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Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert for Tuesday, August 3, 2010: Forgotten: Seventeen and Homeless, plus Pacific Avenue (Today's Sponsor)

Novelist Melody Carlson is already well known to thousands of Kindle Nation readers, but her latest free addition to our Kindle Store Free Book Alert listings may be ….

But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor

(Editor’s Note: I’ve been pleased to share quite a few great reads with you over the past five weeks through our relatively new sponsorship feature, but it’s a special treat to be able to present a highly rated full-length novel that’s spent over 6 months on Kindle’s literary fiction bestseller list at a price of just 99 cents! -S.W.)
by Anne Watson 
Published by Shepard and Piper
Where do you go from the end of the line? This is the question facing Kathy Woodbridge as she steps off the bus in the port city of San Pedro, California. Nineteen years old, from Louisiana, she is running away from her past. There’s a lot to run away from. 
What do you do when there’s no one to do for? That’s what Lacey Greer wants to know, with her only child off at college. When Kathy gets a job at the office where Lacey works, she can tell that Kathy’s in trouble. Lacey’s husband advises her to stay out of it — but what’s she supposed to do, buy a rocking chair? 
Set in San Pedro, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans in the early seventies, Pacific Avenue explores themes of love, belonging, helpfulness, hope, forgiveness, reconciliation, interracial marriage, and healing from the trauma of war. At the end of the line, will Kathy find a way to return home?
Click here to download Pacific Avenue (or a free sample) to your Kindle, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, BlackBerry, Android-compatible, PC or Mac and start reading within 60 seconds!
Each day’s list is sponsored by one paid title. We encourage you to support our sponsors!
Authors, Publishers, Kindle Accessory Manufacturers:
Interested in learning more about sponsorship? Just click on this link for more information:

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Free Listings!

Forgotten: Seventeen and Homeless
by Melody Carlson

With MIA parents, overdue rent, and no one to turn to, Adele is forced out of her home. She strives to maintain the pretense of a “normal” life while struggling to finish high school, all the while concealing that she is homeless. But is she strong enough to keep up the act?
Every teenage girl has a secret. And every teenage gi
rl loves hearing someone else’s secret. But some secrets are big enough to detour, derail, or even destroy a young person’s life. Each of Melody Carlson’s Secrets novels will propel readers into a world where promises are broken, life is not fair, and challenges can make or break them, while ultimately helping readers discover that solid faith, loyal friends, and a persistent spirit will see them through.

 Who Can You Trust With Your Money?: Get the Help You Need Now and Avoid Dishonest Advisors

Thank God It
Thank God It’s Monday!: How to Create a Workplace You and Your Customers Love
 by Emmerich, Roxanne – 3.9 out of 5 stars- (73 customer reviews)

Today’s #1 Secret of Profitability and Performance
“Thank God Roxanne is willing to share her special mix of motivation and proven methods to supercharge your workplace. Readers will move from ‘Thank God It’s Monday’ to ‘I Wish Every Day Could Be Monday.’”
Harvey Mackay, author of the New York Times #1 bestseller Swim With the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive
“Thank God It’s Monday! is a mantra all organizations should chant.  This book helps you not only see the joy that work can bring but it gives you ways to bring it to life.  Buy this book only if you truly want to transform your organization.”
John Christensen, creator of the FISH! Philosophy and coauthor of FISH!
“I love this book! Roxanne Emmerich’s ability to transform organizations is nothing short of miraculous. She’s the real deal. Every employer should have this book for every employee, AND any person who wants to be happy at work needs to buy it for themselves.”
Jack Canfield, author of The Success Principles and coauthor of the Chicken Soup for the Soul® series
“Roxanne Emmerich provides an important reminder that trust, integrity, accountability, and FUN are the cornerstones of real business results. Changing the culture of your workplace can be challenging but delivers an undeniable return. Given we spend at least a third of our adult lives at work, we should all aim to wake up after the weekend and shout, ‘TGIM!’”
Jeffrey Hayzlett, Chief Marketing Officer, Eastman Kodak Company
“Read Thank God It’s Monday! and let Roxanne Emmerich’s engaging stories and inspiring ideas help you create passion in your organization. The words ‘love’ and ‘work’ can be used in the same sentence!”
Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager® and author of Leading at a Higher Level
Thank God It’s Monday! is about loving what you’re doing and creating massive results. Roxanne Emmerich introduces you to two CEOs: one desperately struggling to stay afloat and another who’s discovered a better route to growth and profitability. As you join them both on their journey, you’ll gain valuable insights for jumpstarting positive change from anywhere in the organization…replacing dysfunctional organizational behaviors with passion and creativity…overcoming setbacks…making vision and values actually work!
Whether you’re on the front line, in an office, or running the show, you’ll see how to: 
     •  Replace dysfunctional behaviors with passion and creativity
     •  Overcome setbacks with a “bring it on” attitude
     •  Breathe results-generating life into vision and values
     •  Think big and make big things happen

