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FictionAugust 2020I Crave For Euthanasia
by José Martins Gago
A piercing plot about the choice of life and death. I Crave for Euthanasia tells the story of a man who sees himself struggling with a terminal disease and wishes to take control of his own faith, with the help of his wife. Will she convince the governmental and ecclesiastical institutions to accept the end of her husband suffering and of thousands of other people around the world? Or will the Vatican choose to keep their eyes closed to the petitions of their faithful? In this in-depth novel, José Martins Gago raises questions that leads us to the limits of our own existence, and to debate in our own minds one of the most contemporary controversies of mankind, whilst takes the reader in a journey around the world, to the most exotic and remote places.
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FictionJuly 2018Risk Commitment
by Maria Ana de Carvalho Ameixa
Joana, a paediatrician by heart working in the Santa Maria Hospital, is able to read the mind of other people, sort of speak. She’s also waiting for a meeting with love. An unusual incident will take her right to the arms of her loved one, but Joana never imagined that this Israelite would become so deeply mysterious. The mind of that man holds undecipherable thoughts. Is he a terrorist? A member of a radical secret organization? Ho will she act when she finds out the truth?A magnificent plot that will take the main character to Lisbon, Lagos, Jerusalem and Telavive, an unflinching narrative that will make the reader wonder about our goals in life.
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Children's & YASeptember 2014The Boy who Spat in Sargrenti's Eye
by Manu Herbstein
On 13 June 1873 British forces bombarded Elmina town in the Gold Coast (now Ghana) and destroyed it. To this day it has not been rebuilt. Later that same year, using seaborne artillery, the British flattened ten coastal towns and villages – including Axim, Takoradi and Sekondi. On 6th February, 1874, after looting the Asantehene’s palace in Kumase, British troops blew up the stone building and set the city on fire, razing it to the ground. 15-year old Kofi Gyan witnesses these events and records them in his diary. This novel, first published soon after the 140th anniversary of the sack of Kumase, tells his story. Several historical characters feature in the novel: the Asantehene Kofi Karikari, the war correspondents Henry Morton Stanley and G. A. Henty and the war artist of the Illustrated London News, Melton Prior, who employs Kofi as his assistant. The novel is illustrated with 70 black and white images, mainly from the Illustrated London News of 1873 and 1874 The image on the front cover is of a solid gold mask looted from the Asantehene’s palace. It now resides in the vaults of the Wallace Collection in London. The Boy who Spat in Sargrenti’s Eye is one of three winners of the 2013 Burt Award for African Literature in Ghana. The Burt Award for African Literature recognises excellence in young adult fiction from African countries. It supports the writing and publication of high quality, culturally relevant books and ensures their distribution to schools and libraries to help develop young people’s literacy skills and foster their love of reading. The Burt Award is generously sponsored by the Canadian philanthropist, Bill Burt, and is part of the ongoing literacy programmes of the Ghana Book Trust and of CODE, a Canadian NGO which has been supporting development through education for over 50 years. The Burt Award includes the guaranteed purchase of 3000 copies of the winning books for free distribution to secondary school libraries.
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MedicineApril 2020Cultivate Spirituality
by Kao Yao-Kai
Coherence between “Medicine of Chi” and “Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine”, cultivate happiness of Chi sensation, Cultivate Spirituality will reveal the most effective regimen of solve anxiety and dissolve resentment Three moves a day to let you coherence between the heaven and earth and have the extraordinary luck ─ practice Tian Zhuang and De Zhuang, open Conception and Governor Vessels, and gather the Chi from belly button. Cultivate Spirituality not only makes you become healthy but also makes you fulfill highest CP value of happiness! ◆How to cultivate good spirituality: - Coherence between heaven and earth and eliminate your stress and negative emotions by only practicing Tian Zhuang (天樁) and De Zhuang (地樁) for 5 minutes a day. - A unique way to gather the Chi from belly button that can maintain heart, kidney, lung and liver. It’s the most easy and highest CP value of maintenance method. - Open Ren Meridian (conception vessel, 任脈) and Du Meridian (governing vessel, 督脈) by visualizations. - Connect the world and practice Yin and Yang combination to share a good magnetic field with the body and eliminate the negative energy in it. - Teach you how to find a place you stay where has good environment that can give you the best sleep. This unique way of cultivating spirituality principle was verified by Dr. Kao himself and combined with years of clinical medical practice experience. Dr. Kao selected the most effective core principles from many exercises. You don't need to remember a bunch of them, what you practice is focusing on happiness and physical comfort. As long as you spend a little time every day on practicing Tian Zhuang and De Zhuang, and cultivate good spirits, you will be keenly aware of any discomfort in every inch of your body when a sense of good spirits appears. When awareness is improved and emotions are digested, the feeling of happiness will also emerge spontaneously, and extends to the people you interact with, making everyone around you happy. Regardless of whether you have practiced Chi or not, your meridians will dredge slowly when reading Cultivate Spirituality. You will no longer be who you were before. Through the simple but effective method in this book, you will experience greater happiness.
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Biography & True StoriesOctober 2020JOAN BAEZ
The Last Leaf
by Elizabeth Thomson
Since she stepped onstage unannounced at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival, Joan Baez has occupied a singular place in popular music. Within three years, she had recorded three best-selling albums and had embarked on a tour of southern US campuses, playing to integrated audiences in an era of segregation. When Time magazine chronicled the folk revival in November 1962, her portrait was on the cover. Her voice was “as lustrous and rich as old gold.” She has mentored generations of singer-songwriters, most famously Bob Dylan. But Joan Baez has always been much more than simply a singer. Even before she joined Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. on the podium at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in August 1963, she had used her gift to bring solace and hope to people who had little of either. In words and deeds, Baez has consistently championed social justice, nonviolence the guiding principle of her life, and the causes for which she has campaigned are legion. Whether playing to integrated audiences in the American south during the years of segregation, in Latin America during the years of brutal dictatorships, or Sarajevo under siege, Baez offered “an act of love, sharing, witness and music”. Approaching 80, she has stepped down from the stage following a worldwide farewell tour and a final, Grammy-nominated album. She is now embarked on a new chapter of life—painting.Drawing on interviews with long-time friends and musical associates, and on conversations across four decades with Baez herself, Joan Baez: The Last Leaf is a celebration of a timeless figure whose music and influence will endure long after her voice is silenced. The Discography is by Grammy-nominated music historian Arthur Levy. "I don t think it is an exaggeration to say that this is a book destined to become the definitive word on the life and times of Joan Baez; put it on your list of this year's essential reads."Americana UK Author Elizabeth Thomson has written articles and interviews in newspapers and magazines around the world, including The Times and MOJO. A contributor to The New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians, Thomson is also the editor of Conclusions on the Wall: New Essays on Bob Dylan and the co-editor of The Dylan Companion.
