Each day, Amazon sponsors the Kindle Daily Deal and the Free App of the Day.

Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deal is a one-day only offer where a specific Kindle book for adults, one for young readers (children or young adults), a romance, and a science fiction / fantasy title have been hand-selected by the editors at Amazon and significantly discounted for today only.

Amazon’s free App of the Day can be utilized on a Kindle Fire and Android-based smartphones and tablet computers, and the app can be a game, utility, or who knows? Each app is offered free for 24 hours and, after that period is over it goes back to paid status and a new app is the Free App of the Day.

Kindle Daily Deal

Today’s Kindle Daily Deal for adults is The Demands , by Mark Billingham, and this book was $9.99 yesterday but has been discounted 70% to just $2.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 14 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Teens Daily Deal is Mira’s Diary: Lost in Paris , by Marissa Moss, and this book was $12.99 yesterday but has been discounted 85% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 11 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Daily Deal is Oz Reimagined: New Tales from the Emerald City and Beyond , edited by John Joseph Adams and Douglas Cohen, and this book was $9.99 yesterday but has been discounted 80% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 40 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Romance Daily Deal is Down in New Orleans , by Heather Graham, and this book was $7.99 yesterday but has been discounted 75% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 20 customer reviews.

You can check each of them out if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser.

Here is the The Demands book description from the Amazon website:

The Crime The customers in a London convenience store are taken captive. Among them is young mother, Detective Helen Weeks. She is told her life depends on the co-operation of one of her colleagues – detective Tom Thorne.

The Demand Akhtar is desperate to know what really happened to his beloved son, who died a year before in prison. He is convinced the death was not an accident and forces the one man who knows more about the case than any other, Thorne, to re-investigate.

The Twist What Thorne discovers will upend everything he thought he knew about the fate of those he’s put away…but will it be enough to fulfill the wishes of a grieving and potentially violent father?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Demands .

Here is the Mira’s Diary: Lost in Paris book description from the Amazon website:

When Mira receives a cryptic postcard from her missing mother, she sets off with her father and brother to find her in Paris. Only Mira doesn’t know she’s looking in the wrong century.
With an innocent touch to a gargoyle sculpture on the roof of Notre Dame, Mira is whisked into the past. There she learns her mother isn’t just avoiding the family, she’s in serious trouble. Following her mother’s clues, Mira travels through time to help change history and bring her mother home.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to pick up your copy of Mira’s Diary: Lost in Paris .

Here is the Oz Reimagined: New Tales from the Emerald City and Beyond book description from the Amazon website:

When L. Frank Baum introduced Dorothy and friends to the American public in 1900, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz became an instant, bestselling hit. Today the whimsical tale remains a cultural phenomenon that continues to spawn wildly popular books, movies, and musicals. Now, editors John Joseph Adams and Douglas Cohen have brought together leading fantasy writers such as Orson Scott Card and Seanan McGuire to create the ultimate anthology for Oz fans – and, really, any reader with an appetite for richly imagined worlds. Stories include:
• Frank Baum’s son has the real experiences that his father later fictionalized in Orson Scott Card’s “Off to See the Emperor.”
• Seanan McGuire’s “Emeralds to Emeralds, Dust to Dust” finds Dorothy grown up, bitter, and still living in Oz. And she has a murder to solve – assuming Ozma will stop interfering with her life long enough to let her do her job.
• In “Blown Away,” Jane Yolen asks: What if Toto was dead and stuffed, Ozma was a circus freak, and everything you thought you knew as Oz was
really right here in Kansas?
• “The Cobbler of Oz” by Jonathan Maberry explores a Winged Monkey with wings too small to let her fly. Her only chance to change that rests with
the Silver Slippers.
• In Tad Williams’s futuristic “The Boy Detective of Oz,” Orlando investigates the corrupt Oz simulation of the Otherland network.
• And more…
Some stories are dystopian…Some are dreamlike…All are undeniably Oz.
Includes stories by these authors:
Dale Bailey, Orson Scott Card, Rae Carson, David Farland, C.C. Finlay, Jeffrey Ford, Theodora Goss, Simon R. Green, Kat Howard, Ken Liu, Seanan McGuire, Jonathan Maberry, Rachel Swirsky, Robin Wasserman, Tad Williams, Jane Yolen

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to pick up your copy of Oz Reimagined: New Tales from the Emerald City and Beyond .

Here is the Down in New Orleans book description from the Amazon website:

When Ann infiltrates the dark corners of the Big Easy to clear her ex-husband’s name, what begins as an innocent investigation becomes a matter of life and death

Ann and Jon Marcel are a rare case; five years after their divorce, they’re good friends, and Ann has come to love Jon’s hometown of New Orleans. Until the day Jon staggers through her door covered in blood and mumbling, “I didn’t do it.”

Jon is charged with murdering a stripper, and in order to save him, Ann will have to dive into the sordid New Orleans underworld, looking for clues in erotic clubs and seamy jazz spots. And, if that weren’t enough, she must deal with the resolute detective bent on bringing her husband to justice—the eagle-eyed lieutenant who dogs her steps and surfaces in her dreams. But despite her wavering affections, Ann has bigger concerns as she becomes embroiled in a fight not only for Jon’s freedom, but also for her life.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Heather Graham, including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to pick up your copy of Down in New Orleans .

Free App of the Day

Today’s Free App of the Day is Office Calculator Pro and this utility app is normally $1.69 in the Amazon App Store but is free for today only.

Here is the app’s description from the Amazon App Store website:

Office calculator with a virtual tape,
fixed point or floating point calculator,
various rounding modes and percent calculation.
This is a calculator optimized for office tasks.

* Calculator with virtual tape
You can switch between calculator view and and tape view to have a full screen view of the tape.
The tape of the calculator can have up to 500 lines.

* Calculator supports corrections on the tape
You can change values on the virtual tape to make corrections.

* Calculator allows annotations on the tape
You can write a comment to a tape line.

* Calculator with fixed point arithmetic or floating point.
Fixed point arithmetic has 20 digits and 0 – 4 decimal places.
The floating point arithmetic has 64 bits (IEEE double precision).
By default, the calculator works with fixed point arithmetic and 2 decimal places as needed for most calculations with amounts.

* Calculator supports three rounding modes: up, down or 5/4.

* Calculator has percent calculation to add or subtract percent values.
This makes it very easy to calculate tax amounts with the calculator.

* Calculator support operator precedence (multiplication/division over addition/subtraction) and displays interim results (optional)

This is the Pro variant of Office Calculator, a Free variant with ads is also available.

You can pick up your free copy of Office Calculator Pro by clicking here or typing in http://smarturl.it/appdeal into your web browser.

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Each day, Amazon sponsors the Kindle Daily Deal and the Free App of the Day.

Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deal is a one-day only offer where a specific Kindle book for adults, one for young readers (children or young adults), a romance, and a science fiction / fantasy title have been hand-selected by the editors at Amazon and significantly discounted for today only.

Amazon’s free App of the Day can be utilized on a Kindle Fire and Android-based smartphones and tablet computers, and the app can be a game, utility, or who knows? Each app is offered free for 24 hours and, after that period is over it goes back to paid status and a new app is the Free App of the Day.

Kindle Daily Deal

Today’s Kindle Daily Deal for adults is Gone, Baby, Gone , by Denis Lehane, and this book was $9.99 yesterday but has been discounted 80% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 201 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Kids Daily Deal is The Three Little Tamales , by Eric A. Kimmel and Valeria Docampo, and this book was $9.99 yesterday but has been discounted 80% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 30 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Daily Deal is The Well of Tears: The Dream Stewards , by Roberta Trahan, and this book was $9.99 yesterday but has been discounted 90% to just $0.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 33 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Romance Daily Deal is Every Breath She Takes , by Norah Wilson, and this book was $9.99 yesterday but has been discounted 80% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 159 customer reviews.

You can check each of them out if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser.

Here is the Gone, Baby, Gone book description from the Amazon website:

Vanished, in this complex and unsettling fourth case for PIs Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro (after Sacred, 1997) is four-year-old Amanda McCready, taken one night from her apartment in Dorchester, a working-class section of Boston, where her mother had left her alone. Kenzie and Gennaro, hired by the child’s aunt and uncle, join in an unlikely alliance with Remy Broussard and Nick Raftopoulos, known as Poole, the two cops with the department’s Crimes Against Children squad who are assigned to the case. In tracing the history of Amanda’s neglectful mother, whose past involved her with a drug lord and his minions, the foursome quickly find themselves tangling with Boston’s crime underworld and involved in what appears to be a coup among criminals. Lehane develops plenty of tension between various pairs of parties: the good guys looking for Amanda and the bad guys who may know where she is; the two PIs and the two cops; various police and federal agencies; opposing camps in the underworld; and Patrick and Angie, who are lovers as well as business partners. All is delivered with abundant violence?e.g., bloated and mutilated corpses; gangland executions; shoot-outs with weapons of prodigious firepower; descriptions of sexual abuse of small children; threats of rape and murder?that serves to make Amanda’s likely fate all the more chilling. Lehane tackles corruption in many forms as he brings his complicated plot to its satisfying resolution, at the same time leaving readers to ponder moral questions about social and individual responsibility long after the last page is turned.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to pick up your copy of Gone, Baby, Gone .

