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Beware the Dead Man    by James Lingard
Price: $2.99 USD. 20390 words. Published by M-y Books on January 11, 2010. .

This powerful fast moving blend of recent history with the fictitious adventures of a British spy caught up in the war between Russia and Georgia over semi-independent Abkhazia is a thriller full of danger and suspense. Much of the action takes place against a background of trekking in the wilderness of the Caucasus Mountains. The conflict escalates when Georgia invades and captures Sukhumi.
Beyond Charitable Lines    by Kevin Farran
Price: $0.99 USD. 55840 words. Published on November 5, 2010. .

Thomas Reynolds has managed his independent aid center in Sudan for over a decade. With an impending outbreak of Noma, a gruesome childhood affliction, he ventures even further into rebel held lands to eradicate the disease. Battling the manic SPLA and recently shackled with a self obsessed reporter and do-gooder teacher, he must risk his camp and life to treat children who are future of Sudan.
The Uprisers    by Jeannine Vegh
Price: $4.99 USD. 77440 words. Published on January 7, 2011. .

After eleven years of brutal communist leadership, a young girl and her brother join a grass roots campaign to end oppression in Hungary. Only the girl survives and will go on to America for safety, where she will learn what freedom really means.
Claustrum: Part Two in the Narrative of John of Origin    by Ian Kraft
Price: $2.50 USD. 61290 words. Published on January 16, 2011. .

Claustrum, a superhero with a strange power, the ability to control people with strange, elegiac mixtures of words, seemingly randomly shows up in the city of Dioma, not knowing where he came from or why he is there. The city is then beleaguered by the cruel villain Sine Animus, who is immune to Claustrum's powers over words. Claustrum flees the city and is forced to seek his own personal truth.
The Polyglot's Nightmares: Part X½ in the Narrative of John of Origin    by Ian Kraft
Price: $2.50 USD. 60080 words. Published on January 16, 2011. .

Fleeing a war and in search of himself, Ion finds himself residing in a number of strange caves, on the walls of which are written a strange language. He meets a woman who guides him through his state of being a refugee and is troubled by strange dreams that seem to incorporate the existence of the war, his love for the woman he has met and a sense of the divine.
An Enlightening Lie About the Lucidity of Bees    by Ian Kraft
Price: $2.50 USD. 60270 words. Published on January 18, 2011. .

Crofton Eer, a member of a militaristic society set in a canyon that knows only war, seeks an escape from the troubled canyon in which he lives, guided by the embodiment of the lone star that is visible from the canyon depths. His escape takes him on a journey in which he discovers that there are a great many more stars (gods) in the sky, which leads to a search for truth in the valley of life.
21st Century Textbooks of Military Medicine - Military Psychiatry: Preparing in Peace for War, Hostage Negotiation, Terrorism, Refugees, PTSD, Vietnam (Emergency War Surgery Series)    by Progressive Management
Price: $9.99 USD. 181530 words. Published on March 7, 2011. .

From the much-referenced and highly acclaimed Textbooks of Military Medicine series, Military Psychiatry: Preparing in Peace for War addresses the multiple mental health services provided by the military during peacetime.
Saccades    by Simon Groth
Price: $3.95 USD. 41670 words. Published on March 12, 2011. .

Available for the first time, Saccades collects eighteen stories by Simon Groth: pieces published between 2000 and 2010, new stories, and a few old gems from the vault. From its opening lines, Saccades visits the bizarre, poignant, funny, and darkly surreal worlds of it stories, before closing with a calm resignation that hints at stories to follow.
Angels of Mazawi    by Write-a-Book-in-a-Day
You set the price! 8240 words. Published on April 25, 2011. .

She was a beautiful orphaned refugee from western Africa. He was a gangly country boy from the wheatbelt. This is a story of how their worlds collided.
Passage From England    by Frank Zajaczkowski
Price: $5.99 USD. 121340 words. Published on April 25, 2011. .

Passage From England is the emotional journey of a man’s search for home that interweaves the adventures and tragedies of his Post-WWII immigrant childhood in America’s 50s and 60s with the experiences of his early retirement in the U.S. Virgin Islands.