Free Book - Young and in Love (K/N/DF)

Update: 2/14/12 Now free from ChristianBook (DRM-free).
Update: 2/13/12 Now free in the US Kindle store.

Young and in Love: Challenging the Unnecessary Delay of Marriage (US/UK), by Ted Cunningham, is for free UK customers in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble, courtesy of Christian publisher David C. Cook. It should be free for US Kindle customers by morning.

Book Description
What if We’ve Got This Purity Thing All Wrong?

In Young and In Love, pastor, author, and speaker Ted Cunningham boldly argues that young love should be celebrated, even promoted. Early marriages can be God’s will and often provide the key to sexual purity. With this in mind, Cunningham shares the secrets to a successful early marriage with those in their late teens and early twenties who are in love.

This book suits anyone experiencing young love who struggles with naysayers who dismiss or hinder a God-designed relationship. It also addresses young adults who struggle with the teachings of other popular books on abstinence or on delaying dating or marriage. And it offers parents and pastors who feel concerned about a relationship a source of wise counsel that carefully prepares young adults for a godly marriage.

Get the free ebook from Barnes & Noble.
Get the free ebook from ChristianBook.

Free Book - The Transforming Power of the Gospel (K/N)

Update: 2/13/12 Now free in the US Kindle store.

The Transforming Power of the Gospel (US/UK), by Jerry Bridges, is free for UK customers in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble, courtesy of Christian publisher Navpress. It should be free for US Kindle customers by morning.

Book Description
The apostle Paul writes that we are to be transformed, but for many Christians, figuring out how to approach spiritual transformation can be elusive. Bestselling author Jerry Bridges helps us understand that we have available to us the ultimate power source for true spiritual growth: the gospel.

In The Transforming Power of the Gospel, Bridges guides you through a thorough examination of:

• what the biblical meaning of grace is and how it applies to your life
• how Jesus’ work in His life and death applies to the believer in justification and adoption
• why basic spiritual disciplines are necessary for spiritual growth
• what role the Holy Spirit plays in both definitive and progressive sanctification

Get the free ebook from Barnes & Noble.

Free Book Roundup

Today's backlist/small press/indie free books on Kindle (not likely to be free for long; double check prices before one-clicking):

