Content FREE (and bargain) books for the Kindle - December 2010

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A Taste of Magic by Tracy Madison

Product Description:

A young, divorced bakery owner discovers she’s inherited her gypsy ancestress’s fabulous magical powers, but learns that when seeking true love with her hunky new neighbor, a person has to be careful what she cooks up.

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Mossy Creek by Deborah Smith, Sandra Chastain, Debra Dixon, and Virginia Ellis

Product Description:

A delightful new collection of original Southern stories set in the charming, fictitious down-home town of Mossy Creek, where there's a friendly face on every corner and a heartfelt story behind every door...

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A Dog Named Slugger by Leigh Brill

Product Description:

The true life story of a dog who changed everything for one woman.

For the first time in my life, I didn't need to pretend, I didn't need to be tough: I only needed to be honest. "I have cerebral palsy. I walk funny and my balance is bad. I fall a lot. My hands shake, too. That means I'm not so good at carrying things. And if I drop stuff, sometimes it's hard to just bend down and get it." I waited anxiously for the interviewer's response. She smiled. "It sounds like a service dog could be great for you." So began Leigh Brill's journey toward independence and confidence, all thanks to a trained companion dog named Slugger. The struggling college student and the Labrador with a "a coat like sunshine" and a tail that never stopped wagging became an instant team. Together, they transformed a challenge into a triumph. Together, they inspired and educated everyone they met. Now, Leigh honors her friend with the story of their life, together.

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Sukkwan Island Free Novella with Bonus Material by David Vann (pre-order)

- there's no book description, but on the cover, it says a novella from 'Legend of a Suicide: Stories'.

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UK only Kindle free book

The Book of Biff is a single panel comic about spaghetti, time travel and toast. The strip centers around a child-like mad scientist named Biff who may be part cockroach or possibly an alien.

He lives a solitary life in a world that he appears to have all to himself. Not a single word is spoken and no other soul is seen.

This collection explores alternate uses for hand puppets, the proper use of an electric tennis ball and the importance of keeping your immovable object dry.

105 pages. Full color (on color devices.)

UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Biff-Ta...=discounter-21

US: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Biff-Targ...=discounter-20

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Free for UK readers only at the moment

Sudden Death by Michael Balkind

Reid Clark is a pro golfer at the top of the leader board during the PGA tour; he is also a hothead with a reputation for trouble. Reid receives a death threat right before teeing off on the final day of the Master's Tournament, and hires a P.I. to track down the perpetrator. Suspense builds throughout as Reid tries to compete in one of golf s most prestigious contests...and woo the woman he loves...while dodging death at every turn. Sudden Death will score big for all mystery lovers.

UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sudden-Death...=discounter-21

US: http://www.amazon.com/Sudden-Death-D...=discounter-20

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Originally Posted by kindlekitten

DAMN!!!! a second apart!

I need more sleep, otherwise I'd have been a second faster....

[koland]

UK Only freebies:

Catching Caroline, by Sylvia Day (US Link, UK Link)

Book Description
Can the hunger that thrives in darkness be a love for eternity?

Jack Shaw's reputation as a wicked libertine is well deserved. He lives for the moment, indulging in temporary pleasures. Until he meets Lady Caroline Seton. Now he wants more than one stolen kiss, he wants forever. But Caroline hides a dangerous secret, one that could cost him his life. Will his love be enough to save them both…?

Includes bonus content: excerpts of BAD BOYS AHOY! and PRIDE AND PLEASURE


The Blood That Bonds, by Christopher Buecheler (US Link, UK Link); previously free in Oct.

Book Description
Two is trapped: hooked on heroin, held as property, forced to sell her body to feed the addiction. Time brings her ever closer to what seems an inevitable death and Two waits, uncaring, longing only for the next fix.

That’s when Theroen arrives, beckoning to his Ferrari and grinning his inscrutable grin. He is handsome. Confident. Eager to help lift her out of the life that’s grinding her down.

The only problem? Theroen is a vampire.

