Content FREE (and bargain) books for the Kindle - June 2011

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Veiled Eyes (Lake People) by C.L. Bevill

A vivid waking dream of giant cypress trees dripping with Spanish moss haunts Anna St. Thais. The trees sit on a black lake that resembles a dark Louisiana bayou with an evocative aura. The dream includes the presence of a man who seems to know Anna all too well and a group of people with strange telepathic powers, sometimes called veiled eyes. An orphan from Texas, she is on her way east to help out a friend when she encounters two terrifying things. Psychically, she begins to see and hear things through the eyes of an unknown individual, a man who knows more about her than she ever would have imagined. The second thing is that she has been kidnapped by a sociopathic trucker intent on making her his latest victim. When she is rescued by Gabriel Bergeron, a member of the elusive Lake People in Northwestern Louisiana, Anna doesn’t realize that he is her psychic counterpart and she has been inexplicably pulled to the area. She shares their strange colored gold eyes and their distinctive mental powers. They are a reclusive lot and know that Anna is one of them, but has been isolated by unknown circumstances. She is drawn into their incomparable world, something between that of the Creoles and Cajuns, and much in addition to those. There Anna finds a romantic link with Gabriel and the spine-tingling fear of not knowing who to trust. Her return has disturbed the inner workings of the group and threatens to expose secrets long concealed in the murky Louisiana bayous. There are secrets to be divulged about her past and why she was spirited away as an infant. Anna isn’t safe until she discovers the answers she so desperately requires.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0042P5DA6?tag=discounter-20

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Missy Tonight by Tom Lichtenberg

These days it seems like everyone is cashing in on the New Atheism craze, except for lifelong unbeliever Alan Musted. What’s a portable toilet dispatcher to do? Crash the party, that’s what! Join Alan and his friends and enemies in this ground-breaking work of “atheist pulp fiction”, the spellbinding sequel to Orange Car with Stripes

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002ZNJVO6?tag=discounter-20

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Victoria Gardella: Vampire Slayer (The Gardella Vampire Chronicles) by Colleen Gleason

(Previously published as part of The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance)

A short story introducing readers to the Gardella Vampire Chronicles.

1820: Victoria Gardella tries to enjoy a ball with her new beau, Lord Rockley--but when bloodthirsty vampires come upon the scene, she must leave the fun in order to employ her stake along- side a grim Max Pesaro (vampire slayer) and the mysterious Sebastian Vioget.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003MAK5H8?tag=discounter-20

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World Weary Avengers by Tom Lichtenberg

The good folks at World Weary Avengers Incorporated had a simple idea - changing the world for the better by talking loudly in public. Seemed simple enough, but even with the help of the most sophisticated hand held device ever invented, some jobs are better not left to amateurs. You never know what kind of hell could break loose.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00413PTLC?tag=discounter-20

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Manual For Living: Reality - TIME by Seth Chernoff

Award-winning book by two-cancer survivor! TIME, the FREE SAMPLE BOOK. A genuine user's guide to the meaning of life, the award-winning Manual For Living: Reality will change the way you see the world. Its straightforward guidance and practical wisdom will help you remain true to your path and purpose in life. Find True Fulfillment and Lasting Happiness, Overcome Your Fear Of Death, Learn How to Fully Experience Life, Reconnect with Your Inner Truth, and Discover Your True Purpose. Over 8,000 DOWNLOADS!

Rave reviews from around the country:
I'd recommend this book to everyone. - Luxury Reading

It is a beautiful testament to life and living. A book to help one reach his greatest potential and grasp his dreams. - A Novel Source

I want to say thank you for writing this book! I am only a quarter of the way into it and it is really making a difference in my life! "They say" when you are ready the teacher will appear. I'm glad you did. - Kim G.

A wonderful, thoughtful and compassionate book. It goes to the heart of what it is to be human. We highly recommend Manual For Living! Drink from its wisdom! Ed & Deb Shapiro, authors BE THE CHANGE - How Meditation Can Transform You and the World

Seth Chernoff has taken on the deepest and richest questions of life and death. Listen to his journey, his insight and begin to savor the search for peace within the spectrum of life. - Don Campbell, Musician and Author of Sound Spirit and The Mozart Effect

Manual For Living gives you valuable insight necessary to enhance and enrich your life bringing you closer to fulfillment and true happiness. Manual for Living is full of wisdom to help you find your way. Every page is filled with human emotion about life, death, and everything in between. - TCM Reviews

If you have the chance to pick up this gold mine to read, please do. It is helping me in so many ways. -Read With Tea Book Review Blog

Seth David Chernoff is an award-winning author, two-time cancer survivor, marketing professional, and founder of multiple companies. His work has been featured previously in the Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Popular Mechanics, Business Week, USA Today, on radio stations around the country, and ABC and PBS TV.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004A8ZV0M?tag=discounter-20

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Vasily & The Works (Tales from the Middle Empires) by J. Patrick Sutton

A novella set in the Irredente universe.