Here is the The Three Little Tamales book description from the Amazon website:

While the three little tamales cool off on a windowsill, a tortilla rolls by. “You’ll be eaten. You’d better run!” he tells them. And so the tamales jump out the window. The first runs to the prairie and builds a house of sagebrush. The second runs to a cornfield and builds a house of cornstalks. The third runs to the desrt and builds a house of cactus. Then who should come along but Señor Lobo, the Big Bad Wolf, who plans to blow their houses down!Valeria Docampo’s oil-and-pencil illustrations add zest and humor to this rollicking southwestern version of a popular tale.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Three Little Tamales .

Here is the The Well of Tears: The Dream Stewards book description from the Amazon website:

More than five centuries after Camelot, a new king heralded by prophecy has appeared. As one of the last sorceresses of a dying order sworn to protect the new ruler at all costs, Alwen must answer a summons she thought she might never receive.
Bound by oath, Alwen returns to Fane Gramarye, the ancient bastion of magic standing against the rise of evil. For alongside the prophecy of the benevolent king, a darker foretelling envisions the land overrun by a demonic army and cast into ruin.
Alwen has barely set foot in her homeland when she realizes traitors lurk within the Stewardry, threatening to destroy it. To thwart the corruption and preserve her order, Alwen must draw upon power she never knew she possessed and prepare to sacrifice everything she holds dear—even herself. If she fails, the prophecy of peace will be banished, and darkness will rule.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Well of Tears: The Dream Stewards .

Here is the Every Breath She Takes book description from the Amazon website:

Veterinarian Lauren Townsend has good reason for hiding her psychic ability. Not only did her “freakishness” earn her pariah status in the small town where she grew up, it cost her a fiancé and her faith in love. When Lauren foresees a murder—through the killer’s eyes—she traces the victim to a sprawling ranch, never guessing what waits for her…
Cal Taggart’s rugged ranch life doesn’t need any more complications. His stubborn determination cost him his marriage, and now may cost him his livelihood. But then beautiful Lauren enters his corral…with danger close behind. And Cal wants nothing more than to protect her. They can’t deny their intense attraction. Nor do they want to. What begins as a fling with no strings becomes a fight for survival—and for true love.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to pick up your copy of Every Breath She Takes .

Free App of the Day

Today’s Free App of the Day is 247 Mahjong and this game app is normally $0.99 in the Amazon App Store but is free for today only.

Here is the app’s description from the Amazon App Store website:

Play Mahjong all day long with 247 Mahjong.

Unwind from your day to the soothing sound of crashing waves while lazily matching tiles in this classic board game. Or try to achieve a perfect, 3-star score on all 26 fun and challenging mahjong boards. This version of Mahjong Solitaire has all the classic arrangements (like the “Turtle” layout) and brand new, completely original layouts, like “Fish” and “Butterfly.”

This fun and addictive tile-matching puzzle game features beautiful artwork, and a simple, easy-to-use interface. And the NEW Zoom feature makes playing even better on devices with smaller screens, like cell phones!

Features include:
* NEW Zoom feature (great for cell phones!)
* 20 stimulating layouts
* undo, hint, and shuffle buttons
* endlessly-challenging high scores and achievements
* simple and intuitive interface
* beautiful graphics, and easy-to-read tiles
* free updates (including more board layouts, features and artwork),as they are developed, for life!

You can pick up your free copy of 247 Mahjong by clicking here or typing in http://smarturl.it/appdeal into your web browser.

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Download the Free Kindle Books and Tips blog app for your Kindle Fire or Android-based smartphone or tablet – for free, of course – by clicking here or type in http://smarturl.it/fkbtfreeapp into your computer’s web browser from the Amazon App Store or click here or type in http://bit.ly/fkbtgoogle into your computer’s web browser for the Google App Store.

Each day, Amazon sponsors the Kindle Daily Deal and the Free App of the Day.

Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deal is a one-day only offer where a specific Kindle book for adults, one for young readers (children or young adults), a romance, and a science fiction / fantasy title have been hand-selected by the editors at Amazon and significantly discounted for today only.

Amazon’s free App of the Day can be utilized on a Kindle Fire and Android-based smartphones and tablet computers, and the app can be a game, utility, or who knows? Each app is offered free for 24 hours and, after that period is over it goes back to paid status and a new app is the Free App of the Day.

Kindle Daily Deal

Today’s Kindle Daily Deal for Adults is The Two Minute Rule , by Robert Crais, and this book was $9.99 yesterday but has been discounted 80% to just $2.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 186 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Teens Daily Deal is My Brother Sam is Dead , by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier, and this book was $7.99 yesterday but has been discounted 57% to just $2.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 360 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Daily Deal is Building from Ashes , by Elizabeth Hunter, and this book was $3.99 yesterday but has been discounted 50% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 214 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Romance Daily Deal is Dead Heat , by Kathleen Brooks, and this book was $2.99 yesterday but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 186 customer reviews.

You can check each of them out if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser.

Here is the The Two Minute Rule book description from the Amazon website:

Two minutes can be a lifetime.
Ask anyone on the wrong side of the law about the two-minute rule and they’ll tell you that’s as long as you can hope for at a robbery before the cops show up. Break the two-minute rule and it’s a lifetime in jail. But not everyone plays by the rules. . .
When ex-con Max Holman finally gets out of jail, freedom doesn’t taste too sweet. The only thing on his mind is reconciliation with his estranged son, who is, ironically, a cop. But then he hears the devastating news: His son and three other uniformed cops were gunned down in cold blood in Los Angeles the night before Holman’s release. When the hit is exposed as a revenge killing and the question of police corruption is raised, it becomes a father’s last duty to clear his son’s name and catch the killer. With all the elements that have made Robert Crais one of the very best crime writers today, The Two Minute Rule is gripping, edgy suspense from the author who sets the standard when it comes to surprising plot twists and powerful characters.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Two Minute Rule .

Here is the My Brother Sam is Dead book description from the Amazon website:

Winner of the Newbery Honor! The Revolutionary War comes alive in this contemporary classic for young adults. The War had no clear-cut loyalties–it divided families, friends and towns. Young Tim Meeker’s 16-year-old brother goes off to fight with the Patriots while his father remains a reluctant British Loyalist in the Tory town of Redding, CT. Tim’s always looked up to his brother, who’s smart and brave. With the war soon raging, Tim knows he’ll have to make a choice — between the Revolutionaries and the Redcoats . . . and between his brother and his father. Over the course of the war Tim learns that life teaches some bitter lessons and does not guarantee clear answers. My Brother Sam Is Dead is a stirring, probing tale full of action and suspense, putting listeners right into the heart of the Revolutionary War.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to pick up your copy of My Brother Sam is Dead .

Here is the Building from Ashes book description from the Amazon website:

In a world teetering on the edge of change, two beings struggle to find their purpose. Will their paths lead them closer together or tear their worlds apart?

For a thousand years, powerful earth vampire Carwyn ap Bryn has served others. God. His family. His friends. But tragedy and loss disrupt his peaceful existence, causing him to question everything he has committed his eternity to.

Brigid Connor has known about vampires since they rescued her from a painful childhood. But not even their vast elemental power can save her from the demons that torment her.

As loyalties are tested and new paths are forged, a lurking danger slowly grows in the Elemental World. Carwyn and Brigid learn that even secrets revealed can come back to haunt you when you least expect it.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to pick up your copy of Building from Ashes .

Here is the Dead Heat book description from the Amazon website:

In the third book of the Bluegrass Series, Paige Davies finds her world turned upside down as she becomes involved in her best friends’ nightmare. The strong-willed Paige doesn’t know which is worse: someone trying to kill her, or losing her dog to the man she loves to hate.

FBI Agent Cole Parker can’t decide whether he should strangle or kiss this infuriating woman of his dreams. As he works the case of his career, he finds that love can be tougher than bringing down some of the most powerful men in America.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to pick up your copy of Dead Heat .

Free App of the Day

Today’s Free App of the Day is 94 Seconds , and this game app is normally $1.99 in the Amazon App Store but is free for today only.

Here is the app’s description from the Amazon App Store website:

1 category, 1 letter, 1 word to find and 94 seconds to reach the highest score!

A fruit starting with K…
A vegetable with P…
A Sport with T…

Want to play ? Then download 94 Seconds right now! More than 20 different categories and many more to come : Clothing, Countries, Colors, Fruits, Sports…

You can pick up your free copy of 94 Seconds by clicking here or typing in http://smarturl.it/appdeal into your web browser.

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Each day, Amazon offers a free Android App of the Day that could be a game, utility, or who knows? Each deal lasts for just 24 hours and, after that period is over it goes back to paid status and a new app is the App of the Day. In addition to your Kindle Fire, these apps will also work with your Android-based smartphones and tablet computers.

Today’s Free App of the Day is Jump Desktop and this utility app is normally $9.99 in the Amazon App Store but is free for today only.
 
 

Here is the app’s description from the Amazon App Store website:

Leave your laptop behind. Enjoy the freedom to work from anywhere.

Jump Desktop is a remote desktop application that lets you control your computer from your phone or tablet. Compatible with both RDP and VNC, Jump Desktop is secure, reliable and very easy to set up. Features include a streamlined user interface that gives you the best possible remote desktop experience on any of your mobile devices.

Easy setup and reliable:
Jump Desktop is very easy to configure; anyone can do it! Just visit: http://jumpdesktop.com/go on your PC or Mac and follow step-by-step instructions. You’ll be up and running in no time.

