Free Book (Kindle) - Declaring Spinsterhood

Declaring Spinsterhood, by Jamie Lynn Braziel, is free in the Kindle store.

Book Description
Emma Bailey is thirty years old and single. No problem for her, but a point of round-the-clock contention for her mother, her family, and too many of her friends. In Jamie Lynn Braziel's Declaring Spinsterhood, the terminal illness known as "old maid" is explored from every angle, and the result is a compassionate, compelling, and wickedly funny novel. Emma may stand up before all and declare her intention to never marry, but what about that little place in her heart reserved for Brian Davis? Sure, Brian's seeing someone, and Emma is not a vixen who breaks up relationships, but would it be so terrible if Brian returned the interest? Rather than bide her time, Emma dates…and dates. Some of the men are charming, others less so. With her vow of spinsterhood more a noose than a friend, Emma musters her courage and moves on. That is, until the unforeseen throws up the biggest obstacle of her life: love.

Free Book (Kindle) - A Married Man's Guide To Christmas

A Married Man's Guide To Christmas, by Robert Henry, is free in the Kindle store.

Book Description
In the great tradition of guy-humor everywhere, here comes humorist Robert Henry’s growling, good-hearted rant about holiday madness, A MARRIED MAN’S GUIDE TO CHRISTMAS. Henry reveals the truth about Christmas through the eyes of a typical married man. “Remember, it’s not how you celebrate the joyous season. It’s whether you are still alive, married, sleeping indoors, with a healthy prostate, and without a rap sheet on January 4th that counts.”

Husbands will laugh out loud. Dads will slap their knees and keel over (have CPR ready). Wives, daughters, sisters, mothers, aunts, female co-workers and sales clerks who dread seeing men mumble and mutter their way through the Christmas section at BIG BOX DISCOUNT WAREHOUSE will nod in recognition at the syndrome best described as “CAN I SURVIVE UNTIL NEW YEAR’S?”

A Married Man’s Guide To Christmas is a must for every guy who wants the women in his life to understand why he’d rather buy them gift certificates than brave the treacherous online world of lingerie catalogs. Why have just a joyous season, when you can have a Christmas filled with laughs that don’t include finding pictures of Uncle Herbert in a teddy?

Irreverent, honest, and biodegradable, Robert Henry has captured the essence of the holiday season for all men in A Married Man’s Guide To Christmas. So grab it today for all the beleaguered males on your Xmas list and all the long-suffering females who just want the lights strung on the front porch by Christmas Eve, the honey-do list completed before Aunt Sookie arrives with her flatulent Pekinese, and that expensive bottle of Scotch left mostly full until the tinsel is hung, the presents are wrapped, and the home owner’s association has accepted your apology for spelling out a less-than-jolly greeting in solar-powered candy canes on your front lawn.

Free Book - Kiss of The Christmas Wind (K)

11/22/12 Update: companion audiobook now available for $4.86.

Kiss of The Christmas Wind, a holiday novella by Janelle Taylor, is free in the Kindle store.

Book Description
A classic Christmas novella by a beloved bestselling author, now in ebook for the first time! Janelle Taylor is the author of more than 50 romance novels, with nine New York Times bestsellers and sales in the millions.

The western frontier.

Deadly winter weather.

New bride Carrie Sue Jamison wonders if she will be widowed before spending even one Christmas with her husband Thad, a Texas Ranger. He’s left home to track a gang of murderous bank robbers through the wilderness.

Free Book (Kindle/nook/EPUB) - Skipped Parts

Skipped Parts, the first title in the GroVont Trilogy by Tim Sandlin, is a repeat freebie in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble and Sony. Right now, you can also pick up the next title in the series, Sorrow Floats, for $1.64 (Kindle) and the third, Social Blunders, for $6.76 (Kindle; $6.56 Kobo w/ 35% off coupon - see sidebar), in case you missed it when it was $2.99 this past June.

Skipped Parts
Banished to the hinterlands of Wyoming, rebellious Lydia Callahan and her thirteen-year-old son Sam have no choice but to cope. But while Lydia drinks and talks to the moose head on the wall, Sam finds a friend in local girl Maurey Pierce.

One of the wildest, raunchiest, most heartfelt coming-of-age novels of the past thirty years, Skipped Parts puts Tim Sandlin in the upper echelon of contemporary comic novelists.

Sorrow Floats
One of five men could be Sam Callahan's father. Is knowing the truth worth the havoc he'll cause trying to find out?

Laid low by divorce-the result of an endless stream of poor choices-Sam decides it's time he met his dad. But his quest to meet the men and discover the truth does more than just shake up the five likely suspects-it pretty much napalms the lives of everyone he meets.

Social Blunders
One of five men could be Sam Callahan's father. Is knowing the truth worth the havoc he'll cause trying to find out?

Laid low by divorce-the result of an endless stream of poor choices-Sam decides it's time he met his dad. But his quest to meet the men and discover the truth does more than just shake up the five likely suspects-it pretty much napalms the lives of everyone he meets.

Get the free ebook from Barnes & Noble.
Get the free ebook from Sony.

Today's Deals

Additional formats on free books:

• Disciplined Life (Kindle/nook)
• The Scargill Cove Case Files (Kindle/nook)

If you have an Android Phone or an iPhone (or iPad, I suppose), Amazons is running a special deal tomorrow - use their Price Check app to check a price in Electronics, Toys, Sports, Music, or DVDs (with location info enabled) and optionally let Amazon know the store price, putting up to three items into your cart using the Price Check app. If you purchase the item within 24 hours, you'll get 5% off (up to $5 each) at checkout. The promotion actually starts tonight (to hit midnight on east coast) and runs all day: starts 9:00 pm (PST) December 9, 2011 and ends 11:59 pm (PST) December 10, 2011.

This won't work with your Kindle Fire, though, as you don't have location services and the Amazon branded app won't install on the fire (although if you have rooted it, you might get the one from the Android Market running, I'm not sure if the lack of location services might not be an issue).

I checked today's 10 cent apps over in the Google Market and none of them are marked down at Amazon (yet - I reported the lower price on several); the good news was that I already had several of them in my Amazon library (from past free App of the Day finds), which only left four that I was really interested in -- they'll still play on my tablet or phone (or on the Kindle Fire, if I ever get around to rooting it, which looks fairly easy). If you are into games, it looks like Jakyl, makers of one of today's featured apps, has all their paid apps marked down to 99 cents for the 10BN sale (just in the Google market, though).

Book Description

All She Ever Wanted ($1.49), by Barbara Freethy, is today's Kindle Deal of the Day.

Book Description
From #1 New York Times Bestselling Author comes a romantic and suspenseful story of three best friends and a terrible, life-changing secret.

