Here are four additional discounted Kindle book offers for your Wednesday consideration from highly-rated independent authors who have discounted the pricing for a limited time just for members of the blog.

Rogue’s Honor , by Brenda Hiatt, is regularly $4.99 but has been discounted 80% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 51 customer reviews.

Category: Romance

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

To escape her stepmother’s matchmaking machinations, Lady Pearl runs away, pretending to be a common housemaid, with the help of her abigail. When she is rescued from the near-disaster of recognition by a charming serving-man, Pearl pretends to be simpleminded to safeguard herself from any unwanted advances. But soon she begins to suspect that her rescuer is far more than the common servant he seemed at first.

Luke St. Clair lives a double life, pretending to be a gentleman while in reality sustaining himself and the needy as the notorious Robin Hood-type thief, the Saint of Seven Dials. The last thing he needs in his life is a beautiful simpleton in need of protection. But “Purdy” proves to be anything but simple—or common! Once he learns the truth, does he dare continue, in the ballrooms of the elite, the flirtation that began in the slums of London? The risk is enormous, but Lady Pearl’s sweet kisses may just be worth it.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/3agtul into your web browser to pick up your copy of Rogue’s Honor .

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Disastrous , by E.L. Montes, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars based on 210 customer reviews.

Category: Romance

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

After struggling with the loss of yet another person so dear to her heart, Mia Sullivan channeled her frustration and loneliness into focusing on her future career. At the top of her class at Harvard Law, she was nervous and excited when given the opportunity to work as a summer extern at one of the top firms in Boston. Her new boss was the young, extraordinarily handsome, and successful Marcus DeLuca. As she falls for his charms, she discovers he is keeping something from her.

Marcus DeLuca was living two separate lives: one that involved his successful career and the other that could potentially ruin his entire reputation. His secret could jeopardize not only his life but everyone he loves. There was no room in his life for a serious romantic relationship, but after meeting Mia, he makes room. He cannot resist her. She is innocent, humble, and pure–the total opposite of him. She distracts him from all of his deep dark secrets. He knows once Mia finds out the things he has done and who he truly is, she will never want to look at him again. Deep down he knows he must stay away, but he can’t.

Mia and Marcus are heading down a path of love, lies, heartbreak, and betrayal. Can their love conquer all, or will the web of deceit be too much to overcome?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/enpzbm into your web browser to pick up your copy of Disastrous .

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Brothers and Bones, by James Hankins, is regularly $4.99 but has been discounted 80% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars based on 331 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery & Thrillers

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Charlie Beckham is a rising star among federal prosecutors until, on the morning of the most important court day of his career, a deranged homeless man turns Charlie’s life upside with a single word. He calls Charlie by a secret nickname known by only one other person in the world–Charlie’s brother Jake, who went missing thirteen years ago. Charlie has a hundred questions but the homeless man disappears before Charlie can ask a single one.

So begins Charlie’s search for answers, and for his brother, a search that leads him down Boston’s darkest streets, into its blackest alleys, and, finally, into its criminal underworld. But if Charlie wants answers he’ll have to get them from some of the most feared and ruthless people in the city.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/bth71j into your web browser to pick up your copy of Brothers and Bones .

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Pemberley to Waterloo: Georgiana Darcy’s Diary, Volume 2 , by Anna Elliott, is just $5.49 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 73 customer reviews.

Category: Historical Romance

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Can their love withstand the trials of war?

Georgiana Darcy and Edward Fitzwilliam want only to be together. But when the former Emperor Napoleon escapes from his exile on the Isle of Elba, Britain is plunged into renewed war with France … and Edward is once more called away to fight.

To be with the man she loves, Georgiana makes the perilous journey to Brussels, in time to witness the historic downfall of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. But when Edward is gravely injured in the battle, she will need more courage than she ever knew she had to fight for their future together.
Pemberley to Waterloo is the sequel to Georgiana Darcy’s Diary and is Book 2 of the Pride and Prejudice Chronicles. It is appropriate for all ages.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/jpva5s into your web browser to pick up your copy of Pemberley to Waterloo: Georgiana Darcy’s Diary, Volume 2 .

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Here are five discounted and free Kindle book offers for your consideration from highly-rated independent authors who have discounted the pricing for a limited time just for members of the blog. While the pricing of the free status is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the “buy” button as it could change at any time!

The Wishing Well Curse, by Lynn Donovan, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars based on 18 customer reviews.

Category: Paranormal / Religious Fiction

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

~ A Gothic – Paranormal Christian Ghost Story ~

Zeke Clay is down on his luck. He’s lost everything—an apartment, an education, a girlfriend, his job…

When a mysterious letter comes from a law firm in Colorado, he decides things just might be looking up. Now he stands to inherit a fortune, but it comes with a price. He must break a family curse and restore true love. What does he know about breaking a curse? And who is this Great Uncle Luther Clayton, who claims Zeke is the one? Can he piece together the clues left by his dearly departed?

Who can he trust? The Apache Indian attorney? Her great nephew? The leather-clad, Harley riding Pastor? Least of all, himself?
What about the Ghosts?

…And why does his three-year-old tattoo bleed every time he gets near the wishing well?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/ng098h into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Wishing Well Curse .

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SHAKTI – The Greatest Secret to a Stress Free Life , by Sri Vishwanath, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars based on 13 customer reviews.

Category: Self-Improvement

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Revealed a breakthrough technique to feel great in sixty seconds flat.

Understanding the one little secret: “Success is a result of feeling good and not the other way round”

“Thank you for reminding me that the most powerful life-changing tool can sometimes be very simple. I often trick myself into believing complicated=better solution. I now know that it’s not always the case”- Raymond Aaron New Zealand

I wish to express my gratitude once again for the insights and wisdom you conveyed with such enthusiasm. I was especially moved by the third principle !. This information is so very practical, with applicable steps I can take on a daily basis and I thank you for the that” Pamella Baram

Discovering the powerful life force within you can be the most liberating experience you may ever have. How to find and align yourself with this remarkable energy is clearly shown in this illuminating life-changing book. Learn revealing secrets on how to effectively harness this astounding life force within yourself. See how this encompassing force can help you achieve a vital new outlook and attitude that will always serve you well in every aspect. Once you absorb and use the message in this genuinely important book, a new and dynamic sector of your life will began.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/shakti into your web browser to pick up your copy of SHAKTI – The Greatest Secret to a Stress Free Life .

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Hook’s Pan, by Marie Hall, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted 75% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars based on 25 customer reviews.

Category: Paranormal Romance

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Trishelle Page has known pain in her life, but instead of it making her weak, she’s stronger. Confident. That is until the day a fairy kidnaps her during her staring role in Peter Pan’s play and tells her not only do fairy tales exist, but that she’s the soulmate of the pirate they call Hook, making her question everything she ever thought she knew.

Captain James Hook is a man at the end of his rope. He’s not the villainous bastard tales have made him out to be. So when the feisty blonde drops literally at his feet, he aims to prove it to her.

What neither one knows is that fate and magic are conspiring and they can deny the attraction all they want but their happily ever after is already written, it’s just a matter of getting there.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/hookspan into your web browser to pick up your copy of Hook’s Pan.

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Inside Evil, by Geoffrey Wakeling, is just $2.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 13 customer reviews.

