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Powerful Spirits    by Scott  Roche
Price: $0.99 USD. 6220 words. Language: English. Published on May 15, 2012. Fiction » Historical » Paranormal.

(5.00 from 1 review)
Dr. Emil Lazarus, town drunk and physician to the unserved Chinese in 1906 San Francisco, is able to see and speak to the town's deceased population. Long time companion and ghostly philosopher Chin Lao brings him dire news of a creature that is consuming the local spirits and may eventually jeopardize the living. Defeating it may require Doc to join his only friends prematurely.
Antony and Cleopatra In Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation and the Original Version)    by BookCaps 
Price: $2.99 USD. 101490 words. Language: English. Published on May 15, 2012. Fiction » Historical » General.

The love affair between Cleopatra and Mark Anthony has been recounted many times--but none with the same tragic grandeur as William Shakespeare. Unfortunately, hundreds of years have made it difficult for many modern readers to see the sensual juiciness of the play. BookCaps modern retelling will help you see the play like never before!
When Vaudeville Came to Joplin    by Cynthia Gillard
Price: $14.95 USD. 71490 words. Language: English. Published on May 15, 2012. Fiction » Romance » General.

Authored by Cynthia S Gillard When Vaudeville Came to Joplin is the first in a series of historical fiction novels based upon a 100 year old scrapbook that chronicles the lives of Vaudeville performers in America during the turn of the 20th century.
Wise Men    by Lonon Smith
Price: Free! 87850 words. Language: English. Published on May 14, 2012. Fiction » Historical » Classical Greece & Rome.

Khefren is ordered to shadow a mysterious African on his way to Roman Palestine. They join a caravan of well armed emissaries from Rome’s hated Parthian Empire rivals to the east. Old prophecies have the local Roman ruler worried ... and Khefren becomes all that stands between a young Jewish girl (pregnant she claims with her people’s messiah) and the mad ruler who wants her dead
Soaring With Cockatoos    by Trevor Steele
Price: $4.95 USD. 106650 words. Language: English. Published by Mirador Publishing  on May 14, 2012. Fiction » Historical » Australia & New Zealand.

The last decades of the nineteenth century. European powers are colonising the whole planet and seem unstoppable. In the British colony of Western Australia white settlers ignore the rights of the Aborigines, murder them or chase them from their land, or perhaps readmit them to work as unpaid labourers on newly created properties. This is their story...
Urban Legends: Tales of Horror and the True Stories Behind Them    by Jeffrey Fisher
Price: $0.99 USD. 4050 words. Language: English. Published on May 13, 2012. Fiction » Horror » General.

This book offers a large collection of popular Urban Legends, all of which are based on real stories or historical facts. Each of the legends includes the true stories behind them.
A Method to Madness    by Judith White
Price: $3.99 USD. 60170 words. Language: English. Published by worldcastlepublishing on May 13, 2012. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled.

It’s January 1943 and things are slow for Sam Flanagan, Detroit private detective. He’s about to call it a day and return to the woman he shares a home with; his eighty two year old grandmother, when in walks Chicago socialite Phyllis Killburn. She’s the daughter of the late tire tycoon, Alden Whitaker, and she’s got troubles.
Scryer's Gulch: Magic in the Wild, Wild West Vol. 1    by MeiLin Miranda
Price: $3.95 USD. 69560 words. Language: English. Published on May 13, 2012. Fiction » Fantasy » Historical.

The hard-scrabble mining town of Scryer's Gulch supplies the world with hermetauxite, the ore that runs everything from clocks to the new ethergraph system. But an unscrupulous spellcoder is poisoning it--twisting it for an undoubtedly evil purpose. Undercover Treasury Agent Annabell Duniway and her demon cat Misi must stop him--or her--before it's too late.
Memento Mori    by Alyne de Winter
You set the price! 34290 words. Language: English. Published on May 13, 2012. Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal.

(4.00 from 1 review)
In 1666, the Black Death swept through a tiny English village and killed all of its inhabitants. In 1966, art student Simon Beaumont,is hiking in the mountains. Lured by a mysterious call, he wanders into the haunted village of Whynnesmere where the beautiful witch, Lara, takes him into the past to unravel the mystery of a ghostly bride,and her strange wedding gift: the Memento Mori.
Haiti's Gold Rush Chronicles, Haiti’s Rags to Riches: On The Fault Lines of Poverty and Wealth, Let the Gold Rush Begin: Haiti's Gold Mines, Copper, Iridium, Silver, Marble, Huge oil Reserves..    by UrbaneBooksPublishing 
Price: $5.99 USD. 6420 words. Language: English. Published on May 13, 2012. Nonfiction » Engineering » Surveying.

"Haiti's Gold Rush Chronicles, Haiti’s Rags to Riches: On The Fault Lines of Poverty and Wealth, Let the Gold Rush Begin: Haiti's Gold Mines, Copper, Iridium, Silver, Marble, Huge oil Reserves.." is an ebook about the mineral wealth found in the mountaintops of Haiti. This discovery allows Haiti to rebuild and join the community of Nations and new market economies.