His blood can cure her addiction, grant her powers she has never had, change her forever into something greater than she was. But when he sinks his teeth into her neck, Theroen also thrusts Two into a world of danger, violence, madness and despair. The powerful, twisted elder Abraham will use her arrival to shatter the uneasy peace that exists in his mansion, bringing an end to the dark game he has been playing for centuries.


50 Reasons to Say Goodbye, by Nick Alexander (US Link, UK Link); part of the 50 Reasons series

Book Description
Mark is looking for love in all the wrong places.
He always ignores the warning signs preferring to dream, time and again, that he has finally met the perfect lover until, one day...
Through fifty adventures, Nick Alexander, takes us on a tour of modern gay society: bars, night-clubs, blind dates, Internet dating... It's all here.
Funny and moving by turn, 50 Reasons to Say "Goodbye", is ultimately a series of candidly vivid snapshots and a poignant exploration of that long winding road: the universal search for love.

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US Freebie:

Cat Calls , by Cynthia Leitich Smith

no description, roughly 230K in size.

Found this on author site:

'Cat Calls is set in the Tantalize series universe and features entirely new characters. Tiff is claws-down the sassiest point-of-view character I've ever written, and this story radiates "animal" in a fierce, sexy, mind-bending kind of way.'

Tiffany's grandma sees something wild in her future -- but is Tiffany prepared for the powerful shape it will take?

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Painless, by Derek Ciccone (UK Link) - free only to UK customers

Book Description
A fast-paced thriller mixed with a heartwarming story of redemption. A series of ominous incidents make Billy Harper realize there is something very different about Carolyn Whitcomb. But when a rogue organization called Operation Anesthesia learns of Carolyn’s “gifts,” Billy must risk everything to save the life of the little girl who taught him to live again.

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Start to Love Not Smoking , by Ben Fletcher and Karen Pine, is a free pre-order. No description, but found this on the publicist's page

You want to quit smoking – but think it’s going to be hell. Giving up smoking doesn’t have to be hell.

Forget willpower and withdrawal, Love Not Smoking helps you put back into your life everything that smoking has sucked out of it, and helps you give up for good. You won’t miss smoking because you’ll discover how to train your brain to anticipate different rewards. You’ll love swapping old habits for new revitalising ones that don’t trigger you to light up. You'll delight in having novel ways to relieve stress and get pleasure from life. You’ll experience an invigorating personal development journey as well as quitting. And you’ll love not smoking.

You love someone who smokes – and you want them to quit. Help that special someone in your life to quit the habit. Nagging doesn’t work. They need your understanding, love and support – and something that will make quitting painless. Give them this book to show that you care enough to want them to quit. To show that what really, really matters in life is love, not smoking.

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Originally Posted by arcadata

FYI, for fans of the NY Times crosswords, they're now available for the Kindle in 4 volumes:

NY Times Crosswords Vol. 1 (30 World Famous Easy Puzzles) by The New York Times ($1.99)



The others are:

NY Times Crosswords Vol. 2 (90 World Famous Easy Puzzles) is $4.99
NY Times Crosswords Vol. 3 (30 World Famous Challenging Puzzles) $1.99
NY Times Crosswords Vol. 4 (90 World Famous Challenging Puzzles) $4.99

I bought volume 1 and did one puzzle on my K3. The navigation was difficult, but I just tried it out on my K2 (that I'm giving away for Christmas) and it works fine. I think it was designed for use with the 5-way controller on the K2 and KDX. I managed to get the puzzle done on my K3, but it was a simple puzzle that took a long time just because of the navigation.

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Carved in Bone with Bonus Material by Jefferson Bass is free for pre-order for the Kindle

Product Description

On the campus of the University of Tennessee lies a patch of ground unlike any in the world. The "Body Farm" is a place where human corpses are left to the elements, and every manner of decay is fully explored -- for the sake of science and the cause of justice. The scientist who created the Body Farm has broken cold cases and revolutionized forensics, and now, in this heart-stopping novel, he spins an astonishing tale inspired by his own experiences.

