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Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert, Thursday, November 18: Saddle up for a ride on the wild side with Western romance writer Colleen Coble’s Lonestar Sanctuary plus … find out what’s driving the success and five-star reviews for Terrence O’Brien’s The Templar Concordat (Today’s Sponsor)

This morning’s latest addition to our 100+ Free Book Alert listings invites you to join Western religious romance novelist Colleen Coble as she explores the pleasures and promises of the Bluebird Ranch….
But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor
If you loved the idea of Dan Brown’s bestsellers, but weren’t so crazy about all the arty esoterica, Terrence O’Brien’s The Templar Concordat could hit your sweet spot….
 

The Templar Concordat
by Terrence O’Brien
Kindle Price:     $2.99
Text-to-Speech: Enabled 


(Ed. Note: When we first mentioned Terrence O’Brien’s The Templar Concordat in this space earlier this month, the book had just been published and I had only my own enjoyment of it to share with you. Since then, it has soared to the top rungs in its category bestseller lists and the 5-star reviews have started to come in from Kindle owners like the reader I have quoted just below. I hope you will click here to download the free sample or, at just $2.99, the entire book. -S.W.)

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow, What an exciting ride! I didn’t want the book to end., November 14, 2010
By 
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This review is from: The Templar Concordat (Kindle Edition)
Terrance O’Brien can really, really write! If you like Vince Flynn, Jack DuBrul, Brad Thor, Dan Brown and similar authors you are going to love this new author. I started reading this book on a Saturday morning and couldn’t stop reading until I finished it. The book is nonstop action with exciting plots, intrigue where the stakes are high, a driven hero named Callahan, who is my new favorite character, and an ending that will leave you begging for his next book. This is an exciting and satisfying read and I highly recommend it.



Here’s the set-up:


When the truth is your greatest danger, and the enemy knows the truth, things can only go downhill when the enemy finally gets the proof. And that’s the proof the Hashashin get when they steal what the Vatican doesn’t even know it has.


Now the infallible decrees of two Twelfth Century popes and three kings, stolen by the Hashashin, threaten to catapult the bigotry, bias, and religious blood baths of the Third Crusade straight into the Twenty-First Century.


When Templars Sean Callahan and Marie Curtis are drawn into the mess, they face an ancient enemy that has already nearly won the battle, a newly elected Mexican pope being undermined by entrenched Vatican powers, world class scholars who will sell their prestige to the highest bidder, and terrorists lingering over lattes in sidewalk cafes.


Moving from Rome to London, Switzerland, and Saudi Arabia, Callahan and Curtis are desperate to find some way to stem the success the Hashashin are having enlisting the majority of moderate Muslims in their Jihad.


Outmanuevered at each step by the Hashashin, only a last ditch roll of the dice has any chance of success. But it’s the only chance they have.

Check out Terrence O’Brien’s website here.

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

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The Templar Concordat


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As California teen Arizona Darley contemplates traveling back through the portal to seek out her dad, her life is plunged into a whirlwind ride through the unknown. But this time, she doesn’t disappear through the portal:

QUANTUM (Portal Chronicles Book Three)
by Imogen Rose … just $3.99 in the Kindle Store!

A whole year has passed. It’s October again… or is it?

As California teen, Arizona Darley, contemplates traveling back through the portal to seek out her dad, her life is plunged into a whirlwind ride through the unknown.

But this time, she doesn’t disappear through the portal.

Has Arizona been kidnapped–again? Is Raj Sen to blame? Could Dillard have taken her?

As Kellan, David and her parents launch a frantic search with the help of the Wanderers, it becomes apparent that things are much more complex than they seem – for all of them. While investigating her daughter’s latest disappearance, Olivia faces shocking revelations about the Wanderers and her life with Rupert.

In the meantime, what’s happening in New Jersey? Are both of Arizona’s worlds about to collide?

Quantum is the third book in the Portal Chronicles. Catch the start of Arizona’s adventures in Portal and Equilibrium.


Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert, Wednesday, November 17: Today’s Fresh New Freebie Additions Cover Everything from Holiday Love and Lust with My Christmas Wish, The Dickens With Love, and Holiday Bound to Challenging Business Propositions Like Fixing Toyota, plus … Pulp Fiction Meets L.A. Confidential in Steven Silkin’s The Cemetery Vote (Today’s Sponsor)

The brand new additions to our 100+ Free Book Alert listings keep coming this morning with some sexy new romances stepping unabashedly alongside several buttoned-down business and communication titles, among other downloadable delights….

