Free Book (EPUB) - How To Slay a Dragon

Update: 5/26/11 Now free from Borders.

How To Slay a Dragon ($8.59), the first title in Bill Allen's Journals of Myrth series, is free from KoboBooks.

Book Description
Greg Hart can't slay a dragon. He'd be lucky to win a fight against one of the smaller girls at school.His only real skill is that he can run faster than any other twelve-year-old boy in his class, a necessity, since that's who he's usually running from. Oh, it's not like he's never been the hero at the center of an adventure. It's just the kind of adventures he's been involved with have always been the made-up kind he's written about in his journal.Now the magicians of Myrth have yanked Greg into a strange new world, where the monsters he must run from are far scarier--and hungrier--than anything he's ever run from before. He tries to tell everyone there's been a mistake. Ruuan is a very large dragon, while Greg, on the other hand, is neither large nor a dragon. He's barely much of a boy. Unfortunately, such trivialities could never stop the people of Myrth from believing Greg will rescue King Peter's daughter from Ruuan. After all, Greg has been named in a prophecy, and no prophecy has ever been wrong before.Why, Greg wonders, does he have to be at the heart of the first one that is?

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Free Book (noDRM) - Something Better

Something Better ($6.99 Kindle), by Gail R. Delaney, is free as a DRM-free EPUB at Books on Board.

Book Description
Andrea Parker made a career out of romance, except hers was the kind that happened between the pages of a book. Or, now, on the big screen when her best selling novels are adapted to film. Just because she writes romance doesn't mean she believes in happily ever after.

David Bishop's face---and okay, yeah, much of his body---is known world wide as the Hottest Bachelor in Hollywood. But just like the rest of the world, he is smitten with the brilliant and talented Andi Parker. Little did he know the easy part would be convincing her to give him a chance

Just like in the novels, enter the 'dastardly bastardly' villain to screw up their potential Happily Ever After.

Click HERE to get the free book from BoB. Make sure you use Add to Cart (not Buy Now). Then, pick the $0.00 EPUB addition (add to cart, then view cart and complete the purchase). You'll get a download button at the end (if you have problems with that, try to get it from your library and you might even have to switch browsers, since their last web site update -- seems to be a flash related issue). Once it's downloaded, you can convert it for Kindle using Calibre.

Free Books by the Dozens (Kindle) - Part VII

The flood of free indie books from this post, continued. These are indie published (new or previously published backlist) and public domain (only or only free) titles. Be sure to check the prices before ordering, in case a title has gone back up in price.

