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Goodbye Mr Ex: A woman's guide to moving on
Transform your ex relationship struggle into freedom. Ever wondered what keeps most women struggling in the pain and anger of their ex-relationships and why they keep having their buttons pushed? This book identifies what these factors are and will give you a pro-active approach to free yo...
Genre: Parenting & Families
Free on Kindle: 21 May 2013 PDT/PST
Publisher: Ecademy Press Ltd
Size: 208 pages
20 reviews
Groomed for greatness, 15-year-old Jacob Hawthorne is sent to boarding school against his will. Jacob’s resentment toward his family reaches an all-time high when his father doesn’t bother to see him off for the 1980 school year. With a self-absorbed mother, an estranged father, and an older brother on the other side of the world, only the unlikely friendship with his grandfather can lure Jacob back home. But home feels like a distant memory from the shore of Raker Island, the isolated campus of one of the Northeast’s elite boarding schools.
As the surrogate bonds of a cloistered all-boys school fall into place, Jacob finds himself among other sons of privilege who suffer the same affliction—growing up in their fathers’ shadow. In fact, Jacob and his friends get dubbed “the Headliners” when their fathers make the headlines on the same day. Among them is Chris Forsythe, the rebellious son of a high-profile politician whose helicopter arrival sparks jealousy among the school’s upperclassmen.
Wellington Academy has been selected to host that fall’s senatorial debate, and Chris’ father is one of the candidates. Chris convinces Jacob—who is among the students selected to question the candidates on live television—to expose his father for embezzling money to finance his reelection campaign. Only Mr. O’Leary, Wellington’s inquisitive history teacher, stands in the way of Chris’ influence over Jacob. He alone can stop the inevitable head-on father-son collision that Chris is guiding Jacob toward. But when tragedy strikes, Jacob is forced to journey into the past to reclaim a well-guarded family secret.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Shadeflower Press
Size: 294 pages
Free download for Kindle from 22 May 2013 onward PDT/PST
2 reviews
This polished little gem of a story is a simple snapshot, a poignant moment captured in the 40-year friendship between two women. The camera reveals the dark fear and bright hope that we feel for those women we love—our sisters, our mothers, our friends—who struggle for light in abusive relationships that do not nurture spirit and too often result in violence. This story is one that we recognize. We all know how it will end, and that knowing rests as heavy in our hearts as the scent of sweet peas on a summer’s day.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Size: 10 pages
Free download for Kindle from 22 May 2013 onward PDT/PST
1 review
Snag is the story of the journey of Carl Anders, a polio survivor and West Point dropout, as he tries come to terms with an irrational fear that has been plaguing him since a chance encounter with a grizzly bear in the Yukon territory in the early 1970’s It is an allegorical tale told in three parts:
--"Yes, Sir. No, Sir. No excuse, Sir. Sir, I do not understand."
--"Yeah, and stacks of us right up to the roof of the ambulance, and parents who can't come because of the quarantine, and iron lungs, and that point down there at the end of the hall where they took that kid yesterday."
--"...and, I don't know. It's not a rational fear. It's something more. It's...it's the kind of thing you can't be afraid of if you want to look at yourself in the mirror and not be ashamed."
Genre: Literary Fiction
Size: 322 pages
Free download for Kindle from 22 May 2013 onward PDT/PST
3 reviews
When life gets too strange you go on vacation. When your vacation gets too strange then where do you go? Kanaloa's Cottage is the occasionally dark, often humorous, partially fictitious retelling of an ill-fated vacation to Hawaii. The story is filled with all the mystery, beauty and danger of the islands themselves. After an unnerving work day two close friends and I decide to leave Colorado and head for the island of Maui. Strange people and odd occurrences meet us at every step along the way. The path chosen is clearly the wrong one but the only way through is to keep going forward and to stop at every bar along the way. Most lessons come when you least expect them and salvation comes when you least deserve it.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Size: 115 pages
Free download for Kindle from 22 May 2013 onward PDT/PST
It's not every day that you can watch a guy's life implode, but it can be pretty funny, especially when that guy's a bastard. Stephen Kittredge is a successful art dealer in New York City who gets a chance to buy a Van Gogh , but ends up in serious debt collection himself.
