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Radium Halos    by Shelley Stout
Price: $2.99 USD. 76750 words. Published by Girlebooks  on July 3, 2009. .

Radium Halos is historical fiction based on the true events of the Radium Girls, female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning in the 1920s from painting luminous watch and clock dials with radium paint. "Shelley Stout reveals in her characters, the humanity of a tragic tale." Batt Humphreys, former senior producer for CBS News and author of Dead Weight
Macabre Tales    by Tony Thorne MBE
Price: $2.99 USD. 42760 words. Published on December 8, 2009. .

A collection of quirky tales to chill and delight you. Including: Brain Wave – Time for a medical tale. Death on the Fly – A case of mutual hacking. Farmer's End – An early American ghost story. In Range – Another medical tale, but very different.
True Earth: The Short History of Our Planet Part 1    by Bruce Hendler
Price: $5.99 USD. 133080 words. Published on January 19, 2010. .

A Tour Guide with a Bad Attitude made somewhat bearable by a sense of humor - the Author leads you on a journey through our Home in The Universe. Somehow he wanders off into all kinds of diversions: UFOs and Fairies; Dragons, Monsters and Vampires; various plots and conspiracies; some history you never knew. Earth Science made Fun for anyone curious about the real story of our planet.
Gone Fission    by Barry Tighe
Price: $0.99 USD. 107940 words. Published by Can Write Will Write  on May 17, 2010. .

The government is building a nuclear power plant in Spawater to fight global warming. Greenies plot to steal the waste and drop it on the rain forests so loggers will leave them alone. Meanwhile the council are fining anyone who commits environcrime. They might not save the planet, but they will raise enough money thru fining the public to buy a new one.
Scimitar    by David Grainger
Price: $4.99 USD. 183260 words. Published by Why Knot Books  on July 29, 2010. .

It begins with a massive series of explosions that distribute biotoxins through a prestigious west coast gathering. Hundreds of America’s elite are killed and maimed but this is just the first stroke of a coordinated terrorist attack that brings America to her knees. America panics as infrastructure is crippled and the nation's place as a world power is threatened by the rising Chinese Dragon.
The Breast Cancer Caregiver’s Survival Guide: Practical Tips for Supporting Your Wife through Breast Cancer    by Rick Kraemer
Price: Free! 3910 words. Published on September 14, 2010. .

You’ve gotten the bad news from your wife’s doctor, and we’re here to help. In 2000, Becky was diagnosed with breast cancer, but now she is in remission and leading a normal, healthy, and athletic lifestyle. This booklet is in response to the questions we’ve received from men looking for practical advice on supporting their wives through this difficult time.
Harmony's Passing    by Joel Kirkpatrick
Price: $2.99 USD. 153230 words. Published on September 23, 2010. .

While the Earth wonders at the spectacular aurora that suddenly appears, a single physicist struggles to understand why every satellite in orbit has just moved. Only after exhausting work does he realize; he has witnessed a wandering black hole, it could undo the very structure of the Solar System itself. But when? What damage will it do before it meets its own end?
The Last 8 Minutes Of Mankind    by Ira S. Mac
Price: $0.99 USD. 3990 words. Published on October 2, 2010. .

After official institutions and amateur astronomers record a planet-killer solar radiation flare and announce it to the world, people from all over the planet react in different ways. Others in shock and denial and others in their own particular way. In the end, all that matters is that mankind is about to perish and one unique traveler far away will be the only proof that Earth ever existed...
Mourning Has Broken: Reflections on surviving cancer    by Jan  Hasak
Price: $8.99 USD. 88050 words. Published on October 31, 2010. .

How does a Christian woman maintain a bright outlook as she struggles through the psychological nightmare of breast cancer? A wife and mother, Jan is faced with a cancer crisis while raising three young boys, working full time, and teaching Sunday school. This intensely personal story chronicles how the Lord sustained her and her family through two bouts with cancer.
2010 Planning Guidance for Response to a Nuclear Detonation - Federal Guidance for a Nuclear Bomb Attack on an American City, Effects, Fallout, Shelter, Medical Care, Decontamination    by Progressive Management
Price: $9.99 USD. 49800 words. Published on December 22, 2010. .

This 2010 second edition of the Federal report, Planning Guidance for Response to a Nuclear Detonation, has been the subject of major news reports on revised thinking about shelter-in-place response to a nuclear attack. It provides emergency planners with nuclear detonation-specific response recommendations to maximize the preservation of life in the event of an urban nuclear detonation.