Free Short Story - The Big Finish (K/N/E)

Update: Now free on Kindle.

The Big Finish, a short story from the the forthcoming collection Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events: Stories by Kevin Moffett, is free in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble and Sony. There's no sign of it yet in the Kindle store, but if it shows up, I'd expect it to be free there, as well.

Book Description
An excerpt from a Kevin Moffett's dazzling new story collection, Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events, where he offers a poignant, witty, and sometimes disturbing portrait of human uncertainty--of men and women suspended at the point of discovery or passage. Written with penetrating insight into our motivations and fears, Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events is a wise, funny, and haunting collection that signals the emergence of a major new talent.

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Free book - Moby Jack & Other Tall Tales (K)

Moby Jack & Other Tall Tales, by Garry Kilworth, is free on Kindle, courtesy of UK publisher PS Publishing, LTD.

Book Description
Moby Jack and Other Tall Tales is a collection of stories that span some 20 years. They cover a variety of themes and are more different, in style as well as content, than they are similar. As the author himself says, "Some writers follow a path of sameness in order to satisfy their readers' desire for familiarity. To me that's like going to same country for your holiday every year. It's not me. I like going somewhere different every time."

The tales range from Chinese fantasy ('Death of the Mocking Man') to science fiction ('Moby Jack'), to fantasy ('The Sculptor') to horror ('The Megowl') to ghost stories ('Hunter's Hall') -- but for the most part they're just plain odd and refuse to slot into any set category.

So, if you like weird stories, dark comedy and tales where characters get into impossible situations and only occasionally extract themselves, then you'll probably enjoy this volume

A Trio of Free Ebook Shorts from Bethany House (K)

Christian publisher Bethany House has three ebook shorts free in the Kindle store today.

Unlocking the Mysteries of Satan, by Dennis McCallum
Pastor and teacher Dennis McCallum clarifies what the Bible teaches about Satan, evil spirits, demonic control, and spiritual warfare--including the devil's capabilities and limitations, and practical steps to counter evil forces. This is a selection from Satan and His Kingdom.

Small Church, Big Impact, by Brandon J. O'Brien
By gathering stories about effective churches from small-church pastors, Brandon O'Brien demonstrates that a church's success is not contingent on its size. This is a selection from Brandon O'Brien's book, The Strategically Small Church.

Escape from the World Trade Center, by Leslie Haskin (repeat)
A 9/11 Survivor’s True Story

This is the riveting account of Leslie Haskin’s escape from the World Trade Center after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. The former insurance executive shares what she saw and endured as she struggled down 36 floors in a doomed and dying building and away from a life focused on perks, prestige, and power.

Free Short Story - The Dark Lifer's Revenge (K)

The Dark Lifer's Revenge, a teen/young adult short story by Linda Joy Singleton, is free in the Kindle store.

Book Description
Sabine Rose from The Seer series teams up with Amber Borden from the Dead Girl series in this exciting short story by Linda Joy Singleton.

After getting kicked out of school and sent to live with her grandmother, Sabine Rose tried to ignore her troublemaking psychic abilities. All she wanted was to be a normal teen. But the spirit world has other plans for her.

Amber Borden is a high school student and aspiring talent agent with an unexpected side-job: she’s a Temp Lifer. By temporarily stepping into the bodies of people who are suffering, Amber navigates their daily lives and tries to fix their problems. Luckily her loyal boyfriend, Eli, has been very supportive—even during that freaky time when Amber inhabited his sister’s body.

When Sabine’s boyfriend, Dominic, loses his own body to a revenge-obsessed Dark Lifer—one of the disturbed souls who “borrow” living people’s bodies to do their dirty work—Sabine goes to Amber for help. Working together to find and free Dominic, the girls begin to unravel the Dark Lifer’s twisted plan of vengeance. But it throws them directly into the path of the troubled soul’s murderous rage . . .

