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Dozens of HarperCollins Titles Reduced to 99 Cents on Kindle!

August 4, 2011 by KND

If there was any doubt that the big agency model publishers are finally getting hip to the new realities of pricing in the Kindle Store, one need look no further than the current set of 99-cent offerings from HarperCollins:

The publisher is making a big splash by offering 20 titles at just 99 cents for the full month of August. Click here to see them along with some other current 99-cent offerings from the publisher.

Or check here to see Kindle Nation’s complete list of quality 99-cent titles — all of them sortable and searchable by category and all of them rated at least 4 stars by at least 4 reviewers!

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In the Battle over eBook Apps on the iPad, Apple Says “My Way or the Highway;” Kindle Replies “Whatever, Dude”

July 28, 2011 by KND

By Steve Windwalker

Earlier this week — as we sat around waiting for Amazon to come clean and announce a Kindle tablet — we conducted a little experiment here at Kindle Nation.

In the midst of considerable internet fanfare, Apple forced a change in the Kindle App for the iPad, the iPhone, and the iPod Touch. Basically, the result is that there’s no longer a link to the Kindle Store within the Kindle App.

Our experiment? We thought we would see what would happen if we didn’t have anything to say about it. More of those kinds of news items appear these days on our BookGorilla.com sister blog anyway, so we didn’t feel we’d be letting you down by staying mum.

Why? Well, this is the kind of “issue” that gets a lot of attention from tech bloggers and partisans who believe the world will soon end in a conflagration ensuing from global thermonuclear war between Apple and Amazon. We were curious to see if the change really mattered much to anyone among the thousands of serious readers who visit Kindle Nation each day.

The results are in. We didn’t receive a single email, blog comment, tweet, or Facebook comment or message about the change. We know that a small but significant percentage of our readers read Kindle books on their iPads and other iOs devices, so it’s actually pretty remarkable that there wasn’t a peep or a tweet.

But now that the dust has settled, or now that the dust continues to just sit there, we’ll briefly review what has happened here.

In January 2008, shortly after the launch of the Kindle, Apple’s Steve Jobs commented that the Kindle was “a failed concept from the top” because “nobody reads any more.”
In January of 2010, at the event announcing the launch of the iPad, Jobs said that “Amazon has done a good job with Kindle” but that Apple was “going to stand on their shoulders” and the the successful ebook concept even further with iBooks. Several ebook platforms including Kindle, Nook, and Kobo created free Kindle Apps, all with better selection and better features than the iBooks platform, and it quickly became obvious both that Kindle would be the leading iOs ereading platform and also that Apple was either ill-prepared or unmotivated, or both, to make much of the iBooks platform.
Early this year, Apple said it was going to change the rules for other reading apps on its iOs devices so that users would no longer be able to click on an in-app link to be taken directly, for instance, to the Kindle Store. (Well, that’s not exactly what Apple said. What Apple actually said was that it would grab 30 percent of gross proceeds from all sales generated by in-app ebook sales on platforms such as the Kindle, Nook, and Kobo. 30 percent, of course, constitutes 100 percent of Amazon’s standard share of Kindle ebook sales.)

So it is no surprise that neither Amazon nor the other players would go along with this kind of greedy power play. If there was a surprise, it was

first, that Apple actually followed through and brought this to a head; and
second, that anyone thought it would really be an effective use of Apple’s power.

Instead, it seems like Apple is doing all it can to make itself irrelevant to the serious readers who do most of the buying when it comes to ebooks. And Amazon, obviously recognizing that Apple’s power play changed very little, has played its hand in a very calm, understated way. The company sent the following message Wednesday to Kindle customers who have registered an iOs device for Kindle App use:

Dear Amazon.com Customer,

We’d like to update you on a change to the Kindle application that affects the way that you access the Kindle Store. In order to comply with recent policy changes by Apple, we’ve removed the “Kindle Store” link from within the app that opened Safari and took you to the Kindle Store.

