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How I Choose the Books / A Post for Authors #3

January 31, 2013 by Michael Gallagher 29 Comments

All – there are a lot of independent authors who read this blog. While this post is primarily geared toward them, I’m sure some of you will find it a little bit interesting!

By popular request, here is a continuation of the “Is It You?” thread I started two weeks ago. Consistent with the last two in the series, I received a lot of emails about my rambling but (as usual, there is a “but”), while the emails are great, why not share your thoughts here at the bottom of this post and get the dialogue flowing? I’m sure your friends, neighbors, and anonymous strangers would like to see more viewpoints.

If you missed the first thread regarding a sloppy book description, you can read it and comment on that thread if you click here or type in http://wp.me/p2b82w-3Ux into your web browser.
If you missed the second thread regarding judging a book by its cover, you can read it and comment on that thread if you click here or type in http://wp.me/p2b82w-3UA into your web browser.

As background, about two dozen or more independent authors send me notifications each day of their books going free on Amazon wanting me to publish it on my largest blog. I’m more than happy to do it, as I have been called lazy at times in the past and having someone else tell me about a free offer decreases the amount of time I have to run my manual methods of seeing what is free for a particular day. I reject about 75% of the book submissions for about half a dozen reasons – if I’m rejecting them from a promotion standpoint, you can certainly bet potential readers would do the same if they saw most of the books being submitted to me.

Continuing my “Top Something” list of to avoid promoting because either (a) similar promotions tell me it won’t be that successful because few people click on it – despite a book being free, (b) my blog readers tell me what they didn’t like about a certain thing or feature, or the somewhat reliable gauge of (c) my gut tells me not to do it, this time is having a freebie promotion of #2 or #3 in a series of books.

The purpose of this thread is not to debate the positive and negative of having a freebie offer, but putting anything besides book #1 in a series on a free run.

For example, let’s suppose you have a book series that has six volumes in it (or more than one book in a series). Of course, you’re going to do anything you can to promote the series as, after all, you want to hook a new reader into enjoying the series and purchasing the rest of the books so that they can get their fix and you can receive some royalties.

Many authors submit book #2 or #3 in the series for free, and it is clearly stated in the book’s description as “A continuation of the XYZ series” or “the continuing tales of the XXX thriller!” About three years ago I quit promoting books like these. Why? It just seemed to bother the blog readers – heck, it bothered me, also. I don’t know too many people who will take the time investment to start book #3 of a series as they don’t have the background of the characters, plots, themes, etc. developed in Book 1 and Book 2.

As a result, a lot of people skip over it and move on to the next deal – and the independent author doing the promotion is scratching their head wondering why their freebie promotion wasn’t “successful.” When I try to tell that to the author who has asked me my opinion why things didn’t work out like they wanted, a lot of folks don’t believe me. The blog readers have told me what they prefer, and seeing anything but book #1 in a series as a freebie is not what they want to see.

In the majority of cases, Book #1 in a series is the best one of the whole lot: you took your time with character development and plot (among everything else). You have laid the foundation for reader involvement – they feel attached and have a connection with the characters and want more, more, more.

My recommendation is to make the biggest push and best impression you can with Book #1: in addition to a good tale, have an outstanding cover, make sure your book description is a home run, has had the benefit of at least one editor, and, not to be overlooked, every single page of the Kindle version has been proofed for typos.

At the end of the day rather than one successful freebie run with residual sales for a day or two post-free, the name of the game is to create a bit of buzz around your work and have a long runway of book sales that last several months if not longer. If you can hook your prospective readers into the beginning of something – rather than starting in the middle – I’d be willing to bet your overall paid sales over a period of time will increase.

We all need to find a way to get prospective browsers to turn into habitual purchasers: people will look for any excuse to not buy your offering and will move on to something else in their quest to find a new good book or favorite author.

Side Note: authors Toni Dwiggins and Monique Martin are about the only exceptions to my nitpicky “rule” on books in a series. They do everything I have said not to do – for example, they continually run #2 in their series as free and describe them as a continuation of a story in their book descriptions – and they knock it out of the park each time. Part of me says it’s because they have such a good book description it compels people to give it a shot, part of it is probably because they have some book #1 readers who saw #2 as a freebie and grabbed it, book #2 can stand by itself, or maybe it’s because they have a book cover that grabs your attention. There are probably a bunch of other reasons, but what you can boil it all down to is they are pretty darn good writers. Just an example that my hypotheses aren’t 100% reliable!

Thoughts? Comments? Complaints (you certainly won’t hurt my feelings)? Fire away in the comment field below – if you are reading this on your e-Ink Kindle, you can type in http://wp.me/p2b82w-3UG into a web browser and enter your thoughts!

Thanks for listening!

Michael Gallagher

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7 FREE Kindle Books Offers

January 31, 2013 by Michael Gallagher 4 Comments

Need a fresh distraction this afternoon? Listed below are seven FREE Kindle books for you in the Amazon Kindle store for your Saturday 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!

Cross Roads by C. Michaels has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 16 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery & Thrillers / Suspense

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

After losing his prominent job, Benjamin Cross packs up his little trailer and moves to Wind River, a small fly-fishing town in Idaho where he plans on spending a few months recouping with his friends.
He arrives to find that Cue and Katie, the owners of a bar and grill located on the banks of the Snake River are in a power struggle with the proprietor of the prestigious hotel next to them. Ben puts his efforts toward helping them, unaware of the lengths some will go to get what they want.

Sex, greed, and murder take over the lives of Wind River’s residents, and soon, it becomes fuzzy who can be trusted.

Twists and turns will keep you reading this thriller, with the colorful small town characters surprising you when you thought you had it all figured out. And when you’re finished, you will be left wanting more, not realizing the colossal damages that greed and lust have done to affect the future of your new friends, the residents of Wind River.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/q8o9ug into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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8 to Great: The Powerful Process for Positive Change by M.K. Mueller has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 41 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free for today only.

