Free Nook App - Wordsearch Deluxe

Wordsearch Deluxe (no Amazon or Google edition available), by Astraware, is this week's Free Friday App from Barnes & Noble.

App Description
Word search is a popular pastime everyone enjoys! In each puzzle you are given a list of words and you need to find them hidden in a grid full of letters. For this reason, word search puzzles are also known as Word Seek, Word Find or Word Sleuth games.

Astraware Wordsearch Deluxe offers over 1000 puzzles in different themes. You can also download and play a new Daily word search each day - top the global leaderboard by completing the puzzle in the fastest time! For more of a challenge there is a Weekender puzzle available each Friday with an even bigger grid.

Great features include:

• A collection of over 1000 built-in word searches
• Over 12 categories of words for themed word searches
• Words may run horizontally or vertically, forwards or backwards. Hard puzzles also include words diagonally!
• Unlimited access to our Daily and Weekender puzzles*
• Intuitive interface
• 4 save slots available to have several word search on the go at once, so you can stop for a break and come back to a puzzle later

Get the free App from Barnes & Noble.

Kindle Daily Deals 5/31

Today's Gold Box at Amazon saves 61% on "Indiana Jones: The Complete Adventures" on Blu-ray. The current Lightning Deal is $200 off a Sony HDRPJ260V High Definition Handycam 8.9 MP Camcorder with 30x Optical Zoom, 16 GB Embedded Memory and Built-in Projector, which normally isn't discounted at all. It's a pretty neat idea, bypassing the need for anyone to figure out how to connect the camcorder to a television in order to view what you've recorded (and you can watch outside, where everyone can see). If you do want to connect to your computer, the USB cable is built-in, so you can't lose it or leave it behind.

Amazon's Android Free App of the Day is Genius Scan, which turns your phone or your Kindle Fire into a scanner.

Today is the last day to take advantage of these deals and it's also the last day for those on Prime to pick out and borrow a book thru Prime Lending.

• 25 Children's Books for $2 Each (AL)
• 30% Off Qualifying Kindle Accessories (AL)
• Sign Up and Get a Selected Kindle Book for Free

Today's Kindle Daily Deal is Strong Poison ($1.99), the sixth novel in the Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries series by Dorothy L. Sayers [Open Road].

Book Description
She is lovely, smart, and talented—and only Lord Peter can save her from the gallows

Lord Peter Wimsey comes to the trial of Harriet Vane for a glimpse at one of the most engaging murder cases London has seen in years. Unfortunately for the detective, the crime’s details are distractingly salacious, and there is little doubt that the woman will be found guilty. A slightly popular mystery novelist, she stands accused of poisoning her fiancé, a literary author and well-known advocate of free love. Over the course of a few weeks, she bought strychnine, prussic acid, and arsenic, and when her lover died the police found enough poison in his veins to kill a horse. But as Lord Peter watches Harriet in the dock, he begins to doubt her guilt—and to fall in love.

As Harriet awaits the hangman, Lord Peter races to prove her innocence, hoping that for the first time in his life, love will triumph over death.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dorothy L. Sayers including rare images from the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College.

Today's Kindle Romance Daily Deal is The Scandalous Marriage ($1.99), by M. C. Beaton, writing as Marion Chesney [RosettaBooks].

Book Description
As far as matrimonial prospects were concerned, Lucy Bliss was told she’d make an excellent clergyman’s wife.

Her mother, however, had loftier aspirations for her lovely younger sister Belinda. Belinda would marry a duke. More specifically, the Duke of Wardshire. Lucy was truly horrified. “Lucifer” Wardshire! Why, he was rumored to be as wicked as the devil, with orgies and mistresses—and worse!

As the London Season unfolded, Lucy couldn’t decide who was more abominable, her vulgar mama or the arrogant yet disconcertingly handsome duke. No matter, Lucy vowed to go to any lengths to protect her sister, even if her mission should take her into the very arms of the devilish duke himself….

Today's Kindle SciFi/Fantasy Daily Deal is The Bridge ($1.99), by bestselling author and screenwriter John Skipp & Craig Spector [47North]. This was originally issued in print by Spectra/Bantam, then Leisure, but is now under on of Amazon's imprints.

Book Description
When the great storm comes, the good life ends. And hell on Earth begins. For 100 years we’ve been tossing our toxic waste over our shoulders. No more. This morning, while we slept, something woke up. It’s virulent. Malign. Intelligent. Ambitious. It’s in our food, our water, our air. It’s inside our bodies themselves. And it’s not leaving. We are.

Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is Throw Like a Girl: How to Dream Big and Believe in Yourself ($2.99), by two-time Olympian Jennie Finch and award-winning sportswriter Ann Killion [Triumph Books].

Book Description
Dream Big and Believe in Yourself

In a society that sends incredibly mixed identity messages, sports help preteen and teenage girls make the right choices. Athletic girls not only grow up to be healthier; they learn teamwork, gain self-confidence, and mature into society s leaders.

Throw Like a Girl inspires, motivates, and answers questions about issues specific to today s female athletes. NCAA softball champion, two-time Olympian, and sports icon Jennie Finch offers sound advice on how to translate the lessons she learned from sports into everyday life.

Topics including body image, femininity vs. sports, peer pressure, nutrition, and the balancing act today s young women construct between school, extra-curricular activities, family, and friends are addressed in an engaging and instantly relatable personal style. Fiercely competitive and fashionably cool, Jennie fills the role of girlfriend, big sister, team captain, and mentor as she offers candid observations from personal experience bound to resonate with young women everywhere and inspire them to dream big, work hard, and believe in themselves.

Nook Daily Find 5/31

Murder Is Binding ($7.99 Kindle, $2.99 B&N), the first novel in Lorna Barrett's Booktown cozy mystery series [Berkley/Penguin], is the Nook Daily Find; this should be price matched on Kindle, since Penguin is one of the few remaining Agency pricing publishers. I've reported the price difference on the Amazon product page and expect it to drop later today. The Audible companion audiobook is $7.99.

Book Description
The streets of Stoneham, New Hampsire are lined with bookstores...and paved with murder.

When she moved to Stoneham, city slicker Tricia Miles met nothing but friendly faces. And when she opened her mystery bookstore, she met friendly competition. But when she finds Doris Gleason dead in her own cookbook store, killed by a carving knife, the atmosphere seems more cutthroat than cordial. Someone wanted to get their hands on the rare cookbook that Doris had recently purchased-and the locals think that someone is Tricia. To clear her name, Tricia will have to take a page out of one of her own mysteries-and hunt down someone who isn't killing by the book

UK Kindle Daily Deal 5/31

The Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK is all three titles in the Tir Tanagiri/Sulien series by Jo Walton [Corsair] for £0.99 each (~80% off).

The King's Peace (Main/UK; US edition $7.59)

Sulien ap Gwien is seventeen years old when the Jarnish invasion begins, and strong enough to match any one of their raiders in battle. But when they do come, she finds herself unarmed and at their mercy. As she watches her attackers walk away from where she lies bound, she vows revenge.

With the land around her disintegrating and no help forthcoming, Sulien rides out in search of King Urdo, a young ruler fighting to create unity in a country where there is none.

What follows is the beginning of an alliance that will shape the course of history in Tir Tanagiri as well as the rest of Sulien's life.

The King's Name (Main/UK; US edition $7.59)

Years have passed since the Jarnish invasion, and Sulien ap Gwien has worked tirelessly alongside her lord, King Urdo, to restore the King's Peace to Tir Tanagiri. But the man Sulien believes to be the greatest of his time is seen by others as a potential tyrant. Urdo's vision of a nation of citizens bound by a single code of law is viewed with increasing mistrust, and this soon gives way to civil war.

Sulien must take up arms again. But where once her enemies were barbarian invaders, now they are former comrades and loved ones. As the conflict tears her country and her family apart, Sulien must fight harder and harder to hold onto Urdo's vision of the future.

The Prize in the Game (Main/UK; US edition $7.59)

On the island of Tir Isarnagiri, Gods stalk the land, laying subtle but inescapable dooms upon the feuding kingdoms there.

The lives of four young friends - Conal, Emer, Darag, and Ferdia - have been intertwined since their births. Each is destined for kingship in his own land. But when they unwittingly incur the wrath of the Horse Goddess, they find that ties of friendship - and even love - may not be enough to prevent their countries from attacking each other in a war that will devastate the island - and alter their fates are forever.

Quick Squidoo Note

Just a quick note - my Squidoo page has been taken down by Squidoo's automatic spambots. I've sent in a request for review by an actual person, but they don't promise any speed on replying to such requests (and they don't look at them on weekends). So, until then, you'll need to do searches on your Kindle for any free books I turn up. I'll let you know when Squidoo decides to re-enable the page (it was up to #14 on their site, so hopefully they won't keep it disabled).