Free Christmas Music Samplers and $2.99 Sinatra

Get into the holiday spirit with Sampler Claus, a collection of timeless Christmas classics by Frank Sinatra, Mahalia Jackson, Mario Lanza, and more, courtesy of Amazon and Columbia/Legacy Records or get X5's Free Classical Christmas Sampler (or a second version of the same album, HERE).

You may also want to check out A Jolly Christmas From Frank Sinatra ($2.99), which is today's MP3 Album of the Day, or The 99 Most Essential Christmas Masterpieces ($5.00) for nearly six hours of traditional orchestral Christmas music.

You can also find about 30 singles at the top of these two searches: Holiday Music and Christmas Music.

Amazon Sales on Print Books

In addition to their usual 4 for 3 Book Promotion, Amazon has a few other book deals going on for Black Friday/CyberMonday. I know they aren't ebooks, but I thought I'd highlight a few for those buying books as gifts or looking for children's books, as the illustrations often don't translate well to e-ink (at least, not yet).

First there is the Dr. Seuss: Three Books for the Price of Two sale. There are seven pages of books, all at essentially full price (at a quick glance, I saw prices ranging from $3.99 to just over $10, with $8.99 for many). Put three into your cart and check out and the least expensive of the three will be free (you won't see the promotion until the last page, when you confirm the order - look to the upper right where the total is and you should see a "promotion" applied as a discount). You can generally take advantage of this type of sale more than once by simply submitting multiple orders, but watch your total if you want free SuperSaver shipping, as you have to get above $25 each time (before the promotional discount). Amazon has also set up a special Gift Books for Kids and Teens page that can help with picking out gifts, as it has categories by age and suggestions to read after finishing Twilight, for example.

A second sale is their Three for Two: Paperback Favorites promotion. This one currently has 553 books included and the prices seem to be discounted even before the third one free is added in. If you check out the listings, the Kindle version (if it exists) is often sale priced as well, such as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson, for $6.00 in Paperback and on Kindle and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society , by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows, for $5.50 in Paperback and on Kindle. You can browse thru the entire list as a whole, or by categories: Bestsellers, Contemporary Classics, Cookbooks, Mysteries: First in the Series, History & Popular Science.

There is also a CyberMonday Deals in Books page already active (although there are no Lightning Deals active - I'd bet they start tomorrow at 3AM EST). Here I found some real bargains, such as Running with Scissors: A Memoir for $2.55 (Paperback; $7.99 Kindle) and some relative bargains, such as Rose's Heavenly Cakes for $19.07 (Hardcover - if you overindulge with this one, check out The South Beach Diet: Good Fats, Good Carbs Guide $5.11 Kindle) and Dilbert 2.0: 20 Years of Dilbert ($26.67 Hardcover, marked down from $80.00), which has 576 pages of the best of Dilbert from the last 20 years, as well as a DVD with every Dilbert comic strip to April 2008.

Here are some of the other deals I spotted there:

• Last Known Address, by Theresa Schwegel - $4.99 Hardcover; $3.99 Kindle
• Dune Road, by Jane Green - $9.27 Hardcover; $7.42 Kindle
• Hank Ketcham's Complete Dennis the Menace 1957-1958 (Vol. 4), by Hank Ketcham - $4.28 Hardcover
• Exit Ghost, by Philip Roth - $4.03 Hardcover; $3.22 Kindle
• The Eleventh Man, by Ivan Doig- $3.98 Hardcover; $3.18 Kindle
• College Girl, by Patricia Weitz - $4.04 Hardcover; $3.23 Kindle
• Liberty: A Lake Wobegon Novel, by Garrison Keillor- $5.83 Hardcover; $5.83 Kindle
• Songs for the Missing, by Stewart O'Nan- $2.53 Hardcover; $2.02 Kindle
• Golden Country, by Jennifer Gilmore - $3.23 Paperback; $2.58 Kindle
• Untamed, by Steve Bloom (Photographer) - $7.87 Paperback
• Jan Karon's Mitford Cookbook and Kitchen Reader, by Jan Karon- $9.26 Hardcover
• Cowboy & Wills: A Love Story, by Monica Holloway- $9.84 Hardcover; $9.84 Kindle
• What Would Susie Say?: Bullsh*t Wisdom About Love, Life and Comedy, by Susie Essman - $6.75 Hardcover; $6.75 Kindle
• The Intellectual Devotional Modern Culture: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Converse Confidently with the Culturati, by David S. Kidder & Noah D. Oppenheim - $8.75 Hardcover; $8.75 Kindle

and some Children's Books:

