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	Tiaras and T-shirts: A Working Life at Sea	by Muriel Arnold Feb. 07, 2012	$4.99	76775 words	Sample 20%
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	The Days I Knew	by Lillie Langtry Feb. 02, 2012	$4.99	84678 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: From www.lillielangtry.com Lillie married Irish landowner Edward Langtry in 1874. Some say that the attraction to Edward was because of his yacht and that he insisted he take her away from Jersey and set up home in London. Lillie did not begin her stage career until several years later after her husband had become bankrupt. She also had a daughter who was born in 1881, Jeanne Marie Langtry (who married Sir Ian Malcolm of Poltalloch in 1902, had four children, and died in 1964), and whose father was definitely not Lillie's husband. The child's actual father was reportedly Lillie Langtry's lover Prince Louis of Battenberg (later 1st Marquess of Milford Haven, 1854-1921), who married Queen Victoria's granddaughter Princess Victoria of Hesse and the Rhine in 1884 and became father of Earl Mountbatten of Burma, the last Viceroy of India, and grandfather of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. A recent biography of Langtry suggests that another of her lovers, Arthur Jones, may have been Jeanne Marie's father, though Prince Louis's son, Lord Mountbatten, always maintained that his father was the one. Lillie's heyday as a society beauty culminated in her becoming a semi-official mistress to the Prince of Wales, Queen Victoria's son Albert Edward ("Bertie"), the future king Edward VII. Other lovers included wealthy Britons Robert Peel and George Baird. Among her friends were the Irish writer Oscar Wilde and the American artist James McNeill Whistler. She was for a time the manager of the Imperial Theatre and also manufactured claret at her 4,200 acre (17 km²) winery in Lake County (northern) California, which she purchased in 1888 and sold in 1906. In 1887 Lillie became an American citizen, and divorced her husband the same year in California. In 1899, she married the much younger Hugo Gerald de Bathe, who would inherit a baronetcy, and became a leading owner in the horse-racing world, before retiring to Monte Carlo. She died there in 1929, and was buried in the graveyard of St. Saviour's Church in Jersey - the church of which her father had been rector.
	Death Valley Madam	by R. B. Griffith Jan. 18, 2012	$0.99	89660 words	Sample 20%
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	At Home in Many Worlds	by Sr Jane Fell, MMS Dec. 23, 2011	$6.99	70136 words	Sample 20%
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	When the Meadowlark Sings	by Nedra Sterry Dec. 20, 2011	$2.99	74025 words	Sample 10%
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	Chicken Feathers and Garlic Skin Diary of a Chinese Garment Factory Girl on Saipan	by Chun Yu Wang & Walt Goodridge Dec. 20, 2011	$2.99	71037 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: Chun Yu Wang is from Wuxi, China. She went to Saipan in 2000 to work at a garment factory. This is her story.
	Change of Heart: A Black Man A White Woman A Heart Transplant, and A True Love Story	by Mitchell Fink Dec. 12, 2011	$2.99	26906 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Mitchell Fink is a celebrated journalist and writer best known for his three decades of breaking stories at the New York Daily News, People magazine, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, CNN, Fox and CBS. He is also the author of The Last Days of Dead Celebrities and the co-author of the New York Times bestselling book, Never Forget: An Oral History of September 11, 2001. Fink became like a brother to Robert Dunn during last two years of his life, absorbing his journey, from his childhood experiences of racism to his membership in the Nation of Islam and its world of black supremacy and beyond through college and law school, and eventually to the crushing realization that the enemy all along was the enemy within. He spent more than a year with Dorothy’s family, chronicling her story.
	Vanessa's Choice	by Sonya Artis Dec. 06, 2011	$3.99	25 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: I’ve made so many mistakes in my lifetime I sometimes wonder why God keeps showing me favor. But time and time again, no matter what my transgression is, He keeps loving and keeping me. My name is Sonya Artis. I currently reside in Grandview Missouri with my youngest daughter. My first book ‘Vanessa’s Choice’ speaks on the pain of life from a reckless young adult woman’s view. My story is a true one, based on my life. Vanessa’s Choice outlines how the ability to make your own choices is not as easy as some think and for some of us, when you make your first major wrong choice, you easily spiral out of control and keep that action going when you don’t have people in your life that love you and want better for you. With Vanessa’s Choice you will walk with me through the immaturity of having premarital sex with different partners, and ending up pregnant for the second time, by a different man than my first pregnancy and dealing with abortion, adoption, partying, fighting and all around pain. My book is my testimony and it is about a part of my life that was haunting me. It depicts a crazy time when I thought I was cool, and doing nothing right. It’s crazy the things we do in our short lifetime here that we think are ‘cool’ or ‘in’ at the time. It’s not until we either are confronted by ‘right’ or end up in a situation where we have to explain ourselves that we regret those cool times. I’ve had more of those times than I can count. I thought it was ‘cool’ to start drinking at age 17. After all, I was on my own. I thought it was ‘cool’ to live with a guy that was not my husband at age 18 and have his child just three months before I left him. I thought it was cool to be one of the hottest hip hop dancers of my time….in my area. I thought it was cool to hang out with the drug dealers, and the boosters. I wished I could drink as much as my friends, or even like smoking weed so that I could do that with my ‘friends.’ Yeah, I thought all the things I did was fun. It wasn’t fun however to wake up in the mornings sick and throwing up in front of my child because I drank too much the night before. It wasn’t fun to wake up next to my boyfriend and not remember the night before. It wasn’t fun to have more fights than I can count and have charges pressed against me. It wasn’t fun to go to jail for shoplifting when I decided for the first time to do what my ‘friends’ were doing, and it definitely was not fun giving up my child for adoption because I was too into the other fun things to know how to handle a grown up situation correctly. My goal in life now is to share my testimony with others and try to prevent any lady or man- young or old from continuing to make mistake after mistake. God has given us the ability to make our own choices and because of that, we sometimes feel comfortable with doing the wrong thing. The problem is not God forgiving us….once we are saved, He always gives us our forever second chances. But once we firmly know right from wrong, and we still make the choice to choose the wrong route, we really start to feel the hurt of our wrongs not only from the people we are surrounded by that want us to do right and pray for us constantly to do right, but from our own conscience that screams at us from the pits of our stomachs that we knew not to do the wrong we just committed. To go from being a person that has no real caution in their life, doing pretty much what you want when you want, and having like minded friends, to becoming a true Christian is like going from walking aimlessly in the dark with obstacles all around you to having bright lights shining all around you at all times. I had to let go of so many things and people when I got saved; but oh, how it was worth it. I went from having friends that wanted to party 24/7 to my church family that just wanted to love me 24/7. I went from thinking all the fun I could have was in the streets to finding out, I could have more fun than I ever imagined being a Christian! I went from wanting to fight to wanting to love and I went from having gossiping trouble making friends to friends that pray for the gossiping trouble makers! The most important thing for me though was going from having friends that judged me for everything I did, to having a family that only wanted the best for me and truly did not care about what I did in my past! When Vanessa’s Choice first came out I was deeply embarrassed that my church family would find out I was not the person they all thought I was. Here I am a saved leader of my church writing about how I gave up my child for adoption. Writing about having a sexual relationship with a ‘boyfriend’ that apparently came before my child. How drinking, dancing and fighting were more important than working, going to worship and being a mother. I wrote the book to take some of the kinks out of my own heart, not knowing that my story would bring others to me. Never thinking that others have stories that although vary, are not too different from my own. Hearing how my story has helped others make tough decisions, and how it has prompted other Christians not be ashamed of their past but use their past experiences to help others has been simply AMAZING. I went from being embarrassed about my story to now looking forward to sharing it – if it will help just one more person turn to Jesus or help one more Christian want to share their testimony to help someone else. As God continues to push me higher and lead me in the way of being a helper to non Christians I am finding out, we all have a past. Some of us are living in our worst moments right now, but it is alright. We ALL have valleys but if you pay attention you will find God always puts references in your valley for you to utilize and they will help you out of that valley and pull you out onto level ground. Once you are saved and you believe that Jesus is the son of God, died for us and our transgressions and rose on the third day you will find that trials and tribulations come and go easier and faster. You won’t stress as much and you will wonder….why did it take me so long to find this love.
	Mammograms, Mastectomies, and Mom's Apple Pie: My Recipe for Handling Breast Cancer and Returning to a Healthy Life	by Vickie Jenkins Nov. 23, 2011	$4.99	14959 words	Sample 15%
	Author bio: Farm girl. Radio news reporter. Media coach. Improv comedy performer. Screenwriter. Murder-mystery novelist. Corporate communications executive. Poet. Cancer survivor. On any given day you can find her, pen over paper, staring off, wearing a crooked smile, playing with words. She lives in Los Angeles.
	Приветик с Альбиона (Letters to the girls) - in russian	by Anna Tomkins Nov. 11, 2011	$3.00	58768 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Анна Томкинс. Родилась в 1969 году в России, на Камчатке. Еще с детства полюбила путешествовать. Провела много лет за границей, в поездках по разным экзотическим странам. Вместе с мужем жила несколько лет в Англии, Западной Африке и Индии. Письма друзьям из Англии послужили основой для написания этой книги. Продолжение этой истории будет происходить в Западной Африке, куда главная героиня и ее муж уехали жить с целью «попытать счастье».
	Dr. Sara Josephine Baker: The Woman who Saved Hundreds of Thousand of Babies	by Caitlind Alexander Nov. 08, 2011	$3.99	76259 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Caitlind Alexander is the author of over 60 books for children, including the Jamie and Kendall Broderick Mystery series, the 14 Fun Facts and 101 Fun Facts series, the Wonderful World of Animals Series, and the Miss Jones series. She lives in California where she loves to visit historic places and learn about new things. She also loves to travel and has been all over the world.
	Typhoid Mary: The Story of Mary Mallon	by Caitlind Alexander Nov. 08, 2011	$3.99	6345 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Caitlind Alexander is the author of over 60 books for children, including the Jamie and Kendall Broderick Mystery series, the 14 Fun Facts and 101 Fun Facts series, the Wonderful World of Animals Series, and the Miss Jones series. She lives in California where she loves to visit historic places and learn about new things. She also loves to travel and has been all over the world.
