You’ve heard about it. You’ve read about it. You’ve even been on the verge of pushing the button to try it. But something keeps holding you back. The fact of the matter is that you really hate committing yourself and your credit card to a monthly obligation.

We’re talking about the Amazon-based ebook subscription service Kindle Unlimited. You’re not alone. Others are wondering about the service as well.

Finally, there’s a guide that can help you decide. It’s short, succinct and easy to read. There’s no hype, just the facts as gleaned from Amazon itself, publishing industry specialists, those who have already taken the plunge as well as authors whose books are a part of the service.

Have you ever wondered why there are those who foolishly sprint to the finish line of life? Ignoring the laws of common sense and swimming against actuary tables, endangering themselves for shits and giggles or to save a few bucks. Flying their own planes, running with bulls or eating turkey legs at Disney world, they’re on the fast track to their own mortality.

This factually incorrect guide to living longer, shown through the eyes of a retired NYPD shines a light on the darker side of life while pointing out how it’s often taken for granted. Irony and sarcasm cuts through the bullshit of everyday life while examining life’s most perplexing mysteries.

Are there assholes in heaven?
Confusing balls with stupidity?
The real reason Ben Franklin flew a kite and his addiction to snuff.
Why weathermen are bullshit artists.

Annamaria Gabor can kill with a whisper and a touch. Her victims never realize she’s given them a deadly disease. The cops will never arrest her. No jury will ever convict her. And no one can stop her–no one except her brother.

Luke Johnson can heal by touch. He works as a night janitor in hospitals and nursing homes, healing patients as discretely as he can. Once people notice his work, he moves on to the next city–before the hired assassins arrive.

Luke is a hunted man. His sister wants him dead because he knows her deepest secret. And she has big plans for her future only he can destroy.

For Allena Hansen, a vicious bear attack was “no biggie” compared to the trauma inflicted by her refined ’60s upbringing, her stint as Playboy’s token intellectual bimbo, and her cowgirl angst, which is enough to knock even Job for a loop.

A tragicomic collection of latter day Grimm’s Fairy Tales that introduces us to the bon vivant and social pariah. Offering herself up as a cautionary example, Hansen poses the age-old question, ‘What makes a survivor?” Read this book and remain as puzzled as ever, but as you marvel at her uncompromisingly bad judgment and uncanny resilience, you just might learn something that could save your life.

It isn’t every day a sexy demigod throws a pissed-off Cupid onto psychologist Matilda Schmidt’s couch and informs her the fate of the world depends on her ability to get him off his diapered ass and back to helping people fall in love.

Just when Matilda convinces herself she’s not hallucinating, in walks a Vegas hit man with a big gun and a bigger threat: pay back the million dollars she owes a notorious casino mogul, or wind up as fish food in Lake Mead.

Rocketing across country with a gun to her head, Matilda has a dysfunctional love-god in her laptop bag, a million dollar debt she has no knowledge of, and must convince the seductive hit man he’s snatched the wrong woman before he convinces her he might be the right man—for a night.

Fin Finnegan, a San Diego police detective and wannabe actor heading straight for a midlife meltdown, is assigned a routine truck theft that turns into a toxic chemical spill, setting off a bizarre chain reaction of death and murder on both sides of the Mexican border. Fin is forced to team up with Nell Salter, a sexy female investigator, as well as an equally fetching US Navy investigator who wants to learn all that Fin can teach her—and that’s saying a lot. The New York Times Book Review called it “a frolic, a joy, a hoot, a riot of a book.”

In this re-creation of Anne Boleyn’s tragic life — and death — Robin Maxwell offers a pitch-perfect version of a bawdy and exuberant time filled with lust, betrayal, love, and murder. When the young Queen Elizabeth I is entrusted with Anne Boleyn’s secret diary, she discovers a great deal about the much-maligned mother she never knew. And on learning the truth about her lascivious and despotic father, Henry VIII, she vows never to relinquish control to any man. But this avowal doesn’t prevent Elizabeth from pursuing a torrid love affair with her horsemaster, Robin Dudley — described with near-shocking candor — as too are Anne’s graphic trysts with a very persistent and lustful Henry.

A major addition to the history of the Civil War, Lincoln’s Spies is a riveting account of the secret battles waged by Union agents to save a nation. Filled with espionage, sabotage, and intrigue, it is also a striking portrait of a shrewd president who valued what his operatives uncovered.

Veteran journalist Douglas Waller, who has written ground-breaking intelligence histories, turns his sights on the shadow war of four secret agents for the North—three men and one woman. From the tense days before Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration in 1861 to the surrender at Appomattox four years later, Waller delivers a fast-paced narrative of the heroes—and scoundrels—who informed Lincoln’s generals on the enemy positions for crucial battles and busted up clandestine Rebel networks.

A business parable that teaches the value of cultivating multiple streams of income—the surest, most achievable means of creating generational wealth.

The Honey Bee tells the story of Noah—a disappointed, disaffected salesman who feels like his life is going nowhere until the day he has a chance encounter with a man named Tom Barnham, the beekeeper. In his charming, down-home way, Tom the “Bee Man” teaches Noah and his wife Emma how to grow their personal wealth using the lessons he learned from his beekeeping passion.

Full of concrete lessons delivered through chapter after chapter of engaging vignettes, each of which includes actionable advice for new or aspiring entrepreneurs. Workbook-style sections at the end of each chapter help bring the lessons home, including questions to help you apply the lessons to your own business, and links to rich digital resources for even more information on how to get started creating your own multiple streams of income.