Thursday, April 25, 2013

Happy Arbor Day! EBook Celebration

Calling all eBook readers! Today is Arbor Day, and because trees are cool, several authors and I have discounted our eBooks with references to trees! I've read many of the following, and am excited to present them to you. Please feel free to share this post with your friends and family! Some of these authors are bestselling, and you won't find prices like these again for quite some time. :-)

I've highlighted the genre to make it easier to find the ones you're most interested in.

Happy reading!

The Hidden Sun

Author: J. Lloyd Morgan
Original and discounted price: From $0.99 to FREE
Number of days discounted: Five
Genre and target audience: Medieval Fiction, Young Adult / Adult
Book rating: PG
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Book description:

A faraway kingdom. A beautiful princess. A courageous hero. A ruthless villain. An impossible choice. The kingdom of Bariwon is at a crossroads. A new leader threatens to take control of the throne which could throw the land into chaos. “The Hidden Sun” is an epic tale of courage, heartbreak, battles and redemption.







The Reluctant Bachelorette

Author: Rachael Anderson
Original and discounted price: From $3.99 to $0.99
Number of days discounted: Three
Genre and target audience: YA/Adults - anyone who likes clean romantic comedies
Book rating: PG
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Book description:

Unknowingly cast as the bachelorette for her town’s charity event, Taycee Emerson wants out. Especially when she discovers her old teenage crush, Luke Carney, is one of the bachelors and it's up to the viewers--not her--to decide which bachelors stay or go.

Coerced into participating, Taycee does what any self-preserving girl would do. She launches a subtle attack on Luke’s good name with the hope of getting him voted off the show. Unfortunately, Luke's an eye-for-an-eye kind of guy, and when he discovers what she's up to, it means revenge.



The Key of Kilenya, Special Edition, Complete with Illustrations

Author: Andrea Pearson
Original and discounted price: $3.99 to $0.99
Number of days discounted: Five
Coupon code for Smashwords: BZ64Q
Genre and target audience: Middle Grade/Young Adult Fantasy
Book rating: PG
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Book description:

We all have choices--but we can't choose the consequences.

Jacob Clark is chased down a path that takes him to another world--a world where he is a wanted young man. The Lorkon want to control him and the special powers he possesses. The people of the new world want him to save them from the destruction of the Lorkon. All Jacob wants is to go home, but even that choice has consequences. He doesn't know what to do and if he waits too long the new world and the one he came from will be destroyed. As Jacob finds people he can trust, he discovers himself in the center of the fight for freedom--both for himself and the people he's come to know.

Jacob has no idea where the path he chooses will take him, but once the choice has been made--bring on the consequences.


The Ember Gods, Kilenya Series Book Two

Author: Andrea Pearson
Original and discounted price: $3.99 to FREE
Number of days discounted: Five
Genre and target audience: Middle Grade/Young Adult Fantasy
Book rating: PG
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Book description:

Jacob Clark has just returned from the world of Eklaron, where he frustrated the evil plans of the Lorkon and returned the magical Key of Kilenya to its rightful owners. His quest is far from over, though--Aloren is trapped in Maivoryl City by the Ember Gods, and Jacob can't return to save her until he receives the potion that will protect his team from the corrosive influence of the Lorkon.

Balancing between this new world and his own proves tricky. Not only has he started his first year of high school, but his magical abilities are bringing him too much attention. He feels pulled by both sides, hoping he'll figure out his special powers to save Aloren in time.


August Fortress, Kilenya Series Book Three

Author: Andrea Pearson
Original and discounted price: $3.99 to $1.99
Number of days discounted: Five
Coupon code for Smashwords: LN29X
Genre and target audience: Middle Grade/Young Adult Fantasy
Book rating: PG
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Book description:

Jacob Clark and his friends must rescue the powerful Shiengols from August Fortress where they’ve been held captive for nearly fifteen years. But deadly Lorkon traps are everywhere and affect all involved—even Jacob. To succeed, he’ll have to master more of his powers and put aside distractions from his ordinary life.






