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Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine meets The Education of Little Tree in Our Kindle Nation eBook of the Day, Ghost Country by Dana Michelle Burnett. Here’s a Free Sample!

August 17, 2011January 25, 2011 by Steve Windwalker

Dana Michelle Burnett

Carrying echoes of Amy Tan and Rebecca Wells, Dana Michelle Burnett’s debut novel Ghost Country takes the reader into the lives of three Cherokee women and the lives of their modern day daughters.

Here’s the set-up for Ghost Country by :

Told in a series of vignettes that alternate from the era of the Civil Rights Movement, Woodstock, and the Vietnam War, to the present day.

From the Author:

“Ghost Country features a glimpse into my own Cherokee ancestry mixed with fictional characters and compelling stories.

“The idea for the novel sprang from the Cherokee heritage of my own family, from one generation to the next; our tie to the Cherokee has become less evident.

“With the birth of my daughter, I began to research our Cherokee lineage so that perhaps my daughter’s connection could be stronger than mine was. During my research, these characters came to mind. Ghost Country became the result.”

About the Author:

Dana Michelle Burnett spent most of her life writing short stories and sharing them with family and friends. She was fresh out of high school when she earned a spot as a guest columnist for her local newspaper, The Tribune. In the years that followed, her work was published in numerous commercial and literary magazines including Just Labs, Mindprints: A Literary Journal, Foliate Oak, and many more. Her short story John Lennon and the Chicken Holocaust was included in The Best of Foliate Oak in 2006.

She took over the family’s successful home decor business, and is also author of Home Decorating For The Real World.

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Each story carries the reader through a world where a birthday wish can make people disappear; where a child, after being told that she is nothing, can find her way back to the forgotten Cherokee traditions; and where a woman can give her daughter a treasured bit of advice thanks to a dead rock star.

5-Star Fiction! Critically Acclaimed Snake Walkers Has Just Been Released in a Kindle Edition, and It’s Our Kindle Nation eBook of the Day!

May 19, 2011January 24, 2011 by KND

In Africa, the Snake Walkers are a mythical tribe that teaches its children from birth how to walk through a nest of poisonous snakes without being bitten. In J. Everett Prewitt’s fictionalized Arkansas town of the early 1960s, the snakes are no less poisonous….

After the 2005 hardcover edition received unanimous critical acclaim, Kindle Nation is happy to announce that J. Everett Prewitt has just released his novel Snake Walkers in a Kindle edition.

Here’s the set-up:

In his first novel, J. Everett Prewitt brings us a critically acclaimed story of violence and transformation in a small Arkansas community during the early 1960s.

Traumatized as a child after witnessing a hanging, Anthony Andrews, the first black reporter at the Arkansas Sun, seeks to solve the mysterious abandonment of a small town and the disappearance of fourteen white men.

His investigation leads him from rural Arkansas to Cleveland, Ohio as he tries to uncover a family secret kept hidden for over a decade. The closer he gets to the truth, the more he must question his own motives.

His quest not only reveals the true identity of people he has met along the way, but also points Anthony toward a path that leads to his own salvation.

The Reviews:

Snake Walkers is a captivating book. –Midwest Book Review

Prewitt is a natural story teller. I was drawn right into the story. He captured my attention from the first paragraph. The plot carries with it all the elements of conflict, romance, and intrigue. The story unfolds a haunting theme of mystery. –Richard R. Blake, Vine Voice Top 1000 Reviewer.

“Snake Walkers is a fascinating read that revisits a horrific time in history where the lives of African Americans were tragically taken by those who wanted to suppress them.” –Books2Mention Magazine.

(Prewitt) develops complex characters and a fascinating mystery with historical roots. It is an engaging novel with insights to ponder. –Small Press Review, July-August 2005, Kaye Bache-Snyder

SNAKE WALKERS is a dynamic work of fiction with a slow, deliberate pace that is reminiscent of Southern Life. The characters are well developed, colorful, flawed and each of them is transformed in the course of the story. The plot is full of twists and suspense; this adds an additional layer of richness to an already compelling work of historical fiction. — RAWSISTAZ Reviewers. (Editor’s note: RAWISTAZ is recognized by Writer’s Digest as one of the Top 101 Websites for Writers for 2006 & 2008. It promotes literature by and about African-Americans.)

