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

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These are all romance of some type from Mills & Boon and are free for UK customers in the US and UK Kindle stores. Not available to US customers using these ASIN's.

Colorado Abduction, by Cassie Miles (UK link)
Cody, by Kimberly Raye (UK link)
Wicked Rake, Defiant Mistress, by Ann Lethbridge (UK link)
Emergency: Wife Lost and Found, by Carol Marinelli (UK link)
The Millionaire's Ultimate Catch, by Michelle Monkou (UK link)
Bought: Destitute Yet Defiant, by Sarah Morgan (UK link)
Wedding at King's Convenience, by Maureen Child (UK link)
Mia's Scandal, by Michelle Reid (UK link)
Their Newborn Gift, by Nikki Logan (UK link)

There are two listings for this one, which are apparently different editions, but both are free.
Her Vampire Husband, by Michele Hauf (UK link)
Her Vampire Husband, by Michele Hauf (UK link)

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Bargain book:

Seth Godin's Poke the Box is available for pre-order at $1.00 (from $7.99) at US Amazon. (There was a twitter campaign to get the price down recently if there were enough votes from fans)

Product Description
We send our kids to school and obsess about their test scores, their behavior and their ability to fit in. We post a help wanted ad and look for experience, famous colleges and a history of avoiding failure. We invest in companies based on how they did last quarter, not on what they’re going to do tomorrow. So why are we surprised when it all falls apart? Our economy is not static, but we act as if it is. Your position in the world is defined by what you instigate, how you provoke, and what you learn from the events you cause. In a world filled with change, that’s what matters — your ability to create and learn from change.

Poke the Box is a manifesto about producing something that’s scarce, and thus valuable. It demands that you stop waiting for a road map and start drawing one instead. You know how to do this, you’ve done it before, but along the way, someone talked you out of it. We need your insight and your dreams and your contributions. Hurry.

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FYI, new game app for the Kindle:

Ultimate Movie Quiz (A Trivia Game for Kindle) by HandyX ($1.99)

Product Description
Ultimate Movie Quiz is a movie trivia game for film buffs. Do you remember the last line from Thelma and Louise correctly? Do you remember the name of the gladiator in Gladiator?

Test your film knowledge with 1,000 questions about films past and present. Answer sets of questions ranging from easy to hard, in rounds of 10, or in a continuous stream. Or turn on a question countdown timer for an even greater challenge!

Do you have what it takes to answer them all?

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Bargain book:

Thought this Amazon Encore SciFi bargain book was interesting:
Regarding Ducks and Universes by Neve Maslakovic is just $0.99 (from $7.99)

Product Description

On a foggy Monday in 1986, the universe suddenly, without warning, bifurcated.

Fast-forward to 35 years later: Felix Sayers is a culinary writer living in San Francisco of Universe A who spends his days lunching at Coconut Café and dreaming of penning an Agatha Christie-style mystery. But everything changes when his Aunt Henrietta dies, leaving Felix a photograph of his father and himself--dated ten days before Felix was born. It can only mean one thing: Felix has an 'alter' in Universe B. Panicked that his mystery novel may exist already, Felix crosses to San Francisco B and proceeds to flagrantly violate the rules of both worlds by snooping around his alter's life. But when he narrowly escapes a hit-and-run, it becomes clear that someone knows he's crossed over... and whoever it is isn't happy about it. Now Felix must uncover the truth about his alter, the events of one Monday, and a wayward rubber duck before his time in both worlds runs out.

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Protector by Laurel Dewey

Product Description
Here is the gut-wrenching, heartrending story of hard-bitten Denver homicide detective Jane Perry and nine-year-old Emily Lawrence. Emily has witnessed the murder of her parents ? murders authorities believe have ties to a larger wave of crime. But Emily can't recall a thing about the killings. When the murderers come after Emily, Jane's boss sends the two of them to a remote town in Colorado. There, Jane, who doesn't have a maternal bone in her body, must pose as Emily's mother and serve as her protector. At the same time, she needs to help Emily slowly remember the devastating event without traumatizing her further. And while she does so, the killer is closing in . . . .Protector marks the debut of Jane Perry, an immensely flawed, utterly sympathetic character. She will shock you, confound you, astonish you, and ultimately grip your soul.

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Protector is also free for UK Kindle customers.

If you like this one, be sure to grab the second in the series, Redemption while it is $3.99 (and older edition is still listed at over $11) and check out the novella An Unfinished Death for $1.19. The third in the series will be released this coming June, but so far I only see paper book links for it.

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How to Sew: Basics ($1.19 US), from publisher David and Charles, is free for UK Kindle customers only (UK link).

Book Description
This brilliant little guide covers all the essential basics of sewing, including how to choose the best fabrics and threads for projects, in clear and simple points. Learn skills in amazing sewing crafts such as cross-stitch, patchwork and quilting. This book provides all you need to know to start your own projects today, including indispensable advice for inserting zips and making and using bias bindings.

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Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #6: Sentinel by John Jackson Miller

Product Description
Cast into slavery by the machinations of the Sith, Ori Kitai believes she’s found her way back into the Lost Tribe—and perhaps a whole lot more. Ori’s discovery of a second starship gives her the opportunity to avenge the humiliations heaped on her family by the decrepit Grand Lord. Indeed, she could turn their entire society upside down—offering escape from their planetary prison. But Ori encounters resistance from a surprising person: the seemingly humble farmer who took her in: a man with a secret past and an agenda of his own. He cannot allow Ori Kitai to unleash the Lost Tribe on an unsuspecting galaxy. But how can he stop the woman he loves without destroying them both?

