Game of the Day - Bookworm

Bookworm ($12.98), from PopCap Games, is today's Game Deal of the Day at Amazon. It looks like a very interesting word game for the Nintendo DS Lite or DSi and has almost all 5-star reviews. I have the (older) DS Lite and use it for word and number games - it's very portable (even more so than the Kindle) and I can get in a few minutes of play now and then (or during commercials on TV). If I didn't already have a console, I'd be interested in this new White DSi Bundle, which, at $210.75, includes 5 games: Brain Age Express: Math, Photo Clock, Brain Age Express: Sudoku, Brain Age Express: Arts & Letters, Clubhouse Games Express: Card Classics.

Book Description

• Boost scores and advance faster with Bonus Words and Reward Tiles and save your high scores and track your progress with the Lex-Ray.
• Form words from 20 themed book collections and unlock 18 rooms to build your customized libraries.
• Flex your lexicon in three game modes ¿ classic, action and wireless multiplayer.
• Pick up and play -- it's easy to start working wordy wonders in seconds.
• Unlimited levels to keep you rising up the ranks in the Hall of Fame.

A high-energy word puzzle game hosted by Lex the bookworm, Bookworm for DS/DSi challenges players use their vocabulary to create words from a play area of cascading individual letters. Time is of the essence though, as the play area contains red glowing letter tiles, that if unused will "burn down" the player's library if they reach the bottom of the screen, ending the game. The DS/DSi version of Bookworm contains the the same addictive action gamers have craved since the game appeared for PC, but also includes improvements like a wireless multiplayer mode and unlimited levels.

Free Book (EPUB) - The Me I Want to Be

The Christian publisher Zondervan is giving away a download of The Me I Want to Be ($9.99 Kindle), by John Ortberg, as part of a promotion for their ChurchSource Small Group Catalog. The only format available is EPUB, but there is no DRM, so it can be converted for most ereaders.

Book Description
God's vision is for each person to grow spiritually toward a life where the Spirit flows through them like a river. The Me I Want to Be guides readers through the great task and joy of becoming God's best version of ourselves. Bestselling author John Ortberg uses Scripture to confirm God's vision for his creation and reassure readers that this is God's project, not our own. Simply follow His lead and stay on task-not always easy for real people living in the real world. But this straightforward guide provides the inspiration and the tools people need for sidestepping the barriers they encounter. It also gives clear, practical instructions for building the skills and practices necessary for sustained spiritual growth.The Me I Want to Be resonates with Christians who are young or old, new or seasoned. It's the ideal guide for anyone who longs to be spiritually mature, fully alive, and more closely aligned with God's perfect vision.

Click HERE to access the catalog and begin your search. You need to find Gertie, the critter peeking out over the catalog in the picture at the right. I found her hanging of the edge of a page (but the location may vary for each person). Once you find her, click on her to start the process of getting the book. You'll have to click on the eBook link on that page, which will take you to a registration page for Zondervan's ChurchSource program. You can actually enter fake information on this page (or just tell them you don't want any follow up emails) and when you submit the info, you'll go to another page with the download code you need and a link on another website (ebits.net) where the book is actually stored. You'll need to create an account there and enter your code before you can download the book. You'll be given several options for where you'll be viewing the book - just choose Computer and EPUB as the format (EPUB is the only option, no matter where you tell it you want to read it), then pop the book into Calibre to convert it to a format you want (such as Mobi for the Kindle).

You can also register your church, HERE, to receive:

• FREE Church Leader Resource DVD—filled with audio, video, and print downloads to help you share with your staff and leadership team.
• FREE Consultation—Have questions about the campaign? Just mark the “contact me” button below and one of our church campaign consultants will help answer all your questions.

Free Game - Cake Mania Back to the Bakery

The free game this week at Sandlot Games is Cake Mania Back to the Bakery ($4.99 Amazon Game Downloads), the first followup game to Cake Mania ($6.99) which, as you may remember, was free at Amazon last September.

Game Description

• 36 all-new, fast-paced levels of baking!
• Help Jill renovate the Evans Bakery
• Customize your kitchen in the shop screen
• Hilarious new seasonal customers

In this all new adventure, Jill Evans™ has decided to renovate her grandparents' bakery in the hopes of winning them a deluxe grand prize - an all-expense-paid Hawaiian luxury cruise. With an all-new bakery to renovate, hilarious new characters, an all-new storyline and 36 levels of fast-paced baking, fans of Cake Mania can enjoy another great baking adventure!

Click HERE to sign up for the free download. For step by step purchase and installation instructions, see this post.

$1.99 Deals from 5 Spot

The publisher 5 Spot has five books marked down to $1.99 this month (Amazon only has one on their Big Deals page), all of which look to be light, humorous reads.

Knitting Under the Influence, by Claire LaZebnik

Book Description
When you're in your late twenties and nothing in your life seems to be falling into place, knitting is an awfully seductive way to spend your free time. After all, as long as you're following the instructions, you can knit row after row with the knowledge that the pattern will emerge and you'll end up with just what you wanted. Life, on the other hand, doesn't come with a stitch counter, so Kathleen, Sari, and Lucy, the heroines of Knitting Under the Influence, just have to figure things out as they go along.

Their weekly Sunday knitting circle is the only thing holding them together as Kathleen is cut off financially by her family and forced to enter "the real world" for the very first time at the age of twenty-seven, Sari finds herself falling for the man who made her life a living hell in high school but who now desperately needs her help, and Lucy finds herself torn between emotion and reason when her lab and her boyfriend are assailed by an animal-rights group.

At their club meetings, they discuss the really important questions: how bad is it, really, to marry for money if you like the guy a lot anyway? Can you ever forgive someone for something truly atrocious that they've done? Is it better to be unhappily coupled than happily alone? And the little ones: Can you wear a bra with a hand-knit tube top? Is it ever acceptable to knit something for a boyfriend? And why do your stitches become lopsided after your second martini?

I'm with Stupid, by Elaine Szewczyk

Book Description
A hilarious tale of girl meets boy, girl falls in lust, girl discovers boy is not playing with a full deck...

When Kas meets William while on safari in South Africa he seems perfect-a gorgeous park ranger, both kind and brave (he saved the tour from certain death by water buffalo). Her two best friends, Max, an endlessly scheming personal trainer, and Libby, a jobless bombshell, would like to get their hands on William...but he's only interested in Kas, an editorial assistant at a struggling New York literary agency who thinks William is out of her league. The two have a fling, and Kas returns home to New York wondering if she'll hear from William again. So when he finally sends an email, she's delighted.