Everett writes with a great mastery of plot and characters capturing the attention of readers right from the riveting opening to the punding climax…This compelling page-turner marks the debut of an extremely promising new talent. –BookWire Review

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Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert, Monday, January 24: A “Sweet Seven” Bundle of Brand New Kindle Freebies! plus … Travel with us to 2110 for a big sweeping story told with a master’s touch in TAG by Simon Royle (Today’s Sponsor)

May 19, 2011January 24, 2011 by KND

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Simon Royle delivers a big, sweeping story with mastery, taking us to a 2110 world where vacuum-tube trains make it from London to New York in 35 minutes and the compelling characters engage us in a timeless story of love, murder and conspiracy … all wrapped around brotherly love…

“Tag has an excellent plot that would translate well to the big screen.
An impressive debut. Highly recommended.”
–Vicki Tyley for LitFest Magazine

TAG
(The Zumar Chronicles)
by Simon Royle
4.7 out of 5 stars 6 Reviews

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Enthralling reading
A compelling read!
Nice fast paced read with a twist or two

Here’s the set-up…

On 15 March 2110, 6.3 billion people will die.

One man’s vision to make the world a better place.

From a world where the concept of violence has changed, and where personal privacy has been forsaken, comes a tale of conspiracy, love and murder – and the bond shared by brothers.

What the Reviewers Say

Imagine a future where privacy is almost non-existent. A future where even your thoughts aren’t safe. It’s the year 2109 and every citizen is required by law “to carry upon their person an electronic device containing the means to broadcast their Personal Unique Identifier (PUI), and authorizes the monitoring of the identity, location, movements and actions of any citizen, without prior cause warranting such monitoring, by satellite or any other means…” But then a new “tag law” is proposed, one where the only difference between it and the old law is that the PUI is to be embedded in the arm.

In a race against time, UNPOL (United Nation Police) arbitrator Jonah Oliver is on a mission to save the lives of 6.3 billion people.

This fast-paced technothriller paints a scenario so plausible, it’s actually quite terrifying. Though action-packed, the relationship between Jonah and Mariko adds quieter moments and balance to this big, multi-dimensional story. The sense of place and time is vivid, yet there are no wasted words.

Tag has an excellent plot that would translate well to the big screen.

An impressive debut. Highly recommended.
–Vicki Tyley for LitFest Magazine

I don’t want to give away any spoilers because the plot is detailed and there’s lots of little hooks that at the time you don’t realize what they are until they reveal themselves later. But I can say that the plot is a big one – a conspiracy to kill of two-thirds of the population which in a hundred years from now (when the story takes place) is 9 billion people.

Although the author has labeled the book science fiction it really isn’t science fiction, just our world one hundred years further on. I really liked his ideas about technology, (he describes how trains could run in vacuum tubes and take us from London to New York in 35 minutes – I thought that was far-fetched but checked it out on the web and it is possible) how the world operates and how society has changed.

The characters are interesting and each is well filled out with enough detail to give you a strong sense of who they are, and why they are doing the things they do. I don’t normally review books because I don’t think I’m that good at it but I wanted to give the author a pat on the back for doing a good job. Glad I picked this one up, the story moves along at a fast pace, flows nicely, and is a real page turner. This is a book you can sink your teeth into.
–Pete Northrop

Life is irrevocably changed for Arbitrator Jonah Oliver the day he’s called in to work with a mysterious runner, Jibril Muraz, who seems to have no past, and an amazing ability to avoid the potency of the truth treatment. Jonah is not sure why this strange and alien being is asking specifically for Jonah’s services, and things become even less clear when a telepathic message is received directly from Jibril that hints at secrets and betrayal. With little explanation, and much confusion, Jonah is thrown into a race against the clock to stop a terrible plot designed to eliminate two-thirds of the population. All the odds are stacked against him, and he soon finds that his past is not what he thought it was, and his future is even more uncertain.

In his first novel, Simon Royle has managed to create a riveting thriller that kept me up much past my bedtime. From the first chapter, I was engaged and eager to discover the secrets of Jonah’s life as they unfolded. The book is set a century in the future, and the world looks much as we may expect; it is different, but somehow exactly the same. In line with the human tendency to shorten words of common objects (think net for internet, phone for telephone, TV for television), some of the important terms of this century include, amongst other terms, dev (device), trav (travel), and cred (credit- monetary units earned by “contributions”). Although common travel has extended to the moon and the world is now united, at least in theory, the people and the experiences are recognizable and definitely feasible. The idea of “tagging” humans with their identity numbers is perhaps not even as far in the future as the timeline chosen for this book. This fictional reality is extremely realistic, and the implications of such a future really demand to be considered.