Category: Business / Leadership

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

In 8 to Great: The Powerful Process for Positive Change, author MK Mueller presents 8 simple steps that the happiest, healthiest and most successful have in common. Each year, Mueller brings 8 to Great to Fortune 500 businesses, health care organizations, colleges, high schools, associations and community groups. In this book, she shares not only her inspirational insights and heart-hitting anecdotes, but those from over 1,000 8 to Great certified trainers and over 100,000 participants around the world.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/ga5qep into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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A Fatal Verdict by Tim Vicary has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 26 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery & Thrillers

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

A Fatal Verdict

What would you do if someone murdered your child, but the justice system let you down?

Kathryn Walters is faced with this dreadful decision when her daughter, Shelley, is found dead in a bath in her boyfriend’s flat. Despite the best efforts of the Crown Prosecution barrister, Sarah Newby, it seems likely that the boyfriend, David Kidd, will be acquitted. How can her family tolerate this? And how should the investigating detective, Terry Bateson, act when it seems that the murdered girl’s mother is seeking revenge on the man he is certain killed Shelley in the first place?

As the story unravels Sarah Newby is confronted with one of her toughest defence cases yet, with a client who is not only reluctant to give evidence on her own behalf, but also refuses to explain why she chose Sarah to defend her in the first place …

This book is a 2012 B.R.A.G Medallion Honoree

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/pn25dp into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Yellow Crocus: A Novel by Laila Ibrahim has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 295 customer reviews.

Category: Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction

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

In 1837, Lisbeth Wainwright is born to the white mistress of a sprawling Virginia plantation. Seconds later, she is delivered into the arms of her black wet nurse, Mattie. For a field hand like Mattie, her transfer to the big house is supposed to be considered an honor—except that the move tears Mattie away from her beloved grandfather and her infant son, Samuel. But Mattie is a slave, with no say in the matter, and so she devotes herself to her master’s daughter, though she longs to be raising her own child. Growing up under Mattie’s tender care, little Lisbeth adopts the woman’s deep-seated faith in God, her love of music and black-eyed peas, and the tradition of hunting for yellow crocuses in the early days of spring.

As the years pass, Lisbeth is drawn slowly back into her white parents’ world and begins to learn the ins and outs of life for a high-born young lady. Still she retains her connection to Mattie, befriending Samuel and drifting comfortably between the two worlds. She accepts her parents’ assertion that their slaves depend upon them for guidance and protection, yet that notion becomes more and more difficult to believe as she gains awareness of the inequality of life in the big house versus the slave quarters. When, on the threshold of her society wedding to debonair Edward Cunningham, Lisbeth bears witness to a shockingly brutal act, the final vestiges of her naiveté crumble around her. Just twenty-one years old, she is forced to choose between what is socially acceptable and what is right, a decision that will change her life forever.

This compelling historical novel chronicles young Lisbeth Wainwright’s coming-of-age during one of the most difficult chapters of American history. Lisbeth’s powerful bond with Mattie makes her loss of innocence in the face of society’s ugly secrets all the more heartbreaking, and yet it is the courage she learns from her stand in mother that enables Lisbeth to blaze a new path for herself. Yellow Crocus offers moving proof of how the greatest social change often blooms forth from small personal acts of love.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/yqoaom into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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American Legends: The Life of Sitting Bull by Charles River Editors has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 42 customer reviews.

Category: Non-Fiction / Biography

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

• Includes pictures of Sitting Bull and important people and places in his life.
• Explains the Battle of the Little Bighorn and several Lakota oral legends.
• Includes a Table of Contents

“When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them? Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?” – Sitting Bull

A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history’s most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors’ American Legends series, readers can get caught up to speed on the lives of America’s most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known.

In 1872, during a fight along the Yellowstone River between U.S. troops protecting railroad workers and Sioux warriors, one of the Sioux did something both unusual and inspiring. At the height of the battle, with bullets whizzing all around him, this warrior sat down, loaded his cannupa (sacred pipe), and began to smoke, partaking in his people’s religious sacrament. For the Sioux, smoking a pipe was akin to praying, and the smoke, wafting up through to the heavens, represented those prayers as they floated up to Wakan Tanka, the “god” of the Native Americans who occupied the North American Plains. Wakan Tanka is not the name of their god but rather a description, for the words literally mean “Great Mystery.” The Sioux warrior continued smoking until done with his pipe, and after carefully reaming and cleaning out the pipe, he rose to his feet, and rejoined the battle.

Of course, it was not that battle which made Sitting Bull one of the most famous Native Americans in American history. Like Geronimo in the Southwest during the same era, Sitting Bull was a warrior who fought in several skirmishes against settlers and U.S. forces across the Plains during the 1860s, and while it is still debated whether he was the “Supreme Chief of the whole Sioux Nation” by 1868, it’s clear that he was one of the influential leaders of the Lakota. And when The Great Sioux War of 1876 began, Sitting Bull was recognized as the most important leader among all Native American tribes on the Plains, and the one to turn to for those who intended to keep fighting whites.

Sitting Bull ensured he would become a legend at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, during which an estimated 2,000 Lakota and Cheyenne warriors inspired by one of his visions routed and then annihilated the 7th U.S. Cavalry led by George Custer. That disaster led the American government to double down on its efforts to “pacify” the Sioux, and by the end of the decade many of them had surrendered and been moved onto a reservation. Sitting Bull defiantly refused to surrender, instead heading with a smaller band into Canada and remaining exiled.

When he finally surrendered to the U.S. in 1881, he was a celebrity of sorts, and Sitting Bull went on to appear in Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show during the decade. Not surprisingly, his death was as controversial as his life; in 1890 Sitting Bull was killed on a reservation after plans to arrest him went terribly awry, leading to fighting in the aftermath that left over a dozen dead.
American Legends: The Life of Sitting Bull chronicles the amazing life of the Sioux leader who defiantly fought to save his people’s homeland, but it also humanizes the man who became one of the most famous Native Americans in American history. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Sitting Bull like you never have before, in no time at all.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/eqgr3q into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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The Pink Rose: Secrets, Love, and Betrayal by Alicia Roberts has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 173 customer reviews.

