Here’s a great way to get ready for the weekend: another generous helping of great new Kindle freebies. Each book listed here has gone FREE within the past 24 hours (except for the “Kindle Daily Deals” on page 3. Warning: Kindle book promotions can end without notice, so before downloading click the link “See Kindle price at Amazon” to verify that the book is still free. (Prices and availability may differ outside USA.)

Killing Hope (Gabe Quinn Thriller #1)

> Mystery > Hard-Boiled

Author: Keith Houghton

Killing Hope (Gabe Quinn Thriller #1)

“Celebrity Cop” Gabe Quinn is back working Robbery-Homicide after a personal tragedy has left him emotionally bare. He’s raw, but resolved to catch a serial killer stalking the streets of two major cities.

With cryptic clues left at each crime scene, Gabe is faced with the seemingly impossible task of piecing together the bizarre puzzle – following signs that point toward a killer whose motive questions everything he believes in …

Blood Money

> Genre Fiction > Action & Adventure

Author: Laura Rizio

Blood Money

Nick Ceratto, a young, cracker jack litigator looking for a partnership in the prestigious Philadelphia law firm of Maglio, Silvio, and Levin discovers his firm’s dark seceret for increasing it’s bottom line while preparing a medical malpractice case for trial.The partners are setting up major cases by seriously injuring and even murdering their clients to produce huge jury awards. When the firm discovers he knows, Nick’s only hope is to stay one step ahead of the hitman long enough to intentionally lose his case and expose the firm’s corruption.

If You Have A Hat. A Silly Rhyming Children’s Picture Book

> Children’s Books > Activity Books

Author: Gerald Hawksley, Gerald Hawksley

If You Have A Hat. A Silly Rhyming Children's Picture Book

“If you have a hat – put it on your head. If you have a bed bug – tuck him up in bed.” A silly rhyming picture book created especially for Kindle by children’s author/illustrator Gerald Hawksley. Simple silly rhyming text and jolly pictures make this an ideal Kindle experience for sharing with children.

Dancing with Eternity

> Science Fiction > Adventure

Author: John Patrick Lowrie

Dancing with Eternity

What would happen if Odysseus met Captain Ahab in the Fortieth Century? Only Captain Ahab is a beautiful woman named Steel who owns her own starship and Odysseus is an unemployed actor named Mohandas who’s stuck on the backside of a backwater moon because he won’t pay his taxes. Oh, and everybody—well, almost everybody—lives forever, did I mention that?

Happiness Rehab: 8 Creative Steps to A More Joyful Life

> Self-Help > Creativity

Author: Mary Schramski Ph.D., Jennifer Archer

Happiness Rehab: 8 Creative Steps to A More Joyful Life

What if happiness awaits you if you choose to be creative? What if you discover a creative passion that forever changes your life for the better? In Happiness Rehab: 8 Creative Steps to a More Joyful Life, experts Jennifer Archer and Mary Schramski guide readers through an innovative yet practical workshop to discover their creativity/happiness connection. This fun and challenging program asks participants to trust in their innate ability to reclaim their childhood imagination, curiosity and enthusiasm for life, and answers the questions: What is innovation? Can it help me find happiness?

Alaskan Fury (Guardians of the First Realm)

> Science Fiction & Fantasy > Romance

Author: Sara King, David King

Alaskan Fury (Guardians of the First Realm)

Long ago, Kaashifah the Fury, Chosen warrior of the Lord of War, fought a djinni to a stalemate in an ancient duel of souls. Three thousand years later, she and ‘Aqrab, the passionate djinni prince of the Fourth Lands, are still bound together, each waiting for the other to make that final, killing blow. To complicate matters, they are being hunted across the vast Alaskan wilderness by a team of holy soldiers who are specially trained—and highly successful—at capturing the numerous magical beings of the Five Realms. In order to save their friends from the Inquisition, some compromises must be made…and some boons given.

Slow Burn (The Fitzgerald Family series)

> Romance > Romantic Suspense

Author: E.B. Walters

Slow Burn (The Fitzgerald Family series)

She doesn’t want to deal with the past….

Ten years ago, Ashley Fitzgerald witnessed the death of her parents in a tragic fire and her mind blocked the memory. She pretends to have moved on, is a successful artist and photographer, until she opens her door to a stranger, assumes he’s a model and asks him to strip to his briefs.

He plans to expose the truth…

The Dark Lake (The Oshkosh Trilogy)

> Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Author: Anthea Carson

The Dark Lake (The Oshkosh Trilogy)

Meet Jane. She can’t get sober, keep a job or get on with her life. She’s still living with her parents. Her therapist thinks it is all due to a traumatic event she can’t remember. Then, when they drag her car up from the bottom of the lake, it starts coming back to her. That car went in the lake twenty years ago. She must remember what happened that night. She would do anything to avoid remembering.

