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So, how many of you have bought a Kindle OR if you haven’t bought a Kindle yet, whataya waiting for? Amazon has a new Kindle WiFi With Special Offers for $114, Kindle 3G+WiFi With Special Offers for $164, WiFi Only Kindle 3 for $139, and a WiFi + Free 3G Kindle 3 for $189! Or you can get the larger sized 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!)

*Incidentally, for those curious about the latest deals exclusively for those who own a Kindle With Special Offers, the latest promo(s) are they get to “Use your Visa card to buy select Kindle books and get a $10 Amazon.com credit” (Claim offer by Jul 21, 2011) and “Get $10 off any physical Video Game at Amazon.com” (Claim offer by Jul 03, 2011)

Well, time to fill your Kindle with FREEBIES! p.s. For the bargain conscious – check out ALL my bargain posts HERE (I’ve been posting updated bargains per publisher)!

*If you want a direct Amazon link where you can see ALL the updated free books right now, be sure to bookmark this link! It will take you to a page that lists them in best-selling order*

‘Cookouts Veggie Style!‘ by Jolinda Hackett is available for FREE download on the Amazon Kindle site. Just click here to download this book.

Book Description

Hamburgers, hot dogs, and barbecue ribs.

Sounds like the perfect all-American cookout–unless you’re a vegetarian. With more people adopting a mainly vegetarian diet, the choices might seem limited for all those great outdoor parties. Whether it’s a barbecue or a picnic in the park, it’s time to get creative with meatless summer meals! Inside are mouthwatering recipes such as:

Grilled Seitan with Apple Salsa
Creole Slaw
Grilled Eggplant Panini
Halloumi Skewers with Parsley & Lemon Salsa
Barley Burgers on Rye Bread

Forget boring Boca burgers and bland pasta salad! This book shows you how to make delicious, unique, and fresh vegetarian meals so you’ll never miss the burgers and dogs again!

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The track ‘Hear My Call‘ by Jill Scott from the Album The Light Of The Sun (Deluxe) is available for FREE download on the Amazon MP3 store today!

Click here to download the FREE song!

* Remember, you have until June 30 to Redeem Your Code for Amazon MP3 (Use code CLOUDMP3 to Get $2 Towards Amazon MP3s)! And if you need help choosing what tracks/albums to get, check out Amazon’s $5 Albums on sale OR Amazon’s MP3 $0.69 store!

And remember that you can download this song and take advantage of the Amazon Cloud Player for Web and Android:

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If you haven’t yet, be sure to check out my “Bargain Alert! $0.99 Kindle Games Sale! Plus Some New Games for Your Kindle!” post. I’m posting this to add one more $0.99 game to the list!

‘YAHTZEE (Play the Classic Dice Game on Kindle)‘ by Electronic Arts Inc. is available on the Amazon Kindle site for just $0.99 (from $4.99 just the other day)! Just click here to download!

Game Description

Discounted to $0.99 for a limited time. (Ends July 11)

Now you can play YAHTZEE, the classic dice game on Kindle.

Roll the dice with YAHTZEE, a game in which players roll five dice to try and make 4-of-a-kinds, full houses, and straights. Keep the dice you want and re-roll the rest, but think carefully to score the best combination and the most points!

YAHTZEE for Kindle has three modes to enjoy. Play in Classic Mode and brave the luck of the roll, or remove luck from the game and play in Duplicate Mode where each person plays with identical die rolls and only your strategy can make the difference. You may also compete in Battle Mode, where your goal is to reduce your opponents score.

Play solo or Pass ‘n’ Play with up to 3 other players. Track stats like best scores, total victories, win ratios and more. Share the fun with 3 difficulty levels: easy, medium and hard.

One of the world’s favorite dice-driven game scores again. Now play it anywhere you take your Kindle.

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It's that time of the year again! Amazon is holding a $0.99 Kindle games sale on Customer Favorites! And there's some new games apps for the Kindle too! For a limited time, select Kindle game customer favorites–including SCRABBLE, Solitaire, and NY Times–are on sale for just $0.99 each (offer ends July 10). * And check out the new Kindle game/apps after the ju … Read More

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Book Description:

At the world’s most exclusive law school, there’s a secret society rumored to catapult its members to fame and fortune. Everyone is dying to get in . . .

Jeremy Davis is the rising star of his first-year class. He’s got a plum job with the best professor on campus. He’s caught the eye of a dazzling Rhodes scholar named Daphne. But something dark is stirring behind the ivy. When a mysterious club promises success beyond his wildest dreams, Jeremy uncovers a macabre secret older than the university itself. In a race against time, Jeremy must stop an ancient ritual that will sacrifice the lives of those he loves most and blur the lines between good and evil.

In this extraordinary debut thriller, Danny Tobey offers a fascinating glimpse into the rarefied world of an elite New England school and the unthinkable dangers that lie within its gates. He deftly weaves a tale of primeval secrets and betrayal into an ingenious brain teaser that will keep readers up late into the night.

Packed with enigmatic professors, secret codes, hidden tunnels, and sinister villains, The Faculty Club establishes Danny Tobey as this season’s most thrilling new author.

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The Faculty Club by Danny Tobey was a huge disappointment for me. The book description made it sound so interesting and exciting, but I guess I should have read the description with a heaping grain of salt, especially since this is a ‘debut’ thriller. Emphasis on the ‘debut’. The best thing I can say about it is that the story actually starts out pretty interesting (law school + a secret society = win); unfortunately, it quickly unravels when the author tries to be too clever and falls back on gimmickry, while failing to properly develop the characters and plot.

