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Triton

August 31, 2014 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is Triton, by Dan Rix, 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 55 customer reviews.

Genre: Young Adult

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

In the middle of the Atlantic, four hundred miles west of Bermuda, the eight thousand passengers and crew aboard the cruise ship MS Cypress vanish into thin air. Everyone—men, women, and children—all gone. Taken.

Everyone except five teenagers.

In an instant, their seven day cruise becomes a nightmare: eighteen decks of haunted hallways, pools and bars completely empty, desserts still half-eaten in the abandoned Royal Promenade. A ghost ship the size of a city, sailing blind. At least their annoying parents are gone.

But now strange things are happening. Satellites are dropping out of orbit, falling from the sky. Satellites…and bigger things. They’re not as alone as they think. A message appears in an ancient language, burned into the carpet in the deck ten elevator lobby. It’s a warning. A monster lurks onboard, hunting them. What they’ve long suspected appears certain: the vanishing…it was an attack.

Now the most unlikely of friends must confront the shadowy pasts that link them and regain control of a runaway cruise ship, crack a four-thousand-year-old mystery, and wage war on a formless evil…before they too vanish into oblivion.

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

About the Author:

Dan Rix lives in Santa Barbara, California with his fiancée, paranormal romance author Laura Thalassa. He started writing his first novel in college while procrastinating his architecture studio work.

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

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Free Amazon Gift Card

August 31, 2014 by Michael Gallagher 6 Comments

The following is a revision of a post I last posted about in October 2013. The number of people reading this blog has grown since then (and I hope some of that is attributable to folks thinking there is some value to the blog), and I thought it appropriate to repeat it: I was reminded of this post as I’ve got another big jar of coins I gathered at home while doing some much-needed cleaning of the closets! If you are reading this post on the blog’s website or Facebook page, I would appreciate a “Like” or “Share” so your friends and family can be notified of this tip, also!

Kindles and other eBook readers have some costs to them: by the time you purchase the Kindle and other related accessories (cover to protect it, maybe an extra charger, etc.) can certainly add up. However, you’ve made your initial investment in the Kindle hardware, and there is enough free content out there for you to read the rest of your life without buying another book. Forever.

Forever is a long time.

While I do read a lot of the free books I talk about here in the blog I still enjoy certain authors and will purchase a lot of books. Some of them are inexpensive offerings from independent authors and some are from your mainstream “big name” authors, and I don’t care what the price is – I’ve gottagetitnow. Well, I do care what the price is but I may just wait until it gets below $10 unless it’s a new one by Harlan Coben. I’m sure there are offerings by favorite authors you want to buy, too.

So, what’s my point with this post? Great question because, as in real life, I am getting long-winded.

You have a source of “free” money you can spend in the Amazon store and you probably don’t realize it as it is right under your nose. I’m talking about your loose change.

Most of you have seen the change conversion machines in grocery and other stores, and a lot of you have used them: you take in your coffee can of loose change, dump it in the hopper, the machine counts it and then spits out a receipt you take to the cash register to redeem for paper currency or a credit in the store. The one main drawback to these machines, to me, is a lot of them take an 8% or more commission / cut of whatever you brought in as their profit. For example, at an 8% commission rate you would need to bring in $10.87 worth of change to receive a $10 bill. Some people will say “so what” and accept that as a cost of doing business vs. rolling the money yourself and either turning it in to a bank (if they accept the change these days – my local branch of Bank of America does not) or taking it to a convenience store who needs it and having everyone behind you steam as you and the convenience store clerk count out a bagful of pennies.

If you were following along and did the math to see what the effective annual interest rate is on my $10.87 example above, great. If you didn’t, I’ve performed the calculation for you: assuming the vendor collects the change from the machine every three days and takes it to their bank, that 8% rate for a three day holding period converts to a whopping 266.7% annual interest rate. The grocery store usually splits the fee earned 50-50 with the owner of the equipment, but even if the grocery store is providing a three day loan to the equipment maker until they are reimbursed, that is one heck of a money maker (why didn’t I think of that?)!

I’m sure some of you are still wondering what my point is with this post. I’ll get to it, I just had to set the stage.

Coinstar is one of the largest providers in the USA of this equipment to stores; they are also the parent company behind the Redbox DVD rental machines you seem to see everywhere. They have partnered with Amazon to not charge you a fee for the change you bring in if you bring in a minimum of $5.00 worth of change, but they will give you a gift card eligible for 100% of the change you bring in to be used at the Amazon website; I am assuming Amazon is paying the 8% commission fee as a customer acquisition cost.

That’s actually a huge benefit for you and me as we feed our Kindle book addiction or shopping habits on Amazon.

Using my earlier example, if you brought in $10.87 worth of change and selected the Amazon gift card option, you would get a $10.87 Amazon gift card as your receipt. You would then enter the gift card details on your Amazon account on your computer (or Kindle, if the wireless feature is on with the browser pointed to the Amazon website). You can then use those funds now applied to your account and buy not only Kindle books but anything else on the Amazon website.

You also don’t have to roll the coins yourself or, if your house is like mine, have a couple of containers here and there full of spare change. You’re also not giving up any of your money as a commission just for someone to accept your spare change. I hope that’s change you can believe in (pun intended).

Coinstar has partnered with other companies in addition to Amazon to offer gift cards with no fee to you – you turn in $10.87 worth of coins, you get a $10.87 gift card to the Amazon store or to the other store(s) participating in the program. While Coinstar is one of the largest providers of this equipment to stores in the USA, they are not the only one so don’t assume your local grocery store is a Coinstar machine.

