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Month: November 2011
Kindle Nation Bargain Book Alert: Eileen Cruz Coleman’s Sweetwater American – 4.5 stars on 10 out of 11 Rave Reviews – Just 99 cents!
Sweetwater American
by Eileen Cruz Coleman
“A beautifully written story about immigrants and their families that will touch all your emotions. The story centers on Sandy, a would be filmmaker and her life in Washington, DC and her life in El Salvador after the death of her parents. It also covers her family and friends and their stories. Complex but very readable and I honestly could not put this book down. It will leave you thinking… ”
Denise Cortelyou
by Eileen Cruz Coleman
4.5 stars – 11 Reviews
Text-to-Speech and Lending: Enabled
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Here’s the set-up:
Set in Washington, D.C. and El Salvador Sweetwater American is the story of an orphan and would-be filmmaker who is sent to live in a cursed town in El Salvador with her godmother, a woman whom she has never met and who may hold the secret to breaking the town’s curse: no babies have been born alive in five years.
Through the eyes of Sandy Rodriguez and Elena Martinez, the two main characters, we are led into a different, haunting and magical world, where people test their faith every day and hold true to what they believe: that hardship and darkness can be overcome if one finds a reason to live.
While living in El Salvador, after a film crew comes to her town to film a movie, Sandy realizes she wants to be a documentary filmmaker. When she returns to the States, she attends George Washington University where she meets, Elena, a sixty-something-year-old woman who serves peas and mashed potatoes in one of the school’s cafeterias.
Sandy, intrigued by Elena, decides to ask her if she would be willing to share her life story with her. Elena, whose past still haunts her, agrees to tell Sandy her story.
During the interview, Sandy is forced to come to terms with her own past and she begins to understand what the term, Sweetwater American, really means.
Sweetwater American is a story that is filled with tears, hardships, love and the desperate determination to survive.
About the Author
Eileen Cruz Coleman was born in Washington, D.C. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland with a degree in European History. Her short stories have appeared in numerous literary journals both online and in print. She lives in Maryland with her husband and two children.
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The Scoop on the New Kindle Owners’ Lending Library Program, and An Important Commitment from Amazon: Free Kindle Book Offers Are Not Going Away
By Steve Windwalker
There has been a bit of confusion among Kindle owners today following Amazon’s launch of their new Kindle Owners’ Lending Library program, and we’ll do all we can here to help get it sorted out. I apologize for our phrasing that referred to the program initially as “Amazon’s new approach to free books,” and for the fact that there was a brief period when our Free Book Search Tool was returning some titles that were not free (in that they qualified only for free borrowing under the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library program); that problem has now been addressed. Like the New York Times, we took a moment to get our heads around what was being launched.
Important note: For any readers who were charged for a book today due to confusion between free books and the new Kindle lending library program for Amazon Prime members, Kindle customer support is always glad to provide a no-hassle return and refund within 7 days of your purchase. You can contact them at http://amzn.to/tL7YwJ.
So, what’s the new program?
First, let me be as clear as I can be: the new Kindle Owners’ Lending Library program is not a replacement for Amazon’s free Kindle book offerings, and Kindle Nation Daily has received a direct answer from Amazon spokeswoman Sarah Gelman today “confirming that we will continue to offer free books in the Kindle Store.”
Other than that very important fact, here’s the scoop on the new program:
- Amazon has rolled out a new feature called “Kindle Owners’ Lending Library,” which for starters consists of a list of over 5,000 Kindle titles that can be borrowed free … if you have an Amazon Prime membership, which costs $79 a year but is currently available with a one-month trial.
- Initially Amazon’s roll-out created some confusion because these new “Lending Library” titles began showing up on free book lists such as ours here at the Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Search Tool, and readers naturally worried that they were no longer going to be able to find free Kindle titles. This is not the case, indeed the Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Search Tool is fully functional once again after a brief hiccup this morning.
