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FYI, more new Kindle game apps:

Alice in Crossed Up Land (A Matching Game for Kindle) by 7 Dragons ($0.99)

Product Description
Alice in Crossed Up Land is an object matching game that offers an alternative ride through Alice's world.

There are three modes:Match-3, Match-4, and Match-5. The Match-3 and Match-4 Modes have bombs and cups as rewards. Match-5 Mode has quotes from Alice in Wonderland. Match-5 Mode also has a magic ball that will match any object (once per type of object).

All objects are from Alice's world - mushrooms, Tea Cups, Hats, Croquet Balls, and more. Alice in Crossed Up Land is a fun matching game offering something for everyone, but particularly delightful for fans of the Lewis Carroll books.

Puzzle Baron's Cryptograms: Volume 3 (Code Breaking Puzzles for Kindle) by A Gamz ($2.99)

Product Description
Enjoy even more Cryptograms on your Kindle.

Test your deductive and word finding skills as you decode a series of letters to reveal a hidden message.

Puzzle Barron's Cryptograms Volume 3 contains one hundred quotes organized into popular categories like Artists, Athletes and Coaches, Comedians and Heads of State. Special features display the letters remaining in a puzzle and letter frequencies. Three difficulty levels will challenge beginners and seasoned players alike, and there is a hint option if you get stuck. When you finish the puzzle, you'll see a graph showing how your time compares to other people who have completed this puzzle and the number of hints taken if any.

If you like Cryptograms, this is for you!

Strimko Volume 2 (A Logic Game for Kindle) by Braintonik Games ($1.99)

Product Description
Strimko Volume 2 brings you a new collection of 120 puzzles to solve.

The object of the game is to place a set of numbers in rows or columns without repeating them in any row or column. Strimko adds a concept of "streams" that crisscross throughout the puzzle. With streams, you must consider not only the rows and columns, but also the streams, and make sure that each contains different numbers.

You can choose from four different difficulty levels. Each difficulty level increases the size of the grid you play on: "Easy" has a 4x4 grid, while the "Master" level challenges you with a 7x7 grid. Each of the four difficulty levels has 30 different puzzles, allowing for a total of 120 different puzzles to play. A hint function can also let you keep playing if you get stuck.

Challenge yourself and tease your brain as you master the logic required to solve Strimko puzzles!

If you like playing Sudoku you will love playing Strimko.

Wizard's Choice Volume 1 (A Text-Based Adventure for Kindle) by Sam Landstrom ($0.99)

Product Description
Fortune and glory or death? Your decisions make the difference in Wizard's Choice, a text-based adventure for Kindle.

Stay alive, manage your spell power, find treasure, and smite evil. Wizard's Choice is an adventure that will engross you in a storyline while allowing you to make the decisions that will determine your fate. Decisions you make early in the game will affect what happens to you and the choices you get to make later in the game.

Wizards Choice will track your health, manna, gold, and morale, so you should take care to manage each well. Your score and rank will be shown at the end, and you can replay as many times as you like to try and improve your rank and score.

So what will it be? Glory? Fortune? Death? (two out of three, perhaps?) Try making the Wizard's Choice today!

Wizard's Choice Volume 2 (A Text-Based Adventure for Kindle) by Sam Landstrom ($0.99)

Product Description
Ring City conspires against you, or so it seems. Who can you trust? And will you be able to survive long enough to get your vengeance? The answers are up to you in the second installment of the Wizard's Choice text-based adventure books.

Wizard's Choice Volume 2 is a book that puts you in the boots of a wizard in a medieval fantasy setting. Stay alive, manage your spell power, find treasure, and smite evil. Wizard's Choice volume 2 continues the adventure you began in Volume 1. The decisions you make early in the game still affect what happens to you and the choices you get to make later in the game.

Wizard's Choice will track your health, manna, gold, and morale, so you should take care to manage each well. Your score and rank will be shown at the end, and you can replay as many times as you like to try and improve your rank and score.

So how did glory, fortune and death work out for you last time? (Maybe you'd rather skip the death part this time around?) Continue making the Wizard's Choice today with Volume 2 and see where you can take the story!

Wizard's Choice Volume 3 (A Text-Based Adventure for Kindle) by Sam Landstrom ($0.99)

Product Description
Fortune and glory or death? Your decisions make the difference in the Version 3 climax of Wizard's Choice, a text-based adventure for Kindle.

Wizard's Choice is an interactive book series that puts you in the boots of a wizard in a medieval fantasy setting, and in this installment, an insidious force has infiltrated Ring City and you have caught its attention. What is the nature of this evil and how can you hope to prevail when even the city's greatest heroes fall before this dark power? Big-time evil smiting in this episode... And something a little unexpected!