Category: Urban Fantasy / Horror

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Life in the secluded town of Ridgewood is charming, simple, safe – isn’t it? The bubble that isolates the hamlet protects, or so the eclectic residents believe. Lurking in the background of every day life is a curse that comes in cycles and picks off the innocent as it pleases. But this time there’s something different, this time the curse wants more.

Roberta Arlington’s life changes the moment she finds one of her pupils, pale, frozen, DEAD. Her mind is filled with uncharacteristic thoughts, dreams and visions create bizarre scenes, and her blood boils as she lashes out at those she loves. Amidst her turmoil there are friends, and enemies, who come to her aid, piecing together the puzzle laid before them.

But with the ancient evil having struck down so many through the centuries, Roberta will have to muster every ounce of strength she has to survive. An entire world, a strange land, has unveiled itself. If Roberta knows one thing for sure, it’s that she alone won’t be able to escape as death comes calling…….

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Inside Evil is a paranormal mystery set in a small town on the borders of England and Scotland. Like so many similar places, its residents cannot help but be drawn into each others lives, as they rarely venture from their seclusion. But, with such isolation comes danger, and whilst the world is blissfully unaware, an ancient terror is preparing for murder.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/5aqkjm into your web browser to pick up your copy of Inside Evil .

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The Last Track, by Sam Hilliard, is free today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars based on 39 customer reviews. I received a note from the author saying this book would be free through May 23rd.

Category: Mystery / Suspense

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Imagine if being late meant a child disappeared forever. That is the fear that drives Mike Brody: the man you want, when the one you love is missing. Mike is more than just a master tracker. An ex-Special Forces operative, Smoke jumper, and now extreme adventure tour guide, he also possesses a unique ability to tap into the memory and emotional state of those he pursues. In The Last Track, a police detective recruits Mike to help find an asthmatic boy lost in the dense woods surrounding a dude ranch in Montana. An unwitting murder witness, the boy burrows ever deeper into the rugged terrain, fearful of being found. As Mike and a local officer search for the boy, the killer follows them. While the investigation expands, his ex-wife, a well-connected journalist, uses her contacts to unravel the truth behind the murder. Her discoveries threaten to snare them all in a treacherous conspiracy . . .

Mike Brody: The man you want, when the one you love is missing.
Some say his gift is supernatural, others consider it a curse. To Mike Brody, it’s a penance. Take Robert B. Parker’s Spenser, mix in a healthy dose of The Mentalist, then roll him up in an adrenaline junkie with psychic abilities.

Click here to pick up your copy of The Last Track .

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Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is Emily Breaks Free, by Linda Talley and Andra Chase, and this book is normally $5.99 but has been discounted 50% to just $2.99 in the Amazon Kindle store; this book has received an average user rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars based on 11 customer reviews.

Category: Children

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

BULLYING – COPING WITH PEER ABUSE

EMILY BREAKS FREE will help address the problem of bullying in a non-threatening context and suggest techniques for responding to a bully.

Emily is a nice, playful little dog. So why would she join forces with a big
bully like Spike? Even Emily is confused about the answer to that question. It’s true that Spike makes Emily laugh, in spite of herself, and he is fun-in a way. Emily is flattered when Spike invites her to tag along with him.

But when Spike begins teasing a fluffy outsider named Cotton, Emily is sorry to see the hurt look on the little dog’s face. And the dog biscuit Spike takes from Cotton does not taste as good as Emily had thought it would. Emily really regrets being lumped together with Spike as among “the meanest ol’ dogs” Cotton has ever encountered.

Just when Emily is wondering how to make things right, a bewhiskered terrier named Emerson saunters onto the scene. A dog of principle, Emerson shows Emily that it is possible to break free of Spike.

Emily’s story unfolds along the Freedom TrailTM, Boston’s famous walking tour of historic sites from the Revolutionary era-the Old South Meeting House, Faneuil Hall, the Paul Revere House, the Old North Church, and more. These scenes of the American struggle for independence from Britain are a fitting backdrop for Emily’s struggle to free herself from Spike and his tyrannical ways!

Author Linda Talley’s compelling, graceful and carefully researched story about resisting bullying and finding freedom is irresistible reading for young and old alike. Illustrator Andra Chase’s captivating watercolor depictions of the
colorful cast of characters, as well as her also carefully researched renderings of historic American buildings and other sights on the Freedom Trail will help bring this important story to life for all readers.

A SURPRISE and added bonus is the “Enrichment Information” whch includes lots of facts about the American Revolution, Boston, and the Freedom Trail, as well as interesting notes about Faneuil Hall, the Old North Church, Paul Revere House, Old South Meeting House, Boston Common and more. This is fascinating detail that did not make it into the story itself, but is very rich in colorful descriptions of Colonial Boston.

A second big plus is the “Letter to Parents and Educators” which includes many relevant questions and comments to facilitate conversation with the young reader about the message of the story…how to cope with bullying. So even though on the surface, this is just an engaging story for children, it is also truly helpful in a real way.

There are specific methods to avoid and cope with bullying embedded in the story.

MAKING THE CASE FOR CHARACTER EDUCATION

If you are tired of bullying, teasing, youth violence, gangs, vandalism, drug abuse, sexual misconduct…

If you are tired of the crisis with our older youth…

If you want to help make a difference one tiny step at a time…

Then this is the eBook for your children ages 3-9.

Read WITH your children and grandchildren, discuss the concept and message…

and know that you are part of the movement sweeping America to bring back our important values by restoring character education in our homes and schools.

(signed) The Thoughtful Parent

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/hg89k7 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Emily Breaks Free.

You can visit Linda’s Amazon author page if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/lindatalley into your web browser.
 

 
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This is a little bit of one of my rambling blog posts, but a little different with there is some information I wanted to pass on vs. my usual of just sitting down to the keyboard and seeing what appears as I bang away.  If you would like to write to me, my email address is michael at fkbooksandtips dot com (I type it out that way in a small effort to thwart the spammers).

Penny Book Promotion

The other day, I sent out a post featuring a book that cost all of one penny with two purposes – an effort to decrease the free to paid ratio of Kindle books downloaded from the site as well as to see if collectively we could make a book reach #1 in the Amazon Kindle storefront.  In case you missed it or want to read it again, you can see the original post if you click here or type in http://wp.me/p2b82w-4vH into your web browser.

I received a lot of encouraging emails from the blog’s readers, and I appreciate it!  While we were unsuccessful with reaching the #1 spot, the book did zoom up to #16!

As I said in prior posts, I can only continue to tell you about free Kindle book offerings if the free to paid download ratio stays below 80% – in other words, for every four books you get for free I would like for you to consider buying just one book.  To help you out with that, if you could contribute just one small penny to this effort, you can purchase a book for a penny if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/3houi6 into your web browser.

For those of you who have purchased it in an effort to help out with the statistics, I appreciate it!

Amazon Links

Some of you have asked for a link for when you shop the Amazon store for things in addition to Kindle books so you can help out with the blog’s operating costs.  While I have been reluctant to do that because it could be taken in the wrong light or out of context, I have decided to go ahead and do it because so many of you have asked!

Here is a link you can use: http://smarturl.it/kbtblog

I’d appreciate it if you would bookmark the link and use it to hit the Amazon website for your next shopping or browsing experience!  Using the link doesn’t increase the cost to you, but the blog will get a small percentage of the sales price as a commission for each purchase made (and each nickel commission here and there helps!).

