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The Hound of the Baskervilles

May 31, 2014 by Michael Gallagher 1 Comment

Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is The Hound of the Baskervilles , by Arthur Canon Doyle and Higher Read, and this book is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars based on 9 customer reviews.

Genre: Literary Fiction

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Sherlock Holmes is perhaps the most well-known detective in literary history. His stories are fascinating and timeless. Amongst all of his cases, The Hound of the Baskervilles is one of the most famous. Holmes himself thought it was the most difficult of the five hundred cases he had solved.

Higher Read’s Read It. Know It. edition of The Hound of the Baskervilles provides you with an understanding of all of the layers of this book. The original text included in this edition allows you to read the book as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote it, and our content helps you understand the novel more thoroughly. Character and narrative summaries provide you with an at-a-glance reminder of what the original book holds, while our “Read It and Know It” sections explore literary themes in the book. Sherlock Holmes, after all, is in favor of gathering all the information you can.

So whether you want to read the whole book, just want a reminder of the story, or are interested in exploring the important themes in The Hound of the Baskervilles, Higher Read’s Read It. Know It. edition provides an all-in-one book that’s right for you.

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8 Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

May 31, 2014 by Michael Gallagher 1 Comment

Included in this post are eight free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for your Saturday consideration: for those books listed as being free or discounted in this post – while the pricing of the free and discounted 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 revert back to its normal status at any time!

The Boy Who Lit up the Sky, by J. Naomi Ay, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars based on 37 customer reviews.

Category: Science Fiction

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Lydia Kalila, the Princess Royal of Mishnah, is forced into marriage with the son of her country’s mortal enemy for the sole purpose of producing an heir. Duty comes before personal choice for a princess, especially when her country has been at war for more than a thousand years. Lydia’s pregnancy removes her brother and new husband from their respective lines of succession, placing her yet unborn infant at the head of both queues. No one is happy about this, especially Lydia who dies during childbirth from wounds caused by the talon-like toenails of her very strange newborn son.

Grief stricken at the loss of his daughter, the Mishnese King hastily sends Senya, his infant grandson off to a decrepit inner city orphanage with the intent to retrieve him much later when things got sorted out. At the orphanage, Senya is protected by the invalid Sister Meri who instantly falls in love with the little fellow. She’s not bothered at all by his strange telekinetic and telepathic powers, flickering pupil-less silver eyes, or wicked clawed toenails. The House Father takes a shine to the lad too, and when Senya is six years old, he is summoned to the Father’s chamber. The Father ends up in flames, forcing Meri and Senya out into a snow storm running for their lives.

Thus begins the tale of Senya, a prince created to be king of a planet but tossed aside until his twelfth birthday when Lt. Taner, a Royal Guard detective is sent to retrieve him. It is unclear to all whether Senya is the product of something good or something evil, but in either case, it is very apparent that he is something more than just Lydia Kalila’s son.

*** Note to readers- This title contains graphic language, sexual situations and some violence. It is not intended for children or young teens.

Click here to pick up your copy of The Boy Who Lit Up the Sky.

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Kill Daddy, by Gerald Freeman, is regularly $5.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 22 customer reviews.

Category: Memoirs and Biographies

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Trauma from the past becomes a part of who you are. It weighs down on the present, suffocating life and preventing you from healing and moving on. If you continue to carry this baggage around long enough, you will eventually become who you are not. Believe in the essential goodness of your true self, however, and you will accept the past, but let go of the burden and finally become the real you. This is the story of one man’s struggle to accept the past and move on before it destroys everything he is and could ever hope to be. In desperation Gerry flees society to save his sanity and ends up in the remote villages of East Africa. Midst the poverty, he encounters hope and more love than he could imagine. Will it be enough to save him? Can he repair the damage done to him in his childhood or will his abusers win in the end?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/killdaddy into your web browser to pick up your copy of Kill Daddy.

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Soundtracks of a Life, by Carina Lupo, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars based on 8 customer reviews.

Category: Contemporary Romance / Women’s Fiction

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

At the tender age of 14, Lorelai, suffers the traumatic loss of both parents in a fatal airplane disaster only to be met four years later with the sudden death of her sister. It is only her love of music which keeps her from being swallowed up by her deep depression.

During her college sophomore year, her life takes a turn for the better when she decides to start a band filled with other extremely talented musicians and rather cute classmates.

Quickly gaining notoriety and building a loyal following, the band is approached by a hot shot manager but being under the wing of the powerful Susan Carmichael comes with a catch – Absolutely no relationships between the band members! Unfortunately, Lorelai is already helplessly in love with a fellow band mate.

Still fighting the demons of her tragic past, these new feelings of love and a sickening fear of possible loss, Lorelai is caught up in a downward spiral that eventually puts her life at great risk and drives a wedge between her and the love of her life.
Now, In order to win him back she must prove that she is fully committed to life.

Become your own fan of Lorelai and the band as you revel in the amazing growth and transformation of these powerful but vulnerable souls in their search for meaning and fulfillment. Experience Lorelai’s personal journey as she battles her own demons, discovers a brand new family through the friends that she finds, and ultimately through love finds a new reason for living.

By referencing actual songs notated throughout the book, the author creates a rich and unique emotional journey for the reader of “Soundtracks of a Life,” providing an enhanced experience of musical and literary discovery.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/lq1j76 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Soundtracks of a Life.

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Divided, by Jennifer Sights, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 32 customer reviews.

Category: Paranormal

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

During a routine case, private investigator Elena Ronen meets and falls in love with Vittorio Santini, member of a secret coven, and a kiss awakens her dormant magical powers. Because Elena wields an extremely powerful form of magic, she struggles to convince her enemies she has no desire to take over the coven. When loyalties are questioned, and Elena can no longer tell friend from foe, she must prove she wants nothing more than to live her life quietly. When this wish falls on deaf ears, Elena and Vittorio must work together to defeat their enemies as they try to save their love, their lives, and the lives of those they care about.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/l0fniu into your web browser to pick up your copy of Divided.