Bonus: Tantalizing excerpts from Singleton’s hit books Don’t Die, Dragonfly and Dead Girl Walking, and a sneak peek at her latest page-turner, Buried.

Free Book - Grazing The Long Acre (K)

Grazing The Long Acre, by Gwyneth Jones, is free in the Kindle store.

Book Description
Gwyneth Jones’s novels have been acclaimed for three decades, and her modern fairytales Seven Tales And A Fable won two World Fantasy Awards in 1996. And now we have Grazing the Long Acre, the first UK collection of her short fiction. Some of the stories selected, including the BSFA award-winning “La Cenerentola”, have been anthologised; several have never before been reprinted. The earliest here “The Eastern Succession” was written in 1985, the most recent “In The Forest Of The Queen” in 2007.

The settings range from a lyrical, Zelazny-influenced far-future South East Asia, to black comedy sci-fi in the New Space Opera style. There are ghosts and miracles, magical science and scientific magic; characters from novels, investigations of sexual difference, speculations on a future in which physics and neuroscience move into convergence, interrogations of our fascination with the other. Gwyneth Jones’s capacity to move and astonish the reader is undimmed, when distilled into the shorter form.

Free Short Story - The Dark Lifer's Revenge (N)

The Dark Lifer's Revenge ($1.99 Kindle), by Linda Joy Singleton, is free from Barnes & Noble, as part of a promotion for her upcoming novel, Buried: A Goth Girl Mystery, which starts a new series, "featuring popular goth girl Thorn from The Seer series."

Book Description
Sabine Rose from The Seer series teams up with Amber Borden from the Dead Girl series in this exciting short story by Linda Joy Singleton.

After getting kicked out of school and sent to live with her grandmother, Sabine Rose tried to ignore her troublemaking psychic abilities. All she wanted was to be a normal teen. But the spirit world has other plans for her.

Amber Borden is a high school student and aspiring talent agent with an unexpected side-job: she’s a Temp Lifer. By temporarily stepping into the bodies of people who are suffering, Amber navigates their daily lives and tries to fix their problems. Luckily her loyal boyfriend, Eli, has been very supportive—even during that freaky time when Amber inhabited his sister’s body.

When Sabine’s boyfriend, Dominic, loses his own body to a revenge-obsessed Dark Lifer—one of the disturbed souls who “borrow” living people’s bodies to do their dirty work—Sabine goes to Amber for help. Working together to find and free Dominic, the girls begin to unravel the Dark Lifer’s twisted plan of vengeance. But it throws them directly into the path of the troubled soul’s murderous rage . . .

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Free Book - The Shape of Silence (DF)

The Shape of Silence ($9.99 Kindle), by Stephen Leigh, is this month's free book from Phoenix Pick.

Book Description
First contact was never supposed to be like this. A sudden rift appears in near-earth space, causing electronic components to permanently fail and cause total chaos. As Earth’s fragile technological society disintegrates, no one can answer the obvious question—what is the rift, and who or what has created it.

A new generation comes to age attempting to answer these questions, and Taria Spears, an anthropologist, is selected as part of the crew on the exploratory ship Lightbringer. Lightbringer’s mission is to investigate the worm-hole like Rift and, if possible, to pass through it to find out what lies on the other side, and to seek some answers.

But what if all they find is an alien culture where sound, not sight is the primary sense?

Click HERE for the free book from Phoenix Pick. You'll need to scroll down to find the book's listing, click on "FREE EBOOK of the Month", then enter coupon code 9991463. Click thru the next page and then scroll down and get the format of your choice. They are DRM-free, so you can convert to other formats, if desired.

Three Free Titles from PS Publishing (K)

UK publisher PS Publishing LTD has three free titles in the Kindle store today: a collection of short stories, what appears to be a novella and a third that is most likely a novelette.

