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Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert, Monday, November 8: “Soldiers, marines, airmen, sailors, and embassy staff love” the latest addition to our Free Book Alert listings, plus … If you loved George Clooney in Up in the Air, you’re going to love Deb Hosey White’s Pink Slips and Parting Gifts (Today’s Sponsor)

November 8, 2010 by KND

An inspirational book that was originally published in 1942 and has now been updated and distributed to over a million men and women deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan is the latest addition to our Free Book Alert listings….

But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor

If you loved George Clooney in Up in the Air, you’re bound to enjoy the totally different ride experienced by a germaphobic CEO, a marketing VP turned Elvis impersonator, the Sundance Kid of Everyman Compensation, and a purchasing director nicknamed the eBay Wizard who make up the unforgettable cast of characters in Deb Hosey White’s Pink Slips and Parting Gifts….

Pink Slips and Parting Gifts

by Deb Hosey White

4.7 out of 5 stars (15 customer reviews)

Kindle Price: $3.99

Text-to-Speech: Enabled

Here’s the set-up:

By the time Easton Company CEO Jeffrey Elkins entices a major competitor to buy his Fortune 500 Company, the corporate jet is waiting and his parachute is platinum.

In thirteen weeks the deal of a lifetime transforms a handful of quirky executives into undeserving multimillionaires, propels a workforce into unemployment and dispatches unsuspecting retirees into poverty. The corporate jet is sold on eBay, and a CEO utters his final words before relinquishing his title: Make sure the employees get their pumpkin pies.

The memorable cast of corporate characters includes a germaphobic CEO, a marketing VP turned Elvis impersonator, the Sundance Kid of Everyman Compensation, and a purchasing director nicknamed the eBay Wizard.

An estimated one in five corporate employees has experienced a merger or acquisition. Pink Slips and Parting Gifts is their story – the one every corporate cubicle jockey, business-class road warrior and mid-level manager will want to read.

“Pink Slips and Parting Gifts” is a choice and highly recommended novel that shouldn’t be ignored. –Midwest Book Review

Pink Slips and Parting Gifts was certainly an eye opener for me, and I would highly recommend it for anyone who wants to see the truth behind big business today and the power of the privileged few. –AllBooks Review

…the back cover says…”Pink Slips and Parting Gifts is…the one every corporate cubicle jockey, business-class road warrior and mid-level manager will want to read.” I respectfully agree! –Reader Views

Visit Amazon’s Deb Hosey White Page

Find all the books, read about the author, and more

Deb Hosey White is an executive management consultant and retirement coach. With more than thirty years experience working for Fortune 1000 companies, she has lived mergers and acquisitions from inside the conference rooms, cubicles and executive suites of corporate America.A long-time Baltimore-Washington area resident, Deb White now lives and writes in beautiful North Carolina with her husband David.

Click here to download Pink Slips and Parting Gifts or a free sample to your Kindle, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, BlackBerry, Android-compatible, PC or Mac and start reading within 60 seconds!

UK Kindle customers: Click here to download Pink Slips and Parting Gifts

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How To Sample Terrific Reads Right In Your Browser: Secondary Targets by Sandra Edwards

November 8, 2010 by KND

What would you do if you woke up one day and found out everything you thought you knew about your father turned out to be a lie?

Did you know that you can begin reading a free sample of a great book like Secondary Targets without leaving your browser?

Secondary Targets
by Sandra Edwards
4.7 out of 5 stars – 7 Reviews
Kindle Price: $0.99
Text-to-Speech: Enabled

(Please note: If your device does not display “Kindle for the Web,” just view this post on any computer or frame-friendly device)

Another day, another terrific page-turner for less than a dollar!

(Ed. Note: Kindle and Kindle App readers have already discovered author Sandra Edwards and made her a bestseller in the Kindle Store with books like Crazy for You and Incredible Dreams. Now she’s done it again in a slightly different genre.

I’ll admit that I could never say no to the high-concept premise, and I’ll also share the news: Sandra Edwards has once against written a book that absolutely delivers on the premise. -S.W.)

Here’s the set-up:

After being bitten by the genealogy bug, Grace Hendricks awakens a conspiracy that’s been lying dormant—ever since she disappeared shortly after her father’s funeral eleven years ago. Now, here in the present, his military records have been tampered with and his death certificate is no longer on file.

In an effort to unravel the mystery she turns to Eric Wayne, an old flame she thought she’d tucked safely away into the past. Eric has no intentions of getting involved with Grace and her crazy allegations, until he realizes that someone else is buried in his former commanding General’s grave.

