(If you don’t have a Kindle, don’t worry, you can still read the free books! Just download the Kindle for the PC, Kindle for the iPhone/iPod Touch, Kindle for the iPad, Kindle for BlackBerry or Kindle for Android!) And guess what, Kindle now supports library borrowing (US only)! (See Borrow Kindle Books from Your Local Library)

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‘India’s Summer‘ by Therese (The Fiction Studio) is available for FREE download on the Amazon US Kindle site. Just click here to download. Also free at Amazon UK and B&N.

Book Description

“India’s Summer offers a timeless tale of women supporting one another – delivered in a way that makes it feel fresh, alive, and utterly of the moment.” – Arianna Huffington

India Butler, single and about to turn forty, travels to LA in an attempt to reinvent her life. In a world rarely illuminated by the flashbulbs of the paparazzi, she discovers the true meaning of “having it all.”

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Previously published by Bleak House Books

‘Head Games (The Hector Lassiter Series)‘ by Craig McDonald is available for FREE download on the Amazon US Kindle site. Just click here to download.

Book Description

2008 Edgar® Nominee for Best First Novel, 2008 Anthony Award Finalist, 2008 Gumshoe Award nominee for Best First Novel, Shortlisted for 2008 CrimeSpree Magazine award for Best First Novel

A wistful ballad of lost America rooted in borderland history and mythology. Hector Lassiter has Pancho Villa’s long lost skull. He’s also got people on his trail. Competing fraternities, Mexican bandits, and US Secret Service are after him. But Lassiter is larger than life. He bedded Dietrich and boxed Hemingway, this can’t be too bad. Can it?

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Previously published by MacAdam/Cage (1996)

‘Crazy For Trying‘ by Joni Rodgers is available for FREE download on the Amazon US Kindle site. Just click here to download.

Book Description

Crazy for Trying is a seductive, literate, and explosive western love story.

In the cramped bar car lavatory on a westbound train, Tulsa Bitters faces the mirror, chubby and freshly heartbroken. She scrubs the makeup from her face, chucks her padded bra in the trash and makes the conscious decision to become herself.

Six months later, in the cab of his road-weary pickup truck, grizzled Vietnam vet Mac White Wolf MacPeters, half Blackfoot, half raging Irish, hears an unfamiliar – unforgettable – voice, and before he can remind himself that he doesn’t fall in love, he does.

In Montana in the 1970s, people aren’t accustomed to hearing a woman’s voice on the radio. But to Tulsa, far away from all the people who loved and hurt her, midnight rock’n’roll feels like home, especially once she finds out who’s out there listening. Crazy for Trying is a brave debut novel that fairly explodes with love-struck energy and sharp-tongued tenacity. Joni Rodgers loads up a tight circle of lovers, adversaries, dysfunctional family members and comically flawed friends, driving them down a fresh road through hard-earned love, a dangerous western solitude, and the old sexual politics.

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Previously published by (sixoneseven) books

‘Annie Begins‘ by Michelle Toth is available for FREE download on the Amazon US Kindle site. Just click here to download.

Book Description

At almost 29, Annie Thompson is as brilliant in business as she is disastrous in relationships. It’s the dawn of the dot-com boom, and Annie is determined to make it big. But her single-minded focus on work is put to the test when the man of her dreams announces that his wife is divorcing him, and designates Annie “the best listener he knows.” Suddenly she’s juggling his mixed signals and her entrepreneurial ambitions–not to mention a complicated friendship with her new supervixen of a roommate.

Annie’s pursuit of Mr. Tall, Dark and Barely Available takes a turn for the unexpected when her young, terminally ill cousin, April, makes it her mission to find Annie a husband. But the fiancé April picks is definitely not the kind of man Annie would have chosen. Now, Annie has to ask herself what exactly she wants and values most deeply in a man–and in herself.

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Previously published by Echelon Press

‘The Gifts, A Jacody Ives Mystery (Jacody Ives Mysteries)‘ by Linda S. Prather is available for FREE download on the Amazon US Kindle site. Just click here to download.

Book Description

Tortured. . . raped. . . executed. . .

No matter how much he drank, Gavin McAllister couldn’t get the headline out of his head. Just words. He was a writer, made his living with words. The impact of the words directly correlated to the emotions of the reader. Words could be twisted, knives to open up wounds long hidden. Maneuvered to evoke buried nightmares. Bare the soul, expose the wound, and you had a best seller. Make them laugh. Make them cry. Above all, make them feel something. He was an expert at manipulating words for emotion.

