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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?
Le récit des inséparables , Ou la mue de Boujelloud    by aghzaf brahim
Price: $10.00 USD. 12670 words. Language: French. Published on April 17, 2013. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general.

« C'est du dedans de lui-même que l'homme fait le monde comme il le voit. » (SHAKESPEARE) « Je suis la lune voilée ... Je suis sourire d'automne ... Je suis arbre sans feuilles » Par Ma femme : Naïma Ben M’Barek-
Pulling Back the Earth    by Mark R. Turner
Price: $2.00 USD. 17310 words. Language: American English. Published on April 15, 2013. Fiction » Drama » American.

For believing there are other people beyond this world who may be able to save humans from extinction a young couple is banished to a quest outside the world to return only if they find other people. She is 9 months pregnant by the time they discover their own sacred writings in a strange camp guarded by large, pale, babbling creatures. Will their words be stolen and their heir be devoured?
Story Tell    by Flavio Stroppini (a cura di)
Price: $2.99 USD. 7010 words. Language: Italian. Published by Gabriele Capelli Editore  on April 4, 2013. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general.

Guglielmo Tell scoccò, colpì la mela e divenne l’eroe nazionale Svizzero. A cosa pensò quando tutti i presenti trattennero il fiato? Trattenne il fiato anche lui? Al progetto partecipano autori della svizzera Italiana e tra loro, per scelta del curatore, anche una selezione di artisti di altri campi (cinema, teatro, pittura, musica, giornalismo).
The Weird Life of Joshua Mirabene    by Garden Urthark
Price: $0.99 USD. 12130 words. Language: English. Published on March 31, 2013. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general.

Set almost entirely in the Washington, DC, suburb of Bethesda, Maryland, at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century, Garden Urthark’s Weird Life of Joshua Mirabene will thoroughly familiarize you with one strange life story.
The Cook's House    by A. Vernon Richmond
Price: $2.50 USD. 11110 words. Language: English. Published on March 28, 2013. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general.

(5.00 from 1 review)
Set in the rural Mississippi Delta of the 1950s, The Cook's House is the story of a privileged white boy growing up with the synergism of his family, his small community, and a colored lady, the cook. As a boy would, he took for granted her kindness and the richness of her wisdom. She was his unconditional champion and became a lifetime companion in his heart.
Raven's Eye View    by Kimberly Bird
Price: Free! 1220 words. Language: English. Published on March 20, 2013. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general.

(5.00 from 1 review)
ravens eye view is a first nations story about the creator and its companion the raven. the raven is sent out to find the perfect space where life could flourish. as the raven sits back and waits for the creator to form the stars and planets in new galaxies, a newborn planet becomes vulnerable to the very sky that is suppose to protect it from explosions of space birthing.
Guns: A Gamer's Tale    by Kyle Schewe
Price: Free! 4090 words. Language: English. Published on March 19, 2013. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general.

People are violent, we live with violence, we accept violence in many forms, and we reject it in others. Fred is a teenage boy who is just another American who partakes, and rejects, elements of the violent culture. Except one of these events leaves a former teenage girlfriend dead at his feet.
Diplomáciai körök    by Odze György
Price: $5.99 USD. 11160 words. Language: Hungarian. Agented by Publio Kiadó  on March 15, 2013. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general.

Ez nem kézikönyv, nem útleírás, hanem olvasmányos életképek sorozata külföldön szerzett élményeimről és a nagykövetségi élet kulisszatitkairól. Sokan azt gondolják, hogy a diplomata főleg utazik, jókat eszik, sokat iszik és kényelmesen él, és ez részben igaz is.
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.