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No Minute Hand to My Clock    by Derik Le Grange
Price: $2.50 USD. 102970 words. Language: English. Published on September 28, 2011. Nonfiction » Biography » Historical biography.

Henry Bossau was a staunch but intelligent, opinionated but enlightened Afrikaner. He was a farmer, writer, painter, philosopher and scholar who lived in the first half of the 20th century. He was also an alcoholic. Experience his rollercoaster life as he tussles with the questions of life and riches. Yet, all too often the answers seem to linger at the bottom of a brandy bottle.
Sweet Times, Sweet Places    by Joe White
Price: $3.99 USD. 147330 words. Language: English. Published on September 26, 2011. Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir.

The modern generation could hardly believe there was quality life without the social and technological innovations of the new millennium. But my generation(1930s-1950s)made out quite nicely, thank you, without these innovations. Come let me tell you through the childhood adventures of a southern country bumpkin about a more laid back, less complicated, and some would say, less contaminated era.
Kings, Killers and Kinks in the Cosmos    by Robert Egby
Price: $4.99 USD. 146940 words. Language: English. Published on September 21, 2011. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.

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Robert Egby’s great-grandmother, an English Seer, predicted his life. A teenage atheist, he refused to believe her until doors started opening like magic. The strange journey took him into the company of kings,journalists, news photographers, in the Middle East, Germany and western Canada where a radical change took place in Cosmic Consciousness. Autobiography with over seventy photographs.
Ghetto Plainsman    by Jarid Manos
Price: $9.99 USD. 196400 words. Language: English. Published on September 21, 2011. Nonfiction » Politics and Current Affairs » Environmental politics.

Gritty, raw and spiritual, Ghetto Plainsman chronicles one man’s triumph over humiliation, self-hatred, anger and violence in a chaotic journey between urban survival and the life-or-death struggles of the ravaged American Great Plains. This gripping parable takes us from the streets to the even more devastated American West and finally into a place of deeper healing for us all.
A Lark Ascending    by Harry Moore
Price: $0.99 USD. 106720 words. Language: English. Published on September 20, 2011. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.

Life is sweet. Everything is in its place. A young beautiful wife and twins, a boy and girl. Suddenly the girl is struck down with Leukaemia and the family move into a new dimension, another world. This is a story of love and hope, of the battle against the ultimate destiny of us all. It is told through the father and daughter but is about the whole family. They try to answer the eternal question.
War at the Top (The Clock with Four Hands)    by James Leasor
Price: $2.99 USD. 108610 words. Language: English. Published on September 18, 2011. Nonfiction » Biography » Political biography.

Based on the experiences of General Sir Leslie Hollis, who served at the centre of British power for nine years from 1936 to 1945. It includes first-hand accounts of the most momentous moments of WW2 with personal recollections of meetings held underground in the Cabinet War Rooms, in the USA, at the major conferences – Cairo, Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam – from the position of a true insider.
Ten Bob an Hour    by Steve Phillips
Price: $4.85 USD. 133690 words. Language: English. Published by Memoirs Publishing  on September 16, 2011. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.

Five years of dirt and grind, practical jokes and 60-hour weeks turned Steve Philips into the man he is today. Now retired to sunny Cyprus, Steve tells his story, warts and all. How he started as a 15-year-old apprentice in a Birmingham factory when a pint of mild cost one bob and engineering was still done the hard way.
Until the Wheels Fall Off    by Robert Norman
Price: $5.99 USD. 117220 words. Language: English. Published by Brighton Publishing LLC  on September 8, 2011. Nonfiction » History » American.

A group of young men form a motorcycle club. Vowing to remain together “until the wheels fall off” the Wheel Lords Motorcycle Club adopts the street chopper counterculture lifestyle and the freedom of the open road, as they ride and party with the Hells Angels and Unforgiven Sinners. Told from the perspective of one club member, this is the story of California chopper riders in the 70s.
Taking the Sea: Perilous Waters, Sunken Ships, and the True Story of the Legendary Wrecker Captains    by Dennis Powers
Price: $3.99 USD. 106390 words. Language: English. Published on September 6, 2011. Nonfiction » Transportation » Ocean transport.

This book showcases the heart-beating salvages and “wondrous death-defying finales” (Kirkus Reviews) by the important wreckers. Readers will see how innovation marched to change the maritime world, and as the most acclaimed wrecker, Captain T.P.H. Whitelaw, observed: “A terrible, always hungry monster, with long white teeth is the sea. A smiling witch one day—a monster the next.”
My Only Crime Was Being Born, Volume 2    by Jeffrey Weber
Price: $1.99 USD. 134710 words. Language: English. Published on September 6, 2011. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.

Volume 2 continues the adventures of Jeffee as he bravely does battle with a world he was never cut out for. Volume 2 focuses mainly on the strange and unusual adventures Jeffee had in the land of work. You will read about many strange (and bad) adventures I had as I entered the work force. The strangest "job" I ever had was my time in the Army starting with getting drafted - amazing!