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	Repairing the Quilt of Humanity: A Metaphor for Healing and Reparation	by Deborah Howard Feb. 10, 2012	$6.99	26077 words	Sample 10%
	The quilt of humanity is in a tattered state, says Deborah Howard, A New York City coach and consultant. We suffer too much as a result of racism, oppression, and the various ways that power and privilege affect us. Drawing on her own cultural background, she employs the Jewish concept of tikkun olam-healing and repairing the world-to present a provocatively insightful way out of our dilemma.
	Fighting the Effects of Gravity: A Bittersweet Journey Into Middle Life	by James Robinson Jr. Feb. 09, 2012	$2.99	57455 words	Sample 20%
	Fighting the Effects of Gravity could be considered a "Bible for the Baby Boomer." Witty, engaging, and oftentimes poignant, fighting the Effects of Gravity examines the physical and mental aspects of middle age. The book is filled with humorous anecdotes and life lessons that will resonate withe the young, the old and everyone in between. Never has mortality been so much fun.
	The View from the Summit	by Melissa Bowersock Feb. 09, 2012	$8.99	146770 words	Sample 20%
	Howard Munns (1911-2002) was a gifted self-taught artist. Born in a homesteader's sod hut on the barren plains of Montana, orphaned by the age of 17, his early life was tempered by poverty and hardship and annealed by the Great Depression. The View from the Summit is his story in his own words.
	On the Other Side of Opposite	by Geo Kleyn Feb. 08, 2012	$10.00	14750 words	Sample 20%
	A true life story of an attorney prior, on the opposite side of apartheid in South Africa. A practising attorney on his expedition of opening his game farm with a holiday resort . An inspiring story of a white man getting married to an asian lady in the times of apartheid , the battles they fought in the prosecution... 25 years experience with muslim community. African tradition,leaders, healers..
	The Year My Mother Died	by Sherry Scott Feb. 08, 2012	$0.99	92721 words	Sample 15%
	Scott portrays a year-long journey from the perspective of a palliative/hospice trained physician. The book is punctuated by nostalgia and quirky behavior and ultimately offers hope to those who grieve. Through humor and reflection, she finds a way to honor her mother's profound contribution to her life.
	Justin Bieber At 18	by Neptunes Publishing Feb. 07, 2012	$5.99	37138 words	Sample 10%
	Justin Bieber, a worldwide star at the age of just 15, turns 18 on March 1 2012. What is his life like, now that he has reached such a big milestone? Will his success continue as an adult? Is marriage now on the horizon, with girlfriend Selena Gomez? The answers to all these questions, and many more, are in this fascinating look behind the headlines.
	4 Decades Of Love	by The Hippy Coyote Feb. 06, 2012	$4.44	9212 words	Sample 20%
	From being a hippie in the 1960s to a Mr. Mom in the 1990s, my loves and lovers have been documented in my poetry, lyrics, and songs. Each of my past four decades of lovers are represented here with song lyrics and the accompanying chords above them. Many of these songs have been on albums and a few in movies. This collection was created for a Freemason fundraiser I performed at in 2009. Enjoy!
	Letters from India 1932-1945	by Molly Titus Feb. 06, 2012	$7.00	93170 words	Sample 20%
	Set against the backdrop of momentous world events, the letters--vivid, perceptive, compassionate,witty and informative--draw the reader into a world which remains forever fascinating.
	Crazy Little Thing Called Life	by Philip Wooldridge Feb. 05, 2012	$1.99	19264 words	Sample 20%
	A collection of essays on life, love and family as only Philip Wooldridge can pen them. He learns why comedy should be tactful. He works at a variety of jobs, and he discovers the down side of childhood competition. He finds ways to avoid marital conflict, bring the best out of chaotic holidays, and find contentment in the midst of turmoil. Normal? Perhaps not, but always humorous and heartfelt.
	something the cat dragged in	by anne bentley Feb. 05, 2012	$0.99	62396 words	Sample 20%
	only a mother can destroy every ounce of hope!This is the true story told of the author's own chidhood. all the horrors of a nightmare childhood almost too terrible to recall, written here in all the grim, gritty details. memories so tragic in fact, it took an immensely courageous and painful nine years to write. why did her mother hate her so much? why did her uncle show his love in that way?
