Monday 30 April 2012

FREE BOOK FIND: Gehenna by Jason Brant

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BOOK DESCRIPTION
An outlaw trapped in a jail cell.

A prostitute boarded up in a saloon.

Flesh eaters roaming the streets.

When a local woman is brutally attacked by two unknown men, their bodies mangled by arrows and axes, the residents of Gehenna are thrust into a nightmare they can't comprehend.

The dead are rising in the streets of the Old West. And they're hungry.

INDIE NEW RELEASE/BARGAIN BOOK: Kill Me by Alex Owens

We are happy to announce as an INDIE NEW RELEASE and BARGAIN BOOK: Kill Me  by Alex Owens (Click here for UK purchase)  .  Why not grab a copy of this today?




BOOK DESCRIPTION
Three days ago, Claire was a wife, a mother, and very much alive... then the music called for her.

Claire has one goal for the conference-- to land a few whales so that her boss will give her a badly needed raise. She pitches and prays while courting the music industry elite until her plans are derailed by hotness-in-high-heels.

Bette is at the conference on a mission--to find a human with untapped talents that she can mold and control. Bette uses her cursed violin to lure Claire in with a haunting song, which unravels Claire's life as her new talents emerge. To make matters worse, Claire is attracted to two unlikely people-- Bette and her hunky associate, Gregor. Both can light Claire's fire, but is either of them the only one? 

Unfortunately for Claire, life isn't all song lyrics and seduction. Tied to darkness by blood and power, Claire must harness her abilities if she has any hope of returning home to her daughter and regaining her former life... if that's what she really wants. 

Kill Me, the debut novel from author Alex Owens, is a quirky paranormal fantasy complete with music, magic, fangs and freaks. It is also the first in a planned series, with the second book due out by the Fall of 2012. Be forewarned, this is not your daughter's paranormal.

Sunday 29 April 2012

Amazon FREE and $0.99 Book Listing: 29 April 2012


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FREE BOOK FIND: Two Shadows by Charlie Winger

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BOOK DESCRIPTION
This autobiographical book is filled with Charlie's adventures during 35 years of mountaineering, climbing rock & ice, and world travel. People who have met Charlie, attended one of his slideshows, or read his guidebooks will recognize his knack for telling stories. Some are hair-raising, some are a little crazy, and some will have you laughing out loud.

Two Shadows is about more than climbing. It is the story of a boy who grew up in an atmosphere of neglect and abuse. He made numerous bad choices in life which resulted in his being sentenced to prison at age eighteen. While incarcerated, Winger turned his life around. He obtained his high school diploma, began taking college courses, and learned computer programming. Upon his release, he began a successful career in information technology.

After moving to Colorado in the early 1970s, Winger began hiking and climbing in the Rocky Mountains. He discovered a passion for the mountains, and went on to climb peaks all around the world, as well as literally hundreds of summits within the United States.
Quoting from the book’s introduction by guidebook author and Denver Post columnist Dave Cooper:

“Although this is an autobiography, the story Charlie tells in this book could be considered as an allegory for whatever personal summits we are attempting to scale. The mental fortitude, perseverance, and bonds of friendship needed to scale the peaks described here are no different than the qualities needed to excel in life in general. It is on the mountain that a person’s true nature is laid bare. It has been said that character is revealed not by one’s successes, but by how one responds to failure. Charlie shares with us both his successes and failures, and it is apparent that neither has done anything to diminish his indomitable spirit. It is this same spirit that has allowed him to ‘bounce back’ (sorry Charlie) from the illness and fall that would have ended most other climbers’ careers.”

Saturday 28 April 2012

BOOK OF THE DAY: The Nutt Family: An Acorny Adventure by Angela Muse

by Angela Muse




BOOK DESCRIPTION
Chess Nutt and his sister Praline are always pretending to have crazy adventures. What happens when these two acorn siblings have an unexpected real life adventure on their own? Things get a little nutty!










AUTHOR BIO
I was born in California to a military family. This meant that I was the "new kid" in school every couple of years. It was hard always trying to make new friends, but I discovered I had a knack for writing. I began writing poetry in high school and really enjoyed expressing myself by using pen and paper. After becoming a Mom in 2003, I continued my storytelling to my own children. In 2009 I wrote and published my first children's book aimed at toddlers. In 2012 I am set to release several more children's books. Check out what I'm working on by visiting my blog.
I also write a blog about living on a gluten-free diet. I love to cook so I share my recipe successes and failures as I continue living without gluten.
Writing is such a wonderful creative process and I look forward to sharing more of my stories with lots of new little readers!


OTHER WORKS

Amazon FREE and $0.99 Book Listing: 28 April 2012


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FREE BOOK FIND: The Assassin's Mistress by J. H. Bográn

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BOOK DESCRIPTION
A random encounter leads to deception, love and murder. While vacationing at a ski resort, professional hitman Robert Prescott meets a strange and beautiful woman.

