General self-sufficiency and survival
Backwoods Home Magazine - Jul/Aug 2011 (#130)
"Backwoods Home Magazine is written for people who have a desire to pursue personal independence, self-sufficiency, and their dreams. We offer “how-to” articles on owner-built housing, independent energy, gardening, health, self-employment, country living, and other topics related to an independent and self-reliant lifestyle."
Concealed Carry Vol 2: How to Legally Carry a Concealed Weapon (Concealed Carry Fundamentals)
Attracting Deer To You - Deer Hunting Books
Food and Farming/Gardening
Introduction to Gardening
From The Horticultural Correspondence College, http://www.hccollege.co.uk
Introduction to Keeping and Breeding Chickens
How to Build Your Own Dovecote with Complete Plans
Chutney Making - Traditional and Modern Recipes
Ideas/Theory
Little Kids Big Money: Tools for Teaching Kid Friendly Finance
What Is Happening To Our Economy and ... When Will Things Get Back To Normal?
INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MARKETS CRISES 1920-2050, Volume 3: Interest Rates Predictions to Year 2050, Lectures
EURO'S EXCHANGE RATES PREDICTIONS TO YEAR 2100, Volume 6: Excerpts
A TREATISE OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS: Appendix
The Ultimate Conspiracy Theory Book Bundle (The Secrets of the Illuminati, The JFK Assassination)
True Accounts
A Season on the Allegheny
“a rollicking account of a year spent hunting on the Allegheny National Forest. Author Robert Hilliard tracks down more than deer, turkey, and grouse - ...He also pursues the many controversies that swirl around Pennsylvania's only National Forest, including anti-logging and anti-drilling protests, Wilderness designations, and ecoterrorism.”
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FICTION
Current or Realistic Nature Survival, Natural Disasters, and Hardship
The Girl Who Tweaked Two Lions' Tails
“The ordeal of fourteen year old Angelina Freyer, lost in the African bush for fourteen terrifying days and nights.”
1929 (Book One)
“With rich, unique characters, 1929 is the first in an epic trilogy centered in the Great Depression. 1929 follows three couples through the economic collapse of 1929 and their struggles to adjust to a sudden and violent shift in lifestyle.“ Very highly reviewed.
GONE WITH THE TIDE and other stories
Collection of short stories, one of which is “SURVIVAL: A graphic story about the struggle to survive in the wilds of Alaska.”
The Hamster and the Gecko - A Survivors' Story -
“a story of natural disaster, human tragedy, fortitude, and hope. Juppun, a Golden hamster beloved by his 12-year-old companion Yu-chan, and Pippa, a Madagascar gecko ...are washed out to sea by the terrible tsunami that hit ..Japan...The enormity of the destruction and the radioactive fallout...require the family to relocate to Hawaii, where Yu-chan's mother Kiyoko, ...and her colleagues become increasingly alarmed about the estimated thirty million tons of debris created by the tsunami...They fear that ...it will come ashore all along the Hawaiian archipelago, causing another environmental and economic disaster of gigantic proportions. “ Meanwhile the two pets survive on the island of junk, getting closer to their humans.
WHISTLETREE
Ukrainian boy survives WWII, labour camps, military escapades and capture, concentration camp, blindness, paralysis.
Current or Fairly Realistic Politics, Terrorism, and Intrigue/Conspiracy
A four-part series of American politics and intrigue, including terrorism and economic crash.
Stumbling Forward (The Perpetual Campaign; Book 1)
A Referendum on Conscience (The Perpetual Campaign; Book 2)
Picking a Fight (The Perpetual Campaign; Book 3)
The Non-Campaign (The Perpetual Campaign; Book 4)
Element 17
“Alan Parsons and his team are called in to stop a team of technological terrorists who are using an unknown weapon to wreak havoc on their enemies.”
A Thousand Years of Darkness: a Thriller
“...based on actual current events. Police Detective James Nail is wounded and his daughter murdered in an attack that also kills 'right-wing' TV personality Jerry Baer. As Nail and Baer's producer, Sharon Lowenthal, team up to track down the shooters, they discover a conspiracy that leads to an international cartel of 'One Worlders' and may implicate the President... Falsely accused of terrorism, they must keep one step ahead of Homeland Security to stay alive, bring down the traitors, and save the nation.” A reviewer calls it “a fast-paced read of the near future looming ahead if we don't appreciate our country and constitution.”
IranDate - When Iran Went Nuclear And The World Went Ballistic
A Middle East nuclear thriller written from the Israeli perspective. From the blurb, look-inside, and reviews, this seems to be very well written.
