Free Book (Sony) - Dark Mysteries of The Vatican

Dark Mysteries of The Vatican ($9.60 Kindle), by H. P. Jeffers, is free in the Sony bookstore. It's still a pre-order for the Kindle, so there is a chance it might be free there later on.

Book Description
What The Vatican Doesn't Want You To Know:
The lies. The conspiracies. The cover-ups. The truth.

Deep behind the walls of the world's holiest site is a dense network of lies, corruption, and conspiracies fueling the Vatican's vast and unchecked influence on world events. From the Holy Orders that defied the commandment "Thou Shalt Not Kill" to the scandals splashed across international headlines, the Vatican is no longer shrouded in mystery, legend, and secrecy.

It's all here:

• The shocking and unsolved murder of the corrupt Vatican financier known as "God's Banker"
• Real-life exorcism--and shocking rumors of Satanism
• The Vatican's startling views on extraterrestrials and end-of-world prophesies
• The Vatican's hidden ties to Nazi Germany and the Mafia
• The bizarre rituals of the ultraconservative Opus Dei
• The Vatican's ruthless 500-year war with the Freemasons
• Pope Pius XII's anti-Semitic indifference to the plight of Europe's Jews and the Holocaust
• And much more!

This utterly fascinating, unflinching account is the most definitive exposé ever written about the most secretive institution in the world.

Free Book (Sony) - Victim Six

Victim Six ($5.11 Kindle), by Gregg Olsen, is free in the Sony store, for those who have a nook, Sony or other reader that supports DRM'd EPUB (not Kindle compatible).

Book Description
The bodies are found in towns and cities around Puget Sound. The young women who are the victims had nothing in common--except the agony of their final moments. But somebody carefully chose them to stalk, capture, and torture. . . a depraved killer whose cunning is matched only by the depth of his bloodlust. But the dying has only just begun. And next victim will be the most shocking of all. . .

As always with the Sony store, you'll have to find the book in the Sony Library software, as their web page doesn't link to their store.

Game of the Day - Tradewinds Odyssey

Amazon's Game Download of the Day is a 99 cent download of Tradewinds Odyssey, another in the Tradewinds series they have been featuring this week.

Game Description

• Play As 5 Unique Characters... Each With Their Own Storyline.
• Create And Trade Exotic Goods.
• Build Your Rank.
• Ram Your Foes In Sea Battles.

Guide five unique heroes as you embark on over 50 chapters and quests, encountering characters both strange and familiar. Take part in trading like never before by creating and spreading goods to new lands as you build, strengthen and upgrade your fleet into a powerful force unrivaled in the Aegean! Cast powerful spells bestowed upon you by the gods, or use your unique Hero's Talent to demolish your opponent in battle. Your adventure begins today... in Tradewinds Odyssey!

Free Audiobook - A Confederacy of Dunces

A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole & narrated by Barrett Whitener, was free at Audible.com early last December, then went back to full price. They've dropped the price back to zero on this unabridged version that runs 13-1/2 hours and added "free version" to the title, so it looks like it should remain free (although I would not count on that - I always advise you grab a freebie when you see it, as it can change at any moment). I just started listening to this -- even though I have the book in a paper copy, I've never started on it due to the size (several inches thick).

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.

Three Free Books (Sony)

These are all free in the Sony bookstore this morning, but are still pre-orders at Amazon. That doesn't mean they'll be free at Amazon, but several have followed this pattern. I'll keep an eye on them and let you know, but in the meantime, you may want to grab a copy to read later on your computer, just in case. To find them in the Sony bookstore, open the Sony reader software, click on eBook Store on the menu, then click on Bargain-Priced. You should see all three at the top of the page.

In The Warrior's Bed ($8.96 Kindle), by Mary Wine

Book Description
In this irresistible follow-up to her captivating debut, In Bed With a Stranger, Mary Wine revisits the McJames clan--their loves, their battles, their conquests. . .

Cullen McJames will not have his honor sullied, certainly not by his clan's nemesis Laird Erik McQuade. So when McQuade tells the Court of Scotland that Cullen has stolen his daughter's virtue, Cullen steals the daughter instead.

Since his brother wed a fetching lass, Cullen's been thinking he too needs a wife. A marriage could end the constant war between the clans. And looking on Bronwyn McQuade but once has put her in his dreams for a week. . .

But Bronwyn won't go quietly. She won't be punished for what she did not do. Nor is she eager to live among the resentful veterans of McQuade wars. And however brave and beautiful a man Cullen may be, he has much to learn about a woman's fighting spirit. But as Bronwyn will discover, he has much to teach her as well. . .

Here Comes Trouble ($8.96 Kindle), by Donna Kauffman

Book Description
Get Lucky

A child of Vegas, Brett Hennessey knows about luck--especially the bad kind. But when this poker superstar hops on his Harley to outrun Lady Misfortune and ends up at a pretty B&B run by an even prettier proprietor, he can't help thinking he's stumbled onto a winning streak. . .

Sure, Kirby Farrell's new B&B ski lodge opened to the warmest winter in Vermont memory, but fate brought her a bad boy on a hot bike and settled him into her best room. She's still broke, but the view across the breakfast table has definitely improved. . .

Only now Brett's past has finally caught up to him. He has two choices: run again--and lose the best hand fortune's dealt him yet. Or stay and risk everything for something he never thought would come his way...

Celebutards ($9.60 Kindle), by Andrea Peyser

Book Description
Celebutards. A compound of celebrity, debutante, and retard, this blunt term describes lazy and egotistical stars with too much money, fame, leisure time, and media attention, but too little common sense or knowledge, who love to spout off on topics about which they have zero expertise.

With razor-sharp wit, award-winning New York Post columnist Andrea Peyser explodes the absurdities of the celebutard culture, showing how a dull thinker such as Madonna becomes a self-appointed sage on matters of faith; singer Sheryl Crow urges us to use a single square of toilet paper per wipe while she racks up mileage in her gas-guzzling caravan of SUVs; and hothead Sean Penn morphs into an expert on international diplomacy as he brazenly breaks bread with enemies of his own country like Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez. Always outspoken, Peyser pulls no punches in exposing the Hollywood and Washington libtards for the morons they truly are.