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Today's Kindle Daily Deal

March 31, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

The Kindle Daily Deal is a one-day only offer where a specific Kindle book for adults and one for younger readers (children or young adults) has been hand-selected by the editors at Amazon and significantly discounted for today only.

Today’s Kindle Daily Deal for adults is Deadly Farce by Jennifer McAndrews and this book was $4.99 yesterday in the Amazon Kindle Store but has been discounted 60% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 10 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Kids Daily Deal is all three books in the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang series started by James Bond author Ian Fleming, and these books were $6.99 yesterday in the Amazon Kindle Store but have been discounted 72% to just $1.99 each for today only.

Today’s Science Fiction / Fantasy Daily Deal is The Marching Morons (The Galaxy Project) by C.M. Kornbluth, and this book was $2.99 yesterday in the Amazon Kindle Store but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 8 customer reviews.

Today’s Romance Daily Deal is The Lady is a Vamp: An Argeneau Novel by Lynsay Sands and this book was $7.99 yesterday in the Amazon Kindle Store but has been discounted 88% to just $0.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 116 customer reviews.

You can check each of them out if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser.

Here is the Deadly Farce book description from the Amazon website:

When Hollywood heavyweight Shepard Brown fears someone is trying to kill him, he asks newly licensed private investigator Lorraine Keys to keep him safe. Friends with Shepard since elementary school, Lorraine knows he can be more than a little melodramatic. Though she agrees to meet him on location in Atlantic City, New Jersey, to review the situation, the last thing she expects is to find truth in his claims. After all, a poisoned pizza? But after getting caught in the center of yet another attempt on Shepard’s life, Lorraine is forced to admit he’s right about the danger – and determined to find a way to protect him while searching for the culprit. With her meddling friend Barb along for the ride and her boss anxiously tracking her every move, Lorraine must juggle the chaos of a film set, the lure of the casinos, the mutual attraction of a hunky co-star, and a minefield of Shepard’s ex-girlfriends all while keeping Shepard safe and uncovering the identity of the killer … before she becomes the next target.

You can pick up your copy of Deadly Farce by clicking here or typing in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your computer’s web browser.

Due to length of post constraints, I am not going to list out each of the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang books, but here is the book one, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang book description from the Amazon website:

Ian Fleming’s beloved original text — newly illustrated by Joe Berger! “Crackpot” is what everybody calls the Pott family. So when they go to buy a new car and come back with a wreck, nobody is surprised. Except for the Potts themselves. First, the car has a name. And she tells them what it is. Then they find out that she can fly. And swim. . . . Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a car on a mission to stop a criminal gang in its tracks — and she is taking the Potts with her! Jump into the world’s most loved magical car for her first adventure.

You can pick up your copy of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by clicking here or typing in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your computer’s web browser.

Here is the The Marching Morons (The Galaxy Project) book description from the Amazon website:

Published more than 60 years ago, this dark and prescient story of a future devolved to idiocy remains one of the most frightening visions to have emerged from the science fiction of that decade. Envisioning a future United States overwhelmed by a citizenry of low IQ (a consequence of the overbreeding of the stupid) Kornbluth was in fact writing of an observed present. The steady, inexorable descent of human intelligence obsessed Kornbluth, was one of his major themes and reached its truest statement in this novelette. The secret masters of Kornbluth’s future are a small population of the intelligent who in subterranean fashion run the country but the “marching morons” overwhelm them and they summon a cynical entrepreneur from the past to help them deal with the dilemma. Weak on technology (a time machine is employed scoop the entrepreneur into their present) the novelette is deadly accurate in its portrait of a society sunk in stupid television, ornate, worthless automobiles and catchphrases which substitute for thought. The denouement is absolutely uncompromising and its utter bleakness is refractory not of a speculative future (which it may well be) but a present which Kornbluth found omnipresent and unbearable. In terms of social statement and extrapolation THE MARCHING MORONS stands with Orwell’s 1984 or Forster’s THE MACHINE STOPS as shattering anatomization of an inevitable future.

You can pick up your copy of The Marching Morons (The Galaxy Project) by clicking here or typing in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your computer’s web browser.

