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The Assassin's Dagger    by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 10140 words. Published by WMG Publishing  on September 19, 2010. .

Tara, a trouble-shooter for Abracadabra Incorporated, shuts down black magic all over the world. A dagger with dangerous magic leads her to a small French shop, in business for 900 years. Something has corrupted the shop, something dark and evil, something stronger than Tara. Something she must face alone… A short story by international bestseller Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Faith and Courage in a Time of Trouble    by Paul Pruitt
You set the price! 23570 words. Published on October 17, 2010. .

This book tells the story of a nominally Jewish Belgian family who spent more than four years during the Second World War as refugees in the south of France. The narrator was five years old when the family left Brussels and ten when they returned. At first, the family lived openly in a rented farm, supporting themselves as farmers. But they eventually had to go into hiding and were sheltered...
Traité des excitants modernes    by Honoré de Balzac
Price: $3.99 USD. 8440 words. Published by Editions de  L'Herne  on October 27, 2010. .

Balzac accordait aux choses de la bouche la part essentielle qui leur revient dans l’étude des mœurs individuelles et collectives. Son approche est toujours analytique et les comportements sociaux sont rapportés à ce qui les motive : de sa nourriture et de ses régimes peuvent dépendre les destinées d’un peuple…
De la France    by Emil Cioran
Price: $5.99 USD. 17620 words. Published by Editions de  L'Herne  on October 27, 2010. .

Le livre charnière de Cioran. Il écrit, encore en roumain, mais en France, une ode à la France, aimée jusque dans sa décadence, dans sa fin, dans sa chute qui ne pourra pas être sans grandeur, tellement grande fut la France. L’Angleterre, l’Allemagne, la Russie même, sont plus fortes ? Sans doute. Mais c’est pour la France que bat son cœur.
Learn French With Jokes    by Jeremy Taylor
Price: $2.99 USD. 4750 words. Published on October 31, 2010. .

Learn French with Jokes is a collection of 100 French jokes in very easy French. There is also some vocabulary help to help the reader. If you have some French left from school and want to brush up your French, then this is the book to do it. It's not only educational - it's a lot of fun as well! Some of the jokes are a little risqué but anyone over the age of 16 shouldn't blush while reading.
L'inutile beauté    by Guy de Maupassant
Price: $2.99 USD. 12760 words. Published by Editions de  L'Herne  on November 15, 2010. .

« L’inutile beauté est la nouvelle la plus rare que j’aie jamais faite, écrit Maupassant en 1890. » Cette nouvelle est un condensé des thèmes maupassantiens : la difficulté de la coexistence des sexes et la puissance du doute qui envahit les rapports humains, l’inquiétante étrangeté des figures de la maternité, l’incertitude de la paternité, et l’énigme de la femme.
Un cas de divorce    by Guy de Maupassant
Price: $3.99 USD. 11580 words. Published by Editions de  L'Herne  on November 15, 2010. .

Dans Un cas de divorce, le mari s’éloigne de sa femme pour s’adonner à un monstrueux amour des fleurs de sa serre. Le journal du narrateur suit la montée de la passion du héros fou d’orchidées : la naissance, puis la progression de la manie sont le sujet de l’histoire.
The Van Gogh Deception    by Michael Paulson
Price: $3.99 USD. 79670 words. Published by Rob Preece on November 18, 2010. .

Stuart S. Stuart comes to Paris to find artistic inspiration. Instead, he falls for a Mafiosa's wife, becomes a murder suspect, gets beat up by criminals searching for millions worth of diamonds, and learns that some of his student works have been fradulently sold to another Mafia boss...with the promise that they're genuine old masters. Then there are the police...
The Battlefield    by Allen Hancock
Price: Free! 2370 words. Published on November 19, 2010. .

Billy rubbed his hand along the smooth woodwork of the rifle slung over his shoulder. “Do you think we’ll get to fight at last.” For most of the new men their greatest fear had always been that the fighting would finish before they had their chance to join in.
Chasing the Minotaur    by Terry Hayman
Price: $7.99 USD. 80200 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on November 19, 2010. .

When his wife dies in his arms, celebrated painter Emery Lake withdraws from painting and from life. To save him, his grown daughter arranges a house exchange in the south of France. But the sun-drenched landscapes are only the beginning as Emery finds a place in the foothills of Mont Sainte-Victoire where Picasso, Renoir, Cézanne, and Van Gogh mysteriously still walk and paint, scheme and love.