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Nine Free Kindle Books

September 30, 2012 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Here are nine FREE Kindle books for you in the Amazon Kindle: 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!

Back to U by Kathy Dunnehoff has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 24 customer reviews.

Category: Romance / Comedy

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

When Gwen hits the big 4-0, her husband leaves and her daughter takes off with a Lynyrd Skynyrd tribute band. Taking her daughter’s place at the university seems like a good idea until she runs into the reason she dropped out twenty years before… and he’s also found his way Back To U.

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How to Make Iced Coffee – 20 Best Iced Coffee Recipes by Jeen van der Meer has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 8 customer reviews.

Category: Cooking / Advice & How-To

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

Iced Coffee recipes aren’t just delicious, they’re REALLY EASY to make, as well.
How To Make Iced Coffee will tell you how to make the best iced coffee you have ever had.
And they are all so easy to make, these mouth-watering cold drinks. We have collected 20 of the most popular and best recipes.
There is something for every taste and preference. Impress your guests and family with a delicious iced coffee drink.

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The Day No One Played Together: A Story About Compromise by Donalisa Helsley and Sarah Harkey has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 44 customer reviews.

Category: Children

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

Jadyn and Genesis want to play together but neither one wants to play what the other wants to. What will they do? Will they be able to brainstorm and find a way to play together? Will they play alone? “The Day No One Played Together” teaches an important lesson in a fun way. Join these sisters in the first of their series.

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Love REgifted: A Novel by Stephanie Haddad has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 36 customer reviews.

Category: Contemporary Fiction

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

What if everything you knew about your life turned out to be a lie?

Ava Sullivan thought her biggest problems were a cheating boyfriend, a devious step-sister, and a weakness for designer handbags. But when a mysterious caller leaves her a message for her birthday, Ava’s curiosity leads her to uncover her parents’ best kept secret. Feeling betrayed, Ava begins to question every relationship in her life, especially that of the hot new guy she can’t seem to stop thinking about.

Jay Matthews, on the other hand, knows all about regrets, especially when it comes to families. He also knows what he wants, and Ava sits at the top of that list. Getting her attention is easy. Getting her to learn how to trust again? That will take a miracle.

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Three Weeks Last Spring by Victoria Howard has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 7 customer reviews.

Category: Romantic Suspense

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

Skye Dunbar needs to get away from London to put a disastrous affair behind her. When she rents a cabin in Washington State’s San Juan Islands, the last thing she expects is to be accused of computer hacking.

Jedediah Walker is investigating the dead marine life washed up on the islands beaches. And he has another problem – an unexpected, beautiful and suspicious new tenant renting his cabin. When Walker discovers that the fish contain a high concentration of toxic chemicals, he suspects they are being deliberately dumped in Puget Sound. Later, when someone hacks into his computer, he realises it is no coincidence and sets out to find out more about his mysterious new tenant.

However, Skye doesn’t like Walker from the moment she sees him. He feels the same. But that’s about to change.

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Scott Nicholson Library, Vol. 1 by Scott Nicholson is actually a compilation of 4 books into one, and has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 12 customer reviews.

Category: Horror

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

A boxed set of four novels from a #1 Kindle bestselling author. Nearly 300,000 words of fiction.

SCOTT NICHOLSON LIBRARY, Vol. 1 features the complete text of:

THE RED CHURCH: A boy and a sheriff must solve the mystery of a haunted Appalachian church after a sinister preacher returns to town. A Stoker Award finalist and alternate selection of The Mystery Guild.

THE SKULL RING: Julia Stone’s shattered past comes creeping back after she discovers a strange silver ring, and she can’t trust any of the three men who want to help her.

GHOST COLLEGE: A husband-and-wife ghost hunting team is summoned for a very special case at a bible college, where Latin phrases and strange piano music haunt the night.

AS I DIE LYING: Richard Coldiron’s five personalities may be possessed by a demonic spirit, and, to make matters worse, here comes the woman of his dreams.

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Four Free Kindle Books

September 30, 2012 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Here are four 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!

Flame of Resistance by Tracy Groot has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 48 customer reviews.

Category: Historical Fiction

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

Years of Nazi occupation have stolen much from Brigitte Durand. Family. Freedom. Hope for a future, especially for a woman with a past like hers. But that changes the day American fighter pilot Tom Jaeger is shot down over occupied France. Picked up by the Resistance, Tom becomes the linchpin in their plan to infiltrate a Germans-only brothel and get critical intel out through Brigitte, a prostitute rumored to be sympathetic to the Allied cause.D-day looms and everyone knows that invasion is imminent. But so is treachery, and the life of one American pilot unexpectedly jeopardizes everything. He becomes more important than the mission to a man who cannot bear to lose another agent and to a woman who is more than just a prostitute, who finally realizes that her actions could change the course of history.

