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La nouvelle vie d'Anna : troisième année    by Pauline Sarélot-Le Floc'h
Price: $2.99 USD. 40440 words. Language: French. Published on August 10, 2010. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

Contrairement à l'année précédente, Anna angoisse à l'idée de retrouver le château, tant son passage dans l'aile sud lui a déplu. Elle attend également avec crainte de savoir si Jérôme a bel et bien été renvoyé. L'année démarre bizarrement, d'autant plus que quelqu'un dans le château semble décidé à attirer des ennuis à la belle Anna...
Xenos: A Novel    by David A. Ross
Price: $4.99 USD. 64960 words. Language: English. Published by Open Books on August 10, 2010. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

Sometimes the only way to find yourself is to leave behind everything you've ever known... and become a stranger.
The Lake That Stole Children    by Douglas Glenn Clark
Price: $2.99 USD. 7380 words. Language: English. Published on August 9, 2010. Fiction » Literature » Fairy tales.

(5.00 from 1 review)
The Lake That Stole Children blends the magic of Disney's Pinocchio with the magnificent quest of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. It begins with a boy's deep yearning and leads to a grown man's startling discovery as he searches for his son and other children who have mysteriously disappeared.
Three Stories About Eccentricity    by Daniel Koehler
Price: $0.99 USD. 11120 words. Language: English. Published on August 9, 2010. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

Three stories with three memorably unbalanced narrators. Meet Brose, a professional legal entity for hire, who suddenly finds his lucrative anonymity threatened when a friend buys an RPG for him on Avenue C and 13th Street. Then there's Ophelia, whose fetish is the NFL, and finally you won't forget Ray, whose politically-incorrect father's in the hospital for standing up for his black employees.
Caring for the Elderly    by Janice Daugharty
Price: Free! 2770 words. Language: English. Published on August 9, 2010. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

(3.00 from 1 review)
Hun is ninety-some-odd years old and at the mercy of a bitter, controlling black woman hired by the family to keep their beloved relative at home till she dies. When Hun's two grand-nieces show up one fall morning for a visit, the caregiver cranks her meanness up a notch. She gets them told! Hun cries...
La nouvelle vie d'Anna : deuxième année    by Pauline Sarélot-Le Floc'h
Price: $2.99 USD. 39830 words. Language: French. Published on August 9, 2010. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

Après une année de Seconde pleine de rebondissements, Anna Camors entame sa deuxième année au château de Camilia, où elle intègre le niveau Première situé dans l'aile Sud, sous la direction d'Emilie. Alors que les cours ne font que commencer, un conflit éclate au sein de l'aile Sud et, encore une fois, Anna va se retrouver mêlée à une sombre histoire...
Final Decree. A Dead Dog Divorce.    by Ted Summerfield
Price: $1.99 USD. 12070 words. Language: English. Published on August 8, 2010. Fiction » Literature » Drama.

A story of one hellish divorce, based in part on real events. A cautionary tale for both men and women.
I Am the Heart    by Adrian Newington
Price: Free! 29310 words. Language: English. Published on August 8, 2010. Fiction » Literature » Religious.

Written in a style of literature common to mystical India. This takes the form of a spiritually uplifting dialog between a 'Troubled Mind' and the 'Heart'. The Mind, (which deals with life rationally and analytically), converses with the 'Heart' after it has come forth from its silent abode out of compassion.
Three Stories About Extremity    by Daniel Koehler
Price: $0.99 USD. 11680 words. Language: English. Published on August 7, 2010. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

What bubbles up in your consciousness when faced with the extremity of death, either yours or others with whom you interact? The theme of the individual in extremis links these three stories, each singular in its account of the moment we all know we have coming.
A Daughter's Love    by Lorraine Sears
Price: $0.99 USD. 1330 words. Language: English. Published by Untreed Reads on August 6, 2010. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

A young woman attempts to take care of her father who struggles with inner demons from his time at war. Can a daughter's love overcome the ferocity of a battle being waged in the mind? A tale from the Nibs literary short story line.