Here is the The Lady is a Vamp: An Argeneau Novel book description from the Amazon website:

The Argeneau’s are hungry for love—and Lynsay Sands’s bestselling paranormal romance series starring the enormously popular vampire family is hotter than ever! In this New York Times and USA Today bestselling author’s spicy-sweet sixteenth Argeneau novel, the lady is a gorgeous vampire enchantress who finds herself kidnapped by one desperate—and devastatingly handsome—man. The Lady is a Vamp is Lynsay at her best—and fans of the hit HBO series True Blood, as well as the Charlaine Harris Sookie Stackhouse novels it’s based on, will eagerly drink in every tasty drop of this sexy, suspenseful paranormal winner.

You can pick up your copy of The Lady is a Vamp: An Argeneau Novel by clicking here or typing in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your computer’s web browser.

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Your Kindle and Vacations

March 31, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Kindle owners do lots of things with their Kindles – some this you may already know how to do, but there may be a lot of you who never thought to do it. There is a discussion thread going on over at the Amazon site where members are posting some of the random things they do with their Kindles in addition to “just” reading books. I will be profiling some of these over the next few weeks – after all, part of the title line of this blog is supposed to be about Kindle tips vs. just a feature on free books!

Here’s one of the tips from the discussion board:

We went on a trip to Arizona and the Grand Canyon, and I downloaded all kinds of web info for points of interest, including directions. So, when we had a blank spot in our itinerary, I could pull up the info in the car, read it to my husband, decide if we were in vicinity and interested in the place and GO!

I also downloaded the Ranger talks about various observation points in the Canyon and played them while we stood at those points. DISCLAIMER:

Those talks could have been listened to on cell phones, if you had service.
My husband and son thought I was totally dorky at that point and wouldn’t stand near me while I played them….. I had to force them to listen by playing them in the car between stops!

Do you have a tip you would like to share with the group? Send it to me via email (michael at fkbooksandtips dot com).

Thanks!

Michael

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Today's Free App of the Day

March 31, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Each day, Amazon offers a free Android App of the Day that could be a game, utility, or who knows? Each deal lasts for just 24 hours and, after that period is over it goes back to paid status and a new app is the App of the Day. In addition to your Kindle Fire, these apps will also work with your Android-based smartphones and tablet computers.

Today’s Free App of the Day is Lilith It’s Easter Day – Find the Difference and this game is normally $1.99 in the Amazon App Store but is free for today only.

Here is the app’s description from the Amazon App Store website:

Join Lilith, a young friendly vampire, for a fun Easter themed adventure with her best friend Emma. This is a companion story to the free Emma Easter game. Now you can see the story from perspective of Lilith and enjoy a different artists style for both characters.

Happy Easter from the folks at Difference Games!

-3 Difficulty Modes to challenges both kids and parents
-Find all the differences between the two pictures to advance to next level
-Bonus points for finding all the differences fast
-Two modes of hints if you get stuck
-Every game uses new sets of differences to keep the challenge up
-Unlock Survival Mode after you beat the game.

You can pick up your free copy of Lilith It’s Easter Day – Find the Difference by clicking here or typing in http://smarturl.it/appdeal into your computer’s web browser.

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Today's Featured Kindle Book of the Day

March 31, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Today’s Featured book of the Day is The Sasha McCandless Series: Volume 1 (Books 1-3) , by Mellissa F. Miller, and this three book box set collection has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 35 customer reviews. This book collection is normally $9.99, but has been discounted 70% to just $2.99 in connection with this promotion in the Amazon Kindle store.

Category: Legal Thriller / Mystery

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Now available in one volume, the three fast-paced, suspense-packed, bestselling legal thrillers that introduce attorney Sasha McCandless.

Irreparable Harm (Book 1)

After eight long years, Sasha McCandless is about to make partner at a prestigious law firm. When a plane operated by her client slams into the side of a mountain, killing everyone aboard, Sasha gears up to defend the inevitable civil lawsuits. She soon realizes the crash was no accident: a developer has created an application that can control a commercial plane’s onboard computer from a smartphone. Sasha joins forces with a federal air marshal, and they race to prevent another airline disaster. But when people close to the matter start to die, Sasha must rely on both her legal skills and her Krav Maga training to stop the madman before he kills her.

