2 Free Books from 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.

1. Bette Davis, A Life In Film, by Richard Schickel
2. My Days with Harry Truman, by Thomas Fleming

Free Book - The Cart Before The Corpse (K)

The Cart Before The Corpse, the sole title in the Merry Abbot Carriage-Driving Mystery series by Carolyn McSparren, is free in the Kindle store this morning. This one was free last December for UK customers only in the Kindle store and in the Kobo store for those using EPUB. This time around, those of us in the US can grab it (but no sign of it going free for nook, so far).

Book Description
Hitch your imagination to an intriguing new mystery series set in the world of competitive carriage driving--an elegant yet cut-throat realm in which gorgeously costumed drivers and their magnificently harnessed horses vie for championships in the challenging obstacle course of the show ring.

Jane Austen, meet Mad Max.

Fans of the long-running Mossy Creek Hometown Series will gallop to bookstores for this spin-off equine mystery series by veteran Mossy Creek author Carolyn McSparren, a nationally known novelist and expert carriage driver, who owns and shows carriage-driving horses in her home state of Tennessee.

Open your barn doors and fasten your (buggy's) seatbelts for THE CART BEFORE THE CORPSE.

Famous southern carriage-horse trainer Hiram Lackland, a handsome widower, dies mysteriously after retiring to a farm outside Mossy Creek. His estranged daughter, Merry Abbot, also a horse trainer, arrives to settle his estate. But Merry quickly plunges into bit-chomping dilemmas when her father's friend and landlord, mystery-novel maven Peggy Caldwell, insists he was murdered.

Before Merry can so much as snap a buggy rein, a handsome and annoying GBI investigator, Geoff Madison, is on her case. Then there's the troublesome donkey: Don Qui. Short for Don Quixote. And the fact that Hiram was teaching all of Mossy Creek's lonely women how to--ahem--drive his carriage.

Can Merry rein in the truth? What kind of horse play was her rakish dad involved in, and why would someone want to giddy-yup him into an early grave?

Stay tuned for the answers in this first episode of, "As the Carriage Wheel Turns."

Free Book - Bring on the Blessings (K/N)

Bring on the Blessings , by Beverly Jenkins, is a repeat freebie (of sorts) in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble. The last time it was free, though, it was a special bonus edition in both stores (which is now missing from the Kindle store completely). So, if you want to be able to see that you have purchased the book by looking at it's product page, be sure to get this edition, as well (note that this isn't really an issue with B&N, but it's free, so why not get it again? Also, that should prevent B&N from selling it to you again, later on)

Book Description
On Bernadine Brown's fifty-second birthday she received an unexpected gift—she caught her husband, Leo, cheating with his secretary. She was hurt—angry, too—but she didn't cry woe is me. Nope, she hired herself a top-notch lawyer and ended up with a cool $275 million. Having been raised in the church, she knew that when much is given much is expected, so she asked God to send her a purpose.

The purpose turned out to be a town: Henry Adams, Kansas, one of the last surviving townships founded by freed slaves after the Civil War. The failing town had put itself up for sale on the Internet, so Bernadine bought it.

Trent July is the mayor, and watching the town of his birth slide into debt and foreclosure is about the hardest thing he's ever done. When the buyer comes to town, he's impressed by her vision, strength, and the hope she wants to offer not only to the town and its few remaining residents, but to a handful of kids in desperate need of a second chance.

Not everyone in town wants to get on board though; they don't want change. But Bernadine and Trent, along with his first love, Lily Fontaine, are determined to preserve the town's legacy while ushering in a new era with ties to its unique past and its promising future.

Get the free ebook from Barnes & Noble.

Free Book - Hurt Machine (K)

Hurt Machine, the seventh in the Moe Prager Mystery series by Reed Farrel Coleman, is a repeat freebie in the Kindle store.

Book Description
At a pre-wedding party for his daughter Sarah, Moe Prager is approached by his ex-wife and former PI partner Carmella Melendez. It seems Carmella's estranged sister Alta has been murdered, but no one in New York City seems to care. Why? Alta, a FDNY EMT, and her partner had months earlier refused to give assistance to a dying man at a fancy downtown eatery. Moe decides to help Carmella as a means to distract himself from his own life-and-death struggle. Making headway on the case is no mean feat as no one, including Alta's partner Maya Watson, wants to cooperate. Moe chips away until he discovers a cancer roiling just below the surface, a cancer whose symptoms include bureaucratic greed, sexual harassment, and blackmail. But is any of it connected to Alta's brutal murder?

Free Audiobook - Love Story

You can get the audiobook version of Love Story ($0.99 Kindle), by Erich Segal, free on iTunes tonight (and still greatly reduced on Kindle, it appears). I don't know how long the two sales will last, so be sure to recheck the price before clicking.

Book Description
Lose your heart to the novel that defined a generation then...and now.

Love means never having to say you're sorry...

He is Oliver Barrett IV, a rich jock from a stuffy WASP family on his way to a Harvard degree and a career in law.

She is Jenny Cavilleri, a wisecracking, working-class beauty studying music at Radcliffe.

Opposites in nearly every way, Oliver and Jenny immediately attract, sharing a love that defies everything ... yet will end too soon. A love that will linger in your heart now and forever.

Get the free audiobook from iTunes.

(Thanks, Jeff, for letting me know about this one; I've added it to my MP3 player to listen to in the car).