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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 Joseph Altsheler's Young Trailers series in an inexpensive eight volume omnibus edition, satirical novels by Anthony Trollope and G. K. Chesterton, mysteries by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Dorothy Sayers and a Hugo nominee for best science fiction novelette.

Young Trailers Series, by Joseph Altsheler. HISTORICAL FICTION/ADVENTURE. Download site: Amazon. Format: Kindle (.AZW). Price: $0.99.
This is an omnibus edition of the classic adventure series by Joseph A. Altsheler. It includes: The Young Trailers, The Forest Runners, The Keepers of the Trail, The Eyes of the Woods, The Free Rangers, The Riflemen of Ohio, The Scouts of the Valley, and The Border Watch. According to the original publisher, in The Young Trailers Series, "Two boys, Henry Ware and Paul Cotter, and three scouts are the chief characters in these books dealing with frontier life and adventures with the Indians about the time of the Revolutionary War. Each story is complete in itself, full of excitement, and historically accurate."

The Way We Live Now, by Anthony Trollope. NOVEL. Download site: Manybooks. Format: Kindle (.AZW). Price: FREE.
"a scathing satirical novel published in London in 1875 by Anthony Trollope, after a popular serialisation. It was regarded by many of Trollope's contemporaries as his finest work. One of his longest novels (it contains a hundred chapters), The Way We Live Now is particularly rich in sub-plot. It was inspired by the financial scandals of the early 1870s, and lashes out at the pervading dishonesty of the age, commercial, political, moral, and intellectual. It is one of the last significant Victorian novels to have been published in monthly parts." - Wikipedia.

The Flying Inn, by G. K. Chesterton. NOVEL. Download site: MobileRead. Format: .PRC for Kindle. Price: FREE.
"First published in 1914, this surreal comic novel is set in the near future. The themes that Chesterton satirizes are still likely to touch a nerve today. He envisages an England where the upper classes have converted to Islam, and are attempting to ban the consumption of alcohol. The lead characters set up a peripatetic public house and exploit various legal loopholes in order to get a drink. There is a particularly delightful excoriation of cocoa; discussions on the merits of cannabis, criticism of Islamic extremists, corrupt politicians, journalists, vegetarians and exponents of 'Higher Thought' (i.e. new-age weirdoes). This means that it is surprisingly topical in places." - MobileRead.

The Window at the White Cat, by Mary Roberts Rinehart. MYSTERY. Download site: Manybooks. Format: Kindle (.AZW). Price: FREE.
"Politics and Poker...that was the occupation and the preoccupation of the members of the White Cat Club. Once on the inside, a man's business was his own and nobody gave a damn if he was the mayor of the town or the champion poolplayer of the first ward. It was a noisy, crowded, masculine kind of retreat, which explained the sign that hung proudly over the door: 'The White Cat Never Sleeps.' But murder entered the wakeful chambers of the White Cat and its victims slept the deep, long sleep of the dead." - Manybooks.net.

Busman's Honeymoon, by Dorothy L. Sayers. MYSTERY. Download site: MobileRead. Format: .PRC for Kindle. Price: FREE.
In this sequel to Sayers' Gaudy Night, Lord Peter Wimsey and the famous mystery writer Harriet Van get married, but discover a corpse while on their honeymoon.

The Lost Kafoozalum, by Pauline Ashwell. SCIENCE FICTION. Download site: Manybooks. Format: Kindle (.AZW). Price: FREE.
Hugo nominee for best novelette, 1961. One of the beautiful things about a delusion is that no matter how mad someone gets at it, he can't do it any harm. Therefore a delusion can be a fine thing for prodding angry belligerents...