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: 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
Free: Reign of Terrier
When she needed a hand, she found a paw. Tessa’s dream of becoming a veterinary tech crashes after her fiercely-supportive fiancée dies in a tragic accident. Mourning her loss and desperate to move forward, Tessa must prove she can handle the pressures of working in a real-life clinic before she can start her new life. ... Read more
The Color of Cold and Ice
In a Manhattan coffee shop, five characters, all at turning points in their lives—the loss of a spouse, the search for meaning, a bad diagnosis, the need for love, and the angst of loneliness—come together. Through a series of coincidences, a trip to Amsterdam, the colors of the chakra system, Van Gogh, and the clarity ... Read more
Lying and Making a Living: Fiction with Footnotes
Lying and Making a Living contains more of the irreverent, hard-hitting, exhilarating, ironic, and emblematic prose we’ve come to expect from the writer and painter William Dunlap. His stories, some as short as a single page, leave the reader gasping for breath and wanting more. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Cucina Tipica
Escaping to Italy was the easy part. Figuring out how to stay forever is where the adventure begins… When disheartened American Jacoby Pines arrives in Italy on vacation, he has no idea that a family photograph from the previous century would start a search for ancestry through the streets of Florence and the hills of ... Read more
A Gentle Mind on Fire
An amazing bundle of poems written in a time of mental transition. $9.00 on Kindle.... Read more
Blind Fold: Book Seven – Technicians Series
One Way has always done things on his own terms. However, changes in his life are happening faster than he has time to react. Uncertain if the woman and boy he assists depend on him or it is the other way around. However, things get tricky when life comes at them fast and the meaning ... Read more
Rising Wind: The Weeping God and The Book of Hope (Book 3 of the Series)
Book Series Overview Given by Readers Favorite & 5-Star Awarded Review for The Rising Wind Series Books 1 thru 3. The Weeping God and the Book of Hope, part three in the Rising Wind series, is actually a prequel to the first two books, so it’s unnecessary to read those first. The lead characters, Sage ... Read more
The Fifth Man
National bestselling author James LePore’s searing novel Sons and Princes riveted readers with its depiction of a man caught between crime and conscience. LePore’s characters return to a life eight years later and overwhelmingly changed. Chris Massi now has more power than he ever could have imagined. When his son Matt finds himself drawing the ... Read more
The Eyes of a Wolf
Ex-military Zev Evans is a drunk – and a neurotic one at that. He believes the weird thoughts that plague him – his ‘tics’ – might have something to do with his brain surgery three years earlier. Carol Harris, the surgeon who mended Zev’s brain, makes a desperate call, sending Zev out west for his ... Read more
The Coldness of Objects
London 2030. The news a young postman delivers will cause 70-year-old Anthony Pablo Rubens to reflect on all the adversities 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’ to come.” – Kirkus Reviews (starred review) $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
All Things That Deserve to Perish: A Novel of Wilhelmine Germany
All Things That Deserve to Perish is a novel that penetrates the constrained condition of women in Wilhelmine Germany, as well as the particular social challenges faced by German Jews, who suffered invidious discrimination long before Hitler’s seizure of power. It is also a compassionate rumination on the distractions of sexual love, and the often ... Read more
Lying and Making a Living: Fiction with Footnotes
“Lying and Making a Living”– a collection of short stories, contains more of the irreverent, hard-hitting, exhilarating, ironic, and emblematic prose we’ve come to expect from the writer and painter William Dunlap. His stories, some as short as a single page, leave the reader gasping for breath and wanting more. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Truth From the Bathroom
Scott is frustrated with his marriage. He’s being pushed around by his wife. Then he finds an unused notebook in the bathroom. Sitting and journaling his problems seems to help. But how will he face the overwhelming changes coming in his life? $1.99 on Kindle... Read more
Pianist in a Bordello
