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Adaptability, a Blessing or a Curse?    by Chet Shupe
Price: Free! 2610 words. Published on November 29, 2011. .

This essay reveals how our brains adapt to painful situations by taking comfort in illusions. By finding fulfillment in beliefs and dreams, we have "normalized" a way of life that is not sustainable. Our eventual survival requires a way of life based on intimacy. Finding comfort in the moment, we would no longer be dependent on dreams, and thus also on the "truths" by which we hope to realize them
Pirates of Savannah Trilogy: Book One, Sold in Savannah - Young Adult Action Adventure Historical Fiction    by Tarrin P. Lupo
Price: Free! 38560 words. Published on December 6, 2011. .

Pirates of Savannah Trilogy: Book One Sold in Savannah Follow a group of English prisoners as they are sold at auction to the highest bidder. The odd collection of fellows battle inhumane living conditions, sail the salty seas, and fight deadly pirates to try their hand at a new life in General Oglethorpe's colony of Savannah, GA.
The Triptych Papers: Lectures in Post-Colonialism, Creolisation and the Epistemologies of Displacement    by Gilbert NMO-Morris
Price: $0.99 USD. 31170 words. Published on December 10, 2011. .

Post-Colonialism is revealed as "backward looking"; as tending to read its anthropology against the sociology, economics and history of which it escaped in Colonialism. In the Triptych Papers, Morris explores the problem of post-colonialism and argues that there is a value in the situation or anthropology - which is to say the life-world - of the post-colonial which he or she is apt to overlook.
Just A Nigger    by Robert Condry
Price: $1.99 USD. 126690 words. Published on December 21, 2011. .

In 1865, Ole Bill Smithson returns to his plantation because it's his home. Mave, a former slave, ends up there because she has nowhere else to go. What follows can't happen in 1865.
Slavery: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow    by J. Jackson Owensby
Price: $4.00 USD. 181440 words. Published by A-Argus Better Book Publishers  on January 14, 2012. .

A frank and open look at the situation of slavery as it existed in the world since mankind began its existance and a close examination of slavery as it exists in the 21st Century.
Brazil    by Errol Lincoln  Uys
Price: $9.99 USD. 387480 words. Published by Peabody Slope Books  on February 27, 2012. .

A spellbinding saga on a truly epic scale that brings to life Brazil and her history. Through the lives of two powerful families,Brazil depicts five turbulent centuries in the history of a remarkable land. With a stunning cast of real and fictional characters,this unforgettable epic unfolds at "ground level" in South America, Africa and Europe, one of the great adventures in human history.
Within the Silence    by C S McClellan
Price: $1.99 USD. 16220 words. Published on March 1, 2012. .

“My master can do anything he wishes to his property; use me in any way that pleases him, even deprive me of life. But he cherishes me. Everything I am is of his making.” A master’s treatment of his pampered slave is challenged. A slave’s devotion is tested as the wheels of memory begin to turn. Long-hidden truths are revealed. Is it a gain or a loss? 16,000 word character study. Mature topics.
The Devil's Bounty    by L. J. Martin
Price: $4.95 USD. 63240 words. Published on March 16, 2012. .

Another exciting Clint Ryan western.... Clint finds himself in a bargain that takes him into the dregs of San Francisco and the Barbary Coast, amid the baracoons and flesh traders. When a new freedman and he are thrown together, he finds a new friend and another who's repulsed by the selling of Chinese girls to satisfy the most deviant interests. And flashilng blades and gunsmoke result.
Soul Of Rah    by Susan Shepherd
Price: $6.89 USD. 155510 words. Published on March 18, 2012. .

Soul of Rah, the second installment of the Grain God Trilogy, begins as the Queen's ship drifts toward Amega, the Assassin's military fortress on the cliffs of Anatolia. Seeing the ship entering the harbor, wily Mochlos, High Priests of the Moon and maker of The Rah, schemes to make himself indispensible to Rush in order to assure his position in his new home.
Ten Thousand Miles Up    by Rick Griffin
Price: $1.29 USD. 10100 words. Published on March 29, 2012. .

Captain Ateri has never known life outside his starship, but when a fleet of pirates offer him an opportunity to steal from his slave-masters, can he maintain the facade long enough to attain what he desires most?