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Feeling nostalgic? Nancy Drew 11: The Clue of the Broken Locket (Nancy Drew Mysteries) by Carolyn Keene

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Two perfect families. Two beautiful homes. A one-way trip to hell. The House Swap by Miranda Rijks

Two perfect families. Two beautiful homes. A one-way trip to hell. The House Swap by Miranda Rijks

FREE holiday box-set of three romance novellas! Christmas in Wishful: A Small Town Southern Holiday Romance Extravaganza by bestselling author Kait Nolan

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The mysterious death of England’s greatest novelist… Immortalised to Death: The Dunston Burnett Trilogy by Lyn Squire

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Who lives in Petra Kresky’s body? Where did she come from and how did she get there? Brink of Life: Book 2: Brink of Life Trilogy by Rick Moskovitz

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Month: April 2010

Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert for Sunday, April 4, 2010: Four New Freebies Since Yesterday’s Post!

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    Update: Dozens of Free Kindle Books Removed from Website

    In an uncharacteristic move that may be a temporary glitch, numerous titles that have been offered free in the Kindle Store for the past couple of days have been unceremoniously removed as of early Saturday evening. These include many of the titles that were announced in Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alerts this weekend. We will continue to monitor the situation and update when possible. 

    Amazon appears to be doing all it can to provide Easter balm for Kindle Nation citizens who have been wounded not by deep cuts but by steep increases in many ebook prices due to the extraordinary price-fixing efforts of Steve Jobs, Apple, and the Apple 5 conventional book publishing cabal. Today we have several new free book listings to add to over two dozen free books listed here yesterday (and included below, today, if you scroll down). With a tip o’ the tam back to Abhi’s ebook blog, here are today’s free listings, newest first:

    The Matrix and Philosophy – William Irwin
    Football Genius  Tim Green

    White Body
    White Body of Evening, The by A L McCann
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    Kindle Price: $0.00
    Shapes on
    Shapes on the Wind by David Lewis
    Auto-delivered wirelessly
    Kindle Price: $0.00
    The Flirt
    The Flirt Coach by Peta Heskell

    3.9 out of 5 stars (11 customer reviews)
    Auto-delivered wirelessly

    Kindle Price: $0.00
    Weetzie Bat
    Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia, Block

    4.0 out of 5 stars (121 customer reviews)
    Auto-delivered wirelessly

    Kindle Price: $0.00
    Are You
    Are You Afraid of the Dark? by Sidney Sheldon

    2.6 out of 5 stars (134 customer reviews)
    Auto-delivered wirelessly

    Kindle Price: $0.00
    Body in
    Body in the Library, The by Agatha Christie
    Boyfriend League
    Boyfriend League, The by Rachel Hawthorne
    The Monk
    The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin S. Sharma

    Other new freebies include three popular brain-motivating books by Tony Buzan and four other bestsellers.

    Robin and Ruby

    Robin and Ruby by K.M. Soehnlein

    (1 review at Amazon.com)
    Subjects: Contemporary Fiction, Fiction

    From the Amazon Product Description:

    In his award-winning bestseller The World of Normal Boys, K.M. Soehnlein introduced readers to the richly compelling voice of teenager Robin MacKenzie. In Robin and Ruby, he revisits Robin and his younger sister, masterfully depicting the turbulence of the mid-1980s–and that fleeting time between youth and adulthood, when everything we will become can be shaped by one unforgettable weekend.At twenty-years-old, Robin MacKenzie is waiting for his life to start. Waiting until his summer working at a Philly restaurant is over and he’s back with his boyfriend Peter. . .until the spring semester when he’ll travel to London for an acting program. . .until the moment when the confidence he fakes starts to feel real.
    Then, one hot June weekend, Robin gets dumped by his boyfriend and quickly hits the road with his best friend George to find his teenaged sister, Ruby, who’s vanished from a party at the Jersey Shore. For years, his friendship with George has been the most solid thing in Robin’s life. But lately there are glimpses of another George, someone Robin barely knows and can no longer take for granted.
    Ruby is on an adventure of her own, dressing in black, declaring herself an atheist, pulling away from the boyfriend she doesn’t love–not the way she loves the bands whose fractured songs are the soundtrack to her life. Then a chance encounter puts Ruby in pursuit of a seductive but troubled boy who might be the key to her happiness, or a disaster waiting to happen.
    As their paths converge, Robin and Ruby confront the sadness of their shared past and rebuild the bonds that still run deep. In prose that is lyrical, compulsively readable, and exquisitely honest, K.M. Soehnlein brilliantly captures a family redefining itself and explores those moments common to us all–when freedom bumps up against responsibility, when sex blurs the line between friendship and love, and when what you stand for becomes more important than who you were raised to be.

