Tuesday, March 29, 2011
New Book Releases March 29
New book release day is always exciting. There are always new and wonderful books I am waiting to read. The great thing for us Kindle lovers is we can buy them as soon as they are availble for purchase - right from our home, office, or other unique location.
I am often asked if I miss going to book stores - my former favorite habit. The answer: I still go to book stores! There is no reason to stop enjoying life and the wonderful pleasures of going to book stores. The cool thing is I can use my iPhone to take photos of books I want to read and then purchase them on my Kindle. So I still get to prowl the shelves and then download books for cheaper prices and have them with me always.
What could be better?
Here are samples of the new releases for this week. Enjoy.
1636: The Saxon Uprising by Eric Flint
The Alpine Vengeance by Mary Daheim
Anthem for a Doomed Youth by Carola Dunn
Beloved Dead by Tony Hays
Bent Road by Lori Roy
Big Girl Small by Rachel DeWoskin
Dead by Midnight by Carolyn Hart
Devious by Lisa Jackson
The Free World by David Bezmozgis
The Judgment by Beverly Lewis
I Don't Want to Kill You by Dan Wells
The Land of Painted Caves by Jean Auel
Late Edition by Fern Michaels
Lover Unleased by J.R. Ward
Mystery by Jonathan Kellerman
Phantom Evil by Heather Graham
The Preacher by Camilla Lackberg
The Road to Rome by Ben Kane
The School of Night by Louis Bayard
Sticky Fingers by Nancy Martin
The Troubled Man by Henning Mankell
What You See in the Dark by Manuel Munoz
Monday, March 28, 2011
Free Kindle Ebooks
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Thursday, March 24, 2011
Buy Kindle Ebook on UK Amazon
Oh, Amazon...why, why, why can we not just click and purchase ebooks from your UK store, (or the US store if you live in the UK)? I am sure there are reasons for the separation but what do we do when the book we want is only available on the other country's site?
I recently had a deep yearning to read The Salt Road. I went to download it on my Kindle and the book was not available. I checked to see if Amazon had hard copies of the book and discovered I would need to purchase it from a associate. This meant I would not get the book for a week or longer.
That did not ease my yearning so I scanned the web to see if their were other options. The Salt Road popped up as an ebook in the UK Amazon store. Yea!!! Unfortunately, I soon discovered I cannot download books from Amazon Kindle while living and registered with a US address.
There had to be a way around this. After searching for answers I discovered that I could reset my home country under the 'manage your kindle' to UK and provide a UK address. This would allow me to purchase the ebook. But I don't have a UK address. Thank goodness I have a friend who does. I emailed my friend and asked for her permission than entered her address in the UK and changed my home country.
I clicked and purchased the book at the UK site. It worked!! after the book downloaded I reset my address and home country and was ready to read.
Can you do this only if you have a friend in England? Looks that way unless you have another method of getting a UK address. I am sure some people use addresses without permission but I cannot advocate that- too deceptive for me.
I enjoyed The Salt Road. It is a big epic tale, a mystery and love story that flashes between past and present. You can perform some acrobatics and purchase the book from the UK site.
You can download Jane Johnson's other exciting book - The Tenth Gift - from the US Amazon store. This is the book that got me interested in The Salt Road. What a read. This book is one of my favorites.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
My Kindle Died plus New Fiction Releases March 22
Ouch! My Kindle died last night. Luckily I have Kindle on my iPhone and was able to continue reading...I can't go to sleep without my Kindle. I called Amazon this morning and they are sending out a brand new one - I will have it by tomorrow. No charge since the device was just out of the warranty period the Amazon rep extended the period and I get it for free!!! How wonderful is that. I'll be desperately waiting for the UPS man tomorrow.
Enough about my trials...here is a sampling of new releases for this week:
Afraid of the Dark by James Grippando
Cold Wind by C.J. Box
Breaking the Rules by Suzanne Brockmann
Keep a Little Secret by Dorothy Garlock
Leaving by Karen Kingsbury
A Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear
Live Wire by Harlan Coben
Night Road by Kristin Hannah
The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen
The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party by Alexander McCall Smith
The Silent Land by Joyce Graham
Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson
Spiral by Paul McEuen
Monday, March 21, 2011
A Ripe, Juicy Read: The Peach Keeper
The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen is out tomorrow. I love this author. Read a sample of the book below and a great review.
