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

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Originally Posted by DreamWriter

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!

It isn't an app and it requires internet access (AccuWeather probably did as well) but if you go here and enter your zip code then save as a bookmark, this works the same. Kindle seems to save the zip code so the bookmark holds.

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Just FYI, did anyone notice that the Kindle 3G, Free 3G + Wi-Fi (includes Special Offers & Sponsored Screensavers) is now down to $139?

Edit- and here's the reason for the price drop: AT&T to Sponsor Kindle 3G

[Nyssa]

Originally Posted by arcadata

Just FYI, did anyone notice that the Kindle 3G, Free 3G + Wi-Fi (includes Special Offers & Sponsored Screensavers) is now down to $139?

Edit- and here's the reason for the price drop: AT&T to Sponsor Kindle 3G

I don't know that its a good idea to have 2 different products at the same price point. I can see new customers getting confused.

[markdek]

Originally Posted by DreamWriter

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!

I believe that Amazon does not approved of apps that require an internet connection...........for obvious (3g) reasons.

How and where did this app come from?

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Free backlist books/indies/self-published:

Right Ascension (Edge of Apocalypse) by David Derrico

Product Description
Set in the year 3040, Right Ascension explores mankind's place in the Universe, how we ascended to that lofty position, and the horrifying price of that ascension.

Silken Threads (Wexford Family Series) by Patricia Ryan

Product Description
Prequel to The Sun and the Moon. In this RITA-winning medieval romance inspired by Hitchcock’s Rear Window, a soldier heals from a broken leg in the London home of a young widow who steals his heart—but his future rests on an arranged marriage to his lord’s daughter. Originally published by New American Library, a division of Penguin Putnam, Inc.

Won Romance Wrters of America’s RITA Award for Best Long Historical Romance. Nominated by Romantic Times magazine for Best Historical Romantic Mystery. Made the Ingrams A-List of Top 50 Requested Titles for four weeks.

Swing: A Psychopathy by German Alcala

Product Description
A musical novel of death, love, and crime. In a small town two teenagers fall in love, but hide their feelings from each other in doubt. A father with a twisted past abuses his son. a frightened boy commits suicide, and a psychopathy ensues taking families and many victims in this thrilling story of horrific rape, suicide, murder, homosexuality, drug abuse, barbaric incest, insanity, and matricide.

The One You Love by Paul Pilkington

Product Description
Emma Holden's nightmare has just begun. Her fiancé vanishes, leaving the battered and bloodied body of his brother in their London apartment. Someone is stalking her, watching her every move. And her family are hiding a horrifying secret; a secret that threatens all those she loves. In a desperate race against time, Emma must uncover the truth if she ever wants to see her fiancé alive again.

A fast-paced suspense thriller, The One You Love follows in the tradition of writers such as Linwood Barclay, Harlan Coben and Nicci French.

Autobiomythography & Gallery by Joe Millar

Product Description
Named the "Best First Book" of poems for the year, this collection by Joe Millar was short-listed for the Yale Younger Poets prize, the National Poetry Series, and the Academy of American Poets’ Walt Whitman Award, offering its readers a "language [that] is striking—nearly perfect." Joe grew up along the Space Coast of Florida and attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

The Career Explorer's Journal by Paul Diamond

Product Description
Whether you are just starting out, half-way through, near the end of your career, returning to work or gearing up for a big step into the unknown, The Career Explorer’s Journal invites you to explore and discover for yourself where you want your career to go.

Every career journey is unique but that doesn't mean you have to travel alone. The Career Explorer’s Journal allows you to compare notes and share experiences with famous figures from the past as well as modern-day career explorers just like you. Forging a close link with explorers and exploring, you’ll find plenty of support and encouragement on your personal journey towards confident career decisions and important discoveries that keep you moving forward.

The Career Explorer’s Journal joins each reader on a brand new journey. It gives you the time, space and encouragement to reflect on the past, present and future of your relationship with work. You’ll find new knowledge and new experiences all within your grasp, as well as new ways to support what you think and what you do, with first-hand evidence that you reveal for yourself.

