FREE -- US Kindle Edition -- The Complete 2012 User's Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle: Covers All Current Kindles Including the Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch, Kindle Keyboard, and Kindle by Stephen Windwalker & Bruce Grubbs

Finally, one user-friendly guide that covers every Kindle now on the market for 2012, including the Kindle Fire, in a single comprehensive volume chock full of tips, tricks, and links to unlock cool features, save you hundreds on Kindle content, and help you get the most out of your Kindle. Stephen Windwalker founded the popular Kindle Nation Daily community and has been helping Kindle owners get up to speed ever since his first Kindle guide was the #1 bestselling book in the entire Kindle store for 2008. Now he has teamed up with popular outdoors and travel author Bruce Grubbs to provide the most complete and up-to-date resource ever for Kindle owners.


Contents:
Why a Kindle?
Which Kindle to Buy?
Covers, Lights, and Accessories
Reading Books and Periodicals
Searching Your Content and the Web
Using the Dictionary
Annotatiing Your Reading
Listening to Audiobooks
Listening to Music
Watching Movies, TV Shows, and Videos
Viewing Photos
Browsing the Web
Extending the Fire with Apps
Shopping in the Kindle Store
Using Voice Guide
Finding Free Books
Working with Personal Documents
Organizing Your Books
Lending Books
Registering Your Kindle
Moving to a New Kindle
Free Kindle Reading Apps
Kindle Cloud Reader
Managing E-Books with Calibre
Using Settings
Fixing Problems
How it Works - eInk
How it Works - Silk Browser
Publishing to the Kindle
Kindle Resources


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FREE -- US Kindle Edition -- Quick & Easy Family Dinners Cookbook by Gooseberry Patch

There's nothing like gathering around the table for a homecooked meal. Our favorite dinners are always those tried & true recipes that have been handed down, or ones shared by a good friend. Start with Homestyle Baked Spaghetti, Oven Beef & Noodles or Barbecued Honey Ham, and then add a tasty side dish like Confetti Coleslaw, Creamy Macaroni & Cheese or Mom's Potato Salad. And who can resist scrumptious desserts? Cherry Delight, Peach Crinkle, Crustless Apple Pie and Sunny Day Brownies are all yummy ways to end a family meal.


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FREE -- US Kindle Edition -- The Wary Widow (The Wetherby Brides, Book 3) by Jerrica Knight-Catania

The Wetherby Brides, Book 3...

When Chloe Hawthorne is asked to chaperone her cousin during the London Season, it is with a heavy heart that she departs her home and family in Essex.Though she has been widowed for more than a year, she has yet to move on, and is loathe to do so. But when she meets her cousin's fiancee, Lord Andrew Wetherby, she must choose between honoring her cousin's impending marriage and following her heart.

Andrew Wetherby has chosen the perfect bride. She is well bred and beautiful - what more could the second son of a marquess ask for? However, when Lady Elizabeth's new chaperone arrives on the scene, he knows he's made a mistake of monumental proportions. The young widow with the russet curls captures his undivided attention, but as a gentleman, there is little he can do about it...or is there?


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FREE -- US Kindle Edition -- Hannah's Blessing by Collette Scott

Following her husband’s scandalous death, a devastated Diana Somerset makes a promise at his funeral to never trust so easily again. However, she was not prepared to meet his enigmatic step-brother, Devlan Doyle. He was a man accustomed to getting whatever he wanted, and he wanted Diana. Not only was Diana's child his heiress, but her stubborn pride and disinterest intrigues him. Following a near-tragic accident that forces them together, Devlan sets out to conquer her distrust. Whisked away on a fairytale of a lifetime, Diana and Hannah discover that they are not immune to his charms. But is his determination alone strong enough to win their trust and love, or will he lose the two people he has grown to care for the most?


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FREE -- US Kindle Edition -- A Previous Engagement by Stephanie Haddad

Tessa Monroe knows how to do exactly two things: climb her way up the corporate ladder and cheer up her best friend Christian Douglas, the main man in her life since paste was a snack. With the exception of a Ring Pop proposal and a pool-side kiss in college, not much has changed between them in 25 years. Now that they’re all grown up, the two friends find themselves headed down two different paths: Tessa looking for her dream job and Christian looking for his dream girl.