The day Paxton Osgood took the box of heavy-stock, foil-lined envelopes to the post office, the ones she’s had a professional calligrapher address, it began to rain so hard the air turned as white as bleached cotton. By nightfall, rivers had crested at flood stage and, for the first time since 1936, the mail couldn’t be delivered. When things began to dry out, when basements were pumped free of water and branches were cleared from yards and streets, the invitations were finally delivered, but to all the wrong houses. Neighbors laughed over fences, handing the misdelivered pieces of mail to their rightful owners with comments about the crazy weather and their careless postman. The next day, an unusual number of people showed up at the doctor’s office with infected paper cuts, because the envelopes had sealed, cement like, from the moisture. Later, the single-card invitations themselves seemed to hide and pop back up at random. Mrs. Jameson’s invitation disappeared for two days, then reappeared in a bird’s nest outside. Harper Rowley’s invitation was found in the church bell tower, Mr. Kingsley’s in his elderly mother’s garden shed.
If anyone had been paying attention to the signs, they would have realized that air turns white when things are about to change, that paper cuts mean there’s more to what’s written on the page than meets the eye, and that birds are always out to protect you from things you don’t see.
Set for release on your Kindle tomorrow, March 22, The Peach Keeper is a lush and mysterious read. Sarah Addison Allen has fans around the globe waiting for her newest book. Garden spells, The Sugar Queen, and The Girl Who Chased the Moon were all magical. Expect nothing less from The Peach Keeper.
Make yourself at home in the little southern town of Walls of Water, famous for its distinctive waterfalls and pea soup fog.
Random House offers a great summary of the novel:
The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Chased the Moon welcomes you to her newest locale: Walls of Water, North Carolina, where the secrets are thicker than the fog from the town’s famous waterfalls, and the stuff of superstition is just as real as you want it to be.
It’s the dubious distinction of thirty-year-old Willa Jackson to hail from a fine old Southern family of means that met with financial ruin generations ago. The Blue Ridge Madam—built by Willa’s great-great-grandfather during Walls of Water’s heyday, and once the town’s grandest home—has stood for years as a lonely monument to misfortune and scandal. And Willa herself has long strived to build a life beyond the brooding Jackson family shadow. No easy task in a town shaped by years of tradition and the well-marked boundaries of the haves and have-nots.
But Willa has lately learned that an old classmate—socialite do-gooder Paxton Osgood—of the very prominent Osgood family, has restored the Blue Ridge Madam to her former glory, with plans to open a top-flight inn. Maybe, at last, the troubled past can be laid to rest while something new and wonderful rises from its ashes. But what rises instead is a skeleton, found buried beneath the property’s lone peach tree, and certain to drag up dire consequences along with it.
For the bones—those of charismatic traveling salesman Tucker Devlin, who worked his dark charms on Walls of Water seventy-five years ago—are not all that lay hidden out of sight and mind. Long-kept secrets surrounding the troubling remains have also come to light, seemingly heralded by a spate of sudden strange occurrences throughout the town.
Now, thrust together in an unlikely friendship, united by a full-blooded mystery, Willa and Paxton must confront the dangerous passions and tragic betrayals that once bound their families—and uncover truths of the long-dead that have transcended time and defied the grave to touch the hearts and souls of the living.
Resonant with insight into the deep and lasting power of friendship, love, and tradition, The Peach Keeper is a portrait of the unshakable bonds that—in good times and bad, from one generation to the n
Download The Peach Keeper on your Kindle as soon as tomorrow, March 22.
