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

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Veiled Freedom, by Jeanette Windle, is free on Kindle and at B&N courtesy of Christian publisher Tyndale House.

Book Description
Naïve and idealistic, relief worker Amy Mallory arrives in Kabul ready to change the world. She soon discovers that as a woman in Afghanistan, the challenges she faces are monumental. As the new security chief to the Minister of the Interior, former Special Forces veteran Steve Wilson is disillusioned to find that the country he fought to set free has fallen into its old habits of greed and corruption. Afghani native Jamil returns to his homeland seeking a job while his painful past continues to haunt him. All three search for truth . . . and for freedom . . . but at what cost?

Click HERE for the free book from B&N.

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The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook Presents - 10 Summertime Treats by Dinah Bucholz

Product Description
Free eBook Download! It's summertime and the weather is just right to sit back and relax with a nice, cool . . . pumpkin juice! With July comes backyard barbecues, long afternoons by the pool, and Harry's birthday of course! Celebrate this magical time with The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook Presents: 10 Summertime Treats. This free eBook includes 10 decadent treats guaranteed to provide sweet relief from the sultry summertime heat. From icy juices to cool, melt-in-your-mouth sundaes, this summer you can conjure a dessert fit for Hogwarts Hall! Looking to celebrate the tastes of this enchanted world all-year round? Then check out the Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook eBook and Print editions and the Unofficial Harry Potter Sweet Shoppe Kit!

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Leadership Prayers by Richard Kriegbaum (Free again)

Product Description

An ideal gift book for leaders, features 30 heartfelt prayers, insightful reflections, and Scripture.

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Free backlist/indie books:

The Light Horseman's Daughter by David Crookes

Product Description
While resisting eviction from the Queensland family property at the start of the Great Depression, Emma McKenna's father is shot dead. Emma is left destitute, with her crippled mother and twelve-year-old twin brothers to care for. But she is not easily defeated and fights back.
In her struggle to survive she must overcome, heartless wealthy relatives, racial bigotry, child abuse, corrupt financiers and choose between the love of two very different men: one a wealthy Sydney lawyer involved with the New Guard, a paramilitary anti-communist movement, and the other, a persecuted and penniless left-wing activist.
The Light Horseman's Daughter offers a panoramic view of Australia in the 1930's—the big landowners of the outback, the corrupt bankers who supported them, the well-heeled elite of Sydney's affluent eastern suburbs, the abject poverty of the victims of the Depression, the idealists who joined the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War .
This award-winning novel weaves all this into a riveting story with the human element at its heart. Emma McKenna is a heroine to remember

Catharsis by Jonathan Face

Product Description
Spring City, New Hampshire, is a town with a checkered past. Its residents have secrets - or so they think. These will be exposed and their true natures revealed during an unexpected winter storm.

Chaos unfolds as the snow falls, ushered along by the ghosts of the town's previous inhabitants. Acting on orders from some unknown power, it's their duty to see that the town gets the justice it has been lacking. If anyone's alive by dawn, they're either lucky - or innocent.

This is Spring City's last night, but its citizens won't go quietly.

3 by A Submitter

Product Description
The world of 3 reflects on the concept of mind, body and soul. To answer an age old philosophical question and provide proofs of reason.

There comes a time when things which are destined to be manifest become clear and the truth of the words written shed light on the thoughts of the mind, the actions of the body and the will of the soul. The Book was intended for the purpose of reaching an understanding after years of study and some nuggets among the various troubling thoughts of the time, and then whilst the storm settled and following 6 troubled years fighting mental illness and instiutionalisation and still pursuing a course independent of what mainstream education had to offer, a simple tool rather than years spent in academia paying off costly debts, and working among students which would take up your time, instead a daily routine to question, critically examine and evaluate the thoughts until something unique and original became known. In 2008 the book was formalised and for the next two years was developed and brought into existence. The book intends to give insight to the life of one deemed insane and through his experience sheds a light onto the wider world, also questioning the difference between mental illness and creativity. It is the unravelling of mysteries which people have talked of but never put to writing, it is a long journey of logical understanding to keep a light within to search for answers.

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FYI, new app for the Kindle:

Password Manager (A Password Management Tool for Kindle) by Mobigloo for $4.99

Product Description
Password Manager stores your confidential data such as user names, passwords, and account numbers so you can have one convenient place to go when you need to look up that information.

Password Manager can store up to 500 items, and includes templates for credit cards, bank accounts, PIN codes, frequent flyer numbers, web site log-ins, memberships and more. You retrieve your stored account information using a single master password.

Password Manager offers a random password feature that generates strong passwords that you can use with your individual accounts, and a password strength indicator to help you create a strong master password. To help protect your data, your data is stored with AES encryption, and a security timeout feature will automatically log you off after 2 minutes of inactivity.

