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Dispatches from the Ether    by Mike Wilson
Price: Free! 5690 words. Published on April 11, 2010. .

A collection of poetry addressing current events and the human condition. Wide variety of styles - covering various aspects of the human condition. Includes Sonnets and Villanelles. Good for relaxed summer reading outdoors, or just about anywhere.
Carthaginian Empire 04 - Anaxagoras    by David Bowman
Price: $1.29 USD. 3530 words. Published by Bluewood Publishing on August 31, 2010. .

A sorry for himself Athenian mathematician, exiled from Athens on pain of death. But for Carthage his theories could lead to a navigation system. Anaxagoras has a choice. Help the natural enemies of Athens or fade into obscurity? Hanno wants his man; and his secrets to accurate navigation. Its 450BC and Hanno now knows he needs just one piece for the picture; to take Cartage on to its destiny.
Carthaginian Empire 05 - Syracuse    by David Bowman
Price: $1.29 USD. 3470 words. Published by Bluewood Publishing on August 31, 2010. .

Hanno’s grandson has a problem. Carthage wants control of Sicily. So does Athens. Only the port of Syracuse holds out against Carthage’s ambitions. But it has held out for four long years. Carthage is sick of war. Carthage wants its son’s home. Can his final desperate plan succeed in breaking Athens final holding in the Western Mediterranean? Its 409BC Can Handro meet and make his destiny?
Mary Magdalene: A Woman Who Loved    by Steve Copland
Price: $2.99 USD. 143970 words. Published on January 12, 2011. .

A beautiful woman, a life changed by tragedy, driven into sin, condemned and rejected by her own people, a slave to despair and desperate for love. She saw a light, she reached out and touched it, her life was changed forever. Mary Magdalene, a novel in the genre of Ben Hur, brings the 1st century alive, inspires the soul and challenges the reader to love as she loved.
Hero Rising    by Jason  Evans
Price: $2.99 USD. 176870 words. Published on July 9, 2011. .

There is a war looming on the horizon between the forces of light and darkness. The outcome will impact the lives of every man, woman, and child on earth. In the World of Light and Shadow the darkness is well prepared, its hero ready to do battle. On the earth one young man is about to awake to an unfathomable reality, he is the chosen hero for the forces of light. This is his story.
The Servant    by Delaney Scott
Price: Free! 115750 words. Published on September 25, 2011. .

His family murdered, his staff flown, Edgar Britonlow and his vast estate appear to be sinking into ruin, until Kate applies for the position of his one and only servant. Just as things begin to look up, the young maid makes discoveries which cast a shadow across the character of her new master. Will she serve blindly at the cost of more lives?
Seasons of Definance    by Lance Lee
Price: $8.99 USD. 11470 words. Published by First Edition Design eBook Publishing  on October 4, 2011. .

SEASONS OF DEFIANCE is the latest collection by Lance Lee, an accomplished poet, dramatist, and essayist who often draws upon literary history and nature for his inspirations. His previous book with Birch Brook Press was HUMAN/NATURE.
A Collection of Japanese Short Stories: Volume 1    by Geoffrey Ivar
Price: $2.99 USD. 21340 words. Published on November 12, 2011. .

This volume contains ten short stories from four Classical Japanese authors. All of the included stories were published in the early 20th Century and were written by celebrated Japanese authors -- many of the stories have never been translated to English. The topics of the stories vary, but some of the themes include: love, the occult, Communism, Christianity, and sacrifice.
A Blender FaNtasticElectric: PostmOdern Pop Poems    by Jeremia Sterkel
Price: Free! 7290 words. Published on January 4, 2012. .

This poem set journeys into the postmodern American psyche. The book walks the streets in ecclesiast humor, insight, meditation, and atomic power of desire for culture. An odyssey offering commercial mind's regress wrote to our age of medication and lack of focus. How our deepest desire for love, lust, and lucidity all commingle. Ideas about culture ranging from classical past, to present.
The Beauty Of Psyche    by Andrew Staniland
Price: $2.99 USD. 31290 words. Published on January 14, 2012. .

"The Beauty Of Psyche" is a prose-poem novel retelling the Greek myth of Cupid and Psyche. The characters are played by actors, against a backdrop of paintings, models and sets. The story at times becomes a series of paintings and sculptures in an exhibition. And the references to people, films, theatre and other myths may or may not be imaginary too.