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Sunday, August 22, 2010

Free Books (Kobo) - M.W. Phelps

Three books by M. W. Phelps are free tonight in the Kobo bookstore. Be sure to add them to your library, as well as downloading them, if you want to keep access after they go back up in price.

Perfect Poison ($4.16 Kindle)

Serial Killer On Ward C

In Northampton, Massachusetts, at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Kristen Gilbert was known as a hardworking, dedicated nurse-so why were her patients dying? So many emergencies and sudden deaths occurred while Kristen made her rounds on Ward C that her colleagues jokingly called her the "Angel of Death." Yet most people didn't suspect the horrifying truth behind the nickname: that Gilbert's polished facade concealed a scheming, manipulative liar and homicidal, narcissistic sociopath.

Lethal Cure


From August 1995 through February 1996, Gilbert dealt out wholesale death. Her victims were helpless patients who trusted her as a caregiver, only to learn too late that she was a killer, her weapon a drug capable of causing fatal heart attacks. But she got away with murder until three of her fellow nurses could no longer ignore the proliferation of deadly "coincidences" on Gilbert's watch. Investigators believe Kristen Gilbert may have been responsible for as many as 40 deaths. As the law closed in, she struck back, faking suicide attempts, harassing witnesses, stalking her ex-boyfriend, and terrorizing the hospital with bomb threats. In March 2001, after being found guilty of four counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder, Angel of Death Kristen Gilbert was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Sixteen Pages Of Shocking Photo
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Deadly Secrets ($4.47 Kindle)

Behind A Veil Of Tranquility. . .
In the lovely town of Pleasant Valley in upstate New York, the maple trees were ablaze with fall's blood-red color. The air was crisp. And a woman named Susan Fassett left her weekly choir practice at a church-when a killer emerged from the shadows and mercilessly gunned her down. . ..

Was A Realm Of Sexual Depravity Where Murder Was The Last Sin.

Stunned, the police immediately suspected Susan Fassett's husband and surrounded his home. They couldn't have been more wrong. Susan Fassett had been living a secret life, entangled in a passionate web of dominance, lesbian sex, betrayal-and a depraved plan for murder. After detectives untangled a web of secrets and corruption hidden in plain sight, the town of Pleasant Valley would be rocked again when a shocking trial exposed the whole sordid truth. . .


Cruel Death ($4.47 Kindle)

A Life Gone Murderously Wrong. . .
Erika Sifrit was once a high school basketball star and an honors student. Then she married Navy SEAL Benjamin Sifrit and began taking drugs, hoarding diamonds, and turning brutally bad. Some say Erika was abused by "B.J." Some say she pulled his strings. But by the time they reached Ocean City, MD, Erika was packing a gun in her Coach bag and was caught in the grips of new American death ride. . .

A Trail Of Blood And Body Parts. . .

In the sun-kissed, sea-swept resort town of Ocean City, a loving couple crossed paths with Erika and B.J. Sifrit. Shortly thereafter, Erika was wearing a bloody wedding ring on her necklace, while what remained of two dismembered vacationers was buried in a Delaware landfill, and a modern-day "Bonnie and Clyde" story was being written-a lurid tale of madness, money, sex and murder....


Here are the links on Kobo:
Perfect Poison
Cruel Death
Deadly Secrets

Free Music - Tru Thoughts Jazz

Amazon has a nice album up as a free download today, the Tru Thoughts Jazz MP3 Sampler. Just the thing for listening while reading on a lazy Sunday afternoon....

Playlist
  1. One For Nan - Nostalgia 77 Octet - 4:52
  2. Steps Of The Sun - Nostalgia 77 - 5:18
  3. Solstice - The Voices Of Time - 4:49
  4. The Day That Never Came - Jeb Loy Nichols - 4:10
  5. Positive Force - The Skeletons - 3:06
  6. Los Olvidados - Quantic Soul Orchestra - 3:26
  7. Changes - Nostalgia 77 - 5:56
  8. Prayer - Lizzy Parks - 6:03
  9. Milk and Mangoes - Saravah Soul - 3:57
  10. Stonephace - Stonephace - 9:49
  11. Rainclouds - Nostalgia 77 Sessions featuring Keith & Julie Tippett - 5:13

The Death of Joan of Arc - Nicholas Flamel Story for 99 cents

The Death of Joan of Arc: A Lost Story from the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel ($0.99) is a short story from Michael Scott. This pre-order releases on August 24,and appears to be heavily illustrated, as the file size claims to be over 2M. The first in the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series, The Alchemyst ($7.09) was free in April '09.