Young Vasily Alexseyev inherits a great manufactory from a successful, overbearing father but must first wait for his mother to step down as regent. She's reluctant, having found her calling and being filled with worry that the dilettante Vasily isn't ready. Impatient to claim his mantle, and resentful over his perceived mistreatment, Vasily takes matters into his own hands. Having entered a software coding competition on a lark, he decides to use his competition entry to inject something of himself into the Works' mainframe computer. When the Works comes crashing down, feudal Linnet, a world ruled by industrial oligarchy, will be changed forever.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0048EJY0Q?tag=discounter-20

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Just Dial 911 for Assistance by Jason Krumbine

Slice of Life/Family Chris Allen, a 911 Dispatcher and part-time online columnist, is about to have a busy twelve days. For starters, there’s that pesky 911 call he took that’s probably going to send him to court. On the upside, though, Chris gets to meet the cute new receptionist at the Sheriff’s office. A hint of romance may cheer things up, that is, if his ex doesn’t keep hanging around and playing her usual mind games.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001U0PANQ?tag=discounter-20

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Hilda - Snow White Revisited (Hilda the Wicked Witch) by Paul Kater

Hilda the witch is coming to the rescue of Snow White, as her wicked stepmother tries to get rid of the princess.

Note: recommended reading age 17 or older

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00551DEM0?tag=discounter-20

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The Arrival (BirthRight Trilogy) by Nicole MacDonald

Cat, Kassie, Sian and Loi are anything but damsels in distress. Fed up with a lack of decent male specimens they cast a love spell in the hopes of finding their soul-mates. And inadvertently land themselves on another planet.
Oops.

The Arrival, follows the girls' adventures as they stumble through a foreign and often hostile world where humans are NOT at the top of the food chain. Friendships are forged and love teeters on the horizon while the threat of civil war looms thanks to the girls' very unexpected 'gifts'.

Will the girls master these gifts in time to survive a war in which, not only are they the ultimate weapons, but also the ultimate prize?

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004HD5WAE?tag=discounter-20

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In the House of Five Dragons by E.D. Lindquist

He is not the hero they remember. This is not the world he knew.

It's been thirty years since Njorn Pass, since the victory that birthed an empire. Thirty years since Rikard Mazrem drew his blood in the snow, trading his life away to the Alterra of the next world and vanished from the ice-bound battlefield. For decades, the people of Carce revered Rikard as a hero.
But now Rikard Mazrem has returned to find the world changed. Or perhaps he is the one who has changed...

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004M18T5Q?tag=discounter-20

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Sacred Secrets, A Jacody Ives Mystery (Jacody Ives Mysteries) by Linda S. Prather

Sacred Secrets is the prequel to award winning, The Gifts, A Jacody Ives Mystery. The story behind the story. Revealing the dark secret hidden of Gavin McAllister that created Jacody Ives.

Jacody Ives had never had to wonder whether evil existed. He was born knowing it was there. A cunning predator, silently stalking its prey. Lurking in the shadows. Waiting. Patiently waiting for the delicate balance to shift. Give it power. Grant it life. Feeding on lies and manipulation. Anger and hate. Growing stronger as it chipped away at the soul. Destroying the light until there was nothing left but the darkness.

Evil attracts evil. He’d heard its call in the nightmare. The girl was dead, but she wanted something from him. “Please. . .”, she whispered. A small prayer in the darkness. Unanswered.

He would answer. There’d never been any other choice for him. Evil knew his name.

G. A. Bixler
IP Book Reviewer

"Truthfully? I was hooked with the Prologue! Except for personal breaks, I read straight through, turning page after page, wonderfully surprised by each new step of fate and how each was mystically woven into one of the best novels I've had the pleasure to read! It's a MUST READ!

