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Quest for the Dragon's Treasure ("Choose Your Own Path" Adventure in a Beautifully Illustrated Picture Book, for Ages 4-8) [Kindle Edition]

June 17, 2013

"Choose Your Own Path" Adventure for Ages 3-8!

The King's Crown has been lost for many years, taken by a fire breathing Red Dragon. Many have sought to recover it, but none have succeeded. Encouraged by the thrill of a challenging adventure, you set out to retrieve your Kingdom's most valued treasure. And so begins your Epic Journey ...

This unique interactive format allows you to control the progress of the story, as it is being told! Will you dare to explore the secret passage, or play it safe and stay on the pathway?

Your Adventure Awaits!

Thanks Gerry for sharing this little goodie with us!

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  Free July 15-17

Special Thanks to Therese Heckenkamp

www.thereseheckenkamp.com

Past Suspicion (Christian Romantic Suspense)

Publication Date: October 28, 2012

"Don't trust anyone..." So whispers Robin's mother just moments before she dies. 

Uprooted from all she's ever known, 17-year-old Robin Finley is sent to her mother's old hometown to live with an uncle she's never met. The town is small, but it shelters big secrets. Robin encounters two mysterious young men, a tragic mansion, and disturbing questions about the past. While unraveling the threads of her mother's shrouded life, Robin meets more confusion. Her soul longs for peace and her heart yearns for love--yet she's consumed by suspicion and fear. Why did her mother flee this town so many years ago and never return? Robin's determination to discover the truth ensnares her in a tangled web that spans the years and threatens to destroy her future.

"Past Suspicion is a page-turner, and Heckenkamp is an author to be reckoned with." -- Nancy Mehl, best-selling Christian author

"A riveting mystery that will keep readers turning pages." -- Regina Doman, author of the Fairy Tale Novels

Awards:  Past Suspicion has been awarded the Catholic Writers Guild Seal of Approval.

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From July 8 to July 10 Gerry Gaston is making two of his children's books available for your Kindle for FREE! Enjoy, dear readers, especially if you have a little person between the ages of 4 to 10.




 Quest for the Lost Treasure (Interactive Pirate Adventure in a Beautifully Illustrated Picture Book, for Ages 3-8)

"Choose Your Own Path" Pirate Adventure for Ages 3-8!

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?

"I highly recommend this book to beginning readers as well as to those parents and other caregivers who are trying to encourage reading in their young children." ~Loretta Gilbert

"My boys have read this book a second time now and have asked if I could keep it on the Kindle. If you are looking for a way to get your child excited about reading, this is a great book to begin with. Loved it." ~Ionia Martin

Note: To improve readability, this book was updated on 06/22/13, with larger print size and an enhanced storyline selection navigation interface.

 Quest for the Dragon's Treasure

"Choose Your Own Path" Adventure for Ages 3-8!

The King's Crown has been lost for many years, taken by a fire breathing Red Dragon. Many have sought to recover it, but none have succeeded. Encouraged by the thrill of a challenging adventure, you set out to retrieve your Kingdom's most valued treasure. And so begins your Epic Journey ...

This unique interactive format allows you to control the progress of the story, as it is being told! Will you dare to explore the secret passage, or play it safe and stay on the pathway?

Your Adventure Awaits!

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July 4-6. Take this opportunity to put this wonderful resource in YOUR Kindle library!

 How to Write a Lesson Plan: Introduction to Basic Lesson Design and the 8 Keys to Good Planning

Publication Date: January 10, 2013

In this article, learn how to write a lesson objective and draft a practical lesson plan using a classic and adaptable lesson plan outline. Eight key elements related to good lesson design are reviewed:
1. Motivation,
2. Explaining the objective,
3. Input, examples, and multiple representations
4. Modeling,
5. Checking for understanding,
6. Guided practice,
7. Independent practice,
8. Formal assessment or informal evaluation of the objective.
Includes a blank lesson plan template, a sample written lesson plan, and a list of verbs to help you write precise performance objectives. (Article: 10,224 words)

Lynn Melby Gordon, Ph.D. is a full-time tenured professor of teacher education at California State University, Northridge. She is the author of The Big Collection of Phonics Flipbooks, published by Scholastic in 2009.

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for 5 days actually... July 4th - 8th... Thanks Lizz!



Kitchen Addiction! (Mina Kitchen novels)

Meet Mina Kitchen, a forty-something single who likes to cook - and cook and cook. In fact, her zest for whipping up trays of canapes is dwarfed only by her weird luck and mountain-lion size tabby cat, Vinnie. That, and her godmom's tendency for blackmailing new members into joining St. Bart's. Okay, maybe Mina's Swiffer-addicted neighbor, Vito, is a bit weird, too. As if all that wasn't enough, Mina's a Jersey girl transplanted in the midst of the Amish-flavored countryside of Lancaster, PA.

Things get really complicated when she learns that her neighbor Vito is in a witness protection program, and her dry cleaner deals in prescription samples. Throw in a few mysterious flaming feces flingers and a fuse box labeled in Arabic, and you have a recipe for catering disorders.

Kitchen Addiction! will keep you smiling when you're not LOL-ing. Set in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, you'll find a surprising cast of characters, humorous plot twists, red herrings and actual recipes. Well, some of the recipes are real. The others you might to take with a pinch of salt, and some Tums.

If you're looking for a funny fiction read, packed with humor, excitement - and recipes - look no further. Lund's debut "chick lit" novel blends fun characters, great dialogue and zany capers into a frothy fiction that's sure to amuse. The novel also delivers a virtual tourist romp through the actual streets of Lancaster City and its surroundings.

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Found these two in the Top Ten in the freebies section on Amazon today and thought you might like to check them out too! Don't know how long they will be free, so get them while you can!


Bite Me

From the Author

Mike Faricy writes suspenseful crime tales populated by unforgettable, whacky characters. His books are filled with the sort of oddballs and flakes we're all curious about, but wisely prefer to keep at a distance. They won't be saving the world from terrorism, international banking conspiracies or government coups. The situations they find themselves in are due to their own bad decisions, but then bad decisions make for interesting tales. Mike lives with his wife in St. Paul, Minnesota and Dublin, Ireland.

About the Author

Mike Faricy writes suspenseful crime tales populated by unforgetable whacky characters. His books are filled with the sort of oddballs and flakes we're all curious about but wisely prefer to keep at a distance. They won't be saving the world from terriorism, international bank conspiracies or government coups. The situations they find themselves in are due to their own bad decisions, but then bad decisions make for interesting reading. Mike lives with his wife in St. Paul, Minnesota and Dublin, Ireland.

 How to Cook From Scraps

Book Description

Publication Date: June 10, 2013

With more than 50 recipes and lots of tips, How to Cook from Scraps is the perfect book for anyone who wants to go beyond meals that come out of a box or the freezer aisle. Learning to cook from scraps is about cooking efficiently and throwing away less. Sometimes cooking from scraps is learning to reinvent leftovers. Sometimes it is making your own broth. Cooking from scraps is always about making the food you already have in your house go further.

Cooking efficiently means saving money, creating less waste, and making meals entirely at home. Using the recipes and advice in How to Cook from Scraps, you will utilize every part of your food (even vegetable peels) and run your kitchen in a way that caters to this kind of efficiency. This book focuses on the recipes that are both from scraps and from scratch, but you will find as you make the meals that the tips for cooking this way will make you think differently about how your kitchen is organized.

If you don’t do any cooking from scraps or scratch yet, don’t be daunted. We will take you through the steps you need to change from a throw-away kind of kitchen, to a kitchen that makes wholesome and “whole” foods.