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.
Big Little Lies
[AMAZONPRODUCTS asin=”B00HDMMISA” desc=”0″ locale=”com”] Sometimes it’s the little lies that turn out to be the most lethal. . . Big Little Lies is a brilliant take on ex-husbands and second wives, mothers and daughters, schoolyard scandal, and the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive. $3.99 on Kindle. ... Read more
The Syrian
Nadia, a woman who has waited 13 years for a husband who was “disappeared,” finally decides to declare him dead so she can marry an American physician, Andrew Sullivan. On the eve of her engagement party, her best friend Sonia, a well-connected war correspondent, rings to tell her that her husband may still be alive ... Read more
Free: “The War Nurse”
[AMAZONPRODUCTS asin=”B00HURDNS2″ desc=”0″ locale=”com”] A heart-rending story of two Americans, a doctor and nurse, trapped in the Philippines when WW II erupts. One becomes a POW, and the other becomes a target of obsession while trying to survive under the darkness of occupation. Love can outlast war, but at what price? Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: “Divas of Damascus Road”
After being blamed for her baby sister’s death, Dianne Rucker swore she’d never come back to Dentonville, Texas. But her Aunt Gloria, who took her in after the accident, is getting remarried. Going back home means Dianne must face her own demons as well as a drug-addicted mother who is now falling even further into ... Read more
Free: “Women of Overcoming Faith”
Why show the leg when an ankle will do? This is the kind of discussion Mother Brown wants with the young women in her new single’s ministry–W.O.O.F. But while she’s teaching Biblical love, the First Lady and the Head Deacon have other plans for her unsuspecting husband, Pastor Mayberry. Oh, my…no mess like a church ... Read more
The Daughter of the Sea and the Sky
After centuries of religiously motivated war, the world has been split in two. Now the Blessed Lands are ruled by pure faith, while in the Republic, reason is the guiding light-two different realms, kept apart and at peace by a treaty and an ocean. Children of the Republic, Helena and Jason were inseparable in their ... Read more
Women’s Fiction: “My Winter”
“My Winter” is a story about life, love, heartbreak, family, friendship, and self-discovery. It follows Leah Anderson’s journey of self-discovery and finding true love. After suffering a family tragedy when she was young, Leah’s outlook on life has become jaded and her behavior self-destructive. She runs from her painful past by erecting a wall around ... Read more
“Coming to Rosemont”
When Maggie learns her deceased husband left her a house, she was determined to sell it. What started out as a quick trip to list with the realtor turns in to a whole lot more. Soon Maggie is drawn into the local politics and is a write-in candidate for mayor. She quickly learns that everyone ... Read more
Root Memory by Mark C. Walton
What happens to those musicians you followed as a teenager? Not the famous ones, but those from more obscure bands. Nero Bain is one of them. He’s pushing fifty and it’s over twenty-five years since he turned his back on the British music scene. It’s now 2008, and while the financial world is teetering on ... Read more
“In The Rearview” by Maria Ann Green
“In The Rearview” tells Meagan’s story of depression and self-harm through poetry, journals, and narrative. It is a story of heartbreak. Meagan drowns in her depression, and she struggles to feel better. The only way she learns how to get control is dysfunctional and hurtful to both herself and those around her. Healing and hope ... Read more
Breaking Twig
Set in rural Georgia in the 1960s, BREAKING TWIG is a coming-of-age novel about Becky (Twig) Cooper, a young woman trying to survive the physical and emotional abuse of her mother, Helen, a beautiful, calculating woman… ... Read more
Swans Are Fat Too
Natalia Lanska, formidable Polish pianist, is dead. No one is feeling sorrow, except maybe her granddaughter Hania, whose own career as a concert artist never took off due to a terrible weight problem. Feeling unwanted, Hania arrives in Warsaw for the funeral hoping for a warm welcome from her relatives. Free. ... Read more
“Tempting Fate”
An enthralling and emotional story about how much we really understand the temptations that can threaten even the most idyllic of relationships….... Read more
“The Mulberry Tree”
“The Mulberry Tree” is charming simple tale about friendship, love, redemption and gardening. Try it today for free on Kindle. Learn more. ... Read more
