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Lives of the Saints    by James David Audlin
Price: $10.00 USD. 46040 words. Published on December 2, 2011. .

I think the time has come to embalm these stories and commit them to the museum of the written word. I beg you, though, to bear in mind that these stories are meant not at all to be read silently. Try reading them aloud, especially before a good campfire, and see if the mummies do not escape their wrappings and walk about in the firelight, as strange and beautiful as when first they came to me.
The Other Natalia    by Teri Kanefield
Price: $2.99 USD. 7020 words. Published on December 14, 2011. .

Short story of an American photographer who retraces her mother’s long-ago steps in Poland. Originally published in The MacGuffin literary magazine. Includes “An American Jew Visits Dresden.” Dresden, a city steeped in a painful past, offers lessons in empathy. Originally published in the Jewish Currents.
Spirit Over Steel - A Chronology of the Second World War    by John Thompson
Price: $6.99 USD. 177030 words. Published on December 17, 2011. .

The largest, most complex and most destructive war humanity has yet fought, the Second World War escapes easy description. Spirit over Steel is more than just a chronology of the war's main events, it also weaves in hundreds of individual threads into the tapestry of the whole conflict and yet never loses sight of the overall picture.
Der Rachen des Löwen    by Gábor Thurzó
Price: $1.99 USD. 14020 words. Published by S.Back agency for hungarian literature  on December 29, 2011. .

Thurzós schriftstellerisches Gesamtwerk wird mit dem von Graham Green verglichen. Beide verbindet starke Sensibilität für die moralische Verantwortung der katholischen Kirche.
Shayna's Shadows    by Paul Philip Brown
Price: $1.99 USD. 41120 words. Published on January 3, 2012. .

Shayna's arrival at Pierre Elliott Trudeau Junior High School begins well until her Jewishness attracts the wrong kind of attention. Gilbert, a confirmed bully and bigot, together with his friends, seem to be lurking everywhere, and it doesn't look as though they'll ever leave her alone. Shayna struggles to find the courage to confront her tormentors before their hurtful prejudices overwhelm her.
Water Baby; Five Novellas    by Carol Bergman
Price: $2.99 USD. 39420 words. Published on January 4, 2012. .

Each story evokes a historical period beginning with the Mayflower's landing in Plymouth to the Second World War. Bergman explores the imagined lives of a Puritan orphan girl, Houdini and Freud, Upstate New York during the building of the Ashokan Reservoir, a young Jewish girl sold into slavery in 19th century Seattle and the lives of Holocaust refugees soon after they arrive in America.
The Hiding Place (A BookCaps Study Guide)    by BookCaps 
Price: $2.99 USD. 8280 words. Published on January 8, 2012. .

The perfect companion to Corrie ten Boom’s The Hiding Place," this study guide contains a chapter by chapter analysis of the book, a summary of the plot, and a guide to major characters and themes. BookCap Study Guides do not contain text from the actual book, and are not meant to be purchased as alternatives to reading the book.
Zsákpapírok    by János Gosztonyi
Price: $2.99 USD. 83090 words. Published by S.Back agency for hungarian literature  on January 10, 2012. .

Mi rejlik vajon e furcsa cim mögött? Mit irt Gosztonyi János zsákpapirokra? Regényt, memoárt, naplót, netán abszurd történetet? Igen, mindezt együtt egy 20.századi ember életútját kamaszkorától a nyugdijig, illetve1939-töl a nyolcvanas évekig.
The Purpose (The Au Pair, The Rabbi and the Grenade)    by Stephen Abraham
Price: $9.99 USD. 147450 words. Published on January 14, 2012. .

Drawn together by fate, torn apart by war, forbidden loves destined to collide and forced to confront their fears. Only the secrets of a sage can unite them. Inspired by true events and a postcard found in a museum, The Purpose, is the first novel set in the wake of Lithuanian complicity in the Holocaust.
Nietzsche's Footfalls    by David Pollard
Price: $3.99 USD. 71490 words. Published on January 16, 2012. .

Nietzsche spent the last decade of his life mad in rooms above the archive created by his sister, turning him into a part of Nazi mythology. This book traces the roots that made this possible. It traces Nietzsche’s relationship with Wagner and his sister, his thoughts on Germany and Judaism and women. It is a meditation on how thought can be inverted during the posthumous existence of its writer.