    One Nightin Boston

    One Night in Boston by Allie Boniface

    (2 reviews at Amazon.com)

    Subjects: Romance, Literature & Fiction, Romance General & Other

    The RealEnemy (Sophie Trace Trilogy, Book 1)

    The Real Enemy (Sophie Trace Trilogy, Book 1) by Kathy Herman

    (25 reviews at Amazon.com)
    Subjects: Mystery, Thrillers, Mystery & Thrillers
    Miss Match (Lauren HolbrookSeries, Book 1)

    Miss Match (Lauren Holbrook Series, Book 1) by Erynn Mangum

    (36 reviews at Amazon.com)
    Subject: Fiction
    Healing for a Broken World: Christian Perspectives on PublicPolicy

    Healing for a Broken World: Christian Perspectives on Public Policy by Steve Monsma

    (4 reviews at Amazon.com)
    Subjects: Public Policy, Government, Spiritual & Religion

    The Homeplace (Singing River Series #1)
    The Homeplace (Singing River Series #1)
    A Gift of Grace: A Novel
    A Gift of Grace: A Novel
    The Devil-s Rooming House: The True Story ofAmerica-s DeadliestFemale Serial Killer - Fr...
    The Devil-s Rooming House: The True Story of America-s Deadliest Female Serial Killer – Fr…
    The Twelve Sacred Traditions of MagnificentMothers-in-Law
    The Twelve Sacred Traditions of Magnificent Mothers-in-Law
    Publish on Amazon Kindle with the DigitalText Platform
    Publish on Amazon Kindle with the Digital Text Platform
    Stopping Time, Part 2
    Stopping Time, Part 2
    A Rush of Wings (A Rush of Wings Series #1)
    A Rush of Wings (A Rush of Wings Series #1)
    The Last Song: Exclusive Free Kindle Content
    The Last Song: Exclusive Free Kindle Content
    The Dark Tide (Free for a Limited Time - With Bonus Material)
    The Dark Tide (Free for a Limited Time – With Bonus Material)
    Stopping Time, Part 1
    Stopping Time, Part 1
    Rides a Dread Legion Free with BonusMaterial
    Rides a Dread Legion Free with Bonus Material
    Budget of the United States Government,Fiscal Year 2011
    Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2011
    Saving Sailor: A Novel
    Saving Sailor: A Novel
    New Digital Media and Learning as an Emerging Area and"Worked Examples" as One Way Forwar...
    New Digital Media and Learning as an Emerging Area and “Worked Examples” as One Way Forwar…
    Young People, Ethics, and the New DigitalMedia: A Synthesis fromthe Good Play Project
    Young People, Ethics, and the New Digital Media: A Synthesis from the Good Play Project
    The Civic Potential of Video Games
    The Civic Potential of Video Games
    Living and Learning with New Media: Summaryof Findings from theDigital Youth Project
    Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project
    Confronting the Challenges of ParticipatoryCulture: MediaEducation for the 21st Century
    Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century
    The Future of Learning Institutions in aDigital Age
    The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age
    Autobiography of a Yogi (Reprint of Original1946 Edition)
    Autobiography of a Yogi (Reprint of Original 1946 Edition)
    The Joy of Pregnancy: The Complete, Candid,and ReassuringCompanion for Parents-to-Be
    The Joy of Pregnancy: The Complete, Candid, and Reassuring Companion for Parents-to-Be
    The Hunters
    The Hunters
    Economic Report of the President
    Economic Report of the President
    Speed Dating
    Speed Dating
    A Very Special Delivery
    A Very Special Delivery
    Edge of Apocalypse Free Preview
    Edge of Apocalypse Free Preview
    The Wild
    The Wild’s Call
    Homespun Bride
    Homespun Bride
    Once a Cowboy
    Once a Cowboy
    Baby Bonanza
    Baby Bonanza
    When Night Falls
    When Night Falls
    Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #2:Skyborn
    Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #2: Skyborn
    The Reincarnationist Series
    The Reincarnationist Series
    Kiss Me Deadly
    Kiss Me Deadly
    The Bride
    The Bride’s Baby
    Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #1:Precipice
    Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #1: Precipice
    My Soul to Lose
    My Soul to Lose
    Serial
    Serial
    Dancing in the Moonlight
    Dancing in the Moonlight
    Crime Scene at Cardwell Ranch
    Crime Scene at Cardwell Ranch
    Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #3:Paragon
    Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #3: Paragon
    His Lady Mistress
    His Lady Mistress
    Irresistible Forces
    Irresistible Forces
    Slow Hands
    Slow Hands
    Hide in Plain Sight
    Hide in Plain Sight
    Love Yourself and Let the Other Person HaveIt Your Way
    Love Yourself and Let the Other Person Have It Your Way
    More Blood, More Sweat and Another Cup ofTea
    More Blood, More Sweat and Another Cup of Tea
    Dead Witch Walking (The Hollows, Book 1)
    Dead Witch Walking (The Hollows, Book 1)
    ©Kindle Nation Daily 2010