 

Sullivan
The Man Who Loved Jane Austen

Click here for an updated list of Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Listings, sorted by category, through August 3

including
Crime and Suspense
Writing and Publishing
Children/Young Adult/Teen
Contemporary Fiction
Nonfiction/Leadership/Change/Reference/Essay
Christian Spirituality and Christian Fiction

Science Fiction and Fantasy

Historical Fiction and Romance 
Erotica
Gay and Lesbian 

Samples
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(Sponsorship can take a number of different forms and implies no endorsement either of or by Kindle Nation or a sponsoring company or individual.)

Connecticut Attorney General Initiates Agency Model eBook Price-Fixing Inquiry

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By Stephen Windwalker  – Copyright © 2010 Kindle Nation Daily
Just when most of the big book publishers may have convinced themselves that they were about to get away with their so-called “agency model” price-fixing scheme to raise retail ebook prices by 30 to 50 percent, along has come Connecticut state attorney general Richard Blumenthal to say “Not so fast.”

Blumenthal’s office released a statement today along with nearly identical letters to Apple and Amazon requesting that company counsel meet with him to discuss two related kinds of trade agreements that were implemented by those companies earlier this year with publishers MacMillan, Simon and Schuster, Penguin, Hachette, and HarperCollins:
  • the agency model, under which publishers mandate a non-discountable fixed price that retailers must charge to sell their ebooks; and
  • so-called “most favored nation” (MFN) clauses under which publishers agree, as a condition of being allowed to sell their ebooks through Apple or Amazon, not to allow any competing retailer (including the other of the two just named) to sell any of those ebooks at a lower price than that set for Apple or Amazon.
MFN is a clearly anti-competitive agreement that protects Apple and Amazon from each other as well as from less deep-pocketed retailers that might try to increase market share by discounting retail ebook prices, as Amazon itself was able to do throughout 2008 and 2009. However, removing MFN agreements from the marketplace would be unlikely to hurt either Amazon or Apple unless they were locked in mortal price competition with one another, since both companies have the wherewithal to win any price war against smaller competitors. 

The agency model, on the other hand, appeared to grow out of discussions between the big publishers and Apple early in 2010 as they each had their own reasons for wanting to pare down Amazon’s share of the ebook content market. Amazon resisted the agency model initially but ultimately capitulated to publisher demands. Alone among the Big Six book publishers, Random House steered clear of the agency model and has refused to make its ebooks available in Apple’s iBooks store. 

The Texas attorney general’s office was reported to be investigating some of these same issues this Spring, but avoided the kind of definitive public comment made today by Blumenthal’s office.

“These agreements among publishers, Amazon and Apple appear to have already resulted in uniform prices for many of the most popular e-books — potentially depriving consumers of competitive prices,” Blumenthal said. “The e-book market is set to explode — with analysts predicting that e-book readers will be among the holiday season’s biggest electronic gifts — warranting prompt review of the potential anti-consumer impacts.

“Amazon and Apple combined will likely command the greatest share of the retail e-book market, allowing their most-favored-nation clauses to effectively set the floor prices for the most popular e-books. Such agreements — especially when offered to two of the largest e-book retail competitors in the United States — threaten to encourage coordinated pricing and discourage discounting,” Blumenthal said.

