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Six Free Kindle Books

July 31, 2012 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Here are six more FREE Kindle books for you in the Amazon Kindle store: as of this posting, each of the books was free on the Amazon website but please make sure you check the pricing before you smack the “buy” button as the pricing can (and does) change at any time!

Bluegrass State of Mind by Kathlen Brooks has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 127 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book will be free through December 31st.

Category: Suspense / Romance

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

McKenna Mason, a New York City attorney with a love of all things Prada, is on the run from a group of powerful, dangerous men. McKenna turns to a teenage crush, Will Ashton, for help in starting a new life in beautiful horse country. She finds that Will is now a handsome, successful race horse farm owner. As the old flame is ignited, complications are aplenty in the form of a nasty ex-wife, an ex-boyfriend intent on killing her, and a feisty race horse who refuses to race without a kiss. Can Will and McKenna cross the finish line together, and more importantly, alive?

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Tested by Fire: He Sought Revenge, He Found Life ~ A Riveting Story for First Responders in a Post-911 World by M. Garzon has received a perfect 5 out of 5 stars based on 6 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free for today only.

Category: Suspense / Action and Adventure / Religious Fiction

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

Paramedic Jim Stockbridge doesn’t need God, he’s a fighter, and as far as he’s concerned the world is his toy. But when he responds to an EMS call in the ghetto and finds his best friend brutally stabbed and shot, he suddenly realizes he’s in for the fight of his life.

Mad with rage he hunts down Sid Drake’s killers and renders his own form of justice, but he soon finds himself lost, tangling with a vicious street gang and its ruthless warlord, William “J-Rock” Jackson. And so it begins, a long dark journey that pushes Jim deep into his own personal world of bitterness and revenge, and ultimately to the brink of disaster.

Haunting nightmares ensue. Endless nights. A brutal biker gang nearly kills him. An angry detective wants him behind bars. And Jim’s girlfriend, Dr. Valerie Vick, the only woman he’s ever truly loved, has just made a painful announcement: She’s leaving. Suddenly Jim’s entire world seems to be falling apart, but through the leadership of two remarkable men he finds a new relationship with the Lord and new purpose for his life. But Jim’s enemy hasn’t forgotten him. J-Rock is out for blood…and Jim is his prey.

J-Rock’s trap is both elaborate and cruel, and when Jim falls into it, he ends up in a hospital bed with a bullet in his spine, his willpower broken, and his proud spirit crushed. He finally reaches his lowest point and in a moment of quiet desperation cries out to God. And his prayers are heard.
But Jim’s ultimate fight is yet to come—a fight to the death on the deck of a sinking boat with Valerie secured in the hold below. Will he succeed? Can he defeat J-Rock once and for all? Can he save the beautiful love of his life from a cold drowning death, and carry the gospel back to the ghetto street where his best friend died? He must, but to do so will require strength he never knew, the kind of God-given power known only to a man who has truly been…Tested By Fire.

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Secrets Exposed by Lisa Renee Jones has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 16 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through August 1st.

Category: Romance / Suspense

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

Her enemy is her passion, her passion is her enemy…
Lindsey Paxton was once the number one defense attorney in New York. She fought for those who were innocent, but charged. Her instincts were her lifeline, never failing her, as they guided her in her choices of who to defend. Or so she thought. Until she won a case she would forever wish to have lost. Her client, an accused rapist, kills and rapes a woman only a day after being set free. Destroyed by her role in the woman’s death, Lindsey blames her father’s controlling ways for what she has become, and runs from her career and life. Years later – the past becomes the present . . . Her father has cancer, and Lindsey is forced to leave her career with the Washington branch of the FBI. She finds herself facing the responsibility of running her father’s law firm with the reluctant help of hotshot attorney Mark Reeves, a man who sparks her temper while also managing to tempt her heart, while setting her body on fire! With his help she finds herself fighting the emotional battles of the past, tempted to trust both him and her instincts. Now, faced with a case inherited from her father so similar to her career-ending one, she now must decide if her instincts will lead her down the path to saving an innocent man or setting free another killer. But while she fights her own battles, someone watches, wanting from the past what he had failed to get the first time . . . Lindsey.
NOTE: Previously released as Hidden Instincts.

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Death of the Couch Potato’s Wife by Christy Barritt has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 18 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free for today only.

Category: Mystery & Thriller

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

Welcome to Boring, Indiana, home to patio cookouts, homeowner dues, carpeted lawns, and neighbors so welcoming they’re dying to meet you — literally.

City slicker turned suburbanite housewife Laura Berry isn’t taking well to life in her new neighborhood. She moved to follow her husband’s dream, and now she can’t tell if she’s clinically depressed or just bored half to death. But Boring becomes anything but when Laura discovers her neighbor Candace Flynn face up on a sofa with her hand buried in a snack bag. With a healthy dose of neighborly suspicion and street smarts, Laura sets out to find Flynn’s killer, but her curiosity becomes desperation when the killer targets Laura.

