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My Heartfelt Fight for Rights by Writing Wrongs    by David Bruce
Price: $1.40 USD. 2530 words. Published on January 17, 2009. .

An impassioned personal essay dramatically conveying the leprous-like feeling of my first- hand, daily encounters on being afflicted with the stigma of mental illness. Relates and identifies well with discriminations of all others types in the universal language of wrongful injustices.
EMMANUEL (The fulfilled prophecies)    by Raul Garcia Lamoutte
Price: Free! 21660 words. Published on December 18, 2009. .

Dan 7:24-25 The antichrist will be a man. Dan 8:25 He will ascend to power on a platform of peace. By peace he will destroy many. Before his birth he was destined for greatness. All his life he prepared for his death.
An Inmate's Daughter    by Jan Walker
Price: $6.00 USD. 37480 words. Published by Raven Publishing of Montana on April 15, 2010. .

Jenna's mother forbids her to tell her friends that her dad is in prison. Prison reflects on wives and children. Keeping the fact of prison secret becomes more difficult when the newspaper runs a story about Jenna's "Good Samaritan" rescue at the McNeil Island Corrections Center. She just wants to fit in. As Jenna writes in her journal, children of prisoners are doing time too.
The Lumber Room: Mental Illness in the House of Medicine    by D.S. Arrowsmith
Price: $0.99 USD. 16130 words. Published on May 21, 2011. .

A lively, literate essay argues that, with progress in medicine, difficult, unruly mental illnesses vanish and re-emerge as quantifiable, often curable physical illnesses. Includes references to the DSM, epilepsy, lycanthropy, syphilis, cancer, the Capgras delusion, malaria, Alzheimer's disease, porphyria, multiple sclerosis, psychoanalysis, E.M. Forster, Samuel Johnson and Louis Pasteur.
The Green 'M': The Battle for Freedom and Justice in Psychiatry.    by B.C.Bamber
Price: $4.95 USD. 13630 words. Published on June 16, 2011. .

The psychiatric profession is running out of credibility. Patients have no right to defend themselves against forced treatment and detention without trial. The UN has declared these practices illegal. This book explores the alternatives, the arguments, the science, and the politics of madness.
Requiem for Locusts    by Wendy Parciak
Price: $2.99 USD. 114070 words. Published on September 11, 2011. .

A mentally-ill young woman wanders through the backyards of her neighborhood, inadvertently opening up its inner sanctums. This story is about neighbors forced to confront the chaos in their own lives, prompted by the psychological chaos of one of their own. It is Frost’s "good fences make good neighbors" adage transformed into "good fences mask the inevitable connections all neighbors have."
The Colours of Schizophrenia    by David Holloway
Price: $1.99 USD. 6200 words. Published on September 14, 2011. .

The Colours of Schizophrenia is a life journey with insights into the mind of a man with mental illness. The book describes the nature of paranoid schizophrenia, written with a fresh and balanced viewpoint. The poems are uplifting and sentimental, describing love, delusions, depression, recovery, and much more.
No Name Corpse    by UCPoika
Price: $2.99 USD. 7960 words. Published on February 8, 2012. .

A man jumps in front of James R. Tuisins' car in a tourist's town. What's the scoop when it turns out his identity is a fraud. Jimmy gets popular with Misa the most beautiful girl in the neighborhood because of what happens in this rich psychological thriller where you meet the characters and get to know the area's character too.
The Lighthouse    by M T Mathieson
Price: $1.50 USD. 10190 words. Published on August 8, 2012. .

Ann Barford, forty-two years old, divorced mother of two, estranged from her eldest daughter, returns to Hennerton Lighthouse to confront the ghosts of her past. The secret she has carried with her for the past thirty-two years, one that has shaped her life and tainted others, must be exposed and laid to rest. Most of all, justice must be served and Ann knows just how to make that happen.
Gerechtigkeit ist nur ein Wort    by Elin Hirvi
Price: $1.32 USD. 10170 words. Published on January 26, 2013. .

Auge um Auge, Zahn um Zahn Nicht immer ist das, was Recht ist, in den Augen der Menschen auch gerecht. Was, wenn wir plötzlich vor dieser großen Frage stehen: Was ist Gerechtigkeit?