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Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert, Friday, July 16: Historical Fiction leads the way with “Mozart’s Blood,” plus The Harvard Man (Today’s Sponsor), and links to our Complete List of Over a Hundred Free Promotional Kindle Store Titles

Today in our Free Book Alerts, award winning author Louise Marley’s compelling, intricately layered story of a beautiful soprano who shares an everlasting bond with the world’s most notorious musical genius. . .

But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor

THE HARVARD MAN. He is brilliant, possessing intelligence most would classify as genius, and he has always believed he was destined for Harvard University.  However, there is a flaw.  He is also mentally unstable, a psychopath with violent tendencies.  Harvard has rejected his application.
Now, he is determined to exact revenge in sweeping strokes of violence that will display his brilliance and bring America’s most prestigious university to its academic knees.  If he can’t have Harvard, no one can!
For the month of July, Vellum Publishing Inc. is offering the riveting new thriller, THE HARVARD MAN by John Arthur Long, at a special introductory price of $2.99 for Kindle readers.
Click here to download THE HARVARD MAN (or a free sample) to your Kindle, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, BlackBerry, Android-compatible, PC or Mac and start reading within 60 seconds!
All Vellum Publishing Inc. Kindle store offerings are formatted for easier reading and guaranteed to be reasonably priced at $7.99 or less.  Click here to see the entire Kindle catalog from Vellum Publishing.

Each day’s list is sponsored by one paid title, and of course, we encourage you to support our sponsors. Some of these paid titles will be from our own Kindle Nation Daily press (an imprint of Harvard Perspectives Press), while others will be paid titles from other authors and publishers.

Authors, Publishers, Kindle Accessory Manufacturers:

Interested in learning more about sponsorship? Just click on this link for more information:

Click here to sponsor a Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert!

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Free Listings!

Mozart’s Blood by Louise Marley – Historical Fiction

Marley, a musician and writer, has produced a stunning drama inspired by the life of Teresa Saporiti, the first Donna Anna. Teresa, an aspiring singer, was turned into a vampire by a Czech aristocrat. As bad as the need for blood are the memories of the victims, which remain with the taker. Teresa has learned to deal with them, but Mozart, whom the baroness bit at the same time, never did and died painfully because he could not bring himself to satisfy the unnatural thirst. In San Francisco in 1906, Teresa meets Ugo, a Silician werewolf with a very curious past of his own. They become partners, guarding each other’s backs. In twenty-first-century Milan, an egoistic baritone thinks he has figured out Teresa’s secret and abducts Ugo to obtain the blood that holds Mozart’s memories. The story covers four centuries, but the shifts between the past and the present are seamlessly handled, and the development of Teresa and Ugo over those centuries is impressive. An engrossing piece, from overture to final chord.- Frieda Murray, Booklist Advanced Review

The Wicked House of Rohan
Historical Fiction by Anne Stuart
A fallen woman. A most wicked plan for redemption.
Venice, 1740.
Desperate, starving, Kathleen Strong makes her way to a job interview that promises a chance at proper employment…and maybe a bite to eat. Accused of “gross immorality,” she’s adrift after being dismissed from her governess position, despite being entirely innocent.
That innocence is precisely what a mysterious group of debauched aristocrats finds so alluring about Miss Strong. When they propose a scandalous offer that she can’t refuse…she can’t refuse. But if the darkly gallant Alistair Rohan, a gentleman involved in all manner of wicked deeds himself, has anything to say about it, Kathleen can escape her disrepute in another way.
Of course, the escape route looks very similar to the group’s illicit proposition itself…

Click here for a complete listing of our updated free promotional titles in the Kindle Store as of July 16!

Here’s a list of the categories in today’s Free Book Alert:

Crime and Suspense
Writing and Publishing
Children/Young Adult/Teen
Contemporary Fiction
Nonfiction/Leadership/Change/Reference/Essay

Christian Spirituality and Christian Fiction

Science Fiction and Fantasy

Historical Fiction and Romance 
Erotica
Gay and Lesbian 

Samples
Memoir, Biography, Personal Story

(Sponsorship can take a number of different forms and implies no endorsement either of or by Kindle Nation or a sponsoring company or individual.)

A Late Addition to Today’s Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert: The Wicked House of Rohan, Historical Fiction by Anne Stuart

Hold the presses, we’ve got a new historical romance as a late update to today’s Free Book Alert….

