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Free Classic: The Crossing by Winston Churchill
June 22, 2012 | 
Author Every Friday, Marilyn Knapp Litt, who blogs at ClassicKindle.com, brings us her recommendation of a free classic book to discover (or rediscover) on Kindle. Find more of Marilyn’s recommendations at her blog, ClassicKindle.com, a guide to the best free and inexpensive classic literature for the Kindle. You can also get Marilyn’s blog on Kindle and I recommend that you “Like” the Classic Kindle Facebook page as well so you don’t miss anything. Here’s Marilyn’s post:
Think historical novels are something new?
I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters. There, on the borders of a creek that runs into the Yadkin River, in a cabin that was chinked with red mud, I came into the world a subject of King George the Third, in that part of his realm known as the province of North Carolina.
That is from a 1904 novel by Winston Churchill, a bestselling American novelist, who was 100 years closer to the time of King George than we are today!
[There is a chase to capture a bad guy named Cameron.]
“We’re to scalp the redskins and Cameron . . .”
“Cameron!” shrieked the gentleman. “But that’s the other side, man! Against his Majesty?”
“One side or t’other,” said my father, “’tis all one against Alec Cameron.
” The gentleman looked at my father with something like terror in his eyes. “You’ll never forgive Cameron,” he said.
“I’ll no forgive anybody who does me a wrong,” said my father.
Ahh, a vendetta. As well as the complications of choosing up sides for the coming American Revolution! No wonder this was a popular novel!
Click here to get your free copy of The Crossing by Winston Churchill >>>
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Today’s Kindle Daily Deal — Friday, June 22 – Two Great Reads for $1.99 Each — Save 47% on David Adams Richards’ Big-Hearted Depression Era Novel RIVER OF THE BROKENHEARTED, plus … Don’t miss Heather Topham Wood’s FIRST VISIONS: SECOND SIGHT BOOK ONE (Today’s Sponsor)
But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor
First Visions: Second Sight Book One
Here’s the set-up:
Two years ago, 21-year-old Kate Edwards became deathly ill and slipped into a coma. While unconscious, she crept into the mind of a missing boy and awoke with the knowledge of his location. Friends and family were skeptical and wary of her new ability to see into the minds of others. Their fears prompted Kate to keep her psychic powers a secret. Feeling alienated, she dropped out of college and spent most of her days holed up at her mother’s home.
Now another child has been abducted. Police detective Jared Corbett seeks out Kate for her help in solving the case. Reluctantly, Kate agrees and they must work together to bring 8-year-old Cori Preston home to her family. Although attracted to one another, Jared has a girlfriend with ties to the abduction case and Kate is sarcastic and guarded since her coma. With visions she can’t control and an uncontrollable attraction to the detective, she wonders if she can leave the past behind and finally stop hiding from the world. Otherwise, Cori may be lost forever.
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 Kindle Daily Deal: River of the BrokenheartedFrom the author of the Giller Prize-winning novel Mercy Among the Children comes the big-hearted story of Janie McCleary’s struggle to overcome small-town prejudice during the Great Depression. After her husband dies, Janie bravely opens a movie theater, a pioneering act that shapes the lives of her children and grandchildren.
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Today’s Kindle Daily Deal — Thursday, June 21 – Two Great Reads for under $6 — Save 77% on Kevin Fox’s UNTIL THE NEXT TIME. Fox Was Writer and Producer of the TV Series LIE TO ME and Screen Writer for the Movie THE NEGOTIATOR Starring Samuel L. Jackson and Kevin Spacey; plus … Don’t miss Scott Marlowe’s THE FIVE ELEMENTS (THE ALCHEMANCER BOOK 1) (Today’s Sponsor)
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The Five Elements (The Alchemancer: Book 1)
Here’s the set-up:
Their routines–and their lives–are thrown into chaos when an elemental attack is launched against their home. Aaron thinks Shanna killed, while Aaron himself is forced to flee for his life. For Shanna, who survives that fateful night, the greatest adventure of her life is about to begin. Only the worst of nightmares awaits Aaron: pursued by dwarves, hell hounds, and a demon who will not stop until he is dead, the only thing keeping him alive is his own resourcefulness and an eslar mercenary whose reputation as a killer might make him the worst threat of all.
Though Aaron and Shanna travel different paths, their purpose is joined when they individually learn of the mysterious Fifth Element. Shanna sees it as the final piece in the puzzle that is her destiny. To Aaron’s logical mind, it is an impossible ambiguity. Whatever the answer, the Fifth Element draws them back together and into a final confrontation not as allies, but as adversaries.
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and now … Today’s Kindle Daily Deal!
 Kindle Daily Deal: Until the Next TimeAfter inheriting his uncle Michael’s journal, Sean Corrigan uses it to trace Michael’s exodus from New York City to Ireland to escape a bogus murder charge. During his journey, Sean realizes the journal reflects his life and holds the key to finding the woman he is fated to love forever.
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