Thursday, 8/25
The Mill River Recluse, by Darcie Chan, 79 customer reviews, 4.4 stars, $0.99
Good reviews from Kirkus Reviews and IndieReader.com, and
a NY Times and USA Today bestseller
NEW - Kindle Daily Deal - Thursday, 8/25
Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen, 3,231 customer reviews, 4.3 stars
Daily Deal until the end of Thursday, 8/24: Yesterday's Price: $6.99
Today's Discount: $4.00
Today's Daily Deal Price: $2.99 (57% off)
Amazon's own ongoing listing of LIMITED-TIME OFFERS - Promos
Amazon sorts these by Bestsellers first.
I've added a separate sorting by Low-to-High pricing.
Unusual Publisher Sale for August - 8/3
Publisher Harper Perennial: sale of 20 titles for $20, or $0.99 each, through the month of August
Other ongoing forum threads that might interest some
. What have been your favorite public domain books not so well known?
. Best "Free" books you've read (many are no longer free, however).
. In the Kindle Kitchen with Annie and Joyce (popular recipes thread)
LATEST DISCOUNTED Kindle books (some temporarily) forum thread:
Forum-thread starter RandomizeME includes a caution for authors:
" This thread is NOT a book promotion thread for authors, or for people to post about indies. (And it's not for posting freebies either.) This thread is to post discounts and price drops that readers find for books from publishers."
8/24-25
(Some lucked out and got a $43 non-fiction book for $.01 but it's gone back up to $43 within minutes.
TEMPORARILY Free-Book alerts from the Amazon Kindle forums - via the amazing
NOTE: The alerts below are quoted as they appear in Joyce's collecting of newly and mostly temporarily-free books just released and are *not* books I've seen and are
Aug 25 - 2 books, Aug 25 - evening - 4 more, Aug 25 - late evening, part 1 - 10 more, Aug 25 - late evening, part 2 - 10 more (total 26)
If on the Home Page, ' Happy Reader "Joyce" says:
* CLICK at the bottom to get the REST of the long listing of free books *
The Nemesis Worm
Author: Guy Haley
Genre: Action - Adventure
DESCRIPTION: A standalone novella featuring the 22nd century's greatest detectives, The Nemesis Worm sees Richards & Klein involved in another high stakes investigation. Corpses are showing up all over Old London, and the finger of suspicion points right at Richards himself. Forced to clear his name, Richards and Otto uncover a fanatical group whose actions threaten the relationship between human and AI with destruction.
*****
Individual Preparedness and Response to Chemical, Radiological, Nuclear, and Biological Terrorist Attacks: The Reference Guide
Author: Lynn E. Davis
Genre: Political - Current Events
DESCRIPTION: The guide focuses on simple steps individuals can take to prepare for and respond to terrorist attacks with chemical, biological, radiological ("dirty bomb") and nuclear weapons. The guides contain both preparatory steps and specific response guidance. This includes what individuals will experience, what their goals should be, and what they should do during each type of attack.
*****
What Is Node?
Author: Brett McLaughlin
Genre: Computers ad Internet
DESCRIPTION: Node.js. It's the latest in a long line of "Are you cool enough to use me?" programminglanguages, APIs, and toolkits. In that sense, it lands squarely in the tradition of Rails,and Ajax, and Hadoop, and even to some degree iPhone programming and HTML5. Dig a little deeper, and you'll hear that Node.js (or, as it's more briefly called by many,simply "Node") is a server-side solution for JavaScript, and in particular, for receivingand responding to HTTP requests. If that doesn't completely boggle your mind, by thetime the conversation heats up with discussion of ports, sockets, and threads, you'lltend to glaze over. Is this really JavaScript? In fact, why in the world would anyonewant to run JavaScript outside of a browser, let alone the server? The good news is that you're hearing (and thinking) about the right things. Node reallyis concerned with network programming and server-side request/response processing.The bad news is that like Rails, Ajax, and Hadoop before it, there's precious little clearinformation available. There will be, in time - as there now is for these other "cool"frameworks that have matured - but why wait for a book or tutorial when you mightbe able to use Node today, and dramatically improve the maintainability.
*****
What Is HTML5?
Author: Brett McLaughlin
Genre: Computers and Internet
DESCRIPTION: HTML5: Everyone's using it, nobody knows what it is. I realize that sounds more like a line out of an existential movie - maybe Waiting for Godot or a screenplay by Sartre - than a statement about HTML5. But it's really the truth: most of the people using HTML5 are treating it as HTML4+, or even worse, HTML4 (and some stuff they don't use). The result? A real delay in the paradigm shift that HTML5 is almost certain to bring. It's certainly not time to look away, because by the time you look back, you may have missed something really important: a subtle but important transition centered around HTML5.
