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Besserwisser: A Novel (The Know-It-Alls)    by Steve Anderson
Price: Free! 70250 words. Published on September 2, 2009. .

Munich, 1990: American expat slacker Gordy Ford poses as a top Hitler scholar, all to impress a girl. Stuck in his scam, Gordy soon thinks he's stumbled onto a shocking historical discovery that's made him the target of a wannabe Neo-Nazi and shady Russian mafia. There's dark and dry humor, a rowdy plot, and imposters exposed despite their best efforts.
Hell's Fire: A Documentary History of the American Atomic and Thermonuclear Weapons Projects, from Hiroshima to the Cold War and the War on Terror    by Lenny Flank
Price: $9.99 USD. 140350 words. Published on September 8, 2009. .

A history of nuclear weapons, from the Manhattan Project which built the atomic bomb, to the "Mike" test which paved the way for the hydrogen bomb, to the "war on terror" which seeks an entire new generation of "earth-penetrating" nuclear bombs.
Rise and Fall of the Leninist State: A Marxist History of the Soviet Union    by Lenny Flank
Price: $9.99 USD. 35210 words. Published on September 8, 2009. .

An economic history of the Soviet Union, from its inception in 1917 to its demise in 1991. It is in the economics of the Leninist state, not its politics or ideology, that we find the seeds of its destruction. By examining the economics of the USSR, we can see not only why the Russian Revolution took the course that it did, but why it could not have taken any other path.
Los guerreros de la libertad (La guerra civil en El Salvador)    by Ernesto Panama
Price: $6.00 USD. 64860 words. Published by Ernesto Panamá  on September 21, 2009. .

Historia de El Salvador 1932-2008 La llamada: Guerra Civil salvadoreña, fue una guerra impuesta por conflicto Este - Oeste. Este es el único relato histórico, desde el punto de la derecha. La obra resulta profética al consumarse la derrota electoral de ARENA. El genero es histórico testimonial y relata hechos inéditos. La obra es de fácil lectura y mantiene al lector en la trama.
Red Friday    by Howard Koch
Price: $4.95 USD. 1960 words. Published by Worthy Shorts on October 29, 2009. .

This short story was written in 1984 by one of Hollywood's finest screenwriters, until he was blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1950. During the 1940s, he was responsible or partially responsible for such great films as The Letter, The Sea Hawk (both 1940), Sergeant York (1941) and Casablanca (1942), for which he shared an Oscar with his co-writers.
JFK: Selected Speeches of President John F Kennedy    by Lenny Flank
Price: $9.99 USD. 56790 words. Published on November 10, 2009. .

In the short 1000 days of his Presidency, John F Kennedy launched the American space program and introduced the Civil Rights Act, led the nation through the greatest threat ever to its existence -- the Cuban Missile Crisis -- and then signed the first nuclear disarmament agreement with the USSR. This is an anthology of his most prominent speeches.
The Great Communicator: Selected Speeches from President Ronald Reagan    by Lenny Flank
Price: $9.99 USD. 143780 words. Published on January 16, 2010. .

A selection of speeches from Ronald Reagan. The conservative "Reagan Revolution", of free-market economics, the Religious Right, and military power, dominated American politics for three decades. This volume includes the "Evil Empire" speech, the "Government is the problem" speech, the "Tear down this Wall" speech, and many others.
Run into Trouble    by Alan Cook
Price: $0.99 USD. 76040 words. Published on April 21, 2010. .

Former undercover agents Drake and Melody are teamed to run a race along the California Coast for a prize of a million dollars--in 1969 when a million is worth something. The stakes increase when startling events produce fatalities and lead them to ask whether the Cold War with the USSR is about to heat up. Can they prevent the worst from happening while they keep running?
314 Crescent Manor    by M Jones
Price: $2.99 USD. 108770 words. Published on May 25, 2010. .

Mark and Nathan Connor are estranged twins. There is little to connect them, save their current residence at 314 Crescent Manor, an old building situated in the centre of the city. The tenants of the Manor are never housed at random. With its large, brooding stained glass tree bearing down on them from the fifth floor to the first, it watches, and waits for one world to topple into the next.
Never, Ever, Bring This Up Again    by Jon Thorpe
Price: Free! 2910 words. Published on June 4, 2010. .

The American-owned, Liberian-incorporated SCOVAL Corporation attempts to negotiate the release of its employees from their North Korean kidnappers after a deal regarding the repurposing of the Rason-Marinetti Oil Platform goes bad.