But he’d seen the body.

It wasn’t a story this time. This time it was personal. The demon of his nightmares had no name, but now he knew where to look for him. Glade Springs had secrets. And no one uncovered secrets better than Jacody ives.

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City of Masks (Cree Black) by Daniel Hecht (Bloomsbury USA) is now available at the specially discounted price of $0.99 on the US Kindle site.

Book Description

In City of Masks, the first Cree Black novel, parapsychologist Cree and her partner take a case in New Orleans’s Garden District that leaves them fearing for their own lives. The 150-year-old Beauforte House has long stood empty, until Lila Beauforte resumes residence and starts to see some of the house’s secrets literally come to life. Tormented by an insidious and violent presence, Lila finds herself trapped in a life increasingly filled with childhood terrors. It takes Cree’s unconventional take on psychology and her powerful natural empathy with Lila to navigate the dangerous worlds of spirit and memory, as they clash in a terrifying tale of mistaken identity and murder.

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‘The Final Murder (Johanne Vik)‘ by Anne Holt (Corvus) is now available at the specially discounted price of £0.99 on the UK Kindle site. *The US Kindle edition titled differently as ‘What Never Happens‘ is priced at $12.99.

Book Description

A talk-show star is found killed in her home, her tongue removed and left on her desk, cleaved in two. And when a second body, that of a right-wing party leader, is found crucified to the bedroom wall, Superintendent Adam Stubo is pulled from leave to lead the investigation. Is there a celebrity-slaying serial killer on the loose? His partner, Johanne Vik, agrees to help with the case but begins to see a pattern, one that traces back to her FBI days. If she’s right, the pattern will end in the murder of the investigating officer: Adam.

From the internationally bestselling Anne Holt, this is the latest thrilling instalment in a gripping and compulsive series.

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Book Description:

After years in foster homes, seventeen-year-old Benson Fisher applies to New Mexico’s Maxfield Academy in hopes of securing a brighter future, but instead he finds that the school is a prison and no one is what he or she seems.

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“Welcome to Maxfield, here’s your tracking device. We watch everything that you do. You can never leave.”

My friend recommended Variant by Robison Wells as a book similar to Michael Grant’s YA dystopian novel Gone mashed with James Dashner’s  The Maze Runner.  I did enjoy Gone (minus all the supernatural extra stuff) so I checked this one out, and I have to say that Variant  is one of the better-written YA books I’ve read lately, especially one where the narrator is a teenage boy. I can see someone like my nephew really enjoying this book. Not only was there the mystery of the sinister school/prison’s existence to solve, but the book is really action-packed too (plus Robison Wells knows how to keep the suspense going and going until the cliff-hanger non-ending!)

Personally, boarding schools have had a bad rep for me ever since I read Thomas Hughes’s classic Tom Brown’s School Days, but Variant takes it a LOT further. Benson Fisher’s new school Maxfield Academy – far from being a posh boarding school – is literally a prison. A high wall plus a razor-wire fence surrounds the grounds, and while there are no teachers around (or any adults for that matter), video cameras/microphones check the students’ every move. The punishment for breaking the school’s major rules (Rule One is “Don’t try to escape”) is “detention” (understood to mean death). For self-preservation, Maxfield students have banded together into three different groups (the Society, Havoc and Variant gangs) which police each other. Intrigued yet?

Debut author Robison Wells manages to put a fresh twist to the familiar Lord of the Flies theme in his début novel. In particular, I was really impressed with how real the kids in Variant are – from the way they talked or interacted with each other as  the invisible school administrators subjected them to different physical/psychological stresses (kind of like rats in a maze). I could understand where everyone was coming from and their motivations, and like I’ve mentioned, the young male protagonist POV really worked well for once. Benson Fisher comes across as a fairly likable, resourceful and decent kid who tries to tough it out while adjusting to his bizarre situation. Another thing I liked was how the author was able to paint a picture of what Maxfield Academy looked like – from the marble halls, the closets cum secret elevators, the special doors that are only opened by tracking devices that the kids had to wear, even the outside grounds where paintball wars are regularly conducted. Despite the creepiness of the school, I couldn’t help but think that it would be a cool place to visit

The only thing that rang awkward to me was the twist that appears midway to the book – when Benson stumbles onto the school’s real secret. That signals a change from a purely Lord of the Flies dystopian approach to something that’s more Sci Fi. That development required suspension of disbelief (I don’t want to spoil anything, but the discovery requires a certain technological advancement that doesn’t exist yet). I also felt frustrated, since Benson’s discovery just posits more questions about the school that aren’t fully answered, even when we reach the cliff-hanger ending. Onward to the sequel then!