Some readers and other bloggers have wondered why Blumenthal would be going after Amazon when we know that it was Apple and the publishers who initiated the agency model. My take is that an attorney general who just happens to be running for the U.S. Senate is trying to appear even-handed here, but it’s clearly Apple and the publishers who have something serious to lose — that something being an anti-competitive price-fixing scheme that props up ebook prices in order to (1) keep Apple in the game; (2) prop up hardcover sales; and (3) change public expectations about what constitutes a reasonable ebook price..


Stay tuned. From our vantage point here at Kindle Nation Daily, it seems as likely that the agency model will die a natural death as that it will be terminated through legal or regulatory action. Most of the contracts between Amazon or Apple and the large ebook publishers will expire early in 2011, and discussions to renew or revise those contracts may not necessarily begin with wide agreement that the agency model has been a success. Among the potentially related items we’ve noted with interest in the past few days:
  • As Amazon opens its UK Kindle store, the company has made it clear that there will be no agency model for ebooks in the UK, and the same will probably apply in any other European-based in-country Kindle stores.
  • Amazon vice-president for Kindle Ian Freed provided information in a CNET interview published today that may undercut publisher’s hopes that Apple’s iBooks store could drive a serious wedge into Amazon’s market share for ebook content. Freed stated firmly that Amazon’s ebook content market share remains between 70 and 80 percent and suggested that claims of 20 per cent market share by Apple and Barnes and Noble should be subjected to “some more research.”

For more background on ebook pricing, see my recent ebook How to Price eBooks for the Kindle: A Pocket Pricing Guide for Authors and Publishers to Maximize Sales and Royalties with the New 70 Percent Royalty Option.

UPDATE to Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert for Monday, August 2, 2010: Three Full-Length Business Bestsellers, plus a Genre-Transcending WWII Espionage Thriller (Today’s Sponsor)

Today’s new Kindle Store Free Book Alert listings have been a little unsettled with some apparent Kindle database confusion about which books were being listed in which countries, but it seems to have stabilized now with three free, full-length business bestsellers from FT Press ….

But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor

Meanwhile, today’s sponsor listing has quietly jumped up to where it is #7 in the Kindle Store in war fiction and #671 overall!

“An excellent WWII espionage thriller that transcends the genre, making it a story that you don’t have to be a history buff to enjoy.” — The New Podler Review of Books

by Steve Anderson
In the grim final winter of World War II a failed German actor, Max Kaspar, is forced to join a desperate secret mission in which he must impersonate an enemy American officer. So Max cooks up his own fanatical plan — he’ll use his false identity to escape tyranny and war and flee to the America he’d once abandoned.
Max the performer is hardly a soldier let alone a double-crossing commando, yet in the deadly Battle of the Bulge he has to fool battle-shocked American GIs as well as dodge discovery by his reckless German comrades. Belgium’s Ardennes forest becomes a snowbound hell and the magical America he’d loved is lost to him, replaced by a somber invading juggernaut. In the end, Max’s gambles will lead him to a grim but honest payoff.

Part espionage thriller, part expatriate noir and the first in a series, The Losing Role is based on an actual false flag operation that’s been made infamous in legend but in reality was a doomed farce. In all the tragic details and with some dark humor, this is the story of an aspiring talent who got in over his head and tried to break free. 

Click here to download The Losing Role (or a free sample) to your Kindle, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, BlackBerry, Android-compatible, PC or Mac and start reading within 60 seconds!
Each day’s list is sponsored by one paid title. We encourage you to support our sponsors!
Authors, Publishers, Kindle Accessory Manufacturers:
Interested in learning more about sponsorship? Just click on this link for more information:

Click here to sponsor a Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert!

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Free Listings!

Thank God It
Thank God It’s Monday!: How to Create a Workplace You and Your Customers Love
 by Emmerich, Roxanne – 3.9 out of 5 stars- (73 customer reviews)

Editor’s Note: This Title was available free early today, was removed from the Kindle Store sometime before 1 p.m. EST, 8/2/2010, and is available and free again as of 2:45 pm EST..

