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Friday, April 1, 2011

New Kindle Game - Diamond Crosswords

Diamond Crosswords - 50 Easy Puzzles ($0.99), by Puzux, is a new Kindle Active Content game. No internet connection is required to play the game, but it is restricted to US customers.

Book Description
Diamond Crosswords, 50 Easy Puzzles, is a unique twist on the classic crossword puzzle.

Diamond Crosswords combines the fun of classic crossword puzzles with a unique, diamond-shape design. Each puzzle is smaller than a traditional crossword and features everyday vocabulary words. You can navigate clues and change the solving direction - Across or Down - using quick keyboard shortcuts, and an indicator will always show you which clue you're working on and in what direction. You can also zoom in or out to increase or decrease the puzzle grid size to fit your preference, as well as check for errors, reveal a letter, or get a puzzle completely solved if you're stuck. Designed by professional puzzle writers and developers Myles Mellor, Bob Williams, and David L. Hoyt, Diamond Crosswords is sure to be enjoyed by crossword lovers.

New Kindle Game - Spelling Star

Spelling Star (A Learning Game for Kindle) ($2.99), by puzzle.tv, is a new Kindle Active Content game. No internet connection is required to play the game, but it is restricted to US customers.

Book Description
How good is your word knowledge? Find out by taking the Spelling Star challenge and progress through 100 increasingly difficult levels to see how good you really are.

Spelling Star offers more than just spelling exercises -- featuring ten different game types including straight spelling, anagrams, misspellings, as well as noun, adjective, and verb tests. With thousands of words ranging in difficulty from 'able' to 'zygodactylism', Spelling Star is suitable for all ages and abilities. Four user profiles let you save your progress and compare high scores with friends and family who may also wish to play.

Spelling Star adapts quickly to the proficiency of the user. The level at which you start is initially based on your age, and adjusts up or down according to your performance in the Main Challenge portion of the game. In addition to the Main Challenge, you can practice at your current level by selecting one of the Quick Games. As you progress through levels, you will unlock new Quick Games to play.

Free Book (EPUB) - Climate of Corruption

Update: 4/5/11 Now free (at last!) at Amazon; still full price at B&N.

Climate of Corruption: Politics and Power Behind The Global Warming Hoax ($9.99 Kindle & B&N), by Larry Bell, is free from Kobo and Sony today, courtesy of Greenleaf Book Group. Most of their free books have ended up free at Amazon and B&N, so you might want to keep checking those (and report the lower prices to Amazon), if you have a nook or Kindle.

Book Description
New revelations demonstrate how politics and powerful special-interest agendas have warped the most important scientific debate of the 21st century. Melting glaciers, suffering polar bears, rising oceans—these are just a few of the climate change crisis myths debunked by noted aerospace expert Larry Bell in this explosive new book. With meticulous research, Bell deflates these and other climate misconceptions with perceptive analysis, humor, and the most recent scientific data. Written for the laymen, yet in-depth enough for the specialist, this book digs deep into the natural and political aspects of the climate change debate, answering fundamental questions that reveal the all-too-human origins of “scientific” inquiry.
  • Why and how are some of the world’s most prestigious scientific institutions cashing in on the debate?
  • Who stand to benefit most by promoting public climate change alarmism?
  • What true political and financial purposes are served by the vilification of carbon dioxide?
  • How do climate deceptions promote grossly exaggerated claims for non-fossil alternative energy capacities and advance blatant global wealth redistribution goals?
With its devastating portrayal of scientific and government establishments run amok, this book is an invaluable addition to the tremendously popular literature attacking the scientific status quo. Climate of Corruption will bring welcome relief to all those who are fed up with climate crisis insanity.

Click HERE for the free book from Kobo.
Click HERE to get the free book from Sony.

Free Book (noDRM) - Coin Operated

It's time once again for the 21 days of Earth Day at All Romance books and today's free book is Coin Operated ($2.39 Kindle), by Ginny Glass. As always with the books from AllRomance (and Ellora's Cave), pay attention to the number of diamonds (heat level) and any content warnings before one-clicking.

Book Description
Elijah Elliot and Beatrix London's fledgling ad agency is under siege. Not from outside competition but by Eli and Bea's unspoken lust for each other. As their unsatisfied cravings to dominate and submit bloom into vivid daydreams, the office becomes a minefield of frustrated needs and dangerous desires. Now something's gotta give or their partnership is going to self-destruct.

When Bea unveils a racy new light bondage ad campaign for their key client, she pushes Eli to cross the line he's drawn between them—the one that keeps him from doing all the hot, sinful things she imagines he's capable of...


Click HERE for the free book (it's a DRM-free EPUB).

Free Book (noDRM) - Never Knew Another

Never Knew Another ($7.99 Kindle), by J. M. McDermott, the first book in the Dogsland Trilogy, is free direct from Nightshade Books, today only.

Book Description
J. M. McDermott delivers the stunning new fantasy novel, Never Knew Another -- a sweeping fantasy novel that revels in the small details of life. Fugitive Rachel Nolander is a newcomer the city of Dogsland, where the rich throw parties and the poor just do whatever they can to scrape by. Supported by her brother Djoss, she hides out in their squalid apartment, living in fear that someday, someone will find out that she is the child of a demon. Corporal Jona Lord Joni is a demon's child too, but instead of living in fear, he keeps his secret and goes about his life as a cocky, self-assured man of the law. Never Knew Another is the story of how these two outcasts meet.

Click HERE and use the links to download either the PDF or EPUB version. Both are DRM-free, so can be easily converted for the Kindle.