All Romance Earth Day Free Book - Truth or Dare

Truth or Dare ($4.99 list), by Leigh Ellwood, the first in the Dareville series. Be sure to check the content warning on this one first (which nearly needs a warning of it's own).

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)

To purchase: Click Add to Cart or Buy Now and you'll see an automatic discount for the full price of the book. Be sure to complete the entire check out process (which takes about three pages of clicking), all the way until you see a link for the download (I've missed a book or two in previous promotions at this site, as I thought I was done, but didn't get all they way thru to the end). Available in the following (usually drm-free) formats: Epub, Mobipocket, Rocket, Microsoft Reader, Adobe Acrobat, HTML. If you want more than one format, you'll need to purchase the book more than once, but you get the discount each time.

There will be one of these a day, until April 21. I'll try to post the link each day, as I find out which one it is. If you find it first, feel free to leave note here in comments and I'll get a post up for everyone else.

Game of the Day - The Dark Legions

Amazon's Game Download of the Day is a $2.95 download of The Dark Legions. This one looks pretty interesting and I'm downloading the free trial as I post.

Book Description

• Realistic 3D Environment.
• 18 Unique Units At Your Command.
• Different Terrain Themes And Weather.
• Immersive Story Driven Campaign.

Prepare yourself for a real time strategy game set in the dark medieval ages! With 18 unique units at your command, you can fight epic battles between large armies as you build your empire through immersive story driven missions in Campaign Mode. You can also prove your strength against computer players on randomly generated missions, as well! The choice is yours! Let The Dark Legions take you on the quest of a lifetime today!

Music to Read By

It's not quite as long as I Love the 80s, Vol. 1, which I highlighted in January and which is still free, but I Love the 70s (1770s & 1870s) still gives you an hour of good classical music to read by.

• Performers: Johannes Brahms, Antonin Dvorak, Edouard Lalo, Carl Stamitz, Takako Nishizaki, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Johann Baptist Vanhal, Donald Armstrong, Jeno Jando, Benjamin Godard, Antoni Wit, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Jaroslav Krecek, Ilya Kaler, Bernd Glemser, Maria Kliegel, Franz Joseph Haydn, Stephen Gunzenhauser, New Zealand Chamber Orchestra, Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice, Toronto Chamber Orchestra, Pietari Inkinen, Kirk Trevor, Capella Istropolitana, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Christopher Hinterhuber, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Kevin Mallon
• Composers: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Carl Stamitz, Franz Joseph Haydn, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Antonin Dvorak, Edouard Lalo, Johannes Brahms, Johann Baptist Vanhal, Benjamin Godard
• Conductors: Jaroslav Krecek, Pietari Inkinen, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Kirk Trevor, Kevin Mallon, Donald Armstrong, Antoni Wit

Also free and classical, yet a little more modern, is Decca & Deutsche Grammophon: The Con Brio Digital Sampler - Artists With Vigor And Spirit

Not free, but bargain priced is The 99 Most Essential Debussy Masterpieces, an Amazon exclusive and currently only $5.00 as part of this month's 100/$5: 100 Albums for $5 Each promotion at Amazon. A few others I noticed on that promotion that are worth checking out:

• Money Jungle
• Birth Of The Cool (Rudy Van Gelder Edition)
• Super Hits: Billie Holiday

Back to free downloads, the X5 Free Sampler - Blues and Country Legends is a short one, with five cuts from Lightnin' Hopkins, Muddy Waters, Hank Snow, Canned Heat,Woody Guthrie, but is well worth downloading.

The Christian Music Sampler, by The O'Neill Brothers, is another long sampler at over an hour. If you prefer vocals to instrumentals, you might also want to check out some of these free singles:

• I'm Singing
• Praise His Name
• Just Wanna Say
• Awesome God

A few more free samplers:

• Six Degrees Records Global Grooves Sampler
• Frenchkiss Records Super Sampler
• March 2010 Saddle Creek Sampler
• Music In Progress, Vol. II [+Digital Booklet]
• Beehouse Records Spring Sampler - 2010

All Romance Earth Day Free Book - The Third Wish

The Third Wish ($4.50 list), by K. F. Zuzulo.

