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More Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

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Here are more discounted and free Kindle book offers for you from highly-rated independent authors who have discounted the pricing for a limited time just for members of the blog. While the pricing of the free status is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the “buy” button as it could change at any time!

The Sapphire Prism Cave, by Peter M. Leschner, is regularly $4.99 but has been discounted 80% to just $0.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 3 customer reviews.

Category: Children’s Action & Adventure

 

 

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

The Sapphire Prism Cave takes you on a soaring journey of the heart and imagination. James and Julia, spirited, fun loving 11-year-old twins, stumble upon an incredible cave filled with multi-colored, magic crystals which endow them with special powers that touch and transform their childhood in wonderful ways. Everything changes when James is mysteriously drawn through a hole in the cave’s ceiling and transported through a space vortex to a planet in a distant galaxy. There he uses his newfound powers to surmount challenges he encounters in the enchanted kingdom he discovers. Back home, Julia and her family attempt to unlock the mystery of James’ disappearance. Will James and Julia be reunited after being separated by time and space? Join them on their adventures and find out!

The Sapphire Prism Cave is Book 1 of the A Journey Through The Space Vortex trilogy.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/002no3 into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Sapphire Prism Cave .

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Third Willow, by Lenore Skomal, is regularly $4.99 but has been discounted 80% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 13 customer reviews.

Category: Literary Fiction

 

 

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

“In the apex of the wooded matriarch is where he felt it–his oneness with the willow. The branches fluttered with his weight, as he fused into them. He moved as it moved and vice versa, in a synergistic dance; an extension of the lumbering mammoth and it of him, connected in some unfathomable way.”

It’s the summer of ’54 in the sleepy midwestern town of Sand Flats, Nebraska. Four lonely misfits forge an unlikely friendship under the draping branches of the third willow–a safe place where humor, magic and sorrow coexist. There they discover that best friends can ease the pressures from the adult world that threaten to steal their innocence. Ringleader Hap–a poor man’s Peter Pan–is unwilling to let the abuse of his alcoholic father taint his boyish optimism while he secretly searches for his missing mother. Obsessed with his Indian roots, he constructs a carefree world on the outskirts of town. As the new kid in Sand Flats, tomboy Patsy joins him, eager to escape her father’s iron rule and the pain afflicting her wounded brother, a Korean War veteran. Together, Hap and Patsy befriend timid Beah, who struggles to earn the love of her cold mother following the death of her only brother. It takes levelheaded Raz, the eldest of the only Jewish family in town, to be the conscience of the group. Told through their eyes, this is a tale of a summer of unbridled adventure, which ends unexpectedly and abruptly forces them all into adulthood. As tender as it is intense, Third Willow will transport you to the last summer of your innocence.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/thirdwillow into your web browser to pick up your copy of Third Willow.

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How to Survive When the Bottom Drops Out, by J.T. Sather, is regularly $4.99 but has been discounted 40% to just $2.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 43 customer reviews.

Category: Self-Improvement / Memoir

 

 

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

There is a lot of discussion these days about whether or not the economy is improving. Here are two facts: The economy has been very, very bad and the only way it is going to improve for you is if you take control of your situation.

Jt Sather, author of How To Survive When the Bottom Drops Out, has ridden the economic roller coaster for twenty years. He’s experienced the highs of a multi-million dollar construction business and the lows of squatting in a friend’s foreclosed mansion. He doesn’t base his future on Wall Street but on Main Street.

In his debut book, he tells the brutal truth, but with humor and hope; reviewers have described it as listening to a great storyteller share his life over a couple of beers. No matter where you are in the Economic Recovery, you’ll find anecdotes and advice you can use today, tomorrow, and whenever the bottom drops out of your life.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/oghztu into your web browser to pick up your copy of How to Survive When the Bottom Drops Out.

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The Whiskey Tide, by M. Ruth Myers is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars based on 95 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this is the last day for this book to be free.

Category: Historical Fiction

 

 

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

At the height of Prohibition three sisters in a proper Massachusetts family begin smuggling whiskey from Canada in a desperate bid to keep their newly widowed mother and invalid brother in the family home. The novice rum-runners use the only vessel available to them, the family pleasure schooner.

Kate, the bookworm, hatches the plan, sacrificing her last year at Wellesley to make every grueling and dangerous trip. Rosalie risks her engagement to a clergyman to help on the home front – and tends Kate’s gunshot wound from rum-pirates. Aggie, a dazzling flapper hungry for adventure, uses the undertaking to catch the eye of a man she doesn’t realize is a vicious killer.

Kate’s courage in the face of storms, crooks on both sides of the law, and the treacherous tides of the Bay of Fundy changes her view of the world. It also changes the lives of those around her. Joe, the teasing Portuguese-Irish fisherman she hires to captain Pa’s Folly earns money enough to provide previously unimagined help to his poor but close-knit family — but must bear the secret burden of falling in love with Kate. A wealthy old woman dying of loneliness in her cliff-top mansion finds reasons to live. Even Kate’s cousin, shattered in body and spirit by his service in The Great War, is caught in the ripples.

Kate and Aggie’s every success makes their enemies more determined to ruin them. Their gentle cousin becomes an unwitting pawn in a deadly game. The meeting of minds between Kate and Joe, and the mutual attraction they try to deny, forces each to confront the social chasm between them, and the cost of a romance they dare not begin.

THE WHISKEY TIDE is a sweeping historical saga of family ties that bind and chafe and sometimes fray, of adventure and courage, and of new horizons glimpsed in the dark of the moon.

Click here to pick up your copy of The Whiskey Tide.

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My Life, A Four Letter Word, by Delores DeLuce, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.9 out of 5 stars based on 16 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through September 2nd.

Category: Memoir

 

 

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

Dolores DeLuce, a five-foot Diva in six-inch heels, takes us on a bumpy ride from her gray days in New Jersey through her escape to the tumultuous post-Stonewall days of ‘70’s Los Angeles and gay San Francisco. When her Italian American family rejects her after the birth of her mixed-race daughter, she creates a new family with the most unlikely people under the most unusual circumstances. Her new family includes Divine, assorted bad boys on Venice Beach, and her loving gay “husbands.” Along the way she meets John Waters, Edie Massey, Rip Taylor and Joan Rivers, is crowned “Miss Alternative L.A.” and wins The $1.98 Beauty Show. Through tears and glitter, Dolores survives her bitter family estrangements only to face the pain of the AIDS crisis first-hand.

Click here to pick up your copy of My Life, A Four Letter Word .

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Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers for This Morning

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Attached below are free and discounted Kindle book offers for your consideration to kick of your morning. For those books listed as being “free” in this post – while the pricing of the free status is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the “buy” button as it could change at any time!

Billionaire Games Boxed Set, is a three book box set collection by Sandra Edwards, and is regularly $9.99 but has been discounted 90% to just $0.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store.

Category: Contemporary Romance

 

 

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

In THE MARRIAGE BARGAIN Julian de Laurent needs a temporary wife. Camille Chandler needs a job after he inadvertently gets her fired. If she agrees, he’ll pay her five million to marry him. It’s just a business deal, but neither could have foreseen what happens next, especially Camille, when she learns he’s capable of stealing her heart.

In THE MARRIAGE CAPER Andre de Laurent, Julian’s little brother finds himself in a predicament. Is it possible that Tasha Gordon, his new sister-in-law’s best friend, is the answer to his prayers?

