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A Mix of Holiday Memories    by E. P. Ned Burke
Price: Free! 8590 words. Published on November 5, 2008. .

Authors E. P. Ned Burke, Madonna Dries Christensen and Carrillee Collins Burke share some of their favorite holiday memories with you.
Timeline of America: Sound Bytes from the Consumer Culture    by Floyd M. Orr
Price: $3.99 USD. 108410 words. Published on April 27, 2009. .

Timeline is a capsule history of the things that have defined us. It is a lot more than a pop culture trivia book, although no simpler phrase describes it. The chapters are divided into ten timelines that tell the story of America’s development: events, comforts, cars, toys, movies, television, music, nerds, sports, and gossip. Nostalgic stories and an extensive trivia quiz are also included!
Plastic Ozone Daydream: The Corvette Chronicles    by Floyd M. Orr
Price: $2.99 USD. 97550 words. Published on May 12, 2009. .

Plastic Ozone Daydream combines fact and fantasy on a wild ride through the birth, growth, and maturity of the sports car in America during the turbulent half-century, 1950-2000. Plastic Ozone Daydream is intended to be both fun to read and challenging to the intellect, taking the reader on a journey he never knew existed— through the crossroads of his own mind. Look deeply into the reflection.
Acquaintance: A Collection of Sonnets    by Eugene Docena
Price: $2.00 USD. 10140 words. Published on June 24, 2009. .

A Poet's lamentation during his quarter-life crisis.
The Life & Times of a Boomer Baby    by L.K. Campbell
Price: Free! 20260 words. Published on August 11, 2009. .

Personal anecdotes about growing up on a farm in the rural south during the 1960s. These sometimes humorous and sometimes poignant stories give a picture of life before cell phones, home computers, satellite T.V. and all those other things we think we can't live without.
Growing Up With Shanghai- 10 Shanghai Soundwalks    by Terence LLoren
Price: $9.99 USD. 44610 words. Published on March 3, 2010. .

“Growing Up With Shanghai” is a series of soundwalks with young Shanghainese who were born and raised during the rapid modernization of their city in the 1980s and 1990s. These recordings capture not only their most intimate memories of the locations where they grew up, but also the progress and growth Shanghai has undergone in the past 30 years.
Stories From Grandmother's Knee    by Robert Adair Wilson
Price: $2.99 USD. 6900 words. Published on March 6, 2010. .

Three stories that contain events related from grandmother to grandson from one family's experience growing up in remote and primitive conditions on the southern Gulf Islands of British Columbia. Often humorous dynamics between parent and grown child and grandchild.
At My Window with a Broken Wing    by Ric Wasley
Price: $3.25 USD. 15450 words. Published by Marci Baun on April 6, 2010. .

What happens when a sweet, naïve college girl from a small town in Ohio decides that she wants to leave the predictable small town life and small town boyfriend behind and take a "walk on the wild side"? Find out in Ric Wasley's "At My Window with a Broken Wing".
Pride, Poverty and Pianos - A Journal of an East Ender's Childhood London 1925 ‑ 1938    by Ethel Dyall
Price: $0.99 USD. 22900 words. Published by Can Write Will Write  on May 20, 2010. .

Today’s youth have possessions but are insecure and unhappy. They take today’s wonders for granted, but have never ridden a real 'puff puff' steam train, or seen brewers drays with beautiful horses, or played hopscotch. This is a nostalgic account of my life. I hope writing this will make me more tolerant of youth and the bright young sparks will understand us old 'uns better.
Catho Darlington--Lessons Learned in the Space Age    by Sara Marie Hogg
Price: $4.99 USD. 82410 words. Published on June 22, 2010. .

If you like the 1950s, this is the book for you! Catho goes from pigtails to pompadoured ponytail, leaving in her wake a hodgepodge of humorous & heartwarming experiences. It is all done with a gusto that can only be fermented with sassafras tea & "acifidity bags." Midwest Book Review says, "an original & genuinely talented author..heartwarming style." WDSPBC says, "charming-terrific-great cover!"