To find a Coinstar machine, you can point your web browser to http://www.coinstar.com and do two things from this page: (1) enter your zip code in the top right-hand corner to find a Coinstar machine near you, and (2) see a list of companies that have signed up for the gift card promotion by clicking “details” under the name of the store / retail location. When I just did the same for a location near me, in addition to an Amazon gift card my selections were to Sears, JC Penney, Lowes, iTunes, Starbucks, Southwest Airlines, The Home Depot and a few others. You can also donate the change to seven different charities vs. taking a gift card, and the charity will receive 100% of the proceeds.

My old quart-sized Mason Jar I use to hold my change is almost full of silver coins, so it’s off to the Coinstar machine!

Hope that helps!

Michael

More Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

August 31, 2014 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Here’s your next group of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Sunday: for those books listed as being free or discounted in this post – while the pricing of the free and discounted 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 its normal status at any time!

A Thread in the Tangle, by Sabrina Flynn, 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 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 57 customer reviews.

Category: Epic Fantasy

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

In a shattered realm where gods breathe and battle, sixteen-year-old Isiilde must find her feet among people who both despise and crave her kind. She trembles on a precipice, caught between the lust of men, the greed of kings, and an eternal struggle for dominance. As three powerful kingdoms vie to own her, the fire in her blood awakens, sparking a cataclysm of events that spiral into disaster. A barbarian, a madman, and a timid nymph are all who stand between light and oblivion.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/jaqfqf into your web browser to pick up your copy of A Thread in the Tangle.

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Cracks in the Sidewalk, by Bette Lee Crosby, 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 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 243 customer reviews.

Category: Women’s Fiction

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

From the Bestselling Author of Spare Change, comes a powerful story that is a heart-wrenching reminder of how fragile relationships can be. Cracks in the Sidewalk is based on a true story and brought to light through extensive interviews with the Grandparents..

Claire McDermott’s grandchildren are missing… After years of writing letters, hoping to find the children and bring them back, she receives a reply…a dog-eared gray envelope stuffed in her mailbox, but will it bring hope or simply put an end to the waiting?

If you enjoy reading Jodi Picault, you will love Cracks in the Sidewalk!

Winner of the Royal Palm Literary Award
Recipient of the FPA President’s Book Award Gold Medal

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/cracks into your web browser to pick up your copy of Cracks in the Sidewalk.

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Of Noble Birth, by Brenda Novak, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted to just $2.00 today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 121 customer reviews.

Category: Historical Romance

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

Furious at his aristocratic father for abandoning him as an infant, Nathaniel Kent spends his days exacting revenge…in a most lucrative way. The handsome, blue-eyed pirate captain attacks his father’s boats, plundering their cargo and reaping the rewards. When Nathaniel takes a lovely seamstress as his hostage, mistaking her for his spoiled and wealthy half sister, he feels elated over his clever capture. But his sense of triumph disappears as he slowly becomes tormented by his rising passion for the spirited young woman.
After years of abuse from her violent stepfather, seamstress Alexandra Cogsworth finally planned her escape. But she never intended to wind up as a hostage on a pirate ship. Determined to ensure her safe passage on the Royal Vengeance, she keeps her true identity secret, playing the part of Nathaniel’s blood relation. But as her desire for the charismatic yet dangerous Nathaniel grows, the rising current of their mutual longing could sweep them both away…forever.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/noblebirth into your web browser to pick up your copy of Of Noble Birth.

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Sara’s Game, by Ernie Lindsey, 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 538 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

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

Two years ago, Sara’s husband left for the gym one morning…and never came back. His car was found. He wasn’t. Unbelievably, the police report said, “No foul play suspected.” There were a few unreliable sightings over the following months, but little else.

Now, on the last day before summer break, her three children have gone missing from their schools, all at the same time.

And the note under her windshield wiper asks one foreboding question: Are you ready to play the game?

Click here to pick up your copy of Sara’s Game.

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Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

August 31, 2014 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Here’s your first group of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Sunday: for those books listed as being free or discounted in this post – while the pricing of the free and discounted 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 its normal status at any time!

Kicking Eternity, by Ann Lee Miller, 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 195 customer reviews.

Category: Religious Fiction

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

Stuck in sleepy New Smyrna Beach one last summer, Raine socks away her camp pay checks, worries about her druggy brother, and ignores trouble: Cal Koomer. She’s a plane ticket away from teaching orphans in Africa, and not even Cal’s surfer six-pack and the chinks she spies in his rebel armor will derail her.

The artist in Cal begs to paint Raine’s ivory skin, high cheek bones, and internal sparklers behind her eyes, but falling for her would caterwaul him into his parents’ life. No thanks. The girl was self-righteous waiting to happen. Mom served sanctimony like vegetables, three servings a day, and he had a gut full.

Rec Director Drew taunts her with “Rainey” and calls her an enabler. He is so infernally there like a horsefly—till he buzzes back to his ex.

Raine’s brother tweaks. Her dream of Africa dies small deaths. Will she figure out what to fight for and what to free before it’s too late?

For anyone who’s ever wrestled with her dreams.

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

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Omega Dog, by Tim Stevens, 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 4.3 out of 5 stars based on 116 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

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

MEET JOE VENN. THE OMEGA DOG.

Joe Venn is down on his luck. A Marine and police detective lieutenant, he was kicked off the Chicago force for getting a little heavy-handed while cleaning up the streets. Now he’s eking out a living as a private eye in downtown Manhattan, on a road to nowhere.

His life’s about to get a whole lot worse…

When Venn is arrested for a murder he didn’t commit, he’s given a choice.
Track down a missing professor of neurochemistry, in an operation that’s so politically sensitive even the FBI can’t be allowed to touch it.
Or face life in prison.

Dr Beth Colby is having a bad day, too.

She’s used to dealing with death, in her job as a physician at one of New York City’s busiest hospitals. But two people she knows have just died mysteriously in the space of twenty-four hours.
And before the day’s out, Beth herself will become the target of a shocking attack.