But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor


Here’s a Harry Potter quiz book like no other. It asks questions which will develop your appreciation of the Harry Potter books and the Harry Potter phenomenon. Some of these questions are easy, quite a few are fiendishly difficult, but all are thought-provoking.
What better way to get kids or grandkids interested in Kindle reading than to use your Kindle to engage them in a Harry Potter quiz?! But no promises here that you won’t get hooked on the game yourself….

[Incidentally, the publisher tells us that although this is the “ultimate unaithorized” Harry Potter quiz book, this book has been cleared by Rowling’s attorneys — all the questions pertain to “real  facts” or literary criticism as opposed to “fictional facts”, which is what got the HP Lexicon people in trouble.]


Click here to download Ultimate Unauthorized Harry Potter Quiz Book: 165 Questions Ranging from The Sorcerer’s Stone to The Deathly Hallows (or a free sample) to your Kindle, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, BlackBerry, Android-compatible, PC or Mac and start reading within 60 seconds!

Each day’s list is sponsored by one paid title, and of course, we encourage you to support our sponsors. Some of these paid titles will be from our own Kindle Nation Daily press (an imprint of Harvard Perspectives Press), while others will be paid titles from other authors and publishers.

Authors, Publishers, Kindle Accessory Manufacturers:

Interested in learning more about sponsorship? Just click on this link for more information:

Click here to sponsor a Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert!

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Free Listings!

The Wicked House of Rohan
Historical Fiction by Anne Stuart
A fallen woman. A most wicked plan for redemption.
Venice, 1740.
Desperate, starving, Kathleen Strong makes her way to a job interview that promises a chance at proper employment…and maybe a bite to eat. Accused of “gross immorality,” she’s adrift after being dismissed from her governess position, despite being entirely innocent.
That innocence is precisely what a mysterious group of debauched aristocrats finds so alluring about Miss Strong. When they propose a scandalous offer that she can’t refuse…she can’t refuse. But if the darkly gallant Alistair Rohan, a gentleman involved in all manner of wicked deeds himself, has anything to say about it, Kathleen can escape her disrepute in another way.
Of course, the escape route looks very similar to the group’s illicit proposition itself…
by Cathy Marie Hake 

“…light yet thought-provoking – humorous yet serious…. This story was a delightful read.” — Trudy Smith, OnceUponaRomance.net “Cathy Marie Hake paints characters so real they nearly walk off the page.” — Delia Latham, faithwebbin.net Like a dandelion in the wind, Hope Ladley blows from one farm to the next, helping cook for the field hands during the harvest. Illiterate and often twisting cliches and Bible verses into mind-boggling observations, Hope leaves widower Jakob Stauffer baffled by her unconventional ways. But her sunny disposition and unstinting love make changes of a different kind around the place. His little daughter and the pregnant sister he’s shielding from an abusive husband adore Hope, and things are getting accomplished even if Hope’s methods are
unique. Then Jakob’s brother-in-law shows up and threatens the newfound peace and happiness of the farm. With Jakob’s future uncertain and his heart tangled, can the farmer convince Hope to take root and remain as his wife?

And, if you enjoy it, it may lead to several of her other novels like her 2007 release Fancy Pants (cover below )….

 

Click here for a complete listing of our updated free promotional titles in the Kindle Store as of July 15!

(Sponsorship can take a number of different forms and implies no endorsement either of or by Kindle Nation or a sponsoring company or individual.)

Celebrate Amazon’s 15th Birthday by Getting Jeff Bezos A Little Something from His Amazon Wish List

Okay, how many times have you received birthday or holiday gifts in Amazon packaging? For me, it’s been a lot more than once. So it’s only fitting that I should be thinking about getting a gift for Amazon tomorrow on its 15th birthday. According to an interesting piece by The National’s Katie Boucher, the company accepted its first order on July 16, 1995:

It was an inauspicious start to something that would change the face of retailing as we knew it: on July 16, 1995, the first intrepid customer strayed on to the newly live website www.amazon.com and made a purchase. Hours, or maybe days later (these were the days of dial-up internet, don’t forget), Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought, by Douglas Hofstadter, was winging its way through the post. A new way of buying books had begun.

It took another 15 weeks or so before the company was ready to issue the press release below, on

October 4, 1995, announcing not only that it had opened its doors but that it had become the “world’s largest bookseller!” Let’s just say that the company has become a tad more understated in the intervening years, but in any case it’s fun to read that first release today.

And, by the way, if you’re stumped about what to get Amazon for its birthday, here’s Jeff Bezos’ Amazon Wish List. I’m having trouble deciding between the Krazy Glue to help Jeff make Amazon a “stickier” website and a couple of other choices. But I really like the hat, so much that I am thinking of getting myself one. And then I would absolutely have to get Jeff the hat too, because then when folks complimented him on it he could say, “Thanks, it’s the same hat that Steve Windwalker wears….”