“Pianist in aBordello is so well crafted it compels readers to surrender and enjoy this irreverent, madcap portrait of a politician. A steady flow historic nuggets, shrewd insights, passionate encounters, and all-out hilarious moments, make it difficult to stop reading.” $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Whippoorwill Chronicles
Sam and George are childhood friends, sharing a deep loyalty that is cemented when George saves Sam from drowning. When the consequences of their choices unfold, Sam faces the frailty of relationships. Returning home again, Sam begins a long journey to regain a sense of what is real, what is true and what is his ... Read more
RISEN: The accession and devolution of Yahweh Ben Yahweh: Miami’s Urban Chronicles Volume 1
The growth of “Mega churches” has risen considerably in the 21st century as compared to the past. Miami Urban Chronicles Volume I: Risen, seeks to set forth a fictional biopic of the rise of spiritual leader Yahweh Ben Yahweh of the Liberty City based movement the Nation of Yahweh, “Ben Yahweh’s.” Chauncey Miller, the main ... Read more
NORVEL: An American Hero
FINALIST: 2021 Next Generation Book Awards Norvel Lee won gold in the Olympics, but he was so much more than just an Olympian! On a September morning in 1948, a member of the U.S. Olympic team and a Howard University student was arrested for taking a seat in the white section of a segregated train ... Read more
The Accidental Suffragist
It’s 1912, and protagonist Helen Fox is a factory worker living in New York’s tenements. When tragedy strikes in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, Helen is seduced by the Suffragist cause and is soon immersed, working alongside famous activists. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Mazie
A BURDENED WIDOW. A RECLUSIVE BACHELOR. A COLLISION OF FATES THAT TRANSFORM THEIR LIVES FOREVER. After tragically losing her only child when he was just a boy, then facing her husband’s death two years ago from Alzheimer’s, 72-year-old Mazie questions why God doesn’t take her too. Her overwhelming grief leaves her aching to escape her ... Read more
The Legend of Naughty Cleopatra, Egypt’s Last and Most Glorious Queen: As Related by Herself and Others, Chief Among Them Rome’s Mark Antony
A literary-deep-irreverent take on the story of Cleopatra. For lovers of ancient Egypt and Rome looking for an unconventional perspective on their favorite civilizations, with plenty of comedy and philosophy. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
All Things Small
In the back streets of Old Rome, near the famous Bernini monument, The Fountain of the Four Rivers, La Dolce Vita turns from sweet…to sour. A naïve American tourist gets involved with poets, the Mafia, an opera singer, a movie star, and a film being shot at Cinecittà. In the grand tradition of Mark Twain, ... Read more
Free: OOF: An Online Outrage Fiesta for the Ages
Award-winning novelist and cultural critic Strobe Witherspoon interrogates his own profession. It goes terribly. OOF explores the role of satire in a society lurching from one ridiculous crisis to the next, where media outlets rely on clicks to stay alive and everything is filtered through a lens of anger and misinformation. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Baker’s Dozen
Her bakery is going to the dogs! Abused and abandoned by her former owners, the unadoptable boxer, Baker, finds a safe haven at Pretty Paws, the only no-kill shelter in town. But when she’s scared, she can’t help defending herself, even from the people who want to help her. Dumped by her cheating fiancé and ... Read more
The Gift Counselor
It’s “Christmas in July”; there’s holly in your heart. Meet a young woman who helps people choose good gifts, her ten-year-old son who wants a dog she won’t let him have, and the man who enters and changes their lives. Family drama, romance, spiritual and psychological insights wrapped up in humor. So, grab your jingle ... Read more
All Men Love Leah
All Enzo wants is a reason to believe it’s all worthwhile. Stuck in a world that doesn’t fulfill him, he meanders through his days feeling empty, lost and left out of the real world that is moving by without him. He is cynical but gifted, and when he meets the beautiful and enigmatic Leah she ... Read more
Finbar Lovely at the Crossroads
This is a piece of literary fiction which tells the tale of a man who receives a terminal diagnosis that prompts him to re-examine his life choices. At several figurative “crossroads,” he contemplates how his life might have changed had he chosen a different path at crucial moments in his life. First love. The military ... Read more
