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	SHADOWLAND	by Mrinal Bose March 12, 2008	$1.99	66437 words	Sample 50%
	Shadowland is the story of a doctor who seeks survival, sanity and justice after he is stripped of his right to a small piece of land in Kolkata suburb. Set against the backdrop of a degenerate Marxist regime in Bengal in the nineties, it's a compelling narrative of the doctor’s long battle with the powers-that-be, and a masterly portrait of contemporary India.
	Against Her Will	by Mrinal Bose April 01, 2008	$0.99	5429 words
	A young Bangladeshi Hindu woman's poignant story of immigration to India and her struggle to come to terms with new realities.
	No Irish Need Apply	by Edward C. Patterson May 30, 2008	$0.99	34096 words	Sample 10%
	Kevin Borden has a secret, and that secret is about to shake the world around him - a tame and suburban world ruled by his widow mother, Sarah and peppered by his study-mate, Louis. Teenagers sometimes do the darndest things, but in Kevin and Louis' case, it's a stroke of wisdom wrapped in fool's gold.
	Bleach|Blackout	by David S. Grant Aug. 26, 2008	Free!	2706 words	Read a sample
	Fans of fluffy romance novels and that all-too-familiar, over-hyped, edge-of-the-seat crap should steer clear. This is life at its most jaded. Offense Mechanisms is proud to present Bleach | Blackout by David S. Grant, two novels about drugs, sex, revenge, the corporate crunch, and the inevitable unpleasantness of life and death.
	Searching For Eldorado	by E. P. Ned Burke Sep. 18, 2008	$1.99	74864 words	Sample 30%
	Searching For Eldorado is like mixing "Catcher in The Rye" with "American Graffiti." It is a fictional memoir centered around Jerry Killian,a mixed-up, seventeen-year-old Pennsylvania prep student in 1959 whose self-image is low but his testosterone level is confusingly high. Thus, his quest to understand both results in many comical and bittersweet moments as he strives to reach manhood.
	I Love You Maggie	by zanybooks Dec. 24, 2008	$3.49	77174 words	Sample 20%
	John Kennedy was President when five young men, one of them white, sat in at a New Orleans lunch counter. Wood came to New Orleans on his motorcycle looking for adventure. The first night, he crashed a hotel wedding reception, hustled a Bourbon Street strip joint, was swept up in a police raid, got a part-time job as an animal caretaker, and met the women of his dreams--all three of them.
	In Search of Aimai Cristen	by zanybooks Dec. 24, 2008	$3.99	57927 words	Sample 20%
	" Young attractive girl, 24, searching for love, compassion, joy from a man who can provide financial security. Write Aimai Cristen, Barb Box 3689, Barb Office, 1234 University Ave, Berkeley CA 94709." An odyssey through the late 1960's from L.A.'s Shrine Auditorium to Berkeley and Altamont, this novel describes a daughter's search today for her father and herself.
	Only The Impassioned	by H. C. Turk Jan. 21, 2009	$2.99	85270 words	Sample 20%
	Near the end of World War II, an American soldier in Germany is mortally wounded. In his final moment, he experiences the glory of a beautiful life, if only in his dreams.
	Resurrection Flowers	by H. C. Turk Jan. 21, 2009	$2.99	86694 words	Sample 20%
	A construction worker named Rod Hill is killed only to be found alive the next day. Doctors consider his revival miraculous. He becomes famous as the Resurrected Man, traveling the world to discover the truth of his return from the dead. Rod is accompanied by Aeva Tbolski, a priestess whose job is to analyze his spirit. If she finds him either ghost or demon, Aeva will return him to the afterlife.
	Black Body	by H. C. Turk Jan. 21, 2009	$2.99	249064 words	Sample 20%
	Originally published by Villard to rave reviews, BLACK BODY is the story of a white witch, Alba, and her struggles to survive 18th-century English society. The story is told in the form of testimony given by imprisoned Alba, who must reveal the secrets of her race or be burned. Both literary fiction and convincing fantasy, BLACK BODY is as compelling as magic, as touching as a daughter’s love.
	Well Deserved	by Michael Loyd Gray Jan. 25, 2009	$2.99	65088 words	Sample 20%
	In a narrative with all the clarity and determination of a prophecy, Michael Loyd Gray's Well Deserved chronicles the struggles of four people as they come to the stark realization that their paths are not solitary, but entwined, and their very lives hinge on one shared moment.