Events conspire violently to throw Venn and Beth together, and soon they’re locked into a desperate race against time to uncover the secret of Professor Lomax’s disappearance.

What’s the connection with the research he’s conducting into groundbreaking neuromodulatory drugs?

And why are Venn and Beth being hunted by not one but two professional assassins – as well as by the most powerful organized crime family in New York?

As the chase spreads from Manhattan to New England and back again, and the net closes relentlessly in on Venn and Beth, each of them must use their unique set of skills to the maximum.
Not just to uncover the terrible secret so many people are desperate to keep hidden.
But also simply to stay alive…

Relentless in its action, terrifying in its suspense, and riddled with twist upon shocking twist, OMEGA DOG is a heartstopping rollercoaster ride that will thrill and chill you in equal measure.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/1v0eid into your web browser to pick up your copy of Omega Dog.

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Kidnapped Cowboy, by Lindsey Brookes, is just $2.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 224 customer reviews.

Category: Romance

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

After countless attempts to speak with the owner of the retreat for troubled teens she runs on the outskirts of Lone Tree, Montana, Caitlin Myers resorts to kidnapping Brandon ‘The Ogre of Lone Tree’ Barnes in a desperate attempt to change his mind about turning Stoney Brook into a vacation resort for the wealthy.

Retired rodeo star, Dalton Barnes, gets the surprise of his life when he’s abducted by a soft-spoken female with a ‘gun’ and taken to the retreat his family owns. He soon learns she’s kidnapped the wrong cowboy by mistake. She wanted his brother. Things go from bad to worse when a late spring snowstorm strands them together at the cabin. But it’s during their snow-in that Dalton learns why Caitlin has gone to such lengths to save Stoney Brook. Having had issues with his older brother himself and a not so happy past, Dalton promises to do what he can to help her.

When confronted Brandon tells Dalton he’ll hold off on his plans for the retreat, but only if Dalton agrees to stick around and help run it. Keeping his promise to Caitlin, Dalton agrees and what starts out as a common goal to turn the troubled teens’ lives around that summer ends up turning theirs around as well. Can a man who has always avoided putting down roots and a woman with a deep-seated fear of abandonment hang on to the happiness they’ve found together? Or will the past return to threaten their newfound love?

Love, laughter and a heartwarming read…

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/vyxx3g into your web browser to pick up your copy of Kidnapped Cowboy.

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Survival 101: The Essential Guide to Saving Your Own Life in a Disaster, by Marcus Duke, 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 43 customer reviews.

Category: Non-Fiction / Advice & How-To

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

“Survival 101: The Essential Guide to Saving Your Own Life in a Disaster” is a must-have introductory guide that acquaints the reader with essential survival techniques and tactics.

Knowing what to do in the event of an emergency will keep you and everyone else calm. Panic is dangerous and counterproductive. You must be organized, take an appropriate leadership role, and make sure everyone has duties assigned to them.

This book won’t turn you into an overnight soldier of fortune, but you’ll definitely find some extremely useful tidbits on starting a fire, surviving on limited water rations, building a basic stockpile of supplies, dealing with medical issues in a crisis situation and much more!

Click here to pick up your copy of Survival 101: The Essential Guide to Saving Your Own Life in a Disaster.

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A Pair of Docks, by Jennifer Ellis, 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 14 customer reviews.

Category: Middle-Grade Fantasy

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

What if you could see your future?

Fourteen-year-old Abbey Sinclair likes to spend her afternoons in the physics lab learning about momentum and gravitational pull. But her practical scientific mind is put to the test when her older brother, Simon, discovers a mysterious path of stones that allows them, along with Abbey’s twin, Caleb, to travel back and forth between their world and what appears to be…the future.

Unfortunately, they’re not the only ones who know about the stones, and they soon realize their lives are in danger from a man known only as Mantis. Abbey, Caleb, and Simon must follow a twisting trail of clues that will lead them from their neighbor with Asperger’s to a strange professor who claims to know the rules of the stones, and to multiple futures—some of whose inhabitants don’t want to stay put.

It will take all of Abbey’s analytical skills to unravel the secrets of the stones, uncover the threads that tie the futures together, thwart Mantis’s plan, and, most importantly, keep her family alive—now and in the future.

A Pair of Docks is an action-adventure for kids and adults that explores Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, parallel universes, time travel and the boundary between science and magic. It is the first novel in the Derivatives of Displacement series. Lovers of fantasy and science fiction will find plenty to like in A Pair of Docks.

Click here to pick up your copy of A Pair of Docks.

The Lullaby Illusion

August 30, 2014 by Michael Gallagher 2 Comments

Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is The Lullaby Illusion: A Journey of Awakening, by Susan Joyce, 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 5 out of 5 stars based on 35 customer reviews.

Genre: Memoirs and Biographies

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

The Lullaby Illusion details the harrowing personal journey of a young American woman facing seemingly insurmountable situations while living in the Middle East and Europe.

After many miscarriages and the loss of a child in childbirth on the island of Cyprus, Susan seeks solace by creating art and recording her vivid dreams. Through difficult life changes—Cyprus’s bloody coup and war in 1974, a rescue from a sinking ship in the Indian Ocean, learning of her husband’s secret life, and surviving his deadly assault in Belgium, she discovers her “ticking clock” is not the child she fails to produce, but rather her creative potential. Following her vivid dreams and intuition, she successfully reinvents herself as an artist and writer. From beginning to end, Susan Joyce reminds us of the stream of awareness that flows through all of us.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/83014 into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Lullaby Illusion: A Journey of Awakening.

About the Author:

Born in Los Angeles California, Susan Joyce spent most of her childhood in Tucson, Arizona and returned to LA as a young working woman. Inspired as a child by postcards from her globe-trotting great aunt, Susan left the United States at age 20 to see the world.