She was their closest friend, or so they thought -- until years later, when her secrets send them on a perilous search for the truth about who she really was ... and why she died ...

Ten years ago, during a party gone out of control, beautiful, vibrant Emily plummeted to her death, leaving her three best friends and sorority sisters -- Natalie, Laura and Madison -- devastated. None of them has ever forgotten that night -- or the role each may have played in Emily's death, the guilt that has pursued them, and the loss they still suffer.

Now an unknown writer has rocketed onto bestseller lists with a novel that eerily mirrors their own story. Who is he? How does he know the intimate details of their lives? And why is he accusing one of them of murder? As they begin to unravel the startling truth about their friend, each will rediscover a love she lost long ago and uncover secrets that will forever change her life...

The Graveyard Book ($1.54 / £0.99 UK), by Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell (Illustrator), is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $7.99).

Book Description
When a baby escapes a murderer intent on killing the entire family, who would have thought it would find safety and security in the local graveyard?
Brought up by the resident ghosts, ghouls and spectres, Bod has an eccentric childhood learning about life from the dead. But for Bod there is also the danger of the murderer still looking for him - after all, he is the last remaining member of the family.

A stunningly original novel deftly constructed over eight chapters, featuring every second year of Bod's life, from babyhood to adolescence. Will Bod survive to be a man?

Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation In Everyday Life ($3.75 Kindle, B&N), by Jon Kabat-Zinn, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.

Book Description
When Wherever You Go, There You Are was first published in 1994, no one could have predicted that the book would launch itself onto bestseller lists nationwide and sell over 750,000 copies to date. Ten years later, the book continues to change lives.

The author of Full Catastrophe Living explains how anyone can use mindfulness--the art of living each moment fully as it happens--to reduce anxiety, achieve inner peace, and enrich life, offeing the most enlightening exploration yet of the principles of mindfulness--the ancient Buddhist method of stress reduction. Kabat-Zinn blends stories, anecdotes, poems, images, and scientific observations with easily followed instructions in the art of "capturing" the present and living fully within each moment in order to achieve inner peace.

Free Book (iBooks) - Yellow Submarine

The children's book Yellow Submarine, by The Beatles, is free on iTunes. There are only 43 pages (and your iPad needs to be updated the the latest version of iOs) in this iBooks exclusive, but the 317MB book also includes video clips from the movie, interactive animations and music clips.

Book Description
This enchanting illustrated book captures the same magical spirit found in the film. The Beatles’ journey to save Pepperland from the music-hating Blue Meanies is filled with surrealistic humor, wit, and clever references to The Beatles’ song titles and lyrics. In this iTunes exclusive, clips from the movie have been included throughout and can be viewed either embedded in the page or at full-screen. The book also contains interactive animations as well as sound effects and music clips.

Android Appsale - 10 cent Apps

Google is celebrating 10 Billion Downloads in the Android Market, with 10 apps for 10 cents apiece every day (for 10 days, but we missed a couple). I played around trying to get these with the Android simulator (but had no success) and did find on my tablet or phone that I first had to log in to the Google Wallet and update my payment method (since it had been a while since I purchased anything in the Market). But, one neat thing I found is that some of the apps that are on sale are also the same price in the Amazon Appstore today, such as TETRIS and Space Physics, which I just picked up for a dime apience and which work with the Kindle Fire and my Asus tablet (unlike the versions in the Google Market, such as Tetris, which was only going to work with my phone). I did pick up Talking Tom 2 from Google and there are several other apps worth looking at, if only to see if one you are interested in is also in the Amazon store.

Check back each day until the promotion ends and then double check the Amazon Appstore, if you want the app on your Kindle Fire (today's score: I bought three from Amazon and four from Google, so a total of 70 cents!).

Two Free Books by Claudia Gray (Kindle) [AU]

Two more free books in the Evernight series by Claudia Gray in the Kindle store, both of them only for Australian customers. These also look to be mis-priced, as one is the latest in the series and the other is the pre-order of her latest novel, so those that can should grab them fast. Combined with the bonus edition of Evernight, you'll have three of the five titles in the series.

Afterlife, fourth in the Evernight series

Book Description
Destiny awaits Bianca and Lucas . . .

Bianca and Lucas have always believed they could endure anything to be together. When a twist of fate not only transforms Bianca into a wraith but also turns Lucas into a vampire—the very creature he spent his life hunting—they are left reeling.

Haunted by his powerful need to kill, Lucas can turn to only one place for help . . . Evernight Academy. Bianca is determined to remain with him. But with the vampire leader of Evernight waging a war against wraiths, her former home has become the most dangerous place she could be, despite the new powers her ghostly transformation has given her.

A battle between wraiths and vampires looms, and Bianca and Lucas face a terrifying new reality. They've overcome every obstacle life has thrown at them, but is their love strong enough to survive the challenges after life?

Balthazar, fifth in the Evernight series (pre-order)

Book Description
For hundreds of years, the vampire Balthazar has been alone—without allies, without love.

When Balthazar agrees to help Skye Tierney, a human girl who once attended Evernight Academy, he has no idea how dangerous it will be. Skye’s newfound psychic powers have caught the attention of Redgrave, the cruel, seductive master vampire responsible for murdering Balthazar and his family four centuries ago. Now Redgrave plans to use Skye’s powers for his own evil purposes.

Balthazar will do whatever it takes to stop Redgrave and exact his long-awaited revenge against his killer. As Skye and Balthazar stand together to fight him, they grow closer—first unwillingly, then undeniably. Balthazar realizes his lonely world could finally be changed by her. . . .

In a story filled with forbidden love and dark suspense, one of the most beloved characters in Claudia Gray’s New York Times bestselling Evernight series will captivate readers with his battle to overcome his past and follow his heart.

Free Book (Kindle) - Training in Your Naked Dating Thong

Training in Your Naked Dating Thong: Preparing to Find the Love of Your Life (While Fully Clothed), by Harlan Cohen, is free to pre-order in the Kindle store. I'd guess that this will end up being a short ebook, likely promoting Naked Dating: Five Steps to Finding the Love of Your Life (While Fully Clothed & Totally Sober) ... but the title is fun (even if it might not be one you want others on your Kindle account to see).

Book Description
Harlan Cohen, bestselling author of The Naked Roommate, introduces you to his proven method for finding the love you deserve. With a drop of reality, a little personal assessment, and a whole lot of love for yourself, he teaches you to train physically, emotionally, and spiritually in your "thong," and be comfortable in your skin. You’ll learn to love what you can’t change, and change what you don’t love – to find the love of your life.

Free Book (Kindle/nook) - Disciplined Life

Update: 12/8/11 Now free from Barnes & Noble.

