Additional formats on one free book is now available and three recent freebies are repeating (on Kindle and elsewhere).
Pictures of You (
$0.99), by Caroline Leavitt, is today's Kindle Deal of the Day.
Book Description
Two women running away from their marriages collide on a foggy highway, killing one of them. The survivor, Isabelle, is left to pick up the pieces, not only of her own life, but of the lives of the devastated husband and fragile son that the other woman, April, has left behind. Together, they try to solve the mystery of where April was running to, and why. As these three lives intersect, the book asks, How well do we really know those we love—and how do we forgive the unforgivable?
Drowning Rose (
$2.01 / £1.29 UK), by Marika Cobbold, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (no US edition). It's also the third day of the
12 Days of Christmas in the UK, so you might want to check ou the newly added titles (it appears that the previous days' titles stay on sale throughout).
Book Description
Sometimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself…
It is winter in London. Eliza Cummings, a ceramics restorer at the V&A Museum, is leaving work when she receives an unexpected phone call. Standing in the haze of the Christmas lights she hears a voice which draws her back twenty-five years - to the night Rose died.
But why does Rose's father want her to visit him? Why now? And why is he killing her with kindness when they both know that he blames her for what happened to his daughter?
Grief and guilt cast terrible shadows, but as this beautifully wrought story unfolds and the scene shifts from London to the fairy tale landscape of the Swedish countryside - and back in time to Eliza's school days - we learn that generosity, humour and friendship can smooth over and restore even the most broken lives, and that some secrets just can't be kept hidden…
Free-Range Knitter (
$2.49 Kindle,
B&N), by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.
Book Description
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's Free-Range Knitter: The Yarn Harlot Writes Again reminds us of the joy we felt upon first encountering her hilarious and poignant collection of essays surrounding her favorite topics: knitting, knitters, and what happens when you get those two things anywhere near ordinary people.
For the 60 million knitters in America, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (a.k.a. the Yarn Harlot) shares stories of knitting horrors and triumphs, knitting successes and defeats, but, mostly, stories about the human condition that ring true for everyone--especially if you happen to have a rather large amount of yarn in your house.
Funny, unique, and gleeful in her obsession, Pearl-McPhee speaks to knitters of all skill levels in this delightful celebration of craft and creativity.
Be sure to get today's free Android App,
MONOPOLY, by Electronic Arts Inc. The version currently at Amazon can be played on both your Kindle Fire and on most tablets and smart phones (even your computer, using an Android simulator (see
this post on installing one, if you don't yet have an Android device). This is one of the few Electronic Arts games that I hadn't picked up in
their 99 cent Android Game sale, which you'll also want to check before it ends. Several of them have "(Kindle Fire Edition)" in their title - these will install only on the Kindle Fire, but it's worth a buck to get a nice version of
Scrabble, even if you don't want
The Game of Life or
Madden NFL 12 or one of the others.
Game Description
Legend has it that the modern version of the MONOPOLY board game was invented during the Depression by an unemployed man named Charles Darrow. Rebuffed by the major game companies of the time, he published it himself--and it went on to become perhaps the world's most popular board game.
Now, in the 21st century, you can play the same classic game of MONOPOLY on your Kindle Fire. And it's a ton of fun.
So, do you like to buy Boardwalk and Park Place and hope to make it big on a few unlucky rolls by your opponent? Or is your strategy to go with the Green, Red, or Yellow properties and slowly bleed your adversaries dry? However you like to play MONOPOLY, you'll love playing the Android version.
One of the great things about playing the digital version of MONOPOLY is that you don't have to track down someone willing to take you on--you can match your business acumen against the computer any time you feel like it. Set the AI opponent at three levels of difficulty, so you'll always get a challenge (or if you prefer, an easy win). Of course, it's much more fun to switch to Pass 'N Play mode, just so you can see your rivals' faces when you crush them.
