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Sceptic at Large    by Roger Helmer MEP
Price: $5.99 USD. 60440 words. Published by Bretwalda Books  on May 12, 2011. .

A controversial critique of the European Union by maverick Conservative MEP Roger Helmer. If you want to understand British politics from the right of centre viewpoint then this book is essential. "Well-informed and merciless" - Lord Nigel Lawson. "Our national debate is the richer for a Sceptic at Large," Rt Hon. John Redwood MP.
A Jew from Riga    by Greta  Beigel
Price: $2.99 USD. 3040 words. Published on July 22, 2011. .

The author in 2004 visited Riga in order to learn more about her Dad’s mysterious past. How did her father, a young soldier at the start of World War II end up migrating from Eastern Europe to South Africa? And why did he leave suddenly when she was 10 and head for the States? On her travels, Greta learns a lot about Latvia, land of his youth, and Riga, the Baltics' capital city that rocks.
Kvetch: One Bitch of a Life    by Greta  Beigel
Price: $6.99 USD. 38200 words. Published on October 17, 2011. .

In "Kvetch," concert pianist-turned-journalist Greta Beigel looks back at dysfunctional Jewish family life lived under apartheid in South Africa. In telling her tale Greta inhabits many worlds: Child piano prodigy cowed by a superambitious mother, Elvis-idolizing teen, naive newlywed, American immigrant and finally California journalist interviewing luminaries in the classical firmament
Fitness Mosaics - A collection of articles on health and fitness    by Mark Hailey
Price: $3.99 USD. 8420 words. Published on November 19, 2011. .

Mark R. Hailey's collection of magazine and blog articles comes together in one book entitled Fitness Mosaics. Mark writes on a number of health and fitness topics ranging from understanding metabolism, working with weights, and knowing that you are genetically programmed to succeed in fitness… to his personal accounts of Eastern European fitness habits and the discovery of Yoga.
The Sable Provenance    by John Namnik
Price: $2.99 USD. 103760 words. Published on January 25, 2012. .

This 200-year saga (1790 – 1990) is a close-to-true novel that began with a criminal family in England, another in Scotland, and a family of nobles in Ireland. It is the story of how they came to be in Australia and how the progress of convicts and aristocrats resulted in the SABLE siblings of Western Australia.
The Bear And The Diva    by John Namnik
Price: $2.99 USD. 55580 words. Published on January 25, 2012. .

The Latvian, Andrej Yakovlevitch Namnik, landowner and bachelor approaching middle age, takes time out from his business trip to Russia to take in the sights of the magnificent city of St. Petersburg. Within twenty four hours he rescues a beautiful Bohemian woman, Marie Subrtova, finds himself involved in a Revolutionist meeting, escapes a subsequent police raid only to find himself locked up.
The Girl from Latvia    by Kathie Harrington
Price: $0.99 USD. 1770 words. Published on April 29, 2012. .

War crept silently into my life when most little girls enjoy playing jacks and jumping rope; when the soft echoes of the past dance upon early adolescent innocents. Yes, World War II came softly into my life.