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Free Top-Rated eP Picks for 05-17-2013

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FREE KINDLE BOOKS

Twenty handpicked, top-rated freebies for Kindle for Friday, May 17, 2013 from today’s new free book offers. (All of these freebies are 4.0+ star rated and represent just a select few from all of the available genres) Browse all of today’s brand new Kindle freebies from the navigation bar (genre tabs) above.

Action/Adventure:

WHITE JADE spins a web of deceit and murder across the globe, against the backdrop of a deadly international power game.Former Recon Marine Nick Carter is a man with a dark history of emotional and physical scars. He works for the PROJECT, a covert counter-terrorism unit reporting to the President. Selena Connor is a beautiful, strong and skilled l...
White Jade (The PROJECT)
By Alex Lukeman
(88 customer reviews)
Total Pages: 286
Free Kindle eBook


Owen Sterling is a reclusive author living in a secluded house deep in the woods. When he welcomes his son Chuck for a summer visit, the eleven-year-old suspects something is not right at his father's home. His worries mount when he witnesses a confrontation between his father and some local hunters. Zane Carver is the local gun-shop owner who conf...
Progeny
By Patrick C. Greene
(36 customer reviews)
Total Pages: 230
Free Offer Expired

Fantasy:

Months later, the king returned home and presented his astonished queen with not one, but nine baby girls. \"One from each kingdom I visited,\" said the king. \"They are orphans.\" The queen wept joyously at the row of cradles, each bearing a sleeping infant. After bestowing a kiss on each child's forehead she said, \"Now they are princesses.\"Book...
Maelyn (The Nine Princesses Novellas)
By Anita Valle
(105 customer reviews)
Total Pages: 78
Free Kindle eBook


Historical:

Carrie Cromwell comes of age as the dark clouds of the Civil War swallow the country. Born with a fiery spirit and a strong mind, she finds herself struggling between the common wisdom of the South and the truth she has discovered. The activities of the Underground Railroad and her close friendships with the Cromwell Plantation slaves create diff...
Storm Clouds Rolling In (Bregdan Chronicles)
By Ginny Dye
(47 customer reviews)
Total Pages: 4
Free Kindle eBook

Horror:

(Special Edition with additional scenes from screen adaption)A Manhattan power couple survive a tragedy and attempt a fresh start only to be plagued by unexplained and disastrous occurrences...be careful what you wish for. At the age of nine, growing up in the French countryside, Julien Grenier witnessed the brutal murder of his grandfather. Now, ...
WISHBONE
By Brooklyn Hudson
(113 customer reviews)
Total Pages: 340
Free Kindle eBook

Kids:

Caarina lives among the cooks that write the recipes in books. They're master chefs who work all night. To mix and simmer's their delight. Today, the Fairy Queen decrees, and all the fairies there agree, a special feast will soon be served--a rich reward that all deserve. Who should cook this special feast prepared with flour, oil, and yeast? ...
Caarina the Cooking Fairy (KiteReaders Fairy Series)
By Julia Dweck
(37 customer reviews)
Total Pages: 26
Free Offer Expired


First was Mother Goose. Then came Dr. Seuss. Now here's Mr. Meus."Even better than Dr. Seuss." -MC**This book is a picture-free tale which is meant to be read aloud. The rhythmic words paint the picture for your imagination.A WEALTHY MAN"And the richest of all in that BabblelandWas a Babble named Billy, a big-bellied man."HIS BLANKFUL HEART"But no ...
THE BLANKFUL HEART: A Children's Story About Thankfulness in Dr. Seuss Style Rhyme (Meus Tales #2)
By Mr. Meus
Subgenre: Children's Books
(21 customer reviews)
Total Pages: 62
Free Kindle eBook

Mystery/Thriller:

Fifteen years ago, Darcy Walker's parents thought it was a good idea to give her a unique name: Darcy, meaning "dark walker." Whether that was a stroke of genius or stroke of stupid, they definitely nailed the irony. She lacks direction, her grades stink despite a high IQ, she's boringly average--although flirting admirers claim otherwise--and God...
Grade A Stupid (The Darcy Walker Series)
By A. J. Lape
(91 customer reviews)
Total Pages: 426
Free Kindle eBook


Lou Drake was once the pride of the NYPD detectives until the high profile Hennings murder case went terribly wrong, nearly ending his career. Ten years later, fifty pounds heavier and three months from retirement, Drake works patrol in the backwater borough of Malcolm New York. He spends his idle time reading crime novels and writing one of his ow...
Rejection: Publishing Murder Mystery (Lou Drake Mysteries)
By Thomas K. Matthews
(32 customer reviews)
Total Pages: 226
Free Kindle eBook

Religious Fiction:

Award-winning author Andrea Boeshaar takes readers into the world of a woman who comes face to face with broken relationships of the past.Returning to her hometown, Chicago, Allie Littenberg learns her actions had worse repercussions than she realized - especially for Jack Callahan, the handsome Chicago cop she loved, but left. She finds Jack is no...
Broken Things: Two Women. Two Pasts. One Future (Legacy Series)
By Andrea Boeshaar
(34 customer reviews)
Total Pages: 285
Free Offer Expired

Romance:

This is the second book in the November Blue series.November Harris is lost. After a failed romance with musician Bo Cavanaugh, Ember is left struggling to regain her true self. The problem is, Bo won't go away and Ember's stance is firm-she doesn't want him back.Adrian Turner, Ember's ex-boyfriend-turned confidant, is patient with her heartbreak, ...
Reckless Abandon (November Blue, #2)
By Andrea Randall
(79 customer reviews)
Total Pages: 257
Free Kindle eBook


A smart, poignant and laugh-out-loud funny novel from a fresh new voice in women's fiction.Sophie Whelan has it all – including a hideous boss, a distracted husband, daycare woes, problem employees and a 40th birthday on the horizon. Precariously close to slipping off of the treadmill that is her daily grind, Sophie is startled by the reappearanc...
The Hole in the Middle
By Kate Hilton
(21 customer reviews)
Total Pages: 341
Free Kindle eBook

Teens:

Three teenagers become blood brothers, after witnessing the unexpected...Byron, Margaret River High School's heartthrob, has a secret that will shatter his world if found out - and Chuck knows it all too well.Raff, outcast and loner, is desperate to make new friends. Does he have what it takes to steal his dream girl's heart? Or will his attempts c...
Brave Bloody Brothers
By Dune Noel
(26 customer reviews)
Total Pages: 317
Free Kindle eBook


Flo has always had problems. Her stammer prevents her speech and her dad's abuse makes her life a living hell. Not to mention she sees colours other people don't. When her dad decides to ship her off to live with her grandma in the sleepy town of Chesterport, Flo thinks that this is her chance for a better life. But on her very first day at her new...
A Strange Fire (Florence Vaine)
By L.H Cosway
(56 customer reviews)
Total Pages: 269
Free Kindle eBook

Advice/How-to:

As you read this empowering book that Dr. Brown has so passionately written, it is obvious that we can no longer pretend that people-pleasing and addiction doesn't exist; it is prevalent. Most if not all of us know at least one individual who is suffering from an addiction, victimhood, or martyrdom. It touches all of our lives in some way. Reality ...
Backbone Power The Science of Saying No
By Anne Brown
(24 customer reviews)
Total Pages: 158
Free Kindle eBook


The Magic of Public Speaking is a comprehensive step-by-step system for creating highly effective speeches. It is based on research from the top 1000 speakers in the modern world. The techniques you will learn have been tested on hundreds of professional speakers and work! You will receive the exact steps needed to create a speech that will keep yo...
Magic of Public Speaking: A Complete System to Become a World Class Speaker
By Andrii Sedniev
(68 customer reviews)
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Lifestyle: (Cooking, Parenting, Hobbies, Home & Garden)