Collections App for the Kindle Fire

Several people have emailed me about the Collections app for the Kindle Fire, particularly about changes made in the latest version – most of you know what it is, but if you don’t it is a way to organize books you have purchased from the Amazon Kindle store into your own categories on your Kindle Fire.  You can see the app in the Amazon app store if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/firecollections into your web browser.

We quickly pushed out two versions over the last month.  Major enhancements included:

• Correction of an error caused by a Fire software update.
• The ability to use the app and read your books in landscape mode.
• Various updates to improve the memory usage of the reader application for those people who had more than 1,200 books stored on their Kindle Fire.

The changes have been favorably received by many people who have contacted me, and I’m glad to hear the users are enjoying using the Collections app.  If you have been enjoying the app and haven’t already, I would appreciate it if you would take a few moments and write a review of the app on the Amazon website.

That’s all I had for today…as long as the free to paid ratio for Kindle books stays below 80% I’ll keep telling you about free Kindle book offers, but hopefully many of you will take a look at some of the paid offerings I’m telling you about as there are quite a few good ones!

Have a great rest of your week-

Michael

Here are four Kindle book offers for your consideration from highly-rated independent authors who have discounted the pricing for a limited time just for members of the blog.

The Mystery of Smuggler’s Cove, by Paul Moxham, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars based on 39 customer reviews.

Category: Children / Mystery

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Are you up for a thrilling adventure?

When twelve year old Joe and his two younger sisters visit Smugglers Cove for the summer holidays, they get caught up in a thrilling adventure that is beyond their wildest imagination.

Follow the children as they flee down a river, are chased by ferocious dogs, locked up in an old manor, get lost at sea, expose a spy, and more!

Book 1 in The Mystery Series, this adventure novel is set in 1950′s Britain, and in the style of Enid Blyton’s Famous Five or a fast paced version of The Bobbsey Twins.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/5dxtki into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Mystery of Smuggler’s Cove .

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The Ugly Stepsister Strikes Back, by Sariah Wilson, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars based on 353 customer reviews.

Category: Young Adult / Teen Romance

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Everyone knows how all those fairy tales go. The princess gets beautiful, nabs her prince, falls instantly in love, lives happily ever after and leaves her evil stepsisters in the dust.

But what happens when you’re the ugly stepsister and your obnoxiously perfect—read pretty, smart, and, worst of all, sickeningly nice—stepsister is dating the charming, tall, devastatingly handsome guy you’ve had a thing for since you were nine years old?

Quirky, artistic and snarky Mattie Lowe does not lead a charmed life. Her mother is constantly belittling her on Skype. Mercedes, the school mean girl, has made it her personal mission to torment Mattie. But worst of all? Her stepsister Ella is the most beautiful, popular girl in school and is dating Mattie’s secret longtime crush, Jake Kingston.

Tired of being left out and done with waiting for her own stupid fairy godmother to show up, Mattie decides to change her life. She’ll start by running for senior class president against wildly popular Jake.

Ella can keep her Prince Annoying. Mattie’s going to rule the school.

And no one, not even a cute and suddenly flirty Jake, is going to stop her.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/f3n1d0 into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Ugly Stepsister Strikes Back .

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The Man Who Built the World, by Chris Ward, is regularly $3.99 but has been discounted 75% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars based on 29 customer reviews.

Category: Supernatural Thriller

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Matthew Cassidy is a man on the verge of self-destruction. His career is in tatters and his marriage is hanging by a thread under the threat of a latent violence he is struggling to control. His wife Rachel is on the verge of leaving him even before a phone call from his estranged father pulls him back into a world of violence and mystery that he left behind on a bloody winter’s night sixteen years before.

Matt must return to the quiet little country town of Tamerton, where he grew up in a world of questions but few answers. The town has changed but the mysteries remain, and Matt must question everything he thought he knew about his past. Why was his little sister mute? What really happened to his mother? And who are the two beautiful, ageless sisters who live in an isolated cottage out on the moor?

The Man Who Built the World is a tour de force supernatural thriller where the answers are never quite what they seem . . .

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/b9h8tz into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Man Who Built the World .

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Two Guys Detective Agency, is a new release by bestselling author Stephanie Bond, and is just $6.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store.

Category: Mystery / Humor

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

EXCLUSIVE TO AMAZON READERS!! From the author of the popular BODY MOVERS series comes the first book in a new humorous mystery series:

TWO GUYS DETECTIVE AGENCY

Even Victoria can’t keep a secret from us…

Two estranged sisters (whose last name is Guy) find themselves husbandless and broke, and decide to take on a faltering P.I. agency in a strip mall. The women get off to a shaky start–their work styles and lifestyles are like oil and water, and every case seems to resurrect old family quarrels and distrust. But ultimately the women have a revelation: Who better to deal with clients who have shocking secrets than two women who harbor so many secrets of their own?

Download chapter 1 of TWO GUYS DETECTIVE AGENCY now to your Kindle as a sample read. Then pre-order the full-length book and it will automatically be delivered to your Kindle May 28!

** Newsflash: TWO GUYS DETECTIVE AGENCY has been optioned for TV series development! Stay tuned for updates. **

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/o25lbu into your web browser to pick up your copy of Two Guys Detective Agency.

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Each day, Amazon sponsors the Kindle Daily Deal and the Free App of the Day.

Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deal is a one-day only offer where a specific Kindle book for adults, one for young readers (children or young adults), a romance, and a science fiction / fantasy title have been hand-selected by the editors at Amazon and significantly discounted for today only.

Amazon’s free App of the Day can be utilized on a Kindle Fire and Android-based smartphones and tablet computers, and the app can be a game, utility, or who knows? Each app is offered free for 24 hours and, after that period is over it goes back to paid status and a new app is the Free App of the Day.

Kindle Daily Deal

Today’s Kindle Daily Deal for Adults is Shake Off , by Mischa Hiller, and this book was $9.99 yesterday but has been discounted 70% to just $2.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 11 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Kids Daily Deal is Kitty Cat, Kitty Cat, Are You Going to Sleep?, by Michael Sampson, Bill Martin, and Laura J. Bryant, and this book was $9.99 yesterday but has been discounted 80% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 19 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Daily Deal is Werewolf Love Story Box Set, by H.T. Night, and this book was $2.99 yesterday but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 52 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Romance Daily Deal is Rising Storm , by Kathleen Brooks, and this book was $2.99 yesterday but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars based on 180 customer reviews.

You can check each of them out if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser.

Here is the Shake Off book description from the Amazon website:

An internationally acclaimed thriller of love, espionage and subterfuge, in which Middle East meets West with dangerous consequences.

Years of training have transformed Michel Khoury into a skilled intelligence operative. A refugee whose family was murdered by extremists, he has one mission: the peaceful resolution of the Middle East conflict that upended his life.

An alluring enigma, he attracts the attention of Helen, a pretty English girl who lives in the adjacent apartment. As their relationship develops, Michel is unable to tell Helen about his past–or the collection of passports and unmarked bills he’s concealed in the bathroom they share.

When Michel’s secrets turn deadly, Helen and Michel find themselves pursued through the streets of London, Berlin and the Scottish countryside, on the run from the very people they thought they could trust.

A critically celebrated novel that “recalls the cool detachment and compelling eye for ordinary detail that characterized the early thrillers of Graham Greene” (Independent on Sunday), SHAKE OFF is that rare breed of riveting tale–of intrigue and suspense, love and betrayal–that announces a bold new voice for our increasingly global times.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to pick up your copy of Shake Off .

