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When we meet someone and ask "Where are you from?" or "What do you enjoy doing?", what we are really asking is "What's your story?"
When we start to share our story with others, we can begin to celebrate differences and recognise how much we all have in common.

What's Your Story? Series comprises 8 bookswritten and photographed by Jennie Cole with each book focusing on a personal story. This series is an ideal starting point to encourage conversation and invite others to share their story.

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Individually priced at £5.95, you can buy the full set of 8 books for only £45.00

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Reading Level : 2 - Easy Beginner Reader

Reading Level : 3 - Standard Beginner Reader

Series : What's Your Story?

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Topic : ESOL

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Best of The Reader was a website that hosted a series of e-books for adult literacy and English language learners. The website was retired in 2023. Due to continued interest in the resource, we are making the e-books available at the Decoda Literacy Library as physical copies as well as e-books to download in PDF format.

The stories, recipes, puzzles and other material in the e-books were written by Joan Acosta, the editor of The Westcoast Reader  (1982-2009), a newspaper designed to help learners develop reading and language skills.

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The Apple Books Store is another big-name ebook retailer with a nice selection of free titles. You'll find them divided by category under the Free Books tab in the sidebar: Newly Added, First in a Series, Try Something New, and many more. Though its range isn't as extensive as Amazon's, the Apple Book Store is a solid choice if you're looking for free fiction, especially if you like gripping suspense books and/or speculative fiction.

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Despite originating as a brick-and-mortar bookstore, the Barnes & Noble digital shop is stocked with plenty of free and discount books. It also retains a reassuring element of human curation, with "Staff Picks" at the top of B&N's Free eBooks page, as well as an eye-catching section of free magazines below. Readers should note that some free titles can only be read on B&N's NOOK Reading App; it's free to download, but does add an extra step to the process.

5. Kobo Bookstore

Kobo is the last major player in the literary e-tailer game, with a huge digital store and its own brand of e-readers. To find Kobo's free ebook section, hover over the "eBooks" tab at the top of the page and click Free eBooks on the right. Even seasoned readers will be impressed by the selection, as Kobo offers a number of free titles you won't see anywhere else, particularly in the romance and thriller genres - and also features a list of #ownvoices authors for those craving more diverse reads.

6. Free-Ebooks.net

Needless to say, if you're looking for free ebooks, Free-Ebooks.net is a fine place to start. With thousands of ebooks available to download, you'll never run out of reading material... however, you'll be hard-pressed to find works by well-known authors. Forge ahead if you're intrigued by a vast landscape of free indie ebooks - or check out Free-Ebooks' extensive classics package for some more recognizable titles.

7. Project Gutenberg

If you've ever Googled any variation of "[iconic classic novel] read online", you're probably already familiar with Project Gutenberg. This tremendous digital archive was founded all the way back in 1971, and today hosts over 60,000 documents and books, all of which are free to access. For those in search of plain-text, easily searchable, copy-and-pastable versions of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens books, look no further: Project Gutenberg has you covered.

8. Open Culture

Open Culture is another great place to find classic novels by authors like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Virginia Woolf, and even the massive tomes of Proust and Tolstoy. Take note that Open Culture doesn't host ebooks, instead serving as a hub for all manner of free online resources. However, you can find its impressive master list of 800 free books right here, with multiple links to download these texts or read them online, depending on which file format you prefer.

9. Freebooksy

Freebooksy, a popular book promotion site, is also a hub rather than a host site, linking out to free books on various retailers. What sets Freebooksy apart as a platform is that it only features ebooks that are free that day, so get 'em while they're hot! You can browse each day's selections right there on the homepage, or subscribe to the Freebooksy newsletter to receive them in your inbox.

10. BookBub

BookBub is another excellent promotional tool for authors and a quality source of free and discount books for readers. To access BookBub's current freebies, just click Free Ebooks under the "Readers" tab at the bottom of the page. Here you'll find abundant free titles with links to download them on Amazon and more. Also, if you'd like to see deals in a specific genre or for a certain retailer, you can select it on the left - though you'll have to sort through these, as BookBub's category pages mix both 100% free and discount promotions.

11. ManyBooks

The ManyBooks premise is simple: "Lots of ebooks. 100% free." Select a genre, scroll through "Today's Free Ebooks and Deals", or check out the "Editor's Choice" recs to see what's worth your while. Indeed, ManyBooks offers a great deal in the way of quality control, from the ability to sort books by average rating to its own book review blog. If you're looking for ebooks endorsed by real people, ManyBooks is the site for you.

12. OverDrive

Used by over 43,000 libraries and schools worldwide, OverDrive allows anyone with a library card to pull ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines from its digital bookshelves. Though there can be long waiting lists for popular books (just like a real library - quaint, no?), borrowing them on OverDrive is a much better alternative than scouring the Internet in vain. Browse its featured collections, or search by title or author to locate the book you have in mind. And if you'd rather read on your phone, be sure to download OverDrive's mobile app, Libby.