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Courtlight Series Boxed Set, a three-book boxed set collection by Terah Edun, is regularly $4.15 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars based on 23 customer reviews.

Category: Fantasy

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Sworn To Raise

Seventeen-year-old Ciardis has grown up in poverty, a cleaner in a small vale on the outskirts of the empire. But beneath her empire’s seemingly idyllic surface lies a hidden secret. Whispers of an inept crown Prince are growing ever louder–intensified by the five year anniversary of the soulbond initiations.

Amidst scandalous whispers, Ciardis finds herself chosen to train for the Companions Guild. She leaves her home and sets off on a personal journey to become a Court Companion. A position she’d never thought possible for a lowly servant to obtain, she must prove that she has the skills to attract a Patron.

But she must master those skills quickly. If the legends are true, only Ciardis can harness the power to raise a Prince in an Imperial Court sworn to bring him down.

Sworn To Transfer

Eighteen-year-old companion trainee Ciardis Weathervane has won the friendship of the royal heir and saved his claim to the throne. Yet her interference in the inheritance rights leaves more harm done than good. The Ameles Forest lies unprotected and it’s inhabitants are dying.

As humans begin to die in gruesome deaths, the Emperor dispatches the royal heir to the forests with the solution to the kith concerns.

With enemies closing ranks in Sandrin, Ciardis can little afford to leave the city’s nest of vipers to take on a new task. But she’s given no choice when her loyalty to the crown and courts are called into question.

To keep the Companions’ Guild happy and the favor of the Imperial Court, Ciardis will be tested in frightening new ways, especially when she’s faced with an obstacle that could risk the lives of her friends and the family she never thought she had.

Sworn To Conflict

Ciardis Weathervane fought for the living dead and won. But worse than taking on a mass murderer, was her discovery that she had been deceived by her friends. Now she needs to not only fight a war in the North and survive, but also decide where she stands in the midst of competing sides.

A threat to all she holds dear lies in the North and her heart is not the only thing she might lose. A massive army awaits in the mountain pass, surging closer to the gates of the southern lands. Nothing the Algardis army has done so far has dissuaded their march forward and Ciardis finds out that her powers to enhance are needed now more than ever.

As she faces her greatest fears on the battlefields and her heart is torn between her love of Sebastian and loyalty to her family, Ciardis must choose her fate carefully. For in her path, lies the destiny of the empire.

GET ALL THREE BESTSELLING NOVELS in one Digital Box Set.

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One Chance to Love, by Katie Ingersoll, 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 20 customer reviews.

Category: Romance

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Allison does not think she has the courage to love again. Though she is a beautiful woman, she hardly expects a New Year’s romance. Normally this time of year, she is planning her New Year’s resolutions. But life gets complicated when she loses her job, and meets a very handsome stranger. This stirs some familiar but confusing emotions for her. She may have another chance, if she can just open her heart.

Katie Ingersoll has not always written Christian Romance novels. After going through her own personal trials and crisis of faith, she emerged spiritually transformed. Now she writes Christian Romance as a way of telling beautiful love stories, and as a way of sharing the real power of God in people’s lives.

Click here to pick up your copy of One Chance to Love.

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The Prophet #1, by John Matthews, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars based 14 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Sam Tynnan is convinced that with his latest novel, The Prophet – a unique interweaving of ancient prophecies with current-day Islamic terrorism – he’s written the thriller of the year. But when he finds himself targeted, he realizes that some people are determined to bury what’s he’s written.

Adel Al-Shaffir, Egyptian-born, heads an Arabic language ‘activity’ tracking centre at the forefront of hunting down the world’s leading terrorist, Abu Khalish.

But as Tynnan’s manuscript starts being played out in real-life with a chain of bomb attacks and his path collides with Al-Shaffir’s, the question begs: could what Tynnan’s written be used to avoid the prophesied Armageddon of his manuscript?

Or are both of them merely being used as bit players in that script, a terrifying odyssey in which ultimate conflict is unavoidable. A case of art mirroring life or life mirroring art? – with the stakes as never before.

Click here to pick up your copy of The Prophet #1.

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The Foundlings, by R. M. Garcia, 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 35 customer reviews.

Category: Urban Fantasy / Paranormal Romance

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Foundlings: vampires created by accidental means.

Throw together Nazi Vampires, Jewish Vampires, and one very special protective Vampire who is 1000 years old; and you have the makings of an explosive and riveting story.

What would you do, if the love of your life, was suddenly kidnapped by Nazi vampires and forced to become one of them?

How would you feel if these same vampires discovered she was Jewish and sentenced her to a permanent death?

Join our hero Donnie as he battles the obstacles of the underworld in a quest for survival against the odds. Will he prevail and save his one true love from eternal damnation?

Click here to pick up your copy of The Foundlings.

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New Releases on Kindle

May 31, 2014 by Michael Gallagher 8 Comments

Included in this post are several relatively new Kindle book releases by independent authors in a variety of genres. Many of these authors have been featured on the blog before and can tell a good tale that will entertain you for hours. Each of the books have been significantly discounted in connection with this promotion, and I’m certain you will find something to enjoy in the offerings below.

Family Portrait (Boxed Set), a three-book boxed set by Christa Polkinhorn, is regularly $4.99 but has been discounted to just $2.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store.
Category: Contemporary Fiction

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

The FAMILY PORTRAIT trilogy follows the lives of two artists—Karla, a painter, and Andreas, a sculptor/stonemason—and their families as they try to keep the flame of love and creativity alive through turbulent times. The story takes place in Switzerland, Italy, the United States, and Peru with a short excursion to France.

AN UNCOMMON FAMILY, Book 1: Three people with a troubled past meet in Zurich, Switzerland. Six-year-old Karla longs for her dead mother. Anna struggles with her former husband’s deception, and Jonas mourns the death of his wife. While trying to help Karla, a talented but troubled child, Anna and Jonas develop feelings for each other that go beyond friendship. The budding romance, however, hits a snag when Anna discovers a sinister secret in Jonas’s past.