	MSCANTGETRIGHT	by Shakeya Craig Feb. 04, 2012	$7.75	147085 words	Sample 15%
	"Mscantgetright" lives up to the titled claim. A book often described to the author as "hard to put down,” this personal memoir from one Philadelphia woman's experience growing up out of an abusive childhood, will only reveal hell and turmoil. Shakeya Craig expresses her memories in words of trials, tribulations and excitements through her writing that without a doubt, will surely keep you enrapt!
	A Difficult Passage	by Ray Wiseman Feb. 04, 2012	$4.95	56674 words	Sample 20%
	Life on the Canadian prairies in the 1930s and 40s had special challenges. The Great Depression drove Fred Stone from early retirement back to the farm with his young wife and two sons: Fred Jr. and Stan. Poverty, vicious winds, blistering to frigid temperatures, and dust storms ravaged the prairies. Crops failed. Then came an unpredictable change in circumstances. Things got immeasurably worse!
	My Life On The Ocean Waves	by Douglas Freeman Feb. 04, 2012	$3.99	46297 words	Sample 10%
	Douglas Freeman was in the Royal Navy from 1966 to 1976. Is this the funniest Royal Navy Auto-biography ever? Well my family and friends seem to think so. The people I loaned my book to said they were in stitches with all the funny stories I had to tell about my journeys around the world and "My Life On The Ocean Waves".
	Overcoming the Darkness	by APRIL M. BARBOSA Feb. 04, 2012	$9.99	40927 words	Sample 20%
	This memoir is about the day my life went from school problems to real-life, grown up problems. I am not sure of exact dates since all this happened more than 13 years ago. This was at a time when I was a mere child who threw herself into a grown up world. I thought I knew it all. I have to laugh when I think of the teenage me who was so brave yet so very stupid.
	Who Am I?	by Andrew G Carson Feb. 02, 2012	$2.99	21587 words	Sample 15%
	This short ebook is a chronicle of my life and my attempts to rediscover my creative side and become a published author whilst coping with chronic illness and personal challenges.
	O Projeto 3.7 e Nós	by Washington Conceicao Feb. 02, 2012	$4.99	40376 words	Sample 20%
	In this book the author tells stories about his and his family's experience during a special period in their lives, as resident foreigners in the Great Chicago area.
	Where'd I Put My Boobs? Life Goes On During Breast Cancer	by Sarah Ball Feb. 01, 2012	$9.95	73660 words	Sample 10%
	Just days before Sarah Ball, who had the BRCA2 gene, was attempting to save her breasts by having her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed, she was diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer. Talk about timing.
	Preserved Ginger	by Barry Johnstone Jan. 31, 2012	$4.99	65157 words	Sample 20%
	Preserved Ginger is a kind of loose biography, being the life stuff of a retired orchestral musician. (Old enough to know better and too old to give a s…) I’ve developed some reasonably firm views over the years, and being utterly unknown I enjoy the complete freedom to have a stab at anything I feel like - right or wrong
	Naked in Budapest - Travels with a passionate nomad	by Heather Hapeta Jan. 30, 2012	$4.99	96370 words	Sample 20%
	Whether naked in Budapest, canoeing down the Zambesi, sailing the Great Barrier Reef, eating durian in Malaysia, cooking in Athens, shaking hands with the King of Cambodia, watching bear cubs in Alaska, visiting Gracelands or having a young Egyptian lover, Heather says she feels most alive when on the road. A slow traveler, Heather gets to know locals, eat their food & learn something as she goes.
