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Dog Robber: Jim Colling Adventure Series Book I    by Robert McCurdy
Price: Free! 141840 words. Published by Elderberry Press, Inc.  on November 6, 2010. .

World War II has just ended, and in the chaos of Postwar Germany, Private Jim Colling finds that the occupation affords opportunities for significant financial gain to a resourceful American soldier with the ability to speak the local language. Elizabeth Hamilton, a beautiful American civilian, enlists his aid to rescue her relatives from Soviet-controlled Poland, Colling reluctantly agrees.
White Eagle: Jim Colling Adventure Series IV    by Robert McCurdy
Price: $2.99 USD. 90420 words. Published by Elderberry Press, Inc.  on November 6, 2010. .

It is 1951, and the Korean War is in its second year. Called back to active duty, Jim Colling accepts the offer of a direct commission, with assignment to Signal Corps intelligence in Europe. On arriving in Germany, he discovers that he will be working for the CIA, his first assignment, to enter Soviet-occupied Poland and rescue the wife and children of a Polish officer turned informant.
Silent Shadows    by Eva Maria Knabenbauer
Price: $4.99 USD. 69440 words. Published by Amolibros  on December 14, 2010. .

The division of Germany into two separate countries during the Cold War disrupted many lives, leaving many in the East to become the victims of a vicious system. Anni struggles to come to grips with memories of those who sought to oppress her and vivid recollections of a passionate love affair that ended with her escape to the West.
Echoes    by Eva Maria Knabenbauer
Price: $4.99 USD. 49690 words. Published by Amolibros  on December 14, 2010. .

The common thread running through all twelve stories of this collection is that they are based on subsidiary characters of Eva’s novel Silent Shadows. Mostly, the stories are snapshots of life in the former GDR or they afford glimpses into the re-united Germany, and in this they are unashamedly political. But, above all, each story is about the trials and tribulations of the human condition.
Stumme Schatten    by Eva Maria Knabenbauer
Price: $4.99 USD. 3520 words. Published by Amolibros  on December 14, 2010. .

ie Aufteilung Deutschlands nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg in zwei voneinander getrennte Staaten hat viele Menschenleben beeinträchtigt, und viele im Ostteil Lebende wurden zu Opfern eines unnachsichtigen Systems. Anni besucht nach dem Fall der Berliner Mauer ihre alte Heimat Aschersleben, jene kleine ostdeutsche Stadt, aus der sie mit zwanzig Jahren flüchtete.
The Grapple and the Guinea Pig    by Warren Karno
Price: $3.95 USD. 36630 words. Published on December 24, 2010. .

. banned for 50 years . Is this a romantic thriller or dangerous adventure? The author’s wit and dry humour make an easy read of what must be one of the major fears of our age. This at last is a factual account of life on a real desert island, definitely not a tourist guide. The story is all the more interesting because someone drops a bomb on it! A nuclear bomb! Not a good idea.
Slow Boat to China: The Personal Diaries and Letters of Pegge Parker, 1942-1951    by John Hlavacek
Price: $5.95 USD. 199310 words. Agented by Concierge Publishing Services  on December 28, 2010. .

Pegge Parker lived two lives. Her second life was as a wife, mother and freelance journalist, but her first was that of a courageous young woman traveling the world. Before cell phones or email, when the world seemed much larger, Pegge moved from Washington D.C., where she was a newspaper columnist, to live in Alaska, China, India, and Europe, making a living as a freelance reporter.
Lidiyagate    by Robert Hendry
Price: $2.99 USD. 112120 words. Published on January 2, 2011. .

Lidiya Petrova,the lovely young wife of Admiral Mikhail Petrov is used by the Kremlin as a goodwil ambassador for the USSR in the troubled 1980s. After a dangerous mission to Turkey, she is sent to Washington where Mikhail will become Soviet Ambassador. Now a mother of twin girls, Lidiya is caught up in a terrorist kidnap plot, a Soviet move to invade Scandinavia, and claims that she is a spy.
Lucky In Cyprus: A True Story ABout A Boy, A Teacher, An Earthquake, Some Terrorists And The CIA    by Allan Cole
Price: $4.99 USD. 167010 words. Published on January 24, 2011. .

Lucky In Cyprus is a coming-of-age story set in the Middle East during the height of the Cold War. An American teenager – son of a CIA operative – is inspired by grand events and a Greek Cypriot teacher. He witnesses earthquakes and riots and terrorist attacks, but in the end it is his teacher’s gentle lessons that keep him whole.
Listening for Leviathan    by Mary Jo Kelly Wilhelm
Price: $9.99 USD. 63630 words. Published on January 27, 2011. .

Listening for Leviathan is the biography of Captain Joseph Paul Kelly, USNR, the US Navy's Father of Project Caesar and SOSUS. During the Cold War, Captain Joe Kelly headed the anti-submarine project that secretly tracked Soviet submarines during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Later, SOSUS discovered the causes of the destruction of the two US nuclear submarines Thresher and Scorpion.