Free Book (Kindle/nook/EPUB) - Charlotte Figg Takes Over Paradise

Update: 12/15/11 Now free from ChristianBook.

Charlotte Figg Takes Over Paradise, by Joyce Magnin, is a repeat freebie in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble, courtesy of Christian publisher Abingdon Press.

Book Description
Newly widowed Charlotte Figg purchases a double-wide trailer sight unseen and moves to the Paradise Trailer Park with her dog Lucky. Unfortunately, neither the trailer nor Paradise are what Charlotte expected. Her trailer is a ramshackle old place in need of major repair, and the people of Paradise are harboring more secrets than Bayer has aspirin. Charlotte s new friend Rose Tattoo learns that Charlotte played softball and convinces her to rally the women of Paradise into a team. Reluctant at first, Charlotte warms to the notion and is soon coaching the Paradise Angels. Meanwhile, Charlotte discovers that the manager of Paradise, Fergus Wrinkel, abuses his wife Suzy. Charlotte sets out to find a way to save Suzy from Fergus and in the process comes to a difficult realization about her own painful marriage.

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Free Book (Kindle/nook/EPUB) - A Simple Amish Christmas

Update: 12/15/11 Now free from ChristianBook.

A Simple Amish Christmas, by Vannetta Chapman, is a repeat freebie in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble, courtesy of Christian publisher Abingdon Press.

Book Description
Annie Weaver always planned to return home, but the 20-year old RN has lived in Philadelphia for three years now. As her time of rumschpringe is about to come to an abrupt end, bringing for Annie an overwhelming sense of loneliness. She returns home and finds herself face-to-face with a budding romance with an Amish farmer and Annie has several important choices to make.

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10 cent Android Apps & Free Book Updates

I forgot to check these until later today and I couldn't post until now, but if you get this tonight, you might want to check these apps at Amazon, as they are 10 cents tonight:

• All By Myself - Little Critter, by Oceanhouse Media, Inc - a picture book for children
• SketchBook Mobile, by Autodesk Inc. - previously a free app of the day
• Where's My Water?, by Disney - a cute looking game
• FlightTrack, by Mobiata - usually $5, keeps track of air flights
• Shazam Encore, by Shazam Entertainment Ltd. - discover and share music

Of course, there are several more in the Android Market at 10 cents that are not in the Amazon store, at all, with 12 total 10 cent apps available today. There is a drawing program for kids (tablet edition, not for phones) and a couple of games that look interesting.

Also, there are a couple of additional formats on free books from later this afternoon:

• Believe You Can (Kindle/nook/EPUB)
• Tiger Eye (Kindle/iBooks) - Canadians only

There has been a lot of activity in the Kindle store the last few days -- Indie authors are now allowed to join the Kindle Lending Library and, if they do, have their books free for up to 5 days in each 90 day period (if they do join the KLL, then the book has to be exclusive to Amazon during the 90 day period, so some authors are not jumping in). As a result, the number of books in the Lending Library is now at near 50,000, but much of that appears to be self-published (with "list" prices ranging from 99 cents to over $300!). You can check out the non-public domain free ebook list or browse the list of all Prime Eligible Lending Library books, but I found a that adding some limits on price helped me to find more traditionally published titles in the Lending Library. If you bought your Kindle Fire on release date, you have two more days to borrow this month's book, before you'll need to decide if you are going to renew Prime.

Free Books (noDRM) - Delphi Christmas Collection

The Delphi Christmas Collection, a collection of classics for the holiday season, is free at Delphi Classics. You can download either an EPUB edition or a Mobi edition for those with a Kindle.

I just email books like this one to my @free.kindle.com address, so I don't have to bother tracking down a USB cable. Now that Personal Documents are in the archive, you only have to email it once and can retrieve it from your other Kindles easily.