• Diversifications, by James Lovegrove
  
  James Lovegrove’s second collection of short fiction is a swirling kaleidoscope of ideas, language and wordplay. In this book you will meet robots living in a flesh world, travellers who vie to explore the most exotic alternate dimensions, and viruses that spread by speech. There’s a serial killer who preys on serial killers, a doctor who takes the concept of downsizing to hideous extremes, a hangman coming to terms with his guilt over the executions he performed, and a jogaholic forever trying to atone for the biggest mistake of his life.
  
  From the red plains of Mars to a back-garden party, from modern London as Jules Verne might have imagined it to a futuristic society out of Mary Shelley’s worst nightmares, Lovegrove demonstrates yet again the extraordinary diversity and depth of his talent. Here, from a writer described by the Bookseller as having “become to the 21st century what J.G. Ballard was to the 20th” and by SFX as “one of the UK SF scene’s most interesting, challenging and adventurous authors”, are sixteen unforgettable tales filled with powerful characterisation, vivid storytelling, and dazzling verbal dexterity.


• Cliff Rhodes & The Most Important Journey (The Land at the End of The Working Day), by Peter Crowther
  
  On a windswept corner of Manhattan, just a stone's throw from the weathered facade of the legendary Chelsea Hotel, there's a small two-flight walkdown bar called The Land At The End Of The Working Day. Stop in and rest awhile... you'll meet the most fascinating people.


• The City in These Pages, by John Grant
  
  City Hall is on Lewis-and-Clark Street, so it was the 14th Precinct that got the call, and very soon the 14th Precinct, in the persons of Detective Sergeants Moto and Pincus, was on the spot, bending down and looking into the car at the condom-shrouded figure of Ratty Scarlatti but not touching anything because the m.o. and the scene-of-crime crew hadn't gotten here yet, being stuck in the traffic jam on Eighth thanks to the burst sewer there...
  
  It might seem like just another case for the gallant boys of the 14th but, as the days progress and Moto (look, just don't make any jokes about his name, okay?) and Pincus delve deeper, the body count rises inexorably, with each murder reaching a new height of ludicrous surrealism—if not downright impossibility. It seems there's an avenger on the loose in the enigmatic city.
  Yet is the unknown perpetrator truly seeking vengeance. Or are there operators moving at an even deeper level than reality?
  
  John Grant has commented: “I've been a devotee of the works of Ed McBain (Evan Hunter) for decades—since puberty, perhaps longer—so that when the great man died in July 2005 it was almost like losing a family member. I wanted to write my own, very humble tribute to him by way of thanks for all the pleasure he'd given me, but it was some while before the right combination of ideas came along.”
  
  The result, The City in These Pages, is a McBain-style police procedural, full of crackling wit and sharp one-liners, that's also a multi-layered cosmological fantasy in whose shifting perspectives nothing is ever quite as it appears. You've never read anything like it.

Free Short Story - Career Day (K)

Career Day, by Barry Lyga, is free to pre-order in the Kindle store. It does, unfortunately, come with a bloated, 10-chapter sampler of his upcoming novel, but you can still the advertising copy and just read the short story. If it weren't for the included short story, I would not even include it here, as it only encourages the publishers to continue using these to jack up their sales rankings (and to falsify their "books sold" numbers). Currently there are 33 of these free in the Kindle store (including two by indie authors!) and that only includes the ones that actually admit to being "previews" in the title; "excerpts" and "samplers" add nearly 40 more to this number.

Book Description
A 3,000 word short-story prequel CAREER DAY!

When your dad is a serial killer, things like Career Day don't go over so well. While classmates might be looking forward to joining the family business, Jazz knows he needs to find a new path in this original short story by Barry Lyga.

Free Book - Six Degrees of Romance (K/N/E)

Update: 2/3/12 Now free in the Kindle store.

A Valentine from Harlequin: Six Degrees of Romance ($0.99 Kindle), an anthology of novellas from Nancy Warren, Catherine Spencer, Margaret Moore, Maggie Shayne, Michele Hauf and Christine Bell, is free from Barnes & Noble and direct from the publisher, Harlequin.

