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Bargains for the Kindle! All Less Than $3.00

September 25, 2010 Leave a comment

I’ve been collecting some bargains lately from the Amazon Kindle store. Here’s bargain round-up #1, round-up #2 and now #3! Take note that the prices may change at any time, since the books are cheap only because of massive discounts. Check the books out, window shopping is always a fun time-killer!

Then Came the Evening by Brian Hart for $1.35 (Family Drama)

Product Description:

Bandy Dorner, home from Vietnam, awakes with his car mired in a canal, his cabin reduced to ashes, and his pregnant wife preparing to leave town with her lover. Within moments, a cop lies bleeding in the road.

Eighteen years later, Bandy’s son — a stranger bearing his name — returns to the town, where the memory of his father’s crime still hangs thick. When an accident brings the family — paroled father, widowed mother, injured son — back together, the three must confront their past, and struggle against their fate.

Like a traditional Greek tragedy, suffused with the mud, ice, and rock of the raw Idaho landscape, Then Came the Evening is tautly plotted and emotionally complex — a stunning debut.

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Preview the GLEE Tracks from S2E2 ‘Britney/Brittany’ (Update: Now on iTunes & Amazon!)

September 25, 2010 Leave a comment

Update: Aaand, the tracks are now up on iTunes! (Sept 28) Grab your faves!

Yes, we can now listen to full previews of the tracks for the much-awaited GLEE episode ‘Britney/Brittany‘! Just head on to OfficialBritneyUK (YouTube) where the full length tracks are streaming! My personal faves are Lea Michele’s cover of ‘Baby One More Time‘ and Heather Morris & Naya Rivera with ‘Me Against The Music‘. Yes, Lea’s kinda the queen of Glee, but it’s nice to hear other voices take center stage every now and then. I thought that the Santana/Brittany track worked well AND can’t wait to see the dancing! (and when do Mercedes & Kurt get their solos again?!)

*I do wonder why the Paramore cover sticks out like a sore thumb, what would prompt Lea’s character Rachel to sing this? hmmm….

The Tracks:

  1. “Toxic” (Glee Cast) – YouTube (iTunes, Amazon)
  2. “Stronger” (Glee Cast, Kevin McHale) – YouTube (iTunes, Amazon)
  3. “Baby One More Time” (Lea Michele, Glee Cast) – YouTube (iTunes, Amazon)
  4. “Me Against The Music” (Heather Morris & Naya Rivera) – YouTube (iTunes, Amazon)
  5. “I’m a Slave 4 U” (Glee Cast, Heather Morris) – YouTube (iTunes, Amazon)
  6. “The Only Exception (Paramore Cover)” (Glee Cast, Lea Michele) – YouTube (iTunes, Amazon)

I’m embedding my two faves, listen in! :) Can’t wait till the iTunes release!

Listen to “Baby One More Time”
Listen to “Me Against The Music”

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FREE eBook – Enchanting the Lady by Kathryne Kennedy

September 25, 2010 Leave a comment

Hey Nook owners (or those with Nook apps on their PC/mobile devices)! Did you know that B&N has Free Fridays! Too bad they’re a bit stingy in the giving department, it’s just one eBook!

Here’s their Free Friday’s eBook – ‘Enchanting the Lady’ by Kathryne Kennedy. It’s a historical paranormal romance starring a were-lion!

Enchanting the Lady (RELICS OF MERLIN #1)‘ by Kathryne Kennedy is available for FREE download on the Barnes & Noble site (the Kindle version would have cost you $5.39 is now FREE!). Just click here to download! *The author has another book from the series out “Enchanting the Beast“, check it out!

Book Description:

In a Victorian London where titles are based on the inheritance of magical powers, a were-lion’s obsessive quest for Merlin’s magical relics will threaten his love for a disinherited duchess—as well as their very lives.

In a world where magic ruled everything, Felicity Seymour couldn’t perform even the simplest spell. If she didn’t pass her testing, she’d lose her duchy–and any hope of marriage. But one man didn’t seem to mind her lack of dowry: a darkly delicious baronet who had managed to scare away the rest of London’s Society misses.

Sir Terence Blackwell knew the enchanting woman before him wasn’t entirely without magic. Not only could she completely disarm him with her gorgeous lavender eyes and frank candor, but his were-lion senses could smell a dark power on her–the same kind of relic-magic that had killed his brother. Was she using it herself, or was it being used against her?

One needed a husband, and the other needed answers. But only together could they find the strongest magic of all: true love.

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FREE eTextBooks (FlexBooks) from the CK-12 Foundation

September 24, 2010 Leave a comment

Update: The FREE textbooks are now also up on the Kindle US Store! Just click HERE, there are 12 of them!

Ever heard of the CK-12 Foundation? Yeah, me neither. But they’re giving away a ton of eTextbooks that they call ‘FlexBooks’ for FREE.

