Content FREE (and bargain) books for the Kindle - October 2011

[koland]

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

This is the sticky thread for free and bargain books in the Kindle store for October 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. No Affiliate links.
2. Only books in the kindle store. Yes, I realize that free books elsewhere will often work on the Kindle, but those should be reported in the Deals forum. This list is for those who only get their books from the Kindle store (and there are many who do) and don't want to deal with having to download and transfer books from elsewhere.
3. 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.
4. No shortened URL's. No one likes to click on a link and end up somewhere that they were not expecting and few of the URL shorteners allow you to set up a preview mode so that you get a chance to see the destination first. So, use the full URL in your posting (yes, you can still just post a link on the title, but with the full URL, everyone can look at the status line or use Copy Shortcut to see where they will go before the new site opens).
5. No author self-promotions (unless your book is free in the Kindle store) or self-published books. If you are a Kindle author and posting another'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 Kindle 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.
6. No excerpts or sample chapters (business minis are ok, so long as they are not just samples of another book)
7. 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 Amazon has at $9.99 all the time, ok?).
8. 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.
9. If you are posting a book that is free in the UK Amazon store, please say so. 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 at Amazon 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 (other than the "standard" $2+VAT international fee Amazon often takes onto books outside the US), 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").
10. 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.

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Now free for US Kindle:

Prairie Rose (A Town Called Hope) by Catherine Palmer

Ransomed Dreams (Side Roads) by Sally John

Terror by Night by Terry Caffey and James H. Pence

The Brotherhood (Precinct 11) by Jerry B. Jenkins

More FREE Vook enhanced books!

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Liquid Smoke (Noah Braddock) by Jeff Shelby (Tyrus Books)

Product Description
The third novel in the Noah Braddock series!
Private eye Noah Braddock has finally found peace in his once tumultuous relationship with Detective Liz Santangelo and has called a tentative truce with his alcoholic mother, Carolina. So when lawyer Darcy Gill demands that he look into a hopeless death row case, he’s more interested in catching some waves before San Diego’s rare winter weather takes hold. Then Darcy plays her trump card: the man scheduled to die—convicted of killing two men in cold blood—is the father Noah never knew.

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FYI, currently just free for those in the UK

Let's Get Real: Bringing Authenticity and Wholeness to Your Marriage by Dale Forehand and Jena Forehand (Navpress ) (Amazon Main, Amazon UK)

Product Description
By studying seven essentials based on God's Word and His Son for a fulfilling marriage, you and your spouse will be inspired to make your marriage thrive. The Let's Get Real workbook outlines the same principles for revitalizing marriage that the Forehands teach at conferences across the country. Through practicing these principles, you’ll become empowered by God’s truth to be more authentic and intimate with one another.

FYI, currently just free for those in the UK

The World-Tilting Gospel by Dan Phillips (Kregel Publications ) (Amazon Main, Amazon UK)

Product Description
The first generation of Christians turned the world upside down. But the church today is being turned upside down by the world. Why? And why aren't we-with all our social medias and high-tech gadgets-more effectively producing Christ-centered, Gospel-liberated, biblically-instructed, world-tilting believers?

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FYI, currently just free for those in the UK

My Sister's Voice by Mary Carter (Kensington Books) (Amazon Main, Amazon UK)

Product Description
Every love leaves an echo. . .
What do you do when you discover your whole life was a lie? In Mary Carter's unforgettable new novel, one woman is about to find out...

At twenty-eight, Lacey Gears is exactly where she wants to be. An up-and-coming, proudly Deaf artist in Philadelphia, she's in a relationship with a wonderful man and rarely thinks about her difficult childhood in a home for disabled orphans. That is, until Lacey receives a letter that begins, "You have a sister. A twin to be exact. . ."

Learning that her identical, hearing twin, Monica, experienced the normal childhood she was denied resurrects all of Lacey's grief, and she angrily sets out to find Monica and her biological parents. But the truth about Monica's life, their brief shared past, and the reason for the twins' separation is far from simple. And for every one of Lacey's questions that's answered, others are raised, more baffling and profound.

Complex, moving, and beautifully told, My Sister's Voice is a novel about sisterhood, love of every shape, and the stories we cling to until real life comes crashing in. . .