Luckily for Christian, Tessa knows just the girl who’ll mend his heart after a bad breakup. But when things between Christian and his new girl Savannah start to get serious, Tessa isn’t feeling the pride and happiness she expected… In fact, there’s something weird in her heart that she can’t quite name.

With no plans for romance or marriage, Tessa isn’t prepared to confront her true feelings for Christian. After all they’ve been through together, can she risk her heart, his happiness, and their friendship by telling him the truth? OR does she run away from the romance that began in the third grade?

Friendship and romance combine with messy results, but A Previous Engagement celebrates the humor of real-life love in a story that resonates as honest from beginning to end.


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FREE -- US Kindle Edition -- Circle of Friends Cookbook 25 of JoAnn & Vickie's Favorite Recipes by Gooseberry Patch

From Jo Ann's Cowboy Cookies and Vickie's Tomato Pie to scrumptious Chicken Casserole Supreme and Comfort Corn Pudding, this new collection features 25 of Vickie and Jo Ann's most delicious recipes for sharing with family & friends!


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FREE -- US Kindle Edition -- How To Declutter Your Home And Your Life: Minimalist Concepts To Help You Start Organizing Today by Martha Sinclair

Fed up with the way your home looks?  Tired of taking forever to locate things? Wondering why you just can't break free from this cycle of clutter and disorganization?  Do you agree that it is time to learn how to declutter your home and also how to declutter your life so you can be a happier person?

Then How To Declutter Your Home And Your Life: Minimalist Concepts To Help You Start Organizing Today should be your first step. This ebook will teach you how to start organizing your life with tips on how to:

• Be Happier With Less
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• Organize Your Garage
• Organize Your Closets
• Get Your Family To Help

Without you even knowing, your possessions have taken over your living space right under your very nose. So now you're confronted with the ultimate scuffle between you and your clutter. How do you plan to win the battle?

For one, you need to draw up a battle plan. You are not merely fighting for space here, you are also struggling to gain better control over your life. Let's face it, living in the middle of a mess easily diminishes your joy of living and devalues your life as a whole. All that stuff no doubt weighs on you physically and mentally. A disorganized home also presents a hazardous place.

This eBook is an integral part of your arsenal in winning the war against clutter. First, it is designed to let you see things from a different perspective and gain a better understanding about the situation you have found yourself in. It doesn't just tell you how to organize your stuff, but more importantly, it goes down to the very root cause of the problem.

This book is loaded with encouraging tips and helpful ideas so you can physically and mentally maneuver your way through the war zone with ease and confidence.

A cluttered home breeds a cluttered mind. It's time to take that positive, empowering action today! This ebook provides you clear-cut, no-nonsense advice on how to re-invent your living space and shows you the view from the other side - the tranquil and clutter-free home that you can proudly show off.

Beyond decluttering, the book also touches on finding happiness with lesser stuff - something everyone can relate to. Based on the principle of minimalism, there are insightful discussions on finding lifelong happiness beyond material possessions, beyond all the stuff that we have surrounded ourselves with.

This ebook will help you gain back firm control over your life as well as be able to provide a happy, sparkling and uncluttered home for your family.


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FREE -- US Kindle Edition -- The Fourth Nail by Paul Argentini

The Fourth Nail by Paul Argentini proves an historical fact.
In this stunning revelation of a compelling historical mystery, Paul Argentini's story-telling masterstroke, The Fourth Nail, is in the overlay of the interrelated actions of two men born two millennia apart.
In ancient times, we follow the destined path of Marius of Rome from his start as a profligate youth, to the Mid-east where he forges and uses The Fourth Nail to change the entire world forever.
His challenge is to leave the love of his life and survive the dangerous journey on the Spice Trail back to Rome where he is determined to hide this all-powerful relic from covetous hands and to fulfill pledges.
In today’s world, Dr. Roberto Donadio as a matter of life and death desperately seeks to reveal the secrets of the Marius Diary. In his search he is constrained to unravel arcane codes, and translate ancient documents. It is a race against time as he travels the path of the Marius Diary on the Silk Road to an ancient lamasery past the Taklamaken Desert deep by Ancient Turkestan in Eastern China. There, before other horror-stricken witnesses, he sees the only copy of the Marius Diary Scrolls become lost forever to the winds and wilds of the mountains. Only his prescience and ingenuity enable him to learn the factual truth behind this, the greatest of all historical mysteries.
This is Paul Argentini’s most tense and exciting novel ever.


