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The return of an undead Daddy complicates life in our Kindle Nation eBook of the Day, Donna Butler’s Manifesting Daddy. Here’s a free sample!

May 17, 2011February 1, 2011 by KND

In Donna Butler’s Manifesting Daddy, Melanie has a mean case of depression. But life only gets more complicated when Daddy returns from the dead – and moves in next door!

Here’s the set-up:

In Manifesting Daddy, Donna Butler explores death, rebirth and reinvention with a skillful blend of naughty humor, irreverence and compassion.

Melanie Brodie is suffering from one mean case of depression. She’d love to end it all, but she has kids to consider, even if, in her mind, they and everyone else in her lousy, stinking life would be better off without her. Her shrink- a young, Chinese grad student who looks and talks like a skater boy- and her best friend, Juniper, who looks and talks like she just stepped out of Woodstock- are both eager to help. Sure, Dr. Park might curse or call her “dude” every now and then, but the kid makes a lot of sense. And when Juniper proposes a Manifesting Daddy ceremony, Melanie knows the poor woman means well. But only Juniper would think they could actually connect with the spirit of Melanie’s dead father-reincarnated no less- and draw him back into her life so that he could cure her depression. Only Juniper would consider that a perfectly reasonable solution.

Melanie, a self-described pushover, goes along with it. As does Marisol, her other childhood friend, a sexy Latina who attends the ceremony just for the chance to bicker with Juniper- something she’s loved to do since they were kids. Weeks later, when someone moves into the vacant house next door, Melanie assumes it’s just coincidence that they own an antique desk that looks vaguely familiar. And later, when she meets that new neighbor and he literally picks her up when she’s down, it’s still too soon to make a connection. As her friendship with Austin grows, her marriage falls apart, and still she refuses to question the intensity of their relationship. Only later, when faced with a glimpse of her own mortality does she realize where she’s seen those eyes before.

If what Melanie suspects is true, all of the sanity and success she’s found, thanks to Austin, could go out the window. Because in coming back into her life, he’s come between not only her and her husband, but between her and Juniper too.

Five Star Review

The author is new, but there’s some really good writing in this book. Excellent characters. Very touching story. I think it would make an awesome chick flick with someone like Hillary Swank or Sandra Bullock as Melanie.–Limey

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Get to the root of overweight: the way you think about food, with our Kindle Nation eBook of the Day, Skinny Thinking! Here’s a free sample!

May 17, 2011January 31, 2011 by KND

Finally, a well-written guidebook that gets to the root of overweight: the way people think about food. –Dr Bernie Siegel, Author of 365 Prescriptions for the Soul

HERE’S HOW YOU WILL BENEFIT: Learn to make wise food and eating choices, permanently change the way you eat and think about food, end your weight struggle forever and free yourself from food worries, learn to accept your body.

Laura Katleman-Prue’s Skinny Thinking has shown thousands of people how a “thought diet” can be as important as calorie counts in changing our relationships with food, and our lives. Here’s the set-up:

Laura Katleman-Prue’s Skinny Thinking exposes how thought and belief can sabotage or create a healthy relationship with food and provides us with important tools for transforming our relationship with food. –Georgianna Donadio, MSc, PhD

This book provides an engaging and fun read, while offering sound advice about how thinking differently influences positive eating habits. –Gerald P. Koocher, PhD, ABPP

READY TO END YOUR FOOD and WEIGHT WORRIES?

If so, Skinny Thinking is for you.

The only way to create a healthy relationship with food and stop battling with your weight is to change the way you think about food. This is the missing piece of the eating puzzle.

Once you change your thinking, your eating and your body will change. Simply by practicing the five steps presented in this book, you will never again need to worry about food or your weight.

Supplement your efforts and strengthen your mindfulness with Skinny Thinking Daily Thoughts (just 99 cents on Kindle!) These Skinny Thinking thoughts were designed for you read one-a-day, a few each day or a page or two each day–whatever feels right. They are an adjunct to the other Skinny Thinking tools, reminders to help you stay on track as you form new, healthy habits.

About the Author:

Skinny Thinking grew out of Laura Katleman-Prue’s desire to heal the eating, weight, and body image issues that plagued her for 35 years. She discovered that the root of her problem was the way she thought about food.

In fact, changing her diet was irrelevant, if she didn’t change her thinking habits. By teaching herself to go on a “thought diet” and transform her relationship with food, she experienced permanent healing.

This healing motivated her to write Skinny Thinking and to lead Skinny Thinking Workshops in order to help others heal their eating issues as well.

Laura attended Pomona College and pursued graduate studies in Marketing at Boston College. In 1980, she founded the Boston Brownie Company Inc. with retail and wholesale distribution in 2,000 stores in 14 states along the eastern seaboard.

In 1992, Laura completed coursework at Lesley University in Counseling Psychology. That same year, she received a Certification in Transpersonal Psychology from the Theravision Institute. A long-time meditator, she has been teaching meditation and self-inquiry for the past four years. She began teaching Skinny Thinking Workshops in 2009.

