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Thursday, December 20, 2012

Free Books Available Dec 20, 2012


WELCOME!!!
Please see above for how to read these books without a Kindle, and the sidebar at right for a quick explanation of this blog. Have fun getting new books! :) May I suggest that you check daily so you don't miss all those available for only 24 hours?

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If you are coming here on a later date, please check the most recent list for today's books. Main Page
(Some of the books below may still be available. I haven't checked specifically. Most are usually 1 or 2 days but sometimes they are free longer.)

Editor's Picks:
Ask Jackie: Food storage
Finding Rebecca: A Novel of Love and the Holocaust

NONFICTION

General self-sufficiency and survival

Beyond The 72 Hr Bug Out Bag, Your Best Survival Kit

Ask Jackie: Food storage
”Food Storage is the ultimate guide to storing food. A small sampling of the book includes Jackie's insights on building a root cellar, mastering the art of dehydration, keeping meat from going rancid, and preserving potatoes. This guide to food preservation addresses a variety of homesteaders, and is equally relevant to those who live at high elevation, in wet climates, or even in sub-zero temperatures.”
Another of Jackie Clay’s books, list HERE from There are a couple more HERE from Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin

Simple Self-Defence For Women

How To Make Fireworks
This book isn’t billed as giving survival skills but it seems that knowing the chemistry to make lights and less destructive explosions might be a very useful skill.

How to Win Any Fight Without Training (Alpha Male)

CONTACT CLOSE COMBAT

Food, Home, and Farming/Gardening

17 Holiday Recipes for the Paleo, Primal, and Gluten-Free Inclined (17Recipes.com Series of eBooks)

Civil War Household Tips (Annotated with Study Guide)

Genetically Modified Foods vs. Sustainability

Raising Chickens: Answers to the Most Common Questions About Chicken Care, Feeding and Egg Laying

Tomato Container Gardening: 7 Easy Steps To Healthy Harvests from Small Spaces

The Mushroom Book For Beginners: 2nd Edition (Revised) : A Mycology Starter or How To Be A Backyard Mushroom Farmer And Grow The Best Edible Mushrooms At Home (Backyard Farm Books)

Organic Gardening: A Beginner's Guide on Organic Gardening to Get Your Hands Dirty

Jerusalem Artichoke: Production and Marketing

DIY Herbal Spa: Learn how to make organic aromatherapy bath products at home

Declutter Your Home Fast (Clutter Rehab for Organized Simplicity)

The Green Gourmet Perfect Cup Of Tea Book : Tea History & Culture, Teas of the World, Growth & Processing, Blending & Grading, How To Match Tea with Food and How To Make the Perfect Cup of Tea

25 Winter Craft Ideas: Easy Indoor Crafts for Kids (Seasonal Craft Ideas)

Health

Making Herbal Remedies (Herbology At Home)
Also published in paperback.

Muscle Up - Pull Up Bar training for Muscle, Strength & Power
I read somewhere that pull-ups were much more important than push-ups for usable skills, say in “getting out of Dodge.”

Arm Workout (At Home Fitness: Get Lean and Toned at Home)
and
Leg & Butt Workout (At Home Fitness: Get Lean and Toned at Home)
and
Abs & Back Workout (At Home Fitness: Get Lean and Toned at Home)
Bodyweight exercises (using your own bodyweight for resistance instead of equipment.)

Overfed and Undernourished: Taking The Confusion Out of Healthy Eating

The Green Gourmet Organic Diet Book: Your Guide To Healthy, Natural Weight Loss

Finance

Buy And Sell Gold

Ideas/Theory

Where Is God When It Hurts?
”In this Gold Medallion Award--winning book, Philip Yancey reveals a God who is neither capricious nor unconcerned. Using examples from the Bible and from his own experiences, Yancey looks at pain---physical, emotional, and spiritual---and helps us understand why we suffer. Where Is God When It Hurts? will speak to those for whom life sometimes just doesn't make sense. And it will help equip anyone who wants to reach out to someone in pain but just doesn't know what to say.”
This book is by a well-respected Christian author with a helpful view on these topics. Traditionally published for quite a while.

Understanding Grief in Children

Mayan Calendar Prophecies: Predictions for 2012-2052

KISS Teen Turmoil Away!
”I wrote this book December 17, 2012 after 20 students and 6 adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown Connecticut. I have spent so much time in a school that it is natural to think everyone who walks into the building has the children’s best interest at heart. But worse yet, the shooter was someone’s child. A child, who based on these actions, was full of pain. I believe parents need to stop their busy lives and listen to their children. They give us clues and signals of their emotional state and we totally miss it. Institute some sanity and peace in your life. Rearrange your life so your teenagers will talk to you.”

