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The Only Candle - Ten True Stories about Afghanistan    by Sayed Isaq Reha
Price: $4.99 USD. 21690 words. Published on July 8, 2011. .

We are all interested in the real Afghanistan. The Only Candle is a timely collection of ten gripping true stories, behind the scenes, that illustrate the miseries and atrocities suffered by a basically peaceful nation, invaded and overtaken by the Russians thirty years ago and still yoked today by a communist regime.
The Abode of Bliss: Ten Stories for Adam    by Alex Jeffers
Price: $5.99 USD. 90720 words. Published by Lethe Press  on July 22, 2011. .

A bilingual childhood and youth in cosmopolitan İstanbul, city of the world's desire, and the Aegean resort of Bodrum. A bewildering trip by ship and train and jet across Europe and the Atlantic to college in America, that strange and terrifying country. Friendships, passionate affairs, one-night stands—a richly dissatisfying erotic education. A wedding, a death, an act of violence.
Goldener Schnitt    by Christian Weber
Price: Free! 48490 words. Published on August 11, 2011. .

Ein geheimer Keller voller wertvoller gestohlener Gemälde, deren Besitzer im Sterben liegt. Zwei planlose Hamburger Jungs die den ganz großen Coup landen wollen. Doch als die Sache schief läuft, geraten sie ins Visier skrupelloser Krimineller und eiskalter Machtmenschen - eine gnadenlose Hetzjagd durch halb Europa beginnt. Jeder will alles und alle wollen siegen.Das Unheil nimmt seinen Lauf...
Following Marco Polo's Silk Road    by Brian Lawrenson
Price: $4.99 USD. 89190 words. Published on November 2, 2011. .

The book, Following Marco Polo’s Silk Road, is a personal account of a couple’s journey as they follow the footsteps of the legendary traveller, Marco Polo. As independent travellers, they explore the lands and the people along the mythical Silk Road. This is a graphic account about the lives of the people that they met along the way.
The Change - A Short Story    by Carolyn Moncel
Price: Free! 910 words. Published on November 7, 2011. .

For 55-year-old Anne-Sophie LeBrune, life is tough enough without having to face menopause and a cheating husband to boot. All the changes needed in her life (both physically and emotionally) collide one night, leaving her with only one unanswered question: Will she make the right choice in order to set her life on the right path once and for all?
To Breathe the Breath of Isis    by Elizabeth Marx
Price: $2.99 USD. 131720 words. Published on November 23, 2011. .

One woman. One man. An eternity of love hammered into twenty-one pieces of silver. An Egyptian necklace disassembled because of the danger it poses to the queen who wears it. Its pieces scattered across the pages of time, like sand across the desert. One woman destined to wear it over and over again ... To breathe the breath of Isis is to be reborn.
Τετράδιο βιογραφίας    by George Ksinos
Price: $19.99 USD. 68670 words. Published by .ParkerStergis.  on November 28, 2011. .

Τo «Τετράδιο βιογραφίας» είναι η μυθιστορηματική ανάπλαση του βίου και της δράσης του Βαρθολομαίου Κουτλουμουσιανού και ταυτόχρονα μια σκιαγραφία του καιρού και των τόπων όπου έζησε και δίδαξε τα ελληνικά γράμματα.
Seâdet-i Ebediyye Endless Bliss Second Fascicle    by Hüseyn Hilmi Işık
Price: Free! 156380 words. Published by Hakîkat Kitâbevi  on December 8, 2011. .

Translations of letters from Imam-i Rabbani's Maktubat and Sayyid Abdulhakim Arwasi's books. Subjects include kinds of hadiths, justice, qada, qadar, madhhabs, bid'ats, fiqh, shafa'at, corrupt religions, Islam&Science and various aspects of sufism.
The Sunni Path    by Ahmed Cevdet Pâşa
Price: Free! 43980 words. Published by Hakîkat Kitâbevi  on December 9, 2011. .

The beginning of (The Sunni Path), the book by a statesman of the Ottoman Empire Ahmet Cevdet Pâşa (Ma’lûmat-ı Nâfia = Beneficial Information), gives a succinct information about how to believe in the religion of Islam and makes the classification of the science of Islam.
Lord of Light    by Matthew Ismail
Price: $4.99 USD. 84060 words. Published on December 14, 2011. .

When a London antiquities dealer has a statue of the Pharaoh Akhenaten stolen by a rival, he hires freebooter Hugh Wilkinson to get it back for him. Hugh’s search takes him to Paris, Istanbul and Cairo, where he finds himself in conflict with dangerous smugglers, but also at cross-purposes with a modern cult of Akhenaten whose leader has his own interest in the Lord of Light.