Disciplined Life, an ebook short by Calvin Miller, is free in the Kindle store, courtesy of Christian publisher Bethany House.

Book Description
Deeper Living Is Possible

For those desiring a deep relationship with God, Calvin Miller guides us beyond three superficialities of modern culture: our misdirected appetites, the allure of material things, and the tyranny of the urgent.

Get the free ebook from Barnes & Noble.

Today's Deals

Additional formats on free books:

• Sweet Baklava (Kindle/nook/EPUB)
• One Imperfect Christmas (Kindle/nook/EPUB)
• When the Devil Whistles (KindleUK/nook/EPUB)
• 2012 and Beyond (Kindle/nook)
• Change.edu (Kindle/nook/EPUB)

Today is the last day to take advantage of this KSO deal:

• Get $15 off Disney toys

Anyone can get a free 90-day subscription to The New Yorker ($2.99.month), a weekly periodical for all Kindle eInk devices. If you do decide to continue, you'll also enjoy a much lower monthly cost than the interactive edition for those with a Kindle Fire, who can also get a free 90-day trial, but are looking at $5.99/month or $59.99/year (although it appears it is free if you are already a print subscriber). I have to admit, I'm enjoying my free trial, even though some of movies (and most of the plays) will never make it to my area (and I really don't need to know who is playing at every night club in NYC). There are book reviews, opinion pages and political content, as well as info on what is going on in the Big Apple.

Book Description
The New Yorker offers a smart, lively, and timely mix of politics and world affairs, business and science, and arts and letters. Its writers and artists, the finest working today, fill the magazine with award-winning reporting, criticism, fiction, poetry -- and cartoons.

The Kindle Edition of The New Yorker will usually include all articles, fiction, and poetry found in the print edition and a selection of cartoons, but will not include other images at this time. For your convenience, issues are auto-delivered wirelessly to your Kindle at the same time the print edition hits the newsstand each Monday.

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher ($1.99), by Kate Summerscale, is today's Kindle Deal of the Day. I've read a very good recommendation on this one, comparing it to an Anne Perry novel.

Book Description
In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ironically destroying, in the process, the career of perhaps the greatest detective in the land.

At the time, the detective was a relatively new invention; there were only eight detectives in all of England and rarely were they called out of London, but this crime was so shocking, as Kate Summerscale relates in her scintillating new book, that Scotland Yard sent its best man to investigate, Inspector Jonathan Whicher.
Whicher quickly believed the unbelievable-that someone within the family was responsible for the murder of young Saville Kent. Without sufficient evidence or a confession, though, his case was circumstantial and he returned to London a broken man. Though he would be vindicated five years later, the real legacy of Jonathan Whicher lives on in fiction: the tough, quirky, knowing, and all-seeing detective that we know and love today…from the cryptic Sgt. Cuff in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone to Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade.

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher is a provocative work of nonfiction that reads like a Victorian thriller, and in it Kate Summerscale has fashioned a brilliant, multilayered narrative that is as cleverly constructed as it is beautifully written.

Victim Six ($1.54 / £0.99 UK), by Gregg Olsen, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $4.73). On both sides of the ocean, though, you can pre-order The Bone Box at a good price ($1.99 in the US; £1.48 UK).

Victim Six
The bodies are found in towns and cities around Puget Sound. The young women who are the victims had nothing in common-except the agony of their final moments. But somebody carefully chose them to stalk, capture, and torture...a depraved killer whose cunning is matched only by the depth of his bloodlust. But the dying has only just begun. And next victim will be the most shocking of all...

The Bone Box
They call it the Bone Box. A collection of old cases, solved and unsolved, that continue to haunt forensic pathologist Birdy Waterman. None is more disturbing than the first. After two decades, Birdy still remembers the screaming. The blood on the boy's hands. The body of a girl, butchered in the woods. Birdy's testimony helped put her cousin behind bars. Now, twenty years later, she wants to reopen the box. Reexamine the evidence. And rekindle her fears that a killer walked free--and is closer than ever.

Final Justice ($1.98 Kindle, B&N), a romantic suspense by novel Marta Perry, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle. This is her sole contribution to the shared world Reunion Revelations series (where it is listed as the sixth novel).

Book Description
He was a father? A DNA test revealed that Mason Grant had a nine-year-old daughter. He'd had no idea that the woman he'd loved and so tragically lost had been pregnant. Or that his own child had been in the custody of the woman's murderer all these years.

Now the killer wanted Mason to pay in more ways than one for the return of the girl. And for daring to find love with old friend Jennifer Pappas. But the only payback the cold-blooded murderer would get was final justice.

Free Book (Kindle) - Dangerous Angels

Update: This deal is now gone.

Dangerous Angels, an omnibus collection of the young adult Weetzie Bat series by Francesca Lia Block, is free to pre-order in the Kindle store. I actually expect that this is a mispricing, so grab it quick and don't wait until the release date (unless you absolutely must, due to not having a credit card on file). The price when you order (currently $0.00) is what you pay on delivery, regardless of release price (the only exception would be if it went down in price, which can't happen on a free book).

Book Description
For a limited time, the collection of Francesca Lia Block’s Weetzie Bat books, Dangerous Angels, is available with a special sneak peek of Pink Smog, a new prequel to Weetzie Bat, and excerpts to the lush paranormal romances Pretty Dead and The Frenzy.

Love is a dangerous angel. . . .

In five luminous novels, acclaimed writer Francesca Lia Block spins a saga of interwoven lives and beating hearts. These postmodern fairy tales take us to a magical Los Angeles, a place where life is a mystery, pain can lead to poetry, strangers become intertwined souls, and everyone is searching for the most beautiful and dangerous angel of all: love.

Free Book (Kindle) - Evernight

Update: This deal is now gone.

Evernight with Bonus Materials, the first title in the young adult Evernight series by Claudia Gray, is free to pre-order in the Kindle store. I actually expect that this is a mispricing, so grab it quick and don't wait until the release date (unless you absolutely must, due to not having a credit card on file). The price when you order (currently $0.00) is what you pay on delivery, regardless of release price (the only exception would be if it went down in price, which can't happen on a free book).

Edit to add: If you are in Australia, try to grab the last two in the series, which are currently free in the Kindle store.

Book Description
For a limited time, Claudia Gray’s star-crossed paranormal romance Evernight is available with a special sneak peek of Balthazar, the upcoming Evernight companion novel, and excerpts of the rest of the Evernight series, including Stargazer, Hourglass, and Afterlife.

Bianca wants to escape.

She's been uprooted from her small hometown and enrolled at Evernight Academy, an eerie Gothic boarding school where the students are somehow too perfect: smart, sleek, and almost predatory. Bianca knows she doesn't fit in.

