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Hearts & Arrows is an anthology of nine contemporary romance stories written by seven successful Kindle authors and one up-and-coming new author. Rollercoaster by Ann Madden-Walsh Is life infinite? For forty years she has lived in hope that one day her first love will return. Now she’s ...
Genre: Romance
Free on Kindle: 17 June 2013 PDT/PST
Publisher: KUF Publishing
Size: 110 pages
1 review
Love and Journalism: A Poetry Collection
This is a collection of poetry about Love and Journalism that will be included in the upcoming kNewspapers: a Grassroots / Citizen Journalism novel to be published June 2013. The poems included are... The Square Root of Turtle love gently, tread with Indie Pendant my kitchen There Was... Bittersweet Out Back Counting Rain Like Christmas morning Starship Arc easter island mysteries Mad Love I Consider Love Believeland is my home my work The mathematician Steampunk Ampersand Liberty Plaza, NYC Kierkegaard Regards in order, two Love Flow Earth Princess Sub-Galactic Clumps> I Smile...
Genre: Literary Fiction
Publisher: kNewspapers
Size: 137 kb
Free download for Kindle from 18 June 2013 onward PDT/PST
2 reviews
"A colorful, nuanced novel . . . Wittmann admirably doesn’t 'solve' all of Charlie’s problems, instead making the point that sometimes in life, you simply play through." --KIRKUS REVIEWS Thirty-three-year-old Charlie Matthias was born on the same day as Phil Mickelson, but his career in professional golf sure didn't turn out the same way. Throw in some substance abuse and divorce issues, and he's a wreck who's pretty much given up on ever having a happy life. A chance meeting with an old friend from high school, Erica Denner, lights a spark of hope in his heart, but he claims their very different family backgrounds and personalities are stumbling blocks. Only when he admits to the real stumbling blocks—his own pain and bitterness—will there be a chance for Charlie and Erica to f...
Genre: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Sara Camilli Literary Agency
Size: 266 pages
Free download for Kindle from 18 June 2013 onward PDT/PST
Despondency: The Story of a Defeated Man
"Man is anindivisible entity, an integrated unit of two attributes: of matter and consciousness, and... he may permit no breach between body and mind, between action and thought, between his life and his convictions." | Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand. "Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again." | Hermann Hesse "Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens." | J. R. R. TolkienBook Description: Trister Trännermann, a fifty-nine year old man, travels the world in search of happiness. He finds nothing but regret as the unforgiving shadow of his past relentlessly haunted him. He ends up in Antigua, Gua...
Genre: Literary Fiction
Size: 190 pages
Free download for Kindle from 18 June 2013 onward PDT/PST
kNewspapers: A Novel About Love and Citizen Journalism
This is an autobiographical novel, a work of fiction. Print newspapers end up in the recycling bin. They are used to line bird cages. Puppies get pottie-trained with old newspapers. Print newspapers are yesterday's news, but Journalism will survive. Downsized in 2005 from a midsize daily newspaper in the Midwest and on the run from a soon-to-be ex-wife, intrepid webmaster Paul Malinski transforms into kpaul, a man determined to start a news and information source from the ground up, something truly by the people and for the people. Along the way, he learns a lot about journalism, greed, love, black holes, Occupy and much more. Perhaps most important, he learns about himself and that one person alone can't do everything. This narrative is the beginning of a conversation that will hope...
Genre: Literary Fiction
Publisher: kNewspapers
Size: 472 pages
Free download for Kindle from 18 June 2013 onward PDT/PST
Out of Misery: Collected Stories
In this collection of stories from the author of the novel "Purple Topless Carwash," you’ll meet an eclectic mix of characters including an insulted chef, two housekeepers, and a lawyer pulling her own history from her navel. Wait. What? Yes, these stories are bizarre. There are grave-robbing Texans, post-apocalyptic survivalists, and a woman who gives a man a turkey fryer and lives to regret it. While the characters in these stories exist in a world that is not quite our own, you will find yourself probing the most authentic depths of the human condition and you may find that these stories hold a mirror up to you and the people you know in ways that you might not expect. This book might not be for you. If you shy away from the unusual, if you are repulsed by the outsider, or if you migh...
