Here are more discounted and free Kindle book offers for you from highly-rated independent authors who have discounted the pricing for a limited time just for members of the blog. While the pricing of the free status is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the “buy” button as it could change at any time!
The Sapphire Prism Cave, by Peter M. Leschner, is regularly $4.99 but has been discounted 80% to just $0.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 3 customer reviews.
Category: Children’s Action & Adventure
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
The Sapphire Prism Cave takes you on a soaring journey of the heart and imagination. James and Julia, spirited, fun loving 11-year-old twins, stumble upon an incredible cave filled with multi-colored, magic crystals which endow them with special powers that touch and transform their childhood in wonderful ways. Everything changes when James is mysteriously drawn through a hole in the cave’s ceiling and transported through a space vortex to a planet in a distant galaxy. There he uses his newfound powers to surmount challenges he encounters in the enchanted kingdom he discovers. Back home, Julia and her family attempt to unlock the mystery of James’ disappearance. Will James and Julia be reunited after being separated by time and space? Join them on their adventures and find out!
The Sapphire Prism Cave is Book 1 of the A Journey Through The Space Vortex trilogy.
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Third Willow, by Lenore Skomal, is regularly $4.99 but has been discounted 80% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 13 customer reviews.
Category: Literary Fiction
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
“In the apex of the wooded matriarch is where he felt it–his oneness with the willow. The branches fluttered with his weight, as he fused into them. He moved as it moved and vice versa, in a synergistic dance; an extension of the lumbering mammoth and it of him, connected in some unfathomable way.”
It’s the summer of ’54 in the sleepy midwestern town of Sand Flats, Nebraska. Four lonely misfits forge an unlikely friendship under the draping branches of the third willow–a safe place where humor, magic and sorrow coexist. There they discover that best friends can ease the pressures from the adult world that threaten to steal their innocence. Ringleader Hap–a poor man’s Peter Pan–is unwilling to let the abuse of his alcoholic father taint his boyish optimism while he secretly searches for his missing mother. Obsessed with his Indian roots, he constructs a carefree world on the outskirts of town. As the new kid in Sand Flats, tomboy Patsy joins him, eager to escape her father’s iron rule and the pain afflicting her wounded brother, a Korean War veteran. Together, Hap and Patsy befriend timid Beah, who struggles to earn the love of her cold mother following the death of her only brother. It takes levelheaded Raz, the eldest of the only Jewish family in town, to be the conscience of the group. Told through their eyes, this is a tale of a summer of unbridled adventure, which ends unexpectedly and abruptly forces them all into adulthood. As tender as it is intense, Third Willow will transport you to the last summer of your innocence.
Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/thirdwillow into your web browser to pick up your copy of Third Willow.
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How to Survive When the Bottom Drops Out, by J.T. Sather, is regularly $4.99 but has been discounted 40% to just $2.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 43 customer reviews.
Category: Self-Improvement / Memoir
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
There is a lot of discussion these days about whether or not the economy is improving. Here are two facts: The economy has been very, very bad and the only way it is going to improve for you is if you take control of your situation.
Jt Sather, author of How To Survive When the Bottom Drops Out, has ridden the economic roller coaster for twenty years. He’s experienced the highs of a multi-million dollar construction business and the lows of squatting in a friend’s foreclosed mansion. He doesn’t base his future on Wall Street but on Main Street.
In his debut book, he tells the brutal truth, but with humor and hope; reviewers have described it as listening to a great storyteller share his life over a couple of beers. No matter where you are in the Economic Recovery, you’ll find anecdotes and advice you can use today, tomorrow, and whenever the bottom drops out of your life.
Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/oghztu into your web browser to pick up your copy of How to Survive When the Bottom Drops Out.
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The Whiskey Tide, by M. Ruth Myers is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars based on 95 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this is the last day for this book to be free.
Category: Historical Fiction
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
At the height of Prohibition three sisters in a proper Massachusetts family begin smuggling whiskey from Canada in a desperate bid to keep their newly widowed mother and invalid brother in the family home. The novice rum-runners use the only vessel available to them, the family pleasure schooner.
Kate, the bookworm, hatches the plan, sacrificing her last year at Wellesley to make every grueling and dangerous trip. Rosalie risks her engagement to a clergyman to help on the home front – and tends Kate’s gunshot wound from rum-pirates. Aggie, a dazzling flapper hungry for adventure, uses the undertaking to catch the eye of a man she doesn’t realize is a vicious killer.
Kate’s courage in the face of storms, crooks on both sides of the law, and the treacherous tides of the Bay of Fundy changes her view of the world. It also changes the lives of those around her. Joe, the teasing Portuguese-Irish fisherman she hires to captain Pa’s Folly earns money enough to provide previously unimagined help to his poor but close-knit family — but must bear the secret burden of falling in love with Kate. A wealthy old woman dying of loneliness in her cliff-top mansion finds reasons to live. Even Kate’s cousin, shattered in body and spirit by his service in The Great War, is caught in the ripples.
Kate and Aggie’s every success makes their enemies more determined to ruin them. Their gentle cousin becomes an unwitting pawn in a deadly game. The meeting of minds between Kate and Joe, and the mutual attraction they try to deny, forces each to confront the social chasm between them, and the cost of a romance they dare not begin.
THE WHISKEY TIDE is a sweeping historical saga of family ties that bind and chafe and sometimes fray, of adventure and courage, and of new horizons glimpsed in the dark of the moon.
Click here to pick up your copy of The Whiskey Tide.
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My Life, A Four Letter Word, by Delores DeLuce, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.9 out of 5 stars based on 16 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through September 2nd.
Category: Memoir
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
Dolores DeLuce, a five-foot Diva in six-inch heels, takes us on a bumpy ride from her gray days in New Jersey through her escape to the tumultuous post-Stonewall days of ‘70’s Los Angeles and gay San Francisco. When her Italian American family rejects her after the birth of her mixed-race daughter, she creates a new family with the most unlikely people under the most unusual circumstances. Her new family includes Divine, assorted bad boys on Venice Beach, and her loving gay “husbands.” Along the way she meets John Waters, Edie Massey, Rip Taylor and Joan Rivers, is crowned “Miss Alternative L.A.” and wins The $1.98 Beauty Show. Through tears and glitter, Dolores survives her bitter family estrangements only to face the pain of the AIDS crisis first-hand.
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