Category: Contemporary Romance

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

Max Wilson is CEO and majority shareholder of Zetta Corp. Ever since he first noticed his shy accountant Amy Sanders, he’s been trying to get her attention. So when she finally agrees to be his escort to an important gala, he knows exactly what he wants from her.

What he doesn’t know is that Amy’s cousin is Nicky Dunn, his business rival. Soon, it seems as though there’s a mole inside the company, leaking important information to Nicky…

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/q2675i into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Angels Don’t Die by Soren Petrek has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 19 customer reviews.

Category: Action & Adventure

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

When an American agent is taken hostage, famed WWII assassin, Madeleine Toche resurfaces to rescue him, taking on the PLO and all comers in the middle of Israel’s Yom Kippur War. Toche, feared as the Angel of Death, must send the PLO a bloody message, release the agent or die. With the help of the Mossad, Toche unleashes her fury, leaving a path of destruction everywhere she goes.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/oa2y1q into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Today's Free App of the Day

January 31, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

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

Today’s Free App of the Day is Word Puzzle for the Soul and this game is normally $0.99 in the Amazon App Store but is free for today only.

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

Word Gamers Rejoice!

Introducing “Word Puzzle for the Soul”, This is a beautiful inspirational quotes inspired Word Game.

• 482 Inspirational levels
• 8 topics
• Hours and weeks of Empowering Challenging Fun Game Play!
• Internalize/Absorb Inspiring quotes better by challenged enigmatic Game Play!.

On the game board, you are given a quote by great men and women. The tiles are shuffled and not readable. Your task is to put the tiles back into their places and recover the original quote.

To reconstruct a quote, you must swap the letter tiles until you get every correct words. The tiles can only be swapped vertically in its respective column.

Once the original quote is revealed you level up!.

Be Empowered,Motivated and Inspired by these great quotes from great minds.

This is your game, your Word Puzzle for the Soul.

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Today's Kindle Daily Deal

January 31, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deal is a one-day only offer where a specific Kindle book for adults, one for young readers (children or young adults), a romance, and a science fiction / fantasy title have been hand-selected by the editors at Amazon and significantly discounted for today only.

Today’s Kindle Daily Deal for adults is Poison Flower , by Thomas Perry, and this book was $14.00 yesterday in the Amazon Kindle store but has been discounted 86% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 92 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Kids Daily Deal is Bus Stops , by Taro Gomi, and this book was $5.99 yesterday in the Amazon Kindle store but has been discounted 83% to just $0.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 13 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Daily Deal is The Girl of Fire and Thorns , by Rae Carson, and this book was $9.99 yesterday in the Amazon Kindle store but has 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 260 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Romance Daily Deal is Unlocked: A Love Story , by Karen Kingsbury, and this book was $14.99 yesterday in the Amazon Kindle store but has been discounted 87% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 708 customer reviews.

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

Here is the Poison Flower book description from the Amazon website:

Poison Flower, the seventh novel in Thomas Perry’s celebrated Jane Whitefield series, opens as Jane spirits James Shelby, a man unjustly convicted of his wife’s murder, out of the heavily guarded criminal court building in downtown Los Angeles. But the price of Shelby’s freedom is high. Within minutes, men posing as police officers kidnap Jane and, when she tries to escape, shoot her.

Jane’s captors are employees of the man who really killed Shelby’s wife. He believes he won’t be safe until Shelby is dead, and his men will do anything to force Jane to reveal Shelby’s hiding place. But Jane endures their torment, and is willing to die rather than betray Shelby. Jane manages to escape but she is alone, wounded, thousands of miles from home with no money and no identification, hunted by the police as well as her captors. She must rejoin Shelby, reach his sister before the hunters do, and get them both to safety.

In this unrelenting, breathtaking cross-country battle, Jane survives by relying on the traditions of her Seneca ancestors. When at last Jane turns to fight, her enemies face a cunning and ferocious warrior who has one weapon that they don’t.

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

Here is the Bus Stops book description from the Amazon website:

Brilliantly rendered drawings show the everyday events that make cities come alive. A simple text details the bus’s path and riders, while a subtext challenges children to find a variety of objects and people. Gomi’s pictures are beautifully composed, and will appeal to children for their simplicity and to adults for their strong graphics.

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

Here is the The Girl of Fire and Thorns book description from the Amazon website:

Once a century, one person is chosen for greatness.

Elisa is the chosen one. But she is also the younger of two princesses. The one who has never done anything remarkable, and can’t see how she ever will.

Now, on her sixteenth birthday, she has become the secret wife of a handsome and worldly king–a king whose country is in turmoil. A king who needs her to be the chosen one, not a failure of a princess.

And he’s not the only one who seeks her. Savage enemies, seething with dark magic, are hunting her. A daring, determined revolutionary thinks she could be his people’s savior, and he looks at her in a way that no man has ever looked at her before. Soon it is not just her life, but her very heart that is at stake.

Elisa could be everything to those who need her most. If the prophecy is fulfilled. If she finds the power deep within herself. If she doesn’t die young. Most of the chosen do.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Girl of Fire and Thorns .

Here is the Unlocked: A Love Story book description from the Amazon website:

Before You Take a Stand … You Got to Take a Chance. Holden Harris is an eighteen-year-old locked in a prison of autism. Despite his quiet ways and quirky behaviors, Holden is very happy and socially normal—on the inside, in a private world all his own. In reality, he is bullied at school by kids who only see that he is very different. Ella Reynolds is part of the ‘in’ crowd. A cheerleader and star of the high school drama production, her life seems perfect. When she catches Holden listening to her rehearse for the school play, she is drawn to him … the way he is drawn to the music. Then, Ella makes a dramatic discovery—she and Holden were best friends as children. Frustrated by the way Holden is bullied, and horrified at the indifference of her peers, Ella decides to take a stand against the most privileged and popular kids at school. Including her boyfriend, Jake. Ella believes miracles can happen in the unlikeliest places, and that just maybe an entire community might celebrate from the sidelines. But will Holden’s praying mother and the efforts of Ella and a cast of theater kids be enough to unlock the prison that contains Holden? This time, friendship, faith, and the power of a song must be strong enough to open the doors to the miracle Holden needs.

