Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert, Monday, October 4: Dixie Divas, 29 Jobs and a Million Lies, For Sale in Palm Springs (Henry Wright Mystery #1), Letters To My Mother, The Death Trip, Concrete Underground, Boob Tube , and, for the First Monday in October, Paul Levine's Supreme Court thriller Reversal (Today's Sponsor), with Links to Over a Million Free Kindle Titles
It's the first Monday in October, and it's a great day in Kindle Nation as we highlight a sweet bundle of Kindle Store freebies that cannot be ignored....



But first ... a word from Today's Sponsor


(Editor's Note: What better way to mark the first Monday in October than to have, as today's sponsor, the novel that inspired the 2002 CBS Supreme Court drama "First Monday," by Paul Levine, Kindle Nation fave and author of the Jake Lassiter crime series! You can read REVERSAL on your Kindle today for under $3, and if I can figure out the text-to-speech command that substitutes the voices of Joe Mantegna, James Garner, and Charles Durning for the Kindle's read-aloud voice, I promise to come back to let you know. --S.W.)

REVERSAL
by Paul Levine
5.0 stars - 2 Reviews - Kindle Price: $2.87 Text-to-Speech: Enabled




Here's the set-up:

Newly appointed to the Supreme Court, Justice Sam Truitt takes the bench with high ideals, lofty intentions...and a troubled marriage. Lisa Fremont, his stunning and brilliant law clerk, has a dark secret in her past. If Lisa doesn’t get Truitt’s vote in multi-million dollar case involving a catastrophic airplane crash, she’ll be killed.
REVERSAL is a tale of seduction and betrayal, of passion and greed. Truitt, who has always followed the rules, and Lisa, who never has, join together to battle those who live by no law at all. (Note: REVERSAL was originally published in hardcover as 9 SCORPIONS).

WHAT’S THE VERDICT ON PAUL LEVINE’S REVERSAL?

“A relentlessly entertaining summer read.” – New York Daily News

“A breakout book, highly readable and fun.” – USA Today

“A big brash blend of violence, sex, and the Supreme Court.” – The Miami Herald

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

The author of 14 novels, Paul Levine won the John D. MacDonald fiction award and was nominated for the Edgar, Macavity, International Thriller, and James Thurber prizes. A former trial lawyer, he also wrote more than 20 episodes of the CBS military drama “JAG” and co-created the Supreme Court drama “First Monday” starring James Garner and Joe Mantegna. He is also the author of the “Solomon vs. Lord” series and the thriller “Illegal.”
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Free Promotional Titles in the Kindle Store

Note: (Updated Oct. 2, 2010) - Click here for a separate list of Erotica titles sponsored by Rena Diane Walmsley's steamy coming-of-age novel Girl on Fire

Click here for a complete listing of over 100 free promotional titles and links to millions of other free books for your Kindle.


29 Jobs and a Million Lies
by Jennifer Topper - 4.4 out of 5 stars (9 customer reviews) - Text-to-Speech: Enabled
Dark, twisted, and outrageous, 29 Jobs and a Million Lies is not the story of your all-American girl seeking glory and success, but a glimpse at counterculture's underbelly and attempts to succeed within that world. From demented B-movie, roach-infested film production offices chock full of freakish characters to the Cannes Film Festival; from starting a punk rock record label to its hard but inevitable crash; from a grimy, Greenwich Village restaurant kitchen to failed attempts at joining the Navy, you gotta ask, What’s a nice girl from the suburbs doing all of this dirty work for, anyway?
29 Jobs and a Million Lies is the gut-wrenching, self-deprecating account of how ambition to stand out was wiped out by clumsy choices, immaturity and self-defeating righteousness. Energized to prove to the doubters that she could succeed despite the unorthodox approach, this litany of boneheaded decisions portrays how the author painfully hurled heart and soul into a long trail of draining pursuits, failing so often that success was invisible. 29 Jobs is a post-GenX novel, except it's true, and in the vein of Sarah Vowell, Chuck Klosterman, and Dave Eggers.


