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.
Free: The Madness of Grief
London 1969. While men are walking on the moon, a series of dramatic events threaten to have lasting repercussions for 16-year-old Jane and the people she loves. Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of the Year – “A rollicking good read… combines a deep understanding of emotion, of the need to live and to grow, with an ... Read more
The things we passed by and the things we realized
This book is a collection of 10 short stories. Honest, funny, tender, and heartwarming. A series of stories that take you back to another time and place filled with wide-eyed wonderment. The stories reveal different aspects of life, introducing you to characters that will take you inside their hearts and souls to help you learn ... Read more
Free: Drowned Beneath a Bleeding Sky
Roger lives in a decrepit area within which there never seems any point or meaning to anything he does and he drinks the days away. One night, he encounters a very mysterious woman but he problem is that he doesn’t know for sure if the woman is actually real. From there, events become increasingly more ... Read more
Coyote’s Road Trip
“Unlike so many action-oriented dystopian stories, this is a somewhat surreal, moody, and introspective tale, with an easy flow to it that’s much like . . . well . . . taking a long drive.” —S. Lynn Helton. Coyote Jim, the shape-shifting spirit of a desert valley in Nevada is forced out of his home ... Read more
The John Callahan Series
John Callahan is a good man with a sinister past—and his past will not let him live in peace. Against the odds, he matures from a teenage Belfast street thug and an IRA killer to a happily married man and expectant father. Years later, just as he begins to find peace and serenity again as ... Read more
The Quiet Houses: Fall of the Narcs
THE QUIET HOUSES Fall of the Narcs DEA Agent Jeff Moore was portrayed by actor Bradley Cooper in Clint Eastwood’s movie, The Mule. Jeff’s New York Times interview regarding his arrest of the world’s oldest and most successful cartel mule, Leo Sharp, became the basis for this film. Inspired by real events, Jeff has now ... Read more
Reckonings
A vibrant, superbly written tale. It’s a fast-paced, tightly knit, family drama with a female protagonist at the heart who, despite painful adolescence memories and present financial and personal hardship, has the courage and tenacity to confront her life’s challenges head on. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Innkeeper and the Cannibal
When Galahad is accused of a murder he did not commit, he fears his racist neighbors will condemn him or worse, discover his true crime. Now, he must fight for his freedom, even as his drug problem threatens to chain him indefinitely. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Truth of Who You Are
When his family is plunged into poverty during the Great Depression, Ben Taylor takes a job with the US Civilian Conservation Corps developing the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. A tragic accident puts him in a dilemma: does he let someone else take the fall for what he did so he can keep his position? ... Read more
America High
In America High a murder shatters the students, divides the community, and challenges everyone. Jocks obsess over the football games, loner outcasts create lives for themselves, and pretty girls fight against an unstoppable foe…check out this literary thriller by genre novelist Dalton Lewis, author of American Starfleet Independence. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more
CODE NAME: THE FOX – Operation Yucatan Cartel
Hatred is a tough monster to kill, as Harold soon discovers the moment he realizes that his war against the cartels is morphing into a never-ending vigilante mission. There is a lot to be said about the devastation that the cartels bring into human existence. But Harold Brandon, drug-lord-turned-minister-turned-contractor-turned-vigilante, is not about to sit idly ... Read more
CODE NAME: THE FOX – Operation Durango Cartel
Two years since the rape and murder of Harold Brandon’s beloved wife, Shelly, he strikes his scythe of vengeance upon one man and his entire cartel. “Hey gringo, are you lost?” “No. Not lost. Looking for someone.” “Who are you looking for?” “I’m looking for a dead man.” *** Shelly was raped and murdered by ... Read more
CODE NAME: The FOX – Operation Tucson Cartel
Making things right was drug-lord-turned-contractor/minister Harold Brandon’s new purpose. But he soon finds out that changing sides comes at a steep price. Harold’s Harley roars across asphalt and dirt toward a meeting with DOJ agents and a few informants. It’s been eight years since he decided to do the right thing and take on the ... Read more