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Six FREE Kindle Book Offers

January 31, 2013 by Michael Gallagher 6 Comments

Here are six FREE Kindle books in a variety of genres for you to consider 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!

Drowning Mermaids by Nadia Scrieva has received an average user rating of out of 4 out of 5 stars based on 86 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through February 5th.

Category: Fantasy / Romance

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

The deadly northern seas are growing unsettled…

None know this better than Aazuria Vellamo, who must conceal her physical abnormalities in order to masquerade as a normal human being. She is the proud Princess of Adlivun, fleeing from the threat of war in her underwater kingdom to regroup with her sisters and bodyguards in Alaska. This refuge holds unexpected surprises, for she meets a somber gentleman in a dark corner who offers her assistance.

Captain Trevain Murphy is a successful king crab fisherman who has spent his life building his empire above the sea, and knows nothing of the greater empire beneath the surface. When an elegant dancer captures his attention, he becomes fascinated with her old-fashioned speech and unique mannerisms. Learning that her father has recently died, he cannot resist extending kindness and offering to be her benefactor.

Neither the captain nor the princess can imagine that their lives will become forcibly entwined as a common enemy threatens both of their worlds…

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/5brqjq into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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This Tangled Thing Called Love by Marie Astor has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 18 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through February 4th.

Category: Contemporary Romance

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

Claire Chatfield has everything a girl could possibly wish for: looks, a promising career, and an engagement ring from one of New York’s most eligible heir-bachelors! Life should be a dream and yet, it does not feel like one… When an enigmatic new neighbor, Alec Brunell, moves into an apartment above from Claire’s, Claire is surprised to find herself wondering whether the choices she has made in her life are worth following through.

In order to secure his place as his father’s successor, David Lawson must settle down with a wife befitting the future head of Lawson Enterprises – and who could fit the prerequisite better than lovely Claire Chatfield? There is just one glitch – David Lawson is in love with another woman.

Alec Brunell has never lacked for women’s attention, but he finds himself at a loss when faced with his downstairs neighbor, Claire Chatfield. Still, her iciness only adds fuel to his fire, as Alec is determined to change Claire’s view of him.

This Tangled Thing Called Love follows the story of four people searching for love – will they have the courage to find it?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/ldd1lq into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Harry Defeats Ick & The Evil Plaque Monsters by Auntie Kim has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 7 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through February 2nd.

Category: Children

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

Harry, a young boy who doesn’t brush his teeth every night was attacked by the evil group of bacteria, called the Evil Plaque Monsters. The Evil Plaque Monsters started doing evil stuff in his mouth that caused pain and suffering to Harry. When he was about to lose hope, his mother’s friend Dr. Jones, who is a dentist, helped him by calling Tommy the Super Toothbrush and Tina the Wonder Toothpaste.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/6mjler into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Just Evil by Vickie McKeehan has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 62 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through February 1st.

Category: Suspense

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

The Evil Trilogy
Despite growing up together in their trendy Beverly Hills neighborhood, three best friends hide dark childhoods. The lives of Kit, Baylee and Quinn have been anything but perfect. Little do they know a stranger is about to unravel long, buried secrets, bringing the past back to life with a vengeance.

Just Evil
Kit Griffin has finally overcome a painful childhood at the hands of her mother, former actress Alana Stevens. No longer living in the grasp of the cold, tyrannical woman, Kit’s life is finally on track. That is, until Alana is found brutally murdered on Mother’s Day, pulling Kit back to the dark horrors of her past. To make matters worse, the police consider Kit the prime suspect.

Jake Boston is an old family friend and the man Kit has loved since she was a teen. He’s fighting his own demons as a suspect in his wife’s murder two years earlier. Despite his past, he’s determined to win Kit over once and for all. But before that can happen they need to convince the police there’s a killer working his way down a list with cold-hearted vengeance in mind.

Forced to delve into Alana’s dark past, Jake and Kit uncover a forty-year-old double murder leading them straight to the door of a legal dynasty. Soon they find out just how far the heirs will go to keep the past buried.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/47y5v0 into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Releasing a Person: Fast Recovery from Heartbreak, a Breakup, or Divorce by Kathryn Alice has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 32 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through February 1st.

Category: Advice & How-To

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

Releasing a Person was first a workshop and then a bestselling CD that popular love guru Kathryn Alice created to help those suffering with the deepest attachment we face: that to another person. It has produced MIRACLES for those have used it.

For the first time, this material is being made available in book format. It will help you:

* Relieve the pain of a break-up or divorce

* Heal from heartbreak

* Dissolve a pesky attachment that is putting your life on hold

* Possibly work it out with the person you’re releasing (Kathryn calls this “The Phenomenon” in the book)

* Free yourself for the REAL love that awaits you beyond tie

* Get beyond a “crazy love” situation that is making you miserable

After a painful divorce, Kathryn found happiness with her husband of over a decade, Jon, and they have four boys.

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Solomon’s Porch by Wid Bastian has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 27 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free for today only.

Category: Religious Fiction

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

We were created in the image and likeness of God. Our souls are eternal, but for a brief time the immortal is hidden within flesh, the timeless joined to the temporary. Trapped in this imperfect state, we strive to find ourselves and our Creator, our souls desperately seeking to become reunited with the Immortal One.

The characters in Solomon’s Porch struggle between the conflicting calls of world and spirit, they reach out for God’s mercy in the darkness. Through my imagination, they do battle with themselves and against evil, stumbling down the path of life making mistakes, sometimes horrific ones.