Letters To My Mother
by Rebecca Heath - 5.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review) - Text-to-Speech: Enabled
“You know, I never eat young ladies on Fridays. Only Tuesdays.” I couldn’t help laughing. “Do I look as apprehensive as all that?” “Yes, rather.” He opened the door for me. “But I have just the cure for you. It’s David Rosenau’s patented shyness remedy, strawberry shortcake garnished with whipped cream, to be taken at least once weekly in charming company. Doctor’s orders.” When Professor Rosenau hires college junior, Kate Collins, as his typist, falling in love with the brilliant biochemist isn’t part of the job description, but the shy girl is immediately attracted to David by his kindness and understanding as he is to Kate by her innocence and passion for learning. Letters To My Mother is the story of an unconventional May-December romance set in 1950s Seattle.


Dixie Divas
by Virginia Brown - Text-to-Speech: Enabled
"You found my philandering ex-husband?" Bitty asked. "Where? Mexico? Paris? In Tupelo with a cocktail waitress?" "In your closet," I answered. "Dead." Break out the hoop skirts and the zinfandel. The Divas are on the case. Wine. Chocolate. Transvestite strippers. Just another good-time get-together for the Dixie Divas of historic Holly Springs, Mississippi, where moonlight and magnolias mingle with delicious smalltown scandal.
But Eureka "Trinket" Truevine, the newest Diva, gets more than she bargained for when she finds her best Diva girlfriend Bitty Hollandale's ex-husband in Bitty's hall closet. He's dead. Very dead. Now Trinket and the Divas have to help Bitty finger the murderer and clear her name. Virginia Brown is the nationally acclaimed, award-winning author of fifty novels.

The Death Trip
by Marion Stein - 4.0 out of 5 stars - (6 customer reviews) - Text-to-Speech: Enabled
The Simulated Life Elapsed Process aka The Death Trip is touted as a pharmaceutical alternative to end of life pain and suffering -- a dream state that makes the user's last minutes feel like years spent living the perfect existence. But is this one-way ride really the paradise promised by Panacium Inc? The Death Trip "comfort care for the dying" or something more nefarious? Some say there's even a link to the newest party drug. After the death of his beloved grandmother, Chuck decides to investigate and soon finds himself torn between two women -- the activist who suspects a dark agenda and the beautiful MD who helped create the process.


Concrete Underground
by Moxie Mezcal - 5.0 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews) - Text-to-Speech: Enabled
An idealistic journalist sets out to expose corruption among the city's elite and soon finds himself immersed in a conspiracy of murder, blackmail, espionage, and human trafficking. Pitted against the enigmatic CEO of one of the world's largest tech companies, he must play a deadly game that threatens to unearth its players' darkest secrets. CONCRETE UNDERGROUND is postmodern pulp fiction - a gritty, labyrinthine murder mystery about identity and alienation in the digital age.


Boob Tube
by Mark Coker and Lesleyann Coker - Text-to-Speech: Enabled
Go behind the scenes of the daytime television soap opera industry with Boob Tube. Written by Lesleyann Coker (a former reporter for Soap Opera Weekly) and her husband Mark, the two interviewed dozens of soap opera industry insiders for their stories and then fictionalized everything here.


For Sale in Palm Springs (Henry Wright Mystery #1)
by Albert Simon Text-to-Speech: Enabled
Retired police chief Henry Wright is now living in Palm Springs and is asked by his friend Wayne Johnson, a detective in the Palm Springs Police department to help solve a crime. Henry has been living as somewhat of a recluse since his wife passed away, but tracking down this killer brings him back to life. Follow his adventures as he travels around the state to solve this mystery.


The DNA of Relationships

Sleeping Giant

The Blood That Bonds

China Silk Road Adventures (Silk Road Travel Series)

Shatter (The Children of Man)

Rogue Hunter: Gaia #1: Into the Abyss

Journey in the Great Depression

Arousing Love

Journey to Lhasa in Tibet (Silk Road Travel Series)

The Mudlark

Zombie Nights

Haven

Mauled

Space Opera and Planetary Romance Reader Guide (Blue Tyson's SF Guides)

The Hunt for Sunan

Syria and Jordan Adventures (Silk Road Travel Series)

Union of Renegades: The Rys Chronicles Book I

Be Vigilant: Daily Meditations for Advent

The Demon Queen and The Locksmith

Call of the Herald (The Dawning of Power)

Monster in the Mirror - With Bonus Short Story

When Do I See God?

