WHAT IS BLACK BY JOSEPHINE OSEI BONSU

Black is Love
Black is Beauty
Black is Selfless
Black is Kindness
Black is Priceless

Black is Sincerity
Black is Honesty
Black is Servitude
Black is Bold
Black is Humility

Black is Wisdom
Black is Blessing
Black is Grace
Black is Wealth
Black is Expensive

Black is Joy
Black is Honor
Black is Intelligence
Black is Productive
Black is Acceptance

THE LAST GIRL BY JANE CASEY

( The Family Secret )

SYNOPSIS

Vast wealth offers London defense attorney Philip Kennford a lot of things: a gorgeous house with a pool in the backyard, connections in the top levels of society, a wardrobe worthy of Milan runways. But his money doesn’t give a happy marriage, or good relationships with his twin daughters and it does nothing to protect his family when someone brutally murders his wife and daughter in their own home.

When Detective Constable Maeve Kerrigan arrives at the scene, the two survivors Philip and his second favorite daughter, Lydia both claim to have seen nothing, but it’s clear right away that this is an unhappy family accustomed to keeping secrets. Maeve soon finds herself entangled in a case with a thousand leads that all seem to point nowhere, and it doesn’t help that her boss, whom she trusts more than almost anyone, is starting to make decisions that Maeve finds questionable at best.

AUTHOR: JANE CASEY
TITLE: THE LAST GIRL
GENRE: Mystery,Crime,Thriller,Mystery-thriller,Fiction,Mystery-crime
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THE LIE OF YOU BY JANE LYTHELL

( What Does She Want Most )

SYNOPSIS

Have you ever had the feeling that someone’s watching you, or gone into a room and thought a photograph been moved? Kathy is open and trusting, indeed she has no reason not to be. Newly married with a baby son,she promoted to place of editor at the architecture magazine she works at when her maternity leave ends. So why does her beautiful but withdrawn Finnish colleague Heja unnerve her, and more to the point to Kathy, why does she let her? Heja left Helsinki and a high-flying television career to move to London.

She is the opposite of Kathy: blonde, stunning, yet secretive. Gradually she manipulates Kathy’s weak points and meddles at work in the shadows to slip her up. When her intrusions escalate into following Kathy’s child minder and stealing Kathy’s home keys to have a spare made it’s clear that Heja won’t stop until she gets what she wants.

AUTHOR: JANE LYTHELL
TITLE: THE LIE OF YOU
Genres: Psychological Fiction,Thriller,Suspense,Fiction
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SHUTTER ISLAND BY DENNIS LEHANE

( prison For The Criminally Insane )

SYNOPSIS

Two US Marshals sent to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane to investigate disappearance of a multiple murderers from a locked room. Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this remote and barren island, despite having been kept in a locked cell under constant surveillance.

As a killer hurricane relentlessly bears down on them, a strange case taken on even darker, more sinister shades-with hints of radical experimentation, horrifying surgeries,and lethal counter moves made in the cause of a covet shadow war. No one is going to escape Shutter Island unscathed, because nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. But then neither is Teddy Daniels.

AUTHOR: DENNIS LEHANE
TITLE: SHUTTER ISLAND
Genres: Thriller,Suspense,Mystery,Fiction,Horror
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PROVERBS FROM AFRICA

( Family, Values, Life )

Proverbs acts as a catalyst of knowledge, philosophy, wisdom, morals and ethics. They cover all aspects of life, example : God, family, human beings, values, plants, animals and marriage.

Proverbs are a metaphor, folk tale, euphemism or idiom.

Here are some interesting proverbs from Africa. Read them and let me know your thoughts.

Thanks.

a). Fire and gunpowder are not bed fellows.

b). A healthy person who begs for food is an insult to a generous farmer.

c). A crab does not beget a bird.

d). Nature gave us two cheeks instead of one to make it easier to eat hot food.

e). Hate has no medicine.

f). No one tests the depth of the river with both feet.

g). One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

h). Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle.

I). It is the calm and silent water that drowns a man not the hot one.

j). Do not expect to offered a chair when you visit a place where the chief himself sits on the floor.

k). By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have already dispersed.

l). The snake and the milliped might craw with their bellies but that does not make them brothers.

m). A trap does not catches the wind.

n). The changing colours of the chameleon only deceive the fool.

o). The snake that strike at the tortoise will discover a toothache.

WHO IS A WOMAN

( A conversation Between God And An Angel )

When God created woman, he was working late on the sixth day…. An angel came by and asked:

ANGEL: Why spend so much time on her lord?

GOD: Have you seen all the specifications I have to meet to shape her?
1. She must function on all kinds of situations.
2. She could be able to embrace several kids at the same time and have a hug that can heal anything from a bruised knee to a broken heart.
3. She must do all this with only two hands. She cures herself when sick and can work eighteen hours a day.

