Kindle Novels for Android



Open Ground: After bullies harass William, he moves to Wyoming to live with his father. Open Ground explores the drama of human relationships through a boy's struggle to maintain family.

Later that summer, his father is falsely accused of a crime and jailed. William mountain-bikes across Wyoming to stay with his aunt -- applying the knowledge his father had imparted -- defying the perils of nature.

Topics in this middle school novel relate to math, science and technology with social themes applicable to grades 5 and 6 core curriculum. Free E-Learning kernels, available at Site3e.Com, are effective self-contained units. Forsaken Rock, a Kindle novel available at SmithLiterary.Com is applicable to grades 7 and 8 studies.(Kindle $0.99 at Amazon.Com.


Forsaken Rock: NASA Leadership decide to send criminals to their Mars colony for long-term incarceration. Rather than allow their world to be corrupted, settlers on the planet break ties with Earth to become an independent world. Mirrid Wolf inadvertently kills a young security man to protect her child.

Eleven years later, the people of Earth invite Marian colonists to the Olympic Games. Mirrid oversees the Marian Team as recently elected Chief Council of the Red Planet. Toemoe Sol, head of Sol Corporation, contracts an assassin to disrupt the competition by shooting Mirrid's daughter, Daara. Marians are then blamed for a terrorist attack that kills over 300 spectators. Conflicts challenge Mirrid's untried leadership. (Kindle $2.99 at Amazon.Com.

Indivisible: The United States' economy has tumbled after two decades of fighting terrorism worldwide. An Army helicopter lands on a remote New Hampshire mountain. Troops witness an unbearable sight: sixty Cub Scouts slain by an unmanned automatic weapon intended to catch smugglers. The President orders the soldiers to depart immediately -- and maintain absolute secrecy. Cover-up of the Dixville massacre begins. The brutality to New Hampshire's children ignites national support for a rebellion to instate government reform. (Kindle $2.99 at Amazon.Com.

Alienable Rights: This novel champions the American family through the main character Traften Brown. He flees Boston with his baby after a confrontation with a gang leader. Traften finds a place in Vermont as a member of the Island Pond Covenant, a local organization formed to supply the community with food and medicine. As a former electrical engineering student at MIT, Traften designs a communication system for the Vermont group. They accept him in the community as their own. Leaving his daughter with a family in Island Pond, Traften returns to Boston and rescues Ruth. While in Boston, he rediscovers his heritage. A descendant of William Carney, a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, Traften carries the medallion throughout the conflict. The heirloom haunts him, a reminder of forebears who had fought for him. Rather than abandon the city for an easier life in the North Country, he stays to confront his enemy. (Kindle $2.99 at Amazon.Com.

Blair Smith was born at home in the heart of Amish country in Holmes County, Ohio. He graduated from Ohio Northern University majoring in Technology and Education, later obtaining a Masters in Technology Education from the University of Vermont. A writer for ten years, the author has completed six novels that range from Science Fiction, to Thrillers, to a Middle School Reader.


NEWS 3E

Tuesday, January 19

Chapter 10d --Android, iPhone & Kindle Books

Still in shock, Helen reached up to feel Crucible's carotid for any sign of life. After actually looking at the young man's head, she realized how stupid it was to check for a pulse; his head was nearly fragmented by motor-gun balls. She slumped back to the floor, "Oh, God," she muttered, wondering about the significance of the memory disk.

Bird Dog sprinted down the alley. As leg-man of an attack pack, his job was to sprint ahead of the group to capture and hold a tactical position, or to run down strays like this. Leg-men were lean and in good aerobic condition.

Bird Dog spotted a blood trail halfway down the alley and stopped abruptly at a dumpster. He held his breath a second and listened--and heard a voice.

A black face popped out from the edge of the doorway with a cellular in one hand. He spotted Bird Dog and shot four rounds in his direction, pinging the dumpster with each round.

Bird Dog stuck his gun out shooting five rounds back, followed by gunning-to-the-source, the technique of walking toward the target using constant gun fire to keep them at bay--shooting at any head or hand poking out of cover. Bird Dog chipped away at the brick's edge en route, finally closing in and shooting the victim with three rounds at point-blank range. Black Rhino bullets shredded on impact, tearing large portions of bone from the victim's skull. Blood and human tissue plastered the cove where the gang member lay