You can still shop on iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch–just open the Safari web browser and go to Amazon.com. (For quick access, we recommend creating a bookmark in your web browser.) Your Kindle books will be delivered to your Kindle application and automatically downloaded when you open the app. Thanks for being a Kindle customer.

Exactly. But perhaps out of an overabundance of politeness, Amazon didn’t take things one step further. Sure, you can “bookmark” the Kindle Store on your iOs device’s browser. But you can also add the Kindle Store to your iOs Home screen, right alongside your Kindle App, just as you see them in the second row of the screenshot at the right. Here’s how:

Just open your iPad’s Safari browser and click on or enter this link – http://amzn.to/Kindle-on-iOs
When the Kindle Store page opens on your iPad browser, just click on the little icon just to the left of the browser’s URL entry field, and select “Add to Home Screen” from the pulldown menu that pops up, as in the screenshot at right.
Then just find the new Kindle Store icon on your iPad’s Home display, tap it twice so you can move it, and use your fingertip to move it next to your Kindle App. (Note: While you’re at it, you may also want to move the iBooks icon to the same general area, for days when you want to buy expensive books at the prices Steve Jobs feels you should pay for them.)

Over at the Atlantic Wire, blogger Rebecca Greenfield’s view of the Apple power play seems well-considered, if a little more glum than ours: “It looks like everyone involved loses something in the e-reader app store battle,” she writes. She says it is “far more inconvenient for iPad users to get reads on their devices,” but I have to admit that I am not feeling her pain. What’s so hard about tapping the Kindle Store icon and buying a book. You’ll seal the deal and arrive back in your Kindle App a few seconds before the new book downloads. Shazam.

But Wired Epicenter’s Tim Carmody concludes that “Apple’s new rules haven’t knee-capped Amazon in the slightest. Far from it. In fact, Apple’s given them a gift….”

Whatever the case, it is certainly hard to imagine that Apple could make any kind of plausible case that their power play was undertaken for the benefit of iPad or other iOs users. And the more of these silly missteps we see from Apple, the more likely it is that ultimately they will begin to drive even some of their own loyal fans off in the direction of some other tablet from some other company, perhaps a company that already has a stake in the ebook business.

From the Kindle Nation Mailbag: What’s with Vook Books and the Kindle?

June 15, 2021July 27, 2011 by KND

By Steve Windwalker

Thanks to long-time Kindle Nation citizen Nina S. for sending in this perfectly reasonable question about “enhanced” Kindle books with audio and video content:

Hi, Steve…

I am puzzled … why are so many Vook-based books showing up on your listing of books for Kindle? As far as I can determine, I can’t use Vook-based books on my Kindle 3. Or am I way off base?

Cheers, Nina

Well, Nina, maybe you’re a little off base on this one, but that just suggests to me that there are probably a lot of Kindle owners in similar straits, which to me means that someone — either the Vook folks or the Amazon folks or both — could be a better job of marketing or informing Kindle owners about these “Vook-based books.”

Here’s the scoop:

All of the Vook Books – even those that are tagged as “Animated” or “Kindle Edition with Audio/Video and often sold at a higher price — are composed mainly of text that can be read on any Kindle. When you come to a section that is not compatible with your Kindle, you’ll see something like what’s shown in the screenshot at right.
As of now, the enhanced or animated audio/video content that won’t show up on your Kindle is supported on the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. If you download a VookBook to your Kindle now but want to view it/read it/hear it later on one of these iOs devices at some time in the future, you can just send it wirelessly to the Kindle app on any such device that is registered to your account. It is also quite likely that such content will be compatible at some point with a new Kindle tablet, even if is not compatible when the K-Tab launches.
If you don’t anticipate owning such a device in the future, you should always check to see if there is a non-enhanced version of the VookBook available. These basic versions contain all the text and are often priced at half of the cost of the enhanced version. And without putting too fine a point on this, let’s just say that you won’t be missing that much. For instance, it’s not like the enhanced version of the Vook title History of Rock and Roll 101: The TextVook is packed with great clips from the past, either audio or video.
As to why you’ve been noticing VookBooks in our Free Book and 99-Center search tool listings lately, it’s just driven by the appearance of these titles at the applicable price points in the Kindle Store. As our web developer Mark likes to say, the lists are created “automagically.” But it occurred to me that it was possible Vook might be focusing more on Kindle marketing in advance of a Kindle tablet launch.

