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Joseph P. Day: The Great Salesman    by Daniel Alef
Price: $0.99 USD. 2580 words. Published on July 18, 2009. .

Joseph P. Day, the great salesman, sold about a third of the Bronx, a third of Queens and large swaths of Brooklyn during his lifetime. In one 12-hour auction he sold 1,574 properties. Day was the quintessential New Yorker. Day's story is a text-book lesson on what it takes to become a great salesman, and his 10 rules for success a menu on the qualities and characteristics he espoused.
The Remarkable Life of Kitty McInerney: How A Poor Irish Immigrant Raised 17 Children in Great Depression New York    by Christopher Prince
Price: $4.99 USD. 15210 words. Published on October 7, 2009. .

The true story of a poor Irish immigrant who raised 17 children in Great Depression New York. Kitty McInerney’s life rode a wave of social and political transformation that would come to define modern America. Poor, burdened, and uncelebrated, Kitty McInerney is remarkable for her unrelenting faith, her unique, individual struggle and for exemplifying the American immigrant experience.
The Zoo    by Michael Power
Price: $2.99 USD. 80540 words. Published on October 24, 2009. .

Margarita Brown is a seven-year-old girl who wakes from a coma to find herself unable to speak or hear... until she visits the Bronx Zoo where the voice of a giraffe penetrates her silent world. Part contemporary literary novel and part supernatural fantasy, “The Zoo” is an exploration of a girl’s awakening to a world that is filled with both brutality and beauty.
One Hot January    by J. Conrad Guest
Price: $6.99 USD. 76500 words. Published by Second Wind Publishing, LLC on March 14, 2011. .

My name is Joe January. I was a private investigator from the South Bronx, circa 1940. Was once described as an indignant Humphrey Bogart. Who am I to argue? The difference between Bogie and me is that I was the real McCoy.In truth, I'm no Joseph Conrad, but I wrote every word on these pages. This is my story; but make  no mistake, it's anything but make believe. I know, it reads like science
Luminary Icon...The Story Of Hip Hop's First Female MC/Rapper    by MC Sha Rock
Price: $4.99 USD. 52770 words. Published on October 18, 2011. .

It has been two years since we won the lawsuit against Sugar Hill Records. I am at a place in my life where, I finally feel that it is necessary to tell my story. Lord knows that I am not getting any younger. Some may not like it, but the truth stands clear when everything else crumbles.
Memorabilia    by Russell H. Greenan
Price: $2.99 USD. 9060 words. Published on February 16, 2012. .

At the age of eleven, the author of It Happened in Boston?, Russell H. Greenan began haunting Yankee Stadium and the Polo Grounds - collecting autographs at first, later selling baseball books and newspapers. Here he gives a lively account of that pre-World War II sporting scene, a tableau replete with colorful characters and legendary ball players.
Sleeping Dogs: A true story of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping    by Michael Foldes
Price: $4.99 USD. 37780 words. Published on February 21, 2012. .

A deathbed confession. A gun encased in concrete. And the possibility both could have kept Bruno Richard Hauptmann from going to the electric chair for the kidnap and murder of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. When journalist Michael Foldes hears the story of an upstate NY family who could have known the killers, he teases out details in the 80-year-old case that plausibly point to Hauptmann's innocence.
The Intruders    by Olive Peart
Price: $5.99 USD. 43450 words. Published by Demarche on February 26, 2012. .

Six Bronx teens from the Bronx time-traveled into the future and an adventure of a lifetime until forced to take sides in a tribal battle. This was no longer fun. This was war