Make the decisions that will determine your fate. Decisions you make early in the game will affect what happens to you and the choices you get to make later in the game. Wizard's Choice will track your health, manna, gold, and morale, so you should take care to manage each well. Your score and rank will be shown at the end, and you can replay as many times as you like to try and improve your rank and score.

Okay. Enough with the Glory and Fortune stuff. You'll be lucky to escape death in this, the third and final chapter of the Wizard's Choice adventure!

Word Search '60s (A Puzzle Game for Kindle) by Puzzazz ($1.99)

Product Description
Right on! Visit the psychedelic '60s through word search puzzles with this book of hand-crafted puzzles.

Highlighting everything from The Beatles, to tie-dye shirts, to the moon landing, these are some of the best puzzles you'll find anywhere.

Everything in this interactive puzzle book has been designed for ease of use and fun in solving. From the fast and easy navigation, to the eye-appealing highlighting, to the clear instructions and solving tips, no effort has been spared in making a great experience for puzzle lovers.

If you lived through the '60s, this book will kindle fond memories. If you're younger than that, you'll probably be surprised to learn how
the modern world of music, film, and politics was influenced by those times.

Dig It!

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The Biggest Loser Flavors of the World Cookbook: Take your taste buds on a global tour with more than 75 easy, healthy recipes for your favorite ethnic dishes by The Biggest Loser Experts and Cast, Melissa Roberson and Devin Alexander is $3.61 at the US Kindle store (still $10.07 at B&N) [Rodale].

Overview
Pizza. Huevos Rancheros. Pad Thai. Enchiladas. Some of America’s most-craved foods aren’t “American” in the traditional sense—they’re the international foods we love to order at restaurants or have delivered to our homes. But most renditions of these beloved ethnic dishes are full of fat and calories. How can dieters get the flavor they crave, without buying one of those reduced-calorie frozen meals that are full of salt and other preservatives?

Now, with The Biggest Loser Flavors of the World Cookbook, they can have their lasagna and eat it too! With more than 75 recipes for favorite ethnic staples as well as legendary regional American cuisine created by Chef Devin Alexander and The Biggest Loser contestants, healthy eating has never been more exciting.

Readers will discover how former contestants reinvented favorite dishes from their own cultures and regions to fit into their healthy new lifestyle, and will learn how to cut the calories and fat from America’s most-loved ethnic foods. And Chef Devin Alexander's reliably decadent creations save both money and calories, as any of these dishes can be made at home for a fraction of the cost of a restaurant or take-out meal.

The book will include recipes for meals, snacks, dinners, and desserts, and will cover a wide range of cuisines, from the down-home Southern classics to delicious Asian dishes, Mexican favorites, hearty Italian meals, and many others. The book will also include cooking tips from Chef Devin, weight loss advice from the contestants and trainers, and an overview of the Biggest Loser food plan.

The Biggest Loser Flavors of the World Cookbook will show readers how to expand their culinary horizons—without expanding their waistlines!

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Final Justice (Love Inspired Suspense Series) by Marta Perry from Harlequin Enterprises ($1.98) is the NOOK Daily Find (Dec 8)

Product Description

Mason Grant had no idea that that the woman he'd loved and so tragically lost had been pregnant. Or that he had a nine-year-old daughter, or that his child had been in the custody of the woman's murderer all these years. But he knows now, and now the only payback the cold-blooded murderer would get was final justice.

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The Suspicions of Mr Whicher A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale from Walker Books ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Dec 8) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Documenting the shocking investigation of a murder in London in 1860, Kate Summerscale's provocative work of nonfiction reads like a Victorian thriller, a brilliant and beautifully written narrative that doubles as the story of the birth of forensic science.

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FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal:

Final Justice (Love Inspired Suspense Series) by Marta Perry now also $1.98

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The Suspicions of Mr Whicher A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale from Walker Books ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Dec 8) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

This is a terrific book that I happily paid full price for earlier this year. It is a fascinating true account of the murder of a child in a remote manor house that reads like an Anne Perry mystery--one of the best books I read this year. I highly recommend!

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True Colors by Kristin Hannah is $2.99 (US Kindle, B&N) [Macmillian]

Product Description

True Colors is New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah’s most provocative, compelling, and heart-wrenching story yet. With the luminous writing and unforgettable characters that are her trademarks, she tells the story of three sisters whose once-solid world is broken apart by jealousy, betrayal, and the kind of passion that rarely comes along.

The Grey sisters have always been close. After their mother’s death, the girls banded together, becoming best friends. Their stern, disapproving father cares less about his children than about his reputation. To Henry Grey, appearances are everything, and years later, he still demands that his daughters reflect his standing in the community.

Winona, the oldest, needs her father’s approval most of all. An overweight bookworm who never felt at home on the sprawling horse ranch that has been in her family for three generations, she knows that she doesn’t have the qualities her father values. But as the best lawyer in town, she’s determined to someday find a way to prove her worth to him.