Book Description
On a dig in the Jordan desert, archaeologist Bridget Devine unleashes cursed and captivating jinni Ashura-Goreem…and her own sensual awakening.

The jinni must fulfill three wishes before he is free to settle a 3,000-year-old score, so his attraction to Bridget is a distraction he can’t afford.

Bridget soon realizes that she is the captive—bound to Ash by desire and unwilling to let him go. But time is running out for the jinni. As an enemy from his ancient past returns, Ash must decide between freedom and love.

The third wish will either release Ash or destroy him.

To purchase: Click Add to Cart or Buy Now and you'll see an automatic discount for the full price of the book. Be sure to complete the entire check out process (which takes about three pages of clicking), all the way until you see a link for the download (I've missed a book or two in previous promotions at this site, as I thought I was done, but didn't get all they way thru to the end). Available in the following (usually drm-free) formats: Adobe Acrobat, HTML, Mobipocket, Epub. If you want more than one format, you'll need to purchase the book more than once, but you get the discount each time.

There will be one of these a day, until April 21. I'll try to post the link each day, as I find out which one it is. If you find it first, feel free to leave note here in comments and I'll get a post up for everyone else.

Tax Day Deal from Edward C. Patterson

Two deals at Smashwords today from Edward C. Patterson. First, get Oh, Dainty Triolet ($2.99 list; Kindle), for $0.99 using coupon code LA82Y VU84M at checkout (valid today only thru April 20 ... thanks Ed!).

Book Description
Oh, Dainty Triolet is a compilation of three of Edward C. Patterson’s most popular works into an Omnibus Edition comprising Cutting the Cheese, Bobby’s Trace and No Irish Need Apply. Cutting the Cheese is a comic romp through the world of gay activism. Bobby’s Trace is a ghost story with an unusual twist. No Irish Need Apply is a teenage coming of age story in a world fraught with prejudice.

Second, he has updated Surviving an American Gulag ($0.99 Kindle). Since you can't easily get an update version of a book at Amazon, he is offering all existing and any new readers a free copy at Smashwords, using coupon code XE87F, valid thru April 26.

Book Description
Private Winslow Gibbs has been drafted in 1967 at the height of the Vietnam war. He is out of shape, two-hundred and seventy pounds and a bundle of nerves. He also has issues of a different nature, but in these days before the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, these are dealt with according to the book. Welcome to the Special Training Unit where the misfits are driven in the American Gulag.

Second Chance at Elvis and SEALed with a Kiss

Due to the technical glitches at All Romance eBooks, yesterday's free book, SEALed with a Kiss, is free today as well. If you missed it or haven't downloaded it, be sure to grab it today (many of yesterday's orders didn't end up in the individual libraries, as happened to me, so be sure that it is in your library before passing up this second chance).

Also, yesterday's one-day deal on Elvis is still active, so if you are fan you may want to grab it before it disappears, as well.

As for me, I'm heading out to get my free coffee and read one of my free books. I just finished up Jim Butcher's Changes (Dresden Files, Book 12) ($9.99 Hardcover) last night (about 3am), so need a new one to get started. I'll be glad to get back to the Kindle, after fighting with the 400+ page hardcover edition (propping it open with one hand underneath, it left red marks on my hand from the weight, plus it is so much more awkward to read in bed). On the other hand, the book definitely did not disappoint, with action from beginning to end (or is it THE END? Only time will tell). Hopefully they'll have the contracts figured out by the next book Butcher releases (or I'll have to buy it at kobo or Barnes & Noble - I could have purchased this book in either store for $12.99 plus tax, but only in epub or ereader formats, which are not Kindle compatible).

Free Coffee with your Books Today

As a combination of a Tax Day break (for those in the US) and an early Earth Day celebration, Starbucks is giving free coffee today to anyone that brings in a refillable coffee mug. So, grab your Kindle and enjoy one of today's free books with your free coffee. Other than the fuel used to get there (free for those who can walk to a store), it'll be one of the cheapest entertainment choices you'll find today. And we can all use a break on April 15th!