Secure and built on open standards:
Jump Desktop is a true RDP and VNC client. You don’t need to download additional software to connect to your machine if you already have RDP or VNC configured. Just enter your IP address or hostname to connect.

Powerful features:
Unleash the full power of your phone or tablet while connected to your computer. Multitouch ready – pinch-to-zoom and two finger scrolling make controlling your computer easy and productive. Jump’s multi-threaded rendering engine has been fine tuned for Android. Jump’s VNC and RDP decoding is one of the fastest you’ll find on Android.

If you need help, visit http://support.jumpdesktop.com or email us at: support@jumpdesktop.com

Refund policy: If you’d like a refund just email support@jumpdesktop.com with your Android market receipt and we’ll issue a refund – no questions asked.

Features:

✓ Multi-protocol: supports RDP and VNC
✓ Multi-touch ready: Pinch-zoom, two finger scrolling, mouse dragging all supported. Even three finger taps are supported to quickly show and hide the keyboard.
✓ Easy and secure setup: Automatically configure your PC or Mac for remote access using Wi-Fi and 3G without worrying about your router settings. Set up as many computers as you like and manage them all using your Google account (optional)
✓ SSH Tunnel support (new!)
✓ The best external keyboard and mouse support on Android: Supports all external keyboard keys and shortcuts. Right mouse clicks supported too with external mice – all natural, PC like!
✓ Universal application: Works on tablets and phones – buy it only once and use it on all your Android devices
✓ Full support for multitasking: Switch to other apps without disconnecting
✓ Supports large custom screen resolution
✓ Full mouse support: left and right clicks, dragging, scrolling, precision pointer movement

RDP features:

✓ Tested on: Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, Server 2003, Server 2008, Server 2008 R2, SBS Server
✓ Secure: 40/56/128bit RDP, TLS/SSL, FIPS and NLA authentication support
✓ Supports 8, 16 and 24-bit colors and all RDP performance options
✓ Multiple monitor support on Windows 7 and above
✓ Console sessions
✓ Audio streaming

VNC features:

✓ Tested with Mac OS X, TightVNC, RealVNC, UltraVNC, Linux (Ubuntu Remote Desktop)
✓ Secure: Supports SSL encryption when used with Jump’s automatic setup instructions: http://jumpdesktop.com/go
✓ 8 and 16-bit color
✓ OS X Screen Sharing support
✓ Multiple monitor support
✓ Supported encodings: copyrect, zrle, tight, (zlib)hextile, zlib, rre, raw, desktop-resize

You can pick up your free copy of Jump Desktop by clicking here or typing in http://smarturl.it/appdeal into your computer’s web browser.

Organize your books on your Kindle Fire with our Collections and Categories App! Click Here or type in http://smarturl.it/firecollections into your web browser to get it now!

Each day, Amazon sponsors the Kindle Daily Deal and the Free App of the Day.

Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deal is a one-day only offer where a specific Kindle book for adults, one for young readers (children or young adults), a romance, and a science fiction / fantasy title have been hand-selected by the editors at Amazon and significantly discounted for today only.

Amazon’s free App of the Day can be utilized on a Kindle Fire and Android-based smartphones and tablet computers, and the app can be a game, utility, or who knows? Each app is offered free for 24 hours and, after that period is over it goes back to paid status and a new app is the Free App of the Day.

Kindle Daily Deal

Today’s Kindle Daily Deal for adults is Archie Meets Nero Wolfe , by Robert Goldsborough, and this book was $14.99 yesterday but has been discounted 87% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 105 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Teens Daily Deal is Above World , by Jenn Reese, and this book was $7.99 yesterday but has been discounted 75% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 32 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Daily Deal is Extinction Point , by Paul Antony Jones, and this book was $2.99 yesterday but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 569 customer reviews. I read this one last year and rated it a 4 out of 5 stars in my review.

Today’s Kindle Romance Daily Deal is Rebellious Desire , by Julie Garwood, and this book was $7.99 yesterday but has been discounted 88% to just $0.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 56 customer reviews.

You can check each of them out if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser.

Here is the Archie Meets Nero Wolfe book description from the Amazon website:

To become part of the Nero Wolfe legend, Archie Goodwin must prove his worth

Archie Goodwin comes to New York City hoping for a bit of excitement. In his third week working as a night watchman, he stops two burglars in their tracks—with a pair of hot lead slugs. Dismissed from his job for being “trigger-happy,” he parlays his newfound notoriety into a job as a detective’s assistant, helping honest sleuth Del Bascom solve cases like the Morningside Piano Heist, the Rive Gauche Art Gallery Swindle, and the Sumner-Hayes Burglary. But it’s the kidnapping of Tommie Williamson, the son of a New York hotel magnate, that introduces Goodwin to the man who will change his life.

Young Tommie has gone missing, and only one detective is built for the job: Nero Wolfe, the heavyset genius of West Thirty-Fifth Street. Together they will form one of the most unlikely crime fighting duos in history—but first Goodwin must find Tommie Williamson, and prove to Wolfe that he deserves a place by his side.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to pick up your copy of Archie Meets Nero Wolfe .

Here is the Above World book description from the Amazon website:

A suspenseful sci-fi escapade plucks two children out of the ocean for a thrilling adventure. Thirteen-year-old Aluna has lived her entire life under the ocean with the Coral Kampii in the City of Shifting Tides. But after centuries spent hidden from the Above World, her colony’s survival is at risk. The Kampii’s breathing necklaces are failing, but the elders are unwilling to venture above water to seek answers. Only headstrong Aluna and her friend Hoku are stubborn and bold enough to face the terrors of land to search for way to save their people. But can Aluna’s fierce determination and fighting skills and Hoku’s tech-savvy keep them safe? Set in a world where overcrowding has led humans to adapt – growing tails to live under the ocean or wings to live on mountains – here is a ride through a future where greed and cruelty have gone unchecked, but the loyalty of friends remains true.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to pick up your copy of Above World .

Here is the Extinction Point book description from the Amazon website:

First comes the red rain: a strange, scarlet downpour from a cloudless sky that spreads across cities, nations, and the entire globe. In a matter of panicked hours, every living thing on earth succumbs to swift, bloody death. Yet Emily Baxter, a young newspaper reporter, is mysteriously spared—and now she’s all alone.
But watching the happy life she built for herself in New York City slip away in the wake of a monstrous, inexplicable plague is just the beginning of Emily’s waking nightmare. The world isn’t ending; it’s only changing. And the race that once ruled the earth has now become raw material for use by a new form of life never before seen…on this planet.
With only wits, weapons, and a bicycle, Emily must undertake a grueling journey across a country that’s turning increasingly alien. For though she fears she’s been left to inherit the earth, the truth is far more terrifying than a lifetime of solitude.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to pick up your copy of Extinction Point .

Here is the Rebellious Desire book description from the Amazon website:

Of all the dukes in England, Jered Marcus Benton, the Duke of Bradford, was the wealthiest, most handsome — and most arrogant. And of all London’s ladies, he wanted the tender obedience of only one — Caroline Richmond.
She was a ravishing beauty from Boston, with a mysterious past and a fiery spirit. Drawn to the powerful duke, undeterred by his presumptuous airs, Caroline was determined to win his lasting love. But Bradford would bend to no woman — until a deadly intrigue drew them enticingly close. Now, united against a common enemy, they would discover the power of the magnificent attraction that brought them together…a desire born in danger, but destined to flame into love!

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Free App of the Day

Today’s Free App of the Day is PDF to Speech and this utility app is normally $2.99 in the Amazon App Store but is free for today only.

Here is the app’s description from the Amazon App Store website:

Listen to your your office documents, books, articles and research papers while you drive, run, or walk the dog. Use it to proof-read your papers. Increase you productivity by listening to work/research papers while you drive or run or when your eyes need rest. Or increase the value of your entertainment time by listen to you favorite stories.

Supported formats:
Text files (txt). ISO9958-1(EUROPE), UTF-8(Standard), and ASCII supported.
Portable Document Format (pdf)
MS Word documents (.doc)
MS Power Point (.ppt)
Electronic books (ePub)
Web pages
Images with text (jpeg,png)

OCR: reads scanned documents and pictures with text on PDF documents. Also take a picture of a document and extract the text from the picture.

Website-to-Speech: Docs-to-Speech can read website pages. In three simple steps: press and hold the URL on the browser, select share option, select Docs-to-Speech. In a few seconds the app starts to read the article.

Download and save your PDF files and plain text file Attachments from the gmail app and other apps. The downloaded file is placed in the Download folder.

Support for SVOX, IVONA(beta and FREE) text-to-Speech and other High Fidelity text-to-speech synthesizers.

Gestures: Use gestures to quickly flip pages, advance sentences, and to play and pause the reader. A menu help option informs of the available gesture instructions.

Replace Text tool: Replace words or phrases to avoid repetitive, unnecessary phrases. Use it to replace foreign words with more phonetic alternatives. Use it to omit symbols. It can also be used to replace names or words with funny substitutes.

Support for OI Manager as well as other file managers.

Accessibility: Pdf-to-Speech has been tested to work with talk-back. The use of hardware buttons such as a Bluetooth headset is recommended to pause the reader before browsing the app using talk-back.

Bookmarks: Bookmarks save the page and sentence number so you can save locations of interest in your document. You can also attach comments to the bookmarks.

Setting: Multiple language support (German, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese… and many more). Change speed/pitch within the app.