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Café du Jour by Lilian Darcy has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 19 customer reviews.

Category: Contemporary Fiction

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

Love, loss and latté…

“If today is a cup of coffee it has to be a big, piping hot café au lait, served in a bowl the way they often do in France. I drink it with my hands curved around the bowl for warmth… and for safety…”

Susie used to have the perfect sister, the perfect boss, the perfect restaurant kitchen to cook in and a man who only needed a tweak or two. Now, everything is changing and all she can do is take it one sip at a time.

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Lowering Cholesterol: 50 Simple Ways to Get Your Cholesterol Down Naturally and Dramatically Improve Your Health by Lisa Lee has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 15 customer reviews.

Category: Health

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

In her new book, Health Expert Lisa Lee reveals a Healthy Cocktail of 50 Cholesterol Lowering Foods and lifestyle choices which can help to lower your Cholesterol levels significantly, without the use of drugs.

Inside, you will discover how elevated Cholesterol levels are a major risk factor for health — they are conducive to heart attack, stroke and atherosclerosis — and why it is critical that you understand how to eat well, diet properly and above all start taking action to maintain and improve your health.

In this easy-to-understand book, Lisa reveals how Cholesterol and heart disease risk can be easily controlled by a specific Cholesterol Lowering Diet which, when combined with lifestyle changes, can also aid and Improve Bowel Function, help you Lose Weight and Improve your Immune System.

If you want to know the Secrets to getting your Cholesterol Down, then this book is for you!

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The Vivisectionist by Ike Hamill has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 57 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery & Thrillers

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

The boys have the perfect summer planned. They’ll camp out in the backyard for their last vacation before high school. There’s only one problem — even though they’re just a hundred feet from the safety of the house, they’re being hunted by a serial killer.

Join Jack, Ben, and Stephen as they strap on their backpacks and go out looking for adventure. The woods behind Jack’s house contain endless trails to explore, and the boys have weeks to investigate them all. Their neighborhood finally seems at peace again, now that the man who snatched the kid from down the street has been caught. But there’s still danger in those woods, and the boys are about to stumble into it…

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Today’s Free App of the Day

September 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 Mole Word and this game app is normally $0.99 in the Amazon App Store.

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

No more boring word games! Discover words, beat the clock, unlock the vault, collect gems, and uncover the top-secret Mole Word!

Mole Word is the fun, fast-paced word game for all ages that’s easy to pick up, but impossible to put down!

Form words from letters anywhere on the game board to unlock the vault and collect the treasure! But uh-oh, It looks like you’ve got a mole in your midst! Watch out for Shades the Spy Mole as he tries to put a hole in your plan and steal the treasure for himself!

Earn huge bonuses by using power-ups and making big words! Collect confidential briefcases to uncover the top-secret “Mole Word!”

Mole Word is the ONLY Complete & Professional Quality mole-themed word game on the App Store!

Features:

• Fun, fast-pace gameplay
• Cool power-ups
• Two game modes: Timed and causal play
• Uncover the secret “Mole Word” for a huge point bonus!
• 5 beautifully hand drawn levels
• Fast app resume – stop playing anytime and pick up right where you left off!

If you’re a fan of Bookworm, Text Twist, Crossword, WordSearch, Word Mole, Bejeweled, Hangman, Words with Friends, or Scrabble, you’ll love Mole Word!

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Five Free Kindle Books

September 30, 2012 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Here are five FREE Kindle books for you in the Amazon Kindle store to start off your Sunday morning: 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!

Take a Deep Breath by Shar Dimick has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 32 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free for today only.

Category: Contemporary Romance

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

Liv Reynolds can’t remember when anxiety and panic didn’t play havoc on her life. Recently divorced from a man who wouldn’t or couldn’t understand her, she retreats with her daughter to her grandmother’s summer cottage on Lake of the Pines. Liv has fond memories of the summers she spent there with her grandparents. Always a safe haven, she hopes to spend the summer relaxing, healing and finding herself again. In the midst of a panic attack, she finds herself face-to-face with Cameron Preston, the boy with whom she’d spent her childhood summers. In love with him back then, she never found the courage to tell him and they drifted apart…Her heart leaps at the second chance for love. Confusion swamps her as she tries to figure out why Cam keeps pulling away… Can Liv rekindle their old friendship and to turn it into something more?