    New York Times "Ethicist" Column Condones eBook Bundling Through "Piracy"

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    Generally I’m not a fan of Randy Cohen’s “The Ethicist” column in the New York Times Sunday magazine. Even when leavened by self-deprecating humor, it too often gets just a little too sanctimonious and fastidious for my taste. (The litmus test may be that I even find Cohen to be sanctimonious, at times, when his summary point is to condone behavior that I consider wrong.)

    But I am willing to accept that Cohen’s capacity to see clarity where I see complexity is preferable to my approach, and I frequently read and find myself discussing what Cohen has to say about what are often the rather quotidian ethical conundrums of 21st century life for affluent Americans. That ability to provide fodder for discussion, of course, is probably what makes Cohen’s a good column for the magazine, along with the possibility that the act of perusing it may give some Times readers a basis, of some kind, for concluding about themselves that they are “the right kind of people.”

    So I’ll admit to having raised my eyebrows this morning as I read Cohen’s ethical advice for a Long Islander who wrote in seeking the columnist’s ethical imprimatur after having “found a pirated version [of Stephen King’s Under the Dome] online, downloaded it to my e-reader and took it on my trip.” The basis for the question and for Cohen’s answer, let me be clear, is that the questioner, C.D. of Brightwaters, claimed to have first purchased the 1,074-page hardcover and found it prohibitively heavy for travel.

    Cohen answered that the piracy was “illegal … but … not unethical.” His rationalization is basically that the author and publisher got paid, so what’s the problem? He buries the real possibility that C.D. might have been “encouraging” the pirates in a fun little set of riffs about the effects of a 1,074-page dead-tree tome on forestry and fitness training.

    C.D. of Brightwaters may have been guilty of a bit of selective memory or reality-editing in setting up the question by saying of Under the Dome that “[t]he publisher apparently withheld it to encourage people to buy the more expensive hardcover.” Readers of Kindle Nation Daily know that the hardcover was available for $9 for several weeks late last year, so that the ebook when it was released commercially on December 24 may have even then been more expensive than the price that C.D. of Brightwaters could have paid either at the Walmart or the Target right down the road in Massapequa or online at Amazon.

    And Cohen himself, despite being correct in lamenting that “the anachronistic conventions of bookselling and copyright law lag the technology,” seems a little out of touch with what’s really going on both by letting C.D. slip the curve ball in the preceding paragraph by him and by referring to $9.99 as the ebook’s price when, alas, I see this morning that Steve Jobs has managed to get that price increased to $16.99 in the Kindle and iBooks stores.

    Me? I’d love to see the emails that Cohen gets from some of the thousands of traditional publishing industry leaders, employees, and apologists who read the Times. I doubt they will see the ethical crawlspace through which Cohen and C.D. of Brightwaters slithered or find merit in the rationalizations supplied to lubricate these already slippery and sloping passages. Piracy is piracy, and pirates are pirates, ne c’est pas?

    But I’m also a bit amused by the shorthand moniker of C.D. of Brightwaters. Remember CDs? I’ve got hundreds of them somewhere, and last year I listened to one on my car stereo, although it was a mix CD that I burned at home, before a long trip, from tracks that I had purchased from Amazon’s MP3 store or iTunes or copied from my own CDs. After having seemed like such a brilliant technology two dozen years ago, CDs turned out to be not quite as venerable and durable as the technology of the print book that has served us so well for centuries. But understanding the denouement of some similar issues faced by the music industry during the past decade should be homework for everyone in the book trades, and it would be wise for print book publishers to offer solutions — such as sanctioned bundling of print, ebook, and/or audiobook formats at marketing-positive price points — that would free up both Cohen and C.D. of Brightwaters to tackle larger ethical issues.

    Condoned or not by Timesmen, piracy will fester and could become rampant if some publishers continue their upside down and backward approaches to pricing and availability. I am quite confident that there are few ebook pirates among the populace of Kindle Nation, but I am equally certain that the best way for book publishers to defeat piracy is to start playing straight with readers.

    ©Kindle Nation Daily 2010

    9 New Additions to Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert for Saturday, April 3, 2010: Sheldon, Sharma, Christie and More!