Someone is determined to stop her from digging deeper into the murder, but Laura is just as determined to figure out who’s behind the death-by-poisoned-pork-rinds.

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99 Reasons to Hate Cats by Tom Briscoe has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 16 customer reviews.

Category: Humor

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

A book for people who love and (love to) hate cats

99 Reasons to Hate Cats was born out of deep familiarity. It shows the many ways in which the Felis Domesticus can drive their owners mad yet maintain their keeper’s affections. Read, laugh and see if you find yourself (and your cat — or cats) in these pages.

The 99 reasons are all amusingly illustrated with original cartoon art. For the color-capable Kindle Fire and Kindle apps (on iPhone, iPad and Android), the illustrations are shown in color.

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GOTU – A Robin Marlette Novel by Mike McNeff has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 30 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery and Thrillers

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:
When a drug cartel attacks a cop, the rules apply. When they attack a cop’s family, there are no rules.

Sergeant Robin Marlette’s special narcotics squad has killed a dangerous drug courier and the brother of a prominent Mexican drug overlord. When Marlette’s daughter is kidnapped as an act of revenge, it’s a race against time to save her. Marlette and his team are very good at what they do-but are they good enough to defeat a drug cartel on its own turf?

Written by a 40-year law enforcement veteran, GOTU puts you side by side with the law enforcement brotherhood as they battle the world’s most vicious criminals. GOTU will have you rooting for the good guys and turning the pages well into the night.

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Five Free Kindle Books

July 31, 2012 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Here are five FREE Kindle books for you this morning in the Amazon Kindle store: as of this posting, each of the books was free on the Amazon website but please make sure you check the pricing before you smack the “buy” button as the pricing can (and does) change at any time!

Favorite Family Lectures: Secrets of Life Every Teen Wants to Know by Terry L. Paulson has received a perfect 5 out of 5 stars based on 14 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this is the last day for this book to be free.

Category: Advice and How-To

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

As a young adult, Dr. Paulson was a youth director working with teens. He learned quickly that if you’re not funny and authentic, teenagers will kill you! Luckily, he found a way to leverage his entertaining delivery, inspiring messages and empowering content that has connected with all ages. As a young psychologist, he conducted weekend seminars for UCLA Extension on Dealing with Difficult Children. As co-founder of the Assertion Training Institute, he conducted hundreds of CEU training programs for teachers on implementing Assertive Discipline in the classroom. Then, as a parent, he eventually had to deal with his own teenage son; word has it that both survived, even thrived.

As his son Sean went through his teen years, his father and he co-authored two books, Secrets of Life Every Teen Needs to Know and Can I Have the Keys to the Car? On writing these books, they surveyed teens and parents on the life lessons that were most important. Sean wanted to call the book, Favorite Family Lectures. As Sean used to say, “It’s the perfect book for parents. They don’t know how to give an effective lecture, and they don’t have time to do so. They’re working too hard. With this book of ‘best lectures,’ all they would have to do is hand them the book, send them to their room, and tell them to read #23! They’d save time, and the teen would have something to do while he’s stuck in his room!”

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Lost Girls by Bob Mayer has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 14 customer reviews. I received a note from the author this book would be free through August 4th.

Category: Military Fiction

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

This terrific follow-up to Bodyguard of Lies continues to track the Cellar, a government organization whose task is to police rogue agents in the CIA, FBI and other U.S. bureaus. Maj. Jack Gant is called in from his South Carolina island home to oversee an investigation involving the abduction of Emily Cranston, daughter of Fort Bragg Special Warfare Center commander Col. Samuel Cranston. The motive for the abduction is revenge, and the perpetrators have been highly trained in how to carry it out—by the U.S. government. As related crimes pile up, Mayer delivers top-notch action and adventure, creating a full cast of lethal operatives armed with all the latest weaponry. Excellent writing and well-drawn, appealing characters help make this another taut, crackling read from Mayer. (Aug.)

Considered for option by Smokehouse, George Clooney’s production company.

Who polices the world of covert operations? Enter the Cellar, the most secret spy organization hiding deep within the United States.

Deep in the forests of Kentucky, a girl is held captive.

In Oklahoma, a young preschool teacher is murdered in front of her students.

In the Panhandle of Florida, a college undergrad is kidnapped from a nightclub.

These seemingly unrelated crimes catch the eye of the Cellar, the ultrasecret cell of operatives set up to police all other government agencies. Cellar operatives Gant and Neeley, along with profiler Susan Golden, must track down those responsible. But these are not ordinary criminals. They are a highly trained Special Forces sniper team. Crisscrossing the United States as new Cellar head Hannah Masterson calls the shots from up high, the Cellar operatives soon find themselves being targeted. Whoever is behind this knows the ultra top-secret Cellar’s tactics all to well.

