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6 Discounted & Free Kindle Book Offers

May 15, 2013 by Michael Gallagher 2 Comments

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

Chasing the Ghost, by Bob Mayer, is regularly $4.99 but has been discounted 80% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 38 customer reviews.

Category: Military Thriller

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

Covert operative Horace Chase has been chasing ghosts his entire life.
First, his Medal-of-Honor winner father who died in Vietnam without ever meeting his son. And left him the legacy of an automatic appointment to the Military Academy at West Point which shaped the next thirty-five years of Chase’s life. Then, the ghost of his mother, who died while he was at war in Afghanistan and wounded, causing him to resign his commission and return to the United States, a lost soul.

Chase now wears two hats as a Federal counter-terrorism liaison to the local police department in Boulder, Colorado where he becomes embroiled in two seemingly un-related cases. Working as a detective with Boulder PD he chases another death, this one the apparent rape/murder of Rachel Stevens, an upscale housewife attending night classes at the University of Colorado. And with his counter-terrorism team he is embroiled in a series of killings involving a militia group, a rogue ex-Special Forces officer, a psychopathic ex-CIA contract mercenary, and ruthless drug runners.

From the streets of Boulder, to the highest railroad tunnel in the world, to a swingers club hiding in plain site in suburbia, Afghanistan starts to look pretty good to Chase.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/s0s4n7 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Chasing the Ghost .

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The Model Mystery , by Maci Grant, is just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 8 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery

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

Note: “The Model Mystery” is a short story and a quick read. (estimated 22 pages)

FBI Agent Lorena Styles has a reputation for being among the best that the bureau has ever had. Her passion and tactics for catching the bad guy are known among her peers and most that know her are also aware of the tragedy in her past and why she lives her life with such single-minded devotion to getting criminals behind bars.

In “The Model Mystery” Styles finds herself unexpectedly demoted beneath an arrogant agent who will test her patience while at the same time shockingly leading her closer to the case she seeks to solve more than any other case.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/k8togu into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Model Mystery .

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Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation: 31 Bible Verses About Faith – To Keep You Overcoming! , by Gloria Coleman, is normally $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 12 customer reviews.

Category: Religion

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

This essential Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation tool will help you to develop your trust and confidence in God starting with 31 Key portions of Scripture featured in full text in 4 popular translations (The King James Version, The Message, The Amplified Bible and The New American Standard Bible).

It includes my personal testimony in the introduction, a note of encouragement, what is scripture meditation and the benefits of scripture meditation.

From Day 1 to Day 31 you have your Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation in 4 translations, Thought for Today, Biblical Meditation Tips and Prayer for today for each day!

This eBook has been written to provide the motivation, framework and confidence you need to begin and continue the journey of faith using scripture.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/qbmvx3 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation: 31 Bible Verses About Faith – To Keep You Overcoming!.

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Seven Point Eight: The Second Chronicle, by Marie Harbon, is just $2.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 9 customer reviews.

Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy

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

In the second installment of the five part Seven Point Eight series, the legacy of the OOBE project weighs heavily on the conscience of Dr. Paul Eldridge. Tahra Mamoun needs to muster all her courage and venture back into the alternate dimensions of reality. Through a series of challenging, surreal and frightening experiences, she comes to comprehend the destructive power she can yield and must face her own demons in the process.

Paul continues his quest to understand the ancient knowledge of the cosmos, while dark forces seek to hijack his research to further a secret agenda. With their lives in jeopardy, Paul and Tahra confront their enemies against an international backdrop featuring the pyramids of Giza and the peaks of Switzerland.

Meanwhile, Sam and Ava endeavour to uncover their past, even though it may irrevocably change their lives.

In a tale of courage and tragedy, love and betrayal, their lives are interwoven around the demons of one man, Max Richardson, who’ll stop at nothing to achieve his objectives.

Written in the style of a TV series, Seven Point Eight draws together quantum physics, psychic powers, alternate dimensions, time travel, past lives, ancient wisdom, and conspiracy in a soap opera for the soul.

It’s the ideal read for lovers of sci-fi, contemporary fantasy, the paranormal, metaphysics, ‘Lost’, ‘Fringe’, ‘Touch’, and Dan Brown books.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/mv719s into your web browser to pick up your copy of Seven Point Eight: The Second Chronicle .

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More Ketchup than Salsa, by Joe Cawley, 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 60 customer reviews. I received a note form the author saying this book would be free through May 16th.

Category: Humor / Travel / Memoir

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

When Joe and his girlfriend Joy decide to trade in their life on a cold Lancashire fish market to run a bar in the Tenerife sunshine, they anticipate a paradise of sea, sand and siestas. Little did they expect their foreign fantasy to turn out to be about as exotic as Grimsby on a wet Monday morning.

Amidst a host of eccentric locals, homesickness and the occasional cockroach infestation, pint-pulling novices Joe and Joy struggle with ‘Brits abroad’ culture and learn that, although the skies might be bluer, the grass is definitely not always greener.

A hilarious insight into the wild and wacky characters of an expat community in a familiar holiday destination, More Ketchup than Salsa is a must-read for anybody who has ever dreamed about jetting off to sunnier climes, finding a job abroad… or anybody who has even momentarily flirted with the idea of ‘doing a Shirley Valentine’ in these trying economic times.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/e1l1od into your web browser to pick up your copy of More Ketchup than Salsa .

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The Spirit Keepers, by J.S. Winn, 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 for today only.

Category: Romantic Suspense

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

Can you escape the wrath of the Spirits?

One of Sandy Jacobs’ ten year old students and his family are accused of witchcraft. Blamed for the mysterious deaths of two San Anselmo Pueblo children, they’re terrorized by “Boogeymen” Kachina. Sandy rushes to their aid, but her actions inflame the perpetrators and arouse the opposition of Native born faculty member, Ben Rush. Sandy and Ben clash over the issue while struggling against the attraction growing between them until the harassment culminates in violence. Together they risk their lives to uncover the truth and, in the process, learn lessons as valuable as any they have taught.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/q0yqdr into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Spirit Keepers .

