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This Can't Be Normal

December 31, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is This Can’t Be Normal, by Diana Estill, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars based on 19 customer reviews.

Category: Humor

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

Lamenting her husband’s disappearance from a booze cruise, her mother’s eccentric gift selections, and her childhood vacations with The Walking Encyclopedia (her dad), Estill discloses the truth about her kinfolk: They’re all a touch weird.

Bad habits cause family members to ingest everything from paint thinner to motor oil. Hubby’s fascination with kitchen appliances threatens to leave household residents deaf. Her son’s faked afflictions incite a crowd fury. Only the needling neighbor can unite this group for a common cause. But the revenge they seek against him delivers karmic consequences.

Included in the 23 essays:

Boozing Barbados
Cat Crap Coffee
Halcion Daze
Rules of Enragement
Queen of the Road
Garage Sale Mama
Dying to be Seen
Cylinder Fetish

And more…

From the award-winning author of Driving on the Wrong Side of the Road, Deedee Divine’s Totally Skewed Guide to Life, and Stilettos No More, this newest collection of essays offers amusing anecdotes that will appeal to anyone who’s ever struggled to define “normal.”

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/123113 into your web browser to pick up your copy of This Can’t Be Normal.

About the Author:

Diana Estill is the author of four humor books, one novel, and a collection of short stories. For Deedee Divine’s Totally Skewed Guide to Life, she was named a ForeWord Book of the Year Finalist and an International Book Awards Winner in the humor category.

Prior to becoming an author, Diana worked for many years as a journalist and humor columnist. Her columns have appeared in The Dallas Morning News, Washington Post, The Miami Herald, Road & Travel, and other publications. She has been featured in First Magazine and has appeared on a variety of TV shows and radio programs.

Diana’s debut novel, When Horses Had Wings, was inspired by her life experiences as a former teen mother and high school dropout. After completing her education, she taught GED classes, worked as a consultant to the National Institute for Literacy and American Council on Education, and served as a U.S. delegate to a UNESCO conference.

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

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More Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

December 31, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Included in this post are more free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for your Friday consideration: 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 revert back to paid status at any time!

Wrecker, by Dave Conifer, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 91 customer reviews. I read this book about two years ago and enjoyed it, and rated it a 4 out of 5 in my review – you can read the short and sweet review I wrote if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/uq5jvg into your web browser; if you thought the review was helpful, I would appreciate a “Yes” vote just underneath the review on the Amazon website.

Category: Thriller

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

Steve thought life was perfect with a hired man to do his chores.

They were both wrong.

Jane Havelock is coping a day at a time in a bad marriage when her husband Steve hires handyman Rob Manteo for a never-ending series of odd jobs around the house. At first Jane is repulsed by Manteo, a huge, muscular man with primitive communication skills. But revulsion reluctantly gives way to curiosity and even fascination as loneliness drives her into a precarious friendship with Manteo. He’s morose and mysterious, but there’s definitely more to him than meets the eye.

As her marriage and her husband’s career crumble around her, Jane digs into Manteo’s past and uncovers a horrible secret. She knows now that it was more than chance that brought Manteo into their world, but it may be too late.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/lp5hu9 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Wrecker.

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The Snowflake Inn, by Samantha Chase, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted to just $0.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 37 customer reviews.

Category: Contemporary Romance

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

A home for the holidays…

Grace thought she had finally found a place to belong. Coming off of ten years of tragedy and disappointments, her arrival at The Snowflake Inn finally gives her a reason to have hope for her future and the possibility of her forever-home. Until one man arrives with the power to take it all away.

Versus NOT wanting to be home for the holidays…

Riley’s world has been turned upside down. He’s back at the one place that he never wanted to return to and it looks like he may be staying longer than he had planned. Taking over The Snowflake Inn was never his dream, it was his family’s dream for him, and all Riley wants to do is cut his losses and leave. But one fiery red-head has him rethinking everything he had planned.

Both Grace and Riley had very different plans for their time at The Snowflake Inn but with the magic of Christmas all around them, and an attraction that they can’t seem to ignore, this could be the perfect time and place for everyone’s dream to come true.

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

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Golgotha, by Saul Tanpepper, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 8 customer reviews.

Category: Suspense

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

In this prequel to S.W. Tanpepper’s GAMELAND series, a molecular geneticist creates an experimental antidote against a synthetic military virus developed to reanimate the dead. Hoping to avert a human disaster with global implications, he plans to test it on himself, but to do so he will first have to self-administer the zombie virus and allow the infection to run its full course. The process and the aftermath are captured in a series of voice recordings, leaving their audience little doubt about the experiment’s spectacular–and horrific–outcome.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/u7icli into your web browser to pick up your copy of Golgotha.