Then she meets Lucas. He's not the "Evernight type" either, and he likes it that way. Lucas ignores the rules, stands up to the snobs, and warns Bianca to be careful—even when it comes to caring about him.

"I couldn't stand it if they took it out on you," he tells Bianca, "and eventually they would."

But the connection between Bianca and Lucas can't be denied. Bianca will risk anything to be with Lucas, but dark secrets are fated to tear them apart . . . and to make Bianca question everything she's ever believed.

Free Book (Kindle) - A Dixie Christmas

A Dixie Christmas, an anthology by Sandra Hill, is free in the Kindle store.

Book Description
Two magnolias-and-mistletoe-inspired holiday stories from the bestselling author of more than thirty romantic, humorous novels.

Laughter and love combine in Sandra Hill’s BLUE CHRISTMAS — with a touch of Elvis magic. Wealthy Wall Street businessman Clayton Jessup III has only one reason for arriving in Memphis a few days before Christmas — to sell off his inheritance, an embarrassingly kitschy hotel named The Blue Suede Suites. His feelings for the Land of Elvis are dark: his long-dead Memphis mother abandoned him and his dad when Clay was a baby, and now Clay wants nothing to do with a southern legacy that couldn’t be more different from his sophisticated big-city life.

But then he steps in trouble—literally—when he confronts the bizarre group of Elvis impersonators who’ve set up a living Nativity scene on his property. One slip of a wingtip in some sheep poop lands Clay in the care of gorgeous Annie Fallon, whose big-haired Elvis-girlfriend get-up can’t hide her wholesome, sexy appeal. Annie and her brothers have set up the Nativity scene to earn some badly needed money for their struggling dairy farm.

The last thing she needs is an angry Yankee with a concussion and a come-hither smile . . .

In JINX CHRISTMAS, sexy NASCAR star Lance Caslow makes a last-ditch effort to win back his ex-wife Brenda. Five years ago, his reckless pursuit of racetrack fame tore them apart and broke Brenda’s heart. Now Lance shows up in Louisiana determined to make things right this Christmas, not just for himself and Brenda, but for their young daughter, Patti.

He’s got his work cut out for him, and desperate measures are needed. Lance will do anything to prove he’s worthy of Brenda’s trust again — even join the Cajun Christmas show starring a raucous Cajun family whose menfolk dance for charity events in little more than a smile . . .

Free short Story (Kindle) - Tinseltown (UK)

Tinseltown (Main/UK), a short story by Victoria Fox, is free for UK customers in the Kindle store. I don't expect to see this one for US readers, as the publisher is UK only and I don't see a US edition at all for it.

Book Description
Fox is ‘giving Jackie Collins a run for her money’ – That’s Life ‘Victoria Fox…puts the bonk back into bonkbuster!’ – Lovereading “a heady mix of corruption, glamour, lust and power...get your scandal fix here!” – Closer on Hollywood Sinners Dom Judd is the hottest man in Hollywood. He'll do anything to get out of being a sexy Santa in Hollywood’s famous Tinseltown parade…but can he persuade his brother to take the reins? Waitress Clare has just been dumped. Playing Rudolph is hardly going to help her single status - until she sees how drop-dead gorgeous Father Christmas is! Laney Allen has shot to fame, but hates the limelight - and it seems only Santa can help her overcome her stage-fright... As the snow falls and sleigh bells ring, whose Tinseltown dreams will come true

Kindle Kandle 75% Off Sale

ETA: 12/8/11 Just to clarify, you won't see the sale price until you go to the final checkout page. Put your choices into your cart, click on Proceed to Checkout and then look under "Promotion Applied" at the top right, in the summary box. That's the only place you will see the discount amount. I just double checked this morning by placing one of each in my cart and the sale is still on, as of 9 AM.

This isn't quite as good as the sale last year, but if you've been wanting a reading light for your Kindle or other ereader or a gift for a stocking stuffer for any reader on your list, you might want to check out the current sale on these two new models. Both ships with 2 CR2032 batteries installed (there is usually a plastic pull strip you remove, so the batteries are engaged), a bonus set of extra batteries, and a protective pouch included. Everything needed to use it and keep it in place when you aren't reading.

Just stick one or more in your cart and go thru the checkout process - the discount should show up automatically. You get 1/2 off the current 50% sale price, which is a 75% total discount. Note that the Kandle offer sold out quickly last year, so be sure to act quickly. Only these Kandles that are "Sold by Ozeri and Fulfilled by Amazon" qualify for the discount. Make sure that you still see this text under Special Offers and Product Promotions:

CHRISTMAS SUPER SALE WHILE SUPPLIES LAST, Save 50% on each Kandle by Ozeri II in White and Kandle by Ozeri Flex in Black when you purchase 1 or more.

and verify the discount on the order page before clicking to finalize your order.

Kandle by Ozeri II LED Book Light in White ($49.99 $25 $12.50)

Book Description
Newly designed with 3 ultra bright x2 LED bulbs and a 3-way brightness selector, the Kandle by Ozeri II is latest generation LED book light designed for the 3rd generation Amazon Kindle. Also compatible with the 1st and 2nd generation Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader and other eReaders, the new Kandle by Ozeri II incorporates the original patent-pending WideLip? design attaches to your eBook Reader without blocking the screen. The reinforced double pivoting arms that allow for easy positioning, and together with the new brightness selector, the Kandle by Ozeri II perfectly adjusts to your ideal screen illumination. The new 2nd generation Kandle by Ozeri also features three x2 LED bulbs that are angled and sequentially spaced for even light distribution across the screen without creating glare or eyestrain. Improved, petite and light, the Kandle by Ozeri II boasts a retractable arm that folds into a closed position where the LEDs are fully protected from scratches or breakage.

Kandle by Ozeri Flex LED Book Light in Black ($49.99 $25 $12.50)

Book Description
For eBook readers who prefer the extra positioning range of a flex neck design, the Kandle by Ozeri Flex offers a fully adjustable neck that is infinitely customizable. Conceived, designed and prototyped in the USA, the newly engineered Kandle by Ozeri Flex boasts a slim form factor, and 3 ultra bright surface mounted LED bulbs. The Kandle by Ozeri Flex Edition's new surface mounted LED bulbs deliver exceptional brightness with low power consumption, and never need replacing. Designed for the 3rd generation Amazon Kindle, but also compatible with the 1st and 2nd generation Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader and other eReaders, the Kandle by Ozeri Flex features an adjustable brightness selector for the perfect screen or book page illumination. The Kandle by Ozer Flex incorporates the original patent-pending WideLipTM clip that attaches to your eBook Reader without blocking the screen. The Kandle by Ozeri Flex's ultra flexible gooseneck allows for easy positioning to distribute uniform light without creating screen glare or eyestrain. The lamp head also conveniently stores in the clip to protect the LED bulbs from scratches or breakage when traveling.

