Free Book & Coffee (nook) - Home Safe

Home Safe ($9.99 Kindle), by Elizabeth Berg, is this week's free in-store ebook from Barnes and Noble. This is her next-to-most-recent novel, preceding The Last Time I Saw You ($9.99 Kindle), which came out this past April.

You'll need to stop by the store to get the coupon (and may or may not have to show an ereader device of some type with the B&N reader installed). While you are there, if your location has a cafe (some don't), show off your ereader app there, with a book showing, and you'll get a free small cup of coffee (which I am drinking as I type this post!).

Book Description
In this new novel, beloved bestselling author Elizabeth Berg weaves a beautifully written and richly resonant story of a mother and daughter in emotional transit. Helen Ames–recently widowed, coping with loss and grief, unable to do the work that has always sustained her–is beginning to depend far too much on her twenty-seven-year-old daughter, Tessa, and is meddling in her life, offering unsolicited and unwelcome advice. Helen’s problems are compounded by her shocking discovery that her mild-mannered and loyal husband was apparently leading a double life. The Ameses had painstakingly saved for a happy retirement, but that money disappeared in several large withdrawals made by Helen’s husband before he died. In order to support herself and garner a measure of much needed independence, Helen takes an unusual job that ends up offering far more than she had anticipated. And then a phone call from a stranger sets Helen on a surprising path of discovery that causes both mother and daughter to reassess what they thought they knew about each other, themselves, and what really makes a home and a family.

Once you have your coupon, log into your account at bn.com (do this first, or you'll have to enter the code twice, at least on an iphone using the Safari browser), then to bn.com/redeem and enter the coupon code to add the book to your account.

Free Game - Super Granny Winter Wonderland

The free game this week at Sandlot Games is Super Granny Winter Wonderland ($6.99 Amazon Game Download). I have to admit, I am addicted to the Super Granny series. This one seems a bit tougher than usual - there are dogs only a few levels in and the floor is too hard to dig any traps; get thru that one and the next one is harder yet (and I haven't managed to get past it, even in easy mode).

Game Description

• Over 90 New Levels.
• Includes Player Created Levels.
• New Easy And Super Granny Modes.
• Hilarious Dialogue.

Super Granny is back and she needs your help! Super Granny's ski resort vacation is cut short when her kitties go missing! Navigate Super Granny through 90+ all-new, action-packed levels, some created by fellow players, as you rescue Granny's precious kitties from the clutches of the nefarious Dr. Meow! Enjoy hilarious action packed fun in Super Granny Winter Wonderland!

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

Free Book - Boomerang

Repeating a deal from last September, you can pick up Boomerang ($1.99 Kindle), by Alan Hutcheson, for free on Smashwords, today only.

Book Description
Ted Hogwood's beloved Sarah, a jazz guitar, is in the window of Topp Dollar Pawn. The only way he can get the money to rescue her is to accept an assignment from the AABC, a not nearly official branch of the United States intelligence community. He is partnered with Jerry Kwiatkowski, master of the Hammond B-3 organ and chronic flatulence sufferer, to steal a boomerang containing secrets that should have died with J. Edgar Hoover over thirty years ago. It would be a simple job if only they knew what they were doing. And if a crossbow wielding assassin, two unemployed Australian women, The Director of Central Intelligence and a clothing optional former onion festival queen were not also hot on the boomerang's trail.

For the free download, click HERE and use coupon code RM52S (valid until midnight June 9).

Buy One, Get One Free from Jon F. Merz

Buy a copy of one of Jon Merz's novels (listed below) from Amazon.com, send him the receipt (see below) and he will send you another one of his novels (your choice) absolutely free (via email)!

PARALLAX ($2.99)

Book Description
What happens when two professional assassins – one a Mafia hitman and the other a former German terrorist – kill at exactly the same moment in time? For Ernst Stahl and Frank Jolino the result is a psychic bond that slowly blossoms in each man’s mind, enabling them to see into the other’s world. Frank Jolino doesn’t like what he sees, especially when he realizes that Stahl is headed to his home turf of Boston to kill a scientist who may hold the key to solving the world’s deadliest diseases. But for Stahl, there’s no other option. Virtually bankrupt and with his son in desperate need of a bone marrow transplant, he’s got little choice but to take the assignment. Jolino has other ideas. On the run from his crime syndicate for refusing to kill his ex-girlfriend-turned-government-informant, Jolino sets a plan in motion that will bring the two men face-to-face and gun-to-gun…with no guarantees either will survive.

VICARIOUS ($2.99)

Book Description
When disgraced ex-FBI agent-turned-Boston-cop Steve Curran finds a corpse with no practical explanation for its death, the nightmares start again. Convinced the serial killer that caused his expulsion from the Bureau is once again haunting him, Curran soon learns his theories are all wrong. When the sister of the latest victim, Lauren Fields, uncovers an old journal detailing the hunt for a creature known only as the Soul Eater, she and Curran must confront the very real prospect that the killer is not of this world at all – and that his motives have little to do with killing, but all to do with something far, far worse.

SHADOW CHASER ($2.99)

Book Description
PURGE: A top secret satellite platform that delivers pinpoint assassinations via biological warfare… Gwynneviere – the beautiful and deadly assassin who wants to sell PURGE on the blackmarket and will stop at nothing to get it…Jonathan Archangel – former Delta Force turned elite Shadow Chaser…it’s his mission to hunt Gwynneviere down before she can complete her deadly assignment. A novel of international intrigue, espionage, and biological warfare played out against the backdrop of Boston and beyond, Shadow Chaser will leave you breathless.

SPECIAL BONUS! If, after reading the novels, you review them on Amazon and elsewhere and send him notification that you’ve done so, he’ll send you his brand new novella FOOL FOR GREEN: A Frank Steel Job set in 1940 Boston and filled with World War II intrigue and the supernatural.

Contact Jon via email with your proof-of-purchase (a copy of your receipt from Amazon, sent to you via email or print off the invoice to a PDF file) and which one of his other novels you'd like to receive absolutely free!

Free Read - The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner

The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner ($9.99 Kindle; $7.54 Hardcover ), by Stephenie Meyer, can be read for free on her website, thru midnight (EST) July 5. For a novella, this one is fairly long, at 192 pages, but it's one you should be able to read thru in a couple of days. You can't get a download there though, you can only read while online. The site uses Flash, so I suspect it's doesn't work at all with the iPad (and definitely not with the Kindle). If you really want your own copy, the hardcover at Amazon is priced lower than the ebook; it flirted briefly with $6.99, but is still under $8.

Book Description
Fans of The Twilight Saga will be enthralled by this riveting story of Bree Tanner, a character first introduced in Eclipse, and the darker side of the newborn vampire world she inhabits. In another irresistible combination of danger, mystery, and romance, Stephenie Meyer tells the devastating story of Bree and the newborn army as they prepare to close in on Bella Swan and the Cullens, following their encounter to its unforgettable conclusion.

Click HERE to start reading.