Cam quit his busy big-city medical practice exhausted and disillusioned. He returns to his family’s summer home on Lake of the Pines to regroup and determine where and what he wants to do next. When he runs into Liv, the girl he let slip away, he knows where wants to head and with whom. When Cam meets Liv’s eight-year-old daughter, he assumes Liv is married. He struggles to keep his feelings for Liv in check while resuming the friendship he desperately misses. His one regret was not kissing Liv all those years ago when he had the chance… He has never stopped loving Liv. Will he let her slip away again? Not if he has his way.

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When Pigs Fly by Nicola Marsh has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 68 customer reviews.

Category: Humor

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

Retired cop Mack Durgin used to bust perpetrators in Massachusetts, but now he’s widowed and living in Arizona. When a FedEx driver drops off an urn filled with his friend’s ashes at his front door, Mack reluctantly knows he must fulfill George Ashe’s final wish: to have his remains spread over the Grand Canyon. But Mack has no clue what lies hidden within the urn besides his friend’s ashes. On his journey through the desert, Mack meets the entrancing Calliope Vrattos, a former waitress in a bar that holds Elvis impersonation contests. Diet Cola is an ex-con who loves greasy food, but more than anything else, he desperately wants what he hid in the urn. Cola hooks up with a pair of loony housebreakers, a bald Elvis impersonator, and a dopehead with an outline of his brain tattooed on his skull. With a bit of luck and a lot of junk food, they trace Mack to the little town of Pincushion, Arizona. George Ashe may not be alive, but his remains are having the adventure of a lifetime. As Mack encounters one crazed character after another in his quest to fulfill his friend’s last wish, he realizes that life is a gamble and that pigs really do fly.

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Castle Cay by Lee Hanson has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 28 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery & Thrillers

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

When her best friend is murdered, Julie O’Hara, a body language expert, packs up her suspicion and flies to Boston for his funeral. Who could have killed rising artist Marc Solomon, and what does Castle Cay, the Solomon’s mysterious Caribbean island, have to do with it? Before long, Julie’s sixth-sense pulls a hidden string that unravels a deadly conspiracy…and her own troubled past.

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Saving Bobby by Crystal Cattabriga has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 53 customer reviews.

Category: Contemporary Fiction / Religious Fiction

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

AWARD WINNING BOOK FOR READERS FAVORITE
GOLD AWARD FOR BEST CHRISTIAN FICTION

When Bobby’s world came crashing down on his thirteenth birthday, he knew his life would never be the same again. After losing most of his family before ever becoming a teenager, Bobby was determined not to lose the only person who ever truly loved him and was always there for him—his mom. Struggling with the fear of losing his mother to cancer, Bobby takes it upon himself running away in search for a way to save her. Along Bobby’s journey, he meets Annie, a runaway. Together, they embark on a road where they both find a friendship that will last forever and the true meaning of God. Will Bobby save his mother in time and will Annie go back to the life she had? Experience this journey with Bobby and Annie and feel the power of true determination, and what God can do, if you just let Him into your heart..

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How Huge the Night by Heather Munn and Lydia Munn has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 49 customer reviews.

Category: Children / Young Adult

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

Fifteen-year-old Julien Losier just wants to fit in. But after his family moves to a small village in central France in hopes of outrunning the Nazis, he is suddenly faced with bigger challenges than the taunting of local teens.
Nina Krenkel left her country to obey her father’s dying command: Take your brother and leave Austria. Burn your papers. Tell no one you are Jews. Alone and on the run, she arrives in Tanieux, France, dangerously ill and in despair.
Thrown together by the chaos of war, Julien begins to feel the terrible weight of the looming conflict and Nina fights to survive. As France falls to the Nazis, Julien struggles with doing what is right, even if it is not enough—and wonders whether or not he really can save Nina from almost certain death.
Based on the true story of the town of Le Chambon—the only French town honored by Israel for rescuing Jews from the Holocaust—How Huge the Night is a compelling, coming-of-age drama that will keep teens turning the pages as it teaches them about a fascinating period of history and inspires them to think more deeply about their everyday choices.

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Six Free Kindle Books

September 29, 2012 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Here are six FREE Kindle books for you in the Amazon Kindle: 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!

Chasing Paris by Jen Carter has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 8 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through September 30th.

Category: Contemporary Fiction

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

Amy Winthrow is shocked when her grandmother dies—not because Elizabeth Hathaway’s death is unexpected but because her existence had always been hidden. Ever-inquisitive and prone to letting her imagination get the best of her, Amy embarks upon a journey with an unlikely friend to unravel the mysteries of the elusive Lizzie Hathaway. As she follows the trail of broken dreams and promises of her grandmother’s life, Amy finds herself on a path of accidental self-discovery—a path that she chases all the way to Paris where Lizzie’s story ends and Amy’s begins.

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Cardinal Hoax by Karl Bocicevic has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 16 customer reviews.

