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

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FYI, currently just free for those in the UK

When Love Comes by Leigh Greenwood (Leisure Books) (Amazon Main, Amazon UK)

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This is a classic Beauty and the Beast tale, the story of a disfigured war hero whose hurts are healed by the beautiful young woman who can look past his wounds to see the true worth of the man within.

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The Choice (Lancaster County Secrets, Book 1) by Suzanne Woods Fisher (Amazon Main, Amazon UK) (Revell)

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With a vibrant, fresh style Suzanne Woods Fisher brings readers into the world of a young Amish woman torn between following the man she loves--or joining the community of faith that sustains her, even as she questions some of the decisions of her elders. Her choice begins a torrent of change for her and her family, including a marriage of convenience to silent Daniel Miller. Both bring broken hearts into their arrangement--and secrets that have been held too long.

Filled with gentle romance, The Choice opens the world of the Amish--their strong communities, their simple life, and their willingness to put each other first. Combined with Fisher's exceptional gift for character development, this novel, the first in a series, is a welcome reminder that it is never too late to find your way back to God.

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Alexandra's Legacy: Legacy, Book 1 by N. J. Walters (Samhain Publishing) (Amazon Main, Amazon UK)

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The truth will set her free…or get her killed.

Alexandra Riley’s day starts out like any other in her normal, predictable world. Then a tall, dark stranger bursts into her father’s garage and shatters the illusion. In one shocking moment, she discovers why she’s been feeling hot, restless—she’s the half-breed daughter of a legendary werewolf and is a much-sought-after prize.

Joshua Striker, enforcer in charge of protecting the alphas of the Wolf Creek pack, has come to take Alex home. Nothing more, nothing less. From the first moment he sees her, she becomes the one thing he can’t afford—a distraction from his duty. A weakness he doesn’t want—but can’t resist needing.

If only keeping her safe was as simple as fending off males on the hunt for a mate. Through city streets to the mountains of North Carolina, Alex and Joshua have to evade those who don’t want their pure bloodlines tainted with human DNA, as well as bounty hunters who think the only good werewolf is a dead one.

What Joshua and Alex can’t outrun is the passion that flares between them—or the choice Alex must eventually face. Whether to claim her inner wolf, or forfeit her chance to claim Joshua as her own.

Warning: This book contains sexy werewolves, rogue werewolves, nasty bounty hunters, a mysterious vampire and plenty of hot sexual interludes that will raise your blood pressure.

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Once a Princess: Sasharia en Garde! book 1. by Sherwood Smith (Samhain Publishing) (Amazon Main, Amazon UK)

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Swashbuckling in a magic world—L.A. style!

Sasharia en Garde! book 1.

Sasha’s mother, Sun, was once swept away from a Ren Faire to another world by a prince—literally—but there was no happy ending. Sun’s prince disappeared, and a wicked king took the Khanerenth throne. In the years since, Sasha and Sun have been back on Earth and on the run. Mom and daughter don’t quite see eye to eye on the situation—Sasha wants to stand and fight. Sun insists her prince will return for them one day; it’s safer to stay hidden.

Then Sasha is tricked into crossing the portal to Khanerenth. She’s more than ready to join the resistance, kick some bad-guy butt, and fix the broken kingdom. But…is the stylish pirate Zathdar the bad guy? Or artistic, dreamy Prince Jehan?

Back on Earth, Sun is furious Sasha has been kidnapped. Sun might once have been a rotten princess, but nobody messes with Mom!

Warning: This title contains a kick-butt mother-daughter team, a wicked king, a witty pirate with an unfortunate taste for neon colors, inept resistance fighters, a dreamy prince who gallops earnestly hither and yon, and a kick-butt princess in waiting.

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The Battle Sylph (Sylph Series) by L. J. McDonald (Leisure Books) (Amazon Main, Amazon UK)

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Solie finds herself kidnapped as a sacrifice for a dangerous battle sylph named Heyou, but she fights back and takes on control of him, an immensely powerful shape-shifter. Solie & Heyou flee death to seek sanctuary, and Heyou begins to fill Solie with desires that threaten to change the world.

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From Bad Boys Ahoy!: Lucien's Gamble, A Novella by Sylvia Day (Kensington Books) (Amazon Main, Amazon UK)

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Lucien's Gamble
Lucien Remington's reputation as a debauched libertine who plays by no one's rules--in business or the bedroom--is well deserved. He gets what he wants, social repudiation be damned. But society can keep from him the one thing he truly desires, the untouchable Lady Julienne La Coeur. Until she sneaks into his club dressed as a man and searching for her irresponsible brother. Suddenly she's in Lucien's grasp, his to take, and his mind is filled with the most wickedly sinful thoughts. A gentleman would walk away from the temptation she presents. But then, Lucien has never claimed to be a gentleman. . .

