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Hundreds of Kindles May Be Coming to a High School Near You!

By Stephen Windwalker
Editor of Kindle Nation Daily
©Kindle Nation Daily 2010

 
This is one of the first of hundreds of similar “Kindle receiving” photographs that are going to be taken in high schools and colleges all over the world in the next couple of years.

Thanks to the Kindle Educators’ Group for emailing this pretty amazing photograph of Clearwater (FL) High School Principal Keith Mastorides from the St. Petersburg Times with some of the 2,100 new Kindle 3s he and his staff are getting ready to open and hand out to high school students.

The Times story says everyone at the high school is “giddy with anticipation” about the new Kindles, and one senior even used Apple’s R-word: “Everyone I’ve talked to is excited to get one,” said Heath Anderson, 17, a senior who helped unpack the Kindles last week. “It’s revolutionary really.”

What’s clear about this sign of the coming wave of change is that schools that adopt the Kindle will soon achieve the critical mass that will make textbook publishers listen to the demand that they must provide their content in Kindle-compatible form. We’ve heard a lot in the past two years about the Kindle not being textbook-compatible, but within another two years the conversation will be flipped and the question will be about whether textbooks are Kindle-compatible.

Principal Keith Mastorides also points out that the Kindle’s free wireless connectivity and Webkit web browser will help to “bridge the digital divide, providing Web access for students who previously had none at home.”

I don’t know about you, but I’m going to printing out this article for the principal of my son’s middle school this week. I’m sure that Clearwater High didn’t have to pay $189 each for the 2,100 Kindles it just bought, and it strikes me that Amazon should go public with a device-and-content discounting program for secondary schools, colleges, and their students. Apple has been doing it with Macs for years.

Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert for Friday, September 10, 2010: Laughing or Weeping Over the Big 5-Oh … and Many More, Plus a Suspenseful New Medieval Romance from Karen Fenech (Today’s Sponsor)


Whether your own “big 5-Oh” is looming large, miles ahead, or in the rear-view mirror, you may find yourself laughing or crying along with the protagonist in today’s latest addition to our free book listings in the Kindle Store….


But first … a word from Today’s Sponsor

Today’s Free Book Alert is sponsored by a favorite author among Kindle Nation citizens, Karen Fenech. Karen’s novel Gone was immensely popular when it was featured here earlier this summer, and today’s sponsorship features her beautifully plotted medieval romance Betrayal.

by Karen Fenech 
Kindle Price: $2.99 
Text-to-Speech: Enabled  

“I love a good medieval and Karen Fenech has written a dandy! This one’s a keeper.” –New York Times Bestselling Author Kat Martin 

“An excellent read.” –Donna M. Brown, Romantic Times Magazine, four star review 



To save her son and people from a deadly enemy, Lady Katherine Stanfield marries her former betrothed, a man she’d betrayed but has never stopped loving.  

Katherine has never revealed her reason for the betrayal and now, five years later, believes her secret is safe. 

But someone won’t let the past rest. Someone with a secret of his own.  She must stop that “someone” because he wants Katherine and her new husband dead.

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

UK Kindle customers: click here to download BETRAYAL!
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The Big 5-OH! by Sandra D Bricker 
4.5 out of 5 stars (12 customer reviews) 
Kindle Price:  $0.00 Text-to-Speech: Enabled  
Olivia Wallace has a birthday curse . . . or so she thinks. It was a broken heart on her 16th, a car accident on her 21st, pneumonia on her 30th, and a fall down a flight of stairs on her 35th. There were Ohio blizzards on her 38th, 39th, and 40th; and six days before her 45th, she lost the love of her life to a heart attack. Numbing grief stole that birthday and a couple more to follow and, on the morning of her 48thbirthday, she received the call she’d dreaded ever since losing her mom so many years ago…she was diagnosed with stage-3 ovarian cancer. The doctors didn’t hold out a lot of hope, but Liv survived and maintained her faith. Months of surgeries and chemotherapy and radiation treatments followed.

But now, as her 50th birthday creeps up the icy Ohio path toward her, her hair has grown back, her energy level is up, and she is officially cancer free. It makes her nervous. After everything she’s gone through, Liv hates the idea of driving on icy roads and returning to work as an O.R. nurse in a local Cincinnati hospital.

Her best friend Hallie knows just the thing to break Liv out of the winter doldrums, while providing a safe haven of warmth, sunshine, and a time to regroup: a holiday in the Florida sunshine!