The day Paxton Osgood took the box of heavy-stock, foil-lined envelopes to the post office, the ones she’s had a professional calligrapher address, it began to rain so hard the air turned as white as bleached cotton. By nightfall, rivers had crested at flood stage and, for the first time since 1936, the mail couldn’t be delivered. When things began to dry out, when basements were pumped free of water and branches were cleared from yards and streets, the invitations were finally delivered, but to all the wrong houses. Neighbors laughed over fences, handing the misdelivered pieces of mail to their rightful owners with comments about the crazy weather and their careless postman. The next day, an unusual number of people showed up at the doctor’s office with infected paper cuts, because the envelopes had sealed, cement like, from the moisture. Later, the single-card invitations themselves seemed to hide and pop back up at random. Mrs. Jameson’s invitation disappeared for two days, then reappeared in a bird’s nest outside. Harper Rowley’s invitation was found in the church bell tower, Mr. Kingsley’s in his elderly mother’s garden shed.
If anyone had been paying attention to the signs, they would have realized that air turns white when things are about to change, that paper cuts mean there’s more to what’s written on the page than meets the eye, and that birds are always out to protect you from things you don’t see.
Set for release on your Kindle tomorrow, March 22, The Peach Keeper is a lush and mysterious read. Sarah Addison Allen has fans around the globe waiting for her newest book. Garden spells, The Sugar Queen, and The Girl Who Chased the Moon were all magical. Expect nothing less from The Peach Keeper.
Make yourself at home in the little southern town of Walls of Water, famous for its distinctive waterfalls and pea soup fog.
Random House offers a great summary of the novel:
The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Chased the Moon welcomes you to her newest locale: Walls of Water, North Carolina, where the secrets are thicker than the fog from the town’s famous waterfalls, and the stuff of superstition is just as real as you want it to be.
It’s the dubious distinction of thirty-year-old Willa Jackson to hail from a fine old Southern family of means that met with financial ruin generations ago. The Blue Ridge Madam—built by Willa’s great-great-grandfather during Walls of Water’s heyday, and once the town’s grandest home—has stood for years as a lonely monument to misfortune and scandal. And Willa herself has long strived to build a life beyond the brooding Jackson family shadow. No easy task in a town shaped by years of tradition and the well-marked boundaries of the haves and have-nots.
But Willa has lately learned that an old classmate—socialite do-gooder Paxton Osgood—of the very prominent Osgood family, has restored the Blue Ridge Madam to her former glory, with plans to open a top-flight inn. Maybe, at last, the troubled past can be laid to rest while something new and wonderful rises from its ashes. But what rises instead is a skeleton, found buried beneath the property’s lone peach tree, and certain to drag up dire consequences along with it.
For the bones—those of charismatic traveling salesman Tucker Devlin, who worked his dark charms on Walls of Water seventy-five years ago—are not all that lay hidden out of sight and mind. Long-kept secrets surrounding the troubling remains have also come to light, seemingly heralded by a spate of sudden strange occurrences throughout the town.
Now, thrust together in an unlikely friendship, united by a full-blooded mystery, Willa and Paxton must confront the dangerous passions and tragic betrayals that once bound their families—and uncover truths of the long-dead that have transcended time and defied the grave to touch the hearts and souls of the living.
Resonant with insight into the deep and lasting power of friendship, love, and tradition, The Peach Keeper is a portrait of the unshakable bonds that—in good times and bad, from one generation to the n
Download The Peach Keeper on your Kindle as soon as tomorrow, March 22.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
New Fiction for the week of March 15
Where are you reading your Kindle today? I found myself reading in the kitchen this morning while getting my kids ready for school. I started a new book last night and I cannot tear myself away. The book? It is not a new release but one I had downloaded and never read because...as we all know there are so many books and so little time. OK, back to the book. It is Testimony by Anita Shreve. I have read a few of her books and like her as an author but the way this book is put together is fascinating...more later on this book.
Let's get down to the real news. There are several new releases this week by well known authors. (Wait till you see who has a book out next week. Hint: She wrote a book about magic in the garden and a girl who chased the moon).
