Archives for January 2012

16 Free Games for Your Kindle

January 31, 2012 by Michael Gallagher

In addition to books, your Kindle can play games – I’m not just talking about the Kindle Fire, but your regular e-Ink Kindle. Amazon has published 16 games they are giving away for free, including:

Video Poker – click here or type in http://amzn.to/wrOiHK into your computer’s web browser.

Pixel Perfect Holiday Puzzles – click here or type in http://amzn.to/zvzr5l

Shuffled Row – click here or type in http://amzn.to/yhbhia

Pirate Stash – click here or type in http://amzn.to/osbw7D

Hamster Habitat – click here or type in http://amzn.to/zJgcF1

Thread Words – click here or type in http://amzn.to/jUrPdb

Dots and Boxes – click here or type in http://amzn.to/k5DcCB

Every Word – click here or type in http://amzn.to/vZxMxY

Blackjack – click here or type in http://amzn.to/xkcPMg

Number Slide – click here or type in http://amzn.to/eZ3vLZ

Jigsaw Words – click here or type in http://amzn.to/nTnJos

Jigsaw Words Volume 2 – click here or type in http://amzn.to/sPGMao

Every Word: Crossings – click here or type in http://amzn.to/n6LwHS

Grid Detective – click here or type in http://amzn.to/qA1nWJ

Pixel Perfect Puzzles – click here or type in http://amzn.to/o6H3u2

Mine Sweeper – click here or type in http://amzn.to/zRIWnZ

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Yellow Crocus – Free from Amazon Kindle Store

January 31, 2012 by Michael Gallagher

Yellow Crocus: A Novel by Laila Ibrahim is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and has received a perfect 5 out of 5 stars based on 15 customer reviews. You can pick up your free copy by clicking here or typing in http://amzn.to/y6iYFZ into your computer’s web browser.

Category: Historical Fiction

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

Moments after her birth to the mistress of a sprawling Virginia plantation, Lisbeth Wainwright is entrusted to Mattie, an enslaved wet nurse. From then on, Mattie serves as Lisbeth’s stand-in mother, nursing her, singing her to sleep, and soothing her in the night. And yet mothering Lisbeth tears Mattie away from her own baby, Samuel, who lives in the slave quarters. Growing up under Mattie’s tender care, Lisbeth adopts her traditions of prayer, singing, eating black-eyed peas, and hunting for yellow crocuses in the spring. As the years pass, Lisbeth is drawn back into the white world, earning a growing awareness of the inequality of her and Mattie’s stations. She struggles to reconcile her love for Mattie with her parents’ expectations for her future, intent on keeping the best of both worlds-until a terrible betrayal forces her to choose once and for all. Yellow Crocus is a compelling novel of love, loss, and redemption set during one of the most sinister chapters of American history.

The Resume is Dead – Free from Amazon Kindle Store

January 31, 2012 by Michael Gallagher

The Resume is Dead by Nelson Wang is free today from the Amazon Kindle store, and has received a perfect 5 out of 5 stars based on 2 customer reviews. You can pick up your free copy by clicking here or typing in http://amzn.to/ylwm7m into your computer’s web browser.

Category: Advice & How-To

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

What Does Matt Epstein Know That We Don’t?

One summer day, Matt Epstein applied to 20 different companies on LinkedIn to find work. He waited.

And waited.

He never heard back a single response. Fear began to creep in. He couldn’t find a job because of one simple reason: He was blending in with the masses. Panic began to race through his mind. “Seriously, what the hell am I doing here?” He took a deep breath, stepped back and assessed the situation.

And then a stroke of genius hit him.

He was going to be bold. Inspiring. Outrageous. Awkward. Funny. Unbelievable.

It was in this moment Matt Epstein created the most viral and successful job campaign of our lives. By the time his campaign was finished, he had amassed these results:

• Received 80 interview offers from companies like Google, Salesforce.com, Microsoft, Amazon, Etsy and SigFig (among many more)
• Received over 400,000 unique visits and 720,000 page views for his site
• Received over 450,000 YouTube views
• Received 20,000 Facebook Likes, 4,800 Tweets and 4,100 Google +’s
• Received print, online and TV coverage across the world from TechCrunch, Gizmodo, to the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal

How is it that Matt was able to get publicity from just about every big name media outlet, generate a massive fan base and garner 80 interview offers from top tier, innovative companies while so many of us have to beg for a single interview?

What does Matt Epstein know that we don’t?

In fact, what do all these people know that we don’t?

Hanna Phan sent the “Tweet heard ‘round the world” to the CEO of one of the hottest technology start ups in the world and had 1,290 people share her story on Facebook, 1,854 retweets, 204 LinkedIn shares and multiple job offers from different companies.

Nagesh Palepu overcame being nearly deaf at a young age and went through an incredibly journey as his career started as a cashier at McDonald’s and continues today as the CEO of a highly successful company today.

Sarah Rossdale started working in a tiny ice cream stand and fought her way to her dream job at Disney, all while competing against her own roommate.