	Off to Save the World: How Julia Taft Made a Difference	by Ann Blackman Nov. 01, 2011	$4.99	43058 words	Sample 20%
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	The MAZ Factor	by Marylin (Maz) Schirmer Oct. 21, 2011	$9.99	73233 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Marylin Schirmer was born in 1964 in a little beach community called Flying Fish Point in QLD Australia, but now lives in Ballina NSW Australia. Her childhood was one she wouldn't wish on anybody. For that matter, her first 33 years were riddled with such bad luck that she felt cursed. Realising she had probably maxed out her chances of surviving any more significant and monumental emotional events, she decided to change her life in an instant. She turned her life around so entirely that she went from an unemployed check out girl, single mother of 4 living in emergency housing, to break records in 10 Countries within a fortune 500 company. She used the power of her mind to create a new world, a new cycle of unlimited abundance. She now lives her dream of helping other people discover what she knows is the best way to ensure you live a fulfilling life, achieving your dreams as you go. Her writing is passionate and soul to soul. Her first book, The MAZ Factor is her 'tell all' book that will change you at your core. It is also a guide of exercises to breakthrough your inner obstacles. She doesn't just write, she transforms your world as you read..
	Nice Guys, Freaks & Creeps: a Dating Memoir	by Jennifer Knightstep Oct. 21, 2011	$3.25	10236 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Jennifer Knightstep was born in 1972 and began her dating adventures in 1987, when she was in high school. She's the proud single mother of two brilliant daughters, and is always eager to share her insights on dating, relationships, parenting, and people in general. Her first book, "Nice Guys, Freaks & Creeps: a Dating Memoir," was published in 2011.
	Nadia Comaneci: Perfect 10	by David Bruce Oct. 16, 2011	$1.00	14132 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: David Bruce is an anecdote columnist at "The Athens News" in Athens, Ohio.
	Helena: Unwavering Courage	by Sylvia Melvin Oct. 10, 2011	$2.99	29730 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Sylvia Melvin’s Bio Sylvia Melvin’s affection for the written word has roots in her Canadian heritage. She grew up in a small village in northern Ontario at her family’s fishing lodge. Often, books were her companions and she began journal writing as a young adult. Today, although she lives in Florida, she uses those experiences to entertain and educate her readers in the short stories and novels she writes. Sylvia presently works as an intervention reading teacher at W.H. Rhodes Elementary School in Milton, Florida. She enjoys teaching creative writing to her pupils and believes that reading and writing go hand in hand. As a founding member of the Panhandle Writer’s Group, Sylvia feels the interaction between other members has motivated her to publish and market short stories and four novels: Summer Guest, a romance set in Canada, Helena:Unwavering Courage, the biography of her grandmother, Southern Sage: The Honorable Woodrow Melvin, a biography of a prominent Santa Rosa resident and Death Behind the Dunes, a murder mystery set on the coast of north west Florida. Sylvia likes to take her readers to places they have never visited, meet folks who arouse their emotions and leave them wanting to read more.
	The Unfeeling Doctor, Unplugged: More True Tales From Med School and Beyond	by Melissa Yuan-Innes Oct. 07, 2011	$2.99	27252 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Melissa Yuan-Innes is an emergency room doctor and writer who lives with her husband, one son, one daughter, two cows, and too many mosquitoes outside of Montreal, Canada. She writes thrillers and science fiction/fantasy under Melissa Yuan-Innes, mysteries under the name Melissa Yi, romance under Melissa Yin, and children's/YA under Melissa Yuan. "Mixing mystery in with sheer humanity and splendid characterization, Yuan-Innes's story is a delight." --Alicia Curtis, A&E Editor, The Stormy Petrel "Melissa Yuan-Innes delivers a Bradburyian shocker" --Paul Di Filippo, Asimov's "Yuan-Innes employs a fresh use of language to spin a storyline that is at once universally familiar and intriguingly original." --Brian Agincourt Massey, judge of the 2008 Innermoonlit Award for Best First Chapter of a Novel, in awarding first prize to _The Popcorn Girl Meets Darwin Jones_
	Gas Drilling and the Fracking of a Marriage	by Stephanie C. Hamel Oct. 04, 2011	$5.95	61311 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Stephanie Hamel, PhD, grew up in southeastern Pennsylvania. After earning her BS in Chemistry from Grove City College and her MS in Chemistry from Lehigh University, she worked as an organic chemist in the pharmaceutical industry with The BOC Group and at Robert Wood Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute. She taught Chemistry part-time at community colleges, then returned to graduate school to study environmental health issues, earning a Joint PhD in Exposure Assessment from the UNDMJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, where she also performed post-doctoral research in the Department of Plant Sciences. She now resides in northeastern Pennsylvania with her husband, Tom, and their two sons. This is her first book. You can find Dr. Hamel on the Web at www.hamel.coffeetownpress.com.
	The Eye of the Moon	by Shelley Davidow Sep. 20, 2011	$3.99	27780 words	Sample 15%
	Author bio: Shelley Davidow was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1969. She completed a Bachelor’s degree in English and Drama at Wits University, and in 1991 she achieved recognition for her young adult novel Freefalling in the national Maskew Miller Longman Young Africa Award. She has had 33 books published, mostly in the realm of chil- dren’s and young adult fiction. In the Shadow of Inyangani, (young adult novel), was nominated for the first African Writer’s Prize by Macmillan/Picador and BBC World. She has lived and worked in Zimbabwe, England, Germany, Qatar, the United States and Australia, among many things as a waitress, researcher, teacher, lecturer and mother, more or less in that order. Today, she lives in Queensland, Australia with her husband and son.