Until she opens it.

The email is not quite the love missive Kas expected. Did she misjudge William? A miscommunication ensues, triggering a rapid-fire series of comic developments that, within days, bring William to New York, now under the impression that Kas has offered him a place to live. As he unveils his big plan to take Manhattan by storm and make his fortune, Kas finally recognizes how limited William's intellectual capabilities are: He makes Kevin Federline look like Albert Einstein.

Readers are along for the outrageous ride as Kas copes with her new roommate's eccentricities, including a preoccupation with the Psychic Friends Network and a passion for collecting Big Apple-themed souvenirs, and the realization that her dream man is a comic nightmare.

The Buenos Aires Broken Hearts Club, by Jessica Morrison

Book Description
28-year-old Cassie Moore has always played it safe, living life according to a meticulously organized Master Plan. But when she loses her Perfect Job and finds her fiancé in bed with his ex on the same day, it's clear that The Plan has failed her. She awakens the next day from a drunken stupor to discover that she's booked herself on a six-month trip to Buenos Aires. She speaks not a word of Spanish, but she's already emailed the news to everyone she knows, so there's no turning back. Once in Buenos Aires, Cassie is reluctantly seduced by this glorious city. Her exuberant landlady introduces her to the handsome but haughty Mateo, a man Cassie clashes with right from the start. She soon befriends other lovelorn travelers and together, they start a "Brokenhearts Club" at a local bar, attracting a cast of characters that includes Dan, a sweet handsome man who lives as carefully and predictably as Cassie. Before long, Cassie's making a new plan: 1. Learn Spanish. 2. Stop obsessing about impossible Mateo and fall for perfect-on-paper Dan. But staying on track isn't so simple anymore and Cassie finally realizes that sometimes life--and love--defies her best-laid plans.

Conversations with the Fat Girl, by Liza Palmer

Book Description
Everyone seems to be getting on with their lives except Maggie. At 26, she's still serving coffee at The Beanery Coffee House, while her friends are getting married, having babies, and having real careers. Even Olivia, Maggie's best friend from childhood, is getting married to the doctor with whom she lives. Maggie's roommate? Her dog Solo (his name says it all). The man in Maggie's life? Well there isn't one, except the guy she has a crush on, Domenic, who works with her at the coffee shop as a bus boy.Maggie and Olivia have been best friends since they were in grade school. Both fatties, they befriended each other when no one else would. Now grown-up, Maggie is still shopping in the "women's section" while Olivia went and had gastric-bypass surgery in search of the elusive size 2, the holy grail for girls everywhere. So now Olivia's thin and blonde and getting married, and Maggie's the fat bridesmaid. Ain't life grand? In this wonderful debut novel that is sure to remind readers of Jennifer Weiner's Good In Bed, Liza Orr is both witty and wise, giving voice to women everywhere who wish for just once that they could forget about their weight.

Carpool Diem, by Nancy Star

Book Description
Annie Fleming's family has always adjusted well to her hard driving career. How could they not? Annie keeps them in line at home with typed, edited, and proofed to-do and not-to-do lists for her husband, her babysitter, and her daughter. (No TV on a school night, please!) But when an obnoxious co-worker conspires to force Annie out of her job, she finds herself out of work and face-to-face with her family, who, it turns out, isn't quite as well-adjusted as Annie thought. Husband Tim doesn't have near the follow-through that Annie does (ordered to downsize his employees, he can't fire anybody!) And daughter Charlotte doesn't even try to make the local soccer team - a cut-throat, take-no-prisoners system run by Winslow West, a man who dreams of the Olympic gold his young charges will someday win for him.

Here Annie is unemployed and Charlotte's the one with the quitting attitude? Annie doesn't think so. She's determined to get Charlotte on the A team, but finds that the soccer sidelines are more cutthroat than a boardroom ever was.

You can get the same deal on these books in the Sony bookstore and in the Barnes and Noble store:
Knitting Under the Influence
I'm with Stupid
Buenos Aires Broken Hearts Club
Conversations with the Fat Girl
Carpool Diem

Fictionwise 100% Rebates: Grafton, Evanovich & Leigh

Fictionwise is running a 100% rebate deal on three authors this weekend: Sue Grafton, Janet Evanovich and Lora Leigh. Every one of their ebooks are included and you can use existing micropay to pay for the titles (except for those on the NYT Bestseller list, which require payment by Credit Card or PayPal to qualify for the rebate: Plum Spooky by Janet Evanovich and U is for Undertow by Sue Grafton).

Note that all of the titles are available only in DRM'd formats, so are not Kindle compatible. Most are available in Secure Mobipocket and eReader (nook compatible and the FW reader app on the iPhone) and quite a few show an ePub (nook/Sony) or PDF option (Sony). All, of course, have free reader software options for the PC and this is a cheap way to build up your library of these three bestselling authors.

If you don't have any credit there, you could start with the two NYT bestsellers above, then use that credit to buy a couple of books at a time, repeating until you have purchased them all. The deals on Evanovich are set to end today (which often means about 10am EST) and the other two end tomorrow.

Free Audiobook - She's Got It Bad

Audible.com currently has a free, unabridged download of She's Got It Bad, by Sarah Mayberry, narrated by Zoe Hunter.

Book Description
Twelve years ago, Zoe Ford let Liam Masters break her heart. But now? There's not a chance. Zoe is as tough and wild as they come. So when Liam shows up at her tattoo parlor, she's more than ready to take him on again. That's not going to be a hardship, since he's hotter than he ever was.

This time she's staying in charge. And she's not going to consider their score settled until he's hot, bothered, and begging for more! Then she'll move on as callously as he left her. Unless all that deliciously bad sex is just too good to give up....

Click HERE for the free download.

Free Book - Home of the Brave

Jeffry Hepple's Home of the Brave ($2.99 Kindle), the third in his Gone for Soldiers series, is finally being released, after a tussle with UPS, who lost his edited manuscript with the changes he wanted to incorporate before publication. For readers of this blog, he has created an exclusive coupon you can use to purchase a free copy of book, in any of several a DRM-free formats at Smashwords. In addition, the announcement for the book is only being seen here this weekend, so you can be one of the first to read it, before it is posted/announced in the Amazon and other Kindle book forums. Feel free to share the link to this post with anyone you think might want to read the book, but please don't share the discount code in other forums (it helps him track his sales).

