Game Deal - Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2010

Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2010 with Gun Bundle for Nintendo Wii is $29.99 today (while supplies last). I know there is at least one less than they started with this morning.

Book Description

• Mini-games featuring fast-paced hunting action of waterfowl, upland birds, small game, and 13 multiplayer mini-game shooting galleries.
• Bundle includes the Top Shot Wii sawed off shotgun peripheral.
• Comprehensive reward system will give instantaneous feedback for your performance. Use cover points to earn high scores and earn club points to unlock new areas.
• Incredible terrain challenges including sheer cliff faces, escape avalanches and cross raging streams.
• VITALS Shooting Mechanic simulates controlled breathing, enabling you to dial in your crosshairs and lock on for the perfect shot.

A first-person oriented hunting game with action integrated into the storyline and mission play, bundled with the Top Shot Wii peripheral, Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2010 Wii Bundle challenges players to hone their skills as hunters, trackers and outdoorsmen in a quest to join a the world's most exclusive hunting club. In order to do this players take on a series of hunting challenges and mini-games armed with their wits and a diverse weapons arsenal, that will pit them against both big and small game from around the globe.

All Romance Earth Day Free Book - The Edge of Morning!

The Edge of Morning ($4.23 list), by Desiree Holt, the first in her Sentinel series, is free today at All Romance Ebooks as part of their Earth Day celebration this month.

Book Description

Sierra Hart thought she had complete solitude at her grandfather's cabin in Maine until she saw the wolf at the edge of the clearing - and her life turned upside down.

The cabin in Maine her grandfather left her is the perfect place for Sierra Hart to take a good long look at her future. She's just quit her job and ended yet another relationship. Surrounded by five thousand acres of pristine forest, the place gives her the solitude she need. The only other sign of life is a gorgeous silver wolf hanging out at the edge of the clearing.

When Luke Spencer knocks on her door, she has no idea he's going to fulfil all of her erotic fantasies. But can she ask for his help when the lumber people become more aggressive or will he turn away because of the secret he's hiding?

To purchase: Click Add to Cart or Buy Now and you'll see an automatic discount for the full price of the book. Be sure to complete the entire check out process (which takes about three pages of clicking), all the way until you see a link for the download (I've missed a book or two in previous promotions at this site, as I thought I was done, but didn't get all they way thru to the end). Available in the following (usually drm-free) formats: Mobipocket, HTML, Microsoft Reader, Adobe Acrobat, Epub. If you want more than one format, you'll need to purchase the book more than once, but you get the discount each time.

There will be one of these a day, until April 21. I'll try to post the link each day, as I find out which one it is. If you find it first, feel free to leave note here in comments and I'll get a post up for everyone else.

Free Game - Cake Mania 2

The free game this week at Sandlot Games is Cake Mania 2 ($6.95 Amazon Game Downloads).

Game Description
You Choose Jill's Path And Future.

• Customize Jill's bakeries with 50 unique kitchen upgrades
• 18 all-new quirky, demanding customers, ranging from Federal Agents to mysterious Aliens, keep Jill on her toes
• 10 deliciously different cake styles with 6 fabulous frostings and 8 wild cake toppers
• 204 Sweet Levels
• See how you measure up in a new Endless Baking mode

Jill Evans™ is back in Cake Mania® 2, an all-new, out-of-this-world time management adventure!

After re-opening the Evans Bakery and sending her grandparents on an exotic Hawaiian cruise, Jill returns to help her friends manage six far-flung bakery locations - from a posh rooftop shop, to an underwater theme park - while serving up her delicious creations to 18 all-new quirky customers.

What awaits Jill? Fame? Fortune? Love? With 204 levels of baking and frosting madness, 6 different possible endings and a branching, non-linear storyline, it's your decision to make in Cake Mania 2!

Click HERE to sign up for the free download. For step by step purchase and installation instructions, see this post.

Free Book - Nice Guys Finish Last

The University of Chicago Press' free book this month is Nice Guys Finish Last ($12.24 Paperback), by Leo Durocher with Ed Linn. This one is in PDF format (DRM'd, not Kindle compatible; requires Adobe Digital Editions).

Book Description
“I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?”

