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The Enduring Vision of Norman Mailer    by Barry Leeds
Price: $8.99 USD. 46230 words. Published by Pleasure Boat Studio on August 12, 2011. .

This book is a critical study of Norman Mailer's work, starting where the author's previous book - THE STRUCTURED VISION OF NORMAN MAILER - ended. This book reveals a side of Mailer that only a friend and confidant would know, a side which Leeds has come to understand and appreciate. Leeds carefully and intelligently weaves this personal Mailer into the Mailer persona and the Mailer art.
Triptychs: A 'Nam Marine's Now and Then    by Andy Syor Henry Avignon
Price: $1.99 USD. 11090 words. Published by MilSpeak Books  on September 15, 2011. .

Laugh, cry, and experience your own flashbulb moment of clarity as the story of a year in combat unfolds in this linked series of poems, photosculpture, and flash memoir.
Ready Reference Treatise: Uncle Tom’s Cabin    by Raja Sharma
Price: $1.99 USD. 8520 words. Published on May 19, 2012. .

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe is an anti slavery novel; it was first published in America in 1852. Uncle Tom’s Cabin is also known as “Life among the Lowly”. It is believed that this was the novel which paved the way to the revolutionary changes in the American society and it helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War.
Darkness At The End of The Trail.    by James P Hutchinson
Price: $1.95 USD. 6460 words. Published on July 16, 2012. .

A short story that covers an eternity. As an object passing to and from a man it changes him and in the process becomes something more.
Larks Monthly Review, April 2012    by Daniel Pool
Price: $0.99 USD. 28820 words. Published on October 29, 2012. .

Larks does it again by combing the April editions of Larks Fiction Magazine into one comprehensive magazine for reading on the go. In this issue; Jerry Guarino, Carl Barker, Claire Ashmead, Paul Peppers, Nanda Olney, Jessica Morrow, Jeff Poole, John Skylar, Elizabeth J. Kepsel, and Lachlan David.
Ocracoke Island    by Charles Hamilton, Sr
Price: $0.99 USD. 4370 words. Published on December 1, 2012. .

Georgia decides to take her boyfriend Bone on a sojourn to Ocracoke Island, North Carolina for a respite from the electric ladyland of sultry city life selling PCP, LSD, morphine and marijuana to radical bikers, stick-up men, prostitutes, gangsters and groupies that make up the social calendar of his day-to-day business. Bone is now burned out, dangerously losing touch with reality.
American Insurgent    by Adam Maciejewski
Price: $4.99 USD. 31920 words. Published on December 8, 2012. .

Stanley - a high school student during the attacks on America on September 11th - quickly finds himself in an ever shifting world of alliances, electronic surveillance and terrorist jingoism. Worse yet, he quickly gets swept up in a college group whose members are labeled enemy combatants. At least in his America, we're out manufacturing everyone again and producing our own Chinchilla fur coats.
Short Essays on American Literature (Joy's Short Essays)    by E. S. Joy
Price: $7.99 USD. 14560 words. Published on March 3, 2013. .

Short Essays on American Literature seeks to provide high school students, undergraduates, and general readers with a number of starting points from which to begin their own considerations of American literature, using clear, concise language and a minimum of scholarly jargon. Includes a helpful guide to citing each essay in MLA, Chicago, and APA style.
Short Essays on Literature (Joy's Short Essays)    by E. S. Joy
Price: $24.99 USD. 51960 words. Published on March 3, 2013. .

Short Essays on Literature seeks to provide high school students, undergraduates, and general readers with a number of starting points from which to begin their own considerations of literature, using clear, concise language and a minimum of scholarly jargon. Includes a helpful guide to citing each essay in MLA, Chicago, and APA style.
Profiles of American Writers: Volume One of Three    by BookCaps
Price: $4.99 USD. 25840 words. Published on May 6, 2013. .

You know their works, but do you know their lives? Do you know what inspired them to write some of the greatest literature the world has ever known? This book contains profiles of five different American writers. Included are biographies on: Mary Roberts Rinehart Thomas Paine Edith Wharton Kate Chopin Louisa May Alcott Each profile may also be purchased separately.