Free Books for the nook - Page 4

koland · 08-03-2010, 05:00 PM

The Cossack, by L. Ron Hubbard, is free in the Barnes and Noble store right now.

Book Description
Young and handsome Lieutenant Mertz Komroff thinks he has left his past behind when he enlists in the Chinese army—only to stumble onto the vengeful Duchess he had spurned in pre-revolutionary Russia. And she has nothing but his immediate death in mind...

bookwerm · 08-03-2010, 05:17 PM

koland posted this over in the deals forum, but since it's a popular series, thought it may be a good idea to post here, too:

Confessions of a Shopaholic, by Sophie Kinsella, is 99 cents this morning at B&N.

Book Description
Rebecca Bloomwood just hit rock bottom. But she's never looked better....

Becky Bloomwood has a fabulous flat in London's trendiest neighborhood, a troupe of glamorous socialite friends, and a closet brimming with the season's must-haves. The only trouble is that she can't actually afford it -- not any of it.

Her job writing at Successful Savings not only bores her to tears, it doesn't pay much at all. And lately Becky's been chased by dismal letters from Visa and the Endwich Bank -- letters with large red sums she can't bear to read -- and they're getting ever harder to ignore.

She tries cutting back; she even tries making more money. But none of her efforts succeeds. Becky's only consolation is to buy herself something ... just a little something...

Finally a story arises that Becky actually cares about, and her front-page article catalyzes a chain of events that will transform her life--and the lives of those around her--forever.

Sophie Kinsella has brilliantly tapped into our collective consumer conscience to deliver a novel of our times -- and a heroine who grows stronger every time she weakens. Becky Bloomwood's hilarious schemes to pay back her debts are as endearing as they are desperate. Her "confessions" are the perfect pick-me-up when life is hanging in the (bank) balance.

Thanks again, koland! If you haven't read the book yet, and enjoy chick lit, definitely pick it up! (and please don't hold the movie against the book - the books are way better!)

koland · 08-04-2010, 10:39 PM

Thanks for posting bookworm! If the mod wants, I can do a sticky thread a month (like in the Kindle forum) for free and bargain books here. I didn't post that one, since there was only a thread for free books. Also, do you want books that are from other stores that use epub, but can be read on the nook? For example, I have two, tonight, that are in the Sony store.

koland · 08-04-2010, 10:48 PM

Two free in the Sony store:

The Lovers ($12.99 Kindle), by Vendela Vida

Book Description
Twenty-eight years ago, Peter and Yvonne honeymooned in the beautiful coastal village of DatÇa, Turkey. Now Yvonne is a widow, her twin children grown. Hoping to immerse herself in memories of a happier time—as well as sand and sea—Yvonne returns to DatÇa. But her plans for a restorative week in Turkey are quickly complicated. Instead of comforting her, her memories begin to trouble her. Her vacation rental's landlord and his bold, intriguing wife—who share a curious marital arrangement—become constant uninvited visitors, in and out of the house.

Overwhelmed by the past and unexpectedly dislocated by the environment, Yvonne clings to a newfound friendship with Ahmet, a local boy who makes his living as a shell collector. With Ahmet as her guide, Yvonne gains new insight into the lives of her own adult children, and she finally begins to enjoy the shimmering sea and relaxed pace of the Turkish coast. But a devastating accident upends her delicate peace and throws her life into chaos—and her sense of self into turmoil.

With the crystalline voice and psychological nuance for which her work has been so celebrated, Vendela Vida has crafted another unforgettable heroine in a stunningly beautiful and mysterious landscape.

Click HERE for the free book.

The Rational Optimist ($12.99 Kindle), by Matt Ridley, is free in the Sony bookstore.

Book Description
Life is getting better—and at an accelerating rate. Food availability, income, and life span are up; disease, child mortality, and violence are down — all across the globe. Though the world is far from perfect, necessities and luxuries alike are getting cheaper; population growth is slowing; Africa is following Asia out of poverty; the Internet, the mobile phone, and container shipping are enriching people’s lives as never before. The pessimists who dominate public discourse insist that we will soon reach a turning point and things will start to get worse. But they have been saying this for two hundred years.

Yet Matt Ridley does more than describe how things are getting better. He explains why. Prosperity comes from everybody working for everybody else. The habit of exchange and specialization—which started more than 100,000 years ago—has created a collective brain that sets human living standards on a rising trend. The mutual dependence, trust, and sharing that result are causes for hope, not despair.

This bold book covers the entire sweep of human history, from the Stone Age to the Internet, from the stagnation of the Ming empire to the invention of the steam engine, from the population explosion to the likely consequences of climate change. It ends with a confident assertion that thanks to the ceaseless capacity of the human race for innovative change, and despite inevitable disasters along the way, the twenty-first century will see both human prosperity and natural biodiversity enhanced. Acute, refreshing, and revelatory, The Rational Optimist will change your way of thinking about the world for the better.

Click HERE for the free book.

koland · 08-05-2010, 10:33 AM

Who Is Mark Twain? ($9.99 Kindle), by Mark Twain, is free in the Sony store. No doubt the individual stories are in the public domain, but this collection from Harper-Collins should be well done.

Book Description
Who Is Mark Twain? is a collection of twenty six wickedly funny, thought-provoking essays by Samuel Langhorne Clemens—aka Mark Twain—none of which have ever been published before, and all of which are completely contemporary, amazingly relevant, and gut-bustingly hilarious.

