It appears that Google is running some different specials in different countries and Amazon is matching some and not the others. I can't see it, but apparently there is a good deal on The Drop by Michael Connelly for Australian customers, but one I can see is that The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson is only £0.20 for UK customers and it's been matched (for UK customers only) on both the UK and Main Amazon sites.Book Description
Harriet Vanger, sixteen years old. Missing, presumed dead, she vanished into thin air. The case is closed, but is the killer still at large?
Tortured by the loss of his niece, Henrik Vanger asks disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist to investigate. But the family's dark secrets are buried deep, and in the shadows lies someone who will do anything to stop them being exposed.
Watching everyone is an unpredictable and dangerous security specialist. Lisbeth Salander – outcast... enigma... avenger...
Fight Club ($0.25 Kindle; Google), by Chuck Palahniuk, is another of the Amazon matches to Google Play, this time for those in the US and Canada (grab it quick, no telling how long it will last at this price).Book Description
Chuck Palahniuk's outrageous and startling debut novel that exploded American literature and spawned a movement. Every weekend, in the basements and parking lots of bars across the country, young men with white-collar jobs and failed lives take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded just as long as they have to. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that they can handle anything. Fight club is the invention of Tyler Durden, projectionist, waiter, and dark, anarchic genius, and it's only the beginning of his plans for violent revenge on an empty consumer-culture world.
Lil' Wayne's Tha Carter IV is today's Google Play MP3 album for 25 cents, price matched at Amazon. This is pure rap and definitely explicit (I would not even attempt the sample at work, for most of us). However, if there is even one song on it that you want, it's worth grabbing the album (it costs less than a single song).
What a Westmoreland Wants ($0.81), by Brenda Jackson, is a quick introduction to this popular romance series. If you want to collect them all, though, your best bet is one of the five book bundles at $9.32: The Westmorelands books 1-5, The Westmorelands books 6-10 and The Westmorelands books 11-15Book Description
Mr. September: Callum Austell, sexy Australian ranch owner
His Deepest Desire: The elusive Gemma Westmoreland
The Seduction Plan: Get her on his turf—ASAP!
He'd been biding his time, and now the perfect opportunity had arrived to pursue the ultimate object of his affections. Offering Gemma a job to decorate his new home meant she had to come to him. And on his territory, the Aussie knew he could easily woo her into his bed. But this Westmoreland woman was no pushover. If Callum was going to get what he wanted—as always—the millionaire just might have to utter three little words first.
Spontaneous ($0.86), by Brenda Jackson, is a bit spicier, published under Harlequin's Blaze imprint.Book Description
Kimani Cannon knows she's in trouble the second she lays eyes on 6'4" of luscious male. The best kind of trouble, too...mm-mmm! Duan Jeffries turns out to be the perfect man--charming, considerate...and the best lover she's ever had. Too bad Mr. Delicious is just a one-night stand....
Until Kim needs a date to her mother's (fifth) wedding! Duan's willing to act the part of her fiancé... as long as it means full benefits. More amazing sex? No problem!
Then Kim finds out that Duan's got his own private agenda. Suddenly, she doesn't know what to believe. Her head and heart are telling her to be careful. But the sensual thrumming in her blood is turning out to be much more persuasive....
Mosquito ($2.99 Kindle; Google), by Roma Tearne Book Description
On the lush coast of Sri Lanka, a talented and beautiful young woman, Nulani, returns day after day to the verandah of a beach house to paint. Her subject is Theo, a writer attempting to heal from a tragic loss and struggling to complete a faltering novel. Just as love blossoms between them, the country is shaken by civil war. Through the years that follow, Nulani and Theo must depend upon their memories and the art that once brought them together to find the strength to face their much changed lives.
In a rare and unforgettable work, Roma Tearne captures both the fragility and the endurance of love. The story unfolds in a beguiling landscape as Tearne presents us with the turmoil of the Sri Lankan civil war, told unusually from a woman's point of view.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children ($3.99 Kindle; Google), by Ransom RiggsBook Description
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. And a strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children who once lived here—one of whom was his own grandfather—were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a desolate island for good reason. And somehow—impossible though it seems—they may still be alive.
