The Dark Streets (
$1.43), by John Shannon, is the ninth in the
Jack Liffey series.
Book Description
The latest mystery in the critically acclaimed Los Angeles Times best-selling series takes private investigator Jack Liffey to Los Angeles' exotic Koreatown, where a young film student, Soon-Lin Kim, has apparently gone missing. But Jack is not the only one looking for Soon-Lin. Her association with a sinister militant group of radical Asians has also set Homeland Security in her pursuit. Again, bizarre details and compounding mysteries envelop Jack, and ultimately he finds himself under torturously intense interrogation at a secret compound in the desert ... and ill-prepared for a climax as explosive as the violent lightning storm approaching on the horizon.
A Flaw in the Blood (
$1.84), by Stephanie Barron, is a stand-alone novel from the author of the
Jane Austen series.
Book Description
Windsor Castle, 1861. For the second time in over twenty years, Irish barrister Patrick Fitzgerald has been summoned by the Queen. The first time, he’d been a zealous young legal clerk, investigating what appeared to be a murderous conspiracy against her. Now he is a distinguished gentleman at the top of his profession. And the Queen is a woman in the grip of fear. For on this chilly night, her beloved husband, Prince Albert, lies dying.
With her future clouded by grief, Fitzgerald can’t help but notice the Queen is curiously preoccupied with the past. Yet why, and how he can help, is unclear. His bewilderment deepens when the royal coach is violently overturned, nearly killing him and his brilliant young ward, Dr. Georgiana Armistead, niece of the late Dr. Snow, a famed physician who’d attended none other than Her Majesty.
Fitzgerald is sure of one thing: the Queen’s carriage was not attacked at random—it was a carefully chosen target. But was it because he rode in it? Fitzgerald won’t risk dying in order to find out. He’ll leave London and take Georgiana with him—if they can get out alive. For soon the pair find themselves hunted. Little do they know they each carry within their past hidden clues to a devastating royal secret…one they must untangle if they are to survive.
Touch and Go (
$2.07) is a memoir by Studs Terkel.
Book Description
At nearly ninety-five, Studs Terkel has written about everyone's life, it seems, but his own. In Touch and Go, he offers a memoir that---embodying the spirit of the man himself---is youthful, vivacious, and enormous fun.
Hearts of Horses (
$2.47), by Molly Gloss
Book Description
In the winter of 1917, nineteen-year-old Martha Lessen saddles her horses and heads for a remote county in eastern Oregon, looking for work “gentling” wild horses. She chances on a rancher, George Bliss, who is willing to hire her on. Many of his regular hands are off fighting the war, and he glimpses, beneath her showy rodeo garb, a shy but strong-willed girl with a serious knowledge of horses.
So begins the irresistible tale of a young but determined woman trying to make a go of it in a man’s world. Over the course of several long, hard winter months, many of the townsfolk witness Martha talking in low, sweet tones to horses believed beyond repair -- and getting miraculous, almost immediate results. Ultimately, her gifts will earn her a place of respect in the community.With an elegant sweetness like that found in Plainsong, and a winning energy as in Water for Elephants, The Hearts of Horses delivers a heartwarming, greatly satisfying story about the unexpected and profound connections between people and animals.
Rainstone Fall (
$1.35), by Peter Helton, is the third in the
Chris Honeysett Murder Mystery series; this one is also $1.35 at
Barnes & Noble.
Book Description
Chris Honeysett, an artist and private investigator, takes on a surveillance job to pay for repairs to his roof and finds himself faced with abduction, blackmail, and murder.
Peter Helton is an artist and lives in a cottage near Bath, where his mysteries are set. Previous titles in this series include Headcase and Slim Chance.
Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit (
$1.67), by Andy Rooney
Book Description
Chairs. Neat people. Ugliness. War. Over six decades of intrepid reporting and elegant essays, Andy Rooney has proven a shrewd cultural analyst-unafraid to question the sometimes ridiculous, often surprising facts of our lives. Rooney's great gift is telling it straight, without a hint of sugar coating, but with more than a grain of truth and humor. His take on America? "It's just amazing how long this country has been going to hell without ever having got there." On food? "There's more dependable mediocrity than there used to be."
Ellen Foster (
$3.96), by Kaye Gibbons, was the Oprah Book Club® Selection in October 1997.
