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2020 Vision: Imagining An Enlightened and Sustainable Future    by Derek Joe Tennant
You set the price! 53900 words. Published on October 21, 2009. .

We face many difficult challenges today. Dwindling resources, climate change, pollution, overpopulation, and a growing feeling of disconnection from God or religion all must be solved if we are to retain society and culture as we know it. I examine economics, environment, politics and religion and identify at least 2 paradigm shifts within each topic that will enable us to thrive and develop.
Thinking Green: Ethics for a Small Planet    by Karel Rogers
Price: $9.99 USD. 97560 words. Published on April 23, 2010. .

Nothing short of an environmental manifesto for mankind, this extraordinary and learned treatise teaches a different way of thinking about humans’ place on the planet.
Séances in Washington: Abraham Lincoln and Spiritualism during the Civil War    by Irene McGarvie
Price: $9.99 USD. 36910 words. Published by Nixon-Carre  on March 9, 2011. .

Séances in the Lincoln White House? This book is the first-hand account of the experiences of Nettie Colburn, a medium in Washington during the Civil War. It includes much of the original work along with background information and explanations of many of the events mentioned, from the Fox sisters and the beginnings of the Spiritualist movement in the 1840’s to table tipping and trance.
My Father's America - Volume Two - The Colonies    by Walter Lorenz
Price: $4.99 USD. 175370 words. Published on November 7, 2011. .

England was ready. Of all the nations in Europe, 17th-century England was most peculiarly suited to succeed in peopling the North American continent. This was a strange turn of events. England had been the very last of the Western powers to show any kind of interest in the world beyond Europe. Yet once they got started, the English were destined to succeed in the most spectacular way.
Abnormal Obviosities    by L.S. Preston
Price: Free! 3460 words. Published on January 24, 2012. .

Abnormal Obviosities is part 1 of a trilogy of poems and pictures that attempts to address some everyday issues like personal and social, mental and physical decay, space travel, diet, slavery, the squid and revolution. This installment touches on dullness, hopelessness, conformity, gross denial and general paralysis, with special reference to George Romero, Satan's underwear and brainwashing.
Abnormal Obviosities 2    by L.S. Preston
Price: $4.99 USD. 3810 words. Published on January 26, 2012. .

Abnormal Obviosities 2 is part of a trilogy of poems and pictures that attempts to address some everyday issues like personal and social, mental and physical decay, diet, compulsion and fear, function, slavery and ownership, the squid and revolution. Part 2 touches on degeneration, evilution, conspiracy, zero reserve Christmas bonuses, zombie resurrections and a labrador just back from the park.
Abnormal Obviosities 3    by L.S. Preston
Price: $4.99 USD. 3170 words. Published on January 26, 2012. .

Abnormal Obviosities 3 is the final part of a trilogy of poems and pictures that attempts to address some everyday issues like personal and social, mental and physical decay, diet, compulsion and fear, function, slavery and ownership, the squid and revolution. Part 3 has Van Helsing with fallen angels, a happy humming, reductionism , weakness, an undead cry, another dog and the irresistible wave.
Still Life With Lovers    by Carolyn Burns Bass
Price: $0.99 USD. 3880 words. Published on January 29, 2012. .

"It wasn’t like Gustave to storm out of the flat when Lisette opposed him. Usually Lisette would flee to Margot’s place, returning a few hours later to find Gustave sulking and sauced, but eager to make up..." A century-old diary of a young woman’s frustrated marriage and infatuation with a wild painter named Vincent Van Gogh, gives a contemporary woman new insights into her own marriage.
The Hunger for More: Values in an Age of Greed    by Laurence Shames
Price: $2.99 USD. 77730 words. Agented by SKLA  on March 2, 2012. .

Laurence Shames offers a brilliant and acerbic anatomy of America’s “Hunger for More,” from its roots in the optimism of the high frontier to its apotheosis in the frenzy–and panic–of the Reagan years. As a history of our love affair with consumption, as a prescription for a more durable and dignified national ethic, THE HUNGER FOR MORE is a book that defines the era just past, & maybe the future.
The Secret Cause    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Price: $0.99 USD. 4180 words. Published by Fario  on May 10, 2012. .

The disquieting pleasures of a forty-year-old man are gradually made clear to a young doctor in this short story by the great Brazilian Machado de Assis. Translated by Juan LePuen.