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Writings of Thomas Paine: A Collection of Pamphlets from America's Most Radical Founding Father    by Lenny  Flank
Price: $9.99 USD. 137170 words. Published on November 21, 2009. .

An anthology of writings from Thomas Paine. Paine's radical views on the emancipation of women, the redistribution of wealth and social equality, and religion, made him an outcast even among his fellow American Revolutionaries. Even today, he remains the only major figure of the American Revolution who has no monument anywhere in Washington DC.
Independence    by Kate Kasserman
Price: $2.99 USD. 184880 words. Published on April 29, 2010. .

An orphaned girl in revolutionary America tries to hide her damning past and save the rebel officer she secretly loves.
Annalea A Princess in Exile    by Stephen Shore
Price: $5.99 USD. 53890 words. Published by Fido Publishing on May 7, 2010. .

Annalea, a Princess in Exile, continues and expands the adventurous Annalea Saga. Annalea is protected by a community of freebooters and outcasts which has nurtured her since childhood. But the evil which has travelled half way around the world to seek her out will try to destroy all who associate with this young innocent. Annalea discovers that Innocence must die if the innocent are to live.
Calling Crow (Book One of the Southeast Series)    by Paul Clayton
Price: $3.99 USD. 100090 words. Published on December 12, 2010. .

Calling Crow is haunted by his dream of the Destroyer who will one day lay waste to his village. Then, Calling Crow is bound into slavery on the island of Hispaniola. Life in the gold pits is brutal and humiliating. Aided by a kindly priest, Calling Crow vows to learn the language and ways of a powerful enemy in order to eventually save his own people. But first he must regain his own freedom.
Flight of the Crow (Book Two of the Southeast Series)    by Paul Clayton
Price: $3.99 USD. 78600 words. Published on December 12, 2010. .

Calling Crow searches for his wife, Juana, taken by the Spanish. Captured and adopted by the Coosa, he grows to love Green Bird Woman. French colonists settle to the north. Spanish colonists settle near Calling Crow’s village and Juana is among them. The European groups plan war on each other. Calling Crow must protect his adopted people and the two women he loves, one of which he must choose.
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.
The Behemoth - A Colonial Steampunk Tale    by Scott  Roche
Price: $1.49 USD. 8030 words. Published on February 17, 2011. .

Mehta, tired of being mistreated by the British occupiers sees an opportunity to destroy their latest steam powered monstrosity, though it may cost him his life.
Laramie and the Land of Liberty    by Deborah Dee Harper
Price: $0.99 USD. 15840 words. Published by Echelon Press LLC  on April 5, 2011. .

Laramie Wyoming is in trouble again, but this time trouble has followed him to Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. Laramie didn't think things could get worse than the world's worst bully, Prentiss Williams being along for the ride, until the men who robbed the bank in Laramie's hometown showed up.
B.G. Bhagee: Memories of a Colonial Childhood    by Philippa Perry
Price: $6.99 USD. 50040 words. Published by Melvin Perry on July 21, 2011. .

B.G. is British Guiana; Bhagee is a fiery local stew. Philippa was the second daughter in a family of six children growing up in mid-20th century in colonial Guyana. She recounts her Sisyphean trials growing up a Carrington in Lot 10, First Street, Georgetown -- from the women's battles to the neighbours that never wore clothes to the relatives who walked with their shoes in their hands.
Cold Lady    by Paul Batteiger
Price: $0.99 USD. 12250 words. Published on October 16, 2011. .

In a cold winter in the late 18th Century, five men are marooned in the northern reaches of the Hudson Bay. Alone, they must struggle across country to safety. Only they are not truly alone. Something is there in the wilderness. Something inimical, ancient, and cold.