B&N Free Friday Books

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3/22/13 Today's book is Lady Maggie's Secret Scandal by Grace Burrowes.

Lady Maggie is the dignified, illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Moreland—and he’s eager to get her married off. Soon though, Lady Maggie’s personal letters go missing, and her reputation is in danger until they're safely returned. Enter the handsome and talented investigator Benjamin Hazlit. Though Maggie would love to pursue the dashing Hazlit, she worries that the risks to her—and consequently to him—may not be worth the reward. Can their mutual passion overcome her fears?

3/22/13 Today's book is The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown.

And in case you missed it: Dan Brown's blockbuster thriller, The Da Vinci Code featuring the prologue & first chapter of the upcoming Robert Langdon adventure, Inferno, is free for a limited time.

Robert Langdon is a Harvard professor of symbology who can't stay out of trouble. Last seen in Angels and Demons (2000), this mild-mannered academic finds himself entangled in a deadly conspiracy that stretches back centuries. Visiting Paris on business, he is awakened at 2:00 a.m. by a call from the police: An elderly curator has been murdered inside the Louvre, and a baffling cipher has been found near the body. Aided by the victim's cryptologist granddaughter, Langdon begins a danger-filled quest for the culprit; but the deeper he searches, the more he becomes convinced that long-festering conspiracies hold the answer to the art lover's death.

 

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The Da Vinci Code. Nice

 

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The Da Vinci Code. Nice

I'm just afraid it's an apology for the other one.

 

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3/29/13 Today's book is Black Hole Sun by David Macinnis Gill.

Young Durango is a disgraced mercenary, fighting battles on Mars while trying to save his imprisoned father from an even worse fate. He’s lost everything, and his desperation only makes him more dangerous to his enemies.

 

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4/5/13 Today's book is Storybound by Marissa Burt.

Una Fairchild is a devoted reader, escaping her less-than-ideal life by losing herself in fairytales. So when she wakes up to find herself ‘written in’ to a sweeping fairytale, she’s initially excited for the adventures ahead. Her new world is populated by her favorite fictional characters, and Una’s delighted to learn about their world. But the plot of Una’s story soon takes a dangerous turn, and she must band together with her newfound friends to make sure they all live happily ever after.

 

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After getting the last couple I think I will skip this one

 

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After getting the last couple I think I will skip this one

Got to admit, the last couple appear to be worth about what they're charging on free Friday.

 

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4/12/13 Today’s book is Angel’s Ink by Jocelynn Drake.

Gage is a talented tattoo artist, but he’s not your typical ink jockey. His tattoos offer a little something extra—a small dollop of magic that can bring good lock, true love, or even a hex on an ex.

The mysterious Gage is a warlock who’s escaped the cruel Ivory Tower, where witches and warlocks rule with an iron fist, and is in hiding in Low Town. Here he plies his trade, hoping to fly under the radar of the vengeful rulers who have vowed to track him down. Low Town is a unique place—a town where elves, faeries, trolls, werewolves and vampires walk among humans, and Gage has an unusual roster of clients and friends.

But when Gage goes one step too far in a desperate attempt to save a woman’s life, he’s suddenly exposed—risking the tentative freedom that his secret life has brought him.

 

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4/19/13 Today’s book is The Breath of God by Jeffrey Small.

Graduate student Grant Matthews journeys to the Himalayas in search of an ancient mystery hidden in a remote monastery, but at every step of his quest he confronts a conspiracy of zealots who will go to any lengths to protect the secret: a secret that could change Grant's life, if he survives.

Joining Grant on his quest is photojournalist Kristin Misaki and together they must confront an assassin at the Taj Mahal, a kidnapping in a sacred city, and a desperate chase through a cliffside monastery—all in the pursuit of a legend that could link together the great religious faiths of the world.

 

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4/26/13 Today’s book is The Emperor’s Knife by Mazarkis Williams.

A plague that scars the bodies of its victims is ravaging the Cerani Empire. When its patterns start to cover a sufferer’s skin they know that death—or servitude to an evil Pattern Master—will soon befall them. To curb the Pattern Master’s power, Emperor Beyon decrees that anyone with the telltale marks be put to death.

But now the Emperor himself is afflicted with the disease, and once it reaches his face, his dangerous secret will be exposed. As he pushes the great minds of his empire to find a cure, powerful forces align to expose him and grasp power from his ailing hands.

 

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5/3/13 Today’s book is Saving Hope by Margaret Daley.

A tireless Texas Ranger fights to save his town from the ripped-from-the-headlines threat of human trafficking.

Ranger Wyatt Sheridan is called in when a teenage girl at the Beacon of Hope school, which was founded to help former teen prostitutes find a way off the streets, is found dead. He and the school’s director Kate Winslow team up to find out who might be trying to disrupt the school’s worthy mission.

 

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5/10/13 Today’s book is Wicked in Your Arms by Sophie Jordan.

While Grier Hadley is the daughter of an unsavory character, her father's fortune affords her a large dowry that would make any suitor swoon. Enter Prince Sevastian Maksimi, who is hot on the trail of a respectable bride-to-be who can give him an heir as well as a hefty dowry. While he knows that she would bring disrepute along with vast fortune, the beautiful and independent Grier has captured the Prince's attention, and a stolen kiss has him yearning for more.

 

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5/17/13 Today’s book is Sanctus by Simon Toyne.

Television veteran Simon Toyne’s debut novel is an ambitious conspiracy thriller that Brad Meltzer and Dan Brown fans will devour. The whole world is watching when a cloistered monk in modern day Turkey plunges to his death in front of television cameras. The monk’s act of defiance sets off a frenzy to discover what secrets lie behind the ancient walls, and why he sacrificed his life to put an end to them.

When the monk is identified, American journalist Liv Adamsen is shocked to discover that he’s the brother she’d written off as dead long ago. Her reporter’s instincts send her to investigate the secretive world her brother inhabited, and soon she’s battling a group of deadly monks who will go to any extreme to protect their millennia-old secret.

[PLEASE NOTE: There are also foreign language versions of this book available for NOOK, but they are not free. Please make sure that you download the English language version here.]

 

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I would like it better if the author used the nom de plume "Simon Says Time-in".

 

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5/24/13 Today’s book is Head to Head by Linda Ladd.

When homicide detective Claire Morgan moved from Los Angeles to Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri, she hopes to settle into a more peaceful, simpler life. But fate has other plans in store, as she soon finds out when a soap opera star turns up dead. The star’s trip to a posh “wellness resort” ended with her being taped to a chair at a fully set table and submerged at the bottom of the lake.