In THE MARRIAGE FIX little sister Lecie travels to America where she may well have found her Prince Charming–who’s in desperate need of help.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/a2h4z4 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Billionaire Games Boxed Set.

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Trial and Terror, by Adam L. Penenberg, is regularly $4.99 but has been discounted 80% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 39 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery / Thriller

 

 

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

The good news is that public defender Summer Neuwirth just won her first case, which involved a brutal rape and kidnapping.

The bad news? Her client was guilty.

What’s more, he knows all about Summer’s past.

As Summer pursues her next case, this time to keep an innocent woman off death row, elements of that past–a mysterious case of childhood amnesia, her police officer father’s involvement with a serial killer, a terrifying attack she survived just months earlier–entwine with her present legal work, her missing mother, and her rocky relationship with a private investigator, all of which culminate in a thrilling trial… and terror.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/tsg7m9 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Trial and Terror .

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Heaven Sent, by E. Van Lowe, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted 75% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 17 customer reviews.

Category: Paranormal Romance

 

 

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

As summer break for Glendale Union high begins, heartsick Megan awaits Guy’s return while struggling to control her emerging abilities. Love is in the air, but can the new loves in Megan, Maudrina, Suze, and Aunt Jaz’s lives be trusted? Nothing is what it seems. Meanwhile, the Satanists are set to hatch their most diabolical scheme ever, and if it comes to pass, Satan may finally win out.

Megan has precious little time to unravel the cryptic message hidden in the riddle she received at the end of “Earth Angel.” If she doesn’t, the life of someone most dear to her will be lost forever, and Megan may yet find herself living in HELL.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/37lajf into your web browser to pick up your copy of Heaven Sent.

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Contact, by AFN Clarke, is regularly $9.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $2.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 31 customer reviews.

Category: Biography & Memoir

 

 

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

This new expanded edition of AFN Clarke’s bestselling and controversial book CONTACT is a raw, visceral, “no-holds-barred” account of combat from one of the men we paid to kill. When first published it caused a furor for its devastating honesty and chilling revelations.

Clarke vividly recounts his experiences of two tours in Northern Ireland (in Belfast and Crossmaglen) as a Platoon Commander with Britain’s elite Parachute Regiment during the blood soaked 1970’s. Soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan comment on how relevant the book still is today, as the dangers, political agendas and religious roots underlying the conflict are eerily and heartbreakingly similar to their own more recent experiences.

Clarke takes us to heart of the action. We feel what it’s like to live each day with senses on high alert, waiting to be ripped apart by the accuracy of a sniper or a well-hidden bomb. We enter the private world of soldiers ordered to hold the lines in an ancient quarrel they have little affinity for, but whose consequences are deadly. We experience their emotions, fear, courage, humor, bravado and the anguish of death.

This expanded edition continues from where the print version ended, revealing the untold nightmare Clarke lived through having nearly died, with half his insides missing, suffering from PTSD and being expected to return to a “normal life”. A story of the scars of war that affect generations. Of heartache, courage and hope for peace.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/17362t into your web browser to pick up your copy of Contact.
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Disappearance, by Niv Kaplan, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.9 out of 5 stars based on 30 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this is the last day for this book to be free.

Category: Mystery & Thrillers

 

 

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

Ever Wonder What Would Happen If Your Girl Disappeared ?

Karen Glass, an American high school graduate, is visiting a Kibbutz in Northern Israel. She meets Mikki who lives in the Kibbutz and they become passionately involved. On her birthday, while they are on a tour of the Golan Heights, she suddenly disappears from Mikki’s car.

The police official investigation is abandoned under questionable circumstances; the motive for the presumed kidnapping is unknown and Karen’s fate remains a mystery.

Three years later, during an Israeli military raid into Southern Lebanon, a special-forces unit stumbles upon a photo of Karen at the time of her kidnapping. Mikki alerts Karen’s sister Lisa, and together they begin a perilous journey across three continents searching for clues that will shed light on the mystery.

They uncover a dark family secret that undermines a plot to prevent a global enterprise from developing illegal weapons….

Click here to pick up your copy of Disappearance.

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Psychic Warrior, by Bob Mayer, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 8 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through September 1st.

Category: Science Fiction

 

 

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

Psychic Warrior takes warfare into the virtual plane through avatars and then reinserts the covert operatives into the real world. The results can be devastating. Mayer uses his real Military experience in the then-classified Special Forces Trojan Warrior program, which was actually conducted, and writes a novel about the new frontier of warfare: the mind.

The Russians sink the submarine USS Thresher in 1963 using their classified psychic project, but something goes awry and all are killed. All except one scientist who plans to take the project to a higher level. Decades later, the Russians unleash Chyort, also known as the ‘Devil’. Chyort is a cyborg that can project into the virtual world with almost limitless power and reassemble his avatar anywhere in real world to wreak havoc. As the Russian mafia steals 20 nuclear warheads to auction them to the highest bidder, Chyort implements his own plan of revenge.

Sergeant Major Jimmy Dalton and a small team of US Green Berets who were originally trained in Trojan Warrior program are thrust into the Psychic Warrior program. The team, called Bright Gate, must battle Chyort on the virtual plane and take their own avatars into the real world. Their mission seems simple. Stop Chyort. If they fail? World War III…

Click here to pick up your copy of Psychic Warrior.

 
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The Survival of Thomas Ford – Today's Featured Kindle Book

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Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is The Survival of Thomas Ford, by John A.A. Logan, and is just $2.99 in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 99 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

 

 

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

Thomas Ford is the only survivor of the car crash which killed his wife. He is also the only witness who would be willing to identify the young, reckless driver who caused the crash. But the driver has no intention of ever letting himself be identified, not to mention what his father’s intentions are…or those of his girlfriend, Lorna, the hospital cleaner.

The young driver’s father is Jack McCallum, the powerful entrepreneur who has built a housing empire, McCallum Homes, on the high hills surrounding the city. Jack has his own dark secret to protect, as well as his business edifice to hold onto. There is no way in the world that Jack McCallum will ever let anything threaten the future of McCallum Homes.

Robert Ferguson, the passenger who was with the young driver on the day of the crash, curses himself for ever getting into the car. He watches carefully to see what the universe will do about it all, and he thinks he can hear the gears and chambers of the universe’s engine, rolling terribly towards them, out of the future, and he knows he can’t cope with that, not even if he takes his medication.

In the end, destiny will pull them all far out of the city, some of them to the moonlit hillside, where white butterflies and mysterious gas fill the air, and wild cats wrap themselves around cold trees. Jack McCallum’s trusted Polish foreman, Lanski, will recognise the place from the folklore-wilderness of his own childhood, a place where death can come stalking in the form of a white wolf, but perhaps also redemption can appear, for those like Thomas Ford who seek it.

In any case, the young driver has it in mind to take his destiny into his own hands now, which will soon lead to the life of a second young woman hanging in the balance, awaiting salvation or destruction, perhaps only the Fates, or the wind that blows through the trees, know which.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/lbdh0x into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Survival of Thomas Ford.

 

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Book Reviews – Why I Write Them

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As A Blog Publisher, Why Do You Write Book Reviews?

That’s actually a nicer way of summarizing some of the emails I’ve received over the last few years!