The characters in this book were interesting and decently developed for a thriller. I may have enjoyed some additional development when it came to some of the relationships, particularly between Jonah and Mariko, to really understand their connections. In a fast-paced storyline like this, however, it really is more secondary to the action, and the action was well done. The writing style was very engaging and readable. I really didn’t find myself rewriting any passages in my head, and that’s always a good thing! The plot was well-paced, and it really compelled me to read the whole way through, especially as I began the last half of the book. The book switches from first person (when Jonah is present) to third person (when we’re with everyone else), and it made me do a quick double take once in a while, but that is probably my fault, as I have a tendency not to read chapter headings, and that is where the time, place, and characters were clearly spelled out.
— GraceKrispy, Reviewer

About the Author

Simon Royle was born in Manchester, England in 1963. He has been variously a yachtsman, advertising executive, and a senior management executive in software companies. A futurist and a technologist, he lives in Bangkok, with his wife and two children. TAG is his first novel.

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Goodness Gracious Green

By: Judy Christie

Added: 01/24/2011 3:01:02am

There will be suffering before it all goes dark. Mark LaFlamme’s Box of Lies is today’s Kindle Nation eBook of the Day, and here’s a free sample.

May 19, 2011January 23, 2011 by KND

Are you ready for something completely different?

Real-life crime reporter Mark LaFlamme has received a clean sweep of eight straight 5-star reader reviews for Box of Lies, his collection of over two dozen stories terrifying enough to raise the hairs on the back of our necks, yet familiar enough that they could have come from our own dream lives….

Here’s the set-up:

Peek inside and thrill to discover:

Men and women forced to march for their daily bread.
A crazy lady who frets over pennies on the sidewalk.
A professor learns we all may be works of fiction. Cannibals hang out over pitchers of beer. And one man knows the answers to the grandest mysteries of them all.

From award-winning Maine author Mark LaFlamme, 27 stories that have been keeping readers up at night.

“LaFlamme writes a well-paced, descriptive, riveting narrative you will not want to put down,” writes reviewer Tracee Gleichner.

A man falls in love with a machine. A mind-reader wishes the human soul had a mute button. And a visiting extraterrestrial finds human nature detestable – until he is hopelessly charmed by a simple game.

Mesmerizing tales from a masterful storyteller.

“Like Dean Koontz, John Saul and Stephen King combined,” says author Betty Dravis. “Yes, LaFlamme is THAT good!”

Book of LIes includes 27 disturbing tales that question the world around us, each more unsettling than the last:

A professor discovers that we all may be works of fiction.

A freak storm leaves half the population speaking gibberish.

And the grandest secrets of them all may await in the grave.

From a Vine Voice Reviewer:

LaFlamme is like a graffiti artist sliding around a corner in the dark with his collar turned up, a few bold strokes and he’s moved on–but the territory of your mind has been tagged with his distinctive images. —Linda Bulger, a top Amazon Vine Voice reviewer.– Linda Bulger, 2010

About the Author

Mark LaFlamme is a crime reporter and columnist at the Sun Journal in Lewiston, Maine.

His weekly column Street Talk has been named both Best in Maine and Best in New England. In 2006, LaFlamme was named Journalist of the Year by the Maine Press Association.

He is the author of the novels The Pink Room, Vegetation, Asterisk: Red Sox 2086, and Dirt: An American Campaign, as well as the short story collection “Box of Lies.”

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Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert, Sunday, January 23: A Bonanza of Free Kindle Games! plus … You could say “think Gone with the Wind meets Brokeback Mountain,” but I’ll just say it is one of the best novels of the year for any grown-up: Unmentionables by David Greene (Today’s Sponsor)

May 19, 2011January 23, 2011 by KND

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Editor’s Note:

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I could care less about the little controversies that some will associate with it, because this book is so much better than you might expect if you focus on them. It should have a place in every reader’s library, and the sooner you make time to read it the sooner you will share the great experience I’ve had the past few days.

I’m not going to pigeon-hole Unmentionables by saying “think Gone with the Wind meets Brokeback Mountain,” because that wouldn’t do justice to the novelist’s achievement in recreating a historical world that seems to suggest the impossibilty that he might actually have been present for everything that happened just outside Margaret Mitchell’s earshot.