Book Contents

1. A Christmas Tree By Charles Dickens
2. The Heavenly Christmas Tree By Fyodor Dostoyevsky
3. Mrs. Perkins's Ball By W.M. Thackeray
4. Christmas At Dingley Dell By Charles Dickens
5. A Christmas Song By Louisa May Alcott
6. A Christmas Turkey And How It Came By Louisa May Alcott
7. Christmas Storms And Sunshine By Elizabeth Gaskell
8. A Luckless Santa Claus By F. Scott Fitzgerald
9. Christmas Day At Sea By Joseph Conrad
10. The Gift Of The Magi By O. Henry
11. Christmas Poems By Thomas Hardy
12. The Thieves Who Couldn't Help Sneezing By Thomas Hardy
13. The Devil's Dice Box By Jack London
14. A Letter From Santa Claus By Mark Twain
15. 'Twas The Night Before Christmas

Today's Deals

For those still doing their holiday shopping, it looks like today is a Video Game Day on the Amazon GoldBox and Lightning Deals page.

Additional formats on free books; Sony is a bit late joining in this month, so most of the EPUB formatted additions are from there, this time around.:

• Haunted Love (Kindle/nook/EPUB)
• Christmas with Family & Friends Cookbook (Kindle/nook/iBooks/EPUB)
• The Christmas Dog (Kindle/nook/EPUB)
• Living Successfully with Screwed-Up People (Kindle/nook/EPUB)
• Game Plan for Life (Kindle/nook/EPUB)
• Day One (Kindle/EPUB)
• The Misanthrope's Guide to Life (Kindle/nook/EPUB)
• Money, Possessions, and Eternity (Kindle/EPUB)
• Christmas Ornaments (Kindle/nook/EPUB)
• Decorating for Christmas (Kindle/nook/EPUB)

On Gold Mountain ($1.99), a re-published backlist title by Lisa See, is today's Kindle Deal of the Day.

Book Description
Lisa See spent summers in the cool, dark recesses of her family's antiques store in Los Angeles' Chinatown. There, her grandmother and great-aunt told her intriguing, colorful stories about their family's past- stories of missionaries, concubines, tong wars, glamorous nightclubs, and the determined struggle to triumph over racist laws and discrimination. They spoke of how Lisa's great-great-grandfather emigrated from his Chinese village to the United States to work on the building of the transcontinental railroad as an herbalist; how his son followed him, married a Caucasian woman, and despite great odds, went on to become one of the most prominent Chinese on "Gold Mountain" (the Chinese name for the United States).The result is a vivid, sweeping family portrait in the tradition of Alex Haley's Roots that is at once particular and universal, telling the story not only of one family, but of the Chinese people in America itself, a country that both welcomes and reviles immigrants like no other culture in the world.

The Chicago Way ($1.55 / £0.99 UK), by Michael Harvey (co-creator and executive producer of the television show Cold Case Files), is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $7.99, but you can get the 2-Book Bundle: The Chicago Way, The Fifth Floor at the same price, which is a good deal - cheaper than those in the UK can get both titles, even with this sale.).

Book Description
Private detective Michael Kelly is hired by his former partner to solve an eight-year old rape and battery case long gone cold. But when the partner turns up dead, Kelly enlists a team of his savviest colleagues to connect the dots between the recent murder and the cold case it revived: a television reporter whose relationship with Kelly is not strictly professional; his best friend from childhood, a forensic DNA expert; and an old ally from the DA's office. To close the case, Kelly will have to face the mob, a serial killer, his own double-crossing friends, and the mean streets of the city he loves.

Serial Killers and Mass Murderers ($3.25 Kindle, B&N), by Nigel Cawthorne, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.

Book Description
Serial Killers & Mass Murderers takes you into the minds of the criminals who committed the world's most notorious and horrifying crimes. Each of the sadistic murderers profiled here was once known simply as someone's neighbor, co-worker or child. What turned them into killers? In one chilling chapter after another, this book profiles a terrifying succession of homicidal maniacs and asks the question, "What makes them tick?"