Free: The Unorthodox Ox
A dystopian novel that examines the issue of environmental destruction: the collapse of the natural world. There is the protagonist, the anti-hero who has married the wrong person. The spouse, the antagonist, a difficult and habitual fault-finder. She has been undermining his and her own sanity for years. The story deals with the untangling of ... Read more
Free: Reckless Beginnings
Based on true events, women of all ages will relate to Tammy’s coming-of-age experience. A raw, emotional account of one woman’s life’s lessons. A book that will stay with you long after you have read it. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: A Rainy Day In Melbourne
In Melbourne for a friend’s birthday party, Henry is desperate to escape the stresses of his day-to-day life in Sydney. Spirits soar but events take a turn for the worse and Henry is forced to confront his personal struggles as well as those of his four friends. Can Henry keep it together and overcome his ... Read more
Everything and Nothing
When prophetic dreams and poems collaborate to thrust Idris, Navin, Michael, and Layla together out of the shadows of secrecy, one fateful event shows them how interconnected they have truly been all along. Through both prose and verse, Everything and Nothing tells the multi-narrative story of one pivotal summer during the lives of these four ... Read more
A Whisper of Angels
Kept apart by society, two lovestruck mariners face the forces of time, death, and the afterlife in order to reunite. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: No Going Back
Brian’s paranoid about becoming famous. He’s a successful novelist who’s always stayed clear of the limelight. However, when a single photo threatens his anonymity, how will he cope? Free on Kindle.... Read more
godless children have no heroes
Her world had been perfect and then it wasn’t. Faced with impending devastation and loss of control, Lex begins to spiral into survival mode, making risky choices bound for consequence, whatever it would take to not lose what was hers, whatever it would take to escape the emptiness of old demons. This life she existed ... Read more
Free: Days of Ascent
Forty years ago Rory Beaumont’s New Zealand was not an easy place for protests against racism, enjoying home-grown music or finding a place like home. Rory’s journey passes through forgotten history, poetry, romance and there are always more apples to pick. Not a light-weight novel but worth it for the reader prepared to go the ... Read more
Free: Nutshell
During Dust Bowl days in west Texas, a country doctor with shaky credentials delivers a baby, a so-called “monster.” A surgeon-in-training periodically rotates at a hospital within a mental institution, his story of emotional decline merges with that of an inmate who unwittingly finds herself becoming his guardian angel. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: The Other Hamlet Brother
Meet Tim Hamlet, the identical twin brother of the famously melancholy Danish prince. Tim has abandoned royal life and is trying (and failing) to make it as a playwright in London. But then, tragedy rears its ugly head—King Hamlet dies, Claudius takes the throne, and young Hamlet dons an “antic disposition.” Free on Kindle.... Read more
They Make Movies
These stories blend fiction and history to portray the stimulating but often troubled lives and careers of noted actors, actresses, and directors. Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, Chadwick Boseman, Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe, Halle Berry, Alfred Hitchcock, Clint Eastwood, and Spike Lee are among the stars who face challenges real and imaginary. Lesser known but talented ... Read more
Free: Rain City Lights
One part Coming of Age Story. One part Murder Mystery. As they navigate their way through Seattle’s Underground, Monti & Sasha will break and warm your heart! In the summer of 1981, a serial killer preys on black, teenage prostitutes working Seattle’s arterial highways. But the eyes of youth are blind to danger, and Montgomery ... Read more
Free: Mutiny In The Dugout
Parents send their kids to the newest craze in Little League baseball: military boot camp on a diamond. The kids have had enough of out-of-control parents, coaches, and abusive drill sergeants. After a typical day of coaches cursing and hitting kids, exploding bases, booing from the stands, and parents fighting in the parking lot, the ... Read more