Inadvertent Disclosure (Book 2)

Six months after an airplane crash altered the course of Sasha’s professional and personal life, she’s focused on building her solo law practice and tending her budding relationship with federal air marshal Leo Connelly. When she drives from Pittsburgh to rural Clear Brook County to argue a discovery motion, she finds a town bitterly divided over the issue of hydrofracking the Marcellus Shale. Outsiders from the oil and gas industry and environmental activists threaten to rip apart the community’s fabric. Then the town’s only judge is murdered, and Sasha can’t just walk away. As she works to find the killer, she must race to save the town before it fractures beyond repair.

Irretrievably Broken (Book 3)

The venerable law firm of Prescott & Talbott is reeling from the murder of partner Ellen Mortenson — purportedly at the hands of her estranged husband — when a photograph of the dead woman arrives, her face Xed out and “ONE DOWN” scrawled across the bottom. Within days, a second partner is murdered, her husband also accused. Sasha doesn’t practice criminal defense, so she’s suspicious when her former firm asks her to represent Ellen’s husband. Owing Prescott a favor, she takes the case and soon finds herself representing not one, but both, of the so-called Lady Lawyer Killers. The long hours jeopardize her relationship with Leo Connelly when he needs her most. That’s the least of Sasha’s troubles, though, because what she doesn’t know is that the real killer is waging a vendetta for a past case gone wrong. And there’s one more lawyer on his list.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/sasha into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Sasha McCandless Series: Volume 1 (Books 1-3).

About the Author:

I’m Melissa F. Miller, author of the Sasha McCandless legal thriller series and a practicing attorney. When I’m not in court or on the playground with my three delightful children, I’m hard at work on my next novel.

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This Week's Informal Poll – Your Participation Requested

March 30, 2013 by Michael Gallagher 100 Comments

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been trying something different and have an informal poll where you could interact and share your ideas via the comments section of the blog. I encourage you to get out of your comfort zone and give it a try!

If you missed the first few questions in the polls, you can click here or type in http://bit.ly/12dNfjz into your web browser to answer the questions and interact with the other blog members.

If you are reading this post on your e-Ink Kindle or received the post via email, you can always see this week’s poll question if you click here or type in http://wp.me/p2b82w-4fw into your web browser.

So, here’s this week’s informal poll question: “what is your all-time favorite book series?” Let us know in the comments section just below this post and give us some commentary / details behind your answer as you see fit!

I’ll start it off: it would have to be a tie between The Brotherhood of War series by W.E.B. Griffin and The Sackett series by Louis L’Amour.

Both of these series appeal primarily to men, although I do know of a few women who have read and enjoyed them, and to me both of these series seem to grab you and pull you in not only with the situations but the characters: you literally feel as if the characters are part of your own family.

The Brotherhood of War series follows the lives of a group of U.S. Army men and women starting during World War II through the Vietnam War, and the author has since completed several derivatives of the same theme. There are multiple books in the series, but if you like a good military-based series I would start off with the first one in the series called The Lieutenants. You can read the review I wrote several years ago for book one of the series if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/7orik0 into your web browser.

You can check out the first book in the series if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/kezx74 into your web browser.

I’d be willing to bet tens of millions of people have read Louis L’Amour’s Sackett series: I’ve read them multiple times over the years and I still have all of them in a well-worn paperbacks as well as many of the titles on my Kindle. The Sackett series is classic Old West where the men were men and there were few women, you always knew right from wrong, and never underestimate the power of family.

There are 17 novels (and several short stories and derivative works) in the Sackett series, and if I were going to start off with them again I would do it in chronological order vs. the order they were written. The first one in chronological order is called Sackett’s Land, and you can check it out if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/z4ndl7 into your web browser.

What about you? Please answer away in the comments section below this post on the blog’s website. If you are reading this post on your e-Ink Kindle or received the post via email, you can always see this week’s poll question if you click here or type in http://wp.me/p2b82w-4fw into your web browser.

Have a great rest of your weekend!

Michael

Last Day to Enter the Paperwhite Giveaway!

