FREE/BARGAIN - Non-Fiction - 2015

[Little.Egret]

by Charles River Editors

The Weird Wild West: Tall Tales and Legends about the Frontier

Native American Tribes: The History and Culture of the Utes

The Trench Warfare of World War I: The History and Legacy of the Great War's Primary Method of Combat

Black Tuesday: The History and Legacy of the Wall Street Stock Market Crash of 1929

http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-...=charles+river

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=searc...=charles+river
http://www.amazon.ca/s/?url=search-a...=charles+river

Winchester to Bristol: Riding Route 11 Through the Mountains of Virginia (Lake Champlaign to Pontchartrain: Riding Route 11 Through the Backroads of America) by Talmadge Walker

A description of the towns and sights along the "Great Wagon Road" of western Virginia.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CR1OOJI/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00CR1OOJI/
http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00CR1OOJI/

[sufue]

Per an email I received this morning, if you are a Washington Post subscriber, they are offering eight free books from their e-book collection right now, as part of their "Post Points" program. Unfortunately the links all seem to be tied to my account; when I try to get them from "outside", they don't work. So this is really just a heads-up - if you are also a Washington Post subscriber, check your registered email address for an email about this offer.

Just for reference, the e-books are:

three by Post staff

22 Lives in 2014: Obituaries from The Washington Post

The Case Against Cosby: Sex-Assault Allegations Recast Star’s Legacy

The Great Society: 50 Years Later

five Post Pulitzer Prize winners

Phil Kennicott: Criticism, Commentary On The Fine Arts

Anthony Shadid: International Reporting, The War In Iraq

Gene Weingarten: Feature Writing, Collection of Magazine Writing

Sarah Kaufman: Criticism, Commentary On Dance

Kathleen Parker, Commentary, Collection of Columns


I wish I could figure out links that would work outside of my subscription, but I can't. But at least now if you are a subscriber, you know to check your email...

[Little.Egret]

llya Repin: 285+ Realist Paintings - Russian Realism by Daniel Ankele

(Revised 2/2015 - formatted for Kindle HDX, HD, Kindle for iOS and Android tablets.)

Book contains 285+ HD Reproductions of portraits, landscapes, religious and genre scenes with annotations and interesting facts page

ILYA REPIN born: August 5, 1844 in Chuguyev, Russian Empire.
died September 29, 1930 in Kuokkala, Finland.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005LAEIFC/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005LAEIFC/
http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B005LAEIFC/

[tubemonkey]

LearnOutLoud -- Free Audiobook of the Month -- exp 28 Feb

• FREE - Lincoln: The Great Speeches -- Abraham Lincoln -- read by Seth Anderson -- 1.9 hrs

The great speeches collected here serve as a good indicator of how Lincoln's thinking evolved during a turbulent era, especially with regard to his views on state's rights and the role of national governance. One can also track how his outlook on slavery started as a question of constitutional interpretation to growing alarm over a territorial crisis that eventually engulfed the nation in civil conflict. As one studies Lincoln's words, his clear, sober-minded rationale for the course of action he thought the nation should take reflect his legal background, and offer a compelling portrait of the inner workings of a mind that was both decisive when necessary and infused with a burning compassion that nevertheless unclouded his judgement.

Included here are the following speeches, presented in chronological order:

• Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, January 27, 1838
• The House Divided Speech, June 16, 1858
• The Cooper Union Speech, February 27, 1860
• Lincoln's Farewell Address, February 11, 1861
• First inaugural Address, March 4, 1861
• The Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863
• The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863
• Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

LearnOutLoud -- Free Audiobook of the Month -- exp 28 Feb

• FREE - Lincoln: The Great Speeches -- Abraham Lincoln -- read by Seth Anderson -- 1.9 hrs

Not a LibriVox recording (read: non-professional narration). Yay!

[Dngrsone]

For those who are stuck on the PBS show (Dngrswife): Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle for $1.99 Amazon Barnes & Noble

[ATDrake]

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

The Scent of God: A Memoir by Beryl Singleton Bissell, an autobiographical account of spiritual calling, temporal passion, and conflict of faith by a former nun, originally out from the Perseus Book Group's Counterpoint imprint in 2006. This has favourable quoted reviews from Publishers Weekly and other newspaper outlets.