The Last Stoic
The Last Stoic is a historical fiction that takes place in two parallel settings: ancient Rome and modern America. The story unfolds with the same characters but the setting alternates between ancient and modern, the similarities between the two time periods are so strong. The main character gets imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit ... Read more
All Hallows at Eyre Hall
Jane Eyre Rochester built Eyre Hall after her marriage to Edward Rochester. Twenty-two years have passed and while Jane is coping with the imminent death of her bedridden husband, Richard Mason has returned from Jamaica to disclose more secrets and ruin her happiness once again. Jane will be drawn into a complex conspiracy threatening everything ... Read more
Forgetting Tabitha the Story of an Orphan Train Rider
The Five Points District of New York City was no place for an orphan girl. Gangs, brothels, gambling halls, and corruption were prevalent everywhere in the slums. For Tabitha Salt, learning to steal and run from the law were becoming a way of life until she learned about the orphan trains. Boarding the trains meant ... Read more
Best Friends, Fantasy Lovers
Friendship has never been so tempting… Tommy and Capri have different backgrounds, goals, and motivations. He’s an Irish guitarist in a new band with dreams of being a rock star, and not one serious bone in his body outside of playing music. She’s an American valedictorian, who takes her responsibilities seriously, and dreams of being ... Read more
All My Love, Detrick
Detrick was born with every quality that would ensure his destiny as a leader of Adolph Hitler’s coveted Aryan race. But on his 7th birthday, an unexpected event changed the course of his destiny forever. As the Nazis rose to power, Detrick was swept into a life filled with secrets, enemies, betrayals, friendships, and most ... Read more
Better Than Ever, Again
A sailing adventure romance in Tahiti. Imagine commiting a crime and not knowing it. Can Ben survive the crew he has joined? Will his plan bring him the riches he’s counting on? Will the love of a beautiful Tahitian girl be his after the ship hits the fan?... Read more
Land of Deep Waters
Land of Deep Waters -Honduras, land of deep waters, a country torn apart by civil unrest, violence and poverty: Is it possible to go back? Thirty years after being banned from Honduras as a young nun, Joan, now married with two grown sons, finds herself haunted by memories of her four years there. She is ... Read more
Short Scares for Before Prayers
If you read what’s within these pages, I can guarantee you’ll be saying your prayers before bed. ‘Short Scares for Before Prayers’ showcases college student Michael T. Guidry’s ability to induce fear and spine-chilling stories in a matter of minutes. This collection of horrific short tales contains nearly thirty well-crafted and terrifying situations that are sure ... Read more
Their Ex’s Redrock Serial Bundle 1-4
A man and a woman find themselves drawn to each other after they discover their spouses’ affair. Tess is set to catch her husband. She runs toward the hotel in a thunderstorm seeing a couple in a clench on an outside balcony. She opens her mouth to scream at them when a man grabs her, ... Read more
The Ways of Mud and Bone
In the summer of 1918, as the Great War rages in Europe, nineteen-year-old Meryl Goodson’s small-town life is shattered when her cousin Nora’s fiancé is killed in France. The tragedy causes a rift in the community between those for the war and those against it. As local tensions rise, Meryl begins her service with an overseas ... Read more
Home
This book is a collection of poems and stories in tribute to my father, who was a poet, artist, and author. Edited and translated with great care, it brings into focus all the longing we have for an ideal place, the home of our childhood. The idea for it came to me during the mourning ... Read more
Intended for Harm
A powerful family saga like no other …At the height of the Vietnam War in 1971, Jake Abrams is desperate to leave his oppressive home in Colorado and begin a new life in college in LA, but his dreams are waylaid when he meets Leah, an antiwar protester who pushes him into marriage and family. ... Read more
The Ways of Mud and Bone
American sisters Meryl and Claire witness their world change forever when their cousin’s sweetheart is killed in the Great War. Now the small hamlet of Swann River is choosing sides. The sisters help the only way the can–joining a relief unit bound for France. When illness forces Claire to stay behind, Meryl must suffer the ... Read more