Yes, I do write reviews for the books I read, and starting in 2011 I started to make a point to write a review for most things I read.

Why do I write reviews? Well, I do read what others write for reviews, and those reviews do influence my decision to (a) first try out the free Kindle sample, which a lot of the time leads to me (b) purchasing a book.  I appreciate the time and effort complete strangers took to write a review to tell me the good and the bad, and common courtesy tells me I should do the same.  If I liked it, I’ll tell you – if I didn’t like it, well, let’s just say I’ve been told my professional career has been limited a time or two for being too honest (i.e., blunt).

If you’re like me, you look at the customer reviews in order to see if you want to investigate a book further – while my general cutoff is a book needs to be at least a 4 out of 5 stars, I also read the text of the review: things that may make a reviewer dislike a book might be favorable to me and, things a reviewer absolutely loved (and mentioned in the review) could be a complete turnoff to this grey-haired guy.

I also look to see if a review on the Amazon website is from an “Amazon Verified Purchase,” which tells me the person writing the review actually purchased the item from Amazon; if the reviewer purchased the item from the Amazon website, and didn’t “uncheck” the box to label it as an Amazon Verified Purchase, you will see that notification just below the title of the review and right above the main text of the review.

Why do I look for an Amazon Verified Purchase?  I’ve been burned too many times by friends and family of the author, or shill, reviews – ones that immediately rate things a five star, only have about one sentence of commentary, and are generally marked by it being the one and only review a person has ever written on the Amazon website; these are typically reviews done in order to inflate a book’s overall rating.  Another good indicator is a book will have a flurry of reviews around the same day, are short and all five stars, and the reviewers are from the same general location in the USA.

If you’ve looked at as many reviews on the Amazon website like I have over the years while looking for books to promote on the blog, you learn to spot the friends and family reviews pretty quick.

The “star” rating on Amazon can be broken down like this:

5 stars – I love it
4 stars – I like it
3 stars – it’s ok
2 stars – I don’t like it
1 star – I hate it

As far as the reviews I write, I try to write an honest assessment if I liked something or not without providing a spoiler (why write a spoiler and ruin the ending for everyone?).  I strongly believe your and my taste regarding the likes and dislikes of a particular book are more honest than a paid book reviewer a major publishing house contracts with to have in a book’s advertising materials, and my motto is to keep it short and sweet on the likes and dislikes without providing a Cliff’s Notes version of the book.

Some people think I shouldn’t be writing reviews because I have this blog, and due to the blog’s popularity it could influence people’s behavior, especially if I “give” it a bad rating – every once in a while I will have a rather interesting dialogue with a few folks regarding the same. My response to those type of comments is my – and anyone else’s – review of a book reflects my opinion only: your opinion may vary, and we probably won’t agree on everything. For example, something I really liked you may absolutely detest and puke all over it. The same could be true for something you thought was outstanding and I may question why it was published in the first place. When I read reviews I don’t put that much weight into the “star” rating, but I look at the comments, mainly to see if they are substantive to back up the rating as well as to see what the reviewer’s pluses and minuses are with the book.  If you look at those written comments, sometimes they match up to the “star” rating and sometime they do not.

I also discount reviewers who rate everything a 5 star, and I imagine most others do, too.

If you would like to read the reviews I have written, you can click here or type in http://smarturl.it/mgreviews into your web browser.  As I type this post, I have 13 books I need to review but you will see just about everything I’ve read over the last three years – you’ll see I do read a lot of the free book offers, and you’ll also see I have been on a science fiction kick for a while.

You can vote on the individual reviews on the Amazon website if you think they were helpful or not with a simple “Yes” or “No” vote – you can click on those voting options immediately below the text of each review.  The more “Yes” votes you get in proportion to the overall votes – as well as some super-secret factors Amazon won’t divulge – you will move up in the review ranking scale (yes, Amazon ranks the reviewers).  Right now, the #1 Amazon reviewer is Ali Julia: she has written 1,592 reviews, has received 12,019 “Yes” votes for the reviews’ helpfulness, and has 10 people following her reviews.

So, yes, I will continue writing reviews and I hope you will do the same!  After all, if you can’t share your opinion on a blog what else can you do?

Anyway, that’s all I can type for now: have a great weekend!

Michael

 

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Today's Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offerings

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Attached below are today’s offering of discounted and free Kindle book titles – I think you will enjoy the variety of genres today. For those books listed as being “free” in this post – while the pricing of the free status is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the “buy” button as it could change at any time!

 

The Boy Who Lit up the Sky, by J. Naomi Ay, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 18 customer reviews.

Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy

 

 

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

Lydia Kalila, the Princess Royal of Mishnah, is forced into marriage with the son of her country’s mortal enemy for the sole purpose of producing an heir. Duty comes before personal choice for a princess especially when her country has been at war for more than a thousand years. Lydia’s pregnancy removes her brother and new husband from their respective lines of succession placing her yet unborn infant at the head of the both queues. No one is happy about this, especially Lydia who dies during childbirth from wounds caused by the talon-like toenails of her very strange newborn son.

Grief stricken at the loss of his daughter, the Mishnese King hastily sends Senya, his infant grandson off to a decrepit inner city orphanage with the intent to retrieve him much later when things got sorted out. At the orphanage, Senya is protected by the invalid Sister Meri who instantly falls in love with the little fellow. She’s not bothered at all by his strange telekinetic and telepathic powers, flickering pupil-less silver eyes or wicked clawed toenails. The House Father takes a shine to the lad too and when Senya is six years old, he is summoned to the Father’s chamber. The Father ends up in flames forcing Meri and Senya out into a snow storm running for their lives.

Thus begins the tale of Senya, a prince created to be king of a planet but then tossed aside until his twelfth birthday when Lt. Taner, a Royal Guard detective is sent to retrieve him. It is unclear to all whether Senya is the product of something good or something evil but in either case, it is very apparent that he is something more than just Lydia Kalila’s son.

*** Note to readers- This title contains graphic language, sexual situations and some violence. It is not intended for children or young teens.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/bbyyng into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Boy Who Lit up the Sky.

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The Girl from Long Guyland, by Lara Reznik, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 243 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller / Suspense

 

 

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

MEMOIR MEETS THRILLER:

Laila Levin enjoys a successful marriage and a thriving career as an I.T. executive in Austin, Texas, but she can’t quite shake her lifelong sense of not truly belonging anywhere.

When her company announces a major layoff, Laila finds herself caught between an unscrupulous CEO and her promiscuous boss. Then news of her college roommate’s suicide stirs up a dark secret involving three devious friends from her past. One has betrayed a vow, another wants to rekindle their romance, and the third is out for revenge.

Suddenly for Laila, it’s 1969 again. She’s only seventeen, and she’s left her sheltered home in Long Island for college in Connecticut. Amid protests of the Vietnam War, she’s tempted by the sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll that rule her generation. Laila gets swept up in a deceptive love triangle with two older locals and initiated into their unethical hippie family. Too late she realizes her search to belong has led to tragedy.

Laila must now juggle the demands of her perplexed husband and her baby boomer past forcing her to make choices that endanger her survival and challenge her conscience.

She learns that the lines between right and wrong are often blurred, and sometimes you have to risk everything to be true to yourself.
-Includes Reading Group Discussion Questions-

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/2h92qu into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Girl from Long Guyland.