Click HERE for the free book (most likely US only).

koland · 08-05-2010, 04:03 PM

A special edition of The Burnt House , the sixteenth in Faye Kellerman's Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series, is available for pre-order at $1.99. You can get a sample of the book from the original edition, but be sure not to order that one, as it is full price ($7.99). Some "bonus material" is apparently contained in this special edition and, although there is no indication on the product page, I'd bet that it is an excerpt from her newest, Hangman, which released this month. No sign of this deal in any of the other major ebookstores, yet.

Book Description
At 8:15 in the morning, a small commuter plane carrying forty-seven passengers crashes into an apartment building in Granada Hills, California. Shock waves ripple through Los Angeles, as L.A.P.D. Lieutenant Peter Decker works overtime to calm rampant fears of a 9/11-type terror attack. But a grisly mystery lives inside the plane's charred and twisted wreckage: the unidentified bodies of four extra travelers. And there is no sign of an airline employee who was supposedly on the catastrophic flight.

Decker and his wife, Rina, have personal reasons for being profoundly shaken by the tragedy, since the "accident" occurred frighteningly close to their daughter Hannah's school. Luckily, their child and her schoolmates escaped unscathed. But the fate of the unaccounted-for flight attendant—twenty-eight-year-old Roseanne Dresden—remains a question mark more than a month after the horrific event, when the young woman's irate stepfather calls, insisting that she was never onboard the doomed plane. Instead, he claims, she was most likely murdered by her abusive, unfaithful husband. But why, then, was Roseanne's name included on the passenger list?

Under intense pressure from the department to come up with answers, Decker launches an investigation that carries him down a path of tragic history, dangerous secrets, and deadly lies—and leads him to the corpse of a three-decades-missing murder victim. And as the jagged pieces slowly fall into place, a frightening picture begins to form: a mind-searing portrait of unimaginable evil that will challenge Decker's and Rina's own beliefs about guilt and innocence and justice.

Combining relentless suspense with intense, multilayered human drama, The Burnt House is Faye Kellerman at her mesmerizing best.

spec · 08-06-2010, 12:55 PM

http://bn.com/freelibrary

This week offers free:
Babbitt (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
Candide (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
Lady Chatterley's Lover (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
Leaves of Grass (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
Madame Bovary (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
Moll Flanders (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
Sons and Lovers (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
Jungle (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
The Scarlet Letter (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
Women in Love (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)

All will be probably remain free until next friday.

Additional as part of Free Fridays:
Shadow Bound by Erin Kellison
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/books/e/9781428508903

koland · 08-07-2010, 01:23 AM

Shadow Bound ($5.59 Kindle), by Erin Kellison, the first in her Shadow series (and only released this past June), is free to download in the Barnes & Noble store.

Book Description
When a demon breaches the barrier between death and life, the salvation of the world depends on the passions of a beautiful banshee just coming into her power and the man willing to use her to avenge the destruction of his family.

Death
Some people will do anything to avoid it. Even trade their immortal souls for endless existence.

Wraiths
Secretly, inexorably, they are infiltrating our world, sucking the essence out of unsuspecting victims with their hideous parody of a kiss.

Segue
Adam Thorne founded the Institute to study and destroy his monster of a brother, but the key to its success is held in the pale, slender hand of a woman on the run. There is something hauntingly different about Talia O’Brien, her unknowing sensuality, her uncanny way of slipping into Shadow.

Twilight
This is the place between life and what comes after - a dark forest of fantasy, filled with beauty, peril, mystery. And Talia is about to open the door.

Click HERE to get the free book.

spec · 08-14-2010, 12:55 AM

Free today:

free fridays:
http://bookclubs.barnesandnoble.com/...ys/ba-p/605341

Elisabeth Naughton - Marked

also free until next friday

http://www.bn.com/freelibrary

Maggie by Stephen Crane
Sentimental Education (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Gustave Flaubert
Sister Carrie (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Theodore Dreiser
Wings of the Dove (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Henry James
Agnes Grey (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Anne Bronte
The Life of Charlotte Bronte (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Elizabeth Gaskell
Beautiful and Damned (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by F. Scott
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Thomas Hardy
Les Miserables (abridged) (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Victor Hugo
Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Emily Dickinson
This Side of Paradise (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ethan Frome & Selected Stories (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Edith Wharton

koland · 08-16-2010, 10:54 PM

Billy Boyle ($7.51 Kindle), by James R. Benn, the first in the Billy Boyle World War II Mystery series, is free from Barnes and Noble tonight.

Book Description
What’s a twenty-two-year-old Irish American cop who’s never been out of Massachusetts before doing at Beardsley Hall, an English country house, having lunch with King Haakon of Norway? Billy Boyle himself wonders. Back home in Southie, he’d barely made detective when war was declared. Unwilling to fight—and perhaps die—for England, he was relieved when his mother wangled a job for him on the staff of a general married to her distant cousin. But the general turns out to be Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose headquarters are in London, which is undergoing the Blitz. And Uncle Ike wants Billy to be his personal investigator.

Billy is dispatched to the seat of the Norwegian government in exile. Operation Jupiter, the impending invasion of Norway, is being planned, but it is feared that there is a German spy amongst the Norwegians.

Billy doubts his own abilities, with good reason. A theft and two murders test his investigative powers, but Billy proves to be a better detective than he or anyone else expected.

