Content FREE (and bargain) books for the Kindle - June 2011

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A Hint of Rapture by Miriam Minger

Scottish Highlands romance at its best!

When Maddie Fraser's father was killed fighting for Bonnie Prince Charles, the spirited Scottish lass swore to avenge his death. Hooded and disguised, she led a series of daring raids against the forces of the Crown--vowing to love no man until the English invaders were driven from her native soil.

Hot-blooded Captain Garrett Marshall was entrusted with the capture of the mysterious brigand called "Black Jack." But the sensuous, azure-eyed beauty hidden beneath the bandit's manly garb tested Garrett's loyalty to his King. Inflamed by a desire he could not ignore, the handsome officer would wed his bewitching enemy to save her from the gallows. But first he'd have to quell her hatred...and conquer her heart.

“With Miriam Minger, you’re assured of a good read!” – Heartland Critiques

“Miriam Minger is a master storyteller who illustrates the full gamut of emotions felt by her characters. Emotions so strong that you are pulled into the pages and into their lives.” – Inside Romance

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004BA5GU4?tag=discounter-20

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A Hint of Rapture

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Blood in the Marsh by Chula Stone

Sometimes things are not what they seem - nor are people.

Lyra Seville is about to find out that little in her life is as she believed it to be. She's come home for the summer to St. Simon's island where she grew up. She plans on relaxing and coming to terms with the loss of someone close to her.

But fate has other plans in mind for Lyra. Just as she has returned to the island, so has something old and evil. Something that once caused much blood to be spilled in the sandy soil and marsh.

Lyra will discover that evil can present itself in a form that is too appealing - so attractive that it's hard to recognize its true nature.

She'll face the biggest test of her life and make decisions that could cost her life. And if she's very lucky, she'll find the love she's dreamed of.

And survive.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0037CF184?tag=discounter-20

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The Adventures of Whatley Tupper: A Choose Your Own... by Daniel Pitts

NEW EDITION INCLUDES 16 000 WORD PREVIEW OF THE REDEMPTION OF MR. STURLUBOK (TO BE RELEASED APRIL 30TH, 2011)!

Whatley Tupper is an A-grade janitor at a B-grade university about to become entwined in C-grade fiction!

Will he tame the troglodyte murderer living in the disused network of campus tunnels? Will he join forces with the Denny's night manager to counter a renegade group of custodians? Will he inadvertently travel into a parallel universe that sounds suspiciously similar to another plot-line? Will he journey to Honduras to reunite with his deported love? Will he suffer amnesia and begin to question his own sexuality? Will he leave all this madness behind and book a relaxing Alaskan cruise? Or will he turn out to be nothing more than a figment in the imagination of his idol, Tom Selleck?

Yes, there is something in the air tonight... Adventure! Romance! Carbon Monoxide!

The choice is yours.


A note from the authors:

This is a 'choose your own adventure' style e-book with 37 different endings and more than 100 choices. Instead of turning to a specific page when given a choice, the reader clicks a hyperlink and is automatically brought to that section. Cheats are available at: kerkhoven.wordpress.com/the-adventures-of-whatley-tupper<span></span>

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00408ASO6?tag=discounter-20

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Bargan book - SciFi:

The End of the Matter (Pip and Flinx Adventure Series #4) by Alan Dean Foster is $1.99 at the US Kindle store (Random House Publishing Group)

* The other Pip and Flinx books are $6.99-7.99

Product Description
Accompanied by his faithful minidrag Pip and a most troublesome alien called Abalamahalamatandra -- Ab for short -- Flinx set out for Alaspin, the ruggedly primitive homeworld of his flying snake.

There he hoped to find the giant man with the gold earring who somehow held the key to Flinx's mysterious past and to the strange powers he possessed. Chasing down his heritage was trouble enough, but Flinx didn't know what real trouble was until he realized that the Qwarm -- a deadly assassin squad -- were three steps behind him with a contract to kill.

