{"id":4203,"date":"2013-01-21T12:57:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T12:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weberbooks.com\/kindle\/?p=4203"},"modified":"2013-01-21T13:12:32","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T13:12:32","slug":"editors-picks-another-big-batch-of-fresh-kindle-freebies-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weberbooks.com\/kindle\/2013\/01\/21\/editors-picks-another-big-batch-of-fresh-kindle-freebies-86\/","title":{"rendered":"Editor’s Picks: Another big batch of fresh Kindle freebies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Detroit native Denise Nicholas is a rarity, a multi-talented entertainer who transitioned from acting to best-selling novelist with amazing grace. The former star of “In the Heat of the Night” and “Room 222” (she played Liz McIntyre, the high school guidance counselor)\u00a0produced a stunning fiction debut in Freshwater Road<\/em>, a civil-rights-era coming-of-age story published in 2005.<\/p>\n

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\nNot too many first-time authors hit a home run, especially at 61 years of age, but she had been writing privately since her early 20s in the 1960s South. The journals she kept during the Freedom Summer, 1964, were her inspiration for Freshwater Road. <\/em>Denise had been a pre-law major at the University of Michigan, but dropped out of college to join the Free Southern Theater during the Civil Rights Movement.<\/p>\n

Her first TV gig was in a 1968 episode of “It Takes a Thief.” After Room 222 (1969\u20131974), she emerged as Harriet DeLong in the cast of “In the Heat of the Night” (1989\u20131995). She wrote six scripts for that series, which launched her writing career. Later she enrolled in the Professional Writing Program at USC and joined the Journeymen’s Writing Workshop led by author Janet Fitch.<\/p>\n

An enduring book, Freshwater Road<\/em> was recently reprinted by Pocket Books as a mass-market paperback, and for some reason, the Kindle edition is priced at $23.95, more than three times the cost of the paperback. No worries today, though, it’s free and at the top of the Buffet.<\/p>\n

As usual, each book listed here has gone FREE within the past 24 hours (except for the “Kindle Daily Deals” on page 3). 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.<\/span> (Prices and availability may differ outside USA.)<\/p>\n

Freshwater Road<\/a><\/h3>\n

Historical Fiction<\/p>\n

Author: Denise Nicholas<\/div>\n

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