• The Home-Based Bookstore: Start Your Own Business Selling Used Books on Amazon, eBay or Your Own Web Site, by Steve Weber (might have to read this one....)
• Great Australian Barbecue Recipes, by Clive Jordan
• High Fat High Calorie Delicious Desserts, by Catherine Hunt
• How To Improve Your Sex Life In 69 Erotic Recipes, by Valerie Sztrausberg
• Puzzlebook: 14 Valentine Puzzle Quizzes, by The Grabarchuk Family
• Twenty Miles per Cookie: 9000 Miles of Kid-Powered Adventures, by Nancy Sathre-Vogel
• The Misconception , by Darlene Gardne
• RIVER SONG, by Sharon Ihle
• Indigo Empyrean, by D.F. Marsh
• BISMARCK 2013 - Hitler's Curse and Writing Craft, by Robert W. Walker
• Word Watch: A Writer's Guide to the Slippery, Sneaky and Otherwise Tricky, by Patricia McLinn
• Red Magic, by Juliette Waldron
• Dancing to the End of Love, by Adrian White (+plus two at 99 cents, previously published by Penguin)
• Wolf Tickets, by Ray Banks
• Revenge (A Travis Mays Novel) , by Mark Young
• Vortex Blues, by Tina Gerow
• SETUP ON FRONT STREET (Key West Nocturnes series), by Mike Dennis
• Will Love For Crumbs - A Memoir, by Jonna Ivin
• The Yankee Doctor, by Richard Mason
• A Perfect Duet, by Jennifer Malin
• The Devil and Preston Black (Murder Ballads and Whiskey), by Jack Jason Miller
• PROSPECTING FOR MURDER (A CHARLIE SIRINGO MYSTERY), by Larry Names
• What's a Girl Gotta Do (Robin Hudson Mysteries), by Sparkle Hayter
• Deep Water, by Paul Bishop
• MALAIKA, by Van Heerling
• Unlocked, by Courtney Milan
• Bound (Book#1 Arelia LaRue), by Kira Saito (YA Paranormal)
• Death on the Silk Road, by Russell R. Miller
• Lazarus Island, by Lee Moan
• Midsummer Eve at Rookery End, by Elizabeth Hanbury
• Montfort The Founder of Parliament The Early Years 1229 to 1243, by Katherine Ashe
• THE SUGAR DRAGON (An Australian Romance Classic), by VICTORIA GORDON
• Finding Juliet, by Frank Sennett
• Golden Chances Book 6 - The Deceiver, by Jane Toombs
• Under The Desert Moon, by Marsha Canham
• Stranger Riding By, by Carol Buchanan
• Lesson of the White Eagle, by Barbara Hay
• Whispers, by Erin Quinn
• Jackhammered, by Ed Bethune
• An Owl's Whisper, by Michael Smth and Robert Grabowski
• Keep Mama Dead, by S. James Nelson
• Flying Camels and Tiger Mothers, by Andy Schell
• Occupy Faerie, by Marilyn Peake
• Virginia Mayo - The Best Years of My Life, by LC Van Savage and Virginia Mayo
• Shadows of the Soul, by Angelique Armae
• Avalon for Christmas and Madame Eve's Gift, by Kate Richards
• The Hell Screen, by I.J. Parker
• Showdown at Charbonet's, by Rosalie More
• Stealing Kevin's Heart, by M. Scott Carter
• The Fantasy of Love: The Broken Mirror, by Tshombe Amen
• The Scriptural Stations of the Cross for Kids, by Susan Minton
• Some Day Somebody (La Fleur de Love), by Lori Leger
• The Path to Freedom (Task Force 125), by Lisa Pietsch
• The Time of Aspen Falls, by Marcia Lynn McClure
• The Prisoners of Gender and Necessary Evil, by John Bushore
• 99 Souls, by Thomas M. Malafarina
Non-English
• Un camino de esperanza (Spanish Edition), by Alberto Martín and Vicente Baztán (Illustrator) (Children's)
• Mord im Wettmilieu (Kriminalkommissar Frank Remmiz ermittelt), by Paul Martin (mystery/thriller)
Short Stories/Novelettes/Novellas:
• Hell Hath No Fury... , by Elsa Carruthers, Tonia Brown, Chantal Boudreau and DA Chaney
• Ice Sculptures, by David B. Silva
• Baby Blue, by Esteban Vega
• The Little Guy, by David Bain
• Full Moon Over Camelot, by Edward G. Talbot
• Taking it Home (Taboo), by Cheyenne McCray (writing as Jaymie Holland)
• Hearts and Daggers: Three Valentine Mystery Novellas, by Mary Welk, Amy Alessio and Margot Justes
• April Fool and other Antipodean horror stories, by Tracie McBride and John Irvine
• The Amazing Transformation of Wicca Dog, by Krista D. Ball
• House of Flesh, by D.L. Snell
Multiple selections:
• Four books by Connie Shelton
• Three books by Jennifer Conner
• Six books by Paul Pinn

So, tell me - do you use these lists? Are you finding a few to read? If not, they take quite a while to put together and I can skip posting them, if no one is looking thru them...

7 Free Books from Kaplan and New Word City (K)

New Word City has another batch of free books in the Kindle store, which are likely to only remain free for a day or so, and Kaplan Test Prep has added a couple of intro books for those planning for college entrance exams.

1. Intro to ACT, by Kaplan Test Prep
2. Intro to SAT, by Kaplan Test Prep
3. Marlon Brando, A Life In Film, by Richard Schickel
4. George Washington, Spymaster Extraordinaire, by Thomas Fleming
5. George Washington's First Love, by Thomas Fleming
6. Ernest Shackleton, Exploring Leadership, by Nancy F. Koehn
7. Clint Eastwood, A Life

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.