  • Print Length: 287 pages








  • Publisher: Abingdon Press (January 31, 2010)







  • 33 Million People in the Room: How to Create, Influence, and Run a Successful Business wit...
    by Juliette Powell

    “Juliette Powell has provided a timely crash course on how to leverage your business’s online presence. A must-read for any aspiring entrepreneur, activist, brand manager, or c-level executive.”
    —Jeffrey Stewart, Serial Technology Entrepreneur; Founder, Mimeo, Urgent Career, and Monitor110

    “Reading Juliette Powell’s book is like perusing the secret trade documents of the most connected social butterfly. Upon first meeting Juliette, she immediately grabbed me by the arm and introduced me to the most important person in the room. When you pick up her book, it’s the same experience. She reaches through the pages and gives the reader entry to the halls of power through online networking.”
    —Amy Shuster, Editorial Producer, MSNBC

    “Juliette knows her way around a social network; she regales us with tales and practical advice from the plastic porous mediascape of today.”
    —David Thorpe, Global Director of Innovation, Ogilvy & Mather

    “If you are in business or starting one, and wonder what the heck all this talk about social networking is about, this book is the best quick guide I’ve seen. It’s full of juicy stories, backed up by sound social science, lucidly explained.”
    —Howard Rheingold, Author, Smartmobs; Professor, Stanford and Berkeley

    “The exciting new world of online social networking is demonstrating the profound power of these truths to change the very fabric of society as we know it. Our interactions, relationships, and values are changing faster than most of us can comprehend. For some, the pace of this change is alarming. For others it is empowering. In 33 Million People in the Room Juliette Powell takes us on a funfilled tour of this rapidly changing hypo-manic digital ecosystem simultaneously providing both practical advice and an insightful commentary on the increasing importance of authenticity in modern culture. Along the way we meet a hilarious cast of characters and gain a behind-the-scenes glimpse into real social networking success stories showing how to leverage the power of this modern phenomenon to achieve meaningful social and economic results for you and your business.”
    —Michael Spencer, CTO, ASMALLWORLD

    “Juliette Powell has captured the strength, excitement, and opportunity of social networks in this compelling work. Opening with an arresting saga about Chris Anderson’s debut as the new TED owner, she deftly sketches vignette after vignette that will have you thinking—why not me? Social networking power is awesome for those who have experienced it—but most people remain skeptical, guarded, and untrusting. Give up control? All control? Well, as she explains—YES! I’ve tried it, using six hundred fifty ‘coauthors’ to write a book—a book no one could have written, but to which ‘everyone’ could contribute. It was hard, very hard at first, to relinquish control, just as Powell describes. But the benefits she outlines are real. Try it—you’ll see!”
    —Chuck House, Executive Director, Media X, Stanford University

    “Digital society is all about expanding and energizing connections between people and ideas in ways we are just starting to understand. 33 Million People in the Room shares the perspective of an insider and shows…
    The Personal Credibility Factor: How to Get It, Keep It, and Get It Back (If You?ve Lost I...
    by Sandy Allgeier

    Build the Strong Personal Credibility You Need to Live a Truly Great Life

    • Learn the secrets of personal credibility that make trust possible
    • Use the plan to earn trust and respect from those you encounter in your daily life
    • Enable others to have confidence in you by following the 7 easy steps
    • Follow the Personal Credibility Factor’s steps to repairing credibility when you’ve lost it
    There’s no fakery here: In the long run, you either earn trust or you don’t. This book gives you the tools to earn it for life.


    Edge of Apocalypse by Tim LaHaye and Craig Parshall (Zondervan eBooks)
    3.9 out of 5 stars  (48 customer reviews)  Kindle Price: $0.00 Text-to-Speech: Enabled

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    Buddha: With Bonus Material by Deepak Chopra (HarperCollins Publishers) 
    No customer reviews yet. Kindle Price: $0.00 Text-to-Speech: Enabled

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     Catwalk by Melody Carlson ( Zondervan eBooks) 4.9 out of 5 stars  (7 customer reviews)
    Kindle Price: 0.00 Text-to-Speech: Enabled

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    The Dangerous Dimension by L. Ron Hubbard (Galaxy Press LLC)
    4.2 out of 5 stars  (4 customer reviews) Kindle Price: $0.00 Text-to-Speech: Enabled (May 1, 2010) 
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     4.5 out of 5 stars (81 customer reviews) Kindle Price: $0.00 Text-to-Speech: Enabled

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     Motorcycles, Sushi and One Strange Book by Nancy Rue (Zondervan)
    4.6 out of 5 stars  (13 customer reviews)  Kindle Price: $0.00 Text-to-Speech: Enabled

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     Somewhere to Belong by Judith Miller (Baker Academic)
     4.0 out of 5 stars (57 customer reviews)
    Kindle Price:    $0.00  Text-to-Speech: Enabled   (March 1, 2010)


    More Free Listings in the US Kindle Store!


    Once, this was the City of Angels. The angels are no longer in charge. From the extravagant appetites of the vampire world above, to the gritty defiance of the werewolves below, the specter of darkness lives around every corner, the hope of paradise in every heart. All walk freely with humans in a tentative peace, but to live in Los Angeles is to balance on the edge of a knife. One woman knows better than most that death lurks here in nights of bliss or hails of UV bullets. She’s about to be tested, to taste true thirst. She’s about to regain the power she’s long been denied. And Fleur Dumont is about to meet the one man who may understand her: a tormented protector who’s lost his way and all he loved. – Fantasy Futuristic Ghost, Vampire & Werewolf Fiction (FFGVWF)

    Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert for Thursday, September 9, 2010: It’s All Here: How to Create, Influence, and Run a Successful Business with Social Networking, How to Build Strong Personal Credibility, and How to Live!

