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The Last Giant    by Mario Milosevic
Price: $6.99 USD. 53910 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on January 17, 2011. .

Firefly yearns to tattoo giants, just like her mother. But one morning a rogue giant kidnaps her mother and takes her up to the plateau, a dangerous place for all river people. Firefly attempts to rescue her mother, putting her own life in peril. Then she learns her mother harbors a secret that calls into question everything Firefly ever believed about her people, her family, and herself.
The 5 Greatest Spankings of All Time    by Rob Wood
Price: $4.99 USD. 19380 words. Published on January 17, 2012. .

“The 5 Greatest Spankings of all Time” invites you to step into a fifty-five year old time capsule, to a simpler time when the misadventures of three young brothers growing up on a small ranch in the 1950’s stretch their parent’s patience and sanity to the breaking point. Taking place in the shadows of World War II, this tale not only unfolds the amusing and humorous events that led up to the “5 Greatest Spankings” but it conveys a flavorful and reminiscent glimpse of a time gone by, as the tastes and smells of the 50’s come rushing back. Readers of any adult generation will be entertained by the boy’s ability to effortlessly transform relatively innocent intentions into calamity and chaos. Laced throughout the chapters is an unmistakable underlying message addressing family dynamics and relationships that will surely summon to mind events of your own childhood. May laughter and joy be your companions as you journey through the adventures with these 1950’s versions of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
Dreaming of Yellow Stars    by Katherine Gae T. Yamar
Price: Free! 17940 words. Published on February 7, 2013. .

Tonton wakes up one morning and finds himself and his pet dog, Kaloy, trapped in his tiny bedroom of his half-submerged two-storey house. A killer typhoon washes out the entire village. His tender age of ten, his skinny brown body, and his inability to hear and speak – these personal attributes of his do not hinder him in surviving the wrath of nature. Will they escape from the perils of nature?