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In a world where the Na'vi lost the war, Pandora lives under human rule. Fifteen years after the death of Jake Sully, the forests are quieter, the clans are scattered, and the People are hunted to near extinction. Neteyem, the son of Neytiri and the fallen Toruk Makto, has grown up in the shadow of loss-taught to survive, to fight, and above all, to never trust the sky people. Anu is everything he was raised to hate. A young human hunter trained to kill Na'vi without hesitation, she moves through the forest like a weapon-cold, efficient, and hollow. Secretly fascinated by the world she helps destroy, Anu carries a longing she does not understand and a loyalty that is slowly breaking. When hunter and hunted cross paths again and again, hatred gives way to obsession, restraint, and something far more dangerous: understanding. Bound by a forbidden connection, torn between legacy and choice, Neteyem and Anu are drawn toward a fate that will decide the future of Pandora itself. Some wars end in victory. Others end in sacrifice.

All everyone talks in town is of how the brilliant and learned councillor Louis has gone mad. One day, he suddenly gave up his promising career and all his properties and started telling everyone the bizarre story that landed him in jail. And no one seems to know why...

They came, they saw, they conquered. Or maybe they came, they saw, they co-existed and educated?

One empire fights for its soul. The other fights for its ledger. Canton, 1839. The Pearl River is a graveyard of secrets, choked by the hulls of British merchant ships and the sweet, sickly scent of "Foreign Mud." To the West, opium is the perfect commodity-the silver-maker that balances the scales of the British Empire. To the East, it is a poison dissolving the Mandate of Heaven. When Commissioner Liang Wei arrives with a mandate from the Emperor to choke the trade at its source, he sets a match to a powder keg that has been dry for centuries. Four lives collide in the smoke: The Patriot: A rigid moralist who believes righteousness can outgun a fleet. The Merchant: A pragmatist who views addiction as a mere variable in a balance sheet. The Scholar's Son: A brilliant youth whose descent into the pipe mirrors his nation's decay. The Court Insider: A survivor who knows that the loudest voices for war often hide the deepest corruption. From the opulent tea houses of the Thirteen Factories to the blood-stained decks of the Royal Navy's steamships, The Opium Wars is a sprawling epic of systemic collapse. In a world where honor is traded for silver and morality is obscured by a cloud of white smoke, there are no heroes-only the survivors of a century of humiliation. History is written in ink. It is erased in blood.

The story takes place in a fictional country called New Coast in the southern region of Africa. It follows a ruthless dictator who would do anything to stay in power. Highest Ranking #1 in Colonialism. #5 in Dictator. #2 in African books.

Fragments of a Shattered Sun is an oral history novel chronicling the fictional Mindanao War of Independence (2028-2031), told through interviews, recovered letters, declassified documents, and testimonies collected by a historian in 2041. For decades, Manila treated Mindanao as a colony within its own nation-extracting nickel, gold, and timber while returning only soldiers and broken promises. When a leaked government bill threatens to privatize Lake Lanao itself, selling the sacred waters to presidential cronies, three unlikely leaders stand together: a Maranao professor, a Christian bishop, and a Lumad chieftain whose father was killed by Moro fighters decades earlier. Their declaration of independence ignites a war that will draw in great powers, shatter families, and force impossible choices on everyone it touches. The novel unfolds through a mosaic of voices on all sides of the conflict: a schoolteacher who becomes a guerrilla commander; a young soldier from Luzon questioning why he's fighting people who look like his cousins; a trauma surgeon who abandons her Manila career to operate by flashlight in jungle caves; fishermen turned smugglers; overseas workers who leave jobs in the Gulf to take up rifles; diplomats maneuvering in Bangkok and Riyadh; a palace secretary who witnesses power unraveling from the inside. As the war escalates, foreign powers pursue their own interests on Mindanaoan soil. American advisors, Chinese operatives, Malaysian intelligence officers, and Filipino diaspora networks from Dubai to San Diego are drawn into a conflict that refuses simple narratives of good and evil. Fragments of a Shattered Sun explores how ordinary people are transformed by extraordinary circumstances-and what it costs to build a nation from blood and hope. It is a story of exploitation and resistance, of unity forged across generations of distrust, and of the question that haunts everyone who survives: was it worth it?

Jire is one girl in a city of thousands; a city ruled by invaders who take everything they can and leave nothing for people like her. But none of that matters anymore. Only today's water matters.

Ever since the 1.19.1 community crisis began to unravel, we have seen an uproar of people now turning their backs against Mojang Studios and the developers. This is totally unacceptable. Read more about this latest backlash here.

