FREE (and bargain) books for the NOOK - April 2011

[koland]

Romeo, Romeo ($4.79), by Robin Kaye, is free in DRM'd EPUB or PDF format from Sourcebooks, if you join their CasaVIP program. Those of you with Kindles may already have this one, as it was free last December from Amazon.

Book Description
Rosalie Ronaldi doesn't have a domestic bone in her body ... All she cares about is her career, so she survives on take-out and dirty martinis, keeps her shoes under the dining room table, her bras on the shower curtain rod, and her clothes on the couch ... Nick Romeo is every woman's fantasy - tall, dark, handsome, rich, really good in bed, AND he loves to cook and clean ... He says he wants an independent woman, but when he meets Rosalie, all he wants to do is take care of her. Before too long, he's cleaned up her apartment, stocked her refrigerator, and adopted her dog ... So what's the problem? Just a little matter of mistaken identity, corporate theft, a hidden past in juvenile detention and one big nosy Italian family too close for comfort ...

Getting signed up is a bit involved. First, click HERE to sign up for the CasaVIP emails. You'll get an email to confirm, open it and click the confirmation link. You'll then get another email welcoming you to the program, with a coupon code to use to get the book for free; click Download Now in that email and you'll be taken to a web page to order the book (choose EPUB or PDF). You enter the coupon code during checkout (make sure you apply it and see it free, before you get to step 3, which asks for payment).

[koland]

There are a number of new free business books on B&N, some good coupon codes at Kobo and codes for a free movie, a couple of free audibooks, some DRM-free books elsewhere, etc on my blog over the last few days.

I'm being lazy and posting these with tinyurl - they ALL go to the appropriate blog pages; if you don't want to click those, use the link to the blog in my signature and scroll down (there is an index on the side of the blog page). I'll remove the tinyurl links after a bit (most of the free offers will expire soon, I'm sure).

Most of the bargain books are Amazon, but several are also on Kobo (and there is a good $1 off coupon code that still works there).

Happy Easter! (bargain books) - http://tinyurl.com/3noo8ow
Free Tribeca Films Movie Rental - http://tinyurl.com/446g2xa
Happy Earth Day! (bargain books) - http://tinyurl.com/3bbux8b

Free Books:
Crush It! (Audiobook) - http://tinyurl.com/45xzl6k
Ten Free Indie Books (noDRM) - http://tinyurl.com/3dsrcad
Powering the Future (Kindle/nook) - http://tinyurl.com/3vvll3s (repeat)
Options and the Volatility Risk Premium (Kindle/nook) - http://tinyurl.com/3uk7edj
Disrupt (Kindle/nook) - http://tinyurl.com/44qngt4
The Truth About Starting a Business (Kindle/nook) - http://tinyurl.com/3r7f4d5 (repeat)
Strategies for Success in Retail (Kindle/nook) - http://tinyurl.com/3cuoj2g
The Whole Life Adoption Book (Kindle/nook) - http://tinyurl.com/3d3nhgv
Starfarers (noDRM) - http://tinyurl.com/43hckxz
Let's Go Europe 2011! (Kindle/EPUB/nook) - http://tinyurl.com/3bsagc2
Griselda Takes Flight (KindleUK/nook) - http://tinyurl.com/3apgu2k
Simple and Easy Portuguese Recipes (noDRM) - http://tinyurl.com/3ej26wu
Walden (Audiobook) - http://tinyurl.com/3v75xuu
Romeo, Romeo (EPUB/PDF) - http://tinyurl.com/3lyju2u

[koland]

Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back ($6.13 Kindle), by Todd Burpo, Sonja Burpo, Colton Burpo and Lynn Vincent, is free from Borders (DRM'd EPUB). This is published by Christian publisher Thomas Nelson, who normally has their free books available in all the ebookstores, but I don't see this one free anywhere else.

Book Description
A young boy emerges from life-saving surgery with remarkable stories of his visit to heaven. Heaven Is for Real is the true story of the four-year old son of a small town Nebraska pastor who during emergency surgery slips from consciousness and enters heaven. He survives and begins talking about being able to look down and see the doctor operating and his dad praying in the waiting room. The family didn't know what to believe but soon the evidence was clear.Colton said he met his miscarried sister, whom no one had told him about, and his great grandfather who died 30 years before Colton was born, then shared impossible-to-know details about each. He describes the horse that only Jesus could ride, about how "reaaally big" God and his chair are, and how the Holy Spirit "shoots down power" from heaven to help us.Told by the father, but often in Colton's own words, the disarmingly simple message is heaven is a real place, Jesus really loves children, and be ready, there is a coming last battle.

Click HERE to get the free book from Borders.

[koland]

The above book is no longer free.


Blindsided, by Tolman Farrah Geffs, author of The Unsung Patriots, is available free on Kindle and as a PDF direct from the author.

Book Description
Iran will soon possess nuclear weapons. Considering that an estimated 12 million illegal aliens are within our borders and that narcotics are brought in by the tons, nuclear weapons can also be smuggled in. But sometimes the event that has not occurred is most telling. Each day brings more reports of suicide bombings in the Middle East; however, no Islamic religious or political leaders have martyred themselves. Obviously, they are in no great rush to meet Allah and thus face this dilemma: Should Iran use their nuclear arsenal, they will be annihilated by our multiple hydrogen-bomb armed ICBMs. Tragically, there is a solution to their dilemma: Used as energy sources, rather than weapons, nuclear devices can create man-made acts of God.

