A directory of free ebooks from the authors and publishers at Smashwords. View online samples here and then click over to Smashwords to download them in multiple ebook formats, readable on any e-reading device. Enjoy!
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Outside The Box | by Gary Weston May 17, 2012 | 11241 words | Read a sample |
| Senior Sergeant Stanley Morris and the team are in the thick of it again. A terrorist organisation has targeted some of the country's top people. To try to save the hostages the team need to think out of the box. | ||||
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Growing Pains: Betrayal | by John D May 17, 2012 | 18790 words | Read a sample |
| Rhea's life is turned upside down as the truth of her marauding and unfaithful partner is shockingly revealed. She has to decide what to do with her boyfriend as they face eviction, while she gets increasingly concerned about her brother and Zoe - a close family friend - is struggling to get pregnant. | ||||
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Sports Alphabet with Nooshi the Balloon Dude | by Riley Weber May 17, 2012 | 535 words | Read a sample |
| Learning the alphabet can be challenging at times for toddlers and young children. Nooshi the Balloon Dude makes learning the ABC's easy and fun with the Sports Alphabet. Each letter features a different sport. Kids will learn the English alphabet and learn about different sports at the same time. | ||||
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Auralet | by Daphne Hyppolite May 17, 2012 | 1647 words | Read a sample |
| Mark Gonzales isnt your average Joe;his wit and desire for engraved currency is what sets him apart from society,or so he thinks. During his usual delivery route, he comes across a package to Auralet city, where he discovers an unusual town with identical houses only to be disfigured by his presence. The package gives him access to the mysterious home and a magical entity he must learn to control. | ||||
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The Gift of Enemies | by V Verona May 17, 2012 | 6547 words | Read a sample |
| Do you have enemies? Have you ever been hurt by someone you thought was your friend? Have you ever been betrayed by those who said they loved you? If so, this book is for you. Learn how enemies can be one of God's greatest gifts to you. Learn how to win and prosper over enemies hands down every time. Here's to a greater and richer you -- thanks to your enemies. [Full release: 06.30.12] | ||||
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Stockholm | by Max Sebastian May 17, 2012 | 4714 words | Read a sample |
| A smart lawyer awakens to find himself bound and gagged, taken by two young women who intend to make use of him to fulfill their every sexual desire while they wait for his company to pay a ransom. But as the realities of their crime prove much more challenging than expected, the captive begins to fall for one of his kidnappers... | ||||
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Rainfall | by V. A. Jeffrey May 17, 2012 | 3747 words | Read a sample |
| A man with a mysterious illness hears voices and sees strange visions - but only when it rains. (This is a short story) | ||||
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Of No Return | by Jeffrey A. Carver May 17, 2012 | 6248 words | Read a sample |
| No man can live and work on the ocean floor without the occasional visit mainside. At least, that's the policy when you work the North Atlantic seabed at the NorthAtStat nuclear power station. But for one man, the surface-side R&R is anything but restful. Can he readapt to life on the surface? This first-published short story by Jeffrey A. Carver originally appeared in 1974. 6000 words. | ||||
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The Open Bible - The Gospel of Matthew: Chapter 20 | by Open Bible Matthew May 17, 2012 | 1225 words | Read a sample |
| Chapter 20 of Matthew from the Open Bible, a simple easy to understand translation, produced to enable anyone to create their own Bible video and audio recordings etc without any legal restrictions. Chapter 20 includes the parable of the 11th Hour Vineyard workers, and Jesus's teaching about service as the path to greatness, and Jesus's miraculous healing of two blind men. | ||||
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The Pied Pipers of Autism | by Leonard Oestreicher May 17, 2012 | 68395 words | Read a sample |
| Puzzled by Autism? In the last 50 years TV, video screens, and talking toys have invaded the lives of our infants stealing them away from forming social connections and in the end causing 100,000's of children to suffer from autism. Pulling together hundreds of studies on autism The Pied Pipers of Autism comes to the startling conclusion that autism is largely preventable starting today. | ||||
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The Last Fight of the Dwarves | by Walter Lazo May 17, 2012 | 1296 words | Read a sample |
| Modsognir leads the last army of dwarves in a desperate attempt to buy time for the race of humans to escape a dying world, consumed by evil. | ||||