Jeff's book are heavy on historical detail, which I consider a plus. You could start reading with Gone For a Soldier ($4.00 Kindle or Smashwords - see below for coupon on this one, also) and Land of the Free ($2.00 Kindle or Smashwords), the first two in the series, or start with this one as a stand-alone novel without feeling you have missed too much backstory.

Book Description
The Van Buskirk family becomes embroiled in the Texas Revolution and the Mexican War when Thomas resigns his commission and purchases a land grant from Stephen F. Austin.

Click HERE to find the book on Smashwords and use coupon code EJ93F during checkout for the discount, valid until the end of February. Although Jeff didn't ask (he's happy you are going to read his book), I'd ask that those who do read it consider adding a small review on either Amazon or Smashwords (links are all above). It doesn't have to be an opus, just a few sentences on what you enjoyed about the book. If you pick up Gone for A Soldier, you can use coupon code GH98N to get $2 off - the entire trilogy then costs you only $4.00.

2/21 Update: Here are some updated coupon codes, that expire at month end (but use the one above to get Home of the Brave for free).

• Coupon HY25U $0.99 Home of the Brave Number 1 best seller in historical fiction.
• Coupon UZ45J $0.99 Land of the Free Number 2 best seller in historical fiction.
• Coupon GH98N $2.00 Gone For a Soldier Number 5 best seller in historical fiction.

Politician pre-order $8.55

Add another another delayed ebook release to the discount bin. This time, it's Andrew Young's Politician ($8.55), which will be released on Kindle on April 27, 2010. The hardcover ($12.00) was released on January 30, so this is another one with a three month delay.

The price of this book will revert to $9.99 after the pre-order period ends on 4/26.

Book Description
The underside of modern American politics -- raw ambition, manipulation, and deception -- are revealed in detail by Andrew Young’s riveting account of a presidential hopeful’s meteoric rise and scandalous fall. Like a non-fiction version of All the King’s Men, The Politician offers a truly disturbing, even shocking perspective on the risks taken and tactics employed by a man determined to rule the most powerful nation on earth.

Idealistic and ambitious, Andrew Young volunteered for the John Edwards campaign for Senate in 1998 and quickly became the candidate’s right hand man. As the senator became a national star, Young’s responsibilities grew. For a decade he was this politician’s confidant and he was assured he was ‘like family.” In time, however, Young was drawn into a series of questionable assignments that culminated with Edwards asking him to help conceal the Senator’s ongoing adultery. Days before the 2008 presidential primaries began, Young gained international notoriety when he told the world that he was the father of a child being carried by a woman named Rielle Hunter, who was actually the senator’s mistress. While Young began a life on the run, hiding from the press with his family and alleged mistress, John Edwards continued to pursue the presidency and then the Vice Presidency in the future Obama administration.

Young had been the senator’s closest aide and most trusted friend. He believed that John Edwards could be a great president, and was assured throughout the cover-up that his boss and friend would ultimately step forward to both tell the truth and protect his aide’s career. Neither promise was kept. Not only a moving personal account of Andrew Young’s political education, THE POLITICIAN offers a look at the trajectory which made John Edwards the ideal Democratic candidate for president, and the hubris which brought him down, leaving his career, his marriage and his dreams in ashes.

Game of the Day - Big Kahuna Reef 2

Amazon's Game Download of the Day is a $1.79 download of Big Kahuna Reef 2, a sequel to the free game Big Kahuna Reef.

Game Description

• An Explosive Ocean Adventure.
• Discover More Than 40 Exotic Sea Creatures
• Over 750 Levels To Explore
• Quest To Become The Big Kahuna.

Go Hawaiian all over again with Big Kahuna Reef 2: Chain Reaction! This spectacular and explosively charged match-game of adventure will captivate you as you dive with Humpback Whales, discovering new and exotic fish at every turn. Creative designers from around the world deliver over 750 delightful and fantastical levels! With its breathtaking effects, dynamic explosions and thousands of new levels to download online, what are you waiting for? Come back to an underwater paradise!

Free Book (PDF) - Maneater

Thomas Emson's acclaimed werewolf novel Maneater ($12.78 Paperback at Amazon & at B&N) can be downloaded for free, in PDF format, from SnowBooks.

Book Description
She’s not sweet. She’s not nice. She doesn’t fight evil. She doesn’t protect the weak. She doesn’t work in an office by day and have a secret identity by night. She doesn’t have friends and family who know nothing about her, but when they find out they love her anyway. She’s not cool. She’s not clever. She’s not kind to animals. She won’t help children, the elderly, and those less fortunate than herself.

In fact, she doesn’t care. But if you hurt her, she will kill you. Actually, she’ll do worse than that. . .Meet Laura. She’ll eat you alive.

Click HERE to sign up for the book (you'll get an email with the download link). While you are there, you might check their home page, which has a short story by Emson (online read only) and another, The Shattered Teapcup, from George Mann (online, download or audio version).

Further down the page, you'll find a free download of Underlife ($9.95 Paperback), by Robert Finn, in several DRM-free formats. This is the third book in his Adept series, but chronologically is a prequel to Adept and Ex Machina ($9.99 each Kindle).

Book Description
Being a thief makes it difficult to meet the right girl. And when you do, something always gets in the way. Like finding yourself trapped underground, caught in a shoot-out, and with only a supernatural killer to protect you. And you still need to persuade her to part with her phone number.

Free Audiobook - In Bed with Susie Bright

In Bed with Susie Bright is an adult-oriented (and explicit) podcast at Audible.com and today they have a free sample that can be downloaded, #419: Are Your Genitals the Right Color?

Book Description
Looking for a youthful look? Don't think hair dye or eyelid lift, it's time to color your labia. My New Pink Button is a product designed to give aging genitals their original rosy hue. Well, Susie can barely stop laughing as she describes why none of us need this way-over-the-top beauty treatment.

Next, Susie takes a look at a question that has haunted many couples. Is it reasonable to ask your lover to stop watching porn? Does watching porn amount to cheating? Susie reads from Great Christina's article in the sex blog Blowfish. Susie has some great advice for young women who are threatened by their boyfriend's porn interest.

Then, in the Try This at Home mailbag we have a situation where the Dildo meets Mr. Clean. Susie answers a letter from a listener who is super-hygienic and wonders if it's okay to clean her dildo with Windex.

Click HERE for the free download. You can also check out her blog HERE (although it doesn't sync up with the podcast, it is also for adults only).

