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Under Calcutta    by John Walters
Price: $0.99 USD. 3980 words. Published on December 31, 2010. .

Calcutta has a problem with rats and bubonic plague and the authorities have called in the World's foremost extermination expert to deal with it. But he finds out that the rats are not just rats, and the problem is much worse than anyone imagined.
From the Ganges to the Snake River    by Debu Majumdar
Price: $4.99 USD. 86250 words. Published on January 23, 2012. .

From the Ganges to the Snake River, an East Indian in the American West is a tender, often amusing, account of the landscape and people of Idaho written with an outsider’s perspective. It interweaves East Indian culture with Northwestern reality, reflecting on the difficulties, discoveries, and delights of being a stranger in a strange land.
Letters from an Expatriate in Europe    by A. Datta
Price: $3.50 USD. 21440 words. Published on April 2, 2012. .

Tagore wrote these letters nearly three decades before becoming the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. They give an in-depth view of Victorian England through the eyes of an Indian and a Bengali. The author drew flak from his own critics for his dissections of the Anglo-Bengali and English psyches. His words are as relevant and enjoyable now as they were then
A Blood of Killers    by gerard houarner
Price: $3.99 USD. 171060 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on April 16, 2012. .

Prolific horror author Houarner (The Oz Suite ) assembles a disturbing collection of 13 reprints and 12 originals.
Talwar    by Robert Carter
Price: $3.99 USD. 209580 words. Published on May 11, 2012. .

Imagine a corporation so powerful that it rules trade across the globe, fuels the first world war, creates governments and gives birth to new countries. It is 1746, the corporation is the East India Company and French and British trade interests are fighting for control of the decaying Moghul empire. A magnificent blend of historical adventure and romance "in the great tradition of James Clavell
On The Road With Geoff And Jules    by gerry virtue
Price: $5.99 USD. 49290 words. Published on May 21, 2012. .

christmas eve 1959. geoff and jules hit a low point in calcutta. what to do? they try hitch-hiking across asia on what would later be the hippie trail - with glittering generals, weirdos, wrestlers and mad fundamentalists. they upset the military in darjeeling, are reborn in the ganges, jailed in afghanistan, dodge the savak in teheran, get drunk in Macedonia, wind up in 1960s london and party on.