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Tracce d'aeroplano    by Francesco Lolli
Price: $1.99 USD. 12540 words. Published on August 27, 2010. .

Sono un neurologo di ormai cinquantadue anni. I ricordi, potrei dire, sono un’immagine delle cose a cui siamo legati e che ci portiamo dietro. Io ho rilegato i miei ricordi in brevi racconti seguendo le tracce degli aeroplani che mi hanno sempre accompagnato (sono figlio di un pilota). Come molti, ho avuto paura che svanissero e volevo fissarli.
Remembrance    by Nathan Hipps
Price: $7.00 USD. 108400 words. Published by CyPress Publications on October 6, 2010. .

In 1905, measles ravages a Georgia community, turning neighbor against neighbor. One victim, Luther Smith, is a 29-year old husband and father whose sudden death irrevocably alters the lives of his widow and two young daughters. With no means of support, Leola and her daughters move in with her parents, a home devoid of love. Based on a true story, Remembrance tells a story of love and survival.
The Single Male Parents Cookbook and Short Stories    by Joe Barfield
Price: $2.99 USD. 23600 words. Published on November 28, 2010. .

The Single Male Parents’ Cookbook, is a delightful combination of food and humor, two subjects everyone will enjoy. As a single parent the author raised his children from the time they were four and six, and soon became an expert in the kitchen. As he said, “My cooking must have been good because both are adults now and still alive, which only attests to culinary skills . . . or luck!”
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.
My Father Came From Italy    by Maria Coletta McLean
Price: $8.95 USD. 40580 words. Published by Pacific Place Publishing  on May 5, 2011. .

In his native village of Supino, is a rundown villa bought sight unseen by Mezzabotte Coletta 's daughter Maria - an olive branch after years of family struggle. While she and her husband breathe in the chatter of local tradesmen, fragrant offerings of well-wishing neighbors, and the aroma of fine wine, her father waits in Canada, anticipating the day he will again touch Italian soil.
Crossing 13: Memoir of a Father's Suicide    by Carrie Stark Hugus
Price: $1.99 USD. 20680 words. Published on June 4, 2011. .

"Crossing 13" is a coming-of-age story about a thirteen-year-old girl whose life is instantly altered after the suicide death of her father. An award-winning story that will open your eyes, break your heart and touch your soul!
High Bridge    by Troy Aaron Ratliff
Price: Free! 1610 words. Published on June 17, 2011. .

A short heartfelt story of childhood memory and how even the smallest, incidental experiences can have the biggest effects on us when we don't even know it.
Reversible Skirt    by Laura McHale Holland
Price: $4.99 USD. 78890 words. Published on July 3, 2011. .

Reversible Skirt recounts the heartrending decade after one young mother’s suicide, as seen through the eyes of her youngest child, Laura, who was a toddler at the time of the tragedy. It also reveals what Laura and her sisters discovered that led them out of darkness and into productive adult lives.
A Prince in America    by Alessandro Tasca di Cutò
Price: $2.99 USD. 86880 words. Published on July 28, 2011. .

A highly entertaining personal and social memoir which charts the course of an Italian prince who falls on hard times. A Prince in America evokes the captivatingly varied worlds and characters of Belle Époque Europe, the 1929 Wall Street crash, World War Two Rome and of course the movie business and some its most fascinating icons.
Dancing in Heaven — a sister's memoir    by Christine M Grote
Price: $2.99 USD. 50060 words. Published on October 3, 2011. .

Born with severe brain damage, my sister Annie never out grew the needs of an infant. She didn’t walk or talk. Our parents fed her, changed her clothes, and lifted her from her bed to her wheelchair and back for her entire life of 51 years. A window into my family’s life with a severely disabled member, Dancing in Heaven is a testimony to the basic intrinsic value of human life.