Interesting Reads and Forum Posts
A Student’s Guide to Using the Kindle for Research – An very informative article about how to use the Kindle and Kindle apps as learning tools for school.
Barnes & Noble Comes to Australia – Microsoft continues the Nook brand expansion internationally.
Hacking the new Nook GlowLight – Progress is being made on hacking the latest Nook Glowlight from Barnes and Noble.
Extra Kindle Deals
Free Coupon for Select Kindle Books for $0.99 Each – Amazon Local Deal – Expires Jan 24th
The Big Deal: Kindle Books Up to 85% Off – Now through February 2nd
Kindle Daily Deals
Fly by Night by Ward Larsen
A top-secret drone crashes in the lawless Horn of Africa. The CIA is prepared to write off the loss, until evidence surfaces that the wreckage of their prized aircraft is hidden in a hangar outside Khartoum’s main airport. The hangar is owned by a shady cargo airline that flies ancient DC-3s across Africa and the Middle East…
Today’s Price: $1.99
Regular Price: $14.95
Romance Daily Deal
Comanche Moon by Virginia Brown
The Comanches did her a favor when they killed her loutish husband on her wedding night. But now this Southern belle is the possession of a fierce, blue-eyed warrior called Hawk . . .
Today’s Price: $1.99
Regular Price: $7.99
Science Fiction & Fantasy Daily Deal
Line War by
Neal L. Asher
The Polity is under attack from a ‘melded’ AI entity with control of the lethal Jain technology, yet the attack seems to have no coherence. When one of Erebus’s wormships kills millions on the world of Klurhammon, a high-tech agricultural world of no real tactical significance, agent Ian Cormac is sent to investigate, though he is secretly struggling to control a new ability no human being should possess . . . and beginning to question the motives of his AI masters.
Today’s Price: $1.99
Regular Price: $10.99
Biography & Memoir Daily Deal
Behind the Candelabra by Scott Thorson
In this unusually frank book Scott Thorson, Liberace’s longtime lover, tells all: the good, the bad, and the ugly truths about the legendary entertainer who went to outrageous extremes to prevent public knowledge of his homosexuality.
Today’s Price: $1.99
Regular Price: $9.99
Kids Daily Deal
The Search for WondLa by Tony DiTerlizzi
When a marauder destroys the underground sanctuary that Eva Nine was raised in by the robot Muthr, the twelve-year-year-old girl is forced to flee aboveground. Eva Nine is searching for anyone else like her: She knows that other humans exist because of an item she treasures—a scrap of cardboard on which is depicted a young girl, an adult, and a robot, with the strange word, “WondLa.”
Today’s Price: $1.99
Regular Price: $8.99
Kindle Freebies
MONTANA REUNION by Soraya Lane – 4 stars, 90 reviews – Best friends reunited… into a marriage of convenience?
Jack and Maddison were best friends growing up, but when Maddison moved to the big city to pursue her dreams, they struggled to stay in touch.
When Maddison returns home after years away, Jack is all grown up and ready to make up for lost time. And so is Maddison… the only trouble is, Jack needs more than a friend. So when she suggests that a marriage of convenience could help Jack save his ranch, it seems like everything is falling into place. Until Jack finds out that Maddison wants a baby.
Playing with Poison: A Humorous and Romantic Cozy by Cindy Blackburn – 4.5 stars, 190 reviews – Pool shark Jessie Hewitt usually knows where the balls will fall and how the game will end. But when a body lands on her couch, and the cute cop in her kitchen accuses her of murder, even Jessie isn’t sure what will happen next. Playing With Poison is a cozy mystery with a lot of humor, a little romance, and far too much champagne.
Kobo Daily Deal
Tempest by Julie Cross
The year is 2009. Nineteen-year-old Jackson Meyer is a normal guy… he’s in college, has a girlfriend… and he can travel back through time. But it’s not like the movies – nothing changes in the present after his jumps, there’s no space-time continuum issues or broken flux capacitors – it’s just harmless fun.
Today’s Price: $2.99
Regular Price: $9.99
Kobo Discount Codes
Since Kobo makes it next to impossible to find freebies on their website, here are some discount codes instead:
test50 (50% off)
yournext862 (50% off)
75off (75% off)
jny50 (50% off)
halfdiscount35 (35% off)
DECEXCLUSIVE (50% off)
fire9 (30% off)
Nook Daily Find
All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren is the only author to have been awarded the Pulitzer Price for both poetry and fiction–for this novel, which the author claimed was “never intended to be about politics.” An emotionally charged story of ambition, money, power and corruption set in the depression-era south.
Today’s Price: $1.99
Regular Price: $14.95
Nook Freebies
A Different Kind of Fairy Tale by – Morgan Rayne – 4 stars, 606 reviews – Stella and Alex have been best friends since Stella moved into Spring Towers three years ago. Alex reminded himself time and again Stella was just one of the guys. Until she needs an immediate boyfriend, when her ex shows up engaged to the woman he cheated on her with. He gladly steps in and hopes Stella will feel the sparks between them. Can their friendship survive their roles?
Find Her, Keep Her – A Martha’s Vineyard Love Story by – Z.L Arkadie 3.5 stars, 19 reviews – A trip to Martha’s Vineyard turns steamy in this sexy contemporary romance novel by Z.L. Arkadie. Travel writer, Daisy Blanchard has just discovered the worst news ever. Her boyfriend is now engaged to her best friend! And to add insult to injury, she learned about the blessed event through a Facebook status update. Daisy escapes her life in shambles by accepting a last minute assignment to Martha’s Vineyard where she immediately catches the . . .
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