A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows.
Six of Rachel Gibson's novels are available to pre-order for $3.99 each; these are reprint editions from HarperCollins.It Must Be Love
Undercover cop Joe Shanahan's bad luck hit bottom the morning he stared up into the face of sexy suspect Gabrielle Breedlove. She'd blown his cover—brought him down with a can of hairspray—and now his new assignment was to pose as her boyfriend. But spending as much time as possible with the utterly irresistible New Age beauty caused unexpected complications. To make matters worse, his matchmaking sisters are picking out china patterns.
Joe's brooding good looks and T-shirt-straining muscles might be easy on the eyes, but how could Gabrielle be attracted to a straight-laced detective who's determined to find evidence to arrest her? Still, he invades her dreams and when they share a transcendent lovemaking experience, Gabrielle knows it must be love.
Undercover cop Joe Shanahan's bad luck hit bottom the morning he stared up into the face of sexy suspect Gabrielle Breedlove. She'd blown his cover—brought him down with a can of hairspray—and now his new assignment was to pose as her boyfriend. But spending as much time as possible with the utterly irresistible New Age beauty caused unexpected complications. To make matters worse, his matchmaking sisters are picking out china patterns.
Joe's brooding good looks and T-shirt-straining muscles might be easy on the eyes, but how could Gabrielle be attracted to a straight-laced detective who's determined to find evidence to arrest her? Still, he invades her dreams and when they share a transcendent lovemaking experience, Gabrielle knows it must be love.
Daisy's Back in Town
Daisy Lee Monroe thought she'd brushed the dust of Lovett, Texas, off her high-heeled shoes years ago, but she's come back home only to find that little has changed. Her sister is still crazy, and her mom still has pink plastic flamingos in her front yard. And Jackson Lamott Parrish, the bad boy she'd left behind, is still so sexy it hurts. She'd like nothing better than to avoid this particular man, but she can't. Daisy has something to say to Jackson, and she's not going anywhere until he listens.
Jackson learned his lesson about Daisy the hard way, and now the only word he's interested in hearing from Daisy's red lips is good-bye. But she's popping up everywhere, and he doesn't believe in coincidence. It seems the only way to keep her quiet is with his mouth, but kissing Daisy had once been his downfall. Is he strong enough to resist her now? Strong enough to watch her walk out of his life again? Is he strong enough to make her stay?
Simply Irresistible (Chinooks Hockey Team #1)
Georgeanne Howard leaves her fiancÉ at the altar when she realizes she can't marry a man old enough to be her grandfather, no matter how rich he is. Hockey superstar John Kowalsky unknowingly helps her escape, and only when it's too late does he realize that he's absconded with his boss's bride. This bad boy isn't looking to be anybody's savior but his own. Still, a long night stretches ahead of them—a night too sultry to resist temptation.
Seven years later, Georgeanne and John meet again. She is on her way to becoming Seattle's domestic darling and he is past his hellraising days. Shocked to learn that he has a daughter, John's determined to be part of her life. Georgeanne has loved John since the moment she jumped into his car, but will he risk the wrath of his boss, and one final chance at glory, to prove that this time his love will be everlasting?
See Jane Score (Chinooks Hockey Team #2)
Girl living single lifestyle in the big city of Seattle is leading a double life as a reporter for the raucous Seattle Chinooks hockey team and at night she's a writer creating swcandalous adventures of "Honey Pie"..a magazine series that has all the men talking.
The Trouble With Valentine's Day (Chinooks Hockey Team #3)
When everything about her life in Las Vegas just seems to be going wrong, Kate Hamilton leaves her job as a PI and points her car toward Gospel, Idaho. Gospel is the kind of town where a girl can take it easy and just be herself, or so she hopes. But when she gets there, people get the impression that she's a bit of a ball–buster. And she is, at first.
