Sleeping Beauty for $2.39

Sleeping Beauty ($7.99 Kindle), by Phillip Margolin, is on sale for $2.39 at KoboBooks. This is a stand-alone title, written four years prior to the currently free Executive Privilege. So far, Kobo is the only one with this price (wasn't the Agency agreement supposed to guarantee the same price in all the stores, according to Steve Jobs?).

Book Description
Author Miles Van Meter is on a book tour to promote his sensational bestseller Sleeping Beauty, a true-crime account of a deeply personal subject: the attack by a serial killer that left his twin sister, Casey, in a coma. Tonight the audience waits to hear Miles discuss recent developments in his sister's case -- unaware that pieces of this complex puzzle of violence, unknown even to the author, are about to be revealed.

Six years earlier, life was much simpler for everyone involved, especially seventeen-year-old Ashley Spencer, a popular high school soccer star. Then one night an intruder entered Ashley's home and murdered her father and her best friend. Traumatized and suffering from a crippling sense of survivor guilt, Ashley is ready to give up on both soccer and life until help comes from an unexpected source -- a scholarship to the Oregon Academy, an elite private school, is extended to her by school dean Casey Van Meter. The school quickly becomes a haven for both Ashley and her mother, Terri. As Ashley regains her sense of self through the school's soccer program, Terri joins a writing group for adults led by Joshua Maxfield, a former literary wunderkind who has disappeared from the bestseller lists since his second book was panned by both critics and fans.

Then tragedy strikes again and Ashley has to run for her life, unaware that the key to her survival is in the one book she's afraid to read -- Sleeping Beauty.

With its blend of dizzying plot twists and thrilling suspense, Sleeping Beauty shows Phillip Margolin at the very top of his form.

Click HERE for the discounted book. Note that this is a DRM'd EPUB (not Kindle compatible) and requires Adobe Digital Editions.

Free Book - Summer Grilling Cookbook

Last fall, Sirius/XM Radio aired their annual Thanksgiving Hotline on The Martha Stewart Living channel; this spring they are hosting a Grilling Hotline on May 24. And just as they did at Thanksgiving, they are giving away a cookbook, the Martha Stewart Living Radio’s Summer Grilling Cookbook, a 51 page PDF download available HERE.

In the tradition of Martha Stewart Living Radio’s Thanksgiving Hotline comes the first annual Martha Stewart Living Radio Grilling Hotline, a 10-hour marathon featuring some of the biggest names in the worlds of grilling and BBQ — including Mike Mills, Tim Love, Steven Raichlen and Elizabeth Karmel — live in studio with the Martha Stewart Living Radio hosts to share tips, tricks, recipes and take questions from listeners across the country as the summer entertaining season kicks off.

All of the acclaimed chefs and experts participating in the first-annual Martha Stewart Living Radio Grilling Hotline contributed their own recipes for Martha Stewart Living Radio’s Summer Grilling Cookbook, a free online cookbook created for SIRIUS|XM especially for the occasion. This extraordinary collection of recipes and tips covers everything from delicious sides, salads and starters to savory burgers, steaks and chicken, desserts and summer drinks.

If you'd rather download only selected chapters, or for more information on the Hotline, see the Martha Stewart Living page at Sirius.

Free game - Glyph

The free game this week at Sandlot Games is Glyph ($6.99 Amazon Game Downloads), the precursor to Glyph 2 ($6.99 Amazon Game Downloads) that they had as a free download in early April.

Game Description

• Save The World In 2 Modes.
• 255 Custom Levels In 5 Unique Environments
• Assemble Glyphs In The Bonus Levels
• 14 In-Game Artifacts

As a descendant of the Elemental Masters, it is up to you to restore the world of Kuros to its once beautiful state by harnessing the powers of Wood, Fire, Water, Metal and Aether. Break through layers of rock by matching Guardstones to uncover the mystery of the Glyphs. With 14 interactive objects, power-ups with 3 boost levels and 125 custom levels, Quest Mode will keep you busy. Action Mode will challenge your skills and reflexes with 130 additional levels to play. Save Kuros, before it's too late!

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

Free Book - Decide Better! For a Better Life

Decide Better! For a Better Life ($9.99 Kindle), by Michael E. McGrath, is completely free to download at Smashwords. I don't know anything about the author, but he has three books in this self-help series (all are available on Kindle), according to his web site.

Book Description
Decide Better! is the essential resource to help everyone improve their lives through better decisions. The decisions you make shape your life and better decisions will make your life much better. This is the powerful principle behind Decide Better! for a Better Life. It is a thought provoking book developed to help everyone improve their decision-making skills. Each of the 90 short chapters are insightful, yet fun to read, words of wisdom that take the complexity and mystery out of decisions. It is filled with proven and comprehensive decision-making techniques that can be used right away. Not only can Decide Better! For a Better Life teach anyone how to make better decisions, it also explains how people try to influence the decision-making process in order to control outcomes.
 
About the Author
 
Michael E. McGrath is one of the world s leading experts on decision-making. He is a renowned management consultant, business executive and visionary, entrepreneur, author of five books, and family man who has studied decision-making for more than 25 years. He has applied his decision-making skills as a CEO with i2 Technologies, and he currently serves as Executive Chairman of Thomas Group. He co-founded and led Pittiglio Rabin Todd & McGrath (PRTM), one of the most successful consulting firms in the world and creator of PACETM a decision process used by many global corporations. In 2007, Michael was featured in Forbes Magazine for his CEO decision-making and turn-around skills.

Click HERE for the free download.

Free book (nook) - The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency ($7.99 Kindle), by Alexander Mccall Smith, is available free this week using a coupon you pick up in a physical Barnes and Noble store. Previously, this one was in the Kindle store for $1.99 (and several other stores, as well, including B&N), so many of you may have it, but it's a great deal for those who missed it.

All you have to do is take your nook or ANY device with B&N's eReader software installed (not the fictionwise version; although some are reporting that you don't have to show any device, just ask for the coupon) into the store and get the paper coupon code. Use the code in the B&N online store (using your computer) and the book will either be automatically added or show as a zero amount when added to your account (haven't went to get my coupon code yet, but will later this week).  This is the start of a 5-week campaign to get you into B&N stores; there will be a new free book each week. I'll post future titles as they announce them, both as reminders and to save you a trip if it's one you don't need.

Book Description
This first novel in Alexander McCall Smith’s widely acclaimed The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series tells the story of the delightfully cunning and enormously engaging Precious Ramotswe, who is drawn to her profession to “help people with problems in their lives.” Immediately upon setting up shop in a small storefront in Gaborone, she is hired to track down a missing husband, uncover a con man, and follow a wayward daughter. But the case that tugs at her heart, and lands her in danger, is a missing eleven-year-old boy, who may have been snatched by witchdoctors.

The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency received two Booker Judges’ Special Recommendations and was voted one of the International Books of the Year and the Millennium by the Times Literary Supplement.