This short story, set in New York City and coastal Carolina, is about selling things and trading things, and is as cynical as I could possibly make it. It has the energy of a big rock being dropped from a high building, accelerating in speed and force until the inevitable crash.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Size: 26 pages
Free download for Kindle from 22 May 2013 onward PDT/PST
In BECOMES GOD'S SILENT PROPHET, the man wakes up to find things are slightly different than they were in BECOMES THE HAPPY MAN. Those differences inspire the man to take a journey to find God.
What is God? Why is the idea of God universal to the human experience while the particular expressions of God are so diverse in human culture? What does the distinction between a universal and a diverse God mean for a person's belief in God? How does that belief change the way a person relates to other people? These are the questions for which the man seeks answers.
As in BECOMES THE HAPPY MAN, the man as a young man and the man as a boy also make appearances.
The young man contemplates his experiences in the gathering of believers for the celebration of the supreme being, and he also learns to relate to one of the girls who lives and works in the house where the old woman lived before she died.
The boy falls asleep and finds himself on a spaceship with an important task as dictated by someone claiming to be God. His arrival on a distant planet, and the completion of his task bring a surprise that not even the boy as a man could have anticipated.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Size: 294 kb
Free download for Kindle from 22 May 2013 onward PDT/PST
5 reviews
A terrible secret lies buried in the rubble of war. One man has been its guardian for decades. What is it and how did it stay hidden for so long?
An old man must be brought in and debriefed once more about his experience as a POW. The task falls to Wil Medlo, a former CI analyst who has been manipulated back into the silent game.
"The novel is eminently readable with just the right touch of technical detail...The suspense and intrigue pull the reader through page after page as the story unfolds.It is an easy read that is hard to put down."
"...a sharp, smart story, with interesting and well-crafted characters at its heart."
"The plot was original without getting too scientific or technical. The main characters were well developed..."
"It appears Mr.Carling did his homework and even though this is fiction, it gives a feeling of validity to the events."
"The story was well woven. I liked the various locations, they were set up well and I felt as though I was changing locations as the story moved along."
Genre: Literary Fiction
Publisher: W.I.H Publishing
Size: 355 pages
Free download for Kindle from 21 May 2013 onward PDT/PST
17 reviews
In this short story a young woman, Carla, finds herself pregnant. Her boyfriend, Saul, wants her to have an abortion. Instead, Carla flees to the farthest place she can reach. Here, Native legends and a black husky named Raven lead Carla's life in an unexpected direction.
For more stories by Inge Moore, check out REFLECTIONS AND ACCIDENTS, A Collection of Short Stories, and AS CRAZY AS YOU, A Collection of Short Stories, both available on Kindle.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Size: 8 pages
Free download for Kindle from 20 May 2013 onward PDT/PST
10 reviews
"A moving, dynamic debut." --Kirkus Reviews
Alex Ferguson
Compulsive skeptic. Devout believer. At odds with the group-think at her fundamentalist university. Preached at and taken advantage of. Agonizing over the recent death of her brother. Hurting for the larger world she lives in. Wrestling with the God she wants to love but maybe hates and definitely doesn't understand.
"An intriguing, multifaceted portrayal of Alex's spiritual journey."--Kirkus Reviews
New release. Literary novel. Religious fiction.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Michal Ann McArthur
Size: 340 pages
Free download for Kindle from 20 May 2013 onward PDT/PST
5 reviews
Directions For Disassembly Of An Old Set Of Swings (A Christmas Story)
Christmas collides with unspeakable tragedy in this haunting yet uplifting and original tale.