The angel amazed, so he asked,

ANGEL: Just two hands… impossible, and this is the standard model?

The angel went closer and touched the woman and said… But you have made her so soft Lord.

GOD: Yes, but I have made her strong. You can’t imagine what she can endure and overcome.

ANGEL: Can she think?

GOD: Not only can she think, she can reason and negotiate.

The Angel touched her cheeks and said, Lord, it seems this creation is leaking! you have put too many burdens on her.

GOD: She is not leaking. It is a tear. The Lord corrected the Angel.

ANGEL: What is it for?

GOD: Tears are her way of expressing her grief, doubts, love, suffering and pride.

This made a big impressions on the Angel. So he said… Lord, you are a genius. You thought of everything. A woman is marvellous.

GOD: Indeed she is.
a. She has strength that amazes a man.
b. She can handle trouble and carry heavy burdens.
c. She holds happiness, love and opinions.
d. She smiles when she feels like screaming. e. She sings when she feels like crying, cries when happy and laughs when afraid.
f. She fights for what she believes in.
g. Her love is unconditional.
h. Her finds strength to get in with life when her heart gets broken.

ANGEL: So she is a perfect being?

GOD: No. She has just one drawback. She often forgets what she is worth.

So, if you are a woman, know your worth and be proud of who you are.

THE BODY READER BY ANNE FRAISEIR

( NO ONE KNOWS MADMEN LIKE JUDE FONTAINE )

Detective Jude Fontaine was kept from the outside world. Held in an underground cell, her only contact was with her sadistic captor, and reading his face was her entire existence. Learning his every line, every movement, and every flicker of thought is what kept her alive.

After her experience with isolation and torture, she is left with a desire for justice – and a heightened ability to interpret the body language of both the living and the dead. Despite colleagues doubts about her mental state, she resumes her role at Homicide. Her new partner, Detective Uriah Ashby, doesn’t trust her sanity, and has a story of his own he’d rather keep hidden.

But a killer is one the loose, murdering young women, so the detectives have no choice: they must work together to catch the madman before he strikes again.

AUTHOR: ANNE FRAISEIR
TITLE: THE BODY READER
Genres: Mystery, Thriller, Fiction, Mystery-Crime
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DEFINITION OF ONE DAY

One day, you will lock your door but will not be the one that will open it.

One day, you will wash your best clothes and you will not be able to wear them again.

One day, your best food will be prepared and you will be unable to eat it.

One day, the person that seems to love you most will never dare to come closer to you.

One day, you will be regarded as “That Thing”.

One day, you will isolated in a place called “Grave”.

One day that thing you love most will come your way but you will not be able to give any attention to it.

One day, you will hold your breath and forget to release it.

One day, you will become a defendant before The Chief Judge, God.

One day, you will receive a call that can never be declined.

One day, your name will be called and no one will answer.

One day, the assets you cherished most will be taken by another person.

One day, your deeds on earth will be presented like a CD.

One day, a title will be added to your name “The Late”

One day, that beautiful skin of yours will turn to its original nature – Dust.

One day, you will be given an infinite apartment, either palace or hell.

In summary, take life easy and remember that “life is just an episode”, but it can decide your eternity.

BIG FLIES ~ KEITH HIRSHLAND

( CLUES TO UNSOLVED CRIMES )

After Chester Daniel David, highly celebrated travel writer and hospitality critic, dies in an automobile accident, his son, Leland, is the heir to his prosperous estate.

Among the late writer’s possessions are stacks of magazines hidden in an attic that suggest that his stories about his world travels were less than authentic. As Leland grew up, it seemed as if his father was never home.

If he wasn’t at the exotic locations depicted in the various publications, then where was he? And what was he doing?

AUTHOR: KEITH HIRSHLAND
TITLE: BIG FLIES
Genre: Mystery

MURDER IN A-MINOR ~ JANIS THOMAS

( CATCHING A CUNNING KILLER )

Former detective Samantha Wedlock is having a bad year after botching a huge case with the New York PD. Sam flees to her childhood home of Southern California and escapes her demons with the internet and booze.

Her career is over, her instincts have taken a vay-cay, and her music-the songs she composes in her head to help her solve puzzles and the challenges of her life-has abandoned her. When her old flame, sexy Lieutenant Jack Hudson, shows up on her doorstep to ask for her help with the case of two murdered college coed, Sam refuses.

But she can’t resist the hunt, and soon becomes enmeshed in the investigation. The more involved she becomes the more she sees the case as a means of rediscovering the things she’s lost: her purpose, her drive, and her hope for the future.

With her music playing at full volume, Sam must re-sharpen her wits and learn to trust her instincts again in order to catch a cunning killer.

AUTHOR: JANIS THOMAS
TITLE: MURDER IN A-MINOR
Genre: Murder mystery

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