Click HERE to get the free book.

spec · 08-20-2010, 12:12 AM

http://bn.com/freelibrary

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Daisy Miller and Washington Square by Henry James
Nana by Emile Zola
Bleak House by Charles Dickens

koland · 08-20-2010, 10:23 AM

The Pawn ($7.99 Kindle), by Steven James, the first in The Patrick Bowers Files trilogy, is free from Barnes and Noble today. This book was free in the Kindle store last November.

Book Description
As an environmental criminologist, Patrick Bowers uses 21st-century geospatial technology to analyze the time and space in which a crime takes place. Using an array of factors, Bowers can pinpoint clues to solve the toughest of cases. Bowers's skills have made him one of the FBI's top agents-until now.

Called to the mountains of North Carolina to consult on a gruesome murder, Bowers finds himself in a deadly duel with a serial killer who seems to transcend Patrick's analytical powers. Forced to track the killer's horrific murders one by one, Bowers finds his techniques and instincts are put to the ultimate test...

Click HERE for the free book.

koland · 08-22-2010, 10:00 PM

Three books by M. W. Phelps are free tonight in the Kobo bookstore. Be sure to add them to your library, as well as downloading them, if you want to keep access after they go back up in price.

Perfect Poison ($4.16 Kindle)

Serial Killer On Ward C
In Northampton, Massachusetts, at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Kristen Gilbert was known as a hardworking, dedicated nurse-so why were her patients dying? So many emergencies and sudden deaths occurred while Kristen made her rounds on Ward C that her colleagues jokingly called her the "Angel of Death." Yet most people didn't suspect the horrifying truth behind the nickname: that Gilbert's polished facade concealed a scheming, manipulative liar and homicidal, narcissistic sociopath.

Lethal Cure
From August 1995 through February 1996, Gilbert dealt out wholesale death. Her victims were helpless patients who trusted her as a caregiver, only to learn too late that she was a killer, her weapon a drug capable of causing fatal heart attacks. But she got away with murder until three of her fellow nurses could no longer ignore the proliferation of deadly "coincidences" on Gilbert's watch. Investigators believe Kristen Gilbert may have been responsible for as many as 40 deaths. As the law closed in, she struck back, faking suicide attempts, harassing witnesses, stalking her ex-boyfriend, and terrorizing the hospital with bomb threats. In March 2001, after being found guilty of four counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder, Angel of Death Kristen Gilbert was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Sixteen Pages Of Shocking Photos

Deadly Secrets ($4.47 Kindle)

Behind A Veil Of Tranquility. . .
In the lovely town of Pleasant Valley in upstate New York, the maple trees were ablaze with fall's blood-red color. The air was crisp. And a woman named Susan Fassett left her weekly choir practice at a church-when a killer emerged from the shadows and mercilessly gunned her down. . ..

Was A Realm Of Sexual Depravity Where Murder Was The Last Sin.
Stunned, the police immediately suspected Susan Fassett's husband and surrounded his home. They couldn't have been more wrong. Susan Fassett had been living a secret life, entangled in a passionate web of dominance, lesbian sex, betrayal-and a depraved plan for murder. After detectives untangled a web of secrets and corruption hidden in plain sight, the town of Pleasant Valley would be rocked again when a shocking trial exposed the whole sordid truth. . .

Cruel Death ($4.47 Kindle)

A Life Gone Murderously Wrong. . .
Erika Sifrit was once a high school basketball star and an honors student. Then she married Navy SEAL Benjamin Sifrit and began taking drugs, hoarding diamonds, and turning brutally bad. Some say Erika was abused by "B.J." Some say she pulled his strings. But by the time they reached Ocean City, MD, Erika was packing a gun in her Coach bag and was caught in the grips of new American death ride. . .

A Trail Of Blood And Body Parts. . .
In the sun-kissed, sea-swept resort town of Ocean City, a loving couple crossed paths with Erika and B.J. Sifrit. Shortly thereafter, Erika was wearing a bloody wedding ring on her necklace, while what remained of two dismembered vacationers was buried in a Delaware landfill, and a modern-day "Bonnie and Clyde" story was being written-a lurid tale of madness, money, sex and murder....

Here are the links on Kobo:

Perfect Poison
Cruel Death
Deadly Secrets

koland · 08-23-2010, 01:26 AM

More free books from two authors, all on Kobo.

Two free books from Kevin O'Brien:

The Next To Die ($3.19 Kindle)

Everyone Has Something To Hide...
The virile, all-American husband. The brainy golden girl. The happily-wed bi-coastal couple.

Someone Is Watching...
Someone who has uncovered their darkest secrets. Someone who is hell-bent on making them pay for their sins...

No One Suspects The Truth...
Now there is no escaping the shadowy jury that watches their every move. Infiltrates every part of their lives. Stalking. Judging. Condemning. Punishment will be swift...severe...final...death.

Watch Them Die ($3.19 Kindle)

Book Description
Different Victims - The blonde film student. The brunette paralegal. The red-headed artist.Different Methods - The first victim is strangled. The second is stabbed repeatedly. And the third is pushed out of an open window.Same Madman - In the city of Seattle, no single woman is safe. From afar he watches the ones he so desperately wants. Willing to do whatever it takes to prove his love. But should his latest obsession betray him, he will have no choice but to punish her. By finding new and brutal ways to teach her a lesson. And by finally loving her - to death...