Book Description
One opening paragraph, six unique stories...

What if you gave six authors the same opening paragraph and let their imagination fly? That’s what we’ve done in A Valentine from Harlequin: Six Degrees of Romance!

Experience the variety Harlequin romance has to offer with this collection of novellas from six Harlequin series, including the passionate drama of Harlequin Presents, steamy encounters of Harlequin Blaze, spooky and sensual tales of Harlequin Nocturne, and more.

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Free eBook Shorts - Sounds from The Great Animal Orchestra (K)

Update: 2/22/12 A second version of one of these has shown up in the Kindle store (see below), while two entries now exist for buying the full book (at different prices; no clues as to any differences, though): The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places ($14.99) and The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places ($15.99).

As a promotion for the forthcoming release of The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places ($15.99), by Bernie Krause, Hachette is giving away 4 eBook Shorts, each one containing a section of the larger text, but which are self-contained titles, similar to Kindle Singles (rather than just a defined length sample of the book).

• Sounds from The Great Animal Orchestra: Air
• Sounds from The Great Animal Orchestra: Earth (and now, a new entry for this title
• Sounds from The Great Animal Orchestra: Water
• Sounds from The Great Animal Orchestra: Fire

Despite the titles on these, they are not A/V enhanced editions, so they should work fine on all Kindle devices and apps. I have no idea how large they may be, once released (all pre-orders show as 5K until the publisher uploads the actual files), but they shouldn't be all that large.

The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places
Musician and naturalist Bernie Krause is one of the world's leading experts in natural sound, and he's spent his life discovering and recording nature's rich chorus. Searching far beyond our modern world's honking horns and buzzing machinery, he has sought out the truly wild places that remain, where natural soundscapes exist virtually unchanged from when the earliest humans first inhabited the earth.

Krause shares fascinating insight into how deeply animals rely on their aural habitat to survive and the damaging effects of extraneous noise on the delicate balance between predator and prey. But natural soundscapes aren't vital only to the animal kingdom; Krause explores how the myriad voices and rhythms of the natural world formed a basis from which our own musical expression emerged.

From snapping shrimp, popping viruses, and the songs of humpback whales-whose voices, if unimpeded, could circle the earth in hours-to cracking glaciers, bubbling streams, and the roar of intense storms; from melody-singing birds to the organlike drone of wind blowing over reeds, the sounds Krause has experienced and describes are like no others. And from recording jaguars at night in the Amazon rain forest to encountering mountain gorillas in Africa's Virunga Mountains, Krause offers an intense and intensely personal narrative of the planet's deep and connected natural sounds and rhythm.

The Great Animal Orchestra is the story of one man's pursuit of natural music in its purest form, and an impassioned case for the conservation of one of our most overlooked natural resources-the music of the wild.

About the Author
Dr. Bernie Krause is both a musician and a naturalist. During the 1950s and 60s, he devoted himself to music and replaced Pete Seeger as the guitarist for The Weavers. For over 40 years, Krause has traveled the world recording and archiving the soundsof creatures and environments large and small. He has recorded over 15,000 species. He lives in California.

14 Free Books for Australians (K)

HarperCollins has 14 newly free books for Australian Kindle customers, under various imprints; most are pre-orders, but a few of the short stories are available now. These range from Children's books to those that are very definitely not for children, so I'll try to list a genre with them, below. I suspect most of these are pricing errors, so may go back up in price at any time (but if you pre-order while they are free, you won't be charged when they are delivered). If you are in Australia and have missed some of the earlier freebies, several are still free (although most are gone). Most of these are unavailable for those in the US (or are not free).