But the minidrag's homeworld did not offer safety and Flinx had a terrible time just staying alive ... a matter complicated to no mean degree by a collapsar already set on an unstoppable death course across the galaxy!

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Some $2.99 nonfiction bargains from Hachette:

Report from Engine Co. 82 by Dennis Smith

Product Description
From his bawdy and brave fellow firefighters to the hopeful, hateful, beautiful and beleaguered residents of the poverty-stricken district where he works, Dennis Smith tells the story of a brutalising yet rewarding profession.

Bird Watching: On Playing and Coaching the Game I Love by Larry Bird

Product Description
Larry Bird captured the imagination and admiration of basketball fans throughout his thirteen-year career with the Boston Celtics with his trademark style of creative, intelligent, exciting, and hard-nosed play. And then, last year in his rookie season as head coach of the Indiana Pacers, he infused the team with these same qualities -- and the results were remarkable. He turned around a slumping franchise and led the Pacers to the conference finals. To finish off a great season, Bird was named the NBA's "Coach of the Year" -- quite an accolade for Bird, who had never coached before and surprised many fans with his unusual and unorthodox coaching methods.

This book is a look into one of the greatest minds to have ever stepped on a hardwood court. Larry Bird shares his inner thoughts on basketball that to date only his Celtic teammates and Pacers players have been privy. From dissecting offensive and defensive strategies to assessing the talent of NBA players; from sharing the genesis of his coaching philosophies to how he deals with today's overpriced and temperamental players, it's all there. This book is Larry Bird's basketball playbook, and it's the one book every basketball fan will want to read.

Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line by Ben Hamper

Product Description
The man the Detroit Free Press calls "a blue collar Tom Wolfe" delivers a full-barreled blast of truth and gritty reality in Rivethead, a no-holds-barred journey through the belly of the American industrial beast.

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Griffin's Daughter (The Griffin's Daughter Series) by Leslie Ann Moore

JELENA WAS ALWAYS A LITTLE DIFFERENT, BUT WHEN BLUE FIRE ERUPTS FROM HER HANDS PROTECTING HER FROM A BULLY, SHE KNEW IT WAS TIME TO DISCOVER THE TRUTH ABOUT HER PAST.
No one of mixed-blood is ever truly accepted in Soldara, especially not a child conceived out of wedlock. Jelena’s mother died giving her life, and she has been raised by an uncle who treats her as little more than a servant. But there’s something more to Jelena that not even she knows about. In a desperate attempt to save her people, an ancestor of Jelena’s stole the power of The Nameless One and placed it where he could never reach it—a thousand years in the future, trapped within Jelena.

To try to understand her ability, Jelena sets off to find her father, her only clue an exquisite ring with the figure of a griffin. But Jelena’s power is not the only thing that has awoken. Deep beneath a mountain an ancient evil stirs, and as Jelena searches for answers, it starts searching for her.

ABOUT THE SERIES
This chronicle follows Jelena, a young girl in search of her heritage who finds more than she ever expected. Her journey takes her on an adventure of magic, danger, and most startling of all—true love. Will Jelena and Ashinji’s love be strong enough to stand against evil? Or will the ultimate sacrifice be required to save their world? Find out in this sweeping epic of the award winning Griffin’s Daughter Trilogy.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002EZYWJY?tag=discounter-20

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And a slightly different version?
Griffin's Daughter: Paranormal Romance (Young Adult Version)

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What Every Man Thinks About Apart From Sex (Blank Inside) by Shed Simove

WHAT EVERY MAN THINKS ABOUT APART FROM SEX (blank inside) is a two hundred page book and every page is totally blank.

The front and back cover are realistic representations of a self-help pseudo-psychology book.

This book contains no words inside whatsoever - just two hundred blank pages and is a humorous talking point...

