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Sunday, September 27, 2009

Free Audiobook - The Mark of the Christian

The Mark of the Christian, by Francis A. Schaeffer, is a relatively short selection, at 1.25 hours long. Normally $8.98, you can get it for free by taking a short survey at ChristianAudio.com (click on the survey banner on the home page). It's a short survey and you'll be given a coupon code at the end (write it down) and a link to the book. Put the book in your cart, select checkout, enter the coupon code and a few clicks later you can download the book (the MP3 version will work on your Kindle).

The offer expires on September 30.

Book Description
"It is possible to be a Christian without showing the mark, but if we expect non-Christians to know that we are Christians, we must show the mark."

Christians have not always presented an inviting picture to the world. Too often we have failed to show the beauty of authentic Christian love. And the world has disregarded Christianity as a result.

In our era of global violence and sectarian intolerance, the church needs to hear anew the challenge of this book. Decades ago Francis Schaeffer exhorted, "Love--and the unity it attests to--is the mark Christ gave Christians to wear before the world. Only with this mark may the world know that Christians are indeed Christians and that Jesus was sent by the Father."

More than ever, the church needs to respond compassionately to a needy world. More than ever, we need to show the Mark.

Price Reduction on Wii and Wii Fit, plus $25 bonus

Looks like the price of the Wii console has finally dropped below $200. As many as they've sold, you have to wonder if it's because nearly the entire planet now has at least one of them? To celebrate (and promote sales, I'm sure), Amazon has a couple of specials going on. First, if you buy a Wii Console, you get a $25 gift certificate in the mail, which you can use for anything sold by Amazon (excludes third-party sellers, but works perfectly fine on Kindle books).

On the same page, they have sale prices on a number of games, including one I play way too much, cutting into my reading time: Animal Crossing: City Folk ($24.99). For a little more active game, Punch-Out!! has one of the weirdest add-ons I've seen for a game. If you buy it now, they throw in the Amazon.com Exclusive Punch-Out!! Heavyweight Contender Kit, which contains (no joke) a candy bar, a crown, a desktop punching bag and a pair of boxer shorts (bright yellow, size large).

They are also running a one-day sale on Wii Fit, which includes the balance board, for $79.98. That price lets you add the Wii Fit Plus software at $19.49 and end up with both games and the board at about the price of the Wii Fit Plus with balance board alone ($98.99).

Game of the Day - Granny In Paradise (98 cents)

Amazon's Video Game of the Day deal today is once again a game download for 98 cents; this time it's Granny In Paradise. No reviews on the game download versions of the SuperGranny series so far, but there are a few on the boxed versions and they tend to be 4 to 5 stars (except one person that said her toddler didn't like it .... which makes me ask: "you bought this for a toddler????"). Anyway, it looks interesting enough for me to try the trial version. I have to wonder if they are going to keep doing under a dollar game downloads next week?

Game Description
  • Super Granny Is Back
  • Over 170 Levels
  • 5 Worlds To Explore
  • Create Your Own Adventures
Super Granny is back, and she's ready to rumble. While on a well-deserved vacation, Granny's kitties are abducted. Run, dig, climb, swing, float and tumble through 5 worlds and over 170 levels, as you rescue Granny's missing cats and outwit the minions of the nefarious Dr. Meow. With a built-in level editor you can create your own adventures for hours and hours of additional fun!

This game should also qualify as a purchase for the Buy One, Get One Free offer that Amazon is currently running, as yesterday's download did.

Monthly Kindle Book Budget: July

I'm still trying to get caught up on posting my book purchases, one more month to go (but only a few days until another month behind).

July
Free Chris Anderson $0.00
The Long Tail, (Revised and Updated) Chris Anderson $0.00
The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, Book 1) James Patterson $0.00
Tumor Chapter 1 Noel Tuazon $0.00
Killing Joe Marie Treanor $0.00
Thorn Queen Richelle Mead $0.00
Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #2: Skyborn JOHN JACKSON MILLER $0.00
Haley's Cabin Anne Rainey $0.00
Hold The Dark: A Markhat story Frank Tuttle $3.60
The Mister Trophy Frank Tuttle $2.00
Wistril Compleat Frank Tuttle $0.99
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete (1452-1519) Leonardo da Vinci $0.00
Trickster: A Novel of the Silent Empire Steven Harper $1.79
God is Closer Than You Think* Mike Darretta $0.01
Anybody But Justin Shelli Stevens $0.00
Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar: How Self-Education and the Pursuit of Passion Can Lead to a Lifetime of Success James Marcus Bach $0.00
Fire-Heart (A Tale of Alterra, The World That Is) C S Marks $0.99
Hidden Empire: The Saga of Seven Suns - Book 1 Kevin J. Anderson $1.00
Zombie Joely Skye $0.00
Paranoia Joseph Finder $0.00
My Soul to Lose Rachel Vincent $0.00
Worst Enemies/Best Friends Annie Bryant $0.00
The Codex Douglas Preston $4.99
Nightmare (The Silent Empire) Steven Harper $1.79
Dreamer: A Novel Of the Silent Empire Steven Harper $1.79
The Enhancer Teresa McCullough, Meg Baxter $0.99
No Little People Francis A. Schaeffer $0.00
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Volume 1 (1452-1519) Leonardo da Vinci $0.00
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Volume 2 (1452-1519) Leonardo da Vinci $0.00
Green Cost Cutting: Five Ways to Get Lean Now Andrew Winston $0.00
Manifold: Time Stephen Baxter $0.00
Darkfever Karen Marie Moning $0.00

* This one was via Mobilereference and is now missing from the Kindle store, although the paperback is still available.

