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Chatterton Place: The Inheritance | by Patricia C Garlitz Dec. 26, 2009 | $3.99 | 201560 words | Sample 15% |
| After purchasing china, that matched her Grandmothers, Emma Chase finds her world turned up-side down, by an inheritance no one knew about and her Grandmother had turned her back on. The Chatterton Estate was all she had ever hoped for. BUT AT WHAT COST? Even when the living go to bed, she’s left to struggle with ghost’s and visions. perhaps she even slips in to the past. | |||||
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Finding Your Favorite Calvin and Hobbes Comic Strips | by Steve Kurtz Jan. 31, 2011 | $0.99 | 199464 words | Sample 20% |
| A searchable description of all the Calvin and Hobbes comic strips, including a reference to which collection book(s) and page(s) each strip can be located. | |||||
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Exile Corporation | by Mark McClafferty Sep. 21, 2010 | $6.99 | 198831 words | Sample 50% |
| Global warming, famines and natural disasters threaten the world. Seventy six million people are retiring at a rate of ten thousand a day in America. Its social security programs and hospitals are failing, while wrongful death suits are piling up next to dead bodies. The War on Terror rages on. Millionaire playboy, Mark Knoxx, the C.E.O. of Exile Corporation has developed an internet device calle | |||||
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Pieces for the Wicked | by Geoff Cook Jan. 14, 2010 | $2.99 | 171830 words | Sample 50% |
| Trouble-shooting UK accountant, Mark Redgrave, discovers that nothing is as it should be when he moves in to take charge of an ailing public company. Embroiled in an international web of corporate deception, internal politics and fraud, he finds himself dealing with a front for funding Islamic terrorism and a plot to install a despotic dictator in Iraq. | |||||
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Black Blooded Heart | by Joseph Barresi June 13, 2011 | $0.99 | 170614 words | Sample 20% |
| Valdimir...The Butcher of Antamor...the First Dark Knight...Morith's Chosen. These are all titles of the villanious Valdimir, a once proud and just knight of Arathon that had once believed in protecting the innocent and punishing the wicked. | |||||
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The Unseen One | by Terse Skirritt May 15, 2011 | $3.99 | 165316 words | Sample 15% |
| Two supernatural forces, one good and one evil, do battle for control of the World before the end of days. Each force recruits people to "Balance the Books" between good and evil by committing good deeds or horrific events. As each act is committed, supernatural weight is added to one side of the balance sheet or the other. The side with the greatest number of completed missions wins. | |||||
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Where Devils Dwell | by Derek Rush March 14, 2011 | $3.99 | 165198 words | Sample 10% |
| The Abenaki tell of the Cheenoo; the Micmac know the Gugwes; the Strendu were said to be the averred enemy of the Huron and Wyandot – all relate dreaded accounts of of those able to rend the earth in fury, of cannibal giants, guardians of the land. For those of a small New England community, the true nature of these beast will become known. | |||||
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The Curse of Silver Blood | by Joseph Barresi Feb. 18, 2011 | $0.99 | 163467 words | Sample 20% |
| Sebastion must come to terms with his birthright, and as he struggles with his own inner demons he must also attempt to prevent a mad plot that would cause the most powerful God of Death from gaining a strangle hold on the continent of Anastone. It is Sebastion against the most ultimate evil that the world of Arator knows...what will be his fate? | |||||
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West Pacific Supers: Rising Tide | by K.M. Johnson-Weider July 02, 2011 | $0.99 | 143318 words | Sample 15% |
| Imagine a world like our own but with superheroes. Would the superheroes change the world or would the world change the superheroes? K.M. Johnson-Weider has created that world with wit, fun, romance, and plenty of drama. Teams of superheroes use their powers to protect their cities, but fame and fortune can be more insidious than any supervillain, and saving the city doesn't pay the bills. | |||||
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Trials of the Bloodstone | by Joseph Barresi Feb. 18, 2011 | $0.99 | 141932 words | Sample 20% |