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All About The Dress | by Nicki DeLante May 17, 2012 | 15886 words | Read a sample |
| Chelsea is a hot, young, straight talking bar wench who loves to party and isn't afraid to ask for what she wants. And what Chelsea wants is Staff Sergeant Pierce. However Chelsea's carefree life takes an unexpected turn... and she finds herself 'caring' a whole lot more... | ||||
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Exploring the Word of God Acts of the Apostles Volume 4: Chapters 12-15:35 | by Paul Kroll May 17, 2012 | 33084 words | Read a sample |
| Paul Kroll continues his commentary on the book of Acts, with research pulled in from some other author's commentaries. In this volume, we also include a lengthy study of the Decree of the Jerusalem Council, written by Michael D. Morrison, PhD. All materials were written in the mid 1990s and updated in 2012. | ||||
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Ihr privates Finanzmanagement - Ein Ueberblick | by Thomas Luchow May 17, 2012 | 781 words | Read a sample |
| Ihr privates Finanzmanagement - Ein Ueberblick Die Finanz- und Versicherungsbranche ist eine der kompliziertesten Branchen ueberhaupt. Vielen Anlegern fehlt es oft an noetigem Wissen und aktuellen Informationen. So fallen Entscheidungen oft schwer. Neben aktuellen Informationen erhalten Sie hier auch in weiteren Ausgaben Tipps und Erklaerungen für Einsteiger. | ||||
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New Feeling | by S.V. Joeniel May 17, 2012 | 2012 words | Read a sample |
| A short collection of poetry about love and life from a different point of view by a young woman. | ||||
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Twice As Irresistible | by Annalynne Russo May 17, 2012 | 5533 words | Read a sample |
| Fresh out of NYU’s School of Journalism, Savannah Blake is hungry for a story to catapult her career as a serious news reporter. She’ll do whatever it takes to get the scoop, even if it means sleeping with the enemy. Vampire fledgling Bobby DuBois recently relocated to the Big Apple from the Louisiana Bayou. | ||||
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Blue Raindrops | by Jade Herrera May 17, 2012 | 2419 words | Read a sample |
| A collection of poetry I have written through the years that will open windows to different emotions and feeling we as a person has felt. | ||||
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Molly's Lips: Club Mephisto Retold | by Annabel Joseph May 17, 2012 | 33727 words | Read a sample |
| Mephisto agrees to look after a friend's slave for a week--but Molly is no ordinary slave. While providing a specialized program of training for her, he soon finds himself craving to possess her himself. Over the course of the week, he's also plagued by persistent questions. Is she happy being a 24/7 slave? Or is there another Molly trapped beneath her submissive, surrendered gaze? | ||||
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Sweet Dreams | by Thalia Duiv May 17, 2012 | 2621 words | Read a sample |
| A succubus has found a delicious new man to enjoy. He takes great pleasure in exploring the woman who has been teasing him in his dreams. | ||||
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Drop Dead Tavern | by Chad Brown May 17, 2012 | 3624 words | Read a sample |
| From the author of THE JACK-IN-THE-BOX comes a short story about the decisions we must make when our loved ones become the horrors in a zombie apocalypse. | ||||
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Far | by Reece M May 17, 2012 | 1867 words | Read a sample |
| Thoughts from a journey through the heartland of America to find the country I've always suspected I lived in; part 1 | ||||
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Thrilling and electrifying visit to Kaziranga National Park | by Richa Nagar May 17, 2012 | 509 words | Read a sample |
| Our planet is full of wonders and the living creatures are the greatest creativity of nature. As a human being it is our moral duty to save and preserve nature’s masterpieces. With revolutionary changes natural environment is deteriorating day by day and to save the environment many sanctuaries and wild life reserves have been established. | ||||
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The Bartending Stories | by Marlene Plasencia May 17, 2012 | 1163 words | Read a sample |
| A collection of short plays based on the humorous, suspenseful, disturbing and even altruistic stories related from alcohol-consuming customers to their bartenders. | ||||
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Altered Nursery Rhymes | by Lisa Vikingstad May 17, 2012 | 909 words | Read a sample |
| Think you can recognize your favorite nursery rhymes? Think again. | ||||
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In Love's Hands: Free Renderings of Rumi, Kabir, Dadu, & Tukaram | by Paul Long May 16, 2012 | 2916 words | Read a sample |
| 40 mystical odes of Rumi, Kabir, Dadu & Tukaram on the topic of union with God --- famous poet saints of Persia & India, representing the best of Sufism (Mystical Islam), Sikhism & Devotional Hinduism, rendered into modern blank verse by Paul Long | ||||
