Free Book (nook) - Bone Rattler

This week's Free Friday book from B&N is Bone Rattler: A Mystery of Colonial America ($9.99 Kindle), by Eliot Pattison. He has a new post-apocalyptic novel coming out in two days, but, so far, only in a hardcover edition, Ashes of the Earth: A Mystery of Post-Apocalyptic America ($16.80 pre-order), and another series set in China, Lord of Death: A Shan Tao Yun Investigation ($9.99 Kindle).

Book Description
In a novel rich in historical detail, acclaimed author Eliot Pattison reconsiders the founding of America and explores how disenfranchised people of any age and place struggle to find justice, how conflicting cultures can be reconciled through compassion and tolerance, and ultimately how the natural world has its own morality.

Aboard a British convict ship bound for the New World, protagonist Duncan McCallum witnesses a series of murders and apparent suicides among his fellow Scottish prisoners. A strange trail of clues leads Duncan into the New World and eventually thrusts him into the bloody maw of the French and Indian War. Duncan is indentured to the British Lord Ramsey, whose estate in the uncharted New York woodlands is a Heart of Darkness where multiple warring factions are engaged in physical, psychological, and spiritual battle.

Exploring a frontier world shrouded in danger and defying death in a wilderness populated by European settlers, Indian shamans, and mysterious scalping parties, Duncan, the exiled chief of his near-extinct Scottish clan, finds that sometimes justice cannot be reached unless the cultures and spirits of those involved are appeased.

Click HERE for the free download from B&N.

Read an eBook Week 2011 (Thursday Update)

Thursday updates for Read an eBook Week.

• The free book at Dorrance is Cody Dillon's Mirage. If you had problems with it earlier today, try again, as Dorrance has fixed the earlier error at their yahoo store.
• The free book at Rose Dog Books Pat Summers's Little Fly and Friends: Buggy Flea and Mr. Bumble (short/children's)
• The free book at Red Lead Books is Sarah Stendig Wood's Secrets from a Four Leaf Clover (poetry)
• The free book at ireadiwrite today is Paul Dayton's We've Seen The Enemy (which has good reviews at Amazon).
• Imajinnbooks has added the two new books for today (Come the Night and Some Practical Magic). Be sure to click NEXT at the bottom of the page to find the 2nd book for today. If you are late finding this deal or forgot to download a previous day's books (the links you get in email are only good for one day), all previous books so far are still free.
• In addition to the authors I mentioned on Tuesday's post, I've uncovered a few more authors at Smashwords with their backlist books at reasonable prices (versus the over $10 I've seen for some at Amazon, including Atlas Shrugged: (Centennial Edition), by Ayn Rand, for $18.99 and without a single word in the description to describe what might be special about this edition; apparently it's a special price to mark the author's 100th year, as the book itself was first published in 1957; my advice: buy the paperback at $10 and take advantage of the 4:3 promotion or just check it out from the library or grab it for $2 at your local used bookstore) include Julie Ortolon (50% off), Nina Bruhns ($2.99), Sharon Ihle (50% off), Jeffrey Carver (three free), L.L. Bartlett (25% off novels), Jill Metcalf (one 50% off), Terry Odell (several free), Mary Ellen Hughes (50% off), Libby Fischer Hellmann (50%-75% off; two free), Mark Chisnell (two free) and Marsha Canham (one free). There are some good books from indie authors that are free, as well, including two from Donna Callea, two from Lizzy Ford and several from Wesley Allison.

Looks like the issues at Yahoo have been fixed for Red Lead, Rose Dog and Dorrance. They are really super-nice and if you had problems getting any of their books earlier this week, just shoot them an email with your order number and they should be able to send you the PDF.

New Kindle Game - Ultimate Nature Quiz

HandyX has released another Trivia Game for Kindle, Ultimate Nature Quiz ($1.99)

App Description
Ultimate Nature Quiz is a trivia game for nature lovers. Do you think you know a flying fox from a flying fish, or a dodo from a kakapo?

Test your nature knowledge and marvel at mankind's relationship with wildlife in the world today. Ultimate Nature Quiz features 1,000 natural history questions that cover historical, trivial, and technical topics. Answer sets of questions ranging from easy to hard, in rounds of 10, or in a continuous stream. Or turn on a question countdown timer for an even greater challenge!

Do you have what it takes to answer them all?

New Kindle Apps - Math Flash Cards for Kids

There are two new Apps from Digi Ronin Games in the Kindle store, both aimed at improving your kid's math scores. Looking at the pictures, they remind me of some of the Brain Age games for the DS (but without the timers or having to get the touch screen to recognize the numbers you draw with the stylus).

Flash Cards: Basic Math for Kids ($2.99)

App Description
Now kids can exercise their math skills on Kindle - anytime, anywhere.

Flash Cards: Basic Math for Kids helps your child learn basic arithmetic by giving them practice doing addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. There are five difficulty levels designed around common arithmetic learning concepts that progress from single digit operations with no regrouping to double digit problems with regrouping. There are three different modes of play you choose from depending on your confidence with the material: You can use the cards as a study guide to introduce a concept, practice with multiple-choice answers, and progress to fill in the answer directly.

To give students timely feedback, correct answers are acknowledged and incorrect answers are corrected immediately upon submitting an answer. A high score table tracks your ten highest scores to help you track your progress and improvement.

Flash Cards: Fractions for Kids ($2.99)

App Description
Flash Cards: Fractions helps your child learn about fractions by giving them practice doing conversions from fractions to decimals and percentages, and converting from percentages and decimal values back to fractions.There are four difficulty levels designed around common fraction usage. For example, 1/2 and 1/4 conversions are in an easier level than 3/7 conversions.

There are three different modes of play you choose from depending on your confidence with the material: You can use the cards as a study guide to introduce a concept, practice with multiple-choice answers, and progress to fill in the answer directly.

To give students timely feedback, correct answers are acknowledged and incorrect answers are corrected immediately upon submitting an answer. A high score table tracks your ten highest scores to help you track your progress and improvement.

Turn your Kindle into a learning tool today!

Read an eBook Week 2011 (Wednesday Update)

Wednesday updates for Read an eBook Week.

• The free book at Dorrance today broken and I get a file not found error from yahoo.
• The free book at Rose Dog Books Ann Veronica Wilson's Molding a Golden Heart (novella)
• The free book at Red Lead Books is Dr. Richard D. Worley's Heroes of the Cold War (short)
• The free book at ireadiwrite today is Ellen Ekstrom's Armor of Light.
• Imajinnbooks has added the two new books for today (Jaye Roycraft's DOUBLE IMAGE and Carin Rafferty's Touch of Night). Be sure to click NEXT at the bottom of the page to find the 2nd book for today. If you are late finding this deal, all previous books so far are still free.

If you have problems getting the books from Rose Dog or Red Lead, see my comments on Tuesday's post on how to find the downloads.