Indie Freebies for the Kindle

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Thomas Gibson by Martin Rouillard

Henry Thompson is the story of a traveling salesman with a rather unique product to offer. One night, while staying at a hotel in Port Hudson, he meets Marc Grondin, a younger sales rep for a printing company. After learning what Henry is selling, Marc can hardly believe anyone could do this job and his night will take a turn that he will never forget.

This is a light, comical and thrilling story, based on historical facts that will surely intrigue the reader.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004ZS90DG?tag=discounter-20

Also free at Amazon.co.uk:
Thomas Gibson

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The Walled Garden by Michele Lang

A young woman with a turbulent past discovers a secret world under New York City in the 1980s. Here there be magic, and monsters…

After surviving a brutal attack at college, Mireya Rodriguez must choose whether she will live her life, or simply survive. A seemingly chance encounter with a man named Jonathan Mellon leads to magic, romance, and danger in a secret world hidden under the streets of NYC.

This is an expanded version of the story that originally appeared in The Mammoth Book of Time Travel Romance, also available as a collection from Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004KSQDBI?tag=discounter-20

Also free at Amazon.co.uk:
The Walled Garden

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Spikebreaker by Gareth Lewis

Telepaths are heavily regulated, virtual third class citizens, second class if working for the Specialist Psychic Intervention unit, dealing with psychic crimes, and handling Spikes, newly emerged telepaths endangering all around them. Lydia is a SPI telepath. Jack is her Spikebreaker, a mentally compatible police officer. Together they fight, well, mainly each other.

An 11,000 word novelette.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004YQVP1O?tag=discounter-20

Also free at Amazon.co.uk:
Spikebreaker

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Queen of Arlin (The Cyber Chronicles) by T C Southwell

When Queen Tassin Alrade of Arlin is forced to flee her kingdom on the backwater planet of Omega Five, she has no idea that the strange warrior who helps her is a cyborg; the deadliest hi-tech killing machine ever created. Her world has forgotten the technology that almost destroyed it, but then a freak accident damages the micro-supercomputer that controls Sabre, and he is free to take charge of his destiny.

The cyber-bio combat unit has metal-plated bones and internal body armour, and is virtually indestructible. He is trained in every art of combat, able to use any weapon, speak every language and operate any craft, and the data stored in his brain, intended for the supercomputer’s use, is even updated at regular intervals.

Sabre agrees to help Tassin escape the kings who pursue her with the intention of annexing her kingdom through marriage, by right of capture. Tassin, however, has never known hardship, and finds Sabre’s lack of courtly manners annoying, while he finds the high-spirited and spoilt young queen a trial. Yet he cannot abandon her, for she needs his help, although her high-handed ways always seem to land her, and, by association, Sabre, in trouble.

After she foils several of his attempts to rescue her from the enemy kings’ plotting allies and keep her safe, Sabre is left with only one option: to flee into the Badlands, a radioactive desert that was created by a nuclear war centuries ago, at the centre of which lies the most dangerous and dreaded area on Omega Five: the Death Zone.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0050VH9VW?tag=discounter-20

Also free at Amazon.co.uk:
Queen of Arlin (The Cyber Chronicles)

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Out, Damned Spot by Dan Dillard

From the collection, "What Tangled Webs"
There's a spot on the ceiling. Did it move? Is it growing? This spot, is it real, or is it personified hatred? Loathing that has seeped from his wife's very psyche and come to life to stalk him in his own bed. Madness is the next logical step as the spot grows teeth and becomes mobile.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004QS97TW?tag=discounter-20

Also free at Amazon.co.uk:
Out, Damned Spot

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When Cows Fly by Tom Watson

A fun story written in a rhyming, limerick style, "When Cows Fly" is aimed at the younger set. Illustrated with finely cut paper illustrations, the story revolves around a boy in the woods, his pet cows and a massive pile of garbage that is accumulating nearby. Jacob takes matters into his own hands. He attaches wings to his cows and they go to work. What happens next is both funny and (a little bit ... ) gross. You can probably guess.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004IK958G?tag=discounter-20

Also free at Amazon.co.uk:
When Cows Fly

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Prophecy (Slave Empire) by T C Southwell

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Under the Southern Cross, or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa and other Pacific Islands by Maturin M. Ballou

Copyright 1887 - Preface - "Dr. Johnson is reported to have said that the best way to travel is to sit by one's own fireside and read how others have done it; but though this may be the safest mode it certainly is not the pleasantest. This many travelled writer knows; and he also knows that could he succeed in adequately inspiring the reader with his accounts of the delights of foreign experiences, especially those of the grand, beautiful, and marvellous exhibitions of Nature, he would surely induce him to add to his own enjoyment by similar personal experiences. That there is a degree of pleasure in recording these observations we freely confess; but that one constantly feels how inadequate is language to convey a realizing sense of what is actually enjoyed in travel we must as freely admit. Madame Swetchine was more sarcastic than truthful when she pronounced travel to be the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones. To an observant person nothing can be more instructive than travel; in fact it may be said to be the only royal road to learning. Travel is a magician,--it both enchants and disenchants; since while it delights the eye, it often proves the winding-sheet of many cherished illusions. There is always some bitter to be tasted with every sweet; but even the bee which finds a thorn on
every rose comes home laden with honey."

