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The Old Ghosts    by Barbara Hayes
Price: $2.99 USD. 53040 words. Published by Bretwalda Books  on August 27, 2010. .

The British Isles are the most haunted places on Earth. Ghosts shimmer through stately homes and humble cottages alike. They linger at lonely crossroads and walk the ancient trackways. But few people know much about them. In the stories in this book Barbara portrays exactly how Boggarts, Banshees, Co-Walkers, the White Lady and the Old Hag really behave.
The Betrayal Of Sid    by Aaron Majewski
Price: $1.99 USD. 8210 words. Published on February 6, 2011. .

Written in the classic film noir style, this is a darkly erotic tale of sex, lust, power corrupted, a lesbian love tryst threatened by the rage of a jilted master criminal, and the betrayal of a man they hoped to count upon.
Painting in the Dark    by Russell James
Price: $2.99 USD. 117070 words. Published on March 10, 2011. .

'His masterpiece to date,' said the Guardian. An old woman has dark secrets in her past, when she and her sister were intimates of Hitler & Goering. During the 1997 Election, as Tony Blair sweeps to power, art dealer Gottleisch and his evil helper Ticky think she has hoarded her sister’s valuable paintings. They're determined to get them, whatever it takes. 'Exceptional,' said Booklist.
Hollywood Gold: Famous Films of the Forties & Fifties    by John Howard Reid
Price: $4.99 USD. 109870 words. Published on April 19, 2011. .

This book's real meat lies in its extensive cast and camera credits plus background information and reviews on all 160 titles from Adventures of Mark Twain through to You Were Never Lovelier. Most enjoyable of many extras are the inside comments on Ghost of Frankenstein, Humoresque, The Killers, Letter from an Unknown Woman, Nightmare Alley, Niagara, The Thin Man, We're Not Married, Malaya, etc.
Ole and Nelse, those swedish brothers    by Christy Davis
Price: $1.78 USD. 9330 words. Published on May 1, 2011. .

These two wild & crazy emigrant/immigrant brothers are learning that things are never as easy as they think they should be. These light hearted stories from 1930's to 1960's. They are funny poem-stories worded in old swedish slang, about life back then and including a political viewpoint poem about the war in Viet Nam.
A Second in Time    by Carole McEntee-Taylor
Price: $1.99 USD. 105990 words. Published on November 3, 2011. .

A Second in Time takes the reader on a roller coaster of emotion from the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s to the austerity of Cold War 1950s. An epic odyssey of love, obsession, jealousy, hatred and betrayal as the lives of three ordinary people are changed by decisions and events beyond their control.
A Week In May 1940    by Carole McEntee-Taylor
Price: $1.99 USD. 80460 words. Published on November 4, 2011. .

A Week In May 1940 is the first volume of The Cat & The Nightingale Saga, the docu-drama version of The Weekend Trippers, the true story of Rifleman Ted Taylor and the heroic last stand in Calais 1940. Based on the diaries and conversations of Ted and his fiancee Brenda, a nurse during the Blitz, the saga tells the story of their war.
The Pencilled Message    by Carole McEntee-Taylor
Price: $1.99 USD. 83310 words. Published on November 4, 2011. .

The Pencilled Message is the second volume in the Cat & The Nightingale Saga, the docu-drama version of The Weekend Trippers, the true story of Rifleman Ted Taylor and the heroic last stand in Calais May 1940. Based on the diares and conversations of both Ted and Brenda, his fiancee, a nurse in London, this is the story of their war.
Though Worlds May Change    by Carole McEntee-Taylor
Price: $1.99 USD. 130220 words. Published on November 4, 2011. .

Though Worlds May Change is the third volume of The Cat & The Nightingale Saga, the docu-drama version of The Weekend Trippers, the true story of Rifleman Ted Taylor's part in the heroic last stand in Calais May 1940. Based on the diaries and conversations of both Ted and Brenda his fiancee, a nurse, this is the story of their war.
Crimes in the Key of Murder    by Robert T. Jeschonek
Price: $1.99 USD. 10160 words. Published on November 8, 2011. .

Nobody cares who killed a down-on-his-luck piano player...except his brother, who happens to work for the crimefighting detective Sister Mayhem. Tearing up the underworld with her network of operatives--the Order of No Mercy--Sister Mayhem pulls out all the stops to solve the case and catch the killer, unless she becomes the next victim first. Don't miss this thrill-a-minute pulp crime saga.