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Thursday, December 13, 2012

R&B and Classic Soul Music for $2.99

I was checking out the news that Amazon has FINALLY released a channel for listening to your Cloud Music on Roku (yes, it's true!) and ran into this sale on R&B and Classic Soul Music for $2.99. It ends tonight, so it's only for those that check in the evening or get Twitter or Facebook notices.
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Today's Deals 12/13, Part 2

Don't forget to register for the gift card giveaway on Amazon's 12 Days of Book Deals promotion page. Today's book, "a best-selling fiction book", has been delayed until 10AM Pacific, so 1PM here in the east.

Amazon is handling their 25 free Holiday Songs differently this year (and we missed some of them), giving away five different songs every five days (and not keeping the entire list free for the duration). I've added a link to the list below the free MP3 of the day (right menubar), so we can easily check it every few days. There are a also few other holiday albums and singles that you can pick up free (although the last two probably are what most of us think of when we hear "holiday music"):

Amazon's Android Appstore spotlight today is on Bingo Blingo, a free Facebook game you can now play on your Kindle tablets.

Today's Audible Daily Deal is 50% Off the Regular Price on Books Performed By Our Favorite Narrators.

At Harlequin, sign up for any of our FREE Harlequin newsletters and get a coupon for an extra 10% off your next order!

Join the festivities with 12 Days and 12 FREE comics during comiXology’s 12 Days of Gifting! Today, (until 1PM) get Fanboys Vs. Zombies #1 FREE today from BOOM! Studios. After 1PM, the free download will change. I don't know that it's officially a part of the sale, but you can also get Storm Dogs #1 (of 6) for free right now, as well.

Starbucks is having a Buy One, Share One Event in the store on all their "holiday beverages". This is valid from 2pm to 5pm, every day thru Dec 16 at all participating stores.
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Today's Deals 12/13

Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is Learning to Ski with Mr. Magee ($1.99), by Chris Van Dusen.
Book Description
One winter morning, Mr. Magee and his little dog, Dee, head out bright and early to learn how to ski. But what begins as a pleasant day in the snow quickly goes downhill when a run-in with a curious moose sends them flying through the air and hanging above an abyss! How will Dee and Magee find their way out of this snowy situation? Chris Van Dusen, the creator of Down to the Sea with Mr. Magee and A Camping Spree with Mr. Magee, has crafted yet another fun-filled adventure for Magee fans old and new.

Grade Level: P and up

Today's Kindle Daily Deal is New Moon ($2.99), by Stephenie Meyer. It's also the Nook Daily Find over at B&N today.
Book Description
Legions of readers entranced by Twilight are hungry for more and they won't be disappointed. In New Moon, Stephenie Meyer delivers another irresistible combination of romance and suspense with a supernatural twist. The "star-crossed" lovers theme continues as Bella and Edward find themselves facing new obstacles, including a devastating separation, the mysterious appearance of dangerous wolves roaming the forest in Forks, a terrifying threat of revenge from a female vampire and a deliciously sinister encounter with Italy's reigning royal family of vampires, the Volturi. Passionate, riveting, and full of surprising twists and turns, this vampire love saga is well on its way to literary immortality.

Today's Kindle Romance Daily Deal is Loki's Daughters ($0.99), by Delle Jacobs.
Book Description
For as long as Arienh can remember, her Celtic people have feared the deadly Viking raids. She knows their brutality first hand, having lost the men from her own family and village to their swords. When she encounters and wounds a Viking warrior one stormy night, she has every right to want him dead. Instead, she allows him shelter in her cottage. Although she fears him, his confidence and teasing manner give her pause. He acts as if she belongs to him. As if he knows her.

Ronan didn’t expect Arienh to recognize him. Why should she? They were both just children when his uncle forced him into a raid against her village. But Ronan risked his life to protect the young Arienh from his marauding kinsmen. Now that the time has come for Ronan and the other warriors to choose wives, he has returned to claim the beautiful girl who captured his heart so long ago.