13. Open Library

Coming in hot with another virtual library, we have Open Library, a division of the long-running Internet Archive. This site is convenient because you don't have to deal with multiple libraries; any ebook on Open Library can be borrowed with a single click. Keep in mind that the site has a narrower selection as a result, and most recent releases aren't available. But if you're content to read books that came out a few years ago, Open Library won't let you down.

14. Get Free Ebooks

Pivoting back to non-library sites, you'll find plenty of ebooks on none other than Get Free Ebooks - though again, this one isn't an ebook hosting platform, but a site that links out to other sources. However, if you're seeking helpful literary lists divided by genre and subject, this is the place to be. Check out their top compilations of ebooks for tons of interesting titles, or select a genre under the "Top Categories" list at the bottom of the page.

15. Ebooks.com

A reliable source for all things ebook-related, Ebooks.com offers up a fairly large collection of free books, with a focus on the classics. Its online e-reader runs pretty smoothly and is nice for readers who like to mark up their texts, with options to highlight passages and leave notes. However, those looking to download their ebooks should be aware that Ebooks.com requires you to install Adobe Digital Editions first (it's a free program, but may still be a drawback for readers hoping to conserve storage space).

16. Reedsy Discovery

For those who like to properly digest their free ebooks and then share your thoughts with an audience, consider becoming a reviewer on Reedsy Discovery! You'll receive a free ebook copy of every title you pick up for review, plus you'll gain followers and can even get tipped for your work. If that's not a great bargain, we don't know what is.

17. Planet Ebook

If the refreshingly minimalist design of Planet Ebook doesn't instantly convince you of its merits, its sizable catalogue of public domain books certainly will. And because it's based in Australia, Planet Ebook pulls from a wider public domain than in the US, so you may be able to find titles on there that you couldn't find elsewhere. To survey its full list of books, click here.

18. Standard Ebooks

Standard Ebooks is another site that's easy on the eyes, mainly for the beautiful book covers that accompany each title in its library - perfectly in line with the project's mission to provide free ebooks that "meet or exceed the quality of commercially produced ebooks." Indeed, here are 500+ books that aren't just "standard," but exceptionally formatted. Readers in constant search of nice-looking classics, make sure to bookmark this site.

19. Feedbooks

On Feedbooks, a site that hosts vast quantities of ebooks to purchase, you can also find free public domain ebooks and free original books. The latter should appeal to readers who have gotten their fill of the public domain, especially as Feedbooks offers some books to download that mainstream retailers do not. However, be prepared to sift carefully through its offerings, as the free offerings can get mixed up with priced ebooks on its featured pages - you may have to search "free" in the upper righthand corner to get what you came for.

20. Book Cave

Book Cave has a pretty compelling headline: "Free ebooks you'll actually want to read." You'll find the aforementioned ebooks right here, with sophisticated filters attached. Not only can you divide these books up by genre, but also by maturity level and even sensitive content, if you wish to exclude violence, profanity, etc. With nearly 2,000 free books available and all these ways to filter them, Book Cave really does help readers find precisely what they want.

21. Smashwords

Since so many authors use Smashwords as an aggregator to distribute their ebooks, the Smashwords store ends up hosting quite a few books itself - and according to its stat counter, a whopping 86,000+ of those books are available for free. You can browse through them all here, though you'll probably want to select a category in the sidebar to narrow it down.

22. BookRix

Another popular self-publishing platform, BookRix hosts thousands of freebies in its online library, most of which are original stories from brand-new authors. Indeed, BookRix is more Wattpad than Amazon KDP, since ebooks can be of any length and fanfiction is allowed. For readers looking to expand their horizons or just have fun, BookRix is definitely worth a shot.

23. Baen Books

And for readers who adore science fiction and fantasy, Baen Books could be your new favorite corner of the Internet. This publisher, founded by celebrated SFF editor Jim Baen, has grown into a wonderful hub for SFF readers and writers alike - complete with plenty of Baen ebooks in its Free Library. Many are actually the first in a series, so if you're looking for a new fantastical world in which to immerse yourself, Baen Books should be your first stop.

24. BookBoon

We also can't leave out BookBoon, a site that provides free e-textbooks, making it an incredibly valuable resource for students and autodidacts alike. If you're in school or know someone else who is, this site needs to be on your radar: under their free "Student" plan, BookBoon offers 1,000+ full-length textbooks, on subjects ranging from chemistry to communications. Go get your Good Will Hunting on!

25. The Online Books Page

Speaking of academic resources, the University of Pennsylvania's Online Books Page is a clean, accessible hub for over three million ebooks and digitized papers - some originally published more than two centuries ago. For the historically inclined, this site (which also has a pretty good search engine) is a veritable fountain of knowledge.

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Hungry for more? Check out this list of additional places to find free books online, or our post on where to find free audiobooks. Happy freebie'ing!

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