Underneath this web of death, deceit, and revenge lies an even more shocking crime . . . a conspiracy that powerful men will sacrifice their lives — and the lives of their families — to protect.

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The Temporary Detective by Joanne Sydney Lessner has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 11 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through August 1st.

Category: Mystery

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

Phones, light typing…and murder.

Think breaking into show business is hard? Try landing a temp job without office skills. That’s the challenge facing aspiring actress Isobel Spice when she arrives in New York City, fresh out of college and deficient in PowerPoint. After being rejected by seven temp agencies for her lack of experience, Isobel sweet-talks recruiter James Cooke into letting her cover a last-minute vacancy at a bank. New to his own job, and recently sober, James takes a chance on Isobel, despite his suspicion that she’s a trouble-magnet. His misgivings are borne out by lunchtime, when she stumbles across a dead secretary in a bathroom stall. With her fingerprints on the murder weapon, Isobel sets out to prove her innocence by investigating the crime herself. While learning to juggle phone lines and auditions, she discovers an untapped talent for detective work—a qualification few other office temps, let alone actresses, can claim.

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The Lost Scrolls by Michael J. Scott has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 7 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through August 1st.

Category: Action and Adventure / Religious Fiction

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

When Dr. Jonathan Munro’s house is broken into, and his former best friend and colleague, archaeologist Stephen Kaufman, is knifed in the streets of Ankara, he is thrust into a world of international criminals who will stop at nothing to claim the priceless artifact Dr. Kaufman unearthed – a scroll revealing the location of the missing autographs of the New Testament.

But is it the find of the century, or a costly fraud?

As he flees with Isabel, Kaufman’s beguiling sister, Dr. Munro finds himself pursued by relentless mercenaries intent on seizing this incalculable treasure for themselves. Through some of Christianity’s most revered historical sites, he and Isabel must race to unravel the clues and find the autographs before they fall into the wrong hands.

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Twig by J.R. Wright has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 11 customer reviews. I received a note from the author this book would be free for today only.

Category: Thriller / Suspense

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

This is the story of Willow ‘Twig’ Olsen, a woman of scandinavian descent, who was trapped into an existance of traditional servitude for the first thirty eight years of her life, and what transpires after her last parent dies, and she is finally free to seek male companionship, as she has long desired. What happens thereafter is a whirlwind of unexpected events that lead to greed, deception, and eventually murder.

This book goes far above and significantly deeper than any simple romance…or many suspense thrillers. Readers will be compelled to discover each detail; to keep turning the pages.

This is a suspenseful thriller of beauty, tenderness, havoc, and calm, tossed together in chapters that electrify and stun.

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The Physician – Today’s Kindle Daily Deal

July 31, 2012 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

The Kindle Daily Deal is a one-day only offer where a specific Kindle book has been hand-selected by the editors at Amazon and significantly discounted for today only.

Today’s Kindle Daily Deal is The Physician, a modern classic by Noah Gordon, and was $11.99 yesterday in the Amazon Kindle Store but has been discounted 83% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 92 customer reviews.

You can pick up your copy by clicking here or typing in http://amzn.to/kddeal into your computer’s web browser.

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

Read by millions in thirty-two countries, soon to be a major motion picture, and voted “one of the ten most-beloved books of all time,” here is the first English-language digital edition of Noah Gordon’s masterwork
In eleventh-century London, a child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking her. Orphaned and given to an itinerant barber-surgeon, Rob Cole becomes a fast-talking swindler, peddling a worthless medicine. But as he matures, his strange gift—an acute sensitivity to impending death—never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer.
Arab madrassas are the only authentic medical schools, and he makes his perilous way to Persia. Christians are barred from Muslim schools, but claiming he is a Jew, he studies under the world’s most renowned physician, Avicenna. How the woman who is his great love struggles against her only rival—medicine—makes a riveting modern classic.

You can pick up your copy by clicking here or typing in http://amzn.to/kddeal into your computer’s web browser.

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Five Free Kindle Books

July 30, 2012 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Here are five more FREE Kindle books for you in the Amazon Kindle store: as of this posting, each of the books was free on the Amazon website but please make sure you check the pricing before you smack the “buy” button as the pricing can (and does) change at any time!

Bad Spirits – Books 1-5 by D.V. Berkom has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 37 customer reviews. I read this one last week, and rated it a five star: you can read the review I wrote if you click here or type in http://amzn.to/Q7eJ7e into your web browser. If you think the review was helpful, I would appreciate a “Yes” vote just below the text of my review on the Amazon website.

