Indie Freebies for the Kindle

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New indie freebies (mostly short stories)

Right Ascension (Edge of Apocalypse) by David Derrico

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Set in the year 3040, Right Ascension explores mankind's place in the Universe, how we ascended to that lofty position, and the horrifying price of that ascension.

Broken Highway (A Thomas Highway Story) by Brian Springer

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Thomas Highway is a broken man.

Six months ago he'd been living his dream, embarking on covert missions and killing terrorists to keep America safe from harm as a Navy SEAL.

Then disaster struck, in the form of a flesh-eating virus that ended his career and nearly his life.

Now he spends his nights alone, drinking himself into oblivion, just trying to make it through another day without killing himself.

Then one afternoon an old friend arrives, begging for his help to take down a dangerous fugitive. Highway reluctantly accepts, deciding that putting his skills to use might alleviate some of his pain. But as the night drags on, he realizes he may just have found more than he has bargained for.

Spine Slaughter by Nick Spalding

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A comedy horror short story from Nick Spalding, author of the best selling Life... With No Breaks & The Cornerstone.

Tuned In to Love: a Short Story by Karen Jerabek

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A short story for anyone who's ever questioned whether they should trust their gut.

Moth Madness by Eric Wilder

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A short story by Eric Wilder, author of the murder mystery Morning Mist of Blood.

A New Age groupie visiting Santa Fe, New Mexico comes to grips with elements of spiritualism old as time itself. When she meets a Navajo witch, ghosts, spirits, American Indian mysticism, and a mysterious voice from the past, greet her in a pueblo not far from Taos. The meeting casts doubts on her previous perception of spiritulism.

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Silken Threads (Wexford Family Series) by Patricia Ryan

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Prequel to The Sun and the Moon. In this RITA-winning medieval romance inspired by Hitchcock’s Rear Window, a soldier heals from a broken leg in the London home of a young widow who steals his heart—but his future rests on an arranged marriage to his lord’s daughter. Originally published by New American Library, a division of Penguin Putnam, Inc.

Won Romance Wrters of America’s RITA Award for Best Long Historical Romance. Nominated by Romantic Times magazine for Best Historical Romantic Mystery. Made the Ingrams A-List of Top 50 Requested Titles for four weeks.

Swing: A Psychopathy by German Alcala

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A musical novel of death, love, and crime. In a small town two teenagers fall in love, but hide their feelings from each other in doubt. A father with a twisted past abuses his son. a frightened boy commits suicide, and a psychopathy ensues taking families and many victims in this thrilling story of horrific rape, suicide, murder, homosexuality, drug abuse, barbaric incest, insanity, and matricide.

Election Erection (Men's Men) by B. J. Hudson

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A Super Quickie Read by B. J. Hudson (16 pages).

Robert is running for Mayor and is looking for support from a local Judge, but his ex-lover has just confessed to the Judge about their being a couple in college, now Robert is under the gun, he comes face to face with his former lover, in more ways than one…

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The One You Love by Paul Pilkington

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Emma Holden's nightmare has just begun. Her fiancé vanishes, leaving the battered and bloodied body of his brother in their London apartment. Someone is stalking her, watching her every move. And her family are hiding a horrifying secret; a secret that threatens all those she loves. In a desperate race against time, Emma must uncover the truth if she ever wants to see her fiancé alive again.

A fast-paced suspense thriller, The One You Love follows in the tradition of writers such as Linwood Barclay, Harlan Coben and Nicci French.

Autobiomythography & Gallery by Joe Millar

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Named the "Best First Book" of poems for the year, this collection by Joe Millar was short-listed for the Yale Younger Poets prize, the National Poetry Series, and the Academy of American Poets’ Walt Whitman Award, offering its readers a "language [that] is striking—nearly perfect." Joe grew up along the Space Coast of Florida and attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

The Career Explorer's Journal by Paul Diamond

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Whether you are just starting out, half-way through, near the end of your career, returning to work or gearing up for a big step into the unknown, The Career Explorer’s Journal invites you to explore and discover for yourself where you want your career to go.

