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Toiletrivia - US History (American History Trivia, Revolutionary War Trivia, Civil War Trivia, Presidential Trivia, and More): The Only Trivia Book That Caters To Your Everyday Bathroom Needs (Volume 1)    by Jeremy Klaff
Price: $3.99 USD. 9070 words. Language: English. Published on January 20, 2012. Nonfiction » History » American.

TOILETRIVIA (US History Version) is the only US History trivia book that caters to your everyday bathroom needs. Questions in US History are asked on three difficulty levels ranging from easy "One Roll of Toilet Paper" trivia, to questions so hard, you'll need "Three Rolls of Toilet Paper" to get you through the chapter. Presidents, Civil War, Pop Culture, Wars ... we have it covered!
Feeling Better Instead of Bitter about the Latino Immigrant    by Max T Russell
Price: $9.97 USD. 58790 words. Language: English. Published on January 20, 2012. Nonfiction » History » American.

You can find reasons to be mad at almost anybody. America is a far more interesting place when you stop to consider the many beautiful and different things about the people who live here. This book shows the fun differences among groups who have been here for ages and groups who are newer to our soil. The emphasis is on newer Latino arrivals because the author knows them so well.
Songbirds are Free    by P.M. Terrell
Price: $6.99 USD. 107820 words. Language: English. Published by Drake Valley Press  on January 20, 2012. Nonfiction » History » American.

Based on a true story: on a summer afternoon in 1780, Shawnee warriors attacked and killed William Neely and captured his 19-year-old daughter Mary. Taken hundreds of miles from home, deep into Indian Territory, Mary must depend on her own courage and determination to escape from her captors and make her way back home.
A Merchant Seaman's Survival - An Autobiography - An Escape Story of World War II    by Edward J. Sweeney
Price: $6.89 USD. 53510 words. Language: English. Published by Allan J. Sweeney  on January 17, 2012. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.

This is a true-life World War 2 escape story. Edward J Sweeney’s merchant ship was sunk by a German raider, which led to hair-raising escapes from jails in France and Spain. He was re-captured and escaped from a German troop train on the way to a labour camp; a concentration camp in Argeles Sur Mer, France; and from the notorious labour concentration camp at Miranda de Ebro, in Spain...
I, the People: How Marvin Zindler Busted the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas    by Gary Taylor
Price: $0.99 USD. 35200 words. Language: English. Published on January 16, 2012. Nonfiction » History » American.

Behind the scenes of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas lies an authentic true crime history yarn just as entertaining and as much a part of the Lone Star State’s many fabled legends. In I, the People, veteran Houston journalist Gary Taylor recreates the real story behind the closing of the Chicken Ranch and explains the forces that unleashed TV icon Marvin Zindler upon the national scene.
Nietzsche's Footfalls    by David Pollard
Price: $3.99 USD. 71490 words. Language: English. Published on January 16, 2012. Fiction » Historical » General.

Nietzsche spent the last decade of his life mad in rooms above the archive created by his sister, turning him into a part of Nazi mythology. This book traces the roots that made this possible. It traces Nietzsche’s relationship with Wagner and his sister, his thoughts on Germany and Judaism and women. It is a meditation on how thought can be inverted during the posthumous existence of its writer.
Due Nomi Per Un Incubo    by Riccardo Mainetti
Price: $0.99 USD. 1220 words. Language: Italian. Published on January 15, 2012. Nonfiction » History » Holocaust.

Breve racconto del mio viaggio in uno dei tanti Inferni che l'Umanità ha conosciuto nel Secolo Breve. Forse addirittura L'Inferno Assoluto.
The Smell of Kerosene: A Test Pilot's Odyssey - NASA Research Pilot Stories, XB-70 Tragic Collision, M2-F1 Lifting Body, YF-12 Blackbird, Apollo LLRV Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (NASA SP-4108)    by Progressive Management
Price: $9.99 USD. 101290 words. Language: English. Published on January 15, 2012. Nonfiction » Science and Nature » Military Science.

This official NASA history document - converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction - is the fascinating account of the life of Donald Mallick, a NASA research test pilot. This book puts the reader in the pilot's seat for a "day at the office" unlike any other.
Kampuchea, Year Zero    by Ray Kania
Price: $1.00 USD. 10120 words. Language: English. Published on January 14, 2012. Nonfiction » History » Asian.

“Kampuchea, Year Zero” is my interview of a young Cambodian girl who survived nearly 4 years of Pol Pot, communist leader of the Khmer Rouge.
Slavery: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow    by William J. Connor, Jr.
Price: $4.99 USD. 181440 words. Language: English. Published by A-Argus Better Book Publishers  on January 14, 2012. Nonfiction » History » Social history.

A frank and open look at the situation of slavery as it existed in the world since mankind began its existance and a close examination of slavery as it exists in the 21st Century.