They belong to each other, Nancy and Nicole--mother and daughter. They're two halves of a whole, two facets of the same breath--until the day Nicole exhales. . . and never inhales again. After the death of her daughter, and quickly losing her own battle with grief, Nancy decides to move from the house she can no longer bear to live in. While packin...
The Truth About Butterflies: A Memoir
By Nancy Stephan
(130 customer reviews)
Total Pages: 178
Free Kindle eBook


Have you ever heard about the UNHEALTHY secrets of your favorite restaurants? Do you want to know how to maintain a healthy diet even if you dine out?If you do, then this book is for you. SMART DINER DINING is written for those of us who want to maintain healthy eating habits but love eating out!Dining out is almost always associated with "unheal...
EATING OUT? Smart Diner Dining (Healthy & Tasty Series)
By Shirley Miller
(19 customer reviews)
Total Pages: 50
Free Offer Expired


Spirituality:

The author, Gary Garner, a confident, designer/building contractor of luxury homes becomes overwhelmed by the unprecedented mortgage/ housing crisis of the mid 1970's. Mired in darkness, shackled with debt, depressed and suicidal, with no faith and seemingly no place to turn for help, the Holy Spirit orchestrated an almost unbelievable awakening th...
Swept Up by the Spirit Journey of Transformation
By Gary Garner
(25 customer reviews)
Total Pages: 235
Free Kindle eBook


American bush pilot Russell Stendal, on routine business, landed his plane in a remote Colombian village. Gunfire exploded throughout the town and within minutes Russell's 142 day ordeal had begun. The Colombian cartel explained that this was a kidnapping for ransom and that he would be held until payment was made.Held at gunpoint deep in the jungl...
Rescue the Captors (True Hostage Situation Involving Colombian Marxist Guerrillas and a Missionary Simply Using the Expe
By Russell Stendal
(54 customer reviews)
Total Pages: 255
Free Kindle eBook


FREE NOOK BOOKS
Ten top-rated free Nook books for Friday, May 17, 2013. (All of these Nook freebies are 4+ star rated and represent just a select few from all of the available genres) Browse all of today’s brand new free book offers from the navigation bar above.

Fantasy:

Award-winning author Doranna Durgin has over 35 published novels (MMPB, trade, and hardcover) and another 19 short pieces. Now available from the author, TOUCHED BY MAGIC is a re-released Baen Fantasy: One man loses everything to magic–and will do anything to prevent it from taking over his world. (King's Wolf Saga Book I)...
Touched by Magic [NOOK Book]
By Doranna Durgin
(22 customer reviews)
File size: 749 KB
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(Touched by Magic has 4.5 Stars/17 Reviews on Amazon)

Fantasy writer James Maxwell brings you the Amazon Kindle Bestseller Enchantress, a sweeping fantasy epic filled with action, adventure, romance and magic. Book description: The fate of an orphaned brother and sister is tied to the actions of a reluctant thief. A warped mind corrupts all it touches, plunging the world into the darkness o...
Enchantress (The Evermen Saga, Book One) [NOOK Book]
By James Maxwell
(22 customer reviews)
File size: 2 MB
Free Nook eBook


(Enchantress has 4.1 Stars/97 Reviews on Goodreads)


Mystery/Thriller:

One manÂ’s sacrifice shocks the world . . . One womanÂ’s courage threatens a conspiracy as old as humankind . . . And some will do anything-anything-to keep ......
Sanctus [NOOK Book]
By Simon Toyne
(36 customer reviews)
Total Pages: 608
Free Nook eBook


Being mistaken for a prominent Chicago area hooker is downright disconcerting, especially when there's a chance it might be true. This sort of situation would be easier for Meegan to take, if she wasn't also plagued by spooks, ghosts, and a total lack of impulse control....
Chasing Shadows [NOOK Book]
By Liana Hakes-Rucker
(34 customer reviews)
File size: 625 KB
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Romance:

After her grandmother�s death, Kara Malone inherits a key and a box with a secret. On a plane bound for Hawaii where she is to start a new job, she opens the box to find her grandmother�s journal and a beautiful stone. Magical forces propel Kara back to the Scottish Highlands where she is nearly run down by Alaxandar MacLeod, the dark stranger ...
Highland Stone [NOOK Book]
By Sloan McBride
(65 customer reviews)
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First published with Meteor/Kismet, this novel tells the story of Clay Reynolds who survived a rock climbing accident only to lose his past. Dr. Paige Conrad is torn between her parents\' vision for her life and her own dreams. When Paige asks for Clay\'s help with a troubled teenage patient, Clay must decide whether hiding his secret is more im...

Love in Bloom [NOOK Book]
By Karen Rose Smith
(107 customer reviews)
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Teens:

Phoenix Light’s world collapses around her when her dad rushes in the house and switches on the television to see enemy soldiers are taking over their world. Luckily, her father knew an attack was imminent and he built a vast shelter in the mountains for their family, and thousands of others. What the people on earth don’t know is t...
Midnight Fire - Rise of the Dark Angel - Book One [NOOK Book]
By Melody Anne
(37 customer reviews)
File size: 456 KB
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(Midnight Fire has 4.3 Stars/109 Reviews on Amazon)

Kylie is devastated after her best friend's suicide. When Kylie dies, she's happy at the thought of seeing her again. What she doesn't plan on is waking up at a strange mansion and being told that she's about to become a vampire. The moon Goddess Selene has chosen her for a reason. A series of murders shakes her new home, and she must protect those...
The Awakening (Daray Hall #1) [NOOK Book]
By Samantha Hoffman
Subgenre: Teens
(92 customer reviews)
File size: 530 KB
Free Nook eBook



Advice/How-to:

If you have an addiction that is taking over your life be it smoking, drugs, alcohol, gambling or something else than this little book is here to give you the tools and ideas you need to take it back. Based on the six years experience that I have had surrounded by the worst types of addicts imaginable, I Mikey Lee Ray am here to help....
Conquer Your Addiction [NOOK Book]
By Mikey Lee Ray
(0 customer reviews)
File size: 391 KB
Free Nook eBook


(Conquer Your Addiction has 5.0 Stars/9 Reviews on Smashwords)

Written for every mom who helps too much with homework just to impress the teacher and every dad who takes credit for his daughter's soccer success, Trophy Child will give parents the encouragement they need to nurture their kids into who God created them to be. Our culture's obsession with achievement often leads parents to form expectations for t...
Trophy Child: Saving Parents from Performance, Preparing Children for Something Greater Than Themselves [NOOK Book]
By Ted Cunningham
(1 customer reviews)
Total Pages: 224
Free Offer Expired


(Trophy Child has 4.8 Stars/11 Reviews on Amazon and 4.2/11 on Goodreads)

FREE KOBO BOOKS
Ten top-rated free Kobo books for Friday, May 17, 2013. (All of these Kobo freebies are 4+ star rated) They represent just a select few from all of the available genres. Browse all of today’s brand new free book offers from the navigation bar above.

Fantasy:

Disgraced scholar Dennon Lark only wants to be left alone in his self-imposed exile—an exile that ends when a rebel army wielding impossible powers launches a series of brutal attacks on villages across the Kingsland. Forced from his home, Dennon is drawn back into a world he wants nothing to do with. His research into the kingdom's lost past...
Scriber
By Ben S. Dobson
(273 customer reviews)
Free Kobo eBook



