Leonard D. Hilley II is the author of Predators of Darkness: Aftermath, Beyond the Darkness, and The Game of Pawns. Mr. Hilley earned his B.S. in biology from Morehead State University in 1998. His lifelong love of writing and science has prompted him to write sci-fi and fantasy thrillers. He currently resides in the mountains of Kentucky with his wife, Christal, and their two children. Devils' Den (The Underworld)
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KND Kindle Free Book Alert for Monday, June 4: 390 BRAND NEW FREEBIES in the last 24 hours added to Our 3,600+ FREE TITLES Sorted by Category, Date Added, Bestselling or Review Rating! plus … Leonard D Hilley II’s DEVILS’ DEN (Today’s Sponsor – $2.99 or FREE via Kindle Lending Library)
Kindle Nation eBook of the Day: 41 Straight Rave Reviews Says This is More Than JUST A BUNCH OF CRAZY IDEAS by Pardu Ponnapalli – Don’t Miss It! For just 99 cents you can become part of Innovation Nation!
Here’s the set-up for Pardu Ponnapalli’s Just a Bunch of Crazy Ideas, just 99 Cents on Kindle, or Free Via the Kindle Lending Library :This book is about thoughts and ideas on a wide range of subjects. The topics include building a space elevator, new approaches to space travel, Star Trek reboot themes, ideas for energy conservation, what to do about our federal debt, modifying the game of chess and others. The following provides a quick overview of the chapters:
Chapter 1 Space Elevator
Chaper 2 Alternative Energies and Energy Conservation
Chapter 3 More Thoughts on Energy Conservation
Chapter 4 Gas Stations and filling up
Chapter 5 Luggage and Airplanes
Chapter 6 Thoughts on Chess
Chapter 7 Thoughts on Ice Hockey
Chapter 8 Thoughts on Cat Litter
Chapter 9 Our National Debt and Defecit
Chapter 10 I am overweight and so are most Americans
Chapter 11 Star Trek and Reboot
Chapter 12 Thoughts about Laptops
Chapter 13 Thoughts about Space Exploration
Chapter 14 Thoughts on the Stock Market
Chapter 15 Automatic Inform Systems for IT Workers
Chapter 16 Hikers who hurt themselves
Chapter 17 How to improve dishwashers
From the reviewers:
“Pardu S. Ponnapalli, an IT specialist with a doctorate in physics, has devised ingenious and potentially world-changing ways to improve things. Many of Ponnapalli’s essays are intellectually challenging, short, well written and entertaining.” –Patty Sutherland, Foreword Clarion Review June 2011
“Ponnapalli’s crazy (impulsive, but fun and thought provoking) ideas cover some timely and popular topics; U.S debt and defecit, overweight, stock market, space exploration, alternative energies, cat litter and more. The book is easy to read.”Recommended & Reviewed in The Mindquest Review of Books, by Lightword Publishing, August 2011
“The essays were well-written and mostly thought through. Based on his personal experience, they were enlightening and at times, laughable. More importantly, they make the reader take the time to think about our future, ponder on the problems, and look for the solutions we need.”–Teri Davis, BestSellersWorld.com, July, 2011
“Some of my fondest memories of university were those informal gab sessions in the common room. Just a Bunch of Crazy Ideas reminds me of those times.”Just a Bunch of Crazy Ideas presents some good ideas and some not so good ideas. Take them as you will. Laugh at them or be inspired by them.”Tami Brady, TCM Reviews, July 22, 2011
“The act of brainstorming can result in new ideas and surprising results. The author ends each chapter with the words, “Discuss and enjoy!” That is exactly what the reader of this “bunch of crazy ideas” will do.” –Libby Grandy, The US Review of Books
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Pardu S. Ponnapalli is an IT professional working in Rockville, Maryland. He has been a Star Trek buff all his life. He lives in Hagerstown, Md. with his wife, son, dog and two cats.