MORE... ( 26 more books: Click just below on "MORE")
*****
Paper Flow 28 Day Challenge
Author: Mary Anne Bennie
Genre: Small Business and Entrepreneurship
DESCRIPTION: The Paper Flow 28-day Challenge will help you establish a system for managing all of your paper work. As featured in the best selling book Paper Flow, this system is a beautifully simple, tried and tested way to deal all the paper that enters our lives. The 28-day Challenge is your step-by-step guide to putting Paper Flow to work in any setting. The challenge includes a home-office makeover, how to tame your action paperwork, how to conquer your reference paperwork, and adopt a routine that will prevent any more paper piles again. Everybody will benefit from taking the Paper Flow 28-day Challenge: households, students, executives, home-based or mobile businesses, mums and dads, frequent travelers, retirees, empty-nesters and more!
*****
Sensei
Author: John Donohue
Genre: Martial Arts - Thriller
DESCRIPTION: A modern-day ronin, or masterless samurai, is traveling across the country-systematically murdering martial arts masters in ritualized combat. Martial artist Connor Burke, and his NYPD homicide detective brother, Mick, must outwit the assassin. And Connor must face his biggest fear-the specter of death at the hands of a far-superior warrior.
*** Late Thursday Evening (Post 1)
Dane (The Mackenzie Brothers Quartet)
Author: Liliana Hart
DESCRIPTION: In this novella, bad boy, Dane MacKenzie, is coming home to Surrender, Montana. It's been ten years since he left the woman he loved behind to make a name for himself, and now he's bound and determined to claim her once and for all. But Charlotte Munroe has no desire to welcome home the Prodigal Son with a fatted calf. The bitterness of Dane's betrayal runs deep, and she has no plans of letting him back into her life. Especially since she's trying to protect the son Dane isn't aware exists from heartbreak, since she's sure he's only going to walk out of their lives again.
***
Play Dead
Author: Ann Frasier
DESCRIPTION: Her USA Today bestseller, SLEEP TIGHT, was called "compelling and real - a great read," by Andrea Kane. "Guaranteed to keep you awake at night," raved Lisa Jackson. With her newest novel, Anne Frasier will really take your breath away... Watch your back, Elise. No one understands the dark side of Savannah better than homicide detective Elise Sandburg. As an infant, she was thought to be the daughter of a famous root doctor-and was abandoned in an ancient Low Country cemetery. Growing up, she was haunted by her possible connection to the local Gullah culture-with its spells and voodoo. Now, however, there's a twisted killer on the loose, and the city is gripped by terror. Someone is using a substance that leaves its victims in a state that mimics death. As their bodies slip into an irreversible paralysis, their minds remain fully, shockingly awake. Before you wake up dead. Step by step, Elise's relentless chase for the killer draws her straight back into the world she most fears. And now, to stop a murderer, she must confront the truth about her own past in ways she never could have imagined.
***
I Got Some Bad Muse For You
Author: Michael Angel
DESCRIPTION: Many artists wait for inspiration to strike. Few know that it does so with a clenched fist. Broke, drunk, and depressed, the young William Shakespeare suffers from a bad case of writer's block. The good news? His muse has arrived to inspire him. The bad news? She's the muse of *boxing*. And she's going to help Shakespeare out, even if it kills him. Included with this story are preview chapters of Michael Angel's latest epic fantasy, Shards - The Darkfell Saga, also available on Amazon.
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Blue Ink: A Short Story
Author: Nancy Fulda
DESCRIPTION: Six-year-old Jason Calloway doesn't want to be cloned, even if his parents think it's a good financial investment. He secretly plans to violate the rules of his society... with unexpected results. This story is included in the collection Dead Men Don't Cry. About 10 pages or 3400 words.
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Sally Boy
Author: M.E. Purfield
DESCRIPTION: Set in the Bronx's Little Italy, Sally Boy tells the story of Salvatore Scalise and his bloody rise to power in the New York underworld. As a youth, Sal was a member of the Golden Guineas, a feared street gang made up of the sons of Italian immigrants. He learns how to fight, to value a trusted friend, and to respect the sacred code of the streets. Sal's journey is passionate and dangerous, leading him from the bedrooms of the most desirable women to the perilous jungles of Vietnam. Back in New York, Sal reaches out to a childhood friend who has graduated to Mafia soldier. Impressed with Sal's fighting skills, the Mirragio crime family embraces him. However, when ordered to murder his best friend, Sal has no choice but to commit the unthinkable. Consumed with rage, Sal rebels, resulting in his humiliating expulsion from the Mirragio's ranks. In retaliation, Sal forms his own crew and seeks revenge. Using his military training and a savage capacity for killing, Sally Boy sets out to slaughter the Mirragio family and seize control of the Bronx drug trade.