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The Story Sisters: A Novel by Alice Hoffman ($1.99)

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From the New York Times Bestselling Author of The Third Angel

Alice Hoffman’s previous novel, The Third Angel, was hailed as "an unforgettable portrait of the depth of true love" (USA Today), "stunning" (Jodi Picoult), and "spellbinding" (Miami Herald). Her new novel, The Story Sisters, charts the lives of three sisters–Elv, Claire, and Meg. Each has a fate she must meet alone: one on a country road, one in the streets of Paris, and one in the corridors of her own imagination. Inhabiting their world are a charismatic man who cannot tell the truth, a neighbor who is not who he appears to be, a clumsy boy in Paris who falls in love and stays there, a detective who finds his heart’s desire, and a demon who will not let go.

What does a mother do when one of her children goes astray? How does she save one daughter without sacrificing the others? How deep can love go, and how far can it take you? These are the questions this luminous novel asks.

At once a coming-of-age tale, a family saga, and a love story of erotic longing, The Story Sisters sifts through the miraculous and the mundane as the girls become women and their choices haunt them, change them and, finally, redeem them. It confirms Alice Hoffman’s reputation as "a writer whose keen ear for the measure struck by the beat of the human heart is unparalleled" (The Chicago Tribune).

I Just Want My Pants Back: A Novel by David Rosen ($1.99)

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Jason Strider is a twentysomething young man in the city, with an English degree from an Ivy League university, a very small apartment in the West Village, a vapid job as a receptionist at a casting agency—and no particular idea what to do with his life. On most evenings, Jason gets stoned and goes out, sometimes with his party-hearty school chum Tina and sometimes alone in the immemorial male quest to get laid or, if not, get hammered enough to really regret it the next day and be late for work.

Then one night Jason has athletic, appliance-assisted intercourse with a cute girl named Jane—and ends up lending her his Dickies jeans. Many, many e-mails and text messages later, he is unable to reconnect with her and is reduced to the plaint “I just want my pants back.” How he does, in a most unexpected way, find those pants, and how maturity and mortality come to enter his slacker’s existence, form the matter of this smart, raunchily comic, and finally affecting first novel.

All Over the Map by Laura Fraser ($1.99)

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On a trip to Oaxaca, Mexico, to celebrate her fortieth birthday, Laura Fraser confronts the unique trajectory of her life. Divorced and childless in her thirties, she found solace in the wanderlust that had always directed her heart—and found love and comfort in the arms of a dashing Frenchman. Their Italian affair brought her back to herself—but now she wonders if her passion for travel (and for short-lived romantic rendezvous) has deprived her of what she secretly wants most from life: a husband, a family, a home.

When her Parisian lover meets her in Oaxaca and gives her news that he’s found someone new, Laura is stunned and hurt. Now, it seems, she has nothing but her own independence for company—and, at forty, a lot more wrinkles on her face and fewer years of fertility. How is Laura going to reconcile what seem to be two opposite desires: for adventure, travel, great food, and new experiences, but also a place to call home—and a loving pair of arms to greet her there?

And so, she globe hops. What else is a travel writer to do? From Argentina to Peru, Naples to Paris, she basks in the glow of new cultures and local delicacies, always on the lookout for the “one” who might become a lifelong companion. But when a terrible incident occurs while she’s on assignment in the South Pacific, Laura suddenly finds herself more aware of her vulnerability and becomes afraid of traveling. It seems as if she might lose the very thing that has given her so much pleasure in her life, not to mention the career she has built for herself as a world traveler and chronicler of far-flung places.

Finding herself again will be both more difficult and more natural than she imagined. Ultimately, Laura realizes the most important journey she must take is an internal one. And the tale of how she reaches that place will captivate every woman who has ever yearned for a different life.

Shanghai Girls: A Novel by Lisa See ($3.99)

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BONUS: This edition contains a Shanghai Girls discussion guide and an excerpt from Lisa See's Dreams of Joy.

In 1937 Shanghai—the Paris of Asia—twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives. Both are beautiful, modern, and carefree—until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth. To repay his debts, he must sell the girls as wives to suitors who have traveled from Los Angeles to find Chinese brides. As Japanese bombs fall on their beloved city, Pearl and May set out on the journey of a lifetime, from the Chinese countryside to the shores of America. Though inseparable best friends, the sisters also harbor petty jealousies and rivalries. Along the way they make terrible sacrifices, face impossible choices, and confront a devastating, life-changing secret, but through it all the two heroines of this astounding new novel hold fast to who they are—Shanghai girls.

