FREE (and bargain) books for the NOOK - February 2011

[koland]

It's a new month and there are new freebies. Several from last month are still free, so be sure to check the previous thread, HERE.

This is the sticky thread for free and bargain books in the B&N store, or free books in EPUB format found elsewhere, for February 2011. Rather than try to update the first post with a list of all the books, which is continually changing, instead new books will be posted at the end of the thread and each month there will be a new thread, letting the old one drop off the top of the forum. Anyone can post to the thread, but there are a few rules:

1. Books may be posted from the B&N, Sony or other ebookstores, so long as they are in a nook or NOOKcolor compatible fomat.
2. Do not edit old messages to add new books. Most people read this thread by clicking to see new posts. If you edit old messages, then no one is notified of a new post and often won't see the updates when they click to see new messages. If you need to edit an old message to correct a link or other info (or even want to note a book that is no longer free), that is perfectly ok.
3. No author self-promotions or self-published books. If you are an author and posting another's author's work, it should be either a non-self-published book or one that you've read to the end and would not feel embarrassed to recommend to your mother, closest friends and priest/minister (assuming they read the same genre). In other words, the writing is exceptional (no misspellings or substituted words, grammar rules obeyed, formatting that looks good on the read screen). It isn't that we don't want you to post, but author self-promotions can overwhelm the list and a special child forum in the Deals and Bargains section has been provided for this purpose.
4. No excerpts or sample chapters (business minis are ok, so long as they are not just samples of another book).
5. Please indicate the price of any book that is not being offered free. You don't have to say "free" if one is, but it would be nice if you include that in the message. The maximum price for bargains is a bit flexible, but generally under $2 and nothing over $5, unless it is a volume that contains several titles in one and the total price per book puts it into the bargain realm or the digital price is below 25% of the list print price and 50% of the digital list price; this lets you include high priced reference books or cookbooks that are extremely heavily discounted, for one reason or another (but, let's not include books that are at $9.99 all the time, ok?).
6. If you see the genre of a book and it isn't clear from the book description that you post, please include it; conversely, if someone leaves this off, don't post to berate them, but you can post to include that info for others.
7. If you are posting a book that is free only in selected geographic regions, other than the US, please say so. For rather obvious reasons, most are going to be US restricted (since B&N restricts all their sales to US only, by address and IP). Also, if you do not have your current location set in your profile (below your name, it shows next to all of your posts), then add that to your post (as it "this is free here in Canada"). To all: please note that whether or not a book is free in a country other than the one a person is logged into is not easily discovered. The person who posts often has no way to determine that you will pay a different amount if you are in a different country. Also, prices can change minute to minute and freebies can last as little as an hour (possibly less), so always check the price before one-clicking. If you discover that a book costs more, you may leave a single comment with the country and price/restriction (for example: "This book costs $9.99 in the UK" or "Not available in Canada").
8. Try to keep chit-chat to a minimum. That will keep notifications of a new message in the thread down to (generally) only when a new book has been posted, making the thread more useful for all.

If you agree or disagree with the rules, have more to be added, etc, please send me a private message, rather than replying here. I'll discuss it with the moderators and we'll modify as needed.

[koland]

Some current free books at B&N:

• Fun Facts About Pets, by Seymour Simon (nookcolor)
• Imaginary Jesus, by Matt Mikalatos, courtesy of Christian publisher Tyndale House.
• Listen, by Rene Gutteridge, courtesy of Christian publisher Tyndale House.
• Vanished, by Kristi Holl, courtesy of Christian publisher Zonderkidz.
• A Time to Love, by Barbara Cameron, the first in her Quilts of Lancaster County series, courtesy of Christian publisher Abingdon Press.
• Blood Ransom, by Lisa Harris, courtesy of Christian publisher Zondervan.
• Curious Folks Ask: 162 Real Answers on Amazing Inventions, Fascinating Products, and Medical Mysteries, by Sherry Seethaler
• Heart of Stone, by Jill Marie Landis, the first in her Irish Angel series, courtesy of Christian publisher Zondervan.
• Medicus (Gaius Petreius Ruso Series #1), by Ruth Downie
• Shakespeare in an Hour, by Christopher Baker
• Stick Dog Wants a Hamburger by Tom Watson

Free elsewhere:

• Admit One: My Life in Film, by Emmett James (Sony)
• Looking For Love On Mongo Tongo, by Margaret J. McMaster (Borders)
• Looking For Love On Mongo Tongo, by Margaret J. McMaster (Kobo)
• The Vampire Diaries: Dark Reunion, by L. J. Smith (Sony)

Bargain Books:

• Terra Incognita (Gaius Petreius Ruso Series #2), by Ruth Downie ($1.99)

[koland]

Free Books from Ellora's Cave (drm-free, from publisher). Runs gamut of romance, from suggestive to explicit.