She planned on being gone for a year, but ended up living her 20s and 30s in Europe and the Middle East. As a Jill of all trades, she worked as a secretary, freelance writer, taught computer classes, wrote songs, and became an accomplished artist while writing her first children’s book, “Peel, the Extraordinary Elephant.” An award winning author and editor of children’s books. Susan has just completed a memoir of a twelve year ‘roller-coaster’ period of her life, titled “The Lullaby Illusion–A Journey of Awakening.”

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

More Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

August 30, 2014 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Here’s your next group of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Saturday: for those books listed as being free or discounted in this post – while the pricing of the free and discounted 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 its normal status at any time!

Spilt Milk: A Collection of Stories, by D.K. Cassidy, 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 5 out of 5 stars based on 33 customer reviews.

Category: Literary Fiction

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

Within these pages you will meet an array of characters. Choices are made that will change lives. Are they right or wrong? You decide. Each brief story deliberately distills a life’s essence. Mika Sugano’s original illustrations compliment D. K. Cassidy’s flashes of fiction, heightening these refreshing ideas and themes on the page.

Welcome to urban Gothic stories that are droll, horrific, and thought provoking.

• George, a child who collects things
• Cinderella’s stepmother in therapy
• A paraplegic finds her true life
• Caleb, unwanted, neglected, now grown
• Jared, baptized in a coffee world
• A mother lost in her torn past
• And six others

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/spiltmilk into your web browser to pick up your copy of Spilt Milk: A Collection of Stories.

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A Hardboiled Murder: An Aggie Underhill Mystery, by Michelle Ann Hollstein, 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 out of 5 stars based on 152 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery

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

A Hardboiled Murder is book #4 in An Aggie Underhill Mystery series

The body of a film star crashes upon the roof of a moving tramcar, a mystery author is discovered hardboiled and bobbing in a hot tub, a home is ransacked, and two grandmothers are battling.

With bleached blonde hair, an English accent, a brand spanking new red-hot turbo machine, and an oversized pocketbook to match every outfit, Aggie’s sure to stick her nose into everyone’s business. But is Aggie over her head when the clues she unearths hit a little too close to home? Join Aggie in another fun-filled Palm Springs mystery. Who knew the desert could be so much fun?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/js7qey into your web browser to pick up your copy of A Hardboiled Murder, An Aggie Underhill Mystery.

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The Sum of His Worth, by Ron Argo, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted to just $1.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars based on 20 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery

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

This Southern gothic novel takes us into the heart of the tumultuous 1960s in an Alabama town embedded in the old South tradition where Jim Crow is the law of the land. Here, the KKK is judge, jury and executioner.

Sonny Poe is a defiant, white sixteen-year-old who’s generally heedless to the suppressive dominance of blacks—until he witnesses a Klan lynching in the midnight woods. Then everything in his life changes.

Sonny takes up with a progressive doctor who’s determined to help local blacks fight against the savage oppression that’s haunted their town for generations. The headstrong teenager commits himself to “Doctor Joe” and his cause even as both of them suffer betrayals, beatings, arrest and finally exile in a story that can only end in tragedy.

This edgy thriller pulsates with violence, love, betrayal and humor on a narrative rushing us through the forebodingness of one of America’s most pressing historical moments toward its shocking climax.

The Civil Rights Movement forms the backbone of The Sum of His Worth, but its strength comes from the voice of its young narrator and its strongest theme lies in the caveats of moral reckoning in a “free” society.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/rivmj0 into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Sum of His Worth.

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A Sealed Fate, by Lisa Gordon, is regularly $4.66 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 22 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

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

A chain of tragic deaths across Dubai spanning two decades, only Valda knows they were not accidents, but murders. Her name is next on that list. Spunky singer Valda ditches her old life in Cape Town for a new start in glittering Dubai. Armed with just her cigarettes and some attitude she sets about reigniting her career and putting to bed the heartache over her former boyfriend Richard.

Valda does indeed find success and to her astonishment love, but all is threatened when she is introduced to a billionaire Sheikh. Her clandestine liaison with the Sheikh, propels her into a murky web of deceit and when newspaper clippings of seemingly accidental deaths across Dubai are posted anonymously to her it is clear she is rushing headlong into the same fate. No one dare cross the Sheikh and she can hardly hardly turn to the law, so with few options open she confides in Larissa. As an astrologer, Larissa predicts that Valda and the Sheikh’s destinies were sealed from the moment of their first meeting; however she keeps the dire fate that she reads in the charts a secret. Lara resolves to help Valda flee Dubai and the ever tightening grip of the Sheikh; but should Valda be putting all her faith in her new friend and guru of the grimoires.

Together, Valda and Larissa take a gamble in a game of cosmic Russian Roulette where the stakes are their lives and their adversary, Fate itself.

A thoroughly modern cocktail of intrigue, passion and suspense set against the exotic locales of Cape Town and Dubai with an eclectic mix of characters, a perfect beverage if you like a tangy lemon peel in your drink as this one has a twist at the end too, but you’ll have to read it to discover it.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/asealedfate into your web browser to pick up your copy of A Sealed Fate.

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The Lost Heir, by E.G. Foley, 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 80 customer reviews.

Category: Children’s Fantasy / Action & Adventure

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

NY Times & USA Today bestselling author E.G. Foley presents The Gryphon Chronicles, a new series of historical fantasy adventures that’s as much fun for grownups as it is for kids!

Strange new talents…

Jake is a scrappy orphaned pickpocket living by his wits on the streets of Victorian London. Lately he’s started seeing ghosts, and discovers he can move solid objects with his mind! He has no idea why. Next thing he knows, a Sinister Gentleman and his minions come hunting him. On the run for his life, Jake is plunged headlong into a mysterious world full of magic and deadly peril. A world that holds the secret to who he really is: the long-lost heir of an aristocratic family — with magical powers!