Category: Mystery and Thrillers

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

BAD SPIRITS is the first novella in the Kate Jones Thriller Series.

Kate Jones is on the run with a backpack full of money, intent on finding her way back to the United States from Mexico. Unfortunately, a ruthless drug lord named Salazar is just as intent on finding her, retrieving his stolen money, and making her pay for ever having left him. Is there anyone she can trust?

Originally published as a serial chronicling Kate Jones’ race through Mexico, Bad Spirits Books 1-5 is a fast-paced, action-packed novella. Just when you think Kate’s escaped one impossible dilemma, she’s thrown into another perilous situation. Can she survive long enough to make it out alive?

USA subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/NTHipA into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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FingerTip Island: The Vinccenzo Adventure by Ned Rauch-Mannino has received a perfect5 out of 5 stars based on 15 customer reviews.

Category: Children

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

Rudolph Vincenzo is always in trouble. His runaway imagination is too hot for the small, frosty little town of Asbury. So when Rudolph needs an escape, his imagination creates one: FingerTip Island, a supernatural place where the slightest thought becomes reality and brings his best daydreams alive. His little brother thinks he’s brilliant. His older sister thinks he’s insane. Rudolph takes both of them along to his tropical paradise where tigers are tour guides, bathtubs make handy weapons, and creepy creatures are around every corner. The possibilities for excitement and danger are endless and soon Rudolph and his siblings find their best ideas and worst fears coming to life. When a chill blows in and their adventure is threatened by the thing they fear most, Rudolph finds that a good imagination is the island’s-and his-last hope. Midwest Book Review calls the book “a great adventure read for kids in need of creativity unlocking”.

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Wheels by Lorijo Metz has received a perfect 5 out of 5 stars based on 8 customer reviews.

Category: Science Fiction

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

McKenzie Wu doesn’t know her great-great grandmother married an alien or that her great-great-great uncle is alive and systematically eliminating a race of beings on a tiny planet light years away—she has enough to worry about. Molecules keep rearranging themselves to suit her slightest wish, but only at the most inconvenient times. If that weren’t enough, she’s been dreaming about an accident; one she’s had no memory of until now and, if true, means McKenzie is responsible for her mother’s death.

When McKenzie stumbles upon a portal, transporting her and her friend Hayes to the tiny planet of Circanthos, she learns the inhabitants believe she is the “One” destined to save them from H.G. Wells, a name that sounds strangely familiar, and his Tsendi warriors. But while her newfound ability might give her superhero status back on Earth, halfway across the galaxy it’s commonplace—all Circanthians can particle-weave—and if they can’t stop H.G. Wells, what can she hope to do?

With the portal closed and no idea how to get home, McKenzie must learn to use a power she does not want and accept her mysterious past, or risk losing everything—her father’s love, her new alien friends and the boy.

WHEELS is a sci-fi adventure filled with mystery and romance—a coming-of-age tale that proves it takes more than super powers to save a planet.

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Pink Slips and Parting Gifts by Deb Hosey White has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 19 customer reviews.

Category: Contemporary Fiction

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

By the time Easton Company CEO Jeffrey Elkins entices a major competitor to buy his Fortune 500 company, the corporate jet is waiting and his parachute is platinum.

In thirteen weeks the deal of a lifetime transforms a handful of quirky executives into undeserving multimillionaires, propels a workforce into unemployment and dispatches unsuspecting retirees into poverty. In the background, security guards dance naked in mall fountains, the corporate jet is sold on eBay, and a CEO utters his final words before relinquishing his title: Make sure the employees get their pumpkin pies.

The memorable cast of corporate characters includes a germophobic CEO, a marketing VP turned Elvis impersonator, the Sundance Kid of Everyman Compensation, and a purchasing director nicknamed the eBay Wizard.

An estimated one in five corporate employees has experienced a merger or acquisition. Pink Slips and Parting Gifts is their story – the one every corporate cubicle jockey, business-class road warrior and mid-level manager will want to read.

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A Never Event by Evelyn McKnight and Travis Bennington has received a perfect 5 out of 5 stars based on 25 customer reviews.

Category: Non-Fiction

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

In the small farming community of Fremont, Nebraska, townspeople eagerly welcomed an acclaimed doctor as the first full-time oncologist at their new cancer treatment center – but the fanfare soon turned into a nightmare. During chemotherapy treatments, 857 patients who were already waging the fights of their lives against cancer, were inexplicably exposed to the deadly, blood-borne hepatitis C virus. At least ninety-nine of them contracted the lethal illness. The horror was unprecedented – this was the largest healthcare-trannsmitted outbreak of hepatitis C in American history. “A Never Event” – a term used to describe a preventable medical tragedy – is a searing story of recklessness, deception and betrayal. It’s part mystery, part courtroom drama. Written by a survivor of the tragedy and an attorney who represented many of the victims. A Never Event is a wake-up call to medical and legal communities nationwide.

