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El Camino Primitivo de Santiago en Asturias y Galicia    by Xurde Moran
Price: $2.99 USD. 116860 words. Language: Spanish. Published on May 12, 2013. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general.

Un singular "Diario de Viaje" en el que nuestro andariego escritor nos revela y comparte sus propias vivencias, sus fotografías, su prosa amena, oficiando para nosotros cual 'guía virtual' en cada una de las etapas del camino. Hagamos de este libro un punto de partida de una experiencia única y muy personal...
Tea Party Teddy    by Dianne Harman
Price: $2.99 USD. 69480 words. Language: English. Published on May 3, 2013. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Hispanic & Latino.

Tea Party Teddy is a political tell-all novel about Sacramento, California politics - the public corruption, infidelity, and greed that affect a newly elected Assemblyman. His world slowly unravels as he succumbs to the power of his office. The ultimate irony occurs when his wife becomes romantically involved with the founder of the Republicans for Latinos.
Black Moon - The legend of Pango-marama    by Ken Gordon
Price: $0.99 USD. 68050 words. Language: English. Published on April 20, 2013. Fiction » Historical » Australia & New Zealand.

NZ Maori deemed Hawaiki to be their ancestral home & Tiki, 1st man from the heavens, to be son of the god of war and the goddess of death. But half-human, half-bird Manaia, son of Tane and Hine-nui-te-Po, was the 1st. The 2 tribes lived in harmony for generations but food dwindled & the bird people were ousted. Follow their perilous paths, even to the Underworlds, retold in this gripping legend.
Sunday Girl    by Kalliope Lee
Price: $1.99 USD. 127630 words. Language: English. Published on April 12, 2013. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Asian American.

Full moon night in Seoul. Victim of a brutal crime, beautiful, mentally troubled Jang-Mee dissociates form her body and becomes a channel for an ancestral ghost who hints at historical secrets. Seeking out the ghost again, Jang-Mee becomes addicted to dangerous, extreme situations that will bring her to the edge. Sunday Girl explores the traumatic wounds that haunt the blood for generations.
The oranges of Dubai    by Quelli di ZEd
Price: Free! 69210 words. Language: English. Published on March 1, 2013. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general.

Paolo Manfredi is an affirmed paediatric surgeon who lives and works in Paris. Born in Torre dell'Isola, a town not too far from Palermo, after high school he left Sicily, a land then upset by serious upheavals, to pursue his ambitions. After thirty years, he comes back with his wife and his children to celebrate his fiftieth birthday, and to retrace the steps of a brusquely interrupted...
40 Tage 40 Nächte    by Aaron Morgenstern
Price: Free! 133900 words. Language: German. Published on March 1, 2013. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general.

Roman in Form eines Reisetagebuchs. Der versteckte Untertitel ist „Zwischen Ost und West“ oder auf bosnisch „Ispod Istok i Zapad“. Die Reise beginnt im Westen, deswegen heißt das erste Buch „Zapad“ oder der Westen. Der eigentliche Hauptteil heißt „Istok“, der Osten. In diesem Hauptteil ist ein drittes Buch eingebettet, „Ispod“, zwischen oder eigentlich darunter.
Smoking Mirror Blues    by Ernest Hogan
Price: $0.99 USD. 59510 words. Language: English. Published on February 26, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » Cyberpunk.

In a dystopian near-future, an East L.A. Chicano hacker steals a god-simulating program from his Mexico City girlfriend. He uses it to resurrect Tezcatlipoca, the Aztec warrior/trickster god, but the god possesses the hacker's body and goes on a rampage in a futuristic, Hollywood Day of the Dead celebration. It's a mad, post-cyberpunk romp.
The Life of Meyer    by Richard Alan
Price: $1.99 USD. 76780 words. Language: English. Published on February 25, 2013. Fiction » Themes & motifs » Family sagas.

When childhood sweethearts are separated by personal tragedy and the Vietnam War, they must overcome feelings of fear and doubt while trying to heal each other or face a future of loneliness and separation in this compelling story of family, life, love and relationships.
Curse of the Condor    by Elizabeth Rose
Price: $2.99 USD. 63230 words. Language: English. Published on February 23, 2013. Fiction » Romance » Action/adventure.

Jetta Fitzgerald puts her fate into the hands of Conrado Nievez as he guides her into the jungle to find her missionary brother. But the jungle is nothing compared to the dangerous feelings that lie between a proper schoolmarm and a modern day Tarzan in Curse of the Condor.
The Love of a Silver Fox: Folk Tales from Seki CIty    by Darvin Babiuk
Price: Free! 55490 words. Language: English. Published on February 23, 2013. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general.

The collection of Seki City folktales called “The Love of a Silver Fox” became very popular in Seki when originally published in Japanese. Readership and popularity has since spread. This collection was created by local writers who have studied the legends, old tales and fairy tales about and relating to Seki.