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Fashion, Lies, and Murder, by Sibel Hodge, is regularly $3.49 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 104 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery

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

From award winning author, Sibel Hodge, comes a screwball comedy-mystery, combining murder and mayhem with romance and laughter…

Amber Fox has been making too many mistakes, and something’s got to give…

For starters, Amber accidentally shoots Chief Inspector Janice Skipper and gets thrown off the police force. Oops! Then, she accepts a job as an insurance investigator from her ex-fiancé, Brad Beckett. Only Brad thinks they’ve still got unfinished business in the romance department, making for a steamier working environment than Amber counted on. And when fashion designer, Umberto Fandango, goes missing, Amber’s investigative skills are put to the ultimate test. Nothing about the case is what it seems, and to make matters worse Amber’s arch-enemy, Chief Inspector Skipper, is also investigating the disappearance. If Amber wants her old job back, she’s in a race against time to solve the mystery before Skipper does… all the while dodging her ex-fiancé, her own mixed up feelings, and a couple of crazy mobsters.

Who is Umberto Fandango? Is he dead? And can Amber stay one step ahead to stay alive?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/aser0x into your web browser to pick up your copy of Fashion, Lies, and Murder.

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Finally Home , by Cerian Hebert, 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 9 customer reviews.

Category: Contemporary Romance

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

Despite their rocky past, Torie Barron and Alex Carmichael’s identical goals drive them in a headlong collision over the horse farm they both covet until a family tragedy puts an end to Torie’s dreams. As her life is swept down an unexpected and rocky path, she turns to the man who has been so infuriating yet intriguing. The man who stomped her heart into the ground when they were teens. Will Alex be her savior, or the one who stands in the way of all she’s ever wanted?

Click here to pick up your copy of Finally Home.

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The Pirate Slayers: Ghost Waves, by W. Everett Prusso, 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 17 customer reviews.

Category: Young Adult

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

In the winter of 1846, the ship Brooklyn leaves New York City, carrying passengers bound for San Francisco. On a warm moonless night, off the coast of Brazil, four young people fall overboard as the ship continues on unaware. Thomas, Elizabeth, Nicole and their Australian sailor friend, Matthew, manage to fight their way to a nearby island, where they realize landing ashore is just the beginning of their troubles.

The Caribbean Sea and South Pacific are the backdrops for this adventure that pits the four teens in desperate contests with pirates, profiteers and scoundrels as they swash-buckle their way to California.

Click here to pick up your copy of The Pirate Slayers: Ghost Waves.

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How to Borrow a Kindle Book

December 31, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

I’ve been meaning to finish and publish this post for a while now, but it’s been a hectic couple of weeks at the Gallagher household between chasing kids from activity to activity, Christmas, etc. Yes, the best laid plans go somewhere else. This post focuses on being able to borrow books from Amazon and read it on your Kindle, all at no direct cost to you.

Notice I typed in “direct cost,” which is a key phrase: Amazon will allow you to borrow one book per month for free and allow you to read it on your Kindle, but you have to be a Prime member. There are three ways you can be a Prime Member:

Pay $79 to Amazon for a year’s membership.
Enroll in the one month free trial of Amazon Prime.
Order a Kindle Fire, and you receive a month of Amazon Prime for free

What is Amazon’s Prime Membership? To summarize the benefits of joining (of course, this is not an all-encompassing list):

You receive free two-day shipping; or just $3.99 for next day shipping, on all purchases fulfilled by Amazon. That includes more than just books and CD’s, but the really heavy items like power tools. I bought some woodworking equipment at 3:30 p.m. from Amazon two years ago that weighed over 100 pounds, and I paid $3.99 for it to be here before noon the next day. Not only did Amazon have the lower price, but the next lower priced dealer wanted $150 to ship it in 7-10 business days, so it more than paid for itself in one purchase.
You are able to watch over 25,000 movies and TV series for free via Amazon’s streaming video product.
You can browse through over 250,000 books in the Kindle format, and borrow one per month. Sure, there are a lot of titles you haven’t heard of but there are also a lot of blockbuster titles like the Harry Potter series, also.

I am sure there are other benefits, but the three above are what I use it for – as a guy, I hate to go to the mall or other stores, and I seem to purchase nearly everything off of Amazon because of the low price and free two day shipping with my Prime membership; as an accountant in “real” life, I rationalize it a lot like a Sam’s Club membership.