Here are the details, from the Starbucks web page.

Join the movement. On April 15th, bring a reusable travel mug into your local Starbucks and get a free brewed coffee.

One person can save trees, together we can save forests.

For the good of the planet, Starbucks is encouraging everyone to switch from paper cups to reusable travel mugs. One day in March thousands of New Yorkers made the switch. Join them now by taking a pledge to do the same.

This global movement is taking place in locations around the world including East China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Australia, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Netherlands, Oman, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, UK, Ireland, Argentina, Bahamas, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico.

Offer varies by country, ask your barista for details.

All Romance Earth Day Free Book - Regina in the Sun

Not only is Regina in the Sun, by R. G. Alexander, free in the Kindle store, it's also today's free book at All Romance Ebooks as part of their Earth Day celebration this month.

Book Description
There's only one place left to run-into forbidden arms. Children of the Goddess Book 1 Children of the Goddess Book One When she arrives at Ye Olde Haven Pub, the sanctuary for Trueblood Vampires, Regina is wounded and desperate. Her only thought is to save the Deva Clan, her family, from the dangerous Loups De L'Ombre, the Shadow Wolves. She knows she will not exactly be welcomed with open arms. She is, after all, an Unborn, the lowest caste of Vampire.

As a natural born from the purest line, Zander Sariel knows the rules are sacrosanct-a Trueblood mates with his own kind. But one taste of the young Unborn is all Zander needs to know that rules were made to be broken.

With enemies at every turn, Zander risks everything to save Regina from the monster that hunts her, his own kind's ignorance and-if he must-her lack of faith in her own unique abilities.

Only together do they have a chance to defeat the shadow that haunts their future, and save their entire race from extinction.

Warning, this title contains the following: explicit sex, voyeurism of an m/m/f menage-a plethora of vampire nookie.

To purchase: Click Add to Cart or Buy Now and you'll see an automatic discount for the full price of the book. Be sure to complete the entire check out process (which takes about three pages of clicking), all the way until you see a link for the download (I've missed a book or two in previous promotions at this site, as I thought I was done, but didn't get all they way thru to the end). Available in the following (usually drm-free) formats: Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Reader, HTML, Mobipocket, Rocket, Epub. If you want more than one format, you'll need to purchase the book more than once, but you get the discount each time.

There will be one of these a day, until April 21. I'll try to post the link each day, as I find out which one it is. If you find it first, feel free to leave note here in comments and I'll get a post up for everyone else.

Lawdy, Miss Clawdy! Best of Elvis for $2.99

I just saw this and Amazon implied that it is today only. Playlist: The Very Best Of Elvis Presley contains 14 top Elvis Presley tunes for $2.99: 5 number 1 hits, 4 top 10 songs, 2 top 40 songs and on that just missed the top 40 (guitar Man). The two that were not hits in the Us were in the UK. If you can only have one Elvis album, I'd agree with one commenter that Elvis 30 #1 Hits is a better choice; but at $16.99 it's a lot more expensive that this shorter album.

Playlist

1. Jailhouse Rock
2. Don't Be Cruel
3. Lawdy, Miss Clawdy
4. Don't
5. I Need Your Love Tonight
6. It's Now Or Never
7. (Marie's The Name Of) His Latest Flame Elvis Presley
8. Surrender
9. Suspicion
10. Guitar Man
11. In The Ghetto
12. You Don't Have To Say You Love Me
13. Burning Love
14. I'm Leavin'

All Romance Earth Day Free Book - SEALed with a Kiss

SEALed with a Kiss ($5.99 list), by Mary Margret Daughtridge, is the first in her SEALed series and is free today at All Romance Ebooks as part of their Earth Day celebration this month.

HOWEVER, there is a problem with the book right now, as the discount isn't appearing. If you want it, I'd suggest you email them at info@allromanceebooks.com, as they can manually add the book to your account, if they don't get the discount fixed today.

Update: They've fixed the problem with this book, so you can "buy" it at no charge now.