LOVE OF A STONEMASON, Book 2: Karla, the young talented painter, who lost her mother in a car crash, is almost run over by a car herself. As if this wasn’t fateful enough, the driver turns out to be a sculptor and carver of tombstones. Andreas O’Reilly, however, is anything but morbid. Quick-tempered and passionate, he exudes a rough-and-tumble energy. After a tumultuous start of their relationship, Karla comes to see in Andreas the “rock” in her life. Andreas, however, wrestles with his own ghosts: an alcoholic father who abused him as a child and his own fits of anger. Together, the two artists must confront the demons that haunt them.

EMILIA, Book 3: The O’Reilly household is in trouble. With her two older children, Laura and Tonio, grown and getting ready to fly the coop, Karla finds out she is pregnant again. Instead of furthering her painting career, she has to raise another child. Andreas looks forward to being a father once more but the little bundle of joy, Emilia, instead of enhancing the relationship to his wife intensifies the tension that has been building between them. While the parents fight, Laura and Tonio try to keep the peace. But more challenges wait in the wings: Andreas catches his son kissing another man and Arturo, Karla’s Peruvian father, has a heart attack. During Karla’s stay in Peru where she takes care of Arturo, Andreas gets a little too cozy with a young woman by the name of Susanna. Only when he almost loses Emilia does he come to his senses and embarks on a journey to try to keep his family together.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/s7fqvr into your web browser to pick up your copy of Family Portrait (Boxed Set).

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Spirit Me Away, by Aaron Lazar, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store.

Category: Mystery, Romantic Suspense

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Boston, Massachusetts: It’s the summer of ’69—the parks are flooded with flower children and a hot new band called Led Zeppelin is set to appear at the Boston Tea Party. But for one newlywed couple just beginning their lives together, there will be no peace.

In the cradle of sex, drugs, and rock ’n roll, Gus and Elsbeth LeGarde are music students attending the New England Conservatory of Music, after a wedding kept secret from their families. When they discover a bruised and sobbing teenage girl on the Boston Commons who can’t remember who she is, or how she got there, the couple decides to “adopt” her to help find her identity.

But Gus and Elsbeth aren’t prepared to be plunged into a violent world of rape, abuse, and a ring of white slave traders who’ll stop at nothing to take back their property—or to acquire new flesh in the form of Gus’s beautiful young bride.

At times nostalgic, heart-stopping, and breathlessly dramatic, Spirit Me Away is a thrilling romantic mystery set against the colorful backdrop of the sixties—with an unforgettable conclusion at the greatest rock festival of all time.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/qb9m7g into your web browser to pick up your copy of Spirit Me Away.

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Fatal, by Eric Drouant, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents in the Amazon Kindle store.

Category: Action and Adventure

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Two young psychics once again find themselves at the mercy of the U.S. Government. Three years after their deal with Archer, a new and deadly opponent comes to power. In an action packed spree ranging from New Orleans to Virginia, Cassie Reynold and Ronnie Gilmore take on two factions intent on capturing them for their psychic ability. Giving up is not an option. This war is going to be fought to a fatal conclusion.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/6rfun9 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Fatal.

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A Happy Ending, by Gerald Hartenhoff, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store.

Category: Western Romance / Religious Fiction

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

10,500 word novelette. They’ve got his horse, and they want her land. Can you feel a showdown coming? Find out how Hannah, a Christian woman with strong faith, and her best friend Joseph handle the situation.

“She asked me if I could get you to sell her this place. She even tried to seduce me.”
“Delilah,” Hannah said.
What?” I asked.
“I said, ‘Delilah’,” she answered.
“I’m sorry. I’m not following.”
“Delilah. The temptress. You know, from the Bible. She seduced Samson.”
I looked at her dumbfounded. “Anyway,” I said, “I think there’s gonna be trouble comin’. I believe that Calvin is going to try to take your place by force.”
“What makes you think that?”
“Just a feelin’, I guess.”
“I believe that if he does try force, it won’t work out the way he planned,” she said.
“You’re soundin’ pretty confident.”
“I’m always confident,” Hannah replied. “I have God on my side, and he’s never let me down yet.”

If you like western love stories, hopefully you’ll like this one.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/4990fy into your web browser to pick up your copy of A Happy Ending.

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The Pipe Woman Chronicles Omnibus, a five-book box set collection by Lynne Cantwell, is $4.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store.

Category: Fantasy

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Naomi is a skilled mediator who has an uncanny knack for getting everyone to agree. And she is newly engaged to her long-time boyfriend, Brock. Life is pretty sweet. But on the winter solstice of 2012, she learns that a Native American goddess named White Buffalo Calf Pipe Woman has drafted her. She has enhanced Naomi’s powers of persuasion so that she may mediate a peace agreement in heaven between all the pagan gods and goddesses and the Christian God.

The goddess has also given Naomi a team: Shannon, her Counselor and best friend; Joseph, a Ute skinwalker and her Guardian; and an Investigator who often causes more trouble than he is worth. Together, they embark on a journey that will change all their lives – one that will end in a time out of time, on a windswept plain, and with all life on Earth in the balance.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/4qxl9s into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Pipe Woman Chronicles Omnibus.

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Anonymous, by S. Alini, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store.

Category: Thriller

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

A New York psychiatrist’s life is turned upside down when an anonymous blog appears, documenting everything she does, revealing her most private secrets, and predicting murder.

Linda Garrett has it all: a successful husband, two great kids and a thriving psychiatry practice. It’s a happy life until a blog appears, documenting everything she does, and disclosing her most private secrets. This begins to fray the knitting that holds her family together, opening up things they’d hoped to leave in the past. But when the blog predicts their imminent deaths, Linda realizes what’s at stake and works frantically to find its creator.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/pqtu5s into your web browser to pick up your copy of Anonymous.