The public misunderstands nuclear weapons. Conventional explosives, such as gunpowder and dynamite, produce high temperature and pressure gases upon detonation. The nuclear reaction does not. It is the conversion of matter into energy. By converting about 1/4 of an ounce of plutonium 239 into energy, the Nagasaki bomb produced a yield equal to 40 million pounds of TNT. Used as energy sources, nuclear devices can create five different events that we may mistakenly deem to have been “acts of God”. The United States could suffer unparalleled carnage without our realizing that we are under attack. The details are provided in the following revised Epilogue to The Unsung Patriots. Unfortunately, a quirk of human nature favors the adversaries. We humans do not take threats seriously until after they have occurred. There is a regrettably true adage: The generals always prepared to fight the last war. Our current adversaries are very intelligent and will surely strike in new ways for which they believe we have not prepared. It is my objective that simulations be conducted to either verify or disprove the threats delineated in the Epilogue. If the threats are validated, our adversaries must be dissuaded in advance.

Click HERE to get the book as a free PDF.

[koland]

A Little Harmless Sex, by Melissa Schroeder, the first book in her Harmless series, is free in the Kindle store and from B&N, courtesy of Samhain. As you'd suspect from the publisher and the title, this one is on the racy side.

Book Description
Is it love, or just a little harmless sex?
Max has always been Anna's knight in shining armor. But Max has always seen her as a charming, and very sexy, little sister.

Until Max's cold fiance dumps him, Anna unloads another of her many conquests and she invites him over for margaritas and Mexican food. Too much tequila, too much flirting, and too many years of fighting the attraction -- Max loses control and has mind-blowing sex with Anna on her couch. And in her shower. And in her bed.

When the sun rises the next morning, both of them must face that their night together is just the first of many. For Max, he knows he wants Anna forever, but convincing a commitment-phobe like Anna is no easy task. For Anna, she can't believe she has finally slipped beneath Max's steely self-control. He is every woman's dark, wet fantasy come true. But what happens when the Max pushes Anna for more than just A Little Harmless Sex?

Warning, this title contains the following, explicit sex, graphic terms for body parts, torture via silk stockings, a little spanking, and shower and office sex.

This book was previously published, but has been substantially revised and expanded for Samhain Publishing.

Click HERE for the free book from B&N.

[koland]

Long Hard Ride, by Lorelei James, the first in her Rough Riders series, is a repeat freebie on Kindle (Jul '08) that is also free from B&N this time around, courtesy of Samhain publishing (heed the content warning).

Book Description
One lucky woman…three sexy cowboys...she's in for the ride of her life! Channing Kinkaid itches for a change; a wild western adventure with an untamed man. Determined to shed her inhibitions and embrace the steamier, seamier side of life, she sets her sights on hooking up with a real chaps-and-spurs-wearing cowboy. Enter Colby McKay -- bull rider, saddle bronc buster and calf roper. From the moment he sets lust-filled eyes on the sweet and fiery Channing, he knows he's found the woman who’s up to the challenge of cutting loose. What rough and rowdy cowboy could resist a no-holds-barred sexual romp with a sassy young thing starring as his personal buckle bunny?

Intrigued by Channing's bold proposition of horsing around on the road, Colby impulsively sweetens the deal; sexual escapades not only in his bed, but in the bedrolls of his rodeo traveling partners, Trevor and Edgard.

Although Channing's secretly longed to be the sole focus of more than one man's passions, Colby's demand for complete submission behind closed doors will test her willful nature.

Can Channing give up total control? Especially when not all is as it seems with the sexy trio? Or will the cowboys have to break out the bullropes and piggin' string to break in this headstrong filly?

Warning: This erotic romance contains the following: lots of explicit sex, going strong long after the cows come home, graphic language that'd make your mama blush, light bondage with bullropes, menage-a-trois, and -- yee-haw! -- hot nekkid cowboy man-love.


Click HERE for the free book from B&N.

[Rocknsoul]

This should be in the May thread, but:

From Phoenix Pick:

May’s free ebook from Phoenix Pick is James P. Hogan’s exciting adventure where almost-medieval robots meet modern spacemen on Titan; ‘Code of the Lifemaker.’

The coupon code for May is 9992144 and the link (and instructions), can be found on our catalogue page, directly accessible at http://www.PPickings.com .

Code of the LIfemaker
ISBN 978-1-60450-456-9, 330 Pages, Trade Paperback 6”x9”

Long ago, an alien “searcher” ship flew too close to a star gone nova. Though heavily damaged, the ship landed on one of Saturn’s moons, Titan.

Attempting to fulfill its original function of seeding suitable planets for exploitation, the ship creates an bewildering society of self-replicating machines that gives rise to a bizarre ecosystem and culture with intelligent beings and organically grown houses.

The intelligent beings are known as Taloids and they have developed their own brand of religion around a mythical figure, a creator of machines, and hence, life.

When humans descend from the sky, the Taloids see them as those creators.

However, powerful financial and industrial interests are all set to exploit the moon and the Taloids to maximize Titan’s vast production potential and the future for the Taloids looks grim.

But they find a champion from an unexpected source. Karl Zambendorf is a “psychic” who has wrangled a place aboard the human mission to Titan. And when all of man’s forces are conspiring to ruthlessly exploit Titan and the Taloids, Zambendorf becomes their champion and in the process challenges not only the religious imperatives of the Taloids, but the core of our own beliefs as well.

“Hogan skillfully draws the reader into a fascinating philosophical and theological debate, without ever forgetting he’s supposed to entertain and tell a good story.”
—Newsday

[koland]

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