Read Wall Street Journal for free

Just a quick note - The online Wall Street Journal site is free for all to read today, due to sponsorship by Acura. It's an interesting model and perhaps it will catch on -- rather than making all news sites by subscription only, they will sell daily sponsorships (Acura has a banner across the top of the page) and let people read for free. Of course, then they'll need another hook for subscribers, to keep them paying, as well.

Free Shipping on Kindle for Valentines Day

You can give (or get) a Kindle or Kindle DX for Valentine’s Day with FREE Two-Day Shipping (offer valid for Continental U.S.). Giving Kindle as a gift? Be sure to check the box labeled “show gifting options” before you proceed to checkout so you can add a custom gift note and send the Kindle unregistered (although it does ship in an outer box that is clearly marked as a Kindle from Amazon).

Fine print:

Order Kindle or Kindle DX from 11:00 am PST on February 3 to 9:00 am PST on February 11 for delivery on or before February 13.

Free Book (DRM) - All the Pretty Girls

All the Pretty Girls ($3.60 Kindle), by J.T. Ellison, is free (for a limited time) at the eHarlequin website, in either PDF, LIT or MOBI format. Their formats all have DRM, so are not Kindle compatible. This is the first in her Taylor Jackson series, the rest of which are also available on Kindle: 14 ($5.04 Kindle), Judas Kiss ($5.04 Kindle) and, coming in March, The Cold Room ($5.76 Kindle).

Book Description
When a local girl falls prey to a sadistic serial killer, Nashville homicide lieutenant Taylor Jackson and her lover, FBI profiler Dr. John Baldwin, find themselves in a joint investigation pursuing a vicious murderer. The Southern Strangler is slaughtering his way through the Southeast, leaving a gruesome memento at each crime scene the prior victim's severed hand.

Ambitious TV reporter Whitney Connolly is certain the Southern Strangler is her ticket out of Nashville; she's got a scoop that could break the case. She has no idea how close to this story she really is or what it will cost her.

As the killer spirals out of control, everyone involved must face a horrible truth that the purest evil is born of private lies.

Click HERE to get the free book.

Free Book (ADE-PDF) - The Nature of the Book

It looked like University of Chicago Press' free book this month was only going to be a one-day download of Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates, but they've actually switched to another of Adrian Johns' titles for the rest of the month, the 776 page tome The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making ($29.92 Paperback). This one is also in PDF format (DRM'd, not Kindle compatible; requires Adobe Digital Editions).

Book Description
In The Nature of the Book, Adrian Johns transports his readers back to early modern England and the cauldron of creative and commercial forces in which print culture was formed. His uncanny eye for detail allows us to visit booksellers' shops and the Royal Society, paper manufactories and type foundries. We can eavesdrop on the often-bitter disputes between authors and printers, printers and booksellers, clerics and intellectuals as they debate and resolve the meaning and rights attached to the creation of ideas, their appearance in written form and then in print, and the opportunity to sell, buy, and read printed work. Johns focuses on the interplay between the scientific and print revolutions and on their roles, both complementary and antagonistic, in the production and dissemination of knowledge.

Click HERE to sign up for the free download.

Free Book (EPUB) - My Husband's Sweethearts

Random House in Australia has another free EPUB book in return for signing up for one of their newsletters: My Husband's Sweethearts ($9.99 Kindle), by Bridget Asher. Bridget also has a second book out in the Kindle store, The Pretend Wife ($9.99).

Book Description
When Lucy discovered that her charming, cheating husband was dying, she came home, opened up his little black book, and decided she wasn’t going through this alone. After all, Artie’s sweethearts were there for the good times—is it fair that Lucy should have to manage the hard times herself? In this wise, wickedly funny new novel, Lucy dials up the women in Artie’s black book and invites them for one last visit. The last thing she expects is that any will actually show up.

But one by one, they do show up: The one who hates him. The one who owes her life to him. The one he turned into a lesbian, and the one he taught to dance. And among them is a visitor with the strangest story of all: the young man who may or may not be Artie’s long-lost son.

For Lucy, the jaw-dropping procession of women is an education in the man she can’t forgive and couldn’t leave. And as the women find themselves sharing secrets and sharing tears, they start to discover kindred spirits—and even something that’s a lot like family. But Lucy knows one thing for certain: the biggest surprises are yet to come....

Full of heart, Bridget Asher’s unforgettable novel is about mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and the deep friendships between women. It’s about sweet liars and tenderhearted cheaters—about loving those we love for reasons we can’t always fully rationalize, and about the sort of forgiveness that can change someone’s entire life in the most unexpected and extraordinary ways.

Click HERE to sign up for the free book, which is not Kindle compatible and requires Adobe Digital Editions. Unlike the book last month, this one downloaded right away for me, so you shouldn't have any problems with it.

Free Game Download - Ballistik!

Sandlot Games has another game up as a free download. This week it's Ballistik ($6.99 Amazon Game Downloads); no reviews at Amazon yet, but I've played through the first level. The ball moves a bit slowly sometimes, but there are several interesting power-ups that I uncovered, letting you break up a more bricks at once, for short periods.

Game Description

• 3D Graphics And Effects
• Break Down Cool Shapes And Objects
• Over 100 Levels
• Go Ballistik With This Brick Buster.

Go Ballistik over this new brick buster! Ballistik features out of this world 3D graphics and effects, 100 hand-crafted levels, 17 unique powerups and ten intense bonus levels! Break down buildings, knights in armor, even a surfer on his surfboard! Play it today!

Click HERE to sign up for the free download. For step by step purchase and installation instructions, see this post.

Kindle Kandle on Sale

Kandle LED Book Light is currently on sale at Amazon for $25.00, with free Super Saver Shipping and handling. This booklight has been getting a lot of positive comments on the Kindle forums at Amazon and elsewhere (although not everyone loves it, so check the reviews). Looks like it is lighter weight and lights up a more even portion of the screen, but it is less adjustable than the Mighty Bright Light that I've been using (but the Mighty Bright can sometimes be difficult to convince to stay bent into the shape desired). The design matches the Kindle well (with a name that implies they have Amazon's blessing to be associated with the Kindle), but should also work on other ebook readers (and advertises itself as compatible with the Sony and "other" readers; I'd bet it works well with the nook, also). I do need another reading light (the non-LED ones I have are always using too many batteries or blowing bulbs; the two watch size batteries are estimated to last 25 hours and the LED's should last a lifetime), so I'll be ordering one myself.