Brought to you by Sheridan 'Shed' Simove, performer, author of 'Ideas Man' (which has words in it), and novelty gift entrepreneur.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004NIFSRA?tag=discounter-20

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Mastering the Art of Life: 5 Collected Essays by Julie Sellers

Julie Sellers' essays have been featured on NPR's This I Believe, in the This I Believe: On Love anthology and the Letters from the Heart Anthology, Dear Daughter.

This volume features 6 of her favorite essays, Mastering the Art of Life, Princess Margaret, The Father's Day Gift, Who's the Angel, The Last Resolution and This is My Garden.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0051UADRO?tag=discounter-20

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When Graveyards Yawn (The Apocalypse Trilogy) by G. Wells Taylor

When the Change came, people stopped aging, the dead rose from their graves, it started raining and it’s been raining ever since. But a guy's still got to make a living doesn't he?

When Graveyards Yawn: Book 1 (Full Novel) MURDER IS STILL MURDER IN GREASETOWN - A dead lawyer enters the office of Wildclown Investigations and hires the detective to find his killer. Wildclown and his dead sidekick Elmo soon find themselves entangled in a battle for control of a secret that offers either hope or doom for humanity. WHEN GRAVEYARDS YAWN takes the reader to a unique setting that mixes gothic horror with the two-fisted pragmatism of a hard-boiled detective novel.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0054GLEZU?tag=discounter-20

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Active Reader: And Other Cautionary Tales from the Book World by Mark Leslie

ACTIVE READER collects three stories which explore the darker side of the world of books. In a style reminiscent of the old "Twilight Zone" television show, these three tales will take the book loving reader to a place that is somewhat familiar yet frighteningly surreal and disturbing.

- Active Reader -
Loyalty programs that track a reader's every preference are handy, save time and offer great discounts -- at least until your customer data gets into the hands of the wrong person.

- Browsers -
A passionate book lover is drawn into a mysterious and eerie little bookstore the way a moth might be drawn to a flame.

- Distractions -
How far might a desperate writer go when blinding following the advice of a popular self-help book to eliminate the distractions preventing him from completing his next novel?

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0054I2DPS?tag=discounter-20

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Forever Young by Carl East

A non-erotic tale of how a single moment in time can change a life forever; that the joy of love is worth the sorrow of losing it one day; and that allowing yourself to love again is what makes life worth living.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004MYFVMC?tag=discounter-20

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The Cyber Chronicles by T. C. Southwell

When Queen Tassin is forced to flee her kingdom on the backwater planet of Omega V, she has no idea that the strange warrior who helps her is a cyborg; the deadliest hi-tech killing machine ever created. Her world has forgotten the technology that almost destroyed it, but then a freak accident damages the micro-supercomputer that controls Sabre, and he is free to take charge of his destiny…

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004SP18YU?tag=discounter-20

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Aqua Kights by Scott Cardinal

In contemporary Miami, four, young, eccentric, brilliant and beautiful friends eat, drink, talk and, for the most part, live, as if they are in medieval times until one of them murders a little girl and the others make every effort to cover up the crime and protect their friend who is spiraling into madness.

Jules, Lark, Robin, and Gwen live in a 16th century castle that was purchased by Jules' great-grandfather while in Europe in the 1900s. It was disassembled, and then reassembled in Miami, along with extensive gardens, hedge mazes, labyrinths, and water features, including a moat.

Lark is an astronomy-obsessed poet, Robin is a religion-obsessed artist, and Gwen is a perfection-obsessed model. They all spend their days and nights in Jules' castle where they live a magical and mysterious life, free from societal worries.

These four, young, eccentric, brilliant and beautiful friends eat, drink, talk and, for the most part, live, as if they are in medieval times until one of them murders a little girl and the others make every effort to cover up the crime and protect their friend who is spiraling into madness.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004TCWXAK?tag=discounter-20

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Amarillo by Eric Wilder

Two brothers from Kansas head for the "Promised Land" in their old Ford Galaxie, but wind up in Amarillo instead. A short story by Eric Wilder, author of the French Quarter murder mystery Big Easy.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004QTOEL2?tag=discounter-20