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This Week's Informal Poll – Your Participation Requested

March 30, 2013 by Michael Gallagher 100 Comments

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been trying something different and have an informal poll where you could interact and share your ideas via the comments section of the blog. I encourage you to get out of your comfort zone and give it a try!

If you missed the first few questions in the polls, you can click here or type in http://bit.ly/12dNfjz into your web browser to answer the questions and interact with the other blog members.

If you are reading this post on your e-Ink Kindle or received the post via email, you can always see this week’s poll question if you click here or type in http://wp.me/p2b82w-4fw into your web browser.

So, here’s this week’s informal poll question: “what is your all-time favorite book series?” Let us know in the comments section just below this post and give us some commentary / details behind your answer as you see fit!

I’ll start it off: it would have to be a tie between The Brotherhood of War series by W.E.B. Griffin and The Sackett series by Louis L’Amour.

Both of these series appeal primarily to men, although I do know of a few women who have read and enjoyed them, and to me both of these series seem to grab you and pull you in not only with the situations but the characters: you literally feel as if the characters are part of your own family.

The Brotherhood of War series follows the lives of a group of U.S. Army men and women starting during World War II through the Vietnam War, and the author has since completed several derivatives of the same theme. There are multiple books in the series, but if you like a good military-based series I would start off with the first one in the series called The Lieutenants. You can read the review I wrote several years ago for book one of the series if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/7orik0 into your web browser.

You can check out the first book in the series if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/kezx74 into your web browser.

I’d be willing to bet tens of millions of people have read Louis L’Amour’s Sackett series: I’ve read them multiple times over the years and I still have all of them in a well-worn paperbacks as well as many of the titles on my Kindle. The Sackett series is classic Old West where the men were men and there were few women, you always knew right from wrong, and never underestimate the power of family.

There are 17 novels (and several short stories and derivative works) in the Sackett series, and if I were going to start off with them again I would do it in chronological order vs. the order they were written. The first one in chronological order is called Sackett’s Land, and you can check it out if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/z4ndl7 into your web browser.

What about you? Please answer away in the comments section below this post on the blog’s website. If you are reading this post on your e-Ink Kindle or received the post via email, you can always see this week’s poll question if you click here or type in http://wp.me/p2b82w-4fw into your web browser.

Have a great rest of your weekend!

Michael

99 Cent Kindle Book Special

March 13, 2013 by Michael Gallagher 11 Comments

A group of authors I know are running a deal for the members of the blog as they are suffering from the big brother decision to decrease the emphasis on free Kindle book offerings. No, that doesn’t mean the freebies are gone for good – they are still around and, who knows, once we see how things settle down in the aftermath I fee fairly confident I’ll be telling you about more freebies again.

So, back to the deal – I knew you were going to ask that question. Each of the five following books are from well-known authors that are usually priced a heck of a lot higher, but have been discounted to just 99 cents each for today through Friday. One of them is actually a 4 book box set collection that has been selling like hotcakes for $9.99 so if you are a romance lover grab it today for 99 cents. Take a look at these titles:

Blood of Vipers by Michael Wallace is normally $2.99 in the Amazon Kindle store but has been discounted 66% to just $0.99, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 21 customer reviews. I read this one in December and thought it was great and rated it a 5 out of 5 star; you can read the review I wrote for it if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/ari0hy 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: Historical Fiction / Military Fiction

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

When fighter pilot Cal Jameson is shot down in enemy territory at the end of the war, his only desire is to find his way back to American lines. But as Cal hides from a Waffen-SS death squad, he stumbles into a family of German refugees fleeing Soviet shock troops. Soon, he finds himself in an uncertain role as the family’s protector. Together, they must stay alive while under attack from partisans, Russian soldiers, and the last, dying struggles of the Nazi regime, which is determined to throw back the enemy, even if it means the final destruction of the German people.

Blood of Vipers is a shorter work of 26,000 words, or about one hundred book pages.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/gzeaqk into your web browser to check out this one.

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Louisiana Plantation Collection by Jennifer Blake is normally $9.99 but has been discounted 90% to just $0.99, and has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 143 customer reviews.

Category: Historical Romance

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

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

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

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

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

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

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/LPC1 into your web browser to check out this one.

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The Red Rooster by Michael Wallace is normally $3.99 but has been discounted 75% to just $0.99, and has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 52 customer reviews.

Category: Historical Fiction / Military Fiction

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

Of all the desperate women in German-occupied Paris, Gabriela Reyes is the least likely to scratch out her survival as a whore for a Gestapo agent. After fascists murdered her mother and brother and tortured her father in an insane asylum, she hates the Germans as much as she fears them. But when she discovers the man responsible for destroying her family, she decides to become his mistress to try to free her father and avenge her family.

Helmut von Cratz is a war profiteer using his wealth to undermine the Third Reich and is one meeting with an American agent away from ending the German occupation of France.

But Gabriela’s sudden appearance as Colonel Hoekman’s mistress jeopardizes Helmut’s careful plans. Now he must decide: will he abandon his plans, or will he sacrifice yet another woman to the German war machine? The Red Rooster is a complete novel of about 350 book pages.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/ok9iht into your web browser to check out this one.

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When the Walls Fell by Monique Martin is normally $3.99 in the Amazon Kindle store but has been discounted 75% to just $0.99, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 47 customer reviews.

Category: Historical Fantasy

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

Professor Simon Cross and his assistant Elizabeth West have returned from their accidental journey into the past and are adjusting to their new life together as a couple. But an unwanted visit from the Council for Temporal Studies could change everything.

A murder in the past is changing the future, and if the killing isn’t stopped, Simon Cross might never be born.

When they arrive in 1906 San Francisco, Elizabeth and Simon have no idea who wants Victor Graham dead or how it will happen. With the earthquake that leveled most of the city just days away, the race to save Graham thrusts them into a complex mystery of jealousy and revenge where murder might be the least of their worries.

The exciting sequel to Out of Time, When the Walls Fell, is a time travel adventure filled with suspense, mystery and romance.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/v0mxnu into your web browser to check out this one.

