Free Book Finds: October 2009

[Betsy the Quilter]

Post your free* book finds here.  For the September 2009 free book thread, see here:

http://www.kindleboards.com/index.php/topic,13143.msg270522.html#msg270522

This thread is for members to post your Free book finds, no self-promotion please.

If you have a book of your own to promote, you may start a thread all your own in the Book Bazaar and bump it occasionally (no more than once a week, please) to promote your book, to post news and to talk to your fans!  Of course, you may also list the book in your Avatar and signature.  Thanks!

We generally try to keep this thread on topic with book posts only, off-topic posts will be "pruned" periodically.  Thanks for your cooperation!

Ann & Betsy
Book Bazaar Moderators

*buyer beware:  though books are free when posted here, prices on Amazon can change without warning so be sure to look before you click!

[love2read]

For anyone interested in Christian books,

The Naked Gospel

is free directly from http://www.thenakedgospel.com/ until October 15.

It's in PDF format. The authorization code to get it free is farley.

I haven't transferred it to my Kindle yet but it shouldn't be a problem.

[LisaW.]

Free until October 31



Warning: Contains explicit sex, graphic language, and some violent situations.

[Kino]

I'm new here, and haven't figured out how to do the book links.

Free from the Suvudu online free library, we have two books to add:

First is David Sherman's Starfist: First to Fight
http://www.amazon.com/Starfist-First-to-Fight/dp/B000FBFOIC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=digital-text&qid=1254420379&sr=1-1

Product Description
"Marines, we have just become a low-tech deep recon patrol . . ."

Stranded in a hellish alien desert, stripped of their strategic systems, quick reaction force, and supporting arms, and carrying only a day's water ration, Marine Staff Sergeant Charlie Bass and his seven-man team faced a grim future seventy-five light-years from home. The only thing between his Marines and safety was eighty-five miles of uncharted, waterless terrain and two thousand bloodthirsty savages with state-of-the-art weapons in their hands and murder on their minds.

But the enemy didn't reckon on the warrior cunning of Marines' Marine Charlie Bass and the courage of the few good men who would follow him anywhere--even to death. . .


Next up we have R.A. Salvatore's The Demon Awakens
http://www.amazon.com/The-Demon-Awakens/dp/B000FBFON2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=digital-text&qid=1254420523&sr=1-1

From Library Journal
The demon dactyl awakens in a mountainside cave on Corona populated by elves, goblins, humans, centaurs, and giants. When goblins destroy the village of Dundallis, orphaned Pony and her friend Elbryan survive. Aided by magically powerful gemstones, they fight to defeat the evil dactyl. Recommended for fantasy collections.

[BookishMom]

Here are three books from Random House on Amazon:

The Demon Awakens
http://www.amazon.com/The-Demon-Awakens-ebook/dp/B000FBFON2

Starfist: First to Fight
http://www.amazon.com/Starfist-First-to-Fight-ebook/dp/B000FBFOIC

Templar Legacy
http://www.amazon.com/Templar-Legacy-Novel-ebook/dp/B000FCKPF8

These are also available at the Sony eStore for those who also have Sony Readers.

Enjoy!

[BTackitt]

http://www.amazon.com/Discovering-Dani-Jamesville-Book-1/dp/B000R93D6M/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=digital-text&qid=1254431822&sr=1-6

http://www.amazon.com/The-Mark-ebook/dp/B000SSULQ2/ref=sr_1_34?ie=UTF8&s=digital-text&qid=1254431919&sr=1-34

are new ones to me since I checked 3 days ago ..

[chilady1]

Enjoy!   
Product Description
Ex-U.S. Justice Department agent Cotton Malone is intrigued when he sees a purse snatcher fling himself from a Copenhagen tower to avoid capture, slitting his own throat on the way down for good measure. Further snooping introduces him to the medieval religious order of the Knights Templar and the fervid subculture searching for the Great Devise, an ancient Templar archive that supposedly disproves the Resurrection and demolishes traditional Christian dogma. The trail leads to a French village replete with arcane clues to the archive's whereabouts, and to an oddball cast of scholar-sleuths, including Cassiopeia Vitt, a rich Muslim woman whose special-ops chops rival Malone's. Malone and company puzzle over the usual Code-inspired anagrams, dead language inscriptions and art symbolism, debate inconsistencies in the Gospels and regale each other with Templar lore, periodically interrupting their colloquia for running gun battles with latter-day Templar Master Raymond de Roquefort and his pistol-packing monks.