Book Description

• New patent-pending WideLipTM grip that does not block the screen on the KindleTM, Sony® Reader and other eBook readers.
• Double pivoting arms allows for easy positioning and adjustment for tailored screen illumination.
• WideLipv grip also works perfectly on books without blocking text on the page.
• Powered by two lifetime x2 LEDs optimized to distribute uniform light without creating glare or eyestrain.
• Works perfectly as a stable, free-standing night light.

The Kandle features a new patent pending design that attaches to eBooks and printed books without blocking the screen or page. The perfect accessory for any eBook, the Kandle is designed for the Amazon KindleTM 1, 2, and DX, Sony® Reader Digital Books, and other eBook Readers. The Kandle boasts double pivoting arms that allow for easy positioning and adjustment to tailor the screen illumination and for avoiding any screen hot spots. The Main Pivoting Arm rotates 90 degrees from its closed position, and the Upper Pivoting Arm rotates another 90 degrees for complete customization. Unlike other eBook lights, the Kandle is powered by two lifetime x2 LEDs that are optimized to distribute light evenly without creating glare or eyestrain. Petite and light, the Kandle is ultra portable and folds into a closed position where the LEDs are fully protected from scratches or breakage. Ships with 2 CR2032 batteries included.

Free Audiobook - Religion Saves

ChristianAudio's free download this month is Religion Saves: And Nine Other Misconceptions by Mark Driscoll, narrated by Mark Driscoll ($7.99 Kindle). After adding the audiobook to your cart, enter the coupon code FEB2010 during checkout.

In his distinctively edgy—yet theologically sound—style, Pastor Mark Driscoll addresses the nine most pressing questions posed by visitors to the Mars Hill Church website.

Inspired by 1 Corinthians, in which Paul answers a series of questions posed by the people in the Corinthian church, in 2008 Pastor Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church in Seattle polled the visitors of his church's website to determine their most pressing questions. Visitors were allowed to vote up to 10 times per day, and in the end, 893 questions were asked and 343,203 votes were cast. The top nine questions are now each answered in this audio version of Religion Saves.

After an introduction devoted to the misconception that religion can save us, Driscoll tackles questions relating to birth control, humor, predestination, grace, sexual sin, faith and works, dating, the emerging church, and the regulative principle. Because the purpose of this audiobook is to address commonly asked questions, all listeners will find relevant, engaging material, presented in Driscoll's distinctively edgy - yet theologically sound - style.

Get your free audio download HERE (be sure to use the coupon code shown, so you won't get charged). After you finishing checking out, you will be asked which format you prefer - select MP3 if you want to be able to play the book on your Kindle.

Free Book (ADE/PDF) - Piracy

Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates ($23.10 Hardcover), by Adrian Johns, Tom Dreesen & Ron Rapoport, is can be downloaded for free today only, direct from the University of Chicago Press, although only in PDF format (DRM'd, not Kindle compatible; requires Adobe Digital Editions).

Book Description
Since the rise of Napster and other file sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a product of the digital age and that it threatens creative expression as never before. The Motion Picture Association of America, for instance, claimed that in 2005 the film industry lost $2.3 billion in revenue to piracy online. But here Adrian Johns shows that piracy has a much longer and more vital history than we have realized—one that has been largely forgotten and is little understood.

Piracy explores the intellectual property wars from the advent of print culture in the fifteenth century to the reign of the Internet in the twenty-first. Written with a historian’s flair for narrative and sparkling detail, the book swarms throughout with characters of genius, principle, cunning, and outright criminal intent: in the wars over piracy, it is the victims—from Charles Dickens to Bob Dylan—who have always been the best known, but the principal players—the pirates themselves—have long languished in obscurity, and it is their stories especially that Johns brings to life in these vivid pages.

Brimming with broader implications for today’s debates over open access, fair use, free culture, and the like, Johns’s book ultimately argues that piracy has always stood at the center of our attempts to reconcile creativity and commerce—and that piracy has been an engine of social, technological, and intellectual innovations as often as it has been their adversary. From Cervantes to Sonny Bono, from Maria Callas to Microsoft, from Grub Street to Google, no chapter in the story of piracy evades Johns’s graceful analysis in what will be the definitive history of the subject for years to come.

Click HERE to sign up for the free download.

Free Book and 50% Sale at ARe/OmniLit

The first book in Leigh Ellwood's Dareville Series, Truth or Dare ($4.80 Kindle), is available for free today from All Romance eBooks, in the following (DRM'd and non-Kindle friendly) formats: Epub, Mobipocket, Rocket, Microsoft Reader, Adobe Acrobat, HTML. Please note the content warning from the ARe site (missing on the Amazon site, which has no cover on the Kindle edition, but a much racier cover on the out-of-print paperback).

Book Description
Dare you let the truth get in the way of love? Rock and roll legend Brady Garriston is in a slump, careerwise and in his love life. He is desperate for a comeback (and a "cum" back), and finds a possible solution in masquerading in small town Dareville, where he can clear the slate and start fresh. Brady finds his muse in the lovely and uninhibited school teacher Ellie Shaw, and soon the two are making more than just beautiful music together. But will Brady's deception bring on a sour note to their relationship? And what of the secret Ellie is keeping from Brady?

Warning: This book includes: scenes of graphic heterosexual and homosexual (M/M, light F/F) sex, three-way sex (MMF), and anal sex (M/F)

Click HERE for the free book.

Even if this book isn't your cup of tea, you might want to check out some of the other titles at AllRomanceeBooks.com and OmniLit.com, as they are having a big sale this weekend. You will receive 50% off on all titles purchased on through this weekend if you enter the code SBTBARe1 in your shopping cart and click on the “Calculate Discount” button. This offer expires at midnight 31 January 2010, 11:59 PM Mountain Standard Time.

Bestsellers for $5 - $7

Dear John ($4.39 Kindle and B&N), by Nicholas Sparks. Read the book the movie is based upon.

Book Description
An angry rebel, John dropped out of school and enlisted in the Army, not knowing what else to do with his life--until he meets the girl of his dreams, Savannah. Their mutual attraction quickly grows into the kind of love that leaves Savannah waiting for John to finish his tour of duty, and John wanting to settle down with the woman who captured his heart. But 9/11 changes everything. John feels it is his duty to re-enlist. And sadly, the long separation finds Savannah falling in love with someone else. "Dear John," the letter read...and with those two words, a heart was broken and two lives were changed forever. Returning home, John must come to grips with the fact that Savannah, now married, is still his true love--and face the hardest decision of his life.