Horses Of The Sun (The Outback Riders)

> Children’s Books > Animals > Horses

Author: Leanne Owens

Horses Of The Sun (The Outback Riders)

Sunhaven Downs, a drought ravaged cattle station in outback Australia, is the home to Dane, Lani and Matthew Winter, three young outback riders whose lives centre around their horses. When their city cousin, Amy King, is left there for a year and declares that she hates horses, they know their lives are ruined. What they don’t know is that Amy has a secret – a secret she is desperate to keep from her outback family, something that will ultimately save their lives – but not all of them – on the night the drought breaks.

Troll Or Derby, A Fairy Wicked Tale

> Teens > Fiction > Horror > Dark Fantasy

Author: Red Tash

Troll Or Derby, A Fairy Wicked Tale

In Troll Or Derby, fifteen-year-old Roller Deb is singled out by town bullies for both her skates, and for being different. When her popular homecoming queen of a sister is kidnapped by a scuzzy drug dealer, Deb must flee the trailer park in which she’s grown up, and rescue her. Along the way, Deb becomes enmeshed in the magical realm of trolls and fairies, and the blood-thirsty version of roller derby at which these beings excel. But spending too much time among the fairies comes with a price.

No Game for a Dame (Maggie Sullivan mysteries)

> Mystery > > Historical > Women Sleuths

Author: M. Ruth Myers

No Game for a Dame (Maggie Sullivan mysteries)

Private eye Maggie Sullivan knows the streets of Depression-era Dayton, Ohio, as well as she knows an emery board. With a gin bottle in her desk, a .38 under her seat, and a great pair of legs she can hold her own against the toughest opponent.

Then a routine case makes her a murder suspect and the target of a crime boss who’s got friends at City Hall.

Before Maggie finds all the answers she needs, she’s drugged and left in a ditch, has tea in the kitchen of a local cathouse and gambles her own life to save two others.

Just This Once (Escape to New Zealand)

> Women’s Fiction > Contemporary Women

Author: Rosalind James

Just This Once (Escape to New Zealand)

Everyone needs to be rescued sometimes.

Everyone but Hannah Montgomery, that is. She just needs a vacation. Three weeks in New Zealand to sort out her life, figure out what she wants, seems just right. Oh, and to relax. She should definitely put that on the agenda. She certainly isn’t looking for a fling with a professional rugby player, no matter how attractive he is. Hannah doesn’t do casual. But maybe just this once. . .

Defeat Cancer: 15 Doctors of Integrative & Naturopathic Medicine Tell You How

> Disorders & Diseases > Cancer > Alternative Medicine

Author: 13 Cancer Doctors, Connie Strasheim, Richard Linchitz MD, Robert Rowen MD

Defeat Cancer: 15 Doctors of Integrative & Naturopathic Medicine Tell You How

If you traveled the world for appointments with fifteen cancer doctors, you would discover many of the cutting-edge treatments used to heal the body from cancer. You would also spend thousands of dollars on hotels, plane tickets, and medical appointment fees-not to mention the time that it would take to embark on such a journey.

Even if you had the time and money to travel, would the physicians have enough time to answer all of your questions? Would you even know which questions to ask? In this long-awaited book, health care journalist Connie Strasheim has done all the work for you.

Unplanned

> Religious Fiction > Romance

Author: J. Heather Leigh

Unplanned

McKenna thought she’d endured the worst humiliation imaginable when she was left at the altar. Then, a single night of bad judgment leads to even more shameful consequences. Embarrassed, she fears the rejection of her friends and family. Will her church turn their backs on her in a time when she most needs mercy and compassion?

Queen of Cities

> Genre Fiction > Historical

Author: Andrew Novo

Queen of Cities

1453 – An army is marching. The Turkish sultan, Mehmed, brilliant, and ambitious, has declared war on Constantinople. In Queen of Cities, ANDREW NOVO evokes an age of armored heroes and high-walled cities, of Machiavellian mistresses and scheming politicians, of religious conflict and the clash of empires.

The stone, silk, and steel of the fifteenth century come to life in an epic drama that reverberates in our own time.
The battle rages on land and sea with deadly machines of destruction. In this conflict, the fate of two civilizations, two faiths, and Constantinople, the Queen of Cities, will be decided.

