Interactive Language Training - Half Price

All eight of 24/7's language training apps for Kindle, are now half price, $1.99, thru May 11. All the apps are $3.99 each and are targeted at reading comprehension. Since the description is nearly identical for each title, I'm only going to include the first one, but there are links for all of the apps.

24-7 French - Vocabulary and 24-7 French - Basic Phrases
24-7 German - Vocabulary and 24-7 German - Basic Phrases
24-7 Italian - Vocabulary and 24-7 Italian - Basic Phrases
24-7 Spanish - Vocabulary and 24-7 Spanish - Basic Phrases

App Descriptions
Learn French/German/Italian/Spanish with your own personal language tutor.

24-7 French/German/Italian/Spanish - Vocabulary is a fun way to learn a language. Going beyond a phrasebook or set of flashcards, this title provides a set of interactive study tools to help you learn the language, including traditional flashcards, a multiple choice quiz, an entertaining hangman-style game, and a write-in quiz to test language recall.

Content includes basic vocabulary organized in 22 categories including Family & Friends, Travel, Home, Office, School, Countryside, Around Town, Other Nouns, Food & Drink, Clothing, Weather, Time & Date, Pronouns, Adjectives, Opposites, Colors, Descriptives and Numbers. French - French/German/Italian/Spanish is different from 24-7's other language tutor title French/German/Italian/Spanish - Basic Phrases in that it provides basic vocabulary terms versus full phrases.

24-7 French/German/Italian/Spanish - Basic Phrases is a fun way to learn a language. Going beyond a phrasebook or set of flashcards, this title provides a set of interactive study tools to help you learn the language, including traditional flashcards, a multiple choice quiz, an entertaining hangman-style game, and a write-in quiz to test language recall.

Content includes conversational phrases organized in 12 categories including First Phrases, Greetings, Getting to Know, Communication, Questions, Wants, Needs, Feelings, Common Expressions, Interjections, To Go, and other common and miscellaneous phrases. French/German/Italian/Spanish - Basic Phrases is different from 24-7's other language tutor title French/German/Italian/Spanish - Vocabulary in that it provides full phrases versus basic vocabulary terms.

French/German/Italian/Spanish - Vocabulary is a useful tool for beginners who may wish to refresh basic [language] skills, and a great companion for a trip in a [non-English]-speaking country.

Bargain Book (nook) - A Pizza To Die For

A Pizza To Die For ($9.99 Kindle), by Chris Cavender, is currently available to pre-order on nook for 99 cents. I don't know if the price at Amazon or B&N is a pricing error (although my bets are on B&N), but it's a bit discrepancy. This is the third in his Eleanor Swift series, which starts with A Slice of Murder ($4.09 Kindle; $4.47 B&N; $3.09 Kobo w/ coupon code KoboSpring1) and continues with Pepperoni Pizza Can Be Murder ($6.45 Kindle; $5.43 B&N; $4.29 Kobo w/ coupon).

Book Description
Though it's an unseasonably chilly October in Timber Ridge, North Carolina, Eleanor Swift is warm and cozy in A Slice of Delight--her scrumptious pizzeria. But when snooty Judson Sizemore breezes into town to open an upper-crust pizza parlor nearby, Eleanor's biggest worry is that her beloved restaurant's days may be numbered. . .until she hears Judson's days have come to a most gruesome end. . .

Since half the town saw Judson causing a ruckus in A Slice of Delight before he expired, Eleanor and her saucy sister, Maddie, are the prime suspects. The only way out is to prove their innocence. Soon, a little surreptitious sleuthing reveals that the dough behind Judson's impending pizzeria came from Timber Ridge's resident recluse: crusty oddball millionaire Nathan Pane. It turns out he's Judson's long-lost uncle. . .and someone is after him, too.

As Eleanor digs deeper, her suspect list grows longer than the local soccer team's pizza order--and life in the once quiet town heats up like Maddie's five-alarm Volcano pie. Could it be Judson's gold-digging sister? Or her secret boyfriend? Between working on the case, keeping her customers happy, and even finding time for an old flame, Eleanor's plate is full. But with an unhinged murderer closing in, she'll have to move very quickly--and very carefully--because the killer is already much closer than she thinks. . .

Includes delicious pizza recipe!

Click HERE to order the book from B&N.

Free Book (EPUB) - Heaven is for Real

Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back ($6.13 Kindle), by Todd Burpo, Sonja Burpo, Colton Burpo and Lynn Vincent, is free from Borders (DRM'd EPUB). This is published by Christian publisher Thomas Nelson, who normally has their free books available in all the ebookstores, but I don't see this one free anywhere else.

Book Description
A young boy emerges from life-saving surgery with remarkable stories of his visit to heaven. Heaven Is for Real is the true story of the four-year old son of a small town Nebraska pastor who during emergency surgery slips from consciousness and enters heaven. He survives and begins talking about being able to look down and see the doctor operating and his dad praying in the waiting room. The family didn't know what to believe but soon the evidence was clear.Colton said he met his miscarried sister, whom no one had told him about, and his great grandfather who died 30 years before Colton was born, then shared impossible-to-know details about each. He describes the horse that only Jesus could ride, about how "reaaally big" God and his chair are, and how the Holy Spirit "shoots down power" from heaven to help us.Told by the father, but often in Colton's own words, the disarmingly simple message is heaven is a real place, Jesus really loves children, and be ready, there is a coming last battle.

Click HERE to get the free book from Borders.

$25 Appstore Credit with New Android Device

Amazon is stepping up their promotion of Android devices (but, so far, no sign of a KinDroid or other Amazon Branded Android tablet). This week (today thru May 1), you can get a $25 credit to spend in the Amazon Appstore, if you buy one of the Verizon Android devices on this page. If you are thinking of replacing a phone you already have, you can even check your contract, here, to see if you are eligible for an upgrade (or you contract is up so you can switch carriers).

$25 Amazon Appstore Credit with Purchase of Verizon Android Devices

Purchase any Verizon Android phone or tablet from AmazonWireless between 12 midnight PST April 25, 2011, and 11:59 p.m. PST May 1, 2011, and receive a promotional code for $25 in Amazon Appstore credit. Promotional codes will be sent via e-mail within five days of shipment and are valid through December 31, 2011. See terms and conditions for additional details.

Ten Free Indie Books

If you haven't been participating in the first only Blog Tour de Force, you'll want to head over today and comment on each of the ten author's blogs that are participating. Each relevant comment (some have enough of a requirement that you have to read the post to see if you need more than just your email address left) will earn you a chance to win a Kindle, but also will get you either a smashwords coupon code for the author's book or a copy of the book in your email (mobi or epub, but DRM-free). Today's comments are also counting toward declaring a "winner", but it seems to me that those of us getting free books are the real winners (while the authors probably count themselves as winners, all, in that they are getting new readers).

Click HERE, scroll down to where it says "Did you miss a free Ebook?", then click on each book cover to open that author's blog post, add a comment and wait for the books to roll in. Today's the last day to participate.