But Gospel has a way of softening people up. One of those ways is Rob Sutter. He's a spectacular–looking former hockey player with a wild past of his own, who now lives a quiet (albeit slightly macho) life running his sporting goods store and fly–fishing. Kate and Rob are so wrong for each other that there must be something right. If only they can start seeing each other for who they really are...
Truly Madly Yours
Where there's a will. . .
When pretty hairdresser Delaney Shaw returned home to Truly, Idaho, for the reading of her stepfather's will, she planned on paying her respects and getting out of town. But it seems the will has some unexpected stipulations-like the one that says if Delaney wants her inheritance she needs to stay put and have nothing to so with sexy Nick Allegrezza. . .for an entire year!
There's no way
Ten years ago, Nick had swept Delaney off her feet and onto his Harley, and that's when she really let her down her Hair! Back then, he was a love-'em-and-leave-'em man, and Delaney learned the hard way that she was just a fling. But Nick is as irresistible as ever. And when the ladies at Tuesday night Bingo see Nick and Delaney making after-hours whoopee through the window of a local beauty parlor, Delaney knows it's time to decide if Nick I truly, madly the man of her heart.
Heat Rises ($3.99 Kindle; Google), by Richard Castle, the third in the TV tie-in Nikki Heat series and Heat Wave ($5), the first title are both on sale. Frozen Heat is coming out this fall, but so far only a hardcover pre-order link is live. If you can't wait until then for a fix from the series, you might blind-order the three novellas being released: A Brewing Storm (Heat Rises
Fast-paced and full of intrigue, Heat Rises pairs the tough and sexy NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat with hotshot reporter Jameson Rook in New York Times bestselling author Richard Castle's most thrilling mystery yet.
The bizarre murder of a parish priest at a New York bondage club opens Nikki Heat’s most thrilling and dangerous case so far, pitting her against New York’s most vicious drug lord, an arrogant CIA contractor, and a shadowy death squad out to gun her down. And that is just the tip of an iceberg that leads to a dark conspiracy reaching all the way to the highest level of the NYPD.
But when she gets too close to the truth, Nikki finds herself disgraced, stripped of her badge, and out on her own as a target for killers, with nobody she can trust. Except maybe the one man in her life who’s not a cop: reporter Jameson Rook.
In the midst of New York’s coldest winter in a hundred years, there’s one thing Nikki is determined to prove: Heat Rises. This ebook includes an alternate cover created by one of Richard Castle's biggest fans!
Heat Wave
A New York real estate tycoon plunges to his death on a Manhattan sidewalk. A trophy wife with a past survives a narrow escape from a brazen attack. Mobsters and moguls with no shortage of reasons to kill trot out their alibis. And then, in the suffocating grip of a record heat wave, comes another shocking murder and a sharp turn in a tense journey into the dirty little secrets of the wealthy. Secrets that prove to be fatal. Secrets that lay hidden in the dark until one NYPD detective shines a light.
Mystery sensation Richard Castle, blockbuster author of the wildly best-selling Derrick Storm novels, introduces his newest character, NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat. Tough, sexy, professional, Nikki Heat carries a passion for justice as she leads one of New York City's top homicide squads. She's hit with an unexpected challenge when the commissioner assigns superstar magazine journalist Jameson Rook to ride along with her to research an article on New York's Finest. Pulitzer Prize-winning Rook is as much a handful as he is handsome. His wise-cracking and meddling aren't her only problems. As she works to unravel the secrets of the murdered real estate tycoon, she must also confront the spark between them. The one called heat.
If you can't get enough of comedian Jacob Weisberg's Bushisms, you have hit the jackpot, as there are three volumes at $3.99, although the inaugural volume, George W. Bushisms, is full price.More George W. Bushisms
"Most of you probably didn't know that I have a new book out. Some guy put together a collection of my wit and wisdom -- or, as he calls it, my accidental wit and wisdom. [Laughter] But I'm kind of proud that my words are already in book form."
-- President George W. Bush,
discussing and reading from George W. Bushisms
By now, most of you probably do know about George W. Bushisms, the bestselling collection of misstatements made on the campaign trail by our president. Now, in More George W. Bushisms, Jacob Weisberg reveals that the malapropisms didn't stop on Inauguration Day:
"I've coined new words like misunderstanding and Hispanically."