Every career journey is unique but that doesn't mean you have to travel alone. The Career Explorer’s Journal allows you to compare notes and share experiences with famous figures from the past as well as modern-day career explorers just like you. Forging a close link with explorers and exploring, you’ll find plenty of support and encouragement on your personal journey towards confident career decisions and important discoveries that keep you moving forward.

The Career Explorer’s Journal joins each reader on a brand new journey. It gives you the time, space and encouragement to reflect on the past, present and future of your relationship with work. You’ll find new knowledge and new experiences all within your grasp, as well as new ways to support what you think and what you do, with first-hand evidence that you reveal for yourself.

Each reader will have their own reasons for going on a journey like this but the same thing is likely to inspire every one from start to finish: a growing sense of trust and confidence in where you want your career to go.

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Forge of Stones by Vasileios Kalampakas

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In a world dominated by a theocratic regime, a rebel and a thinker embark on an unwilling adventure that will challenge everything about the past and shape their future in ways they could not have ever imagined. A strange pilgrim sets out on a journey that will bring him to the heart of everything, while all the while a revolution that will turn brother against brother is brewing. The truth behind everything will shatter their world, and nothing will ever be the same again.

What's So Great About Salvation? by James Somers

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Have you ever been given a big expensive present for Christmas? It was wrapped in costly array with silver and gold ribbons upon it and despite your great appreciation upon receiving it, you never actually opened it. In many ways this is exactly what happens when a person receives God's free gift of salvation through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. They have the gift. They carry it around in its fancy wrappings, glad to have it, but never explore the scriptures in order to understand all that they've actually been given inside this precious package.
Pastor James Somers, Senior Pastor of Grace Baptist Church and author of many Christian novels, including "PERDITION'S GATE" and "The Realm Shift Trilogy," shreds the wrapping paper away from God's great gift and dives into the scriptures in order to explore over fourteen different benefits God gives to the sinner when they believe on the Lord Jesus for salvation.
If you've ever wondered why you should want Jesus as your lord and savior or wanted to understand all that you were given when you got saved, then "What's So Great About Salvation?" provides concise answers that are easy to understand. So, what are you waiting for? Open up God's greatest gift and see what He's done for you!

Writing Your Novel by Brenda Hill

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Collection of articles on the craft of writing:

When writing your novel or short story, have you wondered if you’re using the correct narrative for that particular piece? Perhaps you’ve begun with 1st Person, but you think 3rd might be better.

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Spinning by Michael Baron (From The Story Plant publishing)

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Dylan Hunter has it made. At 29, he has great friends, a huge job, all the women he can handle, and no commitments. A public relations executive, Dylan has dashed up the ladder of success by mastering the art of the spin – bending the truth to his and his clients’ needs. But when a former lover steps back into his life with a three-year-old girl by her side (no, she’s not his), Dylan suddenly finds himself in a place he can’t spin himself out of. And when Dylan unexpectedly becomes the child’s sole guardian, he finds himself to be like a circus performer trying to keep all of his spinning plates from crashing to the ground. In what seems like a blink of the eye, Dylan Hunter’s life has changed completely…whether he’s ready for it or not.

Alternately humorous and poignant, romantic and tragic, playful and dramatic, Spinning is the kind of wise, touching, emotion-packed novel readers have come to expect from Michael Baron.

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Pop Odyssey by Rye-n (From kidMecha)

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This is a tale of Us vs Them.

US: Evokers. Sealers. Infusers. Mechanical Engineers. Artificers.

THEM: Robots. Monsters. Infected. Zombies. Aliens? Yeah, "aliens."

The result: A throwdown of EPIC proportions.

