Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes

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Five Card Draw, Jinn Are High    by Cara d'Bastian
Price: $2.99 USD. 49480 words. Language: Australian English. Published by Sandal Press  on April 26, 2013. Fiction » Fantasy » Urban.

With friends either attacked or injured, and Adam Lau’s plans still unknown, how can the Check Your Luck gang hope to win against him?
The Irish: 3 Novellas    by Eddie Stack
Price: $4.99 USD. 47380 words. Language: English. Published on April 26, 2013. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

THE IRISH by Eddie Stack is a collection of 3 novellas set in rural Ireland. Entertaining and heartbreaking, hopeful and hilarious, this is the best of contemporary Irish writing. “Eddie Stack has a way of making you laugh and cry at the same time...a great Irish storyteller.” Willy Vlautin, author of Lean on Pete, Motel Life and Northline
I Hate Jake    by H.T.R. Williams
Price: $2.99 USD. 9230 words. Language: English. Published on April 26, 2013. Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Psychological thriller.

Enjoy writers of transgressive literature like Chuck Palahniuk and Bret Easton Ellis? This New Zealand story about a paranoid artist gaining some disturbing insights via a bong full of the mind-wringing hallucinogen salvia divinorum could be for you. Envy, malice, and the burried desire to self-annihilate. Is roommate Jake friend or rival? Burn out or fade away? Who will ultimately destroy who?
Apuntes de un escritor malo    by Mauricio Bares
Price: $1.99 USD. 26480 words. Language: Spanish. Published by Malaletra Ebooks  on April 22, 2013. Fiction » Humor & comedy » Parody.

Rechazado por editoriales y publicaciones culturales, Anónimo Hernández admite que es un escritor malo… Y feo. No escribe según la moda. Su nombre no suena estético. Pero decide que, aún así, con estos apuntes pondrá su granito de arena en la edificación de lo que más ama en el mundo, la Literatura Universal.
Cattle Nomads Of The Indian Desert    by Son Lal
Price: Free! 37470 words. Language: English. Published on April 22, 2013. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Asian American.

About nomads in Rajasthan who have grazed cattle on a large scale since early history. With a pastoral culture from the west in Asia, that partly differed from the culture of the settled Hindus of the Indian subcontinent. Tan Dan's forefathers were a part of that nomadic culture, to which also ox caravan traders belonged and small groups with other professions.
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.
Only Begotten    by Stefhen Bryan
Price: $4.99 USD. 71220 words. Language: English. Published on April 19, 2013. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general.

'Only Begotten' is a tragic tale of rejection and intolerance in the face of unconditional love.
Flowers in the Dust    by Myriam Alvarez
Price: $4.99 USD. 88890 words. Language: English. Published on April 19, 2013. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Hispanic & Latino.

Can two people from opposite worlds forge a life together? Chola is a young woman raised in Catholic South America. Hans is the son of a wealthy Jewish family from Berlin. They don't speak eachother's languages; yet there is a strong attraction. After they marry, Hans' addictions surface, as war breaks in Europe and Chola must host her husband's family, escaping Nazi Germany.
Dum Dum Castle    by Yasin Aziz
Price: $7.00 USD. 35980 words. Language: English. Published by Amolibros  on April 19, 2013. Fiction » Historical » Medieval.

Novel based on a well-documented historical account of a long battle in 1609–10 between Kurds and the Safavid Empire. The battle took place around a fortress called Dimdim, located in the Beradost region, near Lake Urmia in north-western Iran.
A Golden State of Mind / Golden Daze    by Geoffrey Wong
Price: $3.99 USD. 185930 words. Language: English. Published on April 18, 2013. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.

Coming-of-age adventures of an Iowa farm boy amid the colorful traditions and rituals of the University of California . . . of love lost and found - found and lost . . . untold origins of Louie, Louie, casino craps, psychedelic art and the secret odyssey of Buddy Holly’s glasses.