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Saturday, August 8, 2009

Free Weekend Reading - PDF's

I've found several PDF's available for free download lately and I'm combining them into one post. First, two from Simon & Schuster. They ask for your email address, zip code and birthdate, but none of the info is validated, so just enter anything you wish (and leave today's date as the birthdate). Uncheck the box to receive their email updates (unless you used your own email address) and click submit and the download link is displayed immediately. The first one is A Knight to Remember, by Karin Tabke. They are promoting her latest book, Master of Craving ($5.59), the third book in her Blood Sword Legacy series. Click HERE for the download.

Next up, get Uglies ($7.19), by Scott Westerfeld. The newest in his children's/young adult's series, Leviathan is schedule for release in November, so you have plenty of time to get caught up, if you start now.

Book Description
"Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that? Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there. But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure she wants to be pretty. She'd rather risk life on the outside. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world -- and it isn't very pretty. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. The choice Tally makes changes her world forever."

Click HERE for the download.

The third PDF is direct from the author, In Over Her Head ($24.95 paperback), by Elsie Russell. Visiting her web site is worth the time, just to see the samples of paintings.

Book Description
The debut of Penny Bell's's musical composition, featuring the use of mysterious extremely low frequency waves takes a tragic turn when several concert-goers die in their seats during the performance. The once-bright horizons of Penny's career collapse, and she retreats to a dank Soho basement apartment lit only by the glow of computer monitors and electronic displays. There, using herself as a guinea pig, she sets out to unlock the secrets of her beautiful and deadly symphonies. A series of strange coincidences intrude upon her solitary quest. Her neighbor, the erotic performance artist Ula Nova's, disappears after her studio is broken into. And then Ula's charming and damaged young choreographer appears, and sweeps Penny off to Europe to search for the diva, plunging Penny into a seedy and unfamiliar world of jet set artists and international intrigue where the threads of every encounter always seem to lead back to those ELF waves and their pint-sized progenitor.

Click HERE for the download.