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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. This regular Kindle Reader feature points 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 a book by Edna Ferber that you may not have heard of, a novel set during WWI, the letters of a woman homesteader, a thriller linking lost prophesies of Nostradamus with a modern day terrorist plot, a classic by F. Scott Fitzgerald, an old-fashioned tale for children, and an epistolary novel that draws you into the mind of a young German woman.

Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney, by Edna Ferber. NOVEL. Download site: GirleBooks. Format: Kindle. Price: $0.00.
"Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney was first published in 1913. It chronicles the adventures of perhaps the only a successful traveling saleswoman in literary history, a stellar employee of T. A. Buck’s Featherloom Petticoats. Emma is the divorced mother of a 17-year-old son Jock, who also makes a few appearances. The title refers to the only consistently good road food, in Emma's opinion: roast beef." - GirleBooks.

The Secret Battle, by A. P. Herbert. NOVEL. Download site: ManyBooks. Format: Kindle (.azw). Price: $0.00.
"...first published in 1919. The book draws upon Herbert's experiences as a junior infantry officer in the First World War, and has been praised for its accurate and truthful portrayal of the mental effects of the war on the participants. It was one of the earliest novels to contain a detailed description of Gallipoli, or to challenge the Army's executions of soldiers for desertion." - Wikipedia.

Letters of a Woman Homesteader, by Elinore Pruitt Stewart. CORRESPONDENCE. Download site: Amazon. Format: Kindle. Price: $0.00.
"The writer of the following letters is a young woman who lost her husband in a railroad accident and went to Denver to seek support for herself and her two-year-old daughter, Jerrine. Turning her hand to the nearest work, she went out by the day as house-cleaner and laundress. Later, seeking to better herself, she accepted employment as a housekeeper for a well-to-do Scotch cattle-man, Mr. Stewart, who had taken up a quarter-section in Wyoming. The letters, written through several years to a former employer in Denver, tell the story of her new life in the new country. They are genuine letters, and are printed as written, except for occasional omissions and the alteration of some of the names." - Publishers Note.

Quatrain, by John Medler. THRILLER. Download site: Amazon. Format: Kindle. Price: $0.99.
"In 1557, Nostradamus published his famous prophetic opus entitled Les Propheties - a collection of four-line, rhyming verses called 'quatrains.' The original set was supposed to have 1,000 prophecies. However, only 942 have survived. 58 quatrains have been lost in the annals of time...until now. Can a cynical college professor and his two rebellious teenagers find the missing 58 quatrains of Nostradamus in time to stop a terrorist attack on the United States, and will anyone believe them?" - Amazon.

The Great Gatsby, by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. NOVEL. Download site: Feedbooks. Format: Kindle. Price: $0.00.
"The Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published on April 10, 1925, it is set on Long Island's North Shore and in New York City during the summer of 1922. The novel takes place following the First World War. American society enjoyed prosperity during the "roaring" 1920s as the economy soared. At the same time, Prohibition, the ban on the sale and manufacture of alcohol as mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment, made millionaires out of bootleggers. After its republishing in 1945 and 1953, it quickly found a wide readership and is today widely regarded as a paragon of the Great American Novel, and a literary classic. The Great Gatsby has become a standard text in high school and university courses on American literature in countries around the world, and is ranked second in the Modern Library's lists of the 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century." - Wikipedia

The Joyous Story of Toto, by Laura E. Richards. CHILDREN'S FICTION. Download site: ManyBooks. Format: Kindle (.azw.) Price: $0.00.
"Toto was a little boy, and his grandmother was an old woman (I have noticed that grandmothers are very apt to be old women); and this story is about both of them. Now, whether the story be true or not you must decide for yourselves; and the child who finds this out will be wiser than I. Toto's grandmother lived in a little cottage far from any town, and just by the edge of a thick wood; and Toto lived with her, for his father and mother were dead, and the old woman was the only relation he had in the world..."

Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther: Being the Letters of an Independent Woman, by Elizabeth von Arnim. NOVEL. Download site: ManyBooks. Format: Kindle (.azw.) Price: $0.00.
Elizabeth von Arnim (1866 – 1941), was an Australian-born British novelist. In 1944 her book Mr. Skeffington was made into a movie starring Bette Davis and Claude Rains. Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther is an epistolary novel, a story of love and loss told from the woman's point of view.
"This enchanting novel tells the story of the love affair between Rose-Marie Schmidt and Roger Anstruther. A determined young woman of twenty-five, Rose-Marie is considered a spinster by the inhabitants of the small German town of Jena where she lives with her father, the Professor. To their homes comes Roger, an impoverished but well-born young Englishman who wishes to learn German: Rose-Marie and Roger fall in love. But the course of true love never did run smooth..." - Amazon.