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FREE -- US Kindle Edition -- SQ Magazine Summer 2010 by IFWG Publishing

108 pages of short stories including the winning story and finalists from the Stroy Quest contest.


SQ Magazine gathers together the work of new and established writers to the reading public. Through short fiction, essays, articles and illustration, we want to showcase writers from among IFWG Publishing's ranks of authors, visiting talent, and the winner and finalists in our Story Quest biannual competition. We do not feel confined in terms of sub-genre, or intended age-groups. Our objective is to delight the reader, and encourage growth for all authors. 54 pages of short stories and articles. In this issue. Story Quest Contest Winner and Finalists. An interview with Jack Eason Writing Spec/Fic Parts one and 2 And much more!


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FREE -- US Kindle Edition -- Jane by Caroline Ford

For young children. A charming story of a doll named Jane. Jane is happy when her owner Annie loves her and cares for her. Then Annie grows up and puts Jane away in a box. Jane is unhappy. Years later, Annie removes Jane from the box, gives her new clothes, and presents her to her daughter Mandy. Mandy loves and cares for Jane. Jane is a happy doll again. Written and illustrated by Caroline Ford when she was twelve.


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FREE -- US Kindle Edition -- Repossession by Nicola Thorne

John Tempest is offered a welcome job change. He is delighted: not only will the new position carry with it the chance of promotion, but it will also bring the opportunity for him and his family to escape suburban London for a better quality of life in the old Dorset village of Tip Hollow.

His wife Helen is subdued about the news. The move will mean uprooting her family from familiar surroundings and friends. But it is not only that. Despite its beauty, the remote village of Tip Hollow seems somehow desolate. And something about their future home – a large modern house on a recently developed estate – just does not feel right.

Helen’s unease increases when she learns that not only was the house repossessed from the previous owners, but that old Tip Hollow Hill is an ancient burial ground. Can houses actually feel and convey grief and sorrow? Did something tragic happen in the past that can seep into the walls? Even the odd behaviour of the family cat, Skittles, is disconcerting, so that Helen’s new home soon begins to fill her with dread...

In this chilling tale of psychic suspense Nicola Thorne explores both explicable and inexplicable events that threaten to tear a family apart.


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FREE -- US Kindle Edition -- My Name is Martha Brown by Nicola Thorne

Based on a true story, a captivating tale of passionate love and violent death in 1850s Dorset.

In 1856, Martha Brown was hanged for the murder of her husband. Among those who witnessed her death was a sixteen-year-old local lad, and the memory of her execution haunted him for the rest of his life. Writing many years later, he said: ‘I remember what a fine figure she showed against the sky as she hung in the misty rain, and how the tight black silk gown set off her shape as she wheeled half-round and back.’ The writer was Thomas Hardy.

Martha Brown, one of a large family, was an ordinary woman of humble parentage, her father an itinerant dairyman. Very little is known about her tragic life, and she remains tantalising and elusive. It is not whether or not she did kill her husband that intrigues so much as the mystery of her origins, the tragic circumstances of her life, the injustice of her rushed trial and subsequent execution.

According to contemporary accounts Martha was ‘a wonderful-looking woman with beautiful curls’, who had a propensity for choosing the wrong husband. Her first husband Bernard was twenty years her senior. Her second, John Brown, twenty years younger. Marriage to a handsome younger man could perhaps release her, a lonely widow, from a life of tedium and drudgery. But why did John Brown marry Martha? Some said it was for her money, but did the age difference which eventually led him into the arms of a much younger woman, pretty flirtatious Mary Davis, precipitate jealousy that resulted in murder if murder it was?

This fine compelling novel, as well as vividly recapturing the setting of nineteenth century rural Dorset, attempts to reconstruct the story of a woman whose sad life and tragic death have much of the overtones of a Hardy heroine.


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FREE -- US Kindle Edition -- Fallen Heroes (Unseen Shadows) by Barry Nugent

A computer disk no one can read but everyone wants.

An orphan whose visions of death and destruction hold the key to his past and future.

A pair of master thieves hunted for a crime they did not commit. An investigator of the unknown, a stalker of demons.

A government agent whose murder investigation will bring him face to face with a tragic mistake from his past.