The Last Song ($4.99 Kindle and B&N), also by Nicholas Sparks.

Book Description
Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alientated from her parents, especially her father...until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. Ronnie's father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church.
The tale that unfolds is an unforgettable story of love on many levels--first love, love between parents and children -- that demonstrates, as only a Nicholas Sparks novel can, the many ways that love can break our hearts...and heal them.

The Lovely Bones ($4.99 Kindle and B&N), by Alice Sebold, is another book with a movie tie-in.

Book Description
Once in a generation a novel comes along that taps a vein of universal human experience, resonating with readers of all ages. The Lovely Bones is such a book - a phenomenal #1 bestseller celebrated at once for its narrative artistry, its luminous clarity of emotion, and its astoniishing power to lay claim to the hearts of millions of readers around the world.

"My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973."

---- So begins the story of Susie Salmon, who is adjusting to her new home in heaven, a place that is not at all what she expected, even as she is watching life on eath continue without her - her friends trading rumors about her disappearance, her killer trying to cover his tracks, her grief-stricken family unraveling.

Let the Great World Spin ($6.75 Kindle and B&N), by Colum McCann, was free as a PDF download from Oprah last August. For those that missed it or just got their Kindle this past holiday season, this is a good time to consider picking it up.

Book Description
In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter mile above the ground. In the streets below, a slew of ordinary lives become extraordinary in bestselling novelist Colum McCann’s stunningly intricate portrait of a city and its people.

Let the Great World Spin is the critically acclaimed author’s most ambitious novel yet: a dazzlingly rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s.

Corrigan, a radical young Irish monk, struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the burning Bronx. A group of mothers gather in a Park Avenue apartment to mourn their sons who died in Vietnam, only to discover just how much divides them even in grief. A young artist finds herself at the scene of a hit-and-run that sends her own life careening sideways. Tillie, a thirty-eight-year-old grandmother, turns tricks alongside her teenage daughter, determined not only to take care of her family but to prove her own worth.

Elegantly weaving together these and other seemingly disparate lives, McCann’s powerful allegory comes alive in the unforgettable voices of the city’s people, unexpectedly drawn together by hope, beauty, and the “artistic crime of the century.” A sweeping and radical social novel, Let the Great World Spin captures the spirit of America in a time of transition, extraordinary promise, and, in hindsight, heartbreaking innocence. Hailed as a “fiercely original talent” (San Francisco Chronicle), award-winning novelist McCann has delivered a triumphantly American masterpiece that awakens in us a sense of what the novel can achieve, confront, and even heal.

Game of the Day - The Great Tree

Amazon's Game Download of the Day is a $1.29 download of The Great Tree. I've played a bit of the demo and it is definitely a gorgeous game, with exceptional graphics. The gameplay is pretty simple, but engaging (although one commenter calls it boring - those addicted to action games on the PS3/Xbox will probably not find this to be their type of game).

Game Description

• Save Your People From The Ixies.
• Fantastical Power-Ups Will Aid You In Your Quest.
• 10 Gorgeous And Engaging Environments.
• Amazing Creatures To Test Your Skills.

Fly into a magical world of mystery and adventure told through beautiful drawings and mesmerizing gameplay with Reflexive's enchanting game: The Great Tree! When the Pollen Collectors are bewitched, the faeries' survival rests upon the shoulders of their children. This quest will lead them directly into the dangers of the forest, where there are whispers of something sinister lurking in the shadows. The tree's life runs short. Set forth now to save the faeries in this grown-up tale of good and evil!

Free Books in Exchange for Reviews

Jason Matthews would like to get some reviews for his two spiritual fiction novels and is giving away copies to anyone that would agree to do a review. The offer was made on the Amazon forums and the link posted in the clear, so I am repeating it here. I'd assume the link will stop working when he feels enough people have downloaded the book or he gets the reviews he is looking for. It's all on the honor system, but if you enjoy his book, the links below will take you to the pages where you can post a review. Note that I haven't read either one so far, so can't comment on the content or quality.

The Little Universe ($4.95 Kindle)

Book Description
Rose Adams, spiritual scientist, bets her atheist husband she will convince him that some form of God must exist. The only problem; now she’s dead.

Webster, astronomer and inventor, carries out Rose’s final project, the Universe Generator. If it works, it will house a self-contained miniature universe, a simulation of the Big Bang on a much smaller scale.

With the help of his handyman, Jon, and the project’s central computer, Jim, they succeed in fulfilling Rose’s dream. The little universe looks and acts exactly as their own, only tiny in comparison.

Whitney Adams, college aged daughter, and Frank Maxwell, project financier, join in with the search for what lies inside. With powerful cameras and the ability to accelerate the time flow within it, they explore for planets and for life. Before long they find life in abundance. It's primitive at first, but after accelerating it through eons of evolution they find places beyond their wildest dreams; worlds of advanced alien societies.

The project becomes an overnight goldmine. Frank exploits the newfound aliens, while Whitney becomes intrigued with one planet’s people. As they meditate ritually, she watches and sits in the labroom and meditates with them. In time, Whitney becomes a medium for their wisdom. They seem to have access to the Akashic records, the collection of all things known. They have the answer to any possible question, including where to find the soul of Rose.

The underlying theme of The Little Universe is the connection of all life with something beyond, something undefinable, and something miraculous. Join Webster and the crew and find out if Rose was able to win her bet, if she was able to convince her husband that some form of God must exist.

Jim's Life ($4.95 Kindle)

Book Description
A teenage boy on trial can see and heal the human light fields, drawing comparisons to Christ while the world argues over his case. Sequel to The Little Universe, Jim gets his wish for the full human experience.

Australia 2150 AD

Jim experiences a soul transfer with the body of a 15 year old boy who died in an accident while running from a crime. Jim is revived in the hospital with amnesia and brain damage that affects his pineal gland and vision processing. Too much DMT (Dimethyltriptamine) is produced, a naturally occuring neurochemical that causes dreams and spiritual hallucinations. His vision is permanently altered so that he can see the chakras and auras of people as well as his own luminosities.

In time he learns to work with these light fields and becomes a miracle healer, drawing comparisons to Christ. All the while he's on trial for a crime he didn't commit. As his case becomes a source of global interest, two things become clear; a brutal rape occured and he can now heal others by touch.

