All Romance Earth Day Free Book - 50 Ways to Hex Your Lover

50 Ways to Hex Your Lover ($5.99 list; $4.79 Kindle ), by Linda Wisdom, the first in the Jazz Tremaine series (which now has five books, not the three originally planned).

This is the final free book of All Romance eBooks' Earth Day celebration and is only available as an Adobe PDF. There is no DRM, but the automatic conversion in Calibre is pretty rough (I ran mine thru Mobipocket Creator, which let me make a few manual edits and remove all the tiny pictures that made up the cover, as they didn't translate well to mobi format).

Book Description
Jazz can’t decide whether to scorch him with a fireball or jump into bed with him

Jasmine Tremaine, a witch who can’t stay out of trouble Nikolai Gregorivich, a drop-dead gorgeous vampire cop on the trail of a serial killer.

The sizzling love affair between Jazz and Nick has been off-again, on-again—for about 300 years. Mostly off, lately. But now Nick needs Jazz’s help, and while Jazz and Nick try to figure out their own hearts and resist their ever-increasing attraction, they must steer clear of a maniacal killer with super-supernatural powers. They are surrounded by a hilarious cast of oddball paranormal characters, including Norma, the chain-smoking ghost who haunts Jazz’s sports car, Dweezil, her ghoul of a boss, and Fluff and Puff, a pair of bunny slippers with sharp teeth and short tempers (watch your ankles)!

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 (drm-free) format: Adobe Acrobat.

This is the last book of this promotion, I hope you all found at least one to enjoy!

Free Travel Guides from Lonely Planet

Download the Lonely Planet Travel Guides iPhone/iPad app from Lonely Planet and get the San Francisco City Guide (valued at $15.99) and the Mexican Spanish Phrasebook (valued at $9.99) for free. In addition, as a Volcano Relief effort to assist those stuck in Europe with grounded flights, they are giving away city guides to 13 European destinations (offer valid thru Thursday, April 22), which normally sell for $15.99 each.

In response to the widespread chaos caused by the eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano, Lonely Planet is offering 13 of its European iPhone guides free.

‘Travellers stuck in unfamiliar places need access to practical information as well as suggestions on what to do whilst stranded’, said Tom Hall, Lonely Planet Travel Editor. ‘That’s why we’re giving away iPhone city guides to major affected destinations.’

The cities included are:

• Amsterdam
• Barcelona
• Berlin
• Budapest
• Copenhagen
• Istanbul
• London
• Moscow
• Munich
• Paris
• Rome
• Stockholm
• Vienna

If you doing a bit of traveling, you might want to check out their website. If nothing else, you might want to sign up for their contest to win a free trip around the world.

All Romance Earth Day Free Book - Play with Me

Today's featured book at All Romance eBooks is from an author you probably already have in your library, as Slow Hands has been free direct from Harlequin, in the Amazon Kindle store and many other bookstores for over a year). Today's free title is Play with Me, by Leslie Kelly. Stay tuned, though, as tomorrow's book (the final one in this promotion) looks very interesting.

Book Description
Pilot Amanda Bauer has always craved a life of adventure...sexual adventure, that is. Lucky for her, she's currently getting her thrills by indulging in naughty games with hunky Reese Campbell! After their first explosive encounter, they arrange to get together every couple of months for days filled with fantasy and wild, no-strings sex.

And the best part of it? Nobody else knows about it. Nobody!

It's the perfect private indulgence...until they find themselves on YouTube!

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, Palm DOC/iSolo, 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 (which is nearly here!). 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.

Windows 7: The Missing Manual

Today only, you can get the ebook version of Windows 7: The Missing Manual ($26.39 paperback), by David Pogue, for $10.00 at O'Reilly Books & Video. This is a DRM-free book and you get the MOBI, EPUB, PDF and Android versions in the package and normally sells for $31.99

Book Description
In early reviews, geeks raved about Windows 7. But if you're an ordinary mortal, learning what this new system is all about will be challenging. Fear not: David Pogue's Windows 7: The Missing Manual comes to the rescue. Like its predecessors, this book illuminates its subject with reader-friendly insight, plenty of wit, and hard-nosed objectivity for beginners as well as veteran PC users.

Windows 7 fixes many of Vista's most painful shortcomings. It's speedier, has fewer intrusive and nagging screens, and is more compatible with peripherals. Plus, Windows 7 introduces a slew of new features, including better organization tools, easier WiFi connections and home networking setup, and even touchscreen computing for those lucky enough to own the latest hardware.

With this book, you'll learn how to:

• Navigate the desktop, including the fast and powerful search function
• Take advantage of Window's apps and gadgets, and tap into 40 free programs
• Breeze the Web with Internet Explorer 8, and learn the email, chat, and videoconferencing programs
• Record TV and radio, display photos, play music, and record any of these to DVD using the Media Center
• Use your printer, fax, laptop, tablet PC, or smartphone with Windows 7
• Beef up your system and back up your files
• Collaborate and share documents and other files by setting up a workgroup network

Click HERE for the book's info and order page and use coupon code DDW7M during checkout. Thanks to David Pogue for the discount code, which he released via Twitter today. In the interests of full disclosure, I have a review copy of this book, courtesy of O'Reilly, but haven't gotten around to cracking it open yet.