They ask, as we all do, why are we here? Is there a God and, if so, what does He want from us? What is our destiny? What is happiness? What is love? What is truth? Is it possible to make sense of a world that exalts the most violent, profane, and merciless among us?

The Son of God touched me, reached out to a very determined sinner and atheist, and by His grace is leading me toward salvation. While I by no means have all the answers, I no longer need them. Faith has replaced cynicism. Knowledge of Christ, who He is, and what He has called each of us to become, now lights my way as I patiently await the Lord’s mercy.

Let all who read Solomon’s Porch see if they can find their own road home through the One who assured us that He, and He alone, is “the way, the truth, and the life.”

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5 FREE Kindle Book Offers

January 30, 2013 by Michael Gallagher 12 Comments

Here are five FREE Kindle books for you in the Amazon Kindle store for your Wednesday evening / afternoon: 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!

Threads That Bind by Brant Williams has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 69 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through January 31st.

Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy / Young Adult

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

At 16, Madison has accepted herself for who she is: smart and witty, but overweight with thick glasses and the social life of a Tibetan monk. Everything changes the summer before her junior year of high school when her eyesight inexplicably corrects itself, and she begins to rapidly lose weight. However, her new look comes with an unexpectedly expensive price. Madison’s first kiss with the boy she has had a crush on for years triggers powers she can’t control, almost killing him.

She discovers she is a Berserker, a powerful being chosen to guard the world from the Havocs, ancient creatures brought into our world by magic thousands of years ago. They cause destruction and death, but cannot be killed. Only the Berserkers’ life-blood can bind – and free – the Havocs. One Havoc is free and wants Madison’s blood to free another. Instead of enjoying her new look and popularity at school, Madison must now work with the Berserkers to master her powers and bind the Havoc before it kills her.

Oh, and if that weren’t bad enough, it turns out she is the first female Berserker since, well – ever.

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Darklandia by T.S. Welti has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 49 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through January 31st.

Category: Science Fiction

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

Manhattan, 2147: Seventeen-year-old Sera Fisk gleefully celebrates the death of her 114-year-old great-grandmother, the last Atraxian alive who still remembers what New York was like before Felicity.

There is only one principle of Felicity: Suffering is optional. Those who disagree or forget this principle, as Sera’s father did, are detained and “purified”. Through the use of the Darklandia virtual reality and mandatory water rations, the Department of Felicity has transformed metropolises all over the country into happy, obedient communities.

Inspired by her great-grandmother’s last words, Sera stops drinking the water rations and is soon recruited by Nyx into a rebel organization in the midst of planning a full-scale attack on Darklandia. When Nyx attempts to override the Darklandia system, he stumbles upon shocking information about Sera and her family. After years of living in a haze of virtual reality and drugs, Sera finds herself running from a powerful surge of raw emotions and a government agency intent on keeping reality a secret.

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The Puppeteer by Tamsen Schultz has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 12 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery & Thrillers / Suspense

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

CIA agent Danielle “Dani” Williamson never stops believing that one day she’ll find the man who killed her parents and stole her childhood. And when the nightmare she relives in her dreams is played out in carbon copy and linked to a group the CIA believes is planning a terrorist attack in the US, Dani thinks she might finally have her chance.

Detective Ty Fuller loved being a Navy SEAL, but after seeing one too many innocent children killed, he was no longer able to stomach the world of politics, manipulation, and death. Now, as a detective with his local vice squad, he likes to think he’s helping kids by keeping drugs off the streets–local problems, local solutions.

But when Dani and her team arrive, they bring a case bigger than anything Ty’s small New England town has seen in decades, drugs in exchange for weapons-lots of them. And as the case unfolds and the tensions simmer between them, Dani and Ty discover that all is not what it seems. Uncovering a web of manipulation that spans the globe and reaches all the way to the US president, they know the price for justice will be high, risking not just their fledgling relationship, but their very lives.

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The Lion, the Lamb, the Hunted: A Psychological Thriller by Andrew E. Kaufman has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 446 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

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

SHE ONLY STEPPED OUTSIDE FOR A MINUTE…

But a minute was all it took to turn Jean Kingsley’s world upside down–a minute she’d regret for the rest of her life.       

STEPPING INTO HER WORST NIGHTMARE…   

Because when she returned, she found an open bedroom window and her three-year-old son, Nathan, gone. The boy would never be seen again.      

A NIGHTMARE THAT ONLY BECAME WORSE.

A tip leads detectives to the killer, a repeat sex offender, and inside his apartment, a gruesome discovery. A slam-dunk trial sends him off to death row, then several years later, to the electric chair.       

CASE CLOSED. JUSTICE SERVED…OR WAS IT?

Now, more than thirty years later, Patrick Bannister unwittingly stumbles across evidence among his dead mother’s belongings–it paints her as the killer and her brother, a wealthy and powerful senator, as the one pulling the strings. 

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO NATHAN KINGSLEY?   

There’s a hole in the case a mile wide, and Patrick is determined to close it. But what he doesn’t know is that the closer he moves toward the truth, the more he’s putting his life on the line, that he’s become the hunted. Someone’s hiding a dark secret and will stop at nothing to keep it that way.

The clock is ticking, the walls are closing, and the stakes are getting higher as he races to find a killer–one who’s hot on his trail. One who’s out for his blood.  

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Invisible by Lorena McCourtney has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 670 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery / Religious Fiction

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

She’s not your average crime fighter!

Ivy Malone has a curiosity that sometimes gets her into trouble, and it’s only aggravated by her discovery that she can easily escape the public eye. So when vandals romp through the local cemetery, she takes advantage of her newfound anonymity and its unforeseen advantages as she launches her own unofficial investigation.

Despite her oddball humor and unconventional snooping, Ivy soon becomes discouraged by her failure to turn up any solid clues. And after Ivy witnesses something ominous and unexplained, she can’t resist putting her investigative powers to work again. Even the authorities’ attempts to keep Ivy out of danger and her nosy neighbor’s match-making schemes can’t slow her down. But will the determination that fuels this persistent, quirky sleuth threaten her very safety?