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FYI, new apps for the Kindle:

Flash Cards: Foods for Kids (A Learning Tool for Kindle) by Digi Ronin Games ($1.99)

Product Description
Flash Cards: Foods allows children to use flash cards to learn 76 new foods while reinforcing their alphabet and spelling skills.

Children can review words that are new to them, practice with multiple-choice options, or fill in answers directly. The title has two different play modes, each with three levels of difficulty. The first play mode shows a picture of a food and asks children to learn by typing the first letter of its name. The second play mode shows a picture of a food and asks children to spell out its entire name.

To give students timely feedback, correct answers are acknowledged and incorrect answers are corrected immediately upon submitting an answer. A high score table tracks the ten highest scores to help track progress and improvement.

Turn your Kindle into a learning tool today!

Flash Cards: Animals for Kids (A Learning Tool for Kindle) by Digi Ronin Games ($1.99)

Product Description
Flash Cards for Kids: Animals helps children learn to recognize 81 different animals while helping them with their alphabet and spelling skills.

Children can review words that are new to them, practice with multiple-choice options, or fill in answers directly. The title has two different play modes, each with three levels of difficulty. The first play mode shows a picture of an animal and asks children to learn by identifying the first letter of that animal. The second play mode shows an animal and asks children to spell out its entire name.

To give students timely feedback, correct answers are acknowledged and incorrect answers are corrected immediately upon submitting an answer. A high score table tracks the ten highest scores to help track progress and improvement.

Turn your Kindle into a learning tool today!

[koland]

Update: Game has been pulled from the store, no longer available.

Hidden Expedition: Amazon, by Big Fish Games, is a brand new hidden object game for Kindle and is currently free to download. From the pictures on the product page, this is a new level of graphics for a Kindle game and you play it with the Kindle on it's side. I don't expect it to be free for long, so if you have a compatible Kindle, grab it now.

Book Description
Hidden Expedition: Amazon is a hidden object game set deep in the jungle.

Featuring a story never before told in the Hidden Expedition franchise, you join the Hidden Expedition Team in search of a professor lost in the Amazon rainforest. You get to explore cities, temples, and ruins while unlocking the secrets of the professor?s groundbreaking research. With a tattered passport as your only clue, embark on an adventure and investigate 19 beautiful levels and 4 brain teasing mini-games.

You can invite up to 3 your friends and family to create their own profiles so they can play without disturbing your own adventure. Take advantage of the dynamic Hint system whenever your search becomes too difficult. Enjoy a scene? Replay any level as many times as you wish with the Chapter Select feature and pursue randomly selected items in that scene.

If you seek adventure, lush landscapes, and a good challenge, journey into the wonderful world of Hidden Expedition: Amazon.

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Flash Cards: Alphabet (An Early Learning Tool) by Digi Ronin Games is free

Product Description
Flash Cards: Alphabet and Spelling helps kids learn the alphabet and improve their spelling skills.

There are three study modes: study guide, multiple choice, and type-in-the-answer. Flash Cards: Alphabet and Spelling keeps track of your high scores so you can try to beat your best, or to add some friendly competition among friends, classmates, and family.

With the portable convenience of the Kindle, Flash Cards: Alphabet and Spelling can turn even a long road trip into a fun learning experience for your child!

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AccuWeather (Weather Forecasts on Kindle) by AccuWeather.com is currently free

Product Description
AccuWeather is the best way to get local weather forecasts on your Kindle. With AccuWeather, you can get current conditions and nine days of forecasts for virtually every location on Earth, without having to interrupt your reading.

AccuWeather is easy to use on your Kindle and gives you a full set of features to meet all your weather forecast needs, including:

-Your up-to-date current conditions
-Nine days of forecasts for your location
-Eight hours of hour-by-hour forecasts
-Over 2.7 million forecast locations
-Sky conditions with icons
-High and low temperatures.
-Wind speed and direction.
-Up to ten saved locations.

Current conditions include sky condition icons, wind speeds and directions, gust speeds, humidity, visibility, and barometric pressure. Extended forecast information includes sky conditions, short text, and high and low temperatures. Hourly forecasts include temperatures and sky conditions.

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$0.99 bargain books from Sourcebooks:

Highlander's Sword by Amanda Forester

Product Description

A quiet, flame-haired beauty with secrets of her own...
Lady Aila Graham is destined for the convent, until her brother's death leaves her an heiress. Soon she is caught between hastily arranged marriage with a Highland warrior, the Abbot's insistence that she take her vows, the Scottish Laird who kidnaps her, and the traitor from within who betrays them all.

She's nothing he expected and everything he really needs...
Padyn MacLaren, a battled-hardened knight, returns home to the Highlands after years of fighting the English in France. MacLaren bears the physical scars of battle, but it is the deeper wounds of betrayal that have rocked his faith. Arriving with only a band of war-weary knights, MacLaren finds his land pillaged and his clan scattered. Determined to restore his clan, he sees Aila's fortune as the answer to his problems...but maybe it's the woman herself.