Category: Science Fiction

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

When Herbert Sedlack—an eccentric particle physicist working out of his sprawling Woodside estate—achieves startling results with a new invention, he knows he wants more from it than financial gain.

His first coconspirator is Korin Prentise, a beautiful venture capitalist and an incorrigible risk taker. Two more members join the team—Alan, a gay computer genius, and Oscar, an African American theology professor at Stanford. Each keeps secrets from the others. Each has divergent motivations that converge and reverberate as an audacious scheme unfolds, from the mysterious Area 51 in Nevada, to the UN building in New York, to the sacred airspace of the Vatican.

The first human beings to move between dimensional spaces, the four gain unexpected perspective on religion, interconnection, and hope. Most crucially, their efforts culminate with the greatest hoax the planet has ever known—a Cardinal Hoax.

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An Act of Self-Defense by Erne Lewis has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 91 customer reviews.

Category: Literary Fiction

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

It is ten years into the future and the nation’s government is nearing financial and moral collapse. A small group (the TLR) believes deadly force is necessary to save individual liberty from the two-party political aristocracy that divides and controls Congress. They believe dictatorial powers will soon be claimed by the federal government. They announce to the nation . . . and ours is the only form of revolution now possible. But it has this advantage. If lives must be taken, only ours or those that have stolen our lives will be required to forfeit theirs.

They give Congress three days . . . to approve their proposed Term Limits Amendment to the Constitution that prevents professional politicians from serving in Congress. Or, unless they first resign, the long term incumbents will be term-limited in the only way they leave us.

The Department of Justice targets term limits supporters and libertarians in its hunt for the terrorist group. But when the first senator is “term-limited” in spite of all that federal authorities can do to stop it, it is clear the terrorists will not be easily found. They are inside the federal law enforcement agencies that are hunting them.

In this novel, I examine the issue that Thomas Jefferson predicted we would be forced to deal with. All three branches of our federal government have ignored the Constitutions protection of the individual’s rights. They have increased their own powers far beyond the limits provided in the Constitution. But what can we do about it? If our liberties, our right to make our own choices, are diminishing with every year, how do we ever regain them? Is deadly force justified?

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Gimpy’s Secret…it’s what’s missing by E.H. McLellan has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 73 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through October 3rd.

Category: Children

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

We become defective, morally, socially and vitally, when deprived of love.

Knowing and doing the actions associated with love is the greatest advantage you can give to yourself and to others.

At last and for the first time, a template, a blueprint for doing Love. No more guess work.

Gimpy’s Secret, is based on 35 years of rigorous research. The elements that must be present in order for Love to occur have been defined and organized. Love is indeed a verb. Now we can learn to Love like we know what we’re doing.

Cleverly disguised as a children’s book the author delivers this ‘how to’ information in a form that is easy to read and easy to remember. This heart-warming story is delightful to children and simple enough for adults. It’s more than just ‘kid’s stuff.’

Hate generates hate, only Love can generate love.

Now we know how!

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The Undertaker by William Brown has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 51 customer reviews.

Category: Action & Adventure

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

Pete Talbott is a California native and harried Boston computer wonk still grieving over the death of his wife Terri, when he found himself at the wrong end of Gino Parini’s .45 reading his own obituary torn from that morning’s newspaper. Talbott figured it was all a big mistake until Parini showed him his wife’s obituary too, and this was a mystery Talbott couldn’t leave alone. From a funeral home in Indiana, to car chases on the Dan Ryan, a bloody Back Bay townhouse, snipers in New York City’s Washington Square, sleazy lawyers, corrupt County sheriffs, mafia hit men, the FBI, an army of Chicago cops, and that unforgettable scene in the upper berth of an Amtrak Train, The Undertaker is a thrill ride with a touch of humor and romance. Someone with a penchant for sharp scalpels and embalming tables is planting bodies under other people’s names; and if Talbott doesn’t stop them, he and his quirky new girlfriend, Sandy Kasmarek, will be next on the Undertaker’s list.

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Breaking News by J.D. Rader and Michael Gudgell has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 24 customer reviews.

Category: Contemporary Fiction

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

Despite ABS News producer Bill Ramey’s distaste for seamy news stories, he pursues evidence that links Senator Gerald Smith to the disappearance of a beautiful blond coed. Nothing is as it appears and soon Bill uncovers dark secrets that someone would kill to protect. As the news story unfolds Bill Ramey and Senator Smith are swept into the funnel of a media tornado that neither of them can control. Though Bill tries to hang on to his integrity, he becomes one of the players in a dangerous game of media manipulation.

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Five Free Kindle Books

September 29, 2012 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Here are five 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!

Don’t Let an Old Person Move Into Your Body by Jim Donovan has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 23 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through September 30th.