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Amazing Journey | by James Subramanian May 16, 2012 | 21407 words | Read a sample |
| God knows what we need before we need it. He starts providing for our needs before he reveals it. This is proven in the fact of the creation of the world. In the book of Genesis we are informed that God made the earth and furnished it. | ||||
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Dirty Play | by Kyle Adams May 16, 2012 | 13581 words | Read a sample |
| It’s easy to be a hero in the game. When we play together, I’m brave and strong and handsome and I slay the dragon. But when we stop playing, I’m back to being regular old me. Am I brave enough to tell him how I feel? When the game ends, can we still be comrades in arms, or is it all just empty fantasy? | ||||
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Mating Call | by Emily Ryan-Davis May 16, 2012 | 36605 words | Read a sample |
| Cora Phillips has spent a lifetime avoiding the supernatural heritage upheld by her mother and sister, but her days of running come to an end when she unwittingly draws the attention of two dragon spirits and the men who command them. Dragon's Woman Book #1 Previously published as part of the Dragon Queen trilogy | ||||
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Filthy Secret Books Issue Two | by FilthySecretBooks May 16, 2012 | 13669 words | Read a sample |
| FilthySecretBooks publishes any story involving relationships, including the good times, the bad times, the ugly, the straight, the gay, or anything in between. | ||||
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In the Seminary Library, an Artistic Seduction | by Kathleen Longwood May 16, 2012 | 6217 words | Read a sample |
| Bernadette is drawn to the seminary library for its beauty and quiet, but then she is drawn to the man who seduces her mind with art pictures that he leaves out for her to find. Then little by little, step by step, he seduces her body with clandestine touch and covert longing. Until she realizes that she is no longer free to leave the basement of the seminary library. | ||||
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Simba | by Sassha Gonzalez May 16, 2012 | 3758 words | Read a sample |
| At the end of his life, a dog describes changes he can't control or understand. A girl's tribute to her best friend. | ||||
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Getting Away With Murder | by Rick Flynn May 16, 2012 | 5395 words | Read a sample |
| This is a mystery, set inside the workings of a daytime drama. Jake Winthrop is a superstar writer brought in to save the aging soap opera, As Life Goes By. What he quickly learns in a world where actors disappear into characters is that killing off characters might not be as easy as it seems. | ||||
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The Domino Effect | by Em Castaneda May 16, 2012 | 4244 words | Read a sample |
| Roger just survived the apocalypse. These are his accounts about what exactly happened to end the world and how he managed to survive. | ||||
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Tooth | by Em Castaneda May 16, 2012 | 6374 words | Read a sample |
| Debbie Tamsen is a single mother raising two children, Rachel and Gary, on her own. Her life becomes more complicated when her children can't seem to stop fighting. It will take a miracle to bring them together. Or a horror. | ||||
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Burial Instructions | by Elissa Ambrose May 16, 2012 | 35003 words | Read a sample |
| An impossible choice between tragedy and murder, the consequences of an upside-down corpse, eyes too young to see a crime so vile, an altercation with a refrigerator door--death has many stories. This collection features 8 tales of the bitter end. One of them could be yours. | ||||
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Bread of Tears | by Fowlpox Press May 16, 2012 | 3123 words | Read a sample |
| “Bread of Tears†is at once engaging and unsettling. It’s not a “one read and done†collection. On my first pass through Nathaniel K. Rounds’ work, I found myself wondering just what had happened to Rounds to make him create such disjointed, almost crestfallen characters and imagery.--Patrick Stevens | ||||
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Naked | by judith falloon-reid May 16, 2012 | 2549 words | Read a sample |
| A short story dedicated to the author's mother, who is here in body but not in mind. And to all those lives that have been changed by a family member living with Alzheimer’s or dementia.The story recounts a Mother's Day visit with her mother. The title represents the state of dementia patients. With so little memory left and dwindling abilities to care for themselves, they may as well be naked. | ||||
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The Open Bible - The Gospel of Matthew: Chapter 19 | by Open Bible Matthew May 16, 2012 | 1170 words | Read a sample |
| Chapter 19 of Matthew from the Open Bible, a simple easy to understand translation, produced to enable anyone to create their own Bible video and audio recordings etc without any legal restrictions. Chapter 19 includes the account of the rich young ruler, and Jesus' teaching that it is harder for a rich man to enter Heaven then for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. | ||||
