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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 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 young adult fiction, a classic detective story by Josephine Tey, science fiction from Philip K. Dick, Stephen Marlowe and Noel Loomis, a Mary Roberts Rinehart mystery, adventure from John Buchan and a collection of humorous essays from the public library trenches.

Winter's Passage, by Julie Kagawa. YOUNG ADULT FICTION. Download site: Amazon. Format: Kindle. Price: $0.00.
A free novella in Kagawa's Iron Fey series, following The Iron King. The second novel in the series, The Iron Daughter, is slated for release in August 2010. If you enjoy well-written young adult fiction with characters you care about, request a sample of The Iron King and perhaps, like me, you will want to add it to your Kindle library.
"Meghan Chase used to be an ordinary girl ... until she discovered that she is really a faery princess. After escaping from the clutches of the deadly Iron fey, Meghan must follow through on her promise to return to the equally dangerous Winter Court with her forbidden love, Prince Ash. But first, Meghan has one request: that they visit Puck - Meghan's best friend and servant of her father, King Oberon - who was gravely injured defending Meghan from the Iron Fey." - Amazon.

The Franchise Affair, by Josephine Tey. CLASSIC DETECTIVE STORY. Download site: MobileRead. Format: .prc for Kindle. Price: $0.00.
"A young girl claims to have been kidnapped and forced to work as a domestic servant in an isolated house belonging to two women. Can this story be true? (It may have been inspired by the 18th century true-life story of Elizabeth Canning, who also claimed to have been abducted in order to explain an absence from home.)" - Patricia for MobileRead.

You Too Can Be A Millionaire, by Noel Loomis. SCIENCE FICTION. Download site: Manybooks. Format: Kindle (.azw). Price: $0.00.
"Mark Renner looked anxiously backward as he ran up the street to the place where the faded gold lettering on one window said 'Jewelry.' That would be a good place to hide, he thought. Most of the plate-glass windows and doors along the street were broken out as in fact they were everywhere, and had been for twenty years - but one of the jewelry windows and the door, protected by iron grating, were still whole and would help to conceal him..."
First published in IF Worlds of Science Fiction, November 1952.

Think Yourself to Death, by Stephen Marlowe. SCIENCE FICTION. Download site: Feedbooks. Format: Kindle. Price: $0.00.
"If you've never read a Johnny Mayhem story before, you are in for a treat. Johnny, who wears different bodies the way ordinary people wear clothes, is one of the most fascinating series characters in science fiction." - Feedbooks.
First published in Amazing Stories, March 1957.

Piper in the Woods, by Philip K. Dick. SCIENCE FICTION. Download site: ManyBooks. Format: Kindle. Price: $0.00.
"Earth maintained an important garrison on Asteroid Y-3. Now suddenly it was imperiled with a biological impossibility - men becoming plants!" - ManyBooks.

Long Live the King!, by Mary Roberts Rinehart. MYSTERY/ROMANCE. Download site: Amazon. Format: Kindle. Price: $0.00.
"...a story of love, intrigue and adventure in a European court. In this story Mrs. Rinehart combines mystery, heart interest, and excitement of her past successes into a story that will be hailed as the most interesting of all her stories." - ManyBooks.

The Thirty-Nine Steps, by John Buchan. ADVENTURE. Download site: FeedBooks. Format: Kindle. Price: $0.00.
"Hanney, an expatriated Scot, returns from a long stay in South Africa to his flat in London. One night he is buttonholed by an American who appears to know of an anarchist plot to destabilise Europe, and claims to be in fear for his life. Hannay lets the American hide in his flat, and returns later to find that another man has been found shot dead in the same building, apparently a suicide. Four days later Hannay finds the American stabbed to death..." - FeedBooks.

Dispatches from a Public Librarian, by Scott Douglas. HUMOROUS ESSAYS. Download site: Feedbooks. Format: Kindle. Price: $0.00.
"For some five years I have worked for a smallish public library nestled cozily between Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm in Orange County, California. This is where most of the observations in this dispatch will take place, although sometimes I do go to other libraries (some even far, far away), and I'll include those observations as they come..."


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