As the environment reaches a frenzy, everyone wants a part of Jim. Nurses want to sleep with him, endorsements come from every angle, skeptics come to debunk him, patients need his healing touch, and still others want to train him to use his gifts and become the teacher that he was destined to be.

An epic story of religion and spirituality, the courts of justice and the power of love. Subjects include past life recall, psychic connections, world religions, healing by touch, Merkaba and astral travel, Flower of Life, sacred geometry and more.

Click HERE for the free downloads. There are versions that can be read on all the major readers out there - Kindle, EPUB and PDF.

Pre-Order New Releases under $9

John Lescroart's The Hunt Club ($3.61) isn't a quite a new release, since hardcover was published in early 2006, but it's a new to Kindle release still in the pre-order stage until June 1, 2010. The digital list price is $9.99, but the Kindle price is currently lowered to the same as the older hardcovers they are clearancing out (which means the price will probably go back up as soon as that inventory surplus is cleared).

Book Description
At first, The Hunt Club had a membership of one: private investigator Wyatt Hunt. Since then, others have joined with a common interest in obtaining justice. One member, inspector Devin Juhle, has just caught a major case: the shooting of a sixty-three-year old federal judge and his twentysomething mistress...

While Juhle works, Hunt plays, hooking up with TV star and legal analyst Andrea Parisi. But before Hunt knows it, Juhle's case will be of great interest to the members of The Hunt Club. Especially to Hunt himself-as Andrea's card is found in the wallet of one of the victims.

False Convictions ($8.31), by Tim Green. The price of this book will revert to $9.99 after the pre-order period ends on 5/10.

Book Description
In bestselling author Tim Green's latest thriller, Casey Jordan returns-seeking justice in a small town riddled with....

FALSE CONVICTIONS

Casey is counting on an open-and-shut case, a sure success for her first effort with the Freedom Project, the renowned charity group dedicated to helping exonerate wrongfully convicted prisoners. Not only is the Freedom Project giving Casey the chance to help innocent people, but its founder, Robert Graham, is offering Casey a one-million-dollar annual pledge to her legal clinic for taking on just two jobs a year.

Her first assignment is to revive the case of Dwayne Hubbard, an indigent black man serving a life sentence for the rape and murder of a college student seventeen years ago. Using DNA evidence, Casey expects to easily prove Hubbard's innocence. Yet when she arrives in rural Auburn, New York, she meets immediate and aggressive resistance.

Tormented by death threats and assassination attempts, Casey investigates a prosecution apparently rife with lies. From the judge, the lawyers, the jury, to the police, she traces a web of corruption surrounding the destruction of one young man. But in all the chaos, Casey's hardest challenge may be just staying alive.

Free Book (Smashwords) - Mighty Hammer Down

Mighty Hammer Down ($0.99 Kindle), by David J. Guyton, which I bought this last January on the Kindle, is available for free on Smashwords using coupon code WV84F, which is valid thru March 18, 2010. This is the first in his Legend of Reason series, with the second book planned to release in the next few months. The only issue I have with free version is that he didn't check the box to get a Kindle version published, so you'll have to download a different format and convert it (EPUB and use Calibre or PDF if you want to use the free Amazon conversion).

Book Description
A longstanding peace is about to be shattered by villains in the shadows of Medora. They conspire with distant nations to cripple the western Empire and spread their venom eastward. In their secretive attempt, they stumble across the power to slay Arius, the god of war, and replace him with a human puppet. That mission fails however, and they not only pave the path for the seven gods to walk the earth, but create a god of war who is bent on their destruction. He clumsily learns to use his powers and hones them into a powerful weapon to wield against the Mages and their twisted vision of society. In the chaos, a great war ignites and threatens all nations and cultures.

Rommus has no idea that he has become the new god of war. He also has no idea that his companion Alana is responsible for the assassination attempt on his father, the General of the Medoran army. While the Medoran Legions head east to aid the Vindyri in their battle against the oppressive Bhoors, Rommus follows the visions he sees in his dreams, pulling him north towards the Land of the Gods. Along the way they meet a strange man named Vohl who claims to be immortal, and the three of them end up before the golden throne of the great god Oderion. But Rommus refuses to be like the uncaring gods, and quickly makes six very powerful enemies.

In all of this mayhem, the small flames of the old magic roar to mighty infernos; burning some and lighting the way for others. Great beasts now walk the earth again, and the gods themselves have come down to influence the world of man once more. But the new god of war is not interested in their agenda, and instead joins the battle on the Vindyri planes. He fights with all his might for the freedom of mankind, struggling to bring light to the coming darkness.

Click HERE to get the book at Smashwords.

Free Book - The Windup Girl

The fantasy short story collection The Windup Girl ($10.08 Paperback pre-order), by Paolo Bacigalupi, can be downloaded for free, directly from Night Shade Books. they are currently offering both a PDF and EPUB version. You can put the PDF directly onto the newer Kindles, but I dropped the EPUB version into Calibre and let it convert it to MOBI format for the Kindle.

Book Description
Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko. Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New People, Emiko is not human; instead, she is an engineered being, creche-grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of a Kyoto businessman, but now abandoned to the streets of Bangkok. Regarded as soulless beings by some, devils by others, New People are slaves, soldiers, and toys of the rich in a chilling near future in which calorie companies rule the world, the oil age has passed, and the side effects of bio-engineered plagues run rampant across the globe. What Happens when calories become currency? What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits, when said bio-terrorism's genetic drift forces mankind to the cusp of post-human evolution? In The Windup Girl, award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi returns to the world of "The Calorie Man" (Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award-winner, Hugo Award nominee, 2006) and "Yellow Card Man" (Hugo Award nominee, 2007) in order to address these poignant questions.

To get the books for free, send an email to Night Shade Books (click the link for the address). If you are interested in a book club discussion of the book, you'll want to read this post at io9.

Free Books (Smashwords) - Refuge of Delayed Souls

Miladysa has released the second volume of her Refuge of Delayed Souls series and is making it available for a limited time as a free download at Smashwords. For those who missed volume 1 when it was free, there is a new coupon for it as well.

Billy: Refuge of Delayed Souls II. Use coupon code WF76B QF33B (new coupon code, see comments below), valid thru February 27.

Book Description
Elizabeth Whyte's investigations into the past and the supernatural continue. A barguest wreaks havoc on the moors above the town and Billy Lawrence is introduced to the world of RoYds.

