Indie Freebies for the Kindle

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Back Under The Stairs (Bandworld Series - Book #2) by John G. Stockmyer, John L. Stockmyer and Peter Ziomek

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Recently purchasing what was said to be a "haunted house," John Lyon, young Kansas City historian, stumbled into an alternate reality accessed from the storage space under his stairs. He was able to make it home from the first trip to Bandworld unscathed.

His 20th Century knowledge now buttressed by the magic he'd learned to use in the alternate world ... what could be wrong with taking another trip to enchantment-land? Nothing. . . if you don't count John's encounter with the Lxlop, being caged by Pfnaravin, and a deadly battle with the Azare Mage-King Auro!

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Beautiful Sins: Leigha Lowery by Jennifer Hampton (Hampton Publishing)

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The skies of the Dark Coast, the Pacific Coastline of U.S. States has been infected with a strange chemical reaction from a military experiment gone awry. Constant cloud cover rules over the lands. Leigha Lowery, a sixteen year-old popular fiction writer in the local free press is pulled from the only home she knows in Detroit, MI when her mother decides on an impulse to marry a doctor she's been dating over the internet and moves to the small town of Banks, Oregon. As she adjusts to her new life of wealth and power, she begins to realize that the rumors about the Dark Coast aren't even close to what she's witnessed. Prince Alexander Sommers, the son of King Royce, and heir to the throne has taken a fascination to her. He pulls her into a world of vampires, werewolves, witches, and many other creatures of the night that have decided to make the Dark Coast their home.

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AVION - Book One of the Crystal Rose Chronicles by Emma Daniels

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When Alecsis Rose finds himself washed up on an unknown beach, he has no idea who he is, or how he got there. Alone in a strange tropical land with people who look nothing like him and don't speak his language, Alecsis has a lot to learn.

Join Alecsis on a magical, danger fraught journey of discovery, as he fights against prejudice and hatred to remember who he is in time to save his friends and the woman he loves from terrible evil.

This book contains wizards, warlocks, knights in shining armour, wicked pirates, damsels in distress, and enough myths and magic to create a legend.

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Well Played 3.0: Video Games, Value and Meaning by et al. and Drew Davidson

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Following on Well Played 1.0 and 2.0, this book is full of in-depth close readings of video games that parse out the various meanings to be found in the experience of playing a game. Contributors analyze sequences in a game in detail in order to illustrate and interpret how the various components of a game can come together to create fulfilling a playing experience unique to this medium. Contributors again look at video games, some that were covered in Well Played 1.0 and 2.0 as well as new ones, in order to provide a variety of perspectives on more great games.

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The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by Severin Rossetti

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If it can be imagined then it can exist; what might only be pictured in this world can take on a tangible reality in another... the Kingdom of Eidolon. Usually access to this realm is denied us, but a group of young art students find themselves drawn into its turmoil, become a part of the world of Hieronymous Bosch and William Blake, of Edvard Munch and Rene Magritte

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Ludoliteracy: Defining, Understanding, and Supporting Games Education by Jose P. Zagal (ETC Press)

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On the surface, it seems like teaching about games should be easy. After all, students are highly motivated, enjoy engaging with course content, and have extensive personal experience with videogames. However, games education can be surprisingly complex.

This book explores the question of what it means to understand games by looking at the challenges and problems faced by students who are taking games-related classes. It demonstrates how learning about games can be challenging for multiple reasons. Some of the more relevant findings discussed include realizing that extensive prior videogame experience often interferes with students’ abilities to reason critically and analytically about games, and that students have difficulties articulating their experiences and observations about games.

In response to these challenges, this book examines how we can use online learning environments to support learning about games by (1) helping students get more from their experiences with games, and (2) helping students use what they know to establish deeper understanding.

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Horker's Law (The Six Books of Magic) by Mike Lee

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Horkers are thieves of an unusual sort. Trained from childhood in skills of deception, misdirection, slight of hand, confidence, etc., they are also taught a strict code, a code that governs their decisions and strategies. They are taught to avoid violence whenever possible, and live by their wits. One of the most important lessons in this code is that Horkers never use magic. Magic is notoriously unreliable and hard to control, and Horkers must control their environment.

Spivver MacAnders is one such Horker. A young man, working his way through life, Spiv horks enough to meet his needs, trying to get ahead (while taking only from people he figures truly deserve it, and trying to do a good turn for common folks, from time to time.) All this, while staying one step ahead of his marks on his way out of town. But when Spiv comes across the aftermath of a heinous crime, he is drawn into a commitment to deliver a valuable object; an object which he realizes is a powerful artifact, steeped in very specific magical properties. A secretive and skilled Horker is perhaps the perfect messenger to transport such an object unnoticed, especially because the one who seeks it is a powerful wizard, who has already sent his army to invade the realm Spiv must travel through on his mission.