Update #2: When the fixed the problem with the discount code, another issue popped up - despite buying the book, it was not showing up in my library. I emailed them and that problem has been corrected - but only after I ordered the book again. So, if you ordered this book and haven't downloaded it yet, retry your order and check your library again. Or, you can email them and they should be able to manually add the book (but it may take a day or two).

Book Description
He figures she’s high maintenance.

He has yet to meet a woman who didn’t cling, and being a Navy SEAL doesn’t leave much time for anything else…

She figures he’s not “commitment” material.

Men are interested in one thing—either her brains or her body. She’s just as well off focusing on her career…

But when widowed Navy SEAL Jax Graham and his young son Tyler get trapped by a hurricane, family therapist Pickett Sessoms takes them in and knows just how to help a rough, tough Navy SEAL deal with a scared and lonely little boy. Jax and Pickett know just what to do with their red hot attraction, too, even though neither has falling in love in their plans. But when a “family” outing turns deadly, Pickett understands what it means to be a SEAL and Jax discovers that even a hero can’t always go it alone…

To purchase: Click Add to Cart or Buy Now and you'll see an automatic discount for the full price of the book. Be sure to complete the entire check out process (which takes about three pages of clicking), all the way until you see a link for the download (I've missed a book or two in previous promotions at this site, as I thought I was done, but didn't get all they way thru to the end). Available in the following (usually drm-free) formats: Adobe Acrobat, Epub, Mobipocket. If you want more than one format, you'll need to purchase the book more than once, but you get the discount each time.

There will be one of these a day, until April 21. I'll try to post the link each day, as I find out which one it is. If you find it first, feel free to leave note here in comments and I'll get a post up for everyone else.

Free Game - Super Granny 3

The free game this week at Sandlot Games is Super Granny 3 ($6.95 Amazon Game Downloads).

Game Description

• More than 200 levels spread out over 5 Unique Theme Park Areas
• 14 interactive objects found throughout the levels
• 7 New And Challenging Enemies
• All-new shop where Granny can upgrade with 8 handy items

Granny is off on an all-new adventure! After her troubled tropical trip, Super Granny is dropped into her most ambitious adventure yet, a run-down European theme park where she must rescue her arch-nemesis, the evil Dr. Meow, from the clutches of his even-more dastardly master, Mr. Fang. With the help of over 30 all-new interactive items Granny will run, dig, climb and float through 5 new worlds with over 200 levels of puzzle-solving, item-tossing, hilariously addictive fun!

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

All Romance Earth Day Free Book - Feral Heat

Today's free Earth Day celebration book at All Romance Ebooks is Feral Heat ($5.08 list), by Jude Mason & Jenna Byrnes, the first in the Untamed Hearts series.

Book Description
The scent of a female is a powerful thing. Kai, leader of the cougar clan finds that out the hard way, much to his distress. Can he and his life mate, Aric, find the stolen talisman before it's too late?

The female's scent is highly arousing, even to a cougar closely mated to his male partner. But Kai is no ordinary cougar. He's a changeling, sometimes a highly sexed human, and sometimes an even friskier cat. He mounts the seductive Sable, unaware of her mission and exactly what he's preparing to lose.

The talisman amulet has kept the cougar clan at peace for generations. When it's stolen Kai and his mate, the handsome Aric, set out on a journey to recover it. Meeting treachery and deception at every turn, the duo are forced to battle not only for the peace of the cougar clans, but for their very survival, and the life of their newfound love, Sable.

To purchase: Click Add to Cart or Buy Now and you'll see an automatic discount for the full price of the book. Be sure to complete the entire check out process (which takes about three pages of clicking), all the way until you see a link for the download (I've missed a book or two in previous promotions at this site, as I thought I was done, but didn't get all they way thru to the end). Available in the following (usually drm-free) formats: Adobe Acrobat, Mobipocket, HTML, Epub, Microsoft Reader. If you want more than one format, you'll need to purchase the book more than once, but you get the discount each time.

