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LIBERAL BETRAYAL of AMERICA and the TEA PARTY FIRESTORM | by Elderberry Press, Inc. Sep. 05, 2010 | $2.99 | 101673 words | Sample 50% |
| This book explains why liberals hate America, the enormous power of the Tea Party movement, and the many ways individual citizens citizens can act to revive the spirit and confidence of of a great nation under siege. | |||||
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Threads: The Reincarnation of Anne Boleyn | by Nell Gavin Sep. 05, 2010 | $3.99 | 126679 words | Sample 50% |
| Threads, a reincarnation fantasy, opens with the death of Anne Boleyn, whose execution appears upon first sight to have resulted from her inability to produce a son for the king. As Anne reviews her life, and several previous lifetimes she, she learns about the true depth of her relationship with Henry VIII. Furthermore, she learns that she has been given a hard task: to forgive him. | |||||
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Rohan Nation: Reinventing America after the 2020 Collapse | by Drew Miller Sep. 05, 2010 | $2.99 | 302649 words | Sample 15% |
| Rohan Nation tells how survivors of bioterrorism and EMP fight to defend and reinvent America. The disasters that lead to billions of deaths are based on sound research, the predictable results of on-going mistakes. ACE, the daughter of a family that prepared for the worst, and Justin, her cavalry scout apprentice, struggle to survive in a post-collapse economy where horses are key to survival. | |||||
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Crime Scene | by Rick R. Reed Sep. 05, 2010 | $1.50 | 3740 words | Sample 50% |
| After discovering a photograph in a book of a little girl killed by her own mother, a woman becomes preoccupied wondering how anyone could kill their own child. One hot summer day the answer becomes all too violently clear. A short pysychological thriller from our Fingerprints line. | |||||
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Blue Lady | by Dean Drabin Sep. 05, 2010 | $8.99 | 87650 words | Sample 20% |
| Hank Cassidy has found a body floating in the river near his home. Like any good citizen, he immediately calls the police, and hangs out until they arrive. End of story? No; not when they pull the murdered woman from the icy water, and he realizes that the pale blue face belongs to someone he once had a fling with, in another city, another state...another life. | |||||
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Motive and Denial | by Jay Wilson Sep. 05, 2010 | $4.95 | 9696 words | Sample 30% |
| They are trapped in a van that crashed off a mountain road in a blizzard. Earlier Rachel's testimony had convicted Jack. Now, forced to confront each other for the first time since the trial, Rachel accuses him of being a liar and a worthless human being. Disoriented,she tries to walk through the blizzard to safety. Jack must decide to whether to risk his life to save her and then face her family. | |||||
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Four Nights in Brooklyn; Making Bail in the Age of Madoff | by Sebastian Graham Sep. 05, 2010 | $10.00 | 97675 words | Sample 2% |
| This novel is the inspired recollection of a a four-day event of a Manhattan businessman arrested by the FBI shortly after the Bernard Madoff fiasco. The nature of a non-violent crime and how it's now perceived by the government, the media, and the public made an event as simple as making bail a near herculean task for the author's family and friends. | |||||
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Six Masters Island - Perverse Intentions | by Candace Smith Sep. 05, 2010 | $6.25 | 55731 words | Sample 20% |
| The twins always had dominant tendencies, and after the death of their parents, they are not slow to explore sex with their nanny, Sarah. Soon after, they begin to train Sarah as their sex slave, but they want much more. Practising their newly discovered BDSM arts on Sarah, they abduct a new girl, much younger than Sarah, to become their slave. And that is only the start of it… | |||||
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Captured | by Marie Kelly Sep. 05, 2010 | $4.99 | 50040 words | Sample 30% |
| Kindra Ixar is a normal hard working resident of virtual world leading an orderly life until the day she is captured by Avatar Slavers and autioned to the highest bidder. Dark Kestrel is not exactly what she had expected in a Gor Master, true he demands absolute obedience, but there is so much more to this man, and so much that he is hiding, and soon Kindra is not so sure that she wants rescued | |||||
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Holy Crosses & Nazi Flags: Pope Benedict XVI and The Catholic Church | by Garry O'Connor Sep. 05, 2010 | $9.99 | 67978 words | Sample 10% |