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free Indie Short stories:

The Warning by S.L. Pierce

Godspeed Inc: A Naomi Kinder Adventure (Naomi Kinder SF Adventures) by Vincent Miskell

A Mind Not Worth Controlling (A Captain Rescue Short Story) by Joshua Price

Freedom, Spiced and Drunk by M.C.A. Hogarth

No Free Lunches by Jeffrey Somogyi

The Girl In The Coffee Shop by Caedem Marquez

It's Alright: The Rape Of Iuevnis Galvin by German Alcala

The Adventures of Leaf Man by Rebecca Shelley

3 Powers: 3 Short Works by Joshua Scribner

Red Coyote Weekend by Stuart Connelly

From the Ice Incarnate by Joe Vasicek

For Mother: A Short Story Collection of Two by N. Primak

For the Love of the Gamer: A Short Story by N. Primak

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The Forging (Book 1 of the Raven's Heart Trilogy) by M.S. Verish (Night Apple, LCC)

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The most unlikely journeys are often prompted by a question of one’s heart. An exiled man wonders if he should forsake his new life and risk returning to his homeland. A troubled girl seeks a chance at redemption for a terrible crime she has committed. A solitary tracker debates whether or not to correspond with an infamous and supernatural criminal. A vagabond thief chances leaving behind the world he knew for an unknown destiny.

They are an unlikely cast of characters driven by their own personal motives. By chance or by fate, they find themselves in one another’s company, willingly embarking upon an eccentric wizard’s mission to recover a magical stone of untold power: Raven’s Heart. If they can see past their own ambitions, they might survive their quest and ultimately realize that the success of their mission could determine the fate of the world in which they live.

More free short stories/nonfiction:

Money Shot by N.J. Harlow

The Joy and the Challenge by SENG

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Up The Gangway by Vera Louro

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Every year millions of people take cruises to amazing destinations. For them, a cruise is a dream holiday. For the crew, working on board brings a very different reality though.
Up the Gangway is a portrait of what it’s like to be a crew member. Find out how it is to live onboard with all the hard work, drama, gossip, craziness, romance and hilarious moments.
Follow Sofia's journey throughout a four month contract as she gets absorbed by the small world of the big cruise ships and learns how the industry works, how intensely crew members live their lives and how important good friends are in a place where there is nothing else to hold on to.

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Summer Loving by Tina Folsom and Bella Andre

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Summer is the time to read on the Beach! Bella Andre and Tina Folsom have put together a collection of two super sexy short stories/novellas and ten sizzling teaser scenes from their other works.

Summer Loving includes:
* Bound by Love by Bella Andre
* Venice Vampyr #2 – Final Affair by Tina Folsom
* Plus ten steamy excerpts from their contemporary and paranormal romances!

Dive into the summer with Summer Loving!

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The Old Man and the Knife by Samuel Clemente

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The tale of two siblings, and a murder; narrated by the one who knew them both best. ''The Old Man and the Knife'' a short story by Samuel Clemente.

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The Gifts (Vol 1 - The Gifts: Trilogy) by Patria Dunn-Rowe and Jonathan Ruchti

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The Gifts: (Vol 1-The Gifts Trilogy)

Nine gifts were stolen from a mythical man with wings ages ago. Those nine gifts found themselves transferred into human eggs, delved out through in vitro fertilization. These newly made beings were born into the world unbeknownst to man. There are dark spirits searching for those gifts, ready to reclaim them from the humans who have been created to bear them...

When twenty-one year old Nahla Marks decides to start her junior year at Wake Forest university as an education major instead of continuing on the path to pre-med, everything seems to fall apart. Her world is turned upside down as this strange "thing" begins to manifest within her. Nahla fears she is loosing it until she meets Gideon, the man with the silky smooth voice and chocolate brown hair, who seems to understand exactly what Nahla is going through.

Gideon knows the answers, but can Nahla trust him as her body begins to betray the fact that she may not be quite as human as she thought? Will Gideon be able to save Nahla from the dark spirits that are hunting them both?

Three months ago no one even knew her name, but now, bound by a curse and on the run, there was no one else she could trust…but him.

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Vampires in Devil Town by Wayne Hixon (Grindhouse Press)

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One evening Rachel Stokes is yanked from her bed and dragged into a black van by two young abductors. They refer to her as a chosen sacrifice and her mind races, wondering where they might be taking her. She thinks she knows. There’s a house located in a hollow of rural Lynchville. It’s called the Sad House, a place of legend. Rumors say it appears and disappears. Even worse than the house are the people who live in it. They could be vampires. They could just be ghosts with teeth. They’ve come after Rachel before and she narrowly escaped. And now they’ve come back to finish what they started in this horrifying and suspenseful novel by first time author Wayne Hixon.

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CRY UNCLE by Judith Arnold

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After witnessing a professional hit, Seattle architect Pamela Hayes has testified in court against the hit man. Unfortunately, a mistrial is declared and the hit man is released on bail while awaiting a new trial. He intends to silence the sole witness to murder—Pam—before that new trial begins. She needs to hide, and she runs as far as she can: to steamy Key West., Florida.

Jonas Brenner, a Key West bar owner and easy-going slacker, is about to lose custody of his orphaned five-year-old niece—unless he can convince the courts that he’s a responsible father. What he needs is a prim and proper wife who will create the illusion that Lizard, as his niece likes to be called, is being raised in a stable environment.

What Pam needs is a new identity. Joe offers her a deal: if she marries him and takes his name, no Pacific Northwest hit man is going to find her. In return, she can pose as Joe’s respectable wife, dutifully caring for the rambunctious, feather-wearing Lizard.

Of course, this will be a marriage in name only. No sex. No emotions. No love. Which, once Pam and Joe move in together and the sparks begin to fly, is easier said than done.

CRY UNCLE was originally published by Harlequin Books.