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Four Free Web Programming Books

July 30, 2012 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Here’s something a little different that should appeal to the more technically-oriented of you (one of my nephews comes immediately to mind) – I received a note from author Robin Nixon stating he was putting all of his web design books to free status for today and tomorrow in recognition of the release of his new book, PHP Crash Course.

Robin says each of these books are suitable for absolute beginners!

Here are the four books in no particular order:

Robin Nixon’s PHP Crash Course: Learn PHP in 14 Easy Lessons

USA subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/T0ZCwP into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Robin Nixon’s HTML & HTML5 Crash Course: Learn HTML5 in 20 Easy Lessons

USA subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/NQVP3h into your web browser to receive your free copy.

UK subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/Q5NKcN into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Robin Nixon’s JavaScript Crash Course: Learn JavaScript in 14 Easy Lessons

USA subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/MVPGUj into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Robin Nixon’s CSS & CSS3 Crash Course: Learn CSS in 16 Easy Lessons

USA subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/OdO2Oj into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Gallop for Gold Slots – Today’s Free App of the Day

July 30, 2012 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 Gallop for Gold Slots and this game is normally $1.99 in the Amazon App Store. It has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on just 8 customer reviews: if you download and play it, why not write a review? I’m certain your Amazon friends and neighbors would like to know your thoughts and impressions of the game!

Here is the app’s description from the Amazon App Store website:
Your Smartphone: a Racehorse and Slot Machine
Beat the bookie and share the fun in Gallop for Gold Slots. Can your horse win all 48 trophies and become the super-champion? It’s possible with the Nudge Jackpot and six unique bookie bonuses in the feature bonus round.
During normal play, a fashionable hostess acts as a wildcard and substitutes for all symbols except the scattered horses. Three, four, or five scattered horses during normal play wins you free games and the Colt Cash Feature, where all payouts are doubled!
At the end of the free games, you play the Bookie’s Bonus round. After the first and last reel spin, a special bonus prize appears.
You also have the option to gamble at another casino table after you win some money. Choose to wager your winnings at a roulette table or a black and red card game. Gallop for Gold Slots is for entertainment purposes only. No real money can be won or lost.
• Play an exciting Vegas-style slot machine
• Enjoy real slot machine action with sharp graphics
• Gamble your winnings at a roulette or card table
The Daily Double Jackpot
A part of all wins during the free games are added to the Daily Double Jackpot. The longer it takes you to win the jackpot, the higher it can grow – up to 99 thousand virtual dollars. The jackpot can only be won during the free games.

You can pick up your free copy of Gallop for Gold Slots by clicking here or typing in http://tinyurl.com/appdeal into your computer’s web browser.

Cat’s Cradle – Today’s Kindle Daily Deal

July 30, 2012 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

The Kindle Daily Deal is a one-day only offer where a specific Kindle book has been hand-selected by the editors at Amazon and significantly discounted for today only.

Today’s Kindle Daily Deal is Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut’s modern classic, and was $3.99 yesterday in the Amazon Kindle Store but has been discounted 50% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 48 customer reviews.

You can pick up your copy by clicking here or typing in http://amzn.to/kddeal into your computer’s web browser.

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

Cat’s Cradle (1963) is Vonnegut’s most ambitious novel, which put into the language terms like “wampeter”, “kerass” and “granfalloon” as well as a structured religion, Boskonism and was submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for a Master’s Degree in anthropology, and in its sprawling compass and almost uncontrolled (and uncontrollable) invention, may be Vonnegut’s best novel.

Written contemporaneously with the Cuban missile crisis and countenancing a version of a world in the grasp of magnified human stupidity, the novel is centered on Felix Hoenikker, a chemical scientist reminiscent of Robert Oppenheimer… except that Oppenheimer was destroyed by his conscience and Hoenikker, delighting in the disastrous chemicals he has invented, has no conscience at all. Hoenikker’s “Ice 9” has the potential to convert all liquid to inert ice and thus destroy human existence; he is exiled to a remote island where Boskonism has enlisted all of its inhabitants and where religion and technology collaborate, with the help of a large cast of characters, to destroy civilization.

Vonnegut’s compassion and despair are expressed here through his grotesque elaboration of character and situation and also through his created religion which like Flannery O’Connor’s “Church Without Christ” (in Wise Blood) acts to serve its adherents by removing them from individual responsibility. Vonnegut had always been taken seriously by science fiction readers and critics (a reception which indeed made him uncomfortable) but it was with Cat’s Cradle that he began to be found and appreciated by a more general audience. His own ambivalence toward science, science fiction, religion and religious comfort comes through in every scene of this novel.