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FYI, currently just free for those in the UK

Deadworld by J.N. Duncan (Kensington Books) (Amazon Main, Amazon UK)

Product Description
She's as tough as anything haunting Chicago's streets. But to deal with an inhuman power that won't stay buried, this FBI agent needs help that comes at an immortal price. . .
Jackie Rutledge has seen her share of supernatural killers. But her latest murder case is what recurring nightmares are made of. Brutally exsanguinated human victims, vanishing-into-the-ether evidence, and a city on the edge of panic mean that she and her psychic partner, Laurel, are going to need more than just backup . . .

So Jackie is fine with any help rugged P.I. Nick Anderson can give--even if that includes the impish ghost and sexy vampire who make up his team. But Nick is hiding secrets of his own. And Jackie's investigation has plunged them both into a vengeful game reaching back centuries--and up against a malevolent force hungry for more than just victory. . .

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FYI, free again but currently just free for those in the UK

The Bite Before Christmas by Heidi Betts (Kensington Books) (Amazon Main, Amazon UK)

Product Description
In Heidi Betts’s collection of holiday novellas, vampires turn to Angelina Bertolli—vampire matchmaker extraordinaire—to help them find that special someone to curl up with under the mistletoe…
“All I Vant For Christmas”
Connor loves trimming the Christmas tree, baking gingerbread cookies, and hanging the mistletoe. But his vampire siblings won’t help. His friend Angelina sends party planner Jillian to the rescue. But when Jillian, who’s mortal, discovers she’s decking the halls for a family of vampires, will she run—or will Connor have a beautiful woman to share the holidays with?


“A Vampire in Her Stocking”
When Vivian learns that her secret crush Nick is terminally ill, she’s heartbroken. Confiding in Angelina, Vivian refuses to turn Nick into a vampire. Deciding to play Santa, Angelina changes Nick and leaves him wrapped in a red bow on Vivian’s doorstep…

“It’s A Wonderful Bite”
Although Angelina is happy with her boyfriend Sergio, she’s ready for a commitment. After drinking eggnog and watching It’s a Wonderful Life on Christmas Eve, Angelina falls into a dream where she is mortal and Sergio isn’t interested in her. Talk about the nightmare before Christmas! But Santa must have checked his list twice because this Christmas Angelina’s wishes are coming true…

National bestselling author Heidi Betts loves all things scary and paranormal…though she’s not a big fan of things that go bump in the night. (Hello! Sleeping, here.) When she’s not writing about vampires (among other things), she often dreams of being an undead creature of the night—if only so that she can sleep all day, stay up all night, and never age another minute or gain another pound. The drinking of blood doesn’t necessarily appeal, but it’s something she thinks she could get used to. Plus, she hears it tastes like chicken. For news, information about upcoming books, and tons of mischievous fun.

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FYI, currently just free for those in the UK

Seaborne by Katherine Irons (Kensington Books) (Amazon Main, Amazon UK)

Product Description
Enter the realm of SEABORNE. . .and the achingly romantic world of Katherine Irons, a new talent who will break your heart and heal it all at the same time. . .
Take Me Away

Shrouded in mist, the hidden shoreline near her family's Maine estate is a place of refuge for Claire Bishop. There, she can forget the physical limitations imposed by a tragic accident and escape judgmental eyes. Yet someone is watching from the depths of the sea, a being who senses her inner despair and is drawn to help her. Prince Morgan, risen from the waves and as perfect a man Claire has ever laid eyes on. She is sure she has dreamed him into existence--Morgan's masculine beauty and sensual tenderness cannot be real. Then the dream overtakes reality. . .

With Morgan at her side, Claire is suddenly freed, swimming with him to a lost paradise, a fantastic underwater world with a sunken stone city at its heart. Soon the lovers find that their union has aroused the wrath of his warring clan--but Claire would rather die than return to her crippling life on earth, and Morgan will not live without the woman he adores...

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FYI, currently just free for those in the UK

SAS 9.3 ODS Graphics by SAS Publishing (SAS Publishing ) (Amazon Main, Amazon UK)

Product Description
SAS 9.3 ODS Graphics: Getting Started with Business and Statistical Graphics provides an overview and quick-start examples of ODS Graphics functionality, which is an extension of the SAS Output Delivery System (ODS). Many SAS procedures use ODS Graphics functionality to produce graphs as automatically as they produce tables. In addition, SAS provides a full suite of ODS Graphics software that facilitates the creation of custom, stand-alone graphs. This software includes the Graph Template Language, ODS Graphics procedures, ODS Graphics Designer, and ODS Graphics Editor. This ebook also explains how the ODS Graphics software components complement each other, and how they can be used together.