After earning a Ph.D. in Physics, he was promptly rewarded with unemployment. Realizing that he had lofty ambitions in life (like eating), he switched into the lucrative IT industry.
He has been an IT professional for about 20 years. His hobbies and passions include chess, astronomy and most of all playing with his son.
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Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon’s collection of 16 essays champions the cause of sci-fi, fantasy, thrillers, westerns, and other genre novels, comics, and pulp fiction. For Chabon, stories that give us great pleasure are, in many ways, our best art, the building blocks of our shared imagination.
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A harrowing story of love and survival.
In a future of scarce resources, where the possession of gas and diesel is punishable by death, a teenage boy and a pregnant girl must find a way to save their impoverished family. They risk their lives on a terrifying journey to sell stolen fuel on the black market.
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Frequent Traveller (Cathy Dixon #1)
by Pandora Poikilos
Catherine Dixon is everyone’s dreamgirl. Girls want to be her. Men want to be with her. From her charming smile to her gentle voice, one always turns to take a second look at Cathy. Wherever she goes there isn’t an ill word spoken about her. Her job as Vice President of Communications at MoonStar, one of the world’s top hotel chains is to make sure guests are happy to the point of perfection.
From the blue oceans of Antigua to the bustling streets of Vietnam, the racing adrenaline at the Green Hell, the devastating natural disaster in Japan and the stunning architecture in Germany, Cathy finds herself in a whirlwind of fine dining, plush clothes and sheer extravagance. But is perfection only a mask for untold disaster? In a job that deals so much with people, Cathy goes home to an empty bed. There are no pictures on her wall, no doting phone calls from a tongue tied lover and no family holidays to boast about.
What is Cathy’s secret and how will her world change when the world knows? What is the significance of the blue pendant round her neck? Who is the mysterious man she is seen with every three months? What are the contents of the brown envelope delivered to her on the fifteenth of every month? Will her secrets ever catch up with her or will Cathy continue to sail alongside perfection in the world she has created for herself as a Frequent Traveller?
(20% of royalties will be donated to the Intracranial Hypertension Research Foundation)
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Howard is a goofy, sixteen-year-old orphan who is desperate to figure out his life—he always manages to land in inexplicable situations. The mesmerizing Elisa is living the life from her most perfect dream. Jack, Elisa’s computer-hacking boyfriend, doesn’t care the least bit about what life has in store for him as long as Elisa is in it. When fate brings the three together, their lives are permanently altered in ways none of them could have ever imagined.
Howard, Elisa, and Jack are forced to embark on a great adventure in a world where the delicate peace between humans and Veneficans, people with magical powers, is carefully enforced by Ferreters, the unforgiving hunters. Treading on the perilous and chaotic boundary between the realms of humans and Veneficans, the three will have to quickly learn how to face the most terrifying challenges both imaginable as well as unimaginable.
NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: 50% of net proceeds will benefit charities.
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Sunset (Pact Arcanum)
by Arshad Ahsanuddin
Los Angeles, 2040. The terrorist Medusa and her followers threaten to destroy the metropolis with a nuclear bomb. One individual, the vampire Nicholas Jameson, comes forward to oppose them. As Nick takes on the terrorists, the fragile peace between the races hangs perilously in the balance as the supernatural peoples are exposed.
Arshad Ahsanuddin is a hematopathologist. The irony of a physician who specializes in blood disease writing a series of vampire novels is not lost upon him.
For more details about Arshad, check out the author’s website at pactarcanum.com.
Search on “Pact Arcanum” to find all the books in the series.
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From the blood and dust of New Jerusalem, the Legion of the LightBringer wages a galactic war against those who would replace their god. Now, the time has come for the Union of Free Worlds to make a stand. The front line is the idyllic asteroid world of Angelhaven, where the greatest mind in human history has discovered an elemental power with far-reaching implications. A power that both sides will do anything to harness.