Hope that helps!

Amazon Shares Spike After Hours After Company Announces 51% Increase in YOY 2nd Quarter Sales and Continued Commitment to Plow Cash into Infrastructure

July 26, 2011 by KND

Amazon just announced a blowout second quarter in terms of revenue growth, but it remains to be seen how investors will react short- and longer-term to the fact that the company is plowing huge amounts of cash into building infrastructure and fulfillment capacity to continue its growth in market share. As we’ve said before, we believe that Amazon is well on the way to owning half of the retail book business in the U.S. by 2013.

Kindle sales accelerated compared with the first quarter.

At 4:47 pm Eastern AMZN shares were trading above $227 per share, about 3 percent above the previous all-time high for the stock. The share price was $214.18 when the markets closed at 4 pm today.

Here’s Amazon’s press release:

Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter Sales up 51% to $9.91 Billion

SEATTLE, Jul 26, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2011.

Operating cash flow increased 25% to $3.21 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $2.56billion for the trailing twelve months ended June 30, 2010. Free cash flow decreased 8% to $1.83 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $1.99 billion for the trailing twelve months ended June 30, 2010.

Common shares outstanding plus shares underlying stock-based awards totaled 468 million on June 30, 2011, compared with 465 million a year ago.

Net sales increased 51% to $9.91 billion in the second quarter, compared with $6.57 billion in second quarter 2010. Excluding the $477 million favorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, net sales would have grown 44% compared with second quarter 2010.

Operating income was $201 million in the second quarter, compared with $270 million in second quarter 2010. The favorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter on operating income was $28 million.

Net income decreased 8% to $191 million in the second quarter, or $0.41 per diluted share, compared with net income of $207 million, or $0.45 per diluted share, in second quarter 2010. Second quarter 2011 net income was positively impacted by equity-method investment activity of $15 million, including a $49 million gain on the sale of an equity position partially offset by $34 million in losses from equity-method investments.

“Low prices, expanding selection, fast delivery and innovation are driving the fastest growth we’ve seen in over a decade,” said Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com. “Kindle 3G with Special Offers has quickly become our bestselling Kindle at only $139. Customers love the convenience of a 3G reader — no hunting for or paying for Wi-Fi hotspots. Amazon picks up the tab for the 3G wireless, so you have no monthly payments or annual contracts.”

Highlights

Sales growth of Kindle devices accelerated in second quarter 2011 compared to first quarter 2011.

Since AT&T agreed to sponsor screensavers, Kindle 3G with Special Offers is now our bestselling Kindle device – at only $139. With Kindle 3G, there’s no wireless set up and no paying or hunting for Wi-Fi hotspots. Kindle 3G’s always-on global wireless connectivity means that wherever you are, you can download books and periodicals in less than 60 seconds and start reading instantly. Amazon pays for Kindle’s 3G wireless connectivity, which means the convenience of 3G comes with no monthly fees, data plans or annual contracts.

Amazon.com announced the launch of Kindle Textbook Rental, offering students savings of up to 80% off textbook list prices. Tens of thousands of textbooks are available for the 2011 school year. In addition, Kindle Textbook Rental offers the ability to customize rental periods to any length between 30 and 360 days, so students only pay for the specific amount of time they need a book.

The U.S. Kindle Store now has more than 950,000 books, including New Releases and 110 of 111 New York Times Bestsellers. Over 800,000 of these books are $9.99 or less, including 65 New York Times Bestsellers. Millions of free, out-of-copyright, pre-1923 books are also available to read on Kindle.

The Company launched MyHabit.com, a membership-only fashion destination offering up to 60 percent off list prices of designer and boutique brands in women’s, men’s and children’s departments, with the convenience of free, instant membership; fast, free shipping and free return shipping in the U.S. on eligible items; and fast, $15 international shipping.