	Last Year	by Merlin Douglas Larsen Jan. 30, 2012	Free!	23440 words	Read a sample
	A short tribute to the memory of my best friend, Rocky Russo. We shared slot car racing, war games, wrote war games rules together, argued history, religion sometimes, had a soul mate kind of relationship as pals, yet were as different as two men can be in most things. Closeness in the presence of so much difference is a mysterious thing....
	Betty's Black & Blue Bottom	by Louis Kahn Nin Jan. 29, 2012	Free!	2498 words	Read a sample
	A man goes to a Los Angeles dungeon and finds that spanking a slave-for-hire can be rather transgressive for the sinful soul.
	Paranormal By Design	by Karen Dale Stefaniak Jan. 29, 2012	Free!	10338 words	Read a sample
	This is a book of my memoirs, all 56 years of them, thus far. Granted, the time for putting together one's memoirs is usually at a much older age, but as you read Paranormal By Design you will discover that I've had more than my fair share of interesting experiences, real and paranormal, at a much earlier age than most people. Consider it a little insight as to why I am Paranormal By Design.
	My imagination and art have sustained me	by Mary O'Brien Jan. 29, 2012	$4.95	151121 words	Sample 20%
	My talents helped me to endure years of institutions and abuse. My imagination helped to keep me sane and to never give up hope.
	Lessons from the desert	by Laura Thompson Jan. 29, 2012	Free!	10315 words	Read a sample
	A generation-x journey in and out of religious life. This is an autobiography of my spiritual journey seeking God and finding myself.
	A Pilot Turns 360	by Brian Christofferson Jan. 29, 2012	$4.99	50626 words	Sample 25%
	After four years in the Air Force in the early seventies, a young man rejoins the "real" world. He had a plan. He wanted to be a doctor. While in the service he had gotten a taste of what it was like to fly an airplane and wanted that to be an option if the med school acceptance was not forthcoming.
	Corporate Fall Guy	by Arch Deal Jan. 28, 2012	$4.95	39446 words	Sample 20%
	Life and times of a TV Anchor, turned National Skydiver
	Free radical	by Roderic Anderson Jan. 28, 2012	$4.99	80016 words	Sample 20%
	Free Radical is Roderic Anderson’s second memoir, from age 18 to 37. It opens where his earlier memoir, Well of Life ends, with his joining the Royal Australian Air Force in 1943, continues through his inglorious war service, having many gay adventures along the way, joining the Communist Party of Australia, participating in student politics and engaging in closet gay sex while doing a science cou
	ChironTraining Volume 5: 2009	by Rory Miller Jan. 27, 2012	$2.99	74954 words	Sample 15%
	Rory's 2009 blog entries from Baghdad, Northern Iraq, Ireland, Turkey and home. Concentrating, as always on understanding and teaching about crime, violence and self-defense. With extensive added material not available on the Chiron Training blog.
	Armazém Colombo	by Carlos Gentil Vieira Jan. 26, 2012	$2.49	48182 words	Sample 20%
	Short stories about the gorgeous life of a boy who was born and raised in the city of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. In Portuguese only. Este livro é um pequeno tributo às raízes de uma pessoa. De qualquer pessoa. Mostra a vida de um menino e suas interações com o mundo que o cerca, representado por sua família, amigos e colegas de escola.
	Mein russisches Tagebuch (1)	by Detlev Crusius Jan. 26, 2012	$1.49	13883 words	Sample 5%
	Heiteres und Besinnliches aus Russland. Aus dem Zusammenleben mit einer russischen Ehefrau. Neues aus dem Gulag.
	In Chariots Of Iron	by Ray W. Lane Jan. 25, 2012	$4.99	50424 words	Sample 20%
	In Chariots of Iron is the personal memoir of Corporal Ray W. Lane, an Alberta boy, during WW II in the Canadian Army. It begins with his training on Vancouver Island, an eye-opening view of army life in Eastern Canada and Britain and bloody front-line experience in Normandy and Northern Europe.