Links to the books at Kobo:
Watch Them Die
The Next To Die

Five books free from John Lutz:

The Ex ($3.19 Kindle) is a stand-alone novel, originally published in 1996

What Deirdre Wants, Deirdre Gets
It's so exciting to start over. Deidre Jones should know, since she's doing just that. The first step was getting out of the mental hospital in St. Louis. There were those who tried to stop her. . .so she had to make them understand: Deirdre gets what she wants. And she wants her ex-husband, David, back. He's got a new wife and a little boy. He's forgotten what he and Deirdre once shared. But it will be easy enough to remind him now that she's moved in upstairs. . .

No Matter Who Has To Die.
For David, his time with Deirdre was a dark chapter he was glad to see end. Their marriage was based on dangerous, obsessive passion-and when David left, he never looked back. He'd hoped it was the same for Deirdre, but her "neighborly" behavior soon proves him wrong. She's doing her best to manipulate herself back into his life: through his child, through seduction. . .through murder. Because Deirdre will do anything to get what can never be hers-and now David is the only one who can stop her. . .

Darker Than Night ($3.19 Kindle) is the first in the Frank Quinn series.

Darker Than Night
A killer dubbed "The Night Prowler" has turned the city that doesn't sleep into a town kept awake by terror. Unseen, he enters couples' homes. Unsuspected, he lingers until the perfect moment arrives. He leaves "gifts" for his victims-before taking their lives.

Enter ex-homicide cop Frank Quinn, still reeling in the wake of an elaborate setup that ended his career. For Quinn, this isn't just any job-it's a last chance to salvage his reputation. As the investigation proceeds, the murderer loses no time stalking new prey: a loan officer and her high-earning husband; a couple who made a killing in the stock market; a pretty actress and her prosperous lover.

With the body count rising, it's up to Quinn to unlock the mystery of a madman's past and end his bloody reign. Quinn's got his work cut out-because in a city the size of New York, any one of 8 million faces could be that of a killer-or his next target. . .

The Night Caller ($4.47 Kindle) is the first in the Night series.

Young, Beautiful...And Dead
When he stumbles across his only daughter's corpse in a deserted beachfront bungalow, devastated Ezekiel Cooper vows to find her murderer. What the former NYPD detective doesn't know is that there have been other victims. Women in Queens, Sarasota, Seattle. Women who seemingly had nothing in common, aside from a grisly fate at the hands of a chillingly clever stranger.

Bent on unmasking the shadowy culprit, Coop soon crosses paths with Maeve Callahan, who's determined to lure in her sister's killer by transforming herself into someone just like her sister. But by changing her appearance, her job, even her routine, Maeve's plan may be working too well. Because lurking in the shadows, just as Coop feared, the elusive serial killer known as the Night Caller watches her every move. . .preparing to pounce again.

The Night Watcher ($4.47 Kindle) is the second in the Night series.

Book Description
Someone is killing wealthy Manhattanites. One by one, the victims are discovered in luxurious high-rise apartments. Bound, gagged-brutally murdered in the "safety" of their own homes, by someone whose modus operandi is as horrifying as anything NYPD Detectives Ben Stack and Rica Lopez have ever seen.

As Stack and Lopez investigate the cruel deaths, they have no idea that they are being watched from the shadows-observed by a cunning murderer picking up all the clues necessary to stay one step ahead of the police while perfecting a deadly craft. And when a pattern slowly emerges, the detectives realize that the killings aren't the random acts of a maniac, but the personal campaign of someone bent on retribution. . .someone who's been watching closely and knows their case too well.

Someone whose vengeance will burn forever.

The Night Spider ($4.47 Kindle) and Night Victims ($3.19 Kindle) are actually the same novel, published under two different titles (The Night Spider was the original title). Download either or both; this is the third in the Night series.

All Wrapped Up And Ready To Die
Each woman slept in her Manhattan high-rise, behind securely locked doors. Each was sealed alive in her bedsheets and stabbed repeatedly. Each bled to a slow end. Mouths frozen in silent screams tell little to retired NYPD Captain Thomas Horn and his detectives.

Even a vet like Horn is baffled. Nothing connects the slain women except cruel murder by a cunning intruder. Sparse clues point to a wall-crawling, glass-cutting predator who enters bedroom windows with calculated ease. But as the killer grows bolder, Horn's worst fears are about to come true. Because somewhere in the dark, the Night Spider prepares to take a new victim-and this one won't be a stranger. In a desperate race against time, Horn must snare a psychopath in his own tangled web. . .or die trying.

Links to the books at Kobo:
The Ex
Darker Than Night
The Night Caller
The Night Watcher
The Night Spider
Night Victims

jhempel24 · 08-24-2010, 01:04 AM

when I click on the download ePub link in the Kobo, I just get a file called

URL.ascm, I don't get the actual file, anyone else have this problem?

08-20-2010, 12:12 AM	#56
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08-03-2010, 05:00 PM	#46
koland Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,560 Karma: 8033155 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: TN, USA Device: kindle(all), nook, nookcolor, Sony, Kobo, epic, iphone, iPad, pc	The Cossack, by L. Ron Hubbard, is free in the Barnes and Noble store right now. Book Description Young and handsome Lieutenant Mertz Komroff thinks he has left his past behind when he enlists in the Chinese army—only to stumble onto the vengeful Duchess he had spurned in pre-revolutionary Russia. And she has nothing but his immediate death in mind...

