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Francesca of Lost Nation    by Lucinda Sue Crosby
Price: $5.99 USD. 83370 words. Published on June 20, 2010. .

She's feisty and leggy and her 10-year-old granddaughter adores her. Francesca of Lost Nation is a spirited woman ahead of her time, a trait that will help her when she gets involved in a local mystery that has her chasing a wanted felon. Little Sarah tags along with grandma as the two enter local car races, learn to fly airplanes and have one unforgetable summer on an apple farm in 1947 Iowa.
Her Life as She Knew It    by Karen Schwind
Price: $1.99 USD. 80180 words. Published on December 23, 2010. .

For readers who believe that the best lives are built on the firmest foundations. As Caroline fights to right the wrongs former friends did to her, she uncovers secrets that lay bare the shame of people she's known and loved all her life. In the end, she learns a lesson that only her devout Christian father could teach—about love, loyalty and letting go.
Tortilla Press    by James Calore
Price: $2.99 USD. 65460 words. Published on February 4, 2011. .

A story of contrasts, of people with separate, yet connected lives, whose paths converge and the effects of those interactions change each of them forever. A strong, centered woman, her star-crossed son and a younger, 'fortunate' boy from the East, each of distinctly different backgrounds, transform each other's life in a way that could have never been foreseen.
Cranford    by Elizabeth Gaskell
Price: $8.99 USD. 84060 words. Published by Editions de  L'Herne  on March 22, 2011. .

Dans ces salons fleuris, il est question d’amour, de pouvoir, d’échecs et de réussites, mais c’est avant tout un tableau des mœurs et des coutumes de son époque, un héritage. à travers des chapitres au suspens haletant (le roman est publié à l’origine en feuilleton), Gaskell trace une chronique acérée de la vie de province aussi universelle qu’intemporelle.
Flaming Flowers (and other poems)    by Marie Minnich
Price: $8.99 USD. 4520 words. Published on June 10, 2011. .

This posthumously published volume of poetry, reminiscent of Rilke and Yeats, is a stunning achievement of a young woman, Mary Elizabeth Mickelsen, b. 1976-d. 2009. Ms. Mickelsen wrote from a deep emotional reservoir of thought based on the experiences of her all too brief, heroin addicted life.
Ladders to Fire    by Anais Nin
Price: $4.99 USD. 41340 words. Published by Sky Blue Press  on December 5, 2011. .

Ladders to Fire, Anaïs Nin’s first full-length novel, was revolutionary in that it addressed woman’s role in a male-dominated world in the mid-1940s. Through her iconic characters Lillian, Djuna, and Sabina, and their relationship with Jay, Nin was able to examine “the destruction in woman…woman’s struggle to understand her own nature.”