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Kid Me Not

May 30, 2014 by Michael Gallagher 1 Comment

Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is KID ME NOT: An anthology by child-free women of the ’60s now in their 60s , by Aralyn Hughes, and this book is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars based on 28 customer reviews.

Genre: Memoirs and Biographies

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Whatever became of the youth of the ‘60s, the turbulent era of sex, drugs and rock & roll? Kid Me Not, a new collection of intimate stories by women from the first generation ever to have access to The Pill, offers a unique perspective on the decade before Roe v. Wade, when free love wasn’t always free. As the women’s movement spread, these women faced a future of extraordinary possibilities – possibilities seen by today’s youth as commonplace.

These writers’ stories are universal – they fell in love, most married, some divorced. Others divulge, for the first time, details kept hidden nearly five decades. Each recognized early the irresistible urge to defy tradition. They no longer felt obligated to follow in the footsteps of their mothers. Indeed, they no longer felt obligated to be mothers. In Kid Me Not – with Foreword by Elizabeth Gilbert – you’ll discover how everyday women, childfree by choice or circumstance, created an array of fascinating, fulfilling lives.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/53014 into your web browser to pick up your copy of KID ME NOT: An anthology by child-free women of the ’60s now in their 60s.

About the Author:

Aralyn Hughes fancies herself as an entrepreneur or a visionary and a “chrone” with wisdom. For over 33 years, Aralyn has been an Austin icon helping to keep the city as bright, colorful, and unique as she is. You may have seen her driving her bright pink pig-themed art car around town with her pet pot bellied pig in tow or witnessed in giant letters, “Keep Austin Weird,” on the side of her house. She has appeared on numerous television shows on the local and national level as an ambassador of what makes Austin such a great place to live.

After being a successful businesswoman, a lobbyist at the Texas State Capital, and a member of “every board and commission in Austin Texas, not to mention a “party animal,” Hughes also performed in her spare time with local theatre productions like the critically acclaimed “In the West.” One of the longest running shows in Austin, Texas, “In the West” premiered an original piece written by Hughes for Academy Award-nominated John Hawkes.

Aralyn became a performance artist, storyteller, and non-fiction monologist in her sixties. She performed eight original pieces in her series “Aralyn’s Home Economics” and was then accepted to perform her newest show in NYC at the International Solo Theater Festival in Nov 2013.

Aralyn recently completed her first book, an anthology about childfree women who came of age in the 1960s. Kid Me Not features stories of women who made the decision to not have children. They were the first generation of women to have truly had a choice, due to the advent of the birth control pill.

Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love does the forward.

Watch Aralyn’s You Tube with her pig in Austin, TX
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHkCNLQ_m0Q

Contact Aralyn at: Aralyn@aralyn.com
www.Aralyn.com
www.childfreewomen.com

You can visit Aralyn’s Amazon author page if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/aralyn into your web browser.

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Don’t Miss This Free Kindle Book!

May 30, 2014 by Michael Gallagher 1 Comment

In case you missed it in one of the earlier posts this morning the book that helped this whole blog thing for me, Free Kindle Books and How to Find Them, is free today. This is the updated version and it will be free through Sunday night; if you haven’t grabbed it yet you can if you click here or type in www.smarturl.it/fkb into your web browser.

Yes, you will find what I call the “big list” of links to free Kindle books by category / genre in the Amazon Kindle store – I had to take that down from the blog’s website because of the rules implemented last year…

This is the first time I have offered this version of the book for free and I’m not sure when I will do it again so, if you haven’t grabbed it yet what are you waiting for? I’m also 150% certain your family and friends would appreciate your telling them about this book being free so please pass this information on to them – I’d really like to get this on the top of the category lists so please download away!

One final note – because of inconsistencies in how the blog’s posts show up on Facebook, Twitter, etc. (they all seem to want to be paid lots of cash I don’t have in order for the posts to be seen on your devices) I’m having a push to sign up people for the daily digest emails. Of course it’s free to sign up and receive the email option and I believe it helps compliment the other methods of seeing the Kindle book offers. I’d appreciate it if you would give it a try – you can always unsubscribe if it is not for you: just click here or type in http://www.fkbooksandtips.com/subscribe into your web browser – just fill in your email address, smack the “Subscribe” button, and make sure you reply to the confirmation email!

I hope each of you have a great weekend-

Michael

More Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

May 30, 2014 by Michael Gallagher 2 Comments

Here’s your next group of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Friday: for those books listed as being free or discounted in this post – while the pricing of the free and discounted 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 revert back to its normal status at any time!

Nirvana Plague, by Gary Glass, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 12 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

What if perfect peace and happiness were a contagious disease? In this fast-paced, thought-provoking thriller, a schizophrenic scientist, an ambitious Chicago psychiatrist, and a hard-driving Army colonel are at the center of a frantic international struggle between the powers of government and a mind-bending outbreak of cosmic consciousness.

A bizarre illness spreads through a Chicago psychiatric hospital. Dr Carl Marley, a bored but ambitious psychiatrist, seizes the chance to grab some attention by “discovering” the new disorder. But when an Army colonel summons him to a government-sponsored taskforce to investigate the syndrome, he learns the disease he thought he’d discovered is already so widespread in the military that it threatens to undermine the foundations of power. A high-stakes race to understand the disease takes the team from the NIH campus in Bethesda, to a war zone in the Kashmiri highlands, to a high-tech biodefense facility near Juneau, Alaska.

As the outbreak spreads around the globe and desperate governments impose increasingly severe measures to contain it, Marley begins to suspect that what is happening is not the apocalypse they fear — but something far more radical. Marley’s star patient, a brilliant but profoundly psychotic scientist named Roger Sturgeon, escapes from the facility into the city, and Marley attempts to bring him back before the government sends in troops. Only then does he learn the truth about what is happening.

