the killer must be brought to book.
For nine years, Kennedy Maina’s life has been uneventful until he leaves the church. Chaos plague his life when he is framed for murder, and unknown forces are against him.
As his past comes to haunt him, a ruthless, phantom killer is after Ken for revenge. It’s tragedy after tragedy and the ghosts of his past rally for a comeback.
Against a backdrop of conspiracies, drug trafficking and crime, powerful business cartels and a secret Brotherhood, blood is shed for selfish reasons.
Twisted Times: Son of Man by Vincent ...
Brief Summary
The dead can’t rest in peace. The living are in danger. And one man’s run has begun.
When Kennedy Paul Maina runs away from home, robbing the dead and crime becomes his life at the university where to survive he has to do what he must … and façade is a beautiful thing.
He runs from the police as a criminal, runs from assassins, and ultimately runs from himself. Worse, the vengeance-ridden leader of the criminal gang he left is after him—he wants to make Ken’s life a living hell.
Another Fabulous Year by Joyce Wakini
BOOK SUMMARY:
TITLE: ANOTHER FABULOUS YEAR ; AUTHOR: WAKINI JOYCE
This book focuses on how to build and develop your TALENTS. It was written detailing out a journey of best practises supporting individual's personal goals. A pillar for your next level of greater self leadership.
It is also best practice for those who seek to start working on some new things such as; now harnessing their talents profitably with or without unemployment. Some have a new business idea or want to heed their life calling into ministry, philanthropic work etc. The topics discussed herein are pillars towards your next level of work and career time.
Last but not least, ANOTHER FABULOUS YEAR is a manual that helps individuals map a way out of any kind of personal struggle. A pillar for setting up a new level of order from where they're right now.
Don't be surprised to find some activities for you to do in every chapter. Look out for them right at the start, for that's the beginning of the change.
CHAPTER HIGHLIGHTS:
The writer has systematically elaborated 8 pillars which you can use to start working on your next level. The following are the HIGHLIGHTS of each chapter;-
√ WHY you need to draft your wish list
√ Mental CLARITY and decision making
√ How to plan and why you need to conduct RESEARCH about your dreams
√ Ways to become a DOER and finally..
√ Make a commitment to SERVE globally with your gifts and talents.
This book ANOTHER FABULOUS YEAR will foster behaviour changes necessary for next level kind of performance. It shapes the character of its' readers way before they arrive on stage.
RECOMMENDATION:
What's behind the title ANOTHER FABULOUS YEAR? Time! It sets readers of the book to work from a schedule. That is, tie a time target to the change you want to see. While a one year challenge is sufficient for some kind of work or is even too much, for other scopes of work more time could be needed.
CONCLUSION:
Best practice for our next level, leaving no one behind.
BLURB (Inside): "Stepping into the present of who you have decided to be this year in order to appreciate your life even more and build a legacy."
Joyce Wakini | Author | Best Practices > ANOTHER FABULOUS YEAR
Bouncing back and Thriving: Titans Se...
Nairobi in the Making: Landscapes of ...
Brief Summary
What does it mean to make a life in an African city today? How do ordinary Africans, surrounded by collapsing urban infrastructures and amid fantastical promises of hypermodern, globalized futures, try to ensure a place for themselves in the city's future? Exploring the relationship between the remains of empire and the global city, and themes of urban belonging and exclusion, housing and security, Constance Smith examines the making and remaking of one of Africa's most fragmented, vibrant cities.
Nairobi is on the cusp of radical urban change. As in other capital cities across Africa, the Kenyan government has launched "Vision 2030", an urban megaproject that envisions the capital as a "world class metropolis", a spectacular new node in a network of global cities. Yet as a city born of British colonialism, Nairobians also live amongst the dilapidated vestiges of imperial urban planning; spaces designed to regulate urban subjects. Based on extensive ethnographic research in a dilapidated, colonial-era public housing project built as a model urban neighborhood but which is now slated for demolition, Smith explores how projects of self-making and city-making are entwined.
She traces how it is through residents' everyday lives - in the mundane, incremental work of home maintenance, in the accumulation of stories about the past, in ordinary people's aspirations for the future - that urban landscapes are formed, imaginatively, materially and unpredictably, across time. Nairobi emerges as a place of pathways and plans, obstructions and aspirations, residues and endurances, that inflect the way that ordinary people produce the city, generating practices of history making, ideas about urban belonging and attempts to refashion "Vision 2030" into a future more meaningful and inclusive to ordinary city dwellers.