You can pick up your free copy of PDF to Speech by clicking here or typing in http://smarturl.it/appdeal into your web browser.

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Each day, Amazon sponsors the Kindle Daily Deal and the Free App of the Day.

Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deal is a one-day only offer where a specific Kindle book for adults, one for young readers (children or young adults), a romance, and a science fiction / fantasy title have been hand-selected by the editors at Amazon and significantly discounted for today only.

Amazon’s free App of the Day can be utilized on a Kindle Fire and Android-based smartphones and tablet computers, and the app can be a game, utility, or who knows? Each app is offered free for 24 hours and, after that period is over it goes back to paid status and a new app is the Free App of the Day.

Kindle Daily Deal

Today’s Kindle Daily Deal for adults is The Watchman , by Robert Craig, and this book was $9.99 yesterday but has been discounted 80% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 215 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Teens Daily Deal is The Unquiet , by Jeannine Garsee, and this book was $13.99 yesterday but has been discounted 79% to just $2.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 29 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Daily Deal is Stranger , by Simon Clark, and this book was $4.99 yesterday but has been discounted 60% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 16 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Romance Daily Deal is Intimate Deception , by Laura Landon, and this book was $9.99 yesterday but has been discounted 80% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 98 customer reviews.

You can check each of them out if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser.

Here is the The Watchman book description from the Amazon website:

The city was hers for a single hour, just the one magic hour, only hers.
Larkin Conner Barkley lives like the City of Angels is hers for the taking. Young and staggeringly rich, she speeds through the city during its loneliest hours, blowing through red after red in her Aston Martin as if running for her life. Until out of nowhere a car appears, and with it the metal-on-metal explosion of a terrible accident. Dazed, Larkin attempts to help the other victims. And finds herself the sole witness in a secret federal investigation.
For maybe the first time in her life, Larkin wants to do the right thing. But by agreeing to cooperate with the authorities, she becomes the target for a relentless team of killers. And when the U.S. Marshals and the finest security money can buy can’t protect her, Larkin’s wealthy family turns to the one man money can’t buy — Joe Pike.
Pike lives a world away from the palaces of Beverly Hills. He’s an ex-cop, ex-Marine, ex-mercenary who owes a bad man a favor, and that favor is to keep Larkin alive. The one upside of the job is reuniting with Bud Flynn, Pike’s LAPD training officer, and a man Pike reveres as a father. The downside is Larkin Barkley, who is the uncontrollable cover girl for self-destruction — and as deeply alone as Pike.
Pike commits himself to protecting the girl, but when they immediately come under fire, he realizes someone is selling them out. In defiance of Bud and the authorities, Pike drops off the grid with the girl and follows his own rules of survival: strike fast, hit hard, hunt down the hunters. With the help of private investigator Elvis Cole, Pike uncovers a web of lies and betrayals, and the stunning revelation that even the cops are not who they seem. As the body count rises, Pike’s biggest threat might come from the girl herself, a lost soul in the City of Angels, determined to destroy herself unless Joe Pike can teach her the value of life…and love.

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Here is the The Unquiet book description from the Amazon website:

Over the summer, Rinn stopped taking her bi-polar meds and blames herself and the voices she heard for her grandmother’s tragic death. To get a new start, Rinn and her mother are moving back to her mom’s small hometown and Rinn has promised to never miss a pill again. The fresh start is just what Rinn needs. She falls in with the popular girls at her new school and she falls for very cute “farmer boy” Nate. But River Hills High School has a secret. The ghost of Annaliese, a girl who died when Rinn’s mother was a student there, haunts a hallway the teens call The Tunnel. Rinn’s not sure she believes it, but slowly Annaliese seems to be punishing those who enter the tunnel alone. A chorus soloist loses her voice, a star cheerleader falls off the pyramid, and then it gets worse-worse as in death. Rinn still doesn’t know if Annaliese is real, and there’s only one way to find out. Rinn needs to ditch her bi-polar meds again and see what the voices are really trying to say….

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Here is the Stranger book description from the Amazon website:

The small town of Sullivan has barricaded itself against the outside world. It is one of the last enclaves of civilization and the residents are determined that their town remain free from the strange and terrifying plague that is sweeping the land—a plague that transforms ordinary people into murderous, bloodthirsty madmen. But the transformation is only the beginning. With the shocking realization that mankind is evolving into something different, something horrifying, the struggle for survival becomes a battle to save humanity.

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Here is the Intimate Deception book description from the Amazon website:

When Lady Grace Warren’s father sells her in marriage to the depraved Lord Fentington, she knows only the most drastic action will save her from a life of misery. In Victorian England, a woman possesses only one item of value: her virtue. Without it, Fentington will not want her—nor will any other man. But at least she will be free. Now she must find a man with whom to pass the fateful night, a man who will ask no questions, make no other demands. Because for a woman preparing to risk everything, no ordinary man will do…
After losing two wives in childbirth, Vincent Germaine, Duke of Raeburn, vows never to marry again. Racked with guilt over the lives lost in his quest for an heir, he is careful now to take his pleasure only with London’s most discreet courtesans. Yet when he learns that a passionate encounter with a bewitching stranger may have put yet another life at risk, Vincent sets out to find the unsuspecting girl—and discovers a woman of incomparable courage, beauty, and strength. But can two strangers brought together by desperation find true love against all odds?

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to pick up your copy of Intimate Deception .

Free App of the Day

Today’s Free App of the Day is Galazer and this game app is normally $0.99 in the Amazon App Store but is free for today only.

Here is the app’s description from the Amazon App Store website:

Galazer is a combat game which won’t give you time to take a breath. Feel the frenzied action, control your senses and put your reflexes to the test… If you blink, you’re dead! Galazer is the definitive game in its category for Blackberry, with previously unseen playability, control accuracy and addictiveness, filled with incredible graphics and a spectacular soundtrack.

Put your senses on Galazer. Feel the Power of the Stars in your hands.

You can pick up your free copy of Galazer by clicking here or typing in http://smarturl.it/appdeal into your web browser.

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Download the Free Kindle Books and Tips blog app for your Kindle Fire or Android-based smartphone or tablet – for free, of course – by clicking here or type in http://smarturl.it/fkbtfreeapp into your computer’s web browser from the Amazon App Store or click here or type in http://bit.ly/fkbtgoogle into your computer’s web browser for the Google App Store.

Each day, Amazon sponsors the Kindle Daily Deal and the Free App of the Day.

Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deal is a one-day only offer where a specific Kindle book for adults, one for young readers (children or young adults), a romance, and a science fiction / fantasy title have been hand-selected by the editors at Amazon and significantly discounted for today only.

Amazon’s free App of the Day can be utilized on a Kindle Fire and Android-based smartphones and tablet computers, and the app can be a game, utility, or who knows? Each app is offered free for 24 hours and, after that period is over it goes back to paid status and a new app is the Free App of the Day.

Kindle Daily Deal

Today’s Kindle Daily Deal for adults is Die for Me: A Novel of the Valentine Killer , by Cynthia Eden, and this book was $9.99 yesterday but has been discounted 80% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 186 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Teens Daily Deal is Undertakers: The Rise of the Corpses , by Ty Drago, and this book was $7.99 yesterday but has been discounted 60% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 21 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Daily Deal is StarFire , by Mike Lee, and this book was $2.99 yesterday but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 136 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Romance Daily Deal is Dating the Devil , by Lia Romeo, and this book was $9.99 yesterday but has been discounted 80% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 11 customer reviews.

You can check each of them out if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser.

Here is the Die for Me: A Novel of the Valentine Killer book description from the Amazon website:

She thought her fiancé was the perfect man—until he turned out to be the perfect killer…
Katherine Cole is running for her life, desperate to escape the Valentine Killer—so-called because he stabs his victims through the heart and leaves them holding a telltale single red rose. Still he tracks her to New Orleans and begins carving a bloody path to her door. But this time, Katherine refuses to run any farther. This time, she’ll do anything to stop the madman she once loved, even trust the sexy cop promising to keep her safe…
Detective Dane Black never lets his emotions interfere with his job, even as the Valentine Killer surfaces in New Orleans to stalk his prey. But when Dane agrees to protect the killer’s ex-fiancée, Katherine Cole, he can’t ignore the passion kindling between them. After a single unforgettable night binds them body and soul, Dane knows he won’t rest until Katherine is safe in his arms—and the Valentine Killer is dead. Dark and intensely sexy, this romantic suspense novel from USA Today bestselling author Cynthia Eden is sure to leave readers breathless.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to pick up your copy of Die for Me: A Novel of the Valentine Killer .

Here is the Undertakers: The Rise of the Corpses book description from the Amazon website:

“On a sunny Wednesday morning in October, a day that would mark the end of one life and the beginning of another, I found out my grouchy next door neighbor was the walking dead. When you turn around expecting to see something familiar, and instead see something else altogether, it takes a little while for your brain to catch up with your eyes. I call it the ‘Holy Crap Factor.’”
Forced to flee his home and family, twelve-year-old Will Ritter falls in with the Undertakers-a rag-tag army of teenage resistance fighters who’ve banded together to battle the Corpses.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to pick up your copy of Undertakers: The Rise of the Corpses .

