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.

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.

Just A Song Before I Go    by Mr. Timothy M Bryant
You set the price! 66310 words. Language: English. Published on February 14, 2013. Fiction » Romance » General.
Makia, a single mother living in the projects on the South Side of Chicago. Joseph Scallettio, retired musician and composer, at peace living out his final days at St. Vincent's Nursing Home. Neither knew of each other... until now. If you enjoyed stories such as ‘The Notebook’ and ‘Fried Green Tomatoes’, you will truly enjoy this poignant love story.

The Translator's Tale    by Stephen Howell
Price: Free! 71980 words. Language: English. Published on January 28, 2013. Fiction » Humor & comedy » General.
1963. An academic’s marriage falls apart because of his narrow and obsessive behaviour. In the hope of being miraculously cured of his naive and concrete thinking he undertakes a journey to Galicia, the Spanish cradle of magical realism. He is accompanied by his daughter who relates their comical progress and deals most effectively with the predations of an unexpected and unwelcome girlfriend.

Lead Petals    by Quelli di ZEd
Price: Free! 105340 words. Language: English. Published on December 16, 2012. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Hispanic & Latino.
Warning: experimental translation (hybrid) 1937, Sardinia, mines of Montevecchio. The accidental death of the small Giuseppino marks the beginning of an unstoppable fall for a whole country. In a segment of reality that moves, that tears to pieces, so many characters fill the life of the village. Emilio, destroyed by the remorse for the death of Giuseppino...

Bomba libera tutti (versione Light)    by Quelli di ZEd
Price: Free! 106600 words. Language: Italian. Published on November 1, 2012. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general.
Pubblicazione in due lingue / This publication is in two languages: Italiano: versione originale English: experimental translation

The Day of the Bird    by Rosanne Dingli
Price: Free! 55720 words. Language: English. Published on September 2, 2012. Fiction » Literary collections » European / General.
This bumper collection of short stories consists of the entire contents of Over and Above (2011) and Vision or Delusion (2010), now both out of print.

The Rabbi Who Tricked Stalin    by Mordechai Landsberg
Price: Free! 107280 words. Language: English. Published on August 4, 2012. Fiction » Drama » European.
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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.

La Planta Sagrada    by Caroline Alethia
Price: Free! 79640 words. Language: Spanish. Published on July 9, 2012. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Hispanic & Latino.
La planta sagrada se inicia cuando un hippie de Oakland, California, elimina una jeringa de LSD a través de un inodoro previendo una redada policial, y luego sigue su improbable travesía de tres décadas hasta Los Yungas, Bolivia, el cordón umbilical entre los empinados Andes y la extensa Amazonía. La jeringa llega justo a tiempo para afectar la vida de dos norteamericanos que viajaron a La Paz.