Aurora, the middle sister, is the family peacemaker. She brokers every dispute and tries to keep them all happy, even as she hides her own secret pain.

Vivi Ann is the undisputed star of the family. A stunningly beautiful dreamer with a heart as big as the ocean in front of her house, she is adored by all who know her. Everything comes easily for Vivi Ann, until a stranger comes to town. . . .

In a matter of moments, everything will change. The Grey sisters will be pitted against one another in ways that none could have imagined. Loyalties will be tested and secrets revealed, and a terrible, shocking crime will shatter both their family and their beloved town.

With breathtaking pace and penetrating emotional insight, True Colors is an unforgettable novel about sisters, rivalry, forgiveness, redemption---and ultimately, what it means to be a family.

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The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman from Bloomsbury (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Dec 9) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. Or as normal as a boy who lives in a graveyard, is raised and educated by ghosts and whose guardian belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead can be. But if Bod leaves the graveyard then he will come under attack from Jack, who has already killed Bod's family.

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Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn from Hyperion ($3.75) is the NOOK Daily Find (Dec 9)

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The founder of the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center here explains how anyone can use mindfulness--the art of living each moment fully as it happens--to reduce anxiety, achieve inner peace, and enrich life.

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All She Ever Wanted by Barbara Freethy ($1.49) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Dec 9) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Bestselling author Barbara Freethy departs from romantic comedy in this suspenseful story of three best friends and a terrible, life-changing secret.

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FYI, new Kindle game apps:

Word Defense (A Typing Game for Kindle) by ilMare Games ($1.99)

Product Description
Use your typing skills to destroy the incoming asteroids and save the world one word at a time!

Word Defense is a game that helps teach keyboard familiarity. Asteroids are hurtling towards earth, and the only way you can vaporize them is by typing the words underneath each asteroid. Do well, and you can collect power-ups like Anti-Gravity which slows down the asteroids or earn new attacks to use against the asteroids. Do poorly, and things could get a bit rocky?

Your high score and accuracy are tracked so you can follow your improvement as you continue to play.

Have a smashing good time with Word Defense!

Bubble Pop (A Matching Game for Kindle) by Mobigloo ($1.99)

Product Description
Bubble Pop is a fun and challenging matching game for Kindle.

The rules of Bubble Pop are simple: select any adjacent bubble of the same type to pop them. The more bubbles you pop, the more points you earn. The game ends when there are no more bubbles of the same type adjacent to each other.

The game comes with two modes, a classic mode where bubbles keep on filling up the empty spaces and a puzzle mode where you carefully need to plan each move.

If you cannot find a match, use the Hint feature to show you the next move. The game keeps track of your ten best scores for both Classic and Puzzle modes.

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FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal:

Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation In Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn now also $3.75.

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Kiefer Sutherland: Living Dangerously by Christopher Heard is $2.99 (US Kindle, B&N) [Transit Publishing Inc.]

Product Description

Kiefer Sutherland is something of a mystery. Known to millions as U.S. antiterrorist agent Jack Bauer from the cutting edge TV show 24, his origins are common knowledge. He is the son of celebrated Canadian actors Donald Sutherland and Shirley Douglas. And he has achieved fame as the highest paid actor on television. His private life is no secret: two failed marriages, binge drinking, public embarrassment, arrests, and even jail. And he doesn’t try to hide it. He admits to it all: every fault, every failure. He should be an open book. But he isn’t. Author Christopher Heard takes us in for a close look at this enigmatic actor. From Sutherland’s troubled adolescence to his initial successes with the Brat Pack, through his time in career limbo, Heard pieces together a portrait of a man of extremes: a yearning son and an absent father, a star and a has-been, a drunk and a convict. Then Heard takes a deep look at Sutherland’s character of Jack Bauer and finds that Sutherland has molded nothing less than a new American icon, the rightful heir to the cowboy and the noir detective, using the raw material of his own life to do so. It is an icon suited to our times and our needs. This is Jack Bauer, but this is also Kiefer Sutherland.

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Black Rock by Amanda Smyth from Serpent's Tail (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Dec 10) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Raised in the tropics of Tobago by an aunt she loves and an uncle she fears, Celia has never felt that she belonged. When her uncle does something unforgivable, Celia escapes to the bustling capital city where she quickly embraces her burgeoning independence. But her search for a place to call home soon leads to a life of tangled desperation.

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Once a Witch by Carolyn MacCullough from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ($3.60) is the NOOK Daily Find (Dec 10)

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Hailing from a long line of witches, Tamsin Greene should have been the most Talented among them. But her magic never showed up. Now seventeen, an encounter with a handsome young professor will take her on an adventure that will unlock the secret of her true identity and reveal her true destiny.