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Seven Books from Amazon Kindle Store

July 30, 2012 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Here are seven FREE Kindle books for you in the Amazon Kindle store to kick off your week: as of this posting, each of the books was free on the Amazon website but please make sure you check the pricing before you smack the “buy” button as the pricing can (and does) change at any time!

Speed Dating with the Dead by Scott Nicholson has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 63 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through July 31st.
Category: Horror / Thriller

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

For fans of Stephen King, Joe Hill, and James Herbert. A paranormal conference at the most haunted hotel in the Blue Ridge Mountains goes haywire when ghost hunters accidentally stir up demons.

SPEED DATING WITH THE DEAD

When Digger Wilson brings his paranormal team Spirit Seekers International to the White Horse Inn, he is skeptical that his dead wife will keep her half of the bargain. He doesn’t believe in ghosts, and just before she died, she promised to meet him there.

But when one of the conference guests channels a mysterious presence and an Ouija board spells out a pet phrase known only to Digger and his wife, his convictions are challenged.

And when guests start to disappear, Digger and his daughter Kendra must face the circle of demons that view the hotel as their personal playground. Because soon the inn will be closing for good, angels can’t be trusted, and demons don’t like to play alone . . .

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Golden Chariot by Chris Karlsen has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 16 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free for today only.
Category: Thriller

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

The rare discovery of a ship sunk during the time of the Trojan War has been found off the coast of Turkey, near Troy. Charlotte Dashiell is an American nautical archaeologist and thrilled to be part of the recovery team. The wreck may contain proof of her highly controversial theory about the Trojan War.

Charlotte is present when the Turkish government agent assigned to guard the site is murdered. Her possible involvement and a questionable connection to a private collector of black market relics bring her under suspicion. Atakan Vadim is the Turkish agent sent to investigate her. Unknown to either of them, the smuggler behind the murder plans to steal a valuable artifact and frame Charlotte for the theft…after they murder her.

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Yseult: A Tale of Love in the Age of King Arthur by Ruth Nestvold has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 14 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through July 31st.
Category: Fantasy

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

For the price of a truce, Yseult is sent to a world where magic is dying – to marry the father of the man she loves.

Marcus’s son Drystan would have saved her from a loveless marriage, but with her relatives being held hostage, Yseult cannot endanger them and must go through with the wedding. The tragic love story of Yseult and Drystan plays out against the backdrop of a violent world threatening to descend into the Dark Ages – only Arthur’s battles to push back the Saxon hordes can save what is left of civilization. With her background, Yseult could act as a bridge between the old age and the new – but will the price be too high?

Yseult is a retelling of the tragic love story of Tristan and Isolde, a story older than Romeo and Juliet or Lancelot and Guinevere.

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The Path to Tyranny: A History of Free Society’s Descent Into Tyranny by Michael E. Newton has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 40 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free for today only.

Category: Non-Fiction

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

Western civilization is risking the return of tyranny by increasing the size and scope of government. Throughout history, free societies descended into tyranny when their populations realized they can use the power of government to give themselves benefits at the expense of others. The Path To Tyranny examines how and why each of these free societies descended into tyranny and evaluates the current prospects for the United States.

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Angry Mobs and Founding Fathers: The Fight for Control of the American Revolution by Michael E. Newton has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 10 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free for today only.
Category: Non-Fiction / HIstory

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

Angry mobs launched the American Revolution when they protested against British acts of tyranny. These rebels threatened, harassed, and chased away British officials and Loyalists. The Founding Fathers agreed with the goals of these Patriots, but not with their methods. Fearing anarchy, the Founders channeled the passion of the mobs toward independence.

Working together, the angry mobs and Founding Fathers defeated the mighty British army and won independence, but the new nation that emerged was anarchic and chaotic, much like the angry mobs themselves. Meeting behind closed doors, the Founding Fathers conspired to depose the Confederation government, wrote a new constitution, and created the world’s most successful republic.

Angry Mobs and Founding Fathers tells the little-known story of how these two groups fought for control of the American Revolution.

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Decadent, Sinful Quick Breads by Joyce Middleton has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 11 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through August 1st.

Category: Cooking

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

37 Quick Bread recipes
21 Curd, Custard, Sauce and Syrup recipes

I invite you to travel with me on a decadent and sinful flavor extravaganza, guaranteed to delight the senses.

Forget the calorie counting; forget the low-carb; forget the sugar-free – to satisfy a decadent craving. Forget about making fussy cupcakes or decorating a fancy cake.

I started with my favorite sweet quick bread flavors and transformed them using flavors not usually found in quick breads. I then dressed them up for more formal and decadent experiences. You know – those times when you just have to have chocolate, caramel, coconut, lemon or just something sinful and unusual, but simple.