All Romance Earth Day Free Book - Unholy Night

Unholy Night ($3.50 list), by Candice Gilmer, is free today at All Romance eBooks as part of their continuing Earth Day celebration. This one has a content warning (but I suspect many of the ones they have offered free this month have needed one).

Book Description
Can love be found on the unholiest night of the year?

There are some things Marissa Van Dyke won't do -- celebrate Halloween is one of them. When she's guilted into attending a Halloween party, a flamboyant woman dressed as a gypsy claims Marissa will be saved three times before she's finally free.

Foolish Halloween games, according to Marissa. Her life is fine; not perfect, but good enough, and nothing could save her anyway.

All she wants is to leave the party until a man named Neil Drigan materializes at her side, making her forget everything but his hauntingly familiar green eyes. His animal magnetism is a dangerous temptation on a night she's always reserved for mourning.

Can there be salvation under his powerful presence -- even on such an unholy night?

Warning: Some explicit sex, shapeshifting characters, and a tiny bit of psychic abilities.

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 (drm-free) formats: Mobipocket, Microsoft Reader, HTML, Adobe Acrobat, 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 (which is nearly here!). 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.

Iris Johansen Pre-Order for $7.99

You can currently pre-order Eight Days to Live: An Eve Duncan Forensics Thriller, by Iris Johansen, for $7.99. This is the eighth book in the Eve Duncan series and will be released April 20, 2010, in sync with the hardback, which is over $18. So even though this is a publisher set price, I fully expect this one to increase after release (or even before then).

Book Description
Eve Duncan's adopted daughter Jane has been targeted by a mysterious cult who has decided that she has only eight days to live Eve Duncan and her adopted daughter, Jane Macguire, are pitted against the members of a secretive cult who have targeted Jane and have decided that she will be their ultimate sacrifice. In eight days they will come for her. In eight days, what Jane fears the most will become a reality. In eight days, she will die. It all begins with a painting that Jane, an artist, displays in her Parisian gallery. The painting is called "Guilt" and Jane has no idea how or why she painted the portrait of the chilling face. But the members of a cult that dates back to the time of Christ believe that Jane's blasphemy means she must die. But first, she will lead them to an ancient treasure whose value is beyond price. This elusive treasure, and Jane's death, are all that they need for their power to come to ultimate fruition. With Eve's help, can Jane escape before the clock stops ticking?

How to Cook Everything - $1.99

How to Cook Everything (Completely Revised 10th Anniversary Edition): 2,000 Simple Recipes for Great Food, by Mark Bittman is $19.25 on Kindle and $21.70 in Hardcover, where it has over 1,000 pages and weighs roughly 5 pounds. However, you can purchase the iTunes App for $1.99 to run on your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch (but not on your PC/Mac). The product page says this price is for a limited time, but gives no time limit (the app just posted yesterday). You can get a few of the recipes for your PC from links on the Amazon product pages, as well as view the list of 10 Reasons You Need the New How to Cook Everything (even if you already have the original).

Book Description
Mark Bittman's award-winning How to Cook Everything has helped countless home cooks discover the rewards of simple cooking. Now the ultimate cookbook has been revised and expanded (almost half the material is new), making it absolutely indispensable for anyone who cooks—or wants to. With Bittman's straightforward instructions and advice, you'll make crowd-pleasing food using fresh, natural ingredients; simple techniques; and basic equipment. Even better, you'll discover how to relax and enjoy yourself in the kitchen as you prepare delicious meals for every occasion.

Today's Favorite Kitchen Companion—Revised and Better Than Ever

How do you update a classic? For his bestselling, award-winning How to Cook Everything—the modern bible of home cooking—Mark Bittman started from scratch, going page by page, recipe by recipe, carefully blending the best of the beloved original with appealing new recipes and fresh, current information. The result is an even more useful and authoritative cookbook, ready to inform, inspire, and guide new and accomplished cooks alike—the single book to turn to for every kitchen endeavor.

Bittman has added hundreds of new dishes, and completely updated the remaining recipes and every line of guidance. New features abound: Each chapter now opens with "Essential Recipes," a section that highlights the core dishes for every cook's repertoire, such as building blocks for simple soups or ten ways to cook any seafood. He has also expanded the chapters on vegetables and fruits, grains, beans, and desserts. New charts will help you customize recipes with a variety of flavors and ingredients, and new how-to illustrations bring the total to nearly 400. With this revision, Bittman also tags fast, make-ahead, and vegetarian recipes with icons for easy menu planning.

The new How to Cook Everything provides a lifetime's worth of quick, simple, and delicious options. Its 2,000 recipes and variations cover everything from Pad Thai and Carrot Salad with Cumin to Simplest Whole Roast Chicken, Six Ways and Traditional Apple Pie. All of the recipes are easy to prepare—more than half can be completed in 30 minutes (many in even less time)—and none requires special equipment or fancy techniques. Throughout, the emphasis is on fresh, widely available ingredients and healthy, uncomplicated preparations.