***
Strangelets with a Side of Grilled Spam
Author: Michael Angel
DESCRIPTION: Pursued by packs of deadly 'steelies', Lieutenant MacWilliams and his Humvee crew journey through an America shattered by an alien invasion. An America where humanity must battle for their very survival from their base at the Big Box Mart, forging alliances over a slab of grilled Spam. Things look grim...until MacWilliams comes across something that could turn the tide. But will humanity be snuffed out by a horde of steelies just as it discovers a ray of hope?
***
B. Quick
C.S. Laurel
DESCRIPTION: It was a night of triumphal activity for the Society For The Elimination of Good Looking Blonds. By sheer chance, middle-aged literature professor Bill Yates interrupts a murderer in the act of dumping an unconscious young man into the local river. Bill surprises himself by rescuing the young man and unwittingly plunges into a maelstrom of murder, psychoanalysis and Shakespeare. Falling in love with the young man he rescued is either fitting punishment or just reward for his trouble, and it will be a long time before Bill knows which.
***
In Heaven/Let Down
Author: M.E. Purfield
DESCRIPTION: In Heaven/Let Down is a dark fantasy short story two-pack about two girls struggling through their repressive worlds. One discovers that not only rock music and physical expression is punishable by death, but so is love. The other bears the emotion abuse of her job only to discover that a simple hand gesture from another could send her soaring.
***
Fox Chase
Author: Jeff Young
DESCRIPTION: Fox Chase- a steampunk short story. There is no polite way to meet over a dead body. But for Kassandra Leyden, who speaks to the dead for a living, these can things happen. Her new acquaintance, Manfred Bremstrung, has one purpose in mind- protect the King's nephew. Kassandra finds herself working side by side with Bremstrung to protect the young royal against deadly creatures with murderous intent. Sometimes the fox is not the only unfortunate to be hunted.
***
Tournament at Bergum
Author: Chris Turner
DESCRIPTION: An upstart swordswoman trains under a controversial vagabond. Is he a sword-master in his own right? She seems to think so, yet she is unprepared for the test to come . . . Fantasy adventure, 5600 words.
*** CONTINUED IN ANOTHER THREAD "More FREE Books Continued ( Post 2) -
[after problems with Internet connections,
Joyce continued in the morning]
[Added to this blog entry for 8/25]
The Birth of the Peacekeepers.
Author: Ricky Sides
DESCRIPTION: Centered around a series of natural disasters of biblical proportions that are occurring on a global scale, tens of millions have died as a result of the earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, gigantic super cell thunderstorms and tornados that are ravaging the earth. A rogue nation decides to take advantage of the chaos at this time to attack America with nuclear weapons. The American intelligence network learns of the plan and the government decides to launch a first strike at this rogue nation. This information leaks out to other nations and soon the world is poised on the brink of all out nuclear conflagration as the nuclear nations choose sides in the coming conflict. As the militaries of the world go underground in preparation for the attack most of the world is blissfully ignorant of what is about to happen. There are a few exceptions to this. The civilians that are aware make plans to try to survive the attack as well. As the moment for the attack draws near, the disaster plagued planet is beset by earthquakes of unprecedented intensity and numbers. Oddly the epicenters seem to be located at every major military installation around the world. (It is implied and hinted at that divine intervention has saved mankind from nuclear war, though it is never outright stated.) When the survivors of the earthquakes look around them the next morning they see a world drastically changed. A few men and women struggle to cope with the devastation as best they can but many turn to marauding as a means of survival. Preying on any people they encounter they slaughter any that oppose them as they take anything they want. A few of the survivors band together to protect those weaker than themselves.
***
Phineas (Ordinal)
Author: Joseph Gellene
DESCRIPTION: Phineas is a short (2600 word) story covering a very brief moment on the life of an Ordinal. Ordinals experience linear time for brief periods; they have no control over when and where they'll jump next but they've developed ways to manage their lives and remain undetected by Linears. I wrote this several years ago. I had just finished reading a collection of short stories from the 1930's and 40's. The style might be a bit old-fashioned for some. I had considered altering it for a more modern style but decided that the speaker was from an older time and would therefore speak as such. The ideas behind Phineas led directly to the full-length novel, Convergence.
***
Liberal vs. Conservative: A Novella
Author: Scott Reeves
DESCRIPTION: When two families go to war, liberal versus conservative, which side will win? Civil war breaks out in the suburbs when avid talk radio show listener and devout conservative Marty Johnson becomes fed up with liberal policies. He and his wife decide to take out their frustrations by declaring war on the quintessential liberal family that lives next door, the Kaufmans. The ensuing war of ideologies soon threatens to tear both families apart. This 27,000-word satirical novella features cameos by Sean Hannity and Jon Stewart.