Category: Health / Advice & How-To

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

“If you didn’t know when you were born, how old would you be?”

Are you ageless – full of energy and ready to go – no matter what your birth certificate says? Or does the prospect of middle age leave you deeply concerned about what lies ahead?

Don’t Let an Old Person Move Into Your Body shows you how to make the rest of your life, the best of your life — whether you’re in your 40’s, 50’s, 60’s, 70’s or beyond.

In this powerful book you’ll learn how to live every day with passion, purpose, power, and prosperity — no matter when you were born.

“Getting old is a myth,” says international best-selling author and baby boomer, Jim Donovan, who proves it with inspiring stories of people who are living meaningful, productive lives well beyond what most consider “old.”

In Don’t Let an Old Person Move Into Your Body you’ll also learn:

• Why aging is a state of mind.
• How to avoid the trap of “being old.”
• How to identify and attract the dream life you’ve always wanted.
• How to prevent other people’s negativity from destroying your dreams.
• How to eliminate “energy zappers” in your life.
• Why most of what we are told about illness and aging is wrong.
• How to avoid becoming a victim of age related illnesses.
• Practical steps you can take to achieve optimal health, at any age.
• How to create financial abundance and lasting security.
• Simple things you can do each day to help yourself feel better spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and physically.

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this I know – Sarah’s Confessionby Reba Ponder Weiss has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 29 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through September 30th.

Category: Thriller / Suspense

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

A recluse emerges from the backwoods on the eve of his son’s romantic, southern wedding. Dinner spirals into chaos when the self-proclaimed prophet announces he hears spiritual messages straight from God. The voices tell him to prepare the way for the end of the world. His disturbing words find foothold in undeniable facts as disbelief dissolves into terror. Those who gathered to celebrate are suddenly faced with an unthinkable dilemma. They must follow him into a remote, secret sanctuary, prepared exclusively survival… or they can die. As apocalyptic events begin to unfold, the ancient battle of darkness and light quickly becomes a modern reality.

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Blood Duty by J.R. Tomlin and C.R. Daems 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: Fantasy

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

Tamra Dervon, Captain of the Guard of Wayfare Keep, thinks her biggest problem is her love affair with Jessup. The scout is holding things back from her, and she doesn’t know what. But when a seemingly unbeatable army of demons invades, Tamra’s personal problems look very small. Tamra and Jessup find themselves leading a last-ditch defense. Their army is defeated. Jessup disappears in the retreat. As Tamra continues the struggle to defend her homeland, she discovers that another duty lies ahead — to face a demon horde alone.

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Missing Pieces of My Forever Heart by Janet Grosshandler has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 27 customer reviews.

Category: Contemporary Fiction

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

Missing Pieces of My Forever-Heart tells the unforgettable story of two teenagers’ fateful decisions and the resulting grown-up consequences that impact their lives and hearts forever.

News and Internet writer Cath Monahan finally has her life on an even keel after the death of her husband and her daughters’ leaving for college. But long-lost ex-high school boyfriend Jame Patterson has a reason for disrupting her peace and dropping back in her life like a stick of dynamite.

Cath and Jame’s history threatens all that she has built and the biggest threat will reveal a long-buried secret.

Filled with the highs and lows of teenage romance, adult struggle and fateful reality, Missing Pieces Of My Forever-Heart is the haunting story of Cath and Jame as they struggle to make things right after so many years of things being wrong.

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Way Out West by Blanche Marriott has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 6 customer reviews.

Category: Contemporary Romance

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

A fantasy western town is the last place city girl Callie Sumner expects to find love. Her escape to the remote town is a desperate effort to leave her unhappy past behind and start anew. But the hardships of the Old West throw her for a loop until a handsome gambler shows her the West through his eyes.

Benton “Rand” Randall leaves the corporate rat race to find anonymity in Way Out West. What he finds is a breath of fresh air in a sassy saloon girl who warms his frozen heart. But his past catches up when a vengeance-seeking former employee threatens everything he values, including the town and Callie.

Will he lose Callie if he exposes his identity to save the town and his corporate empire? Can she love a man she knows only as a gambler?

Winner of the New Jersey Romance Writers’ Golden Leaf Award.

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An Update and The Kindle Daily Deal

September 29, 2012 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Amazon appears to be having a server issue this morning, as the dozen or so books that were supposed to be released for free (according to the independent authors who let me know in advance about the deals) are having issues: first thing this morning none of them were free and, as I type up this post, about 25% of them are free now. Let’s just say the independent authors who have emailed me this morning are a tad bit frustrated. We have one child going one way and another going a different way today with their activities, so I will be logging in later today as time permits to see if the issue has been resolved.