Before it’s over they will all be forced to choose between the precarious comfort of the world they know and the mysterious wonder of a new reality — between their commonplace fears, ambitions, and loyalties, or the hope that lies in The Nirvana Plague.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/nuypht into your web browser to pick up your copy of Nirvana Plague.

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The Pursuit of Lies, by Debra Burroughs, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 156 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

BOOK 4, Paradise Valley Mystery series

Sassy small-town private-eye Emily Parker races to solve a scandalous murder. Her world has been flipped upside down when the man she loves, the town’s hunky police detective, is accused of murdering a female Assistant District Attorney, with whom the police believe he was having an affair. Emily must fight to prove him innocent, with the help of her close circle of friends, as she struggles against her own doubts.

Sensual and suspenseful, captivating and addicting–you’re in for a wildly entertaining read! Absolutely unputdownable!

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One Undead Step, by Ian McClellan, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars based on 9 customer reviews.

Category: Horror

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Many people know that the 1969 moon landing was faked, but are unaware of the actual circumstances. Find out how the U.S. faked the moon landing to avert the zombie apocalypse as the lives of a disgraced B-movie director, a bar owner, some drunks, an Army Ranger unit, a bunch of gangsters, an affluent but very dysfunctional family, and a few cops come together in One Undead Step.
One year after Romero shocked the world with Night of the Living Dead, a small city is rocked by grisly killings, the gory details of which are only known through whispered rumors. The government presence that makes the populace all the more nervous is unable to contain the impending threat that grows out of control on a hot, humid night in Mid-July. As the city’s residents fight for their lives, the Military rushes to make a film about two men landing a small spacecraft on the moon. Will their plan work? Find out as an evil man finds redemption, some soldiers choose between their mission and duty, a young couple finds forbidden love, an older couple reignites their passion, and a bartender gets stiffed for lots of drinks in
One Undead Step.

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The Homecoming Masquerade, by Spencer Baum, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 184 customer reviews.

Category: Paranormal Romance

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

In a posh suburb of the nation’s capital, at the most exclusive high school in the world, the vampires who secretly run the government have created a game for America’s daughters of privilege. Show up to Homecoming in a black dress and you’ve entered yourself in a contest where the winner becomes a vampire, and the loser becomes the winner’s first victim.

Only the wealthiest, most connected students can hope to win, so when new girl Nicky Bloom wears a black dress to Homecoming, everyone assumes she has a death wish. They don’t know that Nicky has her own agenda. As the dance continues into the night, they will find out that Nicky Bloom is far more than she seems.

Click here to pick up your copy of The Homecoming Masquerade.

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Free Kindle Books and How to Find Them, by Michael Gallagher, 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 49 customer reviews.

Category: Advice & How-To

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Updated November 2013!

Please note this eBook is not USA-specific: in other words, each site mentioned in this Guide allows you to download and enjoy their content on your Kindle no matter which country you may live.

From the author of the Amazon Kindle best-selling blog “Free Kindle Books and Tips” comes this update to your definitive guide to millions of free books online! Rather than limit yourself to the offerings at Amazon, there are literally thousands upon thousands of books, short stories, and more available to you for no charge which you can transfer directly to your Kindle or other eBook reader, download via the Kindle’s WhisperNet service or email directly to your Kindle.

Sure, you could spend several hours performing the same research, but save yourself the time and frustration as this guide will show you where to look and find thousands of books so you can read to your heart’s content!

Everyone enjoys receiving free stuff – the author included. This guide shows you where you can receive several hundred thousand (actually over a million) free books, blogs, short stories, and other content. Theoretically, you will never have to pay another cent for Kindle reading content again.

This guide also provides a brief overview of how to transfer books to your Kindle, the various file formats that are compatible with the Kindle, and how to download free books from the Internet and transfer to your Kindle.

Michael Gallagher is the author of several bestselling Kindle “how-to” guides, and his title “Free Kindle Books and How to Find Them” has been the #1 Kindle reference guide for over two years, garnering #53 and #72 on the Top 100 Kindle bestseller lists for all Kindle book titles in 2010 and 2011, respectively. His “Kindle Books and Tips” blog has been the #1 bestselling subscription blog in the Amazon Kindle Store since 2010. You can visit his author page on the Amazon website at http://www.amazon.com/author/gallagher

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Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

May 30, 2014 by Michael Gallagher 1 Comment

Here’s your first group of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Friday: for those books listed as being free or discounted in this post – while the pricing of the free and discounted 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 revert back to its normal status at any time!

The Life and Prayers of Saint Joan of Arc, by Wyatt North, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 71 customer reviews.

Category: Memoirs and Biographies

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

One part biography, one part prayer book, The Life and Prayers of Saint Joan of Arc is an essential book for any Christian.

Though Joan described herself as “a poor girl who knew neither how to ride nor lead in war,” she did know how to obey God. That simple skill changed the course of both her life and that of the entire nation.

Twenty-five years after her execution, Saint Joan was pronounced innocent, and declared a martyr. Joan stood up for her belief and against all odds fought for her people.

She was a true hero, and remains an inspiration to this day.

Enjoy.

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A Favorite Son, by Uvi Poznansky, is regularly $4.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 42 customer reviews.

Category: Historical Fiction

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

This story is a present-day twist on the biblical story of Jacob and his mother Rebecca plotting together against the elderly father Isaac, who is lying on his deathbed, in order to get their hands on the inheritance, and on the power in the family. This is no old fairy tale. Its power is here and now, in each one of us.

Listening to Yankle telling his take on events, we understand the bitter rivalry between him and his brother. We become intimately engaged with every detail of the plot, and every shade of emotion in these flawed, yet fascinating characters. He yearns to become his father’s favorite son, seeing only one way open to him, to get that which he wants: deceit.

“What if my father would touch me,” asks Yankle. In planning his deception, it is not love for his father, nor respect for his age that drives his hesitation—rather, it is the fear to be found out.

And so—covering his arm with the hide of a kid, pretending to be that which he is not—he is now ready for the last moment he is going to have with his father.