| Holy Crosses & Nazi Flags shows for the first time in fascinating detail the impact on Pope Benedict XVI of his early years during the rise and fall of Hitler’s Third Reich. Concentrating as Garry O’Connor does on that period, the portrait reveals that underneath Benedict is in many ways an entirely different being from the one he is generally supposed to be (and often demonised as). | |||||
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Master Realist Techniques in Colored Pencil Painting in 4 Weeks: Projects for Beginners | by Max Fomitchev-Zamilov Sep. 05, 2010 | $9.99 | 29473 words | Sample 50% |
| This book is packed with information on tools and techniques for drawing still life, landscape, cityscape, textures, dew, glass and flowers. Each chapter contains multiple several step-by-step demonstrations accompanied by detailed commentary. | |||||
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Red's Wolf | by PJ Schnyder Sep. 05, 2010 | $2.99 | 21938 words | Sample 15% |
| Book 2 of the Terra's Guardians series... Visiting the Glacier Valley pack to get a little breathing room from life in the city, Carri uses her skills to help install a high tech airspace sensor array for her adoptive grandmother’s pack. Jason is a lone wolf, good at doing his job and good at being alone. Until now... | |||||
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Love by Auction | by Clarissa Yip Sep. 05, 2010 | $2.99 | 26357 words | Sample 15% |
| Intent on leaving the Date for Charity Auction, billionaire Mark Passmore vows not to bid—until he sees the gorgeous blond strut across the stage. Although he ended their relationship three years ago, Mark never stopped loving Rebecca. When he learns the truth of Rebecca’s role in the auction, will he forgive her for her betrayal or walk away once and for all? | |||||
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Those Who Wait | by Veronica Lynch Sep. 05, 2010 | $1.99 | 8027 words | Sample 10% |
| Meghan Muldoon is at a cross-road. Newly married to a man who dotes on her, someone that she thought existed only in fiction, she struggles to balance the demands of her vocation as an advocate for victims of violence versus those of a newlywed. | |||||
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Snow Burn | by Joel Arnold Sep. 05, 2010 | $3.99 | 29683 words | Sample 30% |
| Tommy knows he’s in trouble when he goes winter camping with friend Vince Nguyen without telling his folks. But when they’re caught in a sudden blizzard, and the man they rescue from freezing to death turns out to be an escaped convict, Tommy’s troubles are only beginning. Now Tommy and Vince must not only survive the blizzard, but also find a way to keep Quinn from killing them. | |||||
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Saving Emily | by Solstice Publishing Sep. 05, 2010 | $2.99 | 27833 words | Sample 5% |
| Emily is being abused by her brother, Chris Kincaid. Living and working on the McCade Ranch, she is rescued by the two gorgeous owners, Cole and Adam. Taking her into their home they refuse to let her leave. Emily has heard rumors that the brothers like to share their women. She finds out first hand when they share her in the bedroom. | |||||
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Tokeen Hills | by Marvin Miller Sep. 05, 2010 | $2.00 | 53361 words | Sample 50% |
| An action packed saga that chronicles three generations of the Parsons family from their humble beginnings in Civil War torn Tennesse to the wide open spaces of Texas and Arizona. | |||||
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Aspian | by Peter Robert Scott Sep. 05, 2010 | $1.98 | 41470 words | Sample 50% |
| After completing his history of dragonkind, Aspian Savakin is summoned to war and takes to soldiering with rare enthusiasm. Austere in judgement and resolute in action, he is revered by many, reviled by some, and his rise to the pinnacle of power though tortuous is inexorable. Secure in his final victory, he sets history straight for his admirers. Last book of four in the Tales of Honour series. | |||||
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Valeric | by Peter Robert Scott Sep. 05, 2010 | $1.98 | 44743 words | Sample 50% |
| Born in ignorance into a world where dragons make way for griffins as they pass, Valeric learns the forbidden history of his race. Determined to restore their rights, armed only with an indomitable faith, he and his followers attempt to overturn the prevailing order. But can faith alone triumph over oppression, and can blind courage conquer evil? Third book of four in the Tales of Honour series. | |||||
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The Girl Next Door | by Michael Riles Sep. 05, 2010 | $6.99 | 90023 words | Sample 5% |