[koland]

Bond With Me ($5.59 Kindle), by Anne Marsh

Book Description
As fallen angels, Brends and his brethren can grant humans any fantasy they choose. But in exchange they demand a bond, and only a woman who dares all accepts the invitation, “Bond with me.”

Click HERE for the free download from B&N.

[koland]

Beneath Gray Skies (EPUB)
The Best of Edmond Hamilton (drm-free)

[koland]

Pride and Prejudice The Wild and Wanton Edition, by Jane Austen and Michelle Pillow, is free on the Kindle and from B&N, courtesy of the publisher, Adams Media, who arranged to have A Child al Confino free a couple of weeks ago.

Book Description
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife . . . in bed. Unfortunately, you’ve never been able to see Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam indulging their every desire between the sheets--until now. In this deliciously naughty update of the beloved classic, you can peek behind the closed doors of Pemberley’s master bedroo--and revel in the sexual delights of your favorite couple.

From first kiss to orgasmic finish, Pride and Prejudice: The Wild and Wanton Edition is your dream come true about the famous pai--the story you love, with the heat turned up to high. It will come as no surprise that the dashing Mr. Darcy is as passionate and intense with his knickers off as he is with them on--and that the ebullient Elizabeth is as saucy disrobed as clothed. So let the revelry begin . . . .

Click HERE for the free download from B&N.

[koland]

Not quite nook, but $2 in free MP3's from Amazon for everyone, today only. Details (code, how to apply, etc.), here.

[koland]

free books, from various sources:

The Spurned Viscountess
Bond With Me
The President's Budget for Fiscal Year 2012
The Impaler
Darkness Dawns
Without Reservations

[koland]

The Barnes & Noble Classics Series edition of Founding America: Documents from the Revolution to the Bill of Rights, by Jack N. Rakove, is free at B&N tonight. Their editions generally sell for $2-$4, but are occasionally offered as free downloads.

Biography
Jack N. Rakove is W. R. Coe Professor of History and American Studies and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, where he has taught since 1980. He is the author of four books on the American Revolutionary era, including The Beginnings of National Politics: An Interpretive History of the Continental Congress, James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic, and Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution, which received the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in History.

Book Description
Modern American politicians refer to “the founders” so often that they’re in danger of becoming clichés. But Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abigail and John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, James Madison, James Monroe, and the other authors included in this new collection were a wholly unique.


The Barnes & Noble Classics Series edition of This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sharon G. Carson, is free at B&N tonight. Their editions generally sell for $2-$4, but are occasionally offered as free downloads.

Biography
Inseparably associated with a point in history he claimed to despise, F. Scott Fitzgerald is both the quintessential Jazz-Age writer and perhaps the era s harshest critic. However, the complexity and sheer timelessness of classics such as The Great Gatsby has ensured that Fitzgerald s work will never be regarded as mere period pieces.

Book Description
This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:

* New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars
* Biographies of the authors
* Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events
* Footnotes and endnotes
* Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work
* Comments by other famous authors
* Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations
* Bibliographies for further reading
* Indices & Glossaries, when appropriate

All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.

If the “Roaring Twenties” are remembered as the era of“flaming youth,” it was F. Scott Fitzgerald who lit the fire. His semi-autobiographical first novel, This Side of Paradise, became an instant best-seller and established an image of seemingly carefree, party-mad young men and women out to create a new morality for a new, post-war America. It traces the early life of Amory Blaine from the end of prep school through Princeton to the start of an uncertain career in New York City.

Alternately self-confident and self-effacing, torn between ambition and idleness, the self-absorbed, immature Amory yearns to run with Princeton’s rich, fast crowd and become one of the “gods” of the campus. Hopelessly romantic, he learns about love and sex from a series of beautiful young “flappers,” women who leave him both exhilarated and devastated. Fitzgerald describes it all in intensely lyrical prose that fills the novel with a heartbreaking sense of longing, as Amory comes to understand that the sweet-scented springtime of his life is fragile and fleeting, disappearing into memory even as he reaches for it.