But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor


Did you love L.A. Confidential? Boogie Nights? The Candidate? Pulp Fiction? Weave them all together into a smart, edgy, fast-paced political thriller that you can read right on your Kindle for less than two bucks, and you’ve got Steven Silkin’s The Cemetery Vote.

 The Cemetery Vote
by Steve Silkin
5.0 out of 5 stars – 3 Reviews
Kindle Price:     $1.99
Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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Here’s the set-up:

Jace Kingman, a drug dealer, is recruited to round up Latino day laborers and take them to the polls on Election Day. Dan Vienna, a fired police officer on the road to become an Internet porn producer, tries to extort a million dollars from a losing candidate for U.S. Senate by claiming he can prove the election was stolen. Jace and Dan will cross paths as both schemes go awry. Can they save themselves? Or will they destroy each other?  

 
The Cemetery Vote takes you on a roller-coaster ride over a landscape of ballot-box stuffing, Internet porn production and drug trafficking, plus a love story – or rather two or three or four of them. Featuring iconoclastic twins, an ex-con philosopher and an X-rated actress who’s more than she appears. It’s a political thriller with philosophical underpinnings….


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Here are ten 10 tips to get you started:

1. Think Stocking Stuffers. The Kindle 1 was basically unavailable for the holiday seasons of 2007 and 2008, and the Kindle 2 was still expensive enough and new enough to the general public to be seen as a big-ticket, if small-box, under-the-tree item in December 2009. In 2010, the new latest-gen Kindle (I’ll still call it the Kindle 3) is smaller, lighter, and at $139 to $189, inexpensive enough to think of it as a slightly pricey stocking stuffer. It will fit in those Christmas stockings, and there are very few people on your list who would not love to have one.

2. Protect the Kindles You Give with Kindle Covers. I’ll grant that those Kindle commercials that show Kindles spinning around like hockey pucks are kind of cool, but I still strongly recommend that every Kindle owner protect her Kindle with one of the nifty covers the you can find on the Kindle Accessories page. They range from chic designer covers from Kate Spade and others to my own personal favorite in terms of functionality, the lighted Kindle cover.

3. Protect the Kindles You Give with Kindle Warranties. Ditto with a two-year extended warranty for every Kindle, which is currently priced at $39.99 for the wi-fi only Kindle, $49.99 for the 3G+wi-fi Kindle, and $109 for the Kindle DX.

4. Pre-Load the Kindles You Give with Free Books, Great Indie Fare, and Bestsellers. As long as a new Kindle gift is associated with your account, you can pre-load it — once it has been ordered — with the kind of free books, great indie author books, and bestsellers that you will find at Kindle Nation Daily, either online free or with a Kindle subscription.

5. Give Kindle Gift Cards to Once and Future Kindle Owners Among Your Loved Ones. Although Amazon still has not come up with a way for us to give Kindle books to each other as gifts, they are making it easier and easier to send Kindle gift cards via email, mail, or even through your Facebook account. Check it out, there are a pretty cool array of features including time-release gifts!

6. Check Out the 100 Best Books of the Year. In addition to the great books we alert you to every day at Kindle Nation, it’s also worth taking a look at Kindle owners’ 100 favorite books of the year for 2010 and the 2010 Bestseller Archive to get ideas for books to load onto the Kindles you are giving and the Kindles you own. Don’t be surprised if you find a few authors there that you heard about first at Kindle Nation, like recent Kindle Nation sponsors Elisa Lorello and Vicki Tyley.

7. Black Friday? I Don’t Think So. Your time is valuable, and I don’t recommend that you waste it rooting around for Amazon or other retailers to start discounting the Kindle to some new sub-$100 price point during the waning weeks of 2010. The Kindle is selling very well at $139 and $189, and I’ll be surprised if Amazon sees a need to lower those prices. If I were looking to find a great deal somewhere, I might check out Woot, the off-price website that Amazon acquired earlier this year, for specials on refurbished models or something along those lines.

8. Sell 100 Used Books to Help Fund Your Holiday Giving. Just what it says, really. If you have a Kindle, I have no doubt that you have hundreds of books in your home. Some you will keep forever. Others you could unload via Amazon marketplace or your local used bookstore, and you might well get enough for them to buy somebody a brand new Kindle! You’d also make some space in your home and provide some treats for other avid readers, not all of whom — yet — have Kindles. And you really don’t need a copy of my used bookselling book to do this.