There will be one of these a day, until April 21. I'll try to post the link each day, as I find out which one it is. If you find it first, feel free to leave note here in comments and I'll get a post up for everyone else.

Free Book (Sony) - Spirit's Release

It's misspelled in the bookstore, so search for Spirit's Release, by Tea Trelawny, using the author's name or ISBN in the Sony Bookstore. This one is from Ellora's Cave, so I'd classify it as erotica. Also, despite the file size (256K), it's a very short read of about 24 pages.

Book Description
Sex generates enough energy for ghosts to manifest. That's Dera's theory, and the sultry ghost hunter wants to test it with her sexy ex-boss.

Alec repressed his hunger for Dera when she worked for him, but three years later she wants to use his body for paranormal research...and use it hard. If raw sex can save his new business from the ghost that threatens it, it's all in the name of science, right? The fact that his partner will be delicious Dera only makes the experiment more enticing. But will the ghost cooperate...or get in the way?

All Romance Earth Day Free Book - Seduction

Seduction ($4.49 list), by Aubrey Ross, is the first in her Crimson Dichotomy series and is free today at All Romance Ebooks as part of their Earth Day celebration this month.

Book Description
When a desperate Dichotomy seeks the help of a ruthless vampire in her quest for vengeance against the elder council, a team of hybrid “Sentinels” is dispatched to ensure their safety. Much to his chagrin, Steffen Ziegler is assigned to the pampered only daughter of Councilman Ruiz.

Bella seldom leaves the safety of her family’s estate, so she finds Steffen’s intrusion ridiculous. Determined to dissuade the enigmatic Sentinel from shadowing her every move, she provokes and seduces him. She doesn’t expect to enjoy the game quite so much or to crave the pleasure she has only known in his embrace.

Steffen is enchanted by the tempting vixen, but unfortunately the danger is real. He must focus entirely on protecting Bella, even if that means resisting the unexpected attraction raging between them.

To purchase: Click Add to Cart or Buy Now and you'll see an automatic discount for the full price of the book. Be sure to complete the entire check out process (which takes about three pages of clicking), all the way until you see a link for the download (I've missed a book or two in previous promotions at this site, as I thought I was done, but didn't get all they way thru to the end). Available in the following (usually drm-free) formats: Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Reader, HTML, Mobipocket, Epub. If you want more than one format, you'll need to purchase the book more than once, but you get the discount each time.

There will be one of these a day, until April 21. I'll try to post the link each day, as I find out which one it is. If you find it first, feel free to leave note here in comments and I'll get a post up for everyone else.

Free Book - Confessions Vol. I

Confessions Volume One, edited by Miranda Forbes, is free to download in PDF format from the UK publisher e-xcite eBooks. As you can guess from just the cover, this is a pretty racy volume of erotica, but probably no more so that what is found on All Romance Ebooks. You will need to create an account (complete with some mailing address, which need not be a real one), but no payment information has to be entered to get the free book.

Book Description
Some experiences just have to be confessed

When a voyeur discovers a secret oasis of naked sunbathing girls, it’s not long before the watched turn the tables on the watcher...

After learning the art of rope-play and a woman’s love of vibrations in a special place, there’s a guy who can get a girl to do anything, even in public ...

Who would have guessed that an uptight female teacher had such outrageous tastes? But the guy who thawed the ice-maiden learns that dirt has a special appeal ...

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned; the trick is to learn how to love it ...

The only thing more thrilling than scoring with a sexy woman who plays hard to get is discovering a girl’s secret desires. So in the first of three new Xcite treasuries of true stories, Miranda Forbes has collected the unexpected seductions of headstrong girls, and revelations of the shameful cravings in ordinary women.

Harper Collins Under Two Dollar Bargains

There are a number of books from Harper Collins that are priced under two dollars in the Kindle store today. Almost all of these are short story collections, often with individual stories from the collections selling at the same price.

Fragile Things ($0.99), by Neil Gaiman. Also at the B&N store.

