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Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert, Friday, January 28: Two Brand New Freebies in Spinward Fringe: Origins and A Child al Confino, plus … Daniel Pyle’s twisted thriller Dismember (Today’s Sponsor)

May 19, 2011January 28, 2011 by KND

A stirring memoir from the edge of the Holocaust and a fictional broadcast from the Spinward Fringe are this morning’s latest additions to 200+ Free Book Alert listings….

But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor

At seven, Dave survived a gruesome mountainside car accident that left the rest of his family savaged and dead – but now, twenty-three years later, he has a plan…

“It’s one of those books you won’t be able to put down. If you like a good thriller, you’ll enjoy this.” –Scylla

Dismember
by Daniel Pyle
4.7 out of 5 stars 3 Reviews

Kindle Price: $2.99

Text-to-Speech: Enabled

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An edge of your seat thriller!

Here’s the set-up:

The summer he turned seven, Dave Abbott survived a gruesome mountainside car accident that left the rest of his family savaged and dead.

Now, after living twenty-three years with the twisted backwoodsman who pulled him from the wreckage, Dave is carrying out a plan to replace each of his lost loved ones with members of nearby, unsuspecting families. He has prepared, he’s stalked, and now his chance has come to get his family safely out of the mountains once and for all.

Whether they like it or not.

What the Reviewers Say

I originally bought this book in the digital version and I had to sit at my computer to read it. I hate reading on the computer but I couldn’t leave the screen, I had to finish it. I then bought the Kindle edition, to read again. Now I’m going to have to get the hardcopy just so I can lend it out. I’m not going to say anything about the plot and give the story away. All I can say is I highly recommend this book. It’s one of those books you won’t be able to put down. If you like a good thriller, you’ll enjoy this.
–Scylla

DISMEMBER is the worst twenty-four hours for two young boys, Zach and Trevor. It also lightly chronicles the worst twenty-three years of Davy’s life. It’s a mystery/thriller that takes us into the mind of an abused and battered soul who, in turn, reaches out and batters others with the hope that it will ‘make things right again’ for himself and his family.

The story is solid and beautifully written, and you will definitely enjoy the author’s descriptive prowess, but this is a story that you read for the sake of the journey, not the ending, since there really isn’t much of one. But more on that in a minute.

The strength of this book is the powerful expression of the parent/child bond, and it does that extraordinarily well. For a gore fest, I found myself enjoying the tender moments of DISMEMBER above anything else. The divorced parents of six-year-old Trevor Pullman try as hard as they can to make sure that both are a part of his life, and their actions show that love in almost every scene.
–Ronnell D. Porter

About the Author

Daniel Pyle is the author of one novel, DISMEMBER, and many short stories. He lives in Springfield, Missouri, with his wife and two daughters. Visit him online at www.DanielPyle.com.

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The Kindle Revolution and the Bottom Line: Amazon to Announce 2010 Corporate Earnings After Stock Market Close Today, January 27, 2011

July 7, 2019January 27, 2011 by Steve Windwalker

Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) will hold a conference call to discuss its fourth quarter 2010 financial results on January 27, 2011, at 2:00 p.m. PT/5:00 p.m. ET. The event will be webcast live, and the audio and associated slides will be available for at least three months thereafter at www.amazon.com/ir.

It will be interesting, as always, to see how much information the company provides about the business success of the Kindle, sales of ebooks and other content, and related issues such as the success of Amazon’s very new but shockingly successful publishing imprints such as AmazonEncore and AmazonCrossing.

Kindle’s New Lending Program May Not Be for Everyone, But It’s Definitely for Some: Lending & Borrowing Grow By Leaps and Bounds Through New “Kindle Lending Club”

July 7, 2019January 27, 2011 by Steve Windwalker

In some ways, it wasn’t really fair of us to include a question about the new Kindle lending program in our Winter 2011 Kindle Nation Citizen Survey. After all, the program is even newer and shinier than the Kindles that millions of happy campers opened on the morning of December 25, since Amazon waited until the penultimate day of 2010 to launch the program.

So in that context, it’s pretty impressive that over 15 percent of the first 1500 respondents to our survey said that they were “using the new lending feature to lend or borrow Kindle books” sometimes (10%), every week (4%), or nearly every day (2%).