All connected, all unwitting pawns in a plan set in motion over nine centuries before their birth. Pursued across the globe by enemies both human and supernatural they must overcome their mistrust of each other and uncover the truth before it destroys them and unleashes a malevolent and ancient evil upon an unsuspecting world.


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FREE -- US Kindle Edition -- It's not just Pizzas. (A Brickie series) by Allan Russell

This book is about some of the other delicious foods you can cook in a wood fired oven.
Techniques on oven heat management.
Fire and oven management.
Tips on food.
Tools needed.
Tried and tested basic recipes that don't take ages to prepare for the oven, meat, bread, scones and of course pizza.


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FREE -- US Kindle Edition -- Carry On Quack by Chris Wilt

Lower Malden - a village typical of contemporary rural England - is Chris Wilt's traditional setting for his wickedly funny, debut comic novel, CARRY ON QUACK.

Country doctor Edward Thomas, has flaws that beat even Mr Bean's well-documented eccentricities and the wild improbability of hotelier, Basil Fawlty. Chauvinistic, egotistic, Edward, is married to long-suffering Elizabeth, who has so far tolerated her husband's complicated OCD issues dominating their family life. But Elizabeth reaches breaking point when she discovers her husband dressed in her underwear - and her Manolo Blahniks - if only he get them on!

Edward is characteristically unrepentant and Elizabeth moves back to Mother, leaving her husband to supervise their two odd-ball and opportunistic teenage children, Neville and Jessica. In Elizabeth's absence, 14-year-old Neville soon indulges his puerile fantasies and nineteen-year-old Jessica drops college to become a model.
As the three abandoned Quacks struggle to come to terms with separation and looming divorce, charismatic, handsome hypnotist Guy Westlake steps in to seduce Elizabeth. Edward hits the bottle and whilst under the influence, is framed by his vengeful secretary, Mrs Willoughby, who lands her boss with a voluptuous, man-eating blonde.

Having been deprived of meat for umpteen years by veggie Elizabeth, Edward puts up only a token struggle. Meanwhile, into this cocktail of romps and regrets, strides the long arm of the law, smoothly outwitted by a vicious goat and left to the mercy of canine predator, Lucifer.

Other topics thrown into this heady concoction are alternative therapies, the occult, and Freudian slips that have nothing whatsoever to do with underwear. Or perhaps they have everything to do with underwear...a conundrum resolved by the ubiquitous Adolphus Hunt, private-eye-extraordinaire, whose efforts at extortion and knack for grasping the wrong end of the stick, makes him the perfect foil to the plot of Chris Wilt's surprisingly insightful and endearingly humorous, comedy of errors.


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FREE -- US Kindle Edition -- 8 Pounds: Eight Tales of Crime, Horror, & Suspense by Chris F. Holm

These eight tales run the gamut from small-town horror to old-school, whiskey-slugging noir, with a touch of coming-of-age adventure thrown in for good measure. We're talking over a hundred print pages of pure pulp perfection that'll cost you less than the paper it ain't printed on.

Includes the Spinetingler-Award-winning "Seven Days of Rain," Derringer-Award finalist "The Big Score," and "The World Behind," which originally appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.

Also included are "A Better Life," "The Well," "A Simple Kindness," "Eight Pounds," and "The Toll Collectors."


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FREE -- US Kindle Edition -- Do Over! by Jeff Kirvin

Richie Preston is 27 years old and still lives in his parents' house, still works at a dead end job, lost his great love, still hasn't really begun his life.

One day the fates smile on him and give him the opportunity to start over, to go back to being 17 and about to start his senior year of high school, only this time with all the memories of what he did wrong the first time. All he has to do is not interfere with anyone else's life. It sounds like a great deal, but living up to his end of the bargain turns out to be harder than Richie ever imagined.

If you had the chance, would you make the choice?


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FREE -- US Kindle Edition -- The Cold November Son by Kjelden Cundiff

Manhood, it is that imaginary line that every teenage boy must cross but when a teenage boy in a small town in South Dakota takes what he believes is a first step out of adolescence he has no idea how close to the line of adulthood he is stepping.

The summer of 1983 starts innocently enough for thirteen year old Tommy with the gift of a shotgun, and an invitation to join his father in the upcoming pheasant hunting season. However, the innocence of that moment quickly evaporates as the son learns that life isn’t as perfect as it may once have appeared to be.