They discover passion and embark into a dangerous game hiding their relationship from her powerful husband. Then a further twist of fate makes Robert's occupation collide with his new found love.  

FREE BOOK FIND: Ethereal Messenger by Scott Nicholson

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BOOK DESCRIPTION
An omnibus edition of three supernatural novels by bestselling author Scott Nicholson. DRM-free.

THE RED CHURCH: A young boy and a sheriff must solve the mystery of a haunted Appalachian church after a strange preacher returns to town. A 2002 Stoker Award finalist.

DRUMMER BOY: One misfit kid is all that stands between a mountain town and a chilling supernatural force when the past and the present collide.

SPEED DATING WITH THE DEAD: A paranormal conference at the Blue Ridge Mountain's most haunted hotel goes haywire when ghost hunters accidentally stir up demons.

FREE BOOK FIND: Follow The Bouncing Ball by Derrick M Eason

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BOOK DESCRIPTION
Follow "Kicker" the bouncing ball as he bounces through the neighborhood. Kicker, helps teach children how to count in english and spanish.

FREE BOOK FIND: Turing's Revenge and Other Stories by Steven W. White

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BOOK DESCRIPTION
Four science fiction tales of the future and one of the ancient past. A total of 22,000 unforgettable words.

TURING'S REVENGE
Remember Alan Turing's test for artificial intelligence? It simply won't tell you if your robot has a soul. You will have to answer that question on your own... and you'd better get it right.

TO MY DEAREST APHRODITE
The Great Library of Alexandria, 246 BC. To save the greatest city in the world, the Library's astronomer must solve a very unusual crime.

FAREWELL TO ARMS
A biologically enhanced assassin finds that his weapons are useless against a beautiful young woman who works in a shoe store.

WISE AS SERPENTS
When humans discovered the alien pavo civilization, they found them to be invisible savage killers. But there is still a chance for peace. Or is there?

MIDGIGOROO AND THE SINGULARITY
Futurists anxiously await the Singularity – the moment when superhuman intelligence makes the future impossible to predict. But how will others react to it? An Australian Aborigine, say?

FREE BOOK FIND: Mage-Wrought (The Mage-Wrought Warrior) by P B Dillon

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BOOK DESCRIPTION
Lito is a construct given life by the Theurgist Garvin to defend Tyrealla, Garvin’s daughter.

It won’t be easy, because they’re about to be attacked by the Kelits, fierce warriors who paint themselves blue and file their teeth. Their leader is a Dark Mage who will stop at nothing to accomplish his goal.

The Dark Mage seeks immortality – which he believes he can gain through the use of a jewel that forms part of Tyrealla’s favorite necklace.

Added to this are the complications that Lord Cirovan believes Lito was made to protect him, Tyrealla treats him as if he were repulsive, and, because of how he came into being, Lito doubts that he qualifies as fully human.

Will Lito be able to help defeat the invading Kelits? Will he be able to save Tyrealla from the Dark Mage? Will he win her over, or learn to accept who and what he is?

You’ll have to read the book to find out.

Friday 27 April 2012

BOOK OF THE DAY: Dark Steps by Martin Pond

Dark Steps
by Martin Pond
(Click here for UK purchase)




BOOK DESCRIPTION
A collection of short stories, a series of twist endings, and one author's dark steps back into writing...

A teenage boy waits to take a sinister test he may or may not pass; a new father hears a strange voice on his daughter's baby monitor; a poisoner's best-laid plans go terribly astray; an enigmatic man gets as close to death as he can; a young boy wonders why Christmas just doesn't feel right this year; after the year from hell, a man is driven to extreme measures; a dying man reveals a black secret to his son; and, after four years in limbo, a man's life starts to unravel...

These dark tales of the unexpected are for fans of the short fiction of Stephen King, David Morrell and Dean Koontz. Step outside of the every day and take dark steps into a shadowy place...

AUTHOR BIO
Born in East Kent in 1970, Martin Pond was educated at the University of East Anglia... but unlike many more famous writers he didn't study Creative Writing there or do "The MA". A career in IT followed, and continues to pay the bills. In 2007 Martin made a hesitant return to fiction, not having written remotely seriously since his student days. He returned to UEA too, and took a diploma in Creative Writing.

Martin's stories have appeared in Unthology No 1, Streetcake magazine and Alliterati magazine, whilst three poems have appeared in The Artillery Of Words magazine.

Martin is currently working on a novel-length work, Drawn To The Deep End, and, as an experiment, is publishing the first draft, unedited, in weekly online instalments.

Martin's first collection of short fiction, Dark Steps, was published in August 2011.

