Free Kindle books for December 4th!

Here are 5 Free Kindle books as of Tuesday, December 4th, 2012. 

Why, oh why can't I gift free Kindle books. It makes me so sad. :-(

The League for the Suppression of Celery
by Wendy Russ

 Kate Pearson heads west from Arkansas in an old jalopy with two parakeets, a job offer and a half-baked plan: Dreamboat celebrity chef Warren Hoffman has offered Kate a job – and himself – if she will relocate to Oxnard, California. The catch? Kate soon discovers Warren has a Big Secret. And that he’s possibly crazy.

During her journey, Kate stumbles into the lair of paranoid militants calling themselves the League for the Suppression of Celery. When they learn her destination is Oxnard -- celery capital of the world -- they stop at nothing to indoctrinate her into their nefarious cult.

Her escape from the League sends her racing toward her happily-ever-after while being pursued by members of the League who want her back, and by the compelling new friend who inexplicably quits his job to travel across the country to find her.

601 Chocolate Recipes
by Luke Wren

601 Chocolate Recipes: Delicious Easy Recipes For Homemade Chocolate Cookies, Chocolate Cake, Hot Chocolate, White Chocolate, & More Chocolate Desserts.

Jackpot!
by Jackie Pilossoph

If your mother offered you 8 million dollars to have a baby, would you do it?

Jamie Jacobson doesn't have a lot of faith in love, except when it comes to her Jimmy Choo shoes. Her brother Danny has two loves; his barely existent acting career and his ability to pick up women. But life is about to take a wild turn for these two dysfunctional but lovable siblings now that their mother has just won the lottery.

Frankie, a longtime widow has wanted grandchildren for years. Now she's prepared to pay cash for them. When Frankie presents her son and daughter each with a contract promising $8 million dollars if he or she can produce a child in the next twelve months (DNA tested, of course), Jamie and Danny each begin a frantic search for a person to help them reproduce.

Come along on their desperate, outrageous and hilarious journeys where fake seductions, ovulation kits and a tarot-card reader are replacing condoms, the pill and fun, meaningless hook-ups. They hit a couple big bumps in the road that have nothing to do with their lack of diaper changing experience, but a lot to do with their hearts.

Now they face the choice of their lives. Give in to love? Or go for the JACKPOT?

303 Chicken Recipes
by Luke Wren

303 Chicken Recipes: Delicious & Easy Chicken Recipes For The Best Chicken Soup, Chicken Salad, Chicken Breasts, Chicken Casserole, Chicken Pot Pie, And Lots More!

Thicker Than Blood
by C. J. Darlington

Christy Williams finally has her life on track. She’s putting her past behind her and working hard to build a career as an antiquarian book buyer. But things begin to unravel when a stolen Hemingway first edition is found in her possession, framing her for a crime she didn’t commit. With no one to turn to, she yearns for her estranged younger sister, May, whom she abandoned after their parents’ untimely deaths. Soon, Christy’s fleeing from her shattered dreams, her ex-boyfriend, and God. Could May’s Triple Cross Ranch be the safe haven she’s searching for? Will the sisters realize that each possesses what the other desperately needs before it’s too late? A stunning debut from the latest Christian Writers Guild winner.



Here's a link to the Paper White Kindle, in case you need to get one of those.

Not Free, but certainly delicious.... 

Day 19: Kindle Freebie Friday

This 31 Days of Good Book Series is part of the 31 Days project at The Nester .

Here are a selection of books that are free for your weekend reading pleasure.  I've tried to provide a variety.  I haven't read these, yet.  Enjoy!


Zero Balance by Ashley Fontainne
Publisher description - "Nine months ago, Audra Tanner exposed the hidden secrets locked away at the prestigious accounting firm of Winscott & Associates. No one escaped her wrath. And once the smoke had cleared, everyone watched as the diabolical Olin Kemper was led away in handcuffs... Soon everyone at the firm will discover that no one is safe when you are dealing with a psychopath that has zero balance."



Horribly Good Halloween Recipes with Coffee - A Seasonal Collection of Holiday Recipes with Coffee by Billy Taylor
Amazon Reviewer - "It is clear this author cooks with love! Being a coffee lover and a lover of unique combinations I loved every recipe! This book is a must for serious cooks! You won't regret having it as one of your most elegant staples to wow your guests!" - Colorado (Amazon Review)



City of Light by Kim Wright

 Publisher Description "Set amid the glamour of Paris on the brink of La Belle Époque, City of Light is a tale of murder, mystery, and masks where no one is quite what they seem…

City of Light, the second book in the City of Mystery series, opens in 1889 Paris on the eve of the Exposition Universelle, the ultimate World’s Fair which debuted Edison’s phonograph, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, and the Eiffel Tower. Detective Rayley Abrams has traveled from Scotland Yard to France to study the new science of forensics with the Parisian police. Lonely and awkward, Rayley easily falls under the spell of a beautiful British expatriate named Isabel Blout, a woman with a murky past and suspicious social connections."

Skinny Seafood: Over 100 delectable low-fat recipes for preparing nature's underwater bounty

Mortal Obligation (The Dark Betrayal Trilogy)

Invisible (Ivy Malone Mystery Series #1)

Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking

Enjoy your weekend of reading and perhaps cooking!

Day 12: Free Books for Kindlers and Non-Kindlers

 You don't have to have a Kindle to enjoy free Kindle books. All you need is a free app, and you're ready to go - you can read any of these free books on your desktop (Windows OR Mac), smartphone, tablet, iPad.  Just get your FREE app HERE.

OK, so now that you realize you aren't being left out on Free Friday, here are a few free books for you to check out.