Free Short Story (Kindle/nook/EPUB) - Haunted Love

Update: 12/13/11 Now free (finally!) in the Kindle store and from Sony.

Haunted Love ($0.99 Kindle), by Cynthia Leitich Smith, is free from Barnes & Noble. This short story is a part of her Tantalize series.

Book Description
Spirit, Texas, is a town of secrets, and as the new owner of the local haunted movie theater, Cody Stryker is juggling more than his fair share. When a mysterious new girl comes to town and runs afoul of the ghost that lives in his theater, Cody’s caught in the middle and needs to figure out exactly who he can trust.

Get the free ebook from Barnes & Noble.
Get the free ebook from Sony.

Free Short Story (nook) - One Night in London

One Night in London ($0.99 Kindle), by Ian Whates, is free from Barnes & Noble. This short story was originally published in the collection The Gift of Joy.

Book Description
Set in an uneasy future where Britain cosies up ever closer to China. Kyle is ex Special Forces and now earns a living as a freelance courier for those who want to know their parcels are well protected. Picking up a delivery from a seedy man in one of London's seediest clubs may just be the biggest mistake of his life. Bio-enhanced thugs and a seductive femme-fatale are determined to ensure that the package never reaches its destination. Once Kyle learns what the package is said to contain he can understand why, but he's not about to let that stop him...

An explosive short story of the near future, featuring intrigue, sex and violence.

Get the free ebook from Barnes & Noble.

Kindle Keyboard Holiday Sellouts Begin

Update: 12/8/11 I just noticed some new shipping info on the Kindle pages at Amazon : Ordering for Christmas? To ensure delivery by December 24, choose Two-Day Shipping at checkout.


The holiday sellout of Kindles has begun at Amazon, with the $99 Special Offers Kindle Keyboard being the first to disappear this year. This means the least expensive Kindle with a Keyboard is now $139, unless you grab one of the refurbished units (while they last), although you might still find these at some local stores. I keep seeing rumors that the Keyboard versions are being run out of stock and will drop off the catalog, but nothing from Amazon has confirmed that. It is more likely that they have simply sold out of stock and rather than have a bunch of pre-orders that can't be filled by Christmas, they elected to remove the buy button from the model in question. The KindleDX is also still available (but back to full price), but you really have to search for it, as it doesn't appear on the Kindle Family banner any longer.

For those who are considering picking up a Kindle for a gift, I'm going to list the models and their status below, with any refurbished ones linked in, if available. Remember, you can opt in to Special Offers with an eInk model, and then opt out again, at no charge (as many times as you want); if you purchase a Special Offers version up front, though, you do have to pay the discounted difference in price the first time you opt out of the Offers (but can then switch back and forth at will with these, as well). Not all refurbished units are heavily discounted, but two are, so I've bolded them, below. Also, some of these appear to be more limited in stock, as they are showing a message that orders are prioritized on a first-come-first-served basis in the US (I've marked these with an asterisk), although that may just be some text left over from when you could pre-order these models..

• Kindle Keyboard, Wi-Fi, includes Special Offers out of stock; refurbished $89.99
• Kindle Keyboard, Wi-Fi $139
• Kindle Keyboard, 3G+Wi-Fi, includes Special Offers $139; refurbished $129.99
• Kindle Keyboard, 3G+Wi-Fi $189; refurbished $129.99
• Kindle DX, 3G+Wi-Fi $379; refurbished $244.99
• Kindle, Wi-Fi, includes Special Offers $79
• Kindle, Wi-Fi $109
• Kindle, Touch, Wi-Fi, includes Special Offers $99 (*)
• Kindle, Touch, Wi-Fi $139 (*)
• Kindle, Touch, 3G+Wi-Fi, includes Special Offers $149 (*)
• Kindle, Touch, 3G+Wi-Fi $189 (*)
• Kindle Fire, (Wi-Fi only) $199 (*)

(*) Order now. Orders are prioritized on a first come, first served basis. U.S. only

Free Book (EPUB/nook) - The Unfinished Gift

The Unfinished Gift ($6.99 Kindle), by Dan Walsh, is free from Barnes & Noble and Sony, but not on Kindle. Be sure to report the lower price to Amazon, as these freebies from Christian publisher Revell often only last for a day or two.

Book Description
Patrick Collins is seven years old, and on his Christmas list are only three items. He wants the army to find his father. He wants to leave his grandfather's house. And, for reasons even he doesn't understand, he wants the soldier that's tucked away in his grandfather's attic.

Set at Christmastime in 1943, The Unfinished Gift tells in an engaging, simple style the story of a family, and reminds us of the surprising things that affect powerful change in our hearts--like a young boy's prayers, a shoebox full of love letters, and even an old wooden soldier, long forgotten. This nostalgic story of forgiveness will engage readers everywhere.

Get the free ebook from Barnes & Noble.
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Get the free ebook from Sony.

Free Book (Kindle) - The Frog Whisperer

The Frog Whisperer: A 3-Step Approach to Finding Lasting Love, by Jane Atkinson, is free in the Kindle store.

Book Description
Are you ready to find your perfect mate? There's no question, finding true, lasting love, can be difficult.

The Frog Whisperer is designed to help you find love with a simple, 3 step approach. It's not about controlling the frogs (people that you date) it's about the "vibe" that you are putting out to prospective partners.

When you take the steps to get clear on what you want, and be the most confident (and happy) version of yourself, you will be on your way to finding that perfect person.

Ready, Set, Leap!

Save 10% on Clothing, Shoes & Accessories (KSO)

This offer is for those with a Kindle with Special Offers (including any Kindle Touch or Kindle Keyboard that opts in to Special Offers).

Save an additional 10% on Clothing, Shoes & Accessories at 6pm.com

Click on offer, then click on the link on the offer page to receive an email with the promotion code. Sign-up for this offer expires on December 10.

You'll get an email (right away), a link to the 6pm.com website and a promotion code to enter at checkout. Once you have the promotional code, you have until January 10, 2012. to complete your purchase. Like previous offers, this one requires you to use the full checkout process in order to enter your promotional code. Also, like all Amazon sales that use promotional codes, if you have a gift card balance, you must use it for the payment (if there is not a sufficient balance, then you can pick which credit card or other payment to use).

Limit one offer per customer and per device.

6pm.com is a sort of subsidiary of Amazon, in that it was acquired by Zappos.com in 2007 and, in turn, Zappos was purchased by Amazon in 2009. It looks like the 10% discount works on an entire order, including their clearance items, so you might be able to find a few good deals, if you poke around.

