Free ebooks for Kindle & other ereaders – 11/12/2011 no comments
Another immoderately long list of freebies currently available at the Kindle Store and elsewhere:
Border Crossings by Michael Weems (3 1/2 stars/38 reviews) Thriller; Mexican drug war spills over the border. Also free at Barnes & Noble and Kobo.
Shaken and Stirred (Kizzie Baldwin Erotic Thriller) by Sable Jordan (4 stars/15 reviews) Secret agents, erotica. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Fire and Ice (Liam Campbell #1) by Dana Stabenow (3 1/2 stars/26 reviews) New series from Kate Shugak author; set in Alaska.
Peril by Ruby Barnes (4 1/2 stars/18 reviews) Crime fiction set in Dublin. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Dark Quarry (A Mike Angel Private Eye Mystery) by David H. Fears (5 stars/3 reviews) First book in mystery series set in the ‘60s. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Lightning Rider (Dangerous Women & Desperate Men) by Rick Mofina (5 stars/4 reviews) Thriller set in Vegas; Canadian literary award winner. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Effected Intent by Alan Ross (5 stars/6 reviews) Technothriller, bioterrorism. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Line ‘em up by Suzanne Adams (5 stars/3 reviews) UK murder mystery; line dancing. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Highway to Vengeance (A Thomas Highway Novel) by Brian Springer (4 1/2 stars/10 reviews) Thriller; ex-Navy SEAL, revenge. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
19 (A Digital Short) by Aaron Patterson (4 stars/6 reviews) Short medical thriller. Also free at Kobo.
The Marlowe Conspiracy: A Novel by M. G. Scarsbrook (4 1/2 stars/2 reviews) Historical mystery.
Kappa Hunter by J. K. Swift (4 1/2 stars/2 reviews) Short suspense. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
A Concealed Hand by Allison M. Dickson (5 stars/1 review) Short horror. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
The Hero by Kenneth C. Crowe (4 stars/1 review) Mystery. Also free at Barnes & Noble and Kobo.
Uneasy Reading: 4 Horror Shorts by Jason Tucker (5 stars/1 review). Also free at Barnes & Noble.
The Ylem (The Ylem Trilogy, #1) by Tatiana Vila (4 stars/19 reviews) YA fantasy.
Grey Eyes (Book One, The Forever Trilogy) by Quinteria Ramey and Brandon Alston (3 1/2 stars/66 reviews) Fantasy. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
In Her Name: Empire by Michael R. Hicks (4 1/2 stars/75 reviews) Science fiction. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Movie Knight – a Black Knight Short Story by John G. Hartness (4 1/2 stars/2 reviews) Short paranormal story. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Ice Cracker II (and other short stories) (The Emperor’s Edge) by Lindsay Buroker (4 stars/10 reviews) Three short fantasy stories. Also free at Barnes & Noble and Kobo.
Breathless: Book One of the Jason and Azazel Trilogy by V. J. Chambers (4 stars/33 reviews) Paranormal. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
33 A.D. (Bachiyr, Book 1) by David McAfee (4 stars/104 reviews) Vampires.
Shadow of the Sun (Timeless #1) by Laura Kreitzer (5 stars/5 reviews) Fantasy. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Scriber by Ben S. Dobson (4 1/2 stars/9 reviews) Fantasy. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Hal Spacejock by Simon Haynes (4 1/2 stars/27 reviews) Science fiction. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Jigsaw by Douglas Smith (4 stars/1 review) Sci-Fi short story. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
The Unbelievers by Thomas K. Carpenter (4 stars/3 reviews) Dystopian novelette. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
I Am Become Death by Rocco Ryg (4 stars/2 reviews) YA Fantasy, superheroes. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Hera (Eleis Chronicles) by Chrystalla Thoma (4 1/2 stars/2 reviews) Science fiction. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Flesh and Blood (Loka Legends) by Jay Bell (4 stars/1 review) Fantasy short story.