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The Theory of Relativity: and Other Essays by Albert Einstein (Philosophical Library/Open Road)

Letters on Wave Mechanics: Correspondence with H. A. Lorentz, Max Planck, and Erwin Schrodinger by Albert Einstein (Philosophical Library/Open Road)

Essays in Humanism by Albert Einstein (Philosophical Library/Open Road)

Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words by Albert Einstein (Philosophical Library/Open Road)

The World As I See It by Albert Einstein (Philosophical Library/Open Road)

Essays in Science by Albert Einstein (Philosophical Library/Open Road)

Letters to Solovine: 1906-1955 by Albert Einstein (Philosophical Library/Open Road)

Strength for Service to God and Country by Norman E. Nygaard, Evan Hunsberger and General Commission on Un Meth Men (Abingdon press)

The Applause of Heaven (The Bestseller Collection) by Max Lucado (Thomas Nelson)

A Voice in the Box: My Life in Radio by Bob Edwards (The University Press of Kentucky)

Deuce, The (Midtown Blue Book #1) by F. P. Lione (Revell)

Prisoner of the Flames (Leisure Historical Romance) by Megan Whalen Turner (Leisure Books)

Outlaw Lawman (Leisure Historical Fiction) by Paul Bagdon (Leisure Books)

Law of Attraction: The Love Secret by Charlotte Hubbard (Leisure Books)

Counterfeit Lady by Dawn MacTavish (Leisure Books)

Valley of the Scarecrow by Gord Rollo (Leisure Books)

My Heart Remembers by Kim Vogel Sawyer (Bethany House)

Bewitched (Love Spell) by Sandra Schwab (Love Spell)

The Privateer (Leisure Historical Romance) by Dawn Mactavish (Leisure books)

George & the Virgin by Lisa Cach (Dorchester Publishing)

Tempt the Devil (Leisure Historical Romance) by Connie Mason (Leisure Books)

Someone Like You (Night Riders Romance) by Leigh Greenwood (Leisure Books)

Texas Tender by Leigh Greenwood (Dorchester Publishing)

Scared Stiff (Mattie Winston Mysteries) by Annelise Ryan (Kensington Books)

Hope Undaunted, A (Winds of Change) by Julie Lessman (Revell )

The Preacher’s Bride by Jody Hedlund (Bethany House)

No Place for a Lady (Heart of the West Series, Book 1) by Maggie Brendan (Revell)

Mama Does Time (A Mace Bauer Mystery) by Deborah Sharp (MIDNIGHT INK)

Sunrise in a Garden of Love & Evil by Barbara Monajem (Love Spell)

Viking Warrior (Leisure Historical Romance) by Connie Mason (Leisure Books)

A Knight’s Honor by Connie Mason (Dorchester Publishing)

Stars Collide (Backstage Pass) by Janice Thompson (Revell)

When Love Comes by Leigh Greenwood (Leisure Books)

The Choice (Lancaster County Secrets, Book 1) by Suzanne Woods Fisher (Revell)

Once a Princess: Sasharia en Garde! book 1. by Sherwood Smith (Samhain Publishing)

The Battle Sylph (Sylph Series) by L. J. McDonald (Leisure Books) --> ETA: No longer free

From Bad Boys Ahoy!: Lucien’s Gamble, A Novella by Sylvia Day (Kensington Books)

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Descendant by Graham Masterton (Dorchester Publishing)

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During WWII James Falcon used to hunt vampire Nazis, but the most notorious, Dorin Duca, always eluded him. Now, fifteen years after the war, vampires—led by Dorin Duca—are invading England, and James is back on the hunt!

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The 5th Witch by Graham Masterton (Leisure Books)

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A crime cartel is using four witches to hold L.A. in a grip of fear. No one CA stop them—except the 5th witch!

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The Cruelest Cut by Rick Reed (Pinnacle Books)

Alexandra’s Legacy: Legacy, Book 1 by N. J. Walters (Samhain Publishing)

A Daughters Inheritance (Broadmoor Legacy, Book 1) by Tracie Peterson and Judith Miller (Bethany House)

Blood Sport by Judith E. French (Love Spell)

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Funland by Richard Laymon (Leisure Books)

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A growing group of leering, belligerent punks known as the Trolls are intimidating fun-seekers at the coastal amusement park Funland, and some of the local teens blame the Trolls for a series of missing persons and decide to fight back late one night. But what’s really behind the disappearances is waiting for them all in the funhouse. . .

