Music to Read By - Indie & Alternative Rock

Amazon is having an Indie and Alternative Rock Music Sale. In addition to a number of MP3 albums marked down (to $5, $7.99 or $8.99), they have several sampler albums available for free download.

Any eBook at O'Reilly for $9.99

O'Reilly has a one-day special running, for all ebooks other than those by Microsoft Press: $9.99 with coupon code FAVFA. Most of their ebooks are in multiple DRM-free formats (including some that are showing up in Android)

To get the discount, click HERE, find a book and add it to your cart. Then enter the coupon code FAVFA. Click on Proceed to Checkout and you'll see a summary of your order and the discounted price.

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.