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: Yeah, Ben
Josh Marshall is on trial for his life, but he doesn’t care. He has already lost more than he can bear, his brother, Ben. With no identification and no will to live, even his name he will not reveal. The secret that might free him is locked in his impenetrable will. Chains and bars or ... Read more
Free: The Three Christmases of William Spencer
Christmas is always special, but even more so if your birthday falls on the same day. As William Spencer celebrates his birthday each year on December 25–first as a child in rural America in the 1930s, and then as a World War II veteran, husband, and father–he learns that, no matter what his circumstances, happiness ... Read more
The Sirens of Oak Creek
A hidden, sacred canyon. Eight women. Twelve centuries. And a mystical song that connects them all. This is the layout of Robert DeMayo’s new novel, “The Sirens of Oak Creek”, a gripping tale that intertwines local myths with historical facts and the author’s vibrant imagination. The story is populated by vastly different people who passed ... Read more
Rebellion
It is 1643. England is engulfed in civil war, the bloodiest period in its history. It is a conflict that will lead to the downfall of a king, the creation of a republic, an explosion in religious freedoms – and two decades of fear, retribution, betrayal and slaughter. And it is a time for heroes, ... Read more
Free: A Perfect Confluence
A recovering addict slips up and enrages a local crime family. He opts to flee from them in his canoe on a local river. Along the way, he meets a mysterious pregnant teenager, who has as shady a past as his own. Together, they flee from their troubles and fall in love. In the end, ... Read more
Uncommon Relations
“Be careful what you wish for!” When Terry encounters his double, shadowy wife Gudrun avoids hearing the amazing news. What is she hiding, and why? Soon both have some awkward secrets. Terry’s search traps him into increasingly bizarre situations. Bizarre can be funny, sad, alarming or thought-provoking and this novel offers all, as well as ... Read more
Free: A Greek Cat (Life Journey Novel)
“A Greek Cat artfully unfurls the incredible story of the son of a once wealthy, now impoverished Jewish family living on one of the Greek Islands. Karasso offers readers a glimpse into the lives of fishermen and their families, and, later in the novel, into the everyday culture of German Nazis both inside and outside ... Read more
The Last Letter
Katherine wouldn’t have believed it if she hadn’t found the letter… In the summer of 1905 Katherine Arthur’s mother arrives on her doorstep, dying, forcing her to relive a past she wanted to forget. When Katherine was young, the Arthur family had been affluent city dwellers until shame sent them running for the prairie, into ... Read more
The Christmas Cat Tails: The Complete Trilogy
Looking for a great Christmas read… …with cats? You’ll get into the Christmas spirit with these feline features. In “The Christmas Cat Tails: The Complete Trilogy” you will discover fiction for the holiday season featuring the feline adventures of… A stray for the holidays… A Tuxie to the rescue… A Ragdoll to save a life… ... Read more
Silent Retribution Man
Lionel Seaver has had it with the indecent, arrogant, rude, mean-spirited and for lack of more negative adjectives, pricks in today’s society. Its about time these people get what’s coming to them. And its not just about people who break the law either. It is not always against the law to be a prick, on ... Read more
Of Dust and Tides
One choice can change the course of a life. In this short story collection, featuring different genres, the characters make the best decisions they can at a certain moment in time. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn’t. Don’t we all face this dilemma at different points in our lives? We do the best we ... 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. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Mr. Pizza
Most people make at least one really off-the-wall decision in their life. Tony Piza is no exception. Deciding he needs a “paid vacation” for a year after college, Tony lands a job teaching at a Catholic elementary school. Talk about the Moby Dick of miscalculations. His pathetic effort is making him look bad, crimping his ... Read more
Off-Ramp to the Void
Betrayal. Few experiences are as painful, disorienting, and devastating. Reality is shattered and the void stretches ahead: black, unfathomable, and deep. Trust is broken. The women in these seven short stories are subject to different types of betrayal. They respond in distinctive ways, but all face wounds, losses, and life-altering setbacks. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Angel of Mercy
