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If Trees Could Fly    by Henri Debidour
Price: $7.99 USD. 73400 words. Published on April 5, 2010. .

« Henri Debidour has written a gripping novel. This coming of age story from France is as it turns a powerful drama on the American Dream. » Khaled Hosseini (« The Kite Runner » – Riverhead Books – Penguin) (« A Thousand Splendid Suns » - Riverhead Books – Penguin)
Boracic Lint    by Martin Bryce
Price: $4.95 USD. 66790 words. Published on May 22, 2010. .

An out of work actor with a serious superiority complex lands work playing Santa Claus in the grotto of the world famous London department store, Harridges. It seems like child's play , it turns out to be anything but. Every ounce of his improvisation skills is challenged by the children who come to see him. His colleagues stretch his wit and wisdom to the limit until he makes a fateful decision.
Little Wild Flower Book One    by Samantha Jillian Bayarr
Price: $1.99 USD. 54770 words. Published on October 17, 2010. .

Jane Abigail Reeves was raised as a city girl. In 1977, at only fifteen, her family moves to a farmhouse in a rural Amish community in Indiana as a respite for her alcoholic mother. Jane hates farm life, until she stumbles upon Elijah, the Amish boy next door. Can a hippie-chick like Jane find friendship with a sixteen-year-old Amish boy? Will their feelings for each other change as they grow up?
Little Wild Flower Book Two    by Samantha Jillian Bayarr
Price: $1.99 USD. 55520 words. Published on October 17, 2010. .

Just when Jane thought her life in the Amish community couldn’t get any better, tragedy strikes the Zook farm. Jane suddenly feels lost in the world she created with Elijah, and flees to her home town in search of her childhood friends. Will coming face-to-face with the pain of her childhood send her running back to the farm, or will she cling to the life she left behind as a teenaged girl?
From Hell and Back: Survive and Thrive    by Gussie McRobert
Price: $4.99 USD. 69040 words. Published on December 6, 2010. .

She was brutally victimized first as a child and then as a wife: both her mother and her first husband made numerous attempts to kill her. But author Gussie McRobert was determined to not only survive, but to recover and thrive. And that is just what she did. She was elected, and then twice re-elected, as mayor of Gresham, Oregon. You too can survive and thrive, regardless of your past.
Why Me?    by Sarah Burleton
Price: $2.99 USD. 30000 words. Published on January 6, 2011. .

Sarah Burleton was born in a little town in Illinois to a very emotionally disturbed woman. Her first book, "Why Me" chronicles the abuse she experienced at the hands of her mother throughout her entire childhood. She has made it her life's goal to get her story out to the world and to become an ambassador to children who are experiencing the same frightening childhood that she experienced.
Why Relationships Fail or Succeed.    by Strategic Insight Publishing
Price: Free! 16200 words. Published on February 5, 2011. .

This is a book dedicated to exploring practical reasons why marriages and relationships fail or succeed. Backed up with research and realistic approach, this book in its full version is perhaps the best book on the subject that is available in the market today. The idea is to provide the reader with insights in making decisions about their relationships.
The Unholy Path of a Reluctant Adventurer    by Dr. Rosie Kuhn
Price: $4.99 USD. 91440 words. Published on May 4, 2011. .

An autobiographical account of a woman's spiritual journey along life's bumpy road. The author continually makes choices throughout her life that takes her further away from her dream to be a wife and mother, yet brings her ever closer to her own essential truths.
Fractured: essays on love, friendship, and the nightmares in between    by K.J. Pierce
Price: $2.99 USD. 10430 words. Published on June 27, 2011. .

In this collection of personal essays, author K.J. Pierce reflects on the nature of love, relationships, and emotional attachments, examining not only what others have come to teach her, but her own motivations as well.
Odyssey of an Octopus Junkie: A Dysfunctional Love Story    by t.w. glover
Price: $3.99 USD. 85650 words. Published on July 3, 2011. .

Ill-fated and quixotic love story of Phoenix, the tormented drug addict and talented artist, and Hannah, the pathologically co-dependent daughter of a Holocaust survivor, and their cross-country odyssey to liberate a giant octopus who may be psychically communicating with Hannah or may simply be her escapist delusion. Addiction is powerful. Will either be able to kick the habit?