Secondary Targets
by Sandra Edwards
4.7 out of 5 stars – 7 Reviews
Kindle Price: $0.99

Around the Kindlesphere, Nov. 7, 2010: Kindle Nation Citizens Quietly Flex Muscle, 007 on Kindle, Let the Best Books Lists Begin, National Digital Library System

November 7, 2010 by KND

By Kindle Nation’s Intern Staff

Kindle Nation Readers Shake Rattle and Roll! We’re serious readers here, not the types to oil up on the beach and flex our muscles. But just in case you were wondering how much influence you and other Kindle Nation citizens have, and how much independent authors and publishers depend upon us to clear the sand away and support distinguished work by emerging authors, we have a few tidbits to report as of 4 pm EST Sunday 11.7.2010:

Today’s Kindle Nation Daily sponsor, J.M. Zambrano’s The Trophy Hunter, has climbed from #35,798 to #308 in the Kindle Store in the past 24 hours. This debut novel, still available for 89 cents with this link, is currently #2 on the Kindle Store Movers and Shakers list, #4 in Horror, and #18 in Women Sleuths.
Right behind Zambrano at #5 on the Movers and Shakers list (it was #2 earlier today) is the book that was featured this weekend in our Free Kindle Nation Shorts excerpting program, Scott Nicholson’s hilariously frightening As I Die Lying, currently up from #3,526 to #318 in the past 24 hours.
This is not new territory, of course, for Nicholson. Last weekend his KND sponsorship helped launch his new novel Disintegration, and since then the book has soared from #2,093 to #41 in the Kindle Store. Smart authors like Nicholson do plenty of other things to help get the word out about their books, of course, but it’s nice to know that those of us who just flat out love to read can play a role in making a book into a success.
Other books that have had a nice ride lately with a little help from the citizens of Kindle Nation include Daniel Silver’s Cop: A Novel, Normala’s Living from the Heart, J.A. Konrath’s Shaken, L.J. Sellers’ The Sex Club, and many, many more.

007 on Kindle. Ian Fleming’s James Bond spy novels may never be taught in literature classes at Harvard or Oxford, but they are, at the very least, guilty pleasures for thousands of Kindle Nation citizens.

Ian Fleming Publications, the company that has managed publishing rights for the late James Bond creator’s estate since his death, announced this week that it will make the Bond novels available digitally in the U.K. without an intermediary role for agency model publisher Penguin, Fleming’s longtime print publisher.

Penguin may be shaken by the news, but readers are certainly stirred in a positive way by the prospect that the ebook versions, which will be available from the UK Kindle Store as well as other ebook retailers, are likely to be priced more fairly than would be the case if Penguin were allowed to set the prices.

The Bond novels have been available in the US Kindle Store since the 2008 centenary of Fleming’s birth. Click here for a full listing of all Ian Fleming titles in the US Kindle Store.

Let the Best Books Lists Rock Your Kindle. Kindle Nation citizens, get your holiday shopping carts ready for the best books of the year!

There will be many such lists, and Amazon book editors just announced their picks for the 100 best books of the year, as well as the top 100 customer favorites. This annual ranking includes the Editors’ Picks for the Top 100 Books of the Year, the Top 100 Customer Favorites and Top 10 lists in nearly two-dozen categories.

According to Amazon, the Best Book of the Year was “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot. Others available for download on your Kindle include “Faithful Place” by Tana French, “Matterhorn” by Karl Marlantes, “Unbroken” by Laura Hillenbrand, and “The Warmth of Other Suns” by Isabel Wilkerson.

National Digital Library System Would Increase Literacy. In an article for the Atlantic, old friend David Rothman makes a strong case for the need for a national digital library system—something that would make Kindle Nation citizens, lovers of reading, and advocates of literacy proud.

“E-book gadgets have finally cracked the mass market here in the United States or at least have come a long way,” writes Rothman. “But there is one thing I currently cannot do with my Kindle despite all the sizzle in the commercials — read public library books.”

In many newspaper and journal articles, Rothman has advocated for the adoption of such a system (1992 in Computerworld, a 1996 MIT Press information science collection, the Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, the Huffington Post, and elsewhere, including his national information stimulus plan here in the Fallows blog).

“A library plan and related initiatives should include the actual collections, not just for traditional education and research but also for job training; tight integration with schools, libraries, and other institutions; encouragement of the spread of the right hardware and connections; and the cost-justification described in the stimulus proposal.”