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5 FREE Kindle Books

January 30, 2013 by Michael Gallagher 4 Comments

Here are five FREE Kindle books for you in the Amazon Kindle store for your Wednesday afternoon: 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!

Fat Vampire by Johnny B. Truant has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 46 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through January 31st.
Category: Horror

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

When overweight treadmill salesman Reginald Baskin finally meets a co-worker who doesn’t make fun of him, it’s just his own bad luck that tech guy Maurice turns out to be a two thousand-year-old vampire.

And when Maurice turns Reginald to save his life, it’s just Reginald’s own further bad luck that he wakes up to discover he’s become the slowest, weakest, most out-of-shape vampire ever born, doomed to “heal” to his corpulent self for all of eternity.

As Reginald struggles with the downsides of being a fat vampire — too slow to catch people to feed on, mocked by those he tries to glamour, assaulted by his intended prey and left for undead — he discovers in himself rare powers that few vampires have… and just in time too, because the Vampire Council might just want his head for being an inferior representative of their race.

Fat Vampire is the story of an unlikely hero who, after having an imperfect eternity shoved into his grease-stained hands, must learn to turn the afterlife’s lemons into tasty lemon danishes.

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Memoria: A Corporation of Lies by Alex Bobi has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 24 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through January 31st.

Category: Science Fiction / Thriller

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

In a futuristic bombed-out New York, the almighty Memoria Corporation helps people erase their traumatic memories. What else would you need in the world finally free from wars and crime? But the bubble bursts when a humble lawyer Frank Shelby becomes a murder suspect on the run. Betrayed by his friends and hunted down by mysterious killers, Frank has to penetrate Memoria and find evidence of their real plans before it’s too late for all of us.

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The Life and Prayers of Saint Jude the Apostle by Wyatt North has received an average user rating of 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: Biography / Religion

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

The Life and Prayers series combines professionally researched and written biographies of iconic Christian figures with an anthology of prayers.

One part biography, one part prayer book, The Life and Prayers of Saint Jude the Apostle is an essential book for any Christian. The Life and Prayers of Saint Jude the Apostle is the tenth book in this wonderful series.

Also known as Saint Jude Thaddeous, Saint Jude is known as the most powerful Patron Saint of Desperate Cases. Christians turn to Saint Jude for hope in what often seem like hopeless circumstances. Whether it an illness in the family, a dissolving marriage, or financial struggles, Saint Jude answers our calls when we are at our darkest hour.

God rewarded Saint Jude with the incredible power to help the desperate. Saint Jude is a true friend, who we can look to when feeling hopeless and alone.

During a time in our world when resources are few and families find themselves in desperate times, calls to Saint Jude are louder than ever.

This edition has a linked Table of Contents and has been wonderfully formatted (searchable and interlinked) to work on your eBook reader.

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Infinite Sacrifice by L.E. Waters has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 54 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through January 31st.
Category: Historical Fantasy

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

Maya’s shocked to discover it’s not the heaven she imagined; in fact, a life of adventure begins the moment you die.

Zachariah, her faithful spirit guide, explains the rules of the dead: in order to regain complete awareness and reunite with loved ones all souls must review their previous lives.

Maya plunges warily into her turbulent pasts as a sociopathic High Priest in ancient Egypt; an independent mother protecting a dangerous secret in glorious Sparta; an Irish boy kidnapped and enslaved by Vikings; and a doctor’s wife forced to make an ethical stand in plague-ridden England.

All the while, Maya yearns to be with those she cares about most and worries that she hasn’t learned all of heaven’s most vital lessons. Will she be forced to leave the tranquility of heaven to survive yet another painful and tumultuous life? Or worse, accept the bitter reality of having to go back alone?

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Bring Me Back by Taryn Plendl has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 13 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through February 1st.

Category: Romance

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

After losing her parents in a brutal and horrific tragedy, Ally moves to a secluded house in the mountains of Colorado. For two years, Ally has gotten through her very routine life by giving into her fears, living alone.

Ian is grieving the recent death of his young fiancé. Unsure of how to move on, he moves into a house in the mountains just down the shared drive from Ally, where he wants nothing more than to be by himself.

When Ally finds herself needing help for the first time in two years, she has no choice but to turn to Ian. Together, Ally and Ian are forced to deal with their own fears to get them through the next few weeks. What they never planned on was the deep feelings they would
develop for each other, but is it enough to bring them back from the pain of their pasts?

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Today's Kindle Daily Deal

January 30, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Today’s Kindle Daily Deal for adults is Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions , by Dan Ariely, and this book was $15.99 yesterday in the Amazon Kindle store but has been discounted 81% to just $2.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 496 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Teen Daily Deal is The Little Squeegy Bug , by Bill Martin and Patric Corrigan, and this book was $4.99 yesterday in the Amazon Kindle store but has been discounted 60% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 13 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Daily Deal is Walking the Moon , by Elizabeth Hand, and this book was $9.99 yesterday in the Amazon Kindle store but has been discounted 80% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 75 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Romance Daily Deal is The Bull Rider’s Brother , by Lynn Cahoon, and this book was $4.99 yesterday in the Amazon Kindle store but has been discounted 80% to just $0.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 16 customer reviews.

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Here is the Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions book description from the Amazon website:

How do we think about money?
What caused bankers to lose sight of the economy?
What caused individuals to take on mortgages that were not within their means?
What irrational forces guided our decisions?
And how can we recover from an economic crisis?

In this revised and expanded edition of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller Predictably Irrational, Duke University’s behavioral economist Dan Ariely explores the hidden forces that shape our decisions, including some of the causes responsible for the current economic crisis. Bringing a much-needed dose of sophisticated psychological study to the realm of public policy, Ariely offers his own insights into the irrationalities of everyday life, the decisions that led us to the financial meltdown of 2008, and the general ways we get ourselves into trouble.