Lord of the Trash

The First Completely Electronic Robot and Science Fiction Limerick Book

29 Jobs and a Million Lies

My Best Friends Have Hairy Legs

For Sale in Palm Springs (Henry Wright Mystery #1)

The Path of Dreams

Vampire Berserker

The Death Trip

Out From Edom: Book I of the Irredente Chronicles

The Chambliss Tapes

The Soul Catcher

Planet of Doom (from the E2E Universe series)

DEAR JOAN (Optimized For Wireless Readers)

Surviving the Fog

A Collection of Articles on Dating and Relationships

Anti-requiem: New Orleans Stories

Concrete Underground

A Very Hairy Adventure - A Kaynos History Tale (Kaynos History Tales)


First Light Chronicles Omnibus (Spinward Fringe)

The Weight of Blood (The Half-Orcs, Book 1)

A Man of Few Words

The Last Rakosh - a Repairmanjack tale (Repairman Jack)

The Tempest: A Guy of Gisborne Story

How to Write a Great Query Letter: Insider Tips and Techniques for Success

DEAD(ish)

THE GATEWAY (Harbinger of Doom Volume 1)

The Secrets of the Terracotta Warriors (Silk Road Travel Series)

Fire Dance

Rising (Dark Arts)

The Unsuspecting Mage (The Morcyth Saga Book One)


Click here for a complete listing of over 100 free promotional titles and links to millions of other free books for your Kindle.

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Outlander: with Bonus Content
by Diana Gabaldon
4.4 out of 5 stars - (1,672 customer reviews) - Kindle Price: $0.00 - Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
Doubleday Book Club main selection, Literary Guild alternate.


In Outlander, a 600-page time-travel romance, strong-willed and sensual Claire Randall leads a double life with a husband in one century, and a lover in another. Torn between fidelity and desire, she struggles to understand the pure intent of her heart. But don't let the number of pages and the Scottish dialect scare you. It's one of the fastest reads you'll have in your library. While on her second honeymoon in the British Isles, Claire touches a boulder that hurls her back in time to the forbidden Castle Leoch with the MacKenzie clan. Not understanding the forces that brought her there, she becomes ensnared in life-threatening situations with a Scots warrior named James Fraser. But it isn't all spies and drudgery that she must endure. For amid her new surroundings and the terrors she faces, she is lured into love and passion like she's never known before. I was lame and sore in every muscle when I woke next morning. I shuffled to the privy closet, then to the wash basin. My innards felt like churned butter. It felt as though I had been beaten with a blunt object, I reflected, then thought that that was very near the truth. The blunt object in question was visible as I came back to bed, looking now relatively harmless. Its possessor [Jamie] woke as I sat next to him, and examined me with something that looked very much like male smugness." Gabaldon creates characters that you'll remember, laugh with, cry with, and cheer for long after you've finished the book. --Candy Paape From Publishers Weekly

Absorbing and heartwarming, this first novel lavishly evokes the land and lore of Scotland, quickening both with realistic characters and a feisty, likable heroine. English nurse Claire Beauchamp Randall and husband Frank take a second honeymoon in the Scottish Highlands in 1945. When Claire walks through a cleft stone in an ancient henge, she's somehow transported to 1743. She encounters Frank's evil ancestor, British captain Jonathan "Black Jack" Randall, and is adopted by another clan. Claire nurses young soldier James Fraser, a gallant, merry redhead, and the two begin a romance, seeing each other through many perilous, swashbuckling adventures involving Black Jack. Scenes of the Highlanders' daily life blend poignant emotions with Scottish wit and humor. Eventually Sassenach (outlander) Claire finds a chance to return to 1945, and must choose between distant memories of Frank and her happy, uncomplicated existence with Jamie. Claire's resourcefulness and intelligent sensitivity make the love-conquers-all, happily-ever-after ending seem a just reward.

Click here to see a dozen other Kindle editions by Diana Gabaldon, most in the $6 to $8 range.

The New World is a story-length Kindle Exclusive prequel that sets the stage for the world you will discover in The Knife of Never Letting Go, The Ask and the Answer, and Monsters of Men, each of which is now available for pre-order at Kindle-appropriate prices in the Kindle Store. (Order them now and they will be delivered automatically to your Kindle or Kindle App on October 18, but between now and then you'll have plenty of time to read this free copy of the prequel, which runs 589 locations).


