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Buccaneers and Bathing Huts... Tales of Pirates, Tourists, Wrecks & Recipes    by Nigel Woodhead
Price: $4.99 USD. 106030 words. Published by FishesEye Publishing on January 12, 2010. .

A humorous, gastronomic voyage down the European Atlantic coast, in search of the legacy of “day raiders”, in the widest sense of the term, through the ages: Vikings, English monarchs, pirates and corsairs, bohemians, tourists…. Then-and-now sketches of the major pirate ports, and humorous insights into present-day relations between the English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.
Under Pressure    by J. Dana Stahl
Price: $2.99 USD. 104110 words. Published on May 4, 2011. .

Aidan Mack is a dive instructor enjoying a refreshingly uncomplicated life…until he finds himself intentionally anchored to a ghostly wreck on the ocean floor. He must use every ounce of dive training he has ever had—and every last bit of air in his tank—to get to safety
Coast of Tears    by David de Haviland
Price: Free! 130400 words. Published on June 27, 2011. .

Intrigue and superstition envelop an isolated pearling community on Australia's wild Kimberley coast where men must contend with the perils of the deep,and unknown dangers await the explorer who ventures inland. The town's survival may depend on the explorer's fiance who, while stranded there, falls in love with a pearler determined to resolve the mystery of his father's untimely death.
When Mommas Cry; The Dark Side of Yearning, Grief After the Loss of a Child    by Cynthia Snapp
Price: $2.99 USD. 20410 words. Published on January 31, 2012. .

What the experts found was disbelief was NOT the initial, dominant grief indicator. Yearning, a hunger for having the loved one back was the most characteristic symptom. Yearning was the most dominate negative grief indicator while acceptance increased throughout the study period.
Shipwrecked!    by Alexandra Pratt
Price: $0.99 USD. 6200 words. Published on May 17, 2012. .

It's 1740, and a British warship is wrecked on a remote island in Patagonia. But that is only the first of Midshipman Isaac Morris's problems. When mutiny among the crew leads to murder, Isaac must survive starvation, slavery and imprisonment if he wants to see his home again.... Reading age: 8. Interest level: up to age 14. Written and edited for reluctant or struggling readers.
Face of an Angel    by Linda Boulanger
Price: Free! 1510 words. Published by TreasureLine Publishing  on August 9, 2012. .

In the tangled mass of the wreckage, Laken heard the angel’s voice. You’re going to be just fine, he said. Laken didn’t try to answer, didn’t share that her life was in too big of a mess for her to truly be okay.
Night Train to Nisswa    by Mary Buffington
Price: $4.99 USD. 21420 words. Published on October 9, 2012. .

This is a true story about the 1916 Packard, Iowa train wreck and the effect it had on three families from Traer, Iowa - the Van Vlietes, the Kobers, and the Dunlaveys.
The Tragic Life of Film Actress Lynne Baggett    by Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Price: $2.99 USD. 3310 words. Published on March 19, 2013. .

Lynne Baggett was not a successful film star. The highlight of her career was a 1948 marriage to Hollywood producer Sam Spiegel. She played mostly uncredited parts in movies. Baggett experienced a spiral of despair which led to suicide in 1960. Like Marilyn Monroe pills were found close to her bedside. Unique to Lynne was her progressive disintegration after a car accident that killed a young man.