Here is the Kitty Cat, Kitty Cat, Are You Going to Sleep?book description from the Amazon website:

Kitty Cat, Kitty Cat, the day is almost done. Not yet, Mother, I still can see the sun. Kitty Cat should be getting ready for bed, but instead she’s playing peekaboo, imagining she’s in outer space, tickling her toes, and more. Will Kitty Cat make it to bed on time? Adorable pastel illustrations rendered in watercolor paints and colored pencil from Laura J. Bryant bring Kitty Cat so close you’ll want to reach out and hug her!

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to pick up your copy of Kitty Cat, Kitty Cat, Are You Going to Sleep?.

Here is the Werewolf Love Story Box Set book description from the Amazon website:

Three novels in H.T. Night’s #1 bestselling Werewolf Love Story series, including:

WEREWOLF LOVE STORY: PART ONE
Five Years before Vampire Love Story. It is 2006, and Tommy is training hard before his second mixed martial arts match. On a random night he runs across a sexy, mysterious woman named Sasha. Sasha turns Tommy’s life upside down and out of control. On a chance encounter, Tommy befriends a vampire named Patrick. Both Patrick and Sasha change everything Tommy has ever known to be true.

WEREWOLF LOVE STORY: PART TWO
Tommy meets Maya, the woman of his dreams, and is able to make sense of his new reality. A young Josiah Reign befriends Tommy along the way, and Tommy has to inevitably face his true destiny of becoming a werewolf. Will Tommy choose his destiny, or become something no one had ever thought possible?

THE RISE OF KYRO
Tommy is back. Now, he just needs to figure out what it means to be a werewolf while keeping it a secret from young Josiah, his enthusiastic fight prodigy with a superhero complex.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to pick up your copy of Werewolf Love Story Box Set .

Here is the Rising Storm book description from the Amazon website:

USA Today Bestseller for all books on August 30th, 2012.

Katelyn Jacks was used to being front and center as a model. But she never had to confront the Keeneston Grapevine! After retiring from the runway and returning to town to open a new animal clinic, Katelyn found that her life in the public eye was anything but over. While working hard to establish herself as the new veterinarian in town, Katelyn finds her life uprooted by a storm of love, gossip, and a vicious group of criminals.

Marshall Davies is the new Sheriff in Keeneston. He is also right at the top of the town’s most eligible bachelor list. His affinity for teasing the hot new veterinarian in town has led to a rush of emotions that he wasn’t ready for. Marshall finds his easy days of breaking up fights at the local PTA meetings are over when he and Katelyn discover that a dog-fighting ring has stormed into their normally idyllic town. As their love struggles to break through, they must battle to save the lives of the dogs and each other.

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Free App of the Day

Today’s Free App of the Day is Bouncy Bill Plus , and this game app is normally $2.99 in the Amazon App Store but is free for today only.

Here is the app’s description from the Amazon App Store website:

Bouncy Bill Plus gives you a better experience of the game you LOVE! What does it mean? NO ads, NO interruptions, ONLY fun and many special treats to come!

Enjoy the best and most challenging platform game!

Bouncy Bill is a lovable but unlucky turtle that has been cursed by the evil wizard, Zorik, and lost his ability to move left and right. He can only jump upright! Now he is in a race against time to remove the evil spell.

Bouncy Bill needs your help to jump vertically onto the moving platforms in the sky and reach his destination as quickly as possible where he might win back his abilities to move around in any direction he wants!

In this challenging and gorgeous game, help Bill bounce carefully on gravitating platforms to reach his destinations. There are some tricky moves involved here and you need to land carefully on each platform or else Bouncy Bill might have to bounce forever!

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Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is Spare Change, by Bette Lee Crosby, and this book is normally $5.99 but has been discounted 50% to just $2.99 in the Amazon Kindle store; this book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 226 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery / Thriller

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Reviewer’s Choice 2012 Award Winner! In a story that’s been compared to John Grisham’s The Client, eleven year-old Ethan Allen Doyle has witnessed a brutal murder and now the boy is running for his life. In the time-tested tradition of Southern Fiction, Crosby unveils the darkest side of human nature and then rewards her readers with a beautiful tale of love, loss and unexpected gifts.

Olivia Westerly is the only person Ethan Allen can trust, and he’s not too sure he can trust her. She’s got no love of children and a truckload of superstitions–one of them is the belief that eleven is the unluckiest number on earth. Olivia avoided marriage for almost forty years. But when Charlie Doyle happened along, he was simply too wonderful to resist. Now she’s a widow with an eleven-year-old boy claiming to be her grandson.

With a foul mouth, dark secrets and heavily guarded emotions, Ethan Allen Doyle is not an easy child to like. He was counting on the grandpa he’d never met for a place to hide, but now that plan is shot to blazes because the grandpa’s dead too. He’s got seven dollars and twenty-six cents, his mama’s will for staying alive, and Dog. But none of those things are gonna help if Scooter Cobb finds him.

Winner of Five Literary Awards,BookBundlz Finalist, Voted Goodreads Best Unknown Fiction, FPA President’s Book Award Gold Medal Finalist

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/sparechange into your web browser to pick up your copy of Spare Change .

About the Author:

Award-winning novelist Bette Lee Crosby brings the wit and wisdom of her Southern Mama to works of fiction–the result is a delightful blend of humor, mystery and romance along with a cast of quirky charters who will steal your heart away.

Crosby’s work was first recognized in 2006 when she received The National League of American Pen Women Award for a then unpublished manuscript. Since then, she has gone on to win several more awards, including another NLAPW award, three Royal Palm Literary Awards, and the FPA President’s Book Award Gold Medal.

Her published novels to date are: Cracks in the Sidewalk (2009), Spare Change (2011), The Twelfth Child (2012), Cupid’s Christmas (2012) and What Matters Most (2013). She has also authored “Life in the Land of IS” a memoir of Lani Deauville, a woman the Guinness Book of Records lists as the world’s longest living quadriplegic.

Crosby originally studied art and began her career as a packaging designer. When asked to write a few lines of copy for the back of a pantyhose package, she discovered a love for words that was irrepressible. After years of writing for business, she turned to works of fiction and never looked back. “Storytelling is in my blood,” Crosby laughingly admits, “My mom was not a writer, but she was a captivating storyteller, so I find myself using bits and pieces of her voice in most everything I write.”

You can visit Bette Lee’s Amazon author page if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/blcrosby into your web browser.
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Here are four additional discounted and free Kindle book offers for your morning consideration from highly-rated independent authors who have discounted the pricing for a limited time just for members of the blog. While the pricing of the free status is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check the pricing carefully before you press the “buy” button as it could change at any time!

Beer Money , by Dani Amore, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book collection has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 48 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Private investigator Burr Ashland loves two things. His job. And beer.

But when his best friend, a history professor at Marquette University, is murdered, Burr’s investigation plunges him into a violent struggle not just between the present and the past, but between good and evil.

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Kiwi in Cat City , by Vickie Johnstone, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 25 customer reviews.

Category: Young Adult / Fantasy

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Kiwi in Cat City is the first book in a series, of which there are six fun adventures so far.

Kiwi seems like a typical moggie, content to nap in the sun and chase shadows, but she has a secret. She is a magical cat from a place called Cat City. With her two humans, James and Amy, Kiwi finds mysteries and adventures, dealing with catnappings, jewel thieves, giant rats, time travel, haunted houses, Father Christmas, pyramids and more. The fun stories contain positive messages about loyalty, friendship, honesty, bullying and the power of standing together.