OTHER WORKS
Turn Around Where Possible

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FREE BOOK FIND: Sex, Lies & Hot Tubs by Elissa Ambrose

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BOOK DESCRIPTION
Meet Ellen Dunwell, doting wife, loving mother, high school teacher extaordinaire. She’s worried that her husband, the respected Dr. Jeffrey Dunwell, wonderful father, great lover, is having another affair. As if that’s not bad enough, her friends don’t understand her, her neighbor’s son is a Peeping Tom, and her angst-ridden teenage daughter is stashing pot in her room and dating a control freak. When Jeffrey suddenly disappears, Ellen nearly slips over the edge.  Instead, she pulls herself together and sets out on a mission to find him—only to get caught up in a web of intrigue and danger, where nothing is as it seems and the stakes are her life.

BARGAIN BOOK: Being Light by Helen Smith

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BOOK DESCRIPTION
When Roy Travers doesn’t come home his wife begins to suspect he has been abducted by aliens, and she enlists the help of a private detective to find him. But Roy was not taken by aliens. The truth is far stranger.

FREE BOOK FIND: Change by Design by Catrina Taylor

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BOOK DESCRIPTION
Kei Salin has been watching young lives fall to faulty bureaucratic nonsense for decades and she's tired of it. She forces the hand of her superiors to remove her from the project. Before obtaining her reassignment,she takes a trip. 

One stop on her vacation forces her to reveal something she's denied for decades. 

FREE BOOK FIND: Final Hours by N. L. Beishir

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BOOK DESCRIPTION
Could you live a lifetime in twenty-four hours? 

Jamie Randall thought he had it all...until a close brush with death brought him face-to-face with the one thing that was missing from his life. Now, facing his own mortality once again, he will have to make a choice: one chance to live, or one chance to set things right in his troubled life....

FREE BOOK FIND: The Nexus Effect by Jonathan Creed

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BOOK DESCRIPTION
How do we stop being slaves to our addictions? More to the point, how can we liberate ourselves painlessly?

In this new approach, not only is the process of freeing oneself from addiction made painless and easy, it can also be a genuinely enjoyable experience. The Nexus Effect is a new solution to the perennial problems of nicotine addiction, alcohol abuse and over-eating. It offers a simple, easy to follow program that is both pleasurable and life-enhancing. No drugs are required, no further expense will be incurred, and the only side-effects you might experience are improved clarity of thought, increased inner strength, more purposeful intention and greater control over every area of your life.

Once you have experienced the Nexus Effect, you will no longer be at the mercy of addiction.

If you are currently a heavy smoker, then after experiencing the full power of the Nexus Effect you will not only stop smoking, not only enjoy the process of stopping, but after just three days you will suffer no further withdrawal symptoms whatsoever. You will not miss smoking. You will never want another cigarette again.

If you wake each morning with a hangover, if your body feels like its been trampled on during the night, and if you spend your days wondering whether or not you'll make it through to opening time without a drink, after using the Nexus Effect for a week you will have neither the need nor desire to drink alcohol.

And if you are overweight, have tried every diet under the sun, spent fortunes on books and plans and still find yourself eating too much too often, after two weeks of utilising the Nexus Effect, you will have complete control over your food intake. More importantly, your enjoyment of food will escalate and you will lose weight!

Everyone can benefit from the Nexus Effect. It is easy, fun, pleasurable and requires no special abilities or talents, no superhuman efforts of will, no unbearable sacrifices of any kind. If you have a desire to stop smoking, stop drinking or stop over-eating, then you have already taken the first step.

Thursday 26 April 2012

FREE BOOK FIND: CSS & CSS3 Crash Course: Learn CSS in 16 Easy Lessons by Robin Nixon

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BOOK DESCRIPTION
From the author of the top-selling book "Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript", and the popular "Robin Nixon's HTML5 Crash Course", this new CSS & CSS 3 course teaches you everything you need to know about the web layout language, all the way from the basics, up to advanced features such as animations, transformations, shadows, web font management and much, much more.

Everything is clearly explained with plenty of examples and figures, and you will absolutely find this one of the easiest courses you have ever taken. Once you've completed it, you'll completely understand CSS and CSS3, and be fully confident of how to use it to make really impressive and dynamic web pages.

Starting from the basics of CSS (which experienced users can skim) the book covers everything you need to know about CSS and CSS3 in 16 easy-to-follow lectures

FREE BOOK FIND: HTML5 Crash Course: Learn HTML5 in 20 Easy Lessons by Robin Nixon

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BOOK DESCRIPTION
Whether you are a professional or amateur web developer you need all the HTML5 tools in your kit, and this book from the author of the best-selling Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaSript, is the fastest and easiest way there is to learn HTML5.

HTML5 is the future of HTML and all developers need to get up-to-speed with what it offers, including audio and video, without using a plug-in, and a canvas area with professional tools for creating paths, lines, curves, shapes, fills, gradients, patterns, text and more.

