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

Monday, January 11

Chapter 9e -- Android & iPhone Books


Helen and Chaos stood awkwardly as they gazed down at the screen that lit up their faces with its chill-blue glow. "If that's it, I guess I'll turn in." She started to go but wondered, "Do you have family in the Carolinas?"

Chaos directed her to a bundle to sit. He found himself a spot on an ammo box. Chaos started with his life as a boy on his father's tobacco farm: He spoke about his brothers and the shenanigans they got into, the Sunday afternoon church socials, the volleyball and softball games. It was a reflection of gentler days when his family lived in the same house; the three brothers conspired together in mischief--and sometimes fought. "The Tobacco Tax broke my Momma and Pappy. The Feds kept saying 'grow corn, grow cotton.' It's not that simple when everything on the farm is geared for growing one crop. It's quite an investment to re-equip a whole farm, especially when there's no money to do it with. Like many others in the Carolinas, we sold some of our tobacco on the black market to help feed ourselves. When the Feds came and confiscated the farm, it broke my folks' hearts. It killed my Pappy; he stopped working altogether--died a year later." Chaos stopped a moment before saying it, "Shot himself, actually. From that point on, my brothers and I went from raising tobacco, to raising hell."

She hesitated to ask, "And your brothers?"

"Well, let's just say they're doing their part for the cause." Chaos couldn't tell her Tumult and Snake were his brothers. Everyone concealed their identity using nicknames; relatives were never spoken of.

Helen winced. She found solace by sharing hardships. A veiled force tugged tears from the edge of her eyes. It made her reflect on her own plight. Her question had been answered: Why these Southerners were here to help them. They shared the same heartache, the same enemy.

"Ma'am, we didn't get to the North Country by accident. We came out of the Oke Swamp in Georgia and heard about the Scout Massacre through The Wizard's CB skip. Feds used those AutoMen against us in our fight; we knew what it was like in Dixville. Nothing human could have been that merciless. I convinced Tumult we belonged here. Besides, being around you people helped us forget about our problems. I know about your loss, Ma'am. And I feel it is particularly difficult for the mothers of those boys. Their bond is much closer." He quoted a portion of a poem he had written:



"There is a place in mothers' memories

where ageless children say kind words,

when aspirations pause

and life alone enjoyed."


Mr. Smith
Free book download for Android, iPhone, iPod & Windows Mobile phones.