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Thursday, January 12, 2012

Free Book - Dangerous Angels (K/N/E)

I originally told you about Dangerous Angels, an omnibus collection of the young adult Weetzie Bat series by Francesca Lia Block, back in early December - the problem was, the deal disappeared sometime later that same day. Well, it's back (although the release date has now pushed back to Jan 17 on Kindle), it's free and this time you can also get it from Barnes & Noble or Sony.

Note that this is free to pre-order in the Kindle store, so a credit card on file is required. The price when you order (currently $0.00) is what you pay on delivery, regardless of release price (the only exception would be if it went down in price, which can't happen on a free book). Annoyingly, the other two stores kept the original release date, so you can read their versions now (and don't need a credit card at Sony), while those with a Kindle must wait (then again, I have a reader app on my Kindle Fire that reads books from both stores....).
Book Description
For a limited time, the collection of Francesca Lia Block’s Weetzie Bat books, Dangerous Angels, is available with a special sneak peek of Pink Smog, a new prequel to Weetzie Bat, and excerpts to the lush paranormal romances Pretty Dead and The Frenzy.

Love is a dangerous angel. . . .

In five luminous novels, acclaimed writer Francesca Lia Block spins a saga of interwoven lives and beating hearts. These postmodern fairy tales take us to a magical Los Angeles, a place where life is a mystery, pain can lead to poetry, strangers become intertwined souls, and everyone is searching for the most beautiful and dangerous angel of all: love.
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Contest - Win a Kindle Fire, Day 2 (#epickindlegiveaway)

Update: This blog post's entries are now closed.
Update: We're overwhelming Facebook and the EReader News blog, so I've been asked to let you know not to post on those two anymore. You can still get entries via Twitter (or check out Friday's post for some more ways to enter).

Today is Day 2 of the Kindle Fire Contest. I'm going to try to simplify the directions for entering (but you can refer to the Day 1 post for all the rules. For an entry in the contest, let people on Facebook, Twitter (or even Google+) know about the contest. Make sure you include a link to this post and also include the hashtags free for #kindle and #epickindlegiveaway in your wall post or tweet. Then, post a comment here to let me know about it (once for FaceBook, once for Twitter - if you do both, leave two comments) and don't forget to include how to get in touch with you if you win. If you want additional entries, you can follow the directions on the main contest page (no need to leave a comment here on those).

Note that I'm setting up this post ahead of time, before the price drops have appeared at Amazon. As always, be sure to double check the price on the linked Amazon pages to make sure the book is truly free before one-clicking. Some of these are repeats, so I've bolded the ones that are new today.

TODAY’S FREE KINDLE BOOKS

Scott Nicholson

Aiden James

J.R. Rain

H.T. Night
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Today's Deals

Kobo has a new coupon code, c1auto25, good for 25% off (exp 1/16/12) and has apparently reset FirstRead, good for 35% off. Both are one-use coupons and only work on non-Agency titles.

His Last Duchess ($0.99), by Gabrielle Kimm, is today's Kindle Deal of the Day.
Book Description
The chilling story of Lucrezia de Medici, duchess to Alfonso d'Este, His Last Duchess paints a portrait of a lonely young girl and her marriage to an inscrutable duke. Lucrezia longs for love, Alfonso desperately needs an heir, and in a true story of lust and dark decadence, the dramatic fireworks the marriage kindles threaten to destroy the duke's entire inheritance–and Lucrezia's future. His Last Duchess gorgeously brings to life the passions and people of sixteenth-century Tuscany and Ferrara.

Tony & Susan ($1.53 / £0.99 UK), by Austin Wright, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (no US Kindle edition, but you can get the Audible audiobook for $20.95).
Book Description
Fifteen years ago, Susan Morrow left her first husband Edward Sheffield. One day, comfortable in her home, and her second marriage, she receives, entirely out of the blue, a parcel containing the manuscript of her ex-husband�s first novel. As Susan reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of his character Tony Hastings. And as we read with her, so are we.

Tony and Susan is a dazzling achievement: simultaneously a riveting portrayal of the experience of reading and a page-turning thriller, written in startlingly arresting prose. It is also a novel about fear and regret, revenge and aging, marriage and creativity. It is simply unique.

Fearless ($8.99 $4.99 Kindle, B&N), by Max Lucado, is the Nook Daily Find, likely to be price matched on Kindle.
Book Description
Each sunrise seems to bring fresh reasons for fear.

They're talking layoffs at work, slowdowns in the economy, flare-ups in the Middle East, turnovers at headquarters, downturns in the housing market, upswings in global warming. The plague of our day, terrorism, begins with the word terror. Fear, it seems, has taken up a hundred-year lease on the building next door and set up shop. Oversized and rude, fear herds us into a prison of unlocked doors. Wouldn't it be great to walk out?

Imagine your life, wholly untouched by angst. What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats? If you could hover a fear magnet over your heart and extract every last shaving of dread, insecurity, or doubt, what would remain? Envision a day, just one day, where you could trust more and fear less.

Can you imagine your life without fear?
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Free Book - When You Don't Know What to Pray (K/N/E)

Update: Probably won't last until mid-evening, but currently also free from Sony.

When You Don't Know What to Pray: How to Talk to God about Anything (US/UK), by Linda Evans Shepherd, is free in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble, courtesy of Christian publisher Revell. It isn't likely to stay free more than a day or so.
Book Description
It's easy to pray for others' needs. If God takes a long time in answering--or answers with a no--it's easier to take. Far more difficult is focusing on your own needs, when sometimes you don't get the answers you want. What do you pray when life gets hard or even unbearable? When you lose a spouse or a child? When your health deteriorates? When your spiritual life seems barren? Linda Evans Shepherd knows what it's like to pray in the most dire of circumstances. She shows readers the how, what, and when of praying for themselves. As she takes readers through her own prayer journey and the stories of others, they will be encouraged and equipped to pray for themselves in any circumstance. They'll also find that whether or not God changes their circumstances, he will use prayer to change them.
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Free Indie/Backlist Book Roundup

In addition to the books that are free as part of the Kindle Fire Contest, there are several other indie/backlist author published titles free today (that are likely to go back up tomorrow or in a few days, at the latest):
The list isn't sorted in any particular order (in fact, there are a few good ones right at the end). I also haven't added genre, just because I need a few minutes to try to get in a little reading myself, today.
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