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The Warsaw Conspiracy    by James Conroyd Martin
Price: $6.99 USD. 118780 words. Language: American English. Published on June 19, 2013. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general.

THE WARSAW CONSPIRACY unfolds as a family saga set against the November Rising (1830-1831), partitioned Poland’s daring challenge to the Russian Empire. The story portrays two brothers and their fates in love and war. Both Michał and Józef find themselves caught up in the vortex of a daring plot to abduct the Grand Duke of Russia in order to instigate a general insurrection.
The Rockaway Boys and Maggie    by Don Kellin
Price: Free! 58270 words. Language: English. Published on June 17, 2013. Fiction » Historical » General.

Rockaway Beach, NY, the few days between Labor Day, 1943 and the start of school back in the city. The east coast is vulnerable to spies launched from Nazi U Boats. After a lousy summer, Donny Becker, Ben Kaplan, and Maggie McCrane vow to do “something that counts.” They’ll have a great adventure that will save New York, and affect the war effort, their country, the world.
Plymouth '41 & 0ther Stories    by Roland Gardner
Price: Free! 53070 words. Language: English. Published on June 14, 2013. Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage.

(5.00 from 2 reviews)
Night after night, Plymouth is being pulverised by the Luftwaffe. Nineteen people are trapped in an underground air raid shelter. Sixty-five years later, only one man knows that they are still there. – And that one of them holds a terrible secret.
Grey Tide In The East    by Andrew J. Heller
Price: $6.95 USD. 54860 words. Language: British English. Published by Strict Publishing International  on June 12, 2013. Fiction » Historical » General.

An alternative history of the First World War. A vivid, realist and exciting fictional account of events in 1914 following the decision by the German Kaiser, Wilhelm II, to withdraw his troops massed at the Belgian border and to re-deploy them against Russia instead – if that decision had not been reversed. (UK edition)
Normandie légendaire - histoires courtes 1    by Bruno Robert des Douets
Price: $4.99 USD. 24880 words. Language: French. Published on June 12, 2013. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general.

Douze histoires courtes entraînent le lecteur à travers l'espace et le temps de la Normandie. On y vagabonde ainsi d'Est en Ouest, du Nord au Sud, en passant du XIe siècle au XXe siècle et du XVIIIe au XVIe.
Home, Where the Birds Won't Fly    by Lauren Pearce
Price: Free! 3050 words. Language: Australian English. Published on June 12, 2013. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

2016, Australian journalist Darya goes back to her parents' hometown of Pripyat to report on the thirtieth anniversary of the explosion in the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. "Home, Where the Birds Won't Fly tracks" her return home, and describes what she finds there. Runner-up for the 2012 John Marsden Prize.
Money Making Ideas & Schemes    by Isaac Shearer
Price: $1.99 USD. 1520 words. Language: English. Published on June 11, 2013. Essay » Business.

You want money right, we all want money, heck what are you supposed to do? not pay your bills? Some people try the most interesting and craziest schemes to get rich or even a little bit of money, below are a few stories of some pretty fascinating people. Act like you don’t care about other people’s choices, but I assure you there are some real nut jobs out there and taking the time out of the day
Khama    by Stanley Gazemba
Price: $4.88 USD. 92340 words. Language: English. Published by SynergEbooks  on June 10, 2013. Fiction » Historical » General.

Khama leads the South African Amakonko tribe of specially trained warriors to seize leadership from a vengeful uncle. He soon grows to conquer mightier neighboring tribes as well, but at what cost?
World War 2 Waffen Storm Troops    by Ronald Ledwell, Sr
Price: $3.99 USD. 480 words. Language: American English. Published on June 9, 2013. Fiction » Historical » General.

The momentum of Hitler’s Wehrmacht comes to a grinding halt on the Eastern Front when General Von Paulus’s powerful Sixth Army becomes trapped in the city of Stalingrad as the brutal Russian winter begins.
Soir d'élections    by Bruno Robert des Douets
Price: $0.99 USD. 1250 words. Language: French. Published on June 8, 2013. Fiction » Historical » General.

Dans la banlieue de Rouen, les citoyens sont mobilisés pour les élections législatives. Le candidat du Parti Communiste est, semble-t-il, bien placé. Il n'y avait alors pas de télévision. Les campagnes électorales avaient une autre saveur.