{"id":35949,"date":"2017-07-06T08:12:24","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T12:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weberbooks.com\/kindle\/?p=35949"},"modified":"2017-07-06T08:12:24","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T12:12:24","slug":"free-kindle-books-bargains-for-thursday-july-6-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weberbooks.com\/kindle\/2017\/07\/06\/free-kindle-books-bargains-for-thursday-july-6-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Kindle books & bargains for Thursday, July 6, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seaside Secrets (Dune House Cozy Mystery Series Book 1)<\/a><\/h3>\n
\u00a0Mystery > Cozy<\/div>\n
Author: Cindy Bell<\/div>\n
FREE<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n

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Suzie Allen gets a call to inform her that her estranged Uncle Harry has passed away and has unexpectedly left her Dune House, a beautiful house on the beach that was once a Bed and Breakfast. With her best friend, Mary, going through a messy divorce, the two decide to get away and go to the small town of Garber to see the house.<\/p>\n

Despite the stunning setting, the house has been neglected for years and is in a terrible state of disrepair. Suzie and Mary make the decision to refurbish the house together.<\/p>\n

But then, Suzie and Mary start finding evidence that maybe Uncle Harry didn\u2019t die of natural causes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Fat Rules<\/a><\/h3>\n
\u00a0Humor & Entertainment<\/div>\n
Author: Misti D. Mosteller<\/div>\n
FREE<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n

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Maddy Quinn survived being a fat kid and a fat adolescent, but being fat in her twenties is too much. Maddy is a smart, funny, chunky monkey living in a world of skinnies with only an XXL sweater set to keep her safe.<\/p>\n

Living at home, Maddy attends a nearby university where she majors in Political Science and Not Being Noticed. Her mother would return her to the womb for safekeeping if only there was room for a 266 1\/2 lb. adult, and her grandmother has never met an emotion that couldn’t be suffocated with mashed potatoes or chicken fried steak.<\/p>\n

Despite the over-love of a nutty family and the support of good, but skinny friends, waddling around campus is getting harder. In an effort to keep daily humiliations to a minimum, Maddy lives by rules she’s developed to hide in plain sight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Rae of Sunshine (Light in the Dark Book 1)<\/a><\/h3>\n
\u00a0Romance > Contemporary<\/div>\n
Author: Micalea Smeltzer<\/div>\n
FREE<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n

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What I remember the most about that day was that it was completely ordinary. Then with one stupid decision everything fell apart and nothing was ever the same.<\/p>\n

Rae Wilder wants nothing but a do over\u2014but life doesn\u2019t work that way. She\u2019s stuck living out the consequences of her actions. At times the burden feels unbearable.
\nCollege is supposed to be her second chance.
\nNew place.
\nNew people.
\nNew life.
\nNo one to know what she did.
\nDespite that, she has still vowed to avoid everyone and everything at all costs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Let Us Prey: Gotcha Detective Agency Mystery Book 1<\/a><\/h3>\n
\u00a0Mystery > Police Procedurals<\/div>\n
Author: Jamie Lee Scott<\/div>\n
FREE<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n

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A former secret service agent turned private detective, Mimi Capurro.<\/p>\n

A disgraced NFL player turned homicide detective, Nick Christianson.<\/p>\n

A snarky (who knows what his background really is) computer forensics specialist, Charles Parks, trying to keep them from killing each other.<\/p>\n

And now they must find the killer of a New York Times bestselling author\u2019s assistant.<\/p>\n

Gotcha Detective Agency was hired to protect the author, when it was the assistant who really needed protection. And now it\u2019s a race to see who can find the killer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The IF Diet<\/a><\/h3>\n
\u00a0Health, Fitness & Dieting<\/div>\n
Author: Robert Skinner<\/div>\n
FREE<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n

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The IF Diet<\/i> is the only book to guide you through 3 different intermittent fasting techniques, all of which can help you lose weight. Written in a friendly, funny, and easy-to-read style, it contains everything you need to know about succeeding.<\/p>\n

There are clear explanations of the science with over 100 scientific references should you want to know more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Birth House: A Novel (P.S.)<\/a><\/h3>\n
\u00a0Literary Fiction > Historical<\/div>\n
Author: Ami McKay<\/div>\n
Regularly $9.49, Today $1.99<\/div>\n

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The Birth House<\/em> is the story of Dora Rare, the first daughter to be born in five generations of the Rare family. As a child in an isolated village in Nova Scotia, she is drawn to Miss Babineau, an outspoken Acadian midwife with a gift for healing and a kitchen filled with herbs and folk remedies. During the turbulent first years of World War I, Dora becomes the midwife’s apprentice. Together, they help the women of Scots Bay through infertility, difficult labors, breech births, unwanted pregnancies and even unfulfilling sex lives.<\/p>\n