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

At least, that’s the way it’s supposed to work but Amazon appears to be continuing the weekend tradition by offering ten highly-rated mystery and thrillers at just $1.99 today, which is 80% off of their normal $9.99 each pricing. Rather than list each of them out individually, you can check them all out if you You can check each of them out if you click here or type in http://amzn.to/kddeal into your computer’s web browser.

Today’s Kindle Teens Daily Deal is Spinning Out by David Stahler Jr., which has been discounted 86% to just $1.99 from its normal $13.00 price; this book has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 8 customer reviews, and here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

High school senior Frenchy is just getting by, smoking pot with his best friend Stewart and skating through life. But Stewart is up to something and he wants Frenchy to join in–by trying out for the high school musical, Man of La Mancha. A perfect plan for Stewart’s most legendary prank ever, right? Wrong. Stewart is serious, and convincing. The next thing Frenchy knows they have won the lead parts of Don Quixote and his sidekick Sancho. Stewart’s passion infuses the whole production, but his antics begin to border on obsessive, and Frenchy has to step in more and more often to reign him in. Ultimately, like Quixote, Stewart is spiralling into the beginning stages of schizophrenia. Frenchy embodies and then explodes his role as sidekick both in the play and in life as he figures out how to be a friend, a leader, and a man.

David Stahler has delicately woven a layered story about class, friendship, and the uncertainty of adulthood. With all the fun of High School Musical with a depth and grace of reality, this is a memorable coming of age novel that will resonate with a variety of readers.

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Over 650 Free Fantasy Kindle Books from Amazon Kindle Store

September 28, 2012 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

By popular request, I thought I would highlight the free Kindle book offers in another genre. The next few paragraphs will be new to folks who have just discovered or have recently joined in to reading the blog, and for others it will look familiar…be patient, Grasshopper, as the details – as well as links to the prior genre highlights – will be on your screen before you know it!

I’ve received a lot of requests to highlight more of one particular genre or another – let’s say that’s science fiction. On the other hand, as an example, I receive a lot of requests to decrease the exposure to science fiction and increase the exposure on mysteries and thrillers.

In other words, everyone has a different favorite genre – and that’s great!

In each post of the various free book offers I try to provide a variety of different genres, as I realize everyone has different tastes. While there are certain genres I love, I know there are folks out there who absolutely wouldn’t stand to read the kinds of books I enjoy; the opposite is also true, as I know there are those of you who absolutely love paranormal tales about vampires, especially id someone falls in love with a vampire – as one example – yet you would never catch me reading one of those.

For a new series of posts over the next few weeks, I’m just going to point you to the specific genre in the Amazon Kindle store where you can peruse to your heart’s content: some of the genres you may really like, and for the ones you don’t like rest assured there will always be another post down the road.

All that being said, today’s focus is the free Kindle book offerings in the Fantasy genre: as I type up this post on Thursday night for posting on Friday afternoon, there are just over 650 free books in the fantasy category. I’ve created a special link where you can check out the listings of freebies in those categories you can save to your web browser/s favorites / bookmarks as follows:

http://amzn.to/kindlefantasy

Alternatively, if you are using a Kindle Touch you can click here.

The number of books free in this (and any other) category change each hour and, just because you may click the link(s) above doesn’t mean each and every book listed will be free: if a price is showing, it may mean the price is (a) about to change to free and the Amazon server hasn’t caught up yet, (b) was free but is now back to “paid” status, or (c) any of 1,001 different reasons. The key thing to do is to carefully look at the price before you click the “buy” button on the Amazon website. I would recommend you change the sort on this page (look in the right-hand corner on the Amazon page) to sort by “Price: Low to High.”

Here are past spotlights in case you missed them:
Over 575 horror titles being free in the Amazon Kindle store (you can click here or type in http://wp.me/p2b82w-3gl into your web browser to see that post again or in case you missed it).

Over 400 science fiction titles being free in the Amazon Kindle store (you can click here or type in http://wp.me/p2b82w-3cM into your web browser to see that post again or in case you missed it).

Over 400 historical fiction books being free in the Amazon Kindle store (you can click here or type in http://wp.me/p2b82w-37J into your web browser to see that post again or in case you missed it).

Over 600 mystery and thriller books being free in the Amazon Kindle store (you can click here or type in http://bit.ly/QjbjuY into your web browser to see that post again or in case you missed it).

Over 500 religion and spirituality books being free in the Amazon Kindle store (you can click here or type in http://wp.me/p2b82w-3bd into your web browser to see that post again or in case you missed it).

Over 140 cooking-related titles being free in the Amazon Kindle store (you can click here or type in http://bit.ly/TejVdT into your web browser to see that post again or in case you missed it).

