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Behind The Smile    by Owen Jones
Price: $6.99 USD. 111660 words. Language: English. Published on July 16, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Biographical.

Behind The Smile is the story of Lek, a bar girl in Pattaya. She was born the eldest child of four in a typical rice farming family. She did not expect to do anything any different from the other girls in her class in the village, but circumstances changed suddenly and she had to go to work in Pattaya, where she drifted into the sex industry. The book tells how she tried to get out of it again.
Tender    by Mark Childress
Price: $2.99 USD. 181820 words. Language: English. Published on June 25, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Biographical.

Stephen King: "Mark Childress's novel, TENDER, is a little more than just a fine novel; it is a big, all-American, Technicolor dreamboat of a book, as vital and as intense as anything I've read in the last 10 years. Childress's understanding and love of this new music lends Tender the sort of piney woods authenticity I associate with such American classics as Elmer Gantry and All The King's Men."
Thank You and Good Night    by Ray Succre
Price: Free! 210580 words. Language: English. Published on May 28, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Biographical.

Based closely on the multi-faceted and prolific life of Rod Serling, creator (and both head writer and host) of The Twilight Zone, Thank You and Good Night spans the rise and fall of a television icon. Through both narrative and script, Thank You and Good Night follows writer Emery Asher through the raucous, speculative, and complex world of home-screen celebrity in the early days of television.
Moosemeat, Turnips & Betsy    by Jenny Boniface
Price: $8.99 USD. 195840 words. Language: English. Published on March 7, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Biographical.

An immigrant's family struggles against the elements, poverty and the onslaught of World War 11. Six children, one of whom is developmentally delayed ensures an uncertain future.
Closing Circles:Trapped In the Everlasting Mormon Moment    by R.B. Scott
Price: $4.99 USD. 142560 words. Language: English. Published by Gray Dog Press  on March 1, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Biographical.

From R.B. Scott, author of Mitt Romney: An Inside Look at the Man and His Politics, comes a rollicking, brutally candid novel of a young Mormon journalist’s attempt to liberate himself from a failed marriage and the confounding influences of his religious culture and family.
I, Nephi...    by k m mittan
Price: $4.99 USD. 103250 words. Language: English. Published on December 2, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Biographical.

"Folks in Jackson Hole raise kids and hell, and plenty of both." - Bill Menor, owner of Menor's Ferry, Jackson Hole, Wyoming There are those that raise kids and they’re good at it. I wasn’t one of them. Had no interest in the project. But hell-raising? Now, that was another matter. - Nephi Moulton, homesteader, rancher and prankster extraordinaire.
Just Money    by Les Broad
Price: $5.99 USD. 162570 words. Language: English. Published on September 15, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Biographical.

This book is based on real events in England in 1990, a maelstrom of large scale financial fraud that left a lot of people breathless at the time. The author was at the heart of the efforts to put it all right. Inevitably it is in involved story but the inclusion of the hero's girlfriend allows all the explanations to be given as the story proceeds. Try it - you'll be wiser for having read it.
Two in One | Paula Voss    by Eva Benz
Price: $11.33 USD. 139740 words. Language: German. Published on September 11, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Biographical.

Buch 1 - Der Aufbruch - Der unkonventionelle Lebensweg von Paula führt über viele Stationen nach Ibiza, wo sie dem Glück am nächsten kommt. Doch auf das Glück bekommt man keine Garantie.... Buch 2 - Der Neubeginn - Nach einem Selbstmordversuch fängt Paulas Leben neu an und führt sie nach New York....
LITTLE POOR MAN The Story of St. Francis of Assisi    by Charles Rayner Kelly
Price: $2.99 USD. 175740 words. Language: English. Published on September 8, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Biographical.

Francis comes alive as the saint and mystic, whose life has inspired men and women on all continents for eight centuries. As a battle-scarred soldier, he confronts his inner emptiness by rejecting his father's wealth. "I want to see the divine in all things. I want to shout to everyone and everything I meet: Speak to me of God!"
The Heroic Journey of Albert Bierstadt: Artist-Priest of the West    by David M. Delo
Price: $6.99 USD. 142230 words. Language: English. Published on August 8, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Biographical.

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A historical biography of the highest-paid and most controversial landscape artist in America after the Civil War.