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A Farmer's Goodbye    by Ron D Smith
Price: Free! 1980 words. Published on October 5, 2011. .

After a half century of farming, an old man takes one last walk across his land.
Deadly Stillwater    by Roger Stelljes
Price: Free! 107810 words. Published on October 17, 2011. .

Bestselling author, Roger Stelljes delivers an action packed, pulse pounding thriller that is the second book in the McRyan Mystery Series. An abduction is just the beginning in a case of betrayal and revenge that will ultimately strike at the soul of the St. Paul Police Department. From Lake Superior to the murky St. Croix River, you won't be able to put it down until its last thrilling minute.
House in Motion    by Paul Callaway
You set the price! 9130 words. Published on October 20, 2011. .

Paul Callaway brings you his first book of poems and prose in a collection that he's ever so slowly grown since he started writing poetry in 2001. Most of his poems are personal in nature, depicting moments plucked from childhood to present, from work life to love life, and everything in between. With a charm, wit and cynicism unique to him, Callaway puts a little bit of himself into each poem.
Smithereens    by Susan Taylor Chehak
Price: $4.99 USD. 90110 words. Published by Foreverland Press  on October 21, 2011. .

"Chehak is a very accomplished storyteller, always in control of her narrative, which moves ahead with grace and speed. But it's not only the plot that matters to this writer. It's the telling little details, particularly of teenage angst and of domestic life that makes the novel rich. SMITHEREENS is a novel fully worthy of the title thriller. It's hard to put down. It has a kind of dark allure."
I Look Better In Binary    by Becky M. Pourchot
Price: $2.99 USD. 54010 words. Published on November 2, 2011. .

In the Midwest of the 1980s... being a Jewish girl meant trying to resolve your accidental love of ham with your desire to follow the rules and be a good kid. I Look Better In Binary tells the tale of writer Becky Pourchot's adventures through puberty with poignancy and side-splitting humor.
Expiration Date & Other Stories    by Nancy Wdowicki
Price: $4.99 USD. 70730 words. Published on November 21, 2011. .

Social detachment and intrigue with the absurd are captured in Manipulating Irony, Expiration Date, The Cheesecake, Finding Cat Stevens, Name Games, Mr. Baxter, and Meccaroni. Wdowicki (v’dovitski) conveys her disparate experiences growing up in Wisconsin, and residing in Japan, Indonesia, and Dubai. Influences include Camus, Voltaire, Mishima, and O'Connor. Cover Painting by Beverly Shipko NY
Rampage    by Susan Taylor Chehak
Price: $4.99 USD. 92960 words. Published by Foreverland Press  on November 23, 2011. .

Four critically acclaimed novels...A master of the Midwestern gothic... If you haven't discovered Susan Taylor Chehak: Welcome to Rampage Madlen Cramer has come back home with her two young children to be reunited with her childhood friend Rafe, the sexy drifter who has abducted a four-year-old girl from an abusive foster family, leaving the parents for dead.
Stan by Me    by TRAY TOWLES
Price: $1.99 USD. 54210 words. Published on November 24, 2011. .

"CARPE DIEM! IDIOT." Follow Ollie Schurtz as he ventures back to his hometown of Havendale, Missouri for a Christmas holiday he won't soon forget. After losing his job and nearly being killed by his father, Ollie bends the ear of his childhood friend, Stan Tubbs. The two recall what it was like to grow up in Midwestern America during the 1940’s and 1950’s.
News from Dead Mule Swamp    by Joan H. Young
Price: $0.99 USD. 37580 words. Published on November 30, 2011. .

News from Dead Mule Swamp is a cozy mystery set in the upper Midwest. Anastasia Raven is running from the pain of a failed marriage, and hopes to hide from the world in an old farmhouse she has purchased at the edge of Dead Mule Swamp. When she finds a hundred-year-old newspaper inside a wall, why is it stolen before she can even read it? (Anastasia Raven Mysteries #1)
Snow Stories    by Joseph Risner
Price: $2.99 USD. 15750 words. Published on November 30, 2011. .

“Snow Stories” is a book about snow shoveling talk. The type of conversation one might have with the neighbor after last night’s snowstorm. It takes place in a region that is bitter, bitter cold with tons of snow; Minnesota. Now, meet Joe and Mike, and listen in on these two regular guys as they talk to one another while doing what needs to be done, in their case, shoveling snow.