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    White Body
    White Body of Evening, The by A L McCann
    Auto-delivered wirelessly
    Kindle Price: $0.00
    Shapes on
    Shapes on the Wind by David Lewis
    Auto-delivered wirelessly
    Kindle Price: $0.00
    The Flirt
    The Flirt Coach by Peta Heskell

    3.9 out of 5 stars (11 customer reviews)
    Auto-delivered wirelessly

    Kindle Price: $0.00
    Weetzie Bat
    Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia, Block

    4.0 out of 5 stars (121 customer reviews)
    Auto-delivered wirelessly

    Kindle Price: $0.00
    Are You
    Are You Afraid of the Dark? by Sidney Sheldon

    2.6 out of 5 stars (134 customer reviews)
    Auto-delivered wirelessly

    Kindle Price: $0.00
    Body in
    Body in the Library, The by Agatha Christie

    4.2 out of 5 stars (56 customer reviews)
    Auto-delivered wirelessly

    Kindle Price: $0.00
    Boyfriend League
    Boyfriend League, The by Rachel Hawthorne

    4.8 out of 5 stars (13 customer reviews)
    Auto-delivered wirelessly

    Kindle Price: $0.00
    The Monk
    The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin S. Sharma

    3.8 out of 5 stars (105 customer reviews)
    Auto-delivered wirelessly

    Kindle Price: $0.00

    Amazon and HarperCollins appear to be celebrating the launch of the Kindle for iPad app today with a free book bonanza including over a dozen new free bestsellers.

    I doubt these will last, so get them while you can. They include a bunch of titles from Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Titles, and it will be fun to see how they render on the big, color iPad screen.

    Other new freebies include three popular brain-motivating books by Tony Buzan and four other bestsellers.

    Robin and Ruby

    Robin and Ruby by K.M. Soehnlein

    (1 review at Amazon.com)
    Subjects: Contemporary Fiction, Fiction

    From the Amazon Product Description:

    In his award-winning bestseller The World of Normal Boys, K.M. Soehnlein introduced readers to the richly compelling voice of teenager Robin MacKenzie. In Robin and Ruby, he revisits Robin and his younger sister, masterfully depicting the turbulence of the mid-1980s–and that fleeting time between youth and adulthood, when everything we will become can be shaped by one unforgettable weekend.At twenty-years-old, Robin MacKenzie is waiting for his life to start. Waiting until his summer working at a Philly restaurant is over and he’s back with his boyfriend Peter. . .until the spring semester when he’ll travel to London for an acting program. . .until the moment when the confidence he fakes starts to feel real.
    Then, one hot June weekend, Robin gets dumped by his boyfriend and quickly hits the road with his best friend George to find his teenaged sister, Ruby, who’s vanished from a party at the Jersey Shore. For years, his friendship with George has been the most solid thing in Robin’s life. But lately there are glimpses of another George, someone Robin barely knows and can no longer take for granted.
    Ruby is on an adventure of her own, dressing in black, declaring herself an atheist, pulling away from the boyfriend she doesn’t love–not the way she loves the bands whose fractured songs are the soundtrack to her life. Then a chance encounter puts Ruby in pursuit of a seductive but troubled boy who might be the key to her happiness, or a disaster waiting to happen.
    As their paths converge, Robin and Ruby confront the sadness of their shared past and rebuild the bonds that still run deep. In prose that is lyrical, compulsively readable, and exquisitely honest, K.M. Soehnlein brilliantly captures a family redefining itself and explores those moments common to us all–when freedom bumps up against responsibility, when sex blurs the line between friendship and love, and when what you stand for becomes more important than who you were raised to be.

    One Night in Boston

    One Night in Boston by Allie Boniface

    (2 reviews at Amazon.com)

    Subjects: Romance, Literature & Fiction, Romance General & Other

    The Real Enemy (Sophie Trace Trilogy, Book 1)

    The Real Enemy (Sophie Trace Trilogy, Book 1) by Kathy Herman

    (25 reviews at Amazon.com)
    Subjects: Mystery, Thrillers, Mystery & Thrillers
    Miss Match (Lauren Holbrook Series, Book 1)

    Miss Match (Lauren Holbrook Series, Book 1) by Erynn Mangum

    (36 reviews at Amazon.com)
    Subject: Fiction
    Healing for a Broken World: Christian Perspectives on Public Policy

    Healing for a Broken World: Christian Perspectives on Public Policy by Steve Monsma

    (4 reviews at Amazon.com)
    Subjects: Public Policy, Government, Spiritual & Religion