Children's Books
1. Dark Eden: Phantom File, by Patrick Carman
2. Outlaw: The Story of Robin Hood, by Michael Morpurgo
3. Sparrow: The Story of Joan of Arc, by Michael Morpurgo
Short Stories
4. A Piece of Time, by Traci Harding
5. The Detox Factor, by Traci Harding
6. Ghostwriting, by Traci Harding
7. Curses, by Traci Harding
8. The Lost Word, by Traci Harding
9. The Limbo of Luxury, by Traci Harding
Very much NOT Children's Books
10. Beyond Temptation, by Lisette Ashton
11. Make Me, by Charlotte Stein
12. Surrogates, by KD Grace
13. O for Obedience, by Lucy Salisbury
14. Across my Knee: The Delights of Spanking, by various

30 Free Books for Australians (K)

There are 30 new Kindle books free for those in Australia, courtesy of HarperCollins. Most of these are Agatha Christie short stories, but there are a couple of novels mixed in, as well.

For most of these, this is most likely a pricing error, so grab them fast:

1. Cloaked with Bonus Materials, by Alex Flinn (99 cents in the US)
2. Dolce Vita Diaries: The Recipes, by Cathy Rogers and Jason Gibb
3. The Berenstain Bears Accept No Substitutes, by Stan & Jan Berenstain
4. The Berenstain Bears and the G-Rex Bones, by Stan & Jan Berenstain
5. The The Berenstain Bears and the Phenom in the Family, by Stan & Jan Berenstain
6. The Berenstain Bears and the School Scandal Sheet, by Stan & Jan Berenstain
7. The Case of the Missing Lady, by Agatha Christie
8. The Dead Harlequin, by Agatha Christie
9. The Love Detectives, by Agatha Christie
10. The Mystery of the Spanish Chest, by Agatha Christie
11. Philomel Cottage, by Agatha Christie
12. The Harlequin Tea Set, by Agatha Christie
13. The Red Signal, by Agatha Christie
14. The Gate of Baghdad, by Agatha Christie
15. The Case of the Caretaker, by Agatha Christie
16. The Rajah's Emerald, by Agatha Christie
17. The House of Lurking Death, by Agatha Christie
18. Triangle at Rhodes, by Agatha Christie
19. Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds, by Agatha Christie
20. Sanctuary, by Agatha Christie
21. The Under Dog, by Agatha Christie
22. Tape Measure Murder, by Agatha Christie
23. Yellow Iris, by Agatha Christie
24. The Man in the Mist, by Agatha Christie
25. Poirot and the Regatta Mystery, by Agatha Christie
26. Strange Jest, by Agatha Christie
27. The Second Gong, by Agatha Christie
28. The Dream, by Agatha Christie
29. The House at Shiraz, by Agatha Christie
30. The Perfect Maid, by Agatha Christie

Free Book - Some of the Best from Tor.com (K/N/E/DF)

Update: 1/1/12 No longer a pre-order; now also free from Barnes & Noble and Kobo. Should be DRM-free in all stores.

Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2011 Edition: A Tor.Com Original, a short story collection edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden and Liz Gorinsky, is free to pre-order in the Kindle store.

Book Description
A collection of some of the best original short fiction published on Tor.com in 2011. Includes stories by Charlie Jane Anders, James Allan Gardner, Yoon Ha Lee, Nnedi Okorafor, Paul Park, Matthew Sandborn Smith, Michael Swanwick, and Harry Turtedove.

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Free Book - Georiga on my Mind and Other Places (DF)

Georiga on my Mind and Other Places ($7.99 Kindle), by physicist Charles Sheffield, is this month's free book from Phoenix Pick. Fourteen total stories (the print/Kindle edition claims 15, but I checked my download and it is 14), written in the late 1980's and early 1990's.

Book Description
A collection of some of the finest short stories penned by a master of hard science fiction, this anthology includes Charles Sheffield’s highly acclaimed (and NEBULA & HUGO winning) novelette, Georgia On My Mind.

Georgia On My Mind won both the Hugo and Nebula when originally published in 1993. The accompanying stories were written by the author between 1987 and 1994.