Book Description
In Ellen Foster, the title character is an 11-year-old orphan who refers to herself as "old Ellen," an appellation that is disturbingly apt. Ellen is an old woman in a child's body; her frail, unhappy mother dies, her abusive father alternately neglects her and makes advances on her, and she is shuttled from one uncaring relative's home to another before she finally takes matters into her own hands and finds herself a place to belong. There is something almost Dickensian about Ellen's tribulations; like Oliver Twist, David Copperfield or a host of other literary child heroes, Ellen is at the mercy of predatory adults, with only her own wit and courage--and the occasional kindness of others--to help her through. That she does, in fact, survive her childhood and even rise above it is the book's bittersweet victory.
Black, Showdown, Heaven's Wager & Kiss (
$9.99), by Ted Dekker, is a 4-title bundle that is at Barnes & Noble and not in the Kindle store at all. I already have
Black, from the
Black/Red/White (The Circle Trilogy 1-3) that was $9.99 at one time, but is now $14.49, but that's still three new to me novels at $3.33 each and four at $2.50 each for those who don't have it yet. You can't get all of these individually from B&N, but from Amazon they would be
Black $8.87,
Showdown $6.39,
Heaven's Wager $9.99 and
Kiss $9.99. The first three are series starts, while the last is a stand-alone novel co-authored with Erin Healy.
Black (History Chronicles: Circle #1)
A virulent evil has been unleashed upon the people of the earth, an unstoppable force bent on the destruction of all that is good. Only Thomas Hunter can stop it, and he has been killed. Twice.
Showdown (History Chronicles: Paradise #1)
Welcome to Paradise. Epic battles of good and evil are happening all around us.
Today that battle comes to town with the sound of lone footsteps clacking down the blacktop on a hot, lazy summer afternoon. The black-cloaked man arrives in the sleepy town of Paradise and manages to become the talk of the town within the hour. Bearing the power to grant any unfulfilled dream, he is irresistible.
Seems like bliss . . . but is it? Or is hell about to break loose in Paradise
Heaven's Wager (Martyr's Song #1)
Kent Anthony is a brilliant software engineer who is cashing in on a brilliant career. He's finally living the idyllic life, far from thoughts of theft and murder and other kinds of horrible criminal behavior.
He's left his past far behind . . . or so he thinks.
This story will bring you face to face with a hidden world more real than most people ever realize; a world where the unseen is more powerful than anything seen.
Kiss
Let me tell you all I know for sure. My name. Shauna.
I woke up in a hospital bed missing six months of my memory. In the room was my loving boyfriend-how could I have forgotten him?-my uncle and my abusive stepmother. Everyone blames me for the tragic car accident that left me near death and my dear brother brain damaged. But what they say can't be true-can it?
I believe the medicine is doing strange things to my memory. I'm unsure who I can trust and who I should run from. And I'm starting to remember things I've never known. Things not about me. I think I'm going crazy.
And even worse, I think they want to kill me.
But who? And for what? Is dying for the truth really better than living with a lie?
The Circle Series Visual 3 in 1 (Black, White, and Red Graphic Novel) (
$9.99), by Ted Dekker, is 416 pages and 39 MB in size, so don't expect it to download in under a minute, especially not on 3G. I tried the single volume
White (
$1.37) on my Kindle, but it was simply too small for me to read. Perhaps on an iPad or the PC, though, it would work (but the sample is too small to see anything on this one; I haven't looked at the trilogy's sample yet).
Book Description
Three novels. Two worlds. One Story. Now in a stunning, four color visual edition.
Nothing is as it seems when dreams and reality collide.
Black - A virulent evil has been unleashed upon the people of the earth. The only man who can stop it is Thomas Hunter, an unlikely hero whose life is stretched between two worlds.
Red - In one world, Thomas Hunter is a battle-scarred general commanding an army of primitive warriors. In the other, he's racing to outwit sadistic terrorists intent on creating global chaos.
White - Thomas Hunter has only two days to survive two separate realms of danger, deceit, and destruction. The fate of both worlds now rests on his ability to shift realities through his dreams.
There is a new entry in the Active Content games category for the Kindle today, SCRABBLE ($4.99) from Electronic Arts Inc.
Follow your progress game by game with instant statistics tracking. As your game-play and strategy improves, you'll find more ways to rack up double and triple word scores.
Enchanting the Lady ($5.39 Kindle), by Kathryne Kennedy, is free from Barnes & Noble today.
Clash of the Geeks, by Wil Wheaton, John Scalzi, et al, is a collection of short stories that is being given away for free, in several DRM-free formats (including Mobi for your Kindle). Rather than payment for the collection, they are asking that you consider making a donation via the website to the Michigan/Indiana affiliate of the Lupus Alliance of America or via Gretchen Schafer's donation page.