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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Today's Deals

If you are a big horror fan, you might want to check out the "all-you-can-read" subscription from publisher Cemetary Dance. Not only do you get a copy of all their current ebooks, but also one download of everything published this year and a signed, limited edition hardcover, all for $49 (plus S&H).

As I told you in a previous post, author LC Evans passed away recently after a brief battle with cancer and her daughter is handling her book sales to help pay the medical bills. If you want to help support the cause, but chick lit isn't your thing, then (today only), a number of other authors are pitching in a free copy of one of their books for each of Ms. Evans' books that you buy. Every name also goes into the hat for a drawing to win 40 ebooks for free.

Additional formats on these free books are now available:

A Heart for Freedom ($1.99), by Chai Ling, is today's Kindle Deal of the Day.
Book Description
MY NAME IS CHAI LING.
I was born at the beginning of China’s Cultural Revolution. Like all Chinese children, I was taught to love my country, sacrifice my own needs, and be ready to give up my life for a greater good. We were not allowed to know God.

In 1989, I became a leader of a student hunger strike in Tiananmen Square, a peaceful movement for a better, freer, and more loving China. There I discovered the truth about the government I had been taught to love. In the early-morning hours of June 4, I stood with my friends and watched in horror as the tanks rolled in. During the crackdown, thousands were wounded or killed.

I survived.

A lifetime later, after escaping to freedom and achieving success beyond the wildest American dream, I was still trapped between the past and the future. Haunted by memories of standing against the force of a powerful regime, I had lost my purpose, my homeland, and my strength . . . until God met me and healed me. When my eyes were then opened to another life-and-death battle, would I have the courage to join it and risk losing my most precious loved ones again? Do I dare hope that, with God’s help, we can finally see true freedom in China?

Chai Ling was a key student leader in the 1989 Tiananmen Square movement. Today, she serves as founder, president, and coo of Jenzabar, Inc., a leading higher education software services provider. She holds an mba from Harvard Business School, an mPa in public affairs and international relations from Princeton University, and a ba in psychology from Peking University. Nominated twice for the Nobel Peace Prize, Chai Ling is founder of All Girls Allowed , an organization dedicated to restoring life, value, and dignity to girls and mothers and revealing the injustice of China’s one-child policy.

In the Meantime ($1.54 / £0.99 UK), by Robin Lippincott, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $4.99).
Book Description
From the intimacy of small town America to big city life, from World War II to 9/11, In the Meantime vividly encapsulates an unforgettable era.

On a hot summer's day in 1931, three five-year-olds meet on a dusty street in a small Midwestern town, beginning a friendship that will last all their lives. Kathryn, the oldest in an ever-expanding family, is bright and earnest, and thinks she wants to become a nurse. Starling is an only child with an absent father. He doesn't yet know that he is of mixed race-he doesn't even know what that means-all he knows is that when he grows up he will be a star. Luke doesn't know what he wants, except for his older brother not to be dead.

Together they experience the joys and pains of childhood, although the anxieties of puberty and awakening sexuality nearly destroy their three-way friendship forever. Reaching adulthood after World War II, they follow their dreams to New York City, where they discover that not even Manhattan is free of racism and prejudice.

Through the years of their ever-entwined adult lives some dreams are realized while others grow dim, but one constant remains: their bond of friendship. At the book's end, some seventy years after it began, only one of them remains to tell the story of their lives, and of what happened…in the meantime.

An Impossible Attraction ($1.99 Kindle, B&N), by Brenda Joyce, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.
Book Description
With her mother's passing, Alexandra Bolton gave up on love to take care of her family. Now, with the Bolton name in disgrace due to her father's profligate ways, marrying an elderly squire might be the only way to save her family from absolute ruin. But when she meets the infamous Duke of Clarewood, old dreams--and old passions--are awakened as never before. Yet she cannot accept his shocking proposition!

He is the wealthiest, most powerful peer in the realm, and having witnessed the cold horror of marriage as a child, he has vowed never to wed. But Alexandra Bolton inflames him as no woman has ever done, and she also serves him his first rejection! Now Clarewood--who always gets what he wants--will choose which rules to play by. But when passion finally brings them together, a terrible secret threatens to tear them apart....
Today's backlist/indie free books on Kindle (not likely to be free for long):
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