1. Adventures of a Motorcycle Despatch Rider During the First World War, by W.H.L. Watson
2. Macbeth, by William Shakespeare
3. Above the Arctic Circle, by Brian Lawrenson
4. HOW TO WRITE CLEARLY. RULES AND EXERCISES ON ENGLISH COMPOSITION , by M.A. REV. EDWIN A. ABBOTT
5. Dinosaur Wars: Earthfall, by Thomas Hopp
6. One Fall, by Spencer Baum
7. Manalive, by G. K. Chesterton
8. Conversationstoppers: Puns, Non Sequitors, Impossible Scenarios, by Leon Shure
9. Memoirs of a Vending Machine, by James Pollard
10. The I Love Lukla Club (Silk Road Travel Series), by Brian Lawrenson
11. Jacks School of Shines, by Jack Sorenson
12. The Log of the Flying Fish (A Sci-Fi Pulp Classic!), by Harry Collingwood
13. Straw Hats and Bicycles (Asian), by Brian Lawrenson
14. Voodoo Cloud, by Mathew Ferguson
15. The Harcombe Diet: 25 Members' Recipes, by Zoe Harcombe
16. A Journey into the Interior of the Earth, by Jules Verne and Frederick Malleson (Translator)
17. Rockets Mice and Men (USA), by Brian Lawrenson
18. The Curse of Scattershale Gulch, a Mick and Casey Mystery Novelette, by Camille LaGuire
19. Dangerous Journey, by Marie Harlech-Jones
20. Psmith in the City (with linked TOC), by P. G. Wodehouse
21. Daron's Guitar Chronicles: Volume One, by Cecilia Tan
22. The Interior Life, by Thomas C. Upham
23. Bible Holiness, by E. P. Ellyson (Beacon Hill Press)
24. My Objection to a Sinning Religion, by Bud Robinson (Beacon Hill Press)
25. Temptations Peculiar to the Sanctified, by C. W. Ruth (Beacon Hill Press)
26. Sermons on Isaiah, by P. F. Bresee (Beacon Hill Press)
27. The Certainties of Faith, by Phineas. F. Bresee (Beacon Hill Press)
28. Nazarene Missions International Handbook and Constitution 2009-13, by Various
29. Gay Enough 1&2, by German Alcala ((poetry)
30. Children of Another God (The Broken World), by T C Southwell (fantasy)
31. The Emo Bunny that Should - A Story for Demented Children, by John H. Carroll (short)
32. Zachary Zombie and the Lost Boy, A Story for Demented Children, by John H. Carroll (short)
33. Test Pilot - A short story, by John H. Carroll (short)
34. George Müller of Bristol, by Arthur T. (Arthur Tappan) Pierson
35. Bouvard and Pécuchet, by Gustave Flaubert
36. A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I, by FRANCIS PARKMAN
37. Project Daedalus, by Thomas Hoover
38. Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics), by R.D. Blackmore
39. !Tention, by George Manville Fenn
40. Delver Magic Book II: Throne of Vengeance, by Jeff Inlo
41. Delver Magic Book III: Balance of Fate, by Jeff Inlo
42. Don't Ever Change - A short story, by John H. Carroll
43. Freak City (Dragon City Trilogy), by Tom Lichtenberg
44. True Stories of Crime from the D.A.'s Office, by arthur train
45. Blue Haired Alien Girlfriend - A short story, by John H. Carroll
46. A Short Walk on a Cold Night with a Dead Friend , by Jim Haffner
47. Turing Evolved, by David Kitson
48. Over The Bridge, by Randy Noble
49. The Demon of Walker's Woods, by Dan Dillard
50. Mind Cafe, by Lizzy Ford
51. Fair Price, by Laura Lond
52. The Taking of FLOTUS, by Clayton Spann
53. The Prophet, by Brent Knowles
54. The West Wind Blows, by Linsey Lanier
55. The Blood-stained Belt, by Brian H. Jones and Elaine Cornwell (Illustrator)
56. The Secret Garden (Original Version), by Frances Hodgson Burnett (no illustrations)
57. Madam How and Lady Why: First Lessons in Earth Lore for Children, by Charles Kingsley

Free Book (nook) - L.A. Noire

L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories ($0.99 Kindle), by Rockstar Games , is free to pre-order at Barnes and Noble. This one is from an Agency publisher, so be sure to let Amazon know of the price difference (it's against their contract) and it should drop for Kindle, as well.

Book Description
Rockstar Games has partnered with Mulholland Books to publish a collection of short fiction expanding the world of the newest groundbreaking achievement in storytelling: the interactive crime thriller L.A. Noire.

1940s Hollywood, murder, deception and mystery take center stage as readers reintroduce themselves to characters seen in L.A. Noire. Explore the lives of actresses desperate for the Hollywood spotlight; heroes turned defeated men; and classic Noir villains. Readers will come across not only familiar faces, but familiar cases from the game that take on a new spin to tell the tales of emotionally torn protagonists, depraved schemers and their ill-fated victims.

With original short fiction by Megan Abbott, Lawrence Block, Joe Lansdale, Joyce Carol Oates, Francine Prose, Jonathan Santlofer, Duane Swierczynski and Andrew Vachss, L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories breathes new life into a time-honored American tradition, in an exciting anthology that will appeal to fans of suspense and gamers everywhere.

Click HERE for the free book from B&N.

Free Book (Kindle/EPUB/nook) - The Dogs of Rome

Update: 5/26/11 Now free from Borders.

The Dogs of Rome, by Conor Fitzgerald, the first in his Alec Blume series, is free in the Kindle store and from B&N and Sony.

Book Description
On a hot summer morning, Arturo Clemente is sloppily murdered in his Roman apartment by a mysterious slasher. When his wife, an eminent politician, finds his body, she swiftly springs into action--by calling the Ministry of the Interior. By the time police inspector Alec Blume arrives at the scene, evidence has been collected, command taken, and, in short--his investigation has been compromised. As the details of the case continue to trickle out, Blume soon realizes he is being watched from on high--and that solving this crime may be the least of his worries. Losing sleep and unsure who to trust, Blume feels the case spinning out of control: does anyone involved even want justice? At what price will it come? And who runs this town--the police, the politicians, or organized criminals? In this riveting novel, we are introduced to Blume, an American expatriate and seasoned police veteran. Intelligent yet sometimes petulant, instinctive yet flawed, Blume is a likeable and trustworthy protagonist for this, the first installment of a gritty and promising series.

Click HERE for the free book from B&N.
Click HERE to get the free book from Kobo.
Click HERE for the free book from Sony.