	Nowhere Special	by M.I. Krupenich Jan. 26, 2009	$2.99	2103 words	Sample 40%
	Fleeing heartache and disappointment, a young sophisticated woman returns to her rural home town and learns some new life lessons.
	Forget What You Can't Remember	by Teel McClanahan Jan. 28, 2009	$4.99	76700 words	Sample 40%
	Featuring a zombie outbreak and a strange sort of doomsday, but really focusing on how coming through those experiences into utopia and freedom effects different people, Forget What You Can’t Remember is an exploration of the human mind under pressure. It’s about relationships, memory, opportunity, and dealing with their loss - and other kinds of loss. A spin-off of Lost and Not Found.
	Ensemble	by S. P. Elledge Feb. 01, 2009	Free!	68745 words	Read a sample
	Thirteen short stories.
	Assemblage	by S. P. Elledge Feb. 03, 2009	Free!	83893 words	Read a sample
	Thirteen more short stories.
	Semblances	by S. P. Elledge Feb. 03, 2009	Free!	93187 words	Read a sample
	Even more short stories.
	Dissemblings	by S. P. Elledge Feb. 03, 2009	Free!	122380 words	Read a sample
	Still more short stories.
	Ambition, part one	by NFH Walker Feb. 16, 2009	Free!	16475 words	Read a sample
	Imagine a world where you are young, hot, hip – and published. Picture a long, hot summer in West London, literary prize shortlists, an alcoholic French agent you keep bumping into at random parties, priapic friends and vapid ex-girlfriends. Consider a life in which even the sight of your own reflection fills you with anxiety and where mirrors give you fear.
	Ambition, part two	by NFH Walker Feb. 18, 2009	Free!	13313 words	Read a sample
	Imagine a world where you are young, hot, hip – and published. Picture a long, hot summer in West London, literary prize shortlists, an alcoholic French agent you keep bumping into at random parties, priapic friends and vapid ex-girlfriends. Consider a life in which even the sight of your own reflection fills you with anxiety and where mirrors give you fear.
	Stories for Airports	by judy b. Feb. 19, 2009	Free!	29814 words	Read a sample
	Going somewhere? Stuck where you are? This book is for you. Stories for Airports is not about airports. It is an album of brief encounters with people who intrigue and appall you, people in the midst of discovering that entire worlds exist within the most inconsequential moments.
	Ambition, part three	by NFH Walker Feb. 23, 2009	Free!	12481 words	Read a sample
	Imagine a world where you are young, hot, hip – and published. Picture a long, hot summer in West London, literary prize shortlists, an alcoholic French agent you keep bumping into at random parties, priapic friends and vapid ex-girlfriends. Consider a life in which even the sight of your own reflection fills you with anxiety and where mirrors give you fear.
	Lost and Not Found	by Teel McClanahan Feb. 28, 2009	$4.99	104558 words	Sample 40%
	Lost and Not Found details one man’s journey all the way from being laid off from his mundane corporate job to becoming the author he truly dreams to be by following his attempt to write his first novel within only four weeks. As his story unfolds we get to read what he is writing and can see the relationship between the author and his work unfold until his life literally unfolds around him.
	Ambition, part four	by NFH Walker March 02, 2009	You set the price!	9477 words
	Imagine a world where you are young, hot, hip – and published. Picture a long, hot summer in West London, literary prize shortlists, an alcoholic French agent you keep bumping into at random parties, priapic friends and vapid ex-girlfriends. Consider a life in which even the sight of your own reflection fills you with anxiety and where mirrors give you fear.
	Tokyo Zero	by Marc Horne March 04, 2009	$2.99	75400 words	Sample 50%
	One man goes to Tokyo to end the world. It goes fairly well. "Cruise wildly imaginative waters where would-be fascist billionaires consort with female assassins, mothers are killed by the Khmer Rouge, plastic surgeons manipulate human DNA, bearded cult leaders levitate on the Tokyo subway, and a superpowerful artificial intelligence employs an irony filter." --TeleRead Review
	The Water's Touch	by LK Hunsaker March 06, 2009	Free!	2673 words	Read a sample
	During an escape to his beloved Scottish hills and loch, Duncan fights his own need in favor of another's. A Rehearsal-related short-story.