08-03-2010, 05:17 PM	#47
bookwerm Zealot Posts: 112 Karma: 430 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Studio City, CA Device: B&N Nook	koland posted this over in the deals forum, but since it's a popular series, thought it may be a good idea to post here, too: Confessions of a Shopaholic, by Sophie Kinsella, is 99 cents this morning at B&N. Book Description Rebecca Bloomwood just hit rock bottom. But she's never looked better.... Becky Bloomwood has a fabulous flat in London's trendiest neighborhood, a troupe of glamorous socialite friends, and a closet brimming with the season's must-haves. The only trouble is that she can't actually afford it -- not any of it. Her job writing at Successful Savings not only bores her to tears, it doesn't pay much at all. And lately Becky's been chased by dismal letters from Visa and the Endwich Bank -- letters with large red sums she can't bear to read -- and they're getting ever harder to ignore. She tries cutting back; she even tries making more money. But none of her efforts succeeds. Becky's only consolation is to buy herself something ... just a little something... Finally a story arises that Becky actually cares about, and her front-page article catalyzes a chain of events that will transform her life--and the lives of those around her--forever. Sophie Kinsella has brilliantly tapped into our collective consumer conscience to deliver a novel of our times -- and a heroine who grows stronger every time she weakens. Becky Bloomwood's hilarious schemes to pay back her debts are as endearing as they are desperate. Her "confessions" are the perfect pick-me-up when life is hanging in the (bank) balance. Thanks again, koland! If you haven't read the book yet, and enjoy chick lit, definitely pick it up! (and please don't hold the movie against the book - the books are way better!)

08-04-2010, 10:39 PM	#48
koland Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,560 Karma: 8033155 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: TN, USA Device: kindle(all), nook, nookcolor, Sony, Kobo, epic, iphone, iPad, pc	Thanks for posting bookworm! If the mod wants, I can do a sticky thread a month (like in the Kindle forum) for free and bargain books here. I didn't post that one, since there was only a thread for free books. Also, do you want books that are from other stores that use epub, but can be read on the nook? For example, I have two, tonight, that are in the Sony store.

08-04-2010, 10:48 PM	#49
koland Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,560 Karma: 8033155 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: TN, USA Device: kindle(all), nook, nookcolor, Sony, Kobo, epic, iphone, iPad, pc	Two free in the Sony store: The Lovers ($12.99 Kindle), by Vendela Vida Book Description Twenty-eight years ago, Peter and Yvonne honeymooned in the beautiful coastal village of DatÇa, Turkey. Now Yvonne is a widow, her twin children grown. Hoping to immerse herself in memories of a happier time—as well as sand and sea—Yvonne returns to DatÇa. But her plans for a restorative week in Turkey are quickly complicated. Instead of comforting her, her memories begin to trouble her. Her vacation rental's landlord and his bold, intriguing wife—who share a curious marital arrangement—become constant uninvited visitors, in and out of the house. Overwhelmed by the past and unexpectedly dislocated by the environment, Yvonne clings to a newfound friendship with Ahmet, a local boy who makes his living as a shell collector. With Ahmet as her guide, Yvonne gains new insight into the lives of her own adult children, and she finally begins to enjoy the shimmering sea and relaxed pace of the Turkish coast. But a devastating accident upends her delicate peace and throws her life into chaos—and her sense of self into turmoil. With the crystalline voice and psychological nuance for which her work has been so celebrated, Vendela Vida has crafted another unforgettable heroine in a stunningly beautiful and mysterious landscape. Click HERE for the free book. The Rational Optimist ($12.99 Kindle), by Matt Ridley, is free in the Sony bookstore. Book Description Life is getting better—and at an accelerating rate. Food availability, income, and life span are up; disease, child mortality, and violence are down — all across the globe. Though the world is far from perfect, necessities and luxuries alike are getting cheaper; population growth is slowing; Africa is following Asia out of poverty; the Internet, the mobile phone, and container shipping are enriching people’s lives as never before. The pessimists who dominate public discourse insist that we will soon reach a turning point and things will start to get worse. But they have been saying this for two hundred years. Yet Matt Ridley does more than describe how things are getting better. He explains why. Prosperity comes from everybody working for everybody else. The habit of exchange and specialization—which started more than 100,000 years ago—has created a collective brain that sets human living standards on a rising trend. The mutual dependence, trust, and sharing that result are causes for hope, not despair. This bold book covers the entire sweep of human history, from the Stone Age to the Internet, from the stagnation of the Ming empire to the invention of the steam engine, from the population explosion to the likely consequences of climate change. It ends with a confident assertion that thanks to the ceaseless capacity of the human race for innovative change, and despite inevitable disasters along the way, the twenty-first century will see both human prosperity and natural biodiversity enhanced. Acute, refreshing, and revelatory, The Rational Optimist will change your way of thinking about the world for the better. Click HERE for the free book.

08-05-2010, 10:33 AM	#50
koland Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,560 Karma: 8033155 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: TN, USA Device: kindle(all), nook, nookcolor, Sony, Kobo, epic, iphone, iPad, pc	Who Is Mark Twain? ($9.99 Kindle), by Mark Twain, is free in the Sony store. No doubt the individual stories are in the public domain, but this collection from Harper-Collins should be well done. Book Description Who Is Mark Twain? is a collection of twenty six wickedly funny, thought-provoking essays by Samuel Langhorne Clemens—aka Mark Twain—none of which have ever been published before, and all of which are completely contemporary, amazingly relevant, and gut-bustingly hilarious. Click HERE for the free book (most likely US only).

