Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general

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.

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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.
Ring of Fire; Or: Antumbra of a Wintered Empire    by A. Castano
Price: $5.00 USD. 66590 words. Language: English. Published on March 11, 2013. Fiction » Drama » American.

Manu is constantly in love with the wrong person. He runs around a twenty-first century America looking in all the wrong places. An immigrant in a strange land, he goes daydreaming on airplanes and buses, aimless and lost. Looking for work in all the wrong places, Manu dreams the American dream. Is he the enemy? he wonders, running in the long shadow of the violent birth of this Global century.
Chattanooga In Black & White    by A. L. Gates
Price: Free! 7270 words. Language: English. Published on March 11, 2013. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general.

Two talented teenage boys deal with growing up in Chattanooga, Tennessee. In the shadow of Lookout Mountain, Travis & Willie deal with the old ways while creating new traditions. The two boys come to grips with what is and is not important.
Barba Yianni ~Uncle Blood Sucker    by Wynn Parks
Price: $2.99 USD. 5130 words. Language: English. Published on March 10, 2013. Fiction » Horror » Undead.

In the Greek islands, a vrycolakos is a vampire. Unlike the Transylvanian kind,a vrycolakos is often hard to tell from the person they were when alive. They can be distinguished by two things: their prey is usually a family member, and their dessicated bodies make a drum-like sound when struck. The niece of a vrycolakos tells of her narrow escape from her uncle ... or not!
Be Careful What You Ask For    by J. J. Haile
Price: Free! 2210 words. Language: English. Published by Write On E-Publishing, LLC  on March 9, 2013. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general.

Miss Sophie Auguillard loved her husband Fred, but Fred loved to "cat around" in the streets. What's a good Creole girl to do to keep her man at home? Find out in this Min-e-Book from J.J. Haile!
Bullying ... Period.    by Joe H. Bell, Jr
Price: $1.49 USD. 6940 words. Language: English. Published on March 9, 2013. Fiction » Drama » American.

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Bullying … ever witness this before? Perhaps, you didn’t know the person that it happened to … or maybe it was a friend … or a relative … or just maybe, it happened to you.
The Between Times    by Marta Moran Bishop
Price: $1.99 USD. 27470 words. Language: English. Published on March 9, 2013. Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary.

What if for the first time in the history of the United States we took a social and economic nose dive into oblivion? THE BETWEEN TIMES is just such a scenario. A story that reads like a folk tale from the past, but in reality is a fantastic possibility based on the choices available to us today. It is a "cautionary tale" and expressly written for these politically divisive times.
Run Away from The Tiger, Face The Crocodile    by Robert Bell
Price: $0.99 USD. 11050 words. Language: English. Published by Thai Diamond Books  on March 8, 2013. Fiction » Gay & lesbian fiction » Gay.

Martin headed for Thailand, leaving behind his former, self destructive, alcoholic self, James. The last person he expected to see was Rene, especially not one who had descended into drink and drugs. Together they headed for a temple to be cured of their addictions. The temple wasn’t a temple. The big question was whether Isaan Black Magic could cure them. Would the Master succeed?
Quintet: Doctor Banner's Garden: Family Agendas: Ambition: The Ultimate Success: A Son's Father, A Father's Son    by Hugh Aaron
Price: $4.99 USD. 109270 words. Language: English. Published by The Educational Publisher/Biblio Publishing  on March 8, 2013. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general.

A collection of five novellas: DOCTOR BANNER'S GARDEN, FAMILY AGENDAS, AMBITION, THE ULTIMATE SUCCESS, A SON'S FATHER, A FATHER'S SON
Coffee and Vodka    by Helena Halme
Price: $4.99 USD. 74130 words. Language: English. Published on March 7, 2013. Fiction » Women's fiction » General.

Nordic Noir meets family saga in this heartfelt story of immigration and family breakup set in Finland and Sweden.