Rise of Keitus, Kilenya Series Book Four

Author: Andrea Pearson
Original and discounted price: From $3.99 to $1.99
Number of days discounted: Five
Coupon code for Smashwords: KM58Y
Genre and target audience: Middle Grade/Young Adult Fantasy
Book rating: PG
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Book description:

Jacob Clark's fantasy adventure has reached its most dangerous phase yet. A swarm of blood-ridden insects overwhelms Taga Village—threatening the existence of the Makalos—and the secret regarding Akeno’s strengths is about to be revealed. Not only that, but Jacob’s newly honed abilities allow him to discover the origin of the evil Lorkon. But finding out may be his deadliest mission yet.

Join Jacob and his friends in this fourth installment in the Kilenya Series as they strive to prevent the Lorkon disease from destroying Eklaron and Earth.



This Time Forever

Author: Rachel Ann Nunes
Original and discounted price: From $6.99 to $0.99
Number of days discounted: April 26 and 27
Genre and target audience: Contemporary romance, adult
Book rating: PG
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Book description:

Mickelle Hansen never realized marriage could be so challenging. Her husband's epilepsy has caused him to become cynical and verbally abusive, but with love in her heart and strength from her Heavenly Father, Mickelle is determined to make her marriage work. Then the worst happens. Can she ever pick up the shattered pieces of her life?

Meanwhile, Rebekka Massoni arrives in America to work for handsome widower Damon Wolfe, leaving all her hopes and dreams back in her beloved France. She has loved and idolized Marc Perrault since she was five years old, but he can offer only her friendship in return.

Can Rebekka forget Marc and learn to love another man? Both Damon and Samuel Bjornenburg, successful CEO of Corban International, hope to win a place in her heart, but Damon's daughter doesn't like Rebekka, and Samuel doesn't share her faith. To make matters worse, Rebekka's heart is still breaking over Marc. Suddenly she must make the most important decision of her entire life. Will it be the right one?

Join Mickelle and Rebekka as they search for love and self-discovery. This tender story of heartbreak, healing, and faith is one you will not soon forget.


Gone (Parallel Series, Book 1)


Author: Christine Kersey
Original and discounted price: From $3.99 to FREE
Number of days discounted: Several
Genre and target audience: Young Adult Dystopian
Book rating: G
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Book description:

Sixteen-year-old Morgan Campbell runs away from home and when she returns the next day her family is missing and another family is living in her house. As Morgan works to figure out what has happened, she finds society has become obsessed with weight in a way she has never seen before. She begins to wonder if she has somehow ended up in another world—a world she doesn't want to be a part of.






Rising Book 1: Resistance (Book 1 of 2)

Author: Laura Josephsen
Original and discounted price: From $4.99 to $0.99
Number of days discounted: Through April 30
Coupon code for Smashwords: BY64B
Genre and target audience: Adult Fantasy
Book rating: PG13
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Book description:

All Alphonse wants is a quiet summer at home before his final months at university. What he gets is a half-dead stranger on his doorstep and the task of delivering a package to the leader of his home country. Not long after he boards a train toward the capital, he's attacked by knights, elite soldiers of the neighboring king.

Alphonse is temporarily rescued by Mairwyn, a mechanic with a haunted past and a deep hatred of knights. Together, they attempt to carry out Alphonse's urgent errand, only to learn that if they fail, countless people will die.

And even if they succeed, they may not be able to prevent the war that lurks on the horizon.

(Book 1 of 2)


Fire and Earth

Author: Meredith Mansfield
Original and discounted price: From $2.99 to $1.50
Discounted until May 16th
Coupon code for Smashwords: ER56M
Genre and target audience: Young Adult Fantasy
Book rating: G
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Book description:

Seventeen-year-old Casora has been raised to be a fearless warrior, commander of the faceless war band known as the Deathless. Nevertheless, she and her company are helpless to stop the invasion of their homeland. Without a country, the Deathless offer their services as mercenaries to the next land attacked by the same raiders who conquered their nation.

As the youngest prince and the one least likely to be of use in the war, Tiaran is about to be forced into a political marriage to a girl he hates. Rather than be used to secure the loyalty of an opportunistic general, he secretly goes off to fight in the war himself. His first battle is about to be his last when Casora rides in to rescue him. When these two unlikely partners join forces on the battlefield, they'll shake the foundations of kingdoms.



