Here’s a great New Year’s Eve treat: another generous helping of great new Kindle freebies. Each book listed here has gone FREE within the past 24 hours (except for the “Kindle Daily Deal” on page 3). Books qualify for “Editor’s Picks” if they have outstanding customer reviews. Warning: Kindle book promotions can end without notice, so before downloading click the link “See Kindle price at Amazon” to verify that the book is still free. (Prices and availability may differ outside USA.)

Always the Baker, Never the Bride: An Emma Rae Creation

> Christian Fiction > Romance > Contemporary

Author: Sandra D. Bricker

Always the Baker, Never the Bride: An Emma Rae Creation

They say you can’t have your cake and eat it too.

But who would want a cake they couldn’t eat?

Just ask Emma Rae Travis about that.  A baker of confections who is diabetic and can’t enjoy them.  When Emma meets Jackson Drake, the escapee from Corporate America who is starting a wedding destination hotel to fulfill a dream that belonged to someone else, this twosome and their crazy family ties bring new meaning to the term “family circus.” The Atlanta social scene will never be the same!

A Time To Love: Quilts of Lancaster County Series #1

> Christian Fiction > Romance > Contemporary

Author: Barbara Cameron

A Time To Love: Quilts of Lancaster County Series #1

War correspondent Jennie King thinks she’s just a temporary guest in her grandmother’s Amish community while she recuperates from the devastating injuries sustained in a car bomb attack that changed her world. But when she meets Matthew Bontrager, the man she had a crush on as a teenager, she wonders if God has a new plan for her.

Zomblog

 > Genre Fiction > Horror

Author: TW Brown

Zomblog

Samuel Todd is a regular guy: …Failed husband… …Loving father… …Dutiful worker… …Aspiring rockstar. He had no idea if anyone would care, or take the time, to read his daily blog entries about his late night observations. But what started as an open monologue of his day-to-day life became a running journal of the firsthand account detailing the rising of the dead and the downfall and degradation of mankind…

The Fifth Avenue Series Boxed Set (The Fifth Avenue Series)

> Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Author: Christopher Smith, Brandi Doane

The Fifth Avenue Series Boxed Set (The Fifth Avenue Series)

For the first time, all three books in the international Top 100 best-selling FIFTH AVENUE series are now available in one boxed set! Look for the fourth in the series, PARK AVENUE, in 2012.

Look beneath all the power and all the wealth that represents New York City’s Fifth Avenue, and you’ll find greed, blood, revenge. In the international best-selling thriller “Fifth Avenue,” each intermingles within a revered society that is unprepared for what’s in store for it when one man finally strikes in an effort to destroy another man for murdering his wife thirty-one years ago.

From Manhattan with Love and Revenge (Boxed Set) (The Fifth Avenue Series)

> Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Author: Christopher Smith, Brandi Doane

From Manhattan with Love and Revenge (Boxed Set) (The Fifth Avenue Series)

This is the boxed set for the best-selling novella “From Manhattan with Love” and its sequel, the best-selling full-length novel, “From Manhattan with Revenge.”

An outcast billionaire’s daughter is caught at the wrong place at the wrong time.

An international assassin questions her sanity when she falls in love with the very assassin she’s charged to assassinate.

What happens when each collide? Chaos. Murder. Love. Revenge.

And redemption.


A Texan’s Promise – Book #1 in The Heart of a Hero Series: The Heart of a Hero, Book 1

> Christian Fiction > Westerns > Romance

Author: Shelley Gray

A Texan's Promise - Book #1 in The Heart of a Hero Series: The Heart of a Hero, Book 1

When Clayton Proffitt, foreman of the Circle Z Ranch in Texas, discovers Vanessa Grant is the victim of her stepfather’s advances, Clayton knows he must protect her honor and move her far away from the ranch—and from the man she fears.

As they make their way West, an unexpected, deep bond develops between Vanessa and Clayton—far more powerful than a mere friendship or his sense of duty to her.