If you would like to get a free one month trial subscription to Prime (see, you knew I would tell you about something free vs. spending $79) or learn more about the Prime membership option, here’s a quick way to get to the correct page:

Go to the Amazon Prime page by clicking here or typing in http://smarturl.it/primeinto your computer’s web browser.
On the right-hand side of the page, click on the “Start Your One-Month Free Trial” link.

Try it for free, and if it works out, great, if not – cancel it before they charge you.

Anyway, I appear to be getting off-topic again….

As I was saying earlier, you can borrow one book per month from Amazon…before you get too excited, you can’t borrow every book they have in the Kindle inventory: as I type this, there are exactly 472,416 titles available in the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library. Seeing as how there are 2,281,415 book titles in the Amazon Kindle store right now, that’s not a bad percentage of the population.

So, how do you peruse the titles available for lending? While I am sure there are other ways to do it, here is how you do it on an e-Ink Kindle (Kindle, Kindle DX, Kindle Keyboard, Paperwhite, etc.):

Press the “Home” button on your Kindle.
Press the “Menu” key.
Select the “Shop in Kindle Store” option.
Underneath the “Books” section, scroll over to the right and select “See all…”
Scroll down to the last option and select “Kindle Owners’ Lending Library.”

On a Kindle Fire, here is how you do it:

Go to the Books tab.
Click the Store icon.
On the right-hand side of the screen, under “Featured Lists” tap the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library option.

You will now see a list of the books available for borrowing for free from Amazon. You can also change the sort option to view by the various subcategories (mine initially showed up by the bestselling) if there is a particular genre you want to peruse.

One thing I don’t like about doing it this way is you can’t type in the name of a particular book in the lending library and have it show up – on a few test searches I did for various authors, the results displayed were for purchase only. In other words, you’re going to be doing a lot of searching and hitting the next page button which is a little bit of a pain in the neck.

Anyway, back to how I borrowed a book from Amazon…

At the listing of the books by bestselling, I just kept hitting the next page button until I saw something I liked. The next screen is what I would call the regular information page about a book on my Kindle but in addition to the “Buy” button, right below that was a “Borrow for Free” button. I selected the “Borrow for Free” button, and the next screen that popped up looked familiar:

Michael,

Thank you for borrowing this title. We are sending your item and it will automatically appear in your Home screen when the download is complete.

It took less than 10 seconds for the book I selected to appear on my Kindle, and I just saved $4.99.

On my Kindle DX, I pressed the Home button and found the book, then selected it with the 5-way controller, where my Kindle then started me at the book’s preface. One thing to note – there is no distinction or “warning” sign that this is a loaned book, it all looked the same to me.

So, there’s your short tutorial on borrowing a book from Amazon: hope that helps!

Michael

Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

December 31, 2013 by Michael Gallagher 3 Comments

It’s the last day of 2013 – where did the year go? If you’re like me, it sure seemed to go by fast!

Here’s your first batch of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for your Friday consideration: 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 revert back to paid status at any time!

Love and Adventure Collection – Part 1, a two book box set collection by Jennifer Blake, is regularly $4.95 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 47 customer reviews.

Category: Historical Romance

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

Two stand-alone classics by a legend of the genre in a single, value-priced bundle!

THE STORM AND THE SPLENDOR
Julia, involved in a dangerous international plot, becomes a sea captain’s reluctant bride. When a violent storm flings them into the decadent splendor of a Turkish court, will they trust to love…or die in each other’s arms?

LOVE’S WILD DESIRE
Catherine, tricked into attending an infamous quadroon ball, masks her identity until it’s too late. Forced to wed the handsome planter who compromises her, she seeks a place in his life. But the madman stalking her will not rest until she pays the price for…Love’s Wild Desire.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/7f3sf0 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Love and Adventure Collection – Part 1.

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The Hot Shots, by Stephanie Queen, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted to just $0.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 21 customer reviews.

Category: Romantic Suspense

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

Would you jump off the USS Constitution into Boston Harbor with a perfect stranger? You would if that stranger was hot shot Scotland Yard detective Chauncey Miller, the usual tall-dark-handsome type, especially since he has an assassin with a score to settle who just caught up with him…

Decorator Sophia Alano’s career gets side-tracked from the moment she meets hot shot Chauncey. He’s on the run from a madman terrorist out for revenge when Sophia ends up targeted too. Now he must protect this spitfire while they’re hunted wherever they go. They escape to London to outwit the madman. But once Chauncey catches their would-be killer, how do they go back to the lives they had before?

