Saturday 30 March 2013

Orangeberry FreeMe #276

Orangeberry FreeMe #276

Orangeberry FreeMe

Saturday, 30 March 2013

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Genre - YA

Rating - PG13

4.0 (20 reviews)

Free until 1 April 2013

No one, except Durango.

Mars stinks.

IThe air reeks of burning fuel; the rivers and lakes seethe with sulfur. In the shadows, evil men plot terror and beasts hunt the innocent. Out on the barren crags of the terraformed planet, there is nowhere to hide. No one to heed a call for help.

What Is Stem? - Ponn Sabra & The Sabra Sisters

Amazon Kindle US

Amazon Kindle UK

Genre - Juvenile NonFiction

Rating - G

4.0 (4 reviews)

Free until 3 April 2013

STEM = Science, Technology, Engineering & Math.
Book 1 introduces the world's first STEM robots, also known as STEMBots: Emmy and Ott. They teach STEM to 4-12 year old children in fun rhymes, making these subjects easy to understand and enjoy. A full Glossary of terms is shared for a child's learning pleasure.
While targeting ages 4-12 years old, research shows that many teens have not mastered many of the concepts discussed in this book. So, kids young and old could learn from this quick colorful book as well.
Opening Poem
STEM is easy, you will see
Science and Technology
There is Engineering too
And, adding Math is nothing new.
Now, come meet Emmy and friend, Ott
They’re the world’s first STEMBots.
They love everything related to STEM
So, come along; and learn with them!

Are You My Mommy? - Janet Louis Stephenson

Amazon Kindle US

Amazon Kindle UK

Genre - Family Relationship, Adoption

Rating - PG13

4.8 (13 reviews)

Free until 1 April 2013

Two sisters passed around from family to family as toddlers, handled their situation in dramatically different ways. The older sister internalized the abandonment and rejection, while the younger sister eagerly embraced each new mother figure asking, "Are you my mommy?"

Thirty years after being adopted into a Forever Family, these sisters seek out their past. In the search to reconnect with their biological family, they easily locate and reunite with their birth father. Through this reunion, they start to learn of the difficult life their birth mother had lived, and might still be living.

Several clues point to Native American Heritage through their birth mother's family line. While intense curiosity drives them to know more of their ancestry, their desire to reunite with her is diminished by an uncertainty over whether she wants to be found or if she would rather leave the past behind her where she buried it over 30 years ago.

They seek answers to these questions:

  • Is their birth mother alive? 
  • How will the answer to this question affect them?
  • If found alive, will she accept or reject them? 
  • What secrets has she been guarding all these years?
  • Does she hold the keys to connect them to their tribal ancestry?
  • What will it take to heal the wounds for both mother and daughters?

The tale stretches beyond the exhaustive search for their mother, delving into complicated family relationships, spirituality, healing, and forgiveness.

Saving Jackie K - L.D.C. Fitzgerald

Amazon Kindle US

Amazon Kindle UK

Genre - Thriller

Rating - PG

4.1 (36 reviews)

Free until 1 April 2013

The First Lady in Danger?
Jump into the past to save her!
Enter an upside-down world where Soviet henchmen botched their mission to eliminate John F. Kennedy fifty years ago, slaying his wife Jackie instead. The unthinkable crime incites Americans and triggers an unending war with Russia.
In present day, as the two superpowers teeter on the brink of mutual destruction, a team of outlaws discovers a way to jump through time. The wisecracking felons decide to take matters into their own hands by traveling back to 1963 to save Jackie K. To fix the future, they must right the wrongs of the past.
But, their mission may go awry . . .

Hard Core Marketing - Scott Hoffman

Amazon Kindle US

Amazon Kindle UK

Genre - Business

Rating - PG

5 (2 reviews)

Free until 31 March 2013

If your small business is struggling or you are simply tired of mediocre results in your marketing and advertising, it's time to get Hard Core!!! With this simple small business marketing guide, you can cut through the noise and build the business you WANT!!!

