FREE (and bargain) books for the Kindle - May 2011

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The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (Christmas Classics 2010) by Asa Don Dickinson

Concrete Underground by Moxie Mezcal

All Employees Are Marketers by Richard Parkes Cordock

The Mouse and the Christmas Cake (ILLUSTRATED)

Hacker School (cyberhug.me) by Allan R. Wallace

Be Vigilant: Daily Meditations for Advent by Michael Dubruiel

Seeking Cygnus by L.K. Ellwood

Bob Moore: No Hero by Tom Andry

There Must Be Murder (Girlebooks Contemporary) by Margaret C. Sullivan

Entire Sanctification by C. B. Jernigan

Expelled by Clayton Spann

The Life and Death of Bayou Billy by C.L. Bevill

Heku (The Heku Series) by T.M. Nielsen

The Awakening of Humanity by Benjamin Creme

The Smoke Dragon by Shane Jiraiya Cummings

Soul View by Jeff Inlo

Miss Anna's Frigate by Jens Kuhn

I Witch: The Powers of the Blood and the Heart by Erin Munday

Oprah Down Under by Brian Lawrenson

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The Power of PAO:How To Go From Victim of Circumstance to Master of Your Destiny by Joe Champion

The Blurting Beetles of Baloogo Loogo (Super Monkey Group) by Mathew Ferguson

Synsunder by Ami Braverman

A Guiding Light (Sudden Dearth) by Gerard A. Whitfield

The Fourth World (The Legend of the Locust) by Laurence Moroney

Xenolith by A. Sparrow

Peregrin by A. Sparrow

Looking For Ward by Laurel Osterkamp

Apocrypha Sequence: Deviance by Shane Jiraiya Cummings

The Watchers from within Moments, Revealed by Mark Paul Jacobs

Garbage!Monster!Burp! by Tom Watson

Acupressure Guide For Relieving Hangovers by MobileReference

The Book of Talismans, Amulets and Zodiacal Gems by William Thomas

The Ancient Lands:WarriorQuest, Search for the Ifa Scepter by Jason McCammon

There's No Place Like Homecoming:A Dorothy Gale Prequel (The New Wizard Of Oz) by Lacy Maran

The Thorn (The Chronicles of Gan) by Daron Fraley

Spooks And Magic (Alana Weatherbee) by Jack Sorenson

Space Opera and Planetary Romance Reader Guide (Blue Tyson's SF Guides) by Blue Tyson

Advantage Disadvantage by Yale R. Jaffe

Zombie Nights by Tom Lichtenberg

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The Ultimate Investment, Achieving Life's Highest Returns, An Allegory by H. Bradley Stucki

Astra: Synchronicity by Lisa Eskra

Lumps by Ian Woodhead

Snapdragon Alley (Dragon City Trilogy) by Tom Lichtenberg

101 Tips for Traveling with a Vampire by Joleene Naylor

Stealing Flowers by Edward St Amant

HOW TO WRITE CLEARLY. RULES AND EXERCISES ON ENGLISH COMPOSITION by M.A. REV. EDWIN A. ABBOTT

Comedy. Memoirs of a bar steward (Part One: 14th-25th August: From the city to inside the Queens Legs.) by Scott Evans

Henry Burp - Mind Your Manners by Mike Winn

The Handbag's Tale by Louis Bertrand Shalako

[ProfCrash]

Wow lots of books

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Just FYI, new Kindle app:

Letter Landers (An Early Reader Game for Kindle) by Gameblend Studios ($2.99)

Product Description
Letter Landers is a letter learning game for children ages 3 and up.

In Letter Landers, 26 letter-shaped aliens help your child learn letters, short words, and practice memory skills. There are two modes, Matching and Letter Book. In the Matching game, you must flip tiles over to reveal pictures and letters underneath. Match picture or letter pairs to make the tiles disappear. Once cleared, the letter-shaped aliens spell one of 113 beginner words using the matched letters you found while clearing the tiles. There are 3 skill levels (grid sizes 3x4, 4x4 and 5x4) with best times saved for each.

The 26 page Letter Book mode features all the letter aliens. Each page introduces a letter of the alphabet, and focuses on basic letter pronunciation through use of rhyming and alliteration.

Letter Landers provides a fun way to learn on the go.

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awesome! I just snagged a BUNCH of books!

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Just FYI, new Kindle app:

Converter (Easy Conversions for Kindle) by 7 Dragons ($0.99)

Product Description
Converter is a simple utility that lets you convert between different units of measure on your Kindle and answer common conversion questions. How many Cups are in a Quart and how many Teaspoons are in a Tablespoon? Having trouble converting between Celsius and Fahrenheit while visiting a foreign country? Quickly convert among 76 units of measure in these 11 categories:
- Angle
- Area
- Energy
- Length/Distance
- Power
- Pressure
- Speed
- Temperature
- Time
- Volume
- Weight

Converter also supports shortcuts that allow you to quickly change the type of conversion, the unit you are converting from, and the unit to which you are converting.