| Trials of the Bloodstone is an epic dark fantasy novel that spins a grand tale about a mysterious clan that are seeking to rescue an important member of their society that is being held captive by an unknown powerful entity. They will attempt to rescue their clan member by finding a powerful artifact known as the Bloodstone to aid them in their rescue attempt. | |||||
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Karma | by REDD Lion Feb. 02, 2011 | $10.00 | 133438 words | Sample 20% |
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Blademaster of Norda | by John L. (Jacamo) Peterson Sep. 10, 2009 | $2.99 | 132471 words | Sample 20% |
| Trained by Warrior Monks of Norda, Grayhawk is a warrior renown.Travelling the world working as a mercenary soldier. His travels lead him to the Kingdom of Keltan,because of his fighting prowess and leadership skills. He becomes a Captain of the Kings Guard. While away in the forest on a Boar hunt with the Kings eldest son and loyal Knights,the King is killed in a coup by his Brother.Evil attacks! | |||||
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Jokes in a Plain Brown Wrapper | by Ron Sharrow Aug. 21, 2010 | $9.95 | 128192 words | Sample 5% |
| A collection of more than 1,000 of the funniest jokes of the past 20 years. Contains some X-rated material, adult and sexually explicit language. | |||||
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A Hard Place/A Sergeants Tale | by John L. (Jacamo) Peterson Sep. 10, 2009 | $2.99 | 128000 words | Sample 20% |
| S.Vietnam,Republic of. 1971 A recon/strike unit looking for intell. Often reinforcing some camp/firebase or providing convoy security. Mostly it's Hot or Wet! Life for these guys is either base camp boring,or "boonie rat" intense, moving in full "battle rattle" sweat soaked, deep in the bush. Living on salt pills, nasty tasting water and even nastier food. This war sure ain't no fun folks! Hooah! | |||||
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Cold Cash | by JP Malan Sep. 11, 2009 | $8.99 | 124738 words | |
| This fast moving thriller will take you from old Montana territory, where 3 Native American boys witness a murder and find a treasure--- to present day fictional Wilson Montana where the ancient treasure becomes the drive of murder,kidknapping and a bank robbery in the small town. The ancient supernatural is awakened also to add to the grand plot. | |||||
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A Sperlative View | by Sam Worthington Oct. 29, 2011 | $2.99 | 118780 words | Sample 20% |
| Two Labradors, Sam a gun dog and Worthington an ex- pub dog, have a series of hilarious adventures in both the big city and the countryside. Totally believable, the author manages to convince the reader that this is how dogs both communicate and feel about the world in which they live. Their escapades range from swimming in the Serpentine to framing a cat for stealing chickens. | |||||
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BIAlien series Vol I book 2. Rise of the BIAliensapien: Human Evolved part 2 | by Vlane Carter March 31, 2011 | $2.99 | 114163 words | Sample 20% |
| Book 2 starts off with Jaden returning to Earth in his upgraded EIS (Exo-skeleton Intergalactic Spaceship), eighteen years later. | |||||
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BIAlien Series Volume I book 3 | by Vlane Carter July 12, 2011 | $4.99 | 113381 words | Sample 15% |
| Rise of the BIAliensapien: Human evolved part 3. After Jaden recues Dr. Chan from the Federal prison, they make it to her father’s house where Jaden meets Dr. Chan’s jealous robotic boyfriend Max. Jaden’s goal is to quickly make it from Virginia to NYC to save a family member and then leave doomed Earth. President Robinson is Jaden’s biggest obstacle. | |||||
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Into the Soul of Darkness - The Plague of Adonis | by R.J. Slane Nov. 27, 2010 | $3.50 | 113198 words | Sample 50% |
| Redon Geddes is a New York undercover detective searching for the answers to his brother, brother's wife and young son's disappearance, with the help of Elijah, a homeless man. Slowly, as the mystery of the murders begin to unfold, so does the secrets of corruption within the force among veteran officers involved in a dark triangle of money, murder and power. | |||||
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Blood is Thinner Than Water | by Aimee St. Clair Oct. 29, 2009 | $5.00 | 111703 words | Sample 50% |
| Nick manages to embroil himself deeply in a plot of deception and betrayal caused by greed and power. Through a windy road of political greed, power, and corruption, Alex and Mark end up at a juncture where they must accept their own acts of betrayal and human frailty. Faced with their own mortality each makes decisions that will have far reaching affects on their futures. | |||||