Cookie Cutter Man - Elias Anderson

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Genre - Thriller

Rating - R

5 (2 reviews)

Free until 30 March 2013

You can take as much of a drug as you want, but eventually the drugs will take you.
For Daniel Rimms the score is about even. After a fit of cocaine-induced paranoia Daniel decides to get clean, only to slowly descend into a rabbit-hole of misery where he believes the government spies on American citizens through cameras in their televisions and cybernetic surveillance-pigeons.
Even as he is stalked by cloned government agents, Daniel is recruited by a small group of revolutionaries, intent on dragging the truth of these transgressions into the light.
As he slips deeper into the cause, Daniel’s girlfriend becomes increasingly concerned with his erratic behavior, the gaps in his memory, and the sporadic hallucinations from which he suffers.
Afraid of losing the only person he’s ever loved, Daniel struggles to determine if he's in the middle of a vast government conspiracy...or if it's all happening within his slowly crumbling mind.

Beyond The Mask - Laszlo & Hunter

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Genre - Romance, Erotica

Rating - X

4.2 (5 reviews)

Free until 30 March 2013

They say opposites attract, and that was certainly the case for Derek and Jade.
Derek has always been a loner, awkward and uncomfortable in a crowd.  Both dark and intense, he is imposing to say the least.  Just the way he likes it. 
Jade, on the other hand, is a social butterfly that thrives in public places.  Her soul comes alive with the night scene, where sweat mingles with music and lust fuels desire.
Somehow, against all odds, they managed to find one another in a world where nothing is
what it seems.  Separated by unforeseen circumstance, is their love powerful enough to bring them together again?

Simon Says - David Wineman

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Genre - Thriller

Rating - PG13

*New Release*

Free until 30 March 2013

The secretary to a leading Criminal Defense Barrister is found brutally murdered and her body dumped.
For Detective Inspector Jonny Jackson and his team, this is an apparently motiveless crime. The absence of tangible clues to the identity of the perpetrator as well as any credible suspects causes considerable concern to Jonny who fears for his future on the Force.
Simon is the cause and the motivator behind this crime. He does not commit the crime personally, preferring to manipulate another. He cares nothing for those who are hurt in the process. For Simon this is just a game.
A second murder throws the investigation into chaos and Simon's game continues to escalate as again and again evidence conflicts.
Jonny and his team struggle to identify the man responsible, but perhaps you can see what they have missed.

Strange & Terrible Times - R. Paul Tharp

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Genre - Humor

Rating - PG13

*New Release*

Free until 30 March 2013

Imagine the world portrayed through a severely unvarnished tale of drugs, alcohol, prostitutes, mobsters, motorcycle gangs, and a whole host of other curious beings. It is an honest portrayal of the fringe southerner, at his best and his worst, and is a sober tasting of the counter cultures that dwell on these gritty fringes. The types of people, which skid along this uneasy gamut, range from the kindest of the most honest and meek, on to the most depraved and callused among them. It is humorous, and even ludicrous, at times and tragic at others, but it is what it is, and I post no apologies for any of it.
This modest of works is the paltriest literary testing of Tennessee William’s boasts that “Nothing human disgusts”, all the while being a celebration of Walt Whitman’s fanciful claims of “Being large enough to contain multitudes”. Do you contain multitudes, dear hearts? Climb in, sit down, hold on and shut up!!!

The Alberta Connection - R. Clint Peters

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Amazon Kindle UK

Genre - Thriller

Rating - PG13

4.5 (13 reviews)

Free until 30 March 2013

As a child, all Ryce Dalton wanted to be was an Army Ranger.

Conquering his dream, it was only 16 years later that he was forced into early retirement due to an injury.

Sworn to defend his country, putting his combat and intelligence skills back to work, he has joined the Joint Border Task Force.

Four laptops have been stolen from the Pentagon, containing critical data that could put us all in danger. Can Ryce keep those secrets from reaching the enemies of America?

