Free ebooks for Kindle & other ereaders – 5/8/2011 no comments
Seems like there is an extra helping of free ebooks this month. Here are the latest:
The Brand Within: The Power of Branding from Birth to the Boardroom by Daymond John (4 1/2 stars/2 reviews) Business.
Fixing Freddie by Paula Munier (4 1/2 stars/14 reviews) Memoir. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Linda Goodman’s Sun Signs by Linda Goodman (4 1/2 stars/101 reviews) Astrology.
The Real-World Guide to Coming Out by Steven Petrow (no ratings) Gay & Lesbian. Also free at Kobo.
Ecstasy (A Contemporary Romance) by Bella Andre (4 1/2 stars/3 reviews) Romance. Also free at Kobo.
Wall Street & the Financial Crisis – Anatomy of a Financial Collapse by Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations – US Senate (no ratings) Finance.
Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella (4 stars/110 reviews) The book that the film Field of Dreams was based on.
Midnight Cowboy by James Leo Herlihy (5 stars/18 reviews) Contemporary.
The Graduate by Charles Webb (no ratings) Basis for the movie of the same name.
Red Alert by Peter Bryant (no reviews) basis for the movie Dr. Strangelove.
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This month the Barnes & Noble Online Storytime program features a free online reading of Charlie the Ranch Dog by Ree Drummond. The story is narrated by the author and illustrated by Diane deGroat.
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Some paid reads to consider:
Sweet Ginger Poison by Robert Burton Robinson (4 1/2 stars/7 reviews) Mystery. $0.99. Also available for the same price at Barnes & Noble and Kobo.
Virginia "Ginger" Lightley is the owner of Coreyville Coffee Cakes, a popular bakery in East Texas. Customers drive from miles away to visit the little shop for a taste of her original creations. It’s a shock to the whole community when a young man drops dead across town after eating one of her famous cakes. The newly appointed police chief promises to solve the case quickly. And Ginger wants to help him—until he accuses one of her employees of murder. She rejects the crime scenario laid out by the young police chief and secretly determines to solve the crime herself.
Death by Honeymoon (Book #1 in the Caribbean Murder Series) by Jaden Skye (4 1/2 stars/9 reviews) Mystery. $0.99. Same price at Barnes & Noble.
On the rugged, wild, eastern shore of Barbados, Cindy and Clint are enjoying their dream honeymoon, when paradise quickly turns into hell. Cindy finds her newly beloved taken away from her, drowned in a freak accident in the ocean. 
The local police are quick to declare it an accident, to insist that he was caught in a sudden riptide. But Cindy, left all alone, is not convinced.
Entangled by Barbara Ellen Brink (4 1/2 stars/16 reviews) Mystery. $0.99. Also available for $2.99 at Barnes & Noble and Kobo.
A Minneapolis attorney inherits a small California winery, reawakening memories that have lain dormant for twenty years. One summer of her childhood is a mystery she intends to solve. But digging up her past also lays bare the skeletons of others, including her mother’s. Entangled between what she once believed and a new reality, will she be able to live with the consequences of full disclosure?
Go Small or Go Home by Heather Wardell (5 stars/7 reviews) $0.99. Also available for the same price at Barnes & Noble and Kobo.
When massage therapist and aspiring artist Tess begins treating stressed but attractive hockey star Forrest, her art career soars due to his gallery-owning mother, but her creativity plummets under the weight of rules and deadlines. Soon, she’s lost the freedom and joy she’d always found in art. Is having her dream career worth losing doing her art her way, or can she somehow have both at once?
