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The Attic Notebooks    by Tom Triumph
Price: Free! 33370 words. Published on June 26, 2010. .

Agnes Jackson goes from one numbed-down class to the next. Following freshman year, she naively feeds her school’s anti-intellectual mood by hosting book burning party. Originally a fund raiser, by junior year it is a dark spectacle that ends in tragedy and with Agnes coming to an act of civil disobedience that destroys the heart of her school and puts her on the run.
It is a Pleasure to Burn    by Tom Triumph
Price: Free! 5120 words. Published on June 26, 2010. .

Agnes Jackson goes from one numbed-down class to the next. She naively feeds her school’s anti-intellectual mood by hosting book burning party, which, by junior year is a dark spectacle. Agnes comes to an act of civil disobedience that destroys the heart of her school and puts her on the run. Based on the novel "The Attic Notebooks".
2010 Report to Congress of the U.S. and China Economic And Security Review Commission: Internet Censorship, Hacking Attacks, Trade, WTO, Security, Missiles, Aviation, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Green Energy    by Progressive Management
Price: $9.99 USD. 119600 words. Published on November 30, 2010. .

The 2010 Report to Congress of the U.S.-China Economic And Security Review Commission provides a comprehensive overview of ongoing controversies and problems in American relations with the People's Republic of China (PRC). Topics covered include: security and trade issues; WTO; web and internet censorship, hacking attacks, economic influence, and much more.
People's Republic of China Controversies: People’s Liberation Army (PLA), Communist Party, Web Attacks, Internet Censorship, Trade Disputes, Debt and Bond Holdings, Renminbi (RMB) Yuan Valuation    by Progressive Management
Price: $9.99 USD. 180020 words. Published on November 30, 2010. .

This comprehensive overview of ongoing controversies and problems in American relations with the People's Republic of China (PRC) provides the reader with an excellent, up-to-date review of critical Chinese issues. Topics covered in this 2010 Report to Congress of the U.S.-China Economic And Security Review Commission include: security and trade issues; WTO; web and internet censorship, and more.
666 Looks Like the Tears From My Eyes    by Lotus Rose
Price: $1.99 USD. 3500 words. Published on January 4, 2011. .

A futuristic tale about a black metal musician who is at risk of being assassinated by the "proper" people. By the author of Faerie Brace-Face.
Objectionable Material    by Robert Cettl
Price: $2.99 USD. 7010 words. Published by Wider Screenings | Transgressor  on January 30, 2011. .

Does the library have an ethical responsibility and obligation to collect | archive so-called "objectionable" material such as pornography and obscenity? How is this obligation affected by government imposed censorship within a so-called democracy? Objectionable Material brings to popular ebook one of the most controversial issues facing contemporary information management.
The Integrity of Aberration    by Robert Cettl
Price: $2.99 USD. 9860 words. Published by Wider Screenings | Transgressor  on January 30, 2011. .

Can a pornographer have "moral rights"? Under universal copyright law, indeed he/she can. Yet film censorship law in Australia is such that the pornographer's rights are indeed being violated, in defiance of UN decree and the Berne Act. Can anyone actually argue in favor of a pornographer's moral rights, with a straight face? Yes indeed!
Lolita vs. God's Law    by Robert Cettl
Price: $2.99 USD. 5190 words. Published by Wider Screenings | Transgressor  on January 30, 2011. .

A case study in Australian film censorship. Christian Australia felt Adrian Lyne's film of Lolita went too far - it violated God's Laws by validating and encouraging paedophilia. The Christian Right gathered en masse to lobby the Australian Parliament to ban the film and in so doing place God's Law above freedom of speech. Did they succeed?
L'affaire    by Alexandre Soljenitsyne
Price: $5.99 USD. 64290 words. Published by Editions de  L'Herne  on February 14, 2011. .

" L'affaire Soljenitsyne" rassemble l'ensemble des documents officiels concernant l'exclusion de Soljenitsyne de l'union des écrivains soviétiques en 1969.
Library Rules    by Michael Canfield
Price: $0.99 USD. 2090 words. Published by Vauk House Press  on May 6, 2011. .

At Philip's school everything comes with rules attached. Especially reading. The legislators, the school librarian, might think that the half-library system will simply lives. Make their town safe and orderly and keep those gender lines solid. They didn't count of Philip. Nor his will to cross any new line the adults decree and impose. They didn't count on his love for books. A short story.