Laura offers both Skinny Thinking Workshops and individual sessions. For her workshop calendar go to: http://skinnythinking.com/home/calendar/

In addition, Laura offers two types of one-on-one phone sessions:

1. The Skinny Thinking approach to healing eating, weight, and body image issues for people who have read Skinny Thinking, Skinny Thinking Daily Thoughts, or Skinny Thinking for Men

2. Nondual, spiritual guidance for awakening.

To schedule a session, call Laura at 401-578-5505

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Think Hardy Boys Meet Indiana Jones and You’ve Got Our Kindle Nation eBook o’ the Day: Secrets of The Magical Medallions. Here’s a free sample!

May 17, 2011January 30, 2011 by KND

A Treasure Hunting Legend…
Four Ordinary Kids…
Two Magical Medallions…
Pursued By An Ancient Evil…
In One Extraordinary Adventure

Here’s the set-up for a great tween/teen read, Secrets of The Magical Medallions: The Treasure Hunters Club Book 1:

Join the Treasure Hunters Club as they look to unlock the Secrets of the Magical Medallions….

But Reader Beware … Some Secrets Are Better Left Alone.

When Tommy Reed received a medallion from his famous treasure hunting uncle “Diamond” Jack Reed he didn’t think much of it.

Now an ancient evil is pursuing his every move and his treasure hunting club friends, Shannon McDougal, Jackson Miller and Chris Henderson are on the run.

They must unlock the secret to the medallion before evil can hunt them down.

From The Reviewers:

Finding treasure isn’t always a good omen. “The Secrets of the Magical Medallions” follows the treasure hunters club as they find powerful, magical medallions. They soon realize that when you find power, there is always someone out to take it, and the four kids in the club find evil hot on their tales. A fun adventure for younger readers, “The Secrets of the Magical Medallions” is a choice pick. —Midwest Book Review

The idea of an adventure that combines Hardy Boys Mysteries with Indiana Jones and National Treasure was the author’s inspiration to get reluctant readers to enjoy novels. Hooray for targeting this often overlooked audience! McCartney has mixed mystery and magic in a tale that reaches beyond the backyard. He wisely chose to create a slim volume; the 160 page book will be readily picked up by reluctant readers.–V.S. Grenier, Editor of Stories For Children Magazine

If you have kids who enjoy action-packed reads, they’re in for a wild ride with this first book in the Treasure Hunter Club series. The Secrets of the Magical Medallions has been called a mix of The Hardy Boys and Indiana Jones with a little piece of the movie, National Treasure, thrown in. I loved reading The Hardy Boys as a kid and the Indiana Jones movies were some of my favorites so I had high expectations for this book. To author, Sean McCarthy’s credit, he nails it here. This is an excellent adventure story. It’s really fast paced and will keep readers anxious to get to the next page. —Book Dads

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Find Out What Might Have Happened off Cape Cod on a Stormy February Night in 1952, in Our Kindle Nation eBook Of The Day, John M. Urban’s A Single Deadly Truth

May 18, 2011January 29, 2011 by KND

The waters off the Outer Cape have been taking seamen’s lives for centuries. Now, in a very contemporary sea yarn by John M. Urban, they give back A Single Deadly Truth:

Here’s the set-up:

On the stormy February night in 1952, the 500-foot oil tanker Pendleton snapped in half in 60-foot seas off Cape Cod. The ensuing rescue of the Pendleton ranks as one of the most heroic stories in the history of the US Coast Guard. That much is true. John M. Urban’s novel A Single Deadly Truth explores another story that might have begun that same stormy night – Just $2.99 in the Kindle Store!

In a work of fiction, A Single Deadly Truth tells that another ship sank that same night, just a few miles from where the Pendleton went down. The ship’s sole survivor remained committed to taking the story, and the ship’s location, to his grave. Until now.

A Single Deadly Truth features a thirty-five year old college professor and part-time harbormaster named Steve Decatur. He spends summers living aboard an old wooden sailboat in the town of Harbor Point, Massachusetts. When Decatur’s friend, a lobsterman and diver named Chris Blanchard, is found dead off Cape Cod, Decatur is called on to retrieve the man’s boat. Along the way, there’s growing evidence that Blanchard’s death was a murder, not an accident.

To the end, Decatur remains persistent in uncovering the truth. In doing so he uncovers a much larger crime.

About the Author:

Like his protagonist, John Urban has worked as a college professor and he sails the waters of Southern New England on an old wooden sailboat that he restored. He is a regular contributor to the blog Write On The Water. His short stories have appeared in the anthologies Seasmoke and Deadfall.

The ocean was his desired destination from an early age. As a boy living a landlocked life in Western Massachusetts, nights were dedicated to reading about boats and watching Flipper and weekends were spent boating and fishing, April-to-October, on Long Island Sound.

Thoughts of a career at sea ended early after a stint at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, but the circle of life has come around some years later in the form of the fictional world of Steve Decatur.

Urban lives just outside Boston and spends his summers near the waters edge of Buzzards Bay and Rhode Island Sound. A Single Deadly Truth, published on Amazon Kindle, is Urban’s debut novel. A second Steve Decatur mystery is due out in 2011. For more information: http://www.johnmurban.com/

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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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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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