But for men accustomed simply to taking what they want, wooing the courageous, headstrong Celtic women is easier said than done. And for Arienh, who always sacrificed her own happiness for the sake of her people, trusting—and loving—a Northman may be impossible. By turns poignant and humorous, Loki’s Daughters is a stirring tale of unlikely lovers, forged in dangerously opposite worlds yet bound together by sacrifice, strength, and undeniable passion.

Today's Kindle SciFi/Fantasy Daily Deal is The Stress of Her Regard ($1.99), by Tim Powers.
Book Description
When Michael Crawford discovers his bride brutally murdered in their wedding bed, he is forced to flee not only to prove his innocence, but to avoid the deadly embrace of a vampire who has claimed him as her true bridegroom. Joining forces with Byron, Keats, and Shelley in a desperate journey that crisscrosses Europe, Crawford desperately seeks his freedom from this vengeful lover who haunts his dreams and will not rest until she destroys all that he cherishes. Told in the guise of a secret history, this long-awaited tale of passion and terror is finally back in print after more than 20 years.

Forgotten Footprints: Lost Stories in the Discovery of Antarctica ($1.59 / £0.99 UK), by John Harrison, is the first Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $6.39).
Book Description
Forgotten Footprints tells the story of the Antarctic Peninsula, South Shetland Islands and the Weddell Sea: the most visited places in Antarctica. In 12 years John Harrison has visited the Antarctic over 40 times, where he works as a guide and lectures on adventure cruise ships. Here he offers a selection of highly readable anecdotal accounts of the merchantmen, navy men, sealers, whalers, and aviators who, along with scientists and adventurers, drew the first ghostly maps of the white continent.

Cloud Road: A Journey through the Inca Heartland ($1.59 / £0.99 UK), by John Harrison, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $6.39).
Book Description
In every atlas there is a country missing from the maps of South America: the Andean nation. For five months John Harrison journeys through this secret country, walking alone into remote villages where he is the first gringo the inhabitants have ever seen, and where life continues as if Columbus had never sailed. He lives at over 10,000 feet for most of the trip, following the great road of the Incas: the Camino Real, or Royal Road. Hand built over 500 years ago, it crosses the most difficult and dangerous mountains in all the Americas, diving into sweltering canyons and soaring up into the snows. 1500 miles, half of it on foot, takes him from the Equator to Cuzco and the most magical city of all: Machu Picchu. In this Wales' Book of the Year 2011 winning book, he is attacked, gets lost and is trapped by floods, but only when he goes home does he lose what he wants most.

Encounters in the American Mountain West: A Sinner Amongst the Latter-Day Saints ($1.91 / £1.19 UK), by Ian R Mitchell, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $9.79).
Book Description
Over the past 14 years Boardman-Tasker award-winner Ian R Mitchell has been a frequent visitor to the wilds of Utah and the surrounding US Mountain States. His motive has been not only to learn about the area he calls almost a ‘black hole for Americans and foreigners alike’ but also to get to know the people who live there and the wilderness many of them know little about. This book comprises 10 essays covering his visits to the grounds of the ancient Anazasi civilization, to mountains such as Timpanagos and Tukhunikivats, to the mining country of Carbon County and to the various sites associated with the Mormon pioneers who settled Utah 150 years ago revealing that the land of the Latter-Day Saints has much to reward those who are curious enough to venture there. Ian ventures along a series of trails through the remoter and almost wholly ignored parts of the 'American Mountain West'. His travels are based on either cultural or geographic themes allowing him to gain both insight and knowledge of the region, and to experience the wilderness areas of some of America's most beautiful landscapes. Along the way he befriends many Mormons, a people readers will want to know more about given the candidacy of the first LDS Presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, in November's US elections. After opening with The Road to Zion, Ian ventures out first with an essay that conjoins Scotland and Utah through a chance meeting with a Utah mountaineer then deals with his experiences along the Cactus Ed Trail, which looks at Edward Abbey, author of Desert Solitaire. The essays that follow this are: On The Mormon Trail, The Brigadoon Trail, On The Trail of The Ancient Ones, On The Cowboy Trail, On The Indian Trail, The Hanksville Trail, On the Trail of the Mountain Men, and finally On the Miners' Trail. The book has a an introduction by acclaimed mountain and travel writer Jim Perrin.
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Book Bargain at StoryBundle (DF)

StoryBundle has a new group of ebooks you can buy at a bargain price, which you determine. The minimum you can pay is one dollar (to cover the payment processing fees) and you can pay any amount over that, but those that pay $8 or more get two bonus books in this bundle. The books are DRM-free, so you can convert as needed.

