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Under a Buck Today in the Kindle Store (1/3): Faking It by Elisa Lorello

Faking It by Elisa Lorello 

Paperback, $15.26
Kindle Edition, 99 cents

What happens when a writing professor and a male escort become friends? Thirty-four-year old professor Andi Cutrone has broken up with her fiancé in Massachusetts, moved back to her native New York, and wants to be a better lover. So after meeting Devin, a handsome, charming escort, she proposes an unusual arrangement: lessons about writing in exchange for lessons about sex. When Devin accepts Andi’s proposal, he draws up a contract in which the two are forbidden to see each other socially. There’s just one problem: Andi also wants Devin. Faking It is a witty, sometimes hilarious, sometimes heart-wrenching story about relationships, writing, and getting real.

Kindle Exclusive: A Regular Couple (Atlantic Fiction for Kindle) by Curtis Sittenfeld

The Atlantic has released its “Atlantic Fiction for Kindle” exclusives for January, and the stellar career of Curtis Sittenfeld continues with her story, A Regular Couple, now available in the Kindle Store for $3.99. 


Here’s the capsule review and bio in the Kindle Store:

Available exclusively for Kindle, Curtis Sittenfeld’s A Regular Couple follows Maggie, a star lawyer who while on her honeymoon encounters her one-time nemesis, Ashley, the faded queen bee of her high school. Discovering that the erstwhile prom queen is married to a bore, Maggie might have felt pity for Ashley. But old resentments surge, and she can’t quell the questions that rage within her. Could her wonderful new husband really love her, plain as she is despite her star-lawyer status? Or is he only with her for her money? Is she still that same gullible high-school girl? Shouldn’t Maggie be married to the bore, and doesn’t her new husband belong with Ashley?

Curtis Sittenfeld is the author of the bestselling novels American Wife, Prep, and The Man of My Dreams, which have been translated into twenty-five languages. Prep was chosen as one of the Ten Best Books of 2005 by The New York Times, nominated for the UK’s Orange Prize, and optioned by Paramount Pictures. Curtis won the Seventeen magazine fiction writing contest in 1992, at age sixteen, and since then her writing has appeared in many publications, including The Atlantic, Salon, Glamour, and on public radio’s This American Life.



Appearing alongside Sittenfeld this month is another Atlantic Fiction for Kindle exclusive by Jennifer Haigh, Beast and Bird.

Under a Buck Today in the Kindle Store: Kathy Bell’s Edgy 5-Star Novel, "Regression"

You can buy the paperback for $12 or $13 or click through to the Kindle edition for just 99 cents, but Kathy Bell’s recently published novel Regression is getting great reviews from early readers in the Kindle and main Amazon stores.

by Kathy Bell

Digital List Price: $0.99 
Print List Price: $13.49
Kindle Price: $0.99 & includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
You Save: $12.50 (93%)

Editorial Reviews

Review

Adya Jordan, a forty-year-old mother of six, injured in a terrible car accident, awakens to find herself in her fourteen-year-old body once again. Consumed with grief over being separated from her family, she tries to live like a normal teenager. That’s when she begins to notice that things are slightly different than they were the first time around; all minor things that when put together add up to major differences. Adya is offered an opportunity to join the ranks of the most powerful people in the world, an opportunity of a lifetime, making her the envy of most. She seizes it without hesitation, as anyone else would. However soon, she discovers that something will go terribly wrong in the future. With time running out on the human race, it’s up to her to make the most powerful people in the world see the truth and change course before its too late. Kathy Bell has done a fair share of research for this book and it shows. As science comes to life inside the dialogue and plot in her novel, it became easy to suspend disbelief in the possibility of humans traveling Interdimensionally. All told, Regression was an enjoyable read with fully developed characters and enough plot twists to keep me turning the pages long after dark-thirty in the morning. –Amazon.com Review

The past, present and future meet in Kathy Bell’s debut novel, Regression. Bell, who was born in a small Ontario town on the shores of Lake Huron, is an Owen Sound teacher, and, when she is not in the classroom, a novelist.
I puzzled over this one, testing my disbelief as I always do when approaching speculative fiction. At first, I found Adya Jordan’s time regression a bit hard to take but then I sank into the story, a time shaping novel about a mysterious corporation, Three Eleven, out to change the world. Laced with dialogue that races the story on, Regression shows a clever use of plot, time changes and an inventive mind that all add up to a surprise – a wellcrafted work of futuristic fiction. –Andrew Armitage, Book Editor, Owen Sound Sun Times