Nelson Wang went from Labor Foreman to a Partner Manager managing a multi-million dollar territory of business and built a LinkedIn brand so powerful that he had recruiters from Google, Apple, Verizon, Paypal, and HP reaching out to him.

And finally, Jerry, at the tender age of 20, overcame a life and death experience to build an incredibly successful career. His comeback story reminds us of the importance of enjoying the moment and having balance in our lives.

So what do they know that we don’t?

It’s simple really. They all acknowledged one fundamental fact:

The resume is dead.

Your job opportunities, however, are alive and well. If you learn the secrets on how to be an artist and to create with emotion.

This book will teach you how.

This step by step guide also includes:

★ 500 of the top interview questions and answers created by Fortune 100 HR experts
★ How to create your own website and blog from scratch in under 10 minutes
★ The top 5 secrets on how to build a standout LInkedIn brand
★ Additional tips on how to leverage new media tools like YouTube, SlideRocket, Twitter, Prezi and Facebook
★ How to garner recommendations from CEOs, VPs, Managers and peers
★ How to impress a CEO in less than 30 seconds

You don’t need another paper resume. You need the secrets to standing out.

That’s exactly what “The Resume is Dead” delivers.

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The Grind Show – Free from Amazon Kindle Store

January 31, 2012 by Michael Gallagher

The Grind Show by Philip Tucker is free today from the Amazon Kindle store, and has received a perfect 5 out of 5 stars based on 24 customer reviews. You can pick up your free copy by clicking here or typing in http://amzn.to/yJJcCX into your computer’s web browser.

Category: Horror / Fantasy

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

For those who can see demons there is but one maxim: hunt them down until your luck runs out, and then hope for an easy death.

Or so Jason thought until one hellish night in a desert ghost town leaves his life in ruins and his soul tainted with demonic power.

Now the tables are turned and he’s the prey, forced to fight a running battle to keep himself and his friends alive. But at what price is he willing to buy his freedom? The demons care nothing for collateral damage, and as the death toll mounts the darkness within him grows stronger, making it ever harder for Jason to resist the allure of his newfound powers…

The Grind Show is a full-length contemporary fantasy novel, 88,270 words or approximately 350 pages. The entire novel is provided DRM-free based on reader requests.

Miracles: 32 True Stories – Free from Amazon Kindle Store

January 31, 2012 by Michael Gallagher

Miracles: 32 True Stories by Joanie Hileman is free today from the Amazon Kindle store, and has received a perfect 5 out of 5 stars based on 11 customer reviews. You can pick up your free copy by clicking here or typing in http://amzn.to/zATWy4 into your computer’s web browser.

Category: Non-Fiction / Religion

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

A dying child counts angels in her room. A teenage boy stuns doctors by recovering from a massive brain injury. A bubble of protection surrounds a man about to be hit by a car…These miraculous accounts and twenty-nine more are recorded in Miracles: 32 True Stories.

Face the Winter Naked – Free from Amazon Kindle Store

January 31, 2012 by Michael Gallagher

Face the Winter Naked by Bonnie Turner is free today from the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 54 customer reviews. You can pick up your free copy by clicking here or typing in http://amzn.to/pWU0A1 into your computer’s web browser.

Category: Historical Fiction

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

Daniel Tomelin, a battle-worn veteran haunted by the carnage of the First World War, deserts his family in the Great Depression and goes on the road to seek relief from his soul-shaking trauma. He’s too proud to return and face his loving wife without a job, but LaDaisy is determined to care for their family alone, if that’s what it takes. After leaving his loved ones to cope with a hell he helped create, does Daniel dare show his face again? Sometimes LaDaisy feels like killing him.

FACE THE WINTER NAKED is a story for today’s struggling economy and unemployed citizens, set in a tragic era when hope was sometimes all they had.

Bonnie Turner’s Face the Winter Naked is set during the Great Depression, but her story encompasses issues that reach far beyond that era and know no time constraints”war. Political strife. Economic collapse. Environmental catastrophe. Division of families. Cruelty and oppression. Poverty, inequity, and all the faces of prejudice. But it is also about love. And faith. And strength. And hope, forgiveness, and perseverance.

Face the Winter Naked provides an engrossing read in which Turner interweaves history, geography, and a compelling love story. More than that, it is a story that looks beyond the surface, delving into the inner workings of the human mind a powerful narrative that illuminates larger issues of humanity that are timeless and volatile and just as apropos today as decades ago.

Death on a High Floor – Free from Amazon Kindle Store

January 31, 2012 by Michael Gallagher

Death on a High Floor: A Legal Thriller by Charles Rosenberg is free today from the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 48 customer reviews. You can pick up your free copy by clicking here or typing in http://amzn.to/yaqGqD into your computer’s web browser.