Here are the current books in the bundle:
On the Riverside of Promise by Vasileios Kalampakas
Unsettling May Have Occurred by The Editors of Damn Interesting
Hunting in Hell by Maria Violante
The Select by F. Paul Wilson
The Hour Before Dark by Douglas Clegg
The Disciple, Part I by L. Blankenship

If you pay more than the bonus price of just $8, you get two bonus books, which are:

The Halo Effect by M.J. Rose
Zombies of the World by Ross Payton
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Today's Deals 12/12

Don't forget to register for the gift card giveaway on Amazon's 12 Days of Book Deals promotion page. Today's book is the hardcover edition of Weeknights with Giada: Quick and Simple Recipes to Revamp Dinner for $3.99 (and they are going fast).

Today's Audible Daily Deal is Books 1 and 2 of The Hunger Games for only $4.95 ($3.95 if you already own the Kindle books). Members with credits can also shop the 12/12/12 BOGO boutique.

At Harlequin, Like them on Facebook and get 15% off your next order!

Join the festivities with 12 Days and 12 FREE comics during comiXology’s 12 Days of Gifting! Today, (until 1PM) get Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who: Assimilation #1 for FREE today from IDW Publishing! After 1PM, the free download will change.

Today's Kindle Daily Deal is Death of Kings ($1.99), the sixth and latest novel in the Saxon Chronicles series by Bernard Cornwell.
Book Description
The latest chapter in the epic saga of the making of England, magnificently brought to life by "the reigning king of historical fiction" (USA Today), Bernard Cornwell.

As the ninth century wanes, Alfred the Great lies dying, his lifelong goal of a unified England in peril, his kingdom on the brink of chaos. Though his son, Edward, has been named his successor, there are other Saxon claimants to the throne—as well as ambitious pagan Vikings to the north. Torn between his vows to Alfred and the desire to reclaim his long-lost ancestral lands in the north, Uhtred, Saxon-born and Viking-raised, remains the king's warrior but has sworn no oath to the crown prince. Now he must make a momentous decision that will forever transform his life and the course of history: to take up arms—and Alfred's mantle—or lay down his sword and let his liege's dream of a unified kingdom die along with him.

Today's Kindle Romance Daily Deal is Games of the Heart ($1.99), by Eva Shaw.
Book Description
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas? Not this time. Not by a long shot.

See, I'm usually the one who solves problems, being that I'm a minister and all. Yes, you heard it right. I might not look like one - i.e. rounded on all the right edges and a propensity to wearing clothes showing a smidge of cleavage. And it's true if you've heard that I have Victoria's Secret's site as my homepage.

Like it or not, that's me, Pastor Jane Angieski. I'm fully licensed, fully educated, and fully confused most of the time.

Truth is that if I could have just resisted the lure of dark chocolate I'd have stayed happily ignorant about sex slaves, black-market babies, cheatin' preachers, and an assortment of lowlifes that have intruded on my cluttered, fluttered, and frazzled life. And with that restraint, I would never have been rejected, arrested, and nearly exterminated. Or fallen in love. But wait, like always, I'm getting ahead of the story and how it all happened.

The breath-defying pace of the novel zings through a series of escapades worthy of a plus-size preaching protagonist in one of lisa Lutz's Spellman novels. Can Pastor Jane Angieski keep her nose out of trouble, her heart from hurting and her fantasies away from the handsome Antonio Banderas-looking Las Vegas Police Captain Tom Morales? Does she really want to?