Book Description
Joan of Arc was not burned at the stake in Rouen, France in 1431. She was rescued from certain death by Scathach the Warrior.

The truth about that day is revealed in the last will and testament of William of York, and it will leave you wondering: does Joan of Arc still walk the earth? Michael Scott’s first-ever exclusive ebook short story delves into the world of the bestselling series The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel and offers readers a never-before-seen lost story—the story of two warriors who would become sisters.

Free Audiobooks - Wondrous Strange and A Midsummer Night's Dream

Audiobook Sync's free giveaway continues. This week, there is, once again, one title available globally and one that is limited to distribution.

Wondrous Strange ($7.99 Kindle) by Lesley Livingston (read by Lesley Livingston).

Book Description
Since the dawn of time, the Faerie have taken. . . .

For seventeen-year-old actress Kelley Winslow, faeries are just something from childhood stories. Then she meets Sonny Flannery, whose steel-gray eyes mask an equally steely determination to protect her.

Sonny guards the Samhain Gate, which connects the mortal realm with the Faerie's enchanted, dangerous Otherworld. Usually kept shut by order of icy King Auberon, the Gate stands open but once a year.

This year, as the time approaches when the Samhain Gate will swing wide and nightmarish Fae will fight their way into an unsuspecting human world, something different is happening . . . something wondrous and strange. And Kelley's eyes are opening not just to the Faerie that surround her but to the heritage that awaits her.

Now Kelley must navigate deadly Faerie treachery—and her growing feelings for Sonny—in this dazzling page-turner filled with luminous romance.

Wondrous Strange is a richly layered tale of love between faerie and mortal, betrayal between kings and queens, and magic . . . between author and reader.


A Midsummer Night's Dream ($0.00 Kindle), by William Shakespeare (Read by Michael Maloney et al.)

Book Description
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, suggested by "The Knight's Tale" from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, written around 1594 to 1596. It portrays the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors, their interactions with the Duke and Duchess of Athens, Theseus and Hippolyta, and with the fairies who inhabit a moonlit forest. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world.

Click HERE to get the free downloads.

For those who are just finding out about Audiobook Sync, there are two new ones each week, so you have to keep checking back. You can't get any titles that have been missed, but once they are loaded into, they are yours to keep (there is no expiration date). Get today's titles quickly, as there will be two new ones up each Thursday. You'll have to sign up for an account and install Overdrive (if you are not already using it for library books). In addition, you end up clicking about three pages, for each book, before the audiobook actually downloads. Don't stop so long as you still see a button that talks about your Sync download (or until you see the Overdrive software open up). Once in Overdrive, you'll need to tell it where to save the files (just click OK to use the default location, since Overdrive will keep track of them for you), then again to actually start the download (by default, all parts of the book are downloaded; I would suggest not changing this in the last dialog box, just click on OK to get the download started).

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Game of the Day - Gwen the Magic Nanny

Today's game download pick is Gwen the Magic Nanny, which Amazon has marked down to $2.99 (from $6.99) for today only. There are only no reviews so far, but it looks like a Sims type game.

Game Description
  • 7 Fantastical Families To Take Care Of
  • Use Magical Powers
  • Unlock Special Items
  • Perform Unique Tasks
Bring some magic to your Time Management! After being awarded the title of Best Nanny, Gwen finds herself in high demand over in wondrous Fantasy Town. With residents like wizards, werewolves, and robots, it takes a real superstar to handle these jobs! You can help Gwen as she takes care of 7 fantastical families in their fantasy homes. Look after babies, kids, teens, seniors, and even their pets! Gwen has some tricks of her own though, and you'll have her 10 magical spells to help with her workload.