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Think “Hiaasen meets Hemingway,” and read a free sample of our Kindle Nation eBook of the Day, Chasin the Wind – A Mad Mick Murphy Key West Mystery Novel

May 16, 2011February 6, 2011 by KND

Meet Mad Mick Murphy, a freelance journalist sleuth you won’t be able to turn your back on, in Michael Haskins’ thriller Chasin the Wind – A Mad Mick Murphy Key West Mystery Novel.

Here’s the set-up:

Chasin’ the Wind nails the colorful and often violent action in both Key West, Florida, and Havana, Cuba. It navigates corruption and small town politics in the southernmost city of the United States.

It bumps into a scheme to topple Cuba’s communist government and throws Cuban exiles and military deserters, neurotic federal agents, plus a few unique Key Westers into a brew that promises international repercussions.

When officials sworn to uphold the law try to subvert it in Key West, journalist Liam Michael “Mad Mick” Murphy is compelled to react. He and a ragtag group of citizens confront failed justice, but are left with only revenge as an option. Except, perhaps a renegade deal with the Cuban government. Dodging treachery, Mad Mick Murphy goes headlong toward treason, dragging his team of “typical” islanders deeper into the mess they wanted to eliminate.

My second in Mick Murphy Key West Mystery will be available mid Feb. 2011. “Free Range Institution” reunites the characters in “Chasin’ the Wind” as they run and hide from a corrupt city commissioner and DEA Agent and they do this while trying to stop a seaplane full of drugs from coming into Key West.

There are sample chapters on my website – www.michaelhaskins.net – please check the site out.

From the Author:
My mystery novel is fiction, but Key West looms in the background, the bars and restaurants and many of the characters that run through its pages are taken from real life. If you have visited the island, you will know this. If not, come on down and see for yourself.

I moved to Key West to sail and today I own a 1973, 36-foot Amel sloop. With friends, I have sailed to Cuba four times and flown from Miami once. Much of what I learned about Cuba is in my novel.

In my writing, I have tried to be faithful to the island and its businesses. I should remind you that my story is fiction, because crime as I write it does not happen in Key West. We are a long way from the mayhem and gangs of Miami, but with a vivid imagination, I have been able to create the situations needed for a political-murder mystery.

Hope to see you at the Hog’s Breath or Schooner Wharf one of these days.

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Stranger in a Strange Land Meets The Girl Who Escaped from Earth? Libby Carter Seeks Redemption in Space in Brand Gamblin’s 5-Star Novel Tumbler, Our Kindle Nation eBook o’ the Day

May 16, 2011February 5, 2011 by KND

Stieg Larsson meets Robert A. Heinlein? Libby Carter is a unique but appealing stranger on a strange little rock in Brand Gamblin’s award-winning novel for all ages, Tumbler.

Here’s the set-up:

Libby Carter wanted to get away from it all, so she took a job mining asteroids as far out into the inky blackness as possible. However, her escape turned into a trap, leaving her stuck in indentured servitude, living on a tiny rock in space.

As she tries to dig herself out, she gains friends and finds adventure. Cave-in rescues, planetary collisions, and other mishaps keep her new family fighting to stay alive.

About the Author:

Brand Gamblin worked for over a decade as a game programmer. In his spare time, he wrote and produced short stories and videos. In 2008, he entered the National Novel Writing Month, and won with his story “Tumbler.” In 2009, he entered and won again with his book “1884.”

Gamblin was born in San Antonio in 1973. He spent most of his youth in Texas, earning a bachelors degree in Computer Science from Texas Tech University.

Following college, he achieved his boyhood dream of working as a video game programmer. For the next decade, he published games for such companies as Microprose, Acclaim, and Firaxis.

In his spare time, Brand created the YouTube video cult classic, “Calls For Cthulhu“, which has thousands of followers worldwide, and has been nominated for several film awards. The video has over 300,000 views to date.

Tumbler, Brand’s first book, was released as a podiobook in 2009, and then was self-published in 2010.

Review:

Reviewer Allison Duncan seems to sum it up for most of the 5-star reviews for Tumbler:

Tumbler is a scifi novel that is very Heinlein-esque. Small time main character works through struggles and makes good encapsulates the plot. But the story itself, while excellent, is not as exciting as watching the characters.

Libby, the heroine, is a young girl who has no idea how the world works. She loses her mother and then jumps headlong into a deep space mining conglomerate hoping to somehow make good through hard work alone. Unfortunately, what she doesn’t know just might kill her. If the locals don’t do it first.

Most scifi books are heavy reading and usually just not my cup of tea. However, Tumbler is fast paced while maintaining believability and a delicious sense of the ironic. With such a wonderful combo, the reader cannot help but be swept along. I would note that this novel is considered “Young Adult,” but anyone can jump in and enjoy it.

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If Larabeth McLeod goes to the police for protection, people will die. And one of them will be her daughter … Mary Anna Evans’ environmental thriller Wounded Earth is our Kindle Nation eBook of the Day

May 17, 2011February 2, 2011 by KND

Larabeth McLeod has beauty, money, a successful environmental firm, and some very old secrets. If she goes to the police for protection, people will die. And one of them will be her daughter.

Here’s the set-up for Mary Anna Evans’ thriller, Wounded Earth:

Larabeth McLeod has beauty, money, several patents, a Ph.D., a successful environmental firm, and some very old secrets. When the man who calls himself Babykiller begins stalking her, terrorizing her with stories of her own darkest days in Vietnam, stories no one else knows, she feels compelled to fight back…until he exposes her most tender secret of all by threatening the daughter she has never met.

She turns to private detective J.D. Hatten for help, breaking five years of estrangement and silence between quarreling friends. And then Babykiller shows his true capabilities. He is the head of an illicit business offering but one service–moving cargo worldwide for criminals who need their drugs or cash or smuggled goods shipped safely and anonymously–so he is capable of putting anything anywhere. He quietly explains to Larabeth, a well-known environmental executive, that he can even put defective gauges in nuclear power plants, and he will, just to get her attention. If she goes to the police for protection, people will die. Lots and lots of people will die. And one of them will be her daughter.

Larabeth and J.D. are just two people, up against a babykiller. But then, Babykiller doesn’t know who he’s dealing with…

WOUNDED EARTH is the first environmental thriller by award-winning mystery writer Mary Anna Evans, author of 13 novels and short stories on Amazon, 11 of them in the Kindle Store, including the popular Faye Longchamp mysteries ARTIFACTS, RELICS, EFFIGIES, FINDINGS, FLOODGATES, and, most recently, STRANGERS.

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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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Will they be able to find the spy among them? Spies Among Us (An Alex Boyd Thriller Book 5) by Mel Harrison

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Either justice will prevail or the body count will grow… A Law Unto Itself (The Tony Valenti Thrillers Book 8) by Neil Turner

A geological disaster triggers massive quakes, deadly tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions… Tides of Fire: A Sigma Force Novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins

Can the idealistic lawyer prove he’s the man to save an entire city? The Laureate: An Italian Renaissance Historical Mystery by Ken Tentarelli

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