As the days of summer pass, the complexities of life reveal themselves and Tommy soon learns a dark secret that his father has held closely.

With a decaying relationship with his mother growing and a father who is trying to fit a lifetime of lessons into one summer, Tommy is about to come face to face with a decision that no teenager should ever have to make.

The Cold November Son takes the reader on a voyage that explores the boundaries of love and mercy. It is a love story unlike any you have read before. Will the son honor his father's wishes? What secrets will be revealed? Those questions will be answered as Tommy is about to partake in one final and violent act of kindness? Come along on the journey and see for yourself.


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FREE -- US Kindle Edition -- The Dance of the Caterpillars Bilingual Korean English by Adele Marie Crouch (Author, Illustrator), Seongsu Kim (Translator)

While watching her Chinese immigrant son-in-law learn the English language, it became apparent to the author that prepositions are one of the most difficult concepts to comprehend. Therefore, The Dance of The Caterpillars was written as a fun way to teach prepositions. This exciting children’s book contains twenty-two prepositions, one two-word multiple, and two three-word multiples. It is destined to become a valuable learning tool for children as well as English as a second language students. This book includes English, traditional Korean characters, and Korean transliteration. There is also a vocabulary list at the back of the book for your continued study.


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FREE -- US Kindle Edition -- Finders Keepers by Catherine Palmer

Award-winning author Catherine Palmer presents the first novel in another HeartQuest series. Fiery Elizabeth Hayes is determined to preserve Chalmers House, the Victorian mansion next to her growing antiques business. But Zachary Chalmers, heir to the mansion, has very different plans. Together they learn that God has the best plans of all-if we will only surrender to him.


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FREE -- US Kindle Edition -- Confirmation Bias by Raymond Plaster

In Confirmation Bias, a legal drama by Raymond Irwin Plaster, the horrific murders of two college girls threaten to expose the clandestine goings on of a group of prominent Kansas City businessmen and professionals. On the hushed, yet grand, tree-lined street dividing Kansas from Missouri, the girls of Greenwaldt Residence are willing to-and discreetly-provide for the mischievous proclivities of six men. The men lavish the girls with all their needs until two are found brutally murdered. One by one the men face the implications if their arrogance is exposed. While glaring attention falls on a town that has already convicted the accused, attorney Steven Serele struggles to learn which member truly has blood on his hands. As each of the men's lives unravel, it is the atrocity they didn't commit, which threatens to raze their lives-and what begins to renew Steven Serele's conscience as he is ultimately forced to disclose the sins of the club's constituents to save the life of the man wrongly accused.


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FREE -- US Kindle Edition -- Dog River Blues (A Wes Darling Mystery by Mike Jastrzebski

A sexy relative who wants to teach Wes Darling the meaning of kissin’ cousins, a priceless centuries old manuscript, a three hundred pound redneck, and an ex-spy who thinks murder is a justifiable means of support are just a few of the things awaiting Wes when he sails into the Dog River in search of answers about the father he never knew.

Dog River Blues blends the mystique of the live aboard boating lifestyle and the colorful characters and vagabonds who live, work, and sometimes commit murder on our nation’s waterways. This is one voyage to Mobile, Alabama you don’t want to miss.


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FREE -- US Kindle Edition -- Stalking Natalie by Skip Coryell

Natalie Katrell was a single mother. Her daughter, six-year old Amethyst, seemed like a miniature copy of herself, with long, blonde hair, shining blue eyes, and a smile that softened the hearts of most people who looked upon her. But neither Natalie nor Amethyst could see the man watching them. He always stayed off in the shadows, hidden around corners, or gazing from behind the innocent pages of a paperback book. Sometimes he sipped tea while at other times he nursed a vanilla latte with a double shot of espresso. But always, without fail, he watched Natalie and her daughter. He was obsessed and Natalie was his next chosen one.


What would you do if a serial killer began stalking you and your child? Natalie Katrell was not a violent woman, but when the serial killer pushed, she pushed back! With the help of Sam Colton, NRA personal protection instructor, Natalie got armed and dangerous!

Read this suspense-filled thriller and find out what happens when a single mom is trapped in an elevator with a serial killer. Be prepared for twists and turns and an ending that you'll never guess.