Collapse
Passing On
“In a not too distant future the human race has been devastated by forces they thought they could control. Now life is simple, brutal, and savage. When their neighbors are taken by strangers Grandma's small community gathers together to hunt down and kill the attackers and hopefully save their friends. This is a short story with scientific background information included.”
High Country Journal (Montana)
“This is the story of how some folks in Montana start the road back after "TSHTF" facing the good as well as the bad on the road to rebuilding a new America.” The author has also written companion books High Country Journal.....Wyoming
and High Country Journal .....Indian Country .....Conclusion 
which have both been free at some point in the past but are not at the moment.
By the same author and free today:
The Free Republic of Texas 2015
Hard times are coming and most people can't or won't see it , but a few in rural East Texas do see it and have the ability to build for the survival of themselves and the future of not just their area but in ti,e the entire Nation.
A number of the above author’s other post-collapse type books (not all free today) are here: TJ Reeder books
Swimming in Innocence (Overlooked by Liberty)
“The United States economy has collapsed under its own debt: Politicians leveraged America's future to stay in power. Two boys armed with ideals, Butch and Thad, coalesce rebel forces to bring the country back to the virtues on which it was founded. This novel champions the individual's struggle for freedom; the freedom to choose, the freedom to strive, the freedom to fail and start anew. This is the original novel in the Overlooked by Liberty series that includes some of Indivisible
and Alienable Rights
. “
Burning Issues
“Friends Will and Lily haven’t seen their fathers for five years: they men disappeared during The Crisis, as the world economy crumbled and vital resources dried up...But neither has Hannah, the pushy newcomer who upsets the quiet life of Will and Lily’s self-sufficient rural Village with her long-forgotten technology (a cellphone?) and infuriating London ways... Drawn ever more deeply into a web of intrigue, the friends’ search takes them from London to France and back to The Village, on the trail of the Minister and his criminal colleagues.”
Finding a New Home (The Reappearing)
Christian Fiction. “Pastor Daniel Hammond leads his small congregation on an expedition to Huntsville in a search for Authority and other survivors of whatever it was that had changed seemingly the whole world. With little knowledge of what had happened to themselves, they had less knowledge of what had happened in the rest of the world. For whatever reason, no methods of mass communication remained available to them. Will Huntsville provide answers to their questions, or just give them more questions?”
Sunburner (The Sunburst Trilogy)
“Thirty years before the Redburn Plague kills billions worldwide, Emma and her brother Booth find themselves the only survivors of a cataclysmic explosion that kills not only their family but every living thing in their town. Separated after the explosion, Emma tracks Booth to an abandoned hospital where a supposed cult known as the Sunburners, have taken him in.”
Prequel to "Red Sky Burning (The Sunburst Trilogy)
," see farther down the page.
The World Behind The Window
“After a major catastrophe an entire country is without hope. A young man travels to the site of the disaster in the quest for a document that carries the promise of a better future. The city is almost deserted. The few remaining inhabitants live in hiding in derelict buildings or in shelters deep below ground. Some of them seemed to be trapped in the city: a young woman, trying to save her brother. An old man, who cannot remember his past. An old guard, who cruises the streets at night. In the ruins of the city the young man again and again is confronted with the remnants of the Old Order.”
Walking In Darkness (Walking In Darkness Series)
“story about a group of Christians trying to survive during the Last Days of Earth. Following a chain of apocalyptic events, this group … find themselves on the run and fighting to survive in a world they are no longer welcome in. Led by Michael Alistair, this new found group… have to overcome the fear of government oppression, persecution and their greatest threat, themselves, in order to build an unbreakable bond. Trust.”
More Sci-Fi-or-Fantasy-ish
EARTHLY TIES
Young Adult. The heroine had “been ingrained to believe as true—aside from the fortunate few who fled to the moon, life on earth was extinguished years ago“ by a devastating virus. However, she “soon discovers the existence of a general population and the deception… (and) will fight for a future on Earth.” Followups are here: COSMO EXPEDITIONS (EARTHLY TIES)
(free once in July but not at the moment), and here: LUNAR STRIFE (EARTHLY TIES)
(not free at the moment.)
Red Sky Burning (The Sunburst Trilogy)
“In a world decimated by plague, a fifteen-year-old boy hunts for the miracle worker he blames for his father’s death. Chased by gangs and demons across a barren wasteland and seemingly always one miracle behind the mysterious stranger, what will James do when he finally catches up to him? Will he let revenge guide his heart or will he find it in himself to forgive? The fate of the world rests on his decision.”
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REDUCTION added late in the day:
Dreams Unleashed (Dreams Unleashed, Book 1 of The Prophecies Dystopian Trilogy)My tracking program says it was previously $2.99
Now $.99
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