	Breaking Silence	by C.A. Harris Sep. 14, 2011	$4.79	29675 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: C.A. Harris decided in early 2011 that it was time to break her silence about growing up hearing impaired. So, she began to write. She’d never written anything before, but the words flowed as she spent countless hours surfacing memories and allowing them to subside again. Tears spilled as she recalled the countless trips to the doctor and the ridicule by her peers. C.A.’s intent for Breaking Silence isn’t fame and fortune – it’s hope and inspiration. An adult now, she allows wisdom to guide her and she wants all children who are deaf or hearing impaired to know that they don’t have to live in silence.
	Madam Courage	by Martin Kari Sep. 13, 2011	$7.99	58135 words	Sample 20%
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	Life is beautiful - No matter what !	by Jayne Cloutier Aug. 30, 2011	$2.99	144122 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: After Jayne R. Cloutier, a Swiss National by birth, moved from Switzerland to Hawaii in 2003, she turned her hobby as photographer into a new career. She takes photos all over the Hawaiian Islands, and captures the beauty of nature, and is also a very talented Wedding photographer. Many of her images are acceptepted on respectable photowebsites (National Geographic), as well as used for advertising, and some are published. Jayne Cloutier got more and more inspired, and started a second profession as a certified Interior Decorator. She got her diploma in May 2005, and started her own business in June 2005. In August 2006 she got her International License as Interior Decorator (C.I.D.). She loves to work with clients to create their dream home, she can help with your floorplan, with renovations, staging to sell, or helping to define your own style for your home. In January 2010 she merged with her husbands film production company, World Class Productions, where she also works as graphic designer, web designer, director of photography and technical advisor. Beginning of January 2011 Jayne became a proud US Citizen. She lives with her husband and their two Persian cats and their dog in the heart of Waikiki. Every morning she walks their dog along the beach, goes afterwards surfing, and the rest of the day she either works as interior decorator, photographer, independent film maker, or author. Jayne Cloutier is a woman with many talents.
	FAREWELL OPRAH, with LOVE: 25 Seasons of Laughter, Tears, and Inspiration	by LOVE WORKS Aug. 18, 2011	$1.99	4086 words	Sample 5%
	Author bio: Raymond Sturgis a author by talent and trendsetter by day. Raymond Sturgis has so many books that have touched the hearts of so many people. Mr. Sturgis is on a mission of breaking the Guinness Book of records for most books published in a year. Although the record is important, however, nothing pleases him more than sharing quality work with people all over the world.
	The Beauty Girls	by Carol Leonard Aug. 15, 2011	$3.99	26596 words	Sample 20%
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	A Woman Denied... The Early Years	by Rebone Makgato Aug. 10, 2011	$8.99	75160 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: I am a novelist, poet, short story writer and an investigative journalist. I have written a number of books and winning short stories. Three of my books appear on the ebook publishing site www.book2read.com. They are also available in paperback on www.amazon.com. For more information visit my website: www.rebone.yolasite.com. You can also check out my blogs, The Winning Writer on www.blogs.24.com/rebonemakgato, Writes On Rebone on www.rebone.blogspot.com In addition to my writing career, I am a trained chemist.I run a chemicals business called Rebochem. Rebochem supplies laboratory chemicals, laboratory equipment, laboratory apparatus and glassware, and lab science kit packages to both junior and high schools, as well as universities, research/medical laboratories and manufacturing industry.
	Thirty Years in September	by Kate Genovese Aug. 05, 2011	$5.99	44739 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Kate Genovese is a registered nurse with over thirty years experience in the medical field. She has experience working in the substance abuse field and also with children that have been physically and sexually abused, as well as school nursing for five years; Kate presently works for a visiting nurse association. Kate is the author of three books. Thirty years in September; A Nurses Memoir, published by Four Seasons Press, 2001, which covers her thirty years as a nurse, and Loving Joe Gallucci; Love and Life with Hepatitis C, which is based on a true story, also published by Four Seasons in 2003. Kate has had many radio and TV interviews for her published books, and has been active with the hepatitis C community since her publication of Loving Joe Gallucci. Some of the proceeds of the book go to the Liver Foundation. Her latest novel, Two Weeks Since My Last Confession, is the story of the O’Brien’s; a large Irish catholic, dysfunctional family from the 1960’s. Although a work of fiction, the author can identify with some of the characters she created because of her strong catholic and political upbringing, as well as some of the events that happened in her own life are portrayed loosely through her characters. Publication should be in late 2009. Kate lives in the Boston area with her husband and three children. She can be reached through email at kgeno67176@aol.com .
	Charlotte Bronte's Thunder	by Michele Carter July 24, 2011	$9.99	216628 words	Sample 5%
	Author bio: I was born and raised in Vancouver Canada. After graduating from the University of British Columbia with a Master of Arts Degree in English I taught English Lit for several years. I love writing, especially historical fiction that has a little humour for my entertainment and yours.
