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.
Fantastik
Destiny…Charlie Boone’s will be found on a cross country trip with a complete stranger, but why? Jake Mott, an ex-con convicted of murder, and Charlie Boone, a city bus driver, are complete strangers; however, when their worlds collide, both of their lives are forever changed. Born the son of a schizophrenic woman, Charlie lives in ... Read more
Free: Normalized
Greetings, Gang! If there’s one thing a dyed-in-the-wool CAPTAIN MIGHT fan loves more than anything it’s an exclusive scoop on their Number #1 all-time favorite superhero. And boy oh boy, did we ever deliver this time! We asked you what you wanted most in the world and the letters that poured into the bullpen told ... Read more
Free: Inheritance And Other Stories
In this short story collection, themes of family, dysfunction, coming of age and individuality are explored above the backdrop of the idyllic American midwest. Perfect for a Young Adult audience, as well as more mature readers, “Inheritance” lyrically and, sometimes brutally, captures what it’s like to grow and live painfully when the world expects you ... Read more
Let It Be
Let It Be is a story about a family that’s falling apart and a mother who is desperate to hold onto her son. Inspired by the last album the Beatles released, Let It Be is a heartwarming tale of forgiveness, redemption, and love lost. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Letters to Nan
James and his Nan have always been close. The chance for James to pursue his boyhood dream is all that can separate them, but when Nan is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease their relationship is truly tested. He writes her weekly letters to ensure he stays in her diminishing thoughts. After seven years away he returns, ... Read more
Nothing Will Come of Nothing
After a perfect high school career, Kinion Leintz wants some balance to his life. He starts the summer off with a huge graduation party and through an awkward series of toasts alienates the close circle of friends that followed him including a longtime girlfriend he dumps in a burst of fury for not going along ... Read more
Just Another Job
Chris Byrne leaps into a new life as a sidekick to a pair of just discovered superheroes. No longer will he serve as tech support to a mindless corporation, instead a career fighting criminals and eventually terrorists is on tap. Without any amazing powers of his own, Chris isn’t sure if he’s ready to put ... Read more
The Ghost Bride: A Novel
“One evening, my father asked me if I would like to become a ghost bride…” Part 19th century novel, part magical journey to the Chinese world of the dead, Yangsze Choo’s debut novel The Ghost Bride is a startlingly original historical fantasy infused with Chinese folklore, romantic intrigue, and unexpected supernatural twists. Reminiscent of Lisa ... Read more
The King’s Blood
War is coming to the frozen wastes of Ostero that people stubbornly insist on calling home. The Empire is poised to swipe the final holdout off the table and claim all of Arda for itself. With the loss of the Ostero King’s head there is nothing standing in their way. Well, almost nothing. Ciara, daughter of ... Read more
Free: Stepbrother: A Family Affair
When Michaela’s mother dropped by unannounced Michaela had a bad feeling. Her mother never visited without a reason, now she was asking her to babysit her spoilt, millionaire step-brother and his entourage for a few weeks. It was bad enough that she had had to spend too many summers with her mothers’ new husband and ... Read more
An Echo Through the Trees
This is the story of Chase Krause, a man who sets out with his best friend, Josh, to camp for a weekend deep in the snow-filled wilderness. What starts off as the hunt of a lifetime quickly becomes the struggle of a lifetime. At the same time, Chase is forced to grapple with a nearly ... Read more
The Memory Garden
Customer review: “This is a thoughtful, brooding, and expressive tale about the fear, anxiety, and disquiet of aging with all its encumbrances and inconveniences. It’s a must-read for all.” $1.99 on Kindle, today only (4/30/2015).... Read more
The Baker’s Daughter: A Novel
In 1945, Elsie Schmidt is a naive teenager, as eager for her first sip of champagne as she is for her first kiss. She and her family have been protected from the worst of the terror and desperation overtaking her country by a high-ranking Nazi who wishes to marry her. So when an escaped Jewish ... Read more
Free: Drawing Breath
Art teacher Daniel Benedetto has cystic fibrosis. At thirty-four, he’s already outlived his doctor’s “expiration date,” but that doesn’t stop him from giving all he can to his students and his work. When he takes on Caitlin, his landlady’s daughter, as a private student, the budding teen painter watches in torment as other people, especially ... Read more
Free: Regarding Anna
After recovering from the shock of her parents perishing in a tragic accident, Grace Lindroth discovers clues in their attic that cause her to believe the people she called Mom and Dad her whole life may not have been her real parents. In her search for the truth, Grace encounters people whose actions cause her ... Read more
Rise to Power
In Rise to Power, the history of ancient Israel and its king come alive. Told in the voice of the man who would be king, this account is like none you have heard before. The political struggle is rife and the language is modern, both of which place before you a mirror of our own ... Read more
Free: Baseball Dreams, Fishing Magic
When his professional baseball career doesn’t work out, Nick Grimes finds himself in desperate search for his place in the world. Over his adult life, he’ll learn some important lessons about living, love and the pursuit of happiness. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: The Butterfly – A Short Story of Life, Mystery, and the Impossibility of Endings
An Elegant Story of the Mystery of Life. If you relish enchanting short stories — the kind that prompt you to briefly put down your reading because you’re inspired to think about what you’ve just read — then you’ll love this book. This enticing story explores the power and the light of that pure bead ... Read more
BALLS & STRIKES
Sports Novel – As the Congressional Hearings on Steroid Use in Major League Baseball approach, one-time heralded Major League Baseball prodigy Kingston Lowell is released from prison seeking to renew his life. But in order to grasp his future, he must first come to terms with his past. His search takes him from the Alabama ... Read more