Here is a sampling of the new releases this week:
The Dawn Country by Kathleen Gear
Devil Red by Joe Lansdale
Emily, Alone by Stewart O'Nan
An Empty Death by Laura Wilson
Hellhole by Brian Herbert
The King of Diamonds by Simon Tolkien
The Lost Sister by Russel McLean
Lady Protector by L.E. Modesitt
Pacific Glory by P.T. Deutermann
So Much Pretty by Cara Hoffman
Toys by James Patterson
The Trinity Six by Charles Cumming
Up Against It by M.J. Locke
Zero Day by Mark Russinovich
Friday, March 11, 2011
Get Your Brooks in Order
Yes, Brooks! Geraldine Brooks. One of my faves and yours will be releasing via Harper Collins a new book in May for Kindle: Caleb's Crossing. The early blurbs say the book focuses on a native American who attends Harvard in the 1600's and becomes the first Native American to graduate from the school. Early reviews promise magic and beauty - all which we expect from Brooks writing. Unfortunately no ARCs have been forthcoming so I do not have juicy details or the low down on the book.
Should you pre-order this book for your Kindle? It is difficult to say without having reviewed the book myself. I would almost say yes based on the author alone... but you never know. We have been sadly surprised before. Instead, I recommend you get your Brooks in order - go back and reread earlier Geraldine Brooks books. They are lovely. The People of the Book and March are two of my all time favorites. Year of Wonders is a perfect novel.
Geraldine Brooks also writes non-fiction: The Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence.
You can be sure I will review Caleb's Crossing as soon as I am able to read the book. I can't wait! Meanwhile...I am off to get my Brooks in order.
Should you pre-order this book for your Kindle? It is difficult to say without having reviewed the book myself. I would almost say yes based on the author alone... but you never know. We have been sadly surprised before. Instead, I recommend you get your Brooks in order - go back and reread earlier Geraldine Brooks books. They are lovely. The People of the Book and March are two of my all time favorites. Year of Wonders is a perfect novel.
Geraldine Brooks also writes non-fiction: The Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence.
You can be sure I will review Caleb's Crossing as soon as I am able to read the book. I can't wait! Meanwhile...I am off to get my Brooks in order.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
The Informationist:Add a Little Thrill to Your Kindle
Here is an update on The Informationist by Taylor Stevens, a thriller released this week with big hopes. Does it deliver?
I was really looking forward to reading this book. I like a little thrill added to my reading list and this looked like just the thing. Advance reviews were positive so I downloaded the novel on my Kindle the day it was released.
The Informationist tells the story of Vanessa Michael Munroe. She is the daughter of missionary parents and has a dark and violent past - she escaped from Cameroon with blood on her hands when she was fairly young.
After leaving Cameroon, Munroe bases herself in Texas and becomes an informationist; she finds info for companies and individuals who do not want to go through official channels. She is good at what she does and has developed a network of 'friends' who services she can call on when needed.
In this novel Munroe is hired to find the missing and presumed dead daughter of rich Texas oilman Richard Burbank. The daughter, Emily, was last seen in the area of Central Africa - or was she?
The book will keep you reading with non-stop action. On that note I was pleased. I also enjoyed the fact that it offered some new plot twists. Munroe was not your run of the mill heroine nor was she 'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest'. (Great book but we don't need a carbon copy).
I was very frustrated by the 3rd or 4th chapter because I had no clue about the characters. What do they look like, how do they move, how do they sound? Character development was pretty much a wash and never improved throughout the book.
However, while this would normally have been enough to make me put the book down by chapter 4 I was enjoying the story line enough to keep going. I invented my characters with the little info I had. (I became my own informationist which might have been the author's original intent).
The ending of the book looks like we will be getting a sequel. I think that is good news and I look forward to seeing more of Vanessa Michael Munroe and her cast of misfits. I hope Stevens can keep the story lines fresh and original and give us a little more character development with round two.
Get The Informationist on your Kindle today!
I was really looking forward to reading this book. I like a little thrill added to my reading list and this looked like just the thing. Advance reviews were positive so I downloaded the novel on my Kindle the day it was released.
The Informationist tells the story of Vanessa Michael Munroe. She is the daughter of missionary parents and has a dark and violent past - she escaped from Cameroon with blood on her hands when she was fairly young.
After leaving Cameroon, Munroe bases herself in Texas and becomes an informationist; she finds info for companies and individuals who do not want to go through official channels. She is good at what she does and has developed a network of 'friends' who services she can call on when needed.