[Kino]

I found several free ebooks for anyone who is interested in the thriller genre.

I just finished reading the "Serial" e-book which was offered last month (still free on Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/Serial/dp/B002AJ7X2C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254702577&sr=1-1) and liked it so much that I looked up the authors' websites.

One of the coauthors of the book, Jack Kilborn, has a list of several short story anthologies, as well as some of his earlier works, listed for free on his website at http://www.jakonrath.com/freebies.htm

The only catch is that the books are in the PDF format, so anyone interested in downloading them for their Kindle will need to have them converted.  But there are eight books for free download, and two more for $1.59 each.  I'm not posting links to each book, just the portion of the website that has the books listed.

Enjoy!

[Meemo]

I found several free ebooks for anyone who is interested in the thriller genre.

I just finished reading the "Serial" e-book which was offered last month (still free on Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/Serial/dp/B002AJ7X2C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254702577&sr=1-1) and liked it so much that I looked up the authors' websites.

One of the coauthors of the book, Jack Kilborn, has a list of several short story anthologies, as well as some of his earlier works, listed for free on his website at http://www.jakonrath.com/freebies.htm

The only catch is that the books are in the PDF format, so anyone interested in downloading them for their Kindle will need to have them converted.  But there are eight books for free download, and two more for $1.59 each.  I'm not posting links to each book, just the portion of the website that has the books listed.

Enjoy!

Just a FYI - JA Konrath and Jack Kilborn are the same person ;>)  I love his books - my daughter turned me on to his Jack Daniels series (writing as Konrath, his real name) which is excellent (but alas not free - but all available on Amazon for Kindle).  I've downloaded all his freebies as well, and I've read one of those free novels, The List, which was good, as well as a couple of the short stories in the ss collection.

[fishcube]

Love these free book threads each month!

[Maxx]

Here's one:



Maxx

[Maxx]

and another:

[BookishMom]

A new freebie from James Patterson available for pre-order:

Witch and Wizard
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002RNYGMQ

It sounds like a young adult title (by Little, Brown, and Co)

[Kino]

Here's another new freebie:

Affirming the Apostle's Creed by J I Packer
http://www.amazon.com/Affirming-the-Apostles-Creed/dp/B0026A6BWI/ref=pd_ts_kinc_7?ie=UTF8&s=digital-text

[madrye]

Black Silk by Jan Gordon

Vic has two loves in her life, her cat, Mister, and reading books from her bookstore. Her future looked set, until one night when she's saved from probable danger by a mysterious stranger. Cole has moved around a lot during his life, never finding a true home, until he buys an old house, and fate steps in to change his future. A light romance with a paranormal twist

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/3726

[madrye]

This also seems like a great site to get highly reviewed books.

http://darrylslibrary.wordpress.com/free-ebooks/

Another site I check weekly is

http://finding-free-ebooks.blogspot.com/search/label/.mobi%20.prc

I have found some links to really great books.

[Steph H]

Don't think I've seen this one posted yet and ran across it tonight.  "The Christmas Bus", a holiday-time novella (176 pages) by Melody Carlson.

[Kino]

Here's another couple of free book offers, this one aimed at fans of science fiction writing.

Jeffrey A Carver is offering six novels and five short stories for free through his website at http://www.starrigger.net/Downloads.htm

He also has a listing of other novels for purchase through various websites, for anyone who wants to pick up the rest of his works.

The books offered are:

The Chaos Chronicles, books 1-4:
Neptune Crossing
Strange Attractors
The Infinite Sea
Sunborn

Battlestar Galactica (A novelization of the miniseries that showed on the Sci Fi Channel)

Eternity's End


Out of the books offered, I only had doubts about picking up Eternity's End.  It's the fifth chronological book in a (so far) six book series, and I'm not sure how much of Mr. Carver's writing depends on the previous books.  But it IS free, and my Kindle is lonesomely empty, so I'm trying to fill it.

