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Collectively Yours - Tales from the Borderline | by david merron May 14, 2012 | You set the price! | 78934 words | Sample 15% |
| Kibbutz - a true to life personal account in short story and anecdote of an Israeli collective settlement on a 'live' border during a turbulent period. | |||||
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Colliery Kids | by Arthur Williams May 02, 2012 | You set the price! | 46098 words | Sample 20% |
| Kevin and Robbie two young boys growing up in a small Northumberland mining village as their Mother struggles to make ends meet These short day to day stories loosely based on my child hood tell how they lived and coped with every day live. With their friends and neighbours the colliery pit yard was their play ground and much of their time was spent running wild in and out of the colliery rows | |||||
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The Heart of a single person | by Quentin de Graaf April 24, 2012 | You set the price! | 2320 words | Sample 10% |
| Various short stories written by Quentin de Graaf | |||||
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In View of a Precipice | by Niehl Anderson April 18, 2012 | You set the price! | 119511 words | Sample 20% |
| The following is a true story of the events that lead up to and include the summer of 1994. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. They say that truth is stranger than fiction. Well, here it is. This is my story about life, sex, drugs and the paranormal. It is a true story about being possessed by the devil and the events that led up to that happening. | |||||
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Love Your Traumatic Brain Injury | by Alexander and I April 18, 2012 | You set the price! | 7102 words | Sample 30% |
| Enter the mind and body of a twenty-year-old boy waking up in a traumatic brain injury. Falling into dreams that steal yesterdays in your sleep. This memoir cuts cleanly through these first few days waking in a foreign world, with a foreign self, and reappearing family ghosts you once knew. This is an effort to expand the whole truth; for you to know the worst and provide for it. | |||||
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Memoir of the Redeemed | by Becky Meyer March 14, 2012 | You set the price! | 28421 words | |
| This story is a reminder that even in the deapths of your despair there is always hope, and you're never alone. This is a conversion story to Christ in it's most raw form. **Graphic content** | |||||
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Jedi To Jesus: The Making of a Christian Filmmaker | by Cory Parella Jan. 15, 2012 | You set the price! | 29262 words | Sample 25% |
| Free for a limited time...meet the author at an upcoming webinar... | |||||
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About The Key and the Broken Wing | by Jessabell Tales Dec. 20, 2011 | You set the price! | 1233 words | Sample 40% |
| Jessabell Tales gives her fans and readers the chance to ask her a few questions about the book. Here she gives exclusive answers to anyone who wants to know why, how and when The Key and Broken Wing was written, published and off course what will she do next. | |||||
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In Sickness and In Health | by Ed Adam Oct. 24, 2011 | You set the price! | 31497 words | Sample 30% |
| My personal journey with my best friend. | |||||
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Prisoner #12973 Thoughts and Reflections from Prison by George Martorano | by George Martorano Oct. 22, 2011 | You set the price! | 7531 words | Sample 20% |
| The United States of America's Longest Prison Sentence, Life Sentence for First Time Non Violent Offense without possibility of parole and America's most prolific prison writer George Martorano Needs Your Help. | |||||
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Rita Nightingale Comic Book | by Tony Crowe Oct. 02, 2011 | You set the price! | 153 words | |
| The story of Rita told in comic book, short and to the point. | |||||
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Fulton Avenue - Growing Up in the San Fernando Valley in the 1970's | by JP Myers Sep. 30, 2011 | You set the price! | 52669 words | Sample 20% |
| My parents moved my brother and I from Minneapolis to LA in 1968. Little did they know what would happen. This story are the highlights of my childhood, the good the bad and the traumatic. My parents were party animals. My father was a drummer and my mother was secretary. They both loved to drink and smoke and listen to Sinatra. Living with them and seeing them divorce and growing up. | |||||
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Living My Nightmare, The Work Of Filmmaker Coven Delacruz. | by Calvin A. L. Miller Dec. 01, 2010 | You set the price! | 2745 words | |
| Coven Delacruz is the next big thing in horror and film. You can be sure of it. He does it all; writer, director, actor, producer, editor, photographer and eFX master. This book is about Coven the filmmaker, the artist, the fan, the friend, and the movie lover. It covers his early years, projects, awards, life, friends, and some of the secrets behind his filmmaking and amazing eFX. | |||||
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Faith and Courage in a Time of Trouble | by Paul Pruitt Oct. 17, 2010 | You set the price! | 23577 words | Sample 20% |
| This book tells the story of a nominally Jewish Belgian family who spent more than four years during the Second World War as refugees in the south of France. The narrator was five years old when the family left Brussels and ten when they returned. At first, the family lived openly in a rented farm, supporting themselves as farmers. But they eventually had to go into hiding and were sheltered... | |||||
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There Really Was a Johnny Appleseed | by ted clarke July 12, 2010 | You set the price! | 45388 words | Sample 20% |
| Folk legend Johnny Appleseed was a real person, John Chapman, born in Leominster, MA and brought up in Longmeadow, MA. His bursiness plan took him to Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana where he set up apple orchards for settlers who were coming, and served as a missionary too. Ted Clarke separates fact from legend in bringing you the true story of this great but mysterious figure. | |||||
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Stories of Hope & Courage: Alzheimer's Disease | by Joe Guse May 20, 2010 | You set the price! | 10140 words | Sample 50% |
| The following stories are based on the author's experiences working with Alzheimer's patients and reflect the resilience he saw on a daily basis. Joe Guse is a former comedian from Chicago who now works with and cares for the elderly while pursuing a career in clinical psychology. | |||||
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The Dog That Ruined My Life: And Other Stories From The Road | by Joe Guse May 20, 2010 | You set the price! | 15749 words | Sample 50% |
| A semi-autobiographical book from author Joe Guse about his wide variety of experiences growing up and traveling around the country. | |||||
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Gorgeous Synchronicity: A book about the interconnectedness of human lives | by Joe Guse May 19, 2010 | You set the price! | 20486 words | Sample 50% |
| A personal journey to understand the interconnectedness of human beings from a former comedian, psychotherapist, and writer. | |||||
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The Invincible Alice | by Alice L. Luckhardt Dec. 05, 2009 | You set the price! | 28562 words | Sample 50% |
| Alice L. Walters Wallace is a Florida-raised, privileged, educated and lovely young woman in 1940. Yet, for the next 69 years she endured numerous personal illnesses, family deaths and four different husbands within a few years. In spite of the problems she managed to live life to its fullest; whether being a pilot, model, businesswoman or nurse, she attempted it and achieved success at them all. | |||||
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Snake Slayer | by Rachelle Reese March 20, 2009 | You set the price! | 3776 words | Sample 25% |
| A memoir of Trinket, a beautiful dachshund with a passion for hunting snakes. In memory of Trinket, my pretty little girl. | |||||
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Josef K. Prokurist | by Sergio Caldarella Oct. 15, 2008 | You set the price! | 4270 words | Sample 30% |
| A metaphorical and allegorical analysis of the figure of Josef K. in Kafka’s work "The Trial". A complete reversal of the interpretative topos where Josef K., the central character of the book, is seen as not guilty. Here the guilt of Josef is interpreted in a new light. Una totale inversione interpretrativa della figura di Josef K. personaggio centrale ne "Il Processo" di Franz Kafka. | |||||