Here is the StarFire book description from the Amazon website:

Captain Vince Lombard, G-Marine company commander, is tasked with tracking down a stray ship. The Alliance Military Ship StarFire has gone silent, and previous attempts to locate her have resulted in the loss of more ships. After two previous wars with xenospecies humanity bumped into while expanding into space, no one knows what might be the cause of StarFire’s missing in action status. And internal politics between Fleet command and the Galactic Marine Corps might mean that, unless something is done, humanity may get the news it’s at war with yet another new race about the time they show up to attack one of the human systems in the sector.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to pick up your copy of StarFire .

Here is the Dating the Devil book description from the Amazon website:

To seal a fragile truce, Fiona Sinclair’s brothers trade her in marriage to their sworn enemy. Though devastated by their betrayal, she has little choice in the matter, for if she refuses, her innocent young sister must take her place. The spirited Fiona is willing to sacrifice her freedom to protect her kin, but she vows never to surrender her heart.
As the eldest son of a clan chief, Myles Campbell is accustomed to having his own way. But when the king of Scotland commands he wed a defiant Highland lass instead of a French mademoiselle, Myles must obey his royal duty. Meeting his bride for the first time on their wedding day, he is pleased to discover the lass is a beauty, but she quickly proves she’d just as soon kill him as kiss him.
When two such warrior spirits collide, sparks fly, igniting a fiery passion that strains against the bonds of family honor, clan loyalty—and the ultimate surrender—love.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to pick up your copy of Dating the Devil .

Free App of the Day

Today’s Free App of the Day is Hey, That’s My Fish! and this game app is normally $2.99 in the Amazon App Store but is free for today only.

Here is the app’s description from the Amazon App Store website:

The international bestseller is now available for Android! Engage in a cutthroat competition to collect the largest stockpile of delicious fish while outmaneuvering other penguins on a rapidly shrinking ice floe.

Hey, That’s My Fish! brings the classic strategy board game of ravenous penguins searching for sustenance to Android phones and tablets! Play against the computer or compete with up to three friends in a fun-filled race against time.

With a variety of maps to choose from and nearly infinite starting setups, Hey, That’s My Fish! offers endless hours of fun. Can you supply your colony with enough food to win the day, or will your cunning opponent leave you drifting out at sea?

You can pick up your free copy of Hey, That’s My Fish! by clicking here or typing in http://smarturl.it/appdeal into your web browser.

Want to have this blog sent wirelessly to your Kindle vs. reading it on your computer? Try out the free two-week subscription! Click here for the Amazon page for Free Kindle Books Plus a Few Other Tipsor type in http://www.tinyurl.com/fkblog into your computer’s web browser.

Download the Free Kindle Books and Tips blog app for your Kindle Fire or Android-based smartphone or tablet – for free, of course – by clicking here or type in http://smarturl.it/fkbtfreeapp into your computer’s web browser from the Amazon App Store or click here or type in http://bit.ly/fkbtgoogle into your computer’s web browser for the Google App Store.

Each day, Amazon sponsors the Kindle Daily Deal and the Free App of the Day.

Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deal is a one-day only offer where a specific Kindle book for adults, one for young readers (children or young adults), a romance, and a science fiction / fantasy title have been hand-selected by the editors at Amazon and significantly discounted for today only.

Amazon’s free App of the Day can be utilized on a Kindle Fire and Android-based smartphones and tablet computers, and the app can be a game, utility, or who knows? Each app is offered free for 24 hours and, after that period is over it goes back to paid status and a new app is the Free App of the Day.

Kindle Daily Deal

Today’s Kindle Daily Deal for adults is The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel , by Diane Setterfield, and this book was $16.99 yesterday but has been discounted 88% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 1,088 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Teens Daily Deal is My Life in Pink & Green , by Lisa Greenwald, and this book was $7.95 yesterday but has been discounted 75% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 53 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Daily Deal is Born of Shadows , by Sherrilyn Kenyon, and this book was $7.99 yesterday but has been discounted 75% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 75 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Romance Daily Deal is Highland Surrender , by Tracy Brogan, and this book was $9.99 yesterday but has been discounted 80% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 357 customer reviews.

You can check each of them out if you click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser.

Here is the The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel book description from the Amazon website:

When Margaret Lea opened the door to the past, what she confronted was her destiny.
All children mythologize their birth…So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter’s collection of stories, which are as famous for the mystery of the missing thirteenth tale as they are for the delight and enchantment of the twelve that do exist.
The enigmatic Winter has spent six decades creating various outlandish life histories for herself — all of them inventions that have brought her fame and fortune but have kept her violent and tragic past a secret. Now old and ailing, she at last wants to tell the truth about her extraordinary life. She summons biographer Margaret Lea, a young woman for whom the secret of her own birth, hidden by those who loved her most, remains an ever-present pain. Struck by a curious parallel between Miss Winter’s story and her own, Margaret takes on the commission.
As Vida disinters the life she meant to bury for good, Margaret is mesmerized. It is a tale of gothic strangeness featuring the Angelfield family, including the beautiful and willful Isabelle, the feral twins Adeline and Emmeline, a ghost, a governess, a topiary garden and a devastating fire.
Margaret succumbs to the power of Vida’s storytelling but remains suspicious of the author’s sincerity. She demands the truth from Vida, and together they confront the ghosts that have haunted them while becoming, finally, transformed by the truth themselves.
The Thirteenth Tale is a love letter to reading, a book for the feral reader in all of us, a return to that rich vein of storytelling that our parents loved and that we loved as children. Diane Setterfield will keep you guessing, make you wonder, move you to tears and laughter and, in the end, deposit you breathless yet satisfied back upon the shore of your everyday life.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to pick up your copy of The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel .

Here is the My Life in Pink & Green book description from the Amazon website:

Twelve-year-old Lucy Desberg is a natural problem solver. After the local homecoming queen shows up at her family’s struggling drugstore with a beauty disaster that Lucy helps to fix, Lucy has a long line of makeover customers for every school dance and bat mitzvah. But all the makeup tips in the world won’t help save the pharmacy. If only she could find a way to make the pharmacy the center of town again—a place where people want to spend time, like in the old days. Lucy dreams up a solution that could resuscitate the family business and help the environment, too. But will Lucy’s family stop fighting long enough to listen to a seventh-grader?

This book is a funny and sweet debut featuring an unforgettable narrator who knows what she wants, whether it’s great makeup, a killer business plan, or a better world.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to pick up your copy of My Life in Pink & Green .

Here is the Born of Shadows book description from the Amazon website:

In a world where the League and its assassins rule, where betrayal and treachery are everywhere . . . the only survivors are those ones who are . . .

BORN OF SHADOWS

For Caillen Dagan, a defiant soldier of fortune, survival isn’t a right, it’s a brutal daily battle. Moving through the Ichidaian universe like a wraith, his brushes with the law and death are legendary. But when an act of rare heroism reveals his hidden birthright, he’s forced into a world much more dangerous and cold-hearted than the bloody streets where he was raised-one of obscene wealth and lethal politics.

Ferocious and determined, Desideria serves as an official bodyguard for her queen. Born of questionable genetics, she will do anything to prove herself worthy of the weapons she carries and the position she’s won by combat. But when she uncovers a ruthless plot to assassinate the queen and overthrow her country’s government, Desideria is caught in the crosshairs.

With assassination contracts out on both of them, Caillen and Desideria must learn to fight together or die alone. And if they fail, their governments will fall into the hands of an unimaginable evil.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to pick up your copy of Born of Shadows .

Here is the Highland Surrender book description from the Amazon website:

To seal a fragile truce, Fiona Sinclair’s brothers trade her in marriage to their sworn enemy. Though devastated by their betrayal, she has little choice in the matter, for if she refuses, her innocent young sister must take her place. The spirited Fiona is willing to sacrifice her freedom to protect her kin, but she vows never to surrender her heart.
As the eldest son of a clan chief, Myles Campbell is accustomed to having his own way. But when the king of Scotland commands he wed a defiant Highland lass instead of a French mademoiselle, Myles must obey his royal duty. Meeting his bride for the first time on their wedding day, he is pleased to discover the lass is a beauty, but she quickly proves she’d just as soon kill him as kiss him.
When two such warrior spirits collide, sparks fly, igniting a fiery passion that strains against the bonds of family honor, clan loyalty—and the ultimate surrender—love.

Click here or type in http://smarturl.it/dailydeal into your web browser to pick up your copy of Highland Surrender .

Free App of the Day

Today’s Free App of the Day is C25K – 5K Trainer Pro and this game app is normally $1.99 in the Amazon App Store but is free for today only.

Here is the app’s description from the Amazon App Store website:

C25K™ is the easiest program to get beginners from couch potatoes to 5K distance runners in 8 weeks.

This program will allow users to slowly build strength and stamina by alternating between walking and running, and only 3 days a week. After just 8 weeks, you will be fitter, stronger and healthier than you have ever been.

Listen to your favorite music while you workout and follow the program’s convenient audio alerts. Along with voice/audio alerts and music controls on your headset, just press “start”, put your device in your pocket, and you’re ready to go. Alerts will tell you when to warm-up, walk, run, halfway point, cooldown, and when one minute is left to give it your all.

By design, the program allows (and recommends) ample time in between workouts for muscles to heal and rest.

You can pick up your free copy of C25K – 5K Trainer Pro by clicking here or typing in http://smarturl.it/appdeal into your web browser.

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Download the Free Kindle Books and Tips blog app for your Kindle Fire or Android-based smartphone or tablet – for free, of course – by clicking here or type in http://smarturl.it/fkbtfreeapp into your computer’s web browser from the Amazon App Store or click here or type in http://bit.ly/fkbtgoogle into your computer’s web browser for the Google App Store.

