An Island in the Autumn    by John Smith
Price: $5.99 USD. 92310 words. Language: English. Published by North Highland Publishing  on May 17, 2012. Nonfiction » History » Australia & New Zealand.
In 1970, after serving nearly twenty years in Nigeria, John Smith returned to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office ready for a fresh assignment as a Commomwealth administrator. The ‘powers that be’ assured him that they would find him ‘an island in the autumn’

Titanic Sites in Philadelphia and Vicinity    by Calvin Sun
Price: $1.99 USD. 8370 words. Language: English. Published on March 31, 2012. Nonfiction » History » Modern / 20th Century.
The Titanic disaster continues to fascinate us even after 100 years. This book discusses sites in and around Philadelphia that are related to the ship and its passengers.

Our Experiences As Ghosts Aboard Titanic    by Elizabeth & William Hicks
Price: $0.99 USD. 6860 words. Language: English. Published on March 25, 2012. Nonfiction » Entertainment » Entertainment industry.
William & his wife, Elizabeth, sister of Ken Marschall, the world's renowned Titanic Artist, share their experiences as playing ghosts on James Cameron's documentary, Ghosts of the Abyss. They were filmed on the movie set of Jim's original movie, Titanic, where they were filmed in front of green screens & then superimposed over actual 3D footage of the Titanic wreckage giving a very eerie effect.

Cream From Butterflies    by Candace Hennekens
Price: $4.99 USD. 102240 words. Language: English. Published on March 22, 2012. Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir.
This is a personal story that reveals life in the mid-twentieth century that is mainly peaceful, mostly prosperous, when Americans dreamed big and dreams came true. And on a smaller scale, the story of how a writer can be formed: by commitment to a diary. The writer's five year diary written between 1959 and 1963 is included between essays about growing up in a small Wisconsin town.

Air Force Brat    by Susan Kiernan-Lewis
Price: $2.99 USD. 20430 words. Language: English. Published by San Marco Press  on March 18, 2012. Nonfiction » History » Modern / 20th Century.
A personal memoir of the three years spent as a child living in Europe as a military dependent during the sixties. This is a slice-of-life story of what it was like to be ten years old and living in a rural French village a scant 17 years after “the War.” A fascinating time in world history as well as my own.

A Close Run Thing: The Navy and the Falklands War    by Richard Freeman
Price: $2.99 USD. 13220 words. Language: English. Published by Matthew Lynn on March 13, 2012. Nonfiction » History » Modern / 20th Century.
This dramatic, enthralling book tells the story of the naval war, and the men and ships who fought it. And it explores the defence issues which it raised then and raises today. At the time the whole operation was hazardous in view of the depleted state of the Fleet. Today it would be impossible.

Oswald Slept Here: Lives Changed by a Flash of History    by The Dallas Morning News 
Price: $2.99 USD. 11380 words. Language: English. Published on March 7, 2012. Nonfiction » History » American.
When Lee Harvey Oswald shot John F. Kennedy, the crime ripped through lives far beyond the shooter and his victim. The Dallas Morning News, published within sight of the shooting, tells five short stories of lives forever changed.

Living Through a War    by John  Phipps
Price: $2.00 USD. 38290 words. Language: English. Published on February 27, 2012. Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir.
The true story of a family in World War 2, seen through the eyes of a boy who was just six and a half years old at the outbreak of war. It is the amusing and sometimes poignant story of the actual experiences of the author as he grew up amidst the dangers of the blitz,and the anxiety of his relatives in danger in the forces.The events all took place, with actual dates added from his research.

A Distance Travelled    by Terence Kearey
Price: $6.95 USD. 64500 words. Language: English. Published by Memoirs Publishing  on February 12, 2012. Nonfiction » Biography » Biographical anthologies.
A Distance Travelled is the fourth in a quartet of books by Terence Kearey dealing with aspects of life in Britain through the centuries from a family perspective. Caught up in the greed and restrictive practices of post-war industry, he came near to total collapse. Helped by friends and family he was able to recover, remarry and rebuild his life

The Endless Possibilities of Paper Mache - Imagination vs. Armageddon in the Cold War    by Jo Swanson
You set the price! 73580 words. Language: English. Published on February 2, 2012. Nonfiction » History » Modern / 20th Century.
As an actor & activist in Boston during the early 1980's, Jo Swanson was committed to saving the world. A founding member of the popular movement, Food Not Bombs, Swanson chronicles her numerous and wildly varied attempts to head off the arms race, shut down nuclear power and end US intervention in Central America - with little more than a few good ideas and a handful of like-minded friends.