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

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The SockKids Meet Lincoln, by Michael John Sullivan and Susan Petrone, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars based on 59 customer reviews.

Category: Children & Middle Grade

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

The SockKids – Solving The Mystery Of Your Missing Socks!
Where do our missing socks go?

Readers find out in our children’s series, The SOCKKIDS. We follow the Socker family through many adventures; from encountering the slobbery mouth of the family dog to meeting Santa as he comes down the chimney on Christmas Eve to helping a fireman save a baby to the most shy Socker going to the school dance for the first time.

Thanks to the time-travel opportunities afforded by the spin cycle of the washer, they learn about some of the most important humans in the world.
Children two and up and their parents will be drawn to the diversity of the family and the universal and timeless lessons they teach: don’t be afraid of new experiences; treat others as you would like to be treated, and of course, beware of the spin cycle!

The SockKids – Helping Humans Cope in a Smelly World!

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/726 into your web browser to pick up your copy of The SockKids Meet Lincoln.

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SpaceHive, by Kenna McKinnon, is regularly $4.99 but has been discounted to just $1.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars based on 9 customer reviews.

Category: Young Adult / Science Fiction

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

There’s a buzz in the air–and it’s deadly…

After getting kidnapped by giant alien bees, twelve-year-old Jason Anderson is transported to a spaceship called SpaceHive. There, he learns of a horrifying plot to annihilate Earth’s human population so that extraterrestrial bees and wasps can migrate to a new world.

As a swarm of spaceships make a beeline toward Earth, Jason must convince three friendly worker bees to help him escape his space prison and find other humans to aid in his mission to stop the invasion. But General Vard, wasp commander of the Black Watch, has other plans.

Can Jason unite the nations of Earth in their common fight to destroy these alien invaders? Or will Earth be lost to the sting of conspiracy and a worldwide massacre?

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

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Maternal Harbor, by Marie F. Martin, 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 158 customer reviews.

Category: Suspense / Thriller

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

Teagan O’Riley was pregnant and alone when she met three single mothers at an OB clinic. A few weeks later, two of them are dead and the third is close on Teagan’s heels, intent on a campaign of twisted murder and insanity. Teagan cannot risk entrusting the three infants to the police with her finger prints all over one crime scene and her foot print smeared into blood at another. She flees with the babies to a wilderness cabin belonging to her lost love’s grandmother, but is even this remote location safe?

Click here to pick up your copy of Maternal Harbor.

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Darkness, by John Griffin, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 20 customer reviews.

Category: Science Fiction

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

Edmund moves across the desolate landscape lumbering towards home. He arrives, overjoyed to discover that his family is dead – they did not have to live through The Fall, did not have to fight cannibals and bandits, did not have to survive the apocalypse. They did not suffer. Like millions of others they got caught up in pandemic flu and died. Satisfied, after nine-years of traveling, Edmund can get on with what is left with his life. He finds a local cluster of fellow survivors, including a friend from his past, and joins the difficult task of rebuilding a world undone by disaster.

His comfort is short-lived. Not long after settling into his new home, he discovers that he has become unstuck in time. Through an unknown mechanism, he oscillates between past and future, hope and despair. He rushes to determine how this is happening, and to do something – anything – to save the world he knew, while contemplating whether what he is experiencing is real or madness brought on by a decade of looming extinction.

Click here to pick up your copy of Darkness.

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The Sock Wars

December 30, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is The Sock Wars, by Maia Sepp, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 36 customer reviews.

Category: Women’s Fiction / Contemporary Fiction

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

Lucy Tuttle is a workaholic financial planner whose biggest worry is how to line up the sticky notes on her desk just so, until her free-spirited, vivacious aunt dies in a car accident halfway across the world.

With her last remaining family member gone, a landmark birthday approaching, domestication closing in, and her faltering biological clock a never-ending reminder of the time she isn’t spending building a family, Lucy attempts to make a home for herself in the house she’s inherited. But as she struggles to settle into a life of cohabitation, organic lentils, and sock thievery, she starts to wonder how she ended up there–and when she’ll feel alive again.

As she works through her grief and tries to find somewhere to belong, Lucy begins to understand that sometimes, realizing one dream means giving up another. Can a person who spends her time fixing other people’s lives learn to let go enough to live her own?

The Sock Wars is a poignant, funny reminder that there’s one thing harder than living up to other people’s expectations; facing your own.

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

About the Author:

Maia left the tech sector to write about sock thievery, migraine, and…the tech sector.

Her debut novel is The Sock Wars, a story of love, loss, and sock thievery; it has been an Amazon digital top 100 bestseller.

