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

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The Servants' Quarters by Lynn Freed is $2.86 at the US Kindle store (it's $9.99 at B&N)

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Haunted by phantoms of World War II and the Holocaust, young Cressida lives in terror of George Harding, who, severely disfigured, has returned from the front to recover on his family’s African estate. When Harding plucks young Cressida’s beautiful mother and family from financial ruin, establishing them in the old servants’ quarters, Cressida is swept into a life inexorably bound to his.

In her new setting, she is conscripted to enliven Harding’s nephew, the hopelessly timid Edgar, to make him “wild and daring.” She takes on this task with resentful fury, leading the boy astray and, in the process, learning to manipulate the disparities of power, class, and ambition. All the while, Harding himself is watching her. And waiting.

The Servants’ Quarters, a complex and sophisticated love story, evokes a vanishing world of privilege with a Pygmalion twist. It is, as Amy Tan said, “Freed’s best novel yet.”

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FYI, currently free for those in the UK:

PR 2.0: New Media, New Tools, New Audiences by Deirdre Breakenridge (Amazon Main, Amazon UK)

Product Description

This is the eBook version of the printed book.

The New Future of Public Relations!



In today’s Web 2.0 world, traditional methods of communication won’t reach your audiences, much less convince them. Here’s the good news: Powerful new tools offer you an unprecedented opportunity to start a meaningful two-way conversation with everyone who matters to you. In PR 2.0, Deirdre Breakenridge helps you master these tools and use them to the fullest possible advantage in all your public relations work.



You’ll learn the best ways to utilize blogs, social networking, online newswires, RSS technology, podcasts, and the rest of today’s Web 2.0 tools. Breakenridge shows how to choose the right strategies for each PR scenario and environment, keep the best Web 1.0 tools, and stop using outmoded tactics that have rapidly become counterproductive.



Breakenridge introduces an extraordinary array of new PR best practices, including setting up online newsrooms, using visual and social media in releases, and leveraging new online research and analytics tools. She offers powerful new ways to think about PR, plan for it, and react to the new PR challenges the Web presents. Breakenridge also includes interviews with today’s leading PR 2.0 practitioners.

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Also free at Amazon.co.uk:
How to Innovate in Marketing (Collection) by Rawn Shah

This is the eBook version of the printed book.

A brand new collection of essential insights for your business and career from world-renowned experts…now in a convenient e-format, at a great price!



Breakthrough marketing techniques for reigniting growth and profitability! Real-time marketing, social networking, Web 3.0, and more!



Three full books of proven solutions for driving breakthrough growth and profitability! Master a six-step strategy for real-time marketing that reignites growth… choose the right social networking tools and resources for your business… reach and motivate customers using advanced Web 3.0 marketing techniques your competitors haven’t discovered yet… and much more!



From world-renowned leaders and experts, including Monique Reece, Rawn Shah, and Michael Scott Tasner

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0047T86H4?tag=discounter-21

Also free at Amazon.de:
How to Innovate in Marketing (Collection)

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Also free at Amazon.co.uk:
Brains: How They Seem to Work by Dale Purves

For 50 years, the world’s most brilliant neuroscientists have struggled to understand how human brains really work. Today, says Dale Purves, the dominant research agenda may have taken us as far as it can—and neuroscientists may be approaching a paradigm shift.



In this highly personal book, Purves reveals how we got to this point and offers his notion of where neuroscience may be headed next. Purves guides you through a half-century of the most influential ideas in neuroscience and introduces the extraordinary scientists and physicians who created and tested them.



Purves offers a critical assessment of the paths that neuroscience research has taken, their successes and their limitations, and then introduces an alternative approach for thinking about brains. Building on new research on visual perception, he shows why common ideas about brain networks can’t be right and uncovers the factors that determine our subjective experience. The resulting insights offer a deeper understanding of what it means to be human. <UL> <LI>Why we need a better conception of what brains are trying to do and how they do it
Approaches to understanding the brain over the past several decades may be at an impasse</LI> <LI>The surprising lessons that can be learned from what we see
How complex neural processes owe more to trial-and-error experience than to logical principles</LI> <LI>Brains—and the people who think about them
Meet some of the extraordinary individuals who’ve shaped neuroscience</LI> <LI>The “ghost in the machine” problem
The ideas presented further undermine the concept of free will</LI></UL>