But with treacherous enemies closing in, it will take all of his wily street instincts and the help of his friends — both human and magical — to solve the mystery of what happened to his parents, and defeat the foes who never wanted the Lost Heir of Griffon to be found…

Click here to pick up your copy of The Lost Heir.

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Fresh Doubt, by Eva Hudson, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based 120 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery & Thrillers

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

A story of lies, secrets and deadly mind games

Brilliant American psychology student Madison Faber is in police custody – a potential murder suspect. Two hours ago she found her roommate lying in a pool of blood.

Special Agent Ingrid Skyberg is assigned to investigate the case on behalf of the US embassy. Tasked with supporting a terrified Madison Faber and uncovering the truth behind her friend’s death, Ingrid quickly discovers a sinister extremist group operating out of Faber’s London college.

Up against the obstructive attitude of the Metropolitan Police and defying the wishes of the embassy, Ingrid must navigate through a minefield of fear and mistrust to discover the killer’s true identity. But in order to ensure justice is served, she is forced to operate so far beyond the law that she may never get back again.

Click here to pick up your copy of Fresh Doubt.

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Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

August 30, 2014 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Here’s your first group of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres as we start the long Labor Day weekend: for those books listed as being free or discounted in this post – while the pricing of the free and discounted 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 its normal status at any time!

Sourdough Wars, by Julie Smith, 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 222 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery

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

The SECOND book in Edgar-winning author Julie Smith’s Rebecca Schwartz series.

A tasty treat of a San Francisco mystery—a crisp, tangy story you’re sure to get a rise out of.

To you, it’s just a frozen lump of dough; but to some, it’s life and death…

Especially to handsome Peter Martinelli, who wants to auction off the fabled sourdough starter from his family’s famous bakery. But who’d buy a frozen hunk of flour and water? Only, it turns out, every bakery in San Francisco, a national food conglomerate, and an upstart ringer with a mysterious backer.

Someone would even kill for it. And does.

Enter lawyer sleuth Rebecca Schwartz, whose client is her own partner, glamorous Chris Nicholson, Martinelli’s main squeeze before the ill-starred auction.

Rebecca noshes her way through the case in hilariously unorthodox style, tasting some great bread along the way, but also uncovering so many ancient jealousies, long-simmering feuds, and seething resentments that she barely escapes death by doughball.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/o8e6kk into your web browser to pick up your copy of Sourdough Wars.

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How To Find A Job: When There Are No Jobs: A Necessary Job Search and Career Planning Guide for Today’s Job Market, by Paul Rega, is regularly $6.99 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 100 customer reviews.

Category: Advice & How-To

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

#1 Bestseller in Job Hunting, Careers and Resumes, Top 20 Bestseller in Business & Investing

DOWNLOAD THIS BESTSELLING CAREER BOOK by Paul Rega, nationally recognized Executive Recruiter, with over thirty years of job hunting and career planning experience. The book rocketed to #1 in Job Hunting, Careers, and Resumes and was ranked in the Top 10 overall on Amazon at #9. This is a must read for anyone who is looking for a new job or wants to change careers in the worst economy since the Great Depression.

Paul Rega is president of a retained executive search firm he founded in 1985. His provocative new book strikes a nerve with millions of displaced workers and goes well beyond the principles of job hunting. He introduces a revolutionary new concept in career management and personal development called Intuitive Personal Assessment (IPA). Paul takes his readers on a powerful journey as he tells a gripping story about his own career and the unique challenges he’s faced as an executive recruiter.

The author shares his vast knowledge of career planning and the inner workings of the job search process, citing hundreds of proven and effective job search techniques. He explains how to market your background to a targeted audience, interviewing skills and techniques, network building strategies, how to utilize personal and business contacts, effective use of social media, including LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, insider tips on working with recruiters, salary and benefits negotiation, how to write a resume, cover and follow-up letters, how to start and succeed in your own business and much more.

Despite the many challenges faced by those suffering as a result of the weak job market, Paul believes that change in one’s life can be positive. He explains that, “Change throughout your life is inevitable, and as your life changes so often does your career.” His book is an effective guide that will provide you with the necessary tools, skills and inside knowledge from a professional recruiter to help you navigate through difficult economic times and find a new job or change careers.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/findajob into your web browser to pick up your copy of How To Find A Job: When There Are No Jobs: A Necessary Job Search and Career Planning Guide for Today’s Job Market.

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The Courage to Kill, by Ron Argo, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted to just $1.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store. This book has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 18 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery

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

NOW COMES VENGEANCE FOR A CHILDHOOD OF UNSPEAKABLE EVIL!

A killer on the loose. A father murdered. A girl molested …

The young UC graduate went to her father’s beachside condo the night he was murdered, but she doesn’t remember shooting him. Janice Parrish had plenty reason to hate her father after recalling the excruiating memories of sexual abuse as a child some 20 years ago. But even as she’s booked on murder charges, she knows there was someone else at his house that night. So begins Janice’s dark journey through a tortuous psychological wasteland of false memory and real murder.

San Diego crime reporter Ray “Magic” Myers digs up evidence that turns the story into a media event even as he steps out of his role of unbiased coverage and tries to help Janice. In doing so, both he and Janice become targets of a psychopath on a grisly pursuit of revenge.

In a race against time to save Janice as well as his family, Myers must stop the stalking psychopath whose murder spree has only begun.

A psychological mystery, The Courage to Kill is a superb portrayal of the fallacies of the malleability in the treatment for repressed memory, a controversial subject whose impact has most fixated the mental health profession since Freud.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/bz581g into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Courage to Kill.