This new addition to the $79 Amazon Prime package will add great value to what is already a terrific deal — a deal that I have been enjoying for several years. Here are some of the fine points for the lending program:
- There are tons of great books available under this program, including over 100 current and former New York Times bestsellers.
- This “lending library” program is limited to one book per Amazon account per month.
- There do not, at present, appear to be any “due dates” or other limitations imposed on the length of time for which you can “borrow” these books, but you do have to return one book before you can download another under the program.
- The program is limited to those readers who actually own a Kindle device — any Kindle device from the Kindle 1 to the Kindle Fire and anything in between or thereafter, but not the Kindle Apps for other devices such as computers and iPads. Indeed, at present you can only browse the listings for these books using a Kindle and you need to be on your Kindle to download a qualifying book when you find one that you like.
We’ll have a lot more to report on this in the days ahead, and you can count on us to do all we can to help you find books that you want to read at prices you can comfortably pay — including free!
For Amazon’s diagrams on how to use their new program, please visit the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library page.
Here’s the guts of Amazon’s press release this morning:
Introducing The Kindle Owners’ Lending Library
With an Amazon Prime membership, Kindle owners can now choose from thousands of books to borrow for free – including over 100 current and former New York Times Bestsellers – as frequently as a book a month, with no due dates
Books can be borrowed and read on all Kindle E Ink devices and Kindle Fire
SEATTLE, Nov 02, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Today, Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) announced the launch of the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library. With an Amazon Prime membership, Kindle owners can now choose from thousands of books to borrow for free – including over 100 current and former New York Times Bestsellers – as frequently as a book a month, with no due dates. No other e-reader or ebookstore offers such a service. With an annual Prime membership, the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library is included at no additional cost. Millions of Prime members enjoy free two-day shipping, unlimited streaming of nearly 13,000 movies and TV shows, and now thousands of books to borrow for free with a Kindle.
“Owning a Kindle just got even better. Today, we’re introducing a new Prime benefit built for Kindle: The Kindle Owners’ Lending Library,” said Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Founder and CEO. “Prime Members now have exclusive access to a huge library of books to read on any Kindle device at no additional cost and with no due dates.”
The Kindle Owners’ Lending Library offers access to a wide array of categories and genres in fiction and non-fiction, and includes popular titles such as Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, The Big Short and Liars’ Poker by Michael Lewis, TheHunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins, and Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen –plus award-winning books such as The Finkler Question and Guns, Germs, and Steel, memoirs such as Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential, and motivational books like The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Just as with any other Kindle book, your notes, highlights and bookmarks in borrowed books will be saved, so you’ll have them later if you purchase or re-borrow the book. Books are borrowed from a Kindle device, and customers can have one book out at a time. When customers want to borrow a new book, any borrowed book can easily be returned right from their device.
Titles in the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library come from a range of publishers under a variety of terms. For the vast majority of titles, Amazon has reached agreement with publishers to include titles for a fixed fee. In some cases, Amazon is purchasing a title each time it is borrowed by a reader under standard wholesale terms as a no-risk trial to demonstrate to publishers the incremental growth and revenue opportunity that this new service presents.
“The Kindle Owners’ Lending Library is a great new benefit for Kindle owners and an entirely new growth opportunity for authors and publishers,” said Russ Grandinetti, Vice President, Kindle Content. “With the growth in Prime membership and the recent addition of Prime Instant Video, we’ve been able to broaden our relationships with movie and TV studios such as CBS, Fox, and NBCUniversal and significantly increase their revenue. We’re excited to expand that investment to books – with this launch, we expect three immediate results: Kindle owners will read even more, publisher revenues will grow, and authors will see larger royalty checks.”
“We’re excited to offer titles from our ebook ‘Chapters’ series, which covers some of the world’s most popular destinations, to members of Kindle Owners’ Lending Library,” says John Boris, EVP Lonely Planet. “Our ebooks have done incredibly well on Kindle and this is a great way to showcase our travel expertise to an even broader audience.”
“We’re excited about any program that helps readers discover our authors and their books,” said David Nussbaum, Chief Executive and Chairman of F+W Media Inc. “We think this will lead to more people reading F+W’s books, and more profit for our authors.”
