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Lehua--Ka'ao a Ka Wahine (Lehua--The Story of a Woman)    by Gene Parola
Price: $2.99 USD. 96710 words. Language: English. Published on June 14, 2012. Fiction » Historical » Colonial America.

(5.00 from 1 review)
TOP IN GENRE AWARD, 12/2012. In 1819, the Hawaiian Queen, Ka'ahumanu destroyed the native religion five months before the arrival of the missionaries. Kanaka royalty rushed to convert leaving the common people to deal with a confusing and often contradictory set of choices. Lehua, a royal, comes of age at this trying time and seeing the people abandoned by their leadership, takes up the challenge
The Inconvenience of Arranged Marriage    by Xavier Bennet
Price: $4.99 USD. 75440 words. Language: English. Published by Notion Press on July 5, 2012. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general.

(5.00 from 1 review)
Is arranged marriage better or is finding your own match better? Should you decide on your own and then introduce her to the family or settle for the girl selected by your family who you have not even met? Finding the situation familiar? Based on a combination of real and fictional events, this journey will take you around moving friendships, values and sacrifices.
The Celtic Harp    by Eliseo Mauas Pinto
Price: $0.99 USD. 25500 words. Language: English. Published on July 30, 2012. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general.

(5.00 from 1 review)
“The Celtic Harp” is a very interesting quick guide not only approaching to questions regarding the origins of its name, its history and revival, but also to the surviving types,suggested Celtic Harpists, and a list of related external links.
The Rabbi Who Tricked Stalin    by Mordechai Landsberg
Price: Free! 107280 words. Language: English. Published on August 4, 2012. Fiction » Drama » European.

(5.00 from 1 review)
A character driven- macabre novel about Stalin’s dark period. It is a ruthless regime, persecuting Jews and Christian God believers,‘white' Russians, Trotskists and other communists. The arrest & killing machine of the Secret Police and Bolshevik Party did not stop at their own circles. Rabbi symbolizes a troubled citizen, having family problems, struggling and succeeding to get out.
Captives of Minara    by Eric Wright
Price: $2.99 USD. 92110 words. Language: English. Published on November 2, 2012. Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense.

(5.00 from 1 review)
In Captives of Minara; -A 4500-year-old lost city is excavated, -A journalist reluctantly returns to the scene of a childhood trauma, -A criminal mastermind kidnaps women and children consigning them to a life of slavery. Josh Radley travels to Pakistan to write about archaeological discoveries but faces a gang engaged in human trafficking.
Hotel 27    by Stanski
Price: $2.49 USD. 58550 words. Language: English. Published on January 25, 2013. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general.

(5.00 from 1 review)
For Michael Falcon, a holiday to Thailand turns into a life-changing voyage of discovery… from a new language and culture, to a new home and family. In the process, Michael’s attitude develops from that of a disillusioned cynic, to a much more open-minded and philosophical outlook.
The Well-Tended Garden    by Shaheen Ashraf-Ahmed
Price: $2.99 USD. 24370 words. Language: English. Published on March 14, 2013. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general.

(5.00 from 1 review)
Safiyah must raise her daughters alone after her husband finds a second wife. She is surprised by the offer of another chance of happiness with a faithful admirer, but she is a mother first and has a difficult decision to make: she must weigh her happiness against the future of her daughters, who have also been vulnerable to the unspoken longings of the heart.
BUZZ: An Unauthorized Autobiography    by Robert Zverina
Price: $2.99 USD. 33130 words. Language: American English. Published on August 21, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

0.75 star(4.67 from 6 reviews)
Hello, my name is Buzz. Yes, it's my given name. I was born the day Buzz Aldrin set foot on the moon. It was supposed to be auspicious. My Czech immigrant family had high hopes for me. That’s OK--they were a disappointment, too. Let me tell you how we were churned through the gears of history but managed to emerge with only a scratch or two. (Plus some deep wounds we were too polite to discuss.)
Troll    by Richard Sutton
Price: $2.99 USD. 62920 words. Language: American English. Published on October 4, 2012. Fiction » Historical » Ancient.

0.75 star(4.67 from 3 reviews)
At what point did humanity learn to fear each other? To hate? Paleo-Anthropologist Ariel Connor thinks she knows. She just can't prove it yet, but her newest find, high in a Norwegian Valley may give her the proof she needs. Those scary stories we've told our children to keep them from roaming too far outside the gleam of the porch light may have come from real incidents, many, many years ago.
A Perfect Madness    by Frank H. Marsh
Price: Free! 111330 words. Language: English. Published by Brandylane  Publishers on April 6, 2012. Fiction » Historical » General.

0.75 star(4.63 from 8 reviews)
It is the autumn of 1938 when Julia Kaufmann meets Erich Schmidt while studying medicine at the German University in Prague. With Hitler’s army soon to invade the city and the terror of World War II looming, it is the worst of times for a Jew and a German to fall in love.