| Marty Landis, the child of a mob princes who abandons him to a Christian family living in a Russian, Jewish neighborhood in Chicago in 1951, just wanted to take the CIA covert operation later handed to him and bust “the girl next door” he grew up with (Rossina Riasnovsky - whom he had a crush on) out of a Soviet holding facility in 1976. She is a covert CIA Op in country. | |||||
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Mike & Sadie Mae | by Judith Z. Marrs Sep. 05, 2010 | $3.99 | 47377 words | Sample 20% |
| Tucked away in the small Southern town of Tiny Pines, just waiting to be discovered, are two bigger-than-life characters - Mike and Sadie Mae, a most unusual duo. Through the sarcasm and biting remarks, you will quickly spot their uncanny adoration for one another that only folks in places like Tiny Pines would understand. | |||||
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Crucibles | by branch isole Sep. 05, 2010 | $7.95 | 8053 words | Sample 15% |
| Refinement of the Neophyte Christian. Fifty two contemporary short stories of poetic prose for today's new Christian believer. Poet Branch Isole writes of issues and emotions often experienced, but not always voiced. Experience Spiritual Christianity. | |||||
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The Window Cleaner | by Carl East Sep. 05, 2010 | $0.99 | 5482 words | Sample 40% |
| Alex found his part-time window cleaning job developing into a full time business for housewives who needed his special hands-on service. Satisfied women give the best recommendations and not just for windows. *** This story is graphic in nature and is intended for adults only. *** Enjoy | |||||
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Courting Morpheus | by Belfire Press Sep. 05, 2010 | $3.99 | 80014 words | Sample 15% |
| How can the residents of New Bedlam find their way out of the darkness they call home...into a darkness of release at Morpheus' hands? An idea was born on a night not so long ago…and it grew into one monster after another until now, finally it has broken free. With selections from M.R. Sellars, Camille Alexa and more, an introduction by Alethea Kontis - New Bedlam awaits the creatively brave. | |||||
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Barking Geckos | by branch isole Sep. 05, 2010 | $7.95 | 9841 words | Sample 15% |
| Fifty two contemporary short stories of poetic prose for today's adult reader. Poet Branch Isole writes of issues and emotions often experienced, but not always voiced. His style and presentation, known as "Voyeurism Poetry" evokes identity and reflection surrounding personal responsibility choice or avoidance. Intended for mature audiences. Voyeurism Poetry ~ you'll identify with ™ | |||||
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Seeds of Mana'o | by branch isole Sep. 05, 2010 | $7.95 | 8941 words | Sample 15% |
| Fifty two contemporary short stories of poetic prose for today's adult reader. Poet Branch Isole writes of issues and emotions often experienced, but not always voiced. His style and presentation, known as "Voyeurism Poetry" evokes identity and reflection surrounding personal responsibility choice or avoidance. Intended for mature audiences. Voyeurism Poetry ~ Poetry for the People ™ | |||||
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Reflections On Chrome | by branch isole Sep. 05, 2010 | $7.95 | 8097 words | Sample 15% |
| Fifty two contemporary short stories of poetic prose for today's adult reader. Poet Branch Isole writes of issues and emotions often experienced, but not always voiced. His style and presentation, known as "Voyeurism Poetry" evokes identity and reflection surrounding personal responsibility choice or avoidance. Intended for mature audiences. Voyeurism Poetry~in the privacy of your mind ™ | |||||
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A Promise That I Kept | by Marvin Miller Sep. 05, 2010 | $2.00 | 40667 words | Sample 50% |
| Determined to do things his way, 18 year old Dewayne Mitchell joins the army in 1969 and is sent to Vietnam for the adventure of his life. | |||||
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The Blackness Within | by Gill Ainsworth Sep. 05, 2010 | $4.99 | 73069 words | Sample 25% |
| From Africa to Australasia, from Europe to the US, take a terrifying journey led by world-renowned and up-and-coming authors of horror. See how Moccus, the Celtic God of fecundity, brings His barbaric brutality to the twenty-first century. | |||||
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The Textile Planet | by Book View Cafe Sep. 05, 2010 | $2.99 | 127742 words | Sample 15% |
| Humorous story of insanity in the high-energy, high fashion world of the future. Marla Gershe is going nuts and she's taking the Textile Planet with her. | |||||
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PATUTO: YA SOY GRANDE | by PATUTO Sep. 05, 2010 | $2.99 | 25324 words | Sample 30% |