Each day, Amazon offers a free Android App of the Day that could be a game, utility, or who knows? Each deal lasts for just 24 hours and, after that period is over it goes back to paid status and a new app is the App of the Day. In addition to your Kindle Fire, these apps will also work with your Android-based smartphones and tablet computers.

Today’s Free App of the Day is Lilith It’s Easter Day – Find the Difference and this game is normally $1.99 in the Amazon App Store but is free for today only.
 
 

Here is the app’s description from the Amazon App Store website:

Join Lilith, a young friendly vampire, for a fun Easter themed adventure with her best friend Emma. This is a companion story to the free Emma Easter game. Now you can see the story from perspective of Lilith and enjoy a different artists style for both characters.

Happy Easter from the folks at Difference Games!

-3 Difficulty Modes to challenges both kids and parents
-Find all the differences between the two pictures to advance to next level
-Bonus points for finding all the differences fast
-Two modes of hints if you get stuck
-Every game uses new sets of differences to keep the challenge up
-Unlock Survival Mode after you beat the game.

You can pick up your free copy of Lilith It’s Easter Day – Find the Difference by clicking here or typing in http://smarturl.it/appdeal into your computer’s web browser.

Organize your books on your Kindle Fire with our Collections and Categories App! Click Here or type in http://smarturl.it/firecollections into your web browser to get it now!

Each day, Amazon sponsors the Kindle Daily Deal and the Free App of the Day.

Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deal is a one-day only offer where a specific Kindle book for adults, one for young readers (children or young adults), a romance, and a science fiction / fantasy title have been hand-selected by the editors at Amazon and significantly discounted for today only.

Amazon’s free App of the Day can be utilized on a Kindle Fire and Android-based smartphones and tablet computers, and the app can be a game, utility, or who knows? Each app is offered free for 24 hours and, after that period is over it goes back to paid status and a new app is the Free App of the Day.

Kindle Daily Deal

Today’s Kindle Daily Deal for Adults is Monday Mornings: A Novel , by Sanjay Gupta, and this book was $14.99 yesterday but has been discounted 80% to just $2.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 176 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Kids Daily Deal is Monster High: Ghoulfriends Forever , by Gitty Daneshvari, and this book was $12.99 yesterday but has been discounted 85% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 61 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Daily Deal is The Amtrak Wars: First Family , by Patrick Tilly, and this book was $9.99 yesterday but has been discounted 80% to just $1.99 for today only. This book is a new release and does not have any substantive reviews yet.

Today’s Kindle Romance Daily Deal is While He Was Away , by Karen Schreck, and this book was $8.99 yesterday but has been discounted 78% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 25 customer reviews.

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Here is the Monday Mornings: A Novel book description from the Amazon website:

Every time surgeons operate, they’re betting their skills are better than the brain tumor, the faulty heart valve, the fractured femur. Sometimes, they’re wrong. At Chelsea General, surgeons answer for bad outcomes at the Morbidity and Mortality conference, known as M & M. This extraordinary peek behind the curtain into what is considered the most secretive meeting in all of medicine is the back drop for the entire book.

Monday Mornings, by Dr. Sanjay Gupta, follows the lives of five surgeons at Chelsea General as they push the limits of their abilities and confront their personal and professional failings, often in front of their peers at M & M. It is on Monday mornings that reflection and introspection occurs, usually in private. It is Monday Mornings that provides a unique look at the real method in which surgeons learn – through their mistakes. It is Monday Mornings when, if you’re lucky, you have a chance at redemption.

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Here is the Monster High: Ghoulfriends Forever book description from the Amazon website:

Ghoulfriends Forever is a brand-new Monster High series, introducing three new monster characters. As new students, the trio must navigate the bewildering array of cute monster boys, established cliques, and monster-rific subjects like Mad Science, G-ogre-phy, and Physical Deaducation. As if that weren’t hard enough, something strange and sinister seems to be happening at the school. Popular girls like Frankie Stein and Cleo de Nile are acting weird-and all signs point to everyone’s new favorite teacher, Miss Sylphia Flapper. Can the new GFFs expose the fave as a fraud, or will they succumb to peer pressure?

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Here is the The Amtrak Wars: First Family book description from the Amazon website:

After countless years of fighting – of pitting sophisticated technology against the primitive surface-dwelling people who seemed to possess supernatural powers – the Federation was still no nearer to ending the battle with the Mutes. But then a lone flier was hauled into one of its underground bunkers – a man whose very existence was a challenge to the all-pervading wisdom of the First Family. A man whose destiny would determine the future for both the Federation and the Mutes…

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Here is the While He Was Away book description from the Amazon website:

One year—he’ll be gone for one year and then we’ll be together again and everything will be back to the way it should be.
The day David left, I felt like my heart was breaking. Sure, any long–distance relationship is tough, but David was going to war—to fight, to protect, to put his life in danger. We can get through this, though. We’ll talk, we’ll email, we won’t let anything come between us.
I can be on army girlfriend for one year. But will my sweet, soulful, funny David be the same person when he comes home? Will I? And what if he doesn’t come home at all…?

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Free App of the Day

Today’s Free App of the Day is Word Rush! , and this game app is normally $0.99 in the Amazon App Store but is free for today only.

Here is the app’s description from the Amazon App Store website:

Word Rush is a Fast, Frenzied, Fun Word Game that is a Blast to Play, and Great for All Ages! Tap to connect the letters and form 2, 3, 4 or even bigger words! The More Words you Find, the More Points you Score, as the Clock is ticking away! Play 3 different Modes: Quick Mode: Fire up the game and go with 2 minutes to find as many words as possible! Classic Mode: Play for 3 entire minutes, and try to get the highest score! Jumble Mode: Play this mode, and mix up the letters at any time with the tap of a Button! Makes finding more words easier, and geared towards casual players or younger audiences! Word Rush will keep you busy for hours, and will easily top your favorite Games to go back and Play!

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Kindle Daily Deal

Today’s Kindle Daily Deal for adults is Burning Man , by Adam Russell, and this book was $9.99 yesterday but has been discounted 80% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 582 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Kids Daily Deal is See You at Harry’s , by Jo Knowles, and this book was $16.99 yesterday but has been discounted 82% to just $2.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 33 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Daily Deal is Fireblood , by Jeff Wheeler, and this book was $9.99 yesterday but has been discounted 80% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 94 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Romance Daily Deal is Serendipity , by Carly Phillips, and this book was $7.99 yesterday but has been discounted 75% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 37 customer reviews.

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Here is the Burning Man book description from the Amazon website:

LAPD cop Michael Gideon and his police dog partner Sirius became reluctant celebrities after capturing a notorious serial killer in the midst of an inferno. For their heroism, they were chosen to head up the newly formed Special Cases Unit. Now the duo tackles out-of-the-ordinary cases, anything deemed unusual or bizarre even by Hollyweird standards.
When a teenager is found crucified in a city park, Gideon and Sirius are handed the bizarre case. Confronting the gruesome tableau and having to work the case worsens Detective Gideon’s PTSD, a condition he has tried to hide from others. Gideon’s burns may have healed, but the fire haunts him still…in more ways than one.
Eerily prescient since that terrible night of the fire, Gideon has unusual insights into the crimes he investigates, a skill he and Sirius must learn to trust as much as they do each other if they are to solve—and survive—this case.

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Here is the See You at Harry’s book description from the Amazon website:

Starting middle school brings all the usual challenges – until the unthinkable happens, and Fern and her family must find a way to heal. Twelve-year-old Fern feels invisible. It seems as though everyone in her family has better things to do than pay attention to her: Mom (when she’s not meditating) helps Dad run the family restaurant; Sarah is taking a gap year after high school; and Holden pretends that Mom and Dad and everyone else doesn’t know he’s gay, even as he fends off bullies at school. Then there’s Charlie: three years old, a “surprise” baby, the center of everyone’s world. He’s devoted to Fern, but he’s annoying, too, always getting his way, always dirty, always commanding attention. If it wasn’t for Ran, Fern’s calm and positive best friend, there’d be nowhere to turn. Ran’s mantra, “All will be well,” is soothing in a way that nothing else seems to be. And when Ran says it, Fern can almost believe it’s true. But then tragedy strikes- and Fern feels not only more alone than ever, but also responsible for the accident that has wrenched her family apart. All will not be well. Or at least all will never be the same.

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Here is the Fireblood book description from the Amazon website:

Tyrus of Kenatos has made it his life’s work to banish the plagues that ravage the kingdoms. He believes the answer to ending the devastation lies in the Scourgelands. Yet, Tyrus’s first expedition into the cursed woods failed after being defeated by mysterious minions who stalked and killed most of his band.
Now a prisoner in his own tower, Tyrus has summoned his nephew Annon—a Druidecht possessing innate magic called the fireblood—on the guise of finding a hidden treasure with which to purchase his twin sister Hettie’s freedom. But in reality, Tyrus is using his niece and nephew, and their magic, as an opportunity to escape and resume his desperate mission. And to aid them, he has enlisted the warrior-monk Paedrin—who is almost as green as the siblings when it comes to traveling these troubled lands. The trio is determined, and along the way they grow to trust each other—and new additions to the group—in order to accomplish their missions…whether or not those missions are one and the same.
But the Arch-Rike—ruthless ruler of Kenatos—has learned of these plans, and has sent the fearsome Kishion to destroy all those that oppose him. Now Tyrus and his unwitting allies must face down not only the plague, but this new enemy—and fulfill their quest before a fresh horror is unleashed on the world…

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Here is the Serendipity book description from the Amazon website:

New York Times bestselling author Carly Phillips presents the first in a delightful new series about a quaint upstate New York town where love, fate and fortune are intertwined …

Faith Harrington was the classic girl of privilege–until her father was convicted of running a Ponzi scheme and then her marriage crashed and burned.

