Free (and very inexpensive) books for the Kindle

[koland]

November's One Dollar Book from Orbit is Blood Ties, by Pamela Freeman, the first in her Castings Trilogy (Deep Water and Full Circle).

Book Description
A thousand years ago, the Eleven Domains were invaded and the original inhabitants forced on the road as Travelers, belonging nowhere, welcomed by no-one.

Now the Domains are governed with an iron fist by the Warlords, but there are wilder elements to the landscape which cannot be controlled and which may prove their undoing. Some are spirits of place, of water and air and fire and earth. Some are greater than these. And some are human.

Bramble: a village girl, whom no-one living can tame ... forced to flee from her home for a crime she did not commit.

Ash: apprentice to a safeguarder, forced to kill for an employer he cannot escape.

Saker: an enchanter, who will not rest until the land is returned to his people.

As their three stories unfold, along with the stories of those whose lives they touch, it becomes clear that they are bound together in ways that not even a stonecaster could foresee - bound by their past, their future, and their blood.

[koland]

These should all go up in price today, according to Suvudu (some already have) and will no longer be free:

Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning
Manifold: Time by Stephen Baxter
Queen of the Orcs: King’s Property by Morgan Howell
The Brass Bed by Jennifer Stevenson
The Briar King by Greg Keyes
Changelings by McCaffrey & Scarborough
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
Full Moon Rising by Keri Arthur


These are all back to a regular price:
Giving Chase by Lauren Dane
Paradox I by Rosemary Laurey and J.C. Wilder
Affirming the Apostles' Creed by J.I. Packer
72 Hours by Shannon Stacey
The Keeper by Sarah Langan
Huckleberry Finished by Livia J Washburn
The Christmas Bus by Melody Carlson

[koland]

These have gone up also:

Darkness Unleashed by Alexandra Ivy
Mania by Craig Larsen
The Mane Squeeze by Shelly Laurenston
Spinning Forward by Terri Dulong [Contemporary Romance]

[Xia]

Wow. Those didn't last long. I think Terisa was right, and some of those freebies (Mane Squeeze, Darkness Unleashed, & Huckleberry Finished were made free by mistake. Well, I hope everyone that wanted them got 'em.

Anyway, back to our regularly scheduled program:


After Life
by Jaron Lee Knuth
http://www.amazon.com/After-Life-ebo...=AG56TWVU5XWC2
~4.5 out of 5 stars, based on 3 reviews
$0.99 (the paperback is currently priced at $11.44 on amazon)

Product Description
Two friends must learn how to feel in a world where only the numb can survive.

When corpses begin to hunger for the flesh of the living, a small group of survivors must decide if they should fight for the world that was destroyed or adapt to the change.

How far are you willing to go to survive?

Love, Blood and the Undead.

[Xia]

Love in a Time of Zombies
by Paul Gude
http://www.amazon.com/Love-Time-Zomb...=AG56TWVU5XWC2
~4 out of 5 stars, based on 6 reviews
$1.00 (paperback is currently $7.50 on amazon)

Product Description
Sex and zombies. That's all you really need to know.

[Xia]

Dragon's Awakening (High Council)
by Dawn Ibanez
http://www.amazon.com/Dragons-Awaken...=AG56TWVU5XWC2
~4 out of 5 stars, based on 4 reviews
$1.00

Product Description
Chance Dupree is a young Elemental Mage. She has lived her life in hiding and has spent most of her time to the study of Magick. Now, a member of a team of Hunters, she meets one Demon that changes the very fiber of everything she believes.

Christobal Cavolcanti has spent the past two thousand years searching for two things. His revenge, and the reincarnation of the woman he loved. One Halloween night, he finally finds her. The reincarnation of his gentle love... but when she puts a gun to his throat, he begins to realize that Chance may have his love's soul, but she's her own woman.

[Xia]

This book is back down to 99 cents so it can be re-added to the list:

Vicious
by Brandon Massey
http://www.amazon.com/Vicious-ebook/...=AG56TWVU5XWC2
~4.5 stars out of 5, based on 15 reviews
$0.99

Product Description
The night is full of wild things...

When Kym Phillips embarks on a road trip from Atlanta to Los Angeles to take her younger sister to college, she's anticipating an opportunity to bond with her sister and a chance to see the country. And as an accomplished, single professional with her thirtieth birthday only a week away and no marriage prospects in sight, Kym is looking forward to some quiet time to reflect on the frustrating course of her love life.

Waiting for them...

He roams the lonely highways and barren canyons of the Southwest. Leader of a pack of vicious minions, he hunts the night for travelers far from home... for prey.

Deep into their journey, Kym realizes that someone is following them. Someone with an uncanny predator's instinct. Someone with a sick hunger for blood. Someone who, no matter what they do to escape, is utterly relentless...