True Accounts

Cabins to Condos
”a historic comparative that looks back and forth between American frontier days and the contemporary world we now live in. Using Colorado history as a partial backdrop, the book examines our fading yesterdays, the world we live in today, and the questions and challenges of our tomorrows.”

Then a Soldier

9 Lives: An Oral History

The 5 Biggest Civil War Battles: Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Spotsylvania Court House, Chancellorsville, and The Wilderness

For military buffs:
Heavy Armored Personnel Carriers | Military-Today.com
Armored Personnel Carriers | Military-Today.com
Infantry Fighting Vehicles | Military-Today.com
Main Battle Tanks | Military-Today.com
Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles | Military-Today.com

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FICTION

Nature Survival, War, and other Hardship

Finding Rebecca: A Novel of Love and the Holocaust
“The prisoners in Auschwitz called it Canada, the land of unimaginable riches, where the last possessions of those who perished in the gas chambers were gathered and counted. Christopher is the new head of Canada, the ‘Dollar King.’ He is the one who controls the river of dirty money flowing through the camp. But Christopher is on a different mission. He is not in Auschwitz to serve the Reich, but to find Rebecca, lost somewhere inside the sprawling system of concentration camps set up to murder the innocent victims of the holocaust……”

An Englishwoman's Guide to the Cowboy
“Jane Austen meets Zane Grey Texas 1867. Victorian bluestocking, Annie Haddon, finds herself thrown into the company of cowboy, Colt McCall - a man who relies on animal instinct for survival and lives by his own rules. Two cultures - one crude, loud, boom and bust; the other, all buttoned-up reticence. Can two people moulded by their pasts overcome that conditioning? Annie and McCall find out on their journey across the haunting , mystical landscape of the American West”

Shades of Gray: A Novel of the Civil War in Virginia
Winner of four national awards and named Favorite Book of the Year by five book review sites. This is the original novel that is NOW called Noble Cause.

The Texicans
“As Heroes of Mexico, the Texicans--staunch supporters of Mexican rule for Texas--find themselves vilified by North American settlers illegally flocking across the unprotected border. These newcomers, calling themselves Texians, view Mexico, Mexicans and Texicans as the enemy. Targets of bigotry, the Texicans themselves are torn along cultural lines as their hero-turned-despot, General Santa Anna, propels them towards a deadly showdown.”

Escaping Auschwitz
“The Escape from Auschwitz action explores effects on fugitive teenagers, Jack and Gisela, escaping Gestapo across war torn Europe, from Poland to Andorra and onto Great Britain. The tale sinks us into despair as the two await death at the Nazi death camp. But also wings us with hope at kindnesses Jack and Gisela receive across Europe from common folk, including Germans, risking all to help the young escapees make their way out of the Nazi occupied continent and on to freedom.”

Search for the Bark Warwick (Warwick Saga)
“Beginning with the stowaway who interrupts and changes John's life forever, and concluding with John's desperate search for his captive son, Thomas, Search for the Bark Warwick is a stirring tale of surprise, compassion, love and tenacious devotion to family. The story of a true hero in 1630's England, Search for the Bark Warwick will keep you on the edge of your seat, and leave you begging for more. … the first of a two-book saga…”

The Life of a Colonial Fugitive
“An historical thriller based in the American Revolution. Young Jonathan E. Lee is falsely accused of heinous war crimes by his treacherous regimental commander! Jonathan is forced to flee the colonies to save his neck from the hangman's noose, fighting his way across a stormy Atlantic and then joining a mercenary army that is deploying to warring Siam, a kingdom that is squirming under the iron-fist of a madman. “

Politics, Terrorism, and Intrigue/Conspiracy

A Line in the Sand (The American War)
“The year is 2031. The US military has been gutted by an increasingly powerful and isolationist government after a series of unpopular and internationally condemned wars. Lieutenant Colonel Reese Sterling, a veteran of the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iran, has been falsely imprisoned after tragedy occurs during a botched raid in his home. He is sent to the infamous Ridgeway Prison on trumped up charges, and while incarcerated, meets a mysterious man who has a plan for freedom. Across the country, a popular US President is assassinated, along with a high-ranking member of the Chinese military. Sterling manages to escape from prison, only to find that he is the man being hunted as the presidential assassin. Balancing his desire for revenge against the need to clear his name, Sterling must take on a conspiracy of global proportions that threatens to bring the very foundations of the nation crashing down. When war on American soil for the first time in over 150 years seems imminent, the fugitive officer must make a brutal choice; to fight against the government he had sworn an oath to protect, or do nothing and see the country torn apart.”

