Free and Discounted Literature on Kindle
Literature is often referred to books that are able to stand the test of time through their unique, creative elements and resounding messages. Classic stories by authors like Charles Dickens and Jane Austen make up just a small sampling of the literature available to readers today.
All Things Small
In the back streets of Old Rome, near the famous Bernini monument, The Fountain of the Four Rivers, La Dolce Vita turns from sweet…to sour. A naïve American tourist gets involved with poets, the Mafia, an opera singer, a movie star, and a film being shot at Cinecittà. In the grand tradition of Mark Twain, ... Read more
Free: OOF: An Online Outrage Fiesta for the Ages
Award-winning novelist and cultural critic Strobe Witherspoon interrogates his own profession. It goes terribly. OOF explores the role of satire in a society lurching from one ridiculous crisis to the next, where media outlets rely on clicks to stay alive and everything is filtered through a lens of anger and misinformation. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Baker’s Dozen
Her bakery is going to the dogs! Abused and abandoned by her former owners, the unadoptable boxer, Baker, finds a safe haven at Pretty Paws, the only no-kill shelter in town. But when she’s scared, she can’t help defending herself, even from the people who want to help her. Dumped by her cheating fiancé and ... Read more
The Gift Counselor
It’s “Christmas in July”; there’s holly in your heart. Meet a young woman who helps people choose good gifts, her ten-year-old son who wants a dog she won’t let him have, and the man who enters and changes their lives. Family drama, romance, spiritual and psychological insights wrapped up in humor. So, grab your jingle ... Read more
All Men Love Leah
All Enzo wants is a reason to believe it’s all worthwhile. Stuck in a world that doesn’t fulfill him, he meanders through his days feeling empty, lost and left out of the real world that is moving by without him. He is cynical but gifted, and when he meets the beautiful and enigmatic Leah she ... Read more
Finbar Lovely at the Crossroads
This is a piece of literary fiction which tells the tale of a man who receives a terminal diagnosis that prompts him to re-examine his life choices. At several figurative “crossroads,” he contemplates how his life might have changed had he chosen a different path at crucial moments in his life. First love. The military ... Read more
Free: The Unorthodox Ox
A dystopian novel that examines the issue of environmental destruction: the collapse of the natural world. There is the protagonist, the anti-hero who has married the wrong person. The spouse, the antagonist, a difficult and habitual fault-finder. She has been undermining his and her own sanity for years. The story deals with the untangling of ... Read more
Free: Reckless Beginnings
Based on true events, women of all ages will relate to Tammy’s coming-of-age experience. A raw, emotional account of one woman’s life’s lessons. A book that will stay with you long after you have read it. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: A Rainy Day In Melbourne
In Melbourne for a friend’s birthday party, Henry is desperate to escape the stresses of his day-to-day life in Sydney. Spirits soar but events take a turn for the worse and Henry is forced to confront his personal struggles as well as those of his four friends. Can Henry keep it together and overcome his ... Read more
Everything and Nothing
When prophetic dreams and poems collaborate to thrust Idris, Navin, Michael, and Layla together out of the shadows of secrecy, one fateful event shows them how interconnected they have truly been all along. Through both prose and verse, Everything and Nothing tells the multi-narrative story of one pivotal summer during the lives of these four ... Read more
A Whisper of Angels
Kept apart by society, two lovestruck mariners face the forces of time, death, and the afterlife in order to reunite. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: No Going Back
Brian’s paranoid about becoming famous. He’s a successful novelist who’s always stayed clear of the limelight. However, when a single photo threatens his anonymity, how will he cope? Free on Kindle.... Read more
godless children have no heroes
Her world had been perfect and then it wasn’t. Faced with impending devastation and loss of control, Lex begins to spiral into survival mode, making risky choices bound for consequence, whatever it would take to not lose what was hers, whatever it would take to escape the emptiness of old demons. This life she existed ... Read more
Free: Days of Ascent