The Reading Lessons
Mississippi 1920: Nine year old servant, Hadley Crump, finds himself drawn into a secret world when he is invited to join wealthy Lucinda Browning’s dirty book club. No one suspects that the bi-racial son of the cook is anything more to Lucinda than a charitable obligation, but behind closed doors, O! she doth teach the ... Read more
The Return of the Six-Gunner
Floyd Hamby’s bearded face was contorted with an old rage against anything that got in his way or caused him any trouble. And now he stood at the door of the restaurant accusing Cole Decker of stealing one of his horses. “Ain’t no call to talk that way, Floyd,” Sheriff Felix Peabody said. “He thought ... Read more
Apart From Love
Ben is called back home, and faces his father, from whom he has been estranged for ten years, and his new wife, Anita. He finds himself attracted to her, and missing his mother, who has been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s. He is embroiled in a guilt and blame game and must find a path to ... Read more
A Favorite Son
This is a gripping story of greed, betrayal, and regret. In it, Yankle describes the plot, in which his mother Becky (modeled on the biblical figure of Rebecca) conceives the idea to cheat both Esav, her other son, and her husband Isaac who is lying on his deathbed. Yankle knows that when she tells him, ... Read more
Finding Her Feet
Finding Her Feet by Jams N. Roses is the tragic story of a child who causes the death of her twin sister, and spends her life learning how to cope with the guilt. Amanda goes through hell and back, and the rest of her family don’t do much better themselves. Let the drama begin…... Read more
Rise to Power
During his last days David reflects on his life. For the first time ever he feels an urge to tell his own version, which is different than the official version written by the court historians. This is his opportunity to tell it all candidly. Rise to Power is the first volume of the trilogy The ... Read more
Angels
Angels presents a new genre, an illustrated short story for adults. Set in inner city Detroit, this is a tale of a family beset by the traumas of drug addiction, adultery, prison, violence as well as the joys of sexuality, love and, especially, children. The mother, desperate when he husband is sent to prison, becomes ... Read more
The Angel’s Covenant
Chosen as the Keeper of Humanity I guide dying, and lost spirits home. In the quiet moments, I hear the whispered question, “Are you Shadow or are you Light?” Once I thought I knew the answer to that question. Now as I sit watching over this six-year-old girl, keeping the demons at bay, I wonder ... Read more
Rebel With A Gun
He was fifteen when the Civil War started, nineteen when it ended. His parents were dead by then, their farm sold for the taxes. The girl he loved had married a boy he hated. Nothing seemed right. So he headed for Texas with a disreputable old snake oil peddler and a beautiful blonde with a ... Read more
Phases: Mind of a Minor
Life is a series of phases, you are born a child and then you grow out of it. Everyone goes through the same phases, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, senior citizen, and then death. What if you took those same phases and made them relevant to your life, your experiences, what would they be called? Well, for ... Read more
Seduced by Innocence
Secrets, deceit, betrayal. Paranormal powers that can give life as well as kill it. A timeless romance that will survive even the fires of Hell. The story of Rose and Derek is one that will keep you on the edge of your seat and make you believe in the enduring power of true love, even ... Read more
Ill Wind
Gabriella Berryngton is an unhappy and oppressed fourteen-year-old girl living in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1683. She dreams of escaping her bitter, ambitious stepfather and sailing off into the unknown. Her dreams come true when her stepfather sells her into marriage. Aboard the Freyja, she is hopeful that her new life in the Dutch West Indies ... Read more
To Catch a Salaryman
Mr. Yamamoto hates his job. He is a middle-aged Japanese salaryman who works for Hello Kitty. He particularly hates the fact that people get to come into his office and pitch him ideas for new Hello Kitty products. So, he finds other ways to amuse himself. When he’s not looking at porn on his computer, ... Read more