The New World
by Patrick Ness - Kindle Price: $0.00 - Text-to-Speech: Enabled

Kudos to indie publisher Candlewick Press in my neighboring town of Somerville for working with Amazon to nail the perfect Kindle-appropriate process of bringing out a new sci-fi/fantasy/YA series for Kindle readers!



Elvis and The Dearly Departed
by Peggy Webb
4.2 out of 5 stars (9 customer reviews) - Kindle Price: $0.00 Text-to-Speech: Enabled

They say you can't get to Heaven without passing through the Eternal Rest Funeral Home. And no one gets into Eternal Rest without passing muster with Elvis-the basset hound who's convinced he's the reincarnation of the King of Rock 'n' Roll. Brewing up a big ol' pitcher of Mississippi mystery, Peggy Webb's delightful new series is as intoxicating as the Delta breeze.




Raising Jake
by Charlie Carillo
4.5 out of 5 stars (79 customer reviews) - Kindle Price: $0.00 - Text-to-Speech: Enabled


The 7th Victim
by Alan Jacobson - Kindle Price: $0.00 - Text-to-Speech: Enabled

Jacobson's third novel (after False Accusations and The Hunted) has all the ingredients for a best-selling psychological thriller: strong female lead, multifaceted serial killer, compelling plot, and just enough secrets and surprises to keep the adrenaline racing. The hunt is on for the notorious Dead Eyes killer who is preying on young women. Karen Vail is a gritty yet vulnerable FBI profiler with a precarious personal life. As Vail and the task force pursue the serial killer, readers are drawn into the inner sanctum of a profiler while simultaneously privy to the killer's crazed thoughts. The murders rapidly escalate, and Vail's personal life is careening out of control, threatening to derail her investigation. When the killer strikes a seventh time, surprising revelations provide a shocking finale. The author's seven years of study with the FBI's profiling unit have helped him craft a riveting, authentically detailed thriller that will ensnare readers. Strongly recommended for all popular fiction collections.—Mary Todd Chesnut, Northern Kentucky Univ. Lib., Highland Heights

Velocity
by Alan Jacobson - Kindle Price: $0.00 - Text-to-Speech: Enabled
Pre-order FREE now and this title will be auto-delivered to your Kindle on October 5, 2010.

Michael Connelly, New York Times bestselling author: “From the first page Velocity is as relentless as a bullet. Karen Vail is my kind of hero and Alan Jacobson is my kind of writer!”

Supervisory Special Agent Michael Upchurch, Drug Enforcement Administration (ret): “Jacobson captures the complexity of the mission faced by DEA, the threat posed to our country, and the constant danger our agents face battling members of international drug trafficking organizations. As someone who devoted his career to carrying out that mission, I can say first-hand that Velocity hits the target. Jacobson’s acquired a new fan.”

Ridley Pearson, New York Times bestselling author: “Alan Jacobson writes with a firm hand, a strong voice, and fine eye for detail.”


Twelve Kindle-Compatible Math and Science Textbooks

Can you imagine a future when high school students can work on their tans, shoot baskets in the driveway, or chill on the sofa while their Kindles read their homework assignments to them?

That future is here, and here are 12 very useful and very free high school math and science textbooks to prove it. With innovative public high school administrators like Clearwater High School's Keith Mastorides buying Kindles by the thousands for their students, it is just a matter of time before we'll see textbook publishers jumping through hoops to provide Kindle editions of their texts. But these 12 free math and science ebooks with text-to-speech enabled are a great start, and they are well worth downloading and keeping in your Kindle archives for whenever you or someone younger in your family might need them. They're pretty good on the Kindle 2 or 3, fine on a Kindle DX, and especially user-friendly on an iPad, Mac, or PC.

(Once you buy just about any Kindle ebook, it's a snap to go to your Manage Your Kindle page and send the ebook to other registered devices to which you have downloaded free Kindle apps. See the screenshot above at the right.)


CK-12 21st Century Physics: A Compilation of Contemporary and Emerging Technologies

CK-12 People's Physics Book Version 2

CK-12 Advanced Probability and Statistics

CK-12 Algebra I

CK-12 Biology I - Honors

CK-12 Calculus

CK-12 Chemistry

CK-12 Earth Science

CK-12 Engineering: An Introduction for High School

CK-12 Geometry

CK-12 Life Science

CK-12 Trigonometry

Click here for a complete listing of over 100 free promotional titles and links to millions of other free books for your Kindle.

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