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The Score (Parker Novels) by Richard Stark and John Banville (University of Chicago Press)

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You probably haven’t ever noticed them. But they’ve noticed you. They notice everything. That’s their job. Sitting quietly in a nondescript car outside a bank making note of the tellers’ work habits, the positions of the security guards. Lagging a few car lengths behind the Brinks truck on its daily rounds. Surreptitiously jiggling the handle of an unmarked service door at the racetrack.
They’re thieves. Heisters, to be precise. They’re pros, and Parker is far and away the best of them. If you’re planning a job, you want him in. Tough, smart, hardworking, and relentlessly focused on his trade, he is the heister’s heister, the robber’s robber, the heavy’s heavy. You don’t want to cross him, and you don’t want to get in his way, because he’ll stop at nothing to get what he’s after.
Parker, the ruthless antihero of Richard Stark’s eponymous mystery novels, is one of the most unforgettable characters in hardboiled noir. Lauded by critics for his taut realism, unapologetic amorality, and razor-sharp prose-style—and adored by fans who turn each intoxicating page with increasing urgency—Stark is a master of crime writing; his books as influential as any in the genre. The University of Chicago Press has embarked on a project to return the early volumes of this series to print for a new generation of readers to discover—and become addicted to. This season’s offerings include volumes 4–6 in the series: The Mourner, The Score, and The Jugger.
The Mourner is a story of convergence—of cultures and of guys with guns. Hot on the trail of a statue stolen from a fifteenth-century French tomb, Parker enters a world of eccentric art collectors, greedy foreign officials, and shady KGB agents. Next, Parker works with a group of professional con men in The Score on his biggest job yet—robbing an entire town in North Dakota. In The Jugger, Parker travels to Nebraska to help out a geriatric safecracker who knows too many of his criminal secrets. By the time he arrives, the safecracker is dead and Parker’s skeletons are on the verge of escaping from their closet—unless Parker resorts to lethal measures.

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The Hound of Rowan: Book One of The Tapestry by Henry H. Neff ($3.99)

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MAX MCDANIELS LIVES a quiet life in the suburbs of Chicago, until the day he stumbles upon a mysterious Celtic tapestry. Many strange people are interested in Max and his tapestry. His discovery leads him to Rowan Academy, a secret school where great things await him.

But dark things are waiting, too. When Max learns that priceless artworks and gifted children are disappearing, he finds himself in the crossfire of an ancient struggle between good and evil. To survive, he'll have to rely on a network of agents and mystics, the genius of his roommate, and the frightening power awakening within him.

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Chasing the Night by Iris Johansen ($2.99)

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A CIA agent’s two-year-old child was stolen in the night as a brutal act of vengeance. Now, eight years later, this torment is something Catherine Ling awakens to every day. Her friends, family, and colleagues tell her to let go, move on, accept that her son is never coming back. But she can’t. Catherine needs to find someone as driven and obsessed as she is to help her— and that person is Eve Duncan. She knows that Eve shares her nightmare, since closure is also something that eludes Eve after the disappearance of her daughter Bonnie. Now, Eve must take her talents as a forensic sculptor to another level, using age progression as a way to unite Catherine with her child. As Eve gets drawn deeper into Catherine’s horror, she must face looming demons of her own.
Bonnie’s killer is still out there. And a new killer is taunting Eve and Catherine at every turn. Is Catherine’s son alive, or not? These two women endure the worst fear any mother can imagine in Iris Johansen’s latest thrill ride, a gut-wrenching journey into the darkest places of the soul.

Jar City: A Reykjavík Thriller by Arnaldur Indridason and Bernard Scudder ($2.99)

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From Gold Dagger Award--winning author Arnaldur Indridason comes a Reykjavík thriller introducing Inspector Erlendur

When a lonely old man is found dead in his Reykjavík flat, the only clues are a cryptic note left by the killer and a photograph of a young girl's grave. Inspector Erlendur discovers that many years ago the victim was accused, but not convicted, of an unsolved crime, a rape. Did the old man's past come back to haunt him? As Erlendur reopens this very cold case, he follows a trail of unusual forensic evidence, uncovering secrets that are much larger than the murder of one old man.

An international sensation, the Inspector Erlendur series has sold more than two million copies worldwide.

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A Thousand Tomorrows & Just Beyond The Clouds Omnibus by Karen Kingsbury ($1.99)

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Bestselling author Karen Kingsbury weaves a powerful story of a young couple whose love must face the ultimate challenge.

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It's the new Amazon Promo:

100 Kindle Books for $3.99 or Less as selected by their editors

Looking for great books at a low price? Browse the newest section of our store--100 Kindle Books for $3.99 or Less--a diverse selection of deals hand-selected by our editors each month. Shop soon... These deals will expire on September 30, 2011.

Some of the selections (via the Kindle editors blog)

Shanghai Girls: A Novel ($3.99) by Lisa See
The Black Ice (Harry Bosch) ($1.99) by Michael Connelly
Feed ($1.99) by M. T. Anderson
Dillinger ($1.99) by Jack Higgins