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The Revised Kama Sutra: A Novel    by Richard Crasta
Price: $6.99 USD. 123700 words. Published on October 8, 2010. .

In this widely praised, "delicate and hilarious" modern comic novel about a boy growing up in India with an American Dream and an erection to match, "A Confederacy of Dunces" and "David Copperfield" meet "Catcher in the Rye" and "Portnoy's Complaint." This novel of childhood, coming of age, modern Indian manhood, and the upside-down Indian scene, was described as “very funny” by Kurt Vonnegut.
The Other Girl - Best Indie Novella Award 2012    by Alexandra Ares
Price: $3.99 USD. 27570 words. Published by Smart Media New York on April 27, 2011. .

The tale of two European immigrants in New York, a man and a woman, torn between the desire to belong and feel alive and the desire to break away from unfulfilling love.
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.
American Falls    by Wilson Zaring
Price: $2.99 USD. 14780 words. Published on September 3, 2012. .

At the age of 16, Christian Miller leaves home to escape his past and finds adventure, enlightenment, disillusion and a new friendship that leads to revelation.