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In Search of Aimai Cristen    by zanybooks
Price: $3.99 USD. 57050 words. Published on December 24, 2008. .

" Young attractive girl, 24, searching for love, compassion, joy from a man who can provide financial security. Write Aimai Cristen, Barb Box 3689, Barb Office, 1234 University Ave, Berkeley CA 94709." An odyssey through the late 1960's from L.A.'s Shrine Auditorium to Berkeley and Altamont, this novel describes a daughter's search today for her father and herself.
Plastic Ozone Daydream: The Corvette Chronicles    by Floyd M. Orr
Price: $2.99 USD. 97550 words. Published on May 12, 2009. .

Plastic Ozone Daydream combines fact and fantasy on a wild ride through the birth, growth, and maturity of the sports car in America during the turbulent half-century, 1950-2000. Plastic Ozone Daydream is intended to be both fun to read and challenging to the intellect, taking the reader on a journey he never knew existed— through the crossroads of his own mind. Look deeply into the reflection.
The Reader Suffers the Loss of Dostoyevsky    by Max G. Bernard
Price: $0.99 USD. 5450 words. Published on July 8, 2009. .

Who stole my entire collection of Dostoyevsky's books during a party at my home one evening forty years ago, and why? A semi-fictionalized autobiographical account of the 1960's.
Second Time Around    by Max G. Bernard
Price: $0.99 USD. 4760 words. Published on July 8, 2009. .

He sought to reach his destiny. But all these time travelers from the future kept trying to interfere. And he says: "I am not a crook, I am a ..."
Illyria    by Thomas F. Cook
Price: $0.99 USD. 105790 words. Published on September 12, 2009. .

Spanning nearly half a century, Illyria is the story of three friends from northern Ohio. Told from Joe's perspective as a 45 year old in Manhattan, Illyria brings together the accidents and incidents of the boys' lives, reconstructing the events that led to a tragic end for one of his oldest friends.
In the Wake of the Boatman    by Jonathon Scott Fuqua
Price: $8.99 USD. 134180 words. Published by Bancroft Press on November 18, 2009. .

Puttnam Douglas Steward isn’t having an identity crisis--he is one. As he drowns in expectations and disappointments, the matter of who he is—who he truly is—eludes him. Except for one thing: He’s a freak. He has to be. It’s the only answer that makes sense. In the Wake of the Boatman is a brilliant drama, stirringly and sensitively told, about the elusiveness of identity.
Another Place, Another Time    by Max G. Bernard
Price: $1.99 USD. 17390 words. Published on January 20, 2010. .

Five Stories. A short anthology of stories by Max G. Bernard. Four science fiction stories and a semi-autobiographical tale of the 1960's. Includes: "If Only," "Second Time Around," "Meeting of the Minds," "Warm Summer Night," and "The Reader Suffers the Loss of Dostoyevsky."
Looking for the Summer    by Robert W. Norris
Price: Free! 52220 words. Published on January 23, 2010. .

David Thompson is a former Vietnam War conscientious objector in Paris on a quest to find himself in the early days of 1977. When he befriends an Iranian and an Afghan and is invited to return with them to their countries, his quest becomes a descent into his own private hell. "A fascinating novel, told in spellbinding English. I can't recommend it enough." -- Alternative Approaches Magazine
Who Lives?: A Play    by Christopher Meeks
Price: $2.99 USD. 22860 words. Published on January 25, 2010. .

Based on a true story, "Who Lives?" is an inspirational play along the lines of the Sandra Bullock film "Blind Side." In the early 1960s, an anonymous committee of ordinary citizens in Seattle selected people dying of kidney failure for an experiment in something new: kidney dialysis. They could take only 12. When Gabriel is turned down, he looks for another way.
At First    by Alessia Brio
Price: $0.99 USD. 11380 words. Published by Purple Prosaic on February 4, 2010. .

Together at last! By popular demand, the story behind the story of ArtiFactual. On a historic day in DC, meet Erotique's eccentric curator--Senor Eduardo "Eddie" Rojas Aguilar--as a young archeology student and his dear departed Vivian Long long before she left this realm.