Maia’s latest novel, The Migraine Mafia, has just been released. It is the story of a thirtysomething’s quest to come to terms with a chronic illness, and is now available on Amazon.

Find Maia online at www.maiasepp.com

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

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Free App for Your Kindle Fire

December 30, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

For those of you who have downloaded the blog’s free app to read the blog posts on your Kindle Fire or Android enabled smartphone (i.e., Motorola RAZR or Samsung Galaxy) or tablet computer, I appreciate it: it’s an easy way to receive instant notifications of posts about free Kindle Books. Just switched from an e-Ink Kindle to the Kindle Fire? This would be a great way to continue to read the blog on your device: if you haven’t tried it yet – the app is free!

You can download and install the blog’s app (for free) from either the Amazon App store or the Google Play Store: it takes about 5 seconds to install and, unlike other apps, it doesn’t ask for any personally identifying items like your phone number, location, etc. The only permission it needs is an Internet or Wi-Fi connection.

To download and install it from the Amazon App store, you can click here or type in http://smarturl.it/fkbtfreeapp into your web browser

To download and install it from the Google Play store, you can click here or type in http://bit.ly/fkbtgoogle into your web browser

Thanks!

Michael

More Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

December 30, 2013 by Michael Gallagher 2 Comments

Included in this post are more free and discounted book titles in a variety of genres for your consideration: 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!

Final Vector, by Allan Leverone, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.2 out of 5 star rating based on 104 customer reviews. I read this one last year and thought it was pretty good and rated it a 4 out of 5 stars in my review. You can read the review I wrote if you Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/2749 into your web browser; if you think the review was helpful, I would appreciate a “Yes” vote just underneath the review on the Amazon website.

Category: Thriller

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

When air traffic controller Nick Jensen’s wife – a Pentagon auditor – is killed in a car accident under suspicious circumstances, a grief-stricken Nick throws himself into his work at Logan International Airport in Boston.

Days later, on duty during a midnight shift, Nick spies three heavily armed men dressed in black fatigues patrolling the corridors of the supposedly secure FAA facility.

Nick escapes capture by the thugs and with United States President Robert Cartwright scheduled to fly into Logan the next day, faces a race against time to uncover the link between his wife’s death and a brazen assassination plot against a sitting president.

Unarmed and on the run, Nick must take down a homegrown terrorist organization before the president faces his FINAL VECTOR…

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/finalvector into your web browser to pick up your copy of Final Vector.

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Hard Lines, by Dave Conifer, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars based on 18 customer reviews.

Category: Action & Adventure

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

Earning a D-1 football scholarship was gratifying. Leading his new team into the top ten was stunning. Being charged with rape and suspended indefinitely was terrifying.

Jake Zarephath hadn’t seen it coming when his world explodes after a wild night with Robin Dunellen. The campus erupts when the story goes public, but local sportswriter Hamilton Newton trusts his instincts and accepts Jake’s denial. Jake is angry and confused, but everything changes after Newton discovers Robin’s horrifying past and nightmarish present. Something is very wrong at Appalachian University.

When crunch time comes it’s all moving so fast that Jake can’t remember who he can trust. But with a championship within reach and somebody’s soul on the line, there’s no time to wait for everyone to choose up sides.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/hardlines into your web browser to pick up your copy of Hard Lines.

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Trail of 32, by Paul Rega, is regularly $4.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 9 customer reviews.

Category: Memoirs and Biographies

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

THE ASTONISHING, TRUE STORY of a group of thirty-two boys and leaders who accomplished an amazing feat in 1972, when they rode their bicycles from Wood Dale, Illinois to Jacksonville, Florida.

Baby boomers of all ages as well as Scouts, past and present will marvel over this amazing true story of courage, conquest, and adventure. Fans of Stand By Me will applaud this tale of heroism and childhood in a simpler time.

The 1960’s and early 70’s were a simpler time–a common sense two-pedal world with realistic adventures, and everyday heroes. In the summer of 1972, an innocence was lost when twenty-six young boys in a small rural town set out to accomplish something bigger than themselves. Their journey of nearly 1,400 miles would take them through eight states, crossing over the Great Smoky Mountains. It was a tremendous achievement–one that would be hailed as the longest organized bike hike in the history of Scouting.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/trailof32 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Trail of 32.

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This Doesn’t Happen In The Movies, by Renee Pawlish, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 94 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery

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

A wannabe private eye with a love of film noir and detective fiction.
A rich, attractive femme fatale.
A missing husband.
A rollicking ride to a dark and daring ending.