    Okay, your Kindle can’t play videos (yet) or make your morning coffee, but you can pack it full of great books that will help you do everything else that’s really important in life, including two important new books from FT Press at the head of our daily listings of free titles in the Kindle Store this morning….

    But first … a word from Today’s Sponsor

    by Seth David Chernoff
    Today’s sponsoring title is billed as a genuine user’s guide to the meaning of life, and it is clear both from the 5-star Amazon customer reviews and from the very strong professional reviews excerpted below that author Seth David Chernoff has hit the sweet spot.
    The award-winning Manual For Living: Reality, A User’s Guide to the Meaning of Life will change the way you see the world. Its straightforward guidance and practical wisdom will help you remain true to your path and purpose in life. Find True Fulfillment and Lasting Happiness, Overcome Your Fear of Death, Learn How to Fully Experience Life, Reconnect with Your Inner Truth, and Discover Your True Purpose.

    Chernoff writes, “We each have a path and purpose in life, a destiny as unique as our own fingerprints, yet we often live lives of petty obscurity and quiet desperation, ignoring our truth. It is our prerogative to find our purpose and fulfill it. The loss of a life is not as devastating as the loss what could have been, of the dreams left unfulfilled and passions undiscovered.”

    A wonderful, thoughtful and compassionate book. It goes to the heart of what it is to be human. He speaks from deep personal experience. We highly recommend … Drink from its wisdom! –Ed & Deb Shapiro, authors of Be The Change

    Manual For Living is more than that: it is a window to a fresh, new, hopeful vision for what it means to be human. Read it slowly, and feel the world shift inside you. A unique blend of practical and spiritual wisdom –Mark Gerzon, Bestselling Author

    In my heart I want to take this book everywhere I go, a book that I do not wish to end. Books like this are rare. I want to make its words a part of my life. It is spiritually remaking my life along with my Holy Bible. –Read With Tea Book Reviewer

    …gives you valuable insight necessary to enhance and enrich your life bringing you closer to fulfillment and true happiness…full of wisdom. Every page is filled with human emotion about life, death, and everything in between.
    –TCM Reviews

    The deepest and richest questions of life and death.  Listen to his journey, his insight and begin to savor the search for peace within the spectrum of life. –Don Campbell – Musician and Author of Sound Spirit and The Mozart Effect

     

    “Manual For Living is a guide to finding balance and reconnecting with your spirit. I have to admit that I was happier after reading Manual For Living. It showed me that there were simple moments of happiness that I had missed along the way.” –Luxury Reading Book Review

    “A book to help one reach his greatest potential and grasp his dreams.” – A Novel Source 

    Click here to download Manual For Living: Reality, A User’s Guide to the Meaning of Life (or a free sample) to your Kindle, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Android-compatible, PC or Mac and start reading within 60 seconds!


    Each day’s list is sponsored by one paid title. We encourage you to support our sponsors! 

    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!

    Click here to see all Free Titles in the Kindle Store!

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

    Today’s Free and Bargain Listings in the US Kindle Store!
    (For our UK Kindle Free Book Alerts click here.)

    33 Million People in the Room: How to Create, Influence, and Run a Successful Business wit...
    33 Million People in the Room: 
    How to Create, Influence, and Run a Successful Business with Social Networking 
    by Juliette Powell

    “Juliette Powell has provided a timely crash course on how to leverage your business’s online presence. A must-read for any aspiring entrepreneur, activist, brand manager, or c-level executive.”
    —Jeffrey Stewart, Serial Technology Entrepreneur; Founder, Mimeo, Urgent Career, and Monitor110
    “Reading Juliette Powell’s book is like perusing the secret trade documents of the most connected social butterfly. Upon first meeting Juliette, she immediately grabbed me by the arm and introduced me to the most important person in the room. When you pick up her book, it’s the same experience. She reaches through the pages and gives the reader entry to the halls of power through online networking.”
    —Amy Shuster, Editorial Producer, MSNBC
    “Juliette knows her way around a social network; she regales us with tales and practical advice from the plastic porous mediascape of today.”
    —David Thorpe, Global Director of Innovation, Ogilvy & Mather
    “If you are in business or starting one, and wonder what the heck all this talk about social networking is about, this book is the best quick guide I’ve seen. It’s full of juicy stories, backed up by sound social science, lucidly explained.”
    —Howard Rheingold, Author, Smartmobs; Professor, Stanford and Berkeley
    “The exciting new world of online social networking is demonstrating the profound power of these truths to change the very fabric of society as we know it. Our interactions, relationships, and values are changing faster than most of us can comprehend. For some, the pace of this change is alarming. For others it is empowering. In 33 Million People in the Room Juliette Powell takes us on a funfilled tour of this rapidly changing hypo-manic digital ecosystem simultaneously providing both practical advice and an insightful commentary on the increasing importance of authenticity in modern culture. Along the way we meet a hilarious cast of characters and gain a behind-the-scenes glimpse into real social networking success stories showing how to leverage the power of this modern phenomenon to achieve meaningful social and economic results for you and your business.”
    —Michael Spencer, CTO, ASMALLWORLD
    “Juliette Powell has captured the strength, excitement, and opportunity of social networks in this compelling work. Opening with an arresting saga about Chris Anderson’s debut as the new TED owner, she deftly sketches vignette after vignette that will have you thinking—why not me? Social networking power is awesome for those who have experienced it—but most people remain skeptical, guarded, and untrusting. Give up control? All control? Well, as she explains—YES! I’ve tried it, using six hundred fifty ‘coauthors’ to write a book—a book no one could have written, but to which ‘everyone’ could contribute. It was hard, very hard at first, to relinquish control, just as Powell describes. But the benefits she outlines are real. Try it—you’ll see!”
    —Chuck House, Executive Director, Media X, Stanford University
    “Digital society is all about expanding and energizing connections between people and ideas in ways we are just starting to understand. 33 Million People in the Room shares the perspective of an insider and shows…
    The Personal Credibility Factor: How to Get It, Keep It, and Get It Back (If You?ve Lost I...
    The Personal Credibility Factor: How to Get It, Keep It, and Get It Back (If You’ve Lost It)
    by Sandy Allgeier