What's New in SAS 9.3 by SAS Publishing

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THE DREAM DANCER by Kenneth C. Crowe

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THE DREAM DANCER: A Native American hero’s journey in which the monster is a U.S. Congressman and the netherworld is a Pennsylvania prison.
The story opens in Paris in the dwindling days of the summer of 1956. Coop Rever, a Native American expatriate who is the protagonist of THE DREAM DANCER, is getting ready to travel to Algeria to gather material for his third book on the French Foreign Legion. Coop is a war correspondent and author, educated at the Sorbonne under the World War II GI Bill.
Coop dreams that he has been chosen to be a messenger of God. Although skeptical and unwilling at the outset, Coop undertakes the role when the evidence that he is the chosen one becomes so overwhelming he cannot deny it.

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To The Stars (The Harry Irons Trilogy) by Thomas Stone (From Cooper's Press)

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TO THE STARS is the first book in a science-fiction trilogy concerning an intrepid group of space explorers in the year 2107. Harry Irons dreams of escaping poverty and an over-crowded Earth by gaining employment with the Braithwaite Corporation. After proving himself in a series of tests, Harry gets his wish and soon enough finds himself struggling to survive on an alien world. TO THE STARS was written for a general audience and is sure to satisfy both younger and older fans of alternative fiction.

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THE ACCIDENTAL HERO (A Digital Short) by Joshua Graham

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A ruthless hitman confronts his destiny in a startling tale of redemption.

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Demon Girl (The Rae Wilder Novels) by Penelope Fletcher

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Rae Wilder has problems. Supernatural creatures swarm the earth, and humanity is on the brink of extinction. Stalked by a handsome fairy who claims she is like him, demonkind, Rae thinks maybe it was a mistake breaking the rules by going over the Wall into demon territory. Plunged into a world of dark magics, fierce creatures, and ritual sacrifice, she is charged with a guarding a magical amulet. The changes to her mind and body are startling, but rather than accept her purpose she struggles against who she is destined to be. Throw in a big lust for a vampire who can't keep his hands off her, and life starts to get complicated. Rae is forced to make the ultimate choice: to live and die human, or embrace her birth-right and wield magics that could turn her into something wicked, a force of nature nothing can control. Young Adult: British English (BrE)

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Mastering the Art of Life: 5 Collected Essays by Julie Sellers (From Thunder Hill Press)

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Julie Sellers' essays have been featured on NPR's This I Believe, in the This I Believe: On Love anthology and the Letters from the Heart Anthology, Dear Daughter.

This volume features 5 of her favorite essays, Mastering the Art of Life, Princess Margaret, The Father's Day Gift, The Last Resolution and This is My Garden.

This is a collection of 5 essays and not a full length book.

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New indies/backlist/selfpub, etc:

Hidden Steel by Doranna Durgin

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Award-winning author Doranna Durgin has over 30 published novels (MMPB, trade, and hardcover) and another 19 short pieces. Now available from the author, HIDDEN STEEL is a re-released stand-alone book from the former Silhouette Bombshell line of action, suspense, and romance.

Also available in a discounted bundle with Making the Rules
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Steve Spaneas doesn't have a clue.

Who'd have thought that the woman who stumbles her way into his gym, looking and acting so very much like a street person off her meds, is really a CIA case officer whose memory has been obliterated by experimental drugs used by some very bad people?

And seriously, who'd have thought that her attempts to untangle the few clues she's got would lead him right into her world of spies and counterspies, death and deception--and holy cow, stockpiled nuclear weapons?

But Steve had better figure out who he trusts--his years of experience on the streets, or the heart of a gritty woman determined to reclaim herself--and he'd better figure it out fast. Because suddenly there's a body out behind the gym, surveillance teams lurking, and a series of unsavory goons following the trail of a woman temporarily named Mickey right through his life.

Out of Time: A Paranormal Romance by Monique Martin

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Professor Simon Cross has spent his life searching for evidence of vampires and avoiding emotional entanglements. When a mysterious accident transports Simon and his new assistant, Elizabeth West, back in time, Simon finally finds both the proof that he's been looking for, and the romance that he hasn't.

In 1920s Manhattan, they find that are more than mobsters vying for power in the city's speakeasies. Will Simon and Elizabeth's developing relationship survive the vampires' teeth? Will they survive to make it back? Or will they be forever out of time?

