Heating Up the Kitchen under a Buck

Heating Up the Kitchen: Recipes with Love from Lucky Harbor, by Jill Shalvis, can be pre-ordered for 99 cents in the Kindle store. The size is already filled in for this one, 874K, but that may include images, as I suspect this will be a fairly small volume, meant to whet your appetite for her upcoming novels, Christmas in Lucky Harbor: Simply Irresistible/The Sweetest Thing and Head Over Heels (both $7.99 pre-orders). For a buck, though, it's hard to go wrong, so I've already added it to my pre-order pile.

Book Description
Hello Readers,

Thanks for coming to Lucky Harbor. I'm sure your presence has already been noted by Lucille and the rest of her blue-hair posse and will shortly be posted on their Facebook page. Hope you don't have toilet paper stuck to your shoe.

Or any secrets...

In these pages are recipes on how to catch a man, how to cope with sisters, and bunches of wisdom. Whoops, sorry. Wrong book. (See either Simply Irresistible, The Sweetest Thing, or Head Over Heels).

There are, however, some fantastic recipes from my very own kitchen, and in the cooking of these recipes, I can guarantee you a culinary experience that will make you forget your troubles.

Happy cooking, happy eating, and happy reading!

Tara Daniels

Free Android App - Doodle Jump

Doodle Jump( $0.99), by Real Networks Inc., is today's free Android App at Amazon. If you don't yet have an Android phone or tablet, there is a way to get an emulator on your PC, so that you can get the Amazon App and the games. See the comments on this post for now and I'll try to put together a step-by-step primer for a post later on (it's a bit involved, but doable).

Book Description
If there is such a thing as a "classic" in a mobile gaming genre that is still very young, Doodle Jump is exactly that. Millions have been charmed by the delightfully addictive gameplay and irresistible style of this casual platforming game.

Nowhere to Go But Up
The object of Doodle Jump is to guide the Doodler, an adorable, interminably hopping four-legged creature, up a series of never-ending platforms. Watch your step--miss a jump and the Doodler will fall to its doom. Some platforms are solid and steady, while others move, explode, or have other properties that create interesting challenges for the Doodler.

Thru the Bible 1-5 (5-volume set)

Amazon has the Kindle edition of Thru the Bible 1-5, by J. Vernon McGee, a five volume set, currently marked down to $6.99. The list price is $90 and the Hardcover is selling for nearly $120. This isn't a small book, either, weighing in at over 12 MB in size. The description has obviously been copied from the Hardcover edition and there is some confusion as to whether there are five or 60 volumes in total, but this appears to be the "complete" set of commentaries (although it doesn't appear to contain the index to the set, which is sold separately in Hardcover)..

Book Description
A complete reference edition of the 60-volume Thru the Bible commentary series, this five-volume set is an excellent choice if you need a complete Bible commentary in durable hardcover bindings. It includes Dr. McGee's insightful study of each book of the Bible with in-depth, paragraph-by-paragraph discussions of key verses and passages. Purchase the entire five-volume set or collect them individually as your study progresses.

Free Book (noDRM) - The Walk of Fame

The Walk of Fame ($3.39 Kindle), by Heidi Rice (which was previously published under the title Public Affair, Secretly Expecting, which I've linked here, so you can see the reviews).

Book Description
Mac Brody's Hollywood life is far removed from his turbulent youth--and that's how he likes it. The legendary bad boy refuses to be judged by Juno Delamare for declining his brother's wedding invitation....

But he can't get feisty Juno out of his head! So he goes to the wedding--to strip away her defenses and her sexy bridesmaid dress. When their steamy night hits the headlines, Mac sweeps Juno away for a two-week affair....Soon Juno realizes she has more than memories to hold dear!

Click HERE to get the free download (or to get a different book by mail, if you live in the UK). Enter an email address on the left page of the "book" that displays and click "Click Here to start the date". On the next page, you'll see two "book pages" again - the left side is to get a book via snail mail (which only works if you live in the UK) and the right side is for the ebook. Click on "Choose Ebook". On the next page, fill in the details (pick "Other" for how you got your book and uncheck the box at the bottom if you don't want to get emails" and set up a password, then click on "Set up your date". The next page should have a download option on the left side. It is a DRM-free EPUB (so can be converted easily with Calibre).

Free Android App - World Series Of Poker: Hold'em Legend

World Series Of Poker: Hold'em Legend ($4.99), by Glu Mobile Inc., is today's free Android App at Amazon (yesterday's Angry Birds Rio is still free, too!). I added it to my library (it's free), but won't be playing it until I get an Android tablet, as it is too big to fit onto my phone (at least, until I can update it to Android 2.2, so that I can load apps onto the SD card). The reviews are not great, but it seems a number of them are complaints about the size and some had failed downloads due to their phones going to sleep (which can be resolved by turning off the sleep function during the download). Why, you ask, don't I have a tablet to put it on? Because I have an iPad (the original, as I really don't see paying the same amount, again, just to have a white iPad with a camera) and the rumors of Amazon bringing out an Android tablet have stopped me from picking up a NOOKcolor (which, if rooted, can be used as a generic tablet with access to the Marketplace, the Amazon Appstore, the Kindle App, games and still be used to read both nookbooks and ADE DRM'd EPUB and PDF books.

Book Description
Make your way from an amateur poker player to a Hold'em legend in World Series of Poker: Hold'em Legend for your mobile device. Win prestigious World Series of Poker events in Las Vegas and other popular casino venues around the world. Show off your winnings on your wrist as you win prestigious bracelets along the way. This game offers an in-depth career mode and global real-time multiplayer so you can practice solo or put your skills to the test online. Become a poker legend as you evolve from playing bar games to competing at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas, Caesars Palace, and The Empire in London in this authentic and fast-paced game of Hold'em poker.