To learn more about the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, visit www.amazon.com/kindleownerslendinglibrary. To learn about all of the additional benefits included with Amazon Prime, or to start an Amazon Prime free trial visit www.amazon.com/prime.
KND Kindle Free Book Alert for Thursday, November 03: FOUR (4) BRAND NEW FREEBIES in the last 24 hours added to Our 1,312 FREE TITLES Sorted by Category, Date Added, Bestselling or Review Rating! plus … Mary DeMuth’s 11 SECRETS OF GETTING PUBLISHED (Today’s Sponsor – 38 Straight Rave Reviews, $4.99)
There’s a catch today — a new “free reading” feature for Amazon Prime members! — so we’ve temporarily taken down our free book tool and replaced it with the list below while our web team re-programs the tool, and we’ll have a post to explain it this morning.
Meanwhile, powered by our magical Kindle free book tool, here are this morning’s latest additions to our 1,100+ Kindle Free Book listings…
But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor
“Mary is a consummate professional and well equipped to help other writers with both the creative and business side of writing. “
Terry Glaspey, Senior Editor, Harvest House Publishers
by Mary DeMuth
4.8 stars – 38 Reviews
Text-to-Speech and Lending: Enabled
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“Whether you have half a dozen published books under your belt or are just starting out, you’re sure to learn valuable lessons and approaches from this book that has garnered 38 straight rave reviews from Amazon readers.”
Here’s the set-up:
See how easily you can learn the secrets of getting published!Frustrated by how much there is to learn to finally see your name in print with a big publishing house? Mired in confusion about your next steps? An accomplished nonfiction freelancer and novelist with 11 traditionally published books under her author belt, Mary DeMuth understands the twists and turns of the publishing industry. She answers the question, “How can I get published?” by pulling 11 Secrets from her popular blog, Wannabepublished. Mary teaches you how to:* Craft the kind of query letter that gets you noticed by industry professionals.* Write stronger, powerful, attention grabbing prose.* Create effective writing routines to meet your daily and weekly goals.* Navigate a writing conference with confidence.* Find and woo an agent.
One Reviewer Notes:
“Mary DeMuth is one of those authors who truly knows how to engage her audience. When you read “11 Secrets of Getting Published” it’s almost like you’re sitting down having a conversation with her. Not to say that the book’s not meaty, because it is. Just about everything a fledgling author needs to know is here: learning the craft, dealing with rejection, insights into the publishing industry, how to market, tips for conferences, and more. While this book is awesome for those who have yet to publish, it’s also great for those who already have a few books on the shelves. We can always use inspiration and encouragement, and this book is full of both. I particularly like “Quick Writing Advice”, which is one of three bonus sections. ”
Jennifer AlLee, Vine Voice
About the Author
I’m a freelance writer and novelist living in Texas with my husband of nineteen years and my three wonderful children. I have been writing since 1992, first as a newsletter editor, then as a freelance writer, followed by a fiction and nonfiction author. My articles and columns have appeared in numerous publications and I have published many books. I’m more than my books. I love to cook, try my hand (body!) at triathlons, have a nose ring, and am passionate about singing. I love to help people overcome a difficult past and blog about it five times a week at http://www.marydemuth.com. My facebook page is http://www.facebook.com/authormarydemuth and you can follow me on twitter at http://www.twitter.com/marydemuthUK CUSTOMERS: Click on the title below to download
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KND Kindle Free Book Alert for Thursday
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Nancy Drew and Sherlock Holmes meet Steampunk in our eBook of the Day: Kailin Gow’s 5-star novel SUPERNATURAL DEVICES – $4.99 on Kindle, and Here’s a Free Sample!
Here’s the set-up for Kailin Gow’s
Supernatural Devices (A Steampunk Scarlett Novel: Book 1), just $4.99 on Kindle:
Scarlett was a sensible seventeen year old young lady –or so everyone thought. But there was definitely more to her. The daughter of famous English Egyptologists and archeologists Theodore and Gemma Seely, she was prone to adventure and all the world had to offer.
