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Warsaw Freedom    by Kimberly Kaplan
Price: $3.99 USD. 94670 words. Language: English. Published on December 16, 2012. Fiction » Drama » European.

Stefania and Paulina are Jewish women who lived in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII. Stefania believes in smuggling children out of the Ghetto to have a chance to survive. Paulina will not smuggle out her child but Stefania kidnaps him and smuggles him out. After confronting Stefania, both women are smuggled out together and have to survive hidden within Warsaw while hating and resenting each other.
Olivier de la Beauregard    by Lionel Lizee
Price: $2.99 USD. 69180 words. Language: English. Published on July 17, 2012. Fiction » Historical » Canada.

Françoise, an only child, in the 1660's, finds love with Olivier,whose promise to wed her on completion of his military tour does not occur. She seeks to find him in New France, relying upon the King's girls program to pay her passage and dowry. She must marry within three months. Pierre Baudin, contrary to the law prohibiting Huguenots coming, meets her there. He had snuck him into the colony.
Blossoms and Bayonets: A Story of Love, Faith and Courage under Japanese Occupation    by Jana McBurney-Lin
Price: $9.99 USD. 118230 words. Language: English. Published on October 15, 2012. Fiction » Historical » General.

Based on a true story, Blossoms & Bayonets is suffused with the tense atmosphere of World War II in the Pacific. The story lends an eyewitness perspective to events as they unfold for one family in Korea, revealing an era of nuance and complexity. The result is a work that speaks volumes about the power of faith.
This Old Bill    by Loren D. Estleman
Price: $3.99 USD. 84220 words. Language: English. Published by Crossroad Press  on October 27, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Western.

The life of Buffalo Bill Cody was as epic and exciting as the story of the West itself. Cowboy, Pony Express rider, Indian fighter, Union soldier, scout for General George Custer, slayer of Tall Bull and Yellow Hand—he saved Wild Bill Hickok's life, and beat the paths that made way for the railroad and the nation in America's rugged frontier.
The Secrets of the Sibyl: a short story    by Nancy Adams
Price: $0.99 USD. 5930 words. Language: English. Published on May 19, 2012. Fiction » Historical » Ancient.

"The Secrets of the Sibyl" is a short Gothic tale set in the Roman world of 382 A.D. When her father buys a decaying villa on the wild, rocky coast of Cumae, city of the ancient Sibyline oracle, fourteen-year-old Cellina finds mysteries at every turn. Following the trail of a mysterious silver box, she uncovers the secret of a decades-old crime committed within the villa's crumbling walls.
Mitrídates ha muerto    by Ignasi Ribó
Price: $3.50 USD. 87370 words. Language: Spanish. Published on August 20, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

Esta novela, construida como una larga nota a pie de página o como un juego de muñecas rusas, es una mirada desencantada y tragicómica al campo de ruinas de la historia. Para apreciarla, es necesario abandonar los hábitos de lectura más comunes, sumergiéndose en el incesante proceso de recreación y falsificación que constituye la historia —o las historias.
Cedric of RoseThorn    by S. Thomas Kaza
Price: $7.99 USD. 65830 words. Language: English. Published by Black Rose Writing  on August 30, 2012. Fiction » Fantasy » Historical.

After a near fatal encounter with Death, Cedric wakes to find his castle abandoned, his people scattered, and enemies at the gates. The world he once knew has been turned upside down. And he is now hunted by the very outlaws he once hunted. But Cedric is a man of RoseThorn.
Bushranger    by Raymond Boyd Dunn
Price: $0.99 USD. 19950 words. Language: English. Published on August 23, 2012. Fiction » Historical » Australia & New Zealand.

Bushranger...the outlaws of the Australian bush. The young men sometimes cast into that role by an unfortunate twist of fate - sometimes because of their thirst for adventure on a fast horse. Seldom did they realise the danger they were exposing themselves to until it was too late - an ignominious death from a policeman's bullet, or the final drop through the trapdoor of the gallows.
Over Easy    by Peter Stewart
Price: $0.99 USD. 20200 words. Language: English. Published on July 31, 2012. Fiction » Historical » USA.

(5.00 from 1 review)
Over Easy is a war story, a love story, and a California story. Second in the author’s California series, it chronicles the lives of the workers building Liberty ships in Sausalito during World War II. Peter Stewart’s California series can be read individually, in order, or out of order. To The Ocean, Over Easy, and coming soon The Kalevala.
To Glory Arise    by Walter Jon Williams
Price: $4.99 USD. 164030 words. Language: English. Published on March 20, 2013. Fiction » Historical » Colonial America.

(4.00 from 1 review)
This is Walter Jon Williams’ first published work, one of the historical novels with which he began his career. The American Revolution is throwing up a new breed of hero, Yankee privateers who dare the might of the Royal Navy to slash at British commerce. Foremost among them are the three Markham brothers, Jehu, Josiah, and Malachi, who link their destiny to that of their young nation.