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PENTINA PUBLISHERS, INC.

A Catalog

With Audiences in America and Liberia [West Africa]

2013

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HELLO,

Thanks for picking up this catalog for browsing. We at Pentina are a family venture

striving to make reading materials available to as many people as we can reach. We

also do edit manuscripts for a fee. And if a client is interested in full scale publishing,

we are ready to provide that service, and the appropriate terms can be negotiated.

This catalog provides the list of some of the books that we have already published.

Please browse through and let us know if you’re interested in any of them. Once you

select what you like, make a check payable to

K-Moses Nagbe/Pentina

5620 Whitfield Chapel Rd #301

Lanham, MD 20706

With your address on the check, we’ll mail your book to you immediately, as soon as

your check clears.

The long term goal of Pentina Publishers is to set up a Learning Center in Liberia,

where students receive language empowerment through the acquiring of strong

reading, writing and speaking skills, which are very critical in competing for

sustainable living in the world.

When the Center is established, it will screen education videos in all areas of

communication skills. It will have a reading room. It will have forums for interactive

discussion on numerous issues in the world. It will help mentor young people to

grow more confident and assertive.

Indeed, when you patronize Pentina, rest assured you are helping to advance the cause

of humanity.

Thank you.

CEO/EXECUTIVE MANAGER

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One Saturday in August—521pp. $20.00 This novel explores social reform activism, its glory and its curse, its hope and its disappointment. In a time when "Arab Spring" has become a household word in North Africa, there couldn't be a better time for a novel about the joy that often comes with what seems justifiable reason to depose tyranny until sadly another circle of tyrannical rulers appear on the scene. Humanity seems cursed.

The Guilt and the Glory—35pp. $5.00 To what extent can an institution go to defend a policy? Leah Timuji is dead from pregnancy complications. Selma Joy Vanda could be the next. No one is listening to Paul Bwajikle. The lines are drawn.

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The Road to Romeo—63pp. $6.50 This is a story of compassion, showing the extent to which people can stretch themselves when the heart is driven towards kindness.

Whispers—182pp. $9.00 In this sequel following a little girl whose father was shot dead during her country's civil war, we meet the girl now in her twenties, studying for her master's in Law. Besides her studies, she has to

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deal with her future--finding a husband with whom to establish a family. How is she going to deal with this

one? Your guess is as good as mine.

A Scream in the Storm—224pp. $10.50 In the West African republic of Liberia, a war has occurred, and many are trying hands at what will return the country to normalcy. This novel is a fantasy about young Liberians nudging the conscience of American political actors to help bring peace and sanity to the country. The story celebrates human sanity and cooperation.

Wings for the Next Day—258pp. $11.50

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Two young Liberians, among many other Liberians, are dropped off at the Ghanaian port city of Takoradi. They take off later, heading for Buduburam, the Liberian refugee camp. On their way they meet an old man whose death impacts their lives in profound ways.

I See the Light Darkly—68pp. $5.50 This short novel provides a cursory observation on why many students in affluent societies show much arrogance even in their ignorance. A certain Dr. Nathan Akpa Nzima arrives at Beaver College and meets a batch of such students who think college education is fun until he shakes them out of complacency. When some of them are just about warming up to him, something happens....

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Sun at Midnight—283pp. $12.00 Sun at Midnight is not just a love story. It is a social commentary cleverly weaving love, anger, suspicion, hate, dreams, death and laughter on the scalp of human existence.

Progenies of Defiance—95pp. $7.70 Poetry tells stories. Poetry describes emotional feelings. Poetry provides deep thoughts about varied situations in life. Progenies of Defiance is a testimony.

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Nuggets of the African Novel—316pp. $15.50 Nuggets of the African Novel [With Notes on the Liberian Literary Heritage] contains summaries of 31 African novels,

many of which are used in Liberian and several other African schools. The book also contains insightful

discussion about the African novel and the Liberian literary heritage.

Sharing Our Best with the Rest—51pp. $6.50 Postwar Liberia awaits well-meaning nationals ready to work with passion and fortitude. Nothing else will drive development in that West African country. This is the message K-Moses Nagbe drives home in the set of reflections brought together in Sharing Our Best with the Rest.