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Deliver!: How to Be Fast, Flawless, and Frugal by Jim Champy (FT Press)

Product Description
Jim Champy revolutionized business with Reengineering the Corporation. Now, in Deliver!, the third book in a series about what’s new and really works in business, he shows how to leverage the rich treasure of potential competitive advantage that’s hiding in plain view: your operations.

Deliver! presents five original, chapter-length case studies of organizations performing at levels that were once viewed as impossible. They range from Campbell’s Soup to the U.S. Navy. Their offerings range from industrial tools to premium California wine.

What do they share in common? Their success hasn’t been grounded in breakthrough strategy: It’s built on goals, discipline, details…and the grittiness of everyday execution.

In an era of highly constrained resources, these organizations offer you the most realistic path to sustainable success: Increase operational efficiency. Drive real savings. And use those savings not merely to maintain your competitive position, but to drive it forward.

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Now free for US Kindle:

Let's Get Real: Bringing Authenticity and Wholeness to Your Marriage by Dale Forehand and Jena Forehand

The World-Tilting Gospel by Dan Phillips

My Sister's Voice by Mary Carter

Deadworld by J.N. Duncan

The Bite Before Christmas by Heidi Betts

Seaborne by Katherine Irons

SAS 9.3 ODS Graphics by SAS Publishing

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Wickedly Charming (Fates) by Kristine Grayson (Sourcebooks Casablanca)

Product Description
Cinderella's Prince Charming is divorced and at a dead-end in his career, so he opens a bookstore and travels the land ordering books and discovering new authors. Still handsome and still charming, he has given up on women, royalty, and anything that smacks of a future.

Mellie is sick and tired of being called the Evil Stepmother. She did her best by her stepdaughter Snow White, but the girl resented her to no end and made all kinds of false accusations.

Neither of them believes in happily ever after anymore, but both of them believe in happily for the moment...

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A Brisket, A Casket: (Deadly Deli Mystery) by Delia Rosen (Kensington Books)

Product Description
Murder’s on the menu in this savory debut.

Gwen (nee Katz) Silver heard the brisket at her uncle’s Jewish deli, Murray the Pastrami Swami—the only one of its kind in Nashville, Tennessee—was “to die for.” But she didn’t realize that meant literally…

When Gwen learns she’s inherited Murray’s, the native New Yorker leaves her chaotic career and messy divorce behind to start over in Nashville. But the venture seems doomed from the start. Murray’s taken his recipes and secret list of food suppliers to the grave with him, and ruthless real estate developer Royce Sinclair will stop at nothing to try and sandwich Murray’s into his already overstuffed portfolio. Then, on Kosher Karaoke Night, longtime customer Buster Sergeant bites into his brisket…and bites the dust. The coroner says food poisoning, but Gwen’s not convinced. Now, with the help of hunky police detective Beau McClintock, “Nashville Katz”—as Gwen is quickly nicknamed—will find herself adding “private investigator” to her resume—and a new love to her life.

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Presenting to Win : The Art of Telling Your Story: Updated and Expanded Edition by Jerry Weissman

Product Description

Named by FORTUNE Magazine as a "Must-Read"

Thirty million presentations will be given today. Millions will fail. Millions more will be received with yawns. A rare few will establish the most profound connection, in which presenter and audience understand each other perfectly…discover common ground… and, together, decide to act.

In this fully updated edition, Jerry Weissman, the world’s #1 presentation consultant, shows how to connect with even the toughest, most high-level audiences...and move them to action! He teaches presenters of all kinds how to dump those PowerPoint templates once and for all and tell compelling stories that focus on what’s in it for the audience.

Weissman’s techniques have proven themselves with billions of dollars on the line. Thousands of his elite clients have already mastered them. Now it’s your turn!

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A Beginner's Guide to Using Your iPad as a Business Productivity Tool by Dave Caolo

Product Description

Despite Apple's legendary ease of use, the iPad presents many users with a challenge. Its unique design, operating system, and applications--among other things--can be confounding to the very business people who would find it beneficial. The primary audience for this ebook is business people working in a corporate environment who have been issued an iPad by their employer and are looking to integrate the low-cost iPad into their workflow. Topics covered include syncing the iPad with Windows-based devices, working with spreadsheets, developing and presenting slideshows, app recommendations, and more.