Today’s #1 Secret of Profitability and Performance
“Thank God Roxanne is willing to share her special mix of motivation and proven methods to supercharge your workplace. Readers will move from ‘Thank God It’s Monday’ to ‘I Wish Every Day Could Be Monday.’”
Harvey Mackay, author of the New York Times #1 bestseller Swim With the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive
“Thank God It’s Monday! is a mantra all organizations should chant.  This book helps you not only see the joy that work can bring but it gives you ways to bring it to life.  Buy this book only if you truly want to transform your organization.”
John Christensen, creator of the FISH! Philosophy and coauthor of FISH!
“I love this book! Roxanne Emmerich’s ability to transform organizations is nothing short of miraculous. She’s the real deal. Every employer should have this book for every employee, AND any person who wants to be happy at work needs to buy it for themselves.”
Jack Canfield, author of The Success Principles and coauthor of the Chicken Soup for the Soul® series
“Roxanne Emmerich provides an important reminder that trust, integrity, accountability, and FUN are the cornerstones of real business results. Changing the culture of your workplace can be challenging but delivers an undeniable return. Given we spend at least a third of our adult lives at work, we should all aim to wake up after the weekend and shout, ‘TGIM!’”
Jeffrey Hayzlett, Chief Marketing Officer, Eastman Kodak Company
“Read Thank God It’s Monday! and let Roxanne Emmerich’s engaging stories and inspiring ideas help you create passion in your organization. The words ‘love’ and ‘work’ can be used in the same sentence!”
Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager® and author of Leading at a Higher Level
Thank God It’s Monday! is about loving what you’re doing and creating massive results. Roxanne Emmerich introduces you to two CEOs: one desperately struggling to stay afloat and another who’s discovered a better route to growth and profitability. As you join them both on their journey, you’ll gain valuable insights for jumpstarting positive change from anywhere in the organization…replacing dysfunctional organizational behaviors with passion and creativity…overcoming setbacks…making vision and values actually work!
Whether you’re on the front line, in an office, or running the show, you’ll see how to: 
     •  Replace dysfunctional behaviors with passion and creativity
     •  Overcome setbacks with a “bring it on” attitude
     •  Breathe results-generating life into vision and values
     •  Think big and make big things happen

 

Sullivan
The Man Who Loved Jane Austen

Click here for an updated list of Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Listings, sorted by category, through August 2

including
Crime and Suspense
Writing and Publishing
Children/Young Adult/Teen
Contemporary Fiction
Nonfiction/Leadership/Change/Reference/Essay
Christian Spirituality and Christian Fiction

Science Fiction and Fantasy

Historical Fiction and Romance 
Erotica
Gay and Lesbian 

Samples
Memoir, Biography, Personal Story
(Sponsorship can take a number of different forms and implies no endorsement either of or by Kindle Nation or a sponsoring company or individual.)

Getting a New Kindle? How to Return, Sell, or Otherwise Dispose of Your Existing Kindle

Update: Here’s a link to the essential product returns page that will help you generate a return shipping label

With last week’s announcement of the new Kindle 3 3G and wi-fi models, the earlier launch of the graphite Kindle DX, and now the more recent news that the new Kindles are out of stock, we have a perfect storm of factors that may have hundreds of thousands of people thinking about getting a new Kindle and — in many cases — trying to figure out what to do with an earlier Kindle model. So I thought it would be helpful to try to give you all the most helpful information in one place.

Buying a Kindle. First, here are the links to the models that Amazon is currently selling new, and a “first come, first served” rule applies:

Here’s a link to our special Kindle Nation issue on the launch of the new models last week, if you want to review features.

Returning a Kindle. If you’ve decided on a new Kindle but you received your old Kindle in the last 30 days, you should still be able to return the old Kindle to Amazon for a full refund with no questions asked. Here’s a link to Amazon’s support page on Kindle returns and refunds. If you purchased your Kindle at Target or another retailer, of course, you’ll have to check with that retailer regarding return policies.

And of course the big news today is the $139 Kindle Wi-Fi and the $189 Kindle 3G Plus Wifi are both sold out, with the current note on these web pages showing that orders placed now will ship on or before September 4, 2010.

So, that’s big news, and it should mean two very significant things:

First Come, First Served. If you’ve been thinking that you could order a new Kindle anytime between now and August 25 and have it delivered or shipped on August 27, that won’t work. I’ll admit that I got caught on this one myself, so I sheepishly placed my own pre-order today.


