Amazon: 10 Highly Rated Discounted & Free eBooks

Here are a few discounted (under $5 each!) or FREE Kindle downloads you can snag on Amazon! Just click on the links below to download the following highly rated eBooks for your Kindle. Also, be sure to check out the Amazon Kindle Daily Deals for even more discounted and free eBooks or the Monthly Kindle Book Deals priced at just $3.99 or less.

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Discounted eBooks (Under $5):

Queen’s Gambit $1.99 (regularly $26!) – Today Only!

Widowed for the second time at age thirty-one Katherine Parr falls deeply for the dashing courtier Thomas Seymour and hopes at last to marry for love. However, obliged to return to court, she attracts the attentions of the ailing, egotistical, and dangerously powerful Henry VIII, who dispatches his love rival, Seymour, to the Continent. No one is in a position to refuse a royal proposal so, haunted by the fates of his previous wives—two executions, two annulments, one death in childbirth—Katherine must wed Henry and become his sixth queen.

Have No Shame $0.99 (regularly $3.99!)

The racially-charged prejudice of the deep South forces eighteen-year-old Alison Tillman to confront societal norms–and her own beliefs–when she discovers the body of a hate crime victim, and the specter of forbidden love turns her safe, comfortable world upside down.

The Changeling $1.99 (regularly $7.99) – Today Only!

Martha is incredibly unpopular. She’s overweight, buck-toothed, and shy. Ivy is an outcast. Her family lives on the outskirts of town amid a field of derelict orchards. But starting in second grade, the girls form a bond that allows them to take control of their own lives. It all begins when Ivy tells Martha that she is no ordinary girl: She claims she’s a changeling, switched with the real Ivy at birth. With the strength of Ivy’s friendship, Martha becomes more confident and sure of herself. And through their bond, Ivy gains the normalcy she needs, away from life with her tumultuous family. When the two girls play, they enter an elaborate fantasy world all their own. But when the real world threatens to split them apart, their friendship becomes more important than ever.

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The Book Thief $2.90 (regularly $12.99)

It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement. In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.

Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life $1.99 (regularly $14.99!)

Cold Tangerines is a collection of stories that celebrate the extraordinary moments hidden in our everyday lives. It is about God, and about life, and about the thousands of daily ways in which an awareness of God changes and infuses everything. It is about spiritual life, and about all the things that we have called nonspiritual life that might be spiritual after all. It is the snapshots of a young woman making peace with herself and her life, and trying to craft a life that captures the energy and exuberance we long for in the midst of the fear and regret and envy we all carry with us. It is both a voice of challenge and song of comfort, calling us upward to the best possible life, and giving us room to breathe, to rest, to break down and break through. Cold Tangerines offers bright and varied glimpses of hope and redemption, in and among the heartbreak And boredom and broken glass.

Free eBooks (Regularly $1.99-$9.99!):

The Last Jump: A Novel of World War II (regularly $9.99)

The Last Jump is a story of discovery as a modern day journalist explores the military experience of his estranged father in World War II.  Aware of the existence of a long lost family secret, our protagonist enlists the aid of four aging World War II veterans who knew his father.  When he finds out they know about the secret and have sworn an oath never to reveal it, he begins the difficult task of  carefully cajoling the information from men he considers to be true heroes.  His odyssey takes him back in time to a country vexed with racial and gender issues but united as never before or since. 

Castigo Cay (regularly $6.99!)

Dan Kilmer is a former Marine sniper in his early thirties. He returned home from military service in the Middle East and gave college a try, but his combat experiences prevented him from fitting into campus life. In a South Florida boatyard, his uncle was attempting to refurbish an old cargo schooner, and Dan left college to help him finish the flagging project. After two years of work but before the sixty-foot boat was relaunched, his uncle fell from a scaffold and died. While still in his twenties, Dan inherited the schooner Rebel Yell. Soon after, he left the United States to embark on a series of voyages, mostly in pursuit of beautiful women and good times.

While he was away from America, new federal taxes were imposed on luxury property, including privately owned yachts. Dan cannot pay these or other new taxes, so he can’t return to the States without risking confiscation of his schooner. Instead he must always fly under official radar and earn a living by his wits while staying one step ahead of the IRS and other government agencies. He must navigate the reefs of government control while always searching for a way to make money without the permission of the local authorities. This usually requires some type of shady dealing, subterfuge, and stealing from thieves as Dan moves from port to port. A shifting cast of crew members inhabits Rebel Yell, but the novel is about Dan Kilmer and his quest to live as a free man in an increasingly unfree world.

Cookie Indulgence: 150 Easy Cookie Recipes (regularly $3.99!)

Browse through the pages of Cookie Indulgence to find just the right treat. With 150 favorites from Chocolate Chip or Oatmeal cookies to No-bake, Refrigerator and Christmas cookies, there is sure to be a recipe that will please even the most rigorous taste test your family can muster.

Alphabet Family Wedding (Adventures of the Alphabet Family) (regularly $2.99!)

For some magical purpose, the Alphabet Family chose Karen Muldoon to be the first human being ever entrusted to peek into their lives. Once inside, Karen discovered an entire secret world where imagination rules! She developed an elite club for anyone who wishes to come inside this secret world of imagination and entertainment. So far the only other person to join Karen in this secret world of imagination is Omar Castaneda, the illustrator. Omar stepped into this world and got to know every one of the Alphabet Family so that he could paint them. Omar loves to paint the wild adventures of this unusual family. His pictures are magical. Sometimes you can see yourself in them!

The Naughty Boy Who Saved Christmas (regularly $1.99!)

What happens when one of the naughtiest boys in the world is given the chance to destroy Christmas. For Max Douglas, opportunity comes in the form of Elliot the disgruntled elf. Will Max help Elliot pull off his evil plan, or will Max find Christmas in his heart and save the day for one and all? 50% of the net proceeds of the paperback coloring book edition go towards PSarts.org, a nonprofit dedicated to keeping arts education in public schools.

* If you don’t have a Kindle, keep in mind that you can still read books on your computer or other mobile devices with the FREE Kindle Reading Apps found here.

(Thanks, Bonnie & Free Stuff Times!)