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Chinese Girl in the Ghetto, by Ying Ma, is regularly $5.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars based on 92 customer reviews.

Category: Non-Fiction

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

As China opens itself to the world and undertakes historic economic reforms, a little girl in the southern city of Guangzhou immerses herself in a world of fantasy and foreign influences while grappling with the mundane vagaries of Communist rule. She happily immigrates to Oakland, California, expecting her new life to be far better in all ways than life in China. Instead, she discovers crumbling schools, unsafe streets, and racist people. In the land of the free, she comes of age amid the dysfunction of a city’s brokenness and learns to hate in the shadows of urban decay. This is the incredible story of her journey from China to an American ghetto, and how she prevailed.

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Dead Days: Episode One, by Ryan Casey, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 19 customer reviews.

Category: Science Fiction / Horror

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

“A fast-paced story full of thrilling action, exploring the issues of survival and humanity… an incredible journey.”

How would you survive the Dead Days?

Riley Jameson is a regular guy. A little hard-of-luck and going through a rough time at work, but nothing he can’t handle.

That was before the creatures rose. Feasting on human flesh, their hunger is insatiable. The zombies are unstoppable. The police are gone. The government has collapsed. The world as Riley knew it has changed, forever.

In this new, terrifying world, Riley is forced to think quick and act fast in order to survive. As he encounters numerous skin-crawling scenarios, his morals are pushed to the very limit, forcing the question: can humanity survive the onslaught of the dead, not only on the outside but on the inside? The answers often prove unsettling in this unique zombie apocalypse series unlike any other.

There will be blood. There will be tears. In the Dead Days, nobody is safe.

In the first episode of Dead Days, a six-part zombie apocalypse serial, Riley’s world is turned upside down when the dead start to walk. Barricaded in his flat with his layabout friend, Ted, the pair are forced to think outside the box to escape, as well as come to terms with the carnage surrounding them.

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Magic of Thieves, by C. Greenwood, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based 550 customer reviews.

Category: Fantasy

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

In a province where magic is forbidden and its possessors are murdered by the cruel Praetor, young Ilan, born with the powerful gift of her ancestors, has only one hope for survival. Concealment. In the shadow of Dimmingwood, she finds temporary protection with a band of forest brigands led by the infamous outlaw Rideon the Red Hand.

But as Ilan matures, learns the skills of survival, and struggles to master the inherent magic of her dying race, danger is always close behind. When old enemies reappear and new friendships lead to betrayal, will her discovery of an enchanted bow prove to be Ilan’s final salvation or her ultimate downfall?

When I was small, my mother taught me about the magickless—evil men who hunted our kind to destroy us. They came from across the water to steal the lands of our ancestors. Pretending to want peace, they enslaved us and sought to extinguish what they couldn’t possess, the one thing their harsh laws could never control. Our ancient powers. One day, my mother warned me, violence would shatter the safety of our home, and when that day came, we must fight. And we must win.

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26 Book Zane Grey Box Set

May 29, 2014 by Michael Gallagher 1 Comment

Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is Classic Westerns, 26 Zane Grey Novels, a massive collection by Zane Grey (over 6,200+ pages if printed out), is regularly $7.99 but has been discounted to just $1.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store; this book has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 121 customer reviews.

Genre: Western / Historical Fiction

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

For the first time, 26 Zane Grey books – from the master writer of the Western novel – in one easy-to-read Kindle book. With an active table of contents, you are certain to enjoy hours of reading pleasure by purchasing this collection vs. each book individually. Included are the following Zane Grey novels:

Betty Zane
Desert Gold
Riders of the Purple Sage
Tales of Lonely Trails
Tales of Fishes
The Border Legion
The Call of the canyon
The Day of the Beast
The Desert of Wheat
The Heritage of the Desert
The Last of the Plainsmen
The Last Trail
The Light of the Western Stars
The Lone Star Ranger
The Man of the Forest
The Mysterious Rider
The Rainbow Trail
The Redheaded Outfield
The Rustlers of Pecos County
The Spirit of the Border
The U.P. Trail
The Young Forester
The Young Pitcher
To The Last Man
Valley of Wild Horses
Wildfire

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About the Author:

The father of the western novel, Zane Grey (1872 – 1939) was born in Zanesville, Ohio. He wrote 58 westerns and almost 30 other books. Over 130 films have been based on his work.

More Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

May 29, 2014 by Michael Gallagher 3 Comments

Here’s your next group of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Thursday: for those books listed as being free or discounted in this post – while the pricing of the free and discounted 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 revert back to its normal status at any time!

From Darkness Comes: The Horror Box Set (8 Book Collection), an eight-book box set collection by J. Thorn, TW Brown, Kealan Patrick Burke, Michaelbrent Collings, Mainak Dhar, Brian James Freeman, Glynn James and Scott Nicholson, is regularly $9.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars based on 43 customer reviews.

Category: Horror

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

FANS OF HORROR -> 8 TITLES FROM 8 INCREDIBLE AUTHORS!

Do you love horror? From Darkness Comes will keep you reading for days. Get this collection now. It includes 8 novels from 8 of today’s best-selling writers of horror.

*This anthology contains scenes of graphic violence that are intended for adults and may be offensive to sensitive readers. Some titles in the anthology are the first book in a series, and others are standalone novels (review average and count accurate as of February 28th, 2014).

From Darkness Comes includes:

~That Ghoul Ava by TW Brown (4.6 stars on 18 reviews)

~Kin by Kealan Patrick Burke (4.5 stars on 87 reviews)

~The Colony: Genesis by Michaelbrent Collings (4.3 stars on 56 reviews)

~Chronicler of the Undead by Mainak Dhar (4.4 stars on 26 reviews)

~Painted Darkness by Brian James Freeman (3.8 stars on 48 reviews)

~Chasing Spirits by Glynn James (4.2 stars on 22 reviews)

~The Home by Scott Nicholson (3.7 stars on 299 reviews)

~Preta’s Realm: The Haunting (Book 1 of The Hidden Evil Trilogy) by J. Thorn (4.0 stars on 50 reviews)

Any fan of “American Horror Story” or “The Twilight Zone” will love From Darkness Comes

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Water from Stone, by Katherine Mariaca-Sullivan, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars based on 62 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

When it comes right down to it, what makes a family?
Is it nature or nurture?