Over 650 children / young adult titles being free in the Amazon Kindle store (you can click here or type in http://bit.ly/QjbjuY into your web browser to see that post again or in case you missed it).

Over 900 romance titles being free in the Amazon Kindle store (you can click here or type in http://bit.ly/UyoomJ into your web browser to see that post again or in case you missed it).

I hope each of you have a great weekend!

Michael

Seven Free Kindle Books

September 28, 2012 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

If you are reading this on a mobile device and would like to share it via email to a Kindle-owning friend or family member so they can enjoy the free Kindle book offerings, here is what you can do:

Go to this post’s page on the blog’s website by clicking here or typing in http://wp.me/p2b82w-3ns into your web browser.
At the bottom of the post you will see several icons underneath the “Comments” toolbar. Click on the second one from the right – it looks like an @ symbol.
Your email program will open up.
Type in your friend(s) email address(es), and you can make changes to the Subject line as well as type your own message.
In the message field, you can change whatever you want to – but don’t delete the link!
If someone forwarded this post to you, why not stick around and visit?

Here are seven additional FREE Kindle books: 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!

99 Reasons to Hate Cats by Tom Briscoe has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 36 customer reviews

Category: Humor

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

Love them or hate them, this fun, funny cartoon book is for anyone who has a cat in their life.

99 Reasons to Hate Cats shows the many ways in which the Felis Domesticus can drive you mad while still keeping your 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.

USA subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/T2hJCy into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Amanda’s Eyes by Kathy DiSanto has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 12 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery and Thrillers

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

Waking up is the pits when you come to in a hospital with a broken arm, a colorful assortment of abrasions and contusions, and a face swathed in bandages. It’s even worse if you can’t remember what hit you.

The bad and the ugly are crime reporter Amanda “A.J.” Gregson’s business. But learning she had a ringside seat for an explosion that killed two agents of the Continental Intelligence and Investigative Service (CIIS), incinerated an entire block of warehouses, and did so much damage to her eyes they had to be surgically removed? Well, that gives the darker side of life a whole new meaning.

Haunted by elusive nightmares, A.J. waits for her transplant and struggles to remember the events leading up to the fateful night of September 4, 2075. Weeks crawl by without a glimmer, before memory floods back the night before surgery, every brutal detail crystal clear.

The explosion had been the work of the Ferrymen.

“The Ferrymen. My not-so-magnificent obsession for more than a year. Only a cataclysm could have made me forget. I guess you could call them hitmen. You could also call Einstein a math whiz. Think ruthless. Think unstoppable. Think killers so proficient ‘caught the ferry’ was fast replacing ‘bought the farm’ in common usage, and you have the Ferrymen in a nutshell.”

The transplant surgery goes off without a hitch—welcome news, because A.J. is raring for a rematch with Hell’s Boatmen. But contrary to popular belief, what you see isn’t always what you get. Take her new eyes, for example. Those baby blues may look perfectly normal, but they possess a power that turns her world upside down—the power to see into the hidden dimensions of the human heart.

When the Sight unmasks the mastermind behind the Ferrymen, the unveiling is as stunning as it is unbelievable. The revelation sets her on course for a second head-collision with evil. Will she survive the final encounter?

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Best Practices for Persuasive Presentations is actually a compilation fo three highly-rated business / self-improvement books by noted authors James O’Rourke, Mark Magnacca, and Jerry Weissman.

Category: Self-Improvement / Business

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

3 expert guides to creating and delivering the best presentations of your life!

Learn how to make winning presentations fearlessly and painlessly… prepare quickly, efficiently, and well… manage anxiety and handle hostile audiences… answer the crucial “So What?” question brilliantly, every time… capture even the toughest, most high-level audience in 90 seconds… tell compelling stories that move your listeners to action!

USA subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/nNAN5T into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Forever Blue: New Tears to Cry, Old Songs to Singl by Jennifer Edlund has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 20 customer reviews.

Category: Contemporary Fiction

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

It’s the captivating conclusion to this moving saga of choices made and chances lost.

Over a decade ago, Alexa Moore’s first love vanished without warning. After years of mourning Carter Storm’s fateful departure, her emotional wounds have faded and she is finally free from the pain of her past. Now in her mid-twenties, her future includes the perfect husband and a lucrative career as a make-up artist. Of course, all this comes to a screeching halt when the past suddenly comes rushing back at her. The moment Carter Storm returns and reveals the truth about his mysterious disappearance, Alexa’s life is irrevocably altered. Every irrepressible emotion she ever tried to bury for him is inexplicably rehashed. In the wake of their rekindled friendship, Alexa promises to keep Carter at a distance, so that her marriage is not put in jeopardy. With all the strength Alexa can muster, she must push back the very real attraction she still feels for this man. But their history just won’t let the passion between the two die, especially when Carter refuses to fan the coals of their long ago relationship. As Alexa struggles to determine where her heart and future lie, she makes a shocking decision that will upset the balance of everyone around her, leading to a series of staggering and heart breaking surprises.