Republic: A Novel of America's Future by Charles Sheehan-Miles (Cincinnatus Press)

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From an author described by a Top 50 Reviewer as "one of America's criminally neglected authors," Republic is a surprise hit described by readers as "breath-taking," "riveting," and "haunting."

Ken Murphy is a 45 year-old widower and senior manager at a computer chip manufacturer in quiet Highview, West Virginia. The local economy is thrown into a tailspin when the plant is suddenly shut down.

Murphy must fight for healthcare for his terminally ill son. As he tries to save his son's life, he is dragged into a deeper conflict between the forces that are ripping our nation apart.

In the midst of massive unemployment, an aggressive tone deaf government, terrorism and war, Ken Murphy will sacrifice everything for his family, but will that be enough?

The Fight For Naturah: The Reclamation by Lloyd Blake

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When U.S President, Mark Ashton, leaves office in the winter of 2085, he is shocked as a cruise across the Pacific Ocean - with his wife Reanna and best friend Bobby Johnston - opens up a gateway to a dark and mysterious world.

A world where two unique civilisations, the magical Naturahans, ruled by Queen Samoiyra, and the highly advanced Tekhnans, ruled by Cyphinium, are on the brink of war. As Mark begins to understand the complexities of this strange world, he soon finds out that a thousand year old treaty established to keep both races separate is about to be broken once more.

With a fight for land and a special stone, known as Herminite, at the heart of the conflict, Ashton embarks on a quest to uncover the truth behind two murders shrouded in conspiracy, close to Queen Samoiyra's heart. Until the truth is set free, the only outcome is war.

Under The Stairs (Bandworld Series - Book #1) by John G. Stockmyer, John L. Stockmyer and Peter Ziomek

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The Under the Stairs/Bandworld series is about the adventures of John Lyon, a young History Professor who discovers a hidden gateway to a fantastic place he calls "Bandworld." Bandworld appears to be a planet that is firmly set in the Dark Ages: castles, kings, rigid social caste systems, primitive technology, etc. As John Lyon spends more time in Bandworld, he finds that his assessment of this "medieval" place is shockingly incomplete.

John Lyon, historian, new homeowner, stumbled through a gateway into an alternate reality under the stairs of his old house. And ... here he was, running a dangerous bluff; trying to pass himself off as a powerful Mage in this land that the natives called Stil-de-grain.

This was what he wanted? An adventure? Some excitement to fight depression? If so, he'd succeeded beyond all measure ... And all John could think about was getting home.

Join John Lyon on fantastic adventures in Under The Stairs, Book #1 in the Bandworld series.

Of Mice and Murderers (Z-Detective Series - Book #1) by John G. Stockmyer, John L. Stockmyer and Ronald L. Brink

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Meet Big Bob Zapolska (Z for short), an unlicensed private eye who reads detective fiction for self improvement.

Low rent private eye that he is, Z does not usually get cases that turn into murder, to say nothing of multiple murder. Nor is he often called upon to help solve "classy" cases like the theft of a painting from Kansas City's Nelson Art Gallery. And never before has he run into something as spooky as the Bateman College "ghost light,' the light seeming, in some way, to be the key to these other crimes.

Big Bob Zapolska may be a loner. He may be a loser. He may, in fact, be a dangerous pyromaniac. But if someone has cheated you --- if someone is crowding you --- it's good to have the Z-man on your side!

Of further help to him are his personal beliefs:

- Never break the law --- unless you have to.
- Tell the truth when possible --- it's hard to remember lies.
- If you blackjack a man correctly, he will rarely suffer permanent brain damage.
- In the right hands [Z's], fire is an excellent motivator.
- To avoid temptation --- give in to it immediately.

70 Matters Related to Fasting by Muhammed Salih Almunajjid

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Fasting is the 4th of five pillars of islam as known. In this book shiekh Muhammed Salih Almunajjid discusses 70 of the important rules and matters related to this pillar.