The history of baseball is rife with colorful characters. But for sheer cantankerousness, fighting moxie, and will to win, very few have come close to Leo “the Lip” Durocher. Following a five-decade career as a player and manager for baseball’s most storied franchises, Durocher teamed up with veteran sportswriter Ed Linn to tell the story of his life in the game. The resulting book, Nice Guys Finish Last, is baseball at its best, brimming with personality and full of all the fights and feuds, triumphs and tricks that made Durocher such a success—and an outsized celebrity.

Durocher began his career inauspiciously, riding the bench for the powerhouse 1928 Yankees and hitting so poorly that Babe Ruth nicknamed him “the All-American Out.” But soon Durocher hit his stride: traded to St. Louis, he found his headlong play and never-say-die attitude a perfect fit with the rambunctious “Gashouse Gang” Cardinals. In 1939, he was named player-manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers—and almost instantly transformed the underachieving Bums into perennial contenders. He went on to manage the New York Giants, sharing the glory of one of the most famous moments in baseball history, Bobby Thomson’s “shot heard ’round the world,” which won the Giants the 1951 pennant. Durocher would later learn how it felt to be on the other side of such an unforgettable moment, as his 1969 Cubs, after holding first place for 105 days, blew a seemingly insurmountable 8-1/2-game lead to the Miracle Mets.

All the while, Durocher made as much noise off the field as on it. His perpetual feuds with players, owners, and league officials—not to mention his public associations with gamblers, riffraff, and Hollywood stars like George Raft and Larraine Day—kept his name in the headlines and spread his fame far beyond the confines of the diamond.

A no-holds-barred account of a singular figure, Nice Guys Finish Last brings the personalities and play-by-play of baseball’s greatest era to vivid life, earning a place on every baseball fan’s bookshelf.

Click HERE to sign up for the free download.

Free Books (Kobo) - Two from Francesca Lia Block

Two free books at Kobo tonight from Francesca Lia Block. You need to click on the "Add to Library" button on each one, after logging in to your account (you don't go thru a checkout process on free books there), then refresh the page to see the download button. Both of these are fairly short - only 82 pages in epub and around double that in print, but appear complete from what I compared to the paper versions.

I Was A Teenage Fairy ($6.99 Kindle)

Book Description
Maybe Mab was real. Maybe not. Maybe Mab was the fury. Maybe she was the courage. Maybe later on she was the sex... A tiny fairy winging her way through the jasmine-scented L.A. night. A little girl caught in a grown-up glitz-and-glitter world of superstars and supermodels. A too beautiful boy with a secret he can never share...

From the author of Weetzie Bat comes a magical, mesmerizing tale of transformation. This is the story of Barbie Marks, who dreams of being the one behind the Cyclops eye of the camera, not the voiceless one in front of it; who longs to run away to New York City where she can be herself, not some barely flesh-and-blood version of the plastic doll she was named after. It is the story of Griffin Tyler, whose androgynous beauty hides the dark pain he holds inside. Andfinally it is the story of Mab, a pinkie-sized, magenta-haired, straight-talking fairy, who may or may not be real but who helps Barbie and Griffin uncover the strength beneath the pain, and who teaches that love--like a sparkling web of light spinning around our bodies and our souls--is what can heal even the deepest scars.

Echo ($7.99 paperback)

Book Description
Maybe I would become a mermaid....I would live in the swirling blue-green currents, doing exotic underwater dances for the fish, kissed by sea anemones, caressed by seaweed shawls. I would have a dolphin as a friend. He would have merry eyes and the thick sleeked flesh of a god. My fingernails would be tiny shells and my skin would be like jade with light shining through it. I would never have to come back up...

Echo is caught at the crossroads of a physical world full of hope and despair and the realm of the supernatural, where young men have wings and skeletons speak. On the way, she is graced by angels and fairies and haunted by ghosts, psychopomps, and vampires. But as Echo falls under the spell of demons who threaten to destroy her, she must ultimately look within to find the strength to survive.

Through shifting points of view, Francesca Lia Block weaves pure magic into this deftly constructed tale -- a novel told in the form of linked stories. One girl's life emerges from a tapestry of voices, lives, and loves -- lost and found -- that deliver her finally to herself, triumphant, ever-changing.