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Refugee Without Refuge: A Novel of One Palestinian Family    by Dixiane Hallaj
Price: $3.99 USD. 105940 words. Language: English. Published on June 25, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

Members of the next generation of the family from Born a Refugee find themselves caught in a maelstrom of violence. It is 2002 and politics is no longer optional. As the family faces new challenges and tragedies, it seems as though the joy has gone out of life, and yet they continue to move forward, sustained and finding hope through the love of the family.
Born a Refugee: A Novel of One Palestinian Family    by Dixiane Hallaj
Price: $3.99 USD. 134100 words. Language: English. Published on June 23, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

Born a Refugee opens a window into the lives of one Palestinian family living in the Kalandia refugee camp amidst the harsh constraints and violence of military occupation. Four sons and their widowed mother build surprisingly normal lives as they support each other through tragedy and trauma, love and joy in spite of very different views on life, love, and politics.
Trials of Life    by Junying Kirk
Price: $2.99 USD. 127600 words. Language: English. Published on June 20, 2011. Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Courtroom.

0.5 star(3.50 from 2 reviews)
This thought-provoking novel follows Pearl in her cultural adaptation to the UK, with snapshots of her memories of China. It is about transition. It deals with clashes of culture, sexual harassment, bullying and falling in love. Would real life teach Pearl a lesson that there is no perfect justice in this world? Can fate explain everything or are they simply trials of life?
The Same Moon    by Junying Kirk
Price: $3.99 USD. 155190 words. Language: English. Published on June 20, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Educational.

0.5 star(4.50 from 4 reviews)
Pearl Zhang was born in China, and grew up during the Cultural Revolution. She was raised in a typically Chinese manner, went to school, got a job and got married, then she went to the United Kingdom, and stayed. Follow Pearl's Journey, from the East to the West, and discover a New World through her eyes.
The Sanity Matinee    by Michael Zagst
Price: $3.99 USD. 139260 words. Language: English. Published on June 18, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

Al Sprayberry is a buyer of TV advertising time for the venerable firm of Parkland Life & Casualty, and an anxious husband to a recovering cheerleader of unbound buoyancy. His experience with middle class angst is both hilarious and deadly serious.
Omega    by Bradley Stoke
Price: Free! 153790 words. Language: English. Published on June 17, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

Omega returns the adult reader to the world of childhood imagination: a world populated by the fantastic, the fabulous and the thoroughly improbable. But a world where adult concerns of poverty, injustice, prejudice, politics and economics are all too real. In this world, the reader is taken on a search for the Truth in a more literal sense than one would expect.
Terra Incognita    by Libi Astaire
Price: $4.99 USD. 110930 words. Language: English. Published by Aster Press  on June 15, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

When Vidal Bonet returns to Catalonia to revive his dying village, he has no idea that his plan for the future will uncover a deeply buried secret about the village's past: they are all descendants of Anusim - Spanish Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity during the Middle Ages. Poignant and comic, Terra Incognita will resonate with anyone who has gone on a quest to discover their past.
L’Intime des sens féminins    by Philippe Jaroussault
Price: $10.00 USD. 106330 words. Language: French. Published by Editions Dédicaces on May 28, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

Cet ouvrage met en scène Marilem et Roucoul, à l’affût de leurs candeurs amoureuses, qu’ils associent à des fontaines de l’intime. Rien ne peut empêcher la prospection de cet intime, au delà de la frontière d’eux-mêmes, qu’ils irriguent de leur délure et délinquance des usages, sur le modèle des riches sensations inédites, ou des sveltes consciences.
The Chapman Report    by Irving Wallace
Price: $4.99 USD. 146070 words. Language: English. Published by Crossroad Press  on May 26, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

Based on the "Kinsey Reports" where Dr. Alfred Kinsey conducted interviews with thousands of men and women on their sexual habits, Irving Wallace's blockbuster novel "The Chapman Report" concerns the interviewing of a number of society ladies from a community in California known only as "The Briars," which leads the reader on an intricate trail of desire and intrigue.
Dust on His Soul    by Jason Blacker
Price: $4.99 USD. 136300 words. Language: English. Published on May 24, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

(5.00 from 1 review)
Inspired by the life and times of Stephen Biko an apartheid activist arguably as important as Mandela. This novel is a fictional account of such a character. A story of sacrifice, suffering but ultimately redemption. Set in apartheid South Africa during the 1970s and 1980s, the dark days of South Africa's history also bred an incredible thirst for justice. A triumph of the human spirit.