Free Kindle books – 3/25/2011 no comments
Four more free ebooks available only at the Kindle Store. Recently some of the freebies have been reunited with their price tags after only a very few days of freedom, so if you see something you want grab it while it is still free.
Aftershock: The Blast That Shook Psycho Platoon (Kindle Single) by T. Christian Miller (5 stars/4 reviews) Nonfiction.
Arctic Fever by Bruce Barcott (3 stars/1 review).
A Chunk of Hell by Steven Sidor (no ratings) Thriller; short prequel to the author’s forthcoming novel Pitch Dark.
The Sword by Bryan M. Litfin (4 stars/39 reviews) Fantasy from a faith-based publisher.
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Today only the Shazam Encore app will be free at the Amazon AppStore for Android. Unlike the free version of the Shazam music discovery app, which limits you to five tags per month, the Encore version is the full-featured version that features unlimited tagging as well as other features.
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Some paid reads:
The Frozen Sky by Jeff Carlson (4 stars/15 reviews) $0.99. Science fiction involving encounters with extraterrestrial live on Jupiter’s moon Europa. Also available at Barnes & Noble.
Watch Your Back by James Scott Bell (4 stars/10 reviews) $2.99. Suspense. Includes a novella and three short stories. Also available at Barnes & Noble.
Least Wanted by Debbi Mack (4 1/2 stars/14 reviews) $0.99. Also available at Barnes & Noble and Kobo.
Stephanie Ann "Sam" McRae’s busy, but orderly life as a Maryland lawyer takes a chaotic turn when two clients are accused of murder. A poor, black girl is accused of killing her mother. A young man suspected of embezzlement is accused of murdering his boss. The cases collide in a bizarre way involving girl gangs and computer pornography.
Wrecker by Dave Conifer (4 1/2 stars/13 reviews) $0.99. Also available at Barnes & Noble and Kobo.
Jane Havelock is coping a day at a time in a bad marriage when her husband Steve hires handyman Rob Manteo for a never-ending series of odd jobs around the house. At first Jane is repulsed by Manteo, a huge, muscular man with primitive communication skills. But revulsion reluctantly gives way to curiosity and even fascination as loneliness drives her into a precarious friendship with Manteo. He’s morose and mysterious, but there’s definitely more to him than meets the eye. He seems to be hiding something.
As her marriage and her husband’s career crumble around her, Jane digs into Manteo’s past and uncovers a horrible secret. She knows now that it was more than chance that brought Manteo into their world, but it may be too late.
Amanda Hocking has gotten a lot of press recently for making a lot of money at
a very young age by publishing digitally after being rejected by the traditional publishing industry. She has just recently signed a four-book (pbook) deal with St. Martin’s Press. A number of Ms. Hocking’s books
Amanda Hocking’s ebooks are also available at Barnes & Noble and Kobo.
