Sunday, August 28, 2011

Free Kindle Books (8/28 ) + Newly Discounted Books Found by Forumners + Amzn Deals

NEWLY FREE AND DISCOUNTED KINDLE BOOKS DISCOVERED BY FORUM MEMBERS
Sunday, 8/28

You've Gone Too Far This Time, Sir!, by Danny Bent, 38 customer reviews, 4.7 stars, $0.00
  From the Product Description: Danny Bent bicycled 9,320 miles (15,000 kilometres) from the UK to India to raise money for ActionAid.  "...a real and compelling blow-by-blow account of Danny's trip across Europe, the former Soviet Republic, Russia, China, Pakistan and India."


Kindle Daily Deal
  (The Daily Deal link above changes at MIDNIGHT each day.
   Click it to see what the daily deal book is, at any time.)

  Sunday, 8/28
  The Lincoln Lawyer, by Michael Connelly, 514 customer reviews, 4.6 stars
    Daily Deal until the end of Sunday, 8/28:
      Saturday's Price: $7.99
      Sunday's Discount: $5.00
      Sunday's Daily Deal Price: $2.99 (63% off)



Amazon's own ongoing listing of LIMITED-TIME OFFERS - Promos
  Amazon sorts these by Bestsellers first.
  I've added a separate sorting
by Low-to-High pricing.
Unusual Publisher Sale for August - 8/3
Publisher Harper Perennial sale::20 titles for $20, or $0.99 each, through the month of August


Other ongoing forum threads that might interest some
  . What have been your favorite public domain books not so well known?
  . Best "Free" books you've read (many are no longer free, however).
  . Highly recommended Indie authors
  . In the Kindle Kitchen with Annie and Joyce (popular recipes thread)



LATEST DISCOUNTED Kindle books (some temporarily) forum thread:
  Forum-thread starter RandomizeME includes a caution that it's not a book promotion thread for authors or for posts about indies or free books either.)  "The thread is for discounts and price drops that readers find for books from publishers."
  8/27-28
  These include many Marion Chesney/MC Beaton books discounted 20% to $5.59 and a discussion of the Audible books program.



TEMPORARILY Free-Book alerts from the Amazon Kindle forums - via the amazing "Happy Reader" Joyce, who is constantly on the lookout on behalf of forum members.

NOTE: The alerts below are quoted as they appear in Joyce's collecting of newly and mostly temporarily-free books just released and are *not* books I've seen and are *not* recommendations by me -- this is just a daily report of very popular forum alerts.   The eBooks will become no longer free within days, usually - sometimes, hours.

Aug 28 - morning - 3 books

If on the Home Page and you see "MORE" books available,
* CLICK at the bottom to get the REST of the long listing of free books *


' Happy Reader "Joyce" says:

The Case of the Flashing Fashion Queen: A Dix Dodd Mystery (Dix Dodd Mysteries)
Author: Norah Wilson
Genre: Fiction - Mystery - Humor

DESCRIPTION: Tired of getting no respect at the big P.I. firm where she's worked for years, Dix Dodd has hung out her own shingle at the ripe age of 40. There are plenty of cheating husbands to go around, and Dix has a knack for busting them. Problem is, it doesn't always pay so well. Conscious that the guys back at the old firm are laying bets about how soon she'll come crawling back, she figures she's got six months to make a go of it. The going gets even tougher when she hires Dylan Foreman. But when he told her about getting fired from his law firm and disbarred for putting common decency before the firm's interests, she hired him on the spot. In addition to being smart, he's gorgeous enough to remind her she's a woman. And at 28, young enough to make her feel like a total cougar. Things start looking up when Dix gets hired by millionaire businessman Ned Weatherby's wife Jennifer Weatherby, to tail Ned 24/7 for a week, for a cool ten grand. Easy-peasy, right? Wrong! The job lands Dix in the middle of a murder investigation - with her as the prime suspect and her arch-enemy Detective Richard Head (one of the cheating husbands she'd nailed) gunning for her. Dix will need all her ingenuity, as well as the help of Dylan and her oddball cast of supporters to extricate herself from this one.

*****

The Oak Leaves
Author: Maureen Lang
Genre: Religious - Inspirational

DESCRIPTION: After Talie Ingram finds an old family journal while helping clean her mother's house, she enthusiastically settles down to read about the life of her ancestress Cosima Escott Hamilton, whose diary dates as far back as 1849. From the very beginning, Lang, a romance novelist and author of Pieces of Silver, deftly navigates back and forth in history between Cosima's 19th-century confessions about the strange circumstances surrounding her family and betrothal to Sir Reginald Hale and Talie's growing, present-day fears about her heritage and its potential impact on her beloved son, Ben. With each passing day, Ben shows more signs of struggle with tasks that even the smallest toddlers usually have mastered; waving goodbye, chewing food, and crawling are beyond his grasp. This causes Talie to wonder if the family "curse" Cosima writes about-that the women on her father's side only produce "slow-witted children"-is more than mere legend. The bulk of this tale is really Cosima's, centering on the complications that ensue regarding her postponed marriage to Sir Reginald and the deep feelings she develops for another man. And it's Cosima's lingering voice-her determination and faith-that inspires Talie to reconcile her son's diagnosis of fragile X syndrome (a disability Lang's own son suffers from) with her belief that God is merciful.

*****

Soon (Underground Zealot Series #1)
Author: Jerry B. Jenkins
Genre: Religious - Inspirational

DESCRIPTION: Paul Stepola, an agent working for the National Peacekeeping Organization (NPO), has been assigned to enforce compliance with the world government's prohibition on religion. Paul relishes his job and is good at it. He is determined to expose underground religion--flush it out, expose it, and kill it--until his life is turned upside down and he is forced to look at life in a different way. As Paul begins to unravel the truth about what he has found, events taking place around the world start to make sense. Something big is coming--something that can't be stopped. And it is coming soon. '


Kindle-edition blog subscribers can access these by
clicking on any forum-alert link above, with Wireless 'On'...
  (the daily updates of forum alerts/discussions are readable on the Kindle-edition -
    press the Kindle's "Aa"-key to Zoom a page of text 200% if on Kindle 3
    or to increase font size on Kindle 2)
    The Aa key gives a Landscape-view option also.)



For daily free ebooks, check the following links:

Temporarily-free books -
Non-classics
- USA: by:
NEW:  June  July  Aug 2011
   Publication Date   Late-listed
   Bestselling   High-ratings

UK: PubDate   Popular
What is 3G? and "WiFi"?       Battery Care
Highly-rated under $1,  Newest: $1-$2, $2-$3
Most Popular Free K-Books
U.S. & Int'l (NOT UK):
   Top 100 free
UK-Only:
   Top 100 free
USEFUL for your Kindle (U.S. only, currently):
  99c Notepad 1.1,   99c Calculator,
  99c Calendar,   99c Converter


Kindle 3's   (UK: Kindle 3's)   K3 Special ($114)   K3-3G Special ($139)   DX Graphite


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