The Last Days of Jericho ($2.99 Kindle), by Thomas Brookside, is free in the B&N store, but I know he's sent in a price increase, so it'll be going up soon.Book Description
A monster is approaching the Bronze Age city of Yarich.
It cannot be stopped. It cannot be turned aside.
And the monster is…God Himself.
The Canaanite city of Yarich is home to a society that is literate, cosmopolitan...and doomed. Sakal, caravan-master to the "Melek" or king of the city-state, recounts the tale of the increasingly desperate battle for survival waged by an urban culture against fanatical outsiders – nomads from the desert wielding a terrible supernatural power.
Half "Deuteronomy", half "Gojira", it examines the horror that arises from the knowledge of inexorable fate, and explores the moral ambiguity at the heart of the Old Testament tales that help make up the foundation of western civilization.
Critiquing the Judeo-Christian tradition by taking it literally, the book combines elements from disaster fiction, monster and "kaiju" horror, and the ancient Ugaritic and Egyptian epic cycles to transform a biblical story of miracle and triumph into an apocalyptic tragedy.
Wrongful Death: The AIDS Trial ($2.99 Kindle), by Stephen Davis, is free in the B&N store, as are a number of others by this same author. You can also find these free at Smashwords, for those who don't have a nook.Book Description
If you like courtroom drama in the style of John Grisham, you’ll want to read this book. If you ever knew someone with AIDS or HIV, you need to read this book. If you still believe the government and the FDA are protecting you against deadly diseases and dangerous drugs, you must read this book!
"WRONGFUL DEATH: The AIDS Trial" is a work of fiction based on fact: the true story behind the government lies and incompetence, gross medical malpractice, and unbridled greed by a drug company that caused our American AIDS epidemic and cost 300,000 lives in just ten years.
Follow along with attorney Benjamin Messick and health reporter Sarah Meadows in this class-action lawsuit as they expose the man who claims to have discovered the cause of AIDS, Dr. Robert Gallo. Dr. Gallo announced to the world at a press conference on April 23, 1984 that a virus later to be called HIV was the culprit. Unfortunately, Dr. Gallo’s peers were never given the chance to prove his theories, and still can’t to this day.
In the last twenty years, Dr. Gallo has been exposed as nothing more than a common criminal, a thief, and a liar. He finally admitted he had stolen the AIDS virus from a French researcher. He also stole another virus from the Japanese. He lied on his patent application for the HIV blood test. A congressional investigation found Dr. Gallo guilty of “intellectual recklessness of a high degree,” and the Office of Research Integrity of the Department of Health and Human Services found Dr. Gallo guilty of scientific misconduct and called some of Dr. Gallo's key AIDS research, “of dubious scientific merit” and “really crazy.” As one German scientist put it, Dr. Gallo is “an American scientific gangster who has committed so many crass, self-aggrandizing blunders…that he could not really be relied upon to tell the time correctly.”
Attorney Messick questions a number of witnesses who all agree with 2700 of the world’s leading doctors and medical researchers today, including Nobel Prize winners in chemistry and medicine and members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, that HIV cannot cause AIDS. At the end of the book you'll find out what actually DOES cause AIDS.
The testimony in this court case finally discloses that in the decade from 1987 to 1997, three-hundred-thousand Americans (mostly homosexual men) died NOT from some horrible disease they caught from a virus, but as a result of taking the very drug they were told would cure them. Urged on by their doctors, parents, families and loved-ones, these HIV-positives took AZT, a drug originally designed and created in 1964 to kill cancer cells, but never approved because it was found to be far too toxic to a human body.
Read the testimony of witness after witness - all based on over 900 actual medical and scientific research papers and reports - that when the FDA finally approved AZT for the treatment of AIDS in 1987, it began causing Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome; and every person who took it - healthy or not at the time - would die within three years from one of many different opportunistic diseases. Be prepared for the anger and outrage you will feel when you realize that hundreds of thousands of innocent women and children are still being murdered today in Africa with AZT, simply because they have been declared to be HIV-positive, while the drug company rakes in billions of dollars in profits.
The question remains: After 30 years and 300 billion dollars, why don't we have a cure or a vaccine for AIDS? The witnesses in this court case provide the only answer that makes any sense: We have the wrong cause.