    Build the Strong Personal Credibility You Need to Live a Truly Great Life
    • Learn the secrets of personal credibility that make trust possible
    • Use the plan to earn trust and respect from those you encounter in your daily life
    • Enable others to have confidence in you by following the 7 easy steps
    • Follow the Personal Credibility Factor’s steps to repairing credibility when you’ve lost it
    There’s no fakery here: In the long run, you either earn trust or you don’t. This book gives you the tools to earn it for life.

    Edge of Apocalypse by Tim LaHaye and Craig Parshall (Zondervan eBooks)
    3.9 out of 5 stars  (48 customer reviews)  Kindle Price: $0.00 Text-to-Speech: Enabled

    Buddha: With Bonus Material by Deepak Chopra (HarperCollins Publishers) 
    No customer reviews yet. Kindle Price: $0.00 Text-to-Speech: Enabled
     
     Catwalk by Melody Carlson ( Zondervan eBooks) 4.9 out of 5 stars  (7 customer reviews)
    Kindle Price: 0.00 Text-to-Speech: Enabled

     

    The Dangerous Dimension by L. Ron Hubbard (Galaxy Press LLC)
    4.2 out of 5 stars  (4 customer reviews) Kindle Price: $0.00 Text-to-Speech: Enabled (May 1, 2010) 
     Autobiography of a Yogi (Reprint of Original 1946 Edition) by Paramhansa Yogananda
     4.5 out of 5 stars (81 customer reviews) Kindle Price: $0.00 Text-to-Speech: Enabled
     Motorcycles, Sushi and One Strange Book by Nancy Rue (Zondervan)
    4.6 out of 5 stars  (13 customer reviews)  Kindle Price: $0.00 Text-to-Speech: Enabled
     Somewhere to Belong by Judith Miller (Baker Academic)
     4.0 out of 5 stars (57 customer reviews)
    Kindle Price:    $0.00  Text-to-Speech: Enabled   (March 1, 2010)

    More Free Listings in the US Kindle Store!
    (For our UK Kindle Free Book Alerts click here.)

    Crimson City – by Liz Maverick
    Once, this was the City of Angels. The angels are no longer in charge. From the extravagant appetites of the vampire world above, to the gritty defiance of the werewolves below, the specter of darkness lives around every corner, the hope of paradise in every heart. All walk freely with humans in a tentative peace, but to live in Los Angeles is to balance on the edge of a knife. One woman knows better than most that death lurks here in nights of bliss or hails of UV bullets. She’s about to be tested, to taste true thirst. She’s about to regain the power she’s long been denied. And Fleur Dumont is about to meet the one man who may understand her: a tormented protector who’s lost his way and all he loved. – Fantasy Futuristic Ghost, Vampire & Werewolf Fiction (FFGVWF)

    Empowered: Unleash Your Employees, Energize Your Customers, and Transform Your Business – by Josh Bernoff and Ted Schadler

    Is Your Company EMPOWERED for Success?
    You know it’s happening within your organization. Your people, armed with cheap, accessible technology, are connecting with customers and building innovative new solutions. But who are these creative problem-solvers? How can you be one? And just as important—how can you lead them?

    We call them HEROes: highly empowered and resourceful operatives. Your company needs them because in the age of Twitter, iPhones, Facebook, YouTube, and an ever-evolving torrent of Web information, your customers now come to the table armed with more data and access than ever before, and in many cases, your company is overmatched.

    In Empowered, Forrester’s Josh Bernoff—coauthor of the pioneering book Groundswell—and Ted Schadler explain how to transform your company by unleashing the mighty force of these HEROes. Like John Bernier and Ben Hedrington at Best Buy, who built an army of 2,500 tweeting employees to reach out to customers online. Or Ross Inglis, who tapped into Internet computing resources to open an entirely new customer channel for Thomson Reuters. Or John Stadick, who equipped 600 sales staff with iPhones and boosted profits at his construction rental company.