Even more impressive is the growth of a very attractive new service called the Kindle Lending Club that hits the sweet spot for interested Kindle lenders and borrowers by making the process easier than ever even as it multiplies dramatically the universe of potential readers with whom you can share books.

The Kindle Lending Club is only about two weeks old, but “our membership on the website is now over 8,800, over 10,000 on Facebook, and we have matched over 6,000 book loans on the website since the website launch,” Kindle Lending Club founder Catherine MacDonald told me this morning.

How many Kindle customers will ultimately be borrowing and/or lending of Kindle content? Even if the percentage stays in the 20 percent range, that could be millions of Kindle owners. And content borrowing could also swell the ranks of those who are first introduced to Kindle reading by downloading a free Kindle app onto another device such as an Android, iPhone, iPad, PC, or Mac.

So we don’t know how many there will be, but for those who decide to give it a try it’s hard to think of a better way to go about it than through the Kindle Lending Club. I tried it the other day and managed to lend three books to eager readers that very day, and it took me a grand total of less than five minutes.

We’re sufficiently impressed here at Kindle Nation that we’ve been brainstorming with Kindle Lending Club members for ways to work together to help make a more Kindle-friendly world for all readers and for our author and publisher friends as well.

Check out the Kindle Lending Club for yourself today!

Desperate Housewives is a toddlers’ tea party next to our Kindle Nation eBook o’ the Day, Cathryn Grant’s suburban noir novel Demise of the Soccer Moms! Here’s a free sample

May 19, 2011January 27, 2011 by KND

Behind the veneer of manicured yards, designer furniture and vacations, fast-paced careers and super-children lurks envy, greed and materialism. Beneath that? Fear.

Suburban Noir – where the mundane is menacing.

Here’s the set-up for Cathryn Grant’s Demise of the Soccer Moms:

A seemingly quiet suburban neighborhood is upended when a provocative single mother saunters onto the school playground for the first time. Her Doc Marten boots, tight T-shirts, and in-your-face attitude stir up buried fears and sexual anxiety.

In the dark corners of her home, a woman battles crippling memories that threaten to destroy the family she wants so desperately to protect. A suspicious death forces her best friend to make a hard choice between marriage and friendship.

Paranoia, jealousy, and maternal instinct collide, leading to the demise of the soccer moms.

Suburban Noir – where the mundane is menacing.

About the Author:

Cathryn Grant’s short fiction has appeared in Alfred Hitchcock and Ellery Queen Mystery Magazines. Her short story, “I Was Young Once” received an honorable mention from Joyce Carol Oates in the 2007 Zoetrope All-story Short Fiction contest.

Her second novel, BURIED BY DEBT, will be released in November 2011.

From Grant’s SuburbanNoir.com site:

Here you’ll find a fictional world populated by individuals who are obsessed, paranoid, desperate to find happiness and clinging to their sense of security. Sometimes, they find redemption.

In its heyday, Noir Fiction illustrated a subterranean stream of discontent, a sense that the so-called “good life” wasn’t really that good — that it was actually quite toxic, because it was based on envy, greed and materialism.

Suburban Noir can be thought of as a sub-genre of psychological suspense. The characters are wounded and flawed, yearning for something they can’t define. A few of them are more than a bit off balance, driven to crime by mental and emotional forces they’re unable to control.

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It takes a village to become a theme park, in our Kindle Nation eBook of the Day, Jacqueline T. Lynch’s warm, funny novel Meet Me In Nuthatch. Here’s a free sample!

April 20, 2011January 26, 2011 by Steve Windwalker

Our Kindle Nation eBook of the Day is a novel of humor, warmth, Christmas tree farming, dressing up like it was 1904, and selling your small town to a theme park conglomerate.

Here’s the set-up for Meet Me In Nuthatch by Jacqueline T. Lynch:

Party like its 1904, in Nuthatch

A publicity stunt to attract tourists to a small dying town (population 63), results in the entire community turning the clock back to 1904. It is local Christmas tree farmer Everett Campbell’s idea, after watching the film “Meet Me in St. Louis,” his young daughter’s new favorite movie. What begins as half practical joke and half desperate ploy initiates the rebirth of Nuthatch, Massachusetts. Tourists do come, along with the media. Everett’s resentful teenaged son rebels at living in the pretend past. His wife, a medical transcriptionist who works at home, a self-employed and self-professed loner, has panic attacks when tourists stop to take her picture. The town’s unofficial historian, a genteel septuagenarian, supports Everett’s scheme, but for personal gain.