Each reader will have their own reasons for going on a journey like this but the same thing is likely to inspire every one from start to finish: a growing sense of trust and confidence in where you want your career to go.

Election Erection (Men's Men) by B. J. Hudson

Product Description
A Super Quickie Read by B. J. Hudson (16 pages).

Robert is running for Mayor and is looking for support from a local Judge, but his ex-lover has just confessed to the Judge about their being a couple in college, now Robert is under the gun, he comes face to face with his former lover, in more ways than one…

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Highland Hellcat by Mary Wine is now $0.99 for the Kindle (joining the other $0.99 bargains from Sourcebooks)

Product Description

In the raw, rugged beauty of the Scottish Highlands, tumultuous times bred warrior men and women who fought for country, keep, and kin, and loved as passionately as they lived. An illegitimate son, chosen as laird after the ruling Douglas clan slaughtered his family, Connor Lindsay is surrounded by men who challenge his right to lead. Looking for a virtuous bride to cement his leadership by presenting him with an heir, he kidnaps a feisty laird’s daughter. To keep this Highland Hellcat in his bed, he’ll have to do battle with the Douglases, the Church, and most of all Brina herself.

[DreamWriter]

Originally Posted by markdek

I believe that Amazon does not approved of apps that require an internet connection...........for obvious (3g) reasons.

How and where did this app come from?

I think you're right about the AccuWeather Kindle app's use of 3G being a potential issue for Amazon. I believe that apps have to go through an approval process at Amazon, so I'm not sure how it slipped through.

The Kindle app was provided by AccuWeather, and it was available at Amazon.com for a short time before it was removed. In the app itself there is an "About" page. It states, in part: "By using this application you agree to the AccuWeather.com Terms & Conditions (in English) which can be found at our web site...." They have two free Android weather apps at Amazon: AccuWeather Quick and AccuWeather for Honeycomb.

[Outrager]

Originally Posted by copyrite

Drats, it's gone already

I tried to download that Accuweather app, but it was stuck at pending - 0% on my download queue. I called up customer service (on another matter) and asked them about that and they said the app came out before it was ready so they had to pull it down.

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Bargain book:

Six Thousand Years of Bread: Its Holy and Unholy History by H.E. Jacob is $0.99 (US Kindle store)

Product Description

Yeast, water, flour, and heat. How could this simple mixture have been the cause of war and plague, celebration and victory, supernatural vision and more?

In this remarkable and all-encompassing volume, H. E. Jacob takes us through six thousand dynamic years of bread's role in politics, religion, technology, and beyond. Who were the first bakers? Why were bakers distrusted during the Middle ages? How did bread cause Napoleon's defeat? Why were people buried with bread? Six Thousand Years of Bread has the answers. Jacob follows the story from its beginning in ancient Egypt and continues through to modern times.

The poignant and inspiring conclusion of the book relays the author's experiences in a Nazi concentration camp, subsisting on bread made of sawdust.

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Bargain book:

Richard Burton: Prince of Players by Michael Munn is $0.99 (US Kindle)

Product Description

Richard Burton's life and remarkable career are revealed by a writer who knew him from 1968 up to Burton's last film. Recounting the charismatic actor's intimate thoughts and dark secrets, and providing hell-raising stories quashed by the Hollywood system—such as affairs with Marilyn Monroe and Lana Turner, being caught in a brothel with Errol Flynn, and in a fist fight with Frank Sinatra—this revealing and deeply moving biography offers a stunning portrait of a man of contradictions and one of Hollywood's greatest stars.

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Bargain book:

A Prisoner of Birth - with Bonus Content by Jeffrey Archer is $2.99 (US Kindle)

Product Description

International bestseller and master storyteller Jeffrey Archer is at the very top of his game in a story of fate and fortune, redemption and revenge.

If Danny Cartwright had proposed to Beth Wilson the day before, or the day after, he would not have been arrested and charged with the murder of his best friend. But when the four prosecution witnesses are a barrister, a popular actor, an aristocrat, and the youngest partner in an established firm’s history, who is going to believe your side of the story?