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003UHVS9C?tag=discounter-20

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More bargains from Hachette:

Countess of Scandal (The Daughters of Erin) by Laurel McKee ($1.99)

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As children, Eliza Blacknall and William Denton ran wild over the fields of southern Ireland and swore they would be friends forever. Then fate took Will away to England, while Eliza stayed behind to become a proper Irish countess.
Years later, Will finally makes his way home-as an English soldier sent to crush the Irish uprising. When he spies the lovely Eliza, he is captivated by the passionate woman she has become. But Eliza's passions have led her to join the Irish rebel cause, and Will and Eliza now find themselves on opposite sides of a dangerous conflict.
When Ireland explodes in bloody rebellion, Will's regiment is ordered to the front lines, and he is forced to choose between his duty to the English king and his love for Eliza and their Irish homeland.

Knight of Desire by Margaret Mallory ($2.99 again)

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FEARLESS IN BATTLE

His surcoat still bloody from battle, William FitzAlan comes to claim the strategic borderlands granted to him by the king. One last prize awaits him at the castle gates: the lovely Lady Catherine Rayburn.

TENDER IN BED

Catherine risked everything to spy for the crown. Her reward? Her lands are declared forfeit and she is given this choice: marry FitzAlan or be taken to the Tower. Catherine agrees to give her handsome new husband her body, but she's keeping secrets, and dare not give him her heart. As passion ignites and danger closes in, Catherine and William must learn to trust in each other to save their marriage, their land, and their very lives.

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The Hawk and the Dove: Book One by Penelope Wilcock from Christian publisher Crossway

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In a moment of decision, they will each face the truth of their own heart in God's presence

Tom must choose between the beautiful girl he loves and the call of God upon his life.

In utter despair and abandonment, Francis finds that Someone is already praying in his own dark Gethsemane. Never again will he need to hide his pain and insecurity behind a jest.

When James cannot escape the truth of who he is, waves of shame threaten to engulf him. He pours out his confession and grief to God and rises a newborn child of grace

They belonged to another century, yet their struggles are our own—finding our niche; coping with failure; living with impossible people; and changing when we realize that we are the impossible one. These humble seekers, called to live together in brotherhood, discover in the daily rhythm of their work and worship that the whole of life is a love story about a tender and passionate God. Rich with imagery and emotion, their tales depict love in action, and love given in the most trying of circumstances.

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Bone Rattler: A Mystery of Colonial America by Eliot Pattison

From Edgar Award–winning author Eliot Pattison comes a compelling, multilayered novel rich in historical detail. Aboard a British convict ship bound for the New World, Duncan McCallum witnesses a series of murders and apparent suicides among fellow Scottish prisoners. A strange trail of clues leads Duncan into the bloody maw of the French and Indian War.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003OUX5DM?tag=discounter-20

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Bargain book collection (6 books in 1)

The Best Contemporary Women's Fiction: Six Novels by Nicole Mones, Ann Patchett, Maggie O'Farrell , Jenna Blum, Elizabeth Benedict, Molly Gloss for $13.20 at the US Kindle store (Each book bought solo ranges from $8-10!)

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Best Contemporary Women’s Fiction: Six Novels includes works by some of the finest novelists of today.

Almost by Elizabeth Benedict ($9.39 solo) chronicles the attempt of writer Sophy Chase to come to terms with the death of her almost ex-husband -- who may have committed suicide on the New England resort island where she left him just months before.

Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum ($7.98 solo) follows Trudy, a professor of German history, as she investigates her mother's past and the truth surrounding her life in Germany during WWII. Combining a passionate, doomed love story, a vivid evocation of life during the war, and a poignant mother/daughter drama, Those Who Save Us is a profound exploration of what we endure to survive and the legacy of shame.

The Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss ($8.51 solo) is a heartwarming, greatly satisfying story of a young woman with the rare talent of “gentling” wild horses and the unexpected and profound connections between people and animals.

The Last Chinese Chef by Nicole Mones ($9.99 solo) takes readers inside the hidden world of elite cuisine in modern China through the story of an American food writer in Beijing. When recently widowed Maggie McElroy is called to China to settle a claim against her late husband’s estate, she is blindsided by the discovery that he may have led a double life.

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell ($9.29 solo) is a gothic, intricate tale of family secrets, lost lives, and the freedom brought by truth that will haunt you long past its final page.

The Magician’s Assistant by Ann Patchett ($9.66 solo) tells the story of a secretive magician's death that sets in motion his partner's journey of self-discovery.