Forty years ago Rory Beaumont’s New Zealand was not an easy place for protests against racism, enjoying home-grown music or finding a place like home. Rory’s journey passes through forgotten history, poetry, romance and there are always more apples to pick. Not a light-weight novel but worth it for the reader prepared to go the ... Read more
Free: Nutshell
During Dust Bowl days in west Texas, a country doctor with shaky credentials delivers a baby, a so-called “monster.” A surgeon-in-training periodically rotates at a hospital within a mental institution, his story of emotional decline merges with that of an inmate who unwittingly finds herself becoming his guardian angel. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: The Other Hamlet Brother
Meet Tim Hamlet, the identical twin brother of the famously melancholy Danish prince. Tim has abandoned royal life and is trying (and failing) to make it as a playwright in London. But then, tragedy rears its ugly head—King Hamlet dies, Claudius takes the throne, and young Hamlet dons an “antic disposition.” Free on Kindle.... Read more
They Make Movies
These stories blend fiction and history to portray the stimulating but often troubled lives and careers of noted actors, actresses, and directors. Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, Chadwick Boseman, Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe, Halle Berry, Alfred Hitchcock, Clint Eastwood, and Spike Lee are among the stars who face challenges real and imaginary. Lesser known but talented ... Read more
Free: Rain City Lights
One part Coming of Age Story. One part Murder Mystery. As they navigate their way through Seattle’s Underground, Monti & Sasha will break and warm your heart! In the summer of 1981, a serial killer preys on black, teenage prostitutes working Seattle’s arterial highways. But the eyes of youth are blind to danger, and Montgomery ... Read more
Free: Mutiny In The Dugout
Parents send their kids to the newest craze in Little League baseball: military boot camp on a diamond. The kids have had enough of out-of-control parents, coaches, and abusive drill sergeants. After a typical day of coaches cursing and hitting kids, exploding bases, booing from the stands, and parents fighting in the parking lot, the ... Read more
Escape To Simisu
There is a stunning hidden planet…Simisu. It has always been there, close to Earth but in a different dimension. And now they want to try to help us save Earth. Bernadette has been chosen as their final Seeker, and will be given the last chance to help Earth remember what has been lost. If she ... Read more
The Memory of Music
The Bestselling Award-Winning Irish historical novel, The Memory of Music One Irish family – 100 turbulent years. 1916: Betty O’Fogarty is proud and clever. Spurred on by her belief in her husband Seamus’s talent as a violin-maker and her desire to escape rural life, they elope to Dublin. She expects life there to fulfil ... Read more
Free: Mothers of Pine Way
Candelaria’s power lies trapped within her rage. How can she overcome her anger and free her power? Reassured and strengthened by faith and by her grandmother’s stories, one woman strives to overcome tragedy, circumstances, and the mistakes of the past to step into her destiny. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: From da Big Island
A baby boomer coming of age, fish out of water comedy. Her life was in peril, needing solitude and change she leaves the Big Apple for Hawaii. On the Big Island, she deals with the customs of the islands, her unusual neighbors, marijuana, pigs, and more. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Lost Child
A spellbinding tale of abandonment, rejection, and survival. A baby girl abandoned at birth was raised in an orphanage and sent to the mid-west on an orphan train where she was placed out as a farm laborer. Unwanted and unloved, she fought for survival in a lonely, abusive environment. A story of female triumph and ... Read more
Sweet Jane
After a broken childhood, Jane runs away at sixteen; returning for Mama’s funeral seventeen years later catapults Jane back to the events that made her the woman she is. She faces down her past and the ghosts that shaped her family. A stunning discovery helps Jane see her problems through a new lens. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Candyman’s Tale
The story of the birth of the drug trade in New York City, in two small communities in the Borough of Queens: the very white Cambria Heights, and the very black Saint Albans. Four your men, steeped in poverty, have big dreams, sell weed across the big avenue in Cambria Heights. Their plans skyrocket, the ... Read more
Chase of the Rising Sun
