Free Book (Sony) - The Dangerous Dimension

The Dangerous Dimension ($0.89 Kindle), by L. Ron Hubbard, free last June in the Kindle store, is free in the Sony store.

Book Description
Dr. Henry Mudge undergoes a striking personality change when he discovers a mathematical formula "Equation C" that defines a mysterious negative dimension. He is instantly transported to any location in the solar system by merely thinking of it--even when he doesn't want to.

Click HERE to get the free download from Sony.

BooksOnTheKnob has a new Address!

Books on the Knob is moving ... sort of. I have a new domain name and the blog can now be found at blog.booksontheknob.org. However, your old bookmarks will keep working and simply redirect you to the new location - just click Yes to get there. You'll want to update your bookmarks, though, to make it easier to get to the blog (for those using it as a home page, make sure you update that as well).

Otherwise, there should not be any changes needed at your end. The RSS, Twitter, email (on the Subscribe / About / Contact page), Facebook and Kindle subscriptions should all still work as they did before. If you run into any problems, be sure to let me know (there were quite a few places I had to update in order to get everything linked back up, but I think I got them all). If you do have a problem, you might want to try clearing your browser cache first (in FireFox, Ctrl-Shift-DEL, then pick Cache on the menu and click OK), as that was causing me problem too, at first).

Sunday's Kindle Deals of the Day - $2.99

Today's $2.99 Kindle eBook Deals of the Day ($2.99 each):

• America the Edible by Adam Richman
• And My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You by Kathi Kamen Goldmark
• The Anthology of Rap by Adam Bradley
• Taken By The Others by Jess Haines (double check price; has not dropped as of the time this is being posted) price now correct
• Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work by Edwidge Danticat
• Reversing Diabetes without Drugs by Neal D. Barnard M.D.
• Gone to Green by Judy Pace Christie (topaz format; Mobi for $2.39)
• Lace Knitting to Go by Andrea Tung
• Mistress by Midnight by Maggie Robinson
• Office Feng Shui by Frank Montagna
• Pete Duel: A Biography by Paul Green
• The Prayers of Agnes Sparrow by Joyce Magnin (topaz format; Mobi for $2.39)
• Sword Fighting in the Star Wars Universe: Historical Origins, Style and Philosophy by Nick Jamilla
• Thalia Radiante by Thalia
• Rory by Julia Templeton
• The Big 5-OH! by Sandra D Bricker (topaz format; Mobi for $2.39)
• The Twilight Mystique: Critical Essays on the Novels and Films by Amy M. Clarke
• The Voice of the Butterfly by John Nichols
• The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History by Jill Lepore
• WCS Pocket Guide: Dogs by David Borgenicht

Kindle eBooks Student Deal of the Day:

• Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics by Henry Hazlitt ($1.99)

New Year's Recap and Updates

A large number of "permanent" freebies expired at the end of the year (bye-bye Harlequin 16!) and those cookbooks that were free last year are now $10-$17! Another example of why you don't sample free books, but grab them while they are there. Two books that were recently free only in the UK store are now free for US readers (again):

• Avempartha
• Soul Identity

For all the new Kindle users out there, I've listed all the current freebies (that are actually "books", self-contained and at least a short story or novella) below, arranged by genre. The list can change at any time (one freebie posted this morning was already back to full price by evening), so always check the current price before clicking to purchase. The current list is always accessible on the Free Kindle Books link at the top of every page.

Today is the last day to pick up any of the EA Kindle games at half price. The $5 eBook sale at Borders still has a day to run and Amazon is still matching many of their prices, which I expect to end sometime tomorrow or the day after (although it could at any time). Fictionwise has a new promotion code, endof2010, good for 40% off through Sunday, Jan 2, 2011.

If you are looking for books to help with your New Year's Resolutions, Kobo books has set up two lists of New Year's books, Healthy and This Year is About You!, while Amazon has the Get Ready for a Healthy and Happy New Year page (paper books) and the New Year, New You 2011 in Kindle Books page.

You can get a free copy of Cobalt City Christmas by signing up for the Timid City Pirate Publishing mailing list.  You'll need to sign up, confirm on the email you receive, then wait until someone there sends you the book, but the offer is good all weekend. You can also find a free short story on their Booty page.

Book Description
When it comes to the holidays, Cobalt City isn’t all that different from your hometown, except for the secret headquarters, out-of-town guests capable of destroying the world, hundreds of heavily armed rubber duckies, Christmas geese that fight back, other-worldly arsonists, and inventors with jet packs, that is.