Amazon.com announced that customers will be able to stream TV shows from CBS’s vast library. Amazon Prime customers will be able to instantly watch thousands of episodes from the CBS library at no additional cost to their membership. With the deal, Amazon will add 2,000 episodes to grow the total number of Prime instant videos to more than 8,000 movies and TV shows. Starting this summer, dozens of CBS shows will also become available to Amazon Instant Video customers.

The Company announced three enhancements to Amazon Cloud Drive and Cloud Player: storage plans that include unlimited space for music, free storage for all Amazon MP3 purchases and Cloud Player for Web, now on iPad.

Amazon announced that Marketplace sellers can list their products across all its European websites using just one single seller account, allowing sellers to make their inventory available across Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr and Amazon.it. Customers benefit from access to millions of additional products. Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) sellers can now also store their products in an Amazon fulfillment center in one country and offer them for sale across all of Amazon’s European websites.

North America segment sales, representing the Company’s U.S. and Canadian sites, were $5.41 billion, up 51% from second quarter 2010.

International segment sales, representing the Company’s U.K., German, Japanese, French, Chinese and Italian sites, were $4.51 billion, up 51% from second quarter 2010. Excluding the favorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, sales grew 36%.

Worldwide Media sales grew 27% to $3.66 billion. Excluding the favorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, sales grew 20%.

Worldwide Electronics and Other General Merchandise sales grew 69% to $5.89 billion. Excluding the favorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, sales grew 62%.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and SAP announced that AWS has been certified as a global technology partner of SAP. Customers can now deploy a variety of SAP solutions in full production environments including SAP(R) Rapid Deployment and SAP(R) BusinessObjects(TM).

AWS announced the availability of Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle databases, allowing customers to easily set up, operate and scale fully managed Oracle databases in the cloud.

AWS lowered prices for the fifteenth time in four years by eliminating inbound Internet data transfer costs and reducing outbound data transfer costs.

Financial Guidance

The following forward-looking statements reflect Amazon.com’s expectations as of July 26, 2011. Our results are inherently unpredictable and may be materially affected by many factors, such as fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, changes in global economic conditions and consumer spending, world events, the rate of growth of the Internet and online commerce and the various factors detailed below.

Third Quarter 2011 Guidance

Net sales are expected to be between $10.3 billion and $11.1 billion, or to grow between 36% and 47% compared with third quarter 2010.

Operating income is expected to be between $20 million and $170 million, or between 93% decline and 37% decline compared with third quarter 2010.

This guidance includes approximately $180 million for stock-based compensation and amortization of intangible assets, and it assumes, among other things, that no additional business acquisitions or investments are concluded and that there are no further revisions to stock-based compensation estimates.

A conference call will be webcast live today at 2 p.m. PT/5 p.m. ET, and will be available for at least three months at www.amazon.com/ir. This call will contain forward-looking statements and other material information regarding the Company’s financial and operating results.

These forward-looking statements are inherently difficult to predict. Actual results could differ materially for a variety of reasons, including, in addition to the factors discussed above, the amount that Amazon.com invests in new business opportunities and the timing of those investments, the mix of products sold to customers, the mix of net sales derived from products as compared with services, the extent to which we owe income taxes, competition, management of growth, potential fluctuations in operating results, international growth and expansion, the outcomes of legal proceedings and claims, fulfillment center optimization, risks of inventory management, seasonality, the degree to which the Company enters into, maintains and develops commercial agreements, acquisitions and strategic transactions, and risks of fulfillment throughput and productivity. Other risks and uncertainties include, among others, risks related to new products, services and technologies, system interruptions, government regulation and taxation, payments and fraud. In addition, the current global economic climate amplifies many of these risks. More information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com’s financial results is included in Amazon.com’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings.

Our investor relations website is www.amazon.com/ir and we encourage investors to use it as a way of easily finding information about us. We promptly make available on this website, free of charge, the reports that we file or furnish with the SEC, corporate governance information (including our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics), and select press releases and social media postings.

