Archive for May 2012
Today’s Kindle Daily Deal — Thursday, May 17 – Two Great Reads for 99 Cents each — Save 90% on Pascal Marco’s Tale of Terror, IDENTITY: LOST, plus … Don’t miss Lawrence Kelter’s SEASON OF FAITH (Today’s Sponsor)
But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor
SEASON OF FAITH
Here’s the set-up:
This is the story of Josh and Rocky, two young teens from entirely different worlds, who collide in the heat of a New York summer.
A naïve boy from California, Josh comes to New York to visit his Uncle Jake, a sentimental elder whose eccentricities are only exceeded by his warmth and passion for life.
Rocky is the beautiful daughter of a rabbi from Brooklyn, whose one dying wish is to understand what it means to be a complete woman before she runs out of time.
With seemingly little in common, the two young friends quickly find that they are incomplete without each other and that the span of a brief summer is all time they may ever have. It is with this realization in mind that they are able to embrace hope in the face of a tragedy few relationships could endure.
and now … Today’s Kindle Daily Deal!
Kindle Daily Deal: Identity: Lost In Chicago, 1975, young James Overstreet testified against a group of youths accused of murder, but authorities botched the case and James’s family is sent into hiding in Arizona. Thirty years later, James is working as a prosecutor when his dangerous Windy-City past reappears to turn his life upside down.
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Today’s Kindle Daily Deal — Wednesday, May 16 – Two Great Reads for under $3 — Save 60% on Jennifer Handford’s Heartfelt Debut DAUGHTERS FOR A TIME, plus … Don’t miss J. H. Bográn’s THE ASSASSIN’S MISTRESS (Today’s Sponsor)
But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor
The Assassin’s Mistress
Here’s the set-up:
A random encounter leads to deception, love and murder. While vacationing at a ski resort, professional hitman Robert Prescott meets a strange and beautiful woman.
They discover passion and embark into a dangerous game hiding their relationship from her powerful husband. Then a further twist of fate makes Robert’s occupation collide with his new found love.
From the reviewers:
He enjoyed his Gold Label scotch served neat … and his victims dead. “Take my hand if you want to live!” J. H. Bográn’s well-crafted crime thriller takes you where you’d never want to go. Highly recommended for a chilling few moments of your reading life. –Bonnie Turner, author of Face the Winter Naked
“José Bográn’s short story THE ASSASSIN’S MISTRESS is an unusual, gripping and surprisingly fun ride on a killer roller coaster.” –Lauren Baratz-Logsted, author of The Bro-Magnet
and now … Today’s Kindle Daily Deal!
Kindle Daily Deal: Daughters for a Time Jennifer Handford’s heartfelt debut explores the ties that bind us and the lasting pain of childhood loss. The novel follows Helen Francis as she longs for a family to heal a heart broken by her mother’s death, her father’s abandonment, and the terrible illness of the sister who raised her.
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Today’s Kindle Daily Deal — Tuesday, May 15 – Two Great Reads for under $3 — Save 80% on Ethan Rarick’s Even-Handed Book About the Donner Party, Desperate Passage, plus … Don’t miss Mark Tufo’s ZOMBIE FALLOUT (Today’s Sponsor)
But first, a word from … Today’s Sponsor
Zombie Fallout
Here’s the set-up:
Late Fall – 2010
Reuters – Estimates say that nearly three thousand people nationwide, and fifteen thousand people worldwide have died of the H1N1 virus or Swine flu and nearly eighty thousand cases have been confirmed in hospitals and clinics across the United States and the world, the World Heath Organization reported. The influenza pandemic of 2010, while not nearly as prolific as the one that raged in 1918 still has citizens around the world in a near state of panic.
New York Post (Headlines October 31st) – Beware! Children Carry Germs! – Halloween Canceled!
New York Times – (Headlines November 3rd) – Swine flu claims latest victim – Vice President surrounded by family and friends at the end.
Boston Globe – (Headlines November 28th) – Swine Flu Vaccinations Coming!
Boston Herald – (Headlines December 6th) – Shots in Short Supply – Lines Long!
National Enquirer – (Headlines December 7th) – The Dead Walk!
There would be no more headlines.
It started in a lab at the CDC (Center for Disease Control), virologists were so relieved to finally have an effective vaccination against the virulent swine flu. Pressure to come up with something had come from the highest office in the land. In an attempt at speed the virologists had made two mistakes, first they used a live virus and second they didn’t properly test for side effects.
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Within days hundreds of thousands of vaccinations shipped across the US and the world. People lined up for the shots, like they were waiting in line for concert tickets. Fights broke out in drugstores as fearful throngs tried their best to get one of the limited shots. Within days the CDC knew something was wrong. Between 4 and 7 hours of receiving the shot roughly 95% succumbed to the active H1N1 virus in the vaccination. More unfortunate than the death of the infected was the added side effect of reanimation, it would be a decade before scientists were able to ascertain how that happened.
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The panic that followed couldn’t be measured. Loved ones did what loved ones always do, they tried to comfort, their kids or their spouses or their siblings, but what came back was not human not even remotely. Those people that survived their first encounter with these monstrosities usually did not come through unscathed, if bitten they had fewer than 6 hours of humanity left, the clock was ticking. During the first few hysteria ridden days of The Coming as it has become known, many thought the virus was airborne, luckily that was not the case or nobody would have survived. It was a dark time in human history. One from which we may never be able to pull ourselves out of the ashes from.
and now … Today’s Kindle Daily Deal!
Kindle Daily Deal: Desperate Passage
Ethan Rarick offers an intimate and even-handed portrait of the Donner party’s unimaginable ordeal. His novel-like narrative history draws on fresh archaeological evidence, recent research on topics ranging from survival rates to snowfall totals, and heartbreaking letters and diaries made public by descendants more than 150 years after the tragedy.
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