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Friends to Keep Friends to Dump    by Prasanna Mudra
Price: $4.99 USD. 5220 words. Published on July 3, 2010. .

A quick reference guide about friends who have traits of fearlessness, purity of heart, steadfastness in knowledge, alms-giving, self-restraint, worship, study of one’s own scriptures, austerity, uprightness, harmlessness, truth, absence of anger, renunciation, serenity, absence of calumny, compassion to creatures, un-covetousness, gentleness, modesty, absence of fickleness, energy,and vigor
Don't Panic, Organise!    by Mute Publishing
Price: Free! 10850 words. Published by OpenMute Press  on March 23, 2011. .

A Mute Magazine pamphlet on recent struggles in education. They should be understood as part of the more gradual process of what George Caffentzis, in his analysis of the international situation, calls the 'breakdown of the edu-deal';
Mammon II: Belief Orientations behind the Great Recession    by Newton Fortuin
Price: Free! 40830 words. Published on July 15, 2012. .

Mammon is primarily a critique of prosperity theology. In particular it focuses on “The Secret” and how its proliferation is indicative of an underlying culture of greed which had in large part been responsible for the 2008 economic collapse.
Mammon III: Thriving in the Age of Austerity    by Newton Fortuin
Price: Free! 42020 words. Published on July 16, 2012. .

At its core Mammon essentially is a critique of The Secret. That is despite its much broader context. Why then read a book about what many, including Deepak Chopra, refer to as ridiculous? And so many years after it was first published? The primary reason is that Mammon expounds a philosophy for thriving in a climate of adversity. This is particularly relevant given the global economic crisis.
Surviving The Cuts, And Other Disasters    by Korban Blake
Price: $7.54 USD. 32000 words. Published on March 27, 2013. .

Practical solutions for coping with challenges of economic crisis and environmental disaster. Increasingly people in the United Kingdom find providing for the family an exercise in survival in itself; while others aim to better prepare for larger-scale disaster. An essential illustrated, plain English guide for people enduring austerity cuts; and Survivalists, or 'Preppers' in the UK and beyond.
Love Letters to My Darling Cicely 1946-1948    by Brian Dawtrey
Price: $4.99 USD. 25160 words. Published by Austin Macauley  on April 30, 2013. .

Love Letters to My Darling Cicely, 1946-48, tells of the love story between World War Two evacuee Brian Dawtrey and his sweetheart, Cicely. Evacuated from Coventry to Leek Wootton in rural Warwickshire, Brian met Cicely Marriott, a farmer's daughter, at a Christmas party in 1942. A whirlwind romance ensued.