Kindle for Samsung Free Selections

[ATDrake]

Just a reminder that today will probably be the last day to choose one of this month's selections, if you haven't already.

[Froide]

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[Froide]

They're out! Here are the June 2017 Samsung Book Deals selections from the Samsung for Kindle app (in the order in which Amazon presented them). I researched them a bit, to identify series (if any) each belongs to and its genre(s).

Click on Samsung Book Deals to learn how this works. You may also want to read the earlier, related MR thread: Kindle for Samsung launched in 90 countries

Let it Breathe by Tawna Fenske

• Regular Kindle Price: $2.99
• Genre(s)/Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  #59,278 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  #836 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Women's Fiction > Humor
  #3670 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Romance > Romantic Comedy
  #4001 in Books > Romance > Romantic Comedy
  
• Description

Forbidden fruit can be downright intoxicating.

Vineyard manager Reese Clark is determined to bring her family’s Oregon winery into the big leagues, and she knows building a new tasting room and event pavilion is her ticket there. Having her ex-husband’s best friend—and her secret college crush—turn up to head the construction project, however, doesn't pair well with her plans. Between her nauseating lovebird parents; her motorcycle-riding, pot-growing grandfather; and her pet alpaca, fond of head-butting groins, Reese has more than enough chaotic characters in her life.

Back in college, Clay Henderson was more likely to be sprawled over a bar than building one. But even if the new clean-living Clay has matured as deliciously as an oak-aged chardonnay, he’s still off-limits. As Reese’s well-laid plans for the winery crumble like bad cork, Clay the newly sober gentleman is sweet enough to rescue Reese from a wardrobe malfunction and still spicy enough to play “I Never” with her. Can he overcome his past rep to offer her a love too heady to ignore?

Weavers by Aric Davis

• Regular Kindle Price: $3.99
• Genre(s)/Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  #35,122 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  #52 in Kindle Store > Prime Reading > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction
  #70 in Kindle Store > Prime Reading > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Thrillers
  #146 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Crime Fiction > Serial Killers
  
• Description

Nine-year-old Cynthia Robinson’s life was perfectly normal until the day she knew, without being told, of her parents’ impending divorce. From there, things got stranger, and now not only does she have premonitions, but she can also read and influence the minds of those around her.

Cynthia is not the only one with the ability to “weave”—all over the country, people with similar abilities struggle to balance their lives with their powers. Some with this gift are weavers with dark motives and grisly appetites who want to use people like Cynthia for their own purposes.

Meanwhile, a top-secret government organization, the Telekinetic Research Center, has been looking for telekinetics to use for its own clandestine agenda. When TRC agents learn of Cynthia and her dangerous pursuers, will they come to her rescue? Or will they capture her and take her power for themselves?

The Leaving of Things by Jay Antani

• Regular Kindle Price: $3.99
• Genre(s)/Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  #47,920 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  #31 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Historical Fiction > Asian
  #44 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > United States > Asian American
  #90 in Books > Literature & Fiction > United States > Asian American
  
• Description

Winner of the 2014 International Book Award for Multicultural Fiction
2014 Kindle Book Award Winner

Vikram is not your model Indian-American teenager. Rebellious and adrift in late 1980s Wisconsin, he is resentful of his Indian roots and has no clue what he wants from his future—other than to escape his family’s life of endless moving and financial woes. But after a drunken weekend turns disastrous, Vikram’s outraged parents decide to pack up the family and return to India—permanently.

So begins a profound journey of self-discovery as Vikram, struggling with loneliness, culture shock, and the chaos of daily Indian life, finds his creativity awakened by a new romance and an old camera. His artistic gifts bring him closer to a place and family he barely knew. But a devastating family crisis challenges Vikram’s sense of his destiny, hurtling him toward a crossroads where he must make the fateful choice between India, the land of his soul, and America, the land of his heart.

