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	Dominican Republic	by erin hudson Aug. 07, 2011	Free!	330 words	Sample 2%
	Author bio: My name is Erin Hudson and I love to write so I hope you enjoy my short stories and books!
	Resurrecting Proust: Unearthing Personal Narratives through Journaling	by CoCo Harris Jan. 09, 2011	$8.99	20811 words	Sample 10%
	Author bio: CoCo Harris is a mother of three daughters and a native of Atlanta, GA. She has lived with her family in the Washington, D.C. metro area, Seattle, WA, the coast of Georgia, and now in the Susquehanna Valley in central PA. She attended Howard University for undergraduate studies in Electrical Engineering and graduate studies in African Studies. After receiving her BSEE, she became a Patent Examiner for the U. S. Patent & Trademark Office granting patents in laser surgery. She was later waived into the national Patent Bar and began practice representing individuals, firms, and corporations. On the other side of her life and brain, as a lifetime diarist, she has taught the art and craft of creative journal writing since the late 90s. She hosted the SOULTALK Journal Chat radio segment, and has been a contributing writer and columnist for various magazines and has authored several creative journaling guidebooks. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Writing in Fiction from Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky. CoCo Harris is constantly exploring the notion of how we tell the stories of our lives.
	The Essential Lincoln	by Aquitaine Media Oct. 10, 2009	$2.99	67938 words	Sample 10%
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	FATHER OF THE AMERICAN PARATROOPER	by Gusdavis Aughtry June 06, 2009	Free!	849 words	Sample 100%
	Author bio: Gusdavis Aughtry is a pseutonym for Jerry Autry. I started writing under pseutonyms when I was in the Army. Some people have a garage full of tools or golf but I write. Having had a long career in the military, I draw on that for articles, essays, stories. Presently, I am doing a memoir of my four brothers and our growing up on a tobacco farm in North Carolina.
	Josef K. Prokurist	by Sergio Caldarella Oct. 15, 2008	You set the price!	4270 words	Sample 30%
	Author bio: Sergio Caldarella, epistemologo, scrittore e saggista, è autore dei libri: "Cade ancora neve" (Oros Ediz. 1996), una raccolta di ballate; "Metafisiche del Mondo" (Oros Ediz., 1997), un libro sui rapporti tra pensiero filosofico ed esistenza; "Memoria e dolore" (Edizioni Zambon, 2004), una raccolta di saggi, poesie, spunti e riflessioni varie; "La Società del Contrario" (Ediz. Zambon, 2005) “un appassionato atto di difesa della cultura nella forma di un moderno j’accuse” e della raccolta di aforismi, dall'autore stesso definiti come "aforemi", dalla contrazione di "aforisma" e "fonema", dal titolo "L’Algebra degli Scacchi" (Zambon, 2008). Vive e lavora a Princeton negli Stati Uniti d'America.