In this novel Munroe is hired to find the missing and presumed dead daughter of rich Texas oilman Richard Burbank. The daughter, Emily, was last seen in the area of Central Africa - or was she?
The book will keep you reading with non-stop action. On that note I was pleased. I also enjoyed the fact that it offered some new plot twists. Munroe was not your run of the mill heroine nor was she 'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest'. (Great book but we don't need a carbon copy).
I was very frustrated by the 3rd or 4th chapter because I had no clue about the characters. What do they look like, how do they move, how do they sound? Character development was pretty much a wash and never improved throughout the book.
However, while this would normally have been enough to make me put the book down by chapter 4 I was enjoying the story line enough to keep going. I invented my characters with the little info I had. (I became my own informationist which might have been the author's original intent).
The ending of the book looks like we will be getting a sequel. I think that is good news and I look forward to seeing more of Vanessa Michael Munroe and her cast of misfits. I hope Stevens can keep the story lines fresh and original and give us a little more character development with round two.
Get The Informationist on your Kindle today!
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
New Fiction Releases For Week of March 8
Yes Kindle lovers, the publishing week seems to start on Tuesday. That is when most of the big releases hit the stores. Or, in our case, the 'whispernet'.
Some of the books on today's list are not available for download today. As usual, it will take a day or two for one or more of the titles to be released on Kindle.
Today is International Day for Women. Several of today's releases have strong women protagonists or are by excellent women authors. The Informationist by Taylor Stevens introduces a new woman heroine who is getting rave reviews. The Alter of Bones by Philip Carter is an exciting and action packed thriller that opens in a 1937 Siberian prison camp and shifts to present day San Francisco. Zoe Dmitrofff, the heroine of the novel, will lead you through many twists and turns.
Fabulous women authors have books coming out this week. Lisa Garder is releasing Love You More. Linda Fairstein is releasing Silent Mercy.
That said... here is what you are waiting for - a highlight of new releases for the week.
Altar of Bones by Philip Carter
The Bone Yard by Jefferson Bass
Butterfly's Child by Angela Davis-Gardner
The Complaints by Ian Rankin
The Informationist by Taylor Stevens
The Jungle by Clive Cussler
Love You More by Lisa Gardner
One of Our Thursdays is Missing by Jasper Fforde
Public Anatomy by A. Scott Pearson
Satori by Don Winslow
Silent Mercy by Linda Fairstein
The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
Three Stages of Amazement by Carol Edgarian
Twice a Spy by Keith Thomson
When Tito Loved Clara by Jon Michaud
When the Thrill is Gone by Walter Mosley
Some of the books on today's list are not available for download today. As usual, it will take a day or two for one or more of the titles to be released on Kindle.
Today is International Day for Women. Several of today's releases have strong women protagonists or are by excellent women authors. The Informationist by Taylor Stevens introduces a new woman heroine who is getting rave reviews. The Alter of Bones by Philip Carter is an exciting and action packed thriller that opens in a 1937 Siberian prison camp and shifts to present day San Francisco. Zoe Dmitrofff, the heroine of the novel, will lead you through many twists and turns.
Fabulous women authors have books coming out this week. Lisa Garder is releasing Love You More. Linda Fairstein is releasing Silent Mercy.
That said... here is what you are waiting for - a highlight of new releases for the week.
Altar of Bones by Philip Carter
The Bone Yard by Jefferson Bass
Butterfly's Child by Angela Davis-Gardner
The Complaints by Ian Rankin
The Informationist by Taylor Stevens
The Jungle by Clive Cussler
Love You More by Lisa Gardner
One of Our Thursdays is Missing by Jasper Fforde
Public Anatomy by A. Scott Pearson
Satori by Don Winslow
Silent Mercy by Linda Fairstein
The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
Three Stages of Amazement by Carol Edgarian
Twice a Spy by Keith Thomson
When Tito Loved Clara by Jon Michaud
When the Thrill is Gone by Walter Mosley
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Read Across America and Hot Teen Novels You Want to Read on Kindle
What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell
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