Radioactive
“Radiation-burned bodies are decanted from radwaste barrels at an atomic waste burial ground. Hunks of bones and organs are missing from the desiccated corpses. Is a serial killer on the loose -- or is "Doctor Death," nuclear medicine pioneer and notorious Cold War atomic experimenter, up to his old tricks? Special prosecutor John Stryker follows the clues and uncovers a fantastic terror plot that threatens the heartland of America.”

Collapse, Post-Apocalypse, Speculative Futures

"Y"
“The year is 2011, the place, New York City. A mysterious microbe has begun to infect women of child-bearing age. Though the medical establishment writes it off as a simple flu, and the epidemic appears to be dying out, a young New York obstetrician confronts a conundrum. In the past year, the ratio of boys to girls born in her practice has declined precipitously. Dr. Deborah Kruger suspects the truth: that infected women are no longer able to give birth to male children… as years pass, despite hundreds of laboratories at work on it, the microbe continues to overrun borders and envelop the Earth. With Science unable to stop it, and the contagion rippling worldwide in an AIDS-like pandemic, how will society cope in an increasingly female world?”

The Mountain and the Flood
Scotland is independent, and its people struggle under an oppressive regime, unaware that environmental catastrophe is about to strike. This eco-thriller set in the Scotland of twenty-five years’ time tells an exciting story of resistance to tyranny, against a background of extreme weather caused by climate change.``

World War Last
“…Using newly developed bio weapons, they destroy the entire population of the word, preserving only a small selected elite group. With the population reduced to nearly nothing, the people had robots to perform all manual tasks. They became the worst of self centered hedonists and lost all ability to do anything for themselves. Unknown to them a very small number of people had natural immunity to the disease . These survivors formed small communities that were isolated from the elite group and the communities grew stronger over time. Many years after the intentional destruction of society, the virus that was used mutated and attacked the select elites. The communities of survivors were still immune to it and were unharmed. These survivors then took over the technology owned by the elites and began building a new society…”

Remoras
“Following eight years of retirement, a trio of French intelligence agents must again take up arms to defend against a "cleansing" operation initiated by their former employers. Their response launches a series of global cataclysms, transforming the world for all time. What is the true nature of these reformed black ops agents? Who are they? Will they prevail in this contest with “The Circle”, a mysterious clandestine organization that seems to control every aspect of the society world-wide?”

More Sci-Fi-or-Fantasy-ish

Infrastrata
Conspiracy City, Nevada. 2157. In a city cut off from the rest of America, the only way to go is down . . . In Conspiracy City, no one is immune from the Experiments. No one knows this better than Tyler Vise, a rare survivor of the Experiments. Discarded on the streets with no recollection of his past, he sets out to find the truth. When a mystery woman saves his life it triggers fragmented memories from his past. To find the answers he seeks he must journey deep into the criminal underworld. The deeper he digs into his past, however, the more involved he must become with the conspiracies he wishes to avoid. Meanwhile a computer virus is infecting unsuspecting Infrastratas—half computer, half human hybrids—transforming them into violent criminals. Desperate CEOs, military leaders, and corrupt politicians allow Kendrick Seven, a tenacious businessman, to implement unethical experimental policies in a desperate attempt to stop the Virus outbreak.``

A Hero Rising (A New Dawn)
Not free in Canada, and probably a number of other countries too. After watching his love leave on a colony ship, James Wilfred must save those left behind from a planetary apocalypse. Their salvation lies in an unfinished ship tucked away in a secret government base, and only James can break in and pilot him and his people to freedom on a nearby space station. Skye O’Connor’s boyfriend never returns after his gang attempts an assassination of the Governor, and the State Building is destroyed. Worse, crazed moonshiners addicted to the chemical Morpheus have stormed the city, and she must find a safe place for her and her boyfriend’s daughter. When a heroic man saves her, Skye asks to accompany him on his quest to find the last colony ship left on Earth. As the city falls around them, James and Skye must work together to build a new future, all the while rediscovering their ability to love, before the apocalypse claims them both.``

Just Reading

Swan Place
Great reviews. “Dove, Molly, Little Ellis and Crystal are runaways with nowhere to turn and no one they can trust until they arrive at a secret sanctuary called Swan Place, where they are taken under wing by a remarkable group of women.”

Mathilda's Move
Children. “Mathilda Rose is moving. Her friends give her a little survival pack, which is very useful when unexpected events occur while traveling to her new home. The delightful artwork and rhyming text create an adventurous story where unforeseen predicaments are overcome.“



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