Thanks to Abhi’s Kindle Review blog for the birthday reminder!

Narrative Magazine, the gold standard of online literary magazines, launches a free app for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch

For Kindle Nation citizens who also use an iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch, here’s a free new treat from Narrative. Here’s hoping that they will also have an app in the coming Kindle App Store:


The Narrative App for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch application is now available for download and places the magazine’s entire library at your fingertips, for free.

The application allows you to enjoy thousands of new stories, poems, essays, interviews, cartoons, and features by eminent authors such as Joyce Carol Oates, Tobias Wolff, Amy Bloom, E. L. Doctorow, Jane Smiley, and many other established as well as up-and-coming talents, all at the touch of a button.

Users can download Narrative’s contents onto their devices for easy offline reading, customize the library by turning content categories on and off, and browse the current, regularly updated issue of Narrative, including features such as Story of the Week and Poem of the Week. The application also includes an extensive video and audio gallery where users can watch and listen to great stories read by their authors.

With the application, we have launched two new genres: the iStory and the iPoem, short, quick reads by authors such as Sherman Alexie that fit quality literature easily into readers’ daily routines.

Our goal in the evolution of digital media is to encourage and support literature by connecting readers and writers as directly as possible. Narrative was the first and foremost literary periodical online, the first on Amazon’s Kindle, and Narrative now leads the way on Apple’s newest electronic reading devices.

Narrative is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to encouraging excellence in literary form and content in the digital age, and to helping reverse the downward trend in reading by reaching readers via the digital media.

Authors and works published in Narrative have received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Best American Short Story Award, the PEN/O. Henry Prize, and many others.

HERE’S WHAT WRITERS, REVIEWERS, AND APP USERS SAY ABOUT NARRATIVE:

Narrative is the gold standard of online literary magazines.”
Esquire

“You are doing a splendid job for the short story, and writers like myself are very much aware of that.”
—William Trevor

Narrative is one of the most exciting and innovative literary magazines I have seen in the past decade. It’s attractively edited, wonderfully readable, and diverse in its contents. I look forward to reading it for a very long time.”
—Joyce Carol Oates

Narrative is atypical in terms of quality. There is no whiff of literary hipsterism here, no veil of coolness to cover up the mediocre writing that is often found in new publications. Instead, Jenks and Edgarian offer a wide, well-edited, and stimulating selection of narrative forms.”
—Tamara Straus, San Francisco Chronicle

“Best online publication.”
storySouth

“Now my new iPad is starting to be what I wanted it to be with this great new App providing wonderfully edited prose and poetry. Great quality and richness. Very exciting! Five stars.”
—Ace9699

“This App is brilliant. it makes it so easy to use Narrative, honestly I can’t believe HOW easy. Now when I’m taveling, waiting at the doctor’s office or car wash, two seconds and I can be reading something wonderful. Fantastic!”
—applover2

“Here we are, expanding the range of the best of contemporary literature to the very boundaries of the cyberspace universe and beyond. Narrative is a writer’s dream come true.”
—T. Coraghessan Boyle

“The App has a very handsome interface and is very easy to navigate. And if you accept a call while you’re reading, the App will save your place. Also, the App has easy to use preferences and settings adjustments.”
—apl2114

Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert, Thursday, July 15: Forevermore – Christian Fiction by Cathy Marie Hake, plus a cool Kindle approach to Harry Potter! (Today’s Sponsor), and a Complete List of Over a Hundred Free Promotional Kindle Store Titles

We’ve got a brand new free Kindle Store listing today from popular Christian historical novelist Cathy Marie Hake, and if you enjoy it it may lead to several of her other novels like her 2007 release Fancy Pants (cover at left)….

But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor


Here’s a Harry Potter quiz book like no other. It asks questions which will develop your appreciation of the Harry Potter books and the Harry Potter phenomenon. Some of these questions are easy, quite a few are fiendishly difficult, but all are thought-provoking.
What better way to get kids or grandkids interested in Kindle reading than to use your Kindle to engage them in a Harry Potter quiz?! But no promises here that you won’t get hooked on the game yourself….

[Incidentally, the publisher tells us that although this is the “ultimate unaithorized” Harry Potter quiz book, this book has been cleared by Rowling’s attorneys — all the questions pertain to “real  facts” or literary criticism as opposed to “fictional facts”, which is what got the HP Lexicon people in trouble.]