Now Faith is back in her hometown, hoping for a fresh start. But her father’s betrayal has rocked Serendipity – and not everyone is ready to welcome her with open arms. Then she runs into her teenage crush – the dark, brooding Ethan Barron. Ethan, no stranger to scandal himself, never imagined he’d own the mansion on the hill, much less ever again come face to face with Faith–the princess he once kissed senseless. The chance meeting reignites the electric charge between them.

Still, when Ethan hires her to redecorate what was once her childhood home, Faith is sure that getting involved with the town’s notorious bad boy will only lead to trouble. But her heart has other ideas. And so do the townspeople of Serendipity …

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Free App of the Day

Today’s Free App of the Day is Creatorverse and this game app is normally $4.99 in the Amazon App Store but is free for today only.

Here is the app’s description from the Amazon App Store website:

Become an inventor as you design unique creations and then set them in motion. You’ll never know what to expect as you watch your creations bounce, roll, tilt or even accelerate on the screen. Let your creations come to life as you play with different joints, forces, motors, teleporters, and inputs then watch what happens next. From the simplest bouncing ball to an elaborate pinball machine, the possibilities for tinkering are endless on Creatorverse.

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Kindle Daily Deal

Today’s Kindle Daily Deal for adults is The Middlesteins: A Novel , by Jami Attenberg, and this book was $24.99 yesterday but has been discounted 88% to just $2.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 227 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Kids Daily Deal is The Wide-Awake Princess , by E.D. Baker, and this book was $7.99 yesterday but has been discounted 75% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on 45 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Daily Deal is Tales of Pirx the Pilot , by Stanislaw Lem, and this book was $13.95 yesterday but has been discounted 86% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 14 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Romance Daily Deal is Texas Hold Him , by Lisa Cooke, and this book was $6.99 yesterday but has been discounted 72% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 45 customer reviews.

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Here is the The Middlesteins: A Novel book description from the Amazon website:

Amazon Best Books of the Month, October 2012

For more than thirty years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid family life together in the suburbs of Chicago. But now things are splintering apart, for one reason, it seems: Edie’s enormous girth. She’s obsessed with food–thinking about it, eating it–and if she doesn’t stop, she won’t have much longer to live.

When Richard abandons his wife, it is up to the next generation to take control. Robin, their schoolteacher daughter, is determined that her father pay for leaving Edie. Benny, an easy-going, pot-smoking family man, just wants to smooth things over. And Rachelle– a whippet thin perfectionist– is intent on saving her mother-in-law’s life, but this task proves even bigger than planning her twin children’s spectacular b’nai mitzvah party. Through it all, they wonder: do Edie’s devastating choices rest on her shoulders alone, or are others at fault, too?

With pitch-perfect prose, huge compassion, and sly humor, Jami Attenberg has given us an epic story of marriage, family, and obsession. The Middlesteins explores the hopes and heartbreaks of new and old love, the yearnings of Midwestern America, and our devastating, fascinating preoccupation with food.

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Here is the The Wide-Awake Princess book description from the Amazon website:

In this stand-alone fairy tale, Princess Annie is the younger sister to Gwen, the princess destined to be Sleeping Beauty. When Gwennie pricks her finger and the whole castle falls asleep, only Annie is awake, and only Annie-blessed (or cursed?) with being impervious to magic-can venture out beyond the rose-covered hedge for help. She must find Gwen’s true love to kiss her awake.But who is her true love? The irritating Digby? The happy-go-lucky Prince Andreas, who is holding a contest to find his bride? The conniving Clarence, whose sinister motives couldn’t possibly spell true love? Joined by one of her father’s guards, Liam, who happened to be out of the castle when the sleeping spell struck, Annie travels through a fairy tale land populated with characters both familiar and new as she tries to fix her sister and her family . . . and perhaps even find a true love of her own.

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Here is the Tales of Pirx the Pilot book description from the Amazon website:

In Pilot Pirx, Lem has created an irresistibly likable character: an astronaut who gives the impression of still navigating by the seat of his pants-a bumbler but an inspired one. By investing Pirx with a range of human foibles, Lem offers a wonderful vision of the audacity, childlike curiosity, and intuition that can give humans the courage to confront outer space. Translated by Louis Iribarne. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

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Here is the Texas Hold Him book description from the Amazon website:

To save her family from ruin, a Southern belle appeals to a high-stakes gambler to teach her poker, but he’s more interested in giving her lessons in love.

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Free App of the Day

Today’s Free App of the Day is Crossword and this game app is normally $1.03 in the Amazon App Store but is free for today only.

Here is the app’s description from the Amazon App Store website:

This app is available entirely in English.
Attention puzzle lovers: with the Crossword app you won’t get bored anymore. Our crossword to take along on your way.

Whether you’re waiting for the next bus, or during lunch break or at any other opportunity. Simply whip out the crossword and cheerfully start to puzzle.

There is something for every puzzle lover. The easy crossword for beginners up to difficult puzzles, which will definitely get your head spinning.

You can easily zoom into the answer fields and filling out the fields with the keypad is a real cinch. Should a word be wrong, the Crossword app won’t keep secret.

Have fun solving the puzzle!

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Amazon’s free App of the Day can be utilized on a Kindle Fire and Android-based smartphones and tablet computers, and the app can be a game, utility, or who knows? Each app is offered free for 24 hours and, after that period is over it goes back to paid status and a new app is the Free App of the Day.

Kindle Daily Deal

Today’s Kindle Daily Deal for Adults is Started Early, Took My Dog: A Novel , by Kate Atkinson, and this book was $14.99 yesterday but has been discounted 87% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 127 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Teen Daily Deal is Unbreak My Heart , by Melissa Walker, and this book was $13.99 yesterday but has been discounted 86% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 51 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Daily Deal is God Save the Queen (The Immortal Empire) , by Kate Locke, and this book was $16.99 yesterday but has been discounted 88% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 55 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Romance Daily Deal is The Lady Risks All , by Stephane Laurens, and this book was $7.99 yesterday but has been discounted 75% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 83 customer reviews.

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Here is the Started Early, Took My Dog: A Novel book description from the Amazon website:

Tracy Waterhouse leads a quiet, ordered life as a retired police detective-a life that takes a surprising turn when she encounters Kelly Cross, a habitual offender, dragging a young child through town. Both appear miserable and better off without each other-or so decides Tracy, in a snap decision that surprises herself as much as Kelly. Suddenly burdened with a small child, Tracy soon learns her parental inexperience is actually the least of her problems, as much larger ones loom for her and her young charge.

Meanwhile, Jackson Brodie, the beloved detective of novels such as Case Histories, is embarking on a different sort of rescue-that of an abused dog. Dog in tow, Jackson is about to learn, along with Tracy, that no good deed goes unpunished.

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Here is the Unbreak My Heart book description from the Amazon website:

You can’t help who you fall in love with. It’s a lesson Clementine Williams knows all too well. She’s headed into the summer with a broken heart and zero social life. So even though her parents’ plan to spend the summer (trapped) on their sailboat should make Clem break out in hives, she doesn’t really mind the chance to float away for a while. Even if it means most of her social interaction will be with her nine-year-old sister. Then she meets James at one of their stops on the Great Loop-a classic sailing track in the US. He and his dad are sailing the same track and he’s just the distraction Clem needs. But will he be able to break down Clem’s walls and heal her broken heart? Told in alternating chapters that chronicle the year that broke Clem’s heart and the summer that healed it, Unbreak My Heart is a wonderful dual love story from magazine writer/editor and rising star, Melissa Walker.

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Here is the God Save the Queen (The Immortal Empire) book description from the Amazon website:

Queen Victoria rules with an immortal fist.

The undead matriarch of a Britain where the Aristocracy is made up of werewolves and vampires, where goblins live underground and mothers know better than to let their children out after dark. A world where being nobility means being infected with the Plague (side-effects include undeath), Hysteria is the popular affliction of the day, and leeches are considered a delicacy. And a world where technology lives side by side with magic. The year is 2012.

Xandra Vardan is a member of the elite Royal Guard, and it is her duty to protect the Aristocracy. But when her sister goes missing, Xandra will set out on a path that undermines everything she believed in and uncover a conspiracy that threatens to topple the empire. And she is the key-the prize in a very dangerous struggle.

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Here is the The Lady Risks All book description from the Amazon website:

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Capture of the Earl of Glencrae, romance fiction superstar Stephanie Laurens has done it again with this passionate tale of an oh-so-proper lady and the dangerous man for whom she throws caution to the wind. The Lady Risks All in this delightfully sexy and sensuous historical romance novel from the creator of the recklessly romantic Cynster family—Regency England’s most irrepressible clan of sexy rogues and ladies—as well as the acclaimed Bastion Club books. The notorious Neville Roscoe, who lives boldly outside the bounds of proper society, is one of Laurens’s most unforgettable heroes—and the story of his seduction of prim, straight-laced Miranda Clifford is filled with intrigue, danger, and passion that will thrill not only Stephanie Laurens fans, but devoted readers of Lisa Kleypas, Johanna Lindsey, and Mary Balogh as well.