The Rules of Life, Expanded Edition: A Personal Code for Living a Better, Happier, More Successful Life (Richard Templar’s Rules)

> Self-Help > Personal Transformation

Author: Richard Templar

The Rules of Life, Expanded Edition: A Personal Code for Living a Better, Happier, More Successful Life (Richard Templar's Rules)

The first edition of The Rules of Life: A Personal Code for Living a Better, Happier, More Successful Life became a global phenomenon, topping bestseller charts around the world. This revised edition includes nine new rules to take you further, faster. Author Richard Templar brings together 106 practical rules that happy, successful people follow, even if they’ve never thought about it. These are realistic, commonsense things you can do differently, starting today.

Life and Death at Hoover Dam

> Historical Fiction > United States

Author: Jerry Borrowman

Life and Death at Hoover Dam

It’s 1931 and men are desperate for jobs. A lucky few will get to work in the searing heat of the Nevada desert on the massive Hoover Dam, the single largest public works project in history. Their goal is to tame the mighty Colorado River with a dam that towers sixty stories high from the base of the canyon to the crest of the dam.

Life and Death at Hoover Dam tells the story of a handful of these men and the sacrifices they endured.

The Day No One Played Together: A Story About Compromise

> Children’s Books > Social Situations > Family Life

Author: Donalisa Helsley, Sarah Harkey

The Day No One Played Together: A Story About Compromise

Jadyn and Genesis want to play together but neither one wants to play what the other wants to. What will they do? Will they be able to brainstorm and find a way to play together? Will they play alone? “The Day No One Played Together” teaches an important lesson in a fun way. Join these sisters in the first of their series.

Found: God’s Will (John MacArthur Study)

> Religion & Spirituality > Christianity

Author: Jr., John MacArthur

Found: God's Will (John MacArthur Study)

Does God have a path for me? How do I make the right choices in life? Why is it so difficult to uncover God’s will?

Trusted pastor and teacher John MacArthur answers these vital questions and more. Found: God’s Will shares six powerful principles that will give you direction, fill you with purpose, and give you the confidence to live out His plan for you.

Doesn’t She Look Natural? (The Fairlawn Series)

> Women’s Fiction > Domestic Life > Christian Fiction

Author: Angela Hunt

Doesn't She Look Natural? (The Fairlawn Series)

How do you cope when God asks you to bury a dream? In this new series by best-selling author Angela Hunt, readers will meet Jennifer Graham, the no-nonsense chief of staff for a Virginia senator who quits her job after a divorce and finds herself an unemployed single mom. Forced to live with her mother until she can find work on Capitol Hill that does not involve her gregarious ex-husband, her efforts are stymied until she learns that she has inherited a funeral home in picturesque Mt. Dora.

The Power of Communication: Skills to Build Trust, Inspire Loyalty, and Lead Effectively

> Business Life > Communication

Author: Helio Fred Garcia

The Power of Communication: Skills to Build Trust, Inspire Loyalty, and Lead Effectively

Communication is the absolutely indispensable leadership discipline. But, too often, leaders and professional communicators get mired in tactics, and fail to influence public attitudes in the ways that would help them the most. The Power of Communication builds on the U.S. Marine Corps’ legendary publication Warfighting, showing how to apply the Corps’ proven leadership and strategy doctrine to all forms of public communication — and achieve truly extraordinary results.

South to Alaska: A True Story of Courage and Survival from the Heartland of America to the Heart of a Dream

> Biographies & Memoirs > Adventurers & Explorers

Author: Nancy Owens Barnes

South to Alaska: A True Story of Courage and Survival from the Heartland of America to the Heart of a Dream

Born in the dusty heart of Oklahoma in 1916, ten-year-old Melvin sees a photograph of a cabin in the Alaska wilderness in his fourth-grade geography book and dreams of living there. Nearly fifty years later he builds a 47-foot boat in his Arkansas backyard, launches it on the Arkansas River, and cruises 10,000 miles to Alaska by way of the Panama Canal.