It was the 1890s, and she had just received a letter from one of her parents’ dearest friends, a certain detective who lived on Baker Street, who needed her help on a case most bizarre.
Join her as she embarks on a trip through the supernatural side of London, ventures into the forbidden realms bordering Victorian society, often accompanied by a dashing but infuriating Lord Darthmoor.
Scarlett’s first case, which had seemed innocent at first, takes a turn for the unexpected and dangerous.
Join in the Hunt for the Steampunk Scarlett Devices. Within the pages of Steampunk Scarlett will be clues to win prizes!
- Supernatural Devices – Book 1
Immortal Devices – Book 2 Releases December 2011
Ethereal Devices – Book 3 Releases 2012
From the reviewers:
Great Start to a new series! Supernatural Devices is a refreshing book in the crowded young adult fantasy genre. Ms. Gow has crafted a fun and fascinating series with a heroine I admire. Scarlett Seely is the type of girl whom you wish all Victorian ladies were like. Modern ladies, too. Running through the streets of London in hot pursuit of fey and vampires show what a strong character she is – Jo Wyatt
Supernatural Devices is fun, sassy, and sexy. I love Scarlett. She is like Sherlock Holmes and Nancy Drew put together. She arrives in London to work with the famous detective only to find herself entrenched immediately in a mystery that involves supernaturals. – amylynn
Kailin Gow Did it Again! Love this new series! The mystery had me guessing the entire time. Scarlett is called from an Egyptian dig to London where she is to use her supernatural gift to aid a certain detective in locating a gypsy girl. From the start, there is non-stop action. – Alley Kat
If Sherlock Holmes had a Daughter! Supernatural Devices is clever and witty. Lord Darthmoor had me laughing at one moment and then swooning in the next. Tavian is not too bad either. – Sara Gage
Supernatural Devices introduces Scarlett Seely, sure to be a fan favorite for girls and young women. Supernatural Devices is smart, funny, suspenseful, sweet and fun. There are plenty of twists that keep you guessing. – Suzereads
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Kailin Gow has been a published author for over 10 years. She started writing books for tween girls to help them with self-confidence andself-esteem. Her book, Gifted Girls Activities Guide to 365 Days of the Week, became a reference book used in girls organizations across the U.S.
As her tween fans grew to become teens and young adults, Kailin began writing engaging and entertaining young adult book series for them. The results are book series like the Frost Series, PULSE Series, Wicked Woods Series, Stoker Sisters, Phantom Diaries, The Fire Wars, FADE, DESIRE, and more.
When not busy inhaling chocolate and drinking coffee by the gallon, Kailin makes time for writing fantasy books, blogging as an expert blogger for Fast Company, volunteering as an Emergency Responder and volunteering for battered women’s shelters.
Her Frost Series consisting of the Bitter Frost Series, The Wolf Fey Series, and the Fairy Rose Chronicles along with her other book series are being developed into worldwide MMORPG Games by SEE GLOBAL ENTERTAINMENT, which is the world’s leading game developer known for developing the top blockbuster films into games.
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Today’s Kindle Daily Deal – Thursday Nov. 3 – Terrific Literary Fiction x 2 for Under $3! Save 72% on Anchee Min’s ambitious and moving new novel Pearl of China, plus … “[Christopher] Meeks’ prose is carefully crafted, his characters compelling and entertaining” in Love at Absolute Zero (Today’s Sponsor)
But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor
by Christopher Meeks
4.2 stars – 19 Reviews
Lending: Enabled
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Here’s the set-up:
Love At Absolute Zero is about a physicist who tries to apply the tools of science to finding a soul mate. Specifically, Gunnar Gunderson, a 32-year-old physicist at the University of Wisconsin, gets a promotion, and all he can think of now is finding a wife, causing his research to falter. To meet his soul mate within three days–that’s what he wants and all time he can carve out–he and his team are using the scientific method, to riotous results.
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