Buy a Mystery / Thriller Title for $1 (KSO)

This offer is for those with a Kindle with Special Offers (including any Kindle Touch or Kindle Keyboard that opts in to Special Offers).

Buy 1 of 100 Mysteries & Thrillers for $1

To take advantage of this offer:

1. First, turn on your Kindle with Special Offers, click Menu, then View Special Offers.
2. Find the offer: Buy 1 of 100 Mysteries & Thrillers for $1. Click on it, then on the link to Email Me This Offer.
3. You will get an email from Amazon with your promotional code, right away.
4. Once you have the promotion code (and have selected your book; see below), click this link, then on the button labeled Enter Your Code, at any time up to the expiration date of January 7, 2012.
5. Enter your code and follow the directions.
6. Choose any of these books and you'll pay only $1.

You'll have a promotion code on your account that will apply to the FIRST book you buy (from the list) after that. Note that even if the book is free, you'll pay a dollar, so be careful which one you pick after you enter the code -- make sure you don't grabbing a low cost title by accident, which can happen if you apply the code right away, before you are ready to buy the book. Current prices range from $2.99 to $9.99. You should save the code and not enter it until you are ready to buy a book.

To recap: you must claim the offer by December 10 and must do so from your Kindle with Special Offers. You'll get a promotion code via email and you have until January 7, 2012 to enter and redeem the code. Once you enter it, it will work on the next book on the list that you purchase.

Some of the titles on this one have appeared on several previous offers, but there are also a few new titles thrown in, so you should be able to find (at least) one you want to use the coupon on. I know that I see several series and authors that I have been reading, so once again will have to sample and make a touch decision.

Free Book - 2012 and Beyond (K/N)

Update: 3/7/12 Now free in Spanish from Amazon and B&N.
Update: 12/7/11 Now free from Barnes & Noble.

2012 and Beyond (English/Spanish), by Yehuda Berg, is free in the Kindle store.

Book Description
Drawing wisdom from the Zohar, this short kabbalistic text redefines this legendary period of time as a window for individuals and communities to reach “messiah consciousness.” That means it’s up to people, not some celestial savior, to ignite global change. All the natural disasters poverty, revolutions, anarchy, are wake-up calls to a fragmented humanity. The end is near, but as Yehuda explains this really means “the end of dominance of the human ego. In its place we will experience the unleashing of our true selves – the illuminated human soul.” There must be a critical mass, a certain threshold of transformation to capitalize on this window, and when that occurs, the peoples of the world will function as one body while still appreciating our differences. Our collective minds have the power to bring an end to negative consciousness and birth a new existence right now.

Get the free ebook from Barnes & Noble (English/Spanish).

A word about my sponsors (you!)

This message is an updated version of a post that I ran a couple of years ago (has it been that long? Really?). Since the original post, Amazon has added Kindle eBooks to their list of referral eligible products (instead, Android Apps are now excluded) and I've actually made enough referrals from some of the non-Amazon affiliate programs to buy dinner now and then. So, I've edited the original post a bit(and fixed a couple of typos), but it mostly still applies as well today as it did then. I gave up posting my Book Budget some time back, as the ones I purchased were being swamped by the free books on Kindle. I still buy more books than I manage to read, what with free books, $1 KSO books and books bought for others in the household.

As the holiday season approaches, a commercial reminder/note for readers of this blog. As you may (or may not) know, Amazon pays what they now call advertising fees for referrals on Kindle books (of course, any percentage of zero would still be zero, for free books) and other purchases, such as the Kindle itself and Gift Certificates (even if used to later buy Kindle books). Using the links on this blog helps support it, as does using the Amazon search box on the side menu when making non-Kindle book purchases at Amazon. I also make a tiny amount from referrals to some other ebookstores (Barnes & Noble, Kobo, eHarlequin and Smashwords, mostly). Many of the other bargains I post are not affiliate linked - PDF files, free books at Sony, Christian audio, etc., deals at Fictionwise and so on. I post the bargains as I find them (or as you send in tips; thanks to those of you that do), regardless of where they are located.

I've had a few people ask if I've read every bargain book I post. No, I don't - there is no way I physically could do so (I haven't even read thru all the free books Amazon has given us), even if I could afford to do so. I do purchase and read some, with more being bought than I manage to read (just like with my paper library). I do post some reviews (although not for every book I read). Some of these books are provided by the publisher or author and some of them are books I've purchased myself. I have quite a stack of both and limited reading time, so make no promises on reviews for those who send them (and never guarantee a favorable review ... although if a book is one I can't get thru, I'll usually just let the author know and pass on writing a review).

Feel free to use (or not) the links in my posts or on the blog menus when making Amazon purchases; these do help support my efforts (at no additional cost to you) and are greatly appreciated. A few of you have also sent direct PayPal donations (the link is on the right sidebar); these are also very much appreciated (and are usually immediately spent on more books, especially now that Kobo takes PayPal).

Thank you to all that read the blog, whether it's on the web site, on Kindle, the RSS feed or following on Facebook or Twitter. I hope you have a great holiday season and promise that I'll keep posting the bargains I find, to help you stretch the holiday budget. I suspect the free reads and big discounts will continue so long as there is competition amongst ereader devices (just as there was in the BluRay/HD war a few years back), even though the Apple and Agency publishers have taken a number of steps to eliminate that competition. Even as the Agency publishers have stifled competition amongst ebookstores (and withdrawn from libraries, in some instances), they have found they still have to compete for readers and for your money, both against other entertainment options (television, movies, video games, etc) and against the proliferation of other reading choices that we now have. More open e-publishing also has benefited readers and the many authors who have been able to bring their backlists in to "print", either directly or thru a number of small publishers that have sprung up in the last few years.

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Today's Deals

I've added the Free Android App of the Day on the right sidebar, along with the Free MP3 of the Day. Today's app is a calendar and task manager that syncs with Google Calendar and Tasks (although apparently a few reviewers could not figure out how to do so, others report success). The App changes every day and I know it's easy to forget to check to see what it is (I have too, once or twice).

Unraveling Anne ($1.99), by Laurel Saville, is today's Kindle Deal of the Day.

Book Description
“After all, this is my mother we’re talking about. As her daughter, I belonged to her; as my mother, she also belongs to me. I don’t have her anymore, but I still have her story.”

In 1950s Los Angeles, Anne Ford was the epitome of the California golden girl, a former beauty queen and model-turned-fashion designer whose success and charm were legendary. So how is it possible that such a woman could die in squalor, an alcoholic street person brutally murdered in a burnt-out West Hollywood building?

