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Too Dead To Dance    by Diane Morlan
Price: $0.99 USD. 54950 words. Published by Cozy Cat Press  on April 22, 2010. .

Lederhosen, accordions....and a dead body! And a dead body is just what coffee roaster Jennifer Penny found when she walked into her coffee booth at the Polka Daze Festival. While unearthing clues, Jennifer dodges the demands of her soon to be ex-husband, and the advances of a sexy cop and a flirtatious butcher. She'll need more than a double espresso to stay on her toes and solve this mystery.
Notes from Nadir    by Lisa Maliga
Price: $2.99 USD. 58840 words. Published on January 4, 2011. .

Notes from Nadir is a wacky and poignant look at a Los Angeles-based writer who has to return to her Midwestern home due to financial difficulties. She moves back in with her Mom in a semi-retirement community and works a couple of dead end jobs, meets a sexy British bakery owner, and later finds steady work as a writer and photographer at The Factory in the depths of Nadir.
The Dark Lands: Fenced In    by Antonio Guadagno
Price: Free! 4640 words. Published on January 24, 2011. .

To get to the real story, you need to know more about these dark lands. This story, the one in this book here? The one that will introduce you to the twisted lands that serve up hideous monstrosities and evils as if they were Sunday dinner? This short story? It begins with a brother and sister. They live on a spider cattle farm in the Midwest, behind the Fence. And they're running home. Fast
The Story of Annie D.    by Susan Taylor Chehak
Price: $2.99 USD. 71490 words. Published by Foreverland Press  on February 3, 2011. .

She's seen her times and her town change forever, and when murder destroys the peace, she knows that nothing can be the way it once was. "Absolutely stunning... Reads with the force and generational sweep of some ancient rural myth." -New York Times Book Review
Harmony    by Susan Taylor Chehak
Price: $2.99 USD. 84030 words. Published by Foreverland Press  on February 8, 2011. .

"Haunting . . . Clodine Wheeler is the bemused narrator who strings together brilliant beads of descriptive phrases as she sorts through her memories . . . Chehak skillfully depicts small-town meanness and ironic generosity . . . . Her mesmerizing tale has classic resonances." – Publishers Weekly
Dancing On Glass    by Susan Taylor Chehak
Price: $2.99 USD. 81900 words. Published by Foreverland Press  on March 3, 2011. .

A startling tale of illicit passion, transgression, and retribution, set in the very heart of middle America. "A deeply chilling, disturbing, beautifully written novel. Shocking, stunningly written... Faulkner himself would have admired and respected [DANCING ON GLASS]... Its events should linger in the reader's mind long after it has been read." -- Los Angeles Daily News
A Quicker Blood    by Susan Alexander
Price: $2.99 USD. 88490 words. Published on March 9, 2011. .

Disillusioned with her life as a lawyer in New York City, Karen B. Clark impulsively takes off for a convention in Chicago. There she meets another woman who shares her name,"K.B." When Karen learns that K.B. is dead, she decides to seize the moment and assume K.B.'s identity. But in her new setting, a small town in Wisconsin, she soon uncovers terrible secrets that lead her to fear for her life.
Lessons Learned on the Farm    by Phyllis Porter Dolislager
Price: $2.99 USD. 55990 words. Published on March 23, 2011. .

The family farm provides the backdrop for hard work, innovation and overcoming tragedy. Filled with nostalgia from the 50’s and 60’s, this family memoir includes over 70 photos. Enjoy a step back in time when life was simpler and family was celebrated. School, church, and family provide the training ground for developing discipline, integrity, and work ethic.
Maybe That Stops Now    by Dwayne Phillips
Price: $1.99 USD. 53340 words. Published on March 31, 2011. .

Betty stumbles into Holcombville, Iowa in 1955. She is starving until she meets Isaiah Marshall. Married quickly, she bears three sons. Then Isaiah disappears. At age 18, each of her sons leave home only to disappear like their father. Upon Betty's death, she requests that the townspeople arrange for her grandsons to come to her funeral and meet one another. What happened to their grandfather?
Dynamite Mike McGee    by Lona Smith
Price: $2.99 USD. 51580 words. Published by Double Edge Press  on April 6, 2011. .

As an iconic racing figure in the 1970’s, few seeing Dynamite Mike McGee in the winner’s circle knew of the challenges he had faced. Born with dwarfism and a myriad of birth defects, Mike was not expected to live out his first week. Defying all odds, Mike went on to build and race cars. He married and fathered a child. A simple mishap resulting in brain damage changed his life forever.