	The Butterfly's Cage	by Shahnaz Khari June 12, 2011	$6.95	25324 words	Sample 5%
	Author bio: Shahnaz Khari was brought up in a wealthy British Pakistani household where she wanted for nothing. Her problems started when, at the age of 12, she was forced to give up school to become cook and housemaid to her brothers in her parents’ absence. She never went back to school. For Shahnaz, one nightmare followed another. At 18 she was forced into an arranged marriage with a man whom she quickly discovered to be a violent and abusive drug addict who stole her money and jewellery to buy drugs. No sooner had she begun to recover from that ordeal than her parents made her marry a teenage boy who turned out to be controlling, sadistic and equally violent. There followed a traumatic pregnancy and stillbirth, violence and abuse from her family and months of imprisonment in her own bedroom before she won her freedom by smuggling a message to the police in her daughter’s schoolbag. Persuaded back home and then tricked into going to Pakistan with her family, where she endured yet another arranged marriage, she managed to escape from the house while everyone was at prayer and fly back to London. Her family persuaded her to make a brief return to Pakistan by saying her mother was seriously ill, but when she arrived she was beaten up, threatened with shooting and drowning, stripped of her possessions and imprisoned once again, all because she had asked for the freedom to make decisions for herself and her daughter about their lives. Eventually Shahnaz managed to return to the UK with her third husband, build a new life with him and her daughter and study for a career. She is now a social worker specialising in child care. Now Shahnaz (she has used a pen-name to avoid embarrassment for her family) has written her extraordinary, compelling story of survival.
	Princess Sultana's Daughters	by Jean Sasson June 08, 2011	$4.99	74858 words	Sample 15%
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	Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia	by Jean Sasson June 08, 2011	$5.99	79256 words	Sample 15%
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	For the Love of a Son: One Afghan Woman's Quest for Her Stolen Child	by Jean Sasson June 08, 2011	$2.99	95288 words	Sample 15%
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	A Return to Life after a Tragic Death	by Shirley Kalpin-Olson June 05, 2011	$2.99	23946 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Shirley KalpinOlson, mother, grandmother, and RN, has been writing for many years. She has received several honors during her writing career. She has been published in Anthologies, newspapers, and newssletters. She was widowed in 1999 and remarried to a friend in 2002. She and her new husband reside in Cambridge, MN. She has since renewed her passion for writing and wrote two inspirational fictions in hard copies, "The Truth Shall Set You Free in, 2006 and "Train Wreck in the Sierras" in 2005 both at Infinity Publishing. In 2010 she published her first non-fiction "Life After Death" a book on suicide, in hard copy. She is now working on an Romance book "Bitter Betrayal,Sweet Revenge", with sequence in the writing process.
	It Cost Me an Arm and a Leg	by Nancy Kitka May 31, 2011	$0.99	36056 words	Sample 15%
	Author bio: At nineteen, I was a drug addict and alcoholic when I nearly died in a car bombing. My book is called “It cost me an arm and a leg”. I'll let you guess why. This is the true story of how I found my way from a middle class upbringing into addiction, violence and crime. How easily I got mixed up with motorcycle gangs, criminals and almost died more times than I can remember. In 1987, at thirty years old, a culmination of events brought me to recovery. CA, NA, and AA meetings were my salvation those first few years I was clean. I turned my life around. I was diagnosed with Hepatitis C in 1994. Five years later, I was successfully treated for it but became acutely depressed while taking Rebetron. Under any other circumstances, I would have refused anti-depressants but this was different. The hepatitis is "cured" and I am still on Paxil. For twenty four years, I have developed coping skills I never had the chance to learn because I started doing drugs so young. I grew up and took responsibility for my life, entered therapy whenever I felt stuck, got married, made new friends and learned to sing. I am still married, have two dogs and live in suburbia. I struggle with health issues but life is good. I did it and so can my readers. Note: The names have been changed to protect me.
	Spirit Whispers - Autobiography of a Psychic Medium	by Charmaine Wilson May 23, 2011	$7.99	50127 words	Sample 10%
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	Da-ma, Shao-ma: My Two Moms	by Shoulee Paul May 21, 2011	$1.49	7555 words	Sample 40%
	Author bio: Shoulee Paul was born and raised in post-World War II Taiwan, Republic of China, the daughter of a Taiwanese police officer, who had served in the Japanese Imperial Army. She struggled to make sense of her father's often cruel behavior, and after surviving a home life of fear and desperation, she married an American serviceman stationed in Taiwan. Shoulee then left home to accompany her husband as he moved between various posts throughout the world. Due to her family's poor financial circumstances, Shoulee was unable to attend school above the eighth grade, so she taught herself to read and write English, and learned how to run a business from experience working in her family's barbar shop in Taiwan, and through owning and operating a beauty salon in the United States. Presently, in 2011, Shoulee lives in San Diego, California where she continues to run her salon. She enjoys life today with her daughter's family, including two grandsons.