A woman's corpse lies hidden in a cave in the mountains of East Tennessee. Undiscovered for thirty years, her body has been transformed by the cave's chemistry into a near-perfect mummy -- one that discloses an explosive secret to renowned anthropologist Bill Brockton. Dr. Brockton has spent his career surrounded by death and decay at the Body Farm, but even he is baffled by this case unfolding in a unique environment where nothing is quite what it seems.

The surreal setting is Cooke County, a remote mountain community that's clannish, insular, and distrustful of outsiders. The heartbreaking discovery of the young woman's corpse reopens old wounds and rekindles feuds dating back decades. The county's powerful and uncooperative sheriff and his inept deputy threaten to derail Brockton's investigation altogether. So do Brockton's other nemeses: his lingering guilt over the death of his wife, and the fury of a medical examiner whom Brockton dares to oppose in court.

Carved in Bone is a richly atmospheric, superbly suspenseful, and magnificently rendered trip into the world of forensic science, the heart of the Appalachian Mountains, and the dark passageways of the human psyche. Full of vivid characters and startling twists and turns, this thrilling novel heralds the debut of a major new voice in crime fiction -- and an unforgettable work from the hand of a scientific legend.

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Heidegger's Glasses by Thaisa Frank

Product Description

Heidegger’s Glasses opens during the end of World War II in a failing Germany coming apart at its seams. The Third Reich’s strong reliance on the occult and its obsession with the astral plane has led to the formation of an underground compound of scribes –translators responsible for answering letters written to those eventually killed in the concentration camps.

Into this covert compound comes a letter written by eminent philosopher Martin Heidegger to his optometrist, a man now lost in the dying thralls of Auschwitz. How will the scribes answer this letter? The presence of Heidegger’s words--one simple letter in a place filled with letters--sparks a series of events that will ultimately threaten the safety and well-being of the entire compound.

Part love story, part thriller, part meditation on how the dead are remembered and history is presented, with threads of Heidegger’s philosophy woven throughout, the novel evocatively illustrates the Holocaust through an almost dreamlike state. Thaisa Frank deftly reconstructs the landscape of Nazi Germany from an entirely original vantage point.

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From my blog post, a list of mostly Agency priced books that are marked down in other stores, as well. All but two are under three bucks (and those two are $3.99).

Kobobooks.com has two coupon codes valid today: Holiday50 for 50% off one non-Agency book and iOS4, for 30% off one non-Agency book. Also, check your email today, as they should have mailed out their Christmas bonus coupons, to those who made purchases over the past 12 days (although I don't see mine, yet).

• The Zero Game ($1.99), by Brad Meltzer
• The President's Assassin ($2.99), by Brian Haig
• Shadowland ($3.99), by Meg Cabot, the first in her The Mediator series.
• A Perfect Darkness ($1.99), by Jaime Rush
• The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood ($2.99), by Kien Nguyen
• Abraham's Children: Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People ($1.99), by Jon Entine
• In Search of Adam ($1.01), by Caroline Smailes
• A Dawn Like Thunder: The True Story of Torpedo Squadron Eight ($2.99), by Robert J. Mrazek
• The Silver Pigs: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery ($2.99), by Lindsey Davis
• Boys R Us and These Boots Are Made for Stalking, by Lisi Harrison, the eleventh and twelfth in her The Clique series, are both $1.99.
• A Total Waste of Makeup ($2.99), by Kim Gruenenfelder
• Chosen by Desire ($1.99), by Kate Perry
• A Gentle Giving ($2.99), by Dorothy Garlock
• Cause of Death ($3.99), by Patricia Cornwell, the seventh in her Kay Scarpetta series.
• Seventh Son ($2.99), by Orson Scott Card, the first in his (young adult) The Tales of Alvin Maker series. I'm already about a third of the way thru this one.
• Thanks for the Memories, with Bonus Material ($1.99), by Cecelia Ahern, is a pre-order. You can get a sample from the previous edition ($9.99), just be sure not to purchase the wrong one when you are done reading it.
• The First Patient ($2.99), by Michael Palmer, is another one I've started on.
• The Bridge ($2.99), by John Skipp & Craig Spector