I do love all things FREE and so I look forward to every Friday’s B&N new addition to my nook book collection. This looks like a nice fun read for a geekette like myself and of course HUGE thanks to the list makers of the free ebooks.
Free Fridays: The Lens and the Looker
This week’s Free Fridays selection is the first book in Lory S. Kaufman’s inventive Verona Trilogy, The Lens and the Looker.
It’s the 24th century, and humans, with the help of artificial intelligences (A.I.s) have finally created the perfect society. To make equally perfect citizens for this world, the elders have created History Camps: full-sized recreations of cities from Earth’s distant pasts. Here teens live the way their ancestors did, doing the same dirty jobs and experiencing the same degradations. History Camps teach youths not to repeat the mistakes that almost caused the planet to die. But not everything goes to plan.
Fans of speculative adventure, like The Hunger Games and The Giver, will love The Lens and the Looker.
Continue the Verona Trilogy adventure with The Bronze and the Brimstone, and keep your eyes peeled for the third book, coming sometime this fall …
Free Fridays Recommends
Each week, we ask our featured author to recommend a book or author that you may want to check out. Since authors are such passionate readers themselves, we thought you might like to find out what they love to read, too! Here’s what Lory recommends:
Lord of the Flies by William Golding is the book that made me want to be a writer of futuristic fiction when I was 14. I’m now 61 and have re-read Flies several times over the years. Its influence is still with me in that I try to emulate how it appeals to almost every age group, be it precocious middle graders, young teens, young adults or adults. It’s just clean prose. The premise is so clearly stated at the beginning of the book. It’s the near future. There’s a nuclear war. A bunch of kids get stranded on an uninhabited tropical island with no adults. They have to survive. Boom. The story unfolds. Brilliant. Just brilliant.Perfect Island Getaways: The Caribbean, Bahamas and Bermuda – NOOK for Web (1,000 Places to See Befo… by Patricia Schultz
Fantasy
A Sorcerer’s Treason: A Novel of Isavalta, Book One by Sarah Zettel
Religion & Spirituality
Messy Church: A Multigenerational Mission for God’s Family by Ross Parsley
Torch Red: Color Me Torn by Melody Carlson
The Vow: The True Events that Inspired the Movie – NOOK for Web by Kim Carpenter
Children’s Fiction
Brave Junior Novelization – NOOK for Web by Irene Trimble
Children’s eBooks
The Boxcar Children Summer Special: Three Adventures of the Boxcar Children – NOOK for Web by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Education
The College Solution: A Guide for Everyone Looking for the Right School at the Right Price by Lynn O’Shaughnessy
Romance
Hired by the Cowboy by Donna Alward
Chasing Sunset by Sami Lee
Talking Dogs, Aliens and Purple People Eaters (Talking Dog, Book One) by Shelley Munro
Premonition (Tarot Café) by Lynn LaFleur
Pop Culture
Sex and the City – NOOK for Web by Candace Bushnell
Mystery & Thrillers
The Constantine Codex by Paul L. Maier
Guns: Book One in the John Hardin Series by Phil Bowie
Life Sentences: Book One in the Chad Wilbank Series by Tekla Dennison Miller
Map of Bones – NOOK for Web (Sigma Force Series) by James Rollins
Business & Investing
Breakthrough!: How the 10 Greatest Discoveries in Medicine Saved Millions and Changed Our View of th… by Jon Queijo
The Power of Impossible Thinking: Transform the Business of Your Life and the Life of Your Business by Colin Cook, Yoram (Jerry) R. Wind
Richard Templar’s Rules: The Complete Compilation (Collection) by Richard Templar
Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy by Dev Patnaik
15 Expert Lessons for Retirement Planning (Collection) by FT Press Delivers, Trent A. Hamm, Liz Weston, Bonnie Kirchner, Steve Weisman
Improve Your Business Communication (Collection) by Natalie Canavor, Claire Meirowitz, Terry J. Fadem, Jerry Weissman
SciFi/Fantasy
The Order of Dagonet #1 (Comic)
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-order-of-dagon
Zombies! Summer Special: Growing Pains
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/zombies-summer-spe
Yesterday’s Gone: Episode 1
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/yesterdays-gone-se
Wind-Scarred (The Will of the Elements, Book 1)
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wind-scarred-sky-c
When Graveyards Yawn (Apocalypse Trilogy Series #1)
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/when-graveyards-ya
What the Dead Fear
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/what-the-dead-fear
Well of Dreams
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/well-of-dreams-sco
Wanderer
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wanderer-richard-c
Thillers
This Breeze Brings Blood
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/this-breeze-brings
The Keeping
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/keeping-nicky-char
The Finding
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-finding-nicky-
Teen / Young Adult
Torch Red: Color Me Torn
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/torch-red-melody-c
Time’s Daughter
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/times-daughter-any
The Tale Of Emma Ott
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-tale-of-emma-o
The Seventh Mountain
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-seventh-mounta
Kids
Whirl of the Wheel
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/whirl-of-the-wheel
When Cows Fly
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/when-cows-fly-tom-
Those Amazing Dogs: African River Adventure
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/those-amazing-dogs
Those Amazing Dogs Book 2: In the Viking Volcano
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/those-amazing-dogs
THE MYSTIC WOLVES BY: BELINDA GAYLER
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-mystic-wolves-
SHUTTING DOORS BY: LYNNIE PURCELL
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/shutting-doors-lyn
YEAR OF THE CHICK BY:ROMI MOONDI
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/year-of-the-chick-
YEAR OF THE CHICK:BEGINNINGS BY:ROMI MOONDI
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/year-of-the-chick-
HOW TO DATE AN ALIEN BY: MEGAN VERNON
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/how-to-date-an-ali
THE CHOCOLATE CAKE BY: BEATE BOEKER
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-chocolate-cake
MARKED: SOULD GUARDIANS BY: KIM RICHARDSON
THE THIRTEENTH UNICORN BY: W. D. NEWMAN
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/thirteenth-unicorn
GREY EYES BY: BRANDON ALSTON
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/grey-eyes-brandon-
A DIAMOND IN MY POCKET BY: LORENA ANGELL
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-diamond-in-my-po
DONOVAN’S ANGEL BY: PEGGY WEBB
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/donovan-peggy-webb
THE BILLIONAIRE WINS THE GAME BY: MELODY ANNE
FOR ONE LAST KISS BY: CALISTA Taylor
the boathouse & THE FOG BY: P. LOWE
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-boathouse-and-
If your a fan of Battlestar Galactica fans here are four prequels to the series:
Lords of Kobol – Book 1 – Apotheosis
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lords-of-kobol-boo
Lords of Kobol – Book 2 – Descent
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lords-of-kobol-boo
Lords of Kobol – Book 3 – The Final Exodus
Lords of Kobol – Book 4 – Tales From Ancient Days
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