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A World of Unbreakable Love, winner of the 2026 Book of the Year Award from the Literary Global Children’s Book Awards, is free on Kindle until July 8.

A comforting rhyming picture book for children dealing with long-distance family, moving, separation anxiety, divorce, or difficult goodbyes.

Includes the Heart Hug, a simple self-soothing exercise to help children feel close to someone they miss.

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Blurb:

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A man seeking enlightenment, crashing into the immovable wall of silly intrigue.

Ding dong. Knock knock. An idea impregnates Adam’s head like… well, you get the idea. No?

Tired of his everyday distractions, Adam convinces his friends Joe and Mary to enroll at university in pursuit of knowledge. There, they meet people – and people are bastards – so naturally, politics, intrigue, death, and destruction follow, escalating far beyond anyone’s expectations.

Eventually, Adam is persuaded by a wise old janitor to attempt something daring: steal the legendary tree of knowledge from the violent university president. But he’s far from the only one with designs on the tree. A smooth-talking Cardinal shows up, and soon the university is spiraling into chaos, torn apart by silly intrigue and minor philosophical disagreements.

Absurd, pseudo-philosophical, pseudo-religious, pseudo-modern, pseudo-medieval, darkly comic, and wildly entertaining, Curiosity Lost is a satirical tale of ambition, idealism, and the unpredictable consequences of trying to do anything meaningful.

The author, who is definitely a different person from the person writing this blurb, advertises the book as “Dark academia meets Life of Brian”

Now… Can you really just take his word for that? Yes! Of course you can. I believe in you.

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If you like satire, quirky dialogue, silly plots, and occasional deep philosophical sparring, then you may like this book.

It's a strange book, but I'm a firm believer in trying to do something different with your book regardless of what style is currently in vogue (In other words: I don't sell very well).

The book is mainly driven forth by plot and by dialogue. The plot goes fast while the dialogue takes its time. It has two main intersecting storylines and multiple POVs according to what is most relevant for each chapter.

What the book is about is perhaps the hardest thing to describe about the book, especially without spoiling it, but it is about a man seeking enlightenment, crashing into the immovable wall of silly intrigue, you could say. I once wrote the following: "The novel is a tragicomic take on the idealistic pursuit of enlightenment against the need to conform to a world where such enlightenment is neither necessary nor even desired."

How far can such a book escalate, you ask? Quite far. Very far.

This book is the second book I wrote, but the first book I finished editing and published.

As far as getting people to read this type of book, the hardest part is really trust. Can you actually trust that it will be worth your time? No. But wait! Can you trust that it will be funny? I mean, that depends on your humor... Can you trust that it's theoretically hilarious and big-brain compliant? Yes, absolutely. Absolutely. Big brained man wrote it for others of similar brain size, but can you know that for sure? Can you??

Basically, what I am trying to communicate, is... well, what I want to say is just... Trust me, bro. Trust me hard. Trust me timbers.

(It's free until may9)

Where can I download books to read? I've always bought a hardcopy but as the prices are going up I can't afford them all the time and have to think before buying one..it's slowly killing my habit of reading. As much as I'd still prefer to buy a hardcopy I'd like to know where I could download free books

My book Kangaroo court by J Jamieson is currently available free with Amazon Kindle Unlimited

Its a modern noir type style. Would love any feedback. Its not long so a good story for anyone who likes that genre

I published my second novel this week under my pen name, Eleanor Vale, and I’m still kind of processing that strangers are reading it.

It’s called The Price of Truth (Book Two in The Blackwood Trilogy), and it starts after the family secret has already been exposed. The records were corrected. Lost names were restored. Everyone thought justice had finally happened.

Then someone finds another missing woman. What starts as one corrected family tree turns into a story about erased women, inherited silence, old church records, buried land transfers, and what people protect when the truth becomes inconvenient.

Genre-wise it sits somewhere between Southern Gothic, historical mystery, family saga, and psychological suspense.

It also somehow made it into the Top 10,000 in Historical Thrillers this week which feels unreal for a tiny indie release.
If this sounds like your thing, it’s currently free for Kindle subscribers until Tuesday:

https://a.co/d/0fDbsJ0z

If you prefer starting at the beginning, Book One (The Things We Buried) is already out too.

Would genuinely love to know what people here are reading lately in Southern Gothic / family mystery.