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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. 13630 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.
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
HOTEL STREET BLUES by Kirby Wright    by Kirby Wright
Price: $0.99 USD. 4770 words. Published on February 21, 2010. .

The brothers from the novel PUNAHOU BLUES resurface in this rite of passage set in the red-light district of Honolulu. Also resurfacing is Arlene from the novel MOLOKA'I NUI AHINA. Take a trip to the seedy side of Hawaii's Capitol City, a side tourists rarely see.
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.
The Seventh Sense    by Catherine Prisa
Price: $2.99 USD. 5100 words. Published by WMG Publishing  on July 8, 2010. .

Nothing scares psychic investigator Venicio Caine—or so his ex-wife Shayna believes until Venicio contacts her. He hires Shayna and her current husband to investigate a haunting in Chicago’s Old Town—a haunting Venicio won’t go near. Something lurks in that building. Something sexual. Something so strange that it requires more than six senses—it requires a seventh sense.
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.