Nemesis – The Nemesis Series

> Genre Fiction > Westerns

Author: L. J. Martin

Nemesis - The Nemesis Series

The fools killed his family…then made him a lawman. This wild and wooly western, in the Louis L’amore tradition, comes from renowned author L. J. Martin, whose over 20 novels have brought compelling reading to so many. McBain, broken and beaten from the Civil war, is reluctant to return to his family, as a snake dwells in his belly and he can’t get the images out of his mind…until he learns his sister and her family have been murdered. Then it’s retribution time.

Three Questions

> Genre Fiction > Coming of Age

Author: Meagan Adele Lopez, Lindsey Benaissa

Three Questions

Eight hours in Vegas. A promise to meet in Chicago. Four months apart while he traverses through the depths of Africa and she “aspires” through the haze of Hollywood.

Their intense connection is clear, but fate is only as strong as timing allows it to be. She has a life-long passion that is finally turning into a career. He has landed enough British pounds to travel the world for the first time in his life.


Rin-Tin-Tin:The Movie Star

> Biographies & Memoirs > Entertainers

Author: Ann Elwood

Rin-Tin-Tin:The Movie Star

Rin-Tin-Tin, a German Shepherd, an icon of the 1920s and early 1930s, was as famous a movie hero as Rudolph Valentino or Douglas Fairbanks. His athletic feats astonished audiences – he could scale an eleven-foot fence, leap over chasms, and climb trees. Thousands of children wrote him fan letters, and he answered with a paw-autographed photograph.

This book is a biography of both Rin-Tin-Tin and Lee Duncan, his owner and trainer. It places their lives in the context of their times, especially France, where they met, and Hollywood, where Rin-Tin-Tin became a star.

Only Women Bleed

> Women’s Fiction > Contemporary Women

Author: L.J. Rivard

Only Women Bleed

 

As an adopted child, college student Jessica Walters had often pondered her true beginnings. Her most creatively imagined scenarios, however, had not come close to the truth revealed to her on her twenty-first birthday: Jessica’s biological mother had aborted her.

An Unexpected Date

> Romance > Contemporary

Author: Susan Hatler

An Unexpected Date

Holly loves living in her cozy mountain town and all the surrounding beauty soothes her soul. She treasures beading jewelry for her own small business while watching nature and its amazing creatures outside her window. But, her mom begs her to move back to the city so she can find a man to marry. Holly doesn’t want to give up on her dreams, but does that mean she’ll have to give up on love?

The Cartel

 

Author: A.K. Alexander

The Cartel

What began as an innocent love affair for one young woman, Marta Peña, in Costa Careyes, Mexico in 1969, sets in motion a series of events that spans the next thirty years. This is the story of South American drug lords Antonio Espinoza and Javier Rodriguez, and their violent quest for power. In a sweeping family saga, we meet the women who love them and the children they vow to protect at any cost.

The Cloud Seeders

> Genre Fiction > Action & Adventure

Author: James Zerndt

The Cloud Seeders

Serve Your Country, Conserve Your Water, Observe Your Neighbor.

This is the slogan of the Sustainability Unit and of a country gone eco-hysterical. After nearly twelve months without rain and the hinges of the world barely still oiled, Thomas and his younger brother, Dustin, set out across a drought-ridden landscape in search of answers. What they discover along the way will change their lives, and their country, forever.

Stress Cure Now-A Stress Management Book With A New, Logical And Effective Approach

> Self-Help > Stress Management

Author: Sarfraz Zaidi MD

Stress Cure Now-A Stress Management Book With A New, Logical And Effective Approach

In “Stress Cure Now,” Dr. Sarfraz Zaidi, MD describes a New approach to deal with stress.  This approach is simple, direct, original and therefore profound. It is very effective in getting rid of stress at its root.

Anti-anxiety and anti-depression drugs work simply as a band-aid to control symptoms temporarily. These drugs do not treat the root cause. In the same way, traditional psychology also does not get to the root of the problem. Sooner or later, the lava of stress bursts through the paper thin layers of medications, as well as the usual psychological treatment approaches.

Millicent Marie Is Not My Name

> Children’s Books > Social Situations > Bullies

Author: Karen Pokras Toz

Millicent Marie Is Not My Name

Twelve-year-old Millicent Marie does not like her name. After all, she was named for a woman who died more than fifty years ago and was not the most loveable member of the Harris family. Her friends call her Millie, but when she writes in her diary she refers to herself as Amanda – the name she always wished she had.

When Millie’s younger brother finds her diary on her computer, he decides to publish it as a blog for the entire world to see, including the boy Millie has a crush on.

Cage Life

> Genre Fiction > Anthologies

Author: Karin Cox

Cage Life

A young mum feels like a prisoner in her own home. Her decision to escape the bonds of marriage and motherhood, just for a few hours, has unexpected consequences that force her to a re-evaluate what it really means to be loved, to be married, and to be free.

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