On the day following her eighteenth birthday, Beryl enters a cloistered convent in New Jersey, believing that God has called her to this way of life. After ten years in the convent—years spent experiencing periods of bliss and others of inner torment—she is called to Puerto Rico to help care for her ailing father. Once there she meets Padre Vittorio, a handsome Italian priest, and discovers that her religious garb cannot protect her from her budding sexuality. For the next three years, as she travels to and from the island, she struggles to reconcile human desire with spiritual longing. Unable to confide in either her mother or abbess, she tries to find the inner freedom that would allow her to love fully. The events that follow take the reader on a dizzying journey into the heart of desire, both spiritual and human.

In spare but lyric language, Bissell weaves a powerful story of love, death, guilt, and redemption—a pilgrimage that reaches beyond dogmas to personal truth and evokes a transformation that changes not only Beryl but the lives of those whom she most loves.

[Little.Egret]

These Northern Shores by John Peterson

Published: 2 May 2012 New Edition July 2014

The Shetland Isles.
Among the many subjects covered are Shetland in the First World War, the building of Fort Charlotte in Lerwick, Earl Patrick Stewart, John Gow the Orkney Pirate, Shetlanders and the Press Gang, Sir Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson in 19th Century Shetland, a history of whaling in Shetland and the story of Christian Salvesen & Co, the mining of Lerwick harbour during the First World War, a history of the North Boats in Orkney and Shetland, the sinking of the New Sevilla, the life and death of Lord Kitchener and the terrorist bombing of Sullom Voe in May 1981.

If you have the old edition you may have to delete it to buy this !

(Same ASIN but no automatic update).

Not marked as update available either.

(check the introduction is dated July 2014)

I have just had to contact Amazon CS (I used chat) to get the updated edition.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008058WLQ/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B008058WLQ/
http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B008058WLQ/

[ATDrake]

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon: (linkage for the lot)

Unknown Seas: The Portuguese Captains and the Passage to India by Ronald Watkins (Wikipedia), a maritime & international trade history about Exactly What It Says In The Title, originally out from Hachette's Hodder Headline division's John Murray imprint (Wikipedia, a centuries-old publisher which handled among others, Jane Austen, the Charles-es Darwin & Lyell, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle before they were bought out by Hachette) in 2003.

Wikipedia says that this was nominated for a Mountbatten Maritime Prize (Wikipedia).

In the fifteenth century, the world beyond Europe began to emerge from myth and legend, and it was the Portuguese who led the way. They founded an empire that stretched from China to Brazil, and the peak of their achievement was Vasco da Gama's discovery of a sea route to India.

Still today, landmarks, coastlines and currents around the world bear Portuguese names, and the oceans of the world are one vast watery grave for Portuguese seamen. For those who sailed beyond the known world life was harsh beyond measure. Yet the discoverers were not lured only by gold, precious stones and spices -- they were driven to colonise, to enslave, to bring their religion to the unconverted.

Reconstructing journeys from contemporary logs and papers, this absorbing and wonderfully vivid account brings to life the captains driving their small ships, the ordinary seamen and the far-off, not always friendly traders they met.

Watkins also offers a number of self-pub-looking mystery/suspense thrillers and a holiday-topical romance, if you're interested.

[GtrsRGr8]

This should be an authoritative biography of Tolkien--the author, Colin Duriez, has written numerous books on Tolkien and his works (along with C.S. Lewis and his works). Those books are all highly to very highly rated.

JRR Tolkien. By Colin Duriez. Rated 4 1/2 stars, from 41 reviews at the present moment. Print list price $16.95; digital list price $16.95; regular digital price $10.99; Kindle price now $0.99. Lion Books, publisher. 250 pages. http://www.amazon.com/JRR-Tolkien-Co...tolkien+duriez.

I happen to have noticed that the price of this book at Christianbook (ePub, DRM Free) is $0.79. That means that most, if not all, of the "usual suspects"--Kobo, Google Play, Barnes & Noble, et al.--probably have similar markdowns now on this book.

