New Voices. Big Potential. Rising Kindle Stars.

Meet tomorrow’s breakout indie authors today. This section highlights Kindle books gaining momentum — with standout storytelling, fresh voices, and rising reader interest.

Against the Machine: Manifesto

By: Brian Van Norman
Mel Buckworth, dependable family man, loses his manufacturingjob through recession. Having lost his sense of purpose his pridesidelines him as he discerns his lack of digital skills so apparent inhis children’s generation. He is galled by his daughter Dani’suniversity friend, Stanley Best, who is about to achieve fame in thefields of nano technology and artificial intelligence. As Meldesperately attempts to find equilibrium he estranges his family,leaves his wife and enlists the help of a greedy grad student. WillBaker teaches Mel the skills he will need to wreak revenge on asystem seemingly discarding him. As his aptitudes grow he beginsto use the internet, the very thing he despised, a...
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Against the Machine: Luddites

By: Brian Van Norman

At war against Napoleon near bankrupt English mill-masters
experiment with a new factory system acquiring machines to replace
men. A young worker leads the Luddites attacking mills and
smashing machines. With increased assaults and even murder, North
England feels the grip of terrorism. Government agents attempt to
suppress the rebellion. In 1812 there are more British troops in North
England than there were fighting Napoleon.

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Italian Tilt

By: Carlos Rubio

Italian Tilt is a novel that goes beyond  exploring how Donald, the main character, finds romance and discovers a new culture while on a trip to Italy. It also deals with the nature of  personal  growth, the nature of friendship, as well as family conflict and reconciliation.

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Preserve, Protect, And Defend

By: Chuck Morgan
Power. Betrayal. The Fight for Democracy.The fate of the nation hangs by a thread in Preserve Protect and Defend, the pulse-pounding political thriller from Chuck Morgan. When Senator Oliver Stevenson loses the presidential election, he refuses to accept defeat. With the backing of powerful allies and a rogue militia, he sets in motion a deadly plan to sabotage democracy itself.Elite operative Mike Branik and his team are tasked with uncovering the conspiracy before it’s too late. But as the inauguration looms, the stakes skyrocket—assassination plots, legal loopholes, and betrayals threaten to unravel the peaceful transfer of power. Racing against time, Branik must navigate through shif...
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Pangea: Hidden Treasures, Hidden Dangers

By: John S. Pritchett
Pangea: Hidden Treasures, Hidden DangersA World Once United… A Secret Lost to Time.Millions of years ago, Earth’s continents were one—Pangea. A vast supercontinent that held untold riches beneath its surface and concealed dangers beyond imagination. Now, as scientists, explorers, and fortune seekers race to uncover the secrets of this ancient landmass, a startling discovery threatens to change everything we know about our planet’s past… and our future.Journey through time and uncover:The origins of Pangea and the violent forces that tore it apartHidden mineral treasures and the lost riches buried within Earth's crustThe catastrophic dangers—earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis—...
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Time Stamping

By: Richard C Brantley
Looking for a fun book to read: The novel "Time Stamping" tells an incredible story about the building of a Time Traveling spaceship and exploring alien worlds. The secret to time travel is worth billions, and organized crime will stop at nothing to steal the plans. Security Officer Josh Charles and his iBot Sparky were constantly threatened, from visiting shapeshifters and crime lords during the entire StarChaser build.  Prepare for a wild ride:• Our astrophysicist Kat gives birth to an alien baby.• Discover alien species that visited Earth millennia ago, playing a crucial role in our evolution, including the creation of the Great Pyramids.• Journey to the Andromeda gal...
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Two Wrongs

By: Z.I. Farber

A renowned criminal psychologist crosses over into vigilantism.

For over a decade, Dr. Marvin Seaverman, a criminal psychologist and police consultant, has methodically catfished pedophiles, murdering the most egregious abusers, while successfully covering his tracks. All this time, the NYPD has remained oblivious to the existence of a vigilante serial killer in their city.

This week, Merv has slipped, and Detective Sharone Lazar of the 101st precinct—his daughter's closest friend since childhood—has discerned the pattern. Sharone has not yet figured out the killer’s identity, but it is only a matter of time.

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Against the Machine: Evolution

By: Brian Van Norman
Earth, 2212: The novel, third in the Against The Machine trilogy, yet free standing on its own, tells of a dystopian society in the midst of catastrophic climate change. Billions have died. The minority ofpeople remaining inhabit the MEGs, former cities transformed by technology into huge protective domes; outside is the MASS living by subsistence. All seems well for those in the CORPORATE. It is not. With worsening climate, the MASS increasingly restive, and their AI Silicons becoming sentient, those at the top have concocted a final solution: to leave Earth for Alpha Centauri, destroying the planet in their wake. Four protagonists, each from separate segments of this world, come together t...
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Deadly Habits

By: G.J. Prager

Private detective Robert Klayman is hard at work on a twenty-year old cold case. He's holed up in Spring Dunes, a chic desert town a hundred miles east of Los Angeles, where the jet set and casino moguls hobnob and meth labs proliferate. Sinister parties have taken an interest in the case, including a drug dealing casino manager who deposits his victims in acid vats, and former members of a right-wing militia who seek vengeance for the death of their leader. Klayman's attempt to bring closure for his wealthy and attractive client lead him to the source of a conspiracy that takes him across the world, and has him confronting the ghosts of his own past.

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Tristis Angelus

By: Mike Unrue
A gothic tale of love, loss, and transformation. A celestial being is exiled to Earth. Immortal, yet now in human form, he lives through the whole of human evolution, until he can return to his rightful place.Tristis is Counsellor to the Tyrant of the Celestial Realm, sworn to assist evolution on other worlds all across the Universe.There is mischief in the Realm. A cabal is bent upon rebellion and destruction.The plot discovered, they accuse Tristis as the instigator and the Tyrant banishes him to Earth, to live in human form, to struggle with human weaknesses, to suffer with human frailty.Though immortal, he meets doom at every turn, only to awaken in a distant future far removed from...
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Aaron and Me, Works In Progress

By: Debralynn Fein
During a routine baby-wellness checkup, Kim XXX is faced with one of the most horrendous experiences a parent can endure: a couple of innocent cafe-au-lait spots indicate a possible diagnosis of Neurofibromatosis for her eighteen-month-old son, Aaron. Ill-equipped to cope with the indefinite nature of the diagnosis, the New Jersey suburban first-time mom spirals out of control. She becomes obsessed with irrational thoughts of how to protect her innocent son from a disease that seems to have no cure, but could leave him blind, deaf or missing a limb. As Kim goes through each successive neurological visit, waiting for medical professionals to give her a pronouncement of normalcy or doom, the u...
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Stories in the Scriptures

By: Robert Crompton
Stories in the Scriptures offers a way of reading familiar texts from a fresh perspective. Robert Crompton comes to the ancient narratives in the role of a story-teller and asks, not, “What must we believe?” but, “What real situations might have prompted people just like ourselves to tell these tales?”In trying to find possible answers to questions of this sort, Robert finds himself drawn closer to the people behind the stories. Ordinary people who really are just like ourselves, who loved to tell their tales – to inform, to entertain, and maybe sometimes even to mislead. Real people to whom we can relate and who can inspire us to tell our own stories.Stories in the Scriptures tell...
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