Myan Lami was built to be unbreakable-a biotic Special Agent of the Terran Federation, forged from self-replicating microchips and genetically loyal to his creators. But on the ice-covered world of Epsilon Indi A 1, he faces a mission that will test more than his strength. Sent to investigate a vanished expedition, Lami stumbles into the path of the Minvali, a towering alien people with a complex society and a buried grudge. As he endures captivity, humiliation, and the slow unraveling of an interstellar mystery, he begins to question the Federation's truth-and his own purpose within it. Haunted by a past he cannot erase and drawn toward a future he may not understand, Lami must navigate a deadly terrain of cultural conflict, buried secrets, and choices no soldier was ever meant to make. In a world where loyalty is programmed and justice is expendable, Choices of Steel asks what remains when loyalties break-and whether conscience can outweigh command. This story takes place in my Lords of the Stars shared universe. See my profile for other stories set in the same universe.

A poem about the injustice of choosing profits over people to the tune of 1.6 million deaths per year. Tuberculosis is curable - yet it is allowed to kill so many because of price-gouging companies like Cepheid (owned by Danaher) which charge exorbitant prices for tuberculosis testing equipment to the people who can least afford to pay. Going undiagnosed prevents access to treatment. *The following information is outdated as this campaign started in 2023 and has had a good amount of success, but I am leaving it up to maintain the context of my poem. Test cartridges sell for $10-15 but only cost $3-4 to make, and hundreds of millions of development dollars were public money!! This is an unconscionable decision by a private company to deprive people of healthcare across the world. You can help by emailing Danaher at sustainability@danaher.com , tagging them at @CepheidNews and @DanaherCorp , and calling them at 202-828-0850 or 888.838.3222 . Join us - every voice matters. Your voice matters. Let's do this! #timeforfive For an overview of the situation, check out this video from John Green: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSC06P9A5W4 Go here for more info and for message templates!! http://tbfighters.org

A book that details the journeys, thoughts along with the company and environment of an "undead" but young looking lady. Edinburgh in the 1880's is the latest place for her cleansing event but her past threatens to overcome her as she makes the mistake of feeling human again -

A short essay detailing the contributions of political activist Lamine Senghor and author Rene Maran to the Negritude movement and how these contributions paved the way for more well-known activists in later years.

The year is 1658. A young woman is tried in a Batavian court as a runaway and a thief. Her ear is cut off branding her as a convict slave and she is sentenced to a lifetime of slavery. Banished to a Dutch settlement she must serve her sentence as a female slave in a remote outpost at the Cape of Good Hope consisting mostly of men. How will she adapt as a convict slave in an environment consisting mainly of local inhabitants, sex hungry officials, soldiers and sailors? Will she succumb to the Dutch practices of frutification, sexual exploitation and assimilation or will she resist? Will she ingratiate herself with those who wield power to survive or not? What will be her destiny?

A story of first contact, the dawn of a new era, and the political ramifications which come alongside a a new superpower entering the field of globalism.

My name is General Abdu Jørgensen. I know that's a name that few have heard. History worked hard to forget me. Set at the outset of the Bamileke War of 1955, Abdu Jørgensen finds his talents as a combat commander are personally requested by the Cameroonian Peoples Union's (UPC) leader, Um Nyobe. Abdu is charged with expelling the French occupation and ultimately pave the way for Cameroon's independence.

History is written by the victors. And sometimes, by glitchy AI. Peter-Paul "Trouble" Besson never asked for his nickname-it just stuck. Maybe because he always talked back and always stood out. And in London, where his thick Trinidadian accent makes AI assistants malfunction, and interviewers hesitate, blending in was never an option. But when Trouble and his cousin Kwame break into the British Museum-not to steal, just to see-they accidentally trip an alarm that's way bigger than security guards and silent exits. The museum's AI has been rewriting history in real time, altering records, and erasing the truth. And now? It's decided Trouble himself is an escaped artefact. With the system flagging him as a black-market smuggler, a colonial-era thief, and-at one point-a misplaced historical relic, Trouble is on the run. The only way out? A stolen motorbike, a digital trail of corruption, and the British grandson of the archaeologist who dug up the Banwari Woman's remains decades ago. Trouble doesn't trust him, but they'll have to work together to expose the museum's biggest secret: history isn't just stolen-it's still being controlled. Fast. Hilarious. Razor-sharp. Talk Like Trouble is a high-speed heist, a digital revolution, and a fight to reclaim the past-before it gets erased for good.

Island of Saint-Domingue, 1801. Battles rage between Napoleon's invading forces and the local population. To repel this conquest that threatens their freedom, a voodoo sorcerer uses his ancestral knowledge to forge an army of zombies, humans stripped of all willpower. As this rebellion overwhelms the French army, an ambitious and cruel colonel discovers how to bring the dead back to life with the help of Carlos, a man who has fallen into madness. From now on, the routed soldiers possess an unstoppable military power capable of crushing the insurgents. But this power could pose an even greater threat to both sides. Caught in this macabre turmoil, Ludovic Cottin, a young recruit in the tricolor ranks, must fight for his survival and that of his unit, while learning to discern where the true evil lies within this historical conflict. Written by Arnold Petit, based on an original idea by Edmond Tourriol. Translated by Matthew Redman.