About Amazon.com

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth’s Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as Books; Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home & Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel, Shoes & Jewelry; Health & Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial. Amazon Web Services provides Amazon’s developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon’s own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business. Kindle, Kindle 3G, Kindle with Special Offers, Kindle 3G with Special Offers and Kindle DX are the revolutionary portable readers that wirelessly download books, magazines, newspapers, blogs and personal documents to a crisp, high-resolution electronic ink display that looks and reads like real paper. Kindle 3G, Kindle 3G with Special Offers and Kindle DX utilize the same 3G wireless technology as advanced cell phones, so users never need to hunt for a Wi-Fi hotspot. Kindle is the #1 bestselling product across the millions of items sold on Amazon.

Amazon to Announce Quarterly Earnings Today

July 26, 2011 by KND

Investors are looking forward this afternoon to Amazon’s quarterly earnings report, which will be made public shortly after the markets close this afternoon – usually about 4:30 pm Eastern. Then at 5 pm Eastern, Amazon executives will hold their quarterly conference call with market analysts, in which they generally try to avoid saying too much about what’s really going on in the company. We don’t expect any big Kindle announcements until later in the week at the earliest, but if Jeff Bezos makes an appearance on the conference call all bets are off.
Click here to listen to the earnings call on your computer.

Publetariat Dispatch: As Borders Lies Dying…

September 27, 2011July 26, 2011 by KND

Today’sPubletariat Dispatch offers a survey of analysis and reaction to Borders’ failure.

There’s analysis, punditry and post-mortems aplenty where the failure of Borders is concerned.

This Slate piece asserts Borders died primarily of self-inflicted wounds its competitors have avoided. From the article:

Other companies have adapted to the e-reader revolution, and even benefited from it. Other companies have changed to fit the new bookselling paradigm. And other companies are dealing with the drawn-out aftereffects of the recession. The better reason for its demise is that Borders had long lost its competitive edge on many fronts, from corporate strategy to coffee. It died by a thousand—OK, maybe just four or five—self-inflicted paper cuts.

The Wall Street Journal quotes numerous customers of the chain’s "#1 Store" in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and while all of those customers are disappointed, none are surprised.

The Atlantic takes a broader view in its article, Books, Borders and Beyond: How Digital Tech Is Changing Retail:

"But if there’s one thing the Internet takes away from stores, it’s foot traffic. The Web is a shopping mall. So who needs the shopping mall? It’s more convenient for buyers — and cheaper for merchants — to play with a virtual storefront and bypass the high fixed costs of real estate.

"All retailing is vulnerable," says Joel Kurtzman, senior fellow at the Milken Institute and former editor-in-chief of the Harvard Business Review. "I’ve spoken with executives at many major big box retailers, and they’re all very worried about how the digital world is changing their business."

Forbes wonders, Does a Failed Borders Presage a Doomed Bookstore Business?

“As Borders expires, new enterprises will evolve to take book retailing’s place,” wrote Gene Hoffman, one-time president of The Kroger Co. and former chairman and president of Supervalu. “Those new enterprises won’t be conventional book retailers but companies that are on the leading edge of what current customers are responding to.”

National Public Radio raises a question about other possible consequences of the Borders failure in its article, When Borders Closes, Do Doors Slam Shut In Classical Music?

Borders’ buying patterns also made for fan frustrations, Goiffon asserts. "For years," he notes, "we pushed in vain to get them to target buying geographically: Instead of sending most of their stock to the biggest markets for classical music, such as New York, they’d send four or five copies of each title to every single store they had — so New York would sell out and be stuck, while all those other copies languished in other stores around the country."

So if you were in one of the main U.S. classical music markets, like Manhattan or San Francisco, you might never see a label’s biggest releases as you flipped through the bins. For many classical music listeners, browsing is still an important pathway to musical discovery, one that many online sellers haven’t managed to duplicate. And lots of people still prefer physical CDs to downloads. (And classical music metadata is still the beast to be tamed.) The Borders experience left a lot to be desired, for sure, but you could walk into one of their stores and know that you’d see classical music there.