Book 1 opens on one dark night. Amy cannot sleep and she looks out of the window into the garden to see her cat, Kiwi, transfixed by the moon, which is glowing brightly like a cat’s claw. Waking her brother, James, Amy suggests they follow Kiwi to see where she goes… whether it involves a hunt for mice or something else. Little do they know that with a flick of her tail, Kiwi is going to magically change the children into kittens and lead them on the adventure of their lives to a land they never knew existed in their wildest dreams. In the blue-lit world of Cat City, the budding detectives help Inspector Furrball to investigate the mysterious catnapping of Mr Katz and find out what happened to Madame Purrfect.

The books contain illustrations by Nikki McBroom.

Furry fun for ages 9-99.

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Truly Madly Deeply, A Carly Phillips Collection, is a three bookbox collection by Carly Phillips, is regularly $9.99 but has been discounted 90% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars based on 7 customer reviews.

Category: Literary Fiction / Contemporary Romance

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

A collection of three full length novels by New York Times Bestselling Author Carly Phillips, originally written and published in 1999 and 2000, and published under her real name, Karen Drogin.

PERFECT PARTNERS
No sooner had Chelsie Russell and Griffin Stuart lost their siblings in a car crash than they find themselves fighting for custody of their two year old niece. Griff wins only to discover Chelsie is the only one who can soothe the child’s night terrors and fears. Chelsie and Griff bond over the little girl and their growing sexual desire is mutual. But is it enough? Chelsie’s been hurt before and Griff isn’t sure he can trust the woman who once tried to take his
niece away. What will it take for them to realize they are … perfect partners?

THE RIGHT CHOICE
Advice columnist Carly Wexler is planning the perfect wedding with the perfect fiancé. So what if he doesn’t make her heart beat faster? He’s the right choice. Until sexy photo journalist, Mike Novak, her fiance’s adopted brother arrives and Carly experiences all the passion she’s convinced herself she doesn’t need. Mike is torn by loyalty and a yearning unlike any he’s ever known. After spending time with Carly, he is sure the engaged couple are marrying for the wrong reasons. With one week to go before the wedding, can Mike convince Carly he’s the only choice for her?

SOLITARY MAN
When tough Boston cop Kevin Manning promised to care for his fatally wounded partner’s family, a one night stand with the man’s grieving sister wasn’t part of the plan. No matter how intense the night had been, a woman like Nikki Welles deserves much more than a broken man like Kevin can give, and he leaves the next day. When he returns months later, everything has changed. Nikki can’t forgive Kevin for abandoning her nor can she regret the baby she’s now carrying. And she can’t stop wanting Kevin. But can this solitary man come to believe he’s worthy of love?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/q1xlzn into your web browser to pick up your copy of Truly Madly Deeply, A Carly Phillips Collection .

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Betty’s Child , by Donald Dempsey, is just $2.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars based on 70 customer reviews.

Category: Memoir

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

In the tradition of Frank McCourt and Angela’s Ashes, Don Dempsey uses Betty’s Child to tell the story of life with his cruel and neglectful mother, his mother’s abusive boyfriends, and hypocritical church leaders who want to save twelve-year-old Donny’s soul but ignore threats to his physical well-being. Meanwhile, Donny’s best friend is trying to recruit Donny to do petty theft and deal drugs for a dangerous local thug.

Young Donny is a real-life cross between Huckleberry Finn and Holden Caulfield as he tells his story, with only his street smarts and sense of humor to guide him. Donny does everything he can to take care of himself and his younger brothers, but with each new development, the present becomes more fraught with peril–and the future more uncertain.

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Here are four Kindle book offers for your consideration from highly-rated independent authors who have discounted the pricing for a limited time just for members of the blog.

Give Up Your Excess Baggage: 24 Simple Mind Exercises That Great Men & Women Effectively Use Every Single Day, by Sri VIshwanath, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars based on 31 customer reviews.

Category: Self-Improvement

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

A breakthrough process to remove past pains and how removing past pains give you freedom to restart your life more fully.

Understand how time and life can warp your sense of reality and how learning one simple exercise can transform your life forever.

These are the type of comments the material in this book has gotten from those who have either read the manuscript or taken my online course

“Dear Vish, today i followed the first few steps you suggested . Your way of teaching is very simple and the results i have managed to get within the first two weeks have been huge. I am impressed that I am starting on an incredible journey in my life”

This is a ground breaking turnaround in my life ! I will be really looking forward for more such inspiration and guidance from you”

This book is truly mind-enabling. By using and following the self-liberating exercises clearly and convincingly demonstrated, readers will be able to constantly reach the core of their minds. At the same time they will realize their latent ability to take effective command of their daily thoughts, impulses and instincts. Mounting self-powers of clarity and true purpose will steadily emerge, and become second nature, as distracting elements are thrust away and your minds become pillars of mental strength. It’s the rare reader who won’t find his outlook changed by reading this book, and his life improved by using the exercises.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/8qfuri into your web browser to pick up your copy of Give Up Your Excess Baggage: 24 Simple Mind Exercises That Great Men & Women Effectively Use Every Single Day .

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Consequence, by Eli Yance, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 28 customer reviews.

Category: Mystery / Thriller

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

The lives of two hardened hitmen, two experienced conmen and one millionaire businessman are about to change forever. Embroiled in separate worlds of drugs, theft, fraud and murder, their vices combine in a heartless and brutal cataclysm of violence. Three worlds thrust into one; 5 lives that will never be the same again.

A foiled kidnapping, a moment of opportunity and a deadly case of mistaken identity change the lives of two friendly conmen and destroy the mind of a heartbroken millionaire.

Consequence is fast-paced crime thriller. An intricate, edge of the seat novel with its fair share of violence, obscenity and surprise.

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The Beauty Bride, by Deborah Cooke and Claire Delacroix, is regularly $4.99 but has been discounted 80% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 97 customer reviews.

Category: Historical Romance

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

More cherished than gold are the Jewels of Kinfairlie, and only the worthiest may fight for their love…The Laird of Kinfairlie has unmarried sisters, each a gem in her own right. And he has no choice but to see them all wed in haste.

Lady Madeline’s heart is not for sale…especially not to a notorious outlaw like Rhys FitzHenry. Yet Madeline’s hand has been sold, to none other than this battle-weary warrior with a price on his head. A more dutiful maiden might cede to the Laird’s command and meekly accept her fate, but Madeline has never been obedient. She decides to run away, though she never dreams that Rhys will pursue her. She does not expect this taciturn man to woo her with fanciful stories, much less that each of his enthralling tales will reveal a scar upon his shielded soul. She never imagines that a man like Rhys could imperil her own heart while revealing so little of his own feelings. When Rhys’s past threatens his future, Madeline takes a leap of faith. She dares to believe him innocent
— and risks her own life to pursue a passion more priceless than the rarest gem.

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Edgewood, Karen McQuestion, is just $2.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars based on 133 customer reviews.

Category: Young Adult / Science Fiction / Paranormal

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

From bestselling author Karen McQuestion—a brand new, spellbinding novel.

Wandering the dark streets at night is Russ Becker’s way of dealing with his relentless insomnia and the angst of life. But that changes forever the night he witnesses a strange astronomical event, then discovers he’s developed incredible superpowers.