For the month, that's 32 books, $19.94 in total, for $0.62 per book. Under budget by a mile, but I'll make up for it later in the year, I'm sure.

Here's the break-down by month, for the year-to-date:

MonthNo. BooksTotal CostPer Book
January59$83.47$1.41
February43$29.97$0.70
March32$33.44$1.05
April22$13.11$0.60
May34$34.79$1.02
June37$40.39$1.09
July32$19.94$0.62
Totals259$255.11$0.98

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Bargain Romance

It's in His Kiss, by Julia Quinn has been marked down from $7.99 to $1.99.

Book Description
Meet Our Hero ...
Gareth St. Clair is in a bind. His father, who detests him, is determined to beggar the St. Clair estates and ruin his inheritance. Gareth's sole bequest is an old family diary, which may or may not contain the secrets of his past .. and the key to his future. The problem is -- it's written in Italian, of which Gareth speaks not a word.

Meet Our Heroine ...
All the ton agreed: there was no one quite like Hyacinth Bridgerton. She's fiendishly smart, devilishly outspoken, and according to Gareth, probably best in small doses. But there's something about her -- something charming and vexing -- that grabs him and won't quite let go...

Meet Poor Mr. Mozart ...
Or don't. But rest assured, he's spinning in his grave when Gareth and Hyacinth cross paths at the annual -- and annually discordant -- Smythe-Smith musicale. To Hyacinth, Gareth's every word seems a dare, and she offers to translate his diary, even though her Italian is slightly less than perfect. But as they delve into the mysterious text, they discover that the answers they seek lie not in the diary, but in each other ... and that there is nothing as simple -- or as complicated -- as a single, perfect kiss.


If you get this one, you'll also want to check out It's In His Kiss: The Epilogue II, which is $1.59. I'm not sure how long it really is (and the reviews are actually for the main book), but it looks to be relatively short, at 47K. It looks as though it tries to wrap up all the loose ends in the book (but that there wasn't enough there for another full novel).

Book Description

What happened to the diamonds????If you've read It's in His Kiss, you want to know. Don't miss this charming and passionate short story, in which Gareth proves that some things get better with age, Hyacinth gains new respect for her mother (with a daughter like Isabella she'd have to, wouldn't she?), and everyone learns that while diamonds are lovely, sometimes tenacity is a girl's best friend.


Ruth Ann Nordin has added two new novels to her free download page. The first one is His Redeeming Bride.

Book Description
Seven years after Eye of the Beholder ends, Neil Craftsman's story begins. (I recommend reading Eye of the Beholder first. Otherwise, this book spoils the "surprise" in Eye of the Beholder.)

When Sarah Donner learns she's pregnant, she hopes this blessing will be the thing to make her husband finally love her. But to her horror, he announces that she will go live with her overbearing mother-in-law. Weeks before she is due to give birth, they are traveling to her mother-in-law's when some thieves kill him.

Ready to give birth, she has to rely on the aid of the one man others had warned her about: Neil Craftsman. She knows of his tarnished past, and no respectable woman will go near him. But when she learns her husband left her with no home and no money, she has nowhere else to go but to the one man she's shunned.

As she gets to know Neil, she learns that there is more to him than meets the eye. But when his past comes back to haunt him, will her newfound love be enough to redeem him - or will he always be a shunned man?


The second new book on her site is Falling In Love With Her Husband

Book Description
When Ann Statesman marries Todd Brothers, it's not because she loves him. She marries him because she knows that he will make a good husband. She hopes that given time, her feelings for him will blossom into romantic love. But when her old beau comes back for her, will she still want to stay with Todd...or will she want to go back her past love?

She has also added a new download from Melanie Nilles, Starfire Angels, which looks like a fantasy novel for the young adults (yes, it says Science Fiction, but if you wake up with wings, that puts you outside the realm of science and into fantasy). The book description is very brief, but there is a video trailer that promises to elaborate on the premis.

Book Description
A senior in high school wakes up one morning and discovers that she has wings. Nothing in her life will ever be the same again.

To download either of these three books or any of the others on her site, click HERE. They are all in PDF, but should convert well with MobiCreator Professional or Calibre, as well as be readable on the Kindle DX without conversion.