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The Revised Kama Sutra: A Novel    by Richard Crasta
Price: $7.99 USD. 124230 words. Published on October 8, 2010. .

Vijay Prabhu grows up Catholic in an Indian town, determined to become the first Indian Pope. His first erection upsets this plan, and when he repeatedly fails to lose his cherry, he decides to lose his religion instead, to enlist the aid of Jackie Kennedy, and to make love to 100 women by age 30. Who or what planted this mad ambition in him, and what happens next? "Very funny"--Kurt Vonnegut
Boxing For Cuba: An Immigrant's Story of Despair, Endurance, & Redemption    by Guillermo Vicente Vidal
Price: $9.99 USD. 89190 words. Published by Samizdat Creative  on March 22, 2011. .

Vidal writes about his family's participation in events that forever altered U.S.-Cuban relations after an effort to free children from the threat of Communist rule sparked Operation Peter Pan. From chance encounters with Fidel Castro and Robert F. Kennedy to life in a dismal Catholic orphanage in Colorado, Vidal perseveres to embrace life as a proud and successful Cuban American.
The Ubiquitous Secret    by Charles Sarlanis
Price: Free! 1850 words. Published on October 8, 2011. .

Frosting exposed: the ugly truth about the cake bake breakthrough and the resulting treacherous commercial exploitation of an innocent immigrant; or, the American dream ─ unfulfilled.
Fixer    by Ed Brodow
Price: $5.99 USD. 51950 words. Published on December 19, 2011. .

Political "fixer" Harry Leonnoff overcomes the poverty of the Lower East Side, polio, and anti-semitism to become the admired Robin Hood of Depression-Era New York. But vindictive Mayor Fiorello La Guardia doesn't like losing out to Harry over his election redistricting campaign and swears he will get even. "A modern classic." -- Susanna Hutcheson, award-winning journalist
Edge of a Dream    by Lee Fishman
Price: $2.99 USD. 80220 words. Published on February 12, 2012. .

Escaping with only their lives, a young immigrant couple flees Sarajevo, their war-torn city. With hope for a new and better life, they arrive in America with their infant daughter. But while the wife struggles for survival, her husband, lured away by dreams of easy money, falls into a world of crime and violence.
The Westering    by Tom Sheehan
Price: $4.99 USD. 67130 words. Published by MilSpeak Books  on March 8, 2012. .

The 21 short stories crafted by Tom Sheehan in THE WESTERING tell of the pioneering of those who came from many countries, many customs, many cultures, and brought much of that mix with them to create the American West as we now know it. THE WESTERING has been nominated for the 2012 National Books Award in Fiction.
City of Redemption    by June Ahern
Price: $3.45 USD. 66540 words. Published on May 8, 2012. .

No one expects anything heroic from Liz McKay, least of all herself. Can she prove her worth or will her past keep her from finding salvation?In disgrace Liz leaves Scotland after her role in the kidnap and murder of her young son is revealed. Traveling to San Francisco during the Summer of Love, she becomes embroiled in drugs, gunrunning and a plot to bring down the Black Panthers.