Immersive, fascinating and with an ending that will quite simply…blow your socks off! Who ever really knows themselves? And if you don’t know yourself, can you ever be truly happy? Mark Rasper is a thirty-year old, man who has always had a fascination with Japan. It started when he played Metal Gear Solid with school ... Read more
Oja and the Parrot’s Curse
In the modest but peace-loving village of Umuzura, everyone enjoys the fruits of their colorful culture and ample agriculture. Who would start worrying about any prophecy that their happy lives and freedom is doomed to some disaster – even if it wasn’t the village parrot that said so? As for Obinna, the apple of his ... Read more
Lost Creatures
Downtrodden luck poachers, lovelorn chemical elements, obsolete villains, trademarked teenagers, domesticated centaurs, outcast reindeer, victimized zombies, and time-jumping alcoholics are some of the LOST CREATURES who inhabit this collection of short stories that blends fantasy, science fiction, dark comedy, and magical realism. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Living in Cleveland with the Ghost of Joseph Stalin
It’s the summer of 1953. Calvin Jefferson Coolidge is thirteen years old when the ghost of Joseph Stalin appears to him in his Aunt Evelyn’s cluttered Cleveland attic and wants to dictate his memoirs to him. “I want to tell my side of the story,” Uncle Joe tells him. “They’re giving me one year to ... Read more
Sea of Glass
How bright and how terrible is dawn on the day we discover our wings. Twelve-year-old Teo spends his days helping his drunken papá hang windows on shanties along Baja’s wild coast. When an old angler presses Teo to seek a goddess—the Sea Angel—for rescue, Teo sets out to test whether help can be found at ... Read more
Resistance, Revolution and Other Love Stories
“Fantastical, meditative, and witty… An outstanding collection.” — The Prairies Book Review Is love the most revolutionary of all acts? In this wide-ranging collection of twelve short stories, a startling array of characters explore their perspectives on love. The stories sweep from sharp realism to heady allegory, haunting fables. Join the struggle against stifling societal ... Read more
Free: Whippoorwill Chronicles
Sam and George are childhood friends, sharing a deep loyalty that is cemented when George, the older by three years, saves Sam from drowning. This is their journey to adulthood and how relationships grow apart and come together again. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Arnold Falls
Spend time in the funny, oddball village of Arnold Falls, where larger-than-life characters deal with the smallest of problems. Somehow, it all comes out right in the end. Arnold Falls is a novel that tips its hat to Armistead Maupin and P. G. Wodehouse, creating a world in which food, music, friendship, love, and tending ... Read more
A Region of Reverie
In this collection of writings, D. T. Adams looks at the Lake District and how beautiful, inspirational and popular it is. The pieces in the collection are a reflection of what the Lake District is like today: a place of undeniable beauty that continues to evoke change in people, with parts that are becoming overrun ... Read more
My Father’s Indian: How A Butterfly Split The Oak
When tragedy in the wilderness forces Suzy to confront her past and seek out true friends, a psychological drama/mystery exploring the meaning of human connection unfolds. “Not your run of the mill psychological thriller…Comfortably casual and yet subtly elegant, highlighting the beauty in nature and in the relationships we cultivate.” $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Ubiety
If you were to find yourself at the edge of a dying world with a lingering sense of reality, would you simply fade into the nothingness or would you fight for everything you hold dear? This assertive question is at the heart of the thought-provoking book Ubiety, for this abstract book was designed to help ... Read more
Free: Test of Faith
When Miriam Beiler, a first class quilter, narrowly avoids an accident with an Englischer who asks her for directions to a nearby high school, will this chance meeting push Miriam and her Amish community to an ultimate test of faith? Amish woman, Miriam Beiler is being courted by John Fisher, and she’s moving towards being ... Read more
Free: Viral
This collection of writings looks at COVID-19 and the effects it’s had on the world. The collection is split into three parts: Lockdown, The Government and The Media. The first looks at life under strict rules, the second questions the decisions of those in charge and the third asks whether the media’s helping matters or ... Read more
The Sacrifice
Three novellas, each about seventy pages, depicting the power of sacrifice some make for those they love. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