Heirs of Mars: Preludes by Joseph Robert Lewis (4 stars/10 reviews) Three short science fiction stories. Also free at Kobo.
Children of the Vampire King by Elixa Everett (5 stars/1 review) Vampires, contemporary. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Lodestone Book One: The Sea of Storms by Mark Whiteway (4 1/2 stars/24 reviews) Science fiction. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
The Warlord’s Secret by Lizzy Ford (5 stars/1 review) Fantasy.
The Ant-Man of Malfen (The Chronicles of the Nameless Dwarf) by D. P. Prior (4 1/2 stars/9 reviews) Epic fantasy. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Loss Leader (Short Story) by Simon Haynes (5 stars/1 review) Sci-Fi short story. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Ghost in Her Heart (Dark Lands) by Autumn Dawn (3 1/2 stars/7 reviews) Sci-Fi romance.
Eternal Eden (Eden Trilogy, Book One) by Nicole Williams (4 stars/92 reviews) YA paranormal romance. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Christmas in Time by Peggy Webb (5 stars/2 reviews) Paranormal romance; time travel.
Dead to the Max (Book 1, Max Starr Series, an erotic paranormal mystery/romance) by Jasmine Haynes (4 1/2 stars/8 reviews) Paranormal romantic suspense; explicit.
Rescue Me (a quirky romance novel about secrets, forgiveness and falling in love) by Sydney Allan (3 1/2 stars/11 reviews) Contemporary romance. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
My Third-World Girlfriend by RJ Silver (4 1/2 stars/2 reviews) Romance, humor. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Wish On The Moon by Karen Rose Smith (4 stars/10 reviews) Contemporary romance. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
His Not So Sensible Miss (A Gentleman’s Guide to Once Upon a Time – Book 3) by Jane Charles (4 stars/4 reviews) Historical romance.
The Practice Date – (Young Adult Romance) by Victorine E. Lieske (4 stars/8 reviews). Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Safe Harbor by Judith Arnold (4 stars/7 reviews) Contemporary romance. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Love In Bloom by Karen Rose Smith (3 1/2 stars/12 reviews) Romance. Also free at Kobo.
The Fairy Tale Bride (Once Upon a Wedding) by Kelly McClymer (3 1/2 stars/11 reviews) Historical romance. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Christmas Redemption by Paty Jager (3 1/2 stars/2 reviews) Western romance. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Best Friends by Consuelo Saah Baehr (3 stars/9 reviews) Contemporary fiction; romantic suspense, relationships. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Megan’s Way (2011 Beach Book Festival Award Winner, 2010 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist) by Melissa Foster (4 stars/176 reviews) Contemporary fiction. Also free at Kobo.
The Journey Home by Michael Baron (4 1/2 stars/22 reviews) Contemporary fiction; memory and its loss. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
There are a few joke-a-day style 2012 calendars for the Kindle that are free at the moment.
The Redemption of Mr. Sturlubok: A Choose Your Own… by Daniel Pitts and Rudolf Kerkhoven (5 stars/4 reviews) Choose your own adventure style contemporary fiction; Men’s Adventure. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schmidt (3 1/2 stars/27 reviews) Writing. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
The Complete Handbook Of Novel Writing: Everything You Need to Know About Creating & Selling Your Work (Writers Digest) by Editors of Writer’s Digest Books (no reviews) Writing. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
Hooked: Write Fiction That Grabs Readers at Page One & Never Lets Them Go by Les Edgerton (4 1/2 stars/40 reviews) Writing. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
The Myth of the Garage by Chip Heath and Dan Heath (4 stars/5 reviews) Business & Investing. Also free at Barnes & Noble.
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Kobo has a promo coupon — nov10us20 — that will give a discount of 20% off a selection of ebooks. This coupon is only good this weekend and should be used during the checkout process.
Amazon has released its picks for the best books of 2011. The top three are:
1. The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach: "The Art of Fielding" is the veritable baseball book that’s actually about much more than baseball, and it’s on par with the work of Bernard Malamud and David James Duncan. It’s rare to see a debut so confident, intimate, unpredictable and wholly memorable.
2. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami: Murakami has created a sensation: a nearly 950-page novel that is ordered and scrupulous, and reads like a meditation. "1Q84" is the story of two people living in parallel, who we know must meet each other eventually, and their twisting arcs drive this magnum opus by one of the world’s finest novelists.
3. What It Is Like to Go to War by Karl Marlantes: The veteran marine and best-selling author of "Matterhorn" draws on his brutal experiences in foreign jungles to look at the nature of combat with unflinching honesty. Balancing novelistic descriptions of fear, power games and courage with a thoughtful prescription for our soldiers’ well being, Marlantes lifts the bar for understanding the experience of war.
I have not read any of these yet, although I pre-ordered 1Q84 and it is next on my reading list. I read Karl Marlantes’ earlier work Matterhorn and it was very good, but brutal. Matterhorn is the best novel I’ve read about the Vietnam war. You can see the complete list of Amazon’s Best Books of 2011 here.
Some low-priced paid reading ideas:
The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett (4 stars/257) is available with bonus content for a limited time for $0.99. This is the first book in the Discworld series. Same price at Barnes & Noble where the Discworld series is the subject of B&N’s Spotlight program this month. Also at Kobo.
Black Flagged by Steven Konkoly and Felicia A. Sullivan (4 1/2 stars/4 reviews) $0.99 for a limited time. Same price at Barnes & Noble.
A graduate of the Department of Defense’s experimental Black Flag program, Daniel Petrovich carries a secret he’d rather keep buried. A secret his government has hidden in the deepest vaults of the Pentagon. Unfortunately for Daniel, some secrets carry a debt that can never be repaid, and certain acquired skills will always hold their value. Someone is trying to raise Black Flag from the dead, and bring Daniel back with it. Someone who knows all of his darkest secrets.
Hollowmen (The Hollows #2) by Amanda Hocking (4 1/2 stars/17 reviews) $2.99. New zombie fiction from one of the newest members of the Kindle Million Club. Same price at Barnes & Noble.
Lake (Kindle Single) by Frank D. Gilroy (4 1/2 stars/3 reviews) $1.99.
It was 46 years ago that Frank D. Gilroy won the Pulitzer Prize for his play "The Subject Was Roses," and 43 years since he began work on "Lake." In the vein of Edgar Lee Masters’s "Spoon River Anthology," Gilroy tells the story of a summer vacation community in Northern New Jersey over the course of 25 years, the early 1920′s through the late ’40′s. Each chapter is the voice of another character; some are monologues, some more interior than that. The story works its way around the lake, catching a vignette/snapshot/moment from each turn of the wheel. It’s a remarkable read from an 86-year-old writer, still at the top of his game.
Unraveling Anne by Laurel Saville (4 stars/26 reviews) $4.99 – or borrow it free if you are a Prime member. Memoir, Hollywood history.
In 1950s Los Angeles, Anne Ford was the epitome of the California golden girl, a former beauty queen and model-turned-fashion designer whose success and charm were legendary. So how is it possible that such a woman could die in squalor, an alcoholic street person brutally murdered in a burnt-out West Hollywood building?
In searching for answers to the heartbreaking trajectory of her mother’s life, writer Laurel Saville plumbed the depths of Anne’s troubled past and her own eccentric childhood to untangle the truth of an exceptional, yet tragic, existence. What she discovered was a woman who was beautiful, well-educated, and talented—yet tormented by internal demons and no match for the hedonistic culture of Southern California in the 1960s and 70s.
Commune of Women by Suzan Still (4 stars/33 reviews) $3.99. Same price at Barnes & Noble.
On an ordinary Los Angeles morning, the lives of seven women are about to become inextricably entangled, as they converge upon LA International Airport for various purposes. Suddenly, the morning erupts into chaos, as black-clad terrorists charge into the terminal, guns blazing. As the concourse becomes a killing field, six of the women dodge a hail of bullets to find refuge in a tiny staff room.