Finally, and most depressingly, The Detroit News looks at the effects Borders’ failure will have on local and national economies and unemployment rates:

Borders workers will be hurt because retail employment has stalled and it could be difficult to find a new job, says John Challenger, chief executive at Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a Chicago job outplacement consulting firm.

Borders will lose its 10,700 employees nationwide, which represent just less than 0.1 percent of the country’s roughly 14.5 million retail workers, Challenger said.

"That’s a big loss of jobs," Challenger said. "We haven’t seen five-figure mega-layoffs in a while."

It takes a retail worker three to four months on average to find another job in the sector, he said.

Announcing a new page where you can search and sort over 300 quality 99-cent Mystery and Suspense titles for Kindle, all sponsored by our Kindle Nation Thriller of the Week, Brett Battles’ highly acclaimed novel SICK

July 22, 2011 by KND

We’ll be making a big announcement tomorrow about some very cool new features on Kindle Nation, but we’ve been working on this for a while so it’s kind of hard to wait!

So here’s a bit of beginning — a new page where you can find over 300 quality 99-cent Mystery and Suspense titles for Kindle, sortable in a variety of ways, and all sponsored by our Kindle Nation Thriller of the Week, which we’re equally happy to announce is Brett Battles’ highly acclaimed novel SICK.

For now we’ll save you a click and show you exactly how this new 99-cent book search tool will work right here in this post….

But first, a word from … our Kindle Nation Thriller of the Week!

For fans of Stephen King, Blake Crouch, and Michael Crichton … Daniel Ash wakes after midnight to the cry of his daughter. Just a bad dream, he thinks. But the nightmare is his. It’s real. And it’s just beginning…. Brett Battles’ SICK (A Project Eden Thriller) – 4.8 out of 5 stars, 27 reviews and just $2.99 on Kindle – From the author of LITTLE GIRL GONE.

Thriller of the Week is a sponsored collaboration between BookLending & Kindle Nation Daily.
More information here.