March 30, 2013 by Michael Gallagher 2 Comments

I know, some of you are sick of hearing about this, but today is the last day (at least for this giveaway)….how about passing this on to your friends and family so they can enter,also?

Don’t forget to enter to win a brand new Kindle Paperwhite with 3G! If you missed the post, or need to visit it again, you can click here or type in http://smarturl.it/marchgiveaway into your web browser. Remember, you have until midnight Central time today to signup and it is free to enter!

Good luck-

Michael

Today's Kindle Daily Deal

March 30, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Today’s Kindle Daily Deal for adults is actually all titles in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series: each of these are highly-rated and have been discounted to just $2.99 or less each for today only.

Today’s Kindle Kids Daily Deal is Wings: A Fairy Tale by E.D. Baker and this book was $7.99 yesterday in the Amazon Kindle Store but has been discounted 75% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 16 customer reviews.

Today’s Science Fiction / Fantasy Daily Deal is Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut and this book was $8.99 yesterday in the Amazon Kindle Store but has been discounted 78% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 103 customer reviews.

Today’s Romance Daily Deal is Charm! by Kendell Hart and this book was $21.95 yesterday in the Amazon Kindle Store but has been discounted 91% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 30 customer reviews.

You can check each of them out if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser.

I’m not going to list out each of the Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series in today’s Kindle Daily Deal for adults because it would be one heck of a long post. However, you can check each of them out if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser.

Here is the Wings: A Fairy Tale book description from the Amazon website:

Tamisin has always been a little weird. Her freckles actually look more like sparkles and occasionally, she likes to dance under the full moon. Then one day, wings sprout from her back, and Tamisin learns that her parents adopted her from fairyland. Inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream, this fairy tale will delight fans of The Tales of the Frog Princess and new readers alike.

You can pick up your copy of Wings: A Fairy Tale by clicking here or typing in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your computer’s web browser.

Here is the Player Piano book description from the Amazon website:

Player Piano (1952), Vonnegut’s first novel, embeds and foreshadows themes which are to be parsed and dramatized by academians for centuries to come. His future society–a marginal extrapolation, Vonnegut wrote, of the situation he observed as an employee of General Electric in which machines were replacing people increasingly and without any regard for their fate–is mechanistic and cruel, indifferent to human consequence, almost in a state of merriment as human wreckage accumulates. Paul Proteus, the novel’s protagonist, is an engineer at Ilium Works and first observes with horror and then struggles to reverse the displacement of human labor by machines.

Ilium Works and Paul’s struggles are a deliberately cartoon version of labor’s historic and escalating struggle to give dignity and purpose to workers. The novel embodies all of Vonenegut’s concerns and what he takes to be the great dilemma of the technologically overpowered century: the spiritual needs of the population in no way serve the economies of technology and post-technology. Vonnegut overlies this grotesque comedy over tragedy, disguising his novel in the trappings of goofiness.

Not published–at Vonnegut’s insistence–as science fiction, the novel was nonetheless recognized and praised by the science fiction community which understood it far better than a more general readership, a dilemma which Vonnegut resentfully faced throughout his career. Bernard Wolfe’s dystopian Limbo and Player Pianowere published in the same year to roughly similar receptions; two “outsiders” had apotheosized technophobia as forcefully as any writer within the field. Throughout his career, Vonnegut was forced to struggle with his ambivalence about science fiction and his own equivocal relationship with its readers.

You can pick up your copy of Player Piano by clicking here or typing in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your computer’s web browser.

Here is the Charm! book description from the Amazon website:

Avery Wilkins is in her prime. She’s 30 years old, living in Manhattan, beautiful, smart, and the head of her own cosmetics company, Flair. But her enviable exterior hides deep heartache and painful secrets. Determined to launch a successful perfume, and hopeful that her relationship with handsome and supportive Marcus is getting serious, Avery is chasing her dreams–and running from her traumatic past.
Just when things seem to be on an even keel, Avery is hit with a succession of shocking setbacks, surprises, and betrayals: A drug-addicted colleague who threatens the future of Flair, one boyfriend who is incapable of fidelity, another who may have committed a terrible crime, a long-lost sister who isn’t quite who she seems, and most disturbing of all, the sudden appearance of a woman claiming to be Avery’s birth mother.
Avery is forced to question the loyalty of friends, lovers, and colleagues, and even her own beliefs about where she came from and who she is. Through it all, she draws on her ambition, grit, and cunning to outsmart her enemies, keep her company afloat, and protect herself from emotional meltdown. But when her archenemy resorts to kidnapping, has Avery finally met her match
Dramatic, sexy, and fun, Charm! is a wickedly entertaining roman a clef by All My Children favorite Kendall Hart. Brimming with scandal, romance, backstabbing, and unpredictable twists, it is every bit as shocking and captivating as the character who wrote it.

You can pick up your copy of Charm! by clicking here or typing in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your computer’s web browser.

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Today's Featured Kindle Book of the Day

March 30, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Today’s Featured book of the Day is The Good Lawyer , by Thomas Benigno, and this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 1,030 customer reviews. This book is just $2.99 in the Amazon Kindle store.

Category: Thriller

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

INSPIRED BY A TRUE STORY

A young, ambitious lawyer is eager to prove he is better than the father who abandoned him and worthy of the devoted mother who raised him beyond the siren call of the mobster dominated family he grew up in. Working as a Bronx Legal Aid Attorney he learns how to twist the system, how to become an unbeatable defense lawyer, and he his peacock proud of his perfect record-not a single conviction. But it’s 1982. The Spiderman rapist is on the loose and New York City is a city in fear. When an outraged rape victim commits suicide right before his eyes, searching for absolution, he grabs the headline case of a teacher’s aide accused of molesting three students. Armed with a firm belief in his client’s innocence, he knocks the pegs out from under the prosecution’s case. When one of the children turns up dead, he discovers that his client may be strangely connected to the Spiderman. Digging deeper, horrifying revelations about his family’s past collide with the true identity of the sadistic sociopath behind the Spiderman’s rampage. In the process, this good lawyer comes face-to-face with his greatest conflict and deepest fear: to win, really win-save the city and even the woman he loves-must he sacrifice every principle he believes in and embrace his family’s mafia past to become judge, jury, and executioner?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/sgez5z into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Good Lawyer .

About the Author:

Thomas Benigno is a practicing attorney on Long Island, N. Y. After graduating Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in Manhattan in 1979, at the behest of his Criminal Law Clinic Professor, Barry Scheck (who later obtained fame for representing O. J. Simpson) he was fast-tracked to a position as Associate Attorney with the New York City Legal Aid Society in the Bronx. While there he sought out and tackled the grittiest of cases, even representing the infamous Spiderman Rapist. If you ask him why he repeatedly took on the defense of child molesters and rapists, he’ll sound off two reasons: 1) no other attorney would take these cases, and 2) he was young and out to prove himself. The year before he left Legal Aid to go into private practice he was featured in a two page spread in the New York City Legal Aid Society’s Annual Report for his success in winning what seemed like an unwinnable case-a teacher’s aide charged with molesting three of his students. At a party held in his honor he was handed a beautiful plaque commemorating his court victory-a plaque he never hung up or put on display ever. Two years later he left Legal Aid, and within eighteen months after that, left the practice of criminal law behind forever having never lost a trial. Currently he practices real estate and business law, enjoys acting in staged productions on Long Island, appeared as an actor in two movies, one an award winning short film, and even produced (along with others) a Broadway show (Burn the Floor and its U.S. tour). He is married to the same beautiful woman since shortly after graduating law school and has three adult children. THE GOOD LAWYER is a novel inspired by real events while he was working as a Legal Aid Attorney in the Bronx.

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Have You Entered?

March 29, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

It’s time for your daily reminder, and there is just one day to go after today….don’t forget to enter to win a brand new Kindle Paperwhite with 3G! If you missed the post, or need to visit it again, you can click here or type in http://smarturl.it/marchgiveaway into your web browser. Remember, you have until midnight Central time Saturday to signup and it is free to enter!

How about passing this link on to your friends and family? I’m sure they would like to win a new Paperwhite!