Explosive, lightning-paced, and impossible to put down, this is Brandon Massey at his thrilling best.

PRAISE FOR BRANDON MASSEY'S THRILLERS:

"An intense thriller . . . a wild ride!"
-Kevin O'Brien, New York Times bestselling author

“A razor-sharp thriller guaranteed to keep you turning pages well into the night. Start this one on your day off—-you won't be able to put it down.”
—Douglas Clegg, bestselling author of The Queen of Wolves and The Hour Before Dark

"The talented Mr. Massey has the rare knack of grabbing the reader early and not letting go. Massey knows how to ratchet up the suspense."
—John Lutz, New York Times bestselling author

“A taut, involving, and utterly convincing thrill ride.”
—Gregg Olsen, New York Times bestselling author

[koland]

FREE:

A Kiss of Shadows, by Laurell K. Hamilton, is the start of her Meredith Gentry series. Definitely, however, not a book for children.

Book Description
“My name is Meredith Gentry, but of course it’s not my real name. I dare not even whisper my true name after dark for fear that one hushed word will travel over the night winds to the soft ear of my aunt, the Queen of the Air and Darkness. She wants me dead. I don’t even know why.”

Meredith Gentry, Princess of the high court of Faerie, is posing as a human in Los Angeles, living as a P.I. specializing in supernatural crime. But now the Queen’s assassin has been dispatched to fetch her back–whether she likes it or not. Suddenly Meredith finds herself a pawn in her dreaded aunt’s plans. The job that awaits her: enjoy the constant company of the most beautiful immortal men in the world. The reward: the crown–and the opportunity to continue to live. The penalty for failure: death.

[koland]

Trading in Danger, by Elizabeth Moon, is the second free title from the Suvudu Free Libary for today and is the first in her Vatta's War series.

Book Description
Kylara Vatta is the only daughter in a family full of sons, and her father’s only child to buck tradition by choosing a military career instead of joining the family business. For Ky, it’s no contest: Even running the prestigious Vatta Transport Ltd. shipping concern can’t hold a candle to shipping out as an officer aboard an interstellar cruiser. It’s adventure, not commerce, that stirs her soul. And despite her family’s misgivings, there can be no doubt that a Vatta in the service will prove a valuable asset. But with a single error in judgment, it all comes crumbling down.

Expelled from the Academy in disgrace–and returning home to her humiliated family, a storm of high-profile media coverage, and the gaping void of her own future–Ky is ready to face the inevitable onslaught of anger, disappointment, even pity. But soon after opportunity’s door slams shut, Ky finds herself with a ticket to ride – and a shot at redemption – as captain of a Vatta Transport ship.

It’s a simple assignment: escorting one of the Vatta fleet’s oldest ships on its final voyage . . . to the scrapyard. But keeping it simple has never been Ky’s style. And even though her father has provided a crew of seasoned veterans to baby-sit the fledgling captain on her maiden milk run, they can’t stop Ky from turning the routine mission into a risky venture–in the name of turning a profit for Vatta Transport, of course.

By snapping up a lucrative delivery contract defaulted on by a rival company, and using part of the proceeds to upgrade her condemned vehicle, Ky aims to prove she’s got more going for her than just her family’s famous name. But business will soon have to take a backseat to bravery, when Ky’s change of plans sails her and the crew straight into the middle of a colonial war. For all her commercial savvy, it’s her military training and born-soldier’s instincts that Ky will need to call on in the face of deadly combat, dangerous mercenaries, and violent mutiny. . . .

The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Crimson Shadows, is the third free title from the Suvudu Free Libary for today. For an unknown reason, this is titled The Shadow Kingdom in the Kindle store (which is part of the Weird Tales collections, not Best Of), but it is Crimson Shadows in all the other listings. Both volumes contain the Shadow Kingdoms short story.

Book Description
Robert E. Howard is one of the most famous and influential pulp authors of the twentieth century. Though largely known as the man who invented the sword-and-sorcery genre–and for his iconic hero Conan the Cimmerian–Howard also wrote horror tales, desert adventures, detective yarns, epic poetry, and more. This spectacular volume, gorgeously illustrated by Jim and Ruth Keegan, includes some of his best and most popular works.

Inside, readers will discover (or rediscover) such gems as “The Shadow Kingdom,” featuring Kull of Atlantis and considered by many to be the first sword-and-sorcery story; “The Fightin’est Pair,” part of one of Howard’s most successful series, chronicling the travails of Steve Costigan, a merchant seaman with fists of steel and a head of wood; “The Grey God Passes,” a haunting tale about the passing of an age, told against the backdrop of Irish history and legend; “Worms of the Earth,” a brooding narrative featuring Bran Mak Morn, about which H. P. Lovecraft said, “Few readers will ever forget the hideous and compelling power of [this] macabre masterpiece”; a historical poem relating a momentous battle between Cimbri and the legions of Rome; and “Sharp’s Gun Serenade,” one of the last and funniest of the Breckinridge Elkins tales.