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What Kings Ate and Wizards Drank: A Fantasy Lover’s Food Guide by Krista D. Ball is normally $7.99 in the Amazon Kindle store but has been discounted 88% to just $0.99, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 40 customer reviews.
Category: Non-Fiction

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

Equal parts writer’s guide, comedy, and historical cookbook, fantasy author Krista D. Ball takes readers on a journey into the depths of epic fantasy’s obsession with rabbit stew and teaches them how to catch the blasted creatures, how to move armies across enemy territories without anyone starving to death, and what a medieval pantry should look like when your heroine is seducing the hero.

Learn how long to cook a salted cow tongue, how best to serve salt fish, what a “brewis” is (hint: it isn’t beer), how an airship captain would make breakfast, how to preserve just about anything, and why those dairy maids all have ample hips.

What Kings Ate will give writers of historical and fantastical genres the tools to create new conflicts in their stories, as well as add authenticity to their worlds, all the while giving food history lovers a taste of the past with original recipes and historical notes.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/0fqffq into your web browser to check out this one.

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Today's Free App of the Day & Kindle Daily Deal

March 12, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Each day, Amazon sponsors the Kindle Daily Deal and the Free App of the Day.

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

Amazon’s free App of the Day can be utilized on a Kindle Fire and Android-based smartphones and tablet computers, and the app can be a game, utility, or who knows? Each app is offered free for 24 hours and, after that period is over it goes back to paid status and a new app is the Free App of the Day.

Kindle Daily Deal

Today’s Kindle Daily Deal for Adults is We Were Soldiers Once…and Young: la Drang-The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam , by Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway, and this book was $7.99 yesterday but has been discounted 63% to just $2.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 372 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Kids Daily Deal is An Awesome Book! , by Dallas Clayton, and this book was $16.99 yesterday but has been discounted 82% to just $2.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 47 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Daily Deal is Slapstick , by Kurt Vonnegut, and this book was $8.99 yesterday but has been discounted 78% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 89 customer reviews.

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

Here is the We Were Soldiers Once…and Young: la Drang-The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam book description from the Amazon website:

The New York Times bestseller, hailed as a “powerful and epic story . . . the best account of infantry combat I have ever read, and the most significant book to come out of the Vietnam War” by Col. David Hackworth, author of the bestseller About Face

In November 1965, some 450 men of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry, under the command of Lt. Col. Harold Moore, were dropped into a small clearing in the Ia Drang Valley. They were immediately surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. Three days later, only two and a half miles away, a sister battalion was brutally slaughtered. Together, these actions at the landing zones X-Ray and Albany constituted one of the most savage and significant battles of the Vietnam War. They were the first major engagements between the US Army and the People’s Army of Vietnam.
How these Americans persevered—sacrificing themselves for their comrades and never giving up—creates a vivid portrait of war at its most devastating and inspiring. Lt. Gen. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway—the only journalist on the ground throughout the fighting—interviewed hundreds of men who fought in the battle, including the North Vietnamese commanders. Their poignant account rises above the ordeal it chronicles to depict men facing the ultimate challenge, dealing with it in ways they would have once found unimaginable. It reveals to us, as rarely before, man’s most heroic and horrendous endeavor.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to pick up your copy of We Were Soldiers Once…and Young: la Drang-The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam .

Here is the An Awesome Book! book description from the Amazon website:

Based on the simple concept of dreaming big, An Awesome Book! is the inspiring debut work of Los Angeles writer/artist Dallas Clayton. Written in the vein of classic imaginative tales, it is a sure hit for all generations, young and old.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to pick up your copy of An Awesome Book! .

Here is the Slapstick book description from the Amazon website:

Perhaps the most autobiographical (and deliberately least disciplined) of Vonnegut’s novels, Slapstick (1976) is in the form of a broken family odyssey and is surely a demonstration of its eponymous title. The story centers on brother and sister twins, children of Wilbur Swain, who are in sympathetic and (possibly) telepathic communication and who represent Vonnegut’s relationship with his own sister who died young of cancer almost two decades before the book’s publication.

Vonnegut dedicated this to Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Like their films and routines, this novel is an exercise in non-sequentiality and in the bizarre while using those devices to expose larger and terrible truths. The twins exemplify to Swain a kind of universal love; he campaigns for it while troops of technologically miniaturized Chinese are launched upon America. Love and carnage intersect in a novel contrived to combine credibility and common observation; critics could sense Vonnegut deliberately flouting narrative constraint or imperative in an attempt to destroy the very idea of the novel he was writing.

Slapstick becomes both product and commentary, event and self-criticism; an early and influential example of contemporary “metafiction.” Vonnegut’s tragic life–like the tragic lives of Laurel, Hardy, Buster Keaten and other exemplars of slapstick comedy–is the true center of a work whose cynicism overlays a trustfulness and sense of loss which are perhaps deeper and truer than expressed in any of Vonnegut’s earlier or later works. Slapstick is a clear demonstration of the profound alliance of comedy and tragedy which, when Vonnegut is working close to his true sensibility, become indistinguishable.

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

Free App of the Day

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

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

Ever thought of becoming a famous scientist? We have got the perfect formula for you to start with!

The science here is for you to crack a way to make the formula (fluid) pass through all the lab tubes, till it gets to its final destination, the formulas recipient. For that, you must align all lab tubes in the correct position (so the fluid can flow to the right side of the screen), and you can also mix two or more formulas (fluid), and transform its color or effect (delay etc.).

This truly addicting puzzle/board game will train your scientist mind, and leave you intrigued.

Can you puzzle this out?

You can pick up your free copy of Crazy Formula by clicking here or typing in http://smarturl.it/appdeal into your web browser.

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5 FREE Kindle Book Offers

February 18, 2013 by Michael Gallagher Leave a Comment

Here are five FREE Kindle book offers for you to check out this morning: as of this posting, each of the books was free on the Amazon website but please make sure you check the pricing before you smack the “buy” button as the pricing can (and does) change at any time!

The Dark Path by Luke Romyn has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 98 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through February 19th.

Category: Horror

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

New York’s underworld quivers at the mention of his name. Evil courses through his veins like blood and his conscience has lain dormant for over a decade while he has slashed and burned his way to the top of the food chain.

Vain.

The Dark Man, born of torment into an existence of death. In the underworld of killers he reigns supreme. And yet he is chosen for a task of supreme benevolence. Why would he be selected to save a young boy, the Avun-Riah, and then protect him against a horde of enemies, both mortal and demonic?