Genre: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Thinksimian
Size: 130 pages
Free download for Kindle from 18 June 2013 onward PDT/PST
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Harkening back to the writing styles and small town settings of earlier American authors – John Steinbeck, Harper Lee, and Carson McCullers - "Only the Truth" is a psychological mystery with as many twists as the country road leading to the humble home of Billy Ray Hutchins, a lonely uneducated man living in the hills of Arkansas. Life changes little for him from day to day until he brings home a young drifter he meets at the railroad tracks, the mysterious Charlene, whose last name he never asks. He becomes her Sweet Billy Ray and his love for Charlene is steady and uncomplicated until the sheriff shows up to take her away in handcuffs. With the only woman he has ever loved behind bars for the coldblooded murder of the old man across the road, a confused and devastated Billy Ray sets ou...
Genre: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Pat Brown
Size: 148 pages
Free download for Kindle from 18 June 2013 onward PDT/PST
A man reflects on his life in 19th century New England. A story of intrigue, love, heartache and ultimate redemption. Seeking editing or publishing inquiries....
Genre: Literary Fiction
Size: 641 pages
Free download for Kindle from 18 June 2013 onward PDT/PST
5 reviews
When 30-year-old firefighter Josephine Porter dies in the line of duty, her sister Jeanette arranges to have Joey’s brain uploaded to a computer system called BrightBox. At first, Jeanette is thrilled to have her sister’s mind stored in a small device that she can bring with her wherever she goes; life seems to become one unending slumber party. But being trapped in a BrightBox doesn’t suit Joey well—she experiences painful phantom limbs, strange auditory and visual hallucinations, and finds herself remembering things that never actually happened. Plus there’s all the strange information that keeps downloading into Joey’s hard drive…information that Joey doesn't want to know, and that BrightBox’s parent company finds dangerous. Soon Jeanette must enlist the help of Bright...
Genre: Literary Fiction
Publisher: English Prime Press
Size: 202 pages
Free download for Kindle from 17 June 2013 onward PDT/PST
2 reviews
Mad Days of Me: Finding Eivissa
Astray on an unfamiliar island following his unconventional escape from Barcelona, without shelter and abandoned by his companions, an unlikely relationship becomes Rudy's only hope to settle down. Plunged into a world of uncontested authority, former lovers, and a past as perverted as his own, struggling to reconcile with his own mistakes, hope proves to be exhausting to hold on to. This is a story of human spirit in the face of the impossible. This is a story of perseverance, and the power of dreaming. It is a story of hope....
Genre: Literary Fiction
Size: 268 pages
Free download for Kindle from 17 June 2013 onward PDT/PST
2 reviews
Subway Dancer and Other Stories
SUBWAY DANCER AND OTHER STORIES is a new collection of gripping short fiction by Catherine Ryan Hyde, the bestselling author of many beloved novels, including DON’T LET ME GO and PAY IT FORWARD, and of other critically acclaimed short story collections, including EARTHQUAKE WEATHER and ALWAYS CHLOE. A striking and emotionally resonant collection, SUBWAY DANCER AND OTHER STORIES is a compilation of stories originally published in some of the most respected literary magazines in the country, including The Antioch Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Glimmer Train and Ploughshares. In the award-winning story “Bloodlines,” two neighbors of different ethnicities are friends in spite of their differences…until an argument about expensive purebred dogs versus mutts from the pound brings...
Genre: Literary Fiction
Size: 223 pages
Free download for Kindle from 17 June 2013 onward PDT/PST
1 review
Coffee, Cigarettes, and Murderous Thoughts
Coffee, Cigarettes, and Murderous Thoughts, the first collection of short stories by Henry Martin, presents an eerie glimpse into the lives of over twenty diverse characters. Spanning many fiction genres—often dark and disturbing—this collection of 26 unrelated stories delves into the disquiet thoughts that lie deep within our consciousness. Please note: Contains adult material!...