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0030TY1L2?tag=discounter-21

Also free at Amazon.de:
Brains: How They Seem to Work

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Also free at Amazon.co.uk:
The Truth About the New Rules of Business Writing by Natalie Canavor

Business writing that packs a punch: Make the most of your message to get what you want! <UL> <LI>The truth about supercharging your business writing</LI> <LI>The truth about writing directly, clearly, and convincingly</LI> <LI>The truth about writing in today’s varied business formats</LI></UL>



Simply the best thinking

THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH



This book reveals 52 proven, bite-size, easy-to-use business writing techniques that work.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0031PXEGS?tag=discounter-21


Also free at Amazon.de:
The Truth About the New Rules of Business Writing

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Also free at Amazon.co.uk:
How to Make Money with Social Media: An Insider's Guide on Using New and Emerging Media to Grow Your Business by Jamie Turner

Want to earn big profits from social media?

Now, there’s an authoritative, up-to-the-minute resource you can trust–and use.



This in-the-trenches guide is written by experts who’ve developed money-making marketing campaigns for many of the world’s largest companies. Jamie Turner and Reshma Shah, Ph.D., combine practical strategies and proven execution techniques to show how to avoid crucial pitfalls that other companies have encountered, how to make the most of limited resources, and how to strengthen your brand instead of placing it at risk.



Turner and Shah present realistic guidance for setting objectives, assessing competitors, crafting strategies, selecting platforms, integrating social media into broader marketing programs, and effectively measuring results. Whether you’re a marketer, executive, or entrepreneur, this book will help you drive maximum business value from social media–starting right now.



<U>Big ideas and immediate action steps:</U>

How to set up a social media campaign for success

...and how to get a positive return on your investment

How to profit from YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter

…and go way beyond them

Why your first social media campaign failed

…and what to do differently next time

What to measure, how to measure it

…and how to act on what you learn

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003ZUYIZU?tag=discounter-21

Also free at Amazon.de:
How to Make Money with Social Media: An Insider's Guide on Using New and Emerging Media to Grow Your Business by Jamie Turner

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Also free at Amazon.de:
PR 2.0: New Media, New Tools, New Audiences by Deirdre Breakenridge

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Now free again at the US Kindle store:

PR 2.0: New Media, New Tools, New Audiences by Deirdre Breakenridge

How to Innovate in Marketing (Collection) by Rawn Shah, Monique Reece and Michael Tasner

How to Make Money with Social Media: An Insider's Guide on Using New and Emerging Media to Grow Your Business by Jamie Turner and Reshma Shah

The Truth About the New Rules of Business Writing by Natalie Canavor and Claire Meirowitz

Brains: How They Seem to Work by Dale Purves

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Bargain book:

Coal Black Horse by Robert Olmstead is $1.49 at the US Kindle store (B&N has it at $9.99)

Book Description
When Robey Childs's mother has a premonition about her husband, a soldier fighting in the Civil War, she does the unthinkable. She instructs her only child to retrieve his father from the battlefield and bring him home. Just fourteen and ill-prepared for the journey, Robey sets off wearing the coat his mother sewed to ensure his safety: blue on one side, gray on the other. However, it is the gift of an uncommon horse that changes Robey's destiny— a horse that becomes his only companion, guide, and protector.

As they plunge into a world of death and destruction, Robey is cloaked in the invincibility of youth. But the horrors of war, the truth of his own nature, and the inextricable connection between the two turn the boy into the best a man can be—and the worst, irrevocably scarred by all that he has seen and done.

This "powerful, redemptive narrative" in the tradition of The Red Badge of Courage is a brutally honest portrait of what war does to men and how it allows—even compels—them to love what they should hate.

