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Sacred Gatherings: Rituals for the Pagan Family    by Shanddaramon 
Price: $13.99 USD. 93220 words. Published on July 15, 2010. .

Sacred Gatherings is a complete collection of full rituals for the Pagan family. Whether that family is parents or caregivers with children, a small group of people who like to do ritual together, or a solitary practitioner who cares about Earth and all her children, this book will be instrumental in the celebration of solstices, equinoxes, cross-quarter days, full moons, and dark moons.
Thoughts On A Pagan Life: A Book of Essays    by Shanddaramon 
Price: $4.99 USD. 49370 words. Published on July 23, 2010. .

Shanddaramon has collected together many of his articles and put them together to create this unique collection of essays on Pagan life in the modern world. All together they chronicle his spiritual journey from a curious participant in a public ritual to a teacher and writer for many Pagan students and readers.
'The Healer'    by J.F. Simpson
Price: $6.99 USD. 81750 words. Published on August 5, 2010. .

In Central America Salomõn Sanchez Perez is performing miracles of healing that resemble the Master Healer from Galilee. Can an uneducated healer resembling an overfed truck driver be a threat to the Church with his miracles? The authorities thought it best to play it safe so they targeted him for a fall. The Healer might have disappeared without the help of an unemployed reporter.
How to Espress Life Into a Very Small Cup - a reading of Western Philosophy while making coffee    by Michael Durrand
You set the price! 74280 words. Published on August 27, 2010. .

This is a story of six people who through their actions and discussion deal with the lack of meaning in their own lives. It is an Existential Cubist review of life, death, love, sex, religion, drugs, music, real estate, Star Wars, Nazism, driving, pornography, success, failure and so much more. And coffee, of course. It is an easy reading of Western Philosophy, while making coffee.
The General    by Sam Worthington
Price: $2.99 USD. 136880 words. Published on September 5, 2010. .

Airliners leave cities around the world, all heading for Europe. By the time they arrive, the world has changed beyond recognition as MAD (mutually assured destruction) has happened. 4 planes land in France where they find a destroyed infrastructure, They set about surviving in an alien land with no power of other services. They need to secure the environment and ensure their future.
Ecumenical Babel: Confusing Economic Ideology and the Church's Social Witness    by Jordan Ballor
Price: $2.99 USD. 40910 words. Published by Christian's Library Press on October 4, 2010. .

A critical engagement of the ecumenical movement's approach to ethical and economic issues, Ecumenical Babel updates a line of criticism articulated by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Paul Ramsey, and Ernest W. Lefever. Ecumenical Babel is a voice for sustained ecumenical dialogue, vital ecclesiastical witness, and individual Christian conscience.
Work: The Meaning of Your Life - A Christian Perspective    by Lester DeKoster
Price: $2.99 USD. 20350 words. Published by Christian's Library Press on October 12, 2010. .

Where do we find the core of life's meaning? Right on the job! At whatever work we do - with head or hand, from kitchen to executive suite, from your house to the White House! "Work is the great equalizer - everyone has to come to it in order to find meaning in living: no short cuts, no detours, no bargain rates."
Kingdom Stewardship: Occasional Papers Prepared by the Lausanne Resource Mobilization Working Group for Cape Town 2010    by Arif Mohamed
Price: $2.99 USD. 21500 words. Published by Christian's Library Press on October 12, 2010. .

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, an unprecedented opportunity exists to disciple the church in the fundamental biblical pattern of holistic stewardship. As the church becomes increasingly aware of issues of sustainability, seeks to understand and foster the role of business, and expands the message of the grace of giving. Edited by Arif Mohamed, Brett Elder, and Stephen Grabill.
Artist of the Gods: A Short Story    by Jeff Ambrose
Price: $0.99 USD. 8400 words. Published by Dark Elms Press  on January 2, 2011. .

Pandres, Artist of the Gods, is dying. He spent his life creating art no human eye would ever see, art only the gods could enjoy. As death draws near he wants to see his life's work. But it's forbidden for him to do so. In a final effort to make sense of it all, he joins a group of men who are willing to take him to the Great Temple . . . and discovers they have a purpose very different from his.
Food For Thoughts    by Secret Agent X-9
Price: $10.99 USD. 66440 words. Published on January 11, 2011. .

Food For Thoughts is a collection of assorted topics that readers should find interesting, and include such subjects as the economy, health care, UFO's, the broadcasting industry, the prospects and implications of possible life on other planets, and even some thoughts about the current state of comic books. If you're looking for something unusual to read, this just might be it...