In Due Season (The Lottie Series Book 2)
In Book 2 of the Lottie Series, Lottie returns home to rural Alabama from the Big Apple to help her mother and the community she’s neglected for over 10 years–and to finally face down her own painful past. When she uses faith-based solutions to tackle the problems of poor education and limited opportunities and makes ... Read more
Free: On Herring Cove Road
Mr. Rosen is broken, and soon he will be more so. His wife, who has led her thirty-year converted introverted husband through life, is dying. She has done all that she can to simplify his world by downsizing their life through the purchase of a smaller home, the selling of their business and taking care ... Read more
Enter & Delete
Saul Poliakov is caught in an unsalvageable marriage that is slowly dragging him, his wife Fay, and their daughter into a morass of depression and self-doubt. His obsession with Nataly, the only woman he truly ever loved and whose sudden and inexplicable disappearance in the past still haunts him, lies at the root of his ... Read more
Hiraeth Phoenix
How often do things end in life and you wish for just one more conversation, one chance to say what you needed to say, ask what has been burning in your heart, and hear the other side of what it was really like, who you really were? Poetry, prose and essays take you through the ... Read more
Kindle Daily Deal: Up to 80% Off Best-Selling Authors
Private Down Under by James Patterson and many other mysteries, thrillers, romance and women’s fiction novels are on sale today only (3/28/2015) for upto 80% off. Shop the sale.... Read more
Free: Reflections and Tails
This illustrated collection contains 11 short stories reflecting pieces of life touched by animals. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Hope Street
Set in Liverpool and London, the novel covers five decades in the lives of two very different women, beginning in the 60’s. The way she started out, Katrina Grayefsky was all set to conquer the world. But she’s pressured into a wealthy but unhappy marriage, and soon embarks on a series of unhappy affairs. Anya Sobell is ... Read more
The Pitcher
A boy with a golden arm, but no money for lessons. A mother who wants to give her son his dream before she dies. A broken down World Series pitcher who cannot go on after the death of his wife. These are the elements of The Pitcher. A story of a man at the end ... Read more
The Misremembered Man
Customer review: “Don’t miss this wonderful book. The author paints a moving picture of life in Ireland, but it’s done with such humor and attention to detail that it’s a story that will stay with you for a long time.” This book is a Kindle Daily Deal and is $1.99 today only (3/21/2015).... Read more
Off the Reservation
This uproarious comic novel explores modern presidential politics and asks whether honesty can find a place within it. When Congressman Evan Gorgoni of Indiana, fed up with Washington, retires from Congress, he does so with such stunning honesty that he is drafted to run for president. If he’s going to do it, he’s going to do ... Read more
Shakespeare Resumed (Poems)
In revisiting various plays of Shakespeare the author’s response has been to write a total of 55 ternacci, 34 of which are based solely on the play Macbeth. The ternacci is a fixed form poem of three lines with a syllabic count of 8-5-3. This ebook also includes a tutorial on writing the ternacci. Free ... Read more
Forget Me Not
This fast-moving and entertaining women’s fiction novel is just $1.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: 22 Inches of Rain
In the suffocating January darkness, Edward Connor III is fighting his demons. Obsessed with all of life’s unanswered questions, his distressed brain is running so fast that his body is unable to shut down and rest. He has reached a terrifying stage of chronic insomnia, and his deep confusion is slaughtering the last hints of ... Read more
Free: Baptisms & Dogs: Stories
This regional story collection is set in the hills of southern Kentucky. The distasteful and repentant are seen in glimpses living alongside one another in modern-day Appalachia. Their actions showcase the good, the bad, and the ugly inside 12 unique stories. It would be best compared to Pinckney Benedict’s “Townsmokes” collection in West Virginia. Free ... Read more
Free: A Family Affair
A woman discovers her dead father kept a secret family hundreds of miles away and visited them four days a month – for fourteen years! Determined to understand and unearth the truth behind her father’s actions, she visits the town, meets the people, and begins to question which ‘family’ is the real one. A Family ... Read more
According to Luke
Neither Jana Hayes nor the handsome priest who brings her a mysterious icon to restore can believe the professor’s suggestion. Saint Luke was not a man? How many alternatives does that leave? They look in each other’s eyes in astonishment, finding there not only the suggestion of a mystery about an evangelist’s identity and gender, ... Read more
Fiction: “because”
Robert was a man living the dream. He was an adventurer and a mountain climber. His day job was to bring joy to at-risk kids. He was blessed with a beautiful wife and daughter who complete him. But an accident soon leaves Robert disabled, and he can’t seem to help himself off the edge of a cliff, ... Read more
Free: “It Be Like That Sometimes”
Sally relives her life through her journal that she has been keeping for ten years. Along the way she reveals the love of her life is incarcerated. What happens next leaves her torn between the man she loves and reality! Betrayal, loyalty, lies and deceit are all put to test. Who will she choose? Free ... Read more
hole searching
You should be aware of holes you never know what’s inside or who needs help getting out. Readers of plays, dramas and short stories might be interested in “hole searching.” $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Yellow Crocus
Moments after Lisbeth is born, she’s taken from her mother and handed over to an enslaved wet nurse, Mattie, a young mother separated from her own infant son in order to care for her tiny charge. Thus begins an intense relationship that will shape both of their lives for decades to come. Though Lisbeth leads ... Read more
To Kill a Mockingbird
54 years after Harper Lee released “To Kill a Mockingbird” she is now set to publish “Go Set a Watchman” which is a sequel of sorts. She published her first book at age 34 and her second will be published at age 88. Will this sequel sell 40 million copies, as the first book did? ... Read more