But when Gilbert Thomas, a brash medical doctor, comes to Scots Bay with promises of fast, painless childbirth, some of the women begin to question Miss Babineau’s methods\u2014and after Miss Babineau’s death, Dora is left to carry on alone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Sorcery & Cecelia: Or, The Enchanted Chocolate Pot (The Cecelia and Kate Novels Book 1)<\/a><\/h3>\n
\u00a0Fantasy > Historical<\/div>\n
Author: Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer<\/div>\n
Regularly $9.99, Today $1.99<\/div>\n

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Since they were children, cousins Kate and Cecelia have been inseparable. But in 1817, as they approach adulthood, their families force them to spend a summer apart. As Cecelia fights boredom in her small country town, Kate visits London to mingle with the brightest lights of English society.<\/div>\n
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At the initiation of a powerful magician into the Royal College of Wizards, Kate finds herself alone with a mysterious witch who offers her a sip from a chocolate pot. When Kate refuses the drink, the chocolate burns through her dress and the witch disappears. It seems that strange forces are convening to destroy a beloved wizard, and only Kate and Cecelia can stop the plot. But for two girls who have to contend with the pressures of choosing dresses and beaux for their debuts, deadly magic is only one of their concerns.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement<\/a><\/h3>\n
Politics & Social Sciences<\/div>\n
Author: David Brooks<\/div>\n
Regularly $12.99, Today $2.99<\/div>\n

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With unequaled insight and brio, New York Times<\/i> columnist David Brooks has long explored and explained the way we live. Now Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life. This is the story of how success happens, told through the lives of one composite American couple, Harold and Erica. Drawing on a wealth of current research from numerous disciplines, Brooks takes Harold and Erica from infancy to old age, illustrating a fundamental new understanding of human nature along the way: The unconscious mind, it turns out, is not a dark, vestigial place, but a creative one, where most of the brain\u2019s work gets done.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Eon<\/a><\/h3>\n
\u00a0Science Fiction > Time Travel<\/div>\n
Author: Greg Bear<\/div>\n
Regularly $11.99, Today $1.99<\/div>\n

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In a supernova flash, the asteroid arrived and entered Earth\u2019s orbit. Three hundred kilometers in length, it is not solid rock but a series of hollowed-out chambers housing ancient, abandoned cities of human origin, a civilization named Thistledown. The people who lived there survived a nuclear holocaust that nearly rendered humanity extinct\u2014more than a thousand years from now.<\/p>\n

To prevent this future from coming to pass, theoretical mathematician Patricia Vasquez must explore Thistledown and decipher its secret history. But what she discovers is an even greater mystery, a tunnel that exists beyond the physical dimensions of the asteroid. Called the Way, it leads to the home of humanity\u2019s descendants, and to a conflict greater than the impending war between Earth\u2019s superpowers over the fate of the asteroid, in \u201cthe grandest work yet\u201d by Nebula Award\u2013winning author Greg Bear (Locus<\/i>).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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City<\/a><\/h3>\n
\u00a0Science Fiction > Post-Apocalyptic<\/div>\n
Author: Clifford D. Simak, David W. Wixon<\/div>\n
Regularly $7.99, Today $1.99<\/div>\n

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Thousands of years have passed since humankind abandoned the city\u2014first for the countryside, then for the stars, and ultimately for oblivion\u2014leaving their most loyal animal companions alone on Earth. Granted the power of speech centuries earlier by the revered Bruce Webster, the intelligent, pacifist dogs are the last keepers of human history, raising their pups with bedtime stories, passed down through generations, of the lost \u201cwebsters\u201d who gave them so much but will never return. With the aid of Jenkins, an ageless service robot, the dogs live in a world of harmony and peace. But they now face serious threats from their own and other dimensions, perhaps the most dangerous of all being the reawakened remnants of a warlike race called \u201cMan.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power<\/a><\/h3>\n
\u00a0History > Military<\/div>\n
Author: Victor Davis Hanson<\/div>\n
Regularly $9.99, Today $4.99<\/div>\n

\"Carnage<\/a><\/p>\n

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Examining nine landmark battles from ancient to modern times–from Salamis, where outnumbered Greeks devastated the slave army of Xerxes, to Cortes\u2019s conquest of Mexico to the Tet offensive–Victor Davis Hanson explains why the armies of the West have been the most lethal and effective of any fighting forces in the world.<\/p>\n

Looking beyond popular explanations such as geography or superior technology, Hanson argues that it is in fact Western culture and values\u2013the tradition of dissent, the value placed on inventiveness and adaptation, the concept of citizenship\u2013which have consistently produced superior arms and soldiers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

… See the rest of today’s Book Picks here on page 2<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/i>Page 2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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