Reed Ferguson’s first case is a daring adventure, complete with a dose of film noir, and a lot of humor. With a great supporting cast of the Goofball Brothers, Reed’s not too bright neighbors, and Cal, Reed’s computer geek friend, This Doesn’t Happen In The Movies is detective noir at its best. Follow Reed as he solves crime akin to his cinematic hero, Humphrey Bogart.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/zenqbm into your web browser to pick up your copy of This Doesn’t Happen In The Movies.

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The Good Daughter: A Mafia Story, by Diana Layne, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 421 customer reviews.

Category: Suspense

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

Most good daughters would say they owe their fathers everything. Marisa Peruzzo, Mafia princess, would.
She owed him for killing her fiancé.
She owed him for destroying her mother.
She owed him for chaining her to the ‘family business’.
And she owed him for taking away her lifelong friend.
Payback’s a bitch.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/7i42pc into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Good Daughter: A Mafia Story.

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The Cruel Path, by David J. Normoyle, 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 3732 customer reviews.

Category: Fantasy

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

In a society without love, three brothers develop an unbreakable bond; in a land without mercy, only a handful of boys like them are allowed to reach adulthood.

The three brothers take on the pitiless test of the Green Path, knowing that even if they win, one of them must die.

But which? Having to make that terrible decision proves crueler than anything else the Green Path can throw at them.

Click here to pick up your copy of The Cruel Path.

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Kyra’s New Zoo, by Govind Agarwal, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 23 customer reviews.

Category: Children

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

Read with your young ones and learn Animal sounds!!

Step with Kyra the Giraffe through her new zoo and discover each animal’s sound. But HOO HOO is making the strangest noise of all? Find out!

KYRA’S NEW ZOO will introduce young listeners to a variety of zoo animals and their sounds through catchy rhymes. Join your children as they explore, and continue the journey with other titles in the series!

Click here to pick up your copy of Kyra’s New Zoo.

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Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

December 30, 2013 by Michael Gallagher 4 Comments

Here’s your first group of discounted and free Kindle book titles in a variety of genres – I am sure most people will find something of interest! 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!

Shoot to Thrill, a four book box set collection by J. Carson Black, M.A. Comley, Carol Davis Luce, and Michael Wallace, is regularly $8.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars based on 15 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery / Thriller

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

4 complete, edge-of-your-seat thrillers from 4 bestselling authors!

DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN (J Carson Black)
When CI Laura Cardinal is called in to investigate the murder of a fourteen-year-old runaway found murdered in a park, Laura knows immediately she’s up against a cunning sexual predator. Worse, the incident has her confronting ghosts dredged up from her own past. Then another child goes missing–and Laura must put aside her own conflicting emotions and race the clock to find her. A Daphne du Maurier Award nominee.

THE DEVIL’S DEEP (Michael Wallace)
Chad Lett is a mute witness to an attempted murder. He suffers from total paralysis, locked within a prison of his own mind. After years of silence, he establishes contact with a young nurse’s aide through a single blinking eye. But then she is abducted, and a staff member begins to administer dropperfuls of cleaning solution into Chad’s lone communicating eye…

NIGHT GAME (Carol Davis Luce)
Nevada. The King’s Club resort casino is a playground for gamblers with everything to gain … and the hunting ground for a shadowy killer with nothing to lose. An expert at undercover surveillance, PI Kasey Atwood is drawn to the sensual, enigmatic owner, Jay King, who’s placed his bets on her talents. As their love affair heats up, though, she becomes a pawn in a game of passion and revenge that puts her heart — and her life — at risk.

FOUL JUSTICE (M A Comley)
Before DI Lorne Simpkins can get comfortable with her new partner, the two are assigned a tragic murder case that looks like a robbery gone wrong. Further compromising Lorne’s focus is the personal news that her fiancé, M16 agent Tony Warner, is involved in a dangerous covert operation in Afghanistan. Then another wealthy footballer’s family meets the same deadly fate within twenty-four hours, and Lorne must bring all her resources to bear to stop the killers…

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/stt into your web browser to pick up your copy of Shoot to Thrill.

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Second Chance Grill, by Christine Nolfi, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 59 customer reviews.

Category: Contemporary Fiction

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

An unforgettable tale of love, loss and second chances.

“Human connections have the potential to spread joy far and wide, in this wonderful and highly recommended prequel to Treasure Me.” –Midwest Book Review

Dr. Mary Chance needs a sabbatical from medicine to grieve the loss of her closest friend. But when she inherits a struggling restaurant in Liberty, Ohio she isn’t prepared for Blossom Perini. Mary can’t resist falling for the precocious preteen–or the girl’s father. The bond they forge will transform all their lives and set in motion an outpouring of love that spreads across America.