RoYds: Refuge of Delayed Souls. Use coupon code SX58C, valid until the end of February.

Book Description
In a story spanning many lifetimes, we follow Elizabeth Whyte's journey as she investigates the supernatural & seeks information about her own past, all while trying to keep a balance between the light & the darkness in her work for an agency known as the Refuge of Delayed Souls. A world where ghosts, angels, the Living & others exist side by side, although not always in harmony.

Free Book (Sony) - Dear John Screenplay

Based upon the novel Dear John ($4.39 Kindle), by Nicholas Sparks, the Dear John Screenplay, by Jamie Linden, is available for free in the Sony bookstore. Actually, the novel is a bargain price in the Kindle store (it's $9.99 for Sony), so you might even want to pick up both.

Book Description
An angry rebel, John dropped out of school and enlisted in the Army, not knowing what else to do with his life--until he meets the girl of his dreams, Savannah. Their mutual attraction quickly grows into the kind of love that leaves Savannah waiting for John to finish his tour of duty, and John wanting to settle down with the woman who captured his heart. But 9/11 changes everything. John feels it is his duty to re-enlist. And sadly, the long separation finds Savannah falling in love with someone else. "Dear John," the letter read...and with those two words, a heart was broken and two lives were changed forever. Returning home, John must come to grips with the fact that Savannah, now married, is still his true love--and face the hardest decision of his life.

This one isn't showing up on the Bargain Priced page in the Sony Store. So, once you are in the eBook Store in the reader software, either search for it by name or ISBN number: 9781102067665.

Free Reads - Harper Collins Teen

Harper Collins Teen has added three new books to their Full Access online reading promotion (which changes somewhat frequently) since my last posts on them in early December.

Wondrous Strange ($5.59 Kindle), by Lesley Livingston

Book Description
Since the dawn of time, the Faerie have taken. . . .

For seventeen-year-old actress Kelley Winslow, faeries are just something from childhood stories. Then she meets Sonny Flannery, whose steel-gray eyes mask an equally steely determination to protect her.

Sonny guards the Samhain Gate, which connects the mortal realm with the Faerie's enchanted, dangerous Otherworld. Usually kept shut by order of icy King Auberon, the Gate stands open but once a year.

This year, as the time approaches when the Samhain Gate will swing wide and nightmarish Fae will fight their way into an unsuspecting human world, something different is happening . . . something wondrous and strange. And Kelley's eyes are opening not just to the Faerie that surround her but to the heritage that awaits her.

Now Kelley must navigate deadly Faerie treachery-and her growing feelings for Sonny-in this dazzling page-turner filled with luminous romance.

The Summoning ($5.59 Kindle), by Kelley Armstrong, is the first book in her Darkest Powers series; the fourth book will be published in April.

Book Description
My name is Chloe Saunders and my life will never be the same again.

All I wanted was to make friends, meet boys, and keep on being ordinary. I don't even know what that means anymore. It all started on the day that I saw my first ghost -- and the ghost saw me.

Now there are ghosts everywhere and they won't leave me alone. To top it all off, I somehow got myself locked up in Lyle House, a "special home" for troubled teens. Yet the home isn't what it seems. Don't tell anyone, but I think there might be more to my housemates than meets the eye. The question is, whose side are they on? It's up to me to figure out the dangerous secrets behind Lyle House . . . before its skeletons come back to haunt me.

Lockdown ($9.99 Kindle), by Walter Dean Myers

Book Description
When I first got to Progress, it freaked me out to be locked in a room and unable to get out. But after a while, when you got to thinking about it, you knew nobody could get in, either. It seems as if the only progress that's going on at Progress juvenile facility is moving from juvy jail to real jail. Reese wants out early, but is he supposed to just sit back and let his friend Toon get jumped? Then Reese gets a second chance when he's picked for the work program at a senior citizens' home. He doesn't mean to keep messing up, but it's not so easy, at Progress or in life. One of the residents, Mr. Hooft, gives him a particularly hard time. If he can convince Mr. Hooft that he's a decent person, not a criminal, maybe he'll be able to convince himself. Acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers offers an honest story about finding a way to make it without getting lost in the shuffle.

Click HERE and then on the Full Access tab for the free reads - there are currently five books available.

Free Read (Scribd) - Debt Hope

For a limited time, you can read the full text of Debt Hope: Down and Dirty Survival Strategies ($8.99 Kindle), by Mark S. Hankins, online at Scribd. This is a PDF version of the book, but no downloads are allowed. It's a pretty nice idea - you can preview any part of the book you wish, but to study it in depth, you'll want to buy a copy to keep (and read more comfortably than in Scribd's viewer).

Book Description
The official e-book of the Debtors' Revolution. 140 pages of inside information and actionable strategies. 180 footnotes hyperlinked to source material on the web. Ann Minch says "You Need This Book!"

The American middle class is being destroyed by credit card debt. As of December 2009 we are looking at 11% or better chargeoff rates overall through Summer 2010 according to Moody's and Fitch. Debtors need to know how to get through the pandemic of ratejacking and fee harvesting that the major credit card banks are using to shore up their sagging balance sheets. If you can't pay, you need to know what's coming and how to handle it. Bankruptcy is harder to use and provides less relief than it once did. To protect yourself and your family when you have defaulted debt in your life you need to understand who you're going to come in contact with and how to handle them.

Where other books are 90% polemic and 10% practical solutions, this book provides key information regarding the industry, its tricks, traps and vulnerabilities. It's what you need to know before you head into the rapids.

Click HERE for the free read.

Free Game Download - Eye for Design

Sandlot Games has another game up as a free download. This week it's Eye for Design ($6.99 Amazon Game Downloads); only one review at Amazon so far, but it is compared to the decorating portion of the Sims games, with some puzzle elements thrown in.

Game Description

• Design 52 Different Homes.
• 7 Uniquely Themed Neighborhoods.
• More Than 200 Challenging Levels.
• Bonus Rooms Awarded For Excellent Play.

After attending the most prestigious interior decorator academy in Paris, and graduating at the top of her class, Halle is ready to take the next step; starting her own business! Design and decorate dream homes for Halle's stylistically demanding clientele - from single-room studio apartments to elaborate multi-room mansions - while choosing from hundreds of colorful, chic accessories and pieces of furniture in this challenging, puzzle-filled adventure! It's time to show off your Eye for Design!

Click HERE to sign up for the free download. For step by step purchase and installation instructions, see this post.