Genre: Literary Fiction
Size: 173 pages
Free download for Kindle from 17 June 2013 onward PDT/PST
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Mad Days of Me: Eluding Reality
Inevitably separated from the woman who brought hope back to his life, Rudy leaves for France to seek seasonal employment. This simple journey, however, soon becomes a quest for self-discovery, which takes him through France, Italy, and Austria before he is able to return to Spain. Battling his inner demons as the lies he invented in order to survive close in on him, Rudy's sanity is tested in ways he would never imagine. This is a story of human spirit. This is a story of perseverance, and the power of love to transcend cultures, borders, and one's own past. It is a story of reconciliation....
Genre: Literary Fiction
Size: 551 kb
Free download for Kindle from 17 June 2013 onward PDT/PST
The Miller Moth: The Short Story
A loving family ... a birthday celebration in New Orleans ... Chase gurgled happily as the tiny, gray miller moth flitted in front of his face. The moth landed next to a lamp, well within the circle of light cast by the bulb and directed by the shade. Snugly secured in his chair, as the others were in the kitchen, Chase shifted as best he could to keep his large blue eyes trained on the resting moth. The circle of lamplight on the end table reflected in Chase’s unblinking eyes, the image of the moth being a tiny refracted slash just under each of his pupils....
Genre: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Torchmark Media
Size: 160 kb
Free download for Kindle from 17 June 2013 onward PDT/PST
During the early days of the AIDS pandemic, two Miami Beach mavens took to New York to look after their ill nephew. Sophie and Helene sat together on the same bench they shared nearly every morning blessed with decent weather. The wooden two-seater was one of innumerable benches up and down the South Beach, Florida, boardwalk. The two women, widowed sisters in their late seventies with respective births separated by less than twelve months, shared a condo on Collins Drive in the shoreline community of South Miami Beach....
Genre: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Torchmark Media
Size: 155 kb
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A 1600 word short story written in a "process analysis" pattern of development. The story reflects on the experience of a young man who pursues an incipient urge that turns out to be the essence of his being. As he ages, he considers its cost, reckoning what he is driven to keep with that which he must let go....
Genre: Literary Fiction
Size: 125 kb
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Every now and then one small soul rises from the crowded depths of obscurity and causes the earth to wobble on its axis. This last happened in 2008 when an unemployed doorman stepped onto the worldwide stage in Stockholm and accepted The Nobel Prize for Literature. In this me-me twenty-first century, Thomas Soles may very well be the last American martyr. This self-described “simple man” writes a book that is so powerful it brings back to life the all-but-dead international labor movement. The response to his thoughts and perceptions are astounding. Around the globe, from pole to pole, America to Zimbabwe, the footsteps of marching workers begin to tremor the earth. But not everyone is pleased. There’s a tight-knit, elitist clique that is absolutely livid over the thoughts and id...
Genre: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Tom Winton
Size: 194 pages
Free download for Kindle from 17 June 2013 onward PDT/PST
1 review
THE SAND ARTIST and Other Stories
Karen Larsson, a young woman diagnosed with terminal cancer, returnes to the beachside resort town of her childhood. It's the summer of 1939 - a season of deceptive calm and lazy, sun-drenched days. Walking on the beach, she sees a sand artist at work. Patrick Quinlivan, once an aspiring sculptor, has lost an arm in the Spanish Civil War. Now he can only sculpt in sand. Their lives will converge one morning before dawn when Quinlivan catches sight of a despondent Karen attempting to drown herself in the surf. The Sand Artist tells the story of a brief love affair, poignant and desperate, between two people whose lives have been shattered in separate ways. The overarching metaphor of sand sculpture, washing away in the tides, expresses the larger theme of impermanence and mortality in a wo...