Book Description
A mysterious circus terrifies an audience for one extraordinary performance before disappearing into the night, taking one of the spectators along with it . . . In a novella set two years after the events of American Gods, Shadow pays a visit to an ancient Scottish mansion, and finds himself trapped in a game of murder and monsters . . . In a Hugo Award-winning short story set in a strangely altered Victorian England, the great detective Sherlock Holmes must solve a most unsettling royal murder . . . Two teenage boys crash a party and meet the girls of their dreams, and nightmares . . . In a Locus Award-winning tale, the members of an excusive epicurean club lament that they've eaten everything that can be eaten, with the exception of a legendary, rare, and exceedingly dangerous Egyptian bird . . . Such marvelous creations and more, including a short story set in the world of The Matrix, and others set in the worlds of gothic fiction and children's fiction, can be found in this extraordinary collection, which showcases Gaiman's storytelling brilliance, as well as his terrifyingly entertaining, dark, sense of humor. By turns, delightful, disturbing, and diverting, Fragile Things is a gift of literary enchantment, from one of the most unique writers of our time.

Ugly Man ($1.99), by Dennis Cooper

Book Description
... an uncommon book of death and comedy.

Internationally acclaimed writer Dennis Cooper continues to study the material he's always explored honestly, but does so now-in stories-with a sense of awareness and a satirical touch that exploits and winks at his mastery of this world. As it has done for decades, Cooper's taut, controlled prose lays bare the compulsions and troubling emptiness of the human soul.

Hardly Knew Her ($0.99), by Laura Lippman. Also at the B&N store.

Book Description
New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to short stories -- and reveals another level of mastery.

Lippman sets many of the stories in this sterling anthology, Hardly Knew Her, in familiar territory: her beloved Baltimore, from downtown to its affluent suburbs, where successful businessmen go to shocking lengths to protect what they have or ruthlessly expand their holdings, while dissatisfied wives find murderous ways to escape their lives. But Lippman is also unafraid to travel -- to New Orleans, to an unnamed southwestern city, and even to Dublin, the backdrop for the lethal clash of two not-so-innocents abroad. Tess Monaghan is here, in two stories and a profile, aligning herself with various underdogs. And in her extraordinary, never-before-published novella, Scratch a Woman, Lippman takes us deep into the private world of a high-priced call girl/madam and devoted soccer mom, exploring the mystery of what may, in fact, be written in the blood.

Each of these ingenious tales is a gem -- sometimes poignant, sometimes humorous, always filled with delightfully unanticipated twists and reversals. For people who have yet to read Lippman, get ready to experience the spellbinding power of "one of today's most pleasing storytellers, hailed for her keen psychological insights and her compelling characterizations," (San Diego Union-Tribune), who has "invigorated the crime fiction arena with smart, innovative, and exciting work" (George Pelecanos). As for longtime devotees of her multiple award-winning novels, you'll discover that you hardly know her.

My Goat Ate Its Own Legs ($1.99), by Alex Burrett. Also at the B&N store.

Book Description
My Goat Ate Its Own Legs: Tales for Adults by Alex Burrett is a debut collection of tales that explores the weird what-ifs of evolution, devotion, and universal disaster."Burrett's imagination is as fertile as that of Jorge Luis Borges's, and he's more readable, and funnier." -The Independent on Sunday (London)In a voice so unfailingly chipper it's suspicious, Alex Burrett poses in fiction some disturbing yet certainly possible futures for the human race (and other ambitious, earthbound mammals). Always ready with an impeccable phrase or a sly wink, he shares tales of the most darkly ironic sort, including a field report from a human abattoir, a chronicle of dating Death, and, of course, the tale of the goat that ate its own legs. The thirty-one bizarre, insightful, and morbidly hilarious tales in My Goat Ate Its Own Legs: Tales for Adults will delight anyone who doesn't take life (or death) too seriously.

Girl Trouble ($1.99), by Holly Goddard Jones. Also at the B&N store.

