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Freedom Incorporated by Peter Tylee
3 stars, 26 reviews
Corporations control the world, portal technology allows instantaneous travel, and the ultimate in branded living has arrived: microchip implants for all. But the new era, while peaceful on the surface, comes with a staggering price – individual freedom – and not everyone is willing to pay.
His Robot Girlfriend by Wesley Allison
4 stars, 81 reviews
Mike Smith’s life was crap, living all alone, years after his wife had died and his children had grown up and moved away. Then he saw the commercial for the Daffodil. Far more than other robots, the Daffodil could become anything and everything he wanted it to be. Mike’s life is about to change.
Haven by Justin Kemppainen
4 stars, 56 reviews
The Citizens of Haven have finally realized their dream; separation. They have ascended. A new layer has been placed upon the city, sealing anyone they deem unfit down below. In the dark slums beneath the city, something has been set in motion that will usher in a change. Something that will rattle the city of Haven to its core and forever alter the lives of everyone within.
A Bride For Tom by Ruth Ann Nordin
3 stars, 56 reviews
Tom Larson is having trouble finding a wife, and Jessica Reynolds decides to help him overcome his awkward and clumsy manners so he can attract women. This historical romantic comedy is rated G.
The Keeping Of Greg Wilson by Ruth Ann Nordin
3 stars, 19 reviews
Greg Wilson is forced to marry Patty Dixon who has loved him since she was a child. He, however, has no intention of being married and insists on getting an annulment. But she’s just as determined to keep him. This romantic comedy is rated R. *This is the first story in the Montana Grooms series.
Ladies And Gentlemen…The Redeemers by Michael Scott Miller
3 stars, 11 reviews
Bert Ingram, a former music industry rep, has lost his way. Desperate for redemption, he puts together a band, recruiting musicians each with the need to overcome a significant obstacle in his life. The mix of personalities and backgrounds threatens to derail the band at every opportunity, but in time, the Redeemers realize they have more to gain from one another than they could have imagined.
Call Of The Herald by Brian Rathbone
3 stars, 9 reviews
Book One of The Dawning of Power trilogy. Echoes of the ancients’ power are distant memories, tattered and faded by the passage of eons, but that is about to change. A new dawn has arrived. Latent abilities, harbored in mankind’s deepest fibers, wait to be unleashed. Ancient evils awaken, and old fears ignite the fires of war.
Outlander: With Bonus Content by Diana Gabaldon
4 stars, 28 reviews
In Outlander reader’s guide Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century, and a lover in another… In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon-when she innocently touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach-an “outlander”-in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of our Lord…1743.
Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire’s destiny in soon inextricably intertwined with Clan MacKenzie and the forbidden Castle Leoch. She is catapulted without warning into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life …and shatter her heart. For here, James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a passion so fierce and a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire…and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
Eros, Philia, Agape: A Tor.Com Original by Rachel Swirsky
4 stars, 85 reviews
Originally published on Tor.com, Rachel Swirsky’s contemporary tale of love in all its forms and of one robot’s quest to know it, and himself, on his own terms is a finalist for the 2010 Hugo Award and the 2010 Locus Award. Rachel Swirsky’s short fiction has appeared in Weird Tales, Fantasy Magazine, and Subterranean Magazine, among others, and has been collected in Year’s Best anthologies edited by Rich Horton, Jonathan Strahan, and the VanderMeers. She is also the submissions editor of Podcastle , an audio fantasy magazine.
First Flight: A Tor.Com Original by Mary Robinette Kowal
4 stars, 54 reviews
The past is another country, in Mary Robinette Kowal’s Tor.com tale of time travel and aviation history. “First Flight” is a finalist for the 2010 Locus Award. The winner of the 2008 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of short fiction published in Strange Horizons, Cosmos , and Asimov’s. Her first novel, Shades of Milk and Honey , will be published by Tor in 2010.
Or one could simply go to Kobo’s Free e-books page and skip the account creation process. The first seven e-books listed are free from Smashwords, Outlander (the pick of the litter) has been free from other e-book stores for a while, and the last two are free short stories from Tor/Tom Doherty.
By the way, wrong title on that last item. 🙂
Thanks for pointing out the title. Never said these were new free ebooks :). Also, you still need an account because you have to sign in to download them. Or you could just go to Smashwords for most of them, like you said.