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Post-Human Series Books 1-4, by David Simpson, 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 514 customer reviews.

Category: Science Fiction

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

David Simpson’s Post-Human Series has been downloaded over 350,000 times in the last two years, delighting readers with an action-packed series filled to the brim with nanobots, A.I., androids, post-humans, evil cyborgs, and a cast of likeable characters that you won’t be able to resist. All that and it’s thought-provoking and philosophical too! Ready to get hooked? Then download the series here and experience it for yourself!

Click here to pick up your copy of Post-Human Series Books 1-4.

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The Devil’s Dream: Book One, by David Beers, 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 32 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

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

Matthew Brand’s intellect pushed the world into new eras of knowledge. He spent the first thirty years of his life stretching humanity’s capacity for understanding and learning. By all accounts, his future looked even brighter than his past.

And then, police officers mistook his son for a criminal, gunning him down in the middle of the street. When the court let all four officers off without punishment, Brand changed his life’s work.

He forgot about bettering the Earth, instead deciding to use his talents to bring his son back from the dead. Eventually, his mind conquered even death’s mysteries–now, Brand needs living bodies to resurrect his son. So why not the bodies of the cops that murdered him?

In the most chilling FBI manhunt ever, they must catch a killer who can calculate all the odds and stack them in his favor.

Click here to pick up your copy of The Devil’s Dream, Book One.

New Releases on Kindle

August 30, 2014 by Michael Gallagher 1 Comment

Included in this post are several relatively new Kindle book releases by independent authors in a variety of genres. Many of these authors have been featured on the blog before and can tell a good tale that will entertain you for hours. Each of the books have been significantly discounted in connection with this promotion, and I’m certain you will find something to enjoy in the offerings below.

The Goddard Affair, by Scott Marlowe, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store.

Category: Fantasy

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

The Assassin Without a Name is on the hunt, looking for the secret organizations which recently tried to kill him before they can try again. But the work of his trade doesn’t stop just because of personal business, so when a new client named Walter Goddard comes around wishing to have a rival eliminated, the Assassin Without a Name takes the job.

Only after the task is complete does he learn that Walter Goddard is a member of the Society for the Progression of Science and Technology, one of the very same organizations he’s been seeking. At one of the society’s premiere technology galas, the Assassin Without a Name meets Gwendolyn Morgan, a beautiful widow who has run into problems of her own with the society. Not only does she believe the organization hired an assassin to murder her husband, but she’s certain she’s next. Convincing himself he’s only helping Gwendolyn in exchange for the society’s darkest secrets and not because of his part in making the woman into a widow, the Assassin Without a Name finds himself in the unusual role of protector as the society dispatches their Black Guard watchdogs to kill them both.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/oakbc6 into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Goddard Affair.

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A Quick Trip To Buymart, by Dan Alatorre, is regularly $4.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store.

Category: Humor

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

Bestselling author and humorist Dan Alatorre takes us on a trip that will have any parent laughing out loud! Dan shows us the hilarious side of the challenges of parenting, as the father of a young girl is suddenly tasked with getting her a leotard before her first gymnastics class.

What happens next is an endearing journey of comedy that we’ve all been through: the challenge of shopping quickly combined with the fun and magic of childhood.

Moms and dads alike will laugh along with the characters in this epic journey because There’s no Such Thing As A Quick Trip To BuyMart!

You will smile and laugh – and maybe cry – at the joys of childhood and the fun of seeing the world through a child’s eyes.

Buy this book and fall in love with you own kids all over again!

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/jlvxhf into your web browser to pick up your copy of A Quick Trip To Buymart.

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A Safe Space, by E.M. Tippetts, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store.

Category: Young Adult

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

Everyone needs a safe space.

For Lizzie Warner, that space has always been in front of the camera on her hit show, or on stage before a sold out concert arena. Since before she can remember, she’s been a star, but that may be about to change.

She’s nineteen. Her show has been cancelled and now she’s going to play the lead in a new prime time drama series, but is the world ready to take her seriously, or will she be typecast as the cute tween queen forever?

Her network has decided to be aggressive and has invested millions of dollars in an ad campaign for her show, money she’s not sure she can earn back. Her co-star can’t stand her, and the writing for the show turns out to be poor at best. The only reason Lizzie didn’t walk away from the job offer to begin with is because she’s broke, the victim of a decade of bad money management.

Then there’s Devon, the personal trainer at her gym. Arrogant and abrasive, he’s the last guy she should ever find attractive, but she has a hopeless crush on him anyway, and he doesn’t seem entirely disinterested either. In fact, sometimes he’s downright sweet to her. If only he weren’t an untamable bad boy who uses and dumps women like they’re nothing. Though Lizzie’s friends warn her to stay away, he’s the only person who can create what she needs: a safe space. But is there any way she can break him of his years’ long habit of being a user?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/asafespace into your web browser to pick up your copy of A Safe Space.

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A Madras Miasma, by Brian Stoddart, is regularly $6.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store.

Category: Suspense

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

Madras in the 1920s. The British are slowly losing the grip on the subcontinent. The end of the colonial enterprise is in sight and the city on India’s east coast is teeming with intrigue. A grisly murder takes place against the backdrop of political tension and Superintendent Le Fanu, a man of impeccable investigative methods, is called in to find out who killed a respectable young British girl and dumped her in a canal, her veins clogged with morphine.

As Le Fanu, a man forced to keep his own personal relationship a secret for fear of scandal in the face British moral standards, begins to investigate, he quickly slips into a quagmire of Raj politics, rebellion and nefarious criminal activities that threaten not just to bury his case but the fearless detective himself.

