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.
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
When Goodbye Begins: Life Takes Over
In When Goodbye Begins: life takes over, author-filmmaker – Geeta Lal Sahai actively involved in mental health advocacy rips apart the stereotypical existence. These five stories are about mental health, innumerable lanes and layers of memories, childhood abuse, infidelity, betrayal, hopelessness, and hidden emotions. There is pathos, feelings, inner conflict and stoic acceptance. In the ... Read more
Free: Ward
Tango Primary Five and the Angel of Death have been condemned to the city-prison of Sacramento, CA. A Roman-inspired death cult, cannibal Vikings, and a paranoid mafia syndicate vie for dominance. To escape, all must unite, or one must win. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Get The Yak Out
Ben’s approach to basically everything in life is to choose the path of least resistance. Muddling through and staying under the radar while exerting the least amount of effort is how he rolls. On the one day when he really has to get home through, a complete London public transport standstill suddenly hampers his plans ... Read more
Free: From da Big Island: New York defined her – Hawaii changed her
From da Big Island is a baby boomer coming of age, fish out of water, woman centric tale about Ruth, a famous New York syndicated television personality, who leaves the commotion of the Big Apple for the peace and tranquility of the Big Island of Hawaii. Ruth meets her neighbors, William, an at risk high ... Read more
The Mass of Men
WINNER OF THE FLORIDA AUTHOR AND PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION SILVER MEDAL PRESIDENT’S AWARD IN GENRE FICTION AN IndieReader “BEST OF” BOOK! They huddle in a darkened doorway, swallowing their fear and awaiting the signal. The fire starts small, building rapidly as it draws breath, consuming everything in its path. Only then can they enter – on ... Read more
The Tide Between Us
1821: Among the thousands of Irish deportees to the Caribbean British Colonies is a 10 year old Irish boy, Art O’Neill. As an Indentured Servant on a sugar plantation in Jamaica, Art gradually acclimatizes to the exotic country and the unfamiliar customs of the African slaves. When the new heirs to the plantation arrive from ... Read more
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. “A richly complicated, and deeply engaging coming-of-age tale.” – Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Free on Kindle.... Read more
The Eye Opener
Three novellas, each about seventy pages, depicting the power of blind spots in transforming our lives. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Masters of Horror Essentials: Mary Shelley Frankstein
Frankenstein is a novel that is considered both one of the first science fiction novels and a timeless classic of the horror genre. It has terrified and entertained readers for decades. It is more than just a story about the creation of a monster. Mary Shelley gave readers not only a novel that has inspired ... Read more
The Spa at Lavender Lane
Lust, ambition, secrets, betrayal, competition for the ownership of the world’s premier spa and a chance to snag the uber-eligible man who unexpectedly arrives on the scene are all on the menu at The Spa at Lavender Lane. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Red Clover
Lee Winekoop feels like an outsider in his own family. Now twenty-six—confused and emotionally bankrupt after suffering a childhood fraught with criticism and isolation—he leaves his dysfunctional upper-class family to find his true self. Determined to cultivate a meaningful life, Lee discovers a world poles apart from the one he had left behind. But just ... Read more
The Fiddler in the Night
In his debut novel, Fennell takes the reader on an orphaned teen’s journey through the darker recesses of rural America, where he tries to stay one step ahead of a ruthless killer. A tragic love story unfolding against a background that is both real and imagined, making this novel as memorable for its language as ... Read more
The Coldness of Objects
London 2030. When a postman knocks on his door, the news he delivers will cause 70-year-old Mr Rubens to reflect on all the sadnesses and joys of the past, while he begins to prepare for the surprises of the future. “thoroughly gripping… a chilling vision of an abnormal ‘new-normal’ to come.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review) ... Read more
Free: Dances, Towers, Hills and Skies
Years running from it. Now trying to write it. Try Dances, Towers, Hills and Skies. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: When Told Out Loud
Poetry which focuses on whispers of love and what could have been—had they been felt or spoken out loud. This chapbook centers around emotion in effort to capture the intangible moments between people, and what was perhaps lost in translation along the way. Free on Kindle.... Read more
The Siege-A Prison Uprising Redefines Justice
A dorm counselor is conscripted to defuse a hostage standoff in a Midwest prison. But who are the good guys and who are the bad? A literary thriller written in the tradition of Faulkner and Joseph Conrad. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
In the Shadow of Gold: A Tale of the Lost Confederate Treasure
April 1865. Richmond, Virginia. Two trains. One treasure. And a question worth millions. As the US Civil War was drawing to a close, and Grant was about to take Richmond, two trains left the city in the dark of night. One carried Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his cabinet. The other carried the Confederate Treasury ... Read more
How Much is Self-Worth?: Ruminations of a Rented Slave
‘How Much is Self-Worth?: Ruminations of a Rented Slave’ is an eclectic collection of poems by debut author Michael Centrone that puts a harsh, revealing spotlight on the effects of overthinking our roles as individuals and as a whole. With individualism being a relatively new mentality to our species, Centrone introspectively digs deep into the ... Read more
Princess of Independence
Princess Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso is a forgotten figure of the Italian Revolution. Born into a family of nobility, Belgiojoso learned at a young age what foreigners interested in ruling the Italian States could be like. She spent the rest of her life dedicated to uniting her home country and ousting those foreigners who only brought harm and ... Read more
Rustle of the Leaves: Forest Reflections
Poetic reflections of the forest come to life in this anthology of the outdoors writing from the author. The collection includes three books of poetry: ‘Whisper the Wind’, ‘Northern Woods’ & ‘Hawthorn & Hyacinth’. Trapper tales and woodsman lore throw dashes of humor to repose the wistful musings from the forest floor. Profound as in ... Read more