Only Pastor Jane can multi-task the problems in store for her with the help of dark chocolate and plenty of Starbucks in hand.

Sensuality Level: PG rated; Christian mystery with a serving of romance.

Today's Kindle SciFi/Fantasy Daily Deal is What Our Eyes Have Witnessed ($0.99), by Stant Litore.
Book Description
Stant Litore’s The Zombie Bible retells biblical tales and ancient history as episodes in humanity’s long struggle with hunger … and with the hungry dead.

Father Polycarp has a Gift. He can bring peace and rest to the restless dead.

At his touch, each hungering corpse lies still at last. But to do this, Polycarp must first look into each one's blind eyes and find the remnant of the soul caught within the shambling corpse. He must witness its secrets, its suffering -- all that it loved and feared and regretted in its brief life. Only then can he absolve that soul and set it free. Only then will it cease to walk and feed.

But Polycarp has more than the dead to worry about: second-century Rome is bitterly divided. The patricians hope to appease their ancestors by lavishing food upon the tombs of the dead, even as the city’s poor starve in the streets. Blaming the rising of the dead on Polycarp and his followers, they seek his death, certain his rejection of the old ways has left the ancestors restless and starving for flesh.

To save the Eternal City, Polycarp will have to stand against the might and corruption of Roman justice and the terrible moaning of the ravenous dead in this captivating installment in the Zombie Bible series.

Here Lies Bridget ($2.23 / £1.39 UK), by Paige Harbison, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $7.19).
Book Description
Bridget Duke is the uncontested ruler of her school. The meanest girl with the biggest secret insecurities. And when new girl Anna Judge arrives, things start to fall apart for Bridget: friends don't worship as attentively, teachers don't fall for her wide-eyed "who me?" look, expulsion looms ahead and the one boy she's always loved—Liam Ward—can barely even look at her anymore.

When a desperate Bridget drives too fast and crashes her car, she ends up in limbo, facing everyone she's wronged and walking a few uncomfortable miles in their shoes. Now she has only one chance to make a last impression. Though she might end up dead, she has one last shot at redemption and the chance to right the wrongs she's inflicted on the people who mean the most to her.

And Bridget's about to learn that, sometimes, saying you're sorry just isn't enough….

Tidewater Inn ($2.99 Kindle, B&N), by Colleen Coble, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.
Book Description
Welcome to Hope Beach. A place of intoxicating beauty . . . where trouble hits with the force of a hurricane.

Inheriting a beautiful old hotel on the Outer Banks could be a dream come true for Libby. The inn cries out for her restorer’s talent and love of history. She’s delighted to learn of the family she never knew she had. And the handsome Coast Guard lieutenant she’s met there on the island could definitely be the man of her dreams.

But Libby soon realizes that the only way she can afford the upkeep on the inn is to sell it to developers who are stalking the island. The father who willed her the inn has died before she could meet him, and her newfound brother and sister are convinced she’s there to steal their birthright. Worst of all, her best friend and business partner has been kidnapped before her eyes, and Libby’s under suspicion for the crime.

Libby’s dream come true is becoming a nightmare. Her only option is to find her friend and prove her innocence, or lose everything on the shores of Hope Island.

Today's Kindle Teens Daily Deal is Billy Christmas ($1.99), by Mark A. Pritchard.
Book Description
When Billy's father mysteriously disappears and his mother responds by becoming more and more reclusive, Billy maintains hope that his father's absence is not by choice—despite the rumors and taunts of his classmates who believe otherwise. Twelve days before Christmas, Billy acquires a magical tree with a dozen ornaments, each of which holds a clue to finding his father. In order to do so, however, Billy must solve one puzzle each day, so he enlists the help of his best friend Katherine, not realizing that in doing so, he has placed them both in grave danger. The forces of evil that have captured Billy's father are revealed to be manifest in the landscape of their very own small hometown outside of Oxford, England, as well as in some of its seemingly benign inhabitants. A beautifully woven narrative with rich, compelling characters, this novel is sure to strike a chord with any fan of fantasy literature.
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