Blood Will Tell

Author: Meredith Mansfield
Original and discounted price: From $2.99 to $1.50
Number of days discounted: Through May 16
Coupon code for Smashwords: CK77P
Genre and target audience: Paranormal Romance
Book rating: PG
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Book description:

Being a half-blood is inconvenient on a good day, especially when the half you got from your mother is werewolf.  Valeriah can’t take wolf form, but the full moon still fills her with manic energy.  Running helps; a tired werewolf is a good werewolf.

Living perennially caught between two worlds--human and werewolf, magic and non-magic--doesn't leave much room for love. That suits Valeriah just fine. She's never had any luck with that anyway.

Until her cousin’s life is threatened, that is, and out of necessity she accepts the help of a mysterious young man to protect Cristel. Rolf is everything that makes Valeriah's pulse speed up in spite of herself. Now, with Cristel's life in the balance, is the worst possible time for that kind of complication.

But Rolf's secrets could destroy her trust and that might cost her life.


Nexus Point

Author: Jaleta Clegg
Original and discounted price: From $2.99 to FREE
Number of days discounted: Several
Coupon code for Smashwords: AA47G
Genre and target audience: Young Adult/Middle Grade Science Fiction
Book rating: PG
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Book description:

Stranded on a primitive world, betrayed by her crew, hunted by drug smugglers, facing death at the hands of the natives, Captain Dace has one hope of rescue - convince the Patrol agent currently trying to kill her that she's innocent.






Hansel and Gretel

Author: Jenni James
Original and discounted price: From $2.99 to $1.99
Number of days discounted: April 26 and 27
Genre and target audience: Clean Middle Grade Fantasy
Book rating: G/PG
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Book description:

A hidden princess and the boy who saves her life—

Hansel's father finds a child lost and alone during a violent thunderstorm. After bringing her in from the tempest, he and his son are startled to discover that she is Gretel, a princess of Larkein--the enemy kingdom their own king has just destroyed. Fearful for her life, Hansel pleads with his father to save her. He believes they can make Gretel good by teaching her their ways. His kindhearted father agrees, but with great trepidation.

Ten years later, Gretel has grown into a lovely young woman who both infuriates and drives Hansel to distraction while he attempts to not lose his heart to her. When the Larkein witch comes back in the guise of a beautiful woman and marries their father, everything is set into a tailspin. Now they must figure out their new stepmother's plans and prevent her from destroying them all before it is too late.


The Change (Unbounded Book #1)

Author: Teyla Branton
Original and discounted price: From $4.99 to $3.99
Number of days discounted: Five
Genre and target audience: Contemporary Urban Fantasy, adult
Book rating: PG13
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Book description:

There are only two ways to kill Unbounded, and fire isn’t one of them—as law school dropout Erin Radkey learns the hard way. By fluke of a recessive gene, she has become Unbounded, a nearly immortal being with paranormal abilities.

Erin’s Change separates her from her loved ones and alters everything she believes to be true. A week earlier she was considering a marriage proposal; now she contemplates the best way to stay alive. Caught in a battle between two Unbounded groups, the Emporium and the Renegades, she is also hunted by a secret mortal society sworn to eradicate the Unbounded gene.

As Erin plunges into this dangerous new life, she must carve out her own place in the madness, protect her mortal family, and decide which group she should join. Her unique ability is vital to both groups and some will stop at nothing to use Erin as one more pawn in a battle that has spanned centuries. Erin’s undeniable attraction to Ritter Langton, whose family was massacred by opposing Unbounded two hundred and forty years ago, complicates her choices.

There are no second chances. Death, life, or love—Unbounded always play for keeps.

Non-stop action, terrifying consequences, and powerful romance make The Change an exciting addition to the world of romantic urban fantasy.


The Cure (Unbounded Book 2)

Author: Teyla Branton
Original and discounted price: From $4.99 to $3.99
Number of days discounted: Five
Genre and target audience: Contemporary Urban Fantasy, adult
Book rating: PG13
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Book description:

Erin Radkey’s life has altered completely since her Change made her one of the Unbounded. But some things never change.

Greed. Over the centuries the long-lived Unbounded have divided into two groups, one who will do anything to achieve its goal of controlling the world, and the other who protects humanity.

Power. Now Erin and her friends are close to discovering a cure that will save many dying mortals, but their enemies will stop at nothing to destroy it—until they realize the research might be exactly the weapon they’ve been searching for.