Book Description
Girl Trouble, a Harper Perennial paperback original, is Rona Jaffe Award winner Holly Goddard Jones's debut short story collection, set around small-town Southerners caught in moral and sometimes mortal quandaries. Written with extraordinary empathy and maturity, and with the breadth and complexity of a novel, these eight beautifully written, achingly poignant, and occasionally heartbreaking stories explore the fine line between right and wrong, good and bad, love and violence. A high school basketball coach learns that his star player is pregnant with his child. The nightmare of a college student's rape and murder is relived by both her mother and her killer, whose contradictory accounts call to question the very nature of victimhood. In these eight stories, the fine line between right and wrong, good and bad, love and violence is walked over and over again.

Love Begins in Winter ($1.99), by Simon Van Booy. Also at the B&N store.

Book Description
On the verge of giving up—anchored to dreams that never came true and to people who have long since disappeared from their lives—Van Booy's characters walk the streets of these stark and beautiful stories until chance meetings with strangers force them to face responsibility for lives they thought had continued on without them.

The Secret Lives of People in Love ($1.99), by Simon Van Booy. Also at the B&N store.

Book Description
The Secret Lives of People in Love is the first short story collection by award-winning writer Simon Van Booy. These stories, set in Kentucky, New York, Paris, Rome, and Greece, are a perfect synthesis of intensity and atmosphere. Love, loss, human contact, and isolation are Van Booy's themes. In radiant prose he writes about the difficult choices we make in order to retain our humanity and about the redemptive power of love in a violent world. Included in this updated P.S. edition is the new story "The Mute Ventriloquist."

Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing ($1.99), by Lydia Peelle. Also at the B&N store.

Book Description
With this first book of fiction, a gifted young writer brings together eight superbly crafted stories that peer deeply into the human heart, exploring lives derailed by the loss of a vital connection to the land and to the natural world of which they are a part.

"Mule Killers" evokes the end of an era and of a grandfather's dreams when he decides to replace animal power on his farm with tractors. Two restless young girls in "Sweethearts of the Rodeo" live out their last summer of innocence, riding ponies recklessly and spying on their boss and the wealthy women who visit him. In "Phantom Pain," the Tennessee woods are a sliver of what they once were, men now hunt with GPS and cell phones, and the rumor of a dangerous panther on the loose stirs up a small town.

An unexpected vision of the beauty and mystery of life redeems the darkest moments in this stellar debut collection, a book that readers will want to read and reread.

The Price of Love and Other Stories ($1.99), by Peter Robinson. Also at the B&N store.

Book Description
From the New York Times bestselling author comes a riveting collection of short fiction, marked by the piercing psychological insight and brilliant characterization that are hallmarks of his acclaimed novels Ever since the publication of his first mystery featuring Detective Inspector Alan Banks, Peter Robinson has been steadily building a reputation for compulsively readable and perceptive novels that probe the dark side of human nature. Plumbing the territory that he has so successfully staked, The Price of Love and Other Stories includes two novellas and several stories featuring the Yorkshire policeman at his finest. In the novella "Going Back," never before published in the United States, Banks returns home for a family reunion, only to find it taking a decidedly sinister turn. In "Like a Virgin," written especially for this volume, Banks revisits the period in his life and the terrible crime that led him to leave London for Eastvale. And in between, the disparate motives that move us to harm one another, from love and jealousy to greed and despair, are all explored with fascinating depth. Edgy and smart, thrilling and suspenseful, this remarkable collection is a must-have for Robinson fans-and any fan of compelling crime fiction.

Legend of a Suicide ($1.99), by David Vann. Also at the B&N store.

Book Description
The reportorial relentlessness of [David] Vann-s imagination often makes his fiction seem less written than chiseled. A small, lovely book has been written out of his large and evident pain.--New York Times Book Review In Legend of a Suicide, his heartbreaking semi-autobiographical debut story-collection, David Vann relates the story of a young man trying to come to terms with the guilt and pain of his father-s suicide. The wild outback of the author-s native Alaska acts as the ideal backdrop for this collage of six stories-a novella and five shorts-and mirrors the author-s own psychological wilderness. From -an important new voice in American literature- (Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain) comes an unforgettable exploration of the tragic gaps between one boy and his father.

More of This World or Maybe Another ($1.99), by Barb Johnson. Also at the B&N store.