Because he is the only one with any hope of success.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse have risen from the pits of Hell and, along with a fanatical army of cultists, are ranged against Vain. If the boy is slain then Sordarrah will be raised to destroy the Earth, a feat even Lucifer never managed.

Evil is being used to fight evil in the ultimate battle for the outcome of all existence. Armageddon sits upon the horizon and all that stands in its way is a man whose path has always been dark….

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/oxz0dl into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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The Rescue Team by Bill Tiner has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 11 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through February 22nd.

Category: Children

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

Ellie is shocked and confused when her owners leave her at the animal shelter. Feeling abandoned and unloved, Ellie spends her days staring vacantly through the gate of her pen. Ellie’s life changes when she is finally adopted by a compassionate woman named Anne. Ellie and Anne form an unbreakable bond of love and friendship. A thunderstorm drives Toby, a young frightened kitten, to Anne’s porch. Anne and Ellie immediately welcome him into their family. One night, they hear an emergency broadcast announcement that a little girl is missing in the woods near their home. Anne, Ellie, and Toby join in the search to find her, and an incredible rescue team is formed. The team will be called upon again when a tornado tears through their town. Will they find any survivors?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dn5axx into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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Hamfist Over the Trail: The Air Combat Adventures of Hamilton “Hamfist” Hancock by G.E. Nolly has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 50 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through February 19th.

Category: Military Fiction

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

It’s 1968. Hamilton Hancock is the Distinguished Graduate at his Undergraduate Pilot Training class at Laughlin Air force Base. He is on the fast track to become a fighter pilot, slated to fly an F-100, F-105 or F-4 in Vietnam. Then, the “needs of the service” intervenes, and he is assigned to fly one of the smallest, slowest aircraft in the Air Force inventory, the O-2A.

Hamilton becomes a Forward Air Controller (FAC) in Vietnam, based at DaNang air Base, and picks up the nickname “Hamfist”. While Hamfist flies in air combat over the Ho Chi Minh Trail and battles an enemy gunner with a deadly record, on the ground he must also battle his inner fears and personal demons.

When he repeatedly loses friends shortly after reconnecting with them, Hamfist becomes convinced there is a “Hamfist curse”. He becomes a virtual hermit, and tries to avoid interacting with his friends. Then he receives a letter that devastates him.

Just when his personal life reaches its lowest point, Hamfist goes to Tokyo on R&R and meets his soul mate. They had lost an opportunity to meet six years earlier, and now Fate has given them another chance. Hamfist returns from R&R with a renewed sense of optimism.

His life is taking a turn for the better. But first he must make it through his Vietnam duty unscathed.

Inspired by actual events.

Contains strong language.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/u4zmmc into your web browser to receive your free copy.

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The Soulmate Experience: A Practical Guide to Creating Extraordinary Relationships by Joe Dunn and Mali Apple has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 89 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through February 22nd.

Category: Non-Fiction / Advice & How-To

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

2012 International Book Awards Gold Medal Winner in the “Relationships” category
2012 Living Now Awards Silver Medal Winner in the “Relationships/Marriage” category

Create the Love of Your Life–Keep the Life in Your Love

Single, in a relationship, or married: people of all walks of life and all ages are finding this new book on enlightened relationships inspiring, accessible, and truly transformational. This revolutionary guide will help you create and sustain a relationship that is intimately connected on all levels–emotional, intellectual, sexual, and spiritual–and a continual source of love, inspiration, and joy.

In Part 1, chapters like “Loving Your Body,” “Reducing Your Baggage,” and “Raising Your Soulmate Potential” will help you release anything that might be preventing you from experiencing a deeply connected relationship. As you read, you will quickly begin to feel more loving and compassionate toward yourself, more connected to those around you, and more confident about and creating your own soulmate experience.

In Part 2, chapters such as “Creating a Context,” “Turning Expectations into Invitations,” “Transforming the Energy of Jealousy,” “Exploring the Edges,” and “Connecting on a Soul Level” will give you everything you need to approach even the most challenging aspects of relationships in ways that will actually deepen your experience of love and intimacy. You will discover the secrets to keeping the love, passion, and connection in your relationship fully alive–every single day. And you will learn how to lovingly guide each other to release limiting beliefs, heal the past, rise above perceived limitations, and unlock the potential in every area of your lives.

Whether you’re on a quest for your soulmate, looking for deeper connection in the relationship you have right now, or just want to experience much more love in your life, the ground-breaking ideas in this book–and the many stories of real people putting them into practice–will fill you with love, inspiration, and possibility. Because The Soulmate Experience isn’t just a book. It’s a great way of living life.

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Reveal by Brina Courtney has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 60 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through February 22nd.

Category: Paranormal Romance / Fantasy / Young Adult

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

You think seeing ghosts is weird? Tell me something I don’t know.
My childhood best friend Jeremy happens to be a ghost.
My life is a puzzle, and the biggest piece missing has been my dad. Since his disappearance when I was six it’s been tough, but Jeremy has been by my side through it all.
But now Jeremy has gone missing too and I feel like I’m never going to get all the answers I’ve been looking for.
Fate intervenes when Hugh, a real live college beefcake, starts taking an interest in me. He divulges that he also shares my little “gift” of seeing the dead and I know I’m finally getting closer to finding all the pieces.
However, the more the puzzle is completed, the more questions I have.
Senior year is hard enough as it is, but clearly I like a challenge.

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Today's Kindle Daily Deal and Free App of the Day

February 6, 2013 by Michael Gallagher 14 Comments

Each day, Amazon sponsors the Kindle Daily Deal and the Free App of the Day.

Kindle Daily Deal

Today’s Kindle Daily Deal for adults is We Die Alone , by David Howarth and Stephen E. Ambrose, and this book was $13.50 yesterday but has been discounted 85% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 196 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Teen Daily Deal is Throne of Glass , by Sarah J. Mass, and this book was $14.99 yesterday but has been discounted 80% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 251 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Daily Deal is Kingmaking: Book One of the Pendragon’s Banner Trilogy , by Helen Hollick, and this book was $16.99 yesterday but has been discounted 88% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 48 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Romance Daily Deal is Thunder in the Night , by Kate Fellowes, and this book was $4.99 yesterday but has been discounted 80% to just $0.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 10 customer reviews.