Sharon G. Carson is Professor Emerita in the English Department at Kent State University, where she has taught for thirty-five years. She is the author of numerous articles and essays on modern and contemporary fiction.


The Barnes & Noble Classics Series edition of Bostonians, by Henry James and Siri Hustvedt, is free at B&N tonight. Their editions generally sell for $2-$4, but are occasionally offered as free downloads.

Biography
Henry James was a master at tracing the social boundaries of the Gilded Age -- between Old and New World, Europe and America, desire and convention, men and women. He brought an invaluably clear-eyed, and critical, sensibility to America's evolving cultural mores.

Book Description
The Bostonians, by Henry James, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:

* New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars
* Biographies of the authors
* Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events
* Footnotes and endnotes
* Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work
* Comments by other famous authors
* Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations
* Bibliographies for further reading
* Indices & Glossaries, when appropriate

All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.

Nearly a century before the birth of the contemporary feminist movement, Henry James dealt with its nineteenth-century forerunner in The Bostonians. Mixing acute social observation and psychological analysis with mordant humor, James hangs his story on a unique instance of the traditional romantic triangle. At its apex stands the vibrantly beautiful Verena Tarrant, an intense public speaker who arouses the passions of two very different people. Olive Chancellor, a Boston-bred suffragette, dreams of turning Verena into a fiery campaigner for women’s rights. Basil Ransom, a Mississippi-bred lawyer, dreams of turning her into his wife. As these two struggle for possession of Verena’s soul—and body—their confusions, crises, and conflicts begin almost preternaturally to prefigure today’s sexual politics. In fact, James’s complex portrait of Olive and her ideals, savagely satirical yet sympathetic and so controversial when it first appeared, continues to evoke both anger and admiration. But he treats Verena and Basil with equal complexity, climaxed by the novel’s quietly haunting final sentence.

Siri Hustvedt earned a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University in 1986 and is the author of a book of poetry, Reading to You; three novels: The Blindfold, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, and What I Loved; and a book of essays, Yonder.

[koland]

Werewolf Upstairs, by Ashlyn Chase, is $2.39 on Kindle and $2.99 direct from Sourcebooks and at B&N. It isn't in the Sony store at all.

Book Description
Petty crime never looked so good...

Alpha werewolf Konrad Wolfensen sees it as his duty to protect the citizens of Boston, even if it means breaking into their businesses just to prove their security systems don't work. But when his unsolicited services land him in trouble with the law, he'll have to turn to his sexy new neighbor for help.

She should know better...

Attorney Roz Wells is bored. She used to have such a knack for attracting the weird and unexpected, but ever since she took a job as a Boston public defender, the quirky quotient in her life has taken a serious hit. Until her sexy werewolf neighbor starts coming around...

Click HERE to get the book from B&N.
Click HERE to get the book from Sourcebooks.

[ATDrake]

Since only 3 of the books in it were mentioned upthread, might as well direct-link to the "All American President's Day B&N Classics" freebie promotion, which is supposed to be good for the next few days.

13 titles (presumably one for each of the original colonies; be interesting to see if it's a random selection, or there's some sort of thematic match-up of author/story to state) both fiction and-non are on offer.

All of them are public domain, but B&N does very nice annotated editions with footnotes and essays and commentary by university scholars and such, for which they normally charge $1.99. If you find you like the B&N Classics versions, you can get an extra 12 free when you download the NookStudy app.

[koland]

Free books from B&N
Germs, Genes, & Civilization
The Young Professional's Guide to Taking Control of Your Money
The Rules of Work
The Truth About Managing People
15 Successful Communications Lessons
The Truth About Better Business Communication
How to Make Money Marketing Your Business on Facebook
Medical Error (novel)

[robert23]

When I bought my Nook Color, the B&N salesperson gave me a printout telling how to get books from my local library using Overdrive and Adobe Digital Editions. They have quite a few recent books available for 21 day checkouts and if one is not available (only one copy can be shared at a time) you can put your name on a waiting list. It sounds like many public libraries offer this service.

Since my NC is rooted, I installed the Overdrive app from Android Market, which is even easier than using Overdrive on a computer to install a book.

[koland]

Robert23 - have you tried the Kindle or Kobo apps on your NC?

[koland]

Free Book tonight only: Covert Youth Agency: The Case of Tangled Love
Free Book Update - Mills and Boon Romances (drm-free and Kindle UK)
Spoilt (drm-free and nook, epub, Kindle UK)
Jane Blonde (drm-free and nook, epub, Kindle UK)