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Nebulous Mooch    by H. Lovelyn Bettison
Price: $2.99 USD. 26080 words. Language: English. Published by Nebulous Mooch  on June 15, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.

Life is what you make it, and H. Lovelyn Bettison thinks it's one big laugh. Explore the sillier side of daily life with her in Nebulous Mooch. Bettison is a humor blogger who has combined the best of six years of blogging into a book for you to enjoy. Her unique perspective allows her to find the humor in even the most ordinary circumstances.
Mourning Has Broken    by Carol Ann Balawyder
Price: $2.99 USD. 53640 words. Language: English. Published on June 15, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.

Giving herself a year of mourning after her sister's untimely death, the author goes about her life as memories and myriads of emotions assail her. Through it all, she explores the meaning of life and the changing of her beliefs, taking the reader through a journey of sorrow, grief, regret, joy and hope.
Dust of the Danakil    by Ian Mathie
Price: $6.99 USD. 71860 words. Language: English. Published by Mosaique Press  on June 15, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.

A gripping memoir of the 1974 humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia, Dust of the Danakil is a true story of an ill-conceived project in the violent, drought-stricken Danakil region. The author, sent by UK government pen-pushers to harness seasonal flood water and turn the notoriously aggressive Afar herdsmen into farmers, discovered a hostile environment that almost cost him him his life.
Dear Instant Family    by Evan Juro
Price: $6.75 USD. 36840 words. Language: English. Published on June 14, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.

Dear Instant Family is this widowed dad’s true story of what happened when 400 women responded to his personal ad in New York magazine seeking a wife and a mother for his young children. The memoir ranges from hysterically funny to desperately poignant as the author searches for happiness for himself and his kids. It includes some of the actual letters he received.
On Giants' Shoulders    by Patrick McElligott
Price: $5.00 USD. 81090 words. Language: English. Published by WEC Publications  on June 14, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.

The story of Patrick McElligott who came from south east London to become a missionary in Japan.
Eighteen Months To Live    by Rachele Baker, DVM
Price: $2.99 USD. 53500 words. Language: American English. Published on June 13, 2013. Nonfiction » Health, wellbeing, & medicine » Cancer.

As cancer invades her body, Midge Rylander valiantly struggles to beat the disease while trying to live her life as normally as possible. She documents her journey with heart-wrenching honesty. In spite of the pain she endures, Midge discovers joy in the simple things around her. Her poignant story renews our appreciation for the preciousness of life and our relationships with those we love.
The Hooker in the Lobby    by Paul Treyvaud
Price: $9.99 USD. 88720 words. Language: Commonwealth English. Published by PubliBook Ireland  on June 13, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Reference.

The Hooker in the Lobby captures the essence of working in the hospitality industry – no two days are ever the same!
Un-American Dad    by Richard Crasta
You set the price! 22670 words. Language: English. Published on June 12, 2013. Nonfiction » Parenting » Divorce and children.

"A book should be an axe for the frozen sea inside us."-Kafka. An immigrant father’s journey to hell and back. A father of three sons, Richard Crasta, who once was figuring out his own Daddy issues, confronts his son’s Daddy issues, and his own “son issues” in this unique book about immigrant fatherhood in America. By the critically acclaimed author of 12 books.
Supper with the President    by Ian Mathie
Price: $6.99 USD. 73930 words. Language: English. Published by Mosaique Press  on June 12, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.

West Africa in the 1970s: volatile years immediately following independence brought the author in contact with a number of Presidents, Kings, Emperors, village and tribal chiefs and a succession of extraordinary people. Circumstances contrived to place him at dinner with four heads of state whose rule had immense impact, positive and negative, on their countries and on West Africa.
The Heart of a Hero    by Palari Publishing
Price: $6.99 USD. 41160 words. Language: English. Published on June 12, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » People of color.

How do you keep going forward when hope and a miracle are nowhere in sight? From the dust and rubble of Ground Zero on 9/11, Clarence Singleton takes readers on a harrowing emotional journey to hope and starting over. From the jungles of Vietnam, where he was awarded a Purple Heart, to the ash of that unspeakable day in our history, from a hard-scrabble childhood, to a new marriage and the promise