Love. Erin’s new abilities are tested as she and her friends fight in a battle that soon becomes all too personal, and where lines of loyalty are blurred by relationships of the past. Everything is at risk, including the lives of her friends—and the love of Ritter Langton, the Renegade Unbounded who both infuriates and excites her.

From the busy streets of Portland to the jungles of Mexico, The Cure is a page-turning urban fantasy that will keep you riveted until the end.


Unbounded Series Books 1 and 2 (The Change and The Cure)

Author: Teyla Branton
Original and discounted price: From $7.99 to $5.99
Number of days discounted: Five
Genre and target audience: Contemporary Urban Fantasy, adult
Book rating: PG13
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Book description:

For description, please see the two eBooks listed above.










Heroes of the Highest Order Book Bundle 1-3


Author: R.K. Hinrichsen
Original and discounted price: From $9.99 to $6.99
Number of days discounted: April 26 through 27
Coupon code for Smashwords: TW27H
Genre and target audience: Chapter books for children ages six through nine
Book rating: G
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Book description:

Book 1: The dark enemy never rests. But neither do the Heroes of the Highest Order. So when a magical tree swing whisks Dan and Page into the Hidden Kingdom, a skinny giant quickly registers them for hero training camp. There, they learn they must gain skills and earn powerful treasures by travelling back in time and walking in the footsteps of a real pioneer hero.

Book 2: Dan and Page search the catacombs in Italy, race through the streets of India, and follow in the footsteps of Mother Teresa in order to rescue their grandfather from the Prison of the Shadows.

Book 3: Tadeusz Pankiewicz, a real-life hero, helps Dan and Page rescue two children from the Nazis in World War II Poland.


The Secret Sister’s Club: A Ginnie West Adventure

Author: Monique Bucheger
Original and discounted price: From $2.99 to $1.99
Number of days discounted: From April 26 through April 30
Genre and target audience: Middle-Grade Contemporary Family Drama
Book rating: G
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Book description:

Twelve-year-old BFF’s Ginnie and Tillie, want to be sisters. Tillie's divorced mom plus Ginnie's widowed dad could equal a lifetime of round-the-clock girl talk and slumber parties. Too bad Dad vowed to never marry again. Ginnie and Tillie form a secret club and come up with the perfect mission to change his mind: ‘Operation Secret Sisters’.

Before long, Tillie seems happier about gaining a dad than a sister. Ginnie suspects that Tillie has turned ‘Operation Secret Sisters’ into a scam called ‘Operation Steal My Dad.’ Things get more complicated when Ginnie stumbles across her real mom’s hidden journals. Ginnie can finally get to know the mother she doesn’t remember and Dad doesn’t talk about.

When Dad discovers she has the journals, he takes them away. Ginnie needs to figure out what the big mystery is before her relationship with her father and her best friend are ruined forever.


Trouble Blows West: A Ginnie West Adventure

Author: Monique Bucheger
Original and discounted price: $3.99 to $2.99
Number of days discounted: Five
Genre and target audience: Middle Grade Contemporary Slice of Life
Book rating: G
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Book description:

Putting her body in motion before her brain is in gear creates a mountain of problems for 12 year-old Ginnie West. She is certain that defending her twin brother, Toran, from the biggest bully in sixth grade was the right thing to do. But Ginnie couldn’t be more wrong.

She quickly figures out that Toran doesn’t appreciate being rescued by a girl any better than Charlie likes being knocked down by one. When Charlie seeks revenge on Ginnie, Toran sets aside his anger and helps her plot a playback prank at Charlie’s house.

Sadly, Ginnie learns that Charlie has a reason for being a bully when she sees his dad drop him to the floor like a ragdoll with one awful blow to the chest. Realizing he's a boy in big trouble, Ginnie switches gears and decides to be his ally, even if he won’t let her be his friend.


Simply West of Heaven: A Ginnie West Adventure

Author: Monique Bucheger
Original and discounted price: From $3.99 to $2.99
Number of days discounted: Five
Genre and target audience: Middle Grade Contemporary Slice of Life
Book rating: G
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Book description:

 Twelve-year-old BFFs schemed to get Ginnie’s widowed dad to fall in love with Tillie’s divorced mom. When their parents go along with the matchmaking, the girls are stoked. Sweet! Not long after though, Ginnie stumbles upon her late mom's journals, making life even more awesome sauce … until her dad confiscates the journals, determined to protect Ginnie from a danger he won’t name.
      