Humans by Brandon Stanton
Brandon Stanton created Humans of New York in 2010. What began as a photographic census of life in New York City, soon evolved into a storytelling phenomenon. A global audience of millions began following HONY daily. Over the next several years, Stanton broadened his lens to include people from across the world.
Traveling to more than forty countries, he conducted interviews across continents, borders, and language barriers. Humans is the definitive catalogue of these travels.
The faces and locations will vary from page to page, but the stories will feel deeply familiar. Told with candor and intimacy, Humans will resonate with readers across the globe―providing a portrait of our shared experience.
The Art of Seduction by Robert Greene
The season's most talked-about all-purpose personal strategy guide and philosophical compendium," said Newsweek of Robert Greene's bold, elegant, and ingenious manual of modern manipulation, The 48 Laws of Power. Now Greene has once again mined history and literature to distill the essence of seduction, the most highly refined mode of influence, the ultimate power trip.
The Art of Seduction is a masterful synthesis of the work of thinkers such as Freud, Ovid, Kierkegaard, and Einstein, as well as the achievements of the greatest seducers throughout history. From Cleopatra to John F. Kennedy, from Andy Warhol to Josephine Bonaparte, The Art of Seduction gets to the heart of the character of the seducer and his or her tactics, triumphs and failures. The seducer's many faces include: the Siren, the Rake, the Ideal Lover, the Dandy, the Natural, the Coquette, the Charmer, and the Charismatic.
Twenty-four maneuvers will guide readers through the seduction process, providing cunning, amoral instructions for and analysis of this fascinating, all-pervasive form of power. Just as beautifully packaged and every bit as essential as The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction is an indispensable primer of persuasion and offers the best lessons on how to take what you want from whomever you want or how to prevent yourself from being taken.
Self Esteem Bible Build Your Confiden...
Brief Summary
Learn the secrets of self-esteem with 365 tips from the UK’s number one confidence expert Gael Lindenfield. Dip into this comprehensive self-help handbook as and when you need it or use it as a personal development plan. Includes advice on social life, work issues, relationships and much more.
Poor self-esteem can sabotage relationships and careers, cause self-destructive behaviour and hold us back from achieving our true potential.
In this comprehensive guide, self-esteem expert Gael Lindenfield gives you all the advice you need for building confidence in yourself and your abilities.
Designed to be dipped into as and when you need a confidence-boost, or followed as a personal development programme, this is a highly practical self-help handbook that will give you concrete results.
Includes sections on work, social life, relationships, health and personal development, so you will regain self-esteem by making new friends, getting over past hurts, boosting assertiveness, learning how to deal with difficult people and situations, think positively and get motivated to achieve your dreams.
With tips for both the short- and long-term, this book provides ways to boost your self-esteem immediately – and then reveals how to stay self-confident for life!
A Promised Land: Deluxe Signed Editio...
Brief Summary
SIGNED CLOTHBOUND BOOK IN SLIPCASE • A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency—a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
Obama takes readers on a compelling journey from his earliest political aspirations to the pivotal Iowa caucus victory that demonstrated the power of grassroots activism to the watershed night of November 4, 2008, when he was elected 44th president of the United States, becoming the first African American to hold the nation’s highest office.
Reflecting on the presidency, he offers a unique and thoughtful exploration of both the awesome reach and the limits of presidential power, as well as singular insights into the dynamics of U.S. partisan politics and international diplomacy. Obama brings readers inside the Oval Office and the White House Situation Room, and to Moscow, Cairo, Beijing, and points beyond. We are privy to his thoughts as he assembles his cabinet, wrestles with a global financial crisis, takes the measure of Vladimir Putin, overcomes seemingly insurmountable odds to secure passage of the Affordable Care Act, clashes with generals about U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, tackles Wall Street reform, responds to the devastating Deepwater Horizon blowout, and authorizes Operation Neptune’s Spear, which leads to the death of Osama bin Laden.
A Promised Land is extraordinarily intimate and introspective—the story of one man’s bet with history, the faith of a community organizer tested on the world stage. Obama is candid about the balancing act of running for office as a Black American, bearing the expectations of a generation buoyed by messages of “hope and change,” and meeting the moral challenges of high-stakes decision-making. He is frank about the forces that opposed him at home and abroad, open about how living in the White House affected his wife and daughters, and unafraid to reveal self-doubt and disappointment. Yet he never wavers from his belief that inside the great, ongoing American experiment, progress is always possible.
This beautifully written and powerful book captures Barack Obama’s conviction that democracy is not a gift from on high but something founded on empathy and common understanding and built together, day by day.
Author: Barack Obama