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Jinx (Bigtime superhero series #3) | by Jennifer Estep July 09, 2011 | $2.99 | 110977 words | Sample 20% |
| Fashion designer Bella Bulluci has good and bad luck as a superpower -- something that just might come in handy when she becomes the target of two ubervillains intent on stealing a prize sapphire. | |||||
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Karma Girl (Bigtime superhero series #1) | by Jennifer Estep July 09, 2011 | $2.99 | 109619 words | Sample 20% |
| An investigative reporter devotes her life to unmasking superheroes and ubervillains. | |||||
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Hot Mama (Bigtime superhero series #2) | by Jennifer Estep July 09, 2011 | $2.99 | 109395 words | Sample 20% |
| A fashion designer moonlights as a superhero. | |||||
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Other People's Heroes | by Blake Petit March 20, 2011 | $2.99 | 108925 words | Sample 20% |
| Josh Corwood has spent his life believing in the superheroes of Siegel City. When an undiscovered talent gives him the chance to join them, he discovers his heroes aren't all he imagined. In this cult favorite superhero comedy adventure, Josh will try to blow the lid off the world's greatest scam, and in the process, find the real heroes hidden away. | |||||
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Ex-Patriots | by Peter Clines Sep. 04, 2011 | $9.99 | 108262 words | Sample 10% |
| It’s been two years since the world ended. For the superheroes, protecting their film studio-turned-fortress is becoming harder and harder. But hope arrives in the form of a United States Army battalion. The men and women of Project Krypton are super-soldiers, designed and created before the outbreak to be better, stronger, and faster than normal humans. But can the military be trusted? | |||||
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Surviving Islamerica | by Guy Humphries Oct. 29, 2009 | $4.95 | 101725 words | Sample 25% |
| Unnamed in end time prophesy, America got justice for mocking God, idolatry, greed, abortion, adultery and abuse. Sentence? Recession, corruption, Dirty Bomb ruin of Wichch Ks & Ny and threats by ikhwan, the Muslim Brotherhood. Result? Capitulation. Islamerica. Would you renounce Jesus to live? Jones clan relates spiritual & physical preparation for escape from Memphis to survival in isolation | |||||
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Bailiwick Gold | by James Cassaday May 16, 2011 | $4.99 | 100673 words | Sample 15% |
| Soon after the Channel Islands were liberated following five years of occupation during World War II, rumours of hidden loot (spoils of war) began to circulate. During subsequent years these were fuelled by stories concerning German tourists, many still of military bearing, who were reportedly seen probing in hedgerows and other odd locations in and around the Bailiwick of Guernsey. | |||||
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HASSAN, BARBER OF MAZAR-i-SHARIF | by victor newton Dec. 25, 2010 | $8.00 | 100553 words | Sample 50% |
| FIRST RATE TERROR… The CIA and hordes of the Northern Alliance advance on Mazar-I Sharif and a lot of curious characters must escape at all cost. Men like Hassan: the popular barber who must get back his scissors, or Barasna: the beautiful Afghan-American girl imprisoned in a mine-ringed cottage , or... Men who will deploy blackmail, bluff and counter bluff and sickening violence to get out. | |||||
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The Hayfield | by Max Gordon Oct. 12, 2011 | $3.99 | 99469 words | Sample 6% |
| A story of love, success, disaster, sexual misbehavior, alcoholism, divorce, resurrection... all from one character's eyes and mind set. Some of the chapters were published as prize winning short stories, and led to filling out the entire novel. Reviews by former readers are published after the Prologue. | |||||
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Tomorrow in Jerusalem | by Carl Caplan March 16, 2009 | $5.95 | 96542 words | Sample 40% |
| An affluent small, Virginia town synagogue experiences a major terrorist attack during the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur. Two prestigious members of the synagogue take part in the massacre and flee from a stunned congregation. Hard-nosed sheriff, John Benson, and federal agent, David Mercer, pursue the assassins in an international tale of intrigue and political significance. | |||||
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Dragon Child | by LJ DeLeon March 23, 2011 | $4.99 | 94098 words | Sample 10% |
