Author • Journalist • Humanatarian
A Veil of Blood Hangs over Africa The grief of the newly captured slaves was overpowered only by the lecherous brutality of their master. From a humble Tswanas kraal to an opulent South African estate, you will be captivated by Lucia Mann’s interweaving stories of loss, cruelty, courage, and hope. She saw and felt firsthand …
Africa’s Unfinished Symphony A Witch Doctor’s Power and His Ancient Tribal Ways Cruelly Collide with the Force and Authority of Modern Africa. While the tale of South Africa in the wake of World War II is riveting, violent, and cruel, it also is brimming with stories of kindness, compassion, and courage. Africa’s Unfinished Symphony highlights …
Rented Silence From the “African Freedom Series” TWO TINY NEWBORNS WERE BURIED ALIVE IN A COMPOST PIT, covered with corn husks and left to die. A hungry wild dog, saliva flowing, stood impatiently over the mound. As it started to dig out its prey, an escaped slave whooshed it away. Drawn by the sound …
Addicted to Hate Maddie’s story raises the time-honored question of nature vs. nurture Parents abused by adult children suffer silently, shamed to the marrow by words, moods, acts, and blows that pierce through their imagined bubble of safety and kidnap any notions they had of sharing a mutually loving relationship with their children. “Parent abuse …
Endless Incarnation Sorrows A saga chronicling insights from past lives that resurface in the present day and impact prevailing patterns Based on true events: After the hospital staff resuscitated author Lucia Mann forthe third time following a third surgery, she began to perceive and recognizea string of intimate memories of people and places from long …
The Little Breadwinner Finding Hope and Survival in The Midst of War FROM 1980 TO 1992, A TURBULENT CIVIL WAR ravaged the Central American state of El Salvador, claiming the lives of approximately 75,000 Salvadorans. The Little Breadwinner is a story of tyrannized, frightened families—mostly poor peasants, indigenous peoples, and child farm workers—whose lives signified …
The Sicilian Veil of Shame THE TEN YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER OF A SICILIAN MAFIA BOSS is cruelly kidnapped from her bedroom on the night of her glorious birthday celebration. She knows her captor well, and, until this night, has trusted him and held him fondly in her heart. Maria’s prospects for rescue plummet as she is …