While Rothman concedes that multimedia is “essential,” he argues that without basic literacy and analytical skills, “young people will not be fit for many demanding blue-collar jobs, much less for Ph.D.-level work, and economic growth will suffer.”

We reported last month on Scholastic’s survey that indicated a majority of young people prefers reading digital to print materials. Jibing with this research, Rothman believes that e-book technology will expand young people’s reading interests “through such wrinkles as Kindle-style dictionaries and encyclopedia links to help students better understand the words in front of them.”

Finally, Rothman calls on the Obama administration to emphasize the need for expanded literacy as well as increased broadband accessibility.

Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert, Sunday, November 7: The greatest free books in the Kindle Store! … plus … Get it for just 89 cents while you can: J. M. Zambrano’s heart-pumping debut novel The Trophy Hunter (Today’s Sponsor)

November 7, 2010 by KND

Today we offer a special treat for Kindle Nation citizens — some of the greatest books ever written as a must-have complement to the latest contemporary additions to our Free Book Alert listings….

But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor

A band of hunters–family men–fathers–grandfathers … Which one has taken the thrill of the hunt to a new level?

Suddenly you’re in his head.

And he’s in your face.

Four straight 5-star reviews from Amazon reviewers!

The Trophy Hunter

by J. M. Zambrano

5.0 out of 5 stars – 4 Reviews

Digital List Price: $2.99

Kindle Price: $0.89

Text-to-Speech: Enabled

When attorney Diana Martin takes on a case referred by her best friend, private investigator Jess Edwards, the women cross paths with a group of hunters that includes the new client, his estranged son-in-law, and three other men who have more in common than hunting: their women are disappearing.

Within the band of hunters, a psychopath hides in plain sight. For him, the thrill of big game has lost its savor. Now he collects ethnically diverse women of exceptional beauty. And he’s learned how to keep them perfectly beautiful forever.

As Diana struggles with her self-image after a failed marriage, she’s tempted by the advances of her client’s son-in-law whose wife is one of the missing women. Jess warns her of potential trouble, unaware that more than a broken heart is a stake for Diana. In fact, both Diana and Jess have recently made the psychopath’s acquisitions list.

The Trophy Hunter — available at a discounted price of just 89 cents for a limited time in the Kindle Store — is a full-length novel, approximately 75,000 words.

Click here to download The Trophy Hunter or a free sample to your Kindle, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, BlackBerry, Android-compatible, PC or Mac and start reading within 60 seconds!

UK Kindle customers: Click here to download The Trophy Hunter

Each day’s list is sponsored by one paid title. We encourage you to support our sponsors and thank you for considering them.

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Over 100 Free Must-Have Classic Titles
In the Kindle Store (M-Z)

If you’ve been told that the 16,000+ free “public domain” listings in the Kindle Store are dusty old tomes that nobody reads any more, you are in a for nice treat. My colleague Morris Rosenthal at Foner Books has been doing some great work, and it is a treat to be able to share it with the citizens of Kindle Nation in, for starters, the first section of this curated listing of over 100 free must-have classics in the Kindle Store.

Louisa May Alcott

Little Women

Hans Christian Andersen

Jane Austen

L. Frank Baum

Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret Garden

Lewis Carroll

Willa Cather

Agatha Christie

Secret Adversary

Joseph Conrad

Daniel Defoe

Charles Dickens

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

*The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes*

Theodore Dreiser

Alexandre Dumas

George Elliot

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Henry Fielding

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary

E. M. Forster

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

Grimm’s Fairy Stories

Thomas Hardy

Nathaniel Hawthorne

O. Henry

Hermann Hesse

Siddhartha

Washington Irving

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

James Joyce

Rudyard Kipling

D. H. Lawrence

Jack London

Hugh Lofting

Herman Melville

L.M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

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Couldn’t have said it better ourselves, Jennifer.

And those poor author “victims” who are reaping the reward of 1-star reviews and lower royalties as a result of their publishers’ greed might do well to study the wisdom of authors like Jennifer Becton, J.A. Konrath and even the Ian Fleming estate who have taken steps to build positive relationships with readers — while earning higher royalties and far more positive review ratings — by dropping the intermediation of traditional publishers altogether. Becton’s novel Charlotte Collins: A Continuation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice has a 5-star rating and a nice price in the Kindle Store, and she makes more for each copy sold than many bestselling traditionally published novelists.

Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert, Saturday, November 6: Great news for Alan Jacobson fans! CRUSH, another in the FBI profiler Karen Vail series, now FREE in the Kindle Store! … plus … Meet Dougie Cohen, a Star-Wars-nerdy, Ramones-listening, tattooed San Francisco Police Academy candidate who has an affinity for Mel Brooks movies and comic books in Daniel B. Silver’s stunning debut novel Cop (Today’s Sponsor)

November 6, 2010 by KND

If you loved our past Free Book Alerts for Alan Jacobson’s Velocity and/or The 7th Victim, you’ll be as pleased as I am about today’s latest addition to our Free Book Alert listings….

But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor

(Ed. Note: I’ve read a lot of gritty, stunningly realistic first-person narratives of the seamy, seedy side of urban life, and even lived some. Usually, if the material is great, I lower the bar a bit with regard to literary expectations and still enjoy and am enriched by what I am reading. But every now and then we come across someone with an amazing story to tell, and real gifts as a writer. Here’s a case in point: Daniel B. Silver. Don’t get me wrong: he’s not Jane Austen or Henry James. But he can flat out write. If this was 1956 and someone smart put Cop – A Novel into the hands of Lawrence Ferlinghetti or Gregory Corso and they read it, the inevitable result would be that they’d be calling him the Kop Kerouac and they’d be getting him to read at City Lights Bookstore and Allen Ginsburg would be trying to…. Never mind, and please pardon my lapse into time travel, but this is just a great piece of writing and a brilliant, funny, dark look into the realities of a cop’s life. Check out the FREE sample, but don’t be surprised if you end up buying the book. And reading it. And loving it. –S.W.)

Six straight 5-star reviews from Amazon reviewers!

Cop – A Novel

by Daniel B. Silver

Visit Amazon’s Daniel B. Silver Page

5.0 out of 5 stars – (6 customer reviews)

Kindle Price: $5.95

Text-to-Speech: Enabled

Author and law enforcement officer Daniel Silver tells the story of a tattooed punk rocker turned rookie San Francisco policeman, Dougie Cohen….
In his first year on the job, the stresses, horrors and frustrations, Dougie encounters take their toll on his patience, health, sanity and love life. Dougie struggles with night terrors, addiction, disease and the loss of his former self to his new police persona. Dougie is on a collision course with the reality of urban law enforcement. He’ll either break, or accept the fundamentals of what it means to be a real cop.

Click here to download Cop – A Novel or a free sample to your Kindle, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, BlackBerry, Android-compatible, PC or Mac and start reading within 60 seconds!

UK Kindle customers: Click here to download Cop – A Novel

Each day’s list is sponsored by one paid title. We encourage you to support our sponsors and thank you for considering them.

Authors, Publishers, Kindle Accessory Manufacturers:

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

Free Contemporary Titles in the Kindle Store

Click here for a complete listing of over 100 free promotional titles and links to millions of other free books for your Kindle.

HOW TO USE OUR NEW FREE BOOK TOOL:

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Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn’t write the book she claims she wrote, and she is certainly not Asian American… Yellowface by R. F. Kuang

She can’t resist the call to take down a sadistic criminal hiding behind a pious façade… El Diablo by Kathryn Dodson

It’s Giveaway time! Get a free bonus entry into our monthly raffle and check out Pain, Pumpernickel & Profound Forgiveness: A Daughter’s Story of Her Punishing & Loving Relationship With Her Father by Rosanne D’Ausilio PhD

A Gripping Tale of Timeless Love, Eternal Trial, and the Pursuit of Second Chances… An Angel to Lend by Sivan Kish

One question haunts her: will he save her… or destroy her for good? Bound by Revenge: A Dark Mafia Romance by Anna Cole

The magic of Christmas in a mountain ski town brings up long-forgotten holiday memories in… Christmas at Mountain View Lodge by Deanna Lynn Sletten

Through dark humor and sharp wit, Heller critiques the dehumanizing effects of war in… Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

It’s Giveaway time! Get a free bonus entry into our monthly raffle and check out Hush Money (Spenser Book 26) by Robert B. Parker

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

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

Lose Belly Fat, Sculpt Glutes, and Feel More Energized! Chair Yoga for Weight Loss: Transform Your Body in 28 Days with Illustrated Exercises by ETS Publishing

How To Sample Terrific Reads Right In Your Browser: Secondary Targets by Sandra Edwards

Around the Kindlesphere, Nov. 7, 2010: Kindle Nation Citizens Quietly Flex Muscle, 007 on Kindle, Let the Best Books Lists Begin, National Digital Library System

Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert, Sunday, November 7: The greatest free books in the Kindle Store! … plus … Get it for just 89 cents while you can: J. M. Zambrano’s heart-pumping debut novel The Trophy Hunter (Today’s Sponsor)

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