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The Allies    by Jack Cavanaugh
Price: $3.99 USD. 127180 words. Published on September 25, 2010. .

Book 6, American Family Portrait series. World War I comes suddenly to the Morgans when Katy and her mother survive the sinking of the luxury liner Lusitania, torpedoed by a German U-boat. Her brother Johnny distinguishes himself as an aviator, attached to a elite French squadron. In a series of ill-fated events, both find themselves behind enemy lines.
Introdução à História da Língua e Cultura Portuguesas    by José Barbosa Machado
Price: $3.10 USD. 33920 words. Published by Jose Barbosa Machado  on May 15, 2011. .

A principal finalidade desta obra é facultar uma panorâmica diacrónica das origens e formação da língua e da cultura portuguesas, esboçando os seus antecedentes mais remotos e descrevendo as fases da sua formação e as mudanças mais significativas a que foram sujeitas...
O Mito de Viriato na Literatura Portuguesa    by José Barbosa Machado
Price: $4.10 USD. 65420 words. Published by Jose Barbosa Machado  on May 15, 2011. .

O mito de Viriato insere-se na tradição de se acreditar que há uma relação de continuidade entre os Portugueses e os Lusitanos. Estes são considerados por etnólogos e historiadores um conjunto de povos mais ou menos homogéneos na língua e nos costumes que habitavam uma grande parte do território actual português quando os Romanos iniciaram a conquista da Península.
Swallowcliffe Hall 1914: Grace's Story    by Jennie Walters
Price: $2.99 USD. 62910 words. Published on October 6, 2011. .

'Downton Abbey' from the servants' perspective! It's 1914, and war is about to change the lives of the Vye family and their servants at Swallowcliffe Hall. The young men are going off to fight, while wounded soldiers arrive at the Hall to convalesce. Polly Perkins' daughter Grace, a reluctant kitchenmaid, may escape from the servants' hall, but can she ever find love beyond her social class?
Ransom for a Russian Prince    by Donna Nitz Muller
Price: $2.99 USD. 47650 words. Published on August 18, 2012. .

In 1915, Countess Elena Starista must escape Russia. In the midst of socialist unrest on the streets of Petersburg and a bitter, bloody war against Germany Elena must reach England. She intends to rescue the young Prince kidnapped from the cold Atlantic after the sinking of the Lusitania. At the risk of her life and her love, Elena must find a way through the desperate roads of Russia.
Shipwrecks in Sea Minor: 2 Tales of Shipwrecks and Survival    by Lisa Silverthorne
Price: $1.99 USD. 21400 words. Published by Elusive Blue Fiction  on September 7, 2012. .

2 Tales of Shipwrecks and Survival: A young Irish woman's search for her missing sister leads her aboard the R.M.S. Titanic where she must outwit a kidnapper and survive the worst disaster in maritime history. Time eddies around Ireland’s coast, summoning ghosts as a grieving survivor of the Lusitania searches for comfort & direction. Will he find both in the woman he hires as his guide?
Titanic & Lusitania - Survivor Stories    by Ken Rossignol
Price: $3.99 USD. 26240 words. Published by Kenneth Rossignol / Huggins Point Publishing LLC  on December 2, 2012. .

The best of the Logan Marshall classics have been researched and edited by authors Bruce M. Caplan and Ken Rossignol and presented in this new book. The Titanic's secret fire is explained in great detail. The early days of World War I and the savage sinking of the Lusitania which caused over 1,000 civilians to die on an unarmed passenger vessel are brought to life. Great war posters.