Welcome back to Liberty, where the women surrounding the town’s only restaurant are as charming as they are eccentric.

Second Chance Grill is the prequel to Treasure Me, 2012 Next Generation Indie Awards Finalist and book two of the Liberty Series.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/cg07mu into your web browser to pick up your copy of Second Chance Grill.

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Crooked Man, by Tony Dunbar, is normally $2.99 but has been discounted to just $0.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 76 customer reviews.

Category: Action & Adventure

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

The FIRST offbeat mystery in the TUBBY DUBONNET series, by Anthony- and Edgar-nominated author Tony Dunbar.

If a gym bag of cash fell into your hands, what would you do to keep it?

A simple man with a refined palate, maverick New Orleans lawyer Tubby Dubonnet has a penchant for fishing, Old Fashioneds, off-track betting, and fighting evil while passing a good time.

His clients are all renegades from the asylum (aka Orleans Parish), including a transvestite entertainer, a buxom deadbeat blonde, a doctor who refers his own patients to a malpractice lawyer, and a Mardi Gras reveler who drives a float shaped like a giant crawfish pot. He also has his hands full with an ex-wife and three teenage daughters, who are experts in the art of wrapping Tubby around their little fingers. And somehow, between work and family, Tubby finds time to sample the highs and lows of idiosyncratic Crescent City cuisine, from trout meuniere amandine and French roast coffee with chicory to shrimp po-boys and homemade pecan pralines.

Tubby’s new client is Darryl Alvarez, the manager of a local nightclub who’s been caught unloading marijuana from a shrimp boat. At their first meeting, Darryl entrusts Tubby with an ordinary-looking blue gym bag. But after Darryl’s unfortunate demise, Tubby realizes he must tighten his grasp on the gym bag — and its million-dollar contents.

Tubby can’t just give up the cash. But if he gets caught, he’ll be in jail. And if the wrong people catch him, he’ll wish he was.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/crooked into your web browser to pick up your copy of Crooked Man.

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Bending Time (The Adventures of Emery Jones, Boy Science Wonder), by Charles Johnson and Elisheba Johnson, is regularly $4.99 but has been discounted to just $0.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars based on 27 customer reviews.

Category: Children & Middle Grade

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

When ten-year-old genius Emery Jones accidentally sends Chippy 190 million years back in time, he’s not sure he can reverse the process—or if he even wants to. Chippy, his crew of bullies, their teacher, and even Emery’s dad don’t seem to understand Emery’s genius. Will Emery Jones risk traveling to the Triassic Period to rescue a bully like Chippy? You never know what can happen when you have the brains and the technology for bending time…

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/bendingtime into your web browser to pick up your copy of Bending Time (The Adventures of Emery Jones, Boy Science Wonder).

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Dangerous Pursuit, by Margaret Daley, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 14 customer reviews.

Category: Romantic Suspense

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

Reading about danger never prepared Samantha Prince for the desperate phone call from her brother in Brazil that sent her from the safety of her New Orleans bookstore into the rugged, inhospitable Amazon in search of him and a hidden treasure. And reading about romance never prepared Samantha to resist the mysterious appeal of Brock Slader, a guide she hired to help her in her quest.

Alone with Brock in an alien world of orchids and anacondas, primitive headhunters and very up-to-date gunmen, she struggles to keep their relationship strictly business. Will Samantha survive the dangers in the jungle only to have her heart broken by a man who lives on the edge—no strings attached?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/2x6dg1 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Dangerous Pursuit.

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The Man Who Built the World , by Chris Ward, is regularly $4.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 34 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

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

Matthew Cassidy is a man on the brink of self-destruction. His career is in tatters and his marriage is hanging by a thread. His wife, Rachel, is on the verge of leaving him even before a phone call from his estranged father pulls him back into a world of violence and mystery that he left behind on a bloody winter’s night sixteen years before.

Matt must return to the quiet little country town of Tamerton, where he grew up in a world of questions but few answers. The town has changed but the mysteries remain, and Matt must question everything he thought he knew about his past. Why was his little sister mute? What really happened to his mother? And who are the two beautiful, ageless sisters who live in an isolated cottage out on the moor?

The Man Who Built the World is a tour de force supernatural thriller where the answers are never quite what they seem . . .

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/b9h8tz into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Man Who Built the World.

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A New Dawn Rising, by Michael Joseph, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 10 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through December 31st.

