Additional formats on free books:
If you are looking for a refurbished
ad-free Kindle Keyboard 3G w/ Wi-Fi ($189 new; $129.99
refurbished Amazon) in white or grey, you can pick one up for $99.99 plus $4.99 shipping, from
Daily Steals today. They can be a bit slow to ship (and the warranty is 90 days instead of the year you get from Amazon), but everything has eventually arrived that I've ordered from them. Daily Steals deals end at midnight on the east coast (US). I suspect I'd order one direct from Amazon, though, as the price difference works out to about $20 in the end and with Prime you'll have it in two days (and get the longer warranty).
Angry Birds addicts have a new version to play with today, as
Angry Birds Space has hit the Amazon Android Appstore. Unlike some of the previous versions, where the
free ad-free and
99 cent versions run on the Kindle Fire, this time you'll have to spring for the
HD version at $2.99 on the Fire (the less expensive versions should run fine on phones and even claim to work on my much larger Android tablet).
Fully Loaded: The Complete and Collected Stories (
$0.99), by Blake Crouch, is today's Kindle Deal of the Day.
Book Description
From the author of RUN and DESERT PLACES comes this complete collection of short stories and novellas.
*69 - Tim and Laura West receive a bizarre voicemail on their answering machine that seems to have unintentionally recorded a brutal murder. But what happens when the killer realizes their mistake? This story develops over one terrifying evening, and this young couple will never be the same.
REMAKING – Tragic events unfold in a snowy, sleepy Colorado town. From the first scene, in which a man sits alone in the cold, watching a father and son in a diner, you know something is about to go horribly wrong. You may think you know what’s happening, but in this thrilling, heartbreaking story, nothing is as it seems.
ON THE GOOD, RED ROAD - A group of four hard men trying to reach a remote 19th Century mining town become stranded in an early blizzard and resort to drastic, terrifying measures, to stay alive.
SHINING ROCK – An older couple encounter a strange and menacing visitor during a camping trip in the North Carolina mountains. Friendly at first, this stranger seems to know them, seems to know their secrets, and as things escalate, they become convinced that they may never leave these mountains alive.
PERFECT LITTLE TOWN – Ron and Jessica Stahl are a power couple from California, on a Christmas holiday in Colorado. When they stop for the afternoon in sleepy Lone Cone, they’re charmed by the quaint tourist town. But the folksy hospitality will vanish as the sun drops behind the mountains. The Stahls couldn’t have picked a worse night of the year to get snowed into this perfect little town with a dark, dark secret.
SERIAL – The classic horror short I wrote with J.A. Konrath, in which we turn our attention to the twin golden rules of hitchhiking: # 1: Don’t go hitchhiking, because the driver who picks you up could be certifiably crazy. # 2: Don’t pick up hitchhikers, because the traveler you pick up could be a raving nutcase. So what if, on some dark, isolated road, Crazy #1 offered a ride to Nutcase #2?
THE NEWTON BOYS’ LAST PHOTOGRAPH – At 25 words, the shortest story I ever wrote. But it packs a wallop.
THE METEOROLOGIST – Peter, a disgraced meteorologist and chronic wanderer, has traveled the country for years in his Winnebago, in search of the only thing that gives his life meaning. He’s just arrived in the middle of nowhere—Hokie, Kansas—for the same purpose, but when he meets a waitress named Melanie, another sufferer, he’s faced not only with his first real human contact in years, but perhaps someone who can save him.
UNCONDITIONAL – A conversation between two people—devastating, tragic, and beautiful.
THE PAIN OF OTHERS – Letty Dobesh, a gorgeous, degenerate thief, is fresh out of the clink and back to her old tricks—in this case, burglarizing suites at a luxury hotel in Asheville, North Carolina. But when she’s surprised by returning guests on her last room of the day, she’s forced to hide in the closet to avoid getting caught, and inadvertently overhears a hitman being contracted to murder the wife of a wealthy lawyer.
This 60,000-word short story collection also contains introductions to each story by the author, an interview with Blake, and excerpts from all of his novels.
Note: FOUR LIVE ROUNDS + SIX IN THE CYLINDER = FULLY LOADED
The AmazonEncore edition of
Tune In Tokyo: The Gaijin Diaries (
$1.57 / £0.99 UK), by Tim Anderson, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the
US edition is $3.99).