08-05-2010, 04:03 PM	#51
koland Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,560 Karma: 8033155 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: TN, USA Device: kindle(all), nook, nookcolor, Sony, Kobo, epic, iphone, iPad, pc	A special edition of The Burnt House , the sixteenth in Faye Kellerman's Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series, is available for pre-order at $1.99. You can get a sample of the book from the original edition, but be sure not to order that one, as it is full price ($7.99). Some "bonus material" is apparently contained in this special edition and, although there is no indication on the product page, I'd bet that it is an excerpt from her newest, Hangman, which released this month. No sign of this deal in any of the other major ebookstores, yet. Book Description At 8:15 in the morning, a small commuter plane carrying forty-seven passengers crashes into an apartment building in Granada Hills, California. Shock waves ripple through Los Angeles, as L.A.P.D. Lieutenant Peter Decker works overtime to calm rampant fears of a 9/11-type terror attack. But a grisly mystery lives inside the plane's charred and twisted wreckage: the unidentified bodies of four extra travelers. And there is no sign of an airline employee who was supposedly on the catastrophic flight. Decker and his wife, Rina, have personal reasons for being profoundly shaken by the tragedy, since the "accident" occurred frighteningly close to their daughter Hannah's school. Luckily, their child and her schoolmates escaped unscathed. But the fate of the unaccounted-for flight attendant—twenty-eight-year-old Roseanne Dresden—remains a question mark more than a month after the horrific event, when the young woman's irate stepfather calls, insisting that she was never onboard the doomed plane. Instead, he claims, she was most likely murdered by her abusive, unfaithful husband. But why, then, was Roseanne's name included on the passenger list? Under intense pressure from the department to come up with answers, Decker launches an investigation that carries him down a path of tragic history, dangerous secrets, and deadly lies—and leads him to the corpse of a three-decades-missing murder victim. And as the jagged pieces slowly fall into place, a frightening picture begins to form: a mind-searing portrait of unimaginable evil that will challenge Decker's and Rina's own beliefs about guilt and innocence and justice. Combining relentless suspense with intense, multilayered human drama, The Burnt House is Faye Kellerman at her mesmerizing best.

08-06-2010, 12:55 PM	#52
spec Zealot Posts: 107 Karma: 4160 Join Date: Feb 2010 Device: nook	http://bn.com/freelibrary This week offers free: Babbitt (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Candide (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Lady Chatterley's Lover (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Leaves of Grass (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Madame Bovary (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Moll Flanders (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Sons and Lovers (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Jungle (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) The Scarlet Letter (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Uncle Tom's Cabin (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) Women in Love (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) All will be probably remain free until next friday. Additional as part of Free Fridays: Shadow Bound by Erin Kellison http://search.barnesandnoble.com/books/e/9781428508903

08-07-2010, 01:23 AM	#53
koland Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,560 Karma: 8033155 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: TN, USA Device: kindle(all), nook, nookcolor, Sony, Kobo, epic, iphone, iPad, pc	Shadow Bound ($5.59 Kindle), by Erin Kellison, the first in her Shadow series (and only released this past June), is free to download in the Barnes & Noble store. Book Description When a demon breaches the barrier between death and life, the salvation of the world depends on the passions of a beautiful banshee just coming into her power and the man willing to use her to avenge the destruction of his family. Death Some people will do anything to avoid it. Even trade their immortal souls for endless existence. Wraiths Secretly, inexorably, they are infiltrating our world, sucking the essence out of unsuspecting victims with their hideous parody of a kiss. Segue Adam Thorne founded the Institute to study and destroy his monster of a brother, but the key to its success is held in the pale, slender hand of a woman on the run. There is something hauntingly different about Talia O’Brien, her unknowing sensuality, her uncanny way of slipping into Shadow. Twilight This is the place between life and what comes after - a dark forest of fantasy, filled with beauty, peril, mystery. And Talia is about to open the door. Click HERE to get the free book.

08-14-2010, 12:55 AM	#54
spec Zealot Posts: 107 Karma: 4160 Join Date: Feb 2010 Device: nook	Free today: free fridays: http://bookclubs.barnesandnoble.com/...ys/ba-p/605341 Elisabeth Naughton - Marked also free until next friday http://www.bn.com/freelibrary Maggie by Stephen Crane Sentimental Education (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Gustave Flaubert Sister Carrie (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Theodore Dreiser Wings of the Dove (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Henry James Agnes Grey (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Anne Bronte The Life of Charlotte Bronte (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Elizabeth Gaskell Beautiful and Damned (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by F. Scott Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Thomas Hardy Les Miserables (abridged) (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Victor Hugo Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Emily Dickinson This Side of Paradise (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by F. Scott Fitzgerald Ethan Frome & Selected Stories (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Edith Wharton

08-16-2010, 10:54 PM	#55
koland Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,560 Karma: 8033155 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: TN, USA Device: kindle(all), nook, nookcolor, Sony, Kobo, epic, iphone, iPad, pc	*Billy Boyle* ($7.51 Kindle), by James R. Benn, the first in the Billy Boyle World War II Mystery series, is free from Barnes and Noble tonight. Book Description What’s a twenty-two-year-old Irish American cop who’s never been out of Massachusetts before doing at Beardsley Hall, an English country house, having lunch with King Haakon of Norway? Billy Boyle himself wonders. Back home in Southie, he’d barely made detective when war was declared. Unwilling to fight—and perhaps die—for England, he was relieved when his mother wangled a job for him on the staff of a general married to her distant cousin. But the general turns out to be Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose headquarters are in London, which is undergoing the Blitz. And Uncle Ike wants Billy to be his personal investigator. Billy is dispatched to the seat of the Norwegian government in exile. Operation Jupiter, the impending invasion of Norway, is being planned, but it is feared that there is a German spy amongst the Norwegians. Billy doubts his own abilities, with good reason. A theft and two murders test his investigative powers, but Billy proves to be a better detective than he or anyone else expected. Click HERE to get the free book.

