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

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Bargain Book:

S. Craig Zahler's gritty western thriller A Congregation Of Jackals is available for $2.99 for a limited time only. (Amazon)

Synopsis

Four former members of a bank-robbing gang are reuniting for a wedding. But there will be an uninvited guest—another old member of the gang who’s bringing some men of his own to exact the vengeance he’s been after for years.

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Free pre-order (but no cover or description yet):

Thunder Without Rain by Ryan Brown, free at Amazon US.

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Free pre-order (but no cover or description yet):

Thunder Without Rain by Ryan Brown, free at Amazon US.

To be delivered October 2011! I hate such long lead times, but I did click to buy it.

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FYI, There's a new game app out for Kindles - True Backgammon (A Classic Board Game for Kindle) by Compulab ($1.99)

Product Description
True Backgammon allows you to play the classic game wherever you take your Kindle.

Said to be 1000 years older than chess, Backgammon is one of the oldest board games known. Gameplay involves a combination of strategy, probability and luck, with you and Kindle taking turns rolling two dice, while moving your pieces in opposite directions and eventually off the board. Each move offers opportunities to hit opponent's checkers or block fields. Like all good games, the rules themselves are easy to learn and the game comes with full built-in instructions.

Suitable for beginners and advanced players, you can play matches against Kindle at three skill levels. You can also play in landscape or portrait orientation, adjust various options and suspend a game at any time to resume it later.

Enjoy playing one of the oldest classic board games ever made, now on your Kindle.

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Bargain book (ChickLit):

The Devil in the Junior League by Linda Francis Lee is $2.99 for the Kindle (previously at $9.99)

Synopsis

Former Junior Leaguer Linda Francis Lee has crafted a scandalously delicious novel that takes you deep into the heart of Texas Blueblood society.

The Junior League of Willow Creek, Texas is très exclusive. Undesirables need not apply. Fredericka Mercedes Hildebrand Ware (Frede to her friends) is a member beyond reproach…until her life begins to unravel. When her husband betrays her, steals her money, and runs off to places unknown, it’s something Frede would prefer to keep under wraps. The last thing she needs is to become fodder for the JLWC gossip mill. And to make matters worse, there’s only one person in town who stands a chance at helping her get revenge: Howard Grout, a tasteless, gold-chain-wearing lawyer who has bought his way into Frede’s tony neighborhood. But there’s a price: She has to get his tacky, four-inch-stiletto-and-pink-spandex-wearing wife Nikki into the Junior League.

The crème de la crème of Southern royalty should sit up and take notice, and hang on tight for this irresistible tale of getting in and getting even.

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Video Poker (A Free Game for Kindle) by Amazon Digital Services

Product Description
Play Vegas-style video poker on Kindle anytime, anywhere.

Video Poker accurately simulates the Vegas-style video poker machine known as Jacks or Better. After making a bet, you will be dealt five cards. You select which of these five cards to hold, and redraw the rest to try to make the best poker hand possible. A hand with a pair of Jacks or better wins.

The built-in Strategy feature, which you can turn on and off at any time, will provide recommendations for how to play given the hand you were dealt, and will give you hints on how to improve if you fail make the best move. This guidance will help you learn how to play the game, and how to maximize your payouts.

Video Poker tracks how much you win or lose and how often you play the best possible hand.

Try Video Poker today!

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Greatest Knight by Elizabeth Chadwick

(Warning with this one: The price is set to $0.00, but when I checked my receipt, I was charged full price for it. )

Product Description

Royal protector. Loyal servant. Forgotten hero.

A penniless young knight with few prospects, William Marshal is plucked from obscurity when he saves the life of Henry II's formidable queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine. In gratitude, she appoints him tutor to the heir to the throne, the volatile and fickle Prince Henry. But being a royal favorite brings its share of danger and jealousy as well as fame and reward.

A writer of uncommon historical integrity and accuracy, Elizabeth Chadwick resurrects the true story of one of England's greatest forgotten heroes in a captivating blend of fact and fiction. The Greatest Knight restores William Marshal to his rightful place at the pinnacle of the Middle Ages, reflecting through him the triumphs, scandals, and power struggles that haven't changed in eight hundred years.