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OMG, a CUL8R Time Travel Mystery / Romance, by Bob Kat, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.9 out of 5 stars based on 28 customer reviews.

Category: Young Adult

 

 

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

OMG [Oh My God], Book #1 of the CUL8R Time Travel Mystery/Romance series. Change the past, Save the future.

Three high school friends are able to do two things no one else on the planet can do . . . talk with dead people and time travel to the past.

For Kelly, it’s a major adjustment to move from the only life she has ever known in Texas to live with her aunt in Ft. Myers Beach, Florida. She quickly makes friends with her quirky next door neighbor, Scott and his best friend, Austin. In her aunt’s garage, they find a long-lost invention of Thomas Edison called “The Telephone to the Dead”. Edison had abandoned the project and given it to Kelly’s great-great-grandfather.

Scott tinkers with it until they can hear sounds coming from it. But instead of broadcasting music . . . it picks up conversations from the dead. As they slowly turn the dial they hear hundreds of sad, lonely voices of souls that have passed but apparently never moved on, pleading for help.

A teenager’s voice separates from the rest and begs for their help to clear her reputation. They are shocked to find out that she had gone to their own high school . . . 47 years ago. They research the girl’s story and discover that her name was Wendy and she had been a popular cheerleader who had apparently committed suicide.

The teens are touched by Wendy’s cries and pleas, but they have no way to go back in time to help her. That is, until Scott reveals an invention of his own . . . a time travel app. Kelly and Austin are very skeptical. Even Scott isn’t sure it will work, so they try it out on his sister’s pet turtle. Amazingly, the turtle disappears. But did it travel to the past or just wander off?

Finally, they decide to humor Scott and go along with his claims of time travel. They meet on the beach after everyone else has gone home. They stand in the formation Scott insists will create the perfect vortex for time travel. At the last moment, a fourth person runs forward and is pulled into their adventure back to 1966.

They figure out a way to get close to Wendy without her asking too many questions that they can’t answer. But as they discover the secret to her death, they find it’s not as clear-cut as it would seem. A romance gone wrong, an over-attentive teacher and a young girl’s dreams for the future are all twisted into a mystery that causes the teens to take greater risks than they could have imagined. It all becomes very real when their own lives are in danger and they realize they may never make it back to the present.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/qxzv6e into your web browser to pick up your copy of OMG, a CUL8R Time Travel Mystery / Romance.

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Earth Angel, by E. Van Lowe, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted 75% to just $0.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars based on 30 customer reviews.

Category: Paranormal Romance

 

 

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

Do Angels lie?

Just because Megan Barnett recently defeated Satan, has a fantastic new best friend, and has won the love of deliciously handsome Guy Matson doesn’t mean her troubles are over. Far from it. For Megan doesn’t realize it, but in her possession is a powerful weapon, one sought after by both angels and demons and everything in between…

Then when the mysterious and beautiful Roxanne shows up at Guy Matson’s side, Megan finds herself questioning the sincerity of his love.

In the dramatic sequel to “Boyfriend From Hell,” Megan becomes a pawn in the power struggle between Angels and Nephilim, and winds up in a gripping life-or-death battle to save herself, the angel she loves, and all of mankind from unspeakable evil.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/earthangel into your web browser to pick up your copy of Earth Angel.

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Ultimate Justice, by M.A. Comley, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted 75% to just $0.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars based on 18 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

 

 

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

A ship wreck—
Dozens of bodies washed ashore—
Clear evidence that evil has made port in London.
The horrific case piques the interest of P.I. Lorne Simpkins. It doesn’t take long before Lorne learns that young, helpless women are being caged and sold to the wealthy and salacious. Old wounds are wrenched open when she suspects a cover-up by the very authorities that should be keeping lawful order. Can she trust the self-serving journalist bent on making the human-trafficking ring his next big story? When her daughter is involved in a life-threatening accident, it’s difficult for Lorne to keep her head in the game. But Lorne and her ex-MI6 husband, Tony, are determined to end the repulsive slave trade and bring the criminals to justice–even if it means Lorne ends up locked in a cage herself.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/2ycd2q into your web browser to pick up your copy of Ultimate Justice.

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Water Witch, by The Atkinson, is regularly $5.99 but has been discounted 50% to just $2.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 39 customer reviews.

Category: New Adult Historical Fantasy

 

 

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

When a witch can’t control her own power, someone will certainly control her.

ALAYSHA is a unique witch reared to be the tool of Sarum’s Emir–who just happens to be her own father–to conquer and plunder lesser tribes, bringing them into the city as chattel for its citizens to own and exploit in their own turn. Lately, though, he has used her to destroy entire villages, taking no captives and preserving no lives. The jaded young witch begins to question her megalomaniac father and his purpose despite the years of teaching she has received from him that the enemy is nothing but a target to destroy.

Ostracized by her own people as a dangerous tool her father controls and uses at whim, and trained by him to love no one lest she become too compassionate to do her duty, she soon finds herself embroiled in a battle of wills and violence that forces her to see things differently. The one charismatic youth who manages to escape her deadly power in her latest annihilation urges her to question her heritage, sending Alaysha into the darkest depths of her own memory for answers, and into a battle to save those she comes to love from certain death.

See if discovering that ability to love has only taken Alaysha into deeper waters of power and manipulation.

Water Witch is the first in a new adult fiction sword and sorcery series that combines historical fantasy with supernatural fantasy, adventure, and romance. It takes the reader on a journey of magic, strong female characters, and of course a touch of romance that will resonate with women of all ages. If you’re a new adult/college reader or a lover of women’s fiction where sword and sorcery blends with just the right amount of romance and action/adventure, this series offers you a delightful few hours’ enjoyment. If you enjoy stories where the romance isn’t too heavy handed and cliché, if you enjoy the idea of strong women, supernatural fantasy, and warrior queens, then water witch and its sequels (Elemental Magic series) just may scratch that itch.

Enjoy a little sword and sorcery with a unique spin on witches and wizards, old world mythology, and a different perspective on elemental magic. There are several stories in this series, with four main novels and a series of novellas covering back story of favorite characters and side stories filling in the mythology.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/waterwitch into your web browser to pick up your copy of Water Witch.

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A Knight’s Temptation, by Catherine Kean, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 24 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book is free through September 2nd.

Category: Historical Romance

 

 

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

When Lady Leona Ransley sets eyes upon the bold warrior who enters the tavern room, she recognizes him: Aldwin Treynarde, the earl’s son who almost caused her death twelve years ago–and the only man who has ever kissed her. Shocked, she fights her emotions, determined to hand him the stolen ruby pendant, take the reward, and vanish.

Aldwin senses the husky-voiced beauty is more than she seems. She may know the whereabouts of his lord’s enemies. She also might be his means to earn what he wants most: knighthood.

Taking Leona hostage, he spirits her away. She fights him at every chance. Aldwin desires his captive more than any woman he’s ever met, and when he discovers who she really is, he has one last chance to protect her life. Only by resolving what happened between them years ago and by fighting side by side can Aldwin and Leona defeat the traitors and surrender to their greatest temptation: love.

Click here to pick up your copy of A Knight’s Temptation.

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Snow Day: a Novella, by Dan Maurer, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars based on 58 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through August 31st.