    The truth is, one in three of your information workers already use easily accessible technologies that your company does not sanction. Empowered gives you a prescription for embracing this covert innovation. At the heart of a HERO-powered business is a new pact between these critical employees, company managers, and the IT department: HEROes build new solutions to meet customer needs, management sets clear rules while encouraging more experimentation, and IT expands its role to both support and secure these solutions.

    Fueled by data from Forrester Research, Empowered is packed with the business tools and information necessary to move your organization several steps ahead of the competition:

    • Statistical analysis of the 16% of customers who account for 80% of the online influence
    • The four-step IDEA process to transform customer-facing service, marketing, and mobile applications
    • A tool to score HERO projects on value and effort, to offer guidance on which projects to support
    • The HERO index: A scorecard of the industries and departments with the most—and the fewest—HEROes
    • Roadmaps for collaboration systems that stimulate and support HERO innovation
    • The game plan for IT’s new role as a key partner in technology ideas throughout the company
    • Dozens of case studies and examples from firms in every industry, from retail to business services Armed with an arsenal of exciting and valuable new technologies, your employees are already transforming the way you do business. You can lead them or block them—it’s your choice. Empowered will help you make the right decision.


    The Pawn (The Patrick Bowers Files, Book 1) ~ Steven James – Suspense

     

    Triple Exposure
    Triple Exposure

    by Colleen Thompson



    “Thompson (The Salt Maiden) packs this well-paced thriller full of twists and the local color of a small Texas town…The red herrings are exquisitely placed, and the climax will surprise even the most jaded of suspense readers.” — Publisher’s Weekly, June 30,2008


    “This author is fantastic at setting up wonderfully rich suspense plots with twists that will leave the reader hanging until the very last page is turned.” — Romance Reader at Heart

    Eternal Pleasure (Leisure Paranormal Romance)

    by Christie Craig
    4.4 out of 5 stars over 22 customer reviews
    A mystery writer is forced to reconsider her policy against dating when she is protected from death threats by the sexiest cop she’s ever seen.


    by Briane Keene
    One morning the residents of Walden, Virginia, woke to find themselves cut off from the rest of the world by an impenetrable wall of darkness.


    The Accidental Demon Slayer

    Prim and proper preschool teacher Lizzie Brown is on the verge of her thirtieth birthday when her hitherto unknown grandmother shows up, quickly followed by a demon erupting out of her toilet who Lizzie surprisingly manages to blast into “a million flecks of light.” Raised by distant adoptive parents, Lizzie had no idea that she was born to be a demon slayer. Her granny, a biker who communes with spirits in a metal lawn shed, then takes her to join her coven of senior biker witches who will help her defeat the demons who want to kill Lizzie before she can go after them. Along the way, Lizzie meets sexy shape-shifter Dimitri Kallinkikos, a sometime griffin who claims to be her protector but may have a hidden agenda that will take her straight to hell. This rollicking paranormal comedy will appeal to fans of Dakota Cassidy, MaryJanice Davidson, and Tate Hallaway. –Diana Tixier, Herald Review 

    With its sharp, witty writing and unique characters, Angie Fox’s contemporary paranormal debut is fabulously fun. –The Chicago Tribune
     

      Cybill Disobedience, by Cybill Shepherd 
    and Aimee Lee Ball

    “A riveting, candid, fresh and self-revealing book.” — — Liz Smith


    “Gutsy.” — San Francisco Examiner


    “Nobody kisses and tells like Cybill Shepherd.” — New York Daily News

    ‘How I survived beauty pageants, Elvis, sex, Bruce Willis, lies, marriage, motherhood, Hollywood, and the irrepressible urge to say what you think.’


    From wholesome beauty queen to saucy cover girl, from heartbreaking movie star (THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, TAXI DRIVER) to one of television’s most loved comediennes (MOONLIGHTING, CYBILL), Cybill Shepherd is renowned as sassy, shocking and sexy. In CYBILL DISOBEDIENCE, she opens her heart with the wit and honesty of a star who’s seen and knows it all.

    Billy Boyle: A World War II Mystery

     Billy Boyle is a Boston cop, from a family of Boston cops, but he is a reluctant soldier who prefers walking the beat in Southie to fighting Nazis. Using her cousin by marriage, a certain General Eisenhower, Billy’s mother lands her son a seemingly soft job with Ike’s staff in London. But Ike wants Billy to use his investigative know-how to sniff out a possible spy in the Allies’ inner circle. Young Billy, oversold by his mother as a crackerjack detective, is definitely in over his head, especially when it turns out that the apparent suicide of a Norwegian dignitary may have been the work of the spy. Benn has a tantalizing premise here, but he doesn’t quite deliver on it: his prose slips into wartime cliches a little too often, and the supporting love story reeks of WWII melodrama. Yet the action builds to a suspenseful climax, and there is even a hint of moral ambiguity in the wrap-up. A not entirely satisfactory debut, then, but Ken Follett fans will want to give Billy and his uncle a chance to develop. Bill Ott, Booklist

    UK Edition Kindle Nation Daily Free & Bargain Book Alert for Thursday, September 9, 2010: Whoever Thought Mickey Spillane Would Become King of the eBooks? Five Hard-Boiled Classics, All for About Two Quid, Total … plus The Storm Killer by Mike Jastrzebski (Today’s Sponsor)

    Frank Morrison “Mickey” Spillane (1918-2006) was the creator of the hard-boiled Mike Hammer detective novel series and sold over 225 million copies of his books around the world. The UK Kindle Store is currently offering several of his full-length classics at prices so low that you can pick up all five of those listed below without it setting you back much more than two quid all told….