Blending common experiences and clever experiments with groundbreaking analysis, Ariely demonstrates how expectations, emotions, social norms, and other invisible, seemingly illogical forces skew our reasoning abilities. As he explains, our reliance on standard economic theory to design personal, national, and global policies may, in fact, be dangerous. The mistakes that we make as individuals and institutions are not random, and they can aggregate in the market—with devastating results. In light of our current economic crisis, the consequences of these systematic and predictable mistakes have never been clearer.

Packed with new studies and thought-provoking responses to readers’ questions and comments, this revised and expanded edition of Predictably Irrational will change the way we interact with the world—from the small decisions we make in our own lives to the individual and collective choices that shape our economy.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to pick up your copy of Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions .

Here is the In a Heartbeat book description from the Amazon website:

When a small mistake costs sixteen-year-old Eagan her life during a figure-skating competition, she leaves many things unreconciled, including her troubled relationship with her mother. From her vantage point in the afterlife, Eagan reflects back on her memories, and what she could have done differently, through her still-beating heart.

When fourteen-year-old Amelia learns she will be getting a heart transplant, her fear and guilt battle with her joy at this new chance at life. And afterwards when she starts to feel different-dreaming about figure skating, craving grape candy-her need to learn about her donor leads her to discover and explore Eagan’s life, meeting her grieving loved ones and trying to bring the closure they all need to move on.

Told in alternating viewpoints, In a Heartbeat tells the emotional and compelling story of two girls sharing one heart.

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Here is the Walking the Moon book description from the Amazon website:

The reign of men has ended in this gripping thriller from Elizabeth Hand, and the fate of the world is on the line.

Sweeney Cassidy is the typical college freshman at the University of the Archangels and St. John the Divine in Washington, DC. She drinks. She parties. And she certainly doesn’t suspect that underneath its picturesque Gothic façade, the University is a haven for the Benandanti, a cult devoted to suppressing the powerful and destructive Moon Goddess. But everything is about to change as Sweeney learns that her two new best friends are the Goddess’s Chosen Ones.

Rich and engrossing, Waking the Moon is a seductive post-feminist thriller that delves into an ancient feud, where the real and magical collide, and one woman is forced to make a decision that will change the world.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Elizabeth Hand including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.

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Here is the The Bull Rider’s Brother book description from the Amazon website:

On a girl’s night out, Lizzie Hudson finds herself comparing her life as a single mom with her best friend’s successful career when James Sullivan, the cowboy who got away, walks his Justin Ropers back into her life.
Seeing him shakes Lizzie’s world but James is in for an even more eventful weekend: he learns he has a son. James has enough on his plate trying to manage his brother’s bull riding career. Can he learn to redefine family and become part of Lizzie’s life before she gives up on him and marries another?

Sensuality Level: Behind closed doors

Growing up in the middle of cowboy country, Lynn Cahoon was destined to fall in love with a tall, cool glass of water. Now, she enjoys writing about small-town America, the cowboys who ride the range, and the women who love them.

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Free Game for All Kindle Versions

January 30, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Here’s a little something different to start your morning and to show you not all games I talk about on the blog are for your Kindle Fire, I’ve been told by Peter Grabarchuk his family’s 102 Puzzle Quizzes is free through February 2nd – this game is normally $2.99 – and you can play this on both an e-Ink Kindle as well as a Kindle Fire.

For the Kindle e-Ink version and for the “regular” Fire, you can click here

For the Kindle Fire HD version, you can click here

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

Discover the 3rd volume of the Top Rated Puzzlebook: Puzzle Quizzes series, HD version for tablets. In this brand-new puzzle collection you will find 102 pictorial, hand-crafted puzzle quizzes in different themes: logic, visual, spatial, counting, geometry, matchstick, coins, searching, and much more.

Hot News
Over 700 000 downloads for the Puzzlebook series! Discover why thousands of Kindle users are addicted to Puzzlebooks.

Novelty
All puzzle quizzes are original creations by the Grabarchuk Family and delivered exclusively for Kindle.

Interactivity
You can interactively answer and check a puzzle quiz by clicking the respective answer. Only the correct answer leads to the solution page. Learn more how to play Puzzlebook on different devices.

HD Quality
For the first time Kindle Puzzlebook contains color high-definition images – four times bigger images compared to the previous version. Now each puzzle looks perfectly sharp and detailed with richer colors. Enjoy entire new colorful experience playing Puzzlebook on Kindle Fire, Kindle Fire HD, iPad, iPhone, Android, PC, Mac, or other devices using a free Kindle app.

Discover Version for E-readers
Do you have e-reader? Get 102 Puzzle Quizzes made specially for e-ink devices. Images are black-and-white and thus Puzzlebook works fast on e-readers, graphic is sharp and simple.

Play Anywhere!
Puzzlebook is specially designed for playing on any Kindle e-reader or tablet, as well on any other devices using a free Kindle app. Be sure to play it on different devices for more fun and comfort.

Ranking
The collection is specially created for all kinds of solvers – beginners, skillful, and experts alike. The puzzles are arranged so that you start with the easiest (*) puzzles and progress to the hardest (*****) puzzles.

Happy Puzzling!

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7 FREE Kindle Book Offers

January 29, 2013 by Michael Gallagher 12 Comments

Need a distraction this afternoon? Listed below are seven FREE Kindle books for you in the Amazon Kindle store for your Saturday 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!

Rex Rising by Chrystalla Thoma has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 48 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through January 31st.

Category: Science Fiction / Young Adult

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

In a world where parasites create new human races, Elei leads a peaceful life — until a mysterious attack on his boss sends him fleeing with a bullet in his side. Pursued for a secret he does not possess and with the fleet at his heels, he has but one thought: to stay alive. His pursuers aren’t inclined to sit down and talk, although that’s not the end of Elei’s troubles. The two powerful parasites inhabiting his body, at a balance until now, choose this moment to bring him down, leaving Elei with no choice but to trust in people he hardly knows. It won’t be long before he realizes he must find out this deadly secret – a secret that might change the fate of his world and everything he has ever known – or die trying.
Dystopian Science Fiction novel. 76 thousand words/approx. 300 pages

Winner of position #6 on the Preditors and Editors Readers Poll in the category of Fantasy and Science Fiction Novels published in 2011.