To Everett’s dismay, his campaign to save their community results in also attracting representatives of a chain of theme parks who want to buy Nuthatch 1904. Everett now stands to lose his town in a way he never imagined, and the community is divided on which alternate future to choose. On the sidelines but ever encroaching toward the center is a local drug dealer, the longtime enemy of Everett and his best friend Bud, who discovers a new opportunity to threaten them and exploit the town, or its new owner.

About the Author:

Jacqueline T. Lynch’s articles and short fiction have appeared in regional and national publications, including the anthology “60 Seconds to Shine: 161 Monologues from Literature” (Smith & Kraus, 2007), “North & South”, “Civil War Magazine”, “History Magazine.” Several of her plays have been published by Eldridge Publishing, Brooklyn Publishers, and Dramatic Publishing Company, one of which has been translated into Dutch and produced in the Netherlands.

She has never actually been to Nuthatch, but is planning a trip there as soon as they fix the potholes.

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Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert, Wednesday, January 26: A New FreeView from HarperCollins, plus … Hero Kurt Vetter and a secret agent named Amanda fight to stop the unthinkable in The Patriot Paradox, a 99-cent page-turner by William Esmont (Today’s Sponsor)

May 19, 2011January 26, 2011 by KND

Honeymooning! Is it a yarn? a short story? a preview? a brand new Cypress Hollow offering with bonus material from HarperCollins? Apparently it is all of these, and it is also free today and sits atop this morning’s freshly updated presentation of over 200 Free Book Alert listings….

But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor

A loyal brother, a trained assassin and a shadowy figure struggle to unearth the truth in a desperate bid to prevent the unthinkable from becoming reality, all for just 99 cents!

“Reading The Patriot Paradox was no different than sitting in the theatre watching my favorite political thriller; I was glued, popcorn in hand.“
–Jeff Bennington, author The Rumblin’ and Killing the Giants

The Patriot Paradox
by William Esmont
4.6 out of 5 stars 5 Reviews

Kindle Price: $0.99

Text-to-Speech: Enabled

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Good book with interesting plot
An intelligent & absorbing read
Waiting for the next episode

Here’s the set-up…

Conscience can be a killer.

A plot to kill a nation, hatched by a secret cabal of ex-cold warriors intent on finishing the war that defined their existence.

One man, who in a crisis of conscience, passes information about the plot to his brother, a shattered soul living on the edges of society.

When Kurt Vetter learns of his brother’s murder, he has no idea how far he will travel, how much he will sacrifice, in order to uncover the truth. With the help of Amanda Carter, a shadowy figure from his brother’s past, he races across the globe, staying one step ahead of a trained assassin, in a desperate bid to prevent the unthinkable from becoming reality.

What the Reviewers Say

Reading The Patriot Paradox was no different than sitting in the theatre watching my favorite political thriller; I was glued, popcorn in hand. The sights and sounds of explosions and gunfire came to life in this conspiracy theory, intelligently and meticulously crafted by William Esmont. Without spoiling the story, I liked Kurt Vetter and his relationship with Amanda, the secret agent with whom he finds himself stuck, via a letter he receives from his deceased brother. After losing his wife and child, Kurt handles his grief and life in a very realistic manner, even though he is thrust into a conspiracy where he does not belong. The technology and modern methods of intergovernmental agency surveillance appeared to be spot on. A very enjoyable, fast and easy read. The ending seemed abrupt, but knowing that there is a sequel only makes me hungry for the next installment.
–Jeff Bennington, author The Rumblin’ and Killing the Giants

Great story from a new author. Fast paced action thriller. Lean, get-to-the-punch-line writing style. Can’t wait for Episode II of the Kurt + Amanda series. Definitely a good-read!
–Uncle Duke

I would recommend this book. The story line was gripping and was compelling in its thought and was hard to put down.
–jdhealthave

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Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert, Tuesday, January 25: Jacquelyn Cook’s 5-Star Novel Sunrise is brand new to our Free Book listings this morning, plus … John Grisham meets Carl Hiaasen in a newly released JAKE LASSITER novel, FOOL ME TWICE by Paul Levine (Today’s Sponsor)

April 20, 2011January 25, 2011 by Steve Windwalker

The true love story behind one of Georgia’s most famous antebellum mansions is this morning’s latest addition to our freshly updated presentation of every single contemporary free title in the Kindle Store….