Book Description
Long before the successful The Lord of the Rings films, J.R.R. Tolkien’s creations, imagination, and characters had captured the attention of millions of readers. But who was the man who dreamt up the intricate languages and perfectly crafted world of Middle-earth?

[ATDrake]

Free from the specialty concept project via KDP Select @ Amazon:

The Places We've Been: Field Reports from Travelers Under 35 edited by Asha Veal Brisebois, a collection of travelogue essays from a broad range of international creative & media figures including a Marvel Comics editor, a BBC journalist, a reality TV show producer, magazine editors, charity activists, student scientists, and a few ordinary people, etc. A few of the pieces have been previously published in outlets including The Huffington Post.

Today, young people are traveling to countries such as South Sudan to work in water treatment, and Vietnam to shoot documentaries about healing after war. They are joining in to perform air guitar at festivals in Finland, and listening intently from within the audience at community film screenings in Rwanda.

The challenge of today is not just "where do I fit in one small place," but identity and interaction throughout the world.

The Places We've Been: Field Reports from Travelers Under 35 offers a peer-written collection of 48 vivid and transportive, personal and original nonfiction pieces that portray contemporary snapshots across the globe. (partial list of contributors and their credentials are named in the full blurb)

[GA Russell]

Ultimate Prepper Stockpile and Barter Handbook - free
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00P4DUH6K/...3520_TE_M1T1DP

[AnemicOak]

Thunderstruck by Erik Larson - $1.99
Amazon US | Google | not dropped anywhere else right now

In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication—whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time.

Set in Edwardian London and on the stormy coasts of Cornwall, Cape Cod, and Nova Scotia, Thunderstruck evokes the dynamism of those years when great shipping companies competed to build the biggest, fastest ocean liners; scientific advances dazzled the public with visions of a world transformed; and the rich outdid one another with ostentatious displays of wealth. Against this background, Marconi races against incredible odds and relentless skepticism to perfect his invention: the wireless, a prime catalyst for the emergence of the world we know today. Meanwhile, Crippen, “the kindest of men,” nearly commits the perfect murder.

With his unparalleled narrative skills, Erik Larson guides us through a relentlessly suspenseful chase over the waters of the North Atlantic. Along the way, he tells of a sad and tragic love affair that was described on the front pages of newspapers around the world, a chief inspector who found himself strangely sympathetic to the killer and his lover, and a driven and compelling inventor who transformed the way we communicate.

[Little.Egret]

Endeavour Press

Amphibious Thing: The Life of Lord Hervey by Lucy Moore

Lord Hervey - strikingly handsome courtier, confidant of Queen Caroline and right-hand man to Prime Minister Walpole - was the darling of the glittering court of George II.

Painted by Hogarth and satirized by Fielding and Pope, he counted among his friends and enemies some of the most brilliant men and women of the eighteenth century.

In private, however, he led a rakish life that was - even by the mores of the age's debauched aristocracy - scandalous.

In `Amphibious Thing', Lucy Moore brings to life the intrigues, the illicit liaisons and the petty rivalries that surrounded Lord Hervey and that finally led to his fall from grace.

`A highly intelligent, supremely enjoyable biographical study of the life and times of a celebrated rake and a brilliant picture of eighteenth-century aristocratic life in all its brittle artifice.' - Robert McCrum, Observer

`A vivid survey of courtly life, with its elaborate feasts and intimate parlour games, polite formal rituals and spiteful personal squabbles.' - The Times Literary Supplement

Lucy Moore is the author of the critically acclaimed `The Thieves' Opera: The Remarkable Lives and Deaths of Jonathan Wild, Thief-Taker, and Jack Sheppard, House-Breaker'.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00RD0FUAU/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00RD0FUAU/
http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00RD0FUAU/

[Little.Egret]

Dance Between Flames: Berlin Between the Wars by Anton Gill

Between November 1919 and September 1939, many of this century's most sensational events in politics, the arts, theatre, cinema and night life took place in Berlin, where vulgarity and greatness lived side by side.
High culture, epitomized in the works of Brecht, Max Reinhardt