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Cades Cove: The Curse of Allie Mae by Aiden James has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 112 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through January 30th.

Category: Horror

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

Buried deep in a ravine in the picturesque Smoky Mountains is a very dark secret. David Hobbs, vacationing with his wife Miriam, inadvertently stumbles upon a small cloth ‘keepsake’ bag and a broken tooth. A human tooth. Miriam begs David to hand the bag and tooth over to park officials, but he ignores his wife’s pleas and secretly keeps the ‘harmless’ items. The action opens a doorway that had been closed for nearly a hundred years and unleashes hell on earth, or at least hell in the lives of David and Miriam.

Following the brutal murder of his best friend in Denver, and an aborted attack on his oldest son, David desperately seeks to understand why a mysterious teenage girl has chosen to terrorize him and the males closest to him. To prevent further devastation to his family and end the wanton bloodshed, he returns to the enchanted hills of eastern Tennessee, where a terrible truth awaits discovery…one that forces him to face the consequences for the unpaid sins of his ancestors.

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Cure by Belinda S. Frisch has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 25 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this is the last day for this book to be free.

Category: Science Fiction / Horror

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

Welcome to the Nixon Healing and Research Center, playground for the maniacal Dr. Howard Nixon whose medical research has him dabbling in the undead and has the women of Strandville disappearing.

Desperate to find a cure for the lethal virus which turns its victims into zombies, Nixon kidnaps Miranda Penton, a security recruit with a past that won’t let her go. He doesn’t count on anyone coming looking for her, least of all her ex-husband, Scott, who is still in love with her.

A warning call brings Scott to Strandville where he bands together with a team of locals determined to bring their own loved ones home. Together, they infiltrate Nixon’s staff, hatching a plan that releases not only the surviving women, but the virus on those left in the hospital.

Nixon locks down the center to contain the spread, turning patients, visitors, and staff into a dangerous horde that is almost impossible to escape. Miranda and the others fight for their lives, but their getaway is further complicated by a raging storm and a homicidal security guard. The town of Strandville is ground zero for the zombie apocalypse and Miranda must get free because the fate of humanity lies with her unborn child.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/cure into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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One Last Chance by Shelby Gates has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 7 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through January 30th.

Category: Contemporary Romance

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

The last place Claire Woodward wants to be is standing on the dock, waiting to embark on a cruise to celebrate her ten year high school reunion. Her high school career was a disaster and her life following graduation didn’t improve—divorced, recently fired from her job and no prospects on either front. But she’s reluctantly talked herself into going, hoping maybe it can jumpstart her life in the right direction. And given that she’s checked the RSVP list obsessively and knows with certainty that Griffin Benson won’t be on the cruise, she figures she can live through it.

Griffin Benson has one regret in his life—breaking up with Claire Woodward before their senior Prom. It’s haunted him for the last decade and he’s been waiting ten years to apologize. When he sees that she’ll be on their high school reunion cruise, he thinks the time has finally arrived to say he’s sorry and to maybe pick up where they left off. He waits until the last moment to sign up, making sure she’ll be on that ship.

When Claire arrives for the start of the trip, her bad luck continues—the cruise line has mishandled her reservation and she’s without a room on a sold-out cruise. There’s only one empty bed on the vessel…and it just happens to be in Griffin Benson’s room, which he’s more than happy to let her have.

Reluctantly, Claire agrees to the arrangement and is immediately torn by her reunion with Griffin—does she hold steady to her vow that she won’t let him break her heart again? Or does she forgive him and rekindle the spark that is so clearly still there? Should she give Griffin one last chance?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/f82ua5 into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Coming Back Stronger: Unleashing the Hidden Power of Adversity by Drew Brees and Chris Fabry has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 139 customer reviews.

Category: Non-Fiction

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

When a potentially career-ending shoulder injury left quarterback Drew Brees without a team—and facing the daunting task of having to learn to throw a football all over again—coaches around the NFL wondered, Will he ever come back? After Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, leaving more than 80 percent of the city underwater, many wondered, Will the city ever come back? And with their stadium transformed into a makeshift refugee camp, forcing the Saints to play their entire 2005 season on the road, people questioned, Will the Saints ever come back? It takes a special person to turn adversity into success and despair into hope—yet that is exactly what Super Bowl MVP Drew Brees has done—and with the weight of an entire city on his shoulders. Coming Back Stronger is the ultimate comeback story, not only of one of the NFL’s top quarterbacks, but also of a city and a team that many had all but given up on. Brees’s inspiring message of hope and encouragement proves that with enough faith, determination, and heart, you can overcome any obstacle life throws your way and not only come back, but come back stronger.

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The Big Book of American Trivia by J. Stephen Lang has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 18 customer reviews.

Category: Reference

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Impress your friends with knowledge of all things American—geography, history, entertainment, people, culture, and quirky miscellany. More than 3,000 questions will fill countless hours of fun as you learn fascinating facts about our country. Now with facts and trivia related to the American flag and “The Star-Spangled Banner,” The Big Book of American Trivia has hours of fun packed within its pages. Perfect for party games, family gatherings, and vacations.

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Sons of Cain by Val Bianco has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 63 customer reviews.

Category: Political Thriller

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An ancient group of twelve unspeakably powerful men are prepared to implement mass suicide in the United States. Already in control of the Congress and the Presidency, all that they lack is the Supreme Court. The only thing standing between these SONS OF CAIN and the lives of the Court is a small group of dedicated warriors.

Wealthy ex SEAL, Nick Rieper and his dozen “Knights of Longinus” have pledged their lives and fortunes to battle international Satanism. Battle is joined as they engage the Cainites and their demon leader, Namon, in mortal combat.

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