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Once you've purchased an Amazon Kindle e-book reader, the wonderful world of public domain, Creative Commons and free e-book promotions opens up to you. In this weekly Kindle Reader feature, I point you to a few of the most interesting new free (or very cheap) e-books available for download from the web.

Free e-book selections for this week include science fiction by H. G. Wells and August Derleth, the first of Josephine Tey's novels starring the popular Inspector Alan Grant,
a contemporary thriller about a covert agent who is murdered and awakes seemingly inhabiting the body of his assassin, the eerily timely tale by Arthur Conan Doyle of thirteen tourists on a Nile excursion, and the illustrated fairy stories of the Brothers Grimm.

The Sleeper Awakes, by H. G. Wells. SCIENCE FICTION. Download site: MobileRead. Format: Mobi/PRC (no conversion necessary for Kindle). Price: FREE. Also available on Amazon for $0.99.
"A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep-like trance, from which he does not awake for over two hundred years. During his centuries of slumber, however, investments are made that make him the richest and most powerful man on Earth. But when he comes out of his trance he is horrified to discover that the money accumulated in his name is being used to maintain a hierarchal society in which most are poor, and more than a third of all people are enslaved. Oppressed and uneducated, the masses cling desperately to one dream – that the sleeper will awake, and lead them all to freedom." - Amazon.
MobileRead note: This is a revised version of the book originally published under the title When the Sleeper Wakes. Wells was very unhappy with the original version of the book and, as described in a preface to this version, 12 years after its initial publication, re-released it in this revised form.

McIlvaine's Star, by August Derleth. SCIENCE FICTION/SHORT STORY. Download site: Manybooks. Format: Kindle. First published in If Worlds of Science Fiction, July 1952.
Old Thaddeus McIlvaine discovered a dark star and took it for his own. Thus he inherited a dark destiny - or did he?

The Man in the Queue, by Josephine Tey. GENRE. Download site: MobileRead. Format: Mobi/PRC (no conversion necessary for Kindle). Price: FREE.
The first of the author's novels starring the popular Inspector Alan Grant traces the mysterious slaying of a man waiting to see a London musical, whose neighbors in line insist they saw nothing.

On the Heels of Evil, by D. E. Daum. THRILLER. Download site: Amazon. Format: AZW (Kindle). Price: $2.99.
"...covert agent, Kelly Rogers,...was dead, practically cut in half by an assassin's bomb, but awoke in the hospital as Saleem Rhamsy. Yes, through some inexplicable reason, he now occupies the body of Rhamsy - his double-crossing Arab interpreter. Kelly, who is by all appearances Saleem Rhamsy, is now in the pre-eminent position to monitor the upcoming plans for terrorist events planned by the most active world wide terrorist organizations and as a bonus inherits Rhamsy's former beauty queen wife, Mariam. Working for a secret unit of the CIA, Kelly and his superior, the indomitable Jane DeJong and later his wife, go on to fight not only radical Muslim terrorists, but a troublesome group of Neo-Nazis, who have sponsored many of the terrorist activities, including a nuclear bomb planted in a major American city." - Amazon.

The Tragedy of the Korosko, by Arthur Conan Doyle. ADVENTURE NOVEL. Download site: Manybooks. Format: Kindle (AZW). Price: FREE.
"Thirteen tourists, representing mixed nationalities and several religious creeds, find themselves engaged in examining ruins on the Nile when they are captured by dervishes. Blood is shed while they are hurried across the deserts; then the Arabs are captured by the camel corps, and there are many adventures before the surviving Europeans are rescued. The chief interest lies in the comparison of the actions of a soldier, a lawyer, a French gentleman, an American traveller, and others when exposed to the same dangers. Incidentally many Arab customs are described." - Manybooks.

Grimm's Fairy Stories (Illustrated), by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm. FAIRY TALES. Download site: MobileRead. Format: PRC for Kindle. Price: FREE.
An illustrated selection of twenty-five tales from the collection of the Brothers Grimm. Contributor note: the file is big because of the pictures.


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