Satisfy your craving and save the rest for later. I’ll show you how to do this using what you already have in your pantry and how ordinary quick bread recipes can be just as decadent, but simpler than other time-consuming desserts.

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Sea Scoundrel by Annette Blair has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 14 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free indefinitely.

Category: Romance / Historical Fiction

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

Lady Patience Kendall crossed the sea to marry, but her intended died before she arrived. Penniless and stranded, she found only one way to get home: charge four hapless American Colonials to find them titled husbands in London. At the ship, she realized their mothers expected each to wed the Marquess of Andover, but how hard could it be to seek an introduction? Meanwhile, Captain Grant St. Benedict was anything but friendly. Why? Because her girls set fire to the rigging? Grant had never met a woman more irritating, or more desirable, than the Lady Patience Kendall. But however dangerous his interest, he couldn’t resist teaching the delicious distraction that independence was nothing to passion.

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Let’s Try Again – Enter Now to Win a New Kindle Fire!

July 29, 2012 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Well, this doesn’t appear to have been my week!

First, the issues with having to launch a brand new Facebook page – that took some time, and I will be making updates to it over the next couple of days to have similar content as the old one.

Second, many of you have tried really hard to enter the latest Kindle Fire giveaway, but there is something wrong with the browsers on several devices that aren’t allowing you to enter the contest, or the problem is the widget interface on the Facebook page with your browser – I don’t know what the underlying problem is…

I hope this new week starting tomorrow is a lot better than this past one!

Let’s try a different way to enter the giveaway – yes, you still need to give the new Facebook page a “Like,” but try following these steps:

Click here or go to www.facebook.com/fkbooks and click the “Like” button. If you are not logged into Facebook, you will need to do so. If you’re not a member of Facebook, you can join for free: if you don’t “do” Facebook, I’m certain there will be another giveaway soon.
Stay logged into Facebook (i.e., don’t click the sign out option).
Come back to this page. Down below my name (Michael), you will see the contest entry box.
The “Enter to Win” tab should be displayed. If not, click the “Enter to Win” tab of the contest box.
Just to the right of the text that says “Easy entry for all Free eBooks and Tips Fans on Facebook,” you will see a “+1 DO IT” icon. Click this icon, and some new text will show up in your browser with a green icon in the lower right-hand corner.
If you have previously “Liked” the blogs new Facebook page, just click the green icon that has check mark and says “I’m a Fan” in the lower right hand corner. If you have not previously “Liked” the blog’s new Facebook page, click the Like button, then click the green icon that has the check mark and says “I’m a Fan.”

Assuming you did all of that, to confirm you are entered, the top right-hand of the contest bos has changed – if you have entered, you will see the status has changed to “1/1” in a green box. You can only enter one time for this giveaway.

Life – and these giveaways – shouldn’t be that complicated: I think I will find a new provider to manage future giveaways!

Let’s hope for all of our sake this upcoming week is better than the last!

Good luck to all who enter!

Michael

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Six Free Books from Amazon Kindle Store

July 29, 2012 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Here are six FREE Kindle books for you in the Amazon Kindle store to peruse as I am certain you are debating reading your Kindle vs. watching the Olympics (or both): as of this posting, each of the books was free on the Amazon website but please make sure you check the pricing before you smack the “buy” button as the pricing can (and does) change at any time!

Telling Lies by Rachel Devenish FOrd has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 36 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery and Thrillers

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

How many lies does it take to get away with murder? Magazine Editor Laurel Imperiole is vacationing in Florence, Italy, with Aaron Gerrard, Chief of Detectives of New York City’s 13th Precinct Identity Theft Squad. A chance encounter brings Laurel to a startling realization: she’s just bumped into a dead man: Jeff Sargasso, an art dealer and husband of a close friend who supposedly died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. When he vanished, Sargasso had been brokering the sale of a priceless masterpiece that was lost during World War II to CEO Alfred Hammersmith and billionaire Miayamu Moto. Hammersmith perished along with Sargasso on 9/11, and it is believed that the access codes to the $15 million deposit–ten percent of the asking price–died with them. Could Sargasso have faked his own death to steal the money? The painting’s whereabouts are unknown. Laurel enlists the help of private detective Helen McCorkendale, and together they follow the threads that lead from Florence, Italy, to New York. On the way, the women tangle with Israeli Mossad agent Lior Stern and several stop-at-nothing collectors. All are determined to have the painting for themselves. Ignoring Aaron’s advice, Laurel puts their volatile relationship in jeopardy. As Helen and Laurel search for Sargasso, the painting and the money, they find themselves enmeshed in a sinister skein of lies that could end in death.