Category: Mystery

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

Haunted by the loss of his wife and young daughter, reclusive ex-cop Sam Carlisle is offered a job working for wealthy businessman Carl Renshaw. An opportunity to move on and make a fresh start. But when Carl is murdered, the police suspect Sam is responsible, forcing him to hunt down the real killer himself.

Only someone doesn’t want Sam Carlisle finding out the truth…

Click here to pick up your copy of A New Dawn Rising.

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The Story of Evil – Volume I: Heroes of the Siege, by Tony Johnson, 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 16 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through January 1st.

Category: Fantasy

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

The Story of Evil – Volume I follows Stephen Brightflame, Tyrus Canard, and Kari Quinn during an entertaining jousting tournament when everything turns to chaos. Steve, Ty, and Kari’s city is unexpectedly attacked by a ruthless enemy known only as the Hooded Phantom and his massive army of monsters. The three young adults try to survive as their family and friends are carelessly slaughtered and the city they call home is destroyed.

Steve, Ty, and Kari each decide to stand up and fight back against the insurmountable army of evil, despite knowing their slim chances of survival. Through their bravery and courage they become the inspiration and hope of a fallen city. They become Heroes of the Siege.

Heroes of the Siege is the first volume in an exciting new series called The Story of Evil. For fans of classic fantasy, this book features intense battles, surprising twists, and shocking revelations as heroes battle villains in an epic tale of good vs. evil.

Ages 12 and up.
No Profanity.

Click here to pick up your copy of The Story of Evil – Volume I: Heroes of the Siege.

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Trust No One, by Diana Layne, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 177 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this is the last day for this book to be offered for free.

Category: Suspense / Thriller

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

When reality is a web of lies and the truth endangers all you hold dear . . .Trust No One.

Drafted into the nebulous underworld of a secret agent right out of college, MJ Thornberg survived betrayal and attempted murder at the hands of her trusted partner. Instead of returning to the deadly realm of espionage, she chose to retire to a small Texas town and work as a mechanic while raising her soon-to-be-adopted baby daughter.

Ben Walker is a man with his own secrets. An agent with MJ’s former employer, Vista Security, Ben is clawing his way out of a downward spiral from a job gone wrong when Vista sends him after MJ, with orders to use the threat of halting her baby’s adoption to ensure her cooperation.

Furious and trusting no one, MJ intends on working the job solo until a sniper’s bullet alters her plans. With no choice but to work with Ben, MJ must confront ghosts from her past, discover truths of her present, and trust that the future she deserves is in her hands to create.

Click here to pick up your copy of Trust No One.

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A Fairy's Guide to Disaster

December 29, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is A Fairy’s Guide to Disaster, by A.W. Hartoin, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars based on 35 customer reviews.

Category: Children & Middle Grade

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

Tiny fairies. Huge adventure.

Matilda Whipplethorn is about to get what she’s always wanted, and it’s a bad thing. Being a babysitter isn’t much of a dream for the average thirteen-year-old, but Matilda is anything but average. She’s half a centimeter tall, invisible to the human eye, and hearing-impaired. Her mother won’t let her forget any of that. So for Matilda, adventures are in short supply. Finally agreeing to let Matilda take some responsibility, her mother gives her a list of emergency procedures for babysitting. The only problem; humans aren’t on the list.

Minutes into her first job, humans appear in isolated Whipplethorn Manor. They tear her home, the fireplace mantel, right off the wall of Whipplethorn and Matilda’s afternoon babysitting job goes long term.

When the mantel ends up on display in an antique mall, the security that Matilda always took for granted is gone. She can lock the doors, but that doesn’t keep the kids in or spriggans and the fly-eating phalanx fairies out. Matilda’s up for an adventure, if only she could hear it coming.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/yaq5fs into your web browser to pick up your copy of A Fairy’s Guide to Disaster.

About the Author:

A.W. Hartoin is the author of the Mercy Watts mystery series and the Away From Whipplethorn fantasy series. She traveled the world with her military husband and now lives in Colorado with her husband, two children, and six bad chickens.

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

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Kindle Reading Apps

December 29, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Several people have asked me if they can read the free books on a Kindle app for their iPhone, iPad, and other iYounameit devices. The answer is “yes, you can.”

Amazon has developed free Kindle reading apps for the iPhone, iPad, iPod, Windows PC, Mac, BlackBerry, iPad, Android, and Windows Phone devices. To check them out or to learn more – as well as to download the various reading apps for free just click here or type in http://smarturl.it/readingapps into your web browser.

Hope that helps!

Michael

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