Never ride the elevator alone!


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FREE -- US Kindle Edition -- Rejection: A Lou Drake Mystery by Thomas K. Matthews -- 18+

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 own. When Drake breaks protocol on another brutal murder scene, endangering his rookie partner, his captain demotes him to the booking cage. But when another body is discovered and both victims are identified as struggling literary agents, the NYPD Chief of Detectives decides Lou's writing experience could benefit the case and pairs him with his old partner one last time. As they look for clues in the struggling publishing industry, Drake finds himself thrust into the middle of a serial murder case where a methodical perpetrator is systematically killing those who rejected him. Drake must revive his old detective prowess and trust his writer's intuition to try and solve the case, while possibly exposing the truth about the old Hennings investigation - a secret that would expose a web of corruption that could shake the NYPD to its core.

Ages 18 +


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FREE -- The Legend of Paul McGurney (The McGurney Chronicles) by Josh Clark

The Voice is Calling - The Knowledge is Waiting!

When Todd, Zak, Jordan and Andrea agreed to spend the summer in their grandmother's remote cabin in the Colorado mountains, they had thought their biggest concern was death by boredom. Without video games, cell phone reception, or internet connection, the summer was supposed to be filled with leisurely naps by mountain streams and mundane hikes through wilderness trails.

Boy were they wrong!

After stumbling upon a decrepit house on a forgotten hill, the children come face to face with Paul McGurney, a mysterious man with seemingly no past, who offers them a chance of a lifetime: a portal through time to bear witness to the life of the most famous man in history. But with this exclusive glimpse comes a hefty price, as an evil is unleashed who wants nothing more than to seek and destroy the children before they can fully experience what Paul McGurney is showing them.


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FREE -- US Kindle Edition -- Farm Girl by Karen Jones Gowen

Set in the Dust Bowl of the American West, Farm Girl, the true account of a child coming of age on a 1920's Nebraska farm, recaptures an era. Young Lucille Marker experiences survival during the Depression, one of the worst dust storms in history, and finally the disintegration of the close-knit community in which she grows up.

Readers who like the books of Laura Ingalls Wilder or Willa Cather will enjoy Farm Girl. Set in the locale of Willa Cather’s Nebraska novels, it includes a chapter about the Marker/Cather family connections.

Richly photographed throughout with over sixty authentic photos documenting the people and places of the story, this historical, easy-to-read small book is suitable for use in the classroom.


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FREE -- US Kindle Edition -- Yellow Crocus: A Novel by Laila Ibrahim

In 1837, Lisbeth Wainwright is born to the white mistress of a sprawling Virginia plantation. Seconds later, she is delivered into the arms of her black wet nurse, Mattie. For a field hand like Mattie, her transfer to the big house is supposed to be considered an honor—except that the move tears Mattie away from her beloved grandfather and her infant son, Samuel. But Mattie is a slave, with no say in the matter, and so she devotes herself to her master’s daughter, though she longs to be raising her own child. Growing up under Mattie’s tender care, little Lisbeth adopts the woman’s deep-seated faith in God, her love of music and black-eyed peas, and the tradition of hunting for yellow crocuses in the early days of spring.

As the years pass, Lisbeth is drawn slowly back into her white parents’ world and begins to learn the ins and outs of life for a high-born young lady. Still she retains her connection to Mattie, befriending Samuel and drifting comfortably between the two worlds. She accepts her parents’ assertion that their slaves depend upon them for guidance and protection, yet that notion becomes more and more difficult to believe as she gains awareness of the inequality of life in the big house versus the slave quarters. When, on the threshold of her society wedding to debonair Edward Cunningham, Lisbeth bears witness to a shockingly brutal act, the final vestiges of her naiveté crumble around her. Just twenty-one years old, she is forced to choose between what is socially acceptable and what is right, a decision that will change her life forever.

This compelling historical novel chronicles young Lisbeth Wainwright’s coming-of-age during one of the most difficult chapters of American history. Lisbeth’s powerful bond with Mattie makes her loss of innocence in the face of society’s ugly secrets all the more heartbreaking, and yet it is the courage she learns from her stand in mother that enables Lisbeth to blaze a new path for herself. Yellow Crocus offers moving proof of how the greatest social change often blooms forth from small personal acts of love.


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