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El León | by Jon Sindell May 16, 2012 | 653 words | Read a sample |
| Baseball fans, has your team ever had a closer you just couldn't stand? Meet El León. | ||||
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How to Bake: Butter, Shortening, and Oil | by Dennis Weaver May 16, 2012 | 8489 words | Read a sample |
| Hi, I’m Dennis Weaver and I would like to share my baking book with you, How to Bake. It’s free. It’s illustrated. It’s the most comprehensive downloadable home baking guide you'll ever see.If you study the material in this book, you won’t just be a better baker; you’ll be an expert baker. Save it, print it, add it to your kitchen library. | ||||
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The Snow of the Spring | by Ben Miller May 16, 2012 | 3970 words | Read a sample |
| A man running from his past comes face to face with it in the last days of his life. | ||||
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How to Bake: Fresh from the Dairy | by Dennis Weaver May 16, 2012 | 10108 words | Read a sample |
| Hi, I’m Dennis Weaver and I would like to share my baking book with you, How to Bake. It’s free. It’s illustrated. It’s the most comprehensive downloadable home baking guide you'll ever see.If you study the material in this book, you won’t just be a better baker; you’ll be an expert baker. Save it, print it, add it to your kitchen library. | ||||
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How to Bake: Baking Powder and Baking Soda | by Dennis Weaver May 16, 2012 | 10921 words | Read a sample |
| Hi, I’m Dennis Weaver and I would like to share my baking book with you, How to Bake. It’s free. It’s illustrated. It’s the most comprehensive downloadable home baking guide you'll ever see.If you study the material in this book, you won’t just be a better baker; you’ll be an expert baker. Save it, print it, add it to your kitchen library. | ||||
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Leg O'Lamb | by Brendan Gerad O'Brien May 16, 2012 | 3239 words | Read a sample |
| Everyone in Ballycumscut thought Leg O’Lamb was a little bit - you know - strange? It wasn’t something you could actually put your finger on, though, and if you heard people talking about him, they’d always add that he was nice enough, really!He’d smile, too, of course, but it was always just the mouth. The eyes didn’t smile. They were expressionless. | ||||
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Becoming Merlin | by Barbara Bartholomew May 16, 2012 | 5041 words | Read a sample |
| Merle Connor is a thow-away kid, abandoned after birth and, since fleeing the foster care system, managing to survive on the streets of a large city until he happens to kill an old man and finds himself under judgment by a strange group of supposedly mythical beings. | ||||
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A Workout in a Book-Resistance Band Workouts to Transform Your Fitness Routine | by James Paul May 16, 2012 | 2556 words | Read a sample |
| Using simple, easy to understand language and illustrations, Mr. Health shows readers how to workout the way he trains his fitness clients. Resistance Bands are the simplest and easiest equipment for the home exercise enthusiast and they are taught not only a basic routine, but an advanced routine for training using resistance bands. | ||||
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The Federalist Regained | by Paul Reidinger May 16, 2012 | 12456 words | Read a sample |
| An American writer offers a riposte to Alexander Hamilton and a fresh interpretation of the Bill of Rights. | ||||
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Dressmaker | by Brendan Gerad O'Brien May 16, 2012 | 3686 words | Read a sample |
| Subconsciously. I suppose, eventhough I was only a child at the time, I was already aware that pretentiousness was something you aquired, the degree of which was determined by your perception of your own self worth ... | ||||
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The Hidden Keeper | by sharon davies May 16, 2012 | 89375 words | Read a sample |
| Love and loss define us all, but Juliette had experienced neither until the death of her father, and the appearence of a beautiful stranger called Caleb. He would show her the incredible world of the Keepers, who safeguard the earth, but when the Keeper's enemy threatens her family and those she loves, she has to make the ultimate choice, which will break the heart of the one she loves. | ||||
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How to Bake: Yeast and How it Works | by Dennis Weaver May 16, 2012 | 10545 words | Read a sample |
| Hi, I’m Dennis Weaver and I would like to share my baking book with you, How to Bake. It’s free. It’s illustrated. It’s the most comprehensive downloadable home baking guide you'll ever see.If you study the material in this book, you won’t just be a better baker; you’ll be an expert baker. Save it, print it, add it to your kitchen library. | ||||