    The Homeplace (Singing River Series #1)
    The Homeplace (Singing River Series #1)
    A Gift of Grace: A Novel
    A Gift of Grace: A Novel
    The Devil-s Rooming House: The True Story of America-s DeadliestFemale Serial Killer - Fr...
    The Devil-s Rooming House: The True Story of America-s Deadliest Female Serial Killer – Fr…
    The Twelve Sacred Traditions of Magnificent Mothers-in-Law
    The Twelve Sacred Traditions of Magnificent Mothers-in-Law
    Publish on Amazon Kindle with the Digital Text Platform
    Publish on Amazon Kindle with the Digital Text Platform
    Stopping Time, Part 2
    Stopping Time, Part 2
    A Rush of Wings (A Rush of Wings Series #1)
    A Rush of Wings (A Rush of Wings Series #1)
    The Last Song: Exclusive Free Kindle Content
    The Last Song: Exclusive Free Kindle Content
    The Dark Tide (Free for a Limited Time - With Bonus Material)
    The Dark Tide (Free for a Limited Time – With Bonus Material)
    Stopping Time, Part 1
    Stopping Time, Part 1
    Rides a Dread Legion Free with Bonus Material
    Rides a Dread Legion Free with Bonus Material
    Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2011
    Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2011
    Saving Sailor: A Novel
    Saving Sailor: A Novel
    New Digital Media and Learning as an Emerging Area and"Worked Examples" as One Way Forwar...
    New Digital Media and Learning as an Emerging Area and “Worked Examples” as One Way Forwar…
    Young People, Ethics, and the New Digital Media: A Synthesis fromthe Good Play Project
    Young People, Ethics, and the New Digital Media: A Synthesis from the Good Play Project
    The Civic Potential of Video Games
    The Civic Potential of Video Games
    Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from theDigital Youth Project
    Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project
    Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: MediaEducation for the 21st Century
    Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century
    The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age
    The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age
    Autobiography of a Yogi (Reprint of Original 1946 Edition)
    Autobiography of a Yogi (Reprint of Original 1946 Edition)
    The Joy of Pregnancy: The Complete, Candid, and ReassuringCompanion for Parents-to-Be
    The Joy of Pregnancy: The Complete, Candid, and Reassuring Companion for Parents-to-Be
    The Hunters
    The Hunters
    Economic Report of the President
    Economic Report of the President
    Speed Dating
    Speed Dating
    A Very Special Delivery
    A Very Special Delivery
    Edge of Apocalypse Free Preview
    Edge of Apocalypse Free Preview
    The Wild
    The Wild’s Call
    Homespun Bride
    Homespun Bride
    Once a Cowboy
    Once a Cowboy
    Baby Bonanza
    Baby Bonanza
    When Night Falls
    When Night Falls
    Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #2: Skyborn
    Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #2: Skyborn
    The Reincarnationist Series
    The Reincarnationist Series
    Kiss Me Deadly
    Kiss Me Deadly
    The Bride
    The Bride’s Baby
    Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #1: Precipice
    Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #1: Precipice
    My Soul to Lose
    My Soul to Lose
    Serial
    Serial
    Dancing in the Moonlight
    Dancing in the Moonlight
    Crime Scene at Cardwell Ranch
    Crime Scene at Cardwell Ranch
    Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #3: Paragon
    Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #3: Paragon
    His Lady Mistress
    His Lady Mistress
    Irresistible Forces
    Irresistible Forces
    Slow Hands
    Slow Hands
    Hide in Plain Sight
    Hide in Plain Sight
    Love Yourself and Let the Other Person Have It Your Way
    Love Yourself and Let the Other Person Have It Your Way
    More Blood, More Sweat and Another Cup of Tea
    More Blood, More Sweat and Another Cup of Tea
    Dead Witch Walking (The Hollows, Book 1)
    Dead Witch Walking (The Hollows, Book 1)
     
    ©Kindle Nation Daily 2010

    Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert for Saturday, April 3, 2010: Kindle Free Book Bonanza with Lemony Snicket, Tony Buzan, and Over 50 Others

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      Update: Dozens of Free Kindle Books Removed from Website

      In an uncharacteristic move that may be a temporary glitch, numerous titles that have been offered free in the Kindle Store for the past couple of days have been unceremoniously removed as of early Saturday evening. These include many of the titles that were announced in Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alerts this weekend. We will continue to monitor the situation and update when possible. 



      Amazon and HarperCollins appear to be celebrating the launch of the Kindle for iPad app today with a free book bonanza including over a dozen new free bestsellers.

      I doubt these will last, so get them while you can. They include a bunch of titles from Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Titles, and it will be fun to see how they render on the big, color iPad screen.

      Other new freebies include three popular brain-motivating books by Tony Buzan and four other bestsellers.

