Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Being a book lover is expensive; every now and then we'd all like to read a free book. We, Nothing but Reading Challenges, hope to build a free and legal book resource that will leave our members (and your pockets!) yearning for more. Please feel free to post all author freebies here.

Note!
Illegal and pirated books will not be tolerated and will be promptly deleted.

Okay, so if you love Harlequin and Mills & Boon then you're in for a treat. Follow these 2 links and you will find 30 (yes, I said 30!) Free and steamy eBooks! I hope you enjoy.

http://www.everyonesreading.com/
http://www.tryharlequin.com/

Here's a list of free books - they are all supposed to be Legal.

http://www.techsupportalert.com/conte...

AH wrote: "Here's a list of free books - they are all supposed to be Legal.

http://www.techsupportalert.com/conte..."

Thanks, AH. This is a great one, lots of websites to explore.

If you don't own a Kindle, you can still benefit from their free books by downloading one of their free Apps http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html...

- http://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Ivy-M...

She's not your average crime fighter! Ivy Malone has a curiosity that sometimes gets her into trouble, and it's only aggravated by her discovery that she can easily escape the public eye. So when vandals romp through the local cemetery, she takes advantage of her newfound anonymity and its unforeseen advantages as she launches her own unofficial investigation. Despite her oddball humor and unconventional snooping, Ivy soon becomes discouraged by her failure to turn up any solid clues. And after Ivy witnesses something ominous and unexplained, she can't resist putting her investigative powers to work again. Even the authorities' attempts to keep Ivy out of danger and her nosy neighbor's match-making schemes can't slow her down. But will the determination that fuels this persistent, quirky sleuth threaten her very safety? "I laughed out loud. McCourtney's charming mystery debuts a voice both enchanting and startling."-Colleen Coble, author of Without a Trace "McCourtney's skill at blending whimsy, quirks, and questions into a lead character makes Invisible a must read."-Lois Richer, author of Dangerous Sanctuary "Invisible is a treat! Ivy Malone is a heroine with spunk and determination!"-Carol Cox, author of A Stitch in Time

- http://www.amazon.com/Stuck-Middle-Si...

Joan Sanderson’s life is stuck. Her older sister, Allie, is starting a family and her younger sister, Tori, has a budding career. Meanwhile, Joan is living at home with Mom and looking after her aging grandmother. Not exactly a recipe for excitement. That is, until a hunky young doctor moves in next door.

Suddenly Joan has a goal—to get a date. But it won’t be easy. Pretty Tori flirts relentlessly with him and Joan is sure that she can’t compete. But with a little help from God, Allie, and an enormous mutt with bad manners, maybe Joan can find her way out of this rut.

Book 1 of the Sister-to-Sister series, Stuck in the Middle combines budding romance, spiritual searching, and a healthy dose of sibling rivalry.

Everyone knows about http://booksontheknob.blogspot.com/ , right? They list all of the free books, sales, coupons, etc for ebooks from many sources- Amazon, Kobobooks, B & N, etc.

manybooks.net have public domain and I think other free e-books.

Podiobooks.com are kind of like audiobooks podcast style

All Romance eBooks is having a 12 Days of Christmas event that ends Dec 24th. They are giving away a book a day. It's half over now, but still lots of books to give away! If you sign up for their newsletter you will get the link to the book of the day.

Today's book is Love Me by Bella Andre (Erotic Contemporary Romance)
http://www.allromanceebooks.com/produ...



Yesterday's book is Dark Horse by Kate Sherwood (Contemporary Gay Erotic Romance/Multiple Partners)
So far this one is still up as a freebie but will probably revert back to a priced book tomorrow. They seem to leave it up one extra day.
http://www.allromanceebooks.com/produ...

Emily March is giving away a free ebook version of A Callahan Carol on her website. You can download the book at:
http://emilymarch.com/index.php?id=64



This one can be downloaded as a PDF file for those of you without an ereader.

Hi. I won this book on Goodreads, but you can download a free copy. It's called The Kingdom: A Berkeley Blackfriars Novel. Demon fighting friars in SF.

www.apocryphile.org/kingdom

It's available in pdf and epub.

AH, Did you like it?

I really enjoyed it. It is the story of a group of friars that fight demons in the SF area. They are very good at what they do, but they are rather unconventional. It was funny, it was exciting. I'll be reviewing it shortly - I have to gather my thoughts. Take a look at my updates - I did add a few excerpts in my comments.

Susan Sizemore is giving away a FREE ebook called AFTER THE STORM. Email her @ sgsizemore@msn.com Write "Xmas 2010" on the subject line.

www.feedbooks.com - a lot of them are public domain books, but there are some others as well. I like this site because they have a kindle guide that lets you download the guide straight to the kindle for easy access :-)

Ember



Everyone loves Prince Charming. They have to—he’s cursed. Every man must respect him. Every woman must desire him. One look, and all is lost.