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Bargain book:

For fans of historical fiction or who enjoyed the recent freebie 'Greatest Knight' - the pre-order of To Defy a King by Elizabeth Chadwick is now $2.39 (price was originally set at $7.55)

Product Description

Privileged daughter of William Marshal, Mahelt marries Hugh Bigod, heir to the earldom of Norfolk. But when King John sets out to subdue the Bigods, Mahelt faces the worst alone, knowing neither she, nor her marriage, are likely to survive. A story of emotional power set against the road to Magna Carta and the fight to bring a tyrant king to heel, To Defy a King is Elizabeth Chadwick at her best.

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Bargain book:

For fans of historical fiction - the pre-order of Sins of the House of Borgia by Sarah Bower is now $2.39 (price was originally set at $9.99)

Product Description

Violante isn’t supposed to be here, in one of the grandest courts of Renaissance Italy. She isn’t supposed to be a lady-in-waiting to the beautiful Lucrezia Borgia. But the same secretive politics that pushed Lucrezia’s father to the Vatican have landed Violante deep in a lavish landscape of passion and ambition.

Violante discovers a Lucrezia unknown to those who see only a scheming harlot, and all the whispers about her brother, Cesare Borgia, never revealed the soul of the man who dances close with Violante.

But those who enter the House of Borgia are never quite the same when they leave—if they leave at all. Violante’s place in history will test her heart and leave her the guardian of dangerous secrets she must carry to the grave.

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When Darkness Falls: Free eBook Part 3 by James Grippando is now available for free pre-order. (After Part 1 and Part 2)

Product Description

When Darkness Falls, which Booklist called at the time of its publication "by far the best in the [Jack Swyteck] series," is now available as a free e-book in three parts. Part 3 includes a timeline of the entire Jack Swyteck series.

About When Darkness Falls:

From the moment Miami criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck is called upon to defend a new client—a homeless man jailed for threatening to jump off a bridge—it's obvious something is amiss. For one thing, the man called Falcon manages to come up with the $10,000 bail...in cash. Then the body of a brutally murdered woman is found in the trunk of the abandoned car he's living in.

But it isn't until a panicked Falcon takes a group of innocent people hostage, including Jack's best friend, and barricades himself and his prisoners in a motel room that Swyteck realizes how much is truly at stake. For Falcon has a bigger agenda than suicide, and Jack Swyteck must get to the root of a dark history and bitter secrets before Falcon decides he has nothing to lose by killing them all.

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Spoilt by Joanne Ellis is now also free at Amazon US.

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Bargain book:

Knitting For Dummies by Pam Allen is $0.99

Product Description
Knitting is a relatively simple process requiring a minimal set of tools – two needles and a ball of yarn. Its basic structure of interlocking loops couldn't be less complicated. Yet the possibilities for design and pattern innovation seem endless. Now is a great time to learn to knit. Never before have you had so many lovely and imaginative yarns from which to choose and so many stylish and sophisticated patterns to work with.

Practice and perfect your knitting skills with Knitting For Dummies. This friendly, hands-on guide will lead you through the following topics and more:
• Mastering the four elemental moves of knitting
• Deciphering knitting patterns
• Fixing common knitting mistakes
• Getting started with simple projects
• Expanding your horizons with stripes and details
• Relaxing stiff shoulders and fingers

Every chapter explaining a specific knitting technique includes a Knitting Notebook of sample patterns to show you some of the different ways it can be used and a section of Practice Projects that gives step-by-step instructions for simple and attractive knitted accessories nearly al of which are features on the pages of the color insert. Most projects end with a list of project variations – ways to expand on your understanding of how to craft and design projects on your own.

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Ravenous: A Food Lover's Journey from Obsession to Freedom, by Dayna Macy, is free on Kindle.

Book Description
What should I eat? How much should I eat? What does it mean to be nourished? How can I, a food lover and lifelong overeater, learn to be satisfied? These are the questions Dayna Macy asks in her debut memoir, Ravenous. Like many of us, Macy has had a complicated relationship with food. In order to transform this relationship, Macy embarks on a year-long journey to uncover the origins of her food obsessions. From her childhood home in upstate New York, and back up the California coast, Macy travels across the country, meeting with farmers, food artisans, butchers, a Zen chef, a forager, a chocolatier, and others—to understand where her meals come from, why she craves certain foods, and what food means to her. She looks at how nostalgia is deeply embedded in food, and how the powerful forces of family and tradition shape our food choices. Rather than head straight for the diet manuals, she chooses to change her relationship with food from the inside out. She delves deeper into the spiritual underpinnings of eating, examines what it means to be satisfied, and ultimately forges her own path to balance and freedom.

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Origin Scroll by Richard S. Tuttle is free again for the Kindle. (updated the link)

Product Description
Origin Scroll by Richard S. Tuttle is a fantasy novel about three formerly insignificant young people who will meet and unite their special abilities to challenge the evil sorcerer, Sarac, before he destroys the Universes. Origin Scroll is the first volume of the Targa Trilogy. Dark Quest and Ancient Prophecy complete the Targa Trilogy.