Unwrap a bundle of super-powered adventure for the holidays, including tasty tales from storytellers both new and established: Nicole Burns, Rosemary Jones, Angel Leigh McCoy, Jeremy Zimmerman, and Cobalt City creator Nathan Crowder. You’ve never experienced a Christmas like a Cobalt City Christmas!

Deb Baker is giving away copies of Murder Grins and Bears It over on Smashwords, no coupon code required.

Book Description
When a game warden is murdered in the Michigan U.P., Gertie Johnson is hot on the trail. She is hampered by pin-curled Kitty and man-hungry Cora Mae. Worse, Gertie’s son, the local sheriff, seems more concerned with arresting his mother for cruising without a driver's license than catching a killer.

Random Acts of Senseless Kindness, a novelette from Graham Parke, author of No Hope for Gomez!, can be downloaded from his website.

Warning: Clinical studies have shown that reading this novelette is likely to make you more attractive to the opposite sex and elevate your random luck by about 9.5%

(These statements have not been evaluated by anyone of consequence!)

Wowio is giving everyone who Likes them on Facebook a free download of the graphic novel Gary and the Pirate. They also have a deal, if you were going to go to the new Gulliver's Travels movie, where if you buy the tickets from Fandango, you get a free download of their edition of Gulliver's Travels.

Book Description
All of Judy's friends are pushing her to get a boyfriend. But at 13 years old, all of the boys in her class are completely gross. She has absolutely no interest in boys...until Gary the Pirate sneaks into her bedroom window one night! He's cute, charming, and clumsy. In fact, Gary's the worst pirate ever. But with Judy's help, they are able to defeat Gary's nemesis Stinky, find treasure, and maybe even love.

Current Kindle Free Book List

Mystery / Thriller / Suspense / Miscellaneous
Soul Identity
Medicus: A Novel of the Roman Empire
Don't Die, Dragonfly
Two Rivers
The Queen's Dollmaker
The Perfect Woman
WILDERNESS #55: INTO THE UNKNOWN
The Blood That Bonds
Carved in Bone with Bonus Material
Heidegger's Glasses
The Year She Fell
Sweetie
Mossy Creek
Sukkwan Island
Cat Calls
The Middle Passage
House of Dark Shadows
Deeper Water
Wish
The Backstory to Think Twice
Serial
Crossing the Line
Boob Tube
Whirl of the Wheel
Get Some
Quiet As They Come (Free Story for Kindle)
When Night Falls
Tumor Chapter 1

Fantasy and Science Fiction
Avempartha
Dead Men Kill
Hunted By The Others
Phenomenal Girl 5
Dead Drop: A Lawson Vampire Bonus Story
Remedial Magic
Beasts and BFFs
Retro Demonology
Reaper
The New World
Chapter 15.5
Bright of the Sky (Book 1 of The Entire and the Rose)
Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #1: Precipice
Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #2: Skyborn
Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #3: Paragon
Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #4: Savior
Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #5: Purgatory
The Wild's Call
Eros, Philia, Agape: A Tor.Com Original
A Memory of Wind: A Tor.Com Original
First Flight: A Tor.Com Original
Overtime: A Tor.Com Original

Romance
Oleander House
Rough Cut
Mistress By Mistake
Catching Caroline
Cowboy Trouble
Traitor's Wife
Romeo, Romeo
Millies Fling
The Crossroads Cafe
The Bite of Silence
Make Mine Midnight
Going All In
With This Ring
A Santangelo Story
I Thought It Was You: Grimm's Circle, Book 2.5
Seducing Jane Porter
Colters' Wife

Non-Fiction
Lose Weight WITHOUT Dieting
The Rules of Life, Expanded Edition: A Personal Code for Living a Better, Happier, More Successful Life
Putting the Public Back in Public Relations
Walt Disney's Way
Curious Folks Ask: 162 Real Answers on Amazing Inventions, Fascinating Products, and Medical Mysteries
Clearing the Mind for Creativity
The Truth About Starting a Business
A Dog Named Slugger
Start to Love Not Smoking
Circle of Friends Cookbook - 25 Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipes
Circle of Friends Cookbook - 25 Meatloaf Recipes
Circle of Friends Cookbook - 25 Mac & Cheese Recipes
The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook Presents: A Magical Christmas Menu
The Rules of Chess
Money Girl's Smart Moves to Deal with Your Debt
25 Language Phrasebook
Acupressure Guide For Relieving Hangovers
Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements (Mendeleev's Table)
Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2011
Democratizing Innovation
Economic Report of the President
More Blood, More Sweat and Another Cup of Tea
Publish on Amazon Kindle with the Digital Text Platform