Ember would rather carve out a piece of her soul than be enslaved by passions not her own. She turns to the dark arts to save her heart and becomes the one woman in the kingdom able to resist the Prince’s Charm.

Poor girl. If Ember had spent less time studying magic and more time studying human nature, she might have guessed that a man who gets everything and everyone he wants will come to want the one woman he cannot have.

It's a twisted adult retelling of Cinderella.

You can download it on goodreads or on the author's site http://www.bettiesharpe.com/reads/ember.php

is a free ebook on Amazon today!

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0042FZWXO/?...

Sans wrote: " is a free ebook on Amazon today!

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0042FZWXO/?..."

It's also free at BN.com - http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-...

http://www.amazon.com/The-Blood-That-...

Two is trapped: hooked on heroin, held as property, forced to sell her body to feed the addiction. Time brings her ever closer to what seems an inevitable death and Two waits, uncaring, longing only for the next fix.

That’s when Theroen arrives, beckoning to his Ferrari and grinning his inscrutable grin. He is handsome. Confident. Eager to help lift her out of the life that’s grinding her down.

The only problem? Theroen is a vampire.

His blood can cure her addiction, grant her powers she has never had, change her forever into something greater than she was. But when he sinks his teeth into her neck, Theroen also thrusts Two into a world of danger, violence, madness and despair. The powerful, twisted elder Abraham will use her arrival to shatter the uneasy peace that exists in his mansion, bringing an end to the dark game he has been playing for centuries.

Free at B&N in ebook format.

Tai wrote: "Free at B&N in ebook format."

It's also available on Kobo along with

Love at First Flight. Kobo also has a bunch of SAT books too.

AH wrote: "Tai wrote: "Free at B&N in ebook format."

It's also available on Kobo along with

Love at First Flight. Kobo also has a bunch of SAT books too."

I wish I'd have known that a few months ago :(. I'll pass the info on to my younger cousin (who will be taking the SAT next year). Thanks for the info, AH.

Winter's Passage by Julie Kagawa is free at kobo books. It's a novella/short story in the Iron Fey series, #1.5.

http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/Winter...

Bettie Sharpe is giving away a free eBook copy of her book Ember in PDf format on her website:

Ember by Bettie Sharpe

http://www.bettiesharpe.com/reads/emb...

Warning: This story contains sex, violence, and naughty words.
It’s based on a fairytale, but it isn’t for kids.
You must be over 18 to read.

Just went through and picked out some free on amazon stuff:



I found them all on the first 2 pages of the Top 100 Free List

Awesome. I just got Wings and 50 ways to hex your lover.

Try HarperTeen.com and go to the BrowseInside tab. They have the full books and sneak-peaks!

Thanks for sharing Jessica and Shayna. I'm looking forward to some major downloading :D

Some fun sites I've come across lately:

Pulse It offers free read online books to members.
Librivox offers public domain books in audio book form.
Library Thing has giveaways for anyone, and early review books available for those willing to post a review.

I think that's it for now.

Ohhh thanks for the links, Jessica (or should I say Jex?). I'm definitely going to put them to good work, especially the last two.

Glad someone got some use out of them. I've been using them all a lot lately. I've already won 5 books off the Library Things site. Its crazy!

Free audio books available every week starting June 23 from www.audiobooksync.com . It's a YA book and a classic book.

Enjoy!

The list of books available is on the website above. You will need overdrive.com software to download the books.

You download it to overdrive. From overdrive you can burn a CD, or load to Mp3 player. Apparently you can transfer to an itunes library. It's pretty easy to use once you download. If your library has ebooks and audio books, you can use the overdrive software to download their books and audio books too.

by Julie Kagawa. Free at Kobobooks, probably other places too. It's GR page count is 304 pages, but people have said its a novella. So, not sure, but it's free.

http://kobobooks.com/ebook/Summers-Cr...

Thanks Shay. I saw that listed on Amazon as being a novella too. They had it for 99 cents. Wonder if it's free now?

Dang! It's $2.39 on Amazon.

It's free for the nook too. Here is the link:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/summe...

Lisarenee wrote: "Dang! It's $2.39 on Amazon."

There's a button or link on the Amazon site- the ebook listing only, I think. It says something like report lower price. If it's a certain "type" of book, they'll verify the price and then lower it. Even if they lower it to free. Report it as soon as possible so they can verify it's free.

Interesting. I didn't know that. I can get it from B&N. I got the iPad with Nook application.

That is another good thing to know that I didn't know before. Thanks niquae

It's free on Kobo today.

is being offered free for a limited time one Smashwords and Kindle so get it while it's hot!

Smashwords
Amazon

Goodreads Description
Allison La Crosse, beginning a challenging family medicine residency, leaves the protection of her family. With the transfer, her worst nightmares come true. Her closely guarded mystical talents – those which seldom appeared before the move – unleash themselves from her confinement and reveal their presence with very little provocation.