Ginnie is counting on her future sister's help to make Dad change his mind, but Tillie's not so sure the ghost of Ginnie's mom will make a good addition to their new family tree.  Besides, Tillie is too busy trying to keep the memory of her abusive, no-good , rotten-excuse-for-a-birth-father from bubbling to the surface to worry about what's bugging Ginnie.  He left six years ago and Tillie’s knows a better dad when she sees one … Ginnie’s dad.
      
The girls' world gets flipped upside-down when a blast from the past shows up and makes Tillie go nutburgers. Ginnie is torn between helping her best friend and what could be the answer to her prayers. Life gets complicated lickety-split in what is sure to be the most pivotal summer of Ginnie’s life.


SEALed with Love

Author: Heather Tullis
Original and discounted price: From $3.99 to $0.99
Number of days discounted: Three
Coupon code for Smashwords: TM44H
Genre and target audience: Contemporary adult romance with paranormal elements
Book rating: PG13
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Book description:

It isn't Sage Parker's fault that she mistakes former Navy SEAL Joel Watts as the stalker who had been sending her disturbing letters--he shows up every time she turns around. Too bad her father doesn’t tell her he sent Joel to protect her. When the stalker tracks Sage from LA to her new job in Colorado, she's glad to have Joel on her side. She didn’t plan to falling in love with him though—now if he would see her as more than just a client.

Joel takes his job as head of resort security seriously, but Sage is his number one priority, and the one woman he can’t get out of his mind. He isn't sure if he believes in her precognition, or some of her other hokey beliefs, but he soon finds he can't live without her. He just has to catch the stalker before he or Sage end up dead.


Shadow of the Witte Wieven

Author: Debbie Peterson
Original and discounted price: From $5.99 to $3.99
Number of days discounted: Five
Genre and target audience: Paranormal Romance, all ages
Book rating: PG13
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Book description:

Despite a contract on her head, lone Drug Enforcement Agent, Aliyana
Montijo must ferret out a mole and stop the assassination of top DEA
officials, as so ordered by the Colombian drug lord she seeks to take
down. The task is a daunting one, for there is no one she can trust. No
one that is, until she encounters a most unlikely ally.

Former seventeenth century captain of the Dutch West Indies Company,
Wolfaert Dircksen Van Ness, now from a parallel dimension, encounters the beautiful agent during an unearthly storm in the Bermuda triangle. Drawn to the Spanish beauty he rescues, he pledges his assistance, despite her reluctance to accept either his help or his heart.

Can Wolf bridge both space and time to claim the woman he loves?


The Big Debate (Literary Loom book #1)

Author: Carolyn Twede Frank
Original and discounted price: From $3.99 to $0.99
Number of days discounted: Five
Genre and target audience: YA sci-fi/fantasy w/historical twists
Book rating: PG
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Book description:

A bizarre corpse . . .
A strange girl . . .
A creepy teacher . . .
A cool invention . . .
Combine these with an old school and a new student anxious to fit in, and the adventure begins.
Fifteen-year-old Josh’s big mouth gets him in trouble at first. But after walking in the shoes of great men of history in the Literary Loom, he uses that mouth to bring down the bad guy and ultimately solve the mystery behind the murder . . . and the strange girl.



Insecta: Planet of the Ants (Book 1 – Zombie Queen)

Author: W Thor Larson
Original and discounted price: From $3.99 to FREE
Number of days discounted: Five
Genre and target audience: Fantasy Adventure / Young Adult (ages 10-16+)
Book rating: G to PG
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Book description:

Take the best Nat Geo WILD specials on ants, mix in the Discovery Channel’s “Monster Bug Wars,” cast the brew in fantasy, and you’ve got Insecta: Planet of the Ants (Book 1 – Zombie Queen). Iridescent imagination flies high, burrows deep, and attacks head-on in this epic adventure set in a distant bioluminescent world where giant insects rule and powerful ant queens lock mandibles in a deadly chess game of massive proportions.



