Slavery: America's Fatal Compromise    by Joan Kennedy Taylor
Price: $4.95 USD. 5610 words. Published by Worthy Shorts on December 9, 2010. .
This essay answers the following question- how could the United States, a country based consciously on philosopher John Locke's idea of the "rights of man," come into existence incorporating the institution of slavery? But it does more than this; it ties this "fatal compromise" to its fatal consequences: a gradual erosion of rights that has occurred across all of our country’s history.

Don't Murder Maria    by Lawrence Nielsen
Price: $2.00 USD. 110060 words. Published on December 11, 2010. .
Mark Kendal believes developing the cure for HIV is good; but not if it means murdering Maria Quiteria Campos for her DNA. Maria Quiteria is the ancestor of his lover and friends who died saving his life. But Mark learns that his employer Jedediah Strang and his frankengene pharmaceutical conglomerate wants Mark to travel back to 1839 Brazil to harvest Maria’s DNA for their next wonder drug.

Calling Crow (Book One of the Southeast Series)    by Paul Clayton
Price: $1.49 USD. 100090 words. Published on December 12, 2010. .
Calling Crow is haunted by his dream of the Destroyer who will one day lay waste to his village. Then, Calling Crow is bound into slavery on the island of Hispaniola. Life in the gold pits is brutal and humiliating. Aided by a kindly priest, Calling Crow vows to learn the language and ways of a powerful enemy in order to eventually save his own people. But first he must regain his own freedom.

The Dragon's Companion    by Royce Day
Price: $1.99 USD. 54130 words. Published on January 2, 2011. .
Made prisoner of a powerful and callous dragon by cowardly villagers, the Bard Teal must make hard choices between freedom, temptation and a feeling of obligation towards the innocents caught in her captor's path.

Abraham Lincoln’s Life and Times: True Tales of a Great Man, Uncommon People, and Major Events    by Hal Malehorn
Price: $0.99 USD. 284100 words. Published by Janet Spencer - Trivia Queen on January 5, 2011. .
Looking for Lincoln? Historian Hal Malehorn has captured the essence a remarkable man. This book tells of America’s beloved leader, his legend, and his era. Chapters describing Abe’s practice and politics, hard times and good, explain the background and the results of a terrible war. Here 272 1000-word stories describe his life and his legacy. Both inspired his age, and they do so yet.

Teal's Bargain    by Royce Day
Price: $0.99 USD. 20470 words. Published on January 6, 2011. .
Left as a dragon's sacrifice by cowardly villagers, the Bard Teal fights to maintain her freedom of soul if not her body, as her captor slowly twists her expectations of what a dragon should be. Part One of The Dragon's Companion omnibus.

Give Me Your Name    by Karen Horst
Price: $4.00 USD. 86350 words. Published on January 9, 2011. .
After Julia Hamilton's placid life is changed by a horrifying encounter with a runaway slave, she becomes a covert to the abolitionist cause. Her parents send her away from Boston to a girl's school in Charleston but they can't get her to change her mind about slavery. Friends in Bleeding Kansas and a young man convince her to go west for the cause.

Descent to Darkness - Prophet's Son Book I    by Kenneth John Marks
Price: $9.99 USD. 157640 words. Published by Fideli Publishing on January 10, 2011. .
Set in Jerusalem in 446 B. C. The story tells of a man’s spiritual journey into the depths of darkness and despair. He is the son of a murdered prophet, and Satan wants him dead. He’s easy prey since he harbors hatred in his heart. Despite warnings he lets himself be controlled by bitterness and forsakes God, leading him down a path to terrible personal tragedy.

Castor's Price; A Young Man's Redemption    by H. Bradley Stucki
Price: $1.99 USD. 70290 words. Published on January 17, 2011. .
Castor is a young slave obsessed with regaining his freedom. Shaia is a young woman sold into servitude to pay her father’s debts. Together they serve at the mercy of a young roman noble who dominates to prove his worth. Both long for the family they lost and are blind-sided by a burgeoning romance neither can resist yet must keep hidden. Discovery means Shaia's ruin and Castor's death.

Joshua Freeman    by Ernie Webb
Price: $4.95 USD. 48960 words. Published by The von Raesfeld Agency  on February 4, 2011. .
Joshua, a runaway slave, outwits his hunters and becomes a free man. He joins a wagon train heading west. He needs to earn enough money to buy his siblings' freedom and avenge his mother's death. His life is changed because of the people he meets, the experiences he has, and the life lessons he learns during the journey as he grows from a brave boy into a mature, courageous young man.