Product Description

Fourteen-year-old Adya Jordan swears that before her head injury she was a forty-year-old mother of six. Is she going crazy, or did she really live through an entirely different life? 1985 is nothing like she remembers, although her first day of high school certainly is!
A typical girl with atypical genes, Adya tries to recapture her old life, hiding her growing conviction that she has done this before. The man she loves doesn’t even know she exists yet, but she is haunted by memories of their life together.
Accidentally discovering the secretive Three Eleven Corporation might know more about her situation than she does, she is certain the twenty-eight men heading up the company are responsible for the changes in her world. Adya finds her way into their ranks, journeying to the tropical island headquarters to begin her twenty-week orientation.
Every third chapter, diary entries of scientist Nicholas Weaver are written from the future, the last survivor of the human race. He never quite tells readers all the details but the journal entries allude to a global disaster where one of Adya’s children offers the last hope of survival. A maudlin but affable type, he is responsible for sending Adya back in time, doing it for the love of a woman. Over and over again for more than ten lifetimes – now that’s love.
The Three Eleven Company controls the development and distribution of Twenty-first Century technology brought with them from the future. Charged with the task of preparing the world for the impending disaster, each member of the team uses his scientific background to create a solution for a problem the planet does not know it is facing. But Adya begins to question their program.
Banished to the frozen Canadian Shield for challenging the status quo, she finds the men in the underground city of Sanctum are interested in more than just her genes as they search for the answer to her presence in the timeline.
In the end, Adya encounters a choice no mother should ever face: save her children…or everyone else.


Product Details

  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 409 KB
  • Print Length: 352 pages
  • Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
  • Publisher: Northern Sanctum Press; 1st edition (October 24, 2009)
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B002U829RW
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)

  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #539 in Kindle Store (See Bestsellers in Kindle Store)

Find Thousands of Free and Bargain Kindle Books! Here’s an eBook Search & Browse Tool That Will Make You Glad You Have a Kindle … as if You Need Another Reason

If you’re a Kindle Nation reader, you are probably already aware that the Kindle outshines all the other so-called Kindle Killers when it comes to the selection and prices that are available in the Kindle Store catalog.

But now, thanks to some great folks at Inkmesh, we are able to offer you a free tool that will help you find the absolute best ebook price for any book you wish to read. Organized with elegant simplicity, Inkmesh allows you to search for free Kindle books and compare ebook prices for the Kindle, iPhone, Nook, Sony Reader and other ereaders.

Just click here to initiate any search and see a full set of results in a fraction of a second.

But that’s not all! Once you see a result page you’ll find an extremely useful set of fine-tuning aids in the left sidebar column that will allow you to drill down on results by price point (Free, Below $1, Below $5, and Below $10), content category, or device, and even to exclude public domain titles from your listings.

These same drill-down options are available to you when you click here (or click “Explore” from within Inkmesh) to browse ebooks by subject area, and the list of browsing subject areas is, in a word, magnificent. I never

thought I would say this about a third-party App, but Inkmesh has outdone Amazon itself when it comes to providing a useful tool for searching and browsing Amazon’s website, or at least the Kindle Store, and beyond. Click on any letter of the alphabet across the top row and you’ll be amazed at the array of browse categories.

Because Inkmesh hits the sweet spot when it comes to simplicity, it will actually work well directly from your Kindle, although Amazon still needs to improve its website and Kindle platform engineering so that we can use the Kindle’s browser to move directly from a Kindle book’s page on the Amazon website to the buy button on the Kindle’s version of the Kindle Store.

It only makes sense.

So this next point is only slightly off topic, but back in June 2008 I had a conversation on the air with Jeff Bezos when he appeared on a national NPR call-in program based here in the Boston area, and I asked him why it was not yet possible for Kindle owners to use their Kindles to synch up with the rest of the Amazon store to order other products from music to maple syrup.

Windwalker: Are you trying not to overdo it commercially or is that an engineering issue.

Bezos: Yeah, it’s an engineering issue. Those are the kinds of things we’re working on. We want complete integration between Kindle the device and Amazon.com the website.

It’s kind of hard for me to imagine any such task being too challenging for the wizards at Amazon, but if that’s the case, then I feel it is my duty to humbly suggest here that Amazon should offer whatever it takes as a purchase price to bring Inkmesh under its tent. If Amazon decides that it is time to provide Kindle users with a transparent, user-friendly way to search, browse and buy anywhere on the web including all the departments in Amazon’s main online store as well as the various departments of the Kindle Store, I feel confident that the Inkmesh team could nail it.

