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Silent Giants: A North American Odyssey    by Ron Gruner
Price: Free! 7450 words. Published on May 2, 2008. .

Occasionally life presents the opportunity to do something very special. For me that opportunity came in the summer of 1991 when I flew my classic Cessna 195 from St.John's, Newfoundland, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Our story begins just as the cliffs of the Newfoundland coast slowly emerge from the gray ocean mist...
Helium3    by Nick Travers
Price: Free! 22380 words. Published on May 16, 2008. .

Today, at the centre of our galaxy, dwell small colonies of a most extraordinary species – humans. Fourteen-year-old Mervyn Bright has courage, tenacity, and three close friends from the Space Academy: Loren, a brilliant but despised out-worlder, Tarun, heir to a once-powerful dynasty, and Aurora, niece to the embattled Patriarch. Together they make a formidable team.
No Kiss For A Killer    by John Ivor
Price: $2.99 USD. 43030 words. Published by Darling Newspaper Press  on June 27, 2008. .

Skilled swordsman Jeremy Hanwell vows to avenge his father’s murder. Then he falls in love – with a woman who’ll reject him if he performs this sacred duty. Romance rides a thorny trail in an 1830s British Colony.
Princess Electra    by Dory Lee Maske
Price: $2.00 USD. 63880 words. Published on September 1, 2008. .

Princess Electra lives in a swamp with Serafina, a sorceress she believes is her mother. She is happy with her life in the swamp until a stranger appears claiming to be both a prince and her brother. Suddenly, her world is turned upside down. Electra is forced to make her way through warring kingdoms to find her true home. Will she have the skills she needs to avoid capture?
The Jade Owl    by Edward C. Patterson
Price: $2.99 USD. 206510 words. Published on November 1, 2008. .

In China they whisper about the Jade Owl and its awful power. This ancient stone, commissioned by the Empress Wu and crafted by a mineral charmer, long haunted the folk of the Middle Kingdom until it vanished into an enigma of legend and lore. Now the Jade Owl is found. It wakes to steal the day from day. Its power to enchant and distort rises again. "Readers, run, do not walk to your nearest
John Smith, World Jumper Book One: Portal to Adventure    by E. Patrick Dorris
Price: Free! 63930 words. Published on November 4, 2008. .

Waking, hospitalized with amnesia during World War I, "John Smith" quickly realizes he is not like other men. John can travel to parallel worlds, seemingly through the power of his own mind. In this first serial, he not only learns of his power when it is triggered in the stress of combat, but visits an Earth still trapped in an ice age.
Pirate Jack    by Alessandro Cima
Price: $1.95 USD. 33950 words. Published on January 13, 2009. .

Young Jack Spencer sees his father's boat-building business destroyed by a powerful land developer. Then Jack unearths three ancient scrolls that propel him on a dangerous adventure through time in search of a pirate treasure. When Jack finds himself aboard the pirate ship Revenge he enters a life or death world of ship battles, jungle islands, prison escapes, gold, and treachery.
The Voyages of the Swallow    by Alexander Morriss
Price: $0.99 USD. 71890 words. Published on January 14, 2009. .

Intrigue, corruption and high adventure, on land and at sea. A hastily assembled team, led by a Mossad agent, an Israeli Naval officer and a German ship owner seek to smuggle five hundred tonnes of Uranium Ore out of Europe, under the noses of the European authorities. The future of the Middle Eastern conflicts and thus of the world may be affected by the cargo of the ageing m.v. ‘Swallow".
The Lord and the Cross    by James L. Drako
Price: $5.00 USD. 150440 words. Published on January 17, 2009. .

Two ancient enemies come face to face one last time. Once the most feared mercenaries in the world, Manfred Lord and Nathan Cross understand that there is no place for them in this 'new world order'. But when they're both hired to retrieve a crystal worth tens of millions of dollars, they'll have to decide whether their hatred for one another is stronger than their greed.
The Money was His    by Wendy Brumback
You set the price! 540 words. Published on January 17, 2009. .

When you find money on the street what do you do? The right thing is return it, but you never know where that may lead you.