      Robin and Ruby

      Robin and Ruby by K.M. Soehnlein

      (1 review at Amazon.com)
      Subjects: Contemporary Fiction, Fiction

      From the Amazon Product Description:

      In his award-winning bestseller The World of Normal Boys, K.M. Soehnlein introduced readers to the richly compelling voice of teenager Robin MacKenzie. In Robin and Ruby, he revisits Robin and his younger sister, masterfully depicting the turbulence of the mid-1980s–and that fleeting time between youth and adulthood, when everything we will become can be shaped by one unforgettable weekend.At twenty-years-old, Robin MacKenzie is waiting for his life to start. Waiting until his summer working at a Philly restaurant is over and he’s back with his boyfriend Peter. . .until the spring semester when he’ll travel to London for an acting program. . .until the moment when the confidence he fakes starts to feel real.
      Then, one hot June weekend, Robin gets dumped by his boyfriend and quickly hits the road with his best friend George to find his teenaged sister, Ruby, who’s vanished from a party at the Jersey Shore. For years, his friendship with George has been the most solid thing in Robin’s life. But lately there are glimpses of another George, someone Robin barely knows and can no longer take for granted.
      Ruby is on an adventure of her own, dressing in black, declaring herself an atheist, pulling away from the boyfriend she doesn’t love–not the way she loves the bands whose fractured songs are the soundtrack to her life. Then a chance encounter puts Ruby in pursuit of a seductive but troubled boy who might be the key to her happiness, or a disaster waiting to happen.
      As their paths converge, Robin and Ruby confront the sadness of their shared past and rebuild the bonds that still run deep. In prose that is lyrical, compulsively readable, and exquisitely honest, K.M. Soehnlein brilliantly captures a family redefining itself and explores those moments common to us all–when freedom bumps up against responsibility, when sex blurs the line between friendship and love, and when what you stand for becomes more important than who you were raised to be.

      One Night in Boston

      One Night in Boston by Allie Boniface

      (2 reviews at Amazon.com)
      Subjects: Romance, Literature & Fiction, Romance General & Other
      The Real Enemy (Sophie Trace Trilogy, Book 1)

      The Real Enemy (Sophie Trace Trilogy, Book 1) by Kathy Herman

      (25 reviews at Amazon.com)
      Subjects: Mystery, Thrillers, Mystery & Thrillers
      Miss Match (Lauren Holbrook Series, Book 1)

      Miss Match (Lauren Holbrook Series, Book 1) by Erynn Mangum

      (36 reviews at Amazon.com)
      Subject: Fiction
      Healing for a Broken World: Christian Perspectives on Public Policy

      Healing for a Broken World: Christian Perspectives on Public Policy by Steve Monsma

      (4 reviews at Amazon.com)
      Subjects: Public Policy, Government, Spiritual & Religion

      The Homeplace (Singing River Series #1)
      The Homeplace (Singing River Series #1)
      A Gift of Grace: A Novel
      A Gift of Grace: A Novel
      The Devil-s Rooming House: The True Story of America-s DeadliestFemale Serial Killer - Fr...
      The Devil-s Rooming House: The True Story of America-s Deadliest Female Serial Killer – Fr…
      The Twelve Sacred Traditions of Magnificent Mothers-in-Law
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      A Rush of Wings (A Rush of Wings Series #1)
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      The Last Song: Exclusive Free Kindle Content
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      The Dark Tide (Free for a Limited Time - With Bonus Material)
      The Dark Tide (Free for a Limited Time – With Bonus Material)
      Stopping Time, Part 1
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      Rides a Dread Legion Free with Bonus Material
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      Young People, Ethics, and the New Digital Media: A Synthesis fromthe Good Play Project
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      The Civic Potential of Video Games
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      The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age
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      Autobiography of a Yogi (Reprint of Original 1946 Edition)
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      The Joy of Pregnancy: The Complete, Candid, and ReassuringCompanion for Parents-to-Be
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      The Hunters
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      Economic Report of the President
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      Speed Dating
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      A Very Special Delivery
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      Once a Cowboy
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      Baby Bonanza
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      When Night Falls
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      Kiss Me Deadly
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      The Bride
      The Bride’s Baby
      Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #1: Precipice
      Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #1: Precipice
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      Serial
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      Dancing in the Moonlight
      Crime Scene at Cardwell Ranch
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      Dead Witch Walking (The Hollows, Book 1)
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      ©Kindle Nation Daily 2010

      Amazon Releases Kindle for iPad App Ahead of Schedule!

      by

      When hundreds of thousands of iPad owners switch their iPads on for the very first time this weekend, they will have immediate access to nearly half a million books in the Kindle Store.

      Contrary to earlier reports indicating that the Kindle for iPad App would not be immediately available with tomorrow’s iPad release, Amazon announced this evening that the App is now available in the Apple Apps store.