This book is already the #1 bestseller among over 1,700 Kindle books in its leading genre list and challenging authors from Ken Follett to Jean Auel on the historical fiction bestseller list, but the surprise for some in the publishing industry will come when it emerges as one of the top indie crossover hits of 2011. I hope you will join me in discovering a remarkable new voice in fiction.

One reviewer wrote about recognizing, in David Greene’s prose, a style similar to that of Anthony Trollope or other 19th century novelists. Although that frankly did not strike me, I will say that one important element of Greene’s triumph here is strikingly reminiscent of the great tradition of English novelists from Eliot and Hardy to D.H. Lawrence. Part of what made the English novel of the 19th and early 20th century so compelling was the existence of class and social barriers that locked characters out from opportunities to live their dreams.

American culture has often tended to homogenize our experience and deny the existence of such barriers to focus on less compelling personal idiosyncracies, but the barriers are there, they have always been there, and in Unmentionables Greene gives resonance to those barriers, to their human cost, and to the passion and nobility that such barriers can inspire in “ordinary people.”

-Steve Windwalker

Unmentionables – A Novel
by David Greene
4.9 out of 5 stars 8 Reviews

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Great and thought-provoking book
Took my Breath Away!!!
Fantastic Epic
A Must Read !

Here’s the set-up:

Unmentionables is about two pairs of lovers in the Civil War south. One couple is straight, white, and wealthy. The other couple is gay, black, and enslaved.

Field hand Jimmy meets Cato, a house servant from a nearby plantation. Jimmy, who despises whites, mistakes Cato for a white man. But soon he learns that Cato is only half white. Cato is the illegitimate son of plantation owner Augustus Askew. With time, Jimmy’s fascination with Cato grows into a love for which they know no antecedents.

Unmentionables is also the story of Dorothy Holland, whose parents own Jimmy. Dorothy does not want any man to control her life. When she falls in love with Cato’s half-brother, William Askew, she must persuade him to agree to her terms, and to betray his role as a Confederate army officer.

What the Reviewers Say

“…surpasses the majority of Civil War novels by bringing together two enthralling love stories. Superb historical fiction with a contemporary angle; an enlightening look at the hidden elements of our past.”

–ForeWord Clarion Review

This book was fascinating from beginning to end. It is one of those rare books one never wants to end. The story is one never told before, in a situation everyone can learn from. Part of what makes the book so enjoyable is that the style is very reminiscent of 19th century English novels — Trollope, for example. Highly recommended.

–Constant Reader

Unmentionables by David Greene is set in the American Civil War south and recounts the intertwining stories of two couples, Jimmy and Cato, who are gay, black, and enslaved, and Dorothy and William, who are straight, white, and wealthy. If this time period and subject matter seem a tad too distant to relate to your present 21st century lives, fret not. History in this work is used masterfully to transform the specific into the universal. Unmentionables is about love – romantic and otherwise…

Mr. Greene’s great appreciation of all that is sensual is equaled by his intellectual understanding of relationships that cross established racial, social, sexual, and political boundaries. In a style that is straightforward without being encyclopedic, poetic without being over-embellished, and informative without being didactic, he achieves that balance of form and content required for a successful, and, in this case, beautiful work of art. When Erastus explains to Dorothy why he has chosen his itinerant lifestyle, he states:

“As I said before, so much that is beautiful in life happens in an instant. But one must contrive to be in the right place at the right time and have one’s eyes open.”

For me, one of those instants began when I received my copy of Unmentionables.

–James Viloria

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Kindle User Tip: The Kindle Clock – Setting and Finding The Time on Your Kindle

July 7, 2019January 22, 2011 by Steve Windwalker

Anne H. asked: when you set up the kindle it has a clock setting; how do I get it to show on my home screen?

Hi Anne,

Just press Menu from anywhere on your Kindle and your local time should appear at the top center of your display.

Then if you need to reset the time while traveling, etc., you can do that by pressing Menu from the Home screen, selecting Settings, and hitting the Next Page button.

One last tip: the time that displays on your Kindle is not a dynamic clock, so you will need to refresh by hitting Menu again from time to time, otherwise you’ll have all the time in the world to read! 😉

Cheers,

Steve Windwalker

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