Category: Suspense / Horror

 

 

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

It happens each winter, and has for over 35 years. Every time the snow starts to fall late in the evening before a school day, the dreams begin again for Billy Stone. They are always the same – there’s a dark tunnel, and there’s blood, lots of blood, and someone is screaming.

In this chilling childhood tale, Billy, recounts the events of one unforgettable day in 1975. On that day, he and his friends played carefree in the snow, until an adventure gone awry left him far from home, staring death in the face, and running from a killer bent on keeping a horrible secret.

Set in a time before Amber Alerts, when horror stories were told around camp fires instead of on the nightly news, Snow Day is a blend of nostalgia and nightmare that makes us question if the good old days were really as good as we remember.

From a new voice in dark fiction comes a thriller about an idyllic childhood turned horrifying; a cautionary tale about how losing sight of the difference between feeling safe and being safe can lead to deadly consequences.

Click here to pick up your copy of Snow Day: a Novella.

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Swimming With Maya – Today's Featured Kindle Book

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Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is Swimming with Maya: A Mother’s Story, by Eleanor Vincent, and is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 71 customer reviews.

Category: Memoir / Non-Fiction

 

 

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

In a memoir that has been called “heartbreaking and heart-healing,” Eleanor Vincent shares an inspiring true story of courage, creativity, faith, and sheer tenacity as she seeks to find balance after unthinkable tragedy.

Previously available only in hardcover, Swimming with Maya demonstrates the remarkable process of healing after the traumatic death of a loved one. Eleanor Vincent raised her two daughters, Maya and Meghan, virtually as a single-parent. Maya, the eldest, was a high-spirited and gifted young woman. As a toddler, Maya was an angelic tow-head, full of life and curiosity. As a teenager, Maya was energetic and independent – and often butted heads with her mother. But Eleanor and Maya were always close and connected, like best friends or sisters, but always also mother and daughter.

Then at age 19, Maya mounts a horse bareback as a dare and, in a crushing cantilever fall, is left in a coma from which she will never recover. Eleanor’s life is turned upside down as she struggles to make the painful decision about Maya’s fate.

Ultimately Eleanor chooses to donate Maya’s organs. Years later, in one of the most poignant moments you will ever read about, Eleanor has the opportunity to hear her daughter’s heart beat in the chest of the heart recipient. Along the way, Eleanor re-examines her relationship with her daughter, as well as the experiences that shaped Eleanor as a woman and as a mother to Maya.

An inspirational/motivational true story recommended for anyone who has experienced tragedy, who is grappling with traumatic experiences of the past, or who wants to better understand the strength and healing power of the human spirit.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/cv1q3g into your web browser to pick up your copy of Swimming with Maya: A Mother’s Story.

 

About the Author:

 

eleanor vincent

 

Eleanor Vincent is an award-winning writer whose debut memoir, Swimming with Maya: A Mother’s Story was nominated for the Independent Publisher Book Award and has been reissued by Dream of Things press. She writes about love, loss, and grief recovery with a special focus on the challenges and joys of raising children at any age.

Called “engaging” by Booklist, Swimming with Maya chronicles the life and death of Eleanor’s nineteen-year-old daughter, Maya, who was thrown from a horse and pronounced brain-dead at the hospital. Eleanor donated her daughter’s organs to critically ill patients and poignantly describes her friendship with a middle-aged man who was the recipient of Maya’s heart.

Since the initial publication of Swimming with Maya in 2004, Eleanor has been a national spokesperson on grief recovery and organ donation and been interviewed on radio and television programs around the country.

She was born in Cleveland, Ohio and attended the University of Minnesota School of Journalism and received an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College.

Her essays appear in the anthologies At the End of Life: True Stories about How we Die (edited by Lee Gutkind); This I Believe: On Motherhood; and Impact: An Anthology of Short Memoirs. They celebrate the unique and complicated bonds between mothers and daughters, making hard decisions as a parent – whether your child is 14 or 40 – and navigating midlife transitions with grace and authenticity.

She lives in Oakland, California.

You can visit Eleanor’s Amazon author page if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/eleanor into your web browser.

 

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More Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offerings

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Here are more free and discounted Kindle book offers for your consideration today: for those books listed as being “free” in this post – while the pricing of the free status is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the “buy” button as it could change at any time!

A Good Kind of Knowing, by Kathy Lynn Harris, and is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 45 customer reviews.

Category: Contemporary Fiction

 

 

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

Imagine if Maeve Binchy grew up in Texas and wrote an old-school Larry McMurtry novel. Think Hope Floats meets High Fidelity. That’s how critics are describing A Good Kind of Knowing—winner of the National Federation of Press Women’s 2013 Novel for Adult Readers Award—from the author of the highly acclaimed and number-one Amazon bestseller, Blue Straggler.

A Good Kind of Knowing is a novel about the power of music and friendship, the relationship two-steps that go on in old Texas dancehalls, and the secret to finding just a little bit of common ground in a world full of distrust.

Sera Taylor’s store is the one place in Lakeville, Texas, where individuals from all walks of life share a universal love for music and a respect for the gypsy-like woman behind the antique glass counter. Readers get a taste of the unorthodox connection between Sera and Mack, a young local cowboy and musician, and Sera’s previously untested devotion to her husband Bill. They learn of her relationship with Ruby D., the vibrant but misguided mother of five; with Louie, the shy high school band director; with Beverly, the religious, upper-class socialite; with Antonio, a local bar owner striving to make a life for himself; with Tommy Lee, a rich and directionless gigolo; and with Wes, the only out-of-the closet gay man for miles. As Sera battles a serious illness, the characters must overcome long-held stereotypes to save Sera’s store, and in the end, large parts of themselves.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/ez6kxi into your web browser to pick up your copy of A Good Kind of Knowing.

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Boyfriend from Hell, by E. Van Lowe, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 54 customer reviews.

Category: Paranormal Romance

 

 

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

Fifteen year-old Megan Barnett and her single mom, Suze, have a special relationship—they are friends, close friends, who do almost everything together.

“But come on, guys, she’s my mother… Can I really tell her that while we’re snuggled up on the sofa watching Spider Man Three, I’m secretly undressing James Franco with my eyes? Of course not…”

The special bond takes a turn for the worse when Suze decides to start dating again. She hasn’t had a man in her life since Megan’s father left ten years ago.

Enter two mysterious young men, Megan’s new classmate, sinfully attractive bad boy, Guy Matson, and the dangerously handsome art dealer, Armando. Before long Megan and Suze both wind up in steamy relationships. But neither of the handsome pair is quite what he seems. In fact, one of them is Satan, with his sights set on a new bride. Megan has precious little time to figure out how to stop him. If she doesn’t, either Megan or Suze are quite literally going to HELL.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/elgpqo into your web browser to pick up your copy of Boyfriend from Hell.

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The Cleaner, by Mark Dawson, is just $2.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.9 out of 5 stars based on 31 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

 

 

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

Meet John Milton

He considers himself an artisan. A craftsman. His trade is murder.

Milton is the man the government sends after you when everything else has failed. Ruthless. Brilliant. Anonymous. Lethal. You wouldn’t pick him out of a crowd but you wouldn’t want to be on his list. But now, after ten years, he’s had enough – there’s blood on his hands and he wants out. Trouble is, this job is not one you can just walk away from.

He goes on the run, seeking atonement for his sins by helping the people he meets along the way. But his past cannot be easily forgotten and before long it is Milton who is hunted, and not the hunter.