"I haven't had a chance to talk, but I'm confident we'll get a bill that I can live with if we don't."
"Our nation must come together to unite."
"There's no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead."
Still More George W. Bushisms
There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again.
With signature remarks like these, it's hardly surprising that George W. Bush's malapropisms have become renowned around the world. Editions of Bushisms have become bestsellers in Germany, France, and Italy, and they remain as popular in the United States as ever. Jacob Weisberg, faithful scribe, here presents the best of the latest crop:
"There's only one person who hugs the mothers and the widows, the wives and the kids upon the death of their loved one. Others hug but having committed the troops, I've got an additional responsibility to hug and that's me and I know what it's like."
"I'm the master of low expectations."
"First, let me make it very clear, poor people aren't necessarily killers. Just because you happen to be not rich doesn't mean you're willing to kill."
The Ultimate George W. Bushisms
"This business about graceful exit just simply has no realism to it at all."
As the end of the Bush era approaches, the legacy is clear: George W. Bush is a wartime president. His enemy, battered but not defeated after repeated surges: the English language. The ultimate edition of George W. Bushisms captures this legacy -- from the Gulf Coast to Iraq and back -- with all-new pearls of wisdom and the twenty-five greatest hits of the entire presidency.
"You know, when I campaigned here in 2000, I said, I want to be a war president. No president wants to be a war president, but I am one."
"I think -- tide turning -- see, as I remember -- I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of -- it's easy to see a tide turn -- did I say those words?"
Boomerang: Travels In The New Third World ($3.99 Kindle; Google), by Michael LewisBook Description
As Pogo once said, "We have met the enemy and he is us."
The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge.
Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a piñata stuffed with cash and allow as many citizens as possible to take a whack at it. The Germans wanted to be even more German; the Irish wanted to stop being Irish.
Michael Lewis's investigation of bubbles beyond our shores is so brilliantly, sadly hilarious that it leads the American reader to a comfortable complacency: oh, those foolish foreigners. But when he turns a merciless eye on California and Washington, DC, we see that the narrative is a trap baited with humor, and we understand the reckoning that awaits the greatest and greediest of debtor nations.
1,000 Places to See in the United States & Canada Before You Die ($3.99 Kindle; Google), by Patricia Schultz, is the updated edition, with 1,200 pages in print. This is the book you meant to read before heading out on your vacation or road trip, but didn't, then wanted to take with you to read on the plane, but it was too heavy -- now reduced to zero space and weight in your luggage, so there's never any reason to be without a copy, in case you need to make new plans anywhere in the US or Canada. It will take a bit of space on your eReader, though, at 15MB for the book (the sample is 800K). The world edition isn't on sale (and with more than 200 new entries, shouldn't it be re-titles as the 1,200 places to see? How are we supposed to see them all, if they keep adding to the list?), but for those who prefer to only visit sandy beaches (instead of Civil War battlefields), you might pick up Perfect Island Getaways from 1,000 Places to See Before You Die: The Caribbean, Bahamas & Bermuda ($3.82), which contains just 53 entries, which is still enough to fill every vacation you get for the next few decades.Book Description
The 1,000 Places to See books are pleasurable, inspiring, wondrous, a best-selling phenomenon and, yes, practical: Announcing the updated edition of 1,000 Places to See in the USA & Canada Before You Die, The New York Times No. 1 bestseller. Because USA & Canada is not only a wish book but also a guide, this information, including phone numbers, Web addresses, and more, is now completely revised and updated.
Just in time for travel season, for long summer weekends, for whenever the mood strikes to pack up the car and set out to discover a new piece of America (and Canada!), 1,000 Places to See in the USA & Canada is a map to all the unique and wonderful places just around the corner: Sail the Maine Windjammers out of Camden. Explore the gold-mining trails in Alaska’s Denali wilderness. Collect exotic shells on the beaches of Captiva. Play tennis the way it was meant to be—on grass—at the lavish Victorian Newport Casino. Take a barbecue tour of Kansas City—Arthur Bryant’s to Gates to Snead’s. There’s the ice hotel in Quebec, the stalacpipe organ in Virginia, out-of-the-way Civil War battlefields, dude ranches and cowboy poetry readings, and what to do in Louisville after the Derby’s over.