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Chips (Assorted Reflections)—240pp. $10.50 Chips (Assorted Reflections) is an anthology of the writer's observation about life in America and around the world. He talks about religion, corporate greed, freedom and law, racism and religion, sex and politics, tradition and social transformation, celebrity and sex, gay rights, etc. The book is bound to keep people talking.

Liberia, What Else?—218pp. $10.00 Liberia, What Else? is a collection of articles and essays by one of Liberia's most prolific writers. These articles and essays capture some of the most controversial and contemporary national issues in Liberia. Among them

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are the non-white citizenship and dual citizenship debates, politics and popular values, the role of the media in post-conflict situations, what happens when journalism and propaganda clash, etc.

In the Shadow Words—124pp. $8.50 In this memoir of one of Africa's prolific writers from Liberia, West Africa, K-Moses Nagbe, the writer, celebrates the spoken and written word as the vehicle of value formation and the meaningful appreciation of life.

Just Like Yesterday [A Short Biography of Sasstown of the 1960s]—133pp. $7.50 This book celebrates the strides of a rural Liberian community as it came face-to-face with changing times. The book also celebrates the work of Ron and Lynn Grosz, an American Peace Corps Volunteer couple in the early 1960s. The book was inspired by a stack of photographs which Ron and Lynn showed K-Moses Nagbe, the author, 40 years later.

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EeeeeMmmmm[Where Are You?]—137pp. $8.00 A young man from Rural Liberia plows his way through Western education, reaches an important peak, and returns home to serve his people. Just when most people think all is well, something terrible happens in the country that will alter the life of everyone. This life story of the man told by his son brings out all the joy and the pain that will send you thinking about the numerous pranks life often pulls when humans least expect. Read on.

Between the Scissors (Growing up as an Afrestern Liberian)—519pp. $21.00 This is a story of uncertainty, anger, hatred, sadness, love, and contagious laughter. It is a story about man in continuum—the never-ending evolution of each human person. In that sense, this very story exposes the obnoxious naivety, if not hypocrisy, of any society that judges people simply, persistently, and significantly on the depths to which they fall instead of refreshingly celebrating with them for clambering up each daunting cliff of life.

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My Compatriot, Your Compatriot [Surveying Forces and Voices That Inspired the Union of Liberian Associations in the Americas]—329pp. $13.00 This book explores some of the roots of Liberia's "Arab Spring" in the 1970s. It traces the forces and voices which inspired the Union of Liberian Associations in the Americas (ULAA), an important Diaspora Liberian association. Professor Nagbe, the author, urges present day Liberians and Africans to work very hard to

maintain a respectable Black Personality.

A Small Group of Young Liberians in the 1970s[How They Changed Liberia Forever]—39pp. $5.00 Events of the 1970s helped shape politics in Liberia. How did the country react to the era of political agitation, multiparty politics and inroads into democracy? This little book provides some answers in simple terms.

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Fright and Flight [A Reflection on My Refugee Life in Ghana]—228pp. $10.50 For many years, Fright and Flight will remain a solid sociocultural text because of the powerful understanding which K-Moses Nagbe demonstrates about the cultural tension that gave rise to the Civil War in Liberia and the likely political and sociological problems the war will produce. No one who is interested in Liberian and African politics should go without a copy of this book.

Face to Face with Our National Songs—36pp. $6.00 In this short children's reader, K-Moses Nagbe, an African writer of Liberian origin, celebrates two of Liberia's national songs—"The Liberian National Anthem" and "The Lone Star Forever".

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From Liberia to the USA [How God Used Me to Bless My People]—196pp. $10.00

In this short memoir, Irene J. Sekle, an American-trained nurse from Liberia, reflects on her experiences

during the Liberian Civil War, marveling at what God took her through to realize her dream of acquiring a

Nursing education.

You Be Pilot, I’ll Be Preacher [A Short Life Story of Bishop E. Pailey Sherman]—134pp. $13.00 Edward Pailey Sherman, a well-known evangelical and Pentecostal cleric, rose from humble beginnings to arrive at a height he rarely imagined he would have attained, had it not been for the grace of God. This little book celebrates the path he traveled. In the book, K-Moses Nagbe, the author, also documents 40 of the

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well-known African names in West Africa and provides a peek into the philosophical and religious importance of those names.

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