The first Detective Le Fanu Adventure, A Madras Miasma, tells a classic tale of murder, corruption and intrigue with a sharp eye on British colonial politics and race relations. It is a story that, like its main protagonist, has its heart firmly in the right place.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/p66vx9 into your web browser to pick up your copy of A Madras Miasma.

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Heirs of Alexandria, by Thomas K. Carpenter, is regularly $4.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store.

Category: Historical Fiction

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

For 300 years it was believed Alexander the Great had no heir.

The Roman armada descends on Alexandria. Friends flee, allies bicker, and foes multiply in the night. The fragile city-state teeters on the brink of annihilation. As the naval blockade looms and palace intrigue thickens, Heron must find the heir of Alexander the Great or nothing will stop the Romans from overrunning the wondrous city.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/j603qa into your web browser to pick up your copy of Heirs of Alexandria.

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Living Apart Together, by Anne L. Watson, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store.

Category: Advice & How-To

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

You hear many reasons why marriages and long-term relationships break up, but there’s one that’s seldom acknowledged: Many committed couples would get along better if only they weren’t roommates.

But what can they do? They have to share a home, don’t they?

What if they chose to defy expectations — their own and everyone else’s? What if they decided to live in separate apartments or houses, nearby or even side-by-side? Wouldn’t they avoid many tensions that typically drag couples down? Wouldn’t they gain richer and happier times together?

Anne L. Watson and her partner have lived this kind of life successfully for nearly two decades. In this groundbreaking book, she draws on personal experience to reveal the benefits of such an arrangement and tell how you might make it work for yourself. In the end, Anne helps you understand that not all couples need a common residence to live happily ever after.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/haq97k into your web browser to pick up your copy of Living Apart Together.

The Orange Moon Affair

August 29, 2014 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is The Orange Moon Affair, by AFN Clarke, 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 4.6 out of 5 stars based on 52 customer reviews.

Genre: Thriller

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

Thomas Gunn (former Special Forces) and his partner Julie are running for their lives. Who are they running from? And why? It all starts when Thomas decides to investigate the mysterious murder of his wealthy industrialist father. Billions have been funneled into a secret project that his father’s company has lost control of. A project he desperately needs access to. But when he’s stonewalled by U.K. officials and nearly killed in the U.S., he goes on the attack. Joining forces with MI5, he races across 3 continents, using his old skills in covert operations to uncover the connection between the project in Northern Ireland, a microelectronics company in the U.S and a heavily fortified submarine base in Estonia. The answer is maddeningly close – he just has to find it!

With Julie’s help and that of her computer expert father, the pieces start to fall into place until they expose an international conspiracy that threatens the stability of the western world. The action explodes, throwing Thomas and Julie into the path of an unknown enemy with more power and influence than they could ever imagine. An enemy out to destroy them!

But who are these ruthless conspirators that wield such unimaginable power? How are they connected to his father? And what dark secrets from the past will Thomas uncover, in his relentless quest for the truth? This “gripping”, “thought-provoking”, “hard to put down novel” by a “master storyteller” keeps you on the edge of your seat and guessing to the very last page!

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/vqh6s9 into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Orange Moon Affair.

About the Author:

AFN Clarke is the son of a British MI6 operative, former officer in Britain’s elite Parachute Regiment, pilot, yachtsman, screenwriter and father of four who’s lived in Hong Kong, India, Libya, Iran, Europe, the UK, USA, and Australia. He’s written seven books of fiction and a bestselling memoir, CONTACT, which was serialised in a British newspaper and made into an award-winning BBCTV film. His latest Thomas Gunn thriller series has captured the imagination of readers world-wide. As he says: “For me, good books are a great way to shut out every day life, suspend normal ways of thinking, and allow yourself to be transported to another world. It’s what I continually strive to deliver to my readers.”

Published Books: autobiographical memoir (CONTACT): the Thomas Gunn thriller series (THE ORANGE MOON AFFAIR and THE JONAS TRUST DECEPTION); political thrillers (AN UNQUIET AMERICAN); human drama (DRY TORTUGAS); humor/satire (DREAMS FROM THE DEATH AGE; ARMAGEDDON); psychological horror (COLLISIONS) with more coming soon. For more information visit www.afnclarke.com, leave your email for updates, and deep appreciation for taking the time to write a review of any books you have read. Happy reading 🙂

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

More Free & Discounted Kindle Book Offers

August 29, 2014 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Here’s your next group of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Friday: for those books listed as being free or discounted in this post – while the pricing of the free and discounted 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 its normal status at any time!

Rise to Power, by Uvi Poznansky, is regularly $5.99 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 49 customer reviews.

Category: History

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

Here is the story of David as you have never heard it before: from the king himself, telling the unofficial version, the one he never allowed his court scribes to recount. In his mind, history is written to praise the victorious—but at the last stretch of his illustrious life, he feels an irresistible urge to tell the truth. In the first volume, Rise to Power, David gives you a fascinating account of his early years, culminating with a tribal coronation. Rooted in ancient lore, his is a surprisingly modern memoir.

In an era of cruelty, when destroying the enemy is deemed a sacred directive, the slayer of Goliath finds a way to become larger than life. His search for a path to power leads him in ways that are, at times, scandalous. Notorious for his contradictions, David is seen by others as a gifted court entertainer, a successful captain in Saul’s army, a cunning fugitive, a traitor leading a gang of felons, and a ruthless raider of neighboring towns who leaves no witnesses behind.

How does he see himself, during this first phase of his life? With his hands stained with blood, can he find an inner balance between conflicting drives: his ambition for the crown, his determination to survive the conflict with Saul, and his longing for purity, for a touch of the divine, as expressed so lyrically in his psalms and music?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/13slf9 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Rise to Power.

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Not Just For Breakfast Anymore, by PV Lundqvist, 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 18 customer reviews.