Marine commander Gomes leads the crack Union task force. An unrelenting warrior driven by revenge and a need for answers, he hides a strange ability neither science nor religion can explain.
On the other side of the war, Aja is forced to fight for a cause she doesn’t believe in to protect her own secret.
Caught between them is Una, a living machine who battles for her humanity as her world falls apart.
Outnumbered ten to one and stalked by a mysterious nemesis, all three will play a role in unraveling Angelhaven’s enigma.
As the Legion invasion begins, unknown eyes watch with interest…
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Fossil fuel has an ageless affinity with dinosaurs. To create oil, dinosaurs died. Now the tables are turning!
The perfect energy storm is sweeping over the United States: Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown has paralyzed nuclear expansion globally, BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill has stalled deep water drilling, Arab oil countries are in turmoil causing doubt about access to future oil, the intensity of hurricanes hitting the Gulf’s oil rigs and refineries has intensified due to global warming, and the nation’s Strategic Oil Supply is riding on empty.
As the energy storm intensifies, the nation’s access to Arab oil, once supplying over sixty percent of our fossil fuel, is being threatened causing people to panic for lack of gas at the pumps, stranding cars across the country and inciting riots.
The U.S. Military is forced to cut back air, land, and sea operations sucking up 58% of every barrel of oil to protect the nation; U.S. commercial airlines are forced to limit flights for lack of jet fuel; and businesses are challenged to power up their factories, and offices as the U.S. Department of Energy desperately tries to provide a balance of electric power from the network of aged power plants and transmission lines that power up the nation.
The United States must find new sources of domestic fossil fuel urgently or face an energy crisis that will plunge the nation into a deep depression worse than 1929.
The energy storm is very real and happening this very moment. But, at the last moment of desperation, the United States discovers the world’s largest fossil fuel deposit found in a remote inaccessible mountain range within Alaska’s Noatak National Preserve surrounding six and a half million acres.
Preventing access to the oil is a colony of living fossil dinosaurs that will protect its territory to the death.
Nobody gets out alive; nobody can identify the predator–until Dr. Kimberly Fulton, Curator of Paleontology at New York’s Museum of Natural History, is flown into the inaccessible area by Scott Chandler, the Marine veteran helicopter pilot who’s the Park’s Manager of Wildlife. All hell breaks loose when Fulton’s teenage son and his girlfriend vanish into the Park.
Will the nation’s military be paralyzed for lack of mobility fuel, and will people across America run out of gas and be stranded, or will the U.S. Military succeed in penetrating this remote mountain range in northwestern Alaska to restore fossil fuel supplies in time to save the nation from the worst energy driven catastrophe in recorded history?
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Into Astrology? Or Are You Interested In Learning More About Zodiac Constellations? Vasilis Kanatas’ ASTROLOGY OF THE 13 SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC Is An Informative Look At The Influences of The Sciences In Astrology
Astrology of the 13 Signs of the Zodiac
by Vasilis Kanatas
Astrology of the Thirteen Signs of the Zodiac is a book which explains a new theory in this ancient field of study. It was prompted by the fact that Western Astrology has outlived its lifetime and its elements have been rendered obsolete by its cousin, the science of Astronomy. The precession of the equinoxes, that is, the movement of the point of intersection of the celestial equator by the ecliptic by 50.2” (seconds of a degree) each year, prompts corresponding discrepancies in the predictions of astrology, which move further and further away from reality with each passing year. Since 100 A.D., when Claudius Ptolemy wrote his Tetrabiblos, the zodiac constellations have moved approximately 29.2° across the sky, enough to ensure that the predictions of Western Astrology are completely misguided.
