Only 2 truly new books this week, but several other-store repeat freebies now free in Sony/Kobo/ADE-compatible ePub format, and a few additional stores for some of the existing books. Plus some of those promo short things with bonus content.
Added new: 1 Christian non-fiction, 2 Christian fiction, 1 animal memoir, 1 YA paranormal/fantasy, 2 Southern fiction, 1 fantasy, 2 romance (probably both historical), some short promo stories, and an older surprisingly still free book that you might like to try to see if the links still work. Updated a bunch of stuff, which is grouped after the new freebies.
Some of the new Borders books are possibly glitch freebies, so while I'm leaving in the links just in case, don't be too disappointed if you can't get them. There are also some very low cost sale books below the list.
Secular
A Dog Named Slugger, pet memoir by Leigh Brill
Bridge to Happiness, general self-discovery fiction (may be a chick lit/romance) by Jill Barnett
Goddess of Fried Okra, general self-discovery fiction by Jean Brashear
Moonstone, paranormal/fantasy YA by Marilee Brothers; doesn't seem romance-y, so I'm filing it with SF/Fantasy/Horror
The Arm of the Stone fantasy novel by Victoria Strauss
Sweeter Than Wine serialized vampire paranormal by L. Neil Smith
A Proper Companion Regency backlist romance by Candice Hern
A Fool Again romance novella by Eloisa James
The Duchess's Tattoo historical drama tie-in short story by Daisy Goodwin
Chunk of Hell thriller tie-in short story by Steven Sidor
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13 Little Blue Envelopes is now @ Kobo
The Abandoned by Amanda Stevens is now @ Kobo & Borders
Photographs & Phantoms by Cindy Spencer Pape is now @ Sony & Kobo
Surprisingly still free (links may be non-functional if you don't already have them):
When Darkness Falls by James Grippando. Thriller offered in 3-parts as a promotional gimmick.
Christian
The Whole Life Adoption Book, family planning self-help advice by Jayne E. Schooler and Thomas Atwood
Griselda Takes Flight general self-discovery literary fiction by Joyce Magnin
Medical Error, 2nd in a hospital-based thriller series by Richard L. Mabry
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Love Me If You Must is now also free @ Kobo
And while I have your attention, I might as well draw it to several fairly good bargains this month:
Sourcebooks is having a sale on various kids' books, historical romances and Arthurian fantasy novels, and autism and Civil War non-fiction, all for $2.99 or less, across most of the stores. These drop even more when you shop @ Kobo and use the $1 off KoboSpring1 coupon code (good until April 30th, though sometimes Kobo expires stuff early).
See
this MR thread for a list of the romances, tips on getting all the cheap stuff to show, and avoiding the ones for which Kobo has no ePub version.
The $2 off code mentioned there is dead, by the way. Apparently it was "
discontinued because of distribution issues", which probably means that it got spread around too widely.
For science fiction and fantasy lovers, you can get two very good deals this month:
In the US, Iain M. Banks'
Consider Phlebas, 1st in his highly acclaimed Culture series, is Orbit Books' monthly promotion at
only 99 cents in most of the stores.
For worldwide users, Phoenix Pick is not only giving away their monthly free e-book, but is also having 50% off their already discounted-by-15% "Publisher Direct" prices when you buy from their website, good until the end of April.
They are DRM-free and reprint several midlist sf/fantasy authors' backlists, as well as a couple of award winners. See
this MR thread for the coupon codes for both the monthly freebie and the 50% off sale.
I especially recommend L. Sprague de Camp's
Lest Darkness Fall, which is a major time-travel classic and comes with three other related stories in this new edition, and Nancy Kress' Hugo Award-winning novella
Act One, if you didn't get it when it was the featured free book a couple of months ago.
Also recommended, Michael Flynn's
The Forest of Time and Other Stories which has the author's comments on each story, and Victoria Strauss'
The Garden of the Stone, sequel to this month's free book which is shaping up to be a pretty good read so far, and only $2.12 after the coupon (and the first is a fairly long book, at 7000+ locations, so you're definitely getting your money's worth as far as word count goes).