In searching for answers to the heartbreaking trajectory of her mother’s life, writer Laurel Saville plumbed the depths of Anne’s troubled past and her own eccentric childhood to untangle the truth of an exceptional, yet tragic, existence. What she discovered was a woman who was beautiful, well-educated, and talented—yet tormented by internal demons and no match for the hedonistic culture of Southern California in the 1960s and 70s.

With unflinching honesty and stirring compassion, Saville struggles to reconcile the two faces her mother presented the world: the glamour-girl-about-town the public saw and the unpredictable, bitter alcoholic her children knew. Most importantly, Saville explores how what we bring forward from previous generations can shape our own lives, and how compassion and love for a difficult parent can be a person’s bridge to a better life.

Breakfast with Socrates ($1.54 / £0.99 UK), by Robert Rowland Smith, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $9.99).

Book Description
What does it mean to be awake? What exactly is therapeutic about retail therapy? And what are you really working on when you're at your desk, in the gym, or having dinner? From getting ready in the morning, through heading to work, going to a party, having sex and falling back to sleep, Breakfast with Socrates provides an hour-by-hour commentary on what history's greatest philosophers have said about the meaning behind everything we do. A fascinating exploration of our daily lives, Breakfast with Socrates also draws on literature, art, politics and psychology to offer an informal introduction to the history of ideas that will help anyone to think more healthily. Breakfast will never be the same again...

The Pacific War: From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima ($3.95 Kindle, B&N), by Daniel Marston, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.

Book Description
A new ... edition of one of the bestselling World War II Osprey titles, The Pacific War Companion brings together the perspectives and insights of world-renowned military historians. From the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor through the release of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the conflict in the Pacific was marked by amazing tactical innovations, such as those in amphibious warfare, and horrific battles that raged in the unforgiving climate of the island jungles. Each chapter in this book focuses on a different aspect of this conflict, from the planning of operations to the experiences of the men who were there.

Free Book (Kindle) - Dead Air

Dead Air: A Sammy Greene Thriller, by Deborah Shlian and Linda Reid, is free in the Kindle store.

Book Description
Talk is cheap, but when this radio host takes action, she may pay the ultimate price.An outspoken, brash, native New Yorker, Sammy Greene isn't afraid to ruffle a few feathers at Ellsford University, her ultraconservative New England college. Host of The Hot Line, a talk-radio show on campus station WELL, Sammy tackles the toughest, most controversial issues facing Ellsford's students.

When Sammy discovers the body of Dr. Burton Conrad, one of Ellsford's most esteemed professors, her journalistic drive kicks in and she sets out to discover what happened to the beloved professor. But when several Ellsford students mysteriously disappear, Sammy realizes she's uncovered the seamy, terrifying underbellyof this prestigious institute of higher education.

With the entire campus in peril, and demons from her past close behind, Sammy Greene must race to find answers. Along the way, she'll discover some unlikely allies-and even more unlikely enemies.

If Sammy isn't careful, someone is going to make sure that she signs off-for good.

Free Book (Kindle) - The Fallen

The Fallen, the third in the Derek Stillwater series by Mark Terry, is free in the Kindle store.

Book Description
Twenty world leaders meet for the G8 Summit at the beautiful Cheyenne Resort in Colorado Springs. But an ugly plot lurks beneath the surface: a terrorist group, The Fallen Angels, plans to wreak havoc on the Summit.

With the Secret Service, the FBI, Homeland Security, the military, and security from twenty different governments on-hand, shouldn't the resort be the safest place in the world?

It seems impossible that a terrorist group could infiltrate the Summit. And yet they do. Within minutes, twenty world leaders are taken hostage, and Richard Coffee, the group's leader, makes his first demand: release twenty detainees from Guantanamo Bay, or he'll execute one leader each hour until his demands are met.

Only one man can disrupt this plot. Derek Stillwater is that man.Working undercover as a maintenance man at the resort, Stillwater will wage war on the world's deadliest, most sophisticated terrorist organization, picking off the terrorists one by one-until he comes face-to-face with an evil force from his past, Richard Coffee, The Fallen Angel himself.

Free Book (Kindle) - Shadow of Death

Shadow of Death, the first title in the Laura Nelson Mystery series by Patricia Gussin, is free in the Kindle store.

Book Description
Pull a trigger and everything changes.

Medical student Laura Nelson had just finished examining her first patient when she is forced to make a split-second decision that will alter the course of her life - forever. One life will end, and one life will never be the same. But keeping her dreadful secret will be one of the toughest challenges Laura will ever face. With a persistent and perceptive detective hot on her trail and a host of eerie incidents suggesting that maybe her secret isn't really a secret, Laura is drawn into an unseemly web of peril, deceit, and treachery and is forced to risk both her freedom and her sanity. Will her deadly secret come to light, or must she live forever in the shadow of death? Set amidst the upheaval and smoldering chaos of the Detroit riots of 1967, Shadow of Death is a haunting tale of unrest, fear, and consequences.

Hailed as a stunning debut novel, Shadow of Death provides a spine-chilling glimpse of what lurks in the shadows.

Free Book - Sweet Baklava (K/N/E)

Update: 3/15/12 Repeat freebie in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble and ChristianBook.
Update: 12/7/11 Now free from ChristianBook.

Sweet Baklava, by Debby Mayne, is a repeat freebie in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble, courtesy of Christian publisher Abingdon Press.

Book Description
After years of looking for a place to belong, Paula Andrews finally finds her niche in Tarpon Springs, Florida. Her soap and candle shop flourishes, and her friendship with the Papadopoulos family gives her the love and support she never got from her own family.

The only thing missing is a romance—or in the grand hopes of the Papadopoulos family, a proper marriage. Preferably with Nick, their favorite son, currently serving in the Air Force. Paula, however, has doubts. After all, he’s been gone a long time and loves flying. Their lives have grown apart. Would he still feel anything for her?

When Nick comes home on leave, sparks fly, and not just with Paula. Nick's father wants him home, helping with the family sponge-diving business. His mother wants him back in the family, back in church. Nick just wants Paula . . . and the Air Force.

So who’s going to give in first? And what will it mean for their love and future?

Get the free ebook from Barnes & Noble.
Get the free ebook from ChristianBook.

Free Book - One Imperfect Christmas (K/N/E)

Update: 3/7/12 Repeat freebie in the Kindle store and from ChristianBook and Barnes & Noble.
Update: 2/7/12 No longer free in the Kindle store or from ChristianBook; free once again from Barnes & Noble.
Update: 12/7/11 Now free from ChristianBook.

One Imperfect Christmas, by Myra Johnson, is a repeat freebie in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble, courtesy of Christian publisher Abingdon Press.