More than 150 places are highlighted as family-friendly, and indices in the back organize the book by subject—wilderness, dining, beaches, world-class museums, sports, festivals, and more.
Note to Kindle Readers: The Kindle edition of this book has been formatted with convenient linking in the table of contents that allow the reader to navigate to each state or province in the United States and Canada. The indexes at the end of the book provide terms for use in the Kindle search feature. The general index is organized by region and lists locations alphabetically while the special index is organized by travel interest categories.
Today's backlist/small press/indie, totally free, books for everyone on Kindle. These are are not likely to be free for long, so double check prices before one-clicking (genres are my best guess), as most of them go back up after a day or two (sometimes less), at which point most of them become eligible for the Kindle Lending Library.
- The House Between the Worlds, by Marion Zimmer Bradley (sf)
- Revenge, Denied , by Joan Marie Verba (fantasy)
- The Dream Curator (The Dream Curator and Other Stories), by Alex Irvine (Fantasy)
- The Hunted, by Dave Zeltserman (Mystery & Thrillers)
- Children of the Fog, by Cheryl Kaye Tardif (Mystery & Thrillers/Horror)
- Croaker: Tequila Mockingbird, by Paul Bishop (Mystery & Thrillers)
- A Mage By Any Other Name, by Jody Wallace (fantasy)
- Rudy, Looking for Love (Chicago 1890s) , by Phoebe Matthews (novelette)
- The Deal (The Dealing Trilogy), by Jude Mason (erotica)
- Jungle Of Deceit *, by Maureen A. Miller (romantic suspense)
- Memory of Morning, by Susan Sizemore (romance)
- Midnight Love, by Barbara Bretton
- The Bee Book For Beginners: An Apiculture Starter or How To Be A Backyard Beekeeper And Harvest Honey From Your Own Bee Hives, by Frank Randall
- A Slip of the Tongue, by Andrew Biss (short)
- 30 Delicious and Nutritious Vegetarian Salad Recipes, by Shelley Lynne
- Teen Devotionals...for Girls!, by Shelley Hitz and Heather Hart
- Isle Royale, by John Hamilton (Mystery & Thrillers)
- Teddy Bear Town Children's E-Book Bundle, by Stacy Juba and Larry Drumtra (Illustrator)
- Unshackled and Free: True Stories of Forgiveness, by CJ Hitz, Shelley Hitz and Heather Hart (Religion & Spirituality)
- L.A. Caveman , by Christina Crooks (romance)
- Josephine the Outlaw King, by Jeannette Louise Kantzalis
- Little People, Big Crimes (Alex Cheradon Mysteries), by Jason Krumbine
- Reclamation, by Karin Bishop (Mystery & Thrillers)
- The Necromancer, by Pamela M. Richter
- Death Benefits (Southern Fraud Thriller 2), by Jennifer Becton and J. W. Becton
- Irish Recipes: Mouthwatering Meals Direct From The Emerald Isle, by Bryan J. Bowers
- Blessed Every Day: Wisdom Writings for Women , by Barbara `Dudley
- Taking Stock, by CJ West (Accounting? I think not! Mystery & Thrillers)
- Autopilot, by Dave Fymbo (Humor)
- Always Remember to Tip Your Ninja: And Other Maxims for the Clinically Absurd, by Jeremy Shipp (cool cover)
- Real Women Wear Red, by Kathy Holmes (romance)
- In Dreams, by J. Sterling (YA romance)
- Bound by Blood, by Danielle Bourdon and Kimberly Hoyt (Paranormal Romance/Time Travel)
- The Hurricane Lover, by Joni Rodgers (Mystery & Thrillers)
- Pleasure With Purpose and Hot Vampire Seduction (Vampire Wardens 2) *, by Lisa Renee Jones (erotica)