And he’s not alone. Three others in his town—sexy Mallory, arrogant Jameson, and mysterious Nadia—have had the same experience and acquired intriguing powers of their own. As if Mallory isn’t special enough with her good looks and high IQ, now she can control peoples’ minds. Jameson thinks he’s the coolest because he moves objects with his thoughts, and shy Nadia struggles to understand her new empathic abilities.

At first the four secretly relish their newfound gifts while keeping them hidden. However, things get serious when they learn they’re being hunted by an organization that wants them for its own nefarious purposes. Russ has always picked his battles wisely, but when the bad guys threaten his family, they’re about to find out they messed with the wrong teens. What transpires will change all of them in ways they never imagined.

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Each day, Amazon sponsors the Kindle Daily Deal and the Free App of the Day.

Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deal is a one-day only offer where a specific Kindle book for adults, one for young readers (children or young adults), a romance, and a science fiction / fantasy title have been hand-selected by the editors at Amazon and significantly discounted for today only.

Amazon’s free App of the Day can be utilized on a Kindle Fire and Android-based smartphones and tablet computers, and the app can be a game, utility, or who knows? Each app is offered free for 24 hours and, after that period is over it goes back to paid status and a new app is the Free App of the Day.

Kindle Daily Deal

Today’s Kindle Daily Deal for Adults is Berried to the Hilt , by Karen MacInerney, and this book was $9.99 yesterday but has been discounted 80% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 48 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Kids Daily Deal is A Prince Among Frogs, by E.D. Baker, and this book was $7.99 yesterday but has been discounted 63% to just $2.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 12 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Daily Deal is Midnighters #1: The Secret Hour , by Scott Westerfield, and this book was $8.99 yesterday but has been discounted 78% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 89 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Romance Daily Deal is Beach House No. 9 , by Christie Ridgway, and this book was $7.99 yesterday but has been discounted 75% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 47 customer reviews.

You can check each of them out if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser.

Here is the Berried to the Hilt book description from the Amazon website:

When a lobsterman discovers a sunken ship, Cranberry Island is abuzz with excitement. Is the wreck the remains of the Myra Barton, the missing ship of island sea captain Jonah Selfridge? Or the elusive Black Marguerite, which belonged to one of the most notorious pirates of the 17th century and vanished without a trace—except for the ghost ship that old-timers say roams the water on fog-shrouded nights?
Soon the island is swarming with marine archaeologists and treasure hunters. It’s good news for Natalie—and for the Gray Whale Inn—until a body turns up floating near the wreck. Natalie finds herself immersed in the world of pirates and sunken treasure, both past and present. Will she solve the mystery and find the killer in time? Or will Natalie be the next to join the lost ship’s crew, down in Davy Jones’ locker?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to pick up your copy of Berried to the Hilt .

Here is the A Prince Among Frogs book description from the Amazon website:

Princess Millie and her fiancé, Audun, are busy preparing for their wedding when trouble starts brewing in Greater Greensward. Millie’s baby brother, Felix, has been kidnapped and is trapped in a swamp full of other frogs. With all the adults busy fixing problems elsewhere in the kingdom, it’s up to Millie and Audun to find him-but they need all the help they can get to fight the family’s oldest nemesis, the angry wizard Olebald. From the deep blue sea to the soaring skies, our two heroes will stop at nothing to get their families back together and banish all the troublemakers for good.E. D. Baker brings out all our favorite characters for this funny and ferocious finale to Tales of the Frog Princess, the best-selling series that inspired Disney’s The Princess and the Frog.

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Here is the Midnighters #1: The Secret Hour book description from the Amazon website:

A few nights after Jessica Day arrives in Bixby, Oklahoma, she wakes up at midnight to find the entire world frozen, except for her and a few others who call themselves ‘midnighters’. Dark things haunt this midnight hour – dark things with a mysterious interest in Jessica. The question is ?hy;
The Secret Hour is a compelling tale of dark secrets, midnight romance, eerie creatures, courage, destiny, and unexpected peril.

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Here is the Beach House No. 9 book description from the Amazon website:

USA TODAY bestselling author Christie Ridgway introduces a sizzling new series set in Crescent Cove, California, where the magic of summer can last forever…
When Jane Pearson arrives at Griffin Lowell’s beach house, she expects a brooding loner. After all, his agent hired her to help the reclusive war journalist write his stalled memoir. Instead, Jane finds a tanned, ocean-blue-eyed man in a Hawaiian shirt, hosting a beach party and surrounded by beauties. Faster than he can untie a bikini top, Griffin lets Jane know he doesn’t want her. But she desperately needs this job and digs her toes in the sand.
Griffin intends to spend the coming weeks at Beach House No. 9 taking refuge from his painful memories—and from the primly sexy Jane, who wants to bare his soul. But warm nights, moonlit walks and sultry kisses just may unlock both their guarded hearts….

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Free App of the Day

Today’s Free App of the Day is Fraction Calculator Plus , and this utility app is normally $0.99 in the Amazon App Store but is free for today only.

Here is the app’s description from the Amazon App Store website:

I’m Fraction Calculator Plus and I’m the best and easiest way to deal with everyday fraction problems. Whether you’re checking homework, preparing recipes, or working on craft or even construction projects, I can help:

- Wish you could find the time to check your kids’ math homework? Now you can – checking fraction math takes just seconds.
- Need to adjust recipe quantities for a larger guest list? Let me adjust your cup and teaspoon quantities.
- Working on a craft or home project in inches? Stop double-or-triple calculating on paper – let me do it once, accurately.

I’m attractive and effective and I make great use of that big, beautiful Kindle Fire display:
- I show your calculations in crisp, clear, elegant type that you can read at-a-glance from a distance.
- My innovative triple keypad display lets you type fast! (entering three and three quarters takes just 3 taps!).
- Every fraction result gets automatically reduced to its simplest form to make your job easy.
- NEW! Every result is also shown in decimal to make conversion a breeze.
- It couldn’t be easier to add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions.

Let Fraction Calculator Plus turn your Kindle Fire into an everyday helping hand.

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Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is Noble Beginnings: A Jack Noble Thriller , by L.T. Ryan, and this book is normally $5.99 but has been discounted 83% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store; this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 119 customer reviews.

Category: Thriller

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

In March of 2002, while the eyes of the world focused on Afghanistan, Jack Noble finds himself on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq. A Marine in name only, Jack is on-loan to the CIA. Normally an integral part of the team, he finds that he is nothing more than a security detail in Iraq.

Jack and his partner Bear have a run-in with four CIA special agents over the treatment of an Iraqi family. Within hours Jack and Bear are detained.

All Jack wanted was to finish his enlistment and move on with his life. All he did was intervene and save a family from unwarranted violence at the hands of four CIA agents. But he soon discovers that he did far more than intervene. He has placed himself dead square in the middle of a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of the U.S. government.

This Jack Noble political thriller is not for the feint of heart!

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/859ffu into your web browser to pick up your copy of Noble Beginnings: A Jack Noble Thriller .

About the Author:

Lee “L.T.” Ryan lives in the suburbs of Atlanta, GA with his wife, three daughters, and one slightly psychologically unbalanced, but lovable dog. He enjoys writing fast paced suspense thrillers. When not writing, he enjoys reading, hiking, mountain biking, fishing, and spending time with the ladies in his life.

