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Steal This Hero: An Abbie Hoffman Love Song In Two Verses, One Chorus and a Coda    by Jack Preston King
Price: $0.99 USD. 4440 words. Published by New Paradigm Press  on March 17, 2010. .

Really?, I thought. Abbie Hoffman? The guy too dangerous to read? I remind you of him? By comparing me to Abbie, Mom had meant to insult me, to label me a full-fledged traitorous Anarcho-Communist freak.For me, what she'd done was hand me the keys to full membership in the Great Subversive WE. If I was to accept that membership, I reasoned, I'd better find out exactly who WE are. I stole the book.
Warriors, Peacemakers and the Embarrassing Question of Love: A Peacenik's Memoir of the 1991 Gulf War    by Jack Preston King
Price: $0.99 USD. 4100 words. Published by New Paradigm Press  on March 17, 2010. .

Of this I was certain: To meet the violent hysteria of war with an equally hysterical peace movement could only create an irreconcilable "Us-Them" situation. As with the war, there would have to be winners and losers. But to meet a hysterical world with an open heart might bring a lasting peace, an "Us-Us" situation in which everybody won. And to be so idealistic, so Utopian, was embarrassing...
Electric Lunch at Granny Bow's    by David Davis
Price: $0.99 USD. 1500 words. Published by New Summerfield Press  on April 1, 2011. .

An eighth grade girl witnesses the zany culture war between her banker father and his old hippie mother, who is stuck in the sixties with bean sprouts,four spoiled cats,gallons of patchouli oil,ten pink flamingos, fifty wind chimes, and some questionable brownies baked in an ancient stove she calls "The Iron Maiden."
Numb    by Francis Anfuso
Price: $5.00 USD. 26890 words. Published on September 27, 2011. .

We all fight numbness & its long-term effect. Unless our daily reality is greater than our inner fantasy, we’ll wander from one reality-replacement to another. When we forget what we know—we forfeit who we are.
National Cash    by Marcello Tino
Price: $5.95 USD. 95230 words. Published on April 8, 2012. .

National Cash is about sex, drugs, rock and roll, and a Second American Revolution where the children of the 60s became giants and took on the corporate Leviathan, overthrew two presidents of the United State, nearly toppled an Empire, and stood at the door to eternity where Zen meets quantum physics and everything is possible.