The Cleaner

A career of state-sanctioned murder has taken its toll. Milton is troubled by nightmares, a long line of ghosts who torment his dreams. He resolves to make his next job his last and, then, perhaps, he can start to make amends for everything that he has done.

Sharon Warriner is a single mother in the East End of London, suicidal with fear that she’s lost her young son to a life in the gangs. After Milton saves her life, he promises to help. But the gang, and the charismatic rapper who leads it, is not about to cooperate with him.

As London burns through summer riots, Milton finds himself in unfamiliar territory, dealing with an unfamiliar foe. And when his employer sends another agent after him, the odds against him are stacked even higher.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/thecleaner into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Cleaner.

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Blood Duty, by J.R. Tomlin and C.R. Daems, just $2.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars based on 14 customer reviews.

Category: Fantasy

 

 

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

Jessup is a scout for the Ilkasar Empire, even though it conquered his own people. His affair with Tamra of Wayfare Keep is the one thing connecting him to the Empire he hates. But Tamra’s loyalty is to her oaths as a protector of the Empire.

While scouting, Jessup discovers the tables are about to be turned on Ilkasar: enemies are using a blood ritual to summon invincible demons, and now they’re at the head of an invading horde marching straight for Tamra’s forces. The two lead an army in a fierce battle against the demons, but their soldiers are slaughtered. In the chaos, Jessup and Tamra lose one another. Tamra and her remaining forces retreat to the walled city of Madrian where she leads a last stand they cannot win, while Jessup races for magical help. But even if he arrives in time, the Empire’s salvation may lie in a sacrifice that will destroy them both.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/m5ada0 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Blood Duty.
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The Dr. Pepper Prophecies, by Jennifer Gilby Roberts, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 21 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through August 31st.

Category: Romantic Comedy / Women’s Fiction

 

 

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

25-year-old Mel Parker has a few tiny problems:
• Her job is terrible
• She’s been dumped yet again
• Her ex is now her boss
• Her parents think she’s a loser compared to her perfect younger sister
• All her efforts to improve her life seem doomed to failure
• There just isn’t enough chocolate in the world to make up for the above.

The one good thing in her life has always been her best friend Will, who has seen her through every crisis from lost toys to pregnancy scares. But his girlfriend (who’s prettier, better-dressed, more successful and secretly evil) is determined to replace Mel as the woman in his life and how is Mel supposed to compete?

So what do you do when you’ve pretty much given up on your own life? Help others, of course! After all, what’s the worst that can happen? Well, Mel’s about to find out.

Worse still, her misguided efforts seem to be driving a wedge between her and Will. Can Mel live without her best friend? Or is he the man she loves…?

Click here to pick up your copy of The Dr. Pepper Prophecies .

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Passage Graves, by Madyson Rush, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars based on 17 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through August 30th.

Category: Technological Thriller

 

 

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

Archeologist David Hyden is hell-bent to disprove his Biblical archeologist father’s religious theories. After his father is found dead at the center of Stonehenge with a strange glowing spiral engraved into his palm, David decides to challenge his father’s theory that Maeshowe—a passage grave ruin in Stenness, Scotland—possesses metaphysical powers. However, the morning after his arrival in Stenness, David wakes to find everyone else in town is dead.

NATO pathologist Brynne Thatcher is trained to recognize the subtle features of subsonic death, a unique forte and her only leg-up in a career dominated by men. Sound is the ideal weapon: an indiscriminate killer that leaves almost no trace upon its victims. She is testing an acoustic cannon in the grasslands a short distance from Stenness. Thatcher is certain her weapon caused the Stenness massacre, but all bets are off when she pinpoints Maeshowe as the source of deadly noise. The ruin erupts with low-frequency sound every 77 hours. Each explosion is larger and deadlier than the last. The only clues to stopping Maeshowe are the spiral petroglyph glowing inside its central chamber and the lone survivor, David.

Investigating the connection between the two glowing spiral symbols, Thatcher and David uncover Brenton’s most bizarre theory: There are four locks and four keys lost throughout antiquity. Any man who finds a matching lock and key will gain one of the powers of the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse (Conqueror, War, Plague, and Death). Displacement of a key awakened the passage grave. Unless the “key” is placed into the petroglyph “lock,” the ruin will kill every living thing.

Finding the key won’t be easy. A clandestine brotherhood known as the Abaddon is sworn to protect the keys. As Maeshowe’s eruption spreads across northern Europe, the leadership of the Abaddon crumbles. A new leader of the dark society seeks to become Conqueror, and a race to the Apocalypse begins.

Click here to pick up your copy of Passage Graves.

 
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Free & Discounted Kindle Books for This Morning

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If you are reading this on the blog’s website (www.fkbooksandtips.com) or the blog’s Facebook page (www.facebook.com/fkbooks) I’m 150% certain your Kindle-owning friends and family would like to know about these offers, also – why not give the post a “Like” or “Share” so they can see the post, also?

Attached below are free and discounted Kindle book offers for your consideration to kick of your morning. For those books listed as being “free” in this post – while the pricing of the free status is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the “buy” button as it could change at any time!

Louisiana Plantation Collection, is a four book box set collection by Jennifer Blake, and is regularly $9.99 but has been discounted 90% to just $0.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book collection has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 252 customer reviews.

Category: Historical Romance

 

 

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

Romance as hot and steamy as a bayou night flavors this collection of 4 bestselling, Southern historicals by the Steel Magnolia of women’s fiction herself, Jennifer Blake.

SILVER-TONGUED DEVIL
Renold spins an enchanting tale of love and marriage, but Angelica only remembers their kiss before the steamboat exploded. How can she trust her supposed husband’s word–when he is her father’s sworn enemy?

MIDNIGHT WALTZ
Amalie’s husband in an arranged marriage is uncaring and aloof during the day–but tenderly passionate in the dark of night. She could almost believe he’s two different men….

ARROW TO THE HEART
At a tournament, Rowan wins a special prize he can neither accept nor refuse: bedding his host’s young wife. Katrine declines to bear another man’s child at her husband’s command. The two play a defiant game of “Let’s Pretend”…but can it keep them apart?

TENDER BETRAYAL
Roland proposes to Melanie to right a wrong. She accepts for vengeance. Will fiery passion join their troubled hearts–or ignite a final betrayal?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/LPC1 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Louisiana Plantation Collection.

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Seducing the Rake, by Christina Skye, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted 75% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars based on 6 customer reviews.

Category: Historical Romance

 

 

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

Like a cat, a beautiful figure prowls London’s shadowed roofs, stealing into the boudoirs of the rich and powerful in search of an ancient jewel-encrusted pillow book. Only with this rare treasure can Chessy Cameron barter for her father’s life.

But neither Chessy’s martial arts nor her stubborn heart can protect her from the one man she can never forget — the polished scoundrel who destroyed her hopes and then vanished without a trace.

Lord Anthony Moreland seeks the pillow book as well, under urgent government orders to smooth diplomatic relations between England and the Chinese emperor. But five men have already died in search of the erotic manual. And now fiery, stubborn Chessy stands in his way, a temptress the earl cannot resist.

Through London’s hectic social season to the sunny seclusion of a beautiful country manor, the two stubborn lovers fight the call of fate until they yield to reckless passion, reinventing the arts of love even as they track the ancient book. And all the while, somewhere in the shadows, an evil master lies in wait.