| Patuto, acaba de cumplir cinco años y ya se siente un adulto y no entiende porque sus papás no lo dejan hacer lo que quiera. Su inocente lógica infantil y sus disparatadas ocurrencias lo meterán en más de un problema. Una novela llena de aventuras para chicos, que los adultos con alma de niño disfrutarán a carcajadas. Prohibida para adultos amargados. | |||||
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Me and Mr. Collins | by B.K. Wright Sep. 05, 2010 | $1.99 | 5243 words | Sample 20% |
| Beau to Belle Series Subdivision of Beau to Beau Books Winnie really doesn’t want to baby-sit this summer, but there is little else available for a twenty year old. When Winnie arrives at the huge Collins mansion, she is surprised that a man of only twenty-five owns such a lavish estate. Mr. Collins gives Winnie a Mercedes to drive, and lots of free time to do whatever she chooses. | |||||
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America the Beautiful, Reflections on Her Past, Present and Future | by Sanjay Rawal Sep. 05, 2010 | $9.95 | 13359 words | Sample 50% |
| America the Beautiful is a meditation on the moral and spiritual roots of our nation. Written in approachable but inspired language, this book evokes the spirit of the Founding Fathers and the great luminaries who have graced the soil of our nation, and presents their views clearly and simply in both poetry and prose. It is sure inspire, illumine and enlighten readers of all ages. | |||||
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Erotic Threesomes | by Darren G. Burton Sep. 05, 2010 | $1.99 | 11210 words | Sample 10% |
| Erotic Threesomes is a selection of short stories involving three sexual partners; either two men and one woman or two women and one man. Many people fantasize about a three way scenario. These stories bring that fantasy to life. | |||||
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Tales of the Wild | by Praveen Dabré Sep. 05, 2010 | $0.99 | 8396 words | Sample 50% |
| Wilderness folklore from around the world. Tales of ferocity, cunning, foolishness and of the great outdoors from the jungles of Africa to the forests of Germany. One in a series of 36 titles on topics that range from Enchantment to Trickery; with Folly, Passion & Vice in between. | |||||
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Midwyf : Liza | by Valerie Levy Sep. 05, 2010 | $4.99 | 79240 words | Sample 50% |
| Witchcraft, childbirth, cunning and intrigue in medieval England. A story of ordinary villagers, spoilt nobles, a randy monk and a lonely old woman ... but most of all a story about midwifery and medicine in the middle ages. | |||||
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Fabled Fauna | by Praveen Dabré Sep. 05, 2010 | $0.99 | 7654 words | Sample 50% |
| Animal folktales from around the world. Tales of the tiger and of the tortoise and every other creature, from Scandinavia to South Africa and every other place in between. One in a series of 36 titles on topics that range from Enchantment to Trickery; with Folly, Passion & Vice in between. | |||||
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The Ghosts of Edgwick Abbey and other strange tales | by harry riley Sep. 05, 2010 | $6.00 | 46418 words | Sample 50% |
| With modern lives running at such a fast pace we have so little time to do justice to the full length novel. This is why the ten-minute tale is so useful for reading on a bus, a plane or a boat. Here are forty short mystery and ghost stories by Harry Riley that will, shock, and surprise you and perhaps even raise a smile or two as you journey through life's tortuous highway. | |||||
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Fables of Folly | by Praveen Dabré Sep. 05, 2010 | $0.99 | 7377 words | Sample 40% |
| Tales of foolishness from around the world. Stories of the simpleton and village idiot that abound in civilisations and cultures everywhere. One in a series of 36 titles on topics that range from Enchantment to Trickery; with Folly, Passion & Vice in between. | |||||
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Beyond My Control | by Lord Koga Sep. 05, 2010 | You set the price! | 3196 words | Sample 15% |
| It was beyond my control as I gazed into her ravishing dark brown eyes from across the room, her husband unaware to our constant gaze at each other as he continued playing Trivia Pursuit with the others of our small gathering of friends. All throughout that hot summer day she had been giving me small hints. Little, erotic glances from across the picnic table at the park. | |||||
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“Intimate Association” = Legal Prostitution | by Lord Koga Sep. 05, 2010 | You set the price! | 2771 words | Sample 50% |