She had her entire life planned until the Great War began and everything changed. April 1914. Barrie, Ontario. Hettie Steward is feisty, educated, ambitious and stubborn. Her fiancé, Geoffrey Bartlette, the love of her life since childhood, has been a patient man. He waited while she attended nursing school and worked a year, but now ... Read more
The Oberllyn’s Overland
In the first generation of the Oberllyn family series, the ancestors of the modern Oberllyn’s find themselves under siege; first by an unscrupulous, dishonorably discharged vet with an eye for a good farm and pretty slaves, to the long road west by wagon train to escape the Civil war. Elijah Oberllyn is a retired government ... Read more
The Skyland Chronicles: The First Expedition
This book follows a young mercenary that has grown up on an isolated monolithic floating island in the ocean. The world was destroyed centuries ago in a storm of Wild Magic and the survivors of the Skyland believe that they are alone. On fateful night the Skylands are invaded by the grey dragonflight and manages ... Read more
Odette’s Song
Making it as a musician is tough. This story shows the intersection of personal demons and talent. Singer/songwriter/guitarist Nico’s wife and songwriting partner Odette, left him and became pregnant by another man. Her suicide shattered him, and now his addiction threatens to destroy him. Yet she wanted him to be guardian of the six-year-old son ... Read more
The Chef’s Secret
A captivating novel of Renaissance Italy detailing the mysterious life of Bartolomeo Scappi, the legendary chef to several popes and author of one of the bestselling cookbooks of all time, and the nephew who sets out to discover his late uncle’s secrets—including the identity of the noblewoman Bartolomeo loved until he died. When Bartolomeo Scappi ... Read more
Prophecy and Providence; Avenging the Innocent
Dan Forester is waging a one-man war on child molesters. After the rape and murder of his son, no pedophile is safe from his wrath. While the FBI is hot on his trail, there is no turning back once he decides to launch his vigilante crusade against child molesters. In this first installment of the ... Read more
You’re Welcome: A Dog Lovers Novel
Amazon Best selling Author A.J. Arentz’s You’re Welcome is a heartwarming, inspiring and laugh-out-loud story that’s inspired by true events, and narrated by our furry best friend. Ludo, a German Shepherd and Melody, a young high-spirited woman, find each other needing one another more than they know to make it through the perils life has ... Read more
The Blue Rat
El Buscador has long been legendary for revealing New York’s secrets. Now he confronts his greatest challenge: the real estate mogul Timothy Terrance Tolland has been erecting skyscrapers at an alarming rate. Aided by a group of investigative reporters, El Buscador looks to bring Tolland down before his building forever transforms the skyline. $0.99 on ... Read more
I am not the Messiah!
“I am not the Messiah!” is the intriguing memoir of James Sinclaire, otherwise known as Mr Zootherapy. In his own words, Sinclaire tells us for the first time about the Gorillagram that started it all off, his brief marriage, and his life in New Zealand, culminating in, and going beyond, the dramatic shooting that ended ... Read more
Free: One Sin Follows Another
Loosely taking the Seven Deadly Sins as the inspiration for this book, travel through seven interwoven chapters that explore the motivations for people’s actions as you journey through the contemporary stories. The book starts with a tale of Pride and ends with one of Wrath. Events in the former chapter cause the main character in ... Read more
Pledge to the Wind, the Legend of Everett Ruess
Pledge to the Wind, the Legend of Everett Ruess follows the adventures of the young vagabond from his appearance in the southwest in 1931 when he was only seventeen, until he seemingly disappeared in 1934, shortly before he turned 21. In this compelling narrative, Robert Louis DeMayo has taken journal excerpts and the letters Everett ... Read more
Free: Pussycat Palace
Remember the 2016 US Presidential Election? How did you vote? You’ll have an idea how cats in a Louisiana feral cat colony feel when they have an election to choose their leader. They fight over the influx of immigrant cats into the colony, the roles of males and females, sexual issues and other topics important ... Read more
Trying to Live Happily Ever After