The quoted descriptions are from the publisher or the author on the Amazon page.


Zombie Master: You Can't Fight The Fed by Morris Rosenthal -  From the Author -
"It's difficult to write a funny book about a virus that turns half of the world's population into zombies. It's even harder to derive amusement from tens of millions of Americans losing their savings to monetary policy decisions -- unless you happen to be a banker. But if you put these two tragedies together and start looking for a way out, something funny does emerge."


The Soulkeepers (The Soulkeepers Series)  by G. P. Ching - "When fifteen-year-old Jacob Lau is pulled from the crumpled remains of his mother's car, no one can explain why he was driving or why the police can't find his mother's body. A beautiful and mysterious neighbor offers to use her unique abilities to help him find his mom. But in exchange she requires Jacob to train as a Soulkeeper, a protector of human souls. He agrees to her demands, desperate for any clue to the mystery of his mother's disappearance. But soon Jacob finds himself trapped in a web of half-truths, and questions her motives for helping him."

Deadly Offerings (Deadly Trilogy)  by Alexa Grace"Deadly Offerings is an ebook with a blend of pulsing passion and razor-sharp suspense. It is the first adventure in this sizzling romantic suspense trilogy.  Anne Mason thinks she’ll be safe living in the Midwest building a wind farm. She may be dead wrong. Someone is dumping bodies in her corn field and telling Anne they are gifts—for her! As the body count rises, Anne realizes a cold-blooded serial killer is patiently waiting and watching her every move. And he won’t stop until he ends her life. It is clear there are no limits to this killer’s thirst for revenge or how far he will go to get it."


If you're on Facebook, check out Kindle Korner.  Authors frequently announce their free weekend downloads there.

Enjoy your weekend reads!

Day 6: Free Audio Book Recommendations & Links

This is part of the 31 Days project over at TheNester.  Please leave a comment to qualify for the drawing at the end of the month.  If you're a 31 Days writer, please leave your link so I can stop by and visit!


I don't really enjoy exercise.  I like it to sneak up on me while I think I'm doing something necessary.  However, after 45, that just isn't enough to make up for eating a slice of bread every 3-4 weeks... so I had to get serious.  I needed some cardio exercise.  I took up walking.  Each lap on my trail is .4 miles.  I can do 8 laps, but usually around 2 1/2 I'm thinking I don't really need to do 8... I could be reading, or writing, or cleaning the toilets. 

I'm frugal about some things... and audiobooks are one of those things.  So, when I discovered Librivox.org and learned how to put those books onto my iPod, i was giddy!  Here's the link to their search page.

Just a quick bit of info on how to do that.  When you unzip the audiobook download it expands into a number of files.  You'll need to create a Playlist, then move the chapters into the playlist in order (they are numbered, but for some reason don't always list in order in my iTunes).  You'll then move the entire Playlist onto your iPod.  It will show up where your other playlists do, as I don't yet know how to put them into the audiobooks or podcast areas.

So, my recommendations for today.

First I'll start with readers.  My favorite reader is Adrian Praetzellis.  He does various accents and has a wonderful story teller's voice.  Here is a link to his readings.  Adrian Praetzellis (who sounds a lot like my father-in-law, but doesn't look like him at all)

My second favorite reader is Karen Savage.  We were certain she was British when she read "The Scarlet Pimpernel".  She is from Texas.  I learned just this morning, she's also a professional reader.

All the books at Librivox are in the public domain.  So, most of them are more than 75 years old.  I've been enlightened as to how blatant stereotypes of women and various ethnicities were at that time.  It can be shocking. 

Right now I'm in the middle of "Mr. Hogarth's Will" by Catherine Helen Spence, where the heroine is just told straight up she cannot be hired for a position she's well educated to do because she would distract men from doing their work.  This is the story of two nieces raised by an uncle and educated to do and know things that women were not taught to do or know.  He dies and leaves them a pittance, though he is wealthy, because he wants them to make something of themselves with their qualities and talents.  I'm only half way done with this one, but so far I'm enjoying it.  I'm aghast when a gentleman at a party comments that having a conversation with an educated woman is stressful because he might be corrected if he states the wrong date of a historical event. WHAT!?!?!?!  Oh yeah, we've come a LONG way baby!

Here are books I've listened to and enjoyed:  Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.  I don't think I'd like to read this, but it accompanied me to Maine last year and was delightful to listen to.... though I became a bit irritated with Anna's obsessive train of thought. 

Mr. Midshipman Easy by Captain Frederick Marryat.  This was read entirely by Adrian.  It's about a young Jack Easy who believes in the equality of the "rights of man."  So, when his neighbor finds him stealing apples, Jack answers that God created the apples for everyone and he has as much a right to them as anyone else.  He has a similar response when caught poaching fish from a man's stocked pond, and is physically removed from the property, his fishing pole taken under the "rights of man" to equally own his fishing pole.  Jack realizes the only place he will find equality is on the sea, where no one owns it... and he joins the Navy.  Yep, the navy.  Where a senior officer is NOT the equal of a midshipman, and the philosophies of Jack cause issues and laughs for his comrades.  Jack also has a series of adventures which are very entertaining. 

If you're an Oscar Wilde fan, as I am... you'll find his works here:  Oscar Wilde.

All in all, these books have greatly improved my endurance and cardiovascular health.  And they are free.

Here are links to other 31 Dayers:

31 Days of Little Life Lessons from my Children
31 Days to Get Off Your Duff & Live Now (a variety of ideas - something for everyone)

I'm off to a board meeting, when I get back this afternoon, I'll update my sidebar with some fascinating quotes!