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Houses in Africa    by Alma Alexander
Price: $2.99 USD. 61780 words. Published on February 10, 2011. .

When I was 10, I was taken from my quiet, safe corner of old Europe and deposited into an exotic new world. Africa, at once breathtaking and soul-destroying, from the snow-capped mountains and teeming game plains of Kenya and Tanzania to the haunted hunger-stalked dustbowls of Ethiopia and the Sudan – the hideous and the magnificent have always gone hand in hand there.
These Things Happened    by Scott Nicholson
Price: $2.99 USD. 20600 words. Published by Haunted Computer Books  on March 18, 2011. .

Most of what follows is true, even the fiction. It contains cigarette smoking, drinking, and, yes, some sex, because I know you like that sort of thing. This has been a strange life. My life. Features stories, poems, and essays of relationships, romance, joy, and pain. Some of this will make you laugh, some of it may make you cry. You might hate me later, but that's okay. You won't be the first.
SitRep Negative: A Year In Vietnam    by G. J. Lau
Price: $0.99 USD. 24330 words. Published on March 27, 2011. .

In April 1968, we were a country at war with ourselves and increasingly with a small country halfway around the world: Vietnam. I don’t recall ever thinking about Vietnam when I started college in 1963. By 1968, it was all any of us could think about. This memoir was written for my grandchildren, but it will give anyone some sense of what it was like to serve a tour of duty in Vietnam.
Non/Fictions    by Arthur Graham
Price: $1.99 USD. 25990 words. Published on August 1, 2011. .

With Non/Fictions, fiction writer Arthur Graham makes his long-awaited nonfiction debut -- Or does he? A healthy mix of fiction, nonfiction, nonfictional fiction, and fictional nonfiction, Non/Fictions may comprise an entirely new genre of writing. Then again, it may just be more of the same drivel you've long since come to expect from this thoroughly pretentious author.
Emerging into the Light    by Rev. Joan McGregor
Price: $9.99 USD. 68110 words. Published on February 2, 2012. .

The events that occurred in my life, along with my own spiritual growth and curiosity drew me to the psychic/metaphysical world just as the chocolate mousse cake beckoned us sugar fiends and chocoholics.
The Unfeeling Doctor Betwixt Birthing Babies: Poems About Love, Loss, and More Love    by Melissa Yuan-Innes
Price: $3.99 USD. 26070 words. Published by Olo Books on February 19, 2012. .

This is the story about a plucky emergency doctor giving birth to two healthy babies—and all the whacked-out stuff that happens in between. Death and disease stalk and smite my family; I'm trying to save lives in the ER and conceive another baby. Warning: this book is less about official doctor-ing and more about my unbalanced life (but funny! And plucky! Did I mention plucky?).
The Simple Man Chronicles    by Miles Cole
Price: $0.99 USD. 14450 words. Published on May 24, 2012. .

A collection of work over a five year span of self reflection. Heartfelt writing that expresses an entire lifetime of tragedy and discovery, put into poems,songs and true life short stories. Share joy, sorrow, politics, faith and philosophy. The contents and work contained within this book is all that of one man. Every word summoned by my soul and poured into print.
On the Journey Back    by Jimmy Pollard
Price: $2.99 USD. 57700 words. Published on July 29, 2012. .

For Jimmy, all roads led back to Lake Charles, Louisiana. It was his boyhood home, albeit one rife with parental discord and one which would later be solely run by an iron-fisted mother he was certain did not see him, much less understand him. But who could understand him? He couldn't understand himself, not after a dark deed befalls him at age eleven and he is forced to secrecy.
Still Looking Up    by Fred Gordon III
Price: $2.99 USD. 34850 words. Published on October 3, 2012. .

Fred Gordon shares his life story in this Autobiography Still Looking Up, living independently in a wheelchair. Its Inspirational, Encouraging and sometimes unbelievable. He holds nothing back telling his story.