Ashes ($0.99 Kindle), by Scott Nicholson, is free in the B&N store. The B&N collection also claims to have 20 stories, while the Amazon edition has only 12.Book Description
A collection of 20 contemporary fantasy and supernatural stories from award-winning writer Scott Nicholson. From the pages of magazines like Cemetery Dance and Black Static, the stories range from a guest appearance by Edgar Allan Poe to a story about misplaced love in "Dog Person," selected for Year's Best Fantasy & Horror. Includes an exclusive introduction by Jonathan Maberry and an afterword.
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Rae Wilder has problems. Plunged into a world of dark magic, fierce creatures and ritual sacrifice, she is charged with a guarding a magical amulet. Rae finds herself beaten up, repeatedly, and forced to make a choice: to live and die human, or embrace her birth-right and wield magics that could turn her into something wicked, a force of nature nothing can control.
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"I won't have her forced," Jack said. "Let her decide for herself."
Amy knew her father meant it. She could say no if she wanted. But this marriage would make everything all right. They could put all the trouble she had caused behind them. Everyone would be happy again.
Everyone except her.
In nineteenth century New Zealand, there are few choices for a farm girl like Amy. Her life seems mapped out for her by the time she is twelve. Amy dreams of an exciting life in the world beyond her narrow boundaries. But it is the two people who come to the farm from outside the valley who change her life forever, and Amy learns the high cost of making the wrong choice.
Machine of Death: A collection of stories about people who know how they will die ($9.99 Kindle), edited by Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo & David Malki, is free in PDF format directly from the publisher.Book Description
"The machine had been invented a few years ago: a machine that could tell, from just a sample of your blood, how you were going to die. It didn't give you the date and it didn't give you specifics. It just spat out a sliver of paper upon which were printed, in careful block letters, the words DROWNED or CANCER or OLD AGE or CHOKED ON A HANDFUL OF POPCORN. It let people know how they were going to die." MACHINE OF DEATH tells thirty-four different stories about people who know how they will die. Prepare to have your tears jerked, your spine tingled, your funny bone tickled, your mind blown, your pulse quickened, or your heart warmed. Or better yet, simply prepare to be surprised. Because even when people do have perfect knowledge of the future, there's no telling exactly how things will turn out. Featuring stories by: Randall Munroe * Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw * Tom Francis * Camille Alexa * Erin McKean * James L. Sutter * and many others. Featuring illustrations by: Kate Beaton * Kazu Kibuishi * Aaron Diaz * Jeffrey Brown * Scott C. * Roger Langridge * Karl Kerschl * Cameron Stewart * and many others.
Focus ($8.99 Kindle), by Leo Babauta, is free in PDF format from the author. He also sells a premium version on his web site (for $35). The free version of the book is "27 chapters", but is only 121 pages long. Since the size of the Kindle version is 179K, it appears that it's pretty much the same as the free version.Book Description
A simplicity manifesto in the Age of Distraction. Focus shows us how to find the focus among all the digital distractions in our world, so that we can create, focus on what's important, and find time for quiet and contemplation.
Steven Savile, author of The Last Angel ($2.99 Kindle) and Silver (An OgmiosTeam Adventure) ($9.99 Kindle), is giving away his OgmiosTeam Adventure short story Ghostkiller, to anyone that sends him an email at ogmiosteam@gmail.com. If you like it, he invites you to "please twitter, facebook and otherwise spam the world with the address."Book Description
Back in January my debut thriller came out in hardcover from Variance in the US, and has sold exceptionally well. To try and ease the wait (I was a swine, it ends on a huge reveal) for Gold, Variance and I have decided to do a series of free ebook only promotional short stories, one for each of the team. The first is Noah's story, Ghostkiller.
Noah Larkin is a damaged man. He isn't a hero in the traditional sense. He doesn't do the right thing. He gets into trouble because he lets his heart lead him there, but when your back's against the wall he's the best friend you could ever have. Just ask Margot.
The First Dragoneer ($1.00 Kindle), a novella in The Dragoneers Saga, and The Blood of Coldfrost (A Wardstone Short), both by M. R. Mathias, are both free on Smashwords.The Blood of Coldfrost
A brief account of the Battle of Coldfrost, which happened a few years before "The Sword and the Dragon" begins. This is just a few thousand words I wrote that preclude the start of my 235,300 word Epic, and several of Free chapters from a few of my other full length novels. If you love fantasy you will enjoy the Free trip
The First Dragoneer
When two young men go on a hunt that they know will be the last hunt of their youth, they decide they want it to be an unforgettable outing. When they cross a ridge leaving the protection of their kingdom behind, they find a cavern that looks like it needs to be explored. In the cavern they find exactly what they were looking for. In this stoney hole lives something they will never forget!
