The Giftie    by Max Halley
Price: $5.99 USD. 83130 words. Language: English. Published on May 24, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Literary.
In his mid-forties, a great man’s protégée, Chief Executive Chauncey Applegate senses an impending crisis of identity. When his firm falls to the venal Krieg Corporation, he bolts to the sanctuary of a run-down farm in order to re-engineer his life. But corporate politics dog him in exile and Chauncey is driven into a personal wilderness from which the only escape is locked in the past

Warrior's Song (The Parker Shaw Series)    by Thomas Hill
Price: $0.99 USD. 74990 words. Language: English. Published on May 24, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Literary.
Parker Shaw is a typical twenty-year-old college junior—or so he thinks. He has a strange dream that vexes him but, for the sake of his sanity, he decides to disregard it. In the coming months, however, it is clear that the dream has a special message for him.

Barn Stripping and Other Stories    by Andrew J. Olson
Price: $5.99 USD. 32090 words. Language: English. Published by Knuckledown Press on May 24, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Literary.
In his own quest for William H. Gass's "heart of the heart of the country,” Andrew J. Olson takes readers to rural Minnesota, where children must learn the hard way about their bodies and their own fragility, and yet we recognize it’s their souls that are resilient. It’s a place where young men learn that promises can be reaped from the land, but Mother Nature is brutish in her lack of sympathy.

The Year It Rained    by Crescent Dragonwagon
Price: $2.99 USD. 63750 words. Language: English. Published on May 23, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.
Having survived three suicide attempts and treatment in a series of mental hospitals, seventeen-year-old Elizabeth continues to fight for happiness in a life filled with confusion and turbulence. "A beautiful and significant book about love." The New York Times.

Grave Men    by Tom Piccirilli
Price: $3.99 USD. 54160 words. Language: English. Published by Crossroad Press  on May 23, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Western.
Five years ago, Priest McClaren and his younger sister, Molly, were forced to watch as their parents were murdered by a desperate pair of outlaws. Though one is dead, the other, Yuman Dean, is still on the loose. Now Molly is a haunted bounty hunter and all Priest wants is to run a little store with his partner, Lamarr, an ex-slave and ex-Union soldier. But it won't be that easy.

The Shining City On The Hill    by Caroline Collier
Price: $3.99 USD. 83280 words. Language: English. Published on May 22, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Visionary & metaphysical.
Based in a Texas city during the intolerable heat of the waning summer, The Shining City On The Hill is progressive fiction about the last days of the American dream. The story takes you deep into the lives of a dozen troubled characters as they unconsciously cross paths, never realizing that profound suffering unites them all.

The Previous Life of Julian Kelly    by Alessandro Cusimano
Price: $4.99 USD. 22740 words. Language: English. Published by Green King Press  on May 22, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Drama.
An unconventional path, funny and desperate, populated by staring puppets and strange creatures whose life unfolds between sarcasm and resentful emotion. Painful and surreal, the events reflect on anxiety, crush conventions and illusions, irreverent, proclaiming, with a barrage of words, life is, by its nature, a scandal.

No Other Way    by Roger Real Drouin
Price: $5.49 USD. 49370 words. Language: English. Published by Moonshine Cove Publishing, LLC  on May 22, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Literary.
Photographer of birds Samuel Leaton, sets out to find the thought-to-be-extinct Northern Stilted Curlew, when he gets caught up in a battle to protect a remote backcountry forest. As the men from Centur Corp. drive in with their rigs to begin drilling for natural gas, Samuel and a forest ranger, who has a run-in with the law, take up a fight no one else will.

Triple Vision    by Ita Willen
Price: $3.99 USD. 41140 words. Language: English. Published by The Wessex Collective  on May 22, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Literary.
Triple Vision is the perfect title for this collection. The author sees life through the eyes of a philosopher, a painter, a poet... these stories will challenge you intellectually, stimulate you emotionally and delight all your senses.

Seek God sans the Spaghetti    by Anthony Dalton
Price: $5.99 USD. 82140 words. Language: English. Published on May 22, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Religious.
If you do not believe in God, this book should make you think. Simply because much of it will be new to you. If you are a god-believer, this book will also get you thinking. For exactly the same reason. If this sounds like you're in for a heavy read, you're wrong. It's not a theological tome. You can't even call it a religious novel. It's a fast-paced, wide-ranging, and often moving story, t