Allison’s most terrifying power is her compulsion to cure the dying with her touch. Given her career, this gift would be valuable if she were not drawn like a magnet to the ailing person's every symptom. Some of which are fatal.

At the hospital and surrounded by life-and-death emergencies, Allison’s inability to manage her impulse turns deadly. When it does, her mentor, Brody, rescues her from her own demise. His resuscitation ignites an exciting and tempestuous bond between them.

Desperate for a cure, they join forces and embark upon a journey to uncover the origins of Allison’s lethal curse. In the midst of their adventure, Allison exposes a secret pursued by many…known by few.

Warriors of the Cross is Book One in The Warrior Series.

This book is only free today so get it quickly if you are interested.


Link to download book
Code to download book: DEBUTANTEFREE

Goodreads Description
One woman in search of passion
Miss Cecilia Hastings has achieved what every young lady hopes for during her first London season…in duplicate! She’s caught the eye of not one but two of England’s most eligible bachelors. Both Jeremy Battersley, Earl of Henley, and Richard Huxley, Duke of Wexford are handsome, wealthy and kind, the epitome of proper gentlemen. But Cecelia doesn’t want proper, she wants passion. So she issues a challenge to her suitors: a kiss, so that she may choose between them.

Two men in love with the same woman
Friends since childhood, and compatriots on the battlefields of Spain, falling for the same woman has set Jeremy and Richard at odds, and risks destroying their friendship forever. But a surprising invitation to a late-night garden tryst soon sets them on a course that neither of them could have anticipated. And these gentlemen quickly discover that love can take many forms…

Carina Press is giving away a fee eBook everyday this week so I'll try to post each day. Today's book is Demon's Fall by Karalynn Lee.


Link to download book
Code to download book: DEMONFREE

Goodreads Description
When Kenan, an incubus, finds a caged angel for sale in the Hellsgate marketplace, he sees her as a challenge. Certain that his skills in seduction will work as well on a heavenly creature as they do on mortal women, he buys Jahel, intent on having her soul as a novelty in his collection.

Knowing he must gain Jahel's trust if she is to come to his bed willingly, Kenan treats her more as his guest than as his slave. When she reveals what brought her to the mouth of Hell in the first place-retrieving the soul of a young girl she was guarding-he even offers to help her complete her mission.

Though he has promised Jahel freedom, Kenan soon realizes she has captured his heart instead. And as their passion for one another grows, they find themselves caught in a struggle between Heaven and Hell, one that will lead them to the very edge of the apocalypse...

Hi Sashana, not sure if anyone else might be having the same problem, but the download link hasn't worked for Demon's Fall. I was still able to get the book from the Carina Press website, but I thought you might want to know about the link :-)

Thanks for the heads up, CaroB. I see where I made the mistake in posting the link. Unfortunately the book is no longer available for free but I'll be posting the other free book shortly.

Today's free book is: The Twisted Tale of Stormy Gale by Christine Bell (aka Chloe Cole).


Link to download book
Code to download book: TWISTEDFREE

Goodreads Description
I'm a time pirate—born in 1810, now a 21st-century woman. I travel through time trying to right wrongs without disrupting the fragile balance between what is and what can never be.
That's why it's vital that I go to 1836 and find the man who conned my brother out of his Time Travel Mechanism as quickly as possible. If the technology falls into the wrong hands, it could change the world as we know it. The notorious Duke of Leister definitely qualifies as the wrong hands. An amateur scientist of the slightly mad variety, he's bound to figure out how to use the TTM sooner rather than later.

I knew this wouldn't be easy. But I wasn't counting on him being as sexy as hell. Or winding up chained to his bed…

25,900 words

The Carina Press Free Book of the Day is: Blue Galaxy by Diane Dooley.


Link to download book
Code to download book: GALAXYFREE

Goodreads Description
Falling in love is easy; staying alive long enough to enjoy it just might be impossible.
Javan Rhodes, the hard-drinking, disreputable captain of space freighter The Kypris, took a mission to save himself from hitting the bottom of the food chain. Transporting Sola, a beautiful young aristocrat, from Earth to an unknown destination on the outer rim of the colonies is lucrative, but also highly illegal.

As tough as it is to evade both the law and the lawless, the hardest part of the job is not falling in love with his irresistible cargo. Just as he decides that he will never be able to hand her over to the warlord she must marry, he discovers that Sola has been playing a very dangerous game—one that could not only cost them their lives, but could also affect the balance of power in an increasingly dangerous universe.

22,000 words

If you like audiobooks Sync is giving away 2 free audio books for every week of the summer. http://www.audiobookcommunity.com/pag...

This weeks books are and .

If you haven't read Little Brother I highly recommend it. I loved reading it and am excited to now go listen to the audio version.