In The Faculty Club, self-described nobody Jeremy Davis seems to be on the verge of hitting the big time – he’s enrolled in the ‘best law school in the world’, he has the patronage of an influential professor, and best of all, he’s being considered for membership by the uber secretive (and powerful) V and D club of the law school. But then, life doesn’t quite turn out the way Jeremy expected – and well, apparently hell hath no fury greater than a spurned first year law student!

I started out liking Jeremy when he was just a smart nobody feeling his way in law school, but then, he got more and more unlikeable as the story progressed. Not only was he was willing to compromise a lot of his principles to basically just join a ‘cool’ Ivy League secret society (how shallow is that), but then, even when we get to the part where he fights back against the mysterious powers-that-be – Jeremy’s motivations could not be any worse or selfish – he was just like a spoilt child wanting revenge for being denied what he wanted. I just could not get past that. And the other characters were no better – with new characters randomly introduced then dropped quickly before we can get attached to them.

For a thriller, I found the story lacking in actual thrills or anything original or even anything that sounds reasonably believable – like I said, the author tried to be too clever by half and pretty much throws in all sorts of gimmickry that spoils the last two-thirds of the book – secret codes for Jeremy & his cohorts to solve, mysterious underground tunnels under the school, a custom-made ‘challenge’ room filled with deadly puzzles, and whoa, even Voodoo supernatural plot elements that appeared out of left field, etc etc. The plot just got sillier and more unbelievable, and when we got to the big reveal in the end, I couldn’t help but roll my eyes and just ended up feeling sorry for the villains. I don’t think that was the desired reaction, right?

The Faculty Club by Danny Tobey is available on Amazon as a Kindle edition ($9.99), Hardcover edition ($10.00), Paperback edition ($11.25), and Audible Audio Edition ($17.95).

The eBook is also available at B&N, Sony and iBooks for $9.99.

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There’s definitely a market for this genre, so I thought I’d hunt down some bargains for those who enjoy reading books that incorporate faith / religious / inspirational themes. Enjoy!

If you have time to skim through all the discounts yourself, here’s a handy Amazon search link for all of them! I’ve posted some of them here also, so just hover over the covers for more info and click on the ones that interest you!

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Enjoy the bargains!

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So, how many of you have bought a Kindle OR if you haven’t bought a Kindle yet, whataya waiting for? Amazon has a new Kindle WiFi With Special Offers for $114, Kindle 3G+WiFi With Special Offers for $164, WiFi Only Kindle 3 for $139, and a WiFi + Free 3G Kindle 3 for $189! Or you can get the larger sized 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!)

*Incidentally, for those curious about the latest deals exclusively for those who own a Kindle With Special Offers, the latest promo(s) are they get to “Save $15 when you spend $20 on Amazon Kindle Skins” [Note that this works even for skins that cost $19.95] and “Save $25 on $50 of Camping & Backpacking Gear”

Well, time to fill your Kindle with FREEBIES! p.s. For the bargain conscious – check out ALL my bargain posts HERE (I’ve been posting updated bargains per publisher)!

*If you want a direct Amazon link where you can see ALL the updated free books right now, be sure to bookmark this link! It will take you to a page that lists them in best-selling order*

Here’s more indie freebies for today on Amazon!

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Yay, we’ve all got a FREE $2.00 credit from Amazon to use at their MP3 store (it’s obviously a promo for their cloud service)!

How to Redeem Your Code for Amazon MP3 (Use code CLOUDMP3 to Get $2 Towards Amazon MP3s)

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The weekly Top Ten Tuesday topic of the week (via the Broke and Bookish blog) is:

It’s my first time to join this meme, and I’m definitely checking out other people’s lists. I just know this one is going to be a goldmine! Okay, other than blogs, here are some book related websites I always check out!

1. AMAZON (Free for Kindle Bestseller List) – because I make it my business to find out what’s free for my Kindle!
2. Audiobook Community – They hold a SyncSummer every year and offer two free YA audiobooks weekly (until August 17th!)
3. BoingBoing (Reviews) – This is a well known aggregator website, but my favorite is when they feature reviews. Majority of the book reviews are written by Cory Doctorow (the SciFi/fantasy author) and I get a lot of ‘must reads’ from his recommendations.
4. Baen Free Library – Yup, all free SciFi books from Baen! Great way to find another new fave author.
5. MobileRead.Com’s Patricia Clark Memorial Library – Lovingly edited public domain books by book lovers from the MobileRead forum, shared freely to anyone interested in major book formats
6. HarperCollins (BrowseInside) – They have a bookshelf where you can have full access to certain really popular books (i.e. Vampire Diaries, Pretty Little Liars, etc), the only catch is you have to read it online
7. Hachette Book Group (Open Access) – This is similar to HarperCollins’ BrowseInside, you get full access to certain books but you can only read them online
8. Fantastic Fiction – Super helpful when you’re reading a series that’s already on it’s nth book. Quick book info with painless searching.
9. Inkmesh – Easy place to look for free eBooks for the Nook, the Sony, etc  (like I said, I make it my business to find out any freebies!)
10. Dropbox – Okay, this online ‘cloud locker’ is not necessarily bookish, except that the way I use it is definitely bookish. I only upload books to the account and I can read the books anytime on my iPod Touch! If you don’t have one yet, sign up for a FREE account!

(p.s. If you like participating in memes/blog hops, be sure to check out the Meme Directory for the Book Bloggers!)

(p.s.s. If it’s your first time to visit my blog, please have a look around especially if you read digital books. I post a lot of (legal) freebies and Kindle bargain books that I find here)

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