It’s the first Monday in October, and it’s a great day in Kindle Nation as we highlight a sweet bundle of Kindle Store freebies that cannot be ignored….
on your Kindle today for under $3, and if I can figure out the text-to-speech command that substitutes the voices of Joe Mantegna, James Garner, and Charles Durning for the Kindle’s read-aloud voice, I promise to come back to let you know. —S.W.)REVERSAL
by Paul Levine
5.0 stars – 2 Reviews – Kindle Price: $2.87
is a tale of seduction and betrayal, of passion and greed. Truitt, who has always followed the rules, and Lisa, who never has, join together to battle those who live by no law at all. (Note: REVERSAL was originally published in hardcover as 9 SCORPIONS
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WHAT’S THE VERDICT ON PAUL LEVINE’S REVERSAL
“A relentlessly entertaining summer read.” – New York Daily News
“A breakout book, highly readable and fun.” – USA Today
“A big brash blend of violence, sex, and the Supreme Court.” – The Miami Herald
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The author of 14 novels, Paul Levine won the John D. MacDonald fiction award and was nominated for the Edgar, Macavity, International Thriller, and James Thurber prizes. A former trial lawyer, he also wrote more than 20 episodes of the CBS military drama “JAG” and co-created the Supreme Court drama “First Monday” starring James Garner and Joe Mantegna. He is also the author of the “Solomon vs. Lord” series and the thriller “Illegal.”
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by Rebecca Heath – 5.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review) – Text-to-Speech: Enabled
“You know, I never eat young ladies on Fridays. Only Tuesdays.” I couldn’t help laughing. “Do I look as apprehensive as all that?” “Yes, rather.” He opened the door for me. “But I have just the cure for you. It’s David Rosenau’s patented shyness remedy, strawberry shortcake garnished with whipped cream, to be taken at least once weekly in charming company. Doctor’s orders.” When Professor Rosenau hires college junior, Kate Collins, as his typist, falling in love with the brilliant biochemist isn’t part of the job description, but the shy girl is immediately attracted to David by his kindness and understanding as he is to Kate by her innocence and passion for learning. Letters To My Mother is the story of an unconventional May-December romance set in 1950s Seattle.
Dixie Divas
by Virginia Brown – Text-to-Speech: Enabled
“You found my philandering ex-husband?” Bitty asked. “Where? Mexico? Paris? In Tupelo with a cocktail waitress?” “In your closet,” I answered. “Dead.” Break out the hoop skirts and the zinfandel. The Divas are on the case. Wine. Chocolate. Transvestite strippers. Just another good-time get-together for the Dixie Divas of historic Holly Springs, Mississippi, where moonlight and magnolias mingle with delicious smalltown scandal.
But Eureka “Trinket” Truevine, the newest Diva, gets more than she bargained for when she finds her best Diva girlfriend Bitty Hollandale’s ex-husband in Bitty’s hall closet. He’s dead. Very dead. Now Trinket and the Divas have to help Bitty finger the murderer and clear her name. Virginia Brown is the nationally acclaimed, award-winning author of fifty novels.
by Marion Stein – 4.0 out of 5 stars – (6 customer reviews) – Text-to-Speech: Enabled
The Simulated Life Elapsed Process aka The Death Trip is touted as a pharmaceutical alternative to end of life pain and suffering — a dream state that makes the user’s last minutes feel like years spent living the perfect existence. But is this one-way ride really the paradise promised by Panacium Inc? The Death Trip “comfort care for the dying” or something more nefarious? Some say there’s even a link to the newest party drug. After the death of his beloved grandmother, Chuck decides to investigate and soon finds himself torn between two women — the activist who suspects a dark agenda and the beautiful MD who helped create the process.
by Moxie Mezcal – 5.0 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews) – Text-to-Speech: Enabled
An idealistic journalist sets out to expose corruption among the city’s elite and soon finds himself immersed in a conspiracy of murder, blackmail, espionage, and human trafficking. Pitted against the enigmatic CEO of one of the world’s largest tech companies, he must play a deadly game that threatens to unearth its players’ darkest secrets. CONCRETE UNDERGROUND is postmodern pulp fiction – a gritty, labyrinthine murder mystery about identity and alienation in the digital age.
by Mark Coker and Lesleyann Coker – Text-to-Speech: Enabled
Go behind the scenes of the daytime television soap opera industry with Boob Tube. Written by Lesleyann Coker (a former reporter for Soap Opera Weekly) and her husband Mark, the two interviewed dozens of soap opera industry insiders for their stories and then fictionalized everything here.