*SHORT STORY*
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING:
"This will touch your heart." -- David W. Appleby
"A wonderful Christmas story." -- Mark Traphagen
"Wow! So relevant after Newtown." -- Lynn Robison Clark DeRosa
AUTHOR BIO:
Andy Straka is the bestselling, Shamus award-winning author of several crime novels.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Size: 9 pages
Free download for Kindle from 20 May 2013 onward PDT/PST
Celeste's son, an addict, overdoses. While Celeste tries to put her life back together after this devastating loss, her ex-husband re-appears, blaming her for the death of their son.
Intervention is the final story in a series of stories about Celeste. Others are: Something of Substance, The Sheets, An Honest Woman, and Cowboys. These five stories are available as a collection titled, AS CRAZY AS YOU, A Collection of Short Stories.
A Bonus story is also included, titled, The Star Dollars.
For more stories by Inge Moore, check out REFLECTIONS AND ACCIDENTS, A Collection of Short Stories, also available on Kindle.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Wild Horse Publishing
Size: 11 pages
Free download for Kindle from 20 May 2013 onward PDT/PST
Celeste spends a romantic evening with a new man. Unfortunately, she finds the encounter less than satisfying. Afterward, when she has returned to her acreage, she breaks in her young stallion. Just when she feels everything is right with her life, her past returns to haunt her.
Cowboys is the fourth in a series of stories about Celeste. Others are: Something of Substance, The Sheets, An Honest Woman, and Intervention.
These five stories are available also as a Kindle collection, AS CRAZY AS YOU, A Collection of Short Stories.
For more stories by Inge Moore, check out REFLECTIONS AND ACCIDENTS, A Collection of Short Stories, also available on Kindle.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Size: 12 pages
Free download for Kindle from 20 May 2013 onward PDT/PST
1 review
*This book made it as far as the so-called 'Big Six' publishers.*
'THE' voice of a generation, lost in Tokyo.
A young American college graduate travels to Tokyo to find his fortune. There, he joins a fast-moving, high-spending, drug-using crowd of louche foreigners. After one particularly disastrous party, criminal charges are filed, reputations are ruined, and the narrator is targeted by an enraged father who is also a senior US embassy commissioner. Involved with a hooker girlfriend and thoroughly addicted to the drugs with which he once only experimented, the narrator is confronted on his inner-most resources to overcome the greatest challenge of his life. From the members’ rooms of Japan’s most exclusive private clubs, to the penthouse suites of its ennui-filled glitterati, to the luxury yachts populating Tokyo Bay, HARAJUKU SUNDAY unfolds against a background of the beautiful and damned: a story about modern Tokyo, drug use, and the lives of young Americans at the far edge of the Pacific Rim. Drawing comparisons to the work of the young Yukio Mishima and Ryu Murakami, SUNDAY is Lost in Translation meets Brideshead Revisited in an elegy for a lost period of expat life.
Top-50, Christmas 2011, Literary Fiction, Amazon.com.