Death Ray Butterfly (Rays and Nights) by Tom Lichtenberg

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Inspector Stanley Mole doesn't mind a hard case, but things have gotten out of hand. There's a killer who escapes to a parallel universe, a 20,000 year old murder, a witness to her own death, a toddler assassin, subatomic-particle sniffing butterflies, and much, much more. This time it's not just his reputation that's on the line. This time it's more than personal.

Bug Island by R.G. Cordiner

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They destroyed the mighty Mayan Empire. What hope for a few shipwrecked survivors?

A South American cruise. It should have been a once in a lifetime experience. And it was. But not in the way they imagined. Barely surviving a horrific shipwreck, the remaining passengers have to try and cope with finding food, water, shelter, let alone the constant arguments.

And then there are the bugs. Not the sort that you squish and then get on with your day. Oh no. Toe biters, pond skaters, assassin bugs and harvestmen that drop down on top of their victims – all of these could be found in your garden. But on this lost island they are all at least twenty times their normal size. Trapped on an island with a six metre long giant centipede with armoured plates was not on the cruise itinerary. Now all they want is to get off – without being squished!

“Anyone pack the bug spray?”

The Watcher by John Brinling

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The horror was starting again.
That is the opening sentence in this novel, a supernatural thriller about vengeance, love, courage--and getting one more chance! The story deals with mindlinks, thought transference, reincarnation and mindless obedience to a father's demonic will.
The heroine is a middle aged woman named Janet Stapleton, who lost the use of her legs in a mysterious car accident that killed her husband, Russ. For reasons she doesn't understand, her astral body is being called upon to witness a series of brutal slayings, the murder of people she or her husband once knew.
She befriends and falls in love with a Manhattan police lieutenant named Eric Siuda, who is investigating the slayings. Together they sort out what is happening and try, with Russ Stapleton's beyond-the-grave help, to thwart the villain, a psychopath dying of AIDS, who seeks eternal life through reincarnation in his imbecilic son's body.
The conclusion pits Janet and Eric against this villain in an unearthly showdown to the death.

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Now That He's Gone by Beverly Tobocman

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“He’s Gone … Am I Going to Be Okay?” The question asked by millions of divorced and widowed women everywhere is answered with a resounding “YES” by acclaimed financial consultant Beverly Tobocman in her new book, “Now That He’s Gone: a financial therapist’s guide to life after loss.” Written to inspire and comfort “suddenly single” women everywhere, “Now That He’s Gone” retells amazing stories of women who built emotional and financial security after losing their man and provides a straightforward blueprint for achieving inner peace and rebuilding life as a single. Peppered with light illustrations to match its compassionate, uplifting tone, “Now That He’s Gone” is an effective life coaching tool for any woman who has experienced a loss.

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Under the stairs and two sequels plus some other books by the same author are also available at SmashWords.
http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/jstockmyer

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Round Up At the Burger Bar (The Story of Trixie Pug) by Russ Crossley (53rd Street Publishing)

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In a world where she who's the fattest wins, one woman eats alone.

In the novel, Attack of the Lushites we first met Trixie Pug, CEO of the second most powerful fast food corporation in the galaxy. But how did she rise to control such a powerful and greasy corporation?

In this first prequel short story we meet Trixie Aioli thirty years before the novel, at her first job in the fast food industry, yearning and hungry (And I mean hungry!) to scratch crawl, and slide her way to the top of the galaxy fast food chain. Will she be the fattest who wins all the fries and burgers she can eat?

Join Trixie as her journey to fame, fortune, and a bigger waist size begins! (with breakfast, lunch, and dinner stops along the way.)

Russ Crossley also writes romance under the name R.G. Hart, and mystery under R.G.Crossley.

His work appears in several anthologies from St. Martins and Pocket books and his novels appear from Sapphire Blue Publishing and 53rd Street Publishing.

Good Friends by Frankie Lassut

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A story for children to read with their parents. It is about a young giraffe who becomes parted from his mother in some woods when looking for juicy berries. He comes across several other animals who befriend him.