Book Description
The lives of four unlikely friends intersect on the backstreets of New Orleans. Living amid poverty and violence, these fragile heroes of the American underclass redefine our notions of family, redemption, and love.

Free Book - Sex, Drugs and Techno

Sex, Drugs and Techno ($7.99 Kindle), by Paul Eldridge, is free with coupon code JM73K at Smashwords, thru April 14.

Book Description
The drug-fuelled dance party (rave) scene has been going on around the world for over twenty years, and is now a regular part of life for countless people, from school kids up to middle-aged adults. It contributes significantly to the social problem of excessive drug use and addiction. The result is a widespread phenomenon of mental and physical damage, with only one avenue for long-term ‘peace’ available to those who survive—the doctor’s legal drugs.

Until now.

Hailing from the wrong side of the tracks—his life an aimless mix of violence, petty crime, intoxication and reckless bravado—the author, Paul Eldridge, was instantly entranced by the dance party scene. It was love at first sight of the pumping, surreal crowd; love at first bite of a magical ecstasy pill. Just like for so many others, this scene became the driving force in his life—the focus of his time, money and lifestyle. He loved it, and it loved him back. Before long, he found himself among the chiefs of the tribe, DJing at major parties in Australia and across Asia. With his music, drugs, sculpted physique and ‘let’s party’ attitude, he had it all. It was the ultimate ride of anyone’s lifetime, until, like all parties, this one came to an end—with an almighty jolt!

While on the island of Bali, Paul remembered hearing about a healing practice at the foot of the island’s majestic volcano, and for some reason he jumped in a taxi and went there. The locals there took him in, and the man who ran it, while knowing nothing whatsoever about Paul, somehow knew exactly what he needed. On that day, Paul’s life changed forever.

Sex, Drugs and Techno speaks directly to the youth culture of yesterday and of today, in all its hedonism. The author’s journey as a former international DJ, Sydney surf gang member (the notorious Bra Boys), convicted drug dealer, and drug user of epic proportions, reaches out to those caught up in that hypnotic world.

Faced with the crushing discovery that his drug-induced mental state could only be healed with medication—possibly for life—it’s his incredible, unorthodox healing journey that takes us where countless drug users yearn to be—a place beyond the rehab clinics and doctors’ suites.

Free Short Story (Kobo/nook) - The Last Drop

The Last Drop ($0.99 Kindle), by L. Ron Hubbard, is free at both Kobo Books and in the Barnes & Noble store.

Book Description
A humorous tale about a New York bartender who receives mysteriously special potions from Borneo which can make people grow or shrink depending on which one they drink. When our hero uses the potion to deal with some unfriendly mobsters, the results are comic and riotously unpredictable—including an unexpected run-in with a dogfish.

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Free Book (Kobo) - Comic LaRuse Is A S***

Comic LaRuse Is A Slut, by Stephanie Piercy, is free in the Kobo bookstore. I don't know anything about the author and the story appears to be about and oriented towards teens, but obviously has a bit of adult language (ok, more than a bit). I don't see the book for sale in any of the other major ebookstores, currently.

Book Description
Senior year is for skipping class, slamming beers, ripping skate tricks, and smoking bats, but when cucumber-cool Comic LaRuse and loud-mouth reject Laurie Bradshaw find themselves facing a devil’s three way for the heart of the shy girl in class, they have to either bring it to the pavement or play it out hot and heavy in the bedroom.

Strep Guthrie has never made shock waves on her high school’s Richtor scale of bangable girls, so when Comic and Laurie kick up their skateboards to see if they can score, she has to work out the rules for playing hard ball with the heart times two. Not only are there two horn dog heartbreakers to deal with and their see sawing emotions, she’s navigating an orbiting mine field of related problems: cat fights with jilted lovers, dreaded parties with make-out poker, and assholes looking to mack her while her star is bright.

Sex, drugs, and math class. By the end of senior year, a bizarre love triangle has formed, and three kids learn the hard way about not just teenage personas and politics, but also the logic and ethics of sexual attraction.