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The Significance of Being Frank: The Life and Times of Franklin Benjamin Sanborn    by Tom Foran Clark
Price: Free! 96270 words. Published on October 5, 2009. .

"The intimate details of Clark's narrative brings Sanborn's Transcendentalist world to life. This remarkable biography produces for the reader a direct sense of the social nerve and intellectual daring of 19th Century New England. Clark has done an outstanding job in the art of biography." -- Danne Polk, The Philosophy Research Base.
Simplify: Selected Writings From Henry David Thoreau    by Lenny Flank
Price: $9.99 USD. 129920 words. Published on November 10, 2009. .

An anthology of writings from one of America's 's most famous naturalists and political activists. Contains "Walden", "Civil Disobedience", "Life Without Principle" and the unpublished "Reform and the Reformers". Preface gives a brief biography.
The Happy Minimalist    by Peter Lawrence
Price: $7.00 USD. 19230 words. Published on November 23, 2009. .

The Happy Minimalist is an easy read that is both timely and timeless. Written by someone who actually lives the life he advocates and consequently enjoys the many benefits of it. The author walked away from a well paying job well before the normal retirement age. He does not depend on any drugs — prescribed or otherwise. These and many more are the benefits of being a minimalist.
Thumbing Through Thoreau: A Book of Quotations by Henry David Thoreau    by Kenny Luck
Price: $4.99 USD. 11560 words. Published by Tribute Books on April 21, 2010. .

Author Kenny Luck has thumbed through Thoreau’s voluminous journals, correspondences and other publications to make this the most comprehensive collection of Thoreau aphorisms available. Illustrators Jay Luke and Ren Adams lend their talents to artistically interpret Thoreau's vision. Each quote is accompanied by an original drawing.
Wussie: In Praise of Spineless Men    by Josh Muggins
Price: $2.99 USD. 69140 words. Published on August 25, 2011. .

This droll assortment of biographical “Profiles in Wussitude,” reviews of sex toys for timid men and other essays scrutinizes male gutlessness from every imaginable angle. How do wussies face death? How do they face naked ladies, or Starbucks baristas? Josh Muggins brings his refreshing comic voice to these issues and more.
Rediscovering Your Divine Music    by Scott Leuthold
Price: $13.97 USD. 50360 words. Published on October 20, 2011. .

What if there was an underlying universal language that encompassed everything in your reality but you simply were not aware? What if you had been led away from this truth as a child? Would you want to know? What if you could find a way to rediscover your connection to it and in doing so could change your whole perspective on life and your powerful place within it? Rediscover your divine music.
Freedom Club    by Saul Garnell
Price: $2.99 USD. 120020 words. Published on December 6, 2011. .

A speculative fiction depicting a future world overrun by consumerism, technology, and discontent. Where being human isn’t good enough, as God-like Sentient Beings threaten the very meaning of life. Written in a way that echoes John Brunner’s Stand on Zanzibar, Freedom Club is frighteningly prescient, and intensely powerful.
Love...Walk Near My Grave    by AD Moreau
Price: $2.99 USD. 4590 words. Published on February 16, 2012. .

To be connected,touched,caressed;to be important to someone else is so necessary, so important, so sacred to life - some say without love…we die. Love...Walk Near My Grave is sensuous, sentimental, seductive, spiritual, passionate, joyful, angry, deliberate, desperate, forgiving, sometimes sorrowful and all about powerful, healing, life sustaining love!
A New Myth for America    by James Hilgendorf
Price: $4.99 USD. 19840 words. Published on March 7, 2012. .

Every great civilization has had its own myth, a cosmic story of how we fit into the universe, a divine story of who we are and where we came from. Greece had Zeus and Athena. Rome had Romulus and Remus. Western civilization had the Old Testament prophets and stories of the Bible. Now a great new myth comes forth in America. It is the reason for the existence of the universe itself.
A Trail of Dreams Thoreau in Love    by J D. Silva
Price: $3.99 USD. 63790 words. Published on October 1, 2012. .

A Trail of Dreams Thoreau in Love., set in 1837 in the idyllic village of Concord, Massachusetts, Henry Thoreau struggles to escape the domination of his mother and find love, while staying true to his dreams. Will Lucy Brown, the older woman, be his soul-mate? Or will it be Ellen Sewall, the young girl, Mary Russell, the governess, or Margaret Fuller, the feminist? Will "lightning strike" with a