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Meghan Smith has always been a protective mother. Her baby son, Harry, has a life-threatening condition and is never far from her sight. But on the evening of her wedding anniversary, as she and her husband celebrate in the garden with friends, Harry disappears from his cot without a trace.In an...
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Marvelous! Amazon Customer ReviewWhat would you do with five billion dollars? Does it sound like a problem you’d love to have? Not if you’re Rosie and the money comes from one of the most despicable human beings who ever walked the earth. Sure, she’d like a new car and a few little luxuries...
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A rookie detective and a case that could redefine history… Some truths are hard to swallow.Vampire—a taboo slur from childhood tales, reserved for degenerate Reborn and outcasts of society.Dedicated officer of the law Valya Gorski strives to be an example of perfection within the Carneth Police...
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They tried to eliminate him. Now they can't control him. "Great reading. Very Exciting....Very enjoyable action thriller!"The master of assassin novels, Vince Flynn, now has serious competition." Librarian review for The Golden CatchBook 2 in The Firm SeriesCIA Director Will Harlock has a secret:...
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Down, down the Wicked hole…FREE on Kindle Unlimited!With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, Rick and Mandy might have chocolate kisses and blushing roses in mind, but instead they’re drawn into a new case by NYC FBI Chief Hernandez when his daughter’s favorite author bites the dust.Up...
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Alien organisms have found a new home and are making humans their primary food source. Can this expert team eradicate both invasive species before it’s too late?Emergency room doctor Emil Hawthorne saves lives every day. But he’s stumped when he admits a scuba diver who quickly bleeds out from a...
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INSATIABLE They came from space. And they're hungry...: Two alien species set mankind on a path to extinction. (Alien Hunger Series Book 1)
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Taking on death on its own turf…Annabelle Mulledy survived Kalfu’s attack—one friend saved, another lost in Guinee. But now the vampires are on the rise. Most of them, she can handle without much trouble. But when an ancient, more powerful vampire confronts her—one who is uncomfortably...
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Your biggest demons are fuelled by your biggest fears.Together, Julian and Derek have defeated hundreds of demons. There’s nothing they can’t handle. Well, almost nothing…What happens when the haunting isn’t from hell, but from your past?Anna, an eleven-year-old victim of possession, is the...
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The early twentieth century. British rule dominates in the Far East…Brimming with ambition and optimism, twenty-year-old Larry Cairns boards the Empress of India, bound for Singapore, an island filled with promise and opportunity.For Larry, it is the chance to join the renowned trading house of...
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Bigfoot is loose in Ponderosa PinesWhat with thwarting a blackmailer intent on sabotaging their beloved community, and navigating their increasingly complicated romantic lives, Chloe LaRue and EV Torrence already have their hands full. But mischief is afoot. Or, maybe mischief is a Bigfoot.With...
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Some things are bigger than yourself, like family and legacy. Russell Walker knows all too well the demands of devotion. Heritage, the family's legacy and the largest family-owned ranch in the country, is his responsibility and he'll sacrifice anything for it. Including what might be his last and...
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Oscar has searched the world for answers to his questions.Why am I here? Why do I have this gift? And what does being a sensitive even mean?When Oscar lands in Edinburgh in search of the man that may provide his answers, he begins to learn that the answers may not be what he wanted to hear. And as...
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She has the delicate hands of a child. She has the soft, rosy cheeks. She even has that adorable smile. DO NOT BE FOOLED. Underneath is something else. Something evil. Something that does not belong in this world. And Oscar has no idea......
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Kate Bromley rarely saw her father when she was a child. The man who divorced her mother was a remote figure. That changed when she left school and he paid for her to go to university. They went on holidays together and she got to know him well. But, there was a side of his life that he kept...
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Now leaving Ponderosa PinesWith a blackmailer still on the loose, now is not the time to be flying to Ireland for a wedding, but Chloe LaRue is about to get a new step-father—one she’s never even met. When her mother, Lila, calls with the good news, Chloe’s already up to her neck in intrigue....
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Caught in the Frame: Quirky Cozy Mysteries (The Ponderosa Pines Series Book 3)
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A GRIPPING AND EXPLOSIVE THRILLER FROM #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR BRIAN FREEMANHollywood has a dark side, and it will stop at nothing to hide it...When a freak auto accident kills a driver carrying false identification on the remote roads outside Duluth, Jonathan Stride is disturbed to find a gun in the...
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Just when he thought it’s game over, he gets pulled right back into a new adventurous chapter.The mundane life of Emil Dreyfus is shaken by a sudden prospect he did not expect to find so early into his thirties: Blood Cancer.Bemused, Emil decides to drown his sorrows at a local bar, where he is...
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Terminal Chase: A Conspiracy Thriller
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In a nation torn apart by war, Hattie Logan is a woman on the run, desperate to escape the shackles of her privileged past.Seeking refuge from a life of monotony and wealth, Hattie makes a daring choice: to join the ranks of the renowned Pinkerton Detective Agency. Stationed in the heart of the...