	Years Without Hope	by Werner Juretzko Jan. 25, 2012	$3.99	57376 words	Sample 20%
	In 1955, Werner I Juretzko was accused of and tried for anti communist activities. He was sentenced to 13 years of incarceration for so-called ”crimes against Article 6 of the Constitution” of the German Democratic Republic. This is his story.
	My Not-So-Ordinary Life	by Christine Rice Jan. 25, 2012	$3.99	12041 words	Sample 15%
	“My Not-So-Ordinary Life” is an autobiography that tells my life story up to age 28. It shows what I went through growing up, how I was interested in writing, and how I got through challenging experiences to live the positive life that I live today. The message of the book is: life may have its ups and downs but, ultimately, you will be okay - and maybe even good - in the end.
	A Lucky Life	by John Tassell Jan. 24, 2012	$1.99	77736 words	Sample 15%
	From an inauspicious start, John Tassell's life took a dramatic turn, leading to business and personal success in his extraordinary and Lucky Life.
	From the Ganges to the Snake River	by Debu Majumdar Jan. 23, 2012	$4.99	86251 words	Sample 20%
	From the Ganges to the Snake River, an East Indian in the American West is a tender, often amusing, account of the landscape and people of Idaho written with an outsider’s perspective. It interweaves East Indian culture with Northwestern reality, reflecting on the difficulties, discoveries, and delights of being a stranger in a strange land.
	Memoirs of a Trap Star's Wife	by Bella Jones Jan. 23, 2012	$3.99	53300 words	Sample 20%
	I still live in the days of him and I. With him I had it all, love, money,cars clothes. If you can name it he gave it to me. Then one day, in a blink of a eye our world came crashing down. He came into my life and forever changed it. This is my story, our story. One of love, unbearable loss and the ability to stand through it all. This is my Memiors of a Trap Star's Wife.
	All My Georgias: Paris-New York-Tbilisi	by Redjeb Jordania Jan. 23, 2012	$5.99	72551 words	Sample 20%
	Redjeb Jordania is the son of the first president of Georgia, Noé Jordania. All my Georgias is a book of memoirs structured as a compilation of real life stories that paint a vivid picture of the author's lifelong journey through the hectic 20th century . These stories are told in a masterful manner, fascinating, sometimes comical, with historical and cultural insights as background.
	History of Whitehorse Farmhouse, Morton-On-The-Hill, Norwich, Norfolk.	by Susy Scott Jan. 22, 2012	Free!	4278 words	Read a sample
	Whitehorse Farmhouse, Morton-on-the-Hill, located just outside Norwich, served as an Inn from the late C17 through to 1912. References to this hostelry can be found in Parson James Woodforde's country 'Diaries'. A short, history of this now private residence can be found on Kindle. Written by Susy Scott, the author of Finding Jingo.
	The Stories of My Youth	by Lorem J. Fause Jan. 21, 2012	$0.99	16064 words	Sample 20%
	Many of these stories share a singular theme, the idea that I've been really lucky. Not lucky in the sense of winning at bingo or the lottery more than the average person, but in that I am still alive after so many mishaps and misadventures where natural selection would normally have selected against a peculiar set of traits.
	Celebrity Ghost Stories - Joe Cocker, spooks and the haunted nightclub	by Don Hale Jan. 21, 2012	$2.99	14170 words	Sample 20%
	Joe Cocker made his name in the rough, tough, grimy streets and equally grimy nightclubs of Sheffield in northern England, UK, during the early 1960s. Read how Joe Cocker and the club management team had to cope with spooks, mysterious happenings and hauntings, then learn how a stunned and disillusioned Joe Cocker first had contact with the spirits to find out about his first hit record!
