The World's Best Place Norway and the Norwegians    by Solveig  Torvik
Price: $9.99 USD. 54200 words. Published on January 30, 2010. .
The United Nations says Norway is the world's best place to live. So what's it like to live there? Who are these people, and what are their civic and cultural values? An unblinking look at celebrated, and uncelebrated, aspects of this paradoxical socialist welfare state by a Norwegian-American journalist.

The Five Pearls    by Barry James Hickey
Price: $4.99 USD. 57830 words. Published on September 29, 2011. .
A dying man with a terrible past and a hidden agenda changes the hearts, minds, and character of The Tadpoles - five angry, stubborn students forced into an after-school program. Hickey’s world of disconnected quirky characters destroys the myth of the American melting pot and turns it into a salad bowl of mixed races growing up together with surprising results.