	Evan's Story	by LK Hunsaker March 06, 2009	Free!	3437 words	Read a sample
	After losing his little brother, Evan relies on his best friend to help him pick up and move on. A Rehearsal-related free read.
	Love Knot	by Sheila O'Kelly March 07, 2009	$0.99	68654 words	Sample 75%
	It is 1979, Dublin, Ireland. A young Irish journalist becomes pregnant and flees to London away in search of independence and a new life. She falls into the clutches of a couple of undesirable men, but through her strength of character untangles herself, returns to Dublin and forges a new life.
	Ambition, fifth and final part	by NFH Walker March 09, 2009	$1.00	11049 words
	Imagine a world where you are young, hot, hip – and published. Picture a long, hot summer in West London, literary prize shortlists, an alcoholic French agent you keep bumping into at random parties, priapic friends and vapid ex-girlfriends. Consider a life in which even the sight of your own reflection fills you with anxiety and where mirrors give you fear.
	De Médicos & de Loucos	by Raymundo Silveira March 10, 2009	$2.00	15042 words	Sample 10%
	“De médicos & de loucos” é uma coletânea de contos que obteve a única menção honrosa no concurso “Prémio Paul Harris – 2007”, promovido pelo Rotary Clube de Faro, Portugal. São onze histórias de temática essencialmente médica, entremeadas de algumas outras do gênero fantástico.
	Mount Good Take	by LK Hunsaker March 22, 2009	Free!	3147 words	Read a sample
	Derek fills a void in his own life by leading locals on weekend treks up a small mountain. This time, a young climber touches that void in a way he couldn't have imagined, or wanted. First published in Wanderings Magazine, Spring 2007. A short story.
	The West: Stories from Ireland	by Eddie Stack March 27, 2009	$2.99	32291 words	Sample 25%
	Seven stories set in the West of Ireland. From "Time Passes," to the final story "Derramore," these pieces reveal the soul of a community-its hopes, dreams and schemes. ”Variously fantastic comic, elegiac and nostaligic, a vivid, compassionate, authentic voice.” NY Times "never senimental, often funny, always accurate, this is pithy, finely tuned writing of a high order.” The Observer
	Gingham Blindfold: A novel	by Eric Rohr April 04, 2009	$1.99	46207 words	Sample 25%
	Funny and poignant, Gingham Blindfold is the story of what happens when an obsession over how life should be gets in the way of how life really is.
	Greyhound Dreaming	by Cyn Mobley April 09, 2009	$0.99	54869 words	Sample 50%
	Greyhound Princess Karroo must find her long lost littermate before she can ascend to the Grey Throne. The fourth in the Greyhound Chronicles series.
	Jacob's Cross	by LK Hunsaker April 10, 2009	Free!	2322 words	Read a sample
	Alicia goes fishing in the dark of night to wrestle with her grief and to try to understand the nature of loss and sacrifice.
	Blind Spot	by Hugh McGuire April 11, 2009	$0.99	85723 words	Sample 75%
	A novel about learning to drive, dying student drivers, terrorists, the CIA, an anarchist driving instructor, and one, or more, murders.
	When Frogs Grow Feet	by G. Louis Jackson April 22, 2009	$4.00	182275 words	Sample 50%
	Story begins in 2015. There is technological advancement such as artificial intellegent computors or A.I.'s which are found in most American homes. Abortion is no longer an issue. Instead there are unaborted babies (UAB's for short) like Keisha aka Burgundi Jones running around getting into trouble. The men's movement is alive and well and is vying for influence with feminist based organizations.
	FALL LOVE	by Anne Whitehouse April 26, 2009	Free!	172700 words	Read a sample
	Fall Love tells the intertwined stories of four twenties-something artists and professionals adrift in the bad old pre-AIDS New York of 1980. From a summer of love through an autumn of deceit and regret, we follow the lives of Althea, Jeanne, Paul, and Bryce from self-sacrifice to self-knowledge.