Danny is sentenced to twenty-two years and sent to Belmarsh prison, the highest-security jail in the land, from where no inmate has ever escaped.

However, Spencer Craig, Lawrence Davenport, Gerald Payne, and Toby Mortimer all underestimate Danny’s determination to seek revenge, and Beth’s relentless quest to pursue justice, which ends up with all four fighting for their lives,

Thus begins Jeffrey Archer’s most powerful novel since Kane and Abel, with a cast of characters that will remain with you long after you’ve turned the last page.

And if that is not enough, prepare for an ending that will shock even the most ardent of Archer’s fans.

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FYI, currently just free for those in the UK

Palm Trees on the Hudson: A True Story of the Mob, Judy Garland & Interior Decorating by Elliot Tiber (Amazon Main, Amazon UK)

Product Description
Palm Trees on the Hudson is the hilarious prequel to Elliot Tiber's bestseller Taking Woodstock. Before Elliot found financial success by bringing Woodstock Ventures to his upstate motel, he was one of Manhattan's leading interior designers. Then Elliot's career came to a halt due to a floating society party, Judy Garland, and the Mob.

In April 1968, Elliot was hired to throw an elegant dinner party aboard a luxury yacht on the Hudson River. Included on the guest list were New York's rich and famous--politicians, financiers, and even Elliot's icon, Judy Garland. The big night arrived. But when a fight broke out, resulting in the destruction of everything including the rented palms, Elliot's event turned into a financial disaster. Things couldn't get any worse--or so it seemed, until the Mob paid him a visit.

By turns comic and tragic, Palm Trees on the Hudson is the take-no-prisoners memoir that gives readers a more intimate look at the man who went on to fight back at Stonewall and who helped give birth to the Woodstock Nation.

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FYI, currently just free for those in the UK

From Undone: A Storm of Love, A Novella by Terri Brisbin (Amazon Main, Amazon UK)

Product Description
The wild lands of Argyll hold no promise for a woman cast away--until a younger lover draws Agneis of Mull into a strong embrace. Breac's tender touch erases all sorrow...and his compelling sexuality brings her to ecstacy!

But when her past comes to haunt her future, will their love be strong enough against magic of the Fae and the curse she carries?

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NOw also free for US Kindle:

Palm Trees on the Hudson: A True Story of the Mob, Judy Garland & Interior Decorating by Elliot Tiber

From Undone: A Storm of Love, A Novella by Terri Brisbin

Lights, Camera . . .Monsters (Monsters in Hollywood #1) by Lila Dubois

Description:

When monsters need a makeover, they head for the one place that can make it happen. Hollywood. Book 1, Monsters in Hollywood series. Luke is desperate to save his people. A lifetime of sneaking in to human houses and watching movies has convinced him that if he can make a great movie about monsters, humanity will change its opinion of them. With his friends at his side, all in shiny new human bodies, Luke heads for Tinsel Town.
A rising Hollywood producer, all-business Lena knows a good story when she sees it. Luke? He’s just another amateur who wants to get famous. But Luke’s too gorgeous to pass up. And there’s something vulnerable about him that leads her to throw caution to the wind and invite him to dinner.

One night of incredible sex later, Lena wakes up next to the surprise of her life. She’s sleeping next to a monster. Literally.

Appearances aside, she finds herself wanting to help Luke save his people. But they’ve got more to worry about than just human prejudice.

Some of the monsters would rather stay in the closet—and to make them all stay there, they’re willing to kill.

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Chess (A Classic Game for Kindle) by Oak Systems Leisure Software is $0.99 (from $2.99)

Product Description
Discounted to $0.99 for a limited time (ends July 18)

The classic game of Chess is now available on your Kindle.

In Chess you go head-to-head in a bid to capture your opponent's King. Play against Kindle or challenge a friend with Pass 'N Play mode. Choose between 10 levels of difficulty and choose whether you want to play with an optional time limit to increase the challenge. You can also take back a move if you have made a mistake, as well as save your game at any time.

Enjoy this classic game today!