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The cold isn’t the only killer in the wilderness.Benjamin Coulton is a tracker employed by the Consortium, the ruling counsel of vampires. When he’s sent to investigate a rogue vampire killing indiscriminately in a remote region of Alaska. Bad weather hampers his effort and he loses the vampire...
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Place, time and family. Three things that shape individuals. Sometimes with love. Other times with violence.Former covert operative, Horace Chase, has just discovered he has a son; a son who fled the Military Institute of South Carolina a year and a half ago after being accused of murder. The...
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Chasing the Son: Horace Chase #3 (The Green Berets Book 9)
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When April first finds out she’s pregnant, she is terrified – until she tells Oscar, who is ecstatic.But as the months progress, her behaviour grows more and more bizarre. As Oscar witnesses the deterioration of the woman he loves, he begins to wonder…What exactly is growing inside of her?Then...
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Heaven isn’t the reward Darius McPherson expected it to be. For one thing, he’s too young to be there. And now the Archangel Aaron and the Board of Director angels are telling him he has to return to earth to save humanity from itself and an army of renegade angels. He’s not exactly in the...
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Three Days to Darkness: Three days to save the world. Only three people to help. Three lessons to learn.
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From Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh comes the first thrilling novella in the Rogue Justice series.When Detective Seth Harding responds to shots being fired, he faces a familiar sight: a double homicide. However, he is shocked to find a young boy chained in the basement. The...
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Strippers, drugs, and headless corpses? All in a day’s work for Bubbles Marlowe, HoloCity’s only cyborg detective.Does she like her job? No. Is she good at it? Also no.She can’t afford to be too good. The last time she got curious it cost her a job, a limb, and almost her life.But when a...
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From author Lena Gregory comes a delicious new series that will warm your heart and leave you guessing until the very end...When twenty-five-year-old Danika Delaney, black sheep of the Delaney clan, returns home to Long Island to take over Jimmie's, her eccentric uncle’s old fashioned malt shop on...
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'Do it,' she said to the German, her voice a rasping whisper. 'Shoot me if you dare. I am Maddalena.''A must-read in historical fiction' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'I loved this book - a perfect summer read' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'A great book . . . romance, heartbreak, intrigue and triumph - what's not to...
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EVERYONE IS HIDING A SECRET. ONE OF THEM IS MURDER.'I raced through it - edgy, tense' Harriet Tyce, author of Blood Orange'I for one am terrified of the woman next door!'Louise Candlish, author of The Other Passenger'Tightly plotted, edge-of-seat gripping' Sophie Hannah, author of Haven't They...
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*DON'T MISS RACHELLE ATALLA'S NEW THRILLING BOOK THIRSTY ANIMALS - OUT NOW****SHORTLISTED FOR THE SCOTTISH FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR***'Rachelle Atalla nails the claustrophobic atmosphere and brings this world to life convincingly in her impressive debut' THE SUNDAY TIMES, PAPERBACK OF THE WEEK'This...
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When Finnish mushroom entrepreneur Jaakko discovers that he has been slowly poisoned, he sets out to find his would-be murderer ... with dark and hilarious results. The critically acclaimed standalone thriller from the King of Helsinki Noir... ***Shortlisted for the Petrona Award for Best...
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'Mesmerising, macabre and murderously funny. The Botanist is M.W. Craven at his sinister best. I couldn't love this series more' Chris Whitaker'Another classy thriller from the king of Cumbrian crime' Paul FinchThis is going to be the longest week of Washington Poe's life...Detective Sergeant...
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Icelandic detective Elma faces mortal danger as she investigates the death of a young man in a mysterious Akranes house fire, and a Dutch au pair's perfect placement turns deadly ... The breathtaking third instalment in the award-winning Forbidden Iceland series.***WINNER of the CWA John Creasey...
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A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily MailThe fourteenth incredible Dirk Pitt classic from multi-million-copy king of the adventure novel, Clive Cussler.Tracking a notorious Chinese smuggler's activities leads Dirk Pitt from Washington State to Louisiana, where his quarry is...
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When a police investigator is killed execution-style and Blix's own daughter is targeted by the killer, he makes a dangerous decision, which could cost him everything. Blix & Ramm are back in a breathless, emotive thriller by two of Norway's finest crime writers... 'An exercise in literary...
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The second book in Dorothy L Sayers Lord Peter Wimsey series introduced by crime novelist Ruth Dudley Edwards - a must-read for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham's Campion Mysteries. 'D. L. Sayers is one of the best detective story writers' Daily TelegraphThe Duke of Denver...
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A writer's world careens into a series of twists after he unintentionally lands at a murder scene of a young woman.As the murder investigation takes unexpected turns, secrets emerge; including questionable friendships, unsettling admissions, and relationships that aren't what they appear to be....
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It’s one thing to talk to your cat. It’s an entirely other thing when it answers you.Newly revised and edited edition.Brighton Longfield is kinda bad at life. She’s divorced, childless, and she just got fired… again… With dwindling savings and few prospects, she packs her possessions into...
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