Thanksgiving Your Way is a free ebook from the Money Saving Mom website. It may be too late to save money leading up to Thanksgiving or to work in the recipe for the Creamy Pumpkin Pie Dip into this year's celebration, but be sure to check out the website's Family Fun and Holidays menu for ideas on using up that leftover turkey (you do keep it and eat it, right?) and some Simple Christmas posts (although, I don't know if it would pay us to create a monogram wreath ... how would I tell it from a regular one?)
Ruth Francisco, whose Amsterdam 2012 ($2.99 Kindle), I've read, has two free short stories, Shooter and Primal Wound, free on Smashwords.Shooter
As Brandon McDowell, an Iraq War veteran, struggles to adjust to civilian life, the “Overpass Shooter” strikes again. Brandon stalks the streets of LA, studying the killer’s patterns, and concludes that the killer, too, is a vet. But when he approaches Det. Ortiz with his findings, the detective doesn’t know if Brandon is confessing, is crazy, or has the instincts of a clever detective.
Primal Wound
When Cicely Scott sets out to find her birthmother in rural New Hampshire, she uncovers a dark family saga of insanity and murder. Meanwhile, in San Francisco, Homicide Inspector Val Picard suspects Cicely may be responsible for the disappearance of a young preschool teacher. Lies and betrayal lead to additional murders. But who is at fault?
Amsterdam 2012
A young woman witnesses a murder in Amsterdam that touches off a Muslim rebellion and leads to the Great Eurabian War—World War III.
During her summer break, Ann Aulis travels to Amsterdam with her boyfriend Peter to visit the Anne Frank Museum. They befriend a hip Dutch couple who invites them home for dinner. They spend the night, and the next morning discover their hosts have been murdered. Ann and Peter flee to London only to find the murders have touched off a Muslim rebellion in Holland that spreads to England. They flee to the US, where Peter is detained at Kennedy Airport, then taken away by FBI agents.
Ann returns to her family in Los Angeles, horrified as she sees Muslim rebellions in Europe spread to civil war. With her lover in Guantanamo Bay Prison, Ann watches the United States slowly get dragged into the Eurabian war. As the Muslim world establishes a new caliphate, the United States falls into a major recession caused by high oil prices. Then a major flu epidemic. The only thing keeping Ann sane is her deep attachment to Anne Frank, and her love for Peter. Finally, Ann throws off her passivity, and decides to act.
Transcendence ($28.45 Hardcover; $16.95 paperback), by Christopher McKitterick, is free in PDF format, directly from the author.Book Description
Humankind rushes toward self-destruction and must evolve or die. Our perspective: a scientist exploring an alien artifact on Triton, a teen-aged hacker in a city gone mad, three actors manipulated into igniting interplanetary war, the de-facto ruler of half the solar system, a soldier fighting in Africa to entertain his audience, an artificial intelligence facing personal crisis, and a cast of billions.
The Paradise War ($0.00 Kindle), by Stephen R. Lawhead, the first in his The Song of Albion Trilogy, is now also free in the Sony bookstore, for those who need epub on their readers.Book Description
From the dreaming spires of Oxford, Lewis Gillies drives north to seek a mythical creature in a misty glen in Scotland. Expecting little more than a weekend diversion, Lewis finds himself in a mystical place where two worlds meet, in the time-between-times--and in the heart of a battle between good and evil.
The ancient Celts admitted no separation between this world and the Otherworld: the two were delicately interwoven, each dependent on the other. The Paradise War crosses the thin places between this world and that, as Lewis Gillies comes face-to-face with an ancient mystery--and a cosmic catastrophe in the making.
METAtropolis: Cascadia ($18.71 Audible), by Jay Lake, Mary Robinette Kowal, Elizabeth Bear, and Ken Scholes, "the provocative sequel to the Hugo and Audie Award-nominated METAtropolis featur(ing) interconnected stories by today's top speculative fiction writers," is now out at Audible. METAtropolis was free in it's entirety for a brief time early last year at Audible (but isn't available at all now, unless you picked it up then). This year, they are offering a free download of Jay Lake's story "In the Forests of the Night", which introduces the setting for METAtropolis: Cascadia, narrated by Battlestar Galactica's Michael Hogan ("Saul Tigh").
