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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.
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.
Back Creek    by Leslie Goetsch
Price: $9.99 USD. 83650 words. Published by Bancroft Press on November 18, 2009. .

It’s the summer of 1975. Eighteen-year-old Grace Barnett knows she should be preparing to leave for college in September. But a strange Memorial Day boating accident on the creek near her Virginia home--she’s the only witness to the apparent suicide--kicks off a series of events that will define her family’s future as well as her emerging view of life.
Dad Was a Carpenter    by Kenny Kemp
Price: $0.99 USD. 13460 words. Published on January 1, 2010. .

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL SELF-PUBLISHED BOOK AWARD. Six months after his father died of ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease), Kenny Kemp cleaned out his dad’s stuffed-to-the-gills garage. What he found were fond memories, bittersweet recollections . . . and one amazing discovery that would change his life forever.
Our Lady of the Lowriders    by Doug Lambeth
Price: $2.99 USD. 161480 words. Published on June 4, 2010. .

Roger Donnelly's best friend says that Jesus and the Virgin Mary have started talking to him. Jesse Montoya is Roger's all-time best pal, and he swears he's having visions and can work miracles. Roger has stood by Jesse since the first grade, but as time passes and Jesse insists his mysticism is real, Roger reluctantly gets dragged into Jesse's weird world of Catholic dreams and maybe-miracles.
Katz Cradle    by Bob Henneberger
Price: $2.99 USD. 91380 words. Published on July 14, 2010. .

An insurance company hires Benjamin and Cassandra to investigate a five million dollar death claim; the beneficiary is a corporation in the Cayman Islands. Uncovering who is behind a Cayman Island corporation is the key to uncovering who the killer is and why. Cassandra has a pregnancy scare, the ‘Katz cradle’, but she really isn’t expecting.
The Measure of Gary Mooney    by Jonathan M Barrett
Price: Free! 2260 words. Published on July 17, 2010. .

Miss Davis’s class have been studying measurement all term. Today, they will measure each other’s normal walking speed. But class misfit Gary Mooney has other plans. This playground tale reveals much about social conformity, betrayal and punishment. The Measure of Gary Mooney was awarded third place in the New Zealand 2007 Sunday Star-Times Short Story Competition.
Milk Maid in Heaven    by Samantha Jillian Bayarr
Price: $0.99 USD. 35620 words. Published on October 16, 2010. .

Mitch Rutherford works the graveyard shift at a dairy farm in the prison work-release program. His only focus is on his upcoming release from prison, until he meets Emily, the farmer’s daughter just weeks before his release. Will Mitch risk everything just to win her heart?
Little Wild Flower Book One    by Samantha Jillian Bayarr
Price: $1.99 USD. 54770 words. Published on October 17, 2010. .

Jane Abigail Reeves was raised as a city girl. In 1977, at only fifteen, her family moves to a farmhouse in a rural Amish community in Indiana as a respite for her alcoholic mother. Jane hates farm life, until she stumbles upon Elijah, the Amish boy next door. Can a hippie-chick like Jane find friendship with a sixteen-year-old Amish boy? Will their feelings for each other change as they grow up?
Little Wild Flower Book Two    by Samantha Jillian Bayarr
Price: $0.99 USD. 55520 words. Published on October 17, 2010. .

Just when Jane thought her life in the Amish community couldn’t get any better, tragedy strikes the Zook farm. Jane suddenly feels lost in the world she created with Elijah, and flees to her home town in search of her childhood friends. Will coming face-to-face with the pain of her childhood send her running back to the farm, or will she cling to the life she left behind as a teenaged girl?