| A fire-breathing dragon, Moira O'Neal, she escapes the cage of the Fae royal court and joins forces with the sexiest wereleopard, Major Steve Taylor, on Earthworld. She fights the urge to mate and the trap. Steve partners with Moira in the middle a dangerous mission where failure means all their deaths. Worse, his leopard decides Moira is his mate, leaving the man at war with his cat. | |||||
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Darktime | by Derek Rush March 14, 2011 | $2.99 | 92248 words | Sample 10% |
| Darktime is trucker lingo for the hours between dusk and dawn; the hours where the things that go bump in the night come out to play, while all else has settled into deepest slumber. | |||||
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The Honing | by David Dumas Nov. 25, 2011 | $7.99 | 90154 words | Sample 15% |
| The Honing will take you on a roller coaster ride of emotions as Brad Fordam sets out to avenge the death of his mother. After reading her diary, Brad realizes his mother is guiding him toward the people she blames for her commitment to a psychiatric hospital and ultimately her death through suicide. Brad must find a way to bring the guilty to justice without losing his own sanity. | |||||
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Fog Walker | by Edward St Amant Feb. 03, 2010 | $5.99 | 89884 words | Sample 20% |
| An exceptionally descriptive and unexpectedly dark tale took me to a place so unusual that I was positively impressed. Its black humor combined with farcical and sometimes outright evil capers will leave you in awe | |||||
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Bootstraps and Grease | by RGS Oct. 21, 2009 | $3.00 | 89675 words | Sample 50% |
| This story follows a self made man from cradle to grave, his successes and setbacks. He worked hard at what ever task lay before him and was well rewarded for that effort,only to have it snatched away from him. This is a love story, within a story of how a man nearly destroyed both physically and financially pulled himself and his familly up by the bootstraps and greasing the right palms. | |||||
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Union, WV | by Michael Abraham July 19, 2010 | $6.95 | 86756 words | Sample 20% |
| Wayne Derek Quarles wins no sainthood awards. Within the span of a week, his malevolence causes him to lose his job, his Hummer, and his wife. On his way to visit an elderly great-uncle in tiny Union, West Virginia, Wayne’s life turns even more wretched as injuries force him to stay for awhile. Union, WV is the story of healing and redemption in contemporary Appalachia. | |||||
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Moonfall | by Roger Greider Sep. 25, 2011 | $2.99 | 86710 words | Sample 20% |
| A giant meteor shatters the moon, and the pieces spiral to Earth. Greg Stevens leads a group of survivors who call themselves The Company, sharing possessions. More women survive than men, so a polygamous life style is chosen. After thirty years of a rising democratic economy, struggling against ambitious rivals, including cannibals, their standard of living approaches that of pre Moonfall. | |||||
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Time Tangle | by Roger Greider Oct. 17, 2011 | $2.99 | 83536 words | Sample 20% |
| To save Brad Williams from large hail, Ozod, an invisible bumbler, sends him back in time to the Oklahoma land run of 1889. He meets Ellen. Brad is desperate to return to the present. With Ozod’s inept help, he escapes disasters from the Triassic era to 2155. During his experiences of danger and conflict, he realizes Ellen is his true love and Ozod finally gets the two of them back to 2012. | |||||
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(Mark Twain Style Novel) Toe Tags & TNT | by Rolland Love July 11, 2010 | $2.99 | 81068 words | Sample 50% |
| Toe Tags and Tnt is not a book for the faint hearted. Toe Tags and tnt is a vivid and rollicking adventure inspired by a true experience. A wild cross-country trip begins in Las Vegas, where Harley, an aging psychotic wired with explosives and holding a revolver, kidnaps two young environmental engineers, a hippie named Moon Love and a Alberta a roadie who captures Harley's heart at first sight | |||||
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Dick (An Avery Dick Adventure Story | by Avery Dick Oct. 14, 2009 | $4.95 | 77475 words | Sample 50% |
| Special Agent Avery Dick is recalled from retirement by his former employer---the State Department's Diplomatic Security Service---to investigate allegations of massive fraud by the US embassy Kabul's security services provider, Ajax Security and Protective Services. He moves heaven and earth to bring the Department's mountain to Mohammed in this humorous mystery. | |||||