Click HERE for the free book from Phoenix Pick. You'll need to scroll down to find the book's listing, click on "FREE EBOOK of the Month", then enter coupon code 9991325. Click thru the next page and then scroll down and get the format of your choice. They are DRM-free, so you can convert to other formats, if desired.

Phoenix Pick is also giving you 37% off all their books when bought direct from their website using the DIRJAN coupon throughout the month of January. They already give 15% off their suggested retail list prices when buying direct and the discount stacks on top of that. Also, their books are DRM-free. You do have to choose a format (EPUB or MOBI), but can convert if needed (the Mobi doesn't need converting before mailing to a Kindle).

Free Short Stories by Howard Fast (K/N/I/E)

There are several republished short stories by Howard Fast that are currently free in the main ebookstores, courtesy of Open Road (who hopes you'll look at his recently released backlist). But, the best bargain amongst his novels is one published by Sourcebooks, Immigrants (Lavette Family), currently on sale for $1.79 on Kindle ($1.99 elsewhere, coupon eligible).

The Art of Zen Meditation (Kindle/B&N/iTunes/Sony)
Howard Fast began to formally practice Zen meditation after turning away from communism in 1956. The Art of Zen Meditation, originally published by the antiwar political collective Peace Press in 1977, is the fruit of Fast’s study: a brief and instructive history of Zen Buddhism and its tenets, written with a simplicity that is emblematic of the philosophy itself. Fast’s study of Zen also inspired his popular Masao Masuto mystery series about a Zen Buddhist detective in Beverly Hills, which he published under the pseudonym E. V. Cunningham.

The Art of Zen Meditation is illustrated with twenty-three beautiful photographs.

Spain and Peace (Kindle/iTunes/Kobo/Sony)
Howard Fast was a longtime proponent of the antifascist movement in Spain. During the Spanish Civil War, Fast supported a hospital for Popular Front forces, and in 1950 he was sentenced to three months in jail for refusing to give the names of other supporters of that hospital to the House Un-American Activities Committee. In this pamphlet, published in 1951, Fast gives an overview of Spain under the rule of General Francisco Franco, including the mass strikes that were organized to weaken him. Fast’s fervent appeals to readers to reject American military agreements with Spain demonstrate his passionate opposition to fascism. As Fast writes, “Spain fights on, and in those three words there is a miracle. . . . There is no Spanish worker, professional, intellectual or peasant who strikes a blow for freedom without our being intimately concerned.”

The Incredible Tito: Man of the Hour (Kindle/B&N/iTunes/Kobo/Sony)
The world was mired in the Second World War when Howard Fast wrote The Incredible Tito. Upon the book’s publication in 1944, there was still no united Yugoslavia, the Axis controlled most of Europe, and D-Day was only in the planning stages. In the Balkans, Tito was a beacon of hope against the advancing Nazis. He led a force of resistance fighters that bedeviled the occupying German army throughout Slavic regions and empowered people’s committees to act as local government in all liberated areas. For observers on the political left, Tito seemed uniquely poised to unite the East and West against fascism—once and for all.

Immigrants (Lavette Family) ($1.79 Kindle; $1.99 B&N/iTunes/Kobo/Sony)
In this sweeping journey of love and fortune, master storyteller Howard Fast recounts the rise and fall of a family of roughneck immigrants determined to make their way in America at the turn of the century. Quick to ascend from the tragic depths of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Dan Lavette becomes the head of a powerful shipping empire and establishes himself among the city's cultural elite. But when he finds himself caught in a loveless marriage to the daughter of San Francisco's richest family, a scandalous love affair threatens to destroy the empire Dan has built for himself.

The first of a compelling family saga, The Immigrants is a fast-paced, emotional novel that captures the wide range of relationships among immigrant families during the tumultuous events that defined the early twentieth century in America.