	ZOOM	by Incog Nito Jan. 20, 2012	$7.99	72900 words	Sample 5%
	Trenton Woods entered a worldwhere discipline paralleled love, protection, and abuse, he feared telling of the sexual abuse he endured from the tender age of four. Silenced by fear and shame, he eventually erupted and began to self destruct without warning or reason. His personal development had been crippled, succeeding only to have his life change once again, In the Blink of an Eye- Like ZOOM
	Under the Banana Moon: Living, Loving, Loss and Asperger's	by Kimberly Tucker Jan. 20, 2012	$3.99	80690 words	Sample 20%
	Kim Tucker describes her life, from childhood through marriage and beyond, with Asperger's, in this hilarious, heart-breaking, and fascinating memoir.
	A Touch of Cancer	by Black Leaf Publishing Jan. 20, 2012	$1.99	15068 words	Sample 20%
	Touch of Cancer is the inspiring story of how one woman has coped with the onset of a disease which many fear. Jean Charity, originally from Derby in the United Kingdom but now residing in Spain, covers the subject in her own inimitable style. Whilst many would find little humour in such a potentially serious situation, Jean has succeeded in striking a balance between the many funny situations.
	Snapshots of Fictionalized Facts	by Angie Kress Jan. 20, 2012	$1.99	22971 words	Sample 30%
	This is a memoir. I am frequently asked why this title? I liked the idea of snapshots because this book is not told from start to finish. The memories are in no particular order, and I do move back and forth in time. Every event is true to the best of my knowledge, but they may be fictionalized due to my age at the time or due to the time that has elapsed.
	The Ballad Of Jim Shelley: My Life As A Failed Rock Star	by Jim Shelley Jan. 19, 2012	$3.99	121038 words	Sample 15%
	The Ballad Of Jim Shelley is a quirky, passionate chronicle of the rock and roll adventures of a small town misfit, by a self-proclaimed “failed rock star” whom critic Jim Santo called “one of America's great 'unknown' songsmiths”, Splendid magazine labeled “a cult hero”, and of whom Alternative Press wrote, “Jim Shelley belongs in the lo-fi pantheon...a handful of lost souls worship this guy.”
	My China Eye	by Angelina Forrest Jan. 18, 2012	$24.95	136611 words	Sample 20%
	The final work of Israel Epstein (1915-2005), one of the very few Westerners to experience the Chinese Communist Revolution firsthand, from its earliest days to the highest levels of power.
	A Merchant Seaman's Survival - An Autobiography - An Escape Story of World War II	by Edward J. Sweeney Jan. 17, 2012	$6.89	53510 words	Sample 10%
	This is a true-life World War 2 escape story. Edward J Sweeney’s merchant ship was sunk by a German raider, which led to hair-raising escapes from jails in France and Spain. He was re-captured and escaped from a German troop train on the way to a labour camp; a concentration camp in Argeles Sur Mer, France; and from the notorious labour concentration camp at Miranda de Ebro, in Spain...
	Out of the Bag: A Search for Missing Pieces	by Greg McAllister Jan. 16, 2012	$5.99	72883 words	Sample 20%
	We begin in the secreted, all-boys world of a Catholic seminary in the 1950s and progress through Vietnam protests, race riots, and the sexual revolution. A young would-be priest crosses his fingers during the oath of celibacy, moves to the Haight Ashbury, gets his girlfriend pregnant, and finally wakes up naked and sore in a padded cell. It's the boomer tutorial, all about change and humor.
	Undercover Girl: Growing up transgender	by Jill Davidson Jan. 15, 2012	$4.99	129944 words	Sample 20%
	In 1966, on the edge of a puberty she doesn't want, a transgender girl hears a news story, and knows there are other people like her. Will she ever become her true self? A story of love, hope, friendship, growing up, and acceptance, with some comedy and terror thrown in.
	Excursions in My Mind	by Nana Awere Damoah Jan. 15, 2012	$2.99	36690 words	Sample 20%
	In this brilliant series of articles, supported by quotations from literary sources, the Bible and contemporary Church leaders, Nana Awere Damoah covers the broad sweep of Christian faith as practised in everyday life.