Book Description
Graphic designer Natalie Pearce faces the most difficult Christmas of her life. For almost a year, her mother has lain in a nursing home, the victim of a massive stroke, and Natalie blames herself for not being there when it happened. Worse, she’s allowed the monstrous load of guilt to drive a wedge between her and everyone she loves—most of all her husband Daniel. Her marriage is on the verge of dissolving, her prayer life is suffering, and she’s one Christmas away from hitting rock bottom.

Junior-high basketball coach Daniel Pearce is at his wit’s end. Nothing he’s done has been able to break through the wall Natalie has erected between them. And their daughter Lissa’s adolescent rebellion isn’t helping matters. As Daniel’s hope reaches its lowest ebb, he wonders if this Christmas will spell the end of his marriage and the loss of everything he holds dear.

Get the free ebook from Barnes & Noble.
Get the free ebook from ChristianBook.

Free Book (KindleUK/nook/EPUB) - When the Devil Whistles

Update: 12/7/11 Now free from ChristianBook.

When the Devil Whistles, by Rick Acker, is a repeat freebie for UK customers in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble for those in the US, courtesy of Christian publisher Abingdon Press. I suspect it is supposed to be free in the US Kindle store, but just hasn't updated.

Book Description
Allie Whitman is a professional whistleblower with a knack for sniffing out fraud in government contracts. Conner Norman is a gifted litigator and together they form Devil to Pay, Inc., a shell corporation that files lawsuits based on Allie s investigations. They soon find themselves fighting potentially fatal battles in and out of the courtroom, going great lengths to protect secrets that could ruin them both.

Get the free ebook from Barnes & Noble.
Get the free ebook from ChristianBook.

Free Audiobook - Beyond Religion

The Audible version of Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World ($9.99 Kindle), by H.H. Dalai Lama and Alexander Norman, is free for anyone with an Audible account (which you have if you have an Amazon account).

Book Description
A stirring call to move beyond religion for the guidance to improve human life on individual, community, and global levels—including a guided meditation practice for cultivating key human values.

Ten years ago, in his best-selling Ethics for a New Millennium, His Holiness the Dalai Lama first proposed an approach to ethics based on universal rather than religious principles. Now, in Beyond Religion, the Dalai Lama, at his most compassionate and outspoken, elaborates and deepens his vision for the nonreligious way. Transcending the mere "religion wars," he outlines a system of secular ethics that gives tolerant respect to religion—those that ground ethics in a belief in God and an afterlife, and those that understand good actions as leading to better states of existence in future lives. And yet, with the highest level of spiritual and intellectual authority, the Dalai Lama makes a claim for what he calls a third way. This is a system of secular ethics that transcends religion as a way to recognize our common humanity and so contributes to a global human community based on understanding and mutual respect.

Beyond Religion is an essential statement from the Dalai Lama, a blueprint for all those who yearn for a life of spiritual fulfillment as they work for a better world.

Get the free audiobook from Audible, narrated by Martin Sheen.

Today's Deals

One EU only freebie is now free in the US (and from B&N), while a number of others are now free from Sony and/or ChristianBook, for those that need straight EPUB:

• What's Stopping You? (Kindle US/nook)
• Getting Sassy (Kindle/EPUB)
• A Victorian Christmas (Kindle/nook/EPUB)
• The Christmas Bus (Kindle/nook/EPUB)
• Freedom From the Lies You Tell Yourself (Kindle/nook/EPUB)
• The Strategy of Satan (Kindle/nook/EPUB)
• The Holiness of God (Kindle/EPUB)
• Great Wines Under $20 (Kindle/nook/EPUB)
• The Everything Healthy Cooking for Parties (Kindle/nook/EPUB)
• A**holeology (Kindle/nook/EPUB)

Pandora Gets Jealous ($0.99), the first title in Carolyn Hennesy's Pandora / Mythic Miss-Adventures series for young teens, is today's Kindle Deal of the Day. The second title in the series, Pandora Gets Vain, is also currently bargain priced at $4.61.

Book Description
13-year-old Pandora Atheneus Andromaeche Helena (or Pandy, for short) has no idea what she'll bring for her school project. By accident she discovers a simple box, said to contain something so terrifying and horrible that no one must ever, ever touch it for fear of inflicting all of mankind with the wrath of the Gods and Goddesses. This, of course, makes the box the perfect thing for Pandora to bring for her school project. Unfortunately, things don't go quite the way she was hoping, and the box accidentally gets opened, unleashing all kinds of evil and misery into the world. Hauled before Zeus, Hera and the rest of immortals, Pandy's given the task of collecting all the evils within a year's time.!

Regarding Ducks and Universes ($1.54 / £0.99 UK), by Neve Maslakovic, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $7.95).

Book Description
On a foggy Monday in 1986, the universe suddenly, without warning, bifurcated. Fast-forward to 35 years later: Felix Sayers is a culinary writer living in San Francisco of Universe A who spends his days lunching at Coconut Cafe and dreaming of penning an Agatha Christie-style mystery. But everything changes when his Aunt Henrietta dies, leaving Felix a photograph of his father and himself--dated ten days before Felix was born. It can only mean one thing: Felix has an 'alter' in Universe B. Panicked that his mystery novel may exist already, Felix crosses to San Francisco B and proceeds to flagrantly violate the rules of both worlds by snooping around his alter's life. But when he narrowly escapes a hit-and-run, it becomes clear that someone knows he's crossed over... and whoever it is isn't happy about it. Now Felix must uncover the truth about his alter, the events of one Monday, and a wayward rubber duck before his time in both worlds runs out.

Living Large on Less ($3.40 Kindle, B&N), by Christina Spence, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.

Book Description
Have it All—for Half the Price
You work hard for your money. Wouldn't you like to get more for it? Living Large on Less is full of hundreds of ways to save money without drastically altering your lifestyle. You can eat the food you want, wear your favorite designer's clothes, take a dream vacation and throw a great party without breaking the bank. With this advice, you'll never pay full-price again.

Inside you'll find:

• Practical, easy-to-implement ways to save serious money on everyday expenses, from groceries to housing to transportation
• Fun, creative ideas for saving on luxuries, from fine dining to high fashion to travel
• Simple, step-by-step instructions for setting and sticking to a budget
• Effective strategies for defeating debt

You don't have to be a financial whiz (or even mathematically inclined) to manage your money. And you don't have to sacrifice all the things you love to save some cash. Just follow the simple ideas inside and you'll make your money stretch farther than you ever dreamed. And think of what you can do with that extra dough—pay off debt, finance an education, buy a house, or even retire early. Whatever your motivation, it's never too early (or too late) to start living large on less.