Selling a Kindle. The fact that no new 6-inch Kindles will be available for at least 30 days makes this the best possible time to sell an earlier model Kindle. Kindles have always held their value pretty well for resale — after adjusting, of course, for price cuts in new Kindle models — but used Kindles tend to get even higher prices when new Kindles are out of stock. But check with friends and family members first — that venerable, mature Kindle may be more attractive to one of your loved ones than you’d guess!

Some Kindle owners have had great success selling used Kindles on eBay or Craigslist, but Amazon also makes it easy for any individual to sell earlier model Kindles right on these Kindle pages:

If you’d like some nuts and bolts information on how to sell Kindles, used books or just about anything else through Amazon Marketplace, you may want to download a copy of the first book I wrote about Amazon’s business innovations, Selling Used Books Online: The Complete Guide to Bookselling at Amazon’s Marketplace and Other Online Sites (Harvard Perspectives in Entrepreneurship).

Whether you are returning or reselling an old Kindle, the closer you can come to original packaging, the better.

Donating a Kindle. If you are planning to donate your Kindle to a school, library, or other nonprofit organization, you may want to make use of the links above to determine the deductible fair market value of a used Kindle for tax purposes.

Good luck!

How to Price eBooks for the Kindle: A New Pocket Pricing Guide for Authors and Publishers

Here’s a book that’s definitely not for everyone, but if you are interested in Kindle pricing from the perspective of authors or publishers, it’s a must read … if I say so myself:

How to Price eBooks for the Kindle: A Pocket Pricing Guide for Authors and Publishers to Maximize Sales and Royalties with the New 70 Percent Royalty Option

I’m grateful to Morris Rosenthal of FonerBooks, a long-time expert on independent publishing, for the first review of the Kindle edition:

5.0 out of 5 stars The definitive guide for Kindle eBook pricing, August 2, 2010
By  Morris E. Rosenthal “www.fonerbooks.com” (Northampton, MA)
(REAL NAME)    
 
Pricing in all businesses is a combination of art and science. Windwalker has been publishing Kindle eBooks since the beginning, included a top bestseller on the paid list, and has actively experimented with price points on dozens of titles. While the main point of this eBook is how to price after the new 70% royalty option was announced (hint – choose a price that meets the 70% royalty requirements), he also discusses the bigger picture of eBook pricing, including the trade-off between profit per sale and sales volume.”

THANK GOD IT'S MONDAY UPDATE to Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert for Monday, August 2, 2010: A New Sullivan's Law Page-Turner, plus a Genre-Transcending WWII Espionage Thriller (Today's Sponsor)

Here’s a fresh “Thanks God It’s Monday” update to our Kindle Store Free Book Alert listings ….

But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor

“An excellent WWII espionage thriller that transcends the genre, making it a story that you don’t have to be a history buff to enjoy.” — The New Podler Review of Books
by Steve Anderson
In the grim final winter of World War II a failed German actor, Max Kaspar, is forced to join a desperate secret mission in which he must impersonate an enemy American officer. So Max cooks up his own fanatical plan — he’ll use his false identity to escape tyranny and war and flee to the America he’d once abandoned.
Max the performer is hardly a soldier let alone a double-crossing commando, yet in the deadly Battle of the Bulge he has to fool battle-shocked American GIs as well as dodge discovery by his reckless German comrades. Belgium’s Ardennes forest becomes a snowbound hell and the magical America he’d loved is lost to him, replaced by a somber invading juggernaut. In the end, Max’s gambles will lead him to a grim but honest payoff.

Part espionage thriller, part expatriate noir and the first in a series, The Losing Role is based on an actual false flag operation that’s been made infamous in legend but in reality was a doomed farce. In all the tragic details and with some dark humor, this is the story of an aspiring talent who got in over his head and tried to break free. 

Click here to download The Losing Role (or a free sample) to your Kindle, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, BlackBerry, Android-compatible, PC or Mac and start reading within 60 seconds!
Each day’s list is sponsored by one paid title. We encourage you to support our sponsors!
Authors, Publishers, Kindle Accessory Manufacturers:
Interested in learning more about sponsorship? Just click on this link for more information:

Click here to sponsor a Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert!