Let Kindle help you with conversions today!

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Two bargain books from HarperCollins Publishers:

Live to Tell by Wendy Corsi Staub (reduced to $0.99)

Product Description

Secrets can scandalize . . .

In a lovely suburban town just north of New York City, the gossip mill runs more efficiently than the commuter-train line. And in every impeccably decorated house, they're talking about Lauren Walsh. They say that nothing could be worse than being abandoned by your husband for another woman. They're wrong . . .

Secrets can shock . . .

All Lauren wants is to protect her children from the pain of her messy divorce. But when their father goes missing, a case of mistaken identity puts all their lives in danger, and a stealthy predator lurks in the shadows, watching . . . waiting . . .

Secrets can kill . . .

Lauren is about to uncover an unfathomable truth—a truth this cold-blooded mastermind would never let her live to tell . . .

Hissy Fit by Mary Kay Andrews (reduced to $1.99)

Product Description

Welcome to the world of Mary Kay Andrews, where manners are polished, reputations are tarnished ... and revenge issweet.

Keeley Murdock's wedding to A. J. Jernigan should have been the social event of the season. But when she catches her fiance doing the deed with her maid of honor at the country club rehearsal dinner, all bets are off. And so is the wedding. Keeley pitches the hissy fit of the century, earning herself instant notoriety in the small town of Madison, Georgia.

Even worse is the financial pressure A.J.'s banking family brings to bear on Keeley's interior design business. But riding to the rescue -- in a vintage yellow Cadillac -- is the redheaded stranger who's purchased a failing local bra plant. Will Mahoney hires Keeley to redo the derelict antebellum mansion he's bought. Her assignment: decorate it for the woman of his dreams -- a woman he's never met.

Only a designing woman like Keeley Murdock can find a way to clear her name and give her cheating varmint of an ex-fiance the comeuppance he so richly deserves. And only Mary Kay Andrews can deliver such delicious social satire. With Hissy Fit, she's created a story as outrageous, dishy, and true as Savannah Blues and Little Bitty Lies.

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Just FYI, new app for the Kindle:

Daily Horoscopes 2011 - 2012 (Your Daily Horoscope on Kindle) by Sonic Boom ($2.99)

Product Description

Check your Daily Horoscope on Kindle.

Daily Horoscopes offers astrological advice based on the positions of your Zodiac sign through 2012. Features include daily astrological predictions for each of the 12 signs of the Zodiac, lucky numbers based on your birthday, and advice on love and friendship. You can also bookmark meaningful predictions for easy reference later. In addition, celebrity birthdays are included for each day of the year. Written by professional astrologers, Daily Horoscopes offers you advice on your goals and provides day to day suggestions.

See what your daily horoscope has to say today!

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FYI, There's some good $2.99 bargain books [Suspense/Thriller/Mystery] from Macmillan that @NightBird posted in the Deals forum https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=133007

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Strip by Thomas Perry is reduced to $2.99 at the US Kindle store

Product Description

An aging but formidable strip club owner, Claudiu “Manco” Kapak, has been robbed by a masked gunman as he placed his cash receipts in a bank’s night-deposit box. Enraged, he sends his half-dozen security men out to find a suspect who is spending lots of cash and is new enough to Los Angeles not to know he was robbing a gangster.

Their search leads them to Joe Carver, an innocent but hardly defenseless newcomer who evades capture and sets out to make Kapak wish he’d chosen someone else. Meanwhile, the real culprit, Jefferson Davis Falkins, and his new girlfriend Carrie seem to believe they’ve found a whole new profession: robbing Manco Kapak.

Lieutenant Nick Slosser, the police detective in charge of the puzzling and increasingly violent case, has his own troubles, including worries about how he’s going to afford to send the oldest child of each of his two bigamous marriages to college without making their mothers suspicious.

As this odd series of difficulties explodes into a triple killing, Carver finds himself in the middle of a brewing gang war over Kapak’s little empire, while Falkins and Carrie journey into territory more strange and violent than either had imagined.

About the Author
THOMAS PERRY is the author of the Jane Whitefield series as well as the best-selling novels Nightlife, Death Benefits, and Pursuit. He won the Edgar Award for The Butcher’s Boy, and Metzger’s Dog was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

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More FREE!