Ninth Crossing: Discovery

Author: Kate Gordon
Original and discounted price: From $2.99 to $0.99
Number of days discounted: Four days
Genre and target audience: Paranormal Romance/Fantasy for adults
Book rating: PG13
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Book description:

Have you ever loved a man more than yourself? Reagan Sullivan has, and it’s about to cost her dearly. Reagan is a no-nonsense woman in every respect. She has to be; her job is to guard the president. And that’s a job she takes seriously. That changes when two Irish elves suddenly appear. Both are well over six feet and strikingly handsome, and they want Reagan. Laughter, chaos, and romance ensues, and the Western Realm will never seem quite the same.



The High Arc: Revitalized

Author: Jessica Cage
Original and discounted price: From $1.99 to $0.99
Number of days discounted: Several
Genre and target audience: YA Paranormal Fiction, Teens and Young Adults
Book rating: PG13
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Book description:

Alexa is a 19 year old girl who has just found out that the life she has been leading is more or less a lie. After the disappearance of her parents, a brush with a mysterious new guy and a weird potion left behind by her grandmother, Alexa must face the fact that she will never lead a normal life. Because really, how normal can life be for a Vampire Queen?


The High Arc: Guidance of Rasmiyah

Author: Jessica Cage
Original and discounted price: From $2.99 to $1.99
Number of days discounted: Several
Genre and target audience: YA Paranormal fiction, Teens and Young Adults
Book rating: PG13
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Book description:

Alexa struggles with her decision to become queen, she struggles more than she thought she would. Her stubborn ways prevent her from fully coming into her powers. But in times of need, when the Navare have decided to attack, Alexa has no choice but to reenter the temple where the Willow tree and the spirit of her mothers await her. Can Lacal and the others convince Alexa to do what is right before time runs out?




The Serpent in the Glass

Author: D.M. Andrews
Original and discounted price: From $4.49 to $2.99
Number of days discounted: Three
Genre and target audience: (primary) 9-12/Middle-grade, (secondary) confident readers of all ages
Book rating: G
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Book description:

On his eleventh birthday Thomas Farrell is informed that the deceased father he never knew has provided for his education at Darkledun Manor, a school for gifted children. Thomas, however, feels he's just an ordinary boy, but Darkledun Manor proves to be anything but an ordinary school...

In this work of fiction the reader is transported into a world of myth as the young protagonist, Thomas Farrell, seeks to understand who his mysterious father was, and why he left him a strange glass orb containing a serpent. As the story progresses, Thomas and his friends become increasingly caught up in a world they never knew existed — a world beyond the standing stones.


Renegade

Author: Angie Lofthouse
Original and discounted price: From $2.99 to $0.99
Number of days discounted: One week
Genre and target audience: Science fiction adventure for teens and up
Book rating: Soft PG13 (violence)
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Book description:

Seventeen year old Kwetoo'unuv Walker has nothing on his mind but hunting and girls. And how to avoid getting caught skipping school. But when Earth is attacked by alien invaders and Kwetoo'unuv watches his parents die to keep him alive, life becomes much more complicated. As the world falls before his eyes, he receives a vision from the Great Wolf, Toovuts, compelling him to put aside his fears and become the man God wants him to be. Because in the coming alien occupation, strength and wisdom will be Kwetoo'unuv's only chance to survive.


Consecrated

Author: Angie Lofthouse
Original and discounted price: From $2.99 to $0.99
Number of days discounted: One week
Genre and target audience: Science fiction adventure for teens and up
Book rating: Soft PG13 (violence)
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Book description:

Carly Emerson never imagined she would lose her two-year old son to faceless android soldiers, nor did she ever consider that keeping her temple covenants might break her heart. When aliens attack, Carly is asked to bear a child who will be hidden in an underground refuge—without her. The grief stricken mother must make a choice: keep her covenants and die or take a chance at survival on her own.



Refuge

Author: Angie Lofthouse
Original and discounted price: From $2.99 to $0.99
Number of days discounted: One week
Genre and target audience: Science fiction adventure for teens and up
Book rating: PG (with some slightly disturbing images)
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Book description:

When Earth falls to alien invaders, young newlywed Vivi Thayer is called to serve as a group leader in a hidden, underground refuge. There she is charged with raising a generation chosen to carry on the work of God. Facing the criticism of the other, more experienced, women in the refuge, Vivi struggles with feelings of guilt and inadequacy. When a heartbreaking loss brings Vivi to her breaking point, she must learn to accept the role God has chosen for her or leave the refuge behind forever.