    But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor


    Speaking of hard-boiled, I’ve been holding out on you.

    About three weeks ago I received an email that began “Stephen, I hope you will consider my book, The Storm Killer, for your Kindle Nation Shorts program.” I was struck immediately by the humility of tone in the sender’s email message. The next morning, after I had read most of the novel, I went back and read the email again and I was even more astonished by that humility, because I knew the book I was reading was the real thing, in a way that one expects to come upon only once or twice in a year of reading.

    I quickly wrote back and scheduled the publication of the excerpt here for today, and for the past three weeks I’ve had a strange feeling that must be something akin to what Olympic judges must go through when they know that the best skating or gymnastic performance must be coming near the end of the program. I’ve been lucky enough to be able to share some great stuff with you here over the past three weeks, and I’ve let you know what I liked. But I’ve also been aware — not to put fine a point on the analogy since fiction cannot be rated in the linear way that one rate a performance, say, on the balance beam — that I wanted to save the 10s, because I knew The Storm Killer was coming. If a novel could be a 10, I’d say this is a 10. It is a wonderfully ambitious historical novel, and the author, Mike Jastrzebski, delivers on its potential in every way, with every sense, and with an astonishing ability to create, or perhaps recreate, the times and places and characters in this work of fiction.

    Let me share a couple of reviews, and then I’ll leave it up to you whether to click on the link to buy or sample this novel or to check out the generous excerpt in a recent Free Kindle Nation Shorts excerpt.

    “Time: 1935. Place: New York City. Crime beat reporter Jim Locke gets sucked into a quagmire of death, deceit, and danger when his actress sister is murdered – and he becomes the prime suspect. When he uncovers a pattern of similar murders, he is convinced that a serial killer is on the loose. But the police aren’t buying it, and it’s up to Jim to stop the madman. The hunt takes him from the grimy streets and smoke-filled bars of Manhattan to deceptively laid-back Key West, just as a killer storm bears down on the island. THE STORM KILLER has it all: hard-boiled narrative, gripping suspense, period detail, an unlikely hero battling his inner demons, and a stunning conclusion that you won’t see coming. Highly recommended!”

    –Miriam Auerbach, author of Dirty Harriet Rides Again


    “Mike Jastrzebski’s stunning historical debut takes readers back into the hard-boiled world of Chandler and Hammett — and brings Ernest Hemingway back to life in a book as big as the man himself. The Storm Killer, a top grade thriller with a heavy dose of noir, hurtles you from New York to Key West at a pace that will leave you breathless.”

    -Christine Kling, author of Surface Tension, Cross Current, Bitter End, and Wrecker’s Key


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    –Award-winning author Sharon Potts, In Their Blood.

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    Peter Leroy recalls his maternal grandfather’s attempt to build a shortwave radio, a project that begins with an article in Impractical Craftsman magazine promising “hour after interminable hour of baffling precision work.” After many, many hours spent watching his grandfather labor at his basement workbench, Peter at last gets to put the earphones on, flip the switch, and twiddle the dials. Through the crackling and sussurous static he detects the sounds of love and lust, joy and sorrow, hope and loss.

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    Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert for Wednesday, September 8, 2010: Like Manna from Heaven … Some Spiritual Freebies in the Kindle Store!

    Everyone needs a change of pace now and then, and today’s free listings in the Kindle Store (as well as a few additional listings for under a dollar) will focus on a diverse group of spiritual titles as well as some fiction from religious publishers….

    But first … a word from Today’s Sponsor
    (Editor’s Note: For plenty of perfectly good reasons, I may not have the credentials to make spiritual recommendations, or even spiritual reading recommendations, to anyone. And when Rev. Larry Davies contacted me recently to ask if I thought it would be appropriate for his Sowing Seeds of Faith blog to serve as a sponsor for Kindle Nation Daily, I must admit I hesitated before answering. My life certainly has its own very private spiritual underpinnings, but I grow uncomfortable very quickly when such things take on a social currency or when discussion around them becomes sectarian.

    But then I subscribed to Larry’s blog and began reading his four or five posts a week, and I thought: this is exactly the kind of thing that can inspire people, Christians and perhaps even many non-Christians too, to find spirituality — as well as wit and wisdom — in the experience of everyday life. I frequently put on my headphones to connect my ears to my Kindle and listen via text-to-speech to Larry’s posts in the morning on my first of several daily walks. Those walks amount to a kind of “church” or “temple” for me, but as I said recently to Betty, “If Larry was a preacher here in town I could even imagine starting to go to church again.” Anyway, the great thing about the Kindle Store’s free 14-day trial for blogs and other periodicals is that you can check out Larry’s Sowing Seeds of Faith for free and see if it appeals to you.  -S.W.)
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    Here’s a letter from a third-grader that popped up in today’s post, “A Fresh Look at Grandma,” and I couldn’t resist writing Larry and asking his permission to share it with you here:

    “Grandmother’s don’t have to do anything except be there. They’re so old they shouldn’t play hard or run. It is enough if they drive us to the market where the pretend horse is and have lots of dimes ready. Or if they take us for walks, they should slow down past things like pretty leaves and caterpillars. They should never say ‘hurry up.’ Usually, grandmothers are fat, but not too fat to tie your shoes. They wear glasses and funny underwear. They can take their teeth and gums off. Everybody should try to have a grandmother, especially if they don’t have a television, because they are the only grownups who have time.”