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett

The House of Whispers by William Le Queux

Love Springs/Prelude: Two Inspector Monde Tales of Strange and Terrible Adventures (The Inspector Monde Tales) by John Booth

Knots, Splices and Rope Work- ILLUSTRATED- by A. HYATT VERRILL

10,000 Dreams Interpreted by Gustavus Hindman Miller

Harriet Tubman - The Moses of Her People by Sarah H. Bradford

Roget's Thesaurus [Illustrated] by Peter Mark Roget

Smashwords Style Guide - How to Format, Publish and Distribute an Ebook for Free by Mark Coker

Stories of Ships and the Sea by Jack London

The Log of the Flying Fish (A Sci-Fi Pulp Classic!) by Harry Collingwood

How To Live Forever ((A Very Fictional Guide)) by Barry Burnett MD

Bubba and the Dead Woman by C.L. Bevill

The Bow of Orange Ribbon - A Romance of New York by Amelia Edith Barr

The Beetle: A Mystery by Richard Marsh

The mystery of the Big Ben by Fernando Trujillo Sanz

The Curse of Scattershale Gulch, a Mick and Casey Mystery Novelette by Camille LaGuire

Are You Positive? by Stephen Davis

DRY-FARMING: A Complete System for Achieving Bountiful Harvests Where Rain is Scarce, and Without Irrigation by John A. Widtsoe

*These are mostly indies/ self published

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Freebie from Sourcebooks:

Four Corners of the Sky by Michael Malone

Product Description
In small towns between the North Carolina Piedmont and the coast the best scenery is often in the sky. On flat sweeps of red clay and scrub pine the days move monotonously, safely, but above, in the blink of an eye, dangerous clouds can boil out of all four corners of the sky… The flat slow land starts to shiver and anything can happen.

In such a storm, on Annie Peregrine’s seventh birthday, her father gave her the airplane and minutes later drove out of her life. Thus begins an enchanting novel that bursts with energy from the first pages, and sweeps you off on a journey of unforgettable characters, hilarious encounters, and haunting secrets.

The Four Corners of the Sky is master storyteller Michael Malone’s new novel of love, secrets, and the mysterious bonds of families. Malone brings characters to life as only he can, exploring the questions that defy easy answers: Is love a choice or a calling? Why do the ties of family bind so tightly? And is forgiveness a gift to others…or a gift we give ourselves?BONUS READING GROUP GUIDE INCLUDED

About the Author
Michael Malone is the author of ten novels, a collection of short stories, and two works of nonfiction. Educated at Carolina and at Harvard, he is now a professor in Theater Studies at Duke University. Among his prizes are the Edgar, the O. Henry, the Writers Guild Award, and the Emmy. He lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina, with his wife.

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The Forever Young Diet and Lifestyle by Joan O'Keefe and James H. O'Keefe M.D.

Product Description

In a field plagued by miracle diets and sketchy information, The Forever Young Diet and Lifestyle presents a commonsense plan that improves satiety; promotes wholesome, fresh, and easily obtained foods; and reinforces a rational, holistic, mind-body approach to diet and lifestyle. The program is a complete package that can help provide a lifetime of energy and good health.

Most of our health problems today result from a mismatch between the world we are designed for and the very different one in which we live. The modern American leading a sedentary lifestyle of automobiles, couches, televisions, computers, and junk food is like a fish out of water. Our genes have changed minimally over the past few thousand years, yet our diets and lifestyles have become progressively more divergent from those of our ancient ancestors.

The Forever Young Diet and Lifestyle outlines the path back to our natural needs and rhythms. Firmly grounded in the medically proven Hunter-Gatherer diet, the plan easily promotes weight loss, vastly improves energy levels, enhances sleep and concentration, and restores the natural youthful glow we should have at any age. Cardiologist James O'Keefe and his wife, Joan, a registered dietitian, provide a down-to-earth, sensible program that's both satisfying and easy to follow.

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Next Puzzle Game (A Matching Game for Kindle) by Mobigloo is discounted to $0.99 (from $2.99) until May 26!

Product Description

Discounted to $0.99 for a limited time (offer ends May 26).

NEXT is a matching puzzle game for Kindle that is easy to learn, but hard to master.

The objective of the game is to clear all the pieces off the game board. Game pieces disappear when they are matched with, and touch, other game pieces with the same symbol. Your job is to move the game pieces around the game board to make this happen. Clearing the board allows you to move the next level.

The challenge is that if you don't plan ahead, you might not be able get the pieces to the right location because they are blocked by other game pieces. Because sometimes there are an odd number of a certain types of game pieces, if you match them too soon, you risk leaving stray game pieces behind and then you won't be able to finish the level.

NEXT includes 128 levels of varying difficulty and is easy to learn, but hard to master -- give it a try, and you'll see what we mean!