Witch Born

Author: Amber Argyle
Original and discounted price: From $4.99 to $2.99
Number of days discounted: A week
Genre and target audience: YA and Middle Grade Fantasy
Book rating: PG
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Book description:

Mortally wounded during a raid, seventeen-year-old Ilyenna is healed by winter fairies who present her with a seductive offer: become one of them and share their power over winter. But that power comes with a price. If she accepts, she will become a force of nature, lose her humanity, and abandon her family. Unwilling to pay such a high price, Ilyenna is enslaved by the one of the invaders, Darrien. While in captivity, she learns the attack wasn't just a simple raid but part of a larger plot to overthrow her entire nation. With the enemy stealing over the mountains and Darrien coming to take her to his bed, Ilyenna must decide whether to resurrect the power the fairies left behind. Doing so will allow her to defeat Darrien and the other invaders, but if she embraces winter, she will lose herself to that destroying power-forever.


The Guy Next Door

Author: Kate Palmer
Original and discounted price: From $9.99 to $2.99
Number of days discounted: A week
Genre and target audience: Romantic Suspense for YA & adults
Book rating: PG
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Book description:

On the surface, Eva Black's life seems practically perfect. The small-town kindergarten teacher is set to wed ambitious lawyer Sean Langley, and their plans for a dream wedding are well underway. Eva accepts that she will soon live life in the spotlight as a member of the prestigious Langley family, but can she overlook her fiance's tendency to dominate the details of her life and push the limits of her standards?

Mere weeks before the wedding, Eva is thrown into a traumatic, life-changing event that changes her view of family commitment and creates a sharp contrast between her ideals and Sean's. With her engagement to Sean in jeopardy, Eva finds herself relying on the support and encouragement of Peter, her kind and attentive next-door neighbor. Faced with a choice between her penitent fiance and the increasingly mysterious Peter, Eva is unprepared for the consequences—and peril—that come with her decision.


"With a Kiss" (first book of the Twisted Tales Trilogy)

Author: Stephanie Fowers
Original and discounted price: From $2.99 to $0.99
Number of days discounted: Several
Genre and target audience: YA Paranormal romance
Book rating: PG
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Book description:

Faerytales. They're real . . . they just haven't happened yet.
Halley Starr finds this out the hard way when she loses her heart with a curse. Now she has to get it back from that dirty faery who stole it from her, but first, she must fight against the seven rules of the faery kingdom that mortals must never break

No trespassing sacred faery territory
Don’t ever say thank you
Using a faery’s given name is a no-no
Resist all faery music
Never break a promise to a faery
Reject all faery food
And never, never fall in love with a faery

But if Halley wants her heart back again, she can’t worry about the rules.

Jungle

Author: Joni Hilton
Original and discounted price: From $2.99 to FREE
Number of days discounted: Several
Genre and target audience: Adventure Romance (appropriate for young adults and adults)
Book rating: PG
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Book description:

In this riveting adventure-romance that will appeal to Twilight fans, as well as to all readers, we meet Nina, a young college student who dreams of following in the footsteps of her uncle, a renowned anthropologist. She is beyond excited when her uncle tells her of an amazing opportunity to explore an uncharted island in the Indian Ocean. She never imagines she will meet a literal Tarzan, the son of English explorers who died there when he was an infant, leaving him to be raised by the local tribe. This mesmerizing culture brings us enchanting customs, glistening headdresses that unwrap into deadly whips, spine chilling danger, and a thrilling romance.

When Nina accidentally ventures into the deepest part of jungle, a bronzed hero magically leaps from the treetops to rescue her from a wild animal attack. And when she stares into his brilliant green eyes, she knows without a doubt that this is no ordinary tribesman. She is smitten at first touch. Breathless.
Perils lurk everywhere in the shape of poisonous plants, strange species of animals that prowl the night, and even murderous cannibals from a nearby atoll. Storms, fires, and incessant insect attacks are just part of living life on the edge, and the natives take it in stride. Nina comes to accept their ways and loves the island with the same fervor as she loves her man. When the expedition nears its close, Nina must choose: Should she return home to become an anthropologist, or stay in the jungle with the man she loves?


