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Sunday, June 26, 2011

Save $25 on $50 of Camping & Backpacking Gear (KSo)

This offer is for those with selected Kindle Wi-Fi with Special Offers or Kindle 3G + Wi-Fi with Special Offers only. Turn on your wireless, click Menu, Sync & Check for New Items, then on View Special Offers after the sync has completed. You should see this new offer:

Save $25 on $50 of Camping & Backpacking Gear

Click on offer, then click on the link on the offer page sign up and get an email with the promotion code. Sign-up for this offer expires on June 29.

You'll get an email (right away), a link to the Eligible Camping & Backpacking Products page and a promotion code to enter at checkout. Once you have the promotional code, you have until July 29 to complete your purchase. Like previous offers, this one requires you to use the full checkout process in order to enter your promotional code. Also, like all Amazon sales that use promotional codes, if you have a gift card balance, you must use it for the payment (if there is not a sufficient balance, then you can pick which credit card or other payment to use).

Once again, this offer can be used more than once per accounts, so long as you have more than one KSO registered:
5. Limit one promotional code per device.
Just click on the ad on each device to receive the individual promotion codes via email.

This is one of the offers I've been looking forward to, so have definitely signed up and will be going thru the lists.

Updated to add: If you buy any item in Sports and Outdoors, then leave a review, you'll be entered to win a $500 Amazon Gift Card (see official rules). This offer isn't limited to those with a KSO and any purchase in the store qualifies (even previous purchase and 3rd party items).

Friday, June 24, 2011

Free Book (nook) - Blood Count

Blood Count ($8.99 Kindle), the ninth in the Artie Cohen series by Reggie Nadelson, is free from Barnes and Noble tonight, making it three in this series free there (and only one on Kindle). Once again, I'm reporting the free price, in the hopes that it will be free on Kindle later.

Book Description
Mid-December 2008. Barack Obama has just been elected; all New York is ecstatic, especially Harlem. On a freezing night a few weeks later, detective Artie Cohen gets a late call from his ex girlfriend, Lily Hanes, begging for his help. Lily has been living at the Louis Armstrong Apartments, one of Harlem's great buildings, while working on Obama's campaign; now her Russian neighbor, Marianna Simonova, has died, and Lily fears she's at fault and needs Artie's Russian connections. Over a weekend when the city is locked in by snow and cold, with the financial markets tanking, one after another people at the Armstrong die. Artie, out of his element, a white detective in a black world, is drawn inexorably into the realm of Sugar Hill and the Armstrong, where almost everybody except for the real estate developers seems locked in the past. Working to solve the murders, Artie tries desperately to win Lily back. Blood Count is a murder mystery, a love story, and a tale about New York, race, real estate, money, and music, with an ending one could never predict. Set in the legendary neighborhood of Sugar Hill, Reggie Nadelson's dramatic new thriller brings Harlem vividly to life.

Click HERE to get the free book from B&N.

Free Book Update - Executive Privilege

Executive Privilege Free with Bonus Material, by Phillip Margolin, was free on Kindle and from B&N and Sony last May. Looks like Kobo got their wires crossed a bit, as they finally have it free today (both for US and Canadian customers). This particular edition isn't available for Kindle any longer, but the standard edition is $8.99.

Book Description
New York Times bestselling author Phillip Margolin is back, this time with a powerful tale of murder that snakes its way through Washington, D.C.'s halls of power, leading straight to the White House and the most powerful office on earth.

When private detective Dana Cutler is hired by an attorney with powerful political connections, the assignment seems simple enough: follow a pretty college student named Charlotte Walsh and report on where she goes and whom she sees. But then the unexpected happens. One night, Cutler follows Walsh to a secret meeting with Christopher Farrington, the president of the United States. The following morning, Walsh's dead body shows up and Cutler has to run for her life.

In Oregon, Brad Miller, a junior associate in a huge law firm is working on the appeal of a convicted serial killer. Clarence Little, now on death row, claims he was framed for the murder of a teenager who, at the time of her death, worked for the then governor, Christopher Farrington. Suddenly, a small-time private eye and a fledgling lawyer find themselves in possession of evidence that suggests that someone in the White House is a murderer. Their only problem? Staying alive long enough to prove it.


Click HERE to get the free book from Kobo.

Free Book (nook) - The Front Porch Prophet

The Front Porch Prophet ($7.96 Kindle), by Raymond L. Atkins, is today's Free Friday ebook from Barnes and Noble (report the price to Amazon and we may get it free by Monday).

Book Description
What do a trigger-happy bootlegger with pancreatic cancer, an alcoholic helicopter pilot who is afraid to fly, and a dead guy with his feet in a camp stove have in common? What are the similarities between a fire department that cannot put out fires, a policeman who has a historic cabin fall on him from out of the sky, and an entire family dedicated to a variety of deceased authors? Where can you find a war hero named Termite with a long knife stuck in his liver, a cook named Hoghead who makes the world's worst coffee, and a supervisor named Pillsbury who nearly gets hung by his employees? Sequoyah, Georgia, is the answer. After a long absence, A. J. Longstreet finds his best friend since childhood, Eugene Purdue, on his doorstep. Eugene now has terminal cancer, and he confronts A. J. with the dilemma of executing a mercy killing when the time arrives. An adventure into the past begins for the both of them, and soon one must make a decision that will alter his life forever.

Click HERE for the free book from B&N.

Free Book (noDRM) - Friendly Fire

Friendly Fire ($2.39 Kindle), by Megan Hart, is free as a DRM-free EPUB from Carina Press, today only.

Book Description
After Agent Kendall Frasier's partner is shot in "friendly fire" during a drug bust, she agrees to take a week's vacation on a tropical island as part of her psychiatric evaluation. Sand, sun, sea—what could be better to help her work through her guilt? Even if the presence of the man responsible for the shooting, Agent Zane Vincent, seems counterproductive to her mental health.

As Kendall gets to know Zane, and realizes he feels worse about what happened than she does, it becomes impossible to hate him. And their mutual attraction becomes impossible to deny.

Kendall and Zane soon agree to put the event that brought them together in the past—and spend the present exploring their most erotic desires. Do they have a future in the real world when their week in paradise is over?


Click HERE to get the free book from Carina Press. Use coupon code FRIENDLYFREE during checkout to drop the price to $0.00 before completing checkout (you should not have to enter any payment info). If you are having problems with the coupon code, try cutting and pasting the code, rather than typing it in, making sure you don't have a space at either end of the code. Also, check the time - these coupons are ONE DAY ONLY and the company cuts them off at midnight where they are (eastern time, US). Last, check to see if another coupon code is being applied to the order (just above the total); if so, click to remove it first, then apply this code.