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Serendipity on the Water    by Elsan Zimmerly
Price: $1.50 USD. 21340 words. Language: English. Published on May 22, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.

A collection of short stories, essays and poems about journeying to Southeast Alaska for a seasonal job and remaining for twenty-six years. I connected deeply to this far-away land finding adventure along every trail hiked, every fjord sailed.
Varuna - a Thames Barge that was Home    by John Mellor
Price: $3.00 USD. 45040 words. Language: English. Published on May 22, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir.

The author and her new husband give up high-flying media lives in London's famous Fleet Street to make a home on an old Thames Barge lying in the mud in Essex. Life on the Varuna turns out to be a long way from 'cocktails on deck at sundown', and Caroline writes about it all with a distinctively dry and laconic wit. Even the tragic ending fails to dim her ability to 'keep on keeping on'.
Mom, I Want to Speak to Mary Antoinette    by Wendy Gaynor
Price: $4.99 USD. 59000 words. Language: English. Agented by Dystel and Goderich Literary Management on May 22, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir.

A call from the police telling single mom Wendy Gaynor that her 18-year old daughter, Ruby, had been in an extremely serious car accident changed an ordinary fall day to an extraordinary one. Mom, I Want to Speak to Marie Antoinette is a powerful and poignant account of one family’s struggle to turn tragedy into triumph, setbacks, turmoil and disharmony into serenity and success.
PALACE IN THE FIELDS Growing up on a Farm    by PETER HITT
Price: $0.99 USD. 39270 words. Language: American English. Published on May 22, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.

PALACE IN THE FIELDS Growing up on a Farm is the firsthand recollections of the youngest member of a family of six, in an organized anecdotal style, who moved from suburbia to a tobacco farm in southern Maryland during a ten-year period in the 1940's and 1950's. The farmhouse turned out to be "Dent's Palace", a former colonial plantation manor that the parents restored to an elegant showplace.
Twelve-Hundred Steps    by M. Trish Alden
Price: $5.99 USD. 34680 words. Language: English. Published by R. J. Buckley Publishing  on May 21, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.

TWELVE-HUNDRED STEPS is a collection of insightful poetry about love and life as well as a collection of poignant stories about growing up as one of two adopted children on the Alden family farm in western Oregon. As you read these pages, it becomes evident that the need for love and freedom is very important to Ms. Alden.
Profiles of Women Murdered by the Boston Strangler    by Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Price: $3.50 USD. 3820 words. Language: English. Published on May 21, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Woman biographies.

My e-book is a close examination of the lives of women who were murdered by the Boston Strangler in 1962-63. I researched the women's ethnic backgrounds, their families, immigration history, employment, living places, and death circumstances. Different than other true crime books, I focused on the people who were victims instead of the criminal. Each of the women was noteworthy in her own right.
Below the Peacock Fan: First Ladies of the Raj    by Marian Fowler
Price: $3.99 USD. 93530 words. Language: English. Published by Bev Editions  on May 21, 2013. Nonfiction » History » Asian.

When the British ruled India, four Victorian women find themselves in a disturbing land, experiencing extremes of decadence amid crushing poverty. Emily Eden, Charlotte Canning, Edith Lytton and Mary Curzon followed husbands or a brother who were appointed Viceroys. In this compelling slice of colonial history we see how India marked them with its heat, mutinies and lascivious secrets.
The Lions Roar and Other Stories    by Ron Jolley
Price: $1.99 USD. 64220 words. Language: English. Published by Rose Slater on May 20, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.

a story of lions and their escapades in a game park outside nairobi, kenya
Something Furry Underfoot    by Amy L Peterson
Price: $2.99 USD. 65590 words. Language: English. Published on May 20, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.

When Amy married a biologist named Mark, she knew a few pets were in her future, but she had no idea the number and kinds of pets Mark had in mind. And she had no idea she would end up taking care of so many animals, and fall for all of them. This is a fun, touching book that includes 50 tips and includes hedgehogs, ferrets, dogs, a cat, rabbits, small rodents, a domestic duck and mynah birds.
Bardot - Two Lives    by Jeffrey Robinson
Price: $9.99 USD. 120800 words. Language: English. Published on May 20, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Celebrity biography.

For sixty years, Brigitte Bardot was an international phenomenon. Here, for the first and only time, a writer was granted access to the woman behind the myth --- a woman who, literally, changed the world.