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21st Century Essential Guide to Navy Submarines: Past, Present, and Future of the Sub Fleet, History, Technology, Ship Information, Pioneers, Cold War, Nuclear Attack, Ballistic, Guided Missile    by Progressive Management
Price: $9.99 USD. 96720 words. Published on February 18, 2011. .

This ebook presents a magnificent compilation of authoritative U.S. Navy documents on the past, present, and future of America's submarine fleet.
P. I. G. The Pain is Good Workout    by David Niall Wilson
Price: $2.99 USD. 5340 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on April 3, 2011. .

Tired of expensive, complex workouts that promise the moon? The P. I. G. workout was developed on a cruise onboard the US Navy Ship GUADALCANAL. It worked for me, and it can work for you. You need almost nothing to start...what do you have to lose?
Out of the Depths - A Survivor’s Story of the Sinking of the USS Indianapolis    by Edgar Harrell and David Harrell
Price: $9.99 USD. 51210 words. Published by Fideli Publishing on April 15, 2011. .

Out of the Depths is a terrifying firsthand account of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Navy coverup that led to the bizarre court-martial and eventual exoneration of its captain. Marine survivor Edgar Harrell vividly describes the horrors of being plagued by sharks, hypothermia, severe dehydration and salt-water hallucinations, and the crew’s struggle to survive.
To Live Or Maybe Not    by Gary Revel
Price: $2.99 USD. 35280 words. Published on June 28, 2011. .

This is my first memoir and may be my last; only time will tell. I was born in Florala, Alabama. My mother and father divorced when I was 5. Music became a friend and I formed a band when I was 15. After graduation from Holmes Country High School in Bonifay, Florida I enlisted in the United States Navy. My Honorable Discharge came and Hollywood, California called, then New York, Memphis, and more.
Lt. Commander Mollie Sanders    by Phyllis Zimbler Miller
Price: $2.99 USD. 53950 words. Published on July 12, 2011. .

Lt. Commander Mollie Sanders is a graduate of the Naval Academy and on the Navy’s pistol team. She’s also an electronic weapons officer tasked with coming up with new weapons designs. When she gets assigned to an aircraft carrier as a fighter pilot’s backseater, a missile attack on her plane leads to a mission to try to save the port of Los Angeles from a suspected terrorist attack.
When John Frum Came - A Novel of South Pacific Cargo Cults    by Bill Schroeder
Price: $5.99 USD. 110870 words. Published by Fideli Publishing on November 8, 2011. .

Pacific Islanders were plantation slaves to the Brits before WWII. Mythic John Frum urged natives to “go back to custom,” earning a price on his head. A Boston missionary and a cargo cult shaman awaiting ships full of food meet on Christ’s Despair Island and experience the culture clash with ironic humor and action adventures involving the Japanese, US Navy, and cannibal headhunters.
Expiration Date & Other Stories    by Nancy Wdowicki
Price: $4.99 USD. 70730 words. Published on November 21, 2011. .

Social detachment and intrigue with the absurd are captured in Manipulating Irony, Expiration Date, The Cheesecake, Finding Cat Stevens, Name Games, Mr. Baxter, and Meccaroni. Wdowicki (v’dovitski) conveys her disparate experiences growing up in Wisconsin, and residing in Japan, Indonesia, and Dubai. Influences include Camus, Voltaire, Mishima, and O'Connor. Cover Painting by Beverly Shipko NY
Jacob's Return    by Andrew Tertes
Price: $5.99 USD. 161650 words. Published on May 9, 2012. .

Jacob Goldman is on vacation with his family in Hawaii when tragedy strikes and devastates them all. Reeling, Jacob can no longer hide from who he has become and is forced to confront his worst fears. The search for answers takes Jacob from his native San Francisco to his wife's Salt Grass Reservation home and then back to Hawaii once more.