Archives for May 2010

Here’s something a little steamier for your Memorial Day evening…The Irish Devil by Diane Whiteside is free today from the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 40 customer reviews.  You can pick up your free copy by clicking here.

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

Raised in privilege, Viola is disinherited and ostracized when she is forced to marry a man far beneath her. Now a widow, Viola ekes out a living by taking in washing in a western mining town. On one of her rounds returning clean clothes to the local house of ill repute, she overhears the girls talking about the skills of William Donovan, a handsome Irishman well on his way to making a fortune. Stalked by a crazy suitor, and bereft after her small stash of money is stolen, Viola feels she has no choice but to sell her body. Instead of joining the local working girls, however, she approaches Donovan and asks to be his mistress. He is surprised but quickly takes her up on her offer, and what follows is a very interesting story related in prose so steamy that it fogs one’s reading glasses as Donovan, a student of the sensual arts, teaches Viola everything he knows, and then some.

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God Don’t Like Ugly by Mary Monroe is free today from the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 150 customer reviews.  You can pick up your free coy by clicking here.

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

Annette Goode, born in the racist South of the 1950s, is the heroine of Monroe’s strong second novel (after The Upper Room), a coming-of-age journey depicted with wit, poignancy and bite. Up until 1963, when 13-year-old, overweight Annette Goode meets beautiful Rhoda Nelson, only daughter of the Richland, Ohio, town undertaker, Annette’s life has been a nightmare. After Annette’s father left her mother (Muh’Dear) for a white woman, Muh’Dear has scraped by as a domestic, stealing leftover food from her employers’ kitchens; Annette overeats to compensate for her father’s abandonment. Annette is only seven when she asks their boarder, Mr. Boatwright, to be her daddy. Soon after, he begins raping her. Annette, who considers herself fat and ugly, endures silently, thinking no one will believe her. She suffers the attacks for years until Rhoda befriends her and decides the man must be stopped. Monroe’s characters are well drawn, full-bodied and not all bad. Monroe paints sympathetic portraits of Judge Lawson, the honorable white man Muh’Dear works for; Mr. Nelson, the undertaker; Scary Mary, who runs a brothel but has a good heart; and Pee Wee, Annette’s young gay friend. However, it is the convincingly depicted friendship between Annette and Rhoda that drives the narrative and gives Annette the courage to end her abuse. In using a young girl’s innocent voice to narrate, Monroe recounts a tale of extreme hardship with a hopeful, uplifting tone.

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Home to Italy by Peter Pezzelli is free today from the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 21 customer reviews.  You can pick up your free copy by clicking here.

Here is the book’s description from the author’s website (strangely, neither the Kindle nor paper version has a description on Amazon):

Sometimes you have to travel far to find your way back home…

After the death of his beloved wife, Anna, Peppi’s family and friends expect him to bury his grief by tending to his gardens and taking long rides on his bike. Instead, Peppi shocks them all with his decision to return to Villa San Giuseppe, the small Italian village where he spent his childhood, and to il mulino, his family’s old mill. But once he’s back, he temporarily moves into an apartment over the candy factory run by his childhood best friend, Luca. It is modest, but livable, with a lovely view of Luca’s neglected gardens and his equally neglected daughter, the fiery Lucrezia.

More a force of nature than a woman, Lucrezia’s legendary temper and workaholic schedule hide the very real pain she feels over her husband’s death years before. At first, she tolerates Peppi as an eccentric annoyance—her father’s strange but handsome American friend who fixes things around the factory and is bringing the gardens back to life. But soon, Lucrezia’s interest in Peppi deepens. Like a high wind, the gossip is flying through Villa San Giuseppe—Lucrezia’s making it to dinner on time. She’s eating olives from a man’s hand. She’s wearing heels. Now, under the warm Abruzzo sun, a tentative romance begins to bloom between the grieving pair, yielding to a surprisingly strong passion with the power to heal life’s wounds and promise second chances…

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Treason by Don Brown was offered for free about 9 months or so ago, and quickly had a long run in the Top 10 of the Amazon Kindle bestseller list as well as its three other books in the series.  I read this book, as well as the other books in the series, and I must say I thoroughly enjoyed it and.  Amazon is offering book one in this series for free again, and you can pick up your free copy by clicking here.  This one could be free for months again or just a few days (who knows), so if you are interested in it I would suggest you get it now!

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

The stakes are high . . . and the entire world is waiting for the verdict.

The Navy has uncovered a group of radical Islamic clerics who have infiltrated the Navy Chaplain Corps, inciting sailors and marines to acts of terrorism. And Lieutenant Zack Brewer has been chosen to prosecute them for treason and murder.

Only three years out of law school, Zack has already made a name for himself, winning the coveted Navy Commendation medal. Just coming off a high-profile win, this case will challenge the very core of Zack’s skills and his Christian beliefs—beliefs that could cost him the case and his career.

With Diane Colcernian, his staunchest rival, as assistant prosecutor, Zack takes on internationally acclaimed criminal defense lawyer Wells Levinson. And when Zack and Diane finally agree to put aside their animosity, it causes more problems than they realize.

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Here’s something a little different – the Hachette Group is allowing the first 24 chapters of James Patterson’s new book, Private, to be offered for free; I have no idea how much of the book that is, or if it is a long introduction of some new series, but 24 chapters seems like a lot more than the standard “free sample” you can get on your Kindle in order to try a book out.  Unfortunately, they do not give a description of the book / sample / whatever it truly is on the Amazon website, but you can evaluate it yourself and get it if you click here.

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