Revised edition: This edition of The Leaving of Things includes editorial revisions.

A Calculated Life by Anne Charnock

• Regular Kindle Price: $3.99
• Genre(s)/ Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  #22,779 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  #49 in Kindle Store > Prime Reading > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction
  #164 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Hard Science Fiction
  #166 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Thrillers > Technothrillers
  
  
• Description

Finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award and the Kitschies Golden Tentacle (Debut Novel) Award

Late in the twenty-first century, big business is booming and state institutions are thriving thanks to advances in genetic engineering, which have produced a compliant population free of addictions. Violent crime is a rarity.

Hyper-intelligent Jayna is a star performer at top predictive agency Mayhew McCline, where she forecasts economic and social trends. A brilliant mathematical modeler, she far outshines her co-workers, often correcting their work on the quiet. Her latest coup: finding a link between northeasterly winds and violent crime.

When a string of events contradicts her forecasts, Jayna suspects she needs more data and better intuition. She needs direct interactions with the rest of society. Bravely—and naively—she sets out to disrupt her strict routine and stumbles unwittingly into a world where her IQ is increasingly irrelevant…a place where human relationships and the complexity of life are difficult for her to decode. And as she experiments with taking risks, she crosses the line into corporate intrigue and disloyalty.

Can Jayna confront the question of what it means to live a “normal” life? Or has the possibility of a “normal” life already been eclipsed for everyone?

[Froide]

I chose A Calculated Life by Anne Charnock

[Manabi]

Originally Posted by Froide

I chose A Calculated Life by Anne Charnock

That's the one I went with too. I like that there were two science fiction selections for a change, but Weavers sounds like a generic version of one of those young-adult post-apocalyptic series that are so popular nowadays.

Thanks for posting these!

[Froide]

Originally Posted by Manabi

That's the one I went with too. I like that there were two science fiction selections for a change, but Weavers sounds like a generic version of one of those young-adult post-apocalyptic series that are so popular nowadays.

Thanks for posting these!

Agreed.
De nada, chica!

[Dngrsone]

I think i will try Calculated as well...

[ATDrake]

Just a reminder that this will probably be the last day to pick up one of this month's selections, if you haven't already.

[sakura-panda]

I did forget! Thanks for the reminder!

[Froide]

They're out! Here are the July 2017 Samsung Book Deals selections from the Samsung for Kindle app (in the order in which Amazon presented them). I researched them a bit, to identify series (if any) each belongs to and its genre(s).

Click on Samsung Book Deals to learn how this works. You may also want to read the earlier, related MR thread: Kindle for Samsung launched in 90 countries.

Crow Hollow by Michael Wallace

• Regular Kindle Price: $3.99
• Genre(s)/Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,548 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  #137 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Historical Fiction > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
  #137 in Kindle Store > Whispersync for Voice > Add Narration for $3.99 or Less
  #144 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Mystery > Historical
• Description

Author Michael Wallace doesn’t mess around. No matter the setting of his novels, he mercilessly drops his characters into dire situations with high stakes. Crow Hollow is no exception. Set in the seventeenth century, this mystery pairs Prudence Cotton, a young Puritan widow who’s still reeling from the brutal murder of her husband and the kidnapping of her daughter, with James Bailey, a British agent sent to investigate those crimes. The unlikely duo sets out on a harrowing course through the cold and forbidding New England countryside in search of Prudence’s daughter. Theirs is a mission fraught with peril, as the battles between the colonists, the British, and the Native Americans have left villages scorched and families torn apart.

And yet, despite the grim setting and circumstances, I found myself chuckling at, and with, Prudence and James. While Michael clearly prefers dark places, he has a gift for infusing his characters with humor, and he delights in their idiosyncrasies. Prudence and James bicker and connive; they are a bit lusty—and entirely fallible. As these two characters make their way through the wilderness, their humanity stands in stark contrast to the ruins of a devastating war. In this way, Michael plays with dark and light, tweaking our noses right when we start to feel too righteous, never letting us forget that no one, and nothing, is entirely good or bad.