Originally published by Dell Publishing under the title ‘East of Forever.’

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/36sghe into your web browser to pick up your copy of Seducing the Rake.

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Midnight Flame, is a re-release by Lynette Vinet, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted 75% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store.

Category: Historical Romance

 

 

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

HE’D SHAME HER.
When vengeful Tony Duvalier discovers a “Miss L. Delaney” is responsible for his uncle’s death, the hot-tempered aristocrat vows to make her pay. But he can’t reconcile the emerald-eyed innocence of Laurel Delaney with his image of a scheming, cheap hussy. Despite the way she sets his heart aflame, he’s determined to humiliate the guilty femme fatale — even if it costs him once-in-a-lifetime love.

SHE’D FOOL HIM.
When trouble-making Lavinia begs her cousin Laurel to hide her from the Duvalier family, Laurel disguises her relative as a traveling companion and steamboats away from New Orleans. But when she meets the very man she’s deceiving, she’s stunned by his arrogance, confidence … and charm. She knows she should avoid Tony Duvalier, but the moment this refined heiress feels his commanding embrace, she knows she has to submit to their sensual, passionate midnight flame.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/s90s6r into your web browser to pick up your copy of Midnight Flame.

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Man of the Month, by Lisa Scott, is regularly $10.95 but has been discounted 82% to just $1.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 15 customer reviews.

Category: Contemporary Romance

 

 

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

Every small town has its star-crossed couple. In Willowdale, North Carolina, it’s Jeanne Clark and Brad Larsen, forever linked by a tragic accident years ago.

Sexy, simple, seductive. He’d arrange one blind date a month for her. Help her forget that he wasn’t Mr. Right. That was the deal. If only it had worked.

Jeanne Clark is determined to marry and have children. Too bad the only man she wants is all wrong—her best friend and business partner, Brad Larsen. Their brief affair had been fiery hot but heartbreaking. Brad isn’t the marrying kind. Children? He doesn’t want any.

Hoping they can both move on, Brad proposes a New Year’s resolution. She’ll go out with a different guy each month, hand-picked by him—the Man of the Month. Jeanne doesn’t do blind dates, but agrees to the fool idea. She’s got to do something to get over Brad.

As the bad dates add up, Jeanne realizes how much she really loves Brad. And it’s killing Brad to watch her go out with other men. As the tension between them builds, one reckless night threatens to change everything between them forever.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/zri5tc into your web browser to pick up your copy of Man of the Month.
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Memoirs of an Outlaw: Life in the Sandbox, by Robert M. Tanner, III, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 55 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through August 30th.

Category: History

 

 

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

In Fallujah, during a particularly difficult time in the Iraq War, a group of Marines are deployed on a tour that will bring them closer together, while threatening to tear them apart. The Delta Company Outlaws are a group of Light Armored Reconnaissance Marines deployed in 2004 to one of the most hostile war zones in the world. Through the memoirs of one Marine, this touching story encapsulates the drama surrounding everyday life during the Iraq War. With a bond formed through blood, sweat, and tears, a group of unfamiliar Marines will come together stronger than family.

Memoirs of an Outlaw: Life in the Sandbox is a dramatic new take on the Iraq War that focuses more on the personal aspects of war rather than exclusively on combat. With a touching approach to the camaraderie, daily life, and devastating losses, this enlightening memoir by Robert M. Tanner delves into the brotherhood that’s formed throughout a deployment while documenting the combat experiences and daily life of a Marine. Using personal experiences, this engaging story hooks readers with drama, action, and honesty while painting an illuminating picture of both the funny and tragic sides of war.

Inspired by a bond that’s stronger than blood, Memoirs of an Outlaw began as a therapeutic way to document wartime experiences and eventually led to a full-fledged memoir. Deciding to focus on the daily life and camaraderie of war, the story captures the tension, drama, and bonding that comes with combat and living in a hostile environment far away from home. By focusing on the humanistic side of the armed forces, Memoirs of an Outlaw perfectly captures a unique moment in time during an extraordinarily challenging part of the war.

Click here to pick up your copy of Memoirs of an Outlaw: Life in the Sandbox.

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Twenty-Five, by Rachel L. Hamm, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.9 out of 5 stars based on 16 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through August 31st.

Category: Contemporary Romance

 

 

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

Abigail Bronsen is sure her life is going nowhere when she turns twenty-five and realizes she hasn’t done anything on a list of goals she made for herself as a teenager. Ben Harris is looking to find “the one” after his last girlfriend cheated on him. When they crash into each other, it appears they’ve both found exactly what they wanted. A year of firsts follows: first date, first kiss, first “I love you’s.” The first fight is inevitable, but neither of them saw a breakup coming. When Abigail is offered a job overseas, they’ll discover that no relationship is perfect and even true love sometimes finds itself separated by time and distance.

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The Exemeus – Today's Featured Kindle Book

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Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is The Exemeus, by Folami Morris and Abeni Morris, and this book is regularly $4.99 but has been discounted 80% to just 99 cents in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 47 customer reviews.

Category: Paranormal Romance

 

 

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

Hyalee Smith is dead, she just doesn’t know it yet.

Her short life was devoted to love and to hate. Love of the man who stole her heart, hate for the man who stole the world. Murdered by the government she swore to destroy, she’s been given another chance to make it right. But to save the planet, she needs the help of the most powerful mystic the world has ever seen—unfortunately he hasn’t been born yet.

In a world where fear is the only currency, Dephon has committed the ultimate crime: inspiring hope.

His only goal is to make it safely through ninth grade, but on a post-apocalyptic Earth run by the Treptonian government, it isn’t that simple. Heir to a legendary power, Dephon Johnson is the only threat to the government’s rule. And on Trepton, all threats must be eliminated. When hundreds of assassins are dispatched to neutralize him, Dephon is forced to fight back. His only chance of survival is to enlist the aid of the greatest warrior the world has ever known. The only problem is, she’s been dead for 13 years.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/exemeus into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Exemeus .

 

About the Author:

 

 

Folami Morris has always had her head in the clouds; living in an alternate reality when it’s time to turn in papers, pay bills, and clean the house. So it was no surprise to anyone when she decided to bring her imaginary world into reality. She now writes and studies to get into medical school. The Exemeus is her first published novel.

 

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Today's Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

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Attached below are today’s offering of discounted and free Kindle book titles. For those books listed as being “free” in this post – while the pricing of the free status is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the “buy” button as it could change at any time!

The Annihilation of Foreverland, by Tony Bertauski, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars based on 141 customer reviews.

Category: Science Fiction / Young Adult

 

 

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

Foreverland is Dead (Book #2) is now available!

When kids awake on an island, they’re told there was an accident. Before they can go home, they will visit Foreverland, an alternate reality that will heal their minds.

Reed dreams of a girl that tells him to resist Foreverland. He doesn’t remember her name, but knows he once loved her. He’ll have to endure great suffering and trust his dream. And trust he’s not insane.

Danny Boy, the new arrival, meets Reed’s dream girl inside Foreverland. She’s stuck in the fantasy land that no kid can resist. Where every heart’s desire is satisfied. Why should anyone care how Foreverland works?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/ugnuta into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Annihilation of Foreverland.

