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Chessmaster Biz Secrets    by Hank Gross
Price: $9.99 USD. 47550 words. Published on February 5, 2010. .

A unique correlation of the wisdom of the great chessmasters with the principles of success in business. Quotations from such masters as Bobby Fischer, Mikhail Tal, Casablanca, and others are used as a jumping off point to explore how those maxims can be carried over into the world of commerce.
Chess with Butterflies    by Dion 
Price: $2.99 USD. 8780 words. Published by Oxton House Publishers  on June 30, 2010. .

This controlled-vocabulary chapter book is written for developing readers. Sam is a wheelchair-bound 6th grader who is a keen chess player. Follow his adventures as he confronts a frightening memory. The vocabulary beyond one or two syllables provides extensive practice on multisyllable words with the suffixes -tion, -cial, -cious, -cial, etc. Suitable for literature circles in grades 4 and up.
Trajan's Arch: Giuoco Piano    by Michael Williams
Price: Free! 5390 words. Published by Black Wyrm on September 12, 2010. .

Blackwyrm Books has excerpted this short story from the upcoming Michael Williams novel Trajan’s Arch for promotional purposes. Michael is best known as the author of the experimental fantasy novels Arcady and Allamandra, as well as numerous Dragonlance novels, short fiction, and poems. Feel free to share, reproduce, or distribute this story in any way you desire.
Route 64: A story about life, chess and the road less traveled    by Robert Rausch
Price: $9.99 USD. 60290 words. Published on September 28, 2010. .

Route 64 is a personal, sincere and funny look at one man's journey from childhood to parenthood with chess being the common theme. From adolescent player to the parent of a prodigious daughter, the author's life unfolds as he explores the passion and intensity that lead players and their families to attack the game with a religious fervor.
Littbarski's Gambit    by Simon Hood
Price: Free! 1050 words. Published on October 29, 2010. .

Table football, chess and gin provide perfect substitutes for a common language in this tale about striving to communicate and scoring the perfect goal.
Chess for Beginners: An Easy Way to Learn the Game and Start Playing    by G.P. Publications
Price: $6.99 USD. 18740 words. Published on November 10, 2010. .

Chess for Beginners introduces the game of chess and easily explains how to play and get started. It includes basic rules and strategies, suggestions for beginners, systems of notation, and practice games. In addition, it has examples of beginning games, middle games, and end games to help strategy.
New Christmas Carol Stories    by Ted Stetson
Price: $0.99 USD. 14890 words. Published on December 14, 2010. .

Imaginative stories loosely based on characters from the Charles Dickens classic: A Christmas Carol.
Trotter's Bottom    by Tanya Jones
Price: $1.99 USD. 74350 words. Published on December 16, 2010. .

Ophelia O. is returning from maternity leave to her job as a solicitor in the sleepy Yorkshire market town of Rambleton. But on the steps she is accosted by a Russian chess grandmaster ... This gripping tale of murder, corruption and the theft of pink piglets, first published by Headline in 1997, is a hilarious follow-up to Tanya Jones' Ophelia O comic novels. 'A tremendous talent.'
The Rivers of Heaven    by Anthony Gardner
Price: $9.99 USD. 60070 words. Published by Starhaven  on January 6, 2011. .

A child is born. His father has vanished leaving the mother to cope, watched over by a kindly Jamaican. A cottage is visited by a photographer, who spent childhood there; he longs to return but must negotiate adult duplicities first. Intimations of immortality permeate these interwoven tales. A vivid London of the day-before-yesterday is evoked against more ideal forms of existence.
GOLF Mystery    by Robert R Anderson
Price: $4.99 USD. 38190 words. Published on February 10, 2011. .

A golfing romance overlaid with a gruesome mystery.