*     *     *

Free Listings!

Thank God It
Thank God It’s Monday!: How to Create a Workplace You and Your Customers Love
 by Emmerich, Roxanne – 3.9 out of 5 stars- (73 customer reviews)

Editor’s Note: This Title was available free early today, was removed from the Kindle Store sometime before 1 p.m. EST, 8/2/2010, and is available and free again as of 2:45 pm EST..

Today’s #1 Secret of Profitability and Performance
“Thank God Roxanne is willing to share her special mix of motivation and proven methods to supercharge your workplace. Readers will move from ‘Thank God It’s Monday’ to ‘I Wish Every Day Could Be Monday.’”
Harvey Mackay, author of the New York Times #1 bestseller Swim With the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive
“Thank God It’s Monday! is a mantra all organizations should chant.  This book helps you not only see the joy that work can bring but it gives you ways to bring it to life.  Buy this book only if you truly want to transform your organization.”
John Christensen, creator of the FISH! Philosophy and coauthor of FISH!
“I love this book! Roxanne Emmerich’s ability to transform organizations is nothing short of miraculous. She’s the real deal. Every employer should have this book for every employee, AND any person who wants to be happy at work needs to buy it for themselves.”
Jack Canfield, author of The Success Principles and coauthor of the Chicken Soup for the Soul® series
“Roxanne Emmerich provides an important reminder that trust, integrity, accountability, and FUN are the cornerstones of real business results. Changing the culture of your workplace can be challenging but delivers an undeniable return. Given we spend at least a third of our adult lives at work, we should all aim to wake up after the weekend and shout, ‘TGIM!’”
Jeffrey Hayzlett, Chief Marketing Officer, Eastman Kodak Company
“Read Thank God It’s Monday! and let Roxanne Emmerich’s engaging stories and inspiring ideas help you create passion in your organization. The words ‘love’ and ‘work’ can be used in the same sentence!”
Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager® and author of Leading at a Higher Level
Thank God It’s Monday! is about loving what you’re doing and creating massive results. Roxanne Emmerich introduces you to two CEOs: one desperately struggling to stay afloat and another who’s discovered a better route to growth and profitability. As you join them both on their journey, you’ll gain valuable insights for jumpstarting positive change from anywhere in the organization…replacing dysfunctional organizational behaviors with passion and creativity…overcoming setbacks…making vision and values actually work!
Whether you’re on the front line, in an office, or running the show, you’ll see how to: 
     •  Replace dysfunctional behaviors with passion and creativity
     •  Overcome setbacks with a “bring it on” attitude
     •  Breathe results-generating life into vision and values
     •  Think big and make big things happen

 

Sullivan
The Man Who Loved Jane Austen

Click here for an updated list of Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Listings, sorted by category, through August 2

including
Crime and Suspense
Writing and Publishing
Children/Young Adult/Teen
Contemporary Fiction
Nonfiction/Leadership/Change/Reference/Essay
Christian Spirituality and Christian Fiction

Science Fiction and Fantasy

Historical Fiction and Romance 
Erotica
Gay and Lesbian 

Samples
Memoir, Biography, Personal Story
(Sponsorship can take a number of different forms and implies no endorsement either of or by Kindle Nation or a sponsoring company or individual.)

Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert for Monday, August 2, 2010: A New Sullivan’s Law Page-Turner, plus a Genre-Transcending WWII Espionage Thriller (Today’s Sponsor)

Today’s latest addition to our Kindle Store Free Book Alert listings is another entry in Nancy Taylor Rosenberg’s popular Sullivan’s Law series ….

But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor

“An excellent WWII espionage thriller that transcends the genre, making it a story that you don’t have to be a history buff to enjoy.” — The New Podler Review of Books
by Steve Anderson
In the grim final winter of World War II a failed German actor, Max Kaspar, is forced to join a desperate secret mission in which he must impersonate an enemy American officer. So Max cooks up his own fanatical plan — he’ll use his false identity to escape tyranny and war and flee to the America he’d once abandoned.
Max the performer is hardly a soldier let alone a double-crossing commando, yet in the deadly Battle of the Bulge he has to fool battle-shocked American GIs as well as dodge discovery by his reckless German comrades. Belgium’s Ardennes forest becomes a snowbound hell and the magical America he’d loved is lost to him, replaced by a somber invading juggernaut. In the end, Max’s gambles will lead him to a grim but honest payoff.

