Home to My Father: A Knight's Diary    by Mary C. Findley
Price: Free! 10290 words. Language: English. Published on February 1, 2012. Fiction » Historical » Medieval.
An English Knight begins a diary of his "adventure" joining Louis IX's First Crusade. The armada to Alexandria encounters a violent storm and the knight and his companions shipwreck. He must make an impossible choice: Cut himself off from his people or face execution. His life of turmoil and terror leads him to peace, but slavery and torture block his quest to get home to his father.

The Lily and the Bull    by Moyra Caldecott
Price: $5.99 USD. 51640 words. Language: English. Published by Mushroom Publishing on February 1, 2012. Fiction » Historical » Ancient.
A compelling re-creation of life in Minoan Crete - a world of magic and mystery, ritual and superstition, and where everyday life is charged with the supernatural...

Boudicca    by Ron Aberdeen
Price: $0.99 USD. 21460 words. Language: English. Published on February 1, 2012. Nonfiction » History » Biography.
The wrath of a Queen causes the death of one hundred and thirty thousand people, the destruction of three cities and the humiliation of an Empire. Based on the true story of Britain’s first Queen

Reminiscence    by Jake Murphy
Price: Free! 4680 words. Language: English. Published on February 1, 2012. Fiction » Historical » General.
(5.00 from 2 reviews)
As the sun sets and night creeps into the grounds, an old gentleman prepares for dinner. That evening he receives a visit from an old acquaintance, whose visit changes both their lives forever. A gripping story of love, nostalgia, ambition and betrayal, Reminiscence is the latest story from the 'Forgotten Tales' saga by Jake Murphy.

Catterthun    by Chris Craig
Price: $2.99 USD. 70670 words. Language: English. Published on January 31, 2012. Fiction » Historical » Australia & New Zealand.
The ss Catterthun set sail from Sydney on a wintry evening in 1895. Most of the people on board would never see the sun rise on another day. A mounting gale pushed the Catterthun along the coast, closer to her doom. She sank beneath a storm tossed sea leaving mysteries in her wake. What hadshe hit? Who was to blame? What happened to the fortune in gold she had on board?

The Great Libraries    by Alex Vaugn
Price: $2.99 USD. 12110 words. Language: English. Published by Star Catcher Publishing  on January 31, 2012. Fiction » Historical » Ancient.
Emmie Kirkwood is delighted when the Gateway Roadhouse insists she take a day off. Finding herself in ancient Egypt, she can think of only one thing. Spending her precious day at the most fabled library in the ancient world: The Alexandria Library. She didn't expect to also arrive the day of an equally famous fire. A Gateway Roadhouse Chronicles Egyptian steampunk adventure novelette.

The Sensual Chemist    by Andrew Sudell Davis
You set the price! 58880 words. Language: English. Published on January 31, 2012. Fiction » Historical » United Kingdom.
The Sensual Chemist is a witty yet thoughtful alternative social history, about England and its relationship with the rest of the world over the last two thousand years. Seen through the eyes of a diverse set of characters, love, sex, death and war jostle alongside religion, hypocrisy, science and marijuana to tell previously unheard truths about the place we live in.

The Guardians of Stavka: The Deadly Hunt for the Romanov Gold    by Robert Egby
Price: $4.99 USD. 151730 words. Language: Canadian English. Published on January 30, 2012. Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Spies & espionage.
For sixty years rumours raged on Canada’s west coast that a large gold cache belonging to the murdered Tsar Nikolas II was lost in a sunken ship. In 1979 when a weekend hunter discovers an ingot in a remote mountain cave it triggers a flurry of international gold seekers. The Tsar’s cache of 110 tonnes is worth three billion dollars.

Sarah's Valley    by Sharon Mierke
Price: $0.99 USD. 94300 words. Language: English. Published on January 30, 2012. Fiction » Historical » Colonial America.
(5.00 from 2 reviews)
Sarah's dream was to live in a beautiful valley. This might be an elusive dream for a young girl who, along with her brother Frank, was orphaned early in life. Their parents died on the way to California in the early 1800's. Sarah and Frank were the only wagon train survivors. How would two children survive the highwaymen, the raging grassfires, the cold winters and the heartache?

If the South Won Gettysburg    by Mark Nesbitt
Price: $3.99 USD. 41390 words. Language: English. Published by Second Chance Publications  on January 30, 2012. Fiction » Historical » USA.
Many historical accounts have been written documenting the Battle of Gettysburg and the Civil War. In "If the South Won Gettysburg" author Mark Nesbitt makes a dramatic hypothetical examination of precisely that theory: What if the South won at Gettysburg as a result of a change in the South's battle tactics ? What would have been the fate of this great nation?