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08-20-2010, 10:23 AM	#57
koland Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,560 Karma: 8033155 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: TN, USA Device: kindle(all), nook, nookcolor, Sony, Kobo, epic, iphone, iPad, pc	The Pawn ($7.99 Kindle), by Steven James, the first in The Patrick Bowers Files trilogy, is free from Barnes and Noble today. This book was free in the Kindle store last November. Book Description As an environmental criminologist, Patrick Bowers uses 21st-century geospatial technology to analyze the time and space in which a crime takes place. Using an array of factors, Bowers can pinpoint clues to solve the toughest of cases. Bowers's skills have made him one of the FBI's top agents-until now. Called to the mountains of North Carolina to consult on a gruesome murder, Bowers finds himself in a deadly duel with a serial killer who seems to transcend Patrick's analytical powers. Forced to track the killer's horrific murders one by one, Bowers finds his techniques and instincts are put to the ultimate test... Click HERE for the free book.

08-22-2010, 10:00 PM	#58
koland Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,560 Karma: 8033155 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: TN, USA Device: kindle(all), nook, nookcolor, Sony, Kobo, epic, iphone, iPad, pc	Three books by M. W. Phelps are free tonight in the Kobo bookstore. Be sure to add them to your library, as well as downloading them, if you want to keep access after they go back up in price. *Perfect Poison* ($4.16 Kindle) Serial Killer On Ward C In Northampton, Massachusetts, at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Kristen Gilbert was known as a hardworking, dedicated nurse-so why were her patients dying? So many emergencies and sudden deaths occurred while Kristen made her rounds on Ward C that her colleagues jokingly called her the "Angel of Death." Yet most people didn't suspect the horrifying truth behind the nickname: that Gilbert's polished facade concealed a scheming, manipulative liar and homicidal, narcissistic sociopath. Lethal Cure From August 1995 through February 1996, Gilbert dealt out wholesale death. Her victims were helpless patients who trusted her as a caregiver, only to learn too late that she was a killer, her weapon a drug capable of causing fatal heart attacks. But she got away with murder until three of her fellow nurses could no longer ignore the proliferation of deadly "coincidences" on Gilbert's watch. Investigators believe Kristen Gilbert may have been responsible for as many as 40 deaths. As the law closed in, she struck back, faking suicide attempts, harassing witnesses, stalking her ex-boyfriend, and terrorizing the hospital with bomb threats. In March 2001, after being found guilty of four counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder, Angel of Death Kristen Gilbert was sentenced to life imprisonment. Sixteen Pages Of Shocking Photos *Deadly Secrets* ($4.47 Kindle) Behind A Veil Of Tranquility. . . In the lovely town of Pleasant Valley in upstate New York, the maple trees were ablaze with fall's blood-red color. The air was crisp. And a woman named Susan Fassett left her weekly choir practice at a church-when a killer emerged from the shadows and mercilessly gunned her down. . .. Was A Realm Of Sexual Depravity Where Murder Was The Last Sin. Stunned, the police immediately suspected Susan Fassett's husband and surrounded his home. They couldn't have been more wrong. Susan Fassett had been living a secret life, entangled in a passionate web of dominance, lesbian sex, betrayal-and a depraved plan for murder. After detectives untangled a web of secrets and corruption hidden in plain sight, the town of Pleasant Valley would be rocked again when a shocking trial exposed the whole sordid truth. . . *Cruel Death* ($4.47 Kindle) A Life Gone Murderously Wrong. . . Erika Sifrit was once a high school basketball star and an honors student. Then she married Navy SEAL Benjamin Sifrit and began taking drugs, hoarding diamonds, and turning brutally bad. Some say Erika was abused by "B.J." Some say she pulled his strings. But by the time they reached Ocean City, MD, Erika was packing a gun in her Coach bag and was caught in the grips of new American death ride. . . A Trail Of Blood And Body Parts. . . In the sun-kissed, sea-swept resort town of Ocean City, a loving couple crossed paths with Erika and B.J. Sifrit. Shortly thereafter, Erika was wearing a bloody wedding ring on her necklace, while what remained of two dismembered vacationers was buried in a Delaware landfill, and a modern-day "Bonnie and Clyde" story was being written-a lurid tale of madness, money, sex and murder.... Here are the links on Kobo: Perfect Poison Cruel Death Deadly Secrets