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     Kindle Bible – The Holy Bible Formatted for the Amazon Kindle (American Standard)
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     The Babylonian Talmud, all 20 volumes in one file, with active table of contents – Michael L. Rodkinson (Translator) 3.0 out of 5 stars  (4 customer reviews) Kindle Price:    $0.89
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    The Death of Joan of Arc

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    Buddha: With Bonus Material by Deepak Chopra (HarperCollins Publishers) 
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    The Dangerous Dimension by L. Ron Hubbard (Galaxy Press LLC)
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     Autobiography of a Yogi (Reprint of Original 1946 Edition) by Paramhansa Yogananda
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    Crimson City – by Liz Maverick
    Once, this was the City of Angels. The angels are no longer in charge. From the extravagant appetites of the vampire world above, to the gritty defiance of the werewolves below, the specter of darkness lives around every corner, the hope of paradise in every heart. All walk freely with humans in a tentative peace, but to live in Los Angeles is to balance on the edge of a knife. One woman knows better than most that death lurks here in nights of bliss or hails of UV bullets. She’s about to be tested, to taste true thirst. She’s about to regain the power she’s long been denied. And Fleur Dumont is about to meet the one man who may understand her: a tormented protector who’s lost his way and all he loved. – Fantasy Futuristic Ghost, Vampire & Werewolf Fiction (FFGVWF)

    Empowered: Unleash Your Employees, Energize Your Customers, and Transform Your Business – by Josh Bernoff and Ted Schadler

    Is Your Company EMPOWERED for Success?
    You know it’s happening within your organization. Your people, armed with cheap, accessible technology, are connecting with customers and building innovative new solutions. But who are these creative problem-solvers? How can you be one? And just as important—how can you lead them?

    We call them HEROes: highly empowered and resourceful operatives. Your company needs them because in the age of Twitter, iPhones, Facebook, YouTube, and an ever-evolving torrent of Web information, your customers now come to the table armed with more data and access than ever before, and in many cases, your company is overmatched.

    In Empowered, Forrester’s Josh Bernoff—coauthor of the pioneering book Groundswell—and Ted Schadler explain how to transform your company by unleashing the mighty force of these HEROes. Like John Bernier and Ben Hedrington at Best Buy, who built an army of 2,500 tweeting employees to reach out to customers online. Or Ross Inglis, who tapped into Internet computing resources to open an entirely new customer channel for Thomson Reuters. Or John Stadick, who equipped 600 sales staff with iPhones and boosted profits at his construction rental company.

    The truth is, one in three of your information workers already use easily accessible technologies that your company does not sanction. Empowered gives you a prescription for embracing this covert innovation. At the heart of a HERO-powered business is a new pact between these critical employees, company managers, and the IT department: HEROes build new solutions to meet customer needs, management sets clear rules while encouraging more experimentation, and IT expands its role to both support and secure these solutions.

    Fueled by data from Forrester Research, Empowered is packed with the business tools and information necessary to move your organization several steps ahead of the competition:

    • Statistical analysis of the 16% of customers who account for 80% of the online influence
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    • A tool to score HERO projects on value and effort, to offer guidance on which projects to support
    • The HERO index: A scorecard of the industries and departments with the most—and the fewest—HEROes
    • Roadmaps for collaboration systems that stimulate and support HERO innovation
    • The game plan for IT’s new role as a key partner in technology ideas throughout the company
    • Dozens of case studies and examples from firms in every industry, from retail to business services Armed with an arsenal of exciting and valuable new technologies, your employees are already transforming the way you do business. You can lead them or block them—it’s your choice. Empowered will help you make the right decision.


    The Pawn (The Patrick Bowers Files, Book 1) ~ Steven James – Suspense

     

    Triple Exposure
    Triple Exposure

    by Colleen Thompson



    “Thompson (The Salt Maiden) packs this well-paced thriller full of twists and the local color of a small Texas town…The red herrings are exquisitely placed, and the climax will surprise even the most jaded of suspense readers.” — Publisher’s Weekly, June 30,2008


    “This author is fantastic at setting up wonderfully rich suspense plots with twists that will leave the reader hanging until the very last page is turned.” — Romance Reader at Heart

    Eternal Pleasure (Leisure Paranormal Romance)

    by Christie Craig
    4.4 out of 5 stars over 22 customer reviews
    A mystery writer is forced to reconsider her policy against dating when she is protected from death threats by the sexiest cop she’s ever seen.


    by Briane Keene
    One morning the residents of Walden, Virginia, woke to find themselves cut off from the rest of the world by an impenetrable wall of darkness.