Overall, this is an admirable début effort – an intriguing well-paced plot, lots of thrills and suspense, a surprising twist, there’s even some age-appropriate non-mushy light romance for those who like that in their YA reads.

Variant by Robison Wells (HarperTeen) is available on Amazon as a Kindle edition, Hardcover edition and Audible audio edition. *also available at Amazon UK.

The eBook is also available at B&N, Apple iBooks, Kobo books

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‘Gem Falls (A Puzzle Game for Kindle)‘ by Nickel Buddy is available on the Amazon Kindle site for $1.99. Just click here to download!

Game Description

Gem Falls is a pattern matching game for Kindle. Gems are dropped one at a time onto the board where they stack on top of each other You control which column the gem will land on. Once it has fallen, groups of 3 or more of the same type of gem will explode, shifting the pile and possibly creating more matches. Place the gems carefully to keep the pile from reaching the top, while at the same time planning for chain reactions to gain big bonus points.

There are 12 levels of difficulty, each with their own challenge. In addition to the gems, special items such as bombs, drills, and bricks add new and different challenges for each level.

Simple to learn, but challenging to master, Gem Falls is great gem matching fun for Kindle!

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‘Poker Squares (A Poker Solitaire Game for Kindle)‘ by Two Way Media is available on the Amazon Kindle site for $1.99. Just click here to download!

Game Description

Can you make a dozen killer poker hands in one game?

Poker Squares is a game that appeals to both Poker and Solitaire lovers. Make Poker hands in the 5 by 5 grid to amass your score. Play horizontally, vertically and diagonally as the cards are dealt to you.

Simple to pick up, Poker Squares will have you scoring from the start, but you’ll need to think ahead and work in all directions if you are to become a master.

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‘Castle Dungeon (Adventure Role-Playing Game for Kindle)‘ by Golden Hammer Software is available on the Amazon Kindle site for $2.99. Just click here to download!

Game Description

Explore the depths of Castle Dungeon in this role-playing game adventure.

Use the controller to navigate through all 20 floors of the dungeon on your way to meet the guardian dragon. Find the best magical armor and weapons to become more powerful. Each game is a different adventure with a randomly-generated environment, monsters, and treasure.

Not enough health? Wear that Adamantium Helm of Constitution you just found. Having trouble hitting? Put more points into dexterity the next time you level up. You get to decide how to build your character to beat the skeletons, mummies, and ogres blocking your path.

Castle Dungeon is perfect for fans of classic dungeon crawling games.

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‘Cut The Shapes (A Puzzle Game for Kindle)‘ by Grabarchuk Puzzles is available on the Amazon Kindle site for $2.99. Just click here to download!

Game Description

Cut the Shapes is a unique puzzle experience for Kindle.

The goal is simple: Cut the shapes into congruent (identical) parts. Puzzles are of increasing difficulty up to almost impossible (but always solvable).

240 hand-crafted puzzles are included and 3 game modes, Basic, Domino and Trio, offer variety. Need help? Cut the Shapes can give you a hint. You can keep track of your time with a counter, and you can pause that timer when you want to take a break. You earn stars for each puzzle completed, and Cut the Shapes will track your scores so you can track your progress.

A super puzzle for exercising your visual skills, Cut the Shapes is a great pastime for young and old alike.

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‘LINGO (A Puzzle Game for Kindle Based on the TV Show)‘ by Route 1 Games is available on the Amazon Kindle site for $2.99. Just click here to download!

Game Description

LINGO, the worldwide game show phenomenon has arrived. If you watch LINGO on TV and think you can do better, now is the time to prove it.

This official game includes:

- Over 250 word games for all the family, the same fun format you watch on TV
- Three full levels plus the Bonus LINGO round for hours and hours of game play
- 1 Player and 2 Player modes
- The 1 Player mode is perfect for brain training fun
- The exciting 2 Player mode allows you to challenge friends and family in a battle of wordy wits
- Hi-Score table records the 10 best performances
- Exit the game and save progress at any time. Resume whenever you like

Fantastic fun whether you play alone or with friends for hours of quality gaming. It’s a game the whole family can enjoy and unlike anything else on Kindle.

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‘Spanish Anywhere (A Spanish Language Learning Tool for Kindle)‘ by AppAbove is available on the Amazon Kindle site for $5.99. Just click here to download!