Traditional textbooks are both expensive and rigid. FlexBooks conform to national and state textbook standards. They are free, easy to update and easy to customize. With FlexBooks, you can customize your textbooks to support your innovative work in the classroom. The CK-12 Foundation provides FlexBooks free to anyone who wants to use them.

Amazing, right? They’ve got FlexBooks in ePub/PDF format that you can download (ePub and PDF). It’s a good collection of math and science textbooks. And it’s also apparently part of the California Free Digital Textbooks Initiative.

And they have more planned to give away. Click HERE to see what else will be released!

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FREE eBible! The Holy Bible (HCSB Digital Text Edition), plus Bargain Books!

September 24, 2010 2 comments

So, how many of you have bought a Kindle OR if you haven’t bought a Kindle yet, whataya waiting for? Amazon has just released a WiFi Only Kindle 3 for $139, and a WiFi + Free 3G Kindle 3 for $189! You can also check out the new Graphite Kindle DX.

(If you don’t have a Kindle, don’t worry, you can still read the free books! Just download the Kindle for the PC, Kindle for the iPhone/iPod Touch, Kindle for the iPad, Kindle for BlackBerry or Kindle for Android!)

Well, time to fill your Kindle with FREEBIES! My sis is gonna be really happy with this one – a bible that’s specially formatted for an eReader.

The Holy Bible: HCSB Digital Text Edition: Holman Christian Standard Bible‘ is available for download on the Amazon Kindle site. Just click here to download! *Note that an ePub version is also found at Christian Books Distributors AND at the Sony eBookstore.

Book Description:

This text edition of the HCSB has been optimized for easy reading on digital devices. Free from the visual clutter of footnotes, cross references, and other links, this edition is fast to navigate and easy to use.

The HCSB was developed by 100 scholars and English stylists from 17 denominations, who prayerfully translated what is one of the most significant Bible translations available today. The HCSB reflects linguistic advances in vocabulary, grammar, punctuation and formatting while it retains meaningful theological terms. In the HCSB you’ll find God’s personal name (Yahweh), the use of “Messiah” in the New Testament, and the use of “slave” in the New Testament, just to name a few examples. Also, you’ll notice the contemporary speech patterns in the HCSB mean that words like “behold” and “shall” are not used. Instead, words or phrases that are common today can be found in their place.

The HCSB employs a first-of-its kind translation philosophy known as Optimal Equivalence, which seeks to achieve an optimal balance of literary precision and emotive clarity through a comprehensive analysis of the text at every level. This process assures maximum transfer of both words and thoughts contained in the original.

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And want to check out some MORE really good bargains for your Kindle? Check them out after the jump! (This follows a previous bargain books round-up HERE)
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Sale Alert! Barnes & Noble Fall Clearance Sale! (Many $1.99!)

September 24, 2010 Leave a comment

Hey, check out the Barnes & Noble Fall Clearance Sale (for Hard covers/Paperbacks)!

They’re put up a list of the Top 100 books that are $1.99 HERE! There are a LOT of good children’s books on that list so be sure to check it out!

And here’s a list of their other bargain priced books!

I’ve picked out some that I’m thinking of getting!

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Check Out 30-sec Previews of Songs from GLEE ‘Britney / Brittany’ Episode!

September 23, 2010 Leave a comment

I thought that GLEE had a really good debut! So looking forward to the ‘Britney / Brittany’ episode next.

Here’s 30-sec previews of the songs featured on the show: Toxic, Baby One More Time, Stronger, I’m a Slave 4 U, Me Against the Music and (the Paramore cover) The Only Exception.

Can’t wait to hear more than just samples!

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FREE eBook Download – ‘Who Is Mark Twain?’ Plus Some Bargains!

September 23, 2010 Leave a comment

So, how many of you have bought a Kindle OR if you haven’t bought a Kindle yet, whataya waiting for? Amazon has just released a WiFi Only Kindle 3 for $139, and a WiFi + Free 3G Kindle 3 for $189! You can also check out the new Graphite Kindle DX.

(If you don’t have a Kindle, don’t worry, you can still read the free books! Just download the Kindle for the PC, Kindle for the iPhone/iPod Touch, Kindle for the iPad, Kindle for BlackBerry or Kindle for Android!)

Well, time to fill your Kindle with FREEBIES! Here’s an oldie, but goodie – a collection of never before published essays from none other but the great Mark Twain?

Who Is Mark Twain?‘ by Mark Twain is available for download on the Amazon Kindle site. Just click here to download! *This book was also free on the Sony eBookstore last August. *This should whet readers’ appetites while we wait for the November release of Autobiography of Mark Twain: The Complete and Authoritative Edition, Volume 1 by Mark Twain & Harriet E. Smith!

Book Description:

Who Is Mark Twain? is a collection of twenty six wickedly funny, thought-provoking essays by Samuel Langhorne Clemens—aka Mark Twain—none of which have ever been published before, and all of which are completely contemporary, amazingly relevant, and gut-bustingly hilarious.

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