Fall is in the air and it's time for Amazon's pre-Christmas
$5 Magazine Sale. So far, I think I've used this sale every year for the past two or three to pick up a renewal or two for myself or a family member. The sale ends Oct 11, though, so don't wait too long to make a selection. Also, these are paper editions (don't expect to see this kind of price on the Kindle Fire!), which actually works well for several of the Christmas subscriptions I give out each year.
Additional formats and/or sources are available for these free books:
The first title in Ted Dekker's Lost Books Series,
Chosen ($8.99 Kindle;
$2.89 B&N), is today's Nook Daily Find. This is a young adult extension of his Circle series, aimed at the Christian market.
Book Description
Think with your heart and prepare to die for you have been Chosen.
The land of the Forest Dwellers has been decimated by the Horde under the watchful eye of the vilest of all creatures, Teeleh. Thomas Hunter, supreme commander of the Forest Guard, is forced to lower the recruitment age of his army from 18 to 16. From among thousands, four new recruits are chosen to lead--and perhaps die--for the greater good.
The chosen four are sent on a quest to prove their character, but their mission takes a dramatic turn when they are intercepted, sworn to secrecy, and redirected to a different endgame. Now they must find the seven lost Books of History. Books that have power over the past, present, and future. Books whose words are alive. Books sought by the Dark One that control not only the destiny of their world . . . but that of ours as well.
Susanna Kearsley's
Winter Sea (
$1.99) is today's Kindle Deal of the Day. The price is the lowest I've seen on it (and better than I paid in June).
Book Description
History has all but forgotten...
In the spring of 1708, an invading Jacobite fleet of French and Scottish soldiers nearly succeeded in landing the exiled James Stewart in Scotland to reclaim his crown.
Now, Carrie McClelland hopes to turn that story into her next bestselling novel. Settling herself in the shadow of Slains Castle, she creates a heroine named for one of her own ancestors and starts to write.
But when she discovers her novel is more fact than fiction, Carrie wonders if she might be dealing with ancestral memory, making her the only living person who knows the truth-the ultimate betrayal-that happened all those years ago, and that knowledge comes very close to destroying her...
If you are still hanging on to your $2 Android credit, you might want to take a look at
Business Calendar, by Mikado Software, currently on sale for $1.99. It has rave reviews, syncs with Google Calendar and should work great with the
Kindle Fire (for off cloud calendar access) as well as most Android phones. If you signed up for the credit and don't yet have a device, you'll have until December 15, which is plenty of time after the
Kindle Fires have shipped.
App Description
Business Calendar is a complete calendar application that synchronizes with your Google calendars. Features include smooth scroll- and zoom-in multi-day view (1-14 days), graphical and textual presentation, and quick fade in/out calendars using the favorite bar.
With Business Calendar on the job, you'll never forget another appointment. This app includes drag and drop functionality, search function, easy switching between time line bars, and event titles in month view. This app also has an intuitive new handling option: just swipe your finger over any days of interest in the month view and open them in the multi-day view.
If you are more of a game player,
UNO, by Gameloft, is on sale for 99 cents, as are all three variations of Angry Birds:
Ad-Free,
Seasons and
Rio. I already have two (and you can get all three for just under the price of just one of them for the nookColor), but I'm tempted by
UNO. B&N still has the Mighty Eagle (but only in store), but i see two unlockers for AB at Amazon and a free
Angry Birds Profiler that lets you save multiple profiles for the game, so you can share a single tablet without ruining each other's progress (basically, multiple bookmarks for the game).
Game Description
Gameloft has brought this classic family card game to your Android device, in all its colorful, turn-reversing glory.
For the uninitiated, Uno resembles the card game Crazy 8s, but Uno is far crazier than its inspiration. There are always four players in a single match. The deck has four colors: Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow; and the cards are numbered from 0 to 9. You drop a card from your hand into the discard pile to match either the color or the number laid by the previous player. The first person to drop all his cards is the winner. But within the deck are special cards that add an element of surprise to the game: Wild Card, Reverse, Skip, Draw Two Cards, and the dreaded Draw Four Wild Card. These special cards make Uno wildly unpredictable. Just as someone thinks they're about to win the game, the momentum can suddenly swing against them. And you must exclaim "Uno!" when you're down to one card, or you have to draw two cards!
Uno comes in three game modes: Quick Play, Tournament, and Multiplayer. Quick Play allows you to get in a single game against three Android opponents. In Tournament, you try to win the best of five matches. In Multiplayer, you can play against human and computer opponents, assigning the four player positions to either a person or the Android. Within all these modes, Uno keeps track of your statistics and achievements. Uno comes with a full range of options, including profile set-up, difficulty level, scoring and penalty rules, sound and assistant toggles, different backgrounds, challenge and force play modes, and options to enable Uno 7-0 and Jump-In. Uno!
Griselda Takes Flight, by Joyce Magnin, is free for UK customers in the Kindle store, courtesy of Christian publisher Abingdon Press. A repeat from April, it will no doubt be free for US customers by morning.