These thrilling, eerie, compelling, swashbuckling stories and poems have been restored to their original form, presented just as the author intended. There is little doubt that after more than seven decades the voice of Robert E. Howard continues to resonate with readers around the world.

[dougbiss]

Interesting. For me, The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Crimson Shadows is coming up as not available in the U.S.

Edit: Got it to work by changing the format to paperback, and then back to Kindle. It then let me download it with no problem.

Thanks, Karen!

[Daithi]

I got the same error as dougbiss. Try these links

The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Crimson Shadows

Trading in Danger

[Xia]

UPDATE: This book now costs $9.99 (as of 11/5/09)

At the City's Edge
by Marcus Sakey
http://www.amazon.com/At-the-Citys-E...=AG56TWVU5XWC2
~4 out of 5 stars, based on 23 reviews
$0.88 (paperback is currently listed for $7.99 on amazon)

Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Sakey's second crime novel doesn't quite measure up to his impressive debut, The Blade Itself (2007), but it exhibits many of the same strengths: high-tension action, intricate plotting and a Chicago setting that thrums and pulses with the feel of the city. Jason Palmer, a veteran of the current Iraq war haunted by his experiences, has yet to settle down, unlike his older brother, Michael, who runs a bar in their old South Side Chicago neighborhood and is raising an eight-year-old son, Billy. But when Michael is murdered and Billy threatened, Jason finds himself reacting in the only way he knows—as a soldier. Soldiering, however, is only part of the answer, and Jason has to come to terms with his past, weigh new responsibilities and counter the carnage that gang warfare, political corruption and corporate greed are wreaking on the neighborhood. Sakey, who draws disturbing and thought-provoking parallels between Baghdad and Chicago, provides enough narrow escapes, traps and obstacles to satisfy a Die Hard fan, but enough meat to please readers who demand more than pyrotechnics. Author tour. (Jan.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Review
Sakey's second Chicago thriller (The Blade Itself, 2007) features a hard-nosed Iraq vet who's limped home to lick his wounds after a less-than-honorable discharge. But when his straight-arrow brother is murdered, he gets caught in the crossfire of what looks like a full-scale street war.With his brother dead, Jason Palmer finds himself sucked back into the life he thought he left behind in Iraq. In a way it feels good to resume soldiering - relying on instinct, setting aside contemplation in favor of action. The only problem: Jason's brother has left behind a terrified eight-year-old who has no one left but his uncle. Sakey effectively shows Jason's battle not to yield to the attractive purity of vengeance. The intricate plot has to do with a bombed-out (imaginary) neighborhood, Crenwood, that's ravaged by gang warfare. Jason and semi-disgraced policewoman Elena Cruz soon stumble into a plot to arm rival gangs with heavy weaponry and bring about mutually assured destruction. The villains are impossibly villainous, the heroes pure, the inevitable romance between Jason and Elena strictly pro forma. The relentless pace can make the prose seem hasty. But thanks to nimble plotting, pungent atmosphere (Sakey's gritty Chicago is wonderfully evoked) and the nicely handled analogy between combat in Iraq and the gangbangers' vicious codes, the book works anyway.A familiar but brutally effective action-heavy thriller, ready-made for film. (Kirkus Reviews)

[Daithi]

Originally Posted by Xia

At the City's Edge
by Marcus Sakey
http://www.amazon.com/At-the-Citys-E...=AG56TWVU5XWC2
~4 out of 5 stars, based on 23 reviews
$0.88 (paperback is currently listed for $7.99 on amazon)

I get the "This title is not available for customers from: United States" error and can't seem to get around it this time.

[dougbiss]

Originally Posted by Daithi

I get the "This title is not available for customers from: United States" error and can't seem to get around it this time.

Odd, because I did not get that error with this one.

[Xia]

Originally Posted by Daithi

I get the "This title is not available for customers from: United States" error and can't seem to get around it this time.

Every single book I view on the amazon site says that for me today (even books I bought yesterday!). It's some sort of error on their part (it happened a couple days ago, too).

Here's how I've been getting around it: I send the sample to my Kindle, then open the sample, then click the "see details" option (this is on a K1), then it takes me to the listing in the Kindle store, and then I click "Buy" there and then it will go thru.

That should work for you with this book, because it worked for me. I do not buy most of the books I post here, but I did buy this one (about 30 minutes ago). And that is how I had to buy it.

I hope it works!

-Xia