Current and upcoming projects include: Noble Intentions Episodes 11-15, Never Go Home (Jack Noble #3), When Dead in Greece (Jack Noble #4)

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To Learn more about L.T. go to http://ltryan.com

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In an effort to help out the blog, and to see if we could make a book reach the #1 best-seller status on the Amazon storefront, I challenged you to buy Pacific Avenue for just a penny. Many of you have helped the post go a little viral, and I am happy to report this book has zoomed all the way to #34 on the Kindle best-seller list!

Can you make this one #1 in the Amazon Kindle store? Sure, you can! Just click the link below and spend a penny – not only will we achieve our goal, but it will help the blog out in terms of being able to list future free Kindle books. How about passing this on (forward the email, give the post a “Like”, call your friends, you name it) and let’s get this book to #1!

Pacific Avenue, by Anne L. Watson, is regularly $1.99 but has been discounted 99% to just $0.01 in the Amazon Kindle store (that’s right, it’s just a penny today), and this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 54 customer reviews.

Category: Romance / Literary Fiction

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Where do you go from the end of the line? This is the question facing Kathy Woodbridge as she steps off the bus in the port city of San Pedro, California. Nineteen years old, from Louisiana, she is running away from her past. There’s a lot to run away from.

What do you do when there’s no one to do for? That’s what Lacey Greer wants to know, with her only child off at college. When Kathy gets a job at the office where Lacey works, she can tell that Kathy’s in trouble. Lacey’s husband advises her to stay out of it — but what’s she supposed to do, buy a rocking chair?

Set in San Pedro, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans in the early seventies, Pacific Avenue explores themes of love, belonging, helpfulness, hope, forgiveness, reconciliation, interracial marriage, and healing from the trauma of war. At the end of the line, will Kathy find a way to return home?

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Here are four Kindle book offers for your Sunday consideration from highly-rated independent authors who have discounted the pricing for a limited time just for members of the blog.

Three Days in Seattle, by Debra Burroughs, is regularly $2.99 but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 152 customer reviews.

Category: Romantic Suspense

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Revenge. Romance. Murder.

A gorgeous Blonde, a kidnapped Sister, a handsome Stranger, and a vengeful Killer.

The desperate race is on to find the sister before both women wind up dead.

A sweet Romantic Suspense novel that will curl your toes.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/qd8i27 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Three Days in Seattle .

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Double Trouble, by Deborah Cooke and Claire Cross, is regularly $4.99 but has been discounted 80% to just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 232 customer reviews.

Category: Contemporary Romance

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Two sisters. One disaster.

First things first: I’m the bad twin. While my sister, Marcia, has the perfect family in the perfect suburb, I’ve been making my living as an Internet advice columnist and designing Web sites in my downtown loft. I always thought I had the right answer – and hair color – for any occasion. That is, until Marcia ran up loads of debt and ran out on her husband and kids, and I was left helping to pick up the pieces. Her husband, James, is a lawyer who I hate on principle alone.

But for a guy who’s just lost his job, his marriage, and his expensive toys, he’s keeping it together – and making me rethink my feelings toward him. It’s not that he’s traded in his conservative suits for sexy jeans. It’s that he’s not giving up what’s important to him, and oh baby, I’m a sucker for a guy who hangs tough.

That doesn’t mean I’m ready to step into Marcia’s designer shoes now that she’s gone AWOL.

And it doesn’t mean I’m going to fall for James’s easy charm…not again, anyhow. Besides, I’ve had a lifelong policy of not being mistaken for my twin and I’m not backing down on that one now – no matter how convenient it might be for a certain sexy (and persuasive) man…

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Dark Nights Dangerous Men, is a collection of sex highly-rated books by carious authors, and is a new release specially priced at just $0.99 in the Amazon Kindle store.

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

6 Bestselling Authors, 6 Sexy Reads…

From romantic suspense to paranormal romance; from a full length novel to a bite sized novella, whatever you’re looking for, we’ve got the story for you!
Total collection: 317,000 words

STOLEN FURY by Elisabeth Naughton

To unearth a centuries-old secret, an archaeologist must team up with the rakish thief who’s stolen both an ancient relic and her heart…

Word count: 100,000

BOUND BY BLOOD by Cynthia Eden

Married to the enemy. In order to save her clan, vampire princess Morgan LaBeaux will do anything…even marry werewolf alpha Jace Vaughn. She may have to trust him with her life, but Morgan vows to never give the wolf her heart.

Word Count: 21,000

NO ONE TO TRUST by Katie Reus

When Elizabeth Martinez is shoved into the cross hairs of one of Miami’s death-dealing drug lords she has no choice but to depend on former Marine Porter Caldwell, her ex-boyfriend and the one man she’s tried desperately to forget.

Word count: 45,000

RAPHAEL by Alexandra Ivy

The brilliant and dangerous diplomat of the Pantera shapeshifters, Raphael has devoted his life to discovering the key to the infertility that is threatening the extinction of his puma race. Creating a vast network of spies worldwide, he never expected to discover that the answer might be beneath his very nose. But when Ashe, a beautiful human female, crosses his path, his most primitive instincts are stirred. Unable to resist, he takes her to his bed, and is shocked when she becomes pregnant with his child. It’s a miracle that might prove to be the salvation of his people, but only if he can keep her safe from the mercenaries determined to kill her.

Word count: 21,000

PARISH by Laura Wright

Untamed and undeniably sexy, Parish, leader of the Pantera hunters, rarely leaves the magic of the Wildlands to deal with the humans he despises. But with the prized and risky Pantera birth on the way, puma shifter, Parish must travel to New Orleans to find and bring back a human doctor. The moment he sees the lovely, talented and all too human Dr. Julia Cabot he cannot resist the wild, potent drive to make her his. Betrayed and destroyed by love, Julia will not let her heart choose her path again. But as she and Parish fight to save the life of an unborn child, a fierce and overwhelming bond develops between them, threatening her frozen heart with the secret hope and ultimate temptation of love and family.

Word count: 20,000

INTIMATE ENEMIES by Joan Swan

An emergency physician on leave returns to Baja Mexico in search of answers in the deaths of her mother and stepbrother and uncovers buried secrets that threaten her life and a man who threatens her heart.

Word count: 110,000

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/qgdvui into your web browser to pick up your copy of Dark Nights Dangerous Men .

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Broken Pieces, by Rachel Thompson, is $5.99 today in the Amazon Kindle store, and this book has received an average user rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars based on 116 customer reviews.

Category: Non-Fiction / Women’s Studies / Poetry

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Winner, Honorable Mention, 2013 San Francisco Book Festival! 2013 Global eBook Award Nominee! eFestival of Words 3-time nominee!

Broken Pieces quickly hit the Paid Top 5 list on Women’s Studies AND Poetry and continues to impact people in unexpected way.
Welcome to bestselling author Rachel Thompson’s newest nonfiction work! Vastly different in tone from her previous essay collections A Walk In The Snark and The Mancode: Exposed, BROKEN PIECES is a collection of pieces inspired by one woman’s life: love, loss, abuse, trust, grief, and ultimately, love again.

Please note: the book is laid out in keeping with the title. This means you are reading ‘pieces,’ or glimpses, into the author’s mind. And heart.

This is NOT a humor book! It IS a book about relationships, a study of women, a book with heart.

Want to see why people love it? Why they call it ‘riveting, powerful, insightful?’
Read it and see why Broken Pieces is tearing up the lists for Poetry, Nonfiction, Women’s Studies, and books for women!

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/9qxpha into your web browser to pick up your copy of Broken Pieces.

