Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert for Sunday, September 12, 2010: Another Free Preview, but this one is “Book One” of James Patterson’s latest, plus a popular sequel from the author of Portal (Today’s Sponsor)

We’re walking a fine line here. I’m not very enthusiastic about this “free preview” marketing scheme that the big publishers have been going to more and more often. They share an excerpt that’s little more than the free sample you can already get in the Kindle Store, and try to hook us so that we’ll pay their ridiculous “agency model” prices for the full book. But I know how popular James Patterson is, and I have tried a few of his free previews and found they are far more substantial than most previews, often longer than most short novels or novellas. So, somewhat grudgingly, we’re giving his latest free preview top billing in today’s Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert….

But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor

EQUILIBRIUM (Portal Chronicles)

by Imogen Rose

4.8 out of 5 stars (20 customer reviews)
Kindle Price: $3.99 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet

Text-to-Speech: Enabled

It’s not every day you see a naked body slumped by the side of the road…

This ominous sight is just the beginning of a mystery that will span two dimensions.

When California teen Arizona Darley and her siblings go missing, their mother, Dr. Olivia Darley, discovers that the time-travel portal she invented has been hijacked.

Is the hijacker responsible for the disappearance of her children?

Have the children been transported to another dimension?

If so, the police and FBI will never be able to find them, and Olivia Darley must find a way to rescue her children on her own.

How will she do this without access to the portal?

EQUILIBRIUM is book two of the Portal Chronicles.

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Don’t Blink
SPECIAL FREE PREVIEW: BOOK ONE ONLY
(Pre-Order now and the free preview will be downloaded automatically to your Kindle on September 27; the full book pre-order is on a separate page and priced ridiculously at $14.99)
By James Patterson and Howard Roughan
Kindle Price: $0.00 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
Sold by: Hachette Book Group
Text-to-Speech: Enabled

The good: New York’s Lombardo’s Steak House is famous for three reasons–the menu, the clientele, and now, the gruesome murder of an infamous mob lawyer. Effortlessly, the assassin slips through the police’s fingers, and his absence sparks a blaze of accusations about who ordered the hit.

The bad: Seated at a nearby table, reporter Nick Daniels is conducting a once-in-a-lifetime interview with a legendary baseball bad-boy. In the chaos, he accidentally captures a key piece of evidence that lands him in the middle of an all-out war between Italian and Russian mafia forces. NYPD captains, district attorneys, mayoral candidates, media kingpins, and one shockingly beautiful magazine editor are all pushing their own agendas–on both sides of the law.

And the dead: Back off–or die–is the clear message Nick receives as he investigates for a story of his own. Heedless, and perhaps in love with his beautiful editor, Nick endures humiliation, threats, violence, and worse in a thriller that overturns every expectation and finishes with the kind of flourish only James Patterson knows.

Compromising Positions by Jenna Bayley-Burke

4.7 out of 5 stars (9 customer reviews)

Kindle Price: $0.00 includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet

Text-to-Speech: Enabled

“With sensual love scenes, flirty repartee, and a man and woman clearly meant to be together, you get everything you could ever want in a romance novel. Overall, I have to say that Compromising Positions is a must read!” ~ Long and Short Reviews

“Compromising Positions would have to be one of the best contemporary romance novels I have read in a long time. Jenna Bayley-Burke delivers it all, romance, humor, and great chemistry between her hero and heroine. It is so well written. The pace is great, and the story line fantastic.” ~ Fallen Angel Reviews Warning: The Kama Sutra isn’t for the prudish or faint of heart, and neither is this story.

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 16^th, a car accident on her 21^st, pneumonia on her 30^th, and a fall down a flight of stairs on her 35^th. There were Ohio blizzards on her 38^th, 39^th, and 40^th; and six days before her 45^th, 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 48^thbirthday, 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 50^th 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!

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 It)

by Sandy Allgeier

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)

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Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert for Sunday, September 12, 2010: Another Free Preview, but this one is “Book One” of James Patterson’s latest, plus a popular sequel from the author of Portal (Today’s Sponsor)

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