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In Times of Peril    by Roger Kean
Price: $2.99 USD. 81720 words. Published on March 22, 2010. .

1857: In the Indian revolt against British rule, teenage brothers Ned and Dick Warrener are plunged into the terror. On their desperate trek through a mutinous country they must brave extreme perils if they are to survive. Only courage, cunning, and tenacity will see them through, in this action-packed epic about a crucial moment in British colonial history. First in a series of gripping novels.
A Little Help from Our Friends    by Richard Helbock
Price: $9.99 USD. 31640 words. Published on May 6, 2011. .

An illustrated history of America's effort to improve the speed of international mail communication mail by using European air carriers during the pioneer era of air mail development, 1921-1939. The book looks at cooperative agreements with Britain, France, the Netherlands and others to carry mail from Americans to Europe, Africa, Asia and Australasia.
War Plan Crimson    by Michael Cnudde
Price: $2.99 USD. 153260 words. Published on June 21, 2011. .

We were lucky. In our history, Franklin Roosevelt quietly and easily suppressed the 1933 Business Plot, a little-known attempt by a group of Wall Street power brokers to overthrow and replace him with a homeland fascist government. What if we weren't lucky? What it the coup plotters succeeded beyond their wildest dreams and placed a homegrown Hitler in the White House, bent on conquest?
The Good Harvest    by J. Paige Straley 
Price: $2.99 USD. 96870 words. Published on August 14, 2011. .

It's 1814 in London, and Harold Hammonds has come a long way in his 24 years. He's second officer aboard the merchant vessel "The Good Harvest", bound for Sydney with a cargo of settlers goods, topped off with a parcel of transported convicts. It's a hell voyage, ending with a storm that wrecks them on an island off the west coast of New Zealand. Should he stay? Will he claim this grand place?
Rhodes & Barnato - The Premier and The Prancer    by James Leasor
Price: $3.99 USD. 120300 words. Published on August 26, 2011. .

Cecil Rhodes and ‘Barney’ Barnato were born within a year of each other, one the son of a Hertfordshire clergyman, the other in the East End of London. They helped transform a minor pastoral colony into a major industrial nation and became two of the most influential people in the world. This is the story of how they grew in parallel – two giants at the end of the Nineteenth Century.
The Slope of Kongwa Hill: A Boy's Tale of Africa    by Tony Edwards
Price: $5.99 USD. 147290 words. Published by AgioPublishing on September 4, 2011. .

Based on the author's memoirs, this novel picks up his story when, at age 9, as a result of his parents moving to East Africa, Tony finds himself bound for Kongwa School in January 1952. Located just south of the Maasai Steppe where was to be found every manner of game, exotic bird life, insects and reptiles, Kongwa provided a harsh if adventure-filled location in which to be educated and grow.
My Father's America - Volume Two - The Colonies    by Walter Lorenz
Price: $4.99 USD. 175370 words. Published on November 7, 2011. .

England was ready. Of all the nations in Europe, 17th-century England was most peculiarly suited to succeed in peopling the North American continent. This was a strange turn of events. England had been the very last of the Western powers to show any kind of interest in the world beyond Europe. Yet once they got started, the English were destined to succeed in the most spectacular way.
The Red Fort    by James Leasor
Price: $3.49 USD. 124080 words. Published on December 29, 2011. .

A year after the Crimean War ended, an uprising broke out in India which was to have equal impact on the balance of world power and the British Empire's role in world affairs. The revolt was against the East India Company which, not entirely against its will, had assumed responsibility for administering large parts of India.