Category: Children and Middle Grade

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

Benny wants a pet—a dog or a cat. You know, the kind of pet everyone else has. But other kids don’t have his mom. She likes to do things differently.

So Benny doesn’t know what to expect when he first opens the pet carrier. Certainly not that his neighbors will want to kick is family out of town—he just got here! And he was just about to make the baseball team, too.

Will he fight for his pet or back down?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/s5xyru into your web browser to pick up your copy of Not Just For Breakfast Anymore.

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Love and Other Subjects, by Kathleen Shoop, 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 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 92 customer reviews.

Category: Humor / Satire

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

**2013 Independent Publisher Book Award, Silver Medalist–Best Fiction–Mid-Atlantic Region**

**2013 San Francisco Book Festival–Finalist**

For every woman who wonders if she chose the right career…

In Love and Other Subjects Carolyn Jenkins strives for two things—to be the greatest teacher ever and to find true love. She’s as skilled at both as an infant trying to eat with a fork. Carolyn’s suburban upbringing and genuine compassion for people who don’t fit effortlessly into society are no match for weapon-wielding, struggling students, drug-using colleagues, and a wicked principal.

Meanwhile, her budding relationship with a mystery man is thwarted by his gaggle of eccentric sisters. Carolyn depends on her friends to get her through the hard times, but with poverty-stricken children at her feet and a wealthy man at her side, she must define who she is. The reality of life after college can be daunting, the road to full-fledged adulthood long and unscripted. Can Carolyn take control and craft the life she’s always wanted?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/0vz3eq into your web browser to pick up your copy of Love and Other Subjects.

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Critical Dawn, by Darren Wearmouth and Colin F. Barnes, is regularly $4.99 but has been discounted to just 99 cents today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars based on 183 customer reviews.

Category: Science Fiction

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

From the best-selling authors of First Activation and The Techxorcist Series.

Some mysteries should stay buried.
Archaeologists Pippa Quinn and Charlie Jackson find advanced technology in undisturbed 16th Century graves. A portent, the discovery precedes thousands of giant sinkholes opening up across the globe as extreme weather threatens the population. Charlie suspects the two are related.

A centuries old plan unfolds.
Pippa, Charlie, and the rest of humanity will have to fight for survival, sacrificing the life they’ve known to protect Earth from an ancient and previously dormant enemy. Even that might not be enough as this new enemy exacts a plan that will change the course of humankind forever.

Critical Dawn is an apocalyptic ride to the very edge of human existence. Factions will battle for control of the Earth—if they can avoid the threat of extinction.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/hmcb5m into your web browser to pick up your copy of Critical Dawn.

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First World – A Walker Saga, by Jaymin Eve, 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 58 customer reviews.

Category: Young Adult

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

A young adult paranormal romance series.
An epic journey.
If the Seventine are released, will anyone survive?

Abigail Swish might not love her life, living in gang-ridden New York in 2035 and training to fight and survive with Compound 23. But she is grateful for a few things, especially her no-filter-between-brain-and-mouth best friend Lucy and her escape each night into a dream world far different from her own.

In fact, sometimes she lives for the fleeting moments she spends at night with the man who fuels every romantic fantasy she’s ever had. But each morning reality returns. She could just cry. But she won’t. Tears don’t change a damn thing.

Then without any warning, a month before her eighteenth birthday, everything does change. A guardian finds her. He explains, in a strangely familiar accent, that she was stashed on Earth for safekeeping and has been lost to her family ever since. And it is time to return home. To First World; a land of unimagined beauty.

Abigail and Lucy find themselves thrust from New York and into another world. Day one: traversing through an unforgiving wilderness. Yeah, because that sort of thing just happens every day. Luckily an unexpected savior arrives; the man from her dream-world. Brace is six-and-a-half feet of gorgeous perfectness, wrapped in an arrogance like no other. Unable to trust his assistance, and unsure which of her instincts to follow – kiss him or punch him in the mouth – Abigail eventually accepts his help to find her family.

And what a family. Enter Josian, her father, larger than life and apparently not even human. He is Walker, a planet-less race revered as gods, causing mischief and mayhem through-out this star-system. Unfortunately, there is no time for a cozy reunion, since her return to First World is the unknown catalyst, setting forth a chain of events which could spell disaster for all worlds.

First World is book one in the Walker Saga, a seven-book paranormal fantasy series.

Click here to pick up your copy of First World – A Walker Saga.

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Dynamite Fishermen, by Preston Fleming, 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 29 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

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

Beirut, 1982. Conrad Prosser is a skilled Arabist, expert agent handler, prolific intelligence reporter, and a connoisseur of Beirut’s underground nightlife. But, as his two-year tour at the U.S. Embassy nears its end, Prosser’s intelligence career is in jeopardy because he has not recruited an agent while in Lebanon, a sine qua non requirement for promotion.

Surveying his many contacts, Prosser selects an attractive Lebanese doctoral student and her idealistic brother as candidates for development. At the same time, he holds clandestine meetings by day and night with his string of Lebanese and Palestinian agents, pressing them to discover who is behind the latest wave of car bombings that has terrorized Muslim West Beirut. But when one of his agents supplies information used to capture a Syrian-backed bombing team, Prosser sets off a cycle of retaliation that threatens more than his career and cherished way of life.

At first denying, then later concealing, apparent attempts on his life, Prosser sets out to save both his job and his skin, exploiting his agents, his best friend, a former lover, his new girlfriend and her enigmatic brother. In doing so, he puts their lives at risk and discovers too late the effect of his heedless actions.

DYNAMITE FISHERMEN offers complex characters, fast-paced action, a vivid portrayal of human intelligence operations and the pungent flavor of Beirut during its dark days of civil upheaval.

Click here to pick up your copy of Dynamite Fishermen.

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