It also provides accurate geolocation, background web workers, offline web applications, microdata, a local storage engine and many other improvements to standard HTML, such as dozens of new form tags and attributes

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FREE BOOK FIND: Storykeeper (Nine-Rivers Valley) by Daniel A. Smith

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BOOK DESCRIPTION
Storykeeper is a historical-literary novel, based on existing sixteenth-century Spanish documents, but told from the perspective of the people of the Mississippi River Valley, who lived and survived the invasion of Conquistadors in 1541. One-hundred years later, prompted by a dream, Manaha, Mother-of-None, steps before the village fire. She demands that the children of the tribe be allowed to hear stories and the truth about their ancient homeland, that had been decimated and abandoned not long after the departure of the Spanish. 

Before Manaha can finish her first story, her fire is doused and the listeners frightened away by Ta-kawa, a devious but respected warrior. He convinces their struggling tribe of survivors to reject Manaha and her stories. Manaha refuses to stop, even though her listeners must hide in the shadows to learn about the Son-of-the-Sun, the seventy-foot cross he planted atop the temple mound of Casqui, and the thousands who gathered to watch the first grand Christian ceremony in North America.

Son-of-the-Sun is the name given by the people of Casqui to the commander of the Spanish, Hernando de Soto. Three first-hand accounts written by Conquistadors with the expedition describe Casqui and twenty other towns discovered in a fertile, widely-populated region, just across the Mississippi River. All these bustling towns, some of which had existed for eight-hundred years, would be deserted within a generation.

Manaha learns of the abandoned homeland from Taninto, an old hermit who found her as a child, dying of smallpox after her family had been murdered. As a young man, Taninto was drawn to the mystic and power of the strangers and their horses. Traveling as a servant to a good-hearted but troubled Conquistador, he crossed the land of twelve nations, witnessing its diversion and grandeur, and then running from its destruction brought on by disease, famine, and wars. 

Each night, Manaha continues the retelling of Taninto’s journey, even as the existence of her own small tribe is threatened. A hostile tribe of buffalo hunters captures most of the men from Manaha’s village and demands that those remaining join their nation. The night before the tribe must leave, Ichisi, son of Ta-kawa, steps into the light of Manaha’s fire. He begs to hear more stories and asks her to follow along behind the tribe on its and her final journey. The last essence of those ancient nations; their unique stories and history survive only if there is a Storykeeper.

FREE BOOK FIND: Out of the Limelight by James Bagworth

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BOOK DESCRIPTION
October 17th 1879. 


A bloodied body is found on a towpath, and suspicion falls on two music hall entertainers - Farrow and Flint. Hounded by a policeman with a score to settle, their attempts to find the real killer lead them into a shadowy world of deception and lies, a world where even their closest friends have secrets they dare not tell. 

- Set in the rumbustious Music Hall of Victorian times, 'Out of the Limelight' is a tale of conspiracy, murder and love. James Bagworth skilfully entwines the lives of two music hall comedians, a French chanteuse on the run, and a pair of conspirators planning an assassination. This is a gripping read - a Victorian novel with a contemporary flavour, full of colourful characters, and laced with sparkling humour. 

Wednesday 25 April 2012

BOOK OF THE DAY: THE MIDGET'S HOUSE by Anita Bartholomew

The Midget's House (A Circus Story...A Love Story...A Ghost Story)
by Anita Bartholomew




BOOK DESCRIPTION
The Midget's House is a tale of two women (one alive, and the other long dead), each mourning lost love and struggling for control of the one place that feels like home.

Marisa Delano is thrilled when she unexpectedly inherits the fairy tale-like cottage on the bay--until she learns that Lucinda Lacey, a sideshow midget who died on the property in 1924, still inhabits it. As Marisa searches for answers about the unwelcome presence in her new home, all the clues lead to one conclusion: on the day Lucinda died, she murdered her lover, circus owner Cyrus Parker. 

Alternating between Lucinda's and Marisa's perspectives, The Midget's House takes readers from the carnivals, circuses, and freak shows of the early twentieth century, to the boom-and-bust of today's Florida. 

Haunting in every sense of the word, this genre-blending tale will stay with you long after you turn the last page.



AUTHOR BIO
Anita Bartholomew is a former long-time contributing editor to Reader's Digest, a freelance "book doctor" (developmental editor), and the co-author of Dr. Yvonne Thornton's award-winning memoir, Something To Prove (Kaplan 2010)
ABOUT THE HOUSE
There are many legends about the house in the Indian Beach neighborhood of Sarasota, Florida:
That it was built for Ringling Circus midgets... that there is a treasure hidden inside its walls... that it is haunted.
Its true history may never be known, but Anita Bartholomew's imaginings about what that history might have been form the basis of the novel, THE MIDGET'S HOUSE.