Free Book (Kindle/nook/EPUB) - Florida Heatwave

Update: 12/25/11 Now free from Sony.
Update: Now free from Barnes & Noble.

Florida Heatwave, an anthology edited by Michael Lister, is free in the Kindle store.

Book Description
Florida—like hell, only hotter.

Florida Heat Wave, edited by Michael Lister, is a collection of crime stories set in the gun-shaped state by Florida’s foremost crime writers.

Oppressive.

Stifling.

Crazy-making.

The suffocating heat makes you do things—it seeps in through your pores and sucks the life out of you. Like the bloody smear of a swatted mosquito on sweat-soaked skin, violence erupts suddenly, but the damage it does lingers long after.

From the pine-tree lined rural highways of North Florida through the tourist traps of Central Florida to the tropical, international environs of SOBE, come stories of sun-faded noir, orange pulp served up freshly squeezed by the Sunshine State’s very best practitioners.

Stories from: James O. Born, James W. Hall, Lisa Unger, Alice Jackson, Jonathon King, Jim Pascoe, Carolyn Haines, Tom Corcoran, Raven McMillian, Mark Raymond Falk, Christine Kling, John Lutz, Carolina Garcia-Aguilera, Michael Lister, John Dufresne, Bob Morris, John Bond, and Mary Anna Evans.

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Free Book (Kindle/EPUB) - Sweet Tea & Jesus Shoes

Update: 12/24/11 Now free in the UK Kindle store.

Sweet Tea & Jesus Shoes ($7.69 Kindle US/UK), an anthology by Deborah Smith, Donna Ball, Gin Ellis and Nancy Knight, et al, is free from Kobo, courtesy of Bell Bridge Books.

Book Description
Six award winning authors have created a poignant, humorous collection of nostalgic tales. Here life's lessons are handed down--liberally sprinkled with hilarity--from eccentric relatives, outrageous pets and unrepentant neighbors, and served up with a generous dollop of that most valued of all Southern commodities: good old fashioned storytelling. From Mississippi to Georgia, from Florida to Tennessee, these daughters of the South will take you on a lush tour of the times and the places they know best, each voice as refreshing and inviting as a glass of cold sweet tea on a hot afternoon.

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Free Book (Kindle/EPUB) - Mossy Creek

Update: 12/24/11 Now free in the US Kindle store.

Mossy Creek (US/UK), a collection of short stories by Deborah Smith, et al, is a repeat freebie in the Kindle store and from Kobo, courtesy of Bell Bridge Books. So far, it's free for UK Kindle customers only, but I expect it to be free for US Kindle customers by morning.

Book Description
A delightful new collection of original Southern stories set in the charming, fictitious down-home town of Mossy Creek, where there's a friendly face on every corner and a heartfelt story behind every door...

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Free Book (EPUB) - Twas The Night

Twas The Night ($7.99 Kindle), an anthology by Sandra Hill, Kate Holmes and Trish Jensen, is a repeat freebie from Kobo, courtesy of Bell Bridge Books.

Book Description
“Christmas or Bust!”

What do a Blue Angels pilot, a bounty hunter and an ex-NFL football player have in common? The three bad-boy bachelors of Snowdon, Maine have to make a friend’s Christmas Eve wedding on time or die trying! They’re willing to risk anything to make that happen—even dashing through the snow in the goofiest bus on Earth, bright red and filled with a bunch of merry, meddling senior citizens known as the Santa Brigade. All too soon, these men will have met their matches in three special women: a woman from their past, a forest ranger so hot she ought to be declared a fire hazard, and a woman on the run. Ho, ho, OH!

While serving up holiday cheer with the Santa Brigade, the guys will discover ‘tis the season for good will and folly. Wise men or not, they are well and truly caught, which means these roguish St. Nicks are willing to jingle a few bells along the way if that’s what it takes to find what they truly want for Christmas nestled in their beds after the stockings are stuffed and the gifts placed under the tree.

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