Genre: Literary Fiction
Size: 144 pages
Free download for Kindle from 17 June 2013 onward PDT/PST
2 reviews
The SAS did not exist officially; at least not lawfully, but a small red building three doors down from the Hyatt on 10 Downing Street had an office on the third floor. Twelve men sat listening to the head of MI6. “What are the three main types of terrorists? Who is he and he wants what? We can safely say we have one section cooperating with files out of Dubrovnik office at present. Who he is remains unimportant at the moment.” The head of MI6 walked back to his seat and sat down. The secretary and the other eleven men sat back in silence. The room became quiet. The secretary named Lakeridge folded his hands together and addressed the others positioned around the table. “Do you have any ideas Swanson, Myrgatroyd?” Wainwright, the second man across from the third from the left...
Genre: Literary Fiction
Size: 123 pages
Free download for Kindle from 17 June 2013 onward PDT/PST
PROLOGUE Janett Camps has been able to capture in HUMANS AMONG DOGS the depth of that unique communication between species that humans are capable of reaching with their pets. This depth is exhibited in her moral arguments regarding our relationship to our pets, and in the many levels and layers that she explores in that relationship. This book tells a real story, one that marked her deeply. But from the real facts emerge a totally magic second story that could only be told by a poet. Her feelings and those of her dog Pandi seem equally human and equally canine. She is able to merge these two characters into a tight cloth. Each fiber of the story is equally compelling and keeps the tension of the plot moving along to great and unexpected endings. If you love your pets you will enjoy th...
Genre: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Janett Camps
Size: 42 pages
Free download for Kindle from 17 June 2013 onward PDT/PST
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THE SEAL (Rosicrucian Quartet)
#1 BEST SELLING HISTORICAL FICTION FROM CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR ADRIANA KOULIAS. TRANSLATED INTO FOUR LANGUAGES THIS IS A MUST FOR HISTORY BUFFS AND TEMPLAR FANS.It is the year 1307 and the ancient Order of the Knights of Christ and the Temple of Solomon is in grave danger. The King of France and Pope Clement V are plotting its destruction and scheming to appropriate the Order's most sacred relic: the Grand Master's seal.The seal is taken away by Etienne de Congost, a battle-weary but incorruptible man who flees through a world in ruin, dodging plots and papal spies in a life and death struggle to keep the secret from evil hands.The outcome of Etienne's desperate journey is discovered 700 years later by a writer who visits Lockenhaus Castle in Austria to research a book on t...
Genre: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Zuriel Press Pty Ltd
Size: 453 pages
Free download for Kindle from 16 June 2013 onward PDT/PST
Thousands of years after setting out on a voyage of galactic discovery, the Unquiet Spirit returns to Earth. The planet is renewed, pristine. The human population is down to just one man. Razed almost totally is the legacy of the human age. But a rusted ship drifts in a fjord, its hold full of the ancient dead. And a letter, miraculously preserved, provides a key to the past. But what is that past? Is it the Dublin of George Holden, where climatic and political catastrophe mean the only hope of survival is a trek across a devastated land? Or is it Dublin Far City, shimmering capital of the world, set in the salt desert at the foot of the African Wall? Either way, the world seems to be coming to its end....
Genre: Literary Fiction
Size: 206 pages
Free download for Kindle from 16 June 2013 onward PDT/PST
A young American woman visits Florence, Italy where art and love and the great myths that underlie both come together. Cali finds that accepting love means accepting some fundamental change. A short story from the anthology The Jeweled Web/...
Genre: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Float Street Press
Size: 15 pages
Free download for Kindle from 14 June 2013 onward PDT/PST
5 reviews
Roger just can’t get along. The very idea of going with the accepted expectations of the American lifestyle makes his fists tighten. He isn’t, nor will he ever be, a part of the consumptive, materialistic clan known as…everyone else. Roger is a bum. He doesn’t have a house, a job or a car. What he has is a life, and questions. Questions he’s trying to answer, but it’s so damn hard when all he smells is pollution; physical pollution of the environment, mental pollution of the population. Take Maynard, for example. He’s a bum, but not ‘just like’ Roger. He’s the exact opposite of Roger. He’s ignorant, unintelligent, childish, and above all, materialistic. And he stinks just like everyone else. Any time Roger feels he’s nearing an answer, Maynard happens. Maynard and...