	Flower Child in the Summer of Love	by Farida Sharan May 18, 2011	$4.99	136134 words	Sample 30%
	Author bio: Farida Sharan ND lives in Boulder, Colorado where she directs and teaches in the School of Natural Medicine International. Students travel from all over the world to train in approved Colorado State Board of Higher Educational Private Occupational school courses to become naturopaths, master iridologists, master herbalists, reflexologists, and become certified as essential oil, flower essence and healing diet counsellors. The school is based on self healing. Sharan is the author of The Old Man and His Soul, Iridology – a Complete Guide; Herbs of Grace - Becoming Independently Healthy; and Creative Menopause - Illuminating Women's Health & Spirituality & Flower Child and Flower Child in the Summer of Love. In recent years Farida developed transformational movement processes to accompany purification and regeneration programs, and unique teaching methods that activate joy and enthusiasm in professional training programs. Sharan visited naturopathic clinics in many countries to research traditional programs and has guided annual group purification retreats at the Institute of Naturopathic & Yogic Sciences in Bangalore, India, Tao Garden in Thailand, Private Island Retreat in the Philippines and the Ann Wigmore Living Foods Institute in Rincon, Puerto Rico. Farida has been invited to teach in South Africa, Malaysia, Thailand, Australia, Iceland, Canada, Puerto Rico, India and Grand Cayman. She is a Fellow of the Guild of Naturopathic Iridologists, Professional Member of the American Herbalists Guild, a Certified Massage Therapists and a Certified Yoga Instructor. After attending the University of British Columbia, Farida was a scholarship student at Santa Monica College, specializing in child development and psychology. While raising three children she became a yoga teacher and licensed massage and beauty therapist, eventually managing the Canyon Golf & Racquet Club Spa in Palm Springs. During summer breaks she studied living and raw food healing processes and developed a teaching based on purification, regeneration and transformation after healing breast cancer naturally. During twelve years in Cambridge England in the seventies and eighties, Farida received her Master Herbalist diploma from Dr. Christopher's School of Natural Healing and her Naturopathy diploma from the British Register & Council. During this time she founded the British School of Iridology and the School of Natural Medicine and played a major role in teaching Iridology in England, bringing all the world teachers for seminars and conferences. She had a private practice in Cambridge, England and a part time practice with Dr. Shirley Bond MD of Harley Street, and worked closely with the Bristol Cancer Clinic and the Gerson Cancer Center, receiving many referrals. During the time she was awarded a Doctorate (MD) from Medicina Alternativa in Copenhagen and became a Fellow of the Guild of Naturopathic Iridologists. Sharan founded the British Register of Iridologists which is still regarded as the premier register by the Institute of Complementary & Alternative Medicine in London. She also served as a Director of the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.
	Your Man and Me	by G M Starcevich May 07, 2011	$2.99	34503 words	Sample 15%
	Author bio: Gordana M Starcevich; born in Croatia in 1958. I moved to Perth Australia with my parents and siblings many years ago. Most of my younger years were spent on a farm in a small country town south of Perth. After completing my education I moved to Perth City. Over the years, I've held a variety of work positions through-out West Australia. Then married, settled in Perth and had 2 children. I'm an Aquarian, people person who always stands for the under-dog. I’ve been writing an assortment of topics for many years. Short stories, Poetry, Articles etc... Completed studies in Freelance Journalism. If life has taught me anything it's that nothing is for certain. We can plan all we want but really; "We are nothing more than Pawns in the Game of Life".
	Diary of a Militay Wife: A Memoir	by Sharon Dixon May 04, 2011	$3.99	45555 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: SHARON F. DIXON has been married for seventeen years. She has given birth to three beautiful children. An only child, she was born in Kinston, North Carolina. Though this is her debut memoir, she has always had an entrepreneurial spirit. She had productively operated three different businesses, a day care, a gift shop and a residential commercial cleaning business she started while touring the states with her husband. She attended East Carolina University majoring in Business Administration/ Management. Sharon is a happy go lucky person who is always smiling, loving, caring and giving. She is a go getter who is a news junkie striving for comfort and happiness for her family and others.
	Who Was That Lady? Craig Rice: Queen of the Screwball Mystery	by Jeffrey Marks April 22, 2011	$5.99	67334 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Jeffrey Marks is a long-time mystery fan and freelancer. After writing numerous profiles of mystery authors, he chose to chronicle the short but full life of Craig Rice. That biography (Who Was That Lady?) was nominated for every major mystery award. His latest work is a biography of mystery author and critic Anthony Boucher. He is the long-time moderator of MurderMustAdvertise, an on-line discussion group dedicated to book marketing and public relations and the author of Intent to Sell: Marketing the Genre Novel. Today, he writes from his home in Cincinnati, which he shares with his partner.
	Dear Emily - A Memoir:My Life in the Fine Stores	by Louise Thomas April 10, 2011	$6.99	59453 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Louise Thomas was the first female officer of Thalhimers Department store and the first female officer at Associated Merchandising Corporation, twenty-six of the nation’s largest and finest department stores.
	Vodka On My Wheaties	by Ann Lloyd March 19, 2011	$6.99	153892 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: After being widowed by a well-known Cleveland socialite, Ann Lloyd continued a journey with world travel escapades. In the early 1950’s she and her second husband were disillusioned with the decadent social scene, ventured out and discovered the tiny, rarely traveled “Lost Island of the Caribbean.” Within six months we had completely packed up, with our three young children, leaving the old life and friends behind in Ohio, to pioneer a completely new world in the Bahamas. The scuba diving resort that we built and managed for fifteen years became quite well known. Widowed a second time after her husband’s fatal plane crash, she moved to Florida. Here the saga continued with the third husband, the purchase of a new tavern business, and bouts with substance abuse. After six years of sobriety, thanks to a Twelve Step program, she had a complete personality change which enabled her to face a bizarre illness with a positive approach towards healing. This was not the end of her life but a new beginning from which she gained much knowledge about herself, and finally the spiritual growth to continue with a happy and peaceful life. Through those years of recovering with her intuition more finely tuned, she recorded even more intense observations and amazing insights during encounters with unusual humans and animals.
