Non-Kindle book found yesterday:
Richard of Jamestown by James Otis, 1910 (PDF ebook) – http://www.homeschoolfreebie.wholesomechildhood.com/sept-25th-richard-of-jamestown/
If that freebie has run out by the time you see this, you can find it in different versions here: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7465
The one you can read right there online is http://www.gutenberg.org/files/7465/7465-h/7465-h.htm
Kindle version, free: Richard of Jamestown : a Story of the Virginia Colony
"A wonderful, highly readable chapter book by James Otis, chronicling the adventures of Richard, a young boy who sails to the new world with the colonists who founded Jamestown. His stories of the hardships and adventures faced by the Jamestown settlers, told from the viewpoint of a young boy, make this great reading for the Fall season.
"From the foreword: The purpose of this series of stories is to show the children, and even those who have already taken up the study of history, the home life of the colonists with whom they meet in their books. To this end every effort has been made to avoid anything savoring of romance, and to deal only with facts, so far as that is possible, while describing the daily life of those people who conquered the wilderness whether for conscience sake or for gain. That the stories may appeal more directly to the children, they are told from the viewpoint of a child, and purport to have been related by a child. Should any criticism be made regarding the seeming neglect to mention important historical facts, the answer would be that these books are not sent out as histories—although it is believed that they will awaken a desire to learn more of the building of the nation—and only such incidents as would be particularly noted by a child are used. Surely it is entertaining as well as instructive for young people to read of the toil and privations in the homes of those who came into a new world to build up a country for themselves, and such homely facts are not to be found in the real histories of our land."
Now for today’s Kindle freebies:
Decoys, Bating Tactics, And Homemade Helpers For Deer Hunting
Food Storage and Preservation
PERSONAL EARTHQUAKE EXPERIENCES: Sylmar 1971, Santa Cruz 1989, Northridge 1994
From Seed to Feed - A Horticultural Journey
Success Guide For Raising Healthy Goats (Goat Knowledge)
Money Leaves Clues: 27 Secrets to Financial Freedom
Many high reviews from verified purchasers.
A Boy, A Ship and A War
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FICTION
The Last Aliyah (The Time of Jacob's Trouble)
Christian speculative fiction. Middle East war from perspective of Israel. “The tides of war are once again rising against the nation of Israel. Her old alliances are unraveling, while new alliances against her are rising. Rocket attacks on Haifa and Sderot are increasing, and Israel cautiously prepares a response to a conflict that many fear will never end. Iran has armed Hamas and Hezbollah to the teeth for years, and now rumors are circulating that several nuclear warheads have slipped through the Israeli blockade into Gaza. And then a decision is made that will change the face of the Middle East forever.”
Creators (A Prequel Novella to the Contributor Trilogy)
”When the imminent collapse of the world’s food system threatens to all but eradicate the human race, it’s up to nineteen-year-old Liang Zhang to determine which of his company’s employees will live and which will die…(he) must race: against starvation, against insurrection, and against his own conscience. A novella of approximately 80 pages.”
Conglomerate 21
“The year is 2097. Seventy years have slipped away since the Great Collapse of the United States of America and since the desperate conglomerates—remnants of corporate America—fled with their employees into colossal survival bases behind electrified fences and a brutal corporate police force. They left the rest of society to find its way through the ensuing chaos, starvation, and violence. But seventy years of corporate government have now turned the survival bases into a network of dystopian, totalitarian regimes. Meanwhile, outside the conglomerate fences, a revolutionary form of capitalism that sprouted after the Collapse has turned rural America into a virtual utopia. Unfortunately, the people in the conglomerates don’t know this. The internal propaganda apparatus keeps them in the dark. Into this byzantine setting step Richard Jordan, an up-and-coming conglomerate executive, and Emma Callister, a dairyman’s daughter from the forbidden farm zone, whose chance meeting sets in motion a chain of events that culminates in the attempted overthrow of not just their own conglomerate 21 but the whole conglomerate system.”
Recessional
“One night in the life of one soldier, at the end of a dream...a dream called America. The rebellion against the National Emergency Council has failed; by dawn the last Alliance enclave will be overrun. But through the chaos and fear of the retreat, Ellen Paskow is determined to find her best friend, Peter. If she doesn't, it may be too late for him...and her.
Content advisory: adult language and graphic military violence. A novelette of 15,000 words.”
North Sister
“High in Oregon's Cascade Mountains, a fanatical religious cult leader builds a colony deep under a volcano to wait with the chosen for the return of Christ, but his plan is ruined by a free-spirited mountain guide, Shamus MacGregor, and a small group of armed and determined guerillas lead by Soraida Rojas.” From a review: “the author clearly knows his stuff about back country hiking. The hero is not your usual spy thriller James Bond rip-off, but a reluctant and opinionated Vietnam vet.“
A Long Winter's Journey
“’I didn't know the end of the world began until the following Tuesday.’ Thus begins the tale of Jason Campbell, a young man institutionalized by depression for ten years … When a deadly virus wipes out a large but ultimately unknown portion of the population, Jason and his fellow patients find themselves on their own with time running out. Jason sets out to find help… accompanied by Calvin, a schizophrenic nearly out of medication, where they find the crisis to be worse than anyone could have guessed. Forced to abandon their plans in favor of basic survival, the two go their separate ways: to go home and discover if the virus has claimed their families and to do their best to stay alive. Jason finds a number of surprises waiting for him, not the least that his father, a school janitor and state lottery winner, had during his absence built a bunker in response to the Y2K hysteria. Jason now has the necessities to ride out the storm, but it is here that his battle for survival truly begins. A Long Winter's Journey is the story of a man that must confront his past in the most personal of ways while trying to find a reason to continue in the aftermath of the end of the world.”
THE GULF CONSPIRACY (Dr Steven Dunbar 4)
disease conspiracy
Alpha (The Second Sun Trilogy)
Part One of trilogy (other parts don’t seem to be available yet). "An unexplained phenomena is troubling the continents of the Southern Hemisphere. Illnesses, accidents, erratic behaviour - all without an obvious cause. Dr. Jack Ellis and his team learn it could be linked to the mysterious cloud forming across the thermosphere"
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The Declaration
Dystopia/sci-fi “It's the year 2140 and Anna shouldn't be alive. Nor should any of the children she lives with at Grange Hall. The facility is full of kids like her, kids whose parents chose to recklessly abuse Mother Nature and have children despite a law forbidding them from doing so as long as they took longevity drugs. To pay back her parents' debt to Mother Nature, Anna will have to work for the rest of her life. But then Peter appears at the hall, and he tells a very different story about the world outside of the Grange. Peter begs Anna to escape Grange Hall, and to claim a life for herself outside its bleak walls. But even if they get out, they still have to make their way to London, to Anna's parents, and to an underground movement that's determined to bring back children and rid the world of longevity drugs.”
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