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A Gangster’s Melody by Sean A. Wright has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 113 customer reviews.
Category: Arts and Entertainment

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

Loving the one who loves the streets is a dangerous game. There’s a war brewing. Bodies are piling up. Money is being stacked up. Loyalties are being tested. How will a displaced small town girl handle the pressures of living the big city life and all that comes with it when the trail of murders, drugs and blood-money leads to her doorstep?
The new recruits find themselves pushed to their physical and mental limits by a series of sophisticated brainwashing techniques as well as by a cult leader, known only as The Wizard, who appears to possess psychic and paranormal powers. Even the psychologist’s expert knowledge of cults can’t explain The Wizard’s feats, and it isn’t long before John, like his parents before him, surrenders his independence to another . . .

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Scriber by Ben S. Dobson has received a perfect 5 out of 5 stars based on 63 customer reviews.
Category: Fantasy

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

Disgraced scholar Dennon Lark only wants to be left alone in his self-imposed exile—an exile that ends when a rebel army wielding impossible powers launches a series of brutal attacks on villages across the Kingsland.

Forced from his home, Dennon is drawn back into a world he wants nothing to do with. His research into the kingdom’s lost past—the very research that sent him into hiding—may hold the answers to a great many questions about the rebels. Questions about their shadowy motives; about their mysterious abilities; and about their ever-increasing numbers, constantly bolstered by those thought killed in their attacks. And only the King’s infamous warrior niece Bryndine Errynson and her company of female soldiers trust him enough to help him find the truth before the rebels burn the Kingsland to the ground.

Following a trail of historical clues across the kingdom and pursued by forces they don’t fully understand, Dennon and Bryndine may be the realm’s only hope. But in order to preserve the Kingsland’s future, they must first uncover its past.

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Dark Corners by Liz Schulte has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 59 customer reviews.

Category: Horror

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

Ella Reynolds knew from the first moment she walked into the old house someone or something was watching her. Waiting. Her husband’s violent murder sent her spiraling into a world of grief and isolation, but Ella isn’t alone. Who or what is responsible for her husband’s death is still with her. Darkness has engulfed the past year of Ella’s life. Everyday reality slips a little more between her fingers as she struggles to break free from her memories. She must look deeper into her past as well as the present to discover truth of her husband’s homicide. A string of uncanny events takes place and practical explanations run thin as Ella follows the terrifying road to closure. As the past and present come to a head, Ella must decipher who or what the murderer is before it takes her as well.

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The Butterfly Legacy by Dr. Kathleen Marie Rice has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 30 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery and Thriller / Historical Fiction

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

July 1952 is teenaged Raleigh Buchanan’s last vacation on Country Pond, New Hampshire, where for the previous two summers he and an Irish boy had traded notes. Feeling the familiar rush of intrigue, Raleigh removes the kid’s latest note from behind the ceramic half-moon tacked above the cottage door. The note contains a riddle half-written in Gaelic. Mystified and irritated, he puts the note away with other childish things – soon to be forgotten.
Twenty-six years will pass before Raleigh, now a Boston police detective, realizes that the note holds clues he needs to solve a murder; and that it contains the key to his true heritage, which began with star-crossed lovers a century before he was born.
Against the backdrop of Ireland’s “Great Hunger,” the violent struggle of the 1860s to free Ireland, and “The Troubles” of the 1970s, The Butterfly Legacy, a 95,000-word historical novel, is a richly rendered story of Nelly, a young Irish girl and her descendants that began when she and an English captain fall in love. Resulting in twins who are separated at birth, their affair ends with the captain’s presumed abandonment of Nelly and her subsequent exile to Prince Edward Island, Canada where she enters into an arranged marriage to a man she does not know.
From Nelly’s near fatal voyage with the healthier twin across the Atlantic in a “coffin ship” to the 1978 murder of an Englishman whose brutalized body is found on the grounds of Winnekenni Castle located in Haverhill, Massachusetts (the city featured in Andre Dubus’s acclaimed memoire, Townie), the novel traces the adventures of 6 generations of characters as they encounter adversity and twists of fate, suicide and other family secrets, misguided patriotism and murder. These themes – tempered with healthy doses of Irish wit – will resonate with readers from most any ethnic group as they are drawn into the pain and joy of difficult lives fully lived.

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It’s Good to Share by Brittany Hudson and Alyssa Barkley has received a perfect 5 out of 5 stars based on 14 customer reviews.

Category: Children

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

This is children’s author Brittany Hudson’s debut book for Sakura Publishing. This book is, simply put, about sharing and what it means for a child to share his toys with another child. The book is very very short and includes pages in the back for parents to write their own ideas about sharing in or for their children to color in their own stories about sharing. If you are a parent looking to buy a great book about sharing for your little one, this is the book for you! Suggested age for reading and showing is 3-8 years old.

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