Click here to download Ultimate Unauthorized Harry Potter Quiz Book: 165 Questions Ranging from The Sorcerer’s Stone to The Deathly Hallows (or a free sample) to your Kindle, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, BlackBerry, Android-compatible, PC or Mac and start reading within 60 seconds!

Each day’s list is sponsored by one paid title, and of course, we encourage you to support our sponsors. Some of these paid titles will be from our own Kindle Nation Daily press (an imprint of Harvard Perspectives Press), while others will be paid titles from other authors and publishers.

Authors, Publishers, Kindle Accessory Manufacturers:

Interested in learning more about sponsorship? Just click on this link for more information:

Click here to sponsor a Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert!

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Free Listings!

by Cathy Marie Hake 
“…light yet thought-provoking – humorous yet serious…. This story was a delightful read.” — Trudy Smith, OnceUponaRomance.net “Cathy Marie Hake paints characters so real they nearly walk off the page.” — Delia Latham, faithwebbin.net Like a dandelion in the wind, Hope Ladley blows from one farm to the next, helping cook for the field hands during the harvest. Illiterate and often twisting cliches and Bible verses into mind-boggling observations, Hope leaves widower Jakob Stauffer baffled by her unconventional ways. But her sunny disposition and unstinting love make changes of a different kind around the place. His little daughter and the pregnant sister he’s shielding from an abusive husband adore Hope, and things are getting accomplished even if Hope’s methods are unique. Then Jakob’s brother-in-law shows up and threatens the newfound peace and happiness of the farm. With Jakob’s future uncertain and his heart tangled, can the farmer convince Hope to take root and remain as his wife?

Click here for a complete listing of our updated free promotional titles in the Kindle Store as of July 15!

(Sponsorship can take a number of different forms and implies no endorsement either of or by Kindle Nation or a sponsoring company or individual.)

Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert, Wednesday, July 14: Over 100 New Free Titles for Direct Download to Your Kindle, Plus Speed Dating with the Dead (Today’s Sponsor) and a Complete List of Over a Hundred Free Promotional Kindle Store Titles

“There haven’t been very many freebies lately.  For a while I was getting several a week.” 

I received that note this morning from Kindle Nation citizen Sharron, and we must not let this stand! So, what would you say to over 100 free titles from one of our most venerable publishers of fantasy, science fiction, and even an occasional vampire novel?

But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor



Speed Dating with the Dead – $2.99
by Scott Nicholson
Haunted Computer Books

“Keep both hands on your pants, because Scott Nicholson is about to scare them off.”– J.A. Konrath/Jack Kilborn

A paranormal conference at the Appalachian Mountain’s most haunted hotel. . .
A man’s promise to summon his late wife’s spirit . . .
A daughter with a dark imagination. . .
And demonic evil lurking in the basement, just waiting to be awoken.

From the author of The Red Church, Drummer Boy, and The Skull Ring.

You’ll be hearing more about Scott Nicholson at Kindle Nation Daily in the days to come, but his new novel is a great place to begin getting to kbow him … if you dare.

“A master of atmospheric suspense.” –Eric Wilson, NY Times bestselling novelist

“Scott Nicholson knows the territory. Follow him at your own risk.”–Stewart O’Nan, Boston Noir

“Like Stephen King, he knows how to summon serious scares.”–Bentley Little, His Father’s Son


Click here to download Speed Dating with the Dead (or a free sample) to your Kindle, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, BlackBerry, Android-compatible, PC or Mac and start reading within 60 seconds!

Each day’s list is sponsored by one paid title, and of course, we encourage you to support our sponsors. Some of these paid titles will be from our own Kindle Nation Daily press (an imprint of Harvard Perspectives Press), while others will be paid titles from other authors and publishers.

Authors, Publishers, Kindle Accessory Manufacturers:

Interested in learning more about sponsorship? Just click on this link for more information:

Click here to sponsor a Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert!

Free Listings!

If you’ve never visited the Baen Books website before, you’re in for a treat. And what better introduction than over 100 free titles! Several of these are classics, but none are in the public domain — they are just free to download to your Kindle via the Whispernet! (Amazon will charge you 15 cents per title for the wireless transmission, or you can avoid that charge by clicking the link on each free book’s page to download the Mobi/Palm/Kindle Format version to your computer so that you can download it to your Kindle via USB connection.) And I hope you’ll also notice — and maybe even use! – the “Donate to Free Library” button on each page.