As always, Bittman's recipes are instantly appealing, uniquely accessible, and refreshingly straightforward. And many of the special features you loved in the original are still here, too, fully updated. Bittman's thoughtful and inspiring sidebars and lists (like "Twenty-Five Pasta Sauces You Can Make in Advance") and suggested menus for every occasion make How to Cook Everything more valuable and indispensable than ever—the one cookbook you need for fast and flavorful home-cooked food every day of the year.

App Description
This first-of-its-kind app contains all of the content from Mark Bittman’s bestselling cookbook, including 2,000 recipes and 400 how-to illustrations — plus specially designed features for the mobile user. Limited-time: $1.99! Less than a morning Latte.

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iPhone OS 3.1 or later.

All Romance Earth Day Free Book - My Heart is Within You

My Heart is Within You ($6.99 list), by Marguerite Labbe, is the first in her Triquetra series and is free today at All Romance eBooks as part of their continuing Earth Day celebration.

Book Description
The power of heart and soul holds the key to the survival of the last of the ancient vampires. Kristair is running out of time. His race has faded away, prey to delusion and deterioration, and his only chance to live long enough to find a cure is to bind his psyche to a human vessel in a long forgotten ritual.

Kristair's chosen vessel is Jacob Corvin, a man of passionate stubbornness and fierce loyalty; he has captured Kristair's fantasies so completely that he is both the vampire's greatest strength and most crippling weakness. Drawing upon Jacob's spirit and Kristair's resolve, they each bind a portion of their souls to one other. For as long as Jacob carries Kristair's heart within him, the vampire can continue his quest.

Just when they have hope, their mission is threatened by The Syndicate, a group of younger vampires who attempt to force Kristair to teach them his secrets before he disappears like the rest of the ancients. Battling both The Syndicate's attacks and his unexpected need and love for Jacob, Kristair's strength begins to fade, forcing him to make a decision that will change his and Jacob's lives forever.

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, 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.

A Series of Unfortunate Events - $6.99

Not the usual "bargain" price for this blog, but a good deal for those who managed to pick up the 10 free titles in the A Series of Unfortunate Events, by Lemony Snicket, when they were free the first weekend in April. All of the books are now marked at $6.99 ("discounted" from the $12.99 print price), rather than the $8.99 price from that weekend.

In order, here is the series:

• #1: The Bad Beginning
• #2: The Reptile Room
• #3: The Wide Window
• #4: The Miserable Mill
• #5: The Austere Academy
• #6: The Ersatz Elevator
• #7: The Vile Village
• #8: The Hostile Hospital
• #9: The Carnivorous Carnival
• #10: The Slippery Slope
• #11: The Grim Grotto
• #12: The Penultimate Peril
• #13: The End

You can complete the series for just under 21 bucks or for $6.99 you can at least pick up the first in the series and read up to book 6, before making another purchase decision.

Win a $1,000 Gift Card from Amazon

Sign up to receive emails from the Amazon Clothing Store and you can win a $1,000 Gift Card at Amazon. The only "catch" is that you can only use it on goods and ebooks sold directly by Amazon, so many of the ebooks available for Kindle won't qualify, due to the new Agency Model, where they are being sold by the publisher instead. Then again, there are lots of other things at Amazon that do qualify, including the Kindle itself.

Amazon Clothing's $1000 Gift Card Sweepstakes Official Rules

NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN THIS SWEEPSTAKES. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.

...Eligibility. If you are an individual legal resident of the 50 United States or the District of Columbia and are 18 or older at the time of entry, you are eligible to enter the Sweepstakes...

How to Enter. You may enter the Sweepstakes beginning at 12:00:01 a.m. (PST) on April 15, 2010 and ending at 11:59:59 p.m. (PST) on May 31, 2010 (the "Sweepstakes Period").... Limit one entry per e-mail address.

...Prize. We will award a total of 1 prize during the Sweepstakes Period, consisting of a $1,000 Amazon.com Gift Certificate ("GC"). The total approximate retail value of the prize is $1,000. You may only use the GC for purchases of eligible goods on Amazon.com.

Read the rest of the rules and enter the contest HERE.

Chicago Blues for $1.99

If you are fan of the Chicago Blues, this is a must-have for your collection: Muddy Waters - The Father of Chicago Blues for $1.99. 21 cuts and just over an hour of solid music, including original recordings of Rollin' Stone and Mannish Boy and live versions Hoochie Coochie Man and Got My Mojo Working.

Playlist

1. Rollin' Stone
2. I Just Want To Make Love To You
3. I Can't Be Satisfied
4. Forty Days & Forty Nights
5. Rollin' & Tumblin'
6. Rollin' & Tumblin' Pt.2
7. Baby Please Don't Go
8. I'm Ready
9. Early Morning Blues
10. Walkin' Blues
11. You're Gonna Miss Me (When I'm Dead & Gone)
12. Mean Ol' Frisco
13. I Want To Be Loved
14. Honey Bee
15. Mad Love
16. All Night Long
17. Howling Wolf
18. Sugar Sweet
19. Good Lookin' Woman
20. I Got My Mojo Working (Live)
21. Hoochie Coochie Man (Live)

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.