USA subscribers: click here or type in http://amzn.to/SpFsh7 into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Undetectable by M.C. Soutter has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 21 customer reviews.

Category: Science Fiction

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

You could learn more, do more, even live more. The potential is there. You could be anything: an engineer, a doctor, a chemist…

Or one of the most lethal Secret Service agents on the planet.

Undetectable is the story of Kevin Brooks, the first test subject of a new and unproven neurological technique called scrubbing. A private-school teacher in Manhattan, he has just landed a brand new job. It’s the most important, most dangerous job he’ll ever have.

He just doesn’t know about it yet.

Kevin will soon be in charge of protecting the greatest computer scientist of our generation. This man is on the verge of a breakthrough that could change all of our lives, and he already has 24-hour protection from the United States Secret Service. There are people who want this scientist dead, and these people know how to pick their moments. Which is why the man will soon be the beneficiary of a new kind of protector, an undetectable protector.

Now, in the second book of the Great Minds series, Kevin Brooks will be put through every imaginable test. He will have less than two weeks to prepare, but several years of training to absorb.

Whether he is ready in time or not, there will be lives that need saving. And no one else who can do the job.

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

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The Kindle Daily Deal

September 28, 2012 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Today’s Kindle Daily Deal for adults is Black April: The Fall of South Vietnam, 1973-1975, a historical book by George J. Veith, and this book was $29.95 yesterday in the Amazon Kindle Store (that was not a typo) but has been discounted 90% to just $2.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 15 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Kids Daily Deal is Silly Tilly by Eileen Spinelli and David Slonim, and this book was $9.99 yesterday in the Amazon Kindle Store but have been discounted 80% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 9 customer reviews.

You can check both of them out if you click here or type in http://amzn.to/kddeal into your computer’s web browser.

Here is Black April: The Fall of South Vietnam, 1973-19975 book description from the Amazon website:

The defeat of South Vietnam was arguably America’s worst foreign policy disaster of the 20th Century. Yet a complete understanding of the endgame—from the 27 January 1973 signing of the Paris Peace Accords to South Vietnam’s surrender on 30 April 1975—has eluded us.

Black April addresses that deficit. A culmination of exhaustive research in three distinct areas: primary source documents from American archives, North Vietnamese publications containing primary and secondary source material, and dozens of articles and numerous interviews with key South Vietnamese participants, this book represents one of the largest Vietnamese translation projects ever accomplished, including almost one hundred rarely or never seen before North Vietnamese unit histories, battle studies, and memoirs. Most important, to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of South Vietnam’s conquest, the leaders in Hanoi released several compendiums of formerly highly classified cables and memorandum between the Politburo and its military commanders in the south. This treasure trove of primary source materials provides the most complete insight into North Vietnamese decision-making ever complied. While South Vietnamese deliberations remain less clear, enough material exists to provide a decent overview.

Ultimately, whatever errors occurred on the American and South Vietnamese side, the simple fact remains that the country was conquered by a North Vietnamese military invasion despite written pledges by Hanoi’s leadership against such action. Hanoi’s momentous choice to destroy the Paris Peace Accords and militarily end the war sent a generation of South Vietnamese into exile, and exacerbated a societal trauma in America over our long Vietnam involvement that reverberates to this day. How that transpired deserves deeper scrutiny.

You can pick up your copy of Black April: The Fall of South Vietnam, 1973-1975 by clicking here or typing in http://amzn.to/kddeal into your computer’s web browser.

Here is the Silly Tilly book description from the Amazon website:

“Tilly is not an ordinary goose. She takes her baths in apple juice. She wears a pancake as a hat. She tries to ride the farmer’s cat.”
But the barnyard animals complain that she’s too silly. When she stops entertaining her friends with her antics, the farm becomes a quiet and unhappy place. David Slonim’s acrylic, pencil, and ballpoint pen illustrations add to the hilarity in this story about a one-of-a-kind silly goose.

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

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Archives for September 2012

Nine Free Kindle Books

Four Free Kindle Books

Today’s Free App of the Day

Five Free Kindle Books

Six Free Kindle Books

Five Free Kindle Books

An Update and The Kindle Daily Deal

Over 650 Free Fantasy Kindle Books from Amazon Kindle Store

Seven Free Kindle Books

The Kindle Daily Deal

About Free Kindle Books and Tips

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