There are also five short stories offered in HTML format.  Since conversion is so easy, whether through Amazon or through software like Mobipocket Creator, i wanted to make sure everyone was aware of those as well.

Happy reading

[Steph H]

Kino, I'm glad you posted a reminder about the freebies on Jeffrey Carver's site. One, it's a good heads-up for those who didn't know about them.  And for me, it was a good reminder that I can get the other books from that series that Eternity's End is in at Fictionwise (something I wanted to do "eventually"), for which I have a 20% off coupon that expires tonight.  A good use of the coupon!

So thanks, and welcome to Kindleboards since I see you're a relatively new poster.

[Kino]

Steph,

Thanks for the welcome, you're the first to notice how new I am   Or the first to mention it, anyway.

I've been lurking around the boards for about two months now, just to see what was going on.  I actually just bought my K2 recently, at the end of August.  I was arguing with myself for literally MONTHS about whether or not I should buy a Kindle, or keep going with paper books.  Since I couldn't make up my mind if the expense was worth it, I went to the altar of the Almighty Google, and ended up here.  After puttering around on the boards, and seeing all of the offers for free books that were constantly being updated, I knew I had to get my grubby paws on one of these toys.  And so far, I have absolutely no regrets.  I've got 118 books so far, and only paid for 6 of them.  I would say that I've gotten my money's worth out of Amazon

The only reason why I haven't posted much (or at all) until now is because this was the first time I actually found out about free book offers before anyone else posted them.  And once I got used to finding free books, I haven't been able to stop.  And of course, I have to share everything I find with people who will appreciate it.

Oh, and since this thread is supposed to be about free ebooks, here's something special for you all.  Arachne Jericho, a blogger over at Tor.com, maintains a personal blog called spontaneous derivation.  This blog has a list of free downloads for the Kindle at http://www.spontaneousderivation.com/kindle/

I've already picked up Kelly Link's Magic for Beginners and an anthology of short stories called Thoughtcrime Experiments.  That title alone made it a for-sure download   There's also a few more available in a variety of genres, but those were the two that caught my eye.

[Betsy the Quilter]

Kino, welcome!  I think we've been so busy scarfing up the freebies you've posted about that we forgot to greet you!     Normally I would tell you to head over to intros and tell us a bit about yourself, but you've already done this here!

I'll be adding some of the links to our Book Lovers' Links so that people can find them later.  Also, as we keep this thread pretty lean and mean to help in finding the actual book posts, I'll probably move your great intro into the Introductions thread, along with any other greetings that appear here ( like mine)! 

Thanks for being part of KindleBoards and congratulations on your first posts!

Betsy

[lisa.m]

Just came across this today. I haven't read the book nor the author, just wanted to pass it on!

[auntmarge]

Out of the books offered, I only had doubts about picking up Eternity's End.  It's the fifth chronological book in a (so far) six book series, and I'm not sure how much of Mr. Carver's writing depends on the previous books.  But it IS free, and my Kindle is lonesomely empty, so I'm trying to fill it.

Happy reading

As near as I can tell, while Eternity's End takes place in a universe shared with other books in the series, they are independent in storyline.

And thanks for the reminder of his webpage.  I had downloaded the Chaos Chronicles a while ago and lost them in moving to a new computer.

[VictoriaP]

As near as I can tell, while Eternity's End takes place in a universe shared with other books in the series, they are independent in storyline.

And thanks for the reminder of his webpage.  I had downloaded the Chaos Chronicles a while ago and lost them in moving to a new computer.

Per Carver directly on MobileRead, Eternity's End IS a standalone set in the same universe as his other Starrigger novels (different from the Chaos Chronicles, which should be read in order).  I've read all those posted more than once; he's one of my favorite sci-fi authors.

(Apologies to Betsy for the hijack!) 

[webhill]

Exercises in Knitting

Someone on my knitting group (Ravelry!) recently posted this old knitting book freebie!