      For the prospective iPad owners among us who have already been ordering Kindle books and reading them on our Kindles and Kindle Apps for the iPhone, iPod Touch, PC, Mac, or Blackberry, this is very good news because it means that we’ll have immediate access to all those books on our iPads.

      Click here for full download instructions. 

      Details — and actual user experience — to follow!

      Here’s the news release that Amazon put out moments ago:

      Amazon.com Announces Kindle App for iPad

      Free App for Reading Kindle Books on iPad Gives Readers Choice from over 450,000 Titles

      SEATTLE, Apr 02, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) –Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced its Kindle App for iPad is now available in the App Store. The app lets users select from over 450,000 books from the Kindle Store on iPad and features Amazon Whispersync technology that saves and synchronizes customers’ last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across their Kindle, Kindle DX, iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, iPad, and more.
      “Kindle for iPad includes all the features customers love about Kindle for iPhone, including a massive selection of over 450,000 books, along with a beautiful new user interface tailored to the look and feel of iPad,” said Jay Marine, director, Amazon Kindle. “Kindle for iPad is the perfect companion for the millions of customers who already own a Kindle or Kindle DX, and a way for customers around the world to download and enjoy books even if they don’t yet have a Kindle.”
      With the Kindle App for iPad, readers can choose from over 450,000 books available in the Kindle Store, including new releases and New York Times Bestsellers, plus tens of thousands of the most popular classics for free including titles like “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,” “Pride and Prejudice,” and “Treasure Island.” Bestsellers such as “Backlash” by Aaron Allston, “Big Girl” by Danielle Steel, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot, and “The Lost Symbol” by Dan Brown, and hundreds of thousands of other popular books are $9.99 or less in the Kindle Store. The Kindle Store is the only place to find tens of thousands of books added to the Kindle Store by authors and publishers using Kindle’s self-service platform. Customers can search for a specific book or browse by genre or author, and can take advantage of all the features that customers enjoy in the Kindle Store, including Amazon.com customer reviews, personalized recommendations and editorial reviews.
      Features of the Kindle App for iPad include:
      * Automatically Syncs with Kindle and Kindle Compatible Devices: Amazon’s Whispersync technology automatically syncs customers’ last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across Kindle, Kindle DX, Kindle for iPhone, Kindle for Mac, Kindle for iPad, and more. Customers can read on their Kindle, read some on their iPad or Mac, and always pick up where they left off.
      * Beautiful User Interface: The Kindle App user interface is tailored to the large size, look, and feel of iPad. The new user interface with bold colors, animation, and seamless user experience make Kindle on iPad a unique reading experience.
      * Customizable Appearance: Customers can choose to dim iPad’s screen within the app to make reading easier regardless of the ambient light or time of day. Readers can also choose from three different background colors and alter the font color and size to customize the reading experience and help ease the strain on their eyes.
      * Page Turn Animation: Kindle App for iPad offers an interactive experience with page turn animation designed to replicate the look of a page turning in a book. Customers who prefer a simpler, unadorned reading experience can choose the “Basic Reading Mode” option and turn off animation.
      The Kindle App for iPad is available for free from the App Store on iPad or at www.itunes.com/appstore.
      For more information please visit: www.amazon.com/kindleforipad.

      ©Kindle Nation Daily 2010

      238 Kindle Nation Daily Posts in the 1st Quarter of 2010, and a Thank You

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      What are you getting when you read Kindle Nation Daily? Here in the eye of the storm, the day before the iPad’s arrival and the day after April Fool’s Day and the launch of the big publishers’ so-called “Agency” pricing model for ebooks, I just wanted to take a quick look at the first quarter of 2010 for Kindle Nation Daily.

      There were 238 posts during the quarter, which usually means about three a day on weekdays and a couple each day on weekends.

      The blog got more popular during the quarter, and it also got “stickier,” which I’m told is a technical term that means people took off their coats and stayed a while:

      • The Kindle edition of Kindle Nation Daily — a 99-cent-per-month subscription, after the 14-day free trial, which pushes posts directly to subscribers’ Kindles –rose to the #1 position among 8,900 blogs in the Kindle Store during the quarter.
      • The number of Kindle edition subscribers grew 164% during the quarter.
      • The average time that a visitor spent on the blog each day grew from 6.1 minutes to 7.7 minutes during the quarter.

      I appreciate the fact that you keep coming back, and I will continue to try to make it worth your while.