9. If Someone You Love Wants a Tablet Instead of a Kindle (And Your Pockets Are Deep Enough), Get Them a Table with a Built-in Kindle App: the Galaxy Tab with a T-Mobile Carte Blanche 3G Connection. I’m pretty sure I have decided to get one, and I think it is going to be a true competitor for the iPad.

10. Purchase and Download a Great Holiday Song for Yourself and All the Kindles You Give. If you are having a little trouble welcoming the holiday spirit, let me recommend that you spend $1.29 to download Susan Boyle’s cover of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah from Amazon, transfer it to your Kindle and share it with everyone you love. I think it will help.

From the Kindle Nation Mailbag: Whither The Kindle Movers & Shakers List?

Thanks to longtime Kindle Nation reader Abby Sthaang who wrote in with this question:
Dear Steve,

Thanks for all you do for Kindle owners. You definitely have one of the two best Kindle blogs!

But I read recently on another Kindle blog that Amazon has done away with the Kindle Movers & Shakers list. Why would they do that? Say it ain’t so, Steve! I used to love using the Movers & Shakers list to spot hot new books in the Kindle Store.

Sincerely,
Abby S.
Well, thanks, Abby, for your question and also for your generous assessment of our place in the Kindlesphere. We’ll just keep trying harder.
Regarding the Kindle Movers & Shakers list, I noticed that death notice for the Kindle Movers & Shakers list, too, but let’s just say that rumors of the list’s death are premature: it’s still right there, every day, in the Kindle Store, and here’s a link:
Kindle Store Bestsellers: Movers & Shakers (This highly volatile hour-by-hour list shows the titles from the top 400 Kindle store bestsellers that have experienced the greatest percentage jump in sales rankings during the past 24 hours. For instance, a title that has jumped from #7 to #2 will show a 250% climb).
While we’re at it, here are some other Kindle bestseller lists that it might be worth keeping bookmarks for:
One caveat about the the Kindle Movers & Shakers list that might be worth keeping in mind. Frequently you’ll see that the top titles on the list have moved up by a factor of infinity because they are shown as being “previously unranked,” leading to the notion that are soaring to the top of the bestseller list in their first 24 hours. While this is true in a few cases, the majority of such listings are often books that migrated from “free” to “paid” in the past 24 hours, and frankly I can’t think of anything I would less rather do than pay $5 or $10 for a book that was free yesterday.

The key to getting that book free yesterday, of course, even if we say so ourselves, is checking our magical and revolutionary Kindle Nation Free Book Alert tool.

Finally, here’s another bestseller list feature that is well worth checking out: the Bestseller Archive for the Kindle Store. You can pick any week, month, or year since the Kindle Store was launched and see what titles sold the most copies. I’ve just chosen a random time period, but I find it fascinating to keep looking at the same list again, and again, and again.

Read a free sample of our eBook of the Day, The Artist’s Model,  without leaving your browser!

Tom Laurence knows that he has it all. A successful lawyer, he is set to marry his childhood sweetheart and come into his inheritance. Feeling increasingly as if some important element is missing from his life, he returns to his old passion, painting, in the hope that he will feel more fulfilled. Instead, new conflicts arise when he encounters the beautiful but elusive model Elizabeth in the months before his wedding, and he finds himself torn between duty and desire.



by Daphne Coleridge 

Tom Laurence knows that he has it all. A successful lawyer, he is set to marry his childhood sweetheart and come into his inheritance. Feeling increasingly as if some important element is missing from his life, he returns to his old passion, painting, in the hope that he will feel more fulfilled. Instead, new conflicts arise when he encounters the beautiful but elusive model Elizabeth in the months before his wedding, and he finds himself torn between duty and desire.

Elizabeth has  abandoned her own art studies to marry. Events in her past have left her traumatised, but not for the reasons that one may assume. Carrying a sense of guilt and struggling to bring up her son, Elizabeth has dismissed the idea of ever having another relationship. 
Although neither can ignore their growing attraction, Elizabeth realises that a relationship between them could tear Tom’s life apart and hurt those closest to him. 
Could an unexpected turn of events offer the possibility of a happy ending?

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