Sunshine in Darkness - Beth Winokur

Amazon Kindle US

Amazon Kindle UK

Genre - Horror

Rating - PG13

5 (11 reviews)

Free until 30 March 2013

A dark, demon-like creature has possessed Sunshine’s body since the day she was born. For seventeen years she has watched from the outside as the Intruder has slowly wrecked her life.
Risking it all, in an attempt to reclaim her body, Sunshine is sent to a mental institution where Intruders abound. In a constant struggle to learn who she is, Sunshine must take charge of her life while battling the Intruders.
Can she do it and maintain her sanity?

The Dark Rider - Andrew Critchell

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Genre - Epic Fantasy

Rating - PG13

*New Release*

Free until 30 March 2013

A Key that was lost has been found... Dark powers long forgotten are reawakening...
Wishing to escape a reality where she hates her job, her relationships are failing, and trouble and stress choke the fun out of everything, 23 year old Nicola Cook thinks things can't get any worse. That is, until she begins to have disturbing visions. Now things have begun to spiral out of control as Nicola discovers she has fallen into the middle of a centuries old battle.
Paul's aunt just died, but before her last breath she promised him a destiny straight out of a fantasy novel. It would have been easy to overlook until he met the girl he had been dreaming of for months. She was real, a living, breathing person, and he had to have her. Then she is taken from him again and he is forced to realize the truth of his destiny. Life and death reside in his hands and it is up to him to decide who will live and die.

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A Favorite Son - Uvi Poznansky

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Genre - Historical Fantasy

Rating - PG13

4.9 (13 reviews)

Free until 30 March 2013

This story is a present-day twist on the biblical story of Jacob and his mother Rebecca plotting together against the elderly father Isaac, who is lying on his deathbed, in order to get their hands on the inheritance, and on the power in the family. This is no old fairy tale. Its power is here and now, in each one of us.

Listening to Yankle telling his take on events, we understand the bitter rivalry between him and his brother. We become intimately engaged with every detail of the plot, and every shade of emotion in these flawed, yet fascinating characters. He yearns to become his father's favorite son, seeing only one way open to him, to get that which he wants: deceit.

"What if my father would touch me," asks Yankle. In planning his deception, it is not love for his father, nor respect for his age that drives his hesitation--rather, it is the fear to be found out. And so--covering his arm with the hide of a kid, pretending to be that which he is not--he is now ready for the last moment he is going to have with his father.

The Path To The Sun - Kimberli Bindschatel

Amazon Kindle US

Amazon Kindle UK

Genre - YA, Adventure

Rating - PG13

4.9 (20 reviews)

Free until 31 March 2013

You do not question The Way.
Every Toran knows this, even Kiran, a lowly orphan. But at age sixteen, no matter how hard he tries, he’s still tormented by doubt.
When his village suffers a drought, Kiran and six other youths embark on a quest into the Land Unknown, where demon Mawghuls lurk in every dark corner. Across tornado-ridden flatlands, through a canyon of raging whitewater, and into a steamy jungle, with only an ancient scroll to guide them, they evade an entrancing witch, escape a seductive cult, and outrun bloodthirsty headhunters. But when they are captured by slave traders, and one of their own makes the ultimate sacrifice to free the others, their journey turns into a fight for survival.
Lost and facing starvation, Kiran must use all the skills he’s learned from the natives to survive. If he is to save the village, he must trust his own judgment to find
The Path to the Sun.

Genesis - T. Sae-Low

Amazon Kindle US

Amazon Kindle UK

Genre - Fantasy, YA

Rating - PG

4.7 (7 reviews)

Free until 31 March 2013

As rumors swirl across the war torn lands of Eos of a possible Candidate—the long prophesied savior of peace— young Raden Nite finds himself unexpectedly chosen to discover the truth to these rumors. Raden’s top-secret mission will send him and his closest friends on a heart-pounding adventure through the mysterious Voras Mountains, the impenetrable fortress of Sargatum, and deep into strange new lands where dangerous enemies await.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the Disputed Lands, Prince Aric sits third in line to the crown of Vicedonia. Seeking to escape the overwhelming shadow of his elder brother, and to prove to his father, the king, that he is indeed a worthy successor, Aric embarks on a path into the darkest corners of Eos. On his journey, he will encounter the sinister magic of the Dark Forest, the epic battlegrounds of Lake Raphia, and discover the harsh realities of what it truly means to be king.
In the first book of the Prophecy Rock Series, fates will collide in this epic tale of action, loyalty, and love, where the ultimate meaning of true sacrifice will be discovered.