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Here is the We Die Alone book description from the Amazon website:

One of the greatest of all stories of courage and survival during World War II. A Norwegian commando is sent to German-occupied Norway, and nearly captured. This is the story of his extraordinary escape to Sweden across the snowy mountains, and of the courageous Norwegians who risked their lives to save him.

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Here is the Throne of Glass book description from the Amazon website:

After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is dragged before the Crown Prince. Prince Dorian offers her her freedom on one condition: she must act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin.

Her opponents are men-thieves and assassins and warriors from across the empire, each sponsored by a member of the king’s council. If she beats her opponents in a series of eliminations, she’ll serve the kingdom for three years and then be granted her freedom.

Celaena finds her training sessions with the captain of the guard, Westfall, challenging and exhilirating. But she’s bored stiff by court life. Things get a little more interesting when the prince starts to show interest in her… but it’s the gruff Captain Westfall who seems to understand her best.

Then one of the other contestants turns up dead… quickly followed by another. Can Celaena figure out who the killer is before she becomes a victim? As the young assassin investigates, her search leads her to discover a greater destiny than she could possibly have imagined.

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Here is the Kingmaking: Book One of the Pendragon’s Banner Trilogy book description from the Amazon website:

Who was THE MAN
Who became THE LEGEND
We know as KING ARTHUR?
“You are the Pendragon, rightful Lord of Dumnonia and the Summer Land; Lord of less Britain. By all that is right, you ought be seated where Vortigern sits? You ought to be King.”
Here lies the truth of the Lord of the Summer Land.
This is the tale of Arthur flesh and bone. Of the shaping of the man, both courageous and flawed, into the celebrated ruler who inspired armies, who captured Gwenhyfar’s heart, and who emerged as the hero of the Dark Ages and the most enduring hero of all time.
This is the unexpected story of the making of a king – the legend who united all of Britain.

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Here is the Thunder in the Night book description from the Amazon website:

Aspiring investigative journalist Allison Belsar has exactly zero interest in tagging along with the society set when they visit Belize. But when the trip is sponsored by the local zoo and her editor issues the order, she packs her bags and shows up on time.
Turns out there’s more to this adventure than red-eyed tree frogs and Mayan ruins. Something criminal is going on. But what? And how does that gorgeous tour guide figure into events? He’s close at hand every time there’s danger.
Of course, he’s nearby plenty of other times, too. The moments she spends in his arms are as magical as the moonlight on a tropical night. Allison is in danger of losing her heart to this man, and her life to a deadly ring of criminals who will do anything to keep their secrets hidden deep in the jungle. This could be the story to make her career—if she lives to tell it.

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Free App of the Day

Today’s Free App of the Day is Mahjong Deluxe 2 and this game is normally $0.99 in the Amazon App Store but is free for today only.

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

Mahjong Deluxe 2 takes our super popular mahjong solitaire game and brings it into a whole new world. The tiles are placed on 3D planes and you rotate around the structures to find the matching tiles. It comes with 84 puzzle layouts and all puzzles are laid out with random tile orders so you can play them many times. Relax and enjoy this beautiful game today!

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4 FREE Kindle Books Tonight

December 25, 2012 by Michael Gallagher 2 Comments

For those of you who have just found the blog – maybe you are a brand new Kindle owner after opening up one for Christmas – welcome!

Here are four FREE Kindle books for you in the Amazon Kindle store for your Christmas night: as of this posting, each of the books was free on the Amazon website but please make sure you check the pricing before you smack the “buy” button as the pricing can (and does) change at any time!

Thoroughbreds and Trailer Trash by Bev Pettersen has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 91 customer reviews. I received a note from the author this book would be free through December 29th.

Category: Contemporary Romance / Humor

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

She’s broke. He’s worth millions.

A dedicated horse masseuse relies on her job and street smarts to support what’s most important…her younger sister. But when the Thoroughbred Wellness Center experiences a hostile takeover headed by a charming but ruthless corporate shark, both her heart and career are in jeopardy.

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Hamfist Over the Trail: The Air Combat Adventures of Hamilton “Hamfist” Hancock by G.E. Nolly has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 91 customer reviews. I received a note from the author this book would be free through December 26th.

Category: Action & Adventure / Military Fiction

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

It’s 1968. Hamilton Hancock is on the fast track to become a fighter pilot. He is slated to fly an F-100, F-105 or F-4 in Vietnam. Then, the “needs of the service” intervenes, and he is assigned to fly one of the smallest, slowest aircraft in the Air Force inventory, the O-2A. Hamilton becomes a Forward Air Controller (FAC) in Vietnam, and picks up the nickname “Hamfist”. While Hamfist flies in air combat over the Ho Chi Minh Trail and battles an enemy gunner with a deadly record, on the ground he must also battle his inner fears and personal demons.

Inspired by actual events.

Contains strong language.

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Touchback by Don Handfield has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 36 customer reviews. I received a note from the author this book would be free through December 26th.

Category: Contemporary Fiction / Romance

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

** NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE **

WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU GOT A SECOND CHANCE?

When Scott Murphy scored the winning touchdown in the 1991 state championship game, it should have launched a golden future—the full scholarship to Ohio State, the million-dollar signing bonus, marriage to the beauty queen, and NFL glory.

Instead, it all ended with a sickening pop as his leg shattered in four places. The next twenty years would be a study in Murphy’s Law—whatever could go wrong did. Just when things seem at their worst—he’s losing his farm, his relationship with his wife is crumbling—a miracle happens: Murphy gets a chance to reboot his life.

Back in his teenaged body in 1991, he realizes by changing his past, he can have the future he always wanted. Everything he lost is within his reach, even his high-school sweetheart.

But what about the devoted wife he left behind? Torn between two women—two lives—he can only choose one future. Murphy must decide if getting everything he’s ever wanted is worth giving up everything he’s ever had…

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Perception by Lee Strauss and Elle Strauss has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 23 customer reviews. I received a note from the author this book would be free through December 27th.