Game Description

Learn Spanish and English at your fingertips anytime & anywhere in the world. Spanish Anywhere is perfect for travelers, students, business professionals, and anyone who wants to speak, read, study, pronounce, or translate Spanish & English.

Spanish Anywhere contains over 1,800 phrases and expressions for everyday situations and over 14,000 Words in the dictionary and reference sections. Use Flash Cards for vocabulary and phrases and quiz yourself on all the new phrases you’ve learned. 3 learning games, Word Scramble, Spelling Quiz, and Hangman, let you have a little fun while you learn. Not sure what tense to use? Use Complete Verb Conjugation for all Spanish and English tenses, indicative and subjunctive.

There are helpful phrases included for any scenario in the Situations and Reference sections. Topics include Greetings & Conversation, Food & Restaurant, Nightlife, Weather, Emergency, Travel, Hotel, Transportation, Shopping, Money, Family, Work & Office, Real Estate, Soccer, Cooking & Baking, Gardening, Measurements & Conversion, Hardware & Construction, and more.

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(If you don’t have a Kindle, don’t worry, you can still read the free books! Just download the Kindle for the PC, Kindle for the iPhone/iPod Touch, Kindle for the iPad, Kindle for BlackBerry or Kindle for Android!) And guess what, Kindle now supports library borrowing (US only)! (See Borrow Kindle Books from Your Local Library)

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‘Highland Sanctuary‘ by Jennifer Hudson Taylor (Abingdon Press Fiction) is available for FREE download on the Amazon US Kindle site. Just click here to download. Also free at Amazon UK and B&N.

Book Description

A Sanctuary of Secrets…Gavin MacKenzie, a chieftain heir who is hired to restore the ancient Castle of Braigh, discovers a hidden village of outcasts who have created their own private sanctuary from the world. Among them is Serena Boyd, a mysterious andcomely lass, who captures Gavin’s heart in spite of harboring a deadly past that could destroy her future.The villagers happen to be keeping an intriguing secret as well. When a fierce enemy launches an attack against them, greed leads to bitter betrayal. As Gavin prepares a defense, the villagers unite in a bold act of faith, showing how God’s love is more powerful than any human force on earth.

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‘A Time for Peace (Quilts of Lancaster County)‘ by Barbara Cameron (Abingdon Press Fiction) is available for FREE download on the Amazon US Kindle site. Just click here to download. Also free at Amazon UK and B&N.

Book Description

After Years of Hardship, Jenny’s Life Appears Perfect. So Why Does Something Seem to Be Missing?

Jenny Bontrager is finally at a place of love and belonging with her husband, Matthew, and his children. Life seems golden with both her family and career as a writer.

But everything Jenny now believes in is thrown into question with the discovery of a long-lost letter from her father. Her sense of peace and contentment destroyed by betrayal, Jenny struggles with her renewed faith–and the love of everyone around her.

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‘A Texan’s Promise (Heart of a Hero)‘ by Shelley Gray (Abingdon Press Fiction) is available for FREE download on the Amazon US Kindle site. Just click here to download. Also free at Amazon UK and B&N.

Book Description

Texas, 1872. Clayton Proffitt knows Vanessa Grant can no longer live at home. Once more, he knows he’s the only person who should take her away. Before Vanessa’s father’s death, Clayton promised he’d do everything in his power to keep her safe. So begins their journey from the plains of west Texas to the mountains of Colorado. Along the way, their faith is tested and their safety compromised. But most of all, Clayton’s promise is tested. He will do anything to honor his promise to her father . . . even if it means it will break his heart. When Clayton Proffitt, foreman of the Circle Z Ranch in Texas, discovers Vanessa Grant crying in the barn late one night, he first thinks she’s gotten herself into another scrape. But when he spies the marks on her back and hears about her stepfather’s advances, Clayton knows he must spirit Vanessa away to safety.As they make their way west, it becomes apparent that there’s something special between Vanessa and Clayton— far more significant than mere friendship or his sense of duty. Unfortunately, also heading west are Vanessa’s brother Miles and her stepfather Price Venture. Price wants Vanessa back for obvious reasons; Miles wants to earn his stepfather’s respect. Eventually, unexpected confrontations reach a harrowing conclusion. As their family begins to heal, their journey and trials they’ve faced helps them realize their future is in God’s guiding hands.

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‘Always the Baker, Never the Bride‘ by Sandra D. Bricker (Abingdon Press Fiction) is available for FREE download on the Amazon US Kindle site. Just click here to download. Also free at Amazon UK and B&N.