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0046ZRINM?tag=discounter-20

Also free at Amazon.co.uk:
Under the Southern Cross, or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa and other Pacific Islands

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Powerless: The Synthesis by Jason Letts

Mira Ipswich couldn't have ever known the startling difference that separates her from the rest of humanity. But when she discovers a strange anomaly in the midst of her seclusion, her parents are forced to reveal she exists in a world where everyone is imbued with a wondrous natural gift. Everyone except herself that is. Accompany Mira as her attempts to fit in among peers and understand her inconceivable condition embroil her with the dangerous forces threatening her homeland. Protected by nothing more than her imagination and ingenuity, she begins to explore the strange world around her she never knew was there.

The first book in the Powerless series is the tale of Mira’s turbulent and perilous entry into the world around her. And once she’s a part of it, nothing will ever be the same again.

Edited by Chuck Wightman, the story is already raking in the awards. It's won the Webb Weaver 2010 Writer's Competition, the judges proclaiming they were "entranced by the writer's ability to bring together this unlikely group of kids," and that the book could "be a hit in the YA book world." The story is a roller-coaster ride filled with lots to discover in an ever-expanding world, a set of diverse characters, and their deepest hopes and aspirations. If you like stories with plenty of dramatic twists and spirited intensity, it'll have you falling in love with a brand new series and begging for more!

Powerless: The Synthesis is approximately 89,000 words long.

All five books in the Powerless series are now available on Amazon!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003OQUOFI?tag=discounter-21

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A Cold Day for Murder (Kate Shugak #1) by Dana Stabenow

Somewhere in the hinterlands of Alaska, among the millions of sprawling acres that comprise “The Park,” a young National Park Ranger has gone missing. When the detective sent after him also vanishes, the Anchorage DA’s department must turn to their reluctant former investigator, Kate Shugak. Shugak knows The Park because she’s of The Park, an Aleut who left her home village of Niniltna to pursue education, a career, and the righting of wrongs. Kate’s search for the missing men will take her from self-imposed exile back to a life she’d left behind, and face-to-face with people and problems she'd hoped never to confront again.

The first novel in the popular Kate Shugak Series, A Cold Day for Murder established Dana Stabenow as a new voice in Alaskan mystery writing, and earned her an Edgar Award.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004S87M92?tag=discounter-21

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Hollywood Scandals (Hollywood Headlines) by Gemma Halliday

(FORMERLY PUBLISHED UNDER THE TITLE: SCANDAL SHEET.)

**RITA AWARD NOMINEE**

"Fans of Janet Evanovich will love this spin off of the High Heels Mysteries!" - Jen. B, avid reader

Tina Bender is the gossip columnist at the infamous L.A. Informer tabloid. She knows everything about everyone who's anyone. And she's not afraid to print it. That is, until she receives a threatening note, promising, "If you don't stop writing about me, you're dead." Now her managing editor, Felix Dunn (from the High Heels Mysteries), has her teaming with a built bodyguard, a bubbly blonde, and an alcoholic obituary writer to uncover just which juicy piece of Hollywood gossip is worth killing over.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004A14PZG?tag=discounter-21

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Scent of Danger (Darklands) by Autumn Dawn

Ever fall in love with the wrong man?

With a body to make a young girl sigh and a voice like black velvet, Mathin is definitely the wrong man. He’s not safe, he’s not stable…he’s not even human.

Andrea doesn’t know what she’s getting into when she agrees to visit her granny. Swept away to another world by a man almost too hot to handle, she can’t decide if it’s a dream come true or someone’s idea of a sick joke.

Romanced by the light of the triple moons, entranced by Mathin’s fiery kisses, will Andrea give up her home on Earth in exchange for something wild?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0043M4NJ0?tag=discounter-21

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A Cold Day For Murder is also available free from the author's website . I downloaded the book and enjoyed it very much as well as her Fire and Ice .

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Hollywood Scandals is also available from Barnes & Noble and from Smashwords .

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The End of the World, by Andrew Biss, free for those in the UK (UK link)

Book Description
Accustomed to a life of cosseted seclusion at home with his parents, Valentine is suddenly faced with making his own way in the world. His new life is quickly upended, however, when he's mugged at gunpoint. Finding shelter at a mysterious inn run by the dour Mrs. Anna, he soon encounters a Bosnian woman with a hole where her stomach used to be, an American entrepreneur with a scheme to implant televisions into people's foreheads, and a Catholic priest who attempts to lure him down inside a kitchen sink. Then things start getting strange...

In this story based loosely around the state of Bardo from The Tibetan Book of the Dead - an intermediate state where the dead arrive prior to rebirth - dying is the easy part. Getting out of Bardo and returning to the land of the living is a far more perilous proposition, and unless you know what you're doing...you might never leave.

An odd, yet oddly touching tale of life, death, and the space in-between.