• Ghosthunters And The Incredibly Revolting Ghost, by Cornelia Funke - $2.74 Hardcover
• The Shadowmancer Returns: The Curse of Salamander Street, by G. P. Taylor - $2.12 Hardcover; $9.99 Kindle
• Dinomummy , by Phillip Manning - $2.95 Hardcover
• The Enchanted World of Winnie the Pooh, by A. A. Milne; Ernest H. Shepard (Illustrator) - $4.90 Hardcover
• The Tale of Despereaux Special Edition: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread, by Kate DiCamillo; Timothy Basil Ering (Illustrator)- $6.15 Hardcover; $6.15 Kindle
• Hannah Montana: Backstage Pass, by M. C. King - $4.02 Hardcover

Last, they have set up a few eclectic collections by price: Bargains under $5, Bargains under $10 and Bargains under $20.

A Change in Altitude by Anita Shreve

A Change in Altitude, by Anita Shreve, is currently marked down to $6.37 from $9.99 in the Kindle store and the Hardcover is $7.96 as part of Amazon's Black Friday/CyberMonday sale.

Book Description
Margaret and Patrick have been married just a few months when they set off on what they hope will be a great adventure-a year living in Kenya. Margaret quickly realizes there is a great deal she doesn't know about the complex mores of her new home, and about her own husband.

A British couple invites the newlyweds to join on a climbing expedition to Mount Kenya, and they eagerly agree. But during their harrowing ascent, a horrific accident occurs. In the aftermath of the tragedy, Margaret struggles to understand what happened on the mountain and how these events have transformed her and her marriage, perhaps forever.

A Change in Altitude illuminates the inner landscape of a couple, the irrevocable impact of tragedy, and the elusive nature of forgiveness. With stunning language and striking emotional intensity, Anita Shreve transports us to the exotic panoramas of Africa and into the core of our most intimate relationships.

About the Author
Anita Shreve is the acclaimed author of 14 previous novels, including Testimony; The Pilot's Wife, which was a selection of Oprah's Book Club; and The Weight of Water, which was a finalist for England's Orange prize.

Blood Revenge by David Thor

Blood Revenge, by David Thor, is a new release and is currently marked down from $9.99 to $4.99 in the Kindle store (it's $15.45 in Hardcover, where it is 265 pages).

Book Description
"James Bali was just beginning a twelve-hour shift when the call came in. The local coast guard base has radioed ahead that a cutter had rescued victims from an unknown tragedy. They reported that one survivor was recovered from an oil platform in the Gulf... Dr. Bali and a hospital nurse moved quickly to the helicopter. Bali briefly consulted with one of the coast guard pilots. With the help of the pilot, the doctor climbed into the aircraft to check on the patient. His first thought was that he was staring at some kind of rubber corpse and that this was all some kind of joke, or possibly a coast guard training scenario. But he quickly discarded that idea. Dr. Bali stood silently and shook off a confused stare...

Lord of the Rings

Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien, briefly hit $10.88 yesterday (sorry guys, I missed that price), but is now at $12.00, which is still a good price for the entire trilogy.

Book Description
All three parts of the epic masterpiece combined in one definitive edition of the text.

Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of Power - the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. All he lacks in his plans for dominion is the One Ring - the ring that rules them all - which has fallen into the hands of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as the Ring is entrusted to his care. He must leave his home and make a perilous journey across the realms of Middle-earth to the Crack of Doom, deep inside the territories of the Dark Lord. There he must destroy the Ring forever and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose. Since it was first published in 1954, The Lord of the Rings has been a book people have treasured. Steeped in unrivalled magic and otherworldliness, its sweeping fantasy has touched the hearts of young and old alike.