Happy New Year! Hope everyone had a safe holiday. You'll notice that I've moved the Backlist/Indie freebie section to this daily roundup post, just as a list of titles. I'm going to try keeping them there for a while, since they otherwise seem to be trying to take over the blog.
There are several new 30% off coupons for
Kobo (see sidebar at right), good until January 12.
If you run into your local Starbucks, you may still be able to grab a card with the code to get the paid version
Scrabble for free in the Appstore (runs on iThings only, of course); from what I can tell, it's the iPhone version, but it runs on the iPad and iPod Touch.
In the Amazon store, the
100 Kindle books for $3.99 or less selection has changed, which means there are a lot of new bargains (some of which will, no doubt, disappear in a day or two, as generally seems to happen each month with this promotion).
Additional formats on these free books are now available:
The Thomas & Mercer edition of
Already Gone (
$0.99), by John Rector, is today's Kindle Deal of the Day.
Book Description
Jake Reese is a writing teacher at an American university. He lives in a small brick Tudor close to campus with his art buyer wife, Diane. His life is quiet-Ordinary even. And he likes it that way. But it wasn't always quiet. Jake's distant past was a life on the streets, inflicting damage and suffering on more people than he can count. And now someone from his past, it seems, has come looking for him.
A raw, gripping thriller about the price paid for past sins, John Rector's third novel is a live wire that crackles with the intensity of a man who has nothing left to lose. When two men attack Jake in a parking lot and cut off his ring finger, he tries to dismiss it as an unlucky case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. But when events take a more sinister turn and Diane goes missing, Jake knows he can no longer hide from the truth.
As he embarks on a mission to find his wife, he realizes his dark past is refusing to stay buried, and that his future is about to unfold in ways he could never have imagined.
With taut and brooding prose, Rector paints a formidable portrait of a reformed man's slow descent into a life he thought he had walked away from forever. As the intensity becomes almost unbearable, the pace quickens and the suspense applies an unrelenting, vice-like grip, as ALREADY GONE hurtles toward its ultimate, explosive climax.
The Little Friend (
$1.54 / £0.99 UK), by Donna Tartt, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the
US edition is $11.99).
Book Description
The hugely anticipated new novel by the author of The Secret History—a best-seller nationwide and around the world, and one of the most astonishing debuts in recent times—The Little Friend is even more transfixing and resonant.
In a small Mississippi town, Harriet Cleve Dusfresnes grows up in the shadow of her brother, who—when she was only a baby—was found hanging dead from a black-tupelo tree in their yard. His killer was never identified, nor has his family, in the years since, recovered from the tragedy.
For Harriet, who has grown up largely unsupervised, in a world of her own imagination, her brother is a link to a glorious past she has only heard stories about or glimpsed in photograph albums. Fiercely determined, precocious far beyond her twelve years, and steeped in the adventurous literature of Stevenson, Kipling, and Conan Doyle, she resolves, one summer, to solve the murder and exact her revenge. Harriet's sole ally in this quest, her friend Hely, is devoted to her, but what they soon encounter has nothing to do with child's play: it is dark, adult, and all too menacing.
A revelation of familial longing and sorrow, The Little Friend explores crime and punishment, as well as the hidden complications and consequences that hinder the pursuit of truth and justice. A novel of breathtaking ambition and power, it is rich in moral paradox, insights into human frailty, and storytelling brilliance.
Storm Born (
$3.49 Kindle;
$1.99 B&N), the first title in the
Dark Swan series by Richelle Mead, is the Nook Daily Find. This is a series I started on paper, then repurchased as ebooks. You can get the first three in the series (including this one), but getting the
Richelle Mead Dark Swan Bundle ($9.83 Kindle,
B&N) and the fourth title was released earlier this week:
Shadow Heir ($5.24 Kindle,
B&N).
Book Description
Just typical. No love life to speak of for months, then all at once, every horny creature in the Otherworld wants to get in your pants. . .
Eugenie Markham is a powerful shaman who does a brisk trade banishing spirits and fey who cross into the mortal world. Mercenary, yes, but a girl's got to eat. Her most recent case, however, is enough to ruin her appetite. Hired to find a teenager who has been taken to the Otherworld, Eugenie comes face to face with a startling prophecy--one that uncovers dark secrets about her past and claims that Eugenie's first-born will threaten the future of the world as she knows it.
Now Eugenie is a hot target for every ambitious demon and Otherworldy ne'er-do-well, and the ones who don't want to knock her up want her dead. Eugenie handles a Glock as smoothly as she wields a wand, but she needs some formidable allies for a job like this. She finds them in Dorian, a seductive fairy king with a taste for bondage, and Kiyo, a gorgeous shape-shifter who redefines animal attraction. But with enemies growing bolder and time running out, Eugenie realizes that the greatest danger is yet to come, and it lies in the dark powers that are stirring to life within her. . .
Today's backlist/indie free books on Kindle:
- My Ride With Gus, by Charlie Carillo
- Neptune's Orphans, by Sarah A. Hoyt
- Across A Moonlit Sea (Pirate Wolf series), by Marsha Canham
- Rumpel, A Cursed Tales Novel, by Eileen Cruz Coleman
- Five books by Angela Hunt (romance)
- Seven books by Selena Kitt (erotica)
- In Too Deep (novella), by Kathryn Shay (drm-free, Smashwords)
- Donovan’s Angel (novel) and Christmas in Time (novella), by Peggy Webb (drm-free, Smashwords)
- Across Eternity (novel), by Aris Whittier (drm-free, Smashwords)
Witch & Wizard: The Fire ($0.99), by James Patterson and Jill Dembowski, is the third in this popular teen series.
The Happy Herbivore Cookbook: Over 175 Delicious Fat-Free and Low-Fat Vegan Recipes ($4.99), by Lindsay S. Nixon, the McDougalls' All-You-Can-Eat Cookbook ($1.99), by John and Mary McDougall , and Get Real & Stop Dieting! ($3.99), by Brett Blumenthal, will get you started on your New Year's diet (and the latter even has a couple of recipes for you on it's Amazon page).
Give It Up!: My Year of Learning to Live Better with Less ($1.99), by Mary Carlomagno
Grab the discounted Justice with Bonus Material ($1.99), by Faye Kellerman, before it disappears and you have to pay full price ($8.99) once again. This is the eighth title in the popular (and long-running) Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series, but is as good a spot to start as any, if you aren't one that needs to read a series entirely in order.
Princess of the Midnight Ball ($2.99) is the first title in the titular series by Jessica Day George.
You can pick up both titles in Mark Teppo's Codex of Souls series (published by Nightshade Books) for only 99 cents each: Lightbreaker and Heartland.
Seven Serpents Trilogy ($3.99), by Scott O'Dell, includes all three Books in this young adult series published by Sourcebooks: The Captive; The Feathered Serpent; and The Amethyst Ring.
