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Chasing Grace: A Novel of Odd Redemption    by Carol Costello
Price: $2.99 USD. 118280 words. Published on August 31, 2011. .

Cathy Callahan runs away at age ten to escape her mother’s abuse and find God. After thirty years of funny, brutal, uplifting adventures, she finds unexpected grace in the last place she thinks to look. This is a raw, humorous look at spiritual coming of age, at unconventional ways to heal deep emotional wounds, and at finding greater purpose in surprising places despite desperate odds.
The Girl Nobody Wants    by Lily O'Brien
Price: $2.99 USD. 98360 words. Published on November 4, 2011. .

You only get one chance to live your life as a child but Lily was never given that chance; her childhood was taken from her before it ever begun. From the age of four, when she was first sexually abused, her life changed forever and when she walked through the Catholic Church run institution's doors in Ireland, her life continued along the same path that has destroyed her soul. This is Child abuse
Baldoyle, Portmarnock, Sutton; A Local History PART 2    by Michael. J Hurley
Price: $3.50 USD. 45620 words. Published on January 2, 2012. .

Part 2 of this book deals with the areas of Grange and Stapolin, transport, fishing, Talavera House, farming , coastguard, and Sisters of Charity in Baldoyle.
Murder At Any Age    by Tony DeMarco
Price: $2.99 USD. 71830 words. Published on February 2, 2012. .

What is it like to come of age in a convent orphanage where the nuns’ primary concerns were did you say your prayers, did you brush your teeth and were you quiet most of the time? When Robert Steeter shows up missing, the nuns as well as his sister Maureen assumed he has run away and little more thought is given to him. This book has a quick moving plot with lively and emotional scenes.
Spirits of the Third Dimension    by Veronica Middleton-Blake
Price: $0.99 USD. 15950 words. Published on May 9, 2012. .

Three short stories of ghosts, crime and emotion.
Desperate Measures    by R. B. Baxter
Price: Free! 24000 words. Published on May 29, 2012. .

Set in the late 1960s Desperate Measures is a humorous story that follows twelve-year old Owen Finnegan as he tries to cope with one of the biggest events that has ever taken place at his school in the small rural town of Barclay.
Advice for Monks and Nuns    by Lama Yeshe
Price: $0.99 USD. 28690 words. Published by lywa on June 11, 2012. .

In these talks, Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche explain the great benefits of practicing Dharma as an ordained person, how to keep the ordination pure, the purpose of the monastic community, how to live together as monks and nuns, and much more.
Pray and Die [A Jordan Lacey Mystery]    by Stella Whitelaw
Price: $2.99 USD. 74980 words. Published by tirgearr on July 4, 2012. .

Jordan Lacey, ex-policewoman, now advertising her services as a private investigator in the local paper and working out of a junk shop in the quiet part of town. Will there be enough crime in Latching to keep her in business? Errant husbands, runaway pets… it looks like there might be.
Fontevraud: Mysteries of the Abbey and the Village    by Bertrand Ménard
Price: $4.99 USD. 42980 words. Published on July 7, 2012. .

The Royal Abbey of Fontevraud is magical in both senses of the word. Fontevraud: Mysteries of the Abbey and the Village evokes, to be sure, its amazing history, much of it well-documented but some of it little-known. It also recounts recondite and inexplicable, perhaps supernatural stories surrounding the abbey.
The Prioress' Tale    by Margaret Frazer
Price: $4.99 USD. 81500 words. Published by Justin Alexander on August 9, 2012. .

Under the harsh hand of its newly elected prioress, St. Frideswide's has become a place of deadly sin. The corruption has found fertile soil in the rage and greed of Domina Alys, who has turned the priory into a boarding house for her relatives, the Godfreys. If Frevisse cannot save the nunnery from itself, then St. Frideswide's may be no more... NOMINATED FOR THE 1998 EDGAR AWARD