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Crazy Days: Life Lessons, Wacky Times and Good Friends in Forty-Six Years of Retail    by Gerald Rivinius
Price: $3.00 USD. 46960 words. Published on November 7, 2011. .

A memoir of the retail drugstore business told from the perspective of Gerald Rivinius, who started his career in the mid-1960s in North Dakota and saw rapid changes in the business over nearly a half-century career.
Milk and Oranges    by Charlene Wexler
Price: $3.99 USD. 24730 words. Published by Central Park Communications, Inc.  on November 19, 2011. .

Milk and Oranges is a collection of short fiction and essays examining life, love, and the tragedy and comedy of the human condition by award-winning writer Charlene Wexler. Whether she is tackling fiction or essays, Wexler writes from the heart. With a keen eye for detail and a way of looking at the world a bit sideways, her writings in Milk and Oranges will entertain while they make you think.
A Walking Tour of Springfield, Illinois    by Doug Gelbert
Price: $0.99 USD. 5080 words. Published on November 29, 2011. .

There is no better way to see America than on foot. And there is no better way to appreciate what you are looking at than with a walking tour. This walking tour of Springfield, Illinois is ready to explore when you are. Each walking tour describes historical, architectural landmarks, cultural sites and ecclesiastic touchstones and provides step-by-step directions.
Blackout    by Hobie Anthony
You set the price! 15010 words. Published on December 3, 2011. .

Download, Blackout, a chapbook of stories about the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave. This e-book includes three full-length short stories and three flash fictions related to that historic event. That heat wave set a precedent for large urban areas and how they handle heat-related disasters, a growing phenomenon as global warming increases.
Classic American Cuisine: 125 Simple Midwestern Style Recipes Based on Traditional Irish Cooking and Delicious Soul Food    by Richárde 
Price: $3.99 USD. 6860 words. Published on December 9, 2011. .

America is a melting pot, the Midwest being no exception, with its food deeply rooted in African-American soul food and Irish immigrants’ old home methods. Russin’s recipes teach you traditional St. Louis to Chicago homegrown staples like Black Eyed Peas with Pork, Irish Soda Bread, Creamed Peas, Honey Baked Peaches, various potato dishes and Chicken Wings....
Ouabache    by David A. Lottes
Price: $9.99 USD. 61640 words. Published on February 7, 2012. .

Ouabache is the old French spelling of Wabash, the Algonquin word waapaahšiiki, the name the Miami Indians gave to the river that runs through Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. This is a novel about life in the valley during the French Colonial period.
Pickawillany    by David A. Lottes
Price: $3.99 USD. 23290 words. Published on February 25, 2012. .

In 1743 the remote French settlements along the Ouabache were prospering in relative peace. Four thousand miles away in Austria a king lay dying, his successor uncertain. England and France were determined to place an ally on his throne. By 1752 their war over Austrian succession was long over, but their final struggle for control of North America was about to begin in a place called Pickawillany.
Immigration and Health USA by Adesuyi Leslie Ajayi & Abimbola T. Ajayi    by Abimbola 
Price: $4.87 USD. 38170 words. Published on March 29, 2012. .

Immigration and Health USA is to assist immigrants and their care givers attain optimum health during their acculturation period and long term stay in the USA with emphasis on health promotion and primary prevention that is ethnically sensitive and culturally appropriate.
The Blizzard    by Mark Bewley
Price: $0.99 USD. 36910 words. Published on April 10, 2012. .

chicago at the turn of the 20th century. a private investigator is hired by a mysterious family to find their missing daughter. he journeys to the remote village of ludlow as the winter and the snows close in only to find more questions than answers, and begins to understand that in ludlow, things are not always what they seem...
The Most Important Catch    by Jaclyn M. Hawkes
Price: $3.99 USD. 110760 words. Published on April 16, 2012. .

Run or die! She’d seen too much, and the police refused to help. Knowing that she was to be the next scheduled fatality, Kelly Campbell hid under black leather and a tinted motorcycle helmet and ran for her life. She ended up in North Carolina, home to one of the most famous and eligible NFL football stars in the whole league; only she didn’t know that. She thought he was a businessman. Not be