	Don't Laugh at my Cervix	by Jeana Byrd-Davis March 10, 2011	$0.99	9506 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Glad you stopped by and so on with the show. My life isn't always perfect but I wouldn't change it for anything. As with most I spend a better part of my time working. I chose a career in nursing. Despite the long hours I can honestly say that I love my job. I have two children whom I love & adore, as well as being being step-mommy to three wonderful kids. For most of my life I dreamed of my Prince Charming. Hoping one day I would find my soul mate who would make all my dreams come true. Well, I finally got my fairy tale ending, married to a slightly grumpy Englishman and I couldn't be happier. When it comes to my personality I'm caring & generous... And extremely talkative. I'm very stubborn and have a hot,fiery temper. I live my life by my emotions & let my heart lead my way which sometimes gets me into trouble. I love to laugh and admit to my sometimes lack of common sense & undeniable clumsiness. I'm feisty, bubbly & spontaneous and I love learning new things...
	Punished for Purpose	by Lauri Burns Feb. 27, 2011	$8.99	191320 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Growing up in Long Island, New York in an upper class Jewish family, who would have ever guessed my life would turn out as it did. I had everything a kid could want. It was perfect. My mom told me I was around 3 when the beatings began. Whenever my dad was in “a mood” he would come looking for me. I was like the punching bag that most guys keep in the garage. As a child, I believed I was a witch in a past life and that the beatings were payment for my sins, hence the name of my book, Punished for Purpose. I failed to bond to people. The abuse, coupled with the fact that no one was protecting me, solidified my belief that people could not be trusted. I was 13 when my mom left us in search of a new life. That was when my father’s violence escalated. One day he began to beat me failing to notice that I had a friend in the house. Then everything changed. Afraid that he would get in trouble, he hid a handgun and told the police I threatened to kill him with it. I was committed to a mental institution for the criminally insane. I tried to kill myself several times. In order to protect me from myself, they tied me to a bed in a straight jacket in a solitary room and kept me drugged. By the time I was released, the damage was done. On a suicide mission, I spiraled. I was made a ward of the court and sent from home to home. Unable to rebound from my circumstances, I started shooting intravenous drugs at the age of 16. The drugs helped to push the memories away. I gave birth to my daughter when I was 19, but even my love for her couldn’t save me. On January 5, 1987 after being arrested for prostitution several times, I was taken into the woods by two gunmen and raped severely. Not being able to endure one more beating, I begged them to shoot me. That night my life was saved by a stranger and within 24 hours I was in a safe shelter. It was there that I began talking about my childhood. I learned that I had protected my father at the price of killing myself. Slowly but surely I began to see that I had value and that ‘maybe’ my dad was wrong. Two years later, at the age of 26 I took in my first abused teenager. I knew at that time this was my calling. It was around that time that a man who really believed in me asked me this question “Lauri, Do you know the difference between you and Gandhi, Mother Theresa, and Martin Luther King Jr?” I was intrigued. He said, they didn’t just think about doing things, they did them. That’s it. He also said “If you put fleas in a jar and close the cover, they will hit their heads on the lid. After a few hits they will jump short. When you release them from the jar, they will continue to jump “short." No matter how long they’re out of the jar, they will never return to their full potential for fear of hitting their heads. Lauri, you are living your life like you are still in the jar.” That was when I lifted the lid off my life and starting believing everything was obtainable. I let go of all preconceived limitations. I had a GED education, no practical job skills and within a few years I was earning well over 6 figures and I had five abused teenagers living in my home. Today I am an executive at a Fortune 100 company, an author, an international speaker, I have been a mother to 30 abused teens and I have a nationwide foundation for street kids. I realize now I was never being punished for sins in a past life, but rather prepared for the most amazing life imaginable. It is the memories from the darkest times of my life that I must draw from to help the children that enter my door. If I had to do it all over, I wouldn’t change a thing. Lauri Burns is a corporate executive at a Fortune 100 company, an inspirational speaker, a mother to over thirty troubled foster children (drugs, prostitution, cutters, eating disorders and behavioral disorders) and the founder of The Teen Project, for homeless youth, which she established in response to her overwhelming feeling that no matter how many teens she fostered, it was never enough. She is a part of Oprah’s Angel Network and has been approached by multiple networks for a feature, movie rights and pilot show. It is her dream that no teen should ever be without a safe home or a family. Excerpt from the book: It was 2am. I heard a noise in the hall bathroom. Unaware of what is happening, I avoided turning on the light. As I reached the bathroom, Rita came into view. Her body was drenched with sweat; her hair was pressed against her face. Screaming and banging her head against the wall with an intensity that it hurt me to witness, I rushed to her. When she saw me she screamed out, “WHY?!!!! Why did my mother leave me? Those men hurt me! I don’t want to sleep! They’re here again! I fucking hate myself!” She slammed her head against the wall over and over again. All of a sudden I am twelve again. I am in the bathroom; my dad is at the door. “I fucking hate you! I hate you God!” My head hits the wall over and over and over again…. Bang! Bang! Bang! I am shaking. Having processed no thought of what to do next, I am catapulted back into the bathroom with Rita. Do not turn on the light, scary…no light…Talk quietly…No big noises…quiet voices…Do not touch…Touch is scary… I quietly whisper into the darkness. “I am here with you sweetie…it is okay now…the bad man is gone… We are on the other side now…no more hurt honey…no more bad people here…Please don’t hurt Rita anymore…” The creaking of a door behind me interrupted the intensity of the moment. My eyes now adjusted, I turned my