Free Book - Three Minutes More

Three Minutes More ($2.99 Kindle), by Edward O'Dell, is free, for a limited time, at Smashwords. I don't know how long the "limited time" offer will be valid (his first sale was only an hour and I missed it). So far, the reader reviews at Amazon look good, but it does deal with adult subjects (child abuse and relationships, from what I can tell of the tags it's accumulated). One reviewer mentions that the initial pages appear as if it is going to be a preachy style religion-oriented book, but that turns out to be far from the case.

Book Description
Michael Steven's already troubled young life has taken a sudden, dramatic turn for the worse. Severely injured, he does not know if he will survive the night.

Reflecting on the evening's dreadful events, wondering if he could have done anything to alter them, his thoughts begin to drift. He begins to contemplate his remarkable life, his dysfunctional family, and the unfortunate prospect that he may have to soon answer for his life to God.

While vividly recalling the most amusing, distressing, bizarre, and disturbing events of his life, he soon comes to realize "the monster you know is far easier to deal with than the monster you don't!"

Will he get the miracle he needs to make it through the night? If so, will he finally find peace?

Author's Note: This book deals with sensitive topics, and is intended for mature audiences only.

Click HERE to get the book at Smashwords and use coupon code LT45U before checking out.

Hot Rod Magazine for Five Bucks

Barnes and Noble has a five dollar deal on a one-year, (print) subscription to Hot Rod, today only. Like the Amazon deal earlier today, this one is just in time for a nice Father's Day gift and is half the cost of a digital subscription (and with this magazine, the color pictures are much of what you want to see, so I would not want it on an ereader, anyway). A subscription at Amazon is $14, so you aren't quite saving as much as shown in the comparison to the single-issue newsstand price of $71.88, but it is a decent bargain, nonetheless.

Description
Hot Rod is America's leading hot rodding magazine, focusing on high-performance and personalized hot rods, Chevies, and muscle cars.

Field & Stream for Five Bucks

A one-year, automatic renewing subscription to Field & Stream can be picked up for $5.00 this week at Amazon (expires this coming Saturday at 11:59pm). This deal is just in time for a nice Father's Day gift (you can even print or email a gift card). You can easily cancel the auto-renewal using your Subscription Manager at Amazon, a feature I've recently explored - no more dealing with many different magazines on renewals or wondering which offer you received in the mail is really from the magazine and which is an overpriced 3rd party offering (or a new subscription disguised as a renewal, a type of junk mail that seems to be more and more common these days).

Description
America's Number One sportsman's magazine, featuring in-depth articles on hunting, fishing, outdoor adventure, and conservation news. First-class fiction, and more. Field & Stream, editorial excellence for over 100 years.

Game of the Day - The Scruffs

Amazon's Game Download of the Day is a $2.99 download of The Scruffs, the #1 game in the Seek & Find and Puzzle categories for Game Downloads. I picked this one up in February last year, when it was free for a brief time. Seeing it discounted today reminded me to install it on my netbook (where I've been wasting time playing it for a while this morning).

Update: This game qualifies to get a $5.00 credit on MP3 downloads from Amazon MP3, if you have not already received this on their current promotion. Essentially, pay $3 for the game and get $5 to spend on MP3's (or, get a $5 album for $3 and a free game tossed in). Not a bad deal at all.

Game Description

• Meet The Charming Scruff Family.
• Immersive Storyline With Witty Banter.
• Unique And Fun Hint Mechanism.
• Innovative Mini-Games

The Scruffs need your help to save their beloved family home from being sold! Grandpa Scruff has a solution - a scavenger hunt to recover his valuable artifacts. But in a surprising twist, Grandpa Scruff reveals that he's been hiding something else - a shocking family secret! Help the Scruffs uncover the secret that will change their lives forever by finding lost items and putting together the clues they need! The Scruffs - laugh at their witty family banter and fall in love with their charm!

Free Book (PDF) - Scags at 7

Scags at 7 (out of print), by Deborah Emin, is available as a free PDF on the author's website. It didn't convert very well to the Mobi format, but looks like it should be easily readable on my DX in the original PDF format.

Book Description
It is 1958, Skokie, IL. Seven-year old Claudia Harper Morgenstern, or Scags her proud name of choice begins the summer between second and third grade full of excitement and dread. Two months of no school is keen-o, but her best friend, Julia, will be at summer camp for weeks. Scags makes a new friend in Julia's absence, Davy, a hard talking nine-year old who tries his best to teach young Scags everything he knows, especially the things she shouldn't. But Scags soon has other things to distract her from missing Julia: something is wrong with Pops. He doesn't let her walk on the ceiling and drive the car anymore and he's taken up bowling his empty beer bottles into the fireplace. Mama tries to hold him together, while struggling to continue her life as a suburban lady of leisure, with help from Odessa, the maid who comes in from the South Side of Chicago. Everyone attempts to keep things in order, but what becomes clear to all is that Pops may not make it through the heat of the summer in one piece.

Click HERE to sign up for the free download. You'll need to supply an email address (just use a junk account, as you don't even need to look for a link; after you click submit the PDF will load in your browser and you can save it to your Kindle or computer.