Category: Young Adult / Science Fiction / Romance

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

Seventeen year old Zoe Vanderveen is a GAP–a genetically altered person. She lives in the security of a walled city on prime water-front property along side other equally beautiful people with extended life spans.
Her brother Liam is missing.

Noah Brody is a natural who lives on the outside. He leads protests against the GAPs and detests the widening chasm they’ve created between those who have and those who don’t. He doesn’t like girls like Zoe and he has good reason not to like her specifically.

Zoe’s carefree life takes a traumatic turn. She’s in trouble and it turns out that Noah, the last guy on earth she should trust, is the only one who can help her.

The PERCEPTION Series books ( SF/mystery/romance) are Young Adult novels that take place in the not too distant future in a world changed by climate extremes, natural disasters and impending wars, and where scientific breakthroughs cause class divisions–both financially and philosophically. It explores the clash between faith and science and how differences can separate us as enemies or ally us together. And in some cases, even in the midst of betrayal and personal crisis, there’s room to fall in love.

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8 FREE Kindle Books

December 17, 2012 by Michael Gallagher 2 Comments

Here are eight FREE Kindle books for you in the Amazon Kindle store for your Monday afternoon: as of this posting, each of the books was free on the Amazon website but please make sure you check the pricing before you smack the “buy” button as the pricing can (and does) change at any time!

A Month of Tomorrows by Chuck Walsh has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 19 customer reviews.

Category: Romance / Military Fiction

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

When Pete Swift is asked to write the life and times of Samuel Gable, he has no idea the depth of the river he has been asked to swim, nor where the currents are about to take him. Without regard, he pushes all else aside, including his family, as he is overcome by the waters of the past; waters which he sees as an undertow but in reality is a whirlpool that ends up shooting him up and out to a new life and fresh start.

One man’s recollections of war, loyal devotion to God, country and family and determination to put it all into words, will pull from you every raw emotion and make you wish there were more like him.

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Blood Island by H. Terrell Griffin has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 51 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery & Thrillers

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

Matt Royal never has to look far for excitement. Excitement-and sometimes trouble-has a way of finding him first. But for this fun-loving lawyer turned beach bum, things are about to get serious. Dead serious.When his ex-wife asks for help in tracking down her stepdaughter, last seen in Matt’s hometown of Longboat Key, Matt agrees to do a little searching. But what looks like the case of one missing girl turns out to be something much bigger-and much more dangerous. Enlisting the aid of his buddies Jock Algren and Logan Hamilton, Matt launches a full-speed-ahead search that leads from Longboat Key to Key West to an ominous strip of land called Blood Island.But this is no island paradise. Blood Island is home base to a cult of religious zealots. And they’re making devastating plans that could change the world forever.Bullets fly, and as the clock ticks down, it will be up to Matt to make sure that what happens on Blood Island stays on Blood Island.

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Tongue Twisters for Kids by Riley Weber has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 70 customer reviews.

Category: Humor / Children

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

“Rubber baby buggy bumpers” – Say this three times as fast as you can. How about, try saying ” Loopy lizards lying lazily aloft a little lane of logs,” without messing up. This Tongue Twister book is huge collection of funny phrases, ridiculous rhymes, and silly sentences that will have kids laughing for hours. Each one challenges your mouth muscles as you try to say these tongue twisters faster and multiple times.

A tongue twister is a phrase that is supposed to be difficult to articulate properly. Often times they take practice to say correctly. Tongue twisters are good practice for children as they learn to form words, phrases, and vowels. It’s hard to say a tongue twister without a smile on your face. Each tongue twister in this book has it’s own silly illustration. Kids will be entertained with these tongue twisters for hours.

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Diary of the Displaced – Omnibus 1 Parts 1-4 by Glynn James has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 85 customer reviews. Please note this is actually four books combined in one volume.

Category: Horror

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

There is a place where nightmares are real. It is a dark and terrifying place, hidden from the world we know by borders that

only the most unfortunate of souls will ever cross.

James Halldon woke up in the dark, alone, without any food or water, without a clue where he was, and with no memory of

where he came from.

It only got stranger.

James has somehow found his way to The Corridor, a midnight place that no human should ever see and the prison of a creature

that has destroyed entire worlds. Somehow James has to learn to survive.

But he is not alone. The lost souls of others who have drifted into The Corridor, and died, also haunt this world, and they

have been waiting a long time for someone to come along.

The Journal of James Halldon is a dark sci-fi novel that follows Halldon’s struggle to survive whilst trying to understand

the strange, dark, and terrifying world in which he is trapped.

If it’s dark when you wake up, and you can hear growling, then close your eyes and maybe it will go away.

But maybe it won’t…

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The Twenty Dollar Bill by Elmore Hammes has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 40 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through December 19th.

Category: Literary Fiction / Contemporary Fiction

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

Follow the path of a twenty dollar bill as it is stolen, given, spent or otherwise passed from person to person, traveling from place to place.

No bombastic explosions, steamy sex scenes, political intrigue or cosmic encounters. Just slices of life from the people you walk by every day – glimpses into how ordinary people interact, how they think, how they feel and how they love.

A contemporary novel exploring every day interactions and relationships.

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5 FREE Kindle Books

December 7, 2012 by Michael Gallagher 11 Comments

Here are five FREE Kindle books for you from the Amazon Kindle Store: as of this posting, each of the books was free on the Amazon website but please make sure you check the pricing before you smack the “buy” button as the pricing can (and does) change at any time!

Parallel Spirits by T.S. Welti has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 17 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through December 11th.

Category: Paranormal Romance

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

What if the price of immortality were a broken spirit?

After more than three centuries as a carrier spirit, Mara has finally found a willing host in sixteen-year-old Belinda. She sets out to help Belinda find the missing ingredient in her life: love.

Belinda agrees to let Mara help her fall in love so Mara can earn her body back. But Belinda has only agreed to their arrangement because she desperately hopes that a new romance will help her finally get over her failed date with her best friend, Frankie.

With the promise of a new body, Mara dares to hope she can repair her broken spirit. With sweet and handsome Conor as her new boyfriend, Belinda dares to hope she has found someone who can mend her broken heart. Until a spirit with whom Mara shares a dark past begins possessing Conor. Now a war is waging inside and outside Belinda’s body and she quickly discovers what Mara has known for centuries:

Falling in love is as dangerous as exorcising evil spirits.

