Fatal Affair under a Buck

Kobo will be running one book from Carina Press for only 99 cents each day for the next week. Today's book is Fatal Affair ($3.89 $0.99 Kindle), by Marie Force. I haven't downloaded this one (yet), but I do know that Carina Press opposes DRM and the books I've purchased from them at other ebookstores have been DRM free. So, you should get an EPUB that you can run thru Calibre and easily convert for your Kindle or any other ereader.

Update: OK, I bought the book and tested it - it has DRM added, despite the publisher. So, this one is EPUB readers only, no Kindles!

Update #2: For Canadian customers only, this one is $0.93 in the Kindle store!

Update #3: 99 cents for US customers in the Kindle store!

Book Description
Washington, D.C., Metro Police Detective Sergeant Sam Holland needs a big win to salvage her career-and her confidence-after a disastrous investigation. The perfect opportunity arises when Senator John O'Connor is found brutally murdered in his bed, and Sam is assigned to the case. Matters get complicated when Sam has to team up with Nick Cappuano, O'Connor's friend and chief of staff...and the man Sam had a memorable one-night stand with years earlier. Their sexual chemistry still sizzles, and Sam has to fight to stay focused on the case. Sleeping with a material witness is another mistake she can't afford-especially when the bodies keep piling up.

Click here to purchase from Kobo.

The 99 Most Essential Allegros

In another great deal for those who load classical music onto their Kindle for listening while reading, Amazon has the MP3 download version of The 99 Most Essential Allegros currently marked at $1.99. I'm not going to list the cuts included, as there are (obviously) 99 of them (totaling just under 10 hours of music!), but there are many you will recognize immediately upon hearing them, including Flight of the Bumblebee, In the Hall of the Mountain King and Ride of the Valkyries.

Free Classics from B&N (nook)

Barnes and Noble is continuing their free Classics in the B&N Free Library this week, with a new set of free classics, eleven of which have not be offered for free previously. This weeks theme is After Dark...
Tales to Read Under the Covers:

1. Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
2. Dracula by Bram Stoker
3. Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
4. The Inferno by  Dante Alighieri
5. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
6. Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
7. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson
8. Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction by Joseph Conrad
9. Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
10. Time Machine and The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
11. Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Writings by Washington Irving
12. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

These editions are not exactly the same as you would find at Gutenberg; Barnes and Noble Classic Series editions generally have been more carefully proofread and have introductions and scholarly notes inserted in the beginning to aid in understanding the text. If you are building a summer reading list for a student, stocking up for lit classes in college or just want to revisit the classics, these are a great (free) resource.These are DRM'd epubs, though, so will only be readable on a nook or one of the B&N reader apps.

The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing - 99 cents (today only!)

Amazon has The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing, by Michael Harvey, marked down to 99 cents. They announced this on twitter as a one-day promotion, but didn't post it until nearly 8PM eastern; I'd expect the price to stick until at least 3AM here (and maybe most of tomorrow, but I would not count on it).

Book Description
Engagingly written and illustrated with scores of telling examples, this plainspoken how-to book for college writers identifies those qualities that most typically distinguish good writing from bad and provides practical measures for avoiding pitfalls.Included are do's and don'ts for achieving concision, clarity, and flow, as well as pointers on using punctuation, writing gracefully, citing sources, and structuring persuasive writing.Championing "the plain style" with a keen appreciation for the uses to which language can be put-including abuses to which it is prone-The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing is a guide that never fails to remind readers why good writing matters so much in the first place, in college and beyond.

Free Audiobooks - Handbook for Boys and Oliver Twist

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

Handbook for Boys ($5.99 Kindle) by Walter Dean Myers, read by Peter Francis James

Book Description
Jimmy and Kevin could really use a guide to life.

Their activities almost land them in juvenile detention until Duke employs them in his Harlem barbershop. Duke has rules for everything. But is he offering good advice or just more aggravation?

In the groundbreaking tradition of the award–winning Monster and Bad Boy: A Memoir, Walter Dean Myers fashions a complex, layered novel about the rules for success. Handbook for Boys is the book that he wishes he could have read while growing up. It is also the book young people need to read today.

Oliver Twist ($0.00 Kindle), by Charles Dickens, read by Martin Jarvis; this selection is available only in the US and Canada.

Book Description
Dickens's classic morality tale of a starving orphan caught between opposing forces of good and evil is a powerful indictment of Victorian England's Poor Laws. Filled with dark humor and an unforgettable cast of characters Oliver Twist, Fagin, Nancy, Bill Sykes, and the Artful Dodger, to name a few Dickens's second novel is a compelling social satire that has remained popular since it was first serialized in 1837-39.

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).