Genre: Literary Fiction
Size: 208 pages
Free download for Kindle from 14 June 2013 onward PDT/PST
6 reviews
Happy Slumbers (Dragon City (Book Four of Four))
When Argus Kirkham disappears, his older brother Alex returns to the city of his youth to join in the search, but finds himself instead at the edge of a baffling mystery he can neither see nor begin to understand, in this fourth and final re-mix of the Dragon City series....
Genre: Literary Fiction
Size: 53 pages
Free download for Kindle from 03 June 2013 onward PDT/PST
The First (Prequel to The Returned - Book 1)
In Jason Mott’s haunting and unforgettable debut novel, The Returned, an impossible miracle is occurring all across the globe. Read how it all begins in this short story, The First. It’s been just over a year since Edmund Blithe died, and just over a month since his fiancée, Emily, stopped wearing her engagement ring. Emily has finally begun to move on… Until Edmund mysteriously and inexplicably returns, sending the world—and Emily—into a tailspin. Edmund is only just the beginning. Around the world, people’s loved ones are returning from beyond, seeking only to reenter the lives they left behind. As the world dives deep into uncertainty, Emily and Edmund are determined to find their way back to one another…even if it means risking everything. The reappearances continue in T...
Genre: Literary Fiction
Publisher: MIRA
Size: Unknown
Free download for Kindle from 17 May 2013 onward PDT/PST
7 reviews
After a failed marriage proposal, and an apathetic suicide attempt, Samuel Grant is looking for a reason to wake up in the morning. An ex-child star and the son of two famous celebrities, Samuel searches for an existence worth living while wandering through the surreal landscape of the entertainment industry. Trying to see through a haze of scotch and antidepressants, his journey takes him through the flashbulbs of gossip obsessed paparazzi, the confined limits of a hospital bed, the seedy apartment of a neo-hippie, the emotional neutrality of a therapist's office, the social bubble of a Canadian reality show, and the imprisoned realm of a hotel suite with limitless room service. Featuring a large cast of unique characters, "Fixing Sam" is a post-modern search for the meaning of life in ...
Genre: Literary Fiction
Size: 324 pages
Free download for Kindle from 10 May 2013 onward PDT/PST
6 reviews
On a cold, dark night, in a quiet coffee shop, Elli works her shift wiping tables and making cappuccinos. When an intense stranger blows in on a blustery breeze and shows her a different vision of herself, the trajectory of her life is dramatically changed.Closing Shift is a work of short fiction....
Genre: Literary Fiction
Size: 8 pages
Free download for Kindle from 10 May 2013 onward PDT/PST
Poker Face. (A Shuffle story#2)
Three men. Two different futures. One hand of cards. Pulp Fiction meets Three Kings. Take a rollercoaster ride into the dark chaotic heart of Saddam Hussein’s war-torn Iraq. As bloody carnage wages outside two soldiers of the U.S. 7th Cavalry and a mysterious prisoner play poker in a secret casino hidden inside the bombed palace of Uday and Qusay Hussein. The stakes could not be higher. They do not know it but all three men are playing for their very destinies. Warning: contains very strong language. Recommended purchase price above 15 years. This e-book is story #2 of Shuffle. Shuffle is a unique e-novel designed, from its inception, to be shuffled and read in any order that suits you. Each story is a complete narrative; together they create a subtly connected and compelling whole. ...
Genre: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Harpoon
Size: 204 kb
Free download for Kindle from 10 May 2013 onward PDT/PST
The Choice (Prequel to The Returned - Book 3)
The next exciting and much anticipated prequel to Jason Mott’s The Returned. Look out for more fantastic titles ahead of the The Returned. This is The Third....
Genre: Literary Fiction
Publisher: MIRA
Size: Unknown
Free download for Kindle from 10 May 2013 onward PDT/PST
The Sparrow (Prequel to The Returned - Book 2)
The next exciting and much anticipated prequel to Jason Mott’s The Returned. Look out for more fantastic titles ahead of the The Returned. This is The Second....
Genre: Literary Fiction
Publisher: MIRA
Size: Unknown
Free download for Kindle from 10 May 2013 onward PDT/PST
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