The Resurrection of Fulgencio Ramirez
In the 1950s, tensions remain high in the border town of La Frontera. Penny loafers and sneakers clash with boots and huaraches. Bowling shirts and leather jackets compete with guayaberas. Convertibles fend with motorcycles. Yet amidst the discord, young love blooms at first sight between Fulgencio Ramirez, the son of impoverished immigrants, and Carolina Mendelssohn, ... Read more
Red Rain
Olivia Montag is a professor who doesn’t have all the answers. The devastating loss of a child ended her marriage, and she’s been overlooked for a job promotion one time too many. Not sure what comes next, she leaves it all behind and volunteers to teach English to schoolchildren in India. Ten thousand miles away, ... Read more
Free: Polk, Harper & Who
A police visit and then a dinner party threaten to unravel all that Adam and Eva hold dear… A tender, thorny, frequently hilarious contemporary story of complicated friendships and family relationships, and ultimately of the triumph of imperfect London love within imperfect London lives. “Beautifully encapsulates what love is.” -Kirkus Reviews Free on Kindle.... Read more
Anaïs Nin’s Paris Revisited
The book consists of photographs of thirty-one places dear to Anaïs Nin in and around Paris, her quotes, and the author’s essays, all bilingually presented in English and French. It is a unique and charming guidebook to the writer Anaïs Nin, the city she lived in and loved, art, literature, and the 20th Century thought. ... Read more
Gathered
Gathered is a story of disconnection and redemption. Sol Severson is successful in every observable way, living with his wife and daughter in an exclusive Chicago suburb. But inwardly, Sol is an empty soul, cut off from any relationship with his family of origin and merely going through the motions with others. After a tragedy ... Read more
Coyote’s Road Trip
“From beginning to end this story is beautiful.” Review on Amazon Coyote Jim, a shapeshifter, takes off in search of a new home. In a post-climate change dystopian future, Coyote, the guardian spirit of a desert valley in Nevada, is forced out of his home by the heat, the drought, and the deaths of his ... Read more
The Book of Mathew L.
Mathew grew up a loner in a large family in a small town. When he gets to grad school, there’s a lot to distract him from finishing his Ph.D. thesis: a partner with “emotional issues”: a teen daughter Linda; the need to balance the loving and feeding of his eclectic family with social justice ambitions ... Read more
Bravely and Faithfully
A New Captain’s First Patrol Turns into a Fight for Their Lives Sam Powell gets a well-deserved promotion to Lieutenant Commander and a coveted slot at the Naval War College. His replacement, hard-charging young Lieutenant Haley Reardon, is about to get a baptism of fire aboard her new command, the Coast Guard patrol boat Kauai. ... Read more
Codename Poltergeist: Some call him a ghost
The CIA and presidential cabinet members covertly enter into an agreement with the Palestinians to remove certain key Israeli government figures in a plan to enable the United States to claim that they engineered peace in the Middle East and gain the favor of Arabic countries and likely gain favor to increase energy supply. Sentinel, ... Read more
Mothers of Pine Way
Candelaria’s power lies trapped within her rage. How can she overcome her anger and free her power? Her husband’s horrific death has crippled the family, yet she must cast off the shadows of the past to realize her destiny. Many obstacles will stand in her way, including her fears for her troubled son, Jim. But, ... Read more
Free: The Apple & The Tree
Experience a writer’s pre-sobriety years. Memoirist Dre Carlan turns his hand to fiction, essays, and reveries in this collection of chemically-induced dreams. Free on Kindle.... Read more
My Canvas Bag
Mark is a young man born into a bad family situation. He escapes from the chaos of his home by spending time in the woods near his house. Mark has a hidden canvas bag that contains blankets, a flashlight, and more. The canvas bag makes it possible for him to be in the woods. Mark’s ... Read more
Rising Wind
This suspense action series of the Rising Wind series by Diane Olsen with book three, a prequel to the first two books, so it’s not necessary to have read the first two begins with the lead characters, Sage Dalton and L.W., are the parents of the main character in the other Rising Wind books. Although ... Read more
Free: The Color of Miracles
Thomas Hall is an artist with astonishing talent–and he knows it. Since his days as a child prodigy, he has reveled in recognition and believed in his inevitable destiny. Chosen. Entitled. He presumes his artistic brilliance deserves a lavish life of independence, fast cars, and drop-dead gorgeous women. Thomas Hall wants it all and more. ... Read more