Good luck-

Michael

Four Discounted Kindle Book Offers

March 29, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Here are four Kindle book offers that have been discounted just for members of the blog by the book’s authors: this decreased pricing is for a limited time only!

The Quill Pen by Michelle Isenhoff is normally $2.99 in the Amazon Kindle store but has been discounted 66% to just $0.99 members of the blog; this book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 15 customer reviews.

Category: Fantasy / Historical Fiction

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

If you owned a pen that wrote the future, would you use it? What if the consequences spread like ripples in a pond? What if they raged out of control? What if the pen demanded tribute…in blood? Thirteen-year-old Micah has found such a pen. One that’s ensnared him in a curse dating back generations. One that’s devastated two families and now threatens his whole New England village. But how can Micah destroy the pen when it offers him his only chance at the future he dreams of?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/h90gdz into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Quill Pen .

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Dilemma by Jacquie Johnson is normally $3.99 but has been discounted 25% to just $2.99, and will remain at this price through Sunday night. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 11 customer reviews.

Category: Romantic Suspense

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

In Chicago, the name Jon Elliott garners attention. When the legal mastermind offers to mentor Alexis Winters, Bingham, Elliott and Bright’s newest associate, she jumps at the opportunity sure this will launch her career. But Jon has a dark side, one that demands unquestioning loyalty and a willingness to defy the spirit of the law, if not the letter.

Thrust into Jon’s world and expected to play by his rulebook, Alexis grapples with her conscience. On several occasions, Jon’s orders are at odds with what she learned in law school, and she finds herself trapped between her profession’s ethical rules and her own values. When Jon’s biggest client appears to be engaging in questionable activities and he orders her to ignore the behavior, Alexis investigates on her own. Suddenly, she is not only a witness to a horrible crime but a victim in her own right. Going underground, she turns to the one person she can trust, investigative journalist Ryder Prescott, a childhood friend. Together, Ryder and Alexis work to solve a puzzle that crosses socioeconomic classes, political parties and international borders.

Embroiled in a global conspiracy that costs her the only family she has left, Alexis must decide how far she will go to defend truth and justice. Is she willing to sacrifice life, liberty and the possibility of love?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dilemma into your web browser to pick up your copy of Dilemma .

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The Serpent in the Glass by D.M. Andrews is $4.49 in the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 53 customer reviews.

Category: Fantasy / Young Adult

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

On his eleventh birthday Thomas Farrell is informed that the deceased father he never knew has provided for his education at Darkledun Manor, a school for gifted children. Thomas, however, feels he’s just an ordinary boy, but Darkledun Manor proves to be anything but an ordinary school…

In this work of fiction the reader is transported into a world of myth as the young protagonist, Thomas Farrell, seeks to understand who his mysterious father was, and why he left him a strange glass orb containing a serpent. As the story progresses, Thomas and his friends become increasingly caught up in a world they never knew existed — a world beyond the standing stones.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/9bci0t into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Serpent in the Glass .

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Halfskin by Tony Bertauski is $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle and this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 39 customer reviews.

Category: Fantasy / Science Fiction

Here is the collection’s description from the Amazon website:

Biomites are artificial stem cells that can replace any cell in your body. No more kidney failure, no severed spines or blood disease. No cancer. Pharmaceuticals become obsolete. With each dose of biomites, we become stronger, we become smarter and prettier.

We become better.

At what point are we no longer human?

Nix Richards nearly died in a car accident when he was young. Biomites saved his life. Ten years later, he’s not so lucky. The Halfskin Laws decree a human composed of 50% biomites is no longer human. Halfskins have no legal rights and will have their biomites shutdown. It’s not called murder, merely deactivation.

Cali Richards has been Nix’s legal guardian since their parents died. She has lost far too many people in her life to let the government take Nix. She is a nanobiometric engineer and will discover how to hide him. But even brilliance can succumb to the pressure of suffering. And technology can’t cure insanity.

Cali and Nix keep a slippery grip on reality as they elude a maniacal federal agent dedicated to saving humanity from what he calls ‘The Biomite Plague’.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/halfskin into your web browser to pick up your copy of Halfskin .

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Archives for March 2013

Today's Kindle Daily Deal

Your Kindle and Vacations

Today's Free App of the Day

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