Buy and Hedge: The 5 Iron Rules for Investing Over the Long Term (Minyanville Media)

> Investing > Introduction

Author: Jay Pestrichelli, Wayne Ferbert

Buy and Hedge: The 5 Iron Rules for Investing Over the Long Term (Minyanville Media)

If you’re trying to build wealth, sharp market downturns are your worst enemy. And today, they’re happening far more often: in the last 18 years, the S&P 500 has experienced sixteen violent market declines. Institutions and professional investors have mastered powerful hedging strategies for dramatically reducing the risks of market volatility. Now, you can do it, too–and you can’t afford not to.

Midnight Paths: A Collection of Dark Horror

> Genre Fiction > Horror > Short Stories

Author: Joe Hart

Midnight Paths: A Collection of Dark Horror

Step into a world where nothing is what it seems. Where darkness never abates, and your deepest fears are just a few steps away.

Travel to an old house in the country where something hungry waits just beyond the treeline.

Watch as a young woman, whose life hangs in the balance, receives a visitor from the afterlife.

There’s No Such Thing As Monsters (A Gorgeous Illustrated Children’s Picture Book)

> Children’s Books > Social Situations > Sleep

Author: Michael Yu, Rachel Yu

There's No Such Thing As Monsters (A Gorgeous Illustrated Children's Picture Book)

Our little sleepy head sees monsters everywhere in his house. He sees them under his bed, in the closet, and under the house. His mother tries to reassure him that there is no such thing as monsters and it’s all in his imagination, but then…OH! What rotten luck!!! Well, you’ll just have to read the book to find out what happens.

The Glory of Green – The Green Series #3

> Christian Fiction

Author: Judy Christie

The Glory of Green - The Green Series #3

With wedding plans well underway, Lois Barker plots to gracefully get rid of her groom’s catfish collection-stuffed, ceramic, woven. Her husband-to-be, Chris, on the other hand, has decided to get rid of something else: his homestead, which he gives to a needy Mexican family at church.Life is full of possibilities, and the community of Green is tickled pink that their newspaper owner is settling down with one of their own.

Sweet Song

> Genre Fiction > Historical > Contemporary Fiction

Author: Terry Persun

Sweet Song

An archetypal American story of self-discovery, set against the turmoil of post – Civil War America, Sweet Song tells the story of the mixed race son of a white landowner and a black house servant. Leon, raised black but an outcast from both cultures, fi nds himself suddenly on his own — and passing for white.

Revenge is Best Served Hot

> Fiction > Erotica

Author: Shayne McClendon, Photo Elixir

Revenge is Best Served Hot

KC Pennington left her hometown after high school and swore never to return. Her nemesis, Lincoln Rothchild, realized too late how wrong he’d been to torment her.

Now, seven years later, Lincoln can no longer bear the guilt of the cruelty he and his friends visited on the gentle brainiac and uses all his resources to track her down.

B. Quick (Quick Mysteries)

> Genre Fiction > Gay & Lesbian > Thrillers

Author: C. S. Laurel

B. Quick (Quick Mysteries)

It was a night of triumphal activity for the Society For The Elimination of Good Looking Blonds. By sheer chance, middle-aged literature professor Bill Yates interrupts a murderer in the act of dumping an unconscious young man into the local river. Bill surprises himself by rescuing the young man and unwittingly plunges into a maelstrom of murder, psychoanalysis and Shakespeare.

The Fixer (A Mort Grant Novel)

> Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Author: T.E. Woods

The Fixer (A Mort Grant Novel)

An enigmatic vigilante known as The Fixer steps into the lives of the most depraved criminals and balances thwarted scales of justice. For those who employ her, she’s their last hope. For her targets, she’s an inescapable date with righteous payback.

The Aspen Account

> Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Author: Bryan Devore

The Aspen Account

After a colleague at Denver’s top accounting firm dies in a mysterious skiing accident, Michael Chapman is assigned to replace him on an audit of software behemoth X-Tronic. At the same time, rookie journalist Sarah Matthews of the Denver Post starts nosing into rumors that may connect X-Tronic to her brother’s death.

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