The Legend of Devil’s Creek - Anonymous A

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Amazon Kindle UK

Genre - Mystery

Rating - R

4.3 (48 reviews)

Free until 30 March 2013

When a mutilated corpse is found bound to a tree deep in the forest of remote Aubrey Island, Washington, residents learn that the murder mirrors, in every ritualistic detail, a series of revenge killings described in a century-old local ghost story. More abductions and killings soon follow.
Justin Riddley, recently transferred to the island’s small college, faces growing evidence that one of his new friends and fellow students may be the murderer. John Marshall, redemption-seeking captain of the local police force, leads the frantic murder investigation and struggles to figure out whether the killings are tied to the island's dark and violent past. Tormented by tragic wartime memories, and more convinced with each day that it is humanity’s fate to destroy itself, Marshall races against both the murderer and the specter of his own mental breakdown.
As blood continues to spill, Riddley and Marshall wonder whether there may be a dark, universal force that drives evil deeds great and small, and whether the nature of one’s childhood might sometimes, in the end, be all that separates the saint from the psychopath.

Quest for the Lost Treasure - Gerry Gaston

Amazon Kindle US

Amazon Kindle UK

Genre - Children

Rating - G

4.2 (48 reviews)

Free until 1 April 2013

Your epic journey begins when a band of Pirates raid your village and you set out to track down the thieving pirates and recover the lost gold and jewels. The unique interactive format allows you to control the progress of the story, as it is being told! Will you dare to explore what's behind the closed door, or play it safe and escape up the stairway?

A Call to Magic - Mitch Williams

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Genre - Self Help, Advice

Rating - G

4.9 (7 reviews)

Free until 1 April 2013

Personal Transformation Help: A Call to Magic - the Artful Science of Transforming Self and World.
In the world of self-help and personal transformation, "magic" has become a wildly popular term. Best selling authors such as Wayne Dyer and Deepak Chopra and such popular books as The Secret, The Magic of Thinking Big, and The Magic of Believing have all used magic as major themes for self-transformation.
Does it take a magician to change ourselves and our world? Perhaps. In this book you'll get a fresh perspective on bringing real magic into your life--from a real life magician.
As an international award winning professional magician, Mitch Williams understands the power of transforming our perceptions of the world we see. As a long-time, avid student and authority on creativity, peak performance, and personal transformation, he has keen insights into how to apply this shift in perceptions to attain more success, fulfillment, and peace of mind in every aspect of our everyday lives.
Mitch Williams invites us to answer the "Call to Magic" in this book filled with practical suggestions on how to radically alter our perspective on life and the world around us and live a life of true magic and inspiration. We can even transform the world by changing our own approach to it. Williams shares his clarity of thought, his simple but potent and profoundly practical approach to the Artful Science of Transforming Self and World.

Orphan of the Olive Tree - Mirella Sichirollo Patzer

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Genre - Historical Fiction

Rating - PG13

4.7 (24 reviews)

Free until 31 March 2013

A blood oath, a dreadful curse, and the evil eye. A dark family secret that will shatter lives and the woman who must risk everything to keep it buried.
From two neighbouring villas in the heart of the Tuscan countryside to the elegance of Siena; from a world steeped in ancient superstitions to a culture where family honour is paramount comes, this multi-layered novel of the lives, loves, secrets and strivings of two women and their families in the 13th century.
A blood oath to wed their first born children binds the Benevento and Ventura families. When Prudenza Benevento learns her nemesis, Felicia Ventura, is pregnant, she is jealous and secretly casts the curse of the evil eye upon her. Felicia gives birth to twin boys. Jealous, Prudenza visciously resurrects an ancient superstition that unidentical twins can only come from different fathers. The scandal tears apart Felicia’s marriage and makes her an outcast in the small Italian village where they live.
Fate intervenes, and when Prudenza gives birth to twin daughters, she is desperate to save herself from the same scandal that ruined Felicia. She orders the midwife to take one daughter away. With only a gold ring and a brocade blanket as clues to the infant’s past, the midwife leaves the child and the items in an olive tree in front of a small convent. The nuns lovingly name the child Olivia and raise her.
Years later, in a shocking encounter, Olivia meets a young man named Luca. When an act of God nearly kills her, it is Luca who comes to her rescue. Soon, their love for each cannot be denied. When she finds herself with child, Luca offers to care for her and the child, but cannot wed her because he is already betrothed. Despite her misgivings, her love for Luca proves strong and Olivia places her faith in him and follows him to his new villa and a new life. Luca makes numerous unsuccessful attempts to avoid his forthcoming marriage and marry Olivia instead, but the blood oath and Church laws make it impossible. As the date of Luca’s wedding draws near, and the secrets of Olivia’s secret past begin to surface, long buried secrets are exposed in a twist of fate no family member can anticipate.