head. I see Mary quietly tiptoeing from her room. Her large eyes tell me she is scared. I put my finger over my lips as if to say, shhhh. Now Yvette is coming. Quietly they collapse to the floor, falling into the darkness by Rita. The only sound is Rita’s heavy rhythmic, breathing. She is rocking back and forth slowly with her arms wrapped tightly around her legs and her head tucked between her knees. The girls gently put their hands on Rita and they too begin to cry. They are hugging each other. Rita lets out a soft cry and hugs them in return. Although the small room still remained dark, the light in the room that night was undeniably brilliant as we walked together out of the darkness. Wiping the tears from Rita’s face, we all stood up together and walked downstairs. Although I don’t normally encourage smoking, this is one night I would let the mountains be mountains and the little things lie. As they sat in the garage, passing the cigarette around with their wet faces, I closed my eyes and thanked God. Thank you God for letting me be twelve again, thank you God for my father. Thank you for my little bathroom so long ago, for it is in the pain of my childhood that I have been blessed with the power to take the hand of a child who is in the darkness; and lead them out. Thank you for having me go before them and showing me the way out…
	Tryin To Figure It Out	by Crazy Mama Feb. 25, 2011	$0.99	24206 words	Sample 10%
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	Everybody Calls My Father, Father	by Tim 'Dr. Hope' Anders Feb. 16, 2011	$9.99	66583 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Tim ‘Dr. Hope’ Anders is an award-winning children’s book author who writes under the pseudonym Dr. Hope, J.A.P.D. (Just A Pretend Doctor). Born in New York City, he learned a spirit of optimism and humor from his mother that would stick with him throughout his life. When he was forcibly separated from her at an early age, these lessons empowered him to cope with his ever-changing surroundings. He credits his mother, the heroine of Everybody Calls My Father, Father, as his inspiration for his many value based children’s books. Dr. Hope vowed that one-day he would give children the same tools that had helped him cope with difficult situations and disagreeable people. And boy, did he. From the promise he made to himself came the award winning "Life Lessons Series," a series of children's books that teach children "life" lessons in entertaining and amusing ways. Among the titles he has written are Laughing Day, The Frog Who Couldn’t Jump, Chip, the Little Computer, Punctuation Pals, Wonderful Wuzs and Little Miss Contradiction. His children's books are available to read or purchase at: http://laughingday.com His books for grownups are available at http://DrHope.com Tim ‘Dr. Hope’ Anders is also a talented piano player, composer, lyricist, and producer. He has teamed up with Comic/Actor/Singer Russ T. Nailz and together they have created a series of delightfully humorous children's CDs and cassettes. On the CDs Dr. Hope's stories are brought to life through talented voice actors, special audio effects, heart-felt background music, and delightfully humorous songs that make kids think and laugh. Check them out at: http://laughingday.com/music.htm
	2010 Hindsight: A Year of Personal Growth, In Spite of Myself	by Sharon E. Cathcart Jan. 25, 2011	$0.99	19501 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Books by internationally published author Sharon E. Cathcart provide discerning readers of essays, fiction and non-fiction with a powerful, truthful literary experience. A former journalist and newspaper editor, Sharon has written for as long as she can remember and generally has at least one work in progress. Sharon lives with her husband and an assortment of pets in the Silicon Valley, California.
	Mr. Wrong	by Valerie Byron Jan. 21, 2011	$0.99	5105 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Originally from England, I emigrated to California in 1969. I have a background in television, and also managed my actor son for many years. A recent writer, I have won many writing contests on Bookrix.com and have recently completed my memoirs, "NO ORDINARY WOMAN, which will be published in late 2011. I am currently working on my second book, BENNY AND MIRIAM.
	The Country Singer: The Story of Loretta Lynn	by Waln Brown Jan. 04, 2011	$4.99	4506 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: Waln K. Brown was born in York, Pennsylvania, October, 1944, a "surprise" child of ill-matched parents who did the "right thing" and got married. For the next 11 years, they fought constantly, creating an unhealthy environment that adversely affected Waln emotionally and behaviorally. Rejected by his father for "ruining his life," and confused by his mother's obsessive-compulsive disorder of washing him in her "crazy clean" solution of Lysol and ammonia, Waln began a pattern of acting out that led to placement in an orphanage, juvenile detention home, state psychiatric hospital and juvenile reform school. A terrible student who spent eighth grade in special education and failed the ninth grade, Waln earned an A.S. degree from York College of Pennsylvania, B.S. from the Pennsylvania State University (summa cum laude) and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. He held positions with the Pennsylvania Department of Education, the National Center for Juvenile Justice and the Orthogenic School at the University of Chicago. Waln is the CEO of the William Gladden Foundation, and the author of over 230 books, scholarly articles and popular publications about youth and family issues.
	Diapers on a Dateline: The Adventures of a United Press Family in India During the 1950s	by John Hlavacek Jan. 03, 2011	$9.99	126195 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: John and Pegge spent their lives traveling the world reporting as foreign press correspondents. John first taught English in China during the 1930s, after graduating from Carleton College. He then joined the United Press in 1944 as a war correspondent. He met Pegge Parker, a beautiful widowed journalist with an eye toward writing her way around the world. They married, living and working in India during the first years of their marriage. The Hlavaceks were then off to New York and next Jamaica, where John and Pegge supported the family by covering news events across the globe. In 1961, the family moved to Florida when John began work as staff correspondent for NBC in Havana. John and Pegge meticulously chronicled their lives before and after they met—and the stories they brought to us from afar. Today, John resides in Omaha, Nebraska. Pegge passed away in November 2008.