Set in a California beach town, Parallel Spirits is a different kind of paranormal romance about the power of love, water, and hope.

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Dragon Soul by B.J. Whittington has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 23 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through December 11th.

Category: Fantasy

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

Dragon Soul begins in a small village of the Palmir people. A quiet, productive and peaceful clan with an almost forgotten violent history. The Plague from the North–an attack of powerful, evil creatures–virtually annihilated them generations ago. They defeated the Plague, with the help of mystics and dragons – but at great cost.

What if the Plague returns? There are so few Dragon Souls. Could they defeat the monsters again? And what of real dragons? Will they ever again exist in their own form?

Vedicville serves as a place to mentor Dragon Souls and Hosts, humans who transform into dragons. Thol, a goat herder at Vedicville, never imagined he would start his day as a human and end up as a dragon. Who would? There are usually indications that a person is Host to a Dragon Soul. The first indication for Thol, was when his hands began to elongate and turn into talons. When Rasdor emerges, unexpectedly, and fly’s off in a panic, several villagers commence a journey to find him. The search uncovers more than the lost dragon, the key to saving their entire civilization. If they realize it in time.

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Christmas in Wine Country by Addison Westlake has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 11 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through December 9th.

Category: Humor / Romance

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

A romantic comedy set in Northern California’s wine country.

It’s Lila’s big debut as an event planner and the company holiday party is going to be her chance to shine. At a Tuscan-style vineyard near the Northern California coast in the perfect little black dress she’s sure to impress commitment-phobe Phillip. What could go wrong?

72 hours later with no job and no boyfriend, Lila finds herself with all kinds of answers to that question. Like mistaking the glowering Jake Endicott of Endicott Vineyards for the groundskeeper. Or a new video on YouTube featuring Lila pawing her way through drunken karaoke of “Hungry Like the Wolf.”

Solo on the romantic holiday getaway she’d booked for her and Phillip near the vineyard, Lila at least gets to visit with her old friend Annie who lives nearby in the coastal town of Redwood Cove. Drawn into the local bookstore with gleaming wooden floors and welcoming armchairs, Lila chats with the owner and impulsively accepts a job offer.

Sleepy, misty Redwood Cove is the perfect place for Lila to take a break from her horrible track record with guys. The only one she finds even remotely attractive knows her as the holiday party crazy lady. Ranked in Bay Area magazine’s 10 hottest bachelors, Jake Endicott is just the type Old Lila would have wasted years pining after.

Join Lila on her year of comedy, adventure and self-discovery on the Northern California coast, with all kinds of ups, downs and misadventures and a full cast of small-town wine country characters. Thankfully, even the greatest misunderstandings can all be worked out with a little Frank Sinatra and mistletoe.

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Hammer of the Gods by Mike Perry has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 6 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through December 9th.

Category: Military Fiction / Historical Fiction

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

The Tides of war are shifting against Germany. For the last great armored offensive…indeed the largest in history, a myth obsessed Adolf Hitler has bestowed the nickname Hammer Of The Gods on one of Germany’s most powerful tanks…The Tiger. He believes it will be the one that shall lead his most destructive force to victory over their dreaded enemy, Russia.

As his personal banner flies over it, inside the tank rides the best crew and a decorated commander determined to restore his reputation as they fight off the hordes of enemy determined to destroy it for Josef Stalin.

Accept the invitation to come along for the journey as the characters interact with actual figures and timelines and endure with them the sights and emotions amid the Hell and carnage of total war…With an unsuspecting ending destined to leave you as battle scarred and fighting for survival as they…

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Surface Tension by Christine Kling has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 67 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through December 9th.

Category: Suspense / Mystery & Thrillers

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

Years ago Seychelle Sullivan had the chance to save a person’s life. But on that summer night in Florida, lost in a world of teenage resentment and loneliness, Seychelle was not able to feel any pain but her own. Today Seychelle captains her father’s forty-six-foot salvage boat out of Fort Lauderdale’s New River. But she’s never escaped that one moment when she could have made a difference and didn’t.

On a steamy Florida morning Seychelle is answering a Mayday call launched from the five-million-dollar Broward yacht called Top Ten. Racing her fiercest competitor for salvage rights, Seychelle has a personal stake in this rescue: Her former lover, Neal Garrett, is the yacht’s hired skipper. But being the first to reach Top Ten leads to a bloody payday. A beautiful woman has been stabbed to death onboard. And Garrett is nowhere to be found.

While the police treat her as the prime suspect, Seychelle begins to unravel a tangled plot centered on a strip club where “all the girls are tens on top.” Seychelle is connecting human predators with innocent victims, and a mystery on land with a mystery buried deep beneath the sea. Now, to find out what really happened to Neal Garrett, Seychelle must retrace his last steps, through two murders and a horrific crime wave, to a final confrontation with someone who may want to kill her . . . or be her salvation.

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7 FREE Kindle Book Offers

November 11, 2012 by Michael Gallagher 12 Comments

Here are seven FREE Kindle books for you in the Amazon Kindle store: as of this posting, each of the books was free on the Amazon website but please make sure you check the pricing before you smack the “buy” button as the pricing can (and does) change at any time!

Your Gift to Me by Bonnie Bartel Latino and Bob Vale has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 111 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free for today only.

Category: Contemporary Romance / Military Fiction

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

This award-winning military love story shares the same subtle, but central, theme of the healing powers of love and laughter to triumph over grief found in “Top Gun” and “Steel Magnolias.” Set primarily in Hawaii, at a fictional U.S. military base in Japan, and at Air Force Special Operations Command Headquarters at Hurlburt Field, FL, the uplifting story offers unexpected twists. “Your Gift to Me” appeals to men and women, civilian or military, who seek entertainment and substance in their leisure reading.

Emotionally scarred years after her husband died in a fiery Special Operations helicopter crash, Air Force widow Emily Ann Meade clings to her vow never to get involved with another man committed to a dangerous profession … until she meets F-16 pilot, Colonel Ted Foley. Although they are mutually attracted, the charismatic widower’s fighter wing recently lost two pilots in unexplained air crashes.