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Bet you can’t…Find Me, by Linda S. Prather, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted 75% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars based on 68 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery & Thrillers

 

 

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

“Imagine a killer who can kill at will from a distance. No gun, no weapon. Nothing more than a thought.”

Catherine Mans has the ability to see and hear what others can’t. With the help of Homicide Sergeant Cody Allen, she’s turned that talent into a successful profession as a psychic consultant.

But Catherine’s past is coming back to haunt her. Someone is threatening the lives of everyone she loves.

Nine bodies have been discovered, and Catherine is the FBI’s prime suspect.

To prove her innocence, she must unravel the secrets of her past, and answer the challenge of a deranged psychic.

Bet you can’t…FIND ME!

“If you love the psychic suspense of Kay Hooper and the witty characters of Tammy Hoag, you’ll love Find Me!”

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/gx91cm into your web browser to pick up your copy of Bet you can’t…Find Me.

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Harry Wood: Time and Again, by Brian Meeks, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted 75% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars based on 14 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery

 

 

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

Fans of Dashiell Hammett, who long for days of Bogart and Becall, will appreciate Henry Wood’s sleuthing.

1955, Manhattan, and Henry has just gotten the call. Mickey is dead. His long time mentor and friend, run down outside their favorite bar, The Dublin Rogue. It looks like a simple hit and run, but keen eyes notice there is only one empty parking spot on the street, and the pile of cigarette butts in the gutter tells a different tale. Somebody was waiting, but who?

A novel in black and white, it harkens back to the days before Google, cell phones, and computer data bases. Henry must use cunning to uncover the truth, because everyone connected to the case has an agenda. There is much sleuthing and just the slightest hint of science fiction hiding in the closet of Henry’s basement. All of it, though, is there to give him a chance to uncover the answers.

Take a journey back in time and see Manhattan as it was when the Yankees always seemed to win, and Brooklyn had Ebbets Field and the Dodger. There is history, intrigue and hints at romance that will keep you turning page after page until it is time to flip off the light.

If you like a mystery, then Time & Again is for you.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/mnl0ap into your web browser to pick up your copy of Harry Wood: Time and Again.

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Dancing Naked in Dixie, by Lauren Clark, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 136 customer reviews.

Category: Chick Lit / Southern Women’s Fiction

 

 

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

Travel writer Julia Sullivan lives life in fast-forward. She jet sets to Europe and the Caribbean with barely a moment to blink or sleep. But too many mishaps and missed deadlines have Julia on the verge of being fired.

With a stern warning, and unemployment looming, she’s offered one last chance to rescue her career. Julia embarks on an unlikely journey to the ‘Heart of Dixie’—Eufaula, Alabama—home to magnificent mansions, sweet tea, and the annual Pilgrimage.

Julia arrives, soon charmed by the lovely city and her handsome host, but her stay is marred by a shocking discovery. Can Julia’s story save her career, Eufaula, and the annual Pilgrimage?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/v7qyar into your web browser to pick up your copy of Dancing Naked in Dixie .

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The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis, by Elle Thornton, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted 33% to just $1.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 66 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery & Thrillers

 

 

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

Nearly everything important in twelve-year-old Gabriella’s life that summer of 1957 can be traced to the river. On the North Carolina military base where she lives, she meets the African-American Marine Hawkins by the river’s brown-green water. Hawkins, a servant in the kitchen of her father’s quarters, becomes her swim coach and a person she can talk with–even about the tragedy of the youth Emmett Till. The fourteen-year-old was lynched two years earlier, his body thrown into Mississippi’s Tallahatchie river. But this river, her river, isn’t a place of death. Emmett’s spirit is alive in its waters. It’s a place of magic.

At the river Hawkins helps her find her strength and her place in the world. Emmett helps her find her heart.

Emmett had been murdered for whistling at a white woman. Could her friendship with Hawkins endanger the tough Marine? It doesn’t seem possible. Until a sudden storm on the river changes Gabriella’s life–forever.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/qt514n into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis.

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Disappearance at Mount Sinai, by Jim Musgrave, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 3 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book is free through August 31st.

Category: Historical Steampunk Mystery

 

 

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

As seen in the Jewish Daily Forward!

What if the anti-Semites, racists, and terrorists wanted the final revenge following the Civil War? How do you stop them from committing the worst atrocity?

It’s 1866 in New York City. Civil War Vet and Detective Pat O’Malley’s biggest case returns him to the deep, dark South to search for the kidnapped wealthiest inventor and entrepreneur in America. But the widening gyre of anti-Semitism and racism pulls him down into the pit of hell itself. Disguised as an Oxford England Professor, O’Malley infiltrates the anti-Semites’ group and travels with his partners, Becky Charming and his father, Robert, down to a Collierville, Tennessee mansion.

At the crux of this case are a Jewish father and his five-year-old son, Seth. They have developed a unique bond that relies on Jewish folklore and a belief that they are Mazikeen, half-angel and half-human, born from the loins of Adam’s strange female cohorts during the 130 years he was banished from the Garden. Will O’Malley find Dr. Mergenthaler before it’s too late? What does this world-wide eugenics group have planned for the mongrel races? Read Jim Musgrave’s Disappearance at Mount Sinai, the second mystery in the series of Pat O’Malley Mini-Mysteries.

This is the second historical mystery in the popular Detective Pat O’Malley series. You can read more about this series and sign-up for the newsletter at the Pat O’Malley Mini-Mysteries web site. The second mystery was a featured “summer reading” book at the Jewish Daily Forward because it deals with the “mazikeen,” which are half-human and half-angel beings from Jewish folklore. Both of the mysteries so far in the series have Poetic (as in Edgar Allan Poe) style and supernatural elements that readers enjoy.

Click here to pick up your copy of Disappearance at Mount Sinai.

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Murder at the War, by Mary Monica Pulver, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars based on 58 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through August 29th.

Category: Mystery

 

 

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

A murder at the war…

“I was just thinking that the Society for Creative Anachronism is actually very much like the old Norse myth of Valhalla: You can fight all day, get killed any number of times, and still be in great shape for the feast that night!”

…until one of the fighters, Thorstane Shieldbreaker, is genuinely murdered, when the fun turns to deadly seriousness as Lord Stefan von Helle and Lady Katherine of Tretower struggle to solve the crime. Was it one of their own SCA members, a mundane outsider, or Lady Katherine herself?

The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) is having a lovely re-enactment of a Medieval war…until one of the participants is actually murdered. It is up to Detective Peter Brichter and his wife Kori (whose SCA names are Lord Stefan von Helle and Lady Katherine of Tretower) to solve the crime!

The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) is a group of enthusiasts who research and selectively re-create the Middle Ages for knowledge and for fun. At their events, they wear historical clothing and call each other by medieval-style character names. Once a year, they meet to display their handiwork and stage a mock medieval war.

In Murder at the War, policeman Peter Brichter (known in the SCA as Stefan von Helle) and his wife, Kori (known as Katherine of Tretower) go to the war for the fun. But the revelry turns deadly serious when a known troublemaker, Thorstane Shieldbreaker, is actually murdered. The local police, anxious to find the culprit, turn their attention to Peter and Kori as suspects once they find the two have quarreled with Thorstane. It is up to Lord Stefan and Lady Katherine, with their knowledge of the SCA, to clear their names and solve the crime.

Click here to pick up your copy of Murder at the War.

 
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