Living a life with an overbearing father can be a challenge. For Rayea whose father is the fallen angel, Lucifer, it's been torture. In the second installment of the Vampire from Hell series, Rayea finds peace when she visits the House of G. There she hopes for a new beginning among Blick's angelic friends, only to discover a vampire from Hell may ...
A Vampire Among Angels - The Vampire from Hell (Part 2)
By Ally Thomas
(148 customer reviews)
Total Pages: 112
Free Kobo eBook



Historical:

Still half asleep, Michael looked up at his parents sitting on the buckboard of their covered wagon and saw an arrow penetrate his father's chest. Then he saw his mother being dragged from the wagon by two Indians. His mother fell from the wagon and disappeared from his sight and from his life forever. Now he was all alone....
Sagebrush
By William Wayne "Bill" Dicksion
(5 customer reviews)
Free Kobo eBook



(Sagebrush has 4.0 Stars/201 Reviews on Amazon)


Mystery:

If you enjoy Elizabeth Peter’s Vicky Bliss series or Romancing the Stone, Elusive has the same mix of mystery, international travel, and light romance. Zoe Hunter loves living on the edge. Free-spirited and spontaneous, she’s built a life stringing together various freelance gigs that keep her bank account barely in the black. But when...
Elusive - Book #1 in the On The Run series
By Sara Rosett
(36 customer reviews)
Free Kobo eBook



The story begins with outrage and chaos, countered by a show of brute force, after a Presidential Order bans semi-automatic weapons. Conditions quickly deteriorate as U.N. soldiers are summoned to help confiscate these firearms and return peace to streets. Gary Smith leaves Minneapolis for his parent's farm, but his joy is brief. His family is capt...
Stealing Second
By Nicholas Antinozzi
(0 customer reviews)
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(Stealing Second has 4.4 Stars/52 Reviews on Amazon)


Romance:

An awkward family homecoming at Christmas. A humiliating public weigh-in, with two judging parents as the audience. The announcement of a deadline for arranged marriage doom. And that's just the first two chapters. In "Year of the Chick," Romi Narindra must find love before her parents find her a husband. But this is North America, not Calcutta! W...
Year of the Chick
By Romi Moondi
(238 customer reviews)
Free Kobo eBook



Since their release in 2011, books 1 & 2 from the vampire series, Dark Secrets, have come together, presented as one great book for one low price....
Dark Secrets
By A. M. Hudson
(0 customer reviews)
Free Kobo eBook



(This free offer includes BOTH Books 1 and 2 of the Dark Secrets series. Book 1 of this can’t-miss series, Tears of the Broken has 4.0 Stars/1277 reviews on Goodreads! Get it while it’s free!)


Sci-Fi:

Even in a world of never-ending winters and permanent darkness, fourteen-year-old Nadia Comani has everything she could ever want: power, privilege, a loving family and most importantly warmth. But her family's refusal to compromise their values changes everything. Nadia is cast down from her pedestal of power onto the trash heap of the lower clas...
After The Darkness: Episode One
By SunHi Mistwalker
(16 customer reviews)
Free Kobo eBook




Teen:

THREE friends, TWO Secrets, ONE lie, and the summer that changed their lives. In 1953, three teenage girls' innocent conversations, coupled with a friend's obsession, become the catalyst for a prank that spins wildly beyond control. In 1973, a reunion trip to their small town returns them to the summer of 1953 and the passion and betrayal that chan...
Atomic Summer
By Elaine D Walsh
Subgenre: Fiction & Literature, Fiction
(0 customer reviews)
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(Atomic Summer has 4.4 Stars/48 Reviews on Amazon)

Have you ever wondered what animals can see that we can't? Fourteen-year-old Grace knows. The Drawl, terrifying creatures from a higher dimension. Protecting us from these nightmarish creatures are our cats. Grace is drawn into their world and soon discovers there is more than meets the eye to her family cat. Will she find the courage to fight alo...
Grace and the Drawl
By Dale Cusack
Subgenre: Kids & Teens, Fiction
(32 customer reviews)
Free Kobo eBook



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