Free Book of the Day – (Children) Rikk-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling
This is the story of a boy and his weasel, a bird and a snake, India and the British Empire. Rudyard Kipling’s dramatic tale, here excerpted from the greater volume of The Jungle Book, is the story of the loyal mongoose, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, and the lengths to which he must go to protect his adoptive human family.
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Free Book of the Day – The Truth About Getting the Best From People by Martha I. Finney
Martha I. Finney, The daughter of a covert CIA operative, Martha grew up traveling the world and learning life’s lessons from a man who was totally committed to his work. From those beginnings, Martha’s own life’s calling was set in stone — to explore all the many ways people discover the work they love, land the jobs that they want, and, in turn, help make their companies successful.
Having spent the first part of her career as a journalist, she’s now a consultant, speaker and author specializing in employee engagement and career management.
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Free Book of the Day – (Childrens) Garbage! Monster! Burp! by Tom Watson
A monster at the bottom of a hill eats all of the garbage generated by the town on top of the hill. This provides two important benefits: The monster is happy with plenty to eat and the town stays nice and clean. Unfortunately, as the town grows, so does the amount of garbage the monster must consume. He gets bigger – and he starts burping. This is, as you can probably guess, a bit unsightly and stinky. In the end, the kids figure out how to solve the problem – despite the nasty mayor’s doubts and objections.
Free Book of the Day – Pictures of the Mind: What the New Neuroscience Tells Us About Who We Are by Miriam Boleyn-Fitzgerald
Author Miriam Boleyn-Fitzgerald, a Physicist and science writer explains the latest research and scientific data on brain injury, addiction, memory, meditation, etc.
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Free Book of the Day (Romance) – Advertising for Love by Darcee Tana
A woman who could not forget her past, and a man who would not give up on their future -Tizzy McKenzie a shy but talented consultant in an advertising agency loved her work. She had a wonderful boss in Grant Mallaby and a great friend in Becky Whitman. And then one morning she gave him a lift and suddenly their sensible world is turned upside down.And that was before the ‘cupids’ stepped in.
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Free Book of the Day – Chicken Soup for the Soul: Devotional Stories Sampler
This free sampler of devotional stories will help start off anyone’s new year with hope and inspiration with its three specially selected stories from each of Chicken Soup for the Soul’s devotional books.
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Free Book of the Day – Hostile Witness by Rebecca Forster
When sixteen-year-old Hannah Sheraton is arrested for the murder of her step grandfather, a California Supreme Court justice, her distraught mother turns to once infamous defense attorney, Josie Bates. Now a small town lawyer in Hermosa Beach, Josie wants nothing to do with the case since the gruesome evidence points to Hannah’s guilt. When the girl is charged as an adult, Josie can’t turn her back…
Free Book of the Day (Youth) Middle School, the Worst Years of My Life – Free Preview: The First 20 Chapters by James Patterson
Rafe Khatchadorian has enough problems at home without throwing his first year of middle school into the mix. Luckily, he’s got an ace plan for the best year ever, if only he can pull it off: With his best friend Leonardo the Silent awarding him points, Rafe tries to break every rule in his school’s oppressive Code of Conduct. Chewing gum in class-5,000 points! Running in the hallway-10,000 points! Pulling the fire alarm-50,000 points! But when Rafe’s game starts to catch up with him, he’ll have to decide if winning is all that matters, or if he’s finally ready to face the rules, bullies, and truths he’s been avoiding.
Blockbuster author James Patterson delivers a genuinely hilarious-and surprisingly poignant-story of a wildly imaginative, one-of-kind kid that you won’t soon forget.
Free Book of the Day – The Martin Luther King, Jr. Story by Ira Krakow
The life and times of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is based on the following Wikipedia articles related to him:
Authorship Issues
Sermons and Speeches
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Albany Movement
The Birmingham Campaign
March on Washington
Selma to Montgomery March
Opposition to US Involvement in Vietnam
Poor People’s Campaign
Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Formatted for the Kindle by Ira Krakow, with all hyperlinks and images preserved. Text is from en.wikipedia.org available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ – See Terms of use for details.
The cover image, Martin Luther King leaning on a lectern, at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Martin-Luther-King-1964-leaning-on-a-lectern.jpg
dated March 26, 1964, is available from the United States Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsc.01269
with the following stipulations, according to the above mentioned page:
This photograph is a work for hire created between 1952 and 1986 by one of the following staff photographers at U.S. News & World Report:
Warren K. Leffler (WKL) Thomas J. O’Halloran (TOH) Marion S. Trikosko (MST) John Bledsoe (JTB) Chick Harrity (CWH)
It is part of a collection donated to the Library of Congress. Per the deed of gift, U.S. News & World Report dedicated to the public all rights it held for the photographs in this collection upon its donation to the Library. Thus, there are no known restrictions on the usage of this photograph.
Photographs in this collection by any other author than those mentioned above might not be in the public domain. It cannot be determined if photographs created by non-staff were works for hire or not.
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FREE Audio and Video of: I Have a Dream Speech by Martin Luther King, Jr.