sample:
It can begin anywhere. Soren comes up to me on the Keihin-Tohoku line home from work on a Thursday evening and at first I don't know who he is. All I notice is a figure in my peripheral vision standing up out of one of the traincar seats, approaching me, and in clear unaccented American English saying, "Ritchie? Ritchie, is that you?" Surprised by this unexpected greeting, I look over and realize that I do recognize the person. His name is…Soren. Right. Soren Soutern. Three weeks ago, he had put an advertisement on Tokyo Metropolis website, offering to trade a box of English-language books for a packet of non-Japanese cigarettes. It's not easy for expats to get paperbacks and moreover, the whole ad had been funny, reading ‘bring me over a pack of non-Japanese cigarettes and you’ll get in an entire cardboard box of recent paperbacks in return.' With all these earnest 'English lessons for 2500 yen' or 'Japanese girl seeks English language partner for foreign exchange' entries crowding up the listserv, the seemingly ironic ad had to be investigated. Moreover, I had had, by chance, a whole carton of duty-free Sobranies lying around the apartment that I had picked up last visit stateside and never found anyone to gift to. So I called up the listed phone number, noted the unexpected address, and went later that day with the cigarettes and a tacky American-flag lighter added in purely as a bonus. I returned home that evening with a good-sized box of both cheap paperbacks but also some quality college lit titles all in decent condition, definitely a good deal.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Size: 127 pages
Free download for Kindle from 19 May 2013 onward PDT/PST
Rebel in the Back Seat ... one story from the short story collection
Rebel in the Back Seat is the anchor short story from the short story collection of the same name. From the short story: I was fifteen when my father stopped beating me. He stopped beating me the day he split my lip and knocked out two of my teeth. It was the day before I quit school and the day after I lost my virginity in the back seat of a 1938 Cadillac Sixty Special parked at Cherry Beach. Bernadette, the doll in the back seat of the Cadillac, could have been the goddess hood ornament come to life. She was my reward for some quick thinking at Garbo’s, the speakeasy where I worked. The club owners, Sal and Enzo, had her first. Like most men, Sal and Enzo called women dolls or babes or lookers or numbers. While they took turns, I was supposed to sit in the front and keep my eyes peeled for cops—but mostly I peeked into the back seat through the rear view mirror because I wanted to know how to do what they expected me to do. I wanted to be good so they wouldn’t laugh at me, because when people laughed at me I sometimes lost my cool. And when I lost my cool, I’d fight anybody, any place, any time. Hey, whatcha gonna do? That’s the way it was. It doesn’t happen anymore, not much anyway. Now that I’m older and greyer, I’m also a little wiser. Or so I’d like to think. I sure wouldn’t’ve fought Sal or Enzo, even if they had laughed at me. I may have been a dumb punk, but I wasn’t stupid. I was tough, but they were vicious—especially Sal. Besides, considering that I was just a punk, they treated me with respect.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Paul Lima Presents
Size: 25 pages
Free download for Kindle from 19 May 2013 onward PDT/PST
1 review
If you're looking for interesting short stories or mystery short stories then Swallows And Ice Cream a Literary Fiction short story book will cover, mystery, romance, suspense, torment and desire.
Steve, a nineteen-year-old English boy, lives and works in one of the small Tuscan villages that surround Florence. He is a lost soul, haunted by the memory of his beloved Katherine, whom he has left behind in England. He lives in a cluttered single room high up in Fausto Pacelli’s three-storey house; the exorbitant rent as always in arrears.
Steve works for Tino Fabiano, owner of an ice cream shop. His handsome good looks are good for business, women of all ages seem attracted to the boy. Steve is befriended by Luca, who runs his uncle’s café, and is responsible for most of the food Steve eats, and Maria; a stunning beauty who has attached herself to the English boy.
Steve is a boy lost in confusion, riddled with guilt that he cannot undo. Katherine comes to him more and more in nightmares; unable to escape her, she now haunts his days as well as his nights. Everything is catching up with Steve; sooner or later, he will have to confront his bitter past.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Publisher: NewNet Media
Size: 81 pages
Free download for Kindle from 18 May 2013 onward PDT/PST
"So you are moving again."
And with every move comes a new house, a new nose, new bedrooms.
Also, a new identity. Craig Tarrant. Chris Lindstrom. Barry Hanlon. Each of whom has a new job, a new station with new colleagues and new responsibilities, even if each one doesn't really have a new face or a new soul or new memories.
What are memories, anyway?
"What all of these tales have in common is masterfully crafted prose, dry but sympathetic observation and an engrossing allusion to a larger, unseen world." - Sydney Morning Herald on Nick Earls' short fiction
Genre: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Exciting Press
Size: 13 pages
Free download for Kindle from 18 May 2013 onward PDT/PST
Ramblings of addicts, maybe just one, maybe more.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Size: 33 pages
Free download for Kindle from 18 May 2013 onward PDT/PST
From the author of The Joy of Ex and UHF Shadow comes a collection of stories covering a wide range of intense and challenging themes.