Book Description

Thirty-six-year-old Emma Rae Travis has been baking specialty cakes and melt-in-your-mouth pastries at The Backstreet Bakery in historic Roswell, just outside of Atlanta, for the last six years. But here’s the rub about her job as a baker … Emma is diabetic. When she tastes her creations, it can only be in the most minute portions. Emma is considered an artisan for the stunning creme brulee wedding cake that won her the Passionate Palette Award last year, but she’s never even had one full slice of it.

When Jackson Drake hears about this local baker who has won a prestigious award for her wedding cake artistry, he tells his assistant to be sure and include her in the pastry tastings scheduled at his new wedding destination hotel the following week. And for Jackson, that particular day has started out badly with two workmen trapped in a broken elevator and a delivery of several dozen 300-thread-count bed linens in the wrong size abandoned in the lobby. But when the arrogant baker he met a week prior in Roswell stumbles into the dining room with a platter of pastries and a bucketful of orders, he knows for certain: It’s going to be a really rotten day.

Can these two ill-suited players master the high-wire act and make a go of their new business venture? Or will they take each other crashing downward, without a net? And will the surprise wedding at The Tanglewood be theirs?

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Previously published by Jove

‘Primal Instinct‘ by Robert W. Walker is available for FREE download on the Amazon US Kindle site. Just click here to download.

Book Description

Jessica Coran’s Hawaiian vacation is cut short when she is ordered to assist in the urgent investigation of a local serial killer called the Cane Cutter. Jessica is no rookie when it comes to dealing with serial killers, but this time she must infiltrate the seedy underworld of Hawaii–where she’ll need more than her FBI badge to survive.

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The audiobook of Her Royal Spyness: A Royal Spyness Mystery [UNABRIDGED] [Audible Audio Edition] by Rhys Bowen (Narrated by Katherine Kellgren) is available for FREE download on the Audible.Com site! Enjoy!

Product Description:

Audie Award Nominee – Best Mystery/Suspense Audiobook, 2011

Georgie, aka Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, cousin of King George V of England, is penniless and trying to survive on her own as an ordinary person in London in 1932.

So far she has managed to light a fire and boil an egg… She’s gate-crashed a wedding… She’s making money by secretly cleaning houses… And she’s been asked to spy for Her Majesty the Queen.

Everything seems to be going swimmingly until she finds a body in her bathtub… and someone is definitely trying to kill her.

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A Drowned Maiden’s Hair by Laura Amy Schlitz (Candlewick) is now available at the specially discounted price of $0.99 on the US Kindle site.

Book Description

Maud Flynn is known at the orphanage for her impertinence. So when the charming Miss Hyacinth chooses her to take home, the girl is pleased but baffled, until she learns of her new role: helping to stage elaborate séances for bereaved patrons. As Maud is drawn deeper into the deception, playing the “secret child,” she is torn between her need to please and her growing conscience. It takes a shocking betrayal to make clear just how heartless her so-called guardians are.

Filled with fascinating details of turn-of-the-century spiritualism and page-turning suspense, this novel from Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz features a feisty heroine whom readers will not soon forget.

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Hey, Amazon UK Kindlers, you get your own special Kindle Daily Deal too!

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‘Mirage Men‘ by Mark Pilkington (Constable) is now available at the specially discounted price of £1.09 on the UK Kindle site. *The US Kindle edition is priced at $9.99.

Book Description

In Mirage Men Mark Pilkington explores the complex, symbiotic relationship between the US military and intelligence agencies and the UFO enigma itself, together with its attendant culture of researchers, enthusiasts, mystics and charlatans. Amongst them are the Mirage Men, a close-knit group of men and women whose careers span science, medicine, the military and the intelligence services. All believe that they have received parts of a flying-saucer-shaped puzzle whose final pieces lie tantalisingly out of reach. Yet for how long?

Many of the Mirage Men believe that official ‘disclosure’ – a government announcement about the extraterrestrial presence – is just around the corner.The catch is that the world of the Mirage Men may actually be the real world, or at least the world as it really is – it’s just that the rest of us haven’t realised it yet. If we listen to the Mirage Men, somewhere deep within the sprawling apparatus of US government lies the ultimate truth about UFOs and extraterrestrials. This is the Holy Grail that the Mirage Men are chasing.

Mirage Men is not your average UFO book: it is about UFOs, those who believe in them, and those who would have us believe in them.

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