The Astrology of the 13 Signs of the Zodiac takes into account all available modern scientific information regarding the actual positions of the 13 Zodiac constellations and offers Astrology a way out. The only reasonable path now available to it is the acceptance of the 13 Signs of the Zodiac and the new theory, on the basis of which the Moon and the Sun are given their rightful place. In 13 Zodiac Sign Astrology, the Ascendant is represented by the position of the Moon, the celestial body which truly affects our lives, and not by some distant constellation. Lastly, sunspots, which have a well-documented impact on the Earth and its people, take on an important role in the New Astrology.
Only the Astrology of the 13 Signs of the Zodiac is firmly grounded in the sciences, and particularly in Astronomy. It recognizes the influence that the planets have over our lives through their interactions with the Sun and the disturbances they cause in its magnetic field, and the effect this has on the magnetic field of the Earth itself.
He is an amateur astronomer and member of the Amateur Astronomy Association “Achyrostrata” (named for an ancient word for our galaxy used by local people), based in the Delphi Municipality.
He is interested in Cosmology and Astrology in an amateur capacity.
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Bernard Mooney’s TOUGH CARE is our eBook of the Day, and Here’s a Free Sample!
Here’s the set-up for Bernard Mooney’s Tough Care, just $8.99 on Kindle:
In Tough Care, Bernard Mooney tells readers how Type 2 Diabetes was the root of the problems that terminated early on the energetic and productive life of his wife Celia. Causing the neuropathy that paralyzed her, it slowly and insidiously damaged the small blood vessels in her brain, which eventually led to a series of transient ischemic attacks and strokes.
“The damaged blood vessels in her brain also generated the dementia that was probably the hardest thing for both of us to handle,” says Mooney.
In his frank and deeply moving memoir, after describing in detail the physical, mental, and emotional challenges he encountered when caring for a dying spouse, he summarizes the lessons he learned, which he hopes will benefit many baby boomers now, or in the future.
“I share these lessons because I believe it is certain that life is too short to learn through your own experiences alone,” he says.
Finding himself compelled by a sense of duty and responsibility to “soldier on” through what seemed like an endless succession of difficulties, ordeals, and personal trials, Mooney felt he had the physical power and emotional strength to care for his wife alone. Looking back, however, he says he should have sought better and more professional help sooner.
He now realizes the importance of communicating with doctors and questioning anything not fully understood, and believes nurses are the very backbone of medical care. Gentle, kind, and compassionate, “they [nurses] could see Celia’s silent pain much better than I could,” Mooney says.
He also emphasizes that hospice care, whether in an institution or at home, is the most humane way to help a loved one pass, and is sure that those who are at the end of their lives choose their own time to leave this world. However, “You will feel guilt whether or not you deserve to be guilty,” says Mooney. “You will feel the universal survivor’s guilt because you are still alive and your mate is not.”
The trick is to not let this guilt turn into blame, and to accept that death occurs due to circumstances beyond anyone’s control.
Encouraging readers to communicate with their loved ones even after they have gone, Mooney also expresses how recalling memories will help with the healing process. “My wife has gone to a better place,” he says. “I am certain that she is glad to be there. I am also glad that her suffering has ended and she is now in a place of rest and peace.”
He made sure she received every form of dignity and respect he could imagine, including her final interment with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery. He feels some relief from having told his story. He hopes his book will provide a lot of the support, advice, and information readers will need.
From the reviewers:
The author endured the painful process of seeing his beloved spouse die. He shares the experience, and more importantly, lessons he wish he had known about to survive the ordeal.
I am a retired Army officer who attained a BS in business administration and an MBA at New Mexico State University during my service. I also served as the principal training developer and senior instructor on automated and manual administrative systems for the US Army Reserve and National Guard in California and Nevada before becoming the director of operations for a large mainframe computer facility.
After my military retirement I was a founding partner, CEO and senior automated systems architect of DINA, Inc., a twenty-five-person computer system integration firm. I also served as a technical project manager for several large Department of Defense-distributed processing projects.
I am now retired for the second time and currently live either in Las Vegas, Nevada, or at my secondary home in Arlington, Virginia.
