14 Free Books for Black Friday (and Saturday)

You can get 14 titles for free from OmniLit and/or All Romance Books today and tomorrow (all pretty "spicy" according to their ratings system) as part of their Black Friday sale. All the books are from Red Rose Publishing and are DRM free - get the Mobipocket version for the Kindle or the EPub version for the Sony or the Nook. Or, buy both versions (one from each store) for future compatibility.

Here's the list of free titles:

The Ballet, by Melissa Glisan
Be With You, by Marie Rochelle
Chateua Despair, by Linda Sole
Desperately Seeking Santa, by Jane Beckenham
Fantasies: New Year's Eve, by Cassandra Gold
Forever Tonight, by Tara Newlands
Having Faith - Sweetbrier Series: Book 1, by Nancy O'Berry
Infidelity, by Debbie Gould
Judgement By Fire, by Lydia Grace
Nutcracker Sweet, by Jennifer Mueller
The Other Half of Your Heart, by Janis Susan May
The Pleasure Cruise - The Misadventures of Raine Mathews: Book 2, by Raven Starrr
Psychotic: SKIU Serial (Serial Killers Investigation Unit), by Aline de Chevigny
Ringside - Three Sister Series: Book 1, by LaVerne Thompson, Stephanie Williams

Get a Kindle 2i (Global Wireless) for $159

Amazon is running a special deal in conjunction with Audible.com, where you can get $100 off an "AudibleReady® product" (which includes the Kindle (2i) and Kindle DX and Apple iPod nano) or accessory (including Cole Haan Kindle Covers) when you agree to join Audible.com's AudibleListener® Gold plan for 12 months at $14.95/month.

Deal Description

Save $100 on any of these AudibleReady® products when you agree to join Audible.com's AudibleListener® Gold plan for 12 months at $14.95/month. If the product or accessory that you choose is less than $100, you will receive the product for free. Click here to join the AudibleListener Gold program. See further details.

We're featuring a handful of AudibleReady products below, but we offer many more. See all qualifying MP3 players, check out all qualifying GPS devices, shop all qualifying accessories, or browse qualifying Kindle and Kindle accessories.

Be sure to check the details on the deal: you have to join Audible first, then get a promotional code from Audible, then come back and purchase the qualifying product. Also, when you use the promotional code, you want to only order the one item that qualifies and is over $100, as the promotion will apply to the lowest priced qualifying item (if you had a $39 cover and a Kindle in the order, you would get the cover for free, instead of $100 off the Kindle, for example).

Click HERE to see the details and some of the qualifying products.

Happy Thanksgiving

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The Harvest Moon
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is the Harvest Moon! On gilded vanes
And roofs of villages, on woodland crests
And their aerial neighborhoods of nests
Deserted, on the curtained window-panes

Of rooms where children sleep, on country lanes
And harvest-fields, its mystic splendor rests!
Gone are the birds that were our summer guests,
With the last sheaves return the laboring wains!

All things are symbols: the external shows
Of Nature have their image in the mind,
As flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves;

The song-birds leave us at the summer's close,
Only the empty nests are left behind,
And pipings of the quail among the sheaves.



The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day
by Lydia Maria Child

Over the river, and through the wood,
To grandfather's house we go;
The horse knows the way,
To carry the sleigh,
Through the white and drifted snow.

Over the river, and through the wood,
To grandfather's house away!
We would not stop
For doll or top,
For 't is Thanksgiving Day.

Over the river, and through the wood,
Oh, how the wind does blow!
It stings the toes,
And bites the nose,
As over the ground we go.

Over the river, and through the wood,
With a clear blue winter sky,
The dogs do bark,
And children hark,
As we go jingling by.

Over the river, and through the wood,
To have a first-rate play—
Hear the bells ring
Ting a ling ding,
Hurra for Thanksgiving Day!

Over the river, and through the wood—
No matter for winds that blow;
Or if we get
The sleigh upset,
Into a bank of snow.

Over the river, and through the wood,
To see little John and Ann;
We will kiss them all,
And play snow-ball,
And stay as long as we can.

Over the river, and through the wood,
Trot fast, my dapple grey!
Spring over the ground,
Like a hunting hound,
For 't is Thanksgiving Day!

Over the river, and through the wood,
And straight through the barn-yard gate;
We seem to go
Extremely slow,
It is so hard to wait.

Over the river, and through the wood—
Old Jowler hears our bells;
He shakes his pow,
With a loud bow wow,
And thus the news he tells.

