Here are four FREE Kindle books for you in the Amazon Kindle store to start off your morning: as of this posting, each of the books was free on the Amazon website but please make sure you check the pricing before you smack the “buy” button as the pricing can (and does) change at any time!
Nate Rocks the Boat by Karen Pokras Toz has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 22 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through January 14th.
Category: Children / Humor
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
The Adventure Continues… With fourth grade finally winding down, 10-year-old Nathan Rockledge is looking forward to a fun and relaxing summer at home with his friends. That is, until his mom decides he has to go to overnight camp with his annoying older sister. When his best friend Tommy decides to tag along, Nathan thinks maybe his summer won’t actually be so bad. After all, he does get to be away from his mom’s awful cooking for an entire six weeks.
Amongst Color War competitions, a flaky counselor, and a bully named “No-Neck,” Nathan turns to his trusty sketchpad, transforming himself into Nate Rocks: 10-year-old extraordinaire. His speedboat ready for action, Nate saves the day time and again from the perils of floods, snakes, ghosts, and even the most wanted criminals.
Join Nathan, Tommy, Abby, and a whole new cast of characters as Nate Rocks once again proves nothing can hold him back.
Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/xy65qt into your web browser to receive your free copy.
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The Second Thanksgiving by Douglas Lloyd McIntosh has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 9 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free for today only.
Category: Historical Fiction
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
Has Almighty God intervened in American history? Many great Americans have thought so, including President Abraham Lincoln in October, 1863, as he signs the proclamation making the traditional New England holiday of Thanksgiving a national holiday for the United States of America, at a time when the Civil War threatens to tear the country apart.
Laying down his pen, Lincoln disabuses his listeners of several false or inaccurate legends about the Mayflower Pilgrims. They were not perfect people but all-too-human, the usual combination of admirable strengths and appalling weaknesses. They made mistakes in 1623 that nearly destroyed their settlement at Plymouth. With their backs to the wall they eventually declared a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer. With no other hope remaining, they saw their desperate prayers lead to an astounding demonstration of God’s existence, power and mercy—divine intervention on a scale seldom experienced outside the pages of the Bible. The Pilgrims owed their very survival to this extraordinary instance of providential American history.
As President Lincoln says, “Our nation began with a miracle.”
In 1623 feisty and beautiful Hester Cooke arrives in New Plymouth with her two young daughters and little son to be reunited with the love of her life, husband Francis Cooke, and their elder son John, whom she has not seen since both sailed on the Mayflower nearly three years earlier. The previous year’s harvest has been catastrophic, far too meager to celebrate with feasting similar to the First Thanksgiving of 1621. The people of Plymouth barely survived last winter, thanks only to what men like Francis and boys like John have learned about hunting, gathering and fishing from their friends in the local Wampanoag “Indian” Tribe. Even now the settlers are living on the verge of starvation.
Reunited with son John, Hester discovers that her husband Francis is out on a dangerous mission with Captain Miles Standish and other militiamen to prevent a conflict between a group of dishonest English traders and the distant Massachusett Tribe from exploding into open warfare that could destroy Plymouth. After the peril is defused for the present, Hester and Francis are reunited at last, settling into their new lives. As the spring planting begins, Governor William Bradford and the Plymouth town council reach a momentous decision. Defying the rules set down by their London financial backers, they abandon communal farming (a form of what would now be called socialism) in favor of private property and free enterprise.
The opportunity to profit from one’s own hard work on one’s own land soon has every man, woman and child out working in the fields. Lack of motivation is a thing of the past, but Hester and Francis soon discover that Christians who take their faith seriously can still fall prey to overwork, insensitivity, envy, selfishness and strife.
These conflicts play out over one of the most dramatic years in American colonial history. The great Wampanoag chieftain Massasoit Ousamequin, who has kept the peace, falls ill to the point of death. The Pilgrims learn that two Massachusett braves are attempting to start a war to destroy all the white newcomers. Should these troublemakers be stopped, even if by a murderous preemptive strike?
What happens when nature itself seems to turn against all the inhabitants of the land, with the fingers of blame pointed squarely at the people of Plymouth by enraged Native Americans? What happens when the situation becomes so ominous, so deadly, so far beyond human solution, that the Pilgrims have nowhere to turn except to God and the power of prayer?
Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/v2ysrv into your web browser to receive your free copy.
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Brewing Beer by Homebrew Hendricks has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 42 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free for today only.
Category: Advice & How-To / Cooking
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
Brewing beer is “so easy a cave man could do it.” Well, we don’t know if beer making goes back quite that far. But people have been home brewing beer for thousands of years.
The aim of this book is to guarantee that you have a lot of fun the very first time you brew beer, and that all your future homebrews will be rousing successes as well. I promise, when you finish reading this book, you’ll be able to brew a great tasting 5-gallon batch of beer in four simple steps. Brewing beer at home should take you a total of about three hours of actual work, and very roughly about 6 weeks for fermentation, clearing, and conditioning, or aging, of your brew.
In this book you’ll discover:
* The 4 fully-explained secrets to how to brew beer at home, and produce an awesome beer the very first time!
* A bare-bones, step-by-step check-list of directions for quick reference while you’re brewing.
* 40 easy peasy home brew beer recipes for mouthwatering brews.
* The crucial information you need to know about brewing beer at home without landing in jail!
* All the essential details about beer brewing equipment and the ingredients of world class beer.
* A complete check-list to take with you when equipment shopping.
* Simple methods for cleaning and sanitizing your equipment for health, safety and superlative home brewed beer.
* An extensive glossary of beer brewing terms.
* A directory of almost 200 highly recommended sources for home brew beer supplies, and their contact info.
In ‘Brewing Beer”, I go into depth, and explain many topics in detail, so I’ve also included a boiled down, “bare-bones” check-list of directions. It’s quick and easy to refer to, while you are in the midst of brewing.
I will also give you suggestions for how to experiment with your methods and ingredients, to improve your brews to match your own specific tastes, when you brew beer at home. Soon you’ll be producing fantastic home brew beer of equal or better quality and flavor than the best commercial beers you’ve ever tasted.
Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/jku3qb into your web browser to receive your free copy.
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The Fortune Quilt by Lani Diane Rich has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 75 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through January 17th.
Category: Romance
Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
“Accept the book with the amber spine.
Return the frog. Take the cab.
What the hell kind of advice is that?”
When Tucson Today segment producer Carly McKay visits the quirky artist’s community of Bilby, Arizona, to do a story on a psychic quiltmaker, she receives an odd reading… and her life falls apart in eerie harmony with what the quilt foretold. Her best friend professes his undying love; her show gets canceled; and the mother who disappeared seventeen years ago appears on their doorstep, getting instant forgiveness from the entire family… except Carly.
Carly rushes off to Bilby to return the cursed quilt, and then surprises herself; she stays. She rents a cabin, gets a job, and meets an artist who shows her new ways to look at life, and love. Can she run away and start a new life, or should she go back and stitch her old one back together?
And why is it so hard to get a straight answer from a psychic, anyway?
Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/hg45fh into your web browser to receive your free copy.
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