Free: War and Wrens: Book 3 of The Tales of Zren Janin
It has been two years since Zren Janin was found on the road to Aldi. He has found a family and a place to belong with the Conrosans at Manumina, and now that home is threatened. In desperation, he writes Ngahuru, the great Softfoot of the West Islands. He tells her war has come to ... Read more
Free: The Sins of Others
The international story of a young aspiring conflict zone reporter turned Hollywood celebrity photographer and his estranged mother, a brilliant social activist turned militant fanatic who’s been on the run from Interpol for thirty years, as well as the array of people they encounter on their (mostly) separate journeys to deliverance. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: The Coldness of Objects
A dystopian satire and a story about different kinds of love: London 2030. The news a young postman delivers will cause Mr. Rubens to reflect on all the sorrows and joys of the past, while he begins to prepare for the menacing surprises of the future. “Thoroughly gripping… a chilling vision of an abnormal ‘new-normal’ ... Read more
SPECIES of ONE
Good-hearted loner Phil Kyle leaves his successful career for an isolated mountain cabin. Neurotic thoughts and skirmishes paralyze him as the harsh winter he longs for sets in. Then, an enigmatic priest befriends Phil at Sunday mass and convinces him to volunteer for a project with a seemingly reserved woman. Phil’s world slowly expands as ... Read more
Arnold Falls
Arnold Falls is a small town in upstate New York filled with people who went a little further north than they planned: eccentrics, rat-race refugees, artists, self-promoters, self-medicators, the kind and the cranky, the brilliant and the dim, the delightful and those who should be avoided at all costs. Jeebie, a voiceover artist, isn’t looking ... Read more
The NSA Files (a Shaman Detective novel Book 1)
A retired shaman is contacted by the NSA to find out who’s coercing politicians into passing bills that they have fought up until now. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: The Awakening of Jim Bishop
As Jim begins to rebuild his life, a strange vagrant helps guide him to the five people involved in an accident, revealing the dangerous secrets and vulnerabilities threatening to destroy each one. Someone has a gun. Someone has been physically abused. A relationship desperately needs mending. Someone will die. Jim finds himself in situations with ... Read more
Free: The Music Stalker
Kayla Covo is a child piano prodigy. In mid-1970’s New York City, she vaults to fame, holding audiences in awe with her uncanny musical ability and warm smile. But deep within her lie the seeds of destruction: the paranoid fear of being stalked by a murderous fan. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Spitting Image
What if you had a twin – who was a better version of you? When Everett Reyes loses his adoptive mother – the only person who ever believed in him – his bullying stepbrothers find a way to keep Everett’s inheritance. They won’t even let him keep Mom’s cookware, though she’s the reason he became ... Read more
Free: Finger of an Angel
After a romp in North London, 60-odd-year-old Lily drives off in her classic Mercedes and takes a wrong turn, experiencing a series of encounters with angels and demons and ghosts from the past… “Time-warping, mythological… introspective, bleak, and quite often beautiful… a real pleasure to read” Publishers Weekly’s BookLife Prize 2022 Free on Kindle.... Read more
BREWED: A LIFE’S JOURNEY
In this debut novel set during pre-WWII and continuing through the post war economic expansion, Joseph and Harry are aided in their escape from Germany to the safety of the United States. With many adventures along the way, they find their path to a new life and have long careers in the brewing industry. Through ... Read more
A Better Heart
For aspiring indie filmmaker Kevin Stacey, it’s another day on the set of his first film, but when his estranged father, a failed Hollywood actor, arrives unexpectedly with a bundle of cash, a gun, and a stolen capuchin monkey, he’s propelled toward the journey that will change his life. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Another Notch in the Beltway
Lenore Held has agreed to co-author a romance with author, MP Finnegan. As sparks begin to fly the world around them turns into utter chaos. Her son’s father reappears after almost 22-years. With a stalker, home invasion, & unhinged family members & Lenore’s life begins to resemble a book plot. But, the turmoil that surrounds ... Read more