Part espionage thriller, part expatriate noir and the first in a series, The Losing Role is based on an actual false flag operation that’s been made infamous in legend but in reality was a doomed farce. In all the tragic details and with some dark humor, this is the story of an aspiring talent who got in over his head and tried to break free. 

Click here to download The Losing Role (or a free sample) to your Kindle, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, BlackBerry, Android-compatible, PC or Mac and start reading within 60 seconds!
Each day’s list is sponsored by one paid title. We encourage you to support our sponsors!
Authors, Publishers, Kindle Accessory Manufacturers:
Interested in learning more about sponsorship? Just click on this link for more information:

Click here to sponsor a Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert!

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Free Listings!

Sullivan
The Man Who Loved Jane Austen

 

In The Warrior

Historical Romance by Mary Wine

The Sari Shop Widow by Shobhan Bantwal

Young, headstrong widow Anjali Kapadia runs her parent’s chic boutique in New Jersey’s Little India, but she’s the last to find out that their store is financially insolvent. When her parents bring in her wealthy, controlling Uncle Jeevan to rescue the business, Anjali is initially resistant to his changes, but soon has to admit that they’re working—and that she’s falling for her uncle’s mysterious business partner, Rishi Shah. Focusing on the immigrant experience, culture clash (and resolution) and family ties, Bantwal has a forgettable story, and her Little India doesn’t do much to distinguish itself—interesting for those unfamiliar with Indian culture but with little else to offer. Readers will wish Bantwal had done more with her appealing characters and New Jersey setting. — Publishers Weekly

A Flower Blooms on Charlotte Street: A Novel

If you enjoy a great suspense page-turner at the great price of, well, no price at all, then you won’t want to tarry about picking up the two pre-orders featured in today’s Free Book Alert. One of them expires Thursday and the other lasts just a few weeks longer….

Harper Collins Pre-Order for August 24, 2010 – Suspense
Other Recently Added Page Turners

Erotica by Adair, Dominique
Bright of the Sky (Entire and the Rose, Book 1)
by Kay Kenyon – 4.3 out of 5 stars (27 customer reviews)
Starred Review. At the start of this riveting launch of a new far-future SF series from Kenyon (Tropic of Creation), a disastrous mishap during interstellar space travel catapults pilot Titus Quinn with his wife, Johanna Arlis, and nine-year-old daughter, Sydney, into a parallel universe called the Entire. Titus makes it back to this dimension, his hair turned white, his memory gone, his family presumed dead and his reputation ruined with the corporation that employed him. The corporation (in search of radical space travel methods) sends Titus (in search of Johanna and Sydney) back through the space-time warp. There, he gradually, painfully regains knowledge of its rulers, the cruel, alien Tarig; its subordinate, Chinese-inspired humanoid population, the Chalin; and his daughter’s enslavement. Titus’s transformative odyssey to reclaim Sydney reveals a Tarig plan whose ramifications will be felt far beyond his immediate family. Kenyon’s deft prose, high-stakes suspense and skilled, thorough world building will have readers anxious for the next installment. (Apr.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

The Malacca Conspiracy
by Don Brown – 5.0 out of 5 stars (4 customer reviews)
Christian suspense fiction from the author of the Navy Justice series.

Click here for an updated list of Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Listings, sorted by category, through August 2

including
Crime and Suspense
Writing and Publishing
Children/Young Adult/Teen
Contemporary Fiction
Nonfiction/Leadership/Change/Reference/Essay
Christian Spirituality and Christian Fiction

Science Fiction and Fantasy

Historical Fiction and Romance 
Erotica
Gay and Lesbian 

Samples
Memoir, Biography, Personal Story
(Sponsorship can take a number of different forms and implies no endorsement either of or by Kindle Nation or a sponsoring company or individual.)