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BUZZ: An Unauthorized Autobiography    by Robert Zverina
Price: $2.99 USD. 33130 words. Language: American English. Published on August 21, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

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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.)
Anymore    by Virginia Llorca
Price: $3.99 USD. 45970 words. Language: English. Published on August 19, 2012. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general.

Finding herself alone in an almost empty world, Deanie, at a very young age, learns to rely on herself for survival. Although her sense of self-reliance serves her as she travels through wilderness, it will be her biggest problem when she tries to re enter a newly forming society
Stale Samizdat and Rotten Kremlevka    by Stepan Zapluisvichko
Price: $2.00 USD. 25650 words. Language: Russian. Published by T/O "Neformat"  on August 17, 2012. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general.

Inside marginalisation in todays Russian society appears to be national decise. The frames of comedy people take part is very narrow.
The Kilkenny Cat Trilogy    by William Forde
Price: $2.00 USD. 287520 words. Language: English. Published on August 15, 2012. Fiction » Young adult or teen » Social Issues.

The story is told through the eyes of travelling cats and shows that every country exercises discrimination against some of its citizens. The nature of discrimination may subtly change and vary from one country and situation to another in both shape and form, but it will always be present. Discrimination shows its ugly face most in issues of race, sexism, religion, culture, disability and colour.
Pete's Cafe - Somewhere Near the Great Khan In Half Moon Bay    by Erich von Neff
Price: $0.99 USD. 9940 words. Language: English. Published on August 13, 2012. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general.

In a small seaside town 25 miles south of San Francisco, a colorful Italian restaurant and its salt-of-the-earth customers conspire to provide a very interesting and humorous window into multi-ethnic life in 1950's California.
Los espíritus de Venezuela    by Margaret Donnelly
Price: $0.99 USD. 69850 words. Language: Spanish. Published on August 11, 2012. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Hispanic & Latino.

Los Espíritus de Venezuela señalan el final de una época de tabús impuesta en Venezuela por la Conquista Española y abre la puerta a un nuevo aspecto a como los venezolanos obran con la sabiduría práctica de sus antecesores.
Saint Anne Cameo    by Charles Roy Roberts
Price: $1.49 USD. 90230 words. Language: English. Published on August 11, 2012. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general.

Harold moves into a world where every person is expendable. He and Ruth find unity with each other. Harold’s new wife, pilots him through Mexico’s industrialist, politicians, drug smugglers and murderers to a new life. He has to live on the edge of legality, adjusting to a new cultural identity. In Mexico he discovers you have to be honest with the ones you love, all others are passing images.
Bushmen Stories: Beginning    by Jaco de Beer
Price: Free! 1670 words. Language: English. Published by Kameeldoring Boeke  on August 10, 2012. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general.

Very long ago, even before the dawn of time, a family of five lived deep in the warm heart of the Kalahari. The family only had daughters but the caring father and loving mother took care of them and they grew up to be very beautiful. They loved to dance and one day their trickster god saw the girls dance and couldn't stop looking at them.From the collection of "Boesmanstories" by G.R.von Wielligh
Ready Reference Treatise: Things Fall Apart    by Raja Sharma
Price: $2.99 USD. 11250 words. Language: English. Published on August 9, 2012. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general.

Guide books or book notes are primarily written to make students understand the original text better, especially from all those angles which are often overlooked by a casual reader.
On Wings of Song    by Peter Wilson
Price: Free! 9490 words. Language: English. Published on August 8, 2012. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general.

Two choirs, run by former friends now bitter rivals, are compelled to co-operate, leading to involvement with the murder of a Russian businessman and discovery of a mistake as the original cause of the leaders' quarrel.