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My receipt had the correct price so it looks like Amazon fixed the price.

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Free SS: Delirious: Exclusive Bonus! by Daniel Palmer

- No cover, no description (SS connected with the techno-thriller Delirous.)

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New Kindle Games:

Word Search ($0.99)

Book Description
Enjoy the classic Word Search game on your Kindle anywhere you go.

Locate and mark off words in the grid using the 5 way controller. Each word appears in a straight line, horizontally, vertically or diagonally in the grid - but be careful, sometimes the words are backwards! Play at your own pace or against the clock and see who can get the fastest time for each puzzle. Pause partway through a puzzle and return to where you left it. You can reset each puzzle and try it again as many times as you like. If you get stuck on a more challenging puzzle then you can give up and see the correct solution.

Fun for all ages, with categories from Animals to Best Movie Oscar, there are 50 themed 13x13 puzzles included in Volume 1 covering a wide variety of subjects. People who like puzzles and word games will enjoy playing this fun game on Kindle.

Tic Tac Toe ($0.99)

Book Description
Tic Tac Toe by 7 Dragons brings the simple but classic game of Tic Tac Toe to Kindle.

Similar to the pen-and-paper experience from the school days, choose your Xs or Os and try to line up three in a row. "Pass and Play" allows you to play against a friend, or choose to play against Kindle with three different difficulty levels. Game statistics allow you to keep track of high scores for each difficulty level.

Tic Tac Toe is good entertainment for kids, and a fun way to take a break!

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Bargain Philip Roth eBooks:

The Humbling by Philip Roth ($2.02) *B&N has it for $6.93

Product Description
Everything is over for Simon Axler, the protagonist of Philip Roth’s startling new book. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent, and his assurance. His Falstaff and Peer Gynt and Vanya, all his great roles, "are melted into air, into thin air." When he goes onstage he feels like a lunatic and looks like an idiot. His confidence in his powers has drained away; he imagines people laughing at him; he can no longer pretend to be someone else. "Something fundamental has vanished." His wife has gone, his audience has left him, his agent can’t persuade him to make a comeback.

Into this shattering account of inexplicable and terrifying self-evacuation bursts a counterplot of unusual erotic desire, a consolation for a bereft life so risky and aberrant that it points not toward comfort and gratification but to a yet darker and more shocking end. In this long day’s journey into night, told with Roth’s inimitable urgency, bravura, and gravity, all the ways that we convince ourselves of our solidity, all our life’s performances—talent, love, sex, hope, energy, reputation—are stripped off.

The Humbling is Roth’s thirtieth book.

Exit Ghost by Philip Roth ($2.35) - also at B&N.

Synopsis
Like Rip Van Winkle returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman comes back to New York, the city he left eleven years before. Alone on his New England mountain, Zuckerman has been nothing but a writer: no voices, no media, no terrorist threats, no women, no news, no tasks other than his work and the enduring of old age.

Walking the streets like a revenant, he quickly makes three connections that explode his carefully protected solitude. One is with a young couple with whom, in a rash moment, he offers to swap homes. They will flee post-9/11 Manhattan for his country refuge, and he will return to city life. But from the time he meets them, Zuckerman also wants to swap his solitude for the erotic challenge of the young woman, Jamie, whose allure draws him back to all that he thought he had left behind: intimacy, the vibrant play of heart and body.

The second connection is with a figure from Zuckerman’s youth, Amy Bellette, companion and muse to Zuckerman’s first literary hero, E. I. Lonoff. The once irresistible Amy is now an old woman depleted by illness, guarding the memory of that grandly austere American writer who showed Nathan the solitary path to a writing vocation.

The third connection is with Lonoff’s would-be biographer, a young literary hound who will do and say nearly anything to get to Lonoff’s “great secret.” Suddenly involved, as he never wanted or intended to be involved again, with love, mourning, desire, and animosity, Zuckerman plays out an interior drama of vivid and poignant possibilities.

Haunted by Roth’s earlier work The Ghost Writer, Exit Ghost is an amazing leap into yet another phase in this great writer’s insatiable commitment to fiction.

Indignation by Philip Roth ($4.46) *B&N has it for $14.30

Product Description
Against the backdrop of the Korean War, a young man faces life's unimagined chances and terrifying consequences.