    The Accidental Demon Slayer

    Prim and proper preschool teacher Lizzie Brown is on the verge of her thirtieth birthday when her hitherto unknown grandmother shows up, quickly followed by a demon erupting out of her toilet who Lizzie surprisingly manages to blast into “a million flecks of light.” Raised by distant adoptive parents, Lizzie had no idea that she was born to be a demon slayer. Her granny, a biker who communes with spirits in a metal lawn shed, then takes her to join her coven of senior biker witches who will help her defeat the demons who want to kill Lizzie before she can go after them. Along the way, Lizzie meets sexy shape-shifter Dimitri Kallinkikos, a sometime griffin who claims to be her protector but may have a hidden agenda that will take her straight to hell. This rollicking paranormal comedy will appeal to fans of Dakota Cassidy, MaryJanice Davidson, and Tate Hallaway. –Diana Tixier, Herald Review 

    With its sharp, witty writing and unique characters, Angie Fox’s contemporary paranormal debut is fabulously fun. –The Chicago Tribune
     

      Cybill Disobedience, by Cybill Shepherd 
    and Aimee Lee Ball

    “A riveting, candid, fresh and self-revealing book.” — — Liz Smith


    “Gutsy.” — San Francisco Examiner


    “Nobody kisses and tells like Cybill Shepherd.” — New York Daily News

    ‘How I survived beauty pageants, Elvis, sex, Bruce Willis, lies, marriage, motherhood, Hollywood, and the irrepressible urge to say what you think.’


    From wholesome beauty queen to saucy cover girl, from heartbreaking movie star (THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, TAXI DRIVER) to one of television’s most loved comediennes (MOONLIGHTING, CYBILL), Cybill Shepherd is renowned as sassy, shocking and sexy. In CYBILL DISOBEDIENCE, she opens her heart with the wit and honesty of a star who’s seen and knows it all.

    Billy Boyle: A World War II Mystery

     Billy Boyle is a Boston cop, from a family of Boston cops, but he is a reluctant soldier who prefers walking the beat in Southie to fighting Nazis. Using her cousin by marriage, a certain General Eisenhower, Billy’s mother lands her son a seemingly soft job with Ike’s staff in London. But Ike wants Billy to use his investigative know-how to sniff out a possible spy in the Allies’ inner circle. Young Billy, oversold by his mother as a crackerjack detective, is definitely in over his head, especially when it turns out that the apparent suicide of a Norwegian dignitary may have been the work of the spy. Benn has a tantalizing premise here, but he doesn’t quite deliver on it: his prose slips into wartime cliches a little too often, and the supporting love story reeks of WWII melodrama. Yet the action builds to a suspenseful climax, and there is even a hint of moral ambiguity in the wrap-up. A not entirely satisfactory debut, then, but Ken Follett fans will want to give Billy and his uncle a chance to develop. Bill Ott, Booklist

    For Most Book Lovers, the Future is Here

    Related post: William Gibson’s Futuristic ‘Dream Scenario’: Enhanced POD

    Every morning I check one of my favorite book business newsletters, Shelf Awareness, and one of my favorite features there is a “quotation of the day” that is often provocative. This morning’s quotation is an interesting one from William Gibson, whose latest novel, Zero History, was released yesterday:

    “My dream scenario would be that you could go into a bookshop, examine copies of every book in print that they’re able to offer, then for a fee have them produce in a minute or two a beautiful finished copy in a dust jacket that you would pay for and take home. Book making machines exist and they’re remarkably sophisticated. You’d eliminate the waste and you’d get your book–and it would be a real book. You might even have the option of buying a deluxe edition. You could have it printed with an extra nice binding, low acid paper.”    

    –William Gibson

    I love the idea too, and I am certainly a fan of the imaginative energy behind various print-on-demand technologies including the Espresso Book Machine, which is popping up in a growing number of well-capitalized bookstores but remains a pretty expensive technology for many others.     

    But here’s what’s a little funny about the quotation: it’s not a “futuristic dream scenario” at all. Amazon has been doing this with tens of thousands of “real books” for over three years. I know they are real books because they have sold thousands of copies of my books. The print quality and production values are better than copies that I used to have printed at a reputable printing company an hour from where I live, and the production costs are lower, and the price for customers is as low as on any comparable trade paperbacks.

    It’s true that I can’t “go into” Amazon’s “bookshop,” which means that I have the convenience of buying such books in seconds and waiting 24 to 48 hours for their delivery. It is also true that I can’t get a deluxe hardcover edition, which of course eliminates less than 1/10th of 1 percent of all book transactions.

    If I don’t want to wait 24 to 48 hours, of course, I can download many of these books instantly and directly to my Kindle, BlackBerry, iPad, iPod Touch, Android, PC, or Mac.

    Either way, I think that the future is probably here for most of us, Mr. Gibson. And I am liking it.

    I love bookstores, too. And I loved the grand old publishing companies of the mid-20th century. And my collection of great 45 RPM records and LPs. And horses, too.