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Making Thunderbirds    by John Douglass
Price: $0.99 USD. 1780 words. Language: English. Published on June 18, 2013. Fiction » Historical » USA.

Concerns a young Marine during the Korean conflict who briefly meets a young woman and is later reunited with her.
Genèse d'un conquérant    by Bruno Robert des Douets
Price: $0.99 USD. 1620 words. Language: French. Published on June 17, 2013. Fiction » Historical » Medieval.

Avant de conquérir l'Angleterre, Guillaume de Normandie dût conquérir son épouse. Hélas, il s'y prit fort mal ! Ultérieurement, le futur roi se rattrapa certainement, car il semble lui avoir été fidèle jusqu'à la fin de sa vie.
The Way of the West    by L. J. Martin
Price: $0.99 USD. 6870 words. Language: English. Published on June 17, 2013. Fiction » Historical » Western & American frontier.

Harold L. Hogart, city slick, but the new owner of the Bar H, insists his young son go along on a cattle drive, and it's coming-of-age time when lots of trail tough cowhands decide the best way to learn, is to learn to laugh at yourself. There are some hard lessons on a tough trail but...it's the way of the west. A western short story by acclaimed western author L. J. Martin.
Prisionera del Diablo    by Mary Heathcliff
Price: Free! 14140 words. Language: Spanish. Published on June 16, 2013. Fiction » Romance » Historical.

Jack Farrel, un pirata apodado El Diablo, ha sido encomendado para buscar el tesoro robado de su gran Capitán el bucanero Henry Morgan. Con sorpresa nota que quien lo ha robado es una jovencita temeraria que niega el hecho... Anne no sabe nada de tesoros ni de piratas. Lo único que sabe es que ese hombre al que llaman El Diablo la hace experimentar sensaciones que nunca pensó que existieran.
The Long Road to Sorrow (Sorrow #4)    by Jack Bates
Price: $1.69 USD. 11810 words. Language: English. Published by MindWings on June 16, 2013. Fiction » Historical » Western & American frontier.

Sheriff Cal Haskell goes rogue in his pursuit of the notorious man with a brass foot. A Long Road to Sorrow teams Cal with a determined agent of the legendary Coughlin Investigation Bureau and a crusty old trapper who knows how to rack beast or man. A show down with Jacob Langston at a disreputable sanatorium will reveal secrets Cal would have never expected to uncover. [A Novelette]
The Morning Gift    by Peter Alan Orchard
Price: $0.99 USD. 5580 words. Language: English. Published on June 12, 2013. Fiction » Historical » Medieval.

(5.00 from 1 review)
Story set in Anglo-Saxon England. Ulf of Leystoke is working at Hunlaf's forge at Hemingburh but longs to return to his home village. Haunted by the memory of his widow Hroswitha, killed two years before in a Viking raid, he still needs a wife. Is Hunlaf's daughter Goldrun the answer?
Home, Where the Birds Won't Fly    by Lauren Pearce
Price: Free! 3050 words. Language: Australian English. Published on June 12, 2013. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

2016, Australian journalist Darya goes back to her parents' hometown of Pripyat to report on the thirtieth anniversary of the explosion in the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. "Home, Where the Birds Won't Fly tracks" her return home, and describes what she finds there. Runner-up for the 2012 John Marsden Prize.
Money making Ideas & Schemes    by I S
Price: $1.99 USD. 1520 words. Language: English. Published on June 11, 2013. Essay » Business.

You want money right, we all want money, heck what are you supposed to do? not pay your bills? Some people try the most interesting and craziest schemes to get rich or even a little bit of money, below are a few stories of some pretty fascinating people. Act like you don’t care about other people’s choices, but I assure you there are some real nut jobs out there and taking the time out of the day
Broken Dreams    by Annie Turner
Price: $2.99 USD. 10870 words. Language: English. Published by Alain Gomez  on June 10, 2013. Fiction » Historical » Western & American frontier.

Book 1 of the Nathaniel Porter trilogy. Nate Porter returns from fighting in the Civil War to find his wife dead, his ranch falling apart and a rich neighbor that seems to have no qualms about calling Nate's land his own. Despite his battlefield nightmares, he realizes that his own war has only just begun... Novelette, approx. 11,000 words.
Red Ringer    by Dan Lombard
Price: Free! 12940 words. Language: English. Published on June 10, 2013. Fiction » Historical » Western & American frontier.

0.75 star(4.80 from 5 reviews)
In the American Wild West of the late 19th century there were no credit cards and few bank accounts. But that did not mean there was no such thing as identity theft. It just made it a much more dangerous game.