Book Description
Tim Anderson was pushing thirty and working a string of dead-end jobs when he made the spontaneous decision to pack his bags and move to Japan, “where my status as a U.S. passport holder and card-carrying ‘American English’ speaker was an asset rather than a liability.” It was a gutsy move, especially for a tall, white, gay Southerner who didn’t speak a lick of Japanese. But his life desperately needed a shot of adrenaline, and what better way to get one than to leave behind everything he had ever known to move halfway around the world where he won’t understand anything anyone says? In Tokyo, Tim became a “gaijin,” an outsider whose stumbling progression through Japanese culture is minutely chronicled in these sixteen howlingly funny stories. Yet despite the steep learning curve and the seemingly constant humiliation, the gaijin from North Carolina gradually begins to find his way. Whether playing drums on the fly in an otherwise all-Japanese noise band or attempting to keep his English classroom clean when it’s invaded by an older female student with a dirty mind, Tim comes to realize that living a meaningful life is about expecting the unexpected…right when he least expects it.
Jackpot: High Times, High Seas, and the Sting That Launched the War on Drugs (
$3.49 Kindle,
B&N), by Jason Ryan, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.
Book Description
In a cat-and-mouse game played out in exotic locations across the globe, the smugglers sailed through hurricanes, broke out of jail and survived encounters with armed militants in Colombia, Grenada and Lebanon. Based on years of research and interviews with imprisoned and recently released smugglers and the law enforcement agents who tracked them down, Jackpot does for marijuana smuggling what "Blow" and "Snowblind" did for the cocaine trade.
The outrageous lives and crimes of the most colorful pot smugglers of the Reagan era, and the international manhunt that brought them down
Their nicknames—Flash, Rolex, Bob the Boss, Willie the Hog, and Disco Don—read like a roster of mobsters. Their destinations for acquiring drugs and depositing money—the Bahamas, Colombia, Jamaica, and Lebanon—were either exotic, white-sand resorts or rugged, war-torn coasts. To some, they were cult heroes and folk legends, intrepid enough to walk away from college degrees and safe careers for danger, sun, sex, and the high seas. The South’s “gentlemen smugglers” followed no rules but their own.
But to the government investigators and prosecutors emboldened by President Ronald Reagan’s War on Drugs, the gentlemen smugglers were Public Enemy No. 1. Through indictments covering just a portion of their alleged misdeeds, the government accused a few dozen men of smuggling 347,000 pounds of marijuana and 130,000 pounds of hashish into the United States.
Speaking to reporters, U.S. Attorney Henry McMaster conceded that “most of it got through, a lot of it’s been smoked.” Still, he said, these outlaws’ days were numbered. No matter their cunning, the gentlemen smugglers would not escape the pioneering task force he had assembled with investigators from five federal agencies: Operation Jackpot.
The NOOK Kids Read and Play edition of
Puff, the Magic Dragon ($9.95 paperback w/CD;
$2.99 B&N), by Peter Yarrow, Lenny Lipton and Eric Puybaret (Illustrator), is the Nook Daily Find for Families. This edition requires either the NOOK Color or NOOK Tablet and no Kindle version seems to exist (although you can buy the
sheet music).
Book Description
Puff, the Magic Dragon is simply one of the most beloved songs of all time-a classic that's become as much a part of the childhood experience as Mother Goose and fairy tales. Yet singer/songwriter Peter Yarrow and co-composer Lenny Lipton have never allowed a picture book adaptation of this magical tale . . . until now. With Yarrow's and Lipton's blessing, Puff, Jackie Paper, and the land of Honalee finally live on the page.
In richly-hued paintings of the deepest sea blues and greens, Puff and his friend Jackie Paper frolic in the land of Honalee-traveling in a fantastic boat with billowed sails, climbing red castle stairs onto a balcony to meet with noble kings and princes, and watching pirate ships lower their flags for the roaring dragon. Artist Eric Puybaret has brought an entire magical world into being with enthralling landscapes, color, and characters. And everyone will love the way the art cleverly turns the song's end, which at first seemed so sad, into a surprising and joyful moment.
Best of all-this is only the first of many more collaborations with Peter Yarrow to come!
This NOOK Kids Read and Play book features narration, animation and interactivity. Kids can choose to hear the story read aloud and play activities on select pages of the book. Animations replay with a simple tap. Plus, kids can tap to enlarge text and pinch & stretch to zoom in on pictures.
