Phoenix Pick's Ebook of the month:
The Engines of Dawn by Paul Cook and free with registration and coupon code 9991522. Scroll down in their site until you reach this book, identified as "FREE EBOOK of the Month." Available through the month of November.
Description: The great engines of the Enamorati have enabled humanity to travel the stars, but at what cost? Little is known of the jealously guarded engines while a complacent humanity slowly loses its edge and becomes increasingly dependent on mysterious alien technologies.
However, when an engine failure strands a university ship, Professor Ben Bennet and a group of students challenge the status quo and start discovering hidden secrets that threaten the future of humanity itself.