Author Spotlight: Stephen King

A few of Stephen King's titles have been on the bargain list for some time (see this post for Riding the Bullet ($2.00), UR ($2.99) and Colorado Kid ($3.99) ), but there are some new titles marked down today. The first two, The Running Man (1982) and Thinner (1984) were written under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, while the last two Cujo (1981) and Misery (1987) are classic Stephen King. All four are currently marked at $3.99.

Thinner

Book Description
When an old gypsy man curses Billy Halleck for sideswiping his daughter, six weeks later he's ninety-three pounds lighter. Now Billy is terrified. And desperate enough for one last gamble...that will lead him to a nightmare showdown with the forces of evil melting his flesh away.

The Running Man

Book Description
The year is 2025. The Running Man is America's favorite television game show. Ben Richards is the program's latest contestant-and the Hunters' latest target in a rigged game of death.

Every night the whole nation watched the ultimate live game show on TV, as the contestants tried to beat annihilation at the hands of the hunters in order to win the billion dollar jackpot. And now there was a new contestant, the latest Running Man, staking his life while a nation watched.

Misery

Book Description
After an automobile accident, novelist Paul Sheldon meets his biggest fan. Annie Wilkes is his nurse-and captor. Now, she wants Paul to write his greatest work-just for her. She has a lot of ways to spur him on. One is a needle. Another is an ax. And if they don't work, she can get really nasty...

Cujo

Book Description
Acute family dog turns into a vicious family killer in King's canine classic.

Free Audiobook - Ringworld

Ringworld by Larry Niven & narrated by Tom Parker, is free at Audible.com. This is an unabridged version and runs 11-1/4 hours.

Book Description
Welcome to Ringworld, an intermediate step between Dyson Spheres and planets. It is 93 million miles in radius - the equivalent of one Earth orbit or 600 miles long - 1,000 meters thick, and much sturdier than a Dyson sphere. What other advantages are there to this world? The gravitational force created by a rotation on its axis of 770 miles per second means no need for a roof. Walls 1,000 miles high at each rim will let in the sun and prevent much air from escaping.

Larry Niven's novel Ringworld won the 1970 Hugo Award for Best Novel, the 1970 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the 1972 Ditmars, an Australian award for Best International Science Fiction.

Free Audiobook - A Confederacy of Dunces

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole & narrated by Barrett Whitener, is free from Audible.com until December 15. This is an unabridged version and runs 13-1/2 hours.

Book Description
"A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once."

So enters one of the most memorable characters in recent American fiction. The hero of John Kennedy Toole's incomparable, Pulitzer Prize-winning comic classic is one Ignatius J. Reilly, "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter". His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures.

Free Video - When We Left Earth

You can get season one of When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions, from The Discovery Channel, for free right now. You must FIRST enter the promotion code BLASTOFF, so that you'll get the $11.94 credit to your account, before purchasing the season. To do this, click where it says Redeem a gift card or promotion code & view balance, directly beneath the viewing window. Enter the promotion code and wait to see a confirmation that the $11.94 has been credited to your account. Then, click on the button that says Buy Season 1 with 1-Click $11.94. You'll get a confirmation email that shows the purchase and the credit, with a net zero billing.

Season Synopsis
Discovery Channel presents the dramatic story of NASA's pioneering, awe-inspiring missions commemorating the first 50 years of space exploration in the landmark special series When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions. Featured is never-before-seen footage from NASA's secret film vaults, digitally remastered into stunning quality.

Sign up now for Kindle for Mac

Amazon has officially announced their Kindle for Mac Reader and you can now sign up to be notified when it is ready for download.

System Requirements

• A Mac with a 500MHz Intel or PowerPC processor or faster
• At least 512MB of RAM
• Screen resolution of 800x600 or greater
• Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
• 100MB of available disk space

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