Allowing her mind to wander through fields of dreams on which she can’t afford the emotional mortgage, Emily lowers her barriers and discovers Ted’s greatest virtue. He makes the ordinary feel sublime. Healing in shared confidences solidifies their bond, but another crash reignites her fears. The relationship shatters.

Unless Emily finds a path through her emotional minefields, she risks never discovering she is rejecting the only type of man to whom she is genuinely attracted, a man who leads by example and from the front. And that man’s life could be in danger!

Ultimately Ted and Emily discover that grief, like joy, is finite, but love is infinite.

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The Final Salute by Kathleen M. ROdgers has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 83 customer reviews. received a note from the author saying this book would be free for today only.

Category: Contemporary Fiction / Military Fiction

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

At a small air base in Louisiana, family man and seasoned fighter pilot, Tuck Westerfield’s life could literally crash down around him. In this business of flying fighter jets, the odds of staying alive are stacked against him.

Haunted by the memories of dead friends killed in air mishaps, this Vietnam vet and father of three must deal with a devious commander, an animal-crazed neighbor, whose husband hates pilots, a beautiful, but suspicious wife and a rebellious teenage daughter. The last thing he needs is another war.

But when Iraq invades Kuwait in the middle of a muggy Louisiana summer, duty calls. Tuck and the other pilots in his squadron head to the Middle East.
Back in Louisiana, Gina Westerfield and other military wives learn that war is hell on the home front, too.

Later, when tragedy strikes, everyone at Beauregard Air Force Base must pull together and live on or forever be consumed with grief.

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The Edge of Trust by K.T. Bryan has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 196 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through November 13th.

Category: Romantic Suspense

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

From USA TODAY ~ Kathy Altman

“For three years, dedicated covert agent and former SEAL commander Dillon Caldwell worked undercover as security adviser for drug czar Rafael Sanchez, head of the Sanchez Brothers Cartel. But someone deliberately blew Dillon’s cover, and his family paid the brutal price. Dillon’s wife, sister and parents—all killed in cold blood. Now a vengeance wilder than the jungles of Colombia drives Dillon to hunt Sanchez down and dispense some personal, one-on-one instruction in all the ways a man can be made to suffer.

But someone who knows about Dillon and his black ops mission continues to undermine him and he’s determined to find the leak, no matter the cost—he is, after all, a man with nothing left to lose. Then Dillon’s “risk everything for the sake of retribution” attitude is shaken when he makes the mind-blowing discovery that his wife is alive. Somehow she survived the explosion the FBI claimed had killed her. Except—she doesn’t want anything to do with him. It’s bad enough that for over a year she kept her survival a secret. But even worse, she has something the SBC wants—something the cartel is willing to kill for. Has Dillon rediscovered the wife he loved more than life itself, only to lose her all over again?

Sara Caldwell doesn’t know this man who used to be her husband. Before the explosion, before the FBI persuaded her to go into hiding, her marriage had already begun to unravel. Dillon had grown much too close to his target’s wife and daughter—the photos Sara received from an anonymous source had made that perfectly clear. But she’d never meant to make him suffer—the FBI had assured her they’d told Dillon she was alive. But they hadn’t, which explained why he’d never tried to contact her. Not that it matters. With Dillon, the mission will always come first, and Sara has finally accepted she deserves more than that. And wasn’t it Dillon’s obsession with annihilating the SBC that jeopardized her life—and their future—in the first place?

Still, he deserves to know her secrets. All of them. Even the ones that will make him hate her forever, because too many precious lives are at stake. But with the bloodthirsty SBC stalking them, will Sara ever get the chance to let Dillon exactly how much he’s risking?

If you’re looking for a darkly thrilling read as unpredictable as it is emotionally wrenching, look no further. With The EDGE of TRUST, KT Bryan deftly delivers all that and more. Both the plot and the characters are gritty and layered, the story’s intensity rising with every turn of the page. Graphic at times, the brutal edges are softened by Sara and Dillon’s poignant recollections of more innocent, remorse-free time. These memories provide a stirring contrast to the overpowering feelings of hurt and anger that shadow every interaction between Sara and Dillon — even when they’re running for their lives. Bryan had me asking myself over and over again the question that signifies a gratifying romance: How in the world will these two ever end up together?

Dillon’s journal entries, recorded during his time spent undercover, were my favorite part of the story. In the midst of the couple’s agonizing over whether their marriage is dead (while dodging bullets and jumping off cliffs), these snippets written by Dillon reminded me how much he cared for Sara, since he wrote them for her. Not only because she’s a journalist always on the lookout for an exclusive, but because, before the revelations about his supposed affair, and before the explosion that ripped them apart, he felt close to her, and his journal allowed him to maintain that connection.

Adventure, betrayal, revenge and redemption— you’ll find it all in The EDGE Of TRUST. And after reading this story you’ll be as eager as I am to dive into the next book in Bryan’s Team EDGE series, The EDGE of HONOR where the hero is a Navy SEAL. Hooyah!”

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Marrying Mallory (A Miller’s Creek Novel) by Diane Craver 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 November 12th.

Category: Romance / Religious Fiction

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Is Mallory Harrington jinxed because her name means luckless? Things have gone wrong for Mallory since she was a small child. All she ever wanted was to have a complete family and live happily ever after. It appears she has it all when she marries Toby Harrington and they have a son. Unfortunately, their marriage ends when Toby has an affair with his law partner. Divorced Mallory doesn’t want to date, so she isn’t happy when her girlfriends try to fix her up with a minister friend.

Mallory decides to do something for herself, and get the nose surgery that she’s always wanted. What she doesn’t expect is her instant attraction to her surgeon.

Sometimes faith is about accepting what can’t be changed and grabbing what God offers her. Life must go on.

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The Hunting Tree Trilogy by Ike Hamill is actually three books on one volume, and this compilation 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 November 12th.
Category: Horror / Suspense

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For thousands of years a supernatural killer has slept in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. An amateur ghost hunter has just woken him up. Now that he stalks the night once more, he’s traveling east. Although the monster’s actions are pure evil, he may be the only thing that can save humanity from extinction.

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