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Renegade Paladins | by YS Pascal March 22, 2010 | $0.99 | 77061 words | Sample 50% |
| Terrorists attack! Can outlaw Zygan agents Rush and Escott save Earth from vile villains and treacherous traitors? A fiery thriller ride! | |||||
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Spite | by Elizabeth James June 05, 2011 | Free! | 75706 words | Read a sample |
| Drug addiction | |||||
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Blood Bar, a vampire tale | by Norm Applegate Feb. 05, 2011 | $0.99 | 75431 words | Sample 20% |
| A beautiful woman killing vampires... A bad guy, nicknamed The Beast... A Vampire Hangout, Blood Bar... And a sexually bent woman, Kim Bennett... Blood Bar by Norm Applegate "Move towards me, tilt your head, I'm feeling greedy; give me all of you." Expect a healthy dose of action: murder, sharp blades, carve in, carve out, blood spills, graphic, sexual. | |||||
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The Knight of the Witches | by Darius Powell April 10, 2011 | $1.00 | 75161 words | Sample 20% |
| This historical fiction novel that explores the unique goals of the main characters and how much each person is willing to sacrifice in order to achieve their objectives when the son of a Teutonic Knight is raised by a coven of witches. Will Heinrich pursue his birthright and betray the only family he knows or will he forgo his destiny to remain with those who he loves? | |||||
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Vicky Banning | by Allen McGill Sep. 05, 2011 | $2.99 | 75006 words | Sample 20% |
| Vicky is an elderly lady who continues a lifelong high life of show biz, travel, skullduggery and everlasting love of life, people and animals. She reamins mysterious about her past, but we learn of her smuggling children from Europe during WWII, entertaining in a gay bar during a raid, a strip tease for charity, taking no guff from bigots, braggarts or bullies and ...all with flair and gumption. | |||||
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King George's Computers | by David Shaw Dec. 13, 2009 | Free! | 74579 words | Read a sample |
| This story is based on a single piece of pure speculation. Suppose the transistor had been invented in the United Kingdom in 1937, instead of in the United States in 1947? There is no reason why it could not have been. Semi-conductors had been used in "cat's whisker" radios since the 1920's. And once transistors were available computers would soon follow -- computers born in a desperate war. | |||||
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Rough Sea Justice | by James Cassaday June 03, 2011 | $4.99 | 73444 words | Sample 15% |
| All of us have experienced feelings of frustration, even anger, when Law Courts find the victims of robbery or assault to be guilty of using excessive force in defending themselves or their property. Now read one fictional, but possible case featured in Rough Sea Justice,and smile (at times) as the author introduces the trials and tribulations of one such victim....... | |||||
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The Guild of the Cowry Catchers, Book 3: Ashes, Deluxe Illustrated Edition | by Abigail Hilton March 06, 2011 | $4.99 | 71897 words | Sample 20% |
| Gerard was only trying to do the right thing when he spared the life of a pirate. He gambled. And he lost. Gerard emerges from the slave deck of a ship a year later - free, but numb and scarred. While struggling to survive as an escaped slave in the wilderness of the Lawless Lands, Gerard finds a friend in even more desperate straits - a friend who betrayed him, a friend he thought was dead. | |||||
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Joshua's Harvest Volume 1 | by Betty Burston Nov. 04, 2011 | $0.99 | 69498 words | Sample 20% |
| Troy, a small town in Central Alabama, contains the largest per capita population of paranormals in the world. Driven by the desire to breed a new life form, Joshua, a 14th century vampire, descends upon the rural community in June 1959 and initiates a cycle that may ultimately end in a destruction of all mankind. Joshua's Harvest: The TV series is coming to Punch TV network in 2013. | |||||
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In the Dark | by C.S. Rock Nov. 18, 2011 | $0.99 | 69498 words | Sample 5% |
| A great evil pines to return to the Earthly plane and rule through a host child. But his servants make a mistake and kidnap the infant son of a man of unimaginable power, who will stop at nothing to get his son back, even if it means going to Hell. | |||||