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Free App of the Day

Today’s Free App of the Day is MiniSquadron , and this game app is normally $2.99 in the Amazon App Store but is free for today only.

Here is the app’s description from the Amazon App Store website:

Make your Android device take flight in MiniSquadron, a frantic dogfighting shooter with lots of little planes all vying for supremacy of the skies. Use cannons, homing missiles, lasers, and more to blast droves of enemies out of the air while smoothly dodging return fire. Simple yet packed with content, this game has plentiful levels and challenges, awesome power-ups, one-versus-one local Wi-Fi multiplayer, gorgeous graphics, catchy classical music, and online leaderboards and achievements through OpenFeint.
Unlock and collect over 50 fighters…
Tight Controls
With MiniSquadron’s intuitive, highly addictive old-school shooting gameplay you can perform loop-the-loops, Immelmann turns, and other daring feats of aerial shenanigans with an incredibly fluid control system. Use just two thumbs or fingers: one to control flight and the other to shoot or guide your weapon.
There are over 50 planes to unlock and collect with varying abilities like cruise and dive speed, armor strength, size, turning rate, and weapon type. With so many unique handling styles, you can effectively devise new strategies and play styles for each fighter in your squadron.
…including unique aircraft like UFOs
Scenic Views
Take in the vivid, colorful graphics full of stunning detail as you shoot down bogeys. Watch chunks of metal fly off other fighters as your pump them full of artillery fire. Even view the exhaust smoke and flame that trail off your craft as you receive damage.
Each of the fighters has a distinctive color scheme or design. Fighters include different traditional fixed wing aircraft, fighters with animal faces, UFOs, devil planes, and even a giant squid!
Plentiful Unlockables
Collect a plethora of power-ups, including freeze, rapid fire, big laser, invincible, ghost, speed up, and extra lives. Use these in conjunction with the exciting new weapons you get as you unlock each new plane, including double and triple cannons, homing missiles, lasers, and more.
Additional Features
• 1 versus 1 local Wi-Fi multiplayer
• Music by Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaichovsky, and other great composers
• OpenFeint-enabled online high scores

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Kindle Daily Deal

Today’s Kindle Daily Deal for Adults is The Prophet , by Michael Koryta, and this book was $25.99 yesterday but has been discounted 88% to just $2.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 99 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Kids Daily Deal is Crossing , by Andrew Xia Fukuda, and this book was $9.99 yesterday but has been discounted 80% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 64 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Daily Deal is Timequake , by Kurt Vonnegut, and this book was $4.99 yesterday but has been discounted 60% to just $1.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on 205 customer reviews.

Today’s Kindle Romance Daily Deal is Wait for You , by J. Lynn, and this book was $2.99 yesterday but has been discounted 67% to just $0.99 for today only. This book has received an average user rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 683 customer reviews.

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Here is the The Prophet book description from the Amazon website:

Adam Austin hasn’t spoken to his brother in years. When they were teenagers, their sister was abducted and murdered, and their devastated family never recovered. Now Adam keeps to himself, scraping by as a bail bondsman, working so close to the town’s criminal fringes that he sometimes seems a part of them.

Kent Austin is the beloved coach of the local high school football team, a religious man and hero in the community. After years of near misses, Kent’s team has a shot at the state championship, a welcome point of pride in a town that has had its share of hardships.

Just before playoffs begin, the town and the team are thrown into shock when horrifically, impossibly, another teenage girl is found murdered. As details emerge that connect the crime to the Austin brothers, the two must confront their buried rage and grief-and unite to stop a killer.

Michael Koryta, widely hailed as one of the most exciting young thriller authors at work today, has written his greatest novel ever-an emotionally harrowing, unstoppably suspenseful novel that Donald Ray Pollock has called “one of the sharpest and superbly plotted crime novels I’ve read in my life.”

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Here is the Crossing book description from the Amazon website:

A loner in his all-white high school, Chinese-born Xing (pronounced “Shing”) is a wallflower longing for acceptance. His isolation is intensified by his increasingly awkward and undeniable crush on his only friend, the beautiful and brilliant Naomi Lee.
Xing’s quiet adolescent existence is rattled when a series of disappearances rock his high school and fear ripples through the blue collar community in which he lives.
Amidst the chaos surrounding him, only Xing, alone on the sidelines of life, takes notice of some peculiar sightings around town. He begins to investigate with the hope that if he can help put an end to the disappearances, he will finally win the acceptance for which he has longed. However, as Xing draws closer to unveiling the identity of the abductor, he senses a noose of suspicion tightening around his own neck.
While Xing races to solve the mystery and clear his name, Crossing hurtles readers towards a chilling climax.

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Here is the Timequake book description from the Amazon website:

Timequake (1997) exists in two conjoined versions (“Timequake One”/”Timequake Two”) and in meta-fictional mode is a novel about a novel, composed in short, arbitrary chapters and using its large cast of characters and disoriented chronology to mimic the “timequake” which is its subject. Some cosmic upheaval has hurled the entire population a decade back where, in full consciousness (but helplessly entrapped) everyone’s pitiable and embarrassing mistakes are helplessly enacted again.

By this stage of his life–he was 72 the year the novel was published–Vonnegut was still wearing his luminescent bells and Harlequin’s cape, but these had become dusty and the cape no longer fitted. Vonnegut’s exasperation and sense of futility could no longer be concealed or shaped, and this novel is a laboratory of technique (deliberately) gone wrong, a study of breakdown.

Vonnegut had never shown much hope in his work for human destiny or occupation; the naive optimism of Eliot Rosewater in God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater had in the damaged veteran Billy Pilgrim of Slaughterhouse-Five become a naive fantasy of escape to a sexual heaven. In the nihilism of Timequake, the only escape is re-enactment, but re-enactment has lost hope and force.

This is no Groundhog Day in which Vonnegut traps his various refugees (many escaped from his earlier works) but a hell of lost possibility. The temporal timequake of the title is the actual spiritual fracture of the 20th century, and in his 73rd year Vonnegut envisions no hope, not even the hollow diversions of Slapstick. Vonnegut’s imaginative journey, closely tracked by his work, is one of the most intriguing for any American writer of the twentieth century.

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Here is the Wait for You book description from the Amazon website:

Some things are worth waiting for…

Traveling thousands of miles from home to enter college is the only way nineteen-year-old Avery Morgansten can escape what happened at the Halloween party five years ago–an event that forever changed her life. All she needs to do is make it to her classes on time, make sure the bracelet on her left wrist stays in place, not draw any attention to herself, and maybe–please God–make a few friends, because surely that would be a nice change of pace. The one thing she didn’t need and never planned on was capturing the attention of the one guy who could shatter the precarious future she’s building for herself.

Some things are worth experiencing…

Cameron Hamilton is six feet and three inches of swoon-worthy hotness, complete with a pair of striking blue eyes and a remarkable ability to make her want things she believed were irrevocably stolen from her. She knows she needs to stay away from him, but Cam is freaking everywhere, with his charm, his witty banter, and that damn dimple that’s just so… so lickable. Getting involved with him is dangerous, but when ignoring the simmering tension that sparks whenever they are around each other becomes impossible, he brings out a side of her she never knew existed.

Some things should never be kept quiet…

But when Avery starts receiving threatening emails and phone calls forcing her to face a past she wants silenced, she’s has no other choice but to acknowledge that someone is refusing to allow her to let go of that night when everything changed. When the devastating truth comes out, will she resurface this time with one less scar? And can Cam be there to help her or will he be dragged down with her?

And some things are worth fighting for…

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Free App of the Day

Today’s Free App of the Day is Train Crisis HD and this game app is normally $0.99 in the Amazon App Store but is free for today only.

Here is the app’s description from the Amazon App Store website:

A puzzle and addictive strategy game where you have to prove your reflexes.

Train: “a series of railway carriages or wagons moved as a unit by a locomotive or by integral motors”.
Crisis: “a time of intense difficulty or danger”.

With these two definitions we launch Train Crisis, a puzzle and addictive strategy game with HD graphics where you have to prove your quick mind and reflexes in full 3D environment.

Would you like to travel through the history of the railroad? This amazing game lets you play in two different railroad eras, where your goal is to overcome all the obstacles that appear on each level and guide each colored train toward its corresponding destination.

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Amazon’s free App of the Day can be utilized on a Kindle Fire and Android-based smartphones and tablet computers, and the app can be a game, utility, or who knows? Each app is offered free for 24 hours and, after that period is over it goes back to paid status and a new app is the Free App of the Day.

Today’s Free App of the Day is The Croods Movie Storybook and this game app is normally $2.99 in the Amazon App Store but is free for today only.

Here is the app’s description from the Amazon App Store website:

The Croods Movie Storybook transports fans back in time to tell the story of the first family road trip. Grug leads his caveman family, the Croods, on a perilous adventure across harsh terrain as they try to outrace cataclysmic events. Can Grug do it alone, or will the Croods require the help of Guy, a brave outsider? Join Grug, Ugga, Eep, Guy, Thunk, Sandy, Gran, and a cast of prehistoric creatures to find out if they can survive the journey–and each other!

The storybook features Auto Play, Read To Me, and Read To Myself narration options, as well as genuine character audio from the film.

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