| The worlds oldest profession is the sell of sex for profit, this book takes an interesting look at what legal issues still plague this profession and what may be done to circumvent the currently laws of the government, to make prostitution a legal commodity over the internet and real life, thus, fulfilling the true capitalistic view of a product with unlimited supply and a great demand. | |||||
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How, When & Why | by Praveen Dabré Sep. 05, 2010 | $0.99 | 7830 words | Sample 40% |
| Global folktales from the beginning of time. Creation folklore from every corner of the earth including the that cradle of mankind—Africa. One in a series of 36 titles on topics that range from Enchantment to Trickery; with Folly, Passion & Vice in between. | |||||
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Castan | by Peter Robert Scott Sep. 05, 2010 | $1.98 | 38320 words | Sample 50% |
| From humble beginnings, Castan rises through merit and natural honesty to become the second dragon of his time, heir in all but name to the Words of Fire. Honoured by all as a walking star, evil and corruption scatter at his approach. But what step to take after so precipitous a rise? And which path leads to the summit and which to the abyss? Second book of four in the Tales of Honour series. | |||||
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Postcards from the Line of Demarcation | by branch isole Sep. 05, 2010 | $7.95 | 8762 words | Sample 15% |
| Fifty two contemporary short stories of poetic prose for today's adult reader. Poet Branch Isole writes of issues and emotions often experienced, but not always voiced. His style and presentation, known as "Voyeurism Poetry" evokes identity and reflection surrounding personal responsibility choice or avoidance. Intended for mature audiences. Voyeurism Poetry ~ take a peek ™ | |||||
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Tales of Honour | by Peter Robert Scott Sep. 05, 2010 | $4.95 | 164915 words | Sample 40% |
| From the birth of time, honour and draganity have been indivisible. Whatever their race, tribe or quality, dragons have hungered for it and many have found it only to lose it again, few ever to regain it. It cannot be bought or stolen, it must be earned. For Nicovar it proved calamitous, for Castan it was double-edged, for Valeric it was a deadly riddle and for Aspian it was a prize beyond reason. | |||||
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Tribal Tales | by Praveen Dabré Sep. 05, 2010 | $0.99 | 8039 words | Sample 40% |
| Aboriginal folklore from around the globe. Traditional lore of some of the world’s oldest inhabitants. One in a series of 36 titles that range from Enchantment to Trickery; with Folly, Passion & Vice in between. | |||||
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MESSAGES IN A BOTTLE | by branch isole Sep. 05, 2010 | $7.95 | 9186 words | Sample 15% |
| Fifty two contemporary short stories of poetic prose for today's adult reader. Poet Branch Isole writes of issues and emotions often experienced, but not always voiced. His style and presentation, known as "Voyeurism Poetry" evokes identity and reflection surrounding personal responsibility choice or avoidance. Intended for mature audiences. Voyeurism Poetry ~ brown paper bag poetry ™ | |||||
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Uriah's Vengeance | by Masimba Musodza Sep. 05, 2010 | $1.75 | 42453 words | Sample 20% |
| From the Case Files of the Dread Eye Detective Agency of Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe..... Chenai "Ce-Ce" Chisango and her brother, Farai, are assigned by the wife of a wealthy businessman to protect him from a possible attempt on his life by an extortionist. Despit their efforts, he is brutall murdered in oneof his homes and they have to find his killer. | |||||
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US Fleet Carriers CV-1 to CVNX -- A History | by peter dancey Sep. 05, 2010 | $7.00 | 7078 words | Sample 50% |
| 'Where are the Carriers' was the cry from President J F Kennedy when the Soviet Fleet was heading at speed to Cuba to set up its ICBM sites. This book reveals all... Where they were, what they were doing, what airplane types,and how many were embarked and more important the operational theatres and for how long since they had been commmissioned as a Combat Vessel CV in the US Naval Air Arm. | |||||
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Saccharin and Plastic Band Aids | by branch isole Sep. 04, 2010 | $7.95 | 8812 words | Sample 15% |
| Fifty two contemporary short stories of poetic prose for today's adult reader. Poet Branch Isole writes of issues and emotions often experienced, but not always voiced. His style and presentation, known as "Voyeurism Poetry" evokes identity and reflection surrounding personal responsibility choice or avoidance. Intended for mature audiences. Voyeurism Poetry ~ feed your imagination ™ | |||||