If you were Cinderella, how would you deal with your stepsisters and the horrors of home life? Old folk tales are about how to handle evil siblings and handsome princes. And big bad wolves. There are lessons to be learned! “Trying to Live Happily Ever After” is a collection of 17 adaptations of classic stories ... Read more
Free: Cover Stories
Do you love Bowie, Beatles, Stones and classic songs? Then this short story collection takes 8 well-known tracks and “remixes” them as short fiction. Find out who “Major Tom” was, where “Dear Prudence” went to play why The Stones’ “Devil” needed “Sympathy”… Free on Kindle... Read more
Free: Bigfoot Death Squad and Eight Other Stories
In BIGFOOT DEATH SQUAD and eight other astonishing tales of the so-called ordinary world, EDDIE MULNIX transports the reader to a world as strange as it is familiar—an unsettling landscape of ghostly occurrences, speed-dealing superheroes, strip-club stickups, and more. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: City in a Forest
Two women who grew up together in 1970s Atlanta struggle at mid-life to overcome their past while fighting to save a magical, hidden forest in the middle of the city. Both women fight to protect the place that has tangled itself around their hearts like flowering kudzu vines, achingly sweet as a beloved child. Free on ... Read more
Free: City in a forest
Hidden in the heart of Atlanta, a pristine forest shimmers with magic, but an unscrupulous developer plans to flatten Silver Park—unless two brave women can stop him. Arden Collier risks losing her home. Parker Gozer owns most of Arden’s secret forest, which is rooted in Atlanta’s rich African-American history. As Arden struggles to reclaim her ... Read more
The Ghost in the Bakery
After her controlling husband’s death, entrepreneur Kate Mills happily trades big city life for her dream, owning a small-town bakery. The quiet life she envisioned is thwarted by a demanding mayor who hates progress, a sheriff with romance on his mind, and oh, yes, a couple of resident ghosts only her six-year-old son can see. ... Read more
Pianist in a Bordello
What would happen if a politician decided to tell the truth—the whole truth? Richard Youngblood, aspiring Congressman, is about to find out. He’s running on a platform of honesty and transparency—and against the advice of his friends and advisers, he’s decided to start with himself. His autobiography will lay his entire life bare before voters ... Read more
Free: Bittersweet: A Coming of Age Historical Romance
Bittersweet captures the zeitgeist of 1960: America transitioning from the gray decade of Eisenhower and McCarthy to JFK and Camelot; The House on Un-American Activities Committee versus the flourishing Beatnik counterculture. Its two protagonists, Renny and Max, students at Berkeley, flirt with Beat poetry, Allen Ginsberg and Kenneth Rexroth, Bebop, and student-led civil rights demonstrations. ... Read more
The Making of Theodore Roosevelt
This a fictionalized account of a true story – the tale of how two rough Maine woodsmen took a young Theodore Roosevelt under their wing in 1878 and introduced him to the beautiful but unforgiving woodlands of the Northeast. Under their guidance, the frail but strong-willed New Yorker becomes a worthy outdoorsman, an experience which ... Read more
Haiku World
Haiku World celebrates the haiku genre. The themes are diverse and unique. There is haiku on music, relationships, nature, food and family. Haiku World is the birth of modern haiku. A must-read collection. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
I’m Rising
“I’m Rising” is an empowering self-love poetry book that re-ignites our drive to become the best version of ourselves. It encourages us to conquer our fears to build inner strength and resilience. The prose urges us to own and celebrate our power, with a call to action to harness our self-confidence to achieve the goals ... Read more
The Furies
The city of Fury is a mother that eats its young. It is a working-class melting-pot found at the end of the line on the Quad-City Express. It is a place with where the predators are equal to the number of those preyed upon. Living in the city is tough, and growing up there is ... Read more
Free: Out of Stone
Set in a small New Jersey town in 1920, Out of Stone tells the story of three neighbors whose lives become intertwined by the war and tragedy: Bruce Minton, a shell-shocked World War I veteran, who lives alone in the house his great-grandfather built; Marion Blauvelt, a sculptor, whose fiancé was killed in the battle ... Read more
Pianist in a Bordello
Are voters really ready for the whole truth? Are you? Pianist in a Bordello is a hilarious political romp through the last four decades of American history, from a narrator who is full of surprises. $0.99 on Kindle... Read more