***
The Women of Tenacity
Author: Shanna Hatfield
DESCRIPTION: Welcome to Tenacity! Meet the stubborn, independent women who live here and the wild, rugged men who love them. Callan Matthews lives a hectic life balancing a demanding job as she works to start her own business. Her husband Clay, the consummate prankster, decides it is up to him to get Callan to lighten up and have a little fun. Jenna Carver is a confirmed city girl even if her husband Josh conveniently forgets that fact as he drags her from one farm adventure to another. Laken Johnson loves her two kids, but when her husband Tyler unexpectedly drops them off at her gift shop, she doesn't know if she or the store will survive.
***
Hush (crime fiction, police procedural)
Author: Theresa Weir
DESCRIPTION: Few serial killers penned by suspense writers today are as warped or as fully realized as the Madonna Murderer, who preys on newborn baby boys and their unwed mothers. As if the crime itself isn't bad enough, the killer leaves a musical snow globe that plays "Hush, Little Baby" in the infant's crib as his calling card. It has been nearly two decades since Ivy Dunlap and her infant son were victimized by the Madonna Murderer. Unbeknownst to the killer, Ivy survived the assault. Her baby didn't. Now a respected criminal psychologist, Ivy is called into service by the Chicago P.D. when the killer resurfaces after 16 years of dormancy. Her personal interest in the case takes on a sharper edge when she learns that her partner, Detective Max Irving, has a son named Ethan who is the same age her child would have been had he survived. When Ivy tries to rattle the Madonna Murderer by publishing a "dead-baby letter" in the newspaper, the killer becomes more daring; he befriends Ethan, sends Ivy a chunk of his skin bearing a tattoo and expands his profile of victims. Although some readers may be turned off by the novel's graphic nature, a wealth of procedural detail, a heart-thumping finale and two scarred but indelible protagonists make this a first-rate debut.
***
Hexes and Tooth Decay: A Short Story
Author: Nancy Fulda
DESCRIPTION: A grumpy rock fairy crosses paths with an impolite witch, and trouble ensues.
***
Traditional Publishing Is My Bitch! (and other inflammatory remarks)
Author: Mike Cooley
DESCRIPTION: (length: 3775 words) This is just a short rant about being an indie writer in a dog eat dog world.
I also include some helpful hints about what it takes to self-publish.
***
And to All a Good Night (Life Lessons)
Author: Kaje Harper
DESCRIPTION: In Life Lessons, MPD detective Mac and high school teacher Tony decided that a relationship in the closet was worth the difficulties involved. Now they are briefly separated by Tony's trip home for the Christmas holidays. On the Florida beach, Tony contemplates the joys and stresses of a hidden relationship, while in the snows of Minnesota Mac tackles a murder case that hits close to home. And in the evening, over the phone, they try to touch each other with words. Any proceeds from this book will be donated to The Aliveness Project, Minneapolis.
***
Sojourner (Book 1) (Sojourner Series)
Author: Maria Rachel Hooley
DESCRIPTION: Seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Moon has been dreaming of her murder her entire life, and in those dreams, a dark presence is there, watching. When she returns home to Hauser's Landing, the very place her father disappeared, she comes in contact with a gorgeous boy named Lev Walker, and it's not long before she's falling in love. But there's something wrong with Lev. When she realizes he's the eerie watcher in her dreams, she'll have to discover the truth. Is he a guardian angel or a sojourner, an angel of death who has come to collect her soul? This is Book 1 of the Sojourner series.
***
Untouchable
Author: Scott O'Connor
DESCRIPTION: In his first novel, UNTOUCHABLE, Scott O'Connor speaks softly and somehow manages to make something beautiful of unspeakable matters--like the gruesome mop-up after someone has taken a gun to his head. These are the matters that fall to David Darby, a strapping fellow with an armful of tattoos and a sensitive attitude toward his job as a trauma site technician. If Darby's profession has made him something of an untouchable, his young son has become a pariah at school because he refuses to speak, a self-imposed punishment after the death of his mother. ("He had," he's convinced, "made her sick and sad.") O'Connor tells a wisp of a story, but in a voice so insistently stirring, you want to lean in close to catch every word. It is the autumn of 1999. A year has passed since Lucy Darby's unexpected death, leaving her husband David and son Whitley to mend the gaping hole in their lives. David, a trauma-site cleanup technician, spends his nights expunging the violent remains of strangers, helping their families to move on, though he is unable to do the same. Whitley - an 11 year-old social pariah known simply as The Kid - hasn't spoken since his mother's death. Instead, he communicates through a growing collection of notebooks, living in a safer world of his own silent imagining. '
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