      Going forward, I’m going to try to keep doing what works, and try when it is appropriate to make some of my posts a little shorter. There will continue to be a balance of the following kinds of posts:

      • free and bargain book alerts
      • how-to tips
      • Kindle nation mailbag posts
      • news and analysis about what’s going on in the ebook and book publishing world
      • scoops and educated guesses about what’s in the pipeline for Kindle users
      • Free Kindle Nation Shorts
      • and more

       Here are links to the last 260 or so posts dating back to December 25:

      ▼  2009 (74)

      ©Kindle Nation Daily 2010
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      Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert for Friday, April 2, 2010: K.M. Soehnlein’s "Robin and Rudy," and Over 50 Others

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      Here’s a new addition to “Free” at the Kindle Store today, from Kensington Books:

      Robin and Ruby

      Robin and Ruby by K.M. Soehnlein

      (1 review at Amazon.com)
      Subjects: Contemporary Fiction, Fiction

      From the Amazon Product Description:

      In his award-winning bestseller The World of Normal Boys, K.M. Soehnlein introduced readers to the richly compelling voice of teenager Robin MacKenzie. In Robin and Ruby, he revisits Robin and his younger sister, masterfully depicting the turbulence of the mid-1980s–and that fleeting time between youth and adulthood, when everything we will become can be shaped by one unforgettable weekend.At twenty-years-old, Robin MacKenzie is waiting for his life to start. Waiting until his summer working at a Philly restaurant is over and he’s back with his boyfriend Peter. . .until the spring semester when he’ll travel to London for an acting program. . .until the moment when the confidence he fakes starts to feel real.
      Then, one hot June weekend, Robin gets dumped by his boyfriend and quickly hits the road with his best friend George to find his teenaged sister, Ruby, who’s vanished from a party at the Jersey Shore. For years, his friendship with George has been the most solid thing in Robin’s life. But lately there are glimpses of another George, someone Robin barely knows and can no longer take for granted.
      Ruby is on an adventure of her own, dressing in black, declaring herself an atheist, pulling away from the boyfriend she doesn’t love–not the way she loves the bands whose fractured songs are the soundtrack to her life. Then a chance encounter puts Ruby in pursuit of a seductive but troubled boy who might be the key to her happiness, or a disaster waiting to happen.
      As their paths converge, Robin and Ruby confront the sadness of their shared past and rebuild the bonds that still run deep. In prose that is lyrical, compulsively readable, and exquisitely honest, K.M. Soehnlein brilliantly captures a family redefining itself and explores those moments common to us all–when freedom bumps up against responsibility, when sex blurs the line between friendship and love, and when what you stand for becomes more important than who you were raised to be.

      One Night in Boston

      One Night in Boston by Allie Boniface

      (2 reviews at Amazon.com)
      Subjects: Romance, Literature & Fiction, Romance General & Other
      The Real Enemy (Sophie Trace Trilogy, Book 1)

      The Real Enemy (Sophie Trace Trilogy, Book 1) by Kathy Herman

      (25 reviews at Amazon.com)
      Subjects: Mystery, Thrillers, Mystery & Thrillers
      Miss Match (Lauren Holbrook Series, Book 1)

      Miss Match (Lauren Holbrook Series, Book 1) by Erynn Mangum

      (36 reviews at Amazon.com)
      Subject: Fiction
      Healing for a Broken World: Christian Perspectives on Public Policy

      Healing for a Broken World: Christian Perspectives on Public Policy by Steve Monsma

      (4 reviews at Amazon.com)
      Subjects: Public Policy, Government, Spiritual & Religion

      Grace Notes: April 1-30

      by Philip Yancey 

      Digital List Price:     $ 1.00  
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      From the Back Cover

      ‘ ‘There is no writer in the evangelical world that I admire and appreciate more.’ – Billy Graham 

      Philip Yancey’s words—captured in his many bestselling books—have influenced the lives of millions of readers by strengthening their faith, building their hope, sparking their creativity, and challenging their comfort zones. If you’re one of those readers, you know personally how his insights have affected your mind and heart. And if you’re new to Yancey, you’re in for a life-altering experience. These meditations—all drawn from the beloved and bestselling writings of the author—will take you through an entire year of Yancey’s insight and imagination, covering a broad range of topics: 
      •  How to rediscover God through the wonders of nature, music, and romantic love 
      •  Why grace means you can’t do anything to make God love you more or less 
      •  What happens when you cut through preconceptions to encounter the ‘real’ Jesus 
      •  How to renew your understanding and practice of prayer 
      •  Where you can see God in unexpected people and places 
      •  How to cope when life crashes in around you Every day, experience the best from a beloved author who, with freshness, clarity, and energy, has so brilliantly articulated God’s wonderful but mysterious relationship with you. ‘                                                                                          

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      More Blood, More Sweat and Another Cup of Tea
      More Blood, More Sweat and Another Cup of Tea
      Dead Witch Walking (The Hollows, Book 1)
      Dead Witch Walking (The Hollows, Book 1)

       

      ©Kindle Nation Daily 2010
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