In the story Tracey, 20-something Spence and his mates have discovered a great way of using the internet to make quick cash using the age old industry of exploiting women.
Scanning The Sky explores what would happen if we discovered television signals from another world.
Heiress Nebraska Branning is dubbed Queen of the Damned in an article for a small niche newspaper. Reporter Vanessa Farraday follows up the story for her national magazine and meets America’s Sweetheart.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Oktober Books
Size: 119 pages
Free download for Kindle from 18 May 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 The Sparrow, and look for The Returned from Harlequin MIRA, a moving tale of a family given a second chance at life and a world where nothing—not even death—is certain.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Publisher: MIRA
Size: Unknown
Free download for Kindle from 17 May 2013 onward PDT/PST
31 reviews
Name and Number: Based On a True Prison Story
Customer Reviews:
*****Once I started I couldn't stop. From the first page to the last a truly gripping story about life inside. Mark Bowen
*****Read this book on holiday and couldn't put it down. A great read! If he wrote another I would certainly buy. J Read
*****Inspiring and enthralling, one man's survival and it totally captures you, I couldn't put it down. Excellent book - read it now! Scrap dog
Book Description
Art student Nick Wood risks selling a few Ecstasy tablets at a party to impress friends and ends up with a two year prison sentence.
Nick hopes to spend his sentence in an open prison, the type he's read about in the papers. The ones often referred to as 'holiday camps'. Instead, his worst nightmare comes true.
Locked up in HMP Blackthorpe, a prison known for its medieval-like squalor and brutal violence, Nick lives at the mercy of the drug barons and in fear of the lifers. Constantly stalked by danger he has to find a way to survive in the prison rife with heroin.
To earn protection money he turns to the one thing he's good at - art. But can selling pictures to visitors be enough to keep the mob at bay? Or will he be made an example of by the hard men and suffer the worst type of prison punishment?
Based on the experiences of the author.
ABOUT JOHN HOSKISON:
In 1994, bestselling author and top professional golfer, John Hoskison broke a lifetime rule by drinking and driving and on his way home, he hit and killed a cyclist. As a non-violent first offender, he was told he would spend part of his sentence in an open prison, but was instead consigned to some of the toughest in Britain.
John was only able to survive his time in prison through the incredible forgiveness he received from the woman whom he'd made a widow and by the support of friends and family who knew his actions were so out of character. John was so shocked by the lack of hope given to inmates during their sentences, he wrote the bestselling book 'Inside - One Man's Experience of Prison', which was hailed as a very brave and important book by Lord Ramsbotham the Chief Inspector of Prisons.
Now John spends time speaking to young people at schools and through community out-reach programs, warning them about taking unnecessary risks and what prison is really like. If anyone is under the illusion that prison is a holiday camp, and that breaking the law just once is worth the risk, read this book.
OTHER TITLES by John Hoskison
Inside: One Man's Experience of Prison
A Golf Swing You Can Trust
Shooting Lower Scores
Your Short Game Silver Bullet
Genre: Literary Fiction
Publisher: ePublishing Works!
Size: 155 pages
Free download for Kindle from 10 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 a media-saturated existence.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Size: 324 pages
Free download for Kindle from 10 May 2013 onward PDT/PST
5 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 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.
Praise for Shuffle:
Winner, Best e-book Fiction, 2012 Digital Book World Publishing Innovation Awards.
Nominated, Best Transmedia Project, 2012 Digital Book World Publishing Innovation Awards.
“Revolutionary.” -CultureOdyssey.com
“Exemplifies the best in innovative reading experiences.” -Digital Book World
“A remarkable e-novel. Notable, unique and very, very good.” - Caroline Smailes, HarperCollins author of bestsellers 99 Reasons & Black Boxes
“Inspired by David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas.” - Wired
“An imaginative, entertaining thriller that engages the reader as an integral part of the storytelling process.” - Digital Book World
“Reinvents the e-book.” - Good e-reader.com
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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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