	Redemption Song	by Michael Hammond May 05, 2009	You set the price!	71451 words	Sample 50%
	A popular singer finds himself in a hazy netherworld following an accident he can’t even recall. In state of forced solitude with no day or night, David Perrin’s mission is to find out what happened and where he went wrong. Along his journey, David revisits the pivotal moments of his rise to fame, guided by a strange angel that bears an uncanny resemblance to his music idol, Layne Staley.
	North of Sunset	by Henry Baum May 07, 2009	$2.99	84921 words	Sample 30%
	Michael Sennet - movie star - hates his life. The Vanity Plate Killer is enjoying his new life in Los Angeles, targeting people with vanity plates. When Michael Sennet is framed by a paparazzi photographer – license plate PAPRAZI – the movie star finds something he enjoys even more than making movies: killing people.
	La Mémoire du Carbone	by Frédéric Norton-Poulin May 08, 2009	$8.70	42949 words	Sample 35%
	Chacune des 11 nouvelles de ce recueil nous rapproche d'une mort qui appelle la vie, chaque nouvelle témoigne d'une vie qui se disperse aux frontières de la mort. En filigrane, il y a cette soif d’horizon qui nous relie tous, autant qu’elle nous sépare.
	I, Simon, A Soldier	by S. P. Elledge May 09, 2009	Free!	34625 words	Read a sample
	a novella from the forthcoming anthology, Triptych
	Bombardirovka	by Crystal Allene Cook May 30, 2009	Free!	122103 words	Read a sample
	Journalist Jada Perlmutter becomes the story she seeks as she travels from Soviet Moscow to the mountainous "South" where her lover Vahan plans to take up being a guerrilla fighter in a new breakaway state. Injured, Jada is transported back to Moscow. Years later, in NYC, the taste of ash in her mouth sends Jada back to the Caucasus to conclude the story she left unfinished.
	Humble Snyder	by Shirley Bue June 02, 2009	$4.95	63030 words	Sample 8%
	Humble Snyder is Alaskan Literature focusing on a bitter retired woman and her husband, who come upon a mysterious boy at a lake a hundred miles from Anchorage.
	Is Harvey Dunne?	by K. L. Romo June 04, 2009	$4.99	116437 words	Sample 15%
	Imagine waking up every day to a contradiction, looking in the mirror and not liking who you see.Not understanding how you evolved into the person who returns your stare,and wondering if you have the courage to go back to the beginning,to rewind your life. You pray for the strength to change.You know the man in the mirror is just an illusion. Now you just need to figure out how to change him back.
	DARKNESS & LIGHT. A Modern Political Allegory	by Nicholas Nicola June 08, 2009	$1.99	31814 words	Sample 50%
	"...we represent the crowning achievement of our dying civilization for our cruel oppression shows that man has not even be able to live up to his own feeble sense of right. Failing even our own moral consciences and legal apparatus, humanity has fallen into the severest tyranny."
	The Seven	by Alessia Brio June 18, 2009	Free!	5596 words	Read a sample
	The personification of principles.
	Deep Fried	by Thomas Nesbit June 20, 2009	Free!	71781 words	Read a sample
	14-year-old Eddy Funderburke dreams of making it as a classical violinist... and making out with his curvaceous mom. After accepting that Carnegie Hall won’t be calling, Eddy memorizes showtunes, hoping to get laid and score a cruise ship gig. Getting help from a preacher, a crack whore, and a Southern Studies professor, Eddy is positioned to fulfill his fantasies. But can he handle it all?
	Why a Train?	by Dan Schwartz June 22, 2009	Free!	577 words	Read a sample
	A man awake on a train, but is unaware to how or why he is there. This stream of consciousness short follows his mind to see what the evening has in store for him. FOr more visit www.banocanut.com
	Days of Awe	by Hugh Nissenson June 29, 2009	$12.00	71915 words	Sample 5%
	This complex, compelling and exquisitely wrought novel-from a National Book Award and Pen-Faulkner Award finalist-evokes one of the most profound realizations that eventually come to us: the real understanding that we and all those we love are going to die.
	The Entitled	by Frank Deford June 29, 2009	$12.95	83552 words	Sample 5%
	From six-time National Sportswriter of the Year and NPR commentator Frank Deford comes a richly detailed, page-turning tale that takes you deep into America’s game. From the dugouts to the tabloid scandals, from the lights of the field to the glare of the media, The Entitled is the great novel of baseball’s modern era.