Textbooks
CK-12 Algebra I
CK-12 21st Century Physics
CK-12 Advanced Probability and Statistics
CK-12 Biology I - Honors
CK-12 Calculus
CK-12 Chemistry
CK-12 Earth Science
CK-12 Engineering: An Introduction for High School
CK-12 Geometry
CK-12 Life Science
CK-12 People's Physics Book Version 2
CK-12 Trigonometry

Religious/Christian Fiction and Non-Fiction
The Centurion's Wife
The Apothecary's Daughter
Light of Eidon
Against All Odds
Fools Rush In
Daughter of Joy
The Winners Manual
The Justice Game
Happily Ever After
Danger in the Shadows
Conspiracy in Kiev
The Potluck Club
Craving God
More Stories Behind the Best-Loved Songs of Christmas
Love on a Dime
The Holy Bible: HCSB Digital Text Edition
Last Light
A Gift of Grace
The Christmas Story from the Family Reading Bible
Stuck in the Middle (Sister-to-Sister, Book 1)
Invisible (Ivy Malone Mystery Series #1)
The Holy Bible English Standard Version (ESV)
Relentless (Dominion Trilogy #1)
Autobiography of a Yogi (Reprint of Original 1946 Edition)

Games
Jumble, 3 Free Puzzles
Blackjack
Mine Sweeper
Every Word
Shuffled Row
Word Morph Volume 1
Sudoku

Erotica
Spirit Lift
An Unwanted Hunger
All in Time
Nocked for a Loop
Eland
Spirit's Release
Erotique
Take Me
Peak Energy
Danu, The Return
Desire in the Dark
Not Just an Orgy
Better Late Than Never
Door Prize
Hot Moon Rising
Maui Heat
Scoring
Lap Dance
Master's Thief
Hot for the Reunion
Haunted by the Past
Playing Hardball
His Voice, His Command
Shapeshifter's Craving
Kayla's Birthday Present
The Bad Widow
Her Very Special Robot
Hunting Evander
Outlaw Lovers Dossier
Seychelles Sunset
Larkspur
Reaper's Justice
Tessa's Ambassador
Interlude in Pearl
Thrill of the Hunt
First Taste
Tween Hopeful and Hopeless
Waiting at Eros
The Next Big Thing
Goodbye Blues, Hello Love
Red Satin
Stakeout for Love
Unexpected Comfort
Message for Minerva
Christmas ScandalNot!
Just Like Old Times
Song of the Swan

UK Kindle Store
Dead Men Kill
Hunted By The Others
Two Rivers
Mistress By Mistake
The Queen's Dollmaker
Life of Pi
The First Completely Electronic Robot and Science Fiction Limerick Book
Children's Bible Stories - Noah's Ark
Painless
The Book of Biff #1 Target Practice
50 Reasons to Say Goodbye
Catching Caroline
Sudden Death
The Blood That Bonds
The Golden Acorn
The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus
Deeper Water
House of Dark Shadows
Love on a Dime
Lose Weight WITHOUT Dieting
Change, bring it on
Surfing the long summer
The Pawn
Soul Identity
25 Language Phrasebook
Haven
Shatter (The Children of Man)
Arousing Love
The New World
Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload

Saturday's Kindle Deals of the Day - $2.99

All of today's Kindle Deals of the Day at Amazon are $2.99, except the very last one, which is the Student Deal of the Day at 99 cents.

A Royal Likeness by Christine Trent		Biting The Bride by Clare Willis		Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down by John P. Kotter and Lorne A. Whitehead		Chakra Deck by Olivia H. Miller
Gaming As Culture: Essays on Reality, Identity And Experience in Fantasy Games by J. Patrick Williams & Sean Q. Hendricks		From Girl to Goddess: The Heroine's Journey through Myth and Legend by Valerie Estelle Frankel		Empires and Barbarians : The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe by Peter Heather		Choosing to SEE: A Journey of Struggle and Hope by Mary Beth Chapman
HBR'S 10 Must Reads: The Essentials by Harvard Business Review		How to Have Your Second Child First by Kerry Colburn		Joseph Smith and the Origins of the Book of Mormon by David Persuitte		The Little Book of String Theory by Steven S. Gubser
Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators: From Idea to Execution by Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble		Stranger by Zoe Archer		Senseless by Mary Burton		Simplify Your Life: Get Organized and Stay That Way by Marcia Ramsland
The Kama Sutra Deck by Julianne Balmain & Trisha Krauss		WCS Pocket Guide: New York by Ben Winters		Your Next Move: The Leader's Guide to Navigating Major Career Transitions by Michael Watkins		Worst Case Scenario Dating and Sex ($0.99) by Jennifer Worick