Category: Mystery & Thriller

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

When the much-despised Marbury Marfan senior partner Simon Rafer turns up dead, with an ornate dagger buried between his shoulder blades, it comes as a surprise to no one. Simon was an abusive boss and had recently been on the warpath, clearing the “dead wood” from the legal firm he treated as his personal fiefdom. Nearly a thousand attorneys and associates, scattered across four continents, had good reason to want Rafer dead, but homicide Detective Spritz has his eye trained on Marbury Marfan partner Robert Tarza, in particular. Tarza and his friend and colleague—and maybe a bit more—Jenna are soon forced to play detective themselves, in a race to find the real killer or killers before Spritz finishes assembling a collection of evidence that will make a very credible case against Tarza.

The Way They Were – Free from Amazon Kindle Store

January 30, 2012 by Michael Gallagher

The Way They Were by Mary Campisi is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 6 customer reviews. You can pick up your free copy by clicking here or typing in http://amzn.to/wJgqT5 into your computer’s web browser.

Category: Romance

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

He hasn’t spoken her name in fourteen years. She keeps a journal hidden in the back of her closet and permits herself to write about him once a year—on the anniversary of the first and only time they made love. They promised to love one another forever, but tragedy tore them apart. Now, destiny may just bring them back together.

At eighteen, Rourke Flannigan and Kate Redmond thought they’d spend the rest of their lives together—until a family tragedy tore them apart. Fourteen years have passed and they’ve both carved out separate lives hundreds of miles apart—hers as a wife and mother, his as a successful, driven businessman. But once a year, on the anniversary of her daughter’s birth, Kate pulls out a red velvet journal and writes a letter, which she’ll never send, to the man who still owns her heart. Once a year, on the anniversary of the first and only time they made love, Rourke permits himself to read the annual investigative report detailing an ordinary day in Kate’s life.

When a subcontractor at one of Rourke’s holding companies is killed, Rourke decides to pay the widow a visit and offer condolences, never dreaming the widow will be Kate. As they embark on a cautious journey of rediscovery, one far greater than they could have imagined, secrets and lies threaten to destroy their newfound closeness—forever.

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Me and the Ugly C – Free from Amazon Kindle Store

January 30, 2012 by Michael Gallagher

Me and the Ugly C by Becky Dennington is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and has received a perfect 5 out of 5 stars based on 38 customer reviews. You can pick up your free copy by clicking here or typing in http://amzn.to/wpcVGO into your computer’s web browser.

Category: Autobiography

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

She never thought it would happen to her.
But it did.
At the age of thirty-five, Becky Dennington was diagnosed with non-invasive and invasive ductal carcinoma. Breast cancer. In an instant, her life changed all because of a single word she couldn’t even bring herself to say out loud. The ugly C word.
Share in the journey of one young woman’s fight against breast cancer, the sacrifices a family makes, the heartbreak cancer leaves in its path, and the joy found along the way.

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Looking for more or a reliable source of free books for your Kindle? Click here for my “Free Kindle Books and How to Find Them” book (updated January 2012!).

Making Sense of People – Free from Amazon Kindle Store

January 30, 2012 by Michael Gallagher

Making Sense of People by Samuel Barondes is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 30 customer reviews. You can pick up your free copy by clicking here or typing in http://amzn.to/nnE6RQ into your computer’s web browser.

Category: Psychology

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

What really bothers you about your boss–or your daughter’s boyfriend? Could the person you’re dating really become your life partner? Can you really rely on your intuition about people? This book will help you find out.

Drawing on extensive research, renowned psychiatrist and neuroscientist Samuel Barondes gives you powerful, easy-to-use tools for understanding what people are really like and how they got to be the way they are. These tools will provide you with a system for assessing the person’s traits, character, and sense of identity, and then putting these elements together into a unified picture. Learning to think of people in this way will help you choose more satisfying relationships, recognize telltale signs of dysfunction and danger, and savor the complexity and uniqueness of everyone you meet.

Supplement your intuition!

• Learn a system for understanding anyone

• Identify character strengths and weaknesses

• Make better decisions about whom to seek out and whom to avoid

• Find out how all personalities are shaped by two great chance events: the set of genes we happen to be born with, and the particular world we happen to grow up in

Want to have this blog sent wirelessly to your Kindle vs. reading it on your computer? Try out the free two-week subscription! Click here for the Amazon page for Free Kindle Books Plus a Few Other Tips or type in http://www.tinyurl.com/fkblog into your computer’s web browser.

Looking for more or a reliable source of free books for your Kindle? Click here for my “Free Kindle Books and How to Find Them” book (updated January 2012!).

16 Free Games for Your Kindle

Yellow Crocus – Free from Amazon Kindle Store

The Resume is Dead – Free from Amazon Kindle Store

The Grind Show – Free from Amazon Kindle Store

Miracles: 32 True Stories – Free from Amazon Kindle Store

Face the Winter Naked – Free from Amazon Kindle Store

Death on a High Floor – Free from Amazon Kindle Store

The Way They Were – Free from Amazon Kindle Store

Me and the Ugly C – Free from Amazon Kindle Store

Making Sense of People – Free from Amazon Kindle Store

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