Prosecutor Jack Westfield has it all – a beautiful, loving wife, an exciting legal career, a child on the way. With so much going for him, his life is perfect. Until the morning of his biggest case yet. That day Jack makes a mistake, one that costs him everything.

Artist Mar Delgado had it all – marriage to her childhood sweetheart, a successful career. She had never been happier, until the boat carrying her husband on a trip to dive with hammerhead sharks returns without him.

For four years, as his career tanks and his personal life is non-existent, Jack tries to make amends for his mistake the only way he can – by searching for and bringing home the child that was stolen from him.

Mar’s attempts at rebuilding her life after her husband’s death founder. She can no longer paint the coral reef paintings that she had been famous for because water terrifies her. She can no longer trust herself to love because the toll is too high. But then, in the most unexpected way, she is given a second chance.

Private Investigator Sy Colomanos has seen it all. Still, for him, finding the Westfield baby is personal. For years, he follows the kidnapper’s convoluted trail across the country searching for the one clue that will help bring young Mia home. When the trail dead ends at Mar’s door, however, all hell breaks loose as the question becomes, what makes a family?

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Better Left Buried, by Belinda Frisch, is just $2.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 14 customer reviews.

Category: Young Adult

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

It’s not just the house that’s haunted.

Harmony Wolcott has lived her entire life on the fringe, wishing more often than not that she could end it all. After a failed suicide attempt heightens her visibility in the Child Protective Services system, she has no choice but to hide the details about the home life she’s run from.

Adam, Harmony’s formerly homeless boyfriend, has learned to fend for himself. Despite a past he’s reluctant to talk about, Adam has risen above his circumstances and is trying to get Harmony to do the same.

Only loving someone so damaged isn’t easy.

A recurring nightmare chips away at Harmony’s facade of normalcy, reminding her of a time hidden so deep in her memory that it blurs the line between dream and reality. Convinced the nightmares are an otherworldly attempt at telling her something, Harmony employs the help of a spirit board and her best friend, Brea, to uncover a secret she’s kept, even from herself.

Brea, who is trying to piece together the mystery of why her father walked out on their family fourteen years earlier, knows it’s something to do with Harmony’s mother and a night no one is willing to talk about.

A tragic discovery threatens to unravel Harmony’s patched together life, dragging both Brea and Adam down with her and proving, with devastating consequences, that sometimes the past is better left buried.

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1929 Jonathan’s Cross – Book One, by M.L. Gardner, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 478 customer reviews.

Category: Historical Fiction

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Jonathan Garrett lost everything. He and his two best friends, Caleb and Aryl, operated one of the top brokerages in New York City when the unthinkable happened; the stock market crash of ’29. And now, with nothing but the clothes on their backs, these men must start over.

But starting over has never been more difficult. The jobs become fewer and danger lurks around every corner. And then when a business rival threatens their existence, despair looms overhead as the men struggle to find a way out.

Meanwhile, their wives, Ava, Arianna, and Claire, slowly adapt to life in a shabby apartment as they learn to deal with their poverty stricken status. Each begins to cope as they find ways to live more modestly.

Emotional and financial ruin nips at their heels pushing the couples to the end of their ropes. Until finally, with a lucky twist of fate, they escape city life and begin anew in their hometown of Rockport, Massachussetts. But just as they start to relax and settle into their new lives, tragedy strikes again…

Click here to pick up your copy of 1929 Jonathan’s Cross – Book One.

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The Forager, by Peter Stone, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars based on 27 customer reviews.

Category: Science Fiction / Dystopian

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Eighteen-year-old Ethan Jones lives in Newhome, a town built upon the decaying ruins of post-apocalyptic Melbourne, ruins haunted by the ferocious Skel, a nomadic tribe of degenerate savages.

The Skel are ramping up their attacks on Newhome’s foraging teams and infesting Melbourne’s ruins in ever greater numbers. Is this part of a larger plan that could spell the town’s doom?

Meanwhile, the last thing Ethan expects when he and his companions rescue a two-car convoy from the Skel is a Japanese teenage girl with an outlandish dress-sense, who after they take her back to Newhome, goes to great lengths to ingratiate herself into his life. But is it in gratitude for saving her life or is she seeking something more?

And what a quandry she places him in, for he knows the rules, that no man is permitted to be alone with an unmarried woman. But how can he drive such a gentle soul away when she touchs his heart so deeply, even though she clearly carries the pain of a broken heart.

At the same time, Newhome’s police force, the Custodians, are suspicious of Ethan’s foraging team’s successes and are pulling out the stops to find out which member of his team has the illegal mutant ability that gives them an edge over the other teams. Should these peacekeepers discover Ethan is the mutant they seek, they will haul him away and dissect him like a frog.

Click here to pick up your copy of Forager.

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Firemancer Collection (Fated Saga Box Set), a three book box set collection by R. H. D’aigle, 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 22 customer reviews.

Category: Fantasy

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

The Firemancer Collection includes Books 1, 2 and 3 from the Fated Saga Fantasy Series: Awaken, Shifting and Embrace.

Summer fun is coming! And other than turning thirteen, twins, Meghan and Colin Jacoby, are looking forward to a typical summer… well, typical for them. Which means their uncle (and guardian) will pull into the Cobbscott Campground and park his travel trailer for three full months.

Normally, they’d never spend more than a couple weeks in any one place, their uncle preferring to move around. But only until summer when they’d be Cobbscott bound.

Why did he do this every summer? Why did he prefer to move around? The twins have never thought to ask.

Their only concern being that their friend Sebastien would be in Cobbscott as well… the one person who also happens to know their secret- that they can read each other’s minds.