The Gift by Dave Donovan

• Regular Kindle Price: $3.99
• Genre(s)/Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #264,625 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  #962 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Space Exploration
  #998 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Colonization
  #1080 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Alien Invasion
• Description

When high-level governmental programmer Sam Steele is called into his office on his day off, he quickly finds himself at the center of a battle for humanity itself. An alien entity is heading straight for Earth, and an elite team of specialists has been assembled to attempt to make first contact. But despite Steele’s expertise, Colonel Eric Web, his superior and longtime thorn in his side, makes it clear he doesn’t want him there.

The aliens that arrive represent a long-dead race and say they’ve come to help humans defend themselves against an imminent threat, but their help will come with a price. Now the future of humanity hangs in the balance between two men: Web, the regimented, hubristic military man, and Steele, a brilliant man broken by loss and tragedy.

As the team races the clock to try to divine their visitors’ complex instructions, they struggle with infighting and, ultimately, the question of what it means to be human.

Heart of a Highland Warrior (Connor Clan, #3) by Anita Clenney

• Regular Kindle Price: $3.99
• Genre(s)/Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,844 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  
  #9 in Kindle Store > Prime Reading > Romance > Paranormal
  #55 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Romance > Time Travel
  #73 in Books > Romance > Time Travel
• Description

A bloodthirsty evil stalks the Connor Clan…

Brave, beautiful, and haunted by her past, demon hunter Anna MacKinley will do anything to help the Connors. Under divine orders, the headstrong warrior travels the world, slaying demons and vampires. When she stumbles upon a hidden stone fortress while searching for her clan’s lost Book of Battles, dark forces swiftly imprison her—and she discovers her cell mate is a gorgeous Scottish warrior who has no memories, but looks strikingly familiar.

And only a secret from the past can win the day…and her heart.

The warriors of the centuries-old Connor Clan search for their missing time-vault and the powerful relic within. What they find is a grave…and a kilt-clad body they fear is the long-lost Tavis Connor. But there may yet be more to the Highland warrior’s fate than a pile of bones. Desperate to save his brother and his clan’s Book of Battles from a demon hell-bent on destruction, Tavis begins a 150-year quest that will end in modern-day New York. But when he wakes, he discovers he’s the one in need of help. His only hope of rescue is a bonny lass who claims to be a warrior. A warrior waging war on demons…and his heart.

What Doesn't Kill Her by Max Allan Collins

• Regular Kindle Price: $4.99
• Genre(s)/Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,314 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  
  #85 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Crime Fiction > Serial Killers
  #541 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Women's Fiction > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Women Sleuths
  #1559 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Mystery
• Description

Jordan Rivera was an ordinary kid with an ordinary family. Until a vicious killer took it all away from her, sparing her and leaving her broken. The murders destroyed something inside her and she spent ten long, silent years in an institution. Catching a glimpse of a news report about another ordinary family slain, Jordan breaks her silence. Now she’s out, and she molds herself—body and mind—into an instrument of justice.<br><P>While a young detective pursues the case on his own, Jordan teams up with members of her Victims Support Group, people, like her, damaged by violent crime. They have their own stories of pain, heartache, and vengeance denied. With their help, Jordan will track down the killer before he can ravage any more lives. Her own life depends on it.

[Froide]

I chose What Doesn't Kill Her by Max Allan Collins

[Dngrsone]

I'll try The Gift; though I'm not sure I'm really up for it.

[Froide]

Originally Posted by Dngrsone

I'll try The Gift; though I'm not sure I'm really up for it.

This month, as in many previously, the pickings are slim.

[Manabi]

I went with The Gift. It actually sounds pretty interesting to me.

[ATDrake]

Just a reminder that this will probably be the last day to pick up one of this month's selections, if you haven't already.