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Bargain book:

JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy by L. Fletcher Prouty is $1.99 at the US Kindle store (B&N has it at $9.99)

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The true story of the man who inspired Oliver Stone's JFK

Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty, the former CIA operative known as “X,” offers a history-shaking perspective on the assassination of president John F. Kennedy. His theories were the basis for Oliver Stone’s controversial movie JFK. Prouty believed that Kennedy’s death was a coup d’état, and he backs this belief up with his knowledge of the security arrangements at Dallas and other tidbits that only a CIA insider would know (for example, that every member of Kennedy’s cabinet was abroad at the time of Kennedy’s assassination). His discussion of the elite power base he believes controlled the U.S. government will scare and enlighten anyone who wants to know who was really behind the assassination of John F. Kennedy. 40 black-and-white illustrations

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I'm not familiar with these series, but these are all currently free from HarperCollins (pre-order):

The Last Apprentice Prequel by Joseph Delaney

The Last Apprentice: A Coven of Witches by Joseph Delaney and Patrick Arrasmith

The Last Apprentice: Attack of the Fiend by Joseph Delaney and Patrick Arrasmith

The Last Apprentice: Clash of the Demons by Joseph Delaney

The Last Apprentice: Curse of the Bane by Joseph Delaney

More:

The Last Apprentice: Night of the Soul Stealer by Joseph Delaney

The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch by Joseph Delaney and Patrick Arrasmith

The Last Apprentice: Rise of the Huntress by Joseph Delaney

The Last Apprentice: The Spook's Tale (Last Apprentice (Quality)) by Joseph Delaney

The Last Apprentice: Wrath of the Bloodeye by Joseph Delaney

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FYI, currently free only for those with Kindles registered in Europe ($8.76 for US people at the moment). This is Christian fiction.

Her Best Catch by Lindi Peterson (from Bell Bridge Books Publishing)

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Allison Doll's mother is rebelliously turning fifty, her two best friends have started dating and a gorgeous injured relief pitcher named Ashton Boyd has joined her Sunday school class, rocking her world into confusion, heartache and temptation, places she hasn't visited in a long time, much less all at once.But with the help of family, old friends she really hasn't lost, a new friend she really can count on, and God, she begins to find out whether she'll always be a girl waiting for life to happen or a woman who's ready to commit to her best catch.

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FYI, currently free pre-order only for those with Kindles registered in Europe ($5.59 for US people at the moment).

The Leader's Checklist: 15 Mission-Critical Principles by Michael Useem (from Wharton Digital Press)

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From the award-winning author of The Leadership Moment comes a definitive checklist to help today’s leaders act decisively when it counts the most.

In this fast-reading and illuminating book, world-renowned leadership expert Michael Useem provides 15 guiding principles that form the core of the Leader’s Checklist. He helps you to personalize your checklist to the unique needs and demands of your organization. To demonstrate the power of the Leader’s Checklist, Useem examines accounts of extraordinary leadership, including the triumphant rescue of 33 miners in Chile.

Based on solid research and years of leadership development work with a wide array of companies and organizations in the United States and abroad, The Leader’s Checklist will help you develop your ability to make good and timely decisions in unpredictable and stressful environments—for those moments when leadership really matters.

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Bargain book:

The Duke And I with Bonus Material by Julia Quinn ($1.99 pre-order via US Kindle) *The book without the bonus content is $7.99

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Simon Basset, the irresistible Duke of Hastings, has hatched a plan to keep himself free from the town's marriage-minded society mothers. He pretends to be engaged to the lovely Daphne Bridgerton. After all, it isn't as if the brooding rogue has any real plans to marry - though there is something about the alluring Miss Bridgerton that sets Simon's heart beating a bit faster. And as for Daphne, surely the clever debutante will attract some very worthy suitors now that it seems a duke has declared her desirable. But as Daphne waltzes across ballroom after ballroom with Simon, she soon forgets that their courtship is a complete sham. And now she has to do the impossible and keep herself from losing her heart and soul completely to the handsome hell-raiser who has sworn off marriage forever!

For a limited time, discover Julia Quinn for only $1.99! Plus, dip into excerpts from new releases by Julia, Elizabeth Boyle, and Caroline Linden.

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Bargain book:

Duchess in Love with Bonus Material by Eloisa James ($1.99 pre-order for US Kindle) *The book without the bonus content is $7.99

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A Lady In the Middle … A Duchess in Love …

For a limited time, take a trip back in time with Duchess in Love by New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James for only $1.99! And as a bonus, read excerpts from the next three novels in the series, Fool For Love, A Wild Pursuit, and Your Wicked Ways.