Arrival at the campground goes as expected and within hours, Meghan and Colin are already making plans to meet up with Sebastien. But before they do, the campground gets some unexpected visitors.

Visitors with reserved campsites. Sites that have been reserved, but unused, for years.

The twins always wondered who reserved and never used these campsites and now that they have seen the owners, the twins can’t help but get an ominous feeling.

These visitors dress strange and act strange, taking hikes into the woods wearing winged tipped shoes and overcoats, disappearing into things clearly too small to fit so many people, and they never stop peering into the sky as if expecting to see something terrible.

And when unexplainable and frightening events follow their arrival, the twins start to realize that this summer, will be their least typical of all…

Click here to pick up your copy of Firemancer Collection (Fated Saga Box Set).

Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

May 29, 2014 by Michael Gallagher 2 Comments

Here’s your first group of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Thursday: for those books listed as being free or discounted in this post – while the pricing of the free and discounted 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 revert back to its normal status at any time!

Disappearance, by Niv Kaplan, is regularly $3.21 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars based on 100 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Ever Wonder What Would Happen If Your Girl Disappeared?

Karen Glass, an American high school graduate, is visiting a Kibbutz in Northern Israel. She meets Mikki who lives in the Kibbutz and they become passionately involved. On her birthday, while they are on a tour of the Golan Heights, she suddenly disappears from Mikki’s car.

The police official investigation is abandoned under questionable circumstances; the motive for the presumed kidnapping is unknown and Karen’s fate remains a mystery.

Three years later, during an Israeli military raid into Southern Lebanon, a special-forces unit stumbles upon a photo of Karen at the time of her kidnapping. Mikki alerts Karen’s sister Lisa, and together they begin a perilous journey across three continents searching for clues that will shed light on the mystery.

They uncover a dark family secret that undermines a plot to prevent a global enterprise from developing illegal weapons….

“DISAPPEARANCE” will capture you instantly, keep you on your toes and leave you speculating until the final minute.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/u5xzvq into your web browser to pick up your copy of Disappearance.

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Past Forward: Volume 1, by Chautona Havig, has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 102 customer reviews.

Category: Religious Fiction

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Alone without friends or family to comfort her after the death of her mother, Willow Finley’s idyllic life is over—and just beginning.

When Willow Finley awakes on a hot summer morning, she is unprepared for the grief that awaits her. Jerked from a life of isolation with her mother, Willow learns what alone really means when she finds her mother still in her bed, never to awaken again in this life.

From the moment Willow arrives in the police station with her startling announcement, Chad Tesdall fights the friendship he knows he can’t avoid.

This collection of the first five episodes of Past Forward starts with Willow’s life-changing discovery and gently guides the reader through aspects of her life–the past weaving through the present and into the future. Experience her first morning in church, her first movie, and the culture shock of her first trips to the city. A birthday party and a street faire add welcome diversion from butchering, canning, and the beating of area rugs. Disaster strikes. Will she be able to continue her life, or will an offer in the city change it all? Find out in this first volume.

Follow as Willow’s story unfolds past forward.

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The Fiction Writer’s Handbook, by Shelly Lowenkopf, is regularly $7.99 but has been discounted to just $2.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 18 customer reviews.

Category: Advice & How-To

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

“The Fiction Writer’s Handbook” is the definitive volume to explain the words and phrases that writers and editors use when they talk about a work. In the highly competitive publishing world, today’s writers need to stay ahead of the competition and make every sentence count. This book will help new writers who need an understanding of the writing process, and for seasoned writers, it is a powerful tool.

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God’s Loophole, by Dan Rix, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 11 customer reviews.

Category: Young Adult

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

A Machine turns 18-year-old Gabe telekinetic…for a terrible price.

Nicknamed the bubble, an astonishing new technology isolates users from reality and lets them directly experience quantum effects. Inside the bubble, humans can even manipulate individual atoms. For the computer industry, it’s a dream come true.

Except the bubble may have side effects.

After being inside the bubble for only a few minutes, eighteen-year-old Gabe Rockwell feels a strange desire to go inside again. He has nightmares and wakes up vomiting in the middle of the night with no idea who he is. Even more troubling, the bubble seems to eat through every kind of radiation shielding known to man…whether it’s plugged in or not.

Now, ever since that first time in the bubble, Gabe has been harboring a terrifying secret—a power, whose addictive pull he finds harder and harder to resist with each passing day: he’s developed the ability to move objects with his mind.

Combining the genres of young adult, science fiction, and technothriller—and a little romance—God’s Loophole is the first book in a new mind-bending YA action adventure trilogy by Dan Rix. Can Gabe control his telekinesis? Or will his growing power destroy everything he holds dear, including the girl he loves. Keep reading for…

Click here to pick up your copy of God’s Loophole.

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The Eagle’s Secret, by Erez Aharoni, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars based 38 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

You will not want to read this book on an airplane!
Or it might be your last flight…

Ido Barnea, a non-typical Israeli combat pilot, is flying a routine night flight over the Negev desert when suddenly his reliable Skyhawk jet fighter starts to vibrate uncontrollably and finally crashes, forcing Ido to eject at the last possible second. At that exact moment, in the heart of Brussels, a young girl is kidnapped. What is the connection between those two incidents? Who is behind them?

Accused of betrayal, Ido is forced into a fast-paced dizzying chase in order to clear his name. Naama Sharon, a beautiful Mossad agent is sent after him, and the two encounter powerful arms dealers, cynical terrorists and corrupted army officers. In their struggle, they discover that the two mysterious incidents hide a deplorable crime.

Fast, Thrilling, High Voltage Writing

Aharoni manages to build up an exciting narrative in which sophisticated international hard core criminal network acts as setting for the building up relationship between the main characters. Ethical dilemmas are integrated in what seems to be an impossible mission style novel. The technical and military background make this thriller especially rewarding.

Original, Thrilling Novel

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