Meanwhile, while we wait for that development, here are tha main links you’ll need to get the most out of Inkmesh:


US Kindle Catalog to Surpass 400,000 Books – Today? Here’s the Entire Catalog Sorted by Price

Copyright © Kindle Nation Daily 2009. To read the original post on the web please visit bit.ly/KNDBlog.



Sometime this week Amazon’s Kindle Store catalog will surpass the 400,000-title milestone, with the title count in many countries beyond US borders lagging about 20 percent behind, but the rate at which downloaded copies are flying off of Amazon’s virtual shelves all over the world is an even bigger deal.

On Saturday Amazon issued a press release announcing that “[o]n Christmas Day, for the first time ever, customers purchased more Kindle books than physical books.” That’s exciting and seemingly newsworthy, although it is natural that this would have happened with hundreds of thousands of new Kindle owners opening their Kindles and finding nothing to read on them but a snappy welcome letter from Jeff Bezos.

But that’s not to say it is not a big deal. It is the latest in a steady flow of data points suggesting not only that Amazon is dominating both the hardware and content markets of the ebook sector but also that the ebook revolution itself is moving with stunning alacrity from its inflection point this past September to a tipping point that should occur, at the latest, in 2014.

While all of this is great for Kindle owners and for Amazon, the folks for whom it is most compelling are authors and publishers. The sheer size of the installed base of Kindles — probably over 3 million now — is creating ebook sales numbers that will raise eyebrows in publishing offices around the world over the next few weeks. My own Kindle guide was already the #1 consumer guide in the Kindle Store before Christmas morning, but the three days since most gifts were unwrapped have already accounted for over two-thirds of its total copies sold for the month of December.

The current catalog of 399,563 titles, as I type this around dawn on December 28, can be a little daunting, so below for your shopping convenience is a breakdown of 19,822 Free Kindle Edition Books & Over 379,500 Other Kindle Books Sorted By Price. If you are reading this post on your Kindle and you would prefer to view it on the web just type bit.ly/KNDBlog into your browser.

Free Books in the Kindle Store

“Big Deals” on Kindle web page – Seldom Updated

Kindle Books Priced at $0.00

Kindle Books Price from $0.01 to $0.98

Kindle Books Priced at $0.99

Kindle Titles Priced from $1.00 to $2.99

Kindle Titles Priced from $3.00 to $4.99

Kindle Titles Priced from $5.00 to $7.49

Kindle Titles Priced from $7.50 to $9.98

Kindle Titles Priced at $9.99

Kindle Titles Priced from $10.00 to $14.99

Kindle Titles Priced from $15.00 to $19.99

Kindle Titles Priced from $20.00 to $29.99

Kindle Titles Priced from $30.00 to $39.99

Kindle Titles Priced from $40.00 to $49.99

Kindle Titles Priced from $50.00 to $99.99

Kindle Titles Priced from $100.00 to $199.99

Kindle Titles Priced from $200.00 to $999.99

Kindle Titles Priced from $1000.00 to $6431.20

Under a Buck Today in the Kindle Store: Over Two Dozen Philip K. Dick Stories and Collections

Fans of one of the most interesting fiction writers of the 20th century, whose stories were adapted into the films Blade Runner, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly and Minority Report can now click here to find over two dozen Philip K. Dick stories and collections for less than a dollar per download in the Kindle Store.

Dick authored 36 novels and over 120 short stories during his life (1928-1982), and in 2007 he became the first science fiction writer to be included in The Library of America series.

Just a Penny Today in the Kindle Store: Here’s a Fun Little Kindle Game That People Who Read Might Actually Enjoy

If you’ve been among the Kindle owners who agree with me that playing Minesweeper or Gomuku on the Kindle is just a waste of time that has nothing to do with reading or any other purpose for which we might have bought a Kindle, well, here’s another game that, at the very least, has two significant virtues:

1. It has everything to do with words.

2. It only costs a penny.

Word Morph is a new, Kindle-formatted version of an old game in which the players uses one’s familiarity with words and dexterity with letters to transform a starting word, one letter at a time, into a predetermined ending word of the same length. That would be child’s play but for the requirement that each interim word in the process must be an actual word.

Click here to download this to your Kindle for a penny.

You may find it a waste of time, but there’s a good chance it will make you a better Scrabble player.