08-23-2010, 01:26 AM	#59
koland Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,560 Karma: 8033155 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: TN, USA Device: kindle(all), nook, nookcolor, Sony, Kobo, epic, iphone, iPad, pc	More free books from two authors, all on Kobo. Two free books from Kevin O'Brien: *The Next To Die* ($3.19 Kindle) Everyone Has Something To Hide... The virile, all-American husband. The brainy golden girl. The happily-wed bi-coastal couple. Someone Is Watching... Someone who has uncovered their darkest secrets. Someone who is hell-bent on making them pay for their sins... No One Suspects The Truth... Now there is no escaping the shadowy jury that watches their every move. Infiltrates every part of their lives. Stalking. Judging. Condemning. Punishment will be swift...severe...final...death. *Watch Them Die* ($3.19 Kindle) Book Description Different Victims - The blonde film student. The brunette paralegal. The red-headed artist.Different Methods - The first victim is strangled. The second is stabbed repeatedly. And the third is pushed out of an open window.Same Madman - In the city of Seattle, no single woman is safe. From afar he watches the ones he so desperately wants. Willing to do whatever it takes to prove his love. But should his latest obsession betray him, he will have no choice but to punish her. By finding new and brutal ways to teach her a lesson. And by finally loving her - to death... Links to the books at Kobo: Watch Them Die The Next To Die Five books free from John Lutz: *The Ex* ($3.19 Kindle) is a stand-alone novel, originally published in 1996 What Deirdre Wants, Deirdre Gets It's so exciting to start over. Deidre Jones should know, since she's doing just that. The first step was getting out of the mental hospital in St. Louis. There were those who tried to stop her. . .so she had to make them understand: Deirdre gets what she wants. And she wants her ex-husband, David, back. He's got a new wife and a little boy. He's forgotten what he and Deirdre once shared. But it will be easy enough to remind him now that she's moved in upstairs. . . No Matter Who Has To Die. For David, his time with Deirdre was a dark chapter he was glad to see end. Their marriage was based on dangerous, obsessive passion-and when David left, he never looked back. He'd hoped it was the same for Deirdre, but her "neighborly" behavior soon proves him wrong. She's doing her best to manipulate herself back into his life: through his child, through seduction. . .through murder. Because Deirdre will do anything to get what can never be hers-and now David is the only one who can stop her. . . *Darker Than Night* ($3.19 Kindle) is the first in the Frank Quinn series. Darker Than Night A killer dubbed "The Night Prowler" has turned the city that doesn't sleep into a town kept awake by terror. Unseen, he enters couples' homes. Unsuspected, he lingers until the perfect moment arrives. He leaves "gifts" for his victims-before taking their lives. Enter ex-homicide cop Frank Quinn, still reeling in the wake of an elaborate setup that ended his career. For Quinn, this isn't just any job-it's a last chance to salvage his reputation. As the investigation proceeds, the murderer loses no time stalking new prey: a loan officer and her high-earning husband; a couple who made a killing in the stock market; a pretty actress and her prosperous lover. With the body count rising, it's up to Quinn to unlock the mystery of a madman's past and end his bloody reign. Quinn's got his work cut out-because in a city the size of New York, any one of 8 million faces could be that of a killer-or his next target. . . *The Night Caller* ($4.47 Kindle) is the first in the Night series. Young, Beautiful...And Dead When he stumbles across his only daughter's corpse in a deserted beachfront bungalow, devastated Ezekiel Cooper vows to find her murderer. What the former NYPD detective doesn't know is that there have been other victims. Women in Queens, Sarasota, Seattle. Women who seemingly had nothing in common, aside from a grisly fate at the hands of a chillingly clever stranger. Bent on unmasking the shadowy culprit, Coop soon crosses paths with Maeve Callahan, who's determined to lure in her sister's killer by transforming herself into someone just like her sister. But by changing her appearance, her job, even her routine, Maeve's plan may be working too well. Because lurking in the shadows, just as Coop feared, the elusive serial killer known as the Night Caller watches her every move. . .preparing to pounce again. *The Night Watcher* ($4.47 Kindle) is the second in the Night series. Book Description Someone is killing wealthy Manhattanites. One by one, the victims are discovered in luxurious high-rise apartments. Bound, gagged-brutally murdered in the "safety" of their own homes, by someone whose modus operandi is as horrifying as anything NYPD Detectives Ben Stack and Rica Lopez have ever seen. As Stack and Lopez investigate the cruel deaths, they have no idea that they are being watched from the shadows-observed by a cunning murderer picking up all the clues necessary to stay one step ahead of the police while perfecting a deadly craft. And when a pattern slowly emerges, the detectives realize that the killings aren't the random acts of a maniac, but the personal campaign of someone bent on retribution. . .someone who's been watching closely and knows their case too well. Someone whose vengeance will burn forever. *The Night Spider* ($4.47 Kindle) and *Night Victims* ($3.19 Kindle) are actually the same novel, published under two different titles (*The Night Spider* was the original title). Download either or both; this is the third in the Night series. All Wrapped Up And Ready To Die Each woman slept in her Manhattan high-rise, behind securely locked doors. Each was sealed alive in her bedsheets and stabbed repeatedly. Each bled to a slow end. Mouths frozen in silent screams tell little to retired NYPD Captain Thomas Horn and his detectives. Even a vet like Horn is baffled. Nothing connects the slain women except cruel murder by a cunning intruder. Sparse clues point to a wall-crawling, glass-cutting predator who enters bedroom windows with calculated ease. But as the killer grows bolder, Horn's worst fears are about to come true. Because somewhere in the dark, the Night Spider prepares to take a new victim-and this one won't be a stranger. In a desperate race against time, Horn must snare a psychopath in his own tangled web. . .or die trying. Links to the books at Kobo: The Ex Darker Than Night The Night Caller The Night Watcher The Night Spider Night Victims

08-24-2010, 01:04 AM	#60
jhempel24 Wizard Posts: 2,157 Karma: 7068605 Join Date: Dec 2007 Device: Amazon Kindle Paperwhite, B&N Nook Colro	when I click on the download ePub link in the Kobo, I just get a file called URL.ascm, I don't get the actual file, anyone else have this problem?