But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor

Miami Herald readers heard that it’s “a fast-paced thriller filled with action, humor, mystery and suspense.”

Chicago Tribune readers heard that “Jake Lassiter is attractive, funny, savvy, and brave.”

But Kindle readers heard it here first:

there’s a newly released JAKE LASSITER book

in the house!

“Take one part John Grisham, two parts Carl Hiaasen, throw in a dash of John D. MacDonald, and voila! You’ve got Jake Lassiter.”
– Tulsa Sun

FOOL ME TWICE (The Jake Lassiter Series)
by Paul Levine
5.0 out of 5 stars 1 Review

Kindle Price: $2.99

Text-to-Speech: Enabled

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“Wildly entertaining blend of raucous humor and high adventure.”
– St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Here’s the set-up…

A grisly murder case takes Jake Lassiter from the beaches of Miami to the slopes of Aspen in the greatest challenge yet for the linebacker-turned-lawyer.

Lassiter helps Blinky Baroso beat a fraud rap, then gets stiffed for his fee. Not only that, when an associate ends up dead, Lassiter is the prime suspect. If he doesn’t find the killer, he’ll face a murder charge.

The trail leads to a search for buried treasure under the Colorado ski slopes. With his 12-year-old delinquent nephew in tow, Lassiter encounters the twin dangers of a mysterious ex-girlfriend and a rancher who’s handy with a nail gun and will kill anyone between him and a priceless artifact of the Old West. Is the “Silver Queen” statue real? Or, like the “Maltese Falcon,” is it merely the stuff dreams are made of?

The characters converge in an explosive finale in an abandoned silver mine where Lassiter confronts his checkered past and his precarious future.

“Hey, Lassiter. You ever hear the expression ‘Fool me once, shame on you?’”

“Sure. ‘Fool me twice, shame on me.’”

“Nope. Fool me twice, you’re dead.”

What the Reviewers Say About Fool Me Twice

“Wildly entertaining blend of raucous humor and high adventure.”
– St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“A fast-paced thriller filled with action, humor, mystery and suspense.
– The Miami Herald

“Delicious.”
– Los Angeles Times

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Paul with author daughter Wendy Sachs

One of the great pleasures of our citizenship in Kindle Nation has involved following one-of-a-kind hero Jake Lassiter through thick and thin in one great yarn after another.

Now, in FOOL ME TWICE, the search for buried treasure takes Jake to Colorado and an old silver mine located under the ski slopes in Aspen. Oh, and there’s the little matter of Jake being a suspect in a murder case back in Miami. Those two stories come together nicely. We meet a rancher who’s obsessed with finding a priceless artifact from the Old West…a guy who’s a little too handy with a nail gun. There’s a femme fatale from Jake’s past….something the author uses perhaps a bit too much, and a hilarious client named Blinky Baroso. (He blinks whenever he tells a lie, and usually his eyes are flapping like Venetian blinds).

One of Levine’s best. A scary ending. Highly recommended.
-Frank Kingman

What the Reviewers Say About the hero Jake Lassiter

“Mystery writing at its very, very best.”

– Larry King, USA TODAY

“Irreverent…genuinely clever…great fun.”

– The New York Times Book Review

“Just the remedy for those who can’t get enough Spenser and miss Travis McGee terribly.”

– St. Petersburg Times

“Jake Lassiter is attractive, funny, savvy, and brave.”

– Chicago Tribune

“Genuinely chilling.”

– Washington Post Book World

“Take one part John Grisham, two parts Carl Hiaasen, throw in a dash of John D. MacDonald, and voila! You’ve got Jake Lassiter.”

– Tulsa Sun

“Lassiter is well on his way to becoming a star in the field of detective fiction.”

– Dallas Morning News

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