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Today’s Featured Kindle Book of the Day is CONTACT , by AFN Clarke, and this book is normally $3.99 but has been discounted 25% to just $2.99 in the Amazon Kindle store; this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 16 customer reviews.

Category: Memoir / Autobiography

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

This new expanded edition of AFN Clarke’s bestselling and controversial book CONTACT is a raw, visceral, “no-holds-barred” account of combat from one of the men we paid to kill. When first published it caused a furor for its devastating honesty and chilling revelations.

Clarke vividly recounts his experiences of two tours in Northern Ireland (in Belfast and Crossmaglen) as a Platoon Commander with Britain’s elite Parachute Regiment during the blood soaked 1970′s. Soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan comment on how relevant the book still is today, as the dangers, political agendas and religious roots underlying the conflict are eerily and heartbreakingly similar to their own more recent experiences.

Clarke takes us to heart of the action. We feel what it’s like to live each day with senses on high alert, waiting to be ripped apart by the accuracy of a sniper or a well-hidden bomb. We enter the private world of soldiers ordered to hold the lines in an ancient quarrel they have little affinity for, but whose consequences are deadly. We experience their emotions, fear, courage, humor, bravado and the anguish of death.

This expanded edition continues from where the print version ended, revealing the untold nightmare Clarke lived through having nearly died, with half his insides missing, suffering from PTSD and being expected to return to a “normal life”. A story of the scars of war that affect generations. Of heartache, courage and hope for peace.

“I am an ex soldier who served in Northern Ireland during the Troubles and this is an excellent account of what it was like. I only wish we had an officer like Captain Clarke.” pm, 5 Stars Amazon UK

“.. its honesty and passion cannot be denied .. Mr. Clarke has sent out a powerful and disturbing early warning signal.” Maurice Leitch, Daily Telegraph.

“..a major contribution to our understanding of war and how people act .. Contact is the work of a brave writer.” Kevin Toolis, Irish News.

“As a civilian it’s hard to imagine what’s it’s really like to be a soldier in combat but this book opened my eyes. I highly recommend it …” KTHuffy, 4 Stars Amazon USA.

CONTACT was reviewed by soldiers who served with Captain Clarke as verification of his recollections. It was first published in the UK in 1983 by Martin Secker & Warburg, was serialized for 5 days in The Mirror and became an instant best seller. In 1984 it was published in paperback by PAN Books, by Schocken Books New York and made into an award-winning BBC TV film. And in 2012 came the expanded ebook edition, which all these years later is still selling strong. Readers outside the UK are invited to visit Amazon.co.uk for soldier’s reviews and comments. (Book length approx. 200 pages.)

AFN Clarke is a full-time author and writes fiction of various genre – fast-paced thrillers (An Unquiet American), poignant human drama (Dry Tortugas), humorous satire (The Book of Baker Series – Dreams from the Death Age; Armageddon; Genesis Revisited), psychological horror (Collisions); and the Thomas Gunn suspense series (The Orange Moon Affair) with more coming soon. Visit the Amazon Kindle Store or afnclarke.com for further information.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/17362t into your web browser to pick up your copy of CONTACT .

About the Author:

I’ve been fortunate as a writer to have written the best seller CONTACT and the screenplay for the award winning BBCTV film of the same name. The success of CONTACT was a turning point in my life and I now count myself lucky to be pursuing my passion and writing full time – with 6 works of fiction on sale on Amazon and more on the way. I enjoy writing in various genres – from suspense, intrigue and politically charged thrillers with controversial and provocative themes to literary fiction, humorous satire and books that explore the complexity of human relationships.

Apart from my many lives as a racing car driver, Captain in Britain’s elite Parachute Regiment, screenwriter, pilot, yacht skipper, and proud father of four daughters I’ve lived in Hong Kong, India, Libya, Iran, the UK, USA and travelled extensively. Favorite things to do? Write, sail, listen to opera, rock music, cook gourmet meals, drink wine, have heated discussions and travel off the beaten path.

Having had a near death experience, lost half my insides and made it back from the trauma of war, all I can say is that tends to change how a person looks at life and maybe in a strange way it’s made me a better writer. For me – and I suspect for most of my readers – good books are a great way to shut out every day life, suspend normal ways of thinking, and allow yourself to be transported to another world. I love a good story, enjoy laughing out loud, being challenged by thought provoking ideas, sitting on the edge of my seat in anticipation of what’s to come and the thrill of unexpected endings. And so I hope that’s what my readers get – the thrill, suspense, drama, intrigue, humor, mystery, danger, poignancy, love and laughter of life seen through different eyes.

Published works include CONTACT, COLLISIONS, AN UNQUIET AMERICAN, THE BOOK OF BAKER SERIES (Dream from the Death Age; Armageddon; Genesis Revisited- release 2013), DRY TORTUGAS and THE ORANGE MOON AFFAIR the first of the Thomas Gunn thriller series. For more information I invite you to visit www.afnclarke.com or email author@afnclarke.com. Comment on my blog, connect on Facebook and Twitter and I thank you sincerely for taking the time to write a review of any books you have read.

You can visit AFN Clarke’s Amazon author page if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/afn into your web browser.

 
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I didn’t mention a free Kindle book in today’s posts as the ratio of free downloads to paid downloads is above 80% – please remember that is not my rule but Amazon’s rule! While I’ve written about this rule a couple of times, if you don’t know what I’m talking about you can read about it in a prior post if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/xbqyfr into your web browser.

What does that mean to you? Well, that means a lot of you are downloading a lot of free Kindle books after clicking over from a link on the blog – that’s ok, but I need to get the ratio back down below 80% before I can post more free Kindle book offers!

So, here’s a request I’d like to make for each of you who has downloaded a free Kindle book after clicking through from one of the links on the blog this month – please buy a Kindle book after clicking one of my links! To make it as painless as possible for you, all I am asking is for you to invest one penny – hopefully, just one penny won’t break any of you and it will help with me being able to continue doing what I’m doing.

Actually, I’d like for you to buy this book I mention below – and I’ll throw in a challenge: if everyone who reads this post will invest just one cent and purchase this book below, not only will you help out the blog but let’s see if we can make this book reach the #1 paid title in the entire Amazon Kindle store! I’m certain it would happen – pass this message and link on to your Kindle-owning friends, and let’s see if we can get this book to the #1 spot: you’ll not only make my day, but I will bet you will make the author’s year!

Pacific Avenue, by Anne L. Watson, is regularly $1.99 but has been discounted 99% to just $0.01 in the Amazon Kindle store (that’s right, it’s just a penny today), and this book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 54 customer reviews.

Category: Romance / Literary Fiction

Here is the book’s description from the Amazon website:

Where do you go from the end of the line? This is the question facing Kathy Woodbridge as she steps off the bus in the port city of San Pedro, California. Nineteen years old, from Louisiana, she is running away from her past. There’s a lot to run away from.

What do you do when there’s no one to do for? That’s what Lacey Greer wants to know, with her only child off at college. When Kathy gets a job at the office where Lacey works, she can tell that Kathy’s in trouble. Lacey’s husband advises her to stay out of it — but what’s she supposed to do, buy a rocking chair?

Set in San Pedro, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans in the early seventies, Pacific Avenue explores themes of love, belonging, helpfulness, hope, forgiveness, reconciliation, interracial marriage, and healing from the trauma of war. At the end of the line, will Kathy find a way to return home?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/3houi6 into your web browser to pick up your copy of Pacific Avenue .
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