For Sale in Palm Springs (Henry Wright Mystery #1)
by Albert Simon Text-to-Speech: Enabled
Retired police chief Henry Wright is now living in Palm Springs and is asked by his friend Wayne Johnson, a detective in the Palm Springs Police department to help solve a crime. Henry has been living as somewhat of a recluse since his wife passed away, but tracking down this killer brings him back to life. Follow his adventures as he travels around the state to solve this mystery.
Outlander: with Bonus Content
by Diana Gabaldon
4.4 out of 5 stars – (1,672 customer reviews) – Kindle Price: $0.00 – Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Doubleday Book Club main selection, Literary Guild alternate.
In Outlander, a 600-page time-travel romance, strong-willed and sensual Claire Randall leads a double life with a husband in one century, and a lover in another. Torn between fidelity and desire, she struggles to understand the pure intent of her heart. But don’t let the number of pages and the Scottish dialect scare you. It’s one of the fastest reads you’ll have in your library. While on her second honeymoon in the British Isles, Claire touches a boulder that hurls her back in time to the forbidden Castle Leoch with the MacKenzie clan. Not understanding the forces that brought her there, she becomes ensnared in life-threatening situations with a Scots warrior named James Fraser. But it isn’t all spies and drudgery that she must endure. For amid her new surroundings and the terrors she faces, she is lured into love and passion like she’s never known before. I was lame and sore in every muscle when I woke next morning. I shuffled to the privy closet, then to the wash basin. My innards felt like churned butter. It felt as though I had been beaten with a blunt object, I reflected, then thought that that was very near the truth. The blunt object in question was visible as I came back to bed, looking now relatively harmless. Its possessor [Jamie] woke as I sat next to him, and examined me with something that looked very much like male smugness.” Gabaldon creates characters that you’ll remember, laugh with, cry with, and cheer for long after you’ve finished the book. –Candy Paape From Publishers Weekly
Absorbing and heartwarming, this first novel lavishly evokes the land and lore of Scotland, quickening both with realistic characters and a feisty, likable heroine. English nurse Claire Beauchamp Randall and husband Frank take a second honeymoon in the Scottish Highlands in 1945. When Claire walks through a cleft stone in an ancient henge, she’s somehow transported to 1743. She encounters Frank’s evil ancestor, British captain Jonathan “Black Jack” Randall, and is adopted by another clan. Claire nurses young soldier James Fraser, a gallant, merry redhead, and the two begin a romance, seeing each other through many perilous, swashbuckling adventures involving Black Jack. Scenes of the Highlanders’ daily life blend poignant emotions with Scottish wit and humor. Eventually Sassenach (outlander) Claire finds a chance to return to 1945, and must choose between distant memories of Frank and her happy, uncomplicated existence with Jamie. Claire’s resourcefulness and intelligent sensitivity make the love-conquers-all, happily-ever-after ending seem a just reward.
Click here to see a dozen other Kindle editions by Diana Gabaldon, most in the $6 to $8 range.
The New World is a story-length Kindle Exclusive prequel that sets the stage for the world you will discover in The Knife of Never Letting Go
The New World
by Patrick Ness – Kindle Price: $0.00 – Text-to-Speech: Enabled
Kudos to indie publisher Candlewick Press in my neighboring town of Somerville for working with Amazon to nail the perfect Kindle-appropriate process of bringing out a new sci-fi/fantasy/YA series for Kindle readers!
by Peggy Webb
4.2 out of 5 stars (9 customer reviews) – Kindle Price: $0.00 Text-to-Speech: Enabled
They say you can’t get to Heaven without passing through the Eternal Rest Funeral Home. And no one gets into Eternal Rest without passing muster with Elvis-the basset hound who’s convinced he’s the reincarnation of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll. Brewing up a big ol’ pitcher of Mississippi mystery, Peggy Webb’s delightful new series is as intoxicating as the Delta breeze.