Life in the Gumball Machine - Maureen Bartone

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Amazon Kindle UK

Genre - Children

Rating - G

4.7 (26 reviews)

Free until 31 March 2013

How can anyone get sucked up and into a gumball machine? Impossible? Not if you find a magic gumball machine! Life in the Gumball Machine is a chapter book for new readers. It’s a story of great fun and adventure when three friends, Daisy, Patrick, and Michael, find an abandoned gumball machine – a big one, almost as tall as they are - hidden in an old shed. After simply touching it, they magically shrink in size, and a strong force of freezing wind sucks them up the swirling tunnel and into the gumball machine. They land in a world with purple grass, a pink sky, and gumball trees. The latch is locked, and there is no escape! When they start searching for another way out, they encounter a variety of gumball people, each one a different color from the next. Their new gumball friends take the children on the adventure of a lifetime – including a slide that takes them down Pudding Hill!

Dead But Not For Long - Matthew Kinney & Lesa Kinney Andres

Amazon Kindle US

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Genre - Horror Dystopia

Rating - R

4.2 (62 reviews)

Free until 30 March 2013

When the first outbreaks occurred, the reports were quickly stifled. By the time the dead began to walk in Lansing, Michigan, it was already too late to stop the plague.
In the heart of the city, a child with cancer and her caretaker risk their lives to help a security guard and a nurse secure an old hospital.
As the survivors struggle to stay alive, the grid begins to fail.
All the while, the dead fight to get inside.

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Books Sold - 6 Nov 2011 to 31 May 2012

Some of you have asked me for my total number of books sold to evaluate KDP Select so here it is. Bear in mind, that results will vary based on genre and author. Good luck and remember, Keep Moving Forward.

Total - 120,836

1. Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out
Amazon Kindle - 42,559
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2. Frequent Traveller
Amazon Kindle - 35277
Paperback -
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3. Dora's Essentials - Books, Blogs & Smiles 1
Amazon Kindle - 462
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4. Mirror Me Martha (Short Story)
Amazon Kindle - 281
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5. Drive On Hope (Short Story)
Amazon Kindle - 190
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6. Blog-A-Licious Directory 2012
Amazon Kindle - 1
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7. Pandora's Reading Room 1
Amazon Kindle -
Paperback - N/A

8. The Cat That Barked (Short Story)
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9. Dora's Essentials - Examining Anxiety
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10. Dora's Essentials - Books, Blogs & Smiles 2
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11. Elevenses from Around the World
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12. Genetically Modified Foods vs. Sustainability
Amazon Kindle -

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My Soul Slippers

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Blog-A-Licious - Pretty All True

Pretty All True

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Blog-A-Licious - The Invisible Art

Blog-A-Licious - Rediscovering Domesticity

Rediscovering Domesticity

Blog-A-Licious - Quiver Full

Blog-A-Licious - Cori's Big Mouth

Blog-A-Licious - Great Fun

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Blog-A-Licious - Busy Wife

Blog-A-Licious - Steps To Happiness

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Blog-A-Licious - Toby & Max


Blog-A-Licious - Amelie

Raising Amelie

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Blog-A-Licious - Riley

Blognostics - Poetry

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