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The Reluctant Apostle    by Scott Montgomery
Price: $4.99 USD. 66580 words. Published on January 27, 2011. .

The author, a player in his youth, is persuaded to coach a Seattle little league team, with utterly disastrous results. Losing every game is only the beginning. It is the mix of heroics and tragedy in lower case, the torments and the injustices, the rain, mud, the charm of each young player, and the coach's reflections on subjects from Plato to giftedness, that render this book unforgettable.
Cabin Fever    by William Sullivan
Price: $9.99 USD. 110910 words. Published on January 30, 2011. .

When William L. Sullivan and his wife Janell built a log cabin in the wilds of Oregon's Coast Range, they were swept up in 25 summers of back-to-the-earth adventure, felling trees with a crosscut saw and confronting beaver in the refrigerator. Along the way they raised a family and puzzled out a murder mystery that had haunted their roadless homestead for decades.
A Passionate Engagement: A Memoir    by Ken Harvey
Price: $9.99 USD. 71160 words. Published by Pleasure Boat Studio on January 31, 2011. .

A Passionate Engagement is both a love story and a story of political activism. In this remarkable memoir, Ken Harvey (award-winning author of If You Were With Me Everything Would Be All Right) reveals his own experience of coming out as a gay man, of meeting and falling in love with the man who would become his husband, and of growing into a social and political activist.
Humorous Incidents: Short Stories and Essays    by Aaron Majewski
Price: $3.99 USD. 74290 words. Published on February 4, 2011. .

As the title suggests, this is a series of interconnected stories and chapters, which are (meant to be) humorous in aspect. They are in fact, non-fiction events from the author's own life and experiances.
Houses in Africa    by Alma Alexander
Price: $2.99 USD. 61780 words. Published on February 10, 2011. .

When I was 10, I was taken from my quiet, safe corner of old Europe and deposited into an exotic new world. Africa, at once breathtaking and soul-destroying, from the snow-capped mountains and teeming game plains of Kenya and Tanzania to the haunted hunger-stalked dustbowls of Ethiopia and the Sudan – the hideous and the magnificent have always gone hand in hand there.
Ellen In Medicaland:True Stories of How I Fell Down Medicine's Black Hole And Still Lived After All    by Ellen Kagan
Price: $4.99 USD. 40 words. Published on February 14, 2011. .

Ellen In Medicaland:True Stories Of How I Fell Down Medicine's Black Hole And Still Lived After All tells the true story of what it is like to be a patient and a caregiver at a Harvard-teaching hospital in Boston. It is a veritable eye-opener and a window on our broken health system. It also gives you tips on how to navigate this system so that you will thrive while dealing with your doctors.
Book of Souls    by Jack Ketchum
Price: $3.99 USD. 18070 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on February 15, 2011. .

In this intimate glimpse into the heart of his own creative spirit, Jack Ketchum shares his early career, literary influences, and some of the characters that formed the man he has become. From his early respect and admiration for Henry Miller to the tortured lives of friends, and the aftermath of 9/11...
Hooligan: A Mormon Boyhood    by Douglas Thayer
Price: $2.99 USD. 55650 words. Published by Zarahemla Books  on February 18, 2011. .

In the days before sunscreen, soccer practice, MTV, and Amber Alerts, boys roamed freely in the American West--fishing, hunting, hiking, pausing to skinny-dip in a river or pond. Douglas Thayer was such a boy, and in this poignant, often humorous memoir, he depicts his Utah Valley boyhood during the Great Depression and World War II.
A Blessing in the Storm... Muscular Dystrophy messed up my life and made me whole - Volume Two    by Lori Laws
Price: $4.99 USD. 17380 words. Published on February 18, 2011. .

Although Muscular Dystrophy was the catalyst helping me to see my need for God, this book is not just about physical suffering. It's for precious souls who are weary... souls who simply feel beaten down by life. In this 2nd volume, I share wisdom and insights I've learned on this journey.
Thursday's Child    by E.S. Abramson
Price: $4.99 USD. 73190 words. Published by Echelon Press LLC  on February 22, 2011. .

A nursery rhyme by anonymous says that Thursday's Child has far to go. The poet could not have been more right! The tales that chronicle the life of author and artist Elaine Sandra Abramson prove just how true that is.