Over the river, and through the wood—
When grandmother sees us come,
She will say, Oh dear,
The children are here,
Bring a pie for every one.

Over the river, and through the wood—
Now grandmother's cap I spy!
Hurra for the fun!
Is the pudding done?
Hurra for the pumpkin pie!

$5 Magazine Subscriptions

This deal is a non-electronic one. I wanted to make sure you knew about the Black Friday $5 Magazine Deals Amazon is having on 10 different magazines. Give a gift, renew an existing subscription, or start a new one -- all for $5. Not only are a couple of them not good candidates for reading on the Kindle (sometimes you just want to look thru the glossy pictures), I know my Christmas List has some people on it that don't have any type of ereader.

The savings Amazon shows are off of retail price, so are a bit inflated, but I know several of these normally have subscription rates in the $20-$25 range, such as Real Simple or SmartMoney. There doesn't seem to be any limit to how many of the subscriptions you take advantage of (last year, they had a similar deal and I ordered three of them), so you may be able to get a subscription for yourself and give the same magazine as a gift to as many people as you want.

The Delian Cycle

The Delian Cycle ($9.99), by Alan Burt Akers, is an omnibus edition of the first five titles in the The Saga of Dray Prescot series. That works out to $2 per book and all the customer reviews are 4 and 5 stars. I'm not sure I'll read the entire series (it's 45 books, all available on Kindle), but I'll definitely check this one out.

Book Description
For the first time ever, the first five books in the Saga of Dray Prescot of Earth and of Kregen are brought together in this omnibus edition. Together, these five books make up the Delian Cycle, in which Dray Prescot comes to terms with finding himself on the alien world of Kregen. Here he tries to make sense of his situation: the Star Lords, the Savanti, the marvelous places, strange beasts and stranger people. And here he pursues his greatest love of two worlds, Delia of the Blue Mountains. Containing five books: Transit to Scorpio, The Suns of Scorpio, Warrior of Scorpio, Swordships of Scorpio, and Prince of Scorpio. (349000 words)

Transit to Scorpio
On the planet Kregen that circles Antares, the brightest star of the Constellation of the Scorpion, two forces contend for the world's destiny. One of them, the Savanti, called in a human pawn from far-away Earth. His name is Dray Prescot, and only the Savanti know his role. Dray Prescot confronted a fabulous world -- barbaric, unmapped, peopled with both human and non-human races. But there were always the Star Lords to watch and check the Savanti's plans. And it soon turned out that Dray Prescot himself had to make a decision that would change him from a mere pawn to a bolder piece on the planetary chessboard...

The Suns of Scorpio
Slave of the colossus builders or scourge of the Inland Sea? Both roles awaited Dray Prescot on his return to Kregen. Torn between two contending forces, the Star Lords and the Savanti, Prescot himself wanted only to find his beloved, the Princess Delia of the Blue Mountains. But the powers that had drawn him across interstellar space to the world that orbited the red and green suns in the Constellation Scorpio had set him a task, the nature of which even he could not fully comprehend...

Warrior of Scorpio
Once again in the grip of the Star Lords of the Constellation Scorpio, Dray Prescot finds himself torn from the battles of the Inner Sea for a mission in the air. For it was now his mission to carry his beloved Delia by airboat to that far kingdom, Vallia, from whence she had come. But the route lay across the gaunt mountains and the shadowy jungles of the Hostile Territories -- and there Dray was to be plunged among stranger peoples and more fantastic challenges than even his Kregen princess had known.

Swordships of Scorpio
What does a man do when fate makes him the protector of the royal head of the land of his enemies? If it is Dray Prescot, Earthman on Antares, he sets aside his quest to do his duty. His duty was to reach Vallia and his princess Delia and help her claim her throne. His duty was to defend Vallia's ancient foe and place its rightful heir on its throne -- sworn to attack Vallia. So when the third force, the pirate fleets known as the swordships came between the two contending demands, Dray sees that only by following his own personal star could the contradiction be resolved.

Prince of Scorpio
Dray Prescot had fought long and hard through perilous lands to claim the hand of the heiress of the mighty Vallia. Yet, when finally he set foot in that long-sought empire, it was not as hero or noble... It was as an unknown, a mendicant, and finally as a condemned slave. For the combatant fates that had interfered continually with his quest on the planet of the twin suns of Antares had yet more tests for the man they had selected as their agent. But for Dray there was only one goal -- already in sight -- and he would not be turned aside any longer no matter what dangers Vallian intrigues and quasi-human mysteries may have in store for him.