Wild Highland Magic by Kendra Castle

Product Description

She's a Scottish Highlands werewolf, but no one's ever shown her how to use her powers…

Growing up in America with a father who hates his own nature, Catrionna MacInnes has always tried desperately to control her powers and pretend to be normal. Now her father has brought her and her sisters to Scotland to reunite with the pack they fled years ago…

He's a wizard prince with a devastating secret…

Bastian an Morgaine has found sanctuary among the MacInnes werewolf clan but no relief from the soul-searing curse that haunts him. The minute Cat lays eyes on Bastian, she knows she's met her destiny. In their first encounter, she unwittingly binds him to her for life, and now they're both targets for the evil enemies that are out to destroy their very souls…

Awaken the Highland Warrior by Anita Clenney

Product Description

Historian Bree Kirkland has always been in love with the past, but when she accidentally wakes an ancient Scottish warrior who's spent the past 150 years sleeping in her backyard, her present is suddenly fraught with danger. Faelan has awakened from the time vault ravenous--in more ways than one. He grieves for his lost family, wondering who sent the woman to wake him. If she's a demon, Faelan will have to kill her. If she's innocent, she's unleashed the gates of hell in her backyard. Either way they must rely on each other to save their future.

Love Drunk Cowboy by Carolyn Brown

Product Description

Carolyn Brown's first five cowboy/country music single title mass market romances have sold over 65,000 copies All Austin Lanier wants is to sell her inherited watermelon farm, slip on her stilettos and run back to corporate America. Until the drop dead sexy cowboy next door, Rye O'Donnell, decides he'll only take the farm if he can get the fiery woman who owns it as part of the deal...

Highland Rebel: A tale of a rebellious lady and a traitorous lord by Judith James

Product Description

Amidst the upheaval of Cromwell's Britain, Jamie Sinclair's wit and military prowess have served him well. Leading a troop in Scotland, he impetuously marries a captured maiden, saving her from a grim fate.

A Highlands heiress to title and fortune, Catherine Drummond is not the woman Jamie believes her to be. When her people effect her rescue, and he cannot annul the marriage, Jamie goes to recapture his hellcat of a new wife...

In a world where family and creed cannot be trusted, where faith fuels intolerance and war, Catherine and Jamie test the bounds of loyalty, friendship, and trust...

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Originally Posted by arcadata

AccuWeather (Weather Forecasts on Kindle) by AccuWeather.com is currently free

Drats, it's gone already

[TallMomof2]

Originally Posted by copyrite

Drats, it's gone already

When I checked it wasn't available in the U.S.

[DreamWriter]

Originally Posted by TallMomof2

When I checked it wasn't available in the U.S.

I got the free AccuWeather Kindle App this morning, but by afternoon the product page was completely gone. I'm hoping that it'll be offered again. It's a very helpful app!

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Bargain book:

Firelight with Bonus Material by Sophie Jordan is $1.99 (HarperCollins)

*The book without the bonus content is $9.99

Product Description

A hidden truth. Mortal enemies. Doomed love.

Marked as special at an early age, Jacinda knows her every move is watched. But she longs for freedom to make her own choices. When she breaks the most sacred tenet among her kind, she nearly pays with her life. Until a beautiful stranger saves her. A stranger who was sent to hunt those like her. For Jacinda is a draki—a descendant of dragons whose greatest defense is her secret ability to shift into human form.

Forced to flee into the mortal world with her family, Jacinda struggles to adapt to her new surroundings. The only bright light is Will. Gorgeous, elusive Will who stirs her inner draki to life. Although she is irresistibly drawn to him, Jacinda knows Will's dark secret: He and his family are hunters. She should avoid him at all costs. But her inner draki is slowly slipping away—if it dies she will be left as a human forever. She'll do anything to prevent that. Even if it means getting closer to her most dangerous enemy.

Mythical powers and breathtaking romance ignite in this story of a girl who defies all expectations and whose love crosses an ancient divide.

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Bargain book:

Kiss an Angel with Bonus Material by Susan Elizabeth Phillips is $1.99 (HarperCollins)

*The book without the bonus content is $7.99

Product Description

How did pretty, flighty Daisy Devreaux find herself in this fix? She can either go to jail or marry the mystery man her father has chosen for her. Alex Markov, however, has no intention of playing the loving bridegroom to a spoiled little featherhead with champagne tastes. As humorless as he is deadly handsome, he drags the irrepressible Daisy away from her uptown life and sets out to tame her.

Except it won't be as easy as he thinks. This man without a soul has met a woman who's nothing but heart. Will vows spoken in haste shatter . . . or offer the promise of love everlasting?