Loose Ends - A Mary O'Reilly Paranormal Mystery (Book 1)

Author: Terri Reid
Discounted price: $0.99
Number of days discounted: Several
Genre and target audience: Cozy Mystery/Paranormal Mystery/Clean Romance
Book rating: PG
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Book description:

Dying is what changed Mary O’Reilly’s life. Well, actually, coming back from the dead and having the ability to communicate with ghosts is really what did it.
Now, a private investigator in rural Freeport, Illinois, Mary’s trying to learn how to incorporate her experience as a Chicago cop and new-found talent into a real job. Her challenge is to solve the mysteries, get real evidence (a ghost’s word just doesn’t hold up in court), and be sure the folks in town, especially the handsome new police chief, doesn’t think she’s nuts.

Twenty-four years ago, a young woman drowned in the swimming pool of a newly elected State Senator. It was ruled an accident. But now, as the Senator prepares to move on to higher positions, the ghost of the woman is appearing to the Senator’s wife.

Mary is hired to discover the truth behind the death. She unearths a connection between the murder and the disappearance of five little girls whose cases, twenty-four years later, are still all unsolved. As she digs further she becomes the next target for serial killers’ quest to tie up all his loose ends.

Monday, April 8, 2013

Arbor Day eBook Celebration!

Hey, authors from all walks of life (ie, traditional, self-published, etc)! How many of you have books that feature trees, forests, or woods in some way, even if only briefly? How many of you have stories that take place in a tree or forest-type setting? Come join my Arbor Day eBook Celebration, and get some free promotions/marketing on April 26th, 2013!

Rules (read 'em carefully!):
  1. Your eBook must be free or discounted from its regular price the day of the promotion (April 26th, 2013).
  2. Your eBook must be an eBook. (Snicker. :-) Seriously, though. Last promotion, people were submitting paperback books. Sorry ahead of time, but no print. :-))
  3. Any length will be accepted. 
  4. Any number of eBooks from any number of authors, so long as those books follow all of the rules here.
  5. Anthologies of short stories will be accepted so long as at least a quarter (1/4th) of the stories feature trees.
  6. Your submission MUST include all of the required materials in the same email (not separate emails), else it won't be accepted. NO EXCEPTIONS. Not even my best author friends can get away with not following the rules. :-) The reasons for this: last time, several authors sent the required material in many different emails, and it was pretty darn frustrating and difficult to get it all in one place for so many different people.
  7. You must be willing to help spread the word! Tell your author friends now to submit, and tweet and Facebook about the promotion on April 26th. (I'll send a reminder email the day before or the day of.)

To submit your story, please send me the following in ONE email PER eBook (so, if you've got two books, send me two emails.):
  • Your author name.
  • Your eBook's title.
  • Link(s) where it's available.
  • Original AND discounted price. (So readers can see they're getting a great deal!)
  • Number of days your book will be discounted (at least two, if not more. Many people won't get notification until a day or so after the promotion - it's hard to know when people check their emails. :-))
  • Any coupon codes (for Smashwords, etc.).
  • A good-quality copy of your cover. If no cover is included, your submission won't be accepted. I'm not going to go search the internet. :-) Don't worry about viruses - I'll be downloading all covers on my Linux laptop. (Linux is pretty much immune to viruses.)
  • A description of your book - no more than 200 words.
  • The genre and target audience of the book.
  • The rating of your book (R, PG13, PG, G, etc.).

Send submissions to ap AT andreapearsonbooks DOT com, or click here.

If you're submitting a series, let me know in the first email how many eBooks you'll be submitting. I'll do them one right after the other so people won't have to search. :-) (Remember, though, that they'll all need to be discounted to be eligible.)

Submission deadline: April 24, 2013 - in the morning. But get your submission to me asap! It's first come, first served where order in the blog post is concerned!

I'm super excited! The last promotion went really well, and I'm expecting this one to go well too. Your eBook will be put in front of upwards of 10,000 people via email - much better than internet impressions - so get your buns in gear and submit your eBooks!

Now back to writing... :-)