1632
1633
1812: The Rivers of War
A Hymn Before Battle
A Plague of Demons
Agent of Vega
An Oblique Approach
The Apocalypse Troll
Bedlam Boyz
Berserker Throne
Beyond World’s End
Black on Black
Born to Run
Selections from By Blood We Live
Changer of Worlds
Crawling Between Heaven and Earth
The Creatures of Man
Crown of Slaves
Cross the Stars
Crusade
Demon Blade
Destiny’s Shield
Digital Knight
Doc Sidhe
Earthweb
Emerald Sea
Excalibur Alternative
Fallen Angels
Far Edge of Darkness
Fiddler Fair
Fire In the Mist
The Forlorn
Fortune’s Stroke
Forward the Mage
Freehold
Future Imperfect
Genellan: Planetfall
Genie Out of the Bottle
Grantville Gazette Volume 1
Great Kings’ War
Gust Front
Harald
The Honor of the Queen
The Hub: Dangerous Territory
Selections from The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
In the Heart of Darkness
Inherit the Stars
The Infinite Sea
Interstellar Patrol
The Lark and the Wren
Legions of Space
The Lighter Side
The Lion of Farside
Lt. Leary Commanding
A Logic Named Joe
March to the Sea
March Upcountry

 Med Ship
Mother of Demons
The Mountains of Mourning
The Multiplex Man
Mutineer’s Moon
Neptune Crossing
Oath of Swords
Odyssey
Old Nathan
On Basilisk Station
Original Edition of Godwin Stories
Original Edition of Schmitz Stories
Pandora’s Legions
Paying the Piper
The Philosophical Strangler
Planets of Adventure
Primary Inversion
Pyramid Scheme
Rats, Bats and Vats
Redliners
Resonance
Retief!
Ring of Fire
The Road to Damascus
Seas of Venus
Sentry Peak
The Shadow of Saganami
The Shadow of the Lion
Sheepfarmer’s Daughter
Sleipnir
Star Soldiers
Starliner
Stars Over Stars
Strange Attractors
Sunrise Alley
Sympathy for the Devil
The Tank Lords
Telzey Amberdon
There Will Be Dragons
This Scepter’d Isle
Time Traders
The Far Side of the Stars
The Rats, the Bats and the Ugly
The Two Faces of Tomorrow
The Tyrant
The War God’s Own
The Warslayer
TNT-Telzey & Trigger
Werehunter
West of Honor
With the Lightnings
Wisdom of the Fox
Wolf Time
Emailing books direct to your Kindle Amazon will charge you 15 cents per megabyte sent to your Kindle by email.
On the WebScription download page for a book just click the “Email book to My Kindle” link and follow the directions. Note that you must authorize Amazon to receive email from WebScriptions first.
Using Kindle PC
To use a Baen Kindle file with Kindle for PC you need to download the file to your computer. The file needs to be placed in the directory Amazon sets up for storing your Kindle files. This is typically in the Documents/My Kindle Content directory. You will need to restart your Kindle PC program after moving the file so Kindle PC will recognize the new file. Amazon does not make any provision for emailing files to your Kindle PC program.
A note on the file extensions used for the Mobipocket/Palm/Kindle format. Older books will have the .PRC extension. This was the original extension used by Mobipocket when they first introduced the format and was shared by the PALM DOC format. Newer files will have the .MOBI extension which more properly separates the Mobi format from the Palm DOC format.
Palms don’t really care about file extensions, they use an internal file signature to decide what program runs a given file. The software for moving the file from your PC to the Palm however may not like the new .MOBI extension and claim that it doesn’t recognize the file. All you need to do is rename the file with a .PRC extension and it will load fine. This only applies to Palm devices. The Kindle will take either extension.

Click here for a complete listing of our updated free promotional titles in the Kindle Store as of July 14!

(Sponsorship can take a number of different forms and implies no endorsement either of or by Kindle Nation or a sponsoring company or individual.)

$109 Refurbished Kindles Back in Stock

I have no idea how long this will last, but the $109 refurbished Kindle 2 with US wireless is back in stock in Amazon’s Warehouse Deals store, and here is a link.

It’s an amazing inexpensive way to get or give an ebook reader that also happens to come with a very basic web browser and unlimited wireless web connectivity with no monthly fees.

And here’s a link to the Kindle section of Amazon’s Warehouse Deals storehttp://amzn.to/WHKindleDeals – which currently features various Kindle and Kindle DX deals from $109.99 to $299.99 as well as bargains on dozens of accessories including nice covers from Moleskine, M-Edge, Patagonia and others.

Update: Gone less than an hour after our post, but worth checking back….