It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is he there and not at the local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hard-working neighborhood butcher, seems to have gone mad -- mad with fear and apprehension of the dangers of adult life, the dangers of the world, the dangers he sees in every corner for his beloved boy.

As the long-suffering, desperately harassed mother tells her son, the father's fear arises from love and pride. Perhaps, but it produces too much anger in Marcus for him to endure living with his parents any longer. He leaves them and, far from Newark, in the midwestern college, has to find his way amid the customs and constrictions of another American world.

Indignation, Philip Roth's twenty-ninth book, is a story of inexperience, foolishness, intellectual resistance, sexual discovery, courage, and error. It is a story told with all the inventive energy and wit Roth has at his command, at once a startling departure from the haunted narratives of old age and experience in his recent books and a powerful addition to his investigations of the impact of American history on the life of the vulnerable individual.

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Here's some eBooks from the publisher W. W. Norton & Company that are listed at $1.2-$3 (US Kindle):

Non-fiction:

The Earth Moves: Galileo and the Roman Inquisition by Dan Hofstadter for $1.68 (*B&N has it for $9.99)

Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature by David Quammen for $1.46 (also at B&N)

A Force of Nature: The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford (Great Discoveries Series) by Richard Reeves for $2.08 (also at B&N)

Judas: A Biography by Susan Gubar for $2.20 (also at B&N)

Madre: Perilous Journeys with a Spanish Noun by Liza Bakewell for $2.90 (*B&N has it for $14.37)

Fiction:

Requiem, Mass.: A Novel by John Dufresne for $1.17 (*B&N has it for $14.97) - speculative historical fiction

Body of Lies: A Novel by David Ignatius for $1.24 (also at B&N) - spy thriller

Johnny One-Eye: A Tale of the American Revolution by Jerome Charyn for $1.40 (also at B&N) - historical fiction

Coventry: A Novel by Helen Humphreys for $1.91 (also at B&N) - historical fiction

The Great Perhaps: A Novel by Joe Meno $2.32 (also at B&N) - family drama

The Age of Shiva: A Novel by Manil Suri for $2.56 (*B&N has it for $9.99) - Literary fiction

What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?: A Novel by António Lobo Antunes (translated by Gregory Rabassa) for $2.71 (*B&N has it for $9.99) - Literary fiction

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A Time to Love (Kindle), by Barbara Cameron, the first in her Quilts of Lancaster County series, is free on Kindle and from B&N, courtesy of Christian publisher Abingdon Press.

Book Description
War correspondent Jennie King thinks she’s just a temporary guest in her grandmother’s Amish community while she recuperates from the devastating injuries sustained in a car bomb attack that changed her world. But when she meets Matthew Bontrager, the man she had a crush on as a teenager, she wonders if God has a new plan for her. Jennie has emotional and physical scars and though she feels she has come home to this man and this place, she's not sure she can bridge the difference between their worlds.

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Thank God It's Monday!: How to Create a Workplace You and Your Customers Love by Roxanne Emmerich

Product Description
Thank God It’s Monday! is about loving what you’re doing and creating massive results. Roxanne Emmerich introduces you to two CEOs: one desperately struggling to stay afloat and another who’s discovered a better route to growth and profitability. As you join them both on their journey, you’ll gain valuable insights for jumpstarting positive change from anywhere in the organization…replacing dysfunctional organizational behaviors with passion and creativity…overcoming setbacks…making vision and values actually work!

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Supercharge Your Social Media Strategies (Collection) by Rawn Shah, Michael Tasner, Jamie Turner, and Reshma Shah

Product Description
A brand new collection of essential insights for your business and career from world-renowned experts…now in a convenient e-format, at a great price!

3 expert guides to profiting from the latest social and mobile marketing tools and platforms!

Master powerful, real-world techniques for using social media to grow sales, revenues, and profits! Plan and implement a social media roadmap that makes sense for your company… choose the right social and mobile platforms, and carefully nurture your presence… discover brand-new “Web 3.0” channels, drive maximum value from those that work, and avoid those that don’t!

From world-renowned leaders and experts, including Jamie Turner, Dr. Reshma Shah, Rawn Shah, and Michael Tasner