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Possum Trot    by J. Harley McIlrath
Price: $8.99 USD. 39670 words. Published on May 19, 2011. .

The pieces in this collection form a lament for a way of life mostly gone. “The family farm is dead. Did you know?” says one character within. “E.B. White writes Charlotte’s Web today, it takes place in a hog confinement. Imagine Wilbur living in a concentration camp for pigs.”
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.
Blackout    by Hobie Anthony
Price: Free! 15010 words. Published on December 3, 2011. .

Download, Blackout, a chapbook of stories about the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave. This e-book includes three full-length short stories and three flash fictions related to that historic event. That heat wave set a precedent for large urban areas and how they handle heat-related disasters, a growing phenomenon as global warming increases.
Make It or Bake It! 141 Fun and Easy as Pie Recipes for Cakes, Breads, Muffins, Bars and More    by Richárde
Price: $3.99 USD. 11000 words. Published on December 9, 2011. .

Watch your back! A creepy witch won't throw you in the oven, but the baked goods you cook for friends, family and dates may have them asking for more. Entertain your crowd with sweets with your pick of afternoon picnic desserts like Plantain Custard Pie, Flourless Godiva Strawberry Cheesecake, Cocoa Pretzels, Cranberry Fig Loaf and Pomegranate Oat Tabasco Bars....
Insurgents    by Benjamin Broke
Price: $0.99 USD. 69680 words. Published on June 17, 2012. .

How far would you go to help a friend in trouble? Ben Perkins might go so far as to risk his job, but with a friend like David Telano, in the kind of trouble he's in, he'll wind up risking his life.
Little Girl Big Depression    by Doris Teresa Wight
Price: $1.99 USD. 69040 words. Agented by Bird-in-Hand Publishing on January 19, 2013. .

A tender, memory-preserved record of growing up in America's Great Depression. Four-year-old Annette Sanasack wakes to consciousness in a tiny Midwestern, Catholic, largely French-speaking town. By the time the novel ends, Annie is six years old and readers have witnessed, from her short-statured but perceptive vantage point, her family’s spiritual struggles through adversity.
1880 Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Directory Topeka, Kansas    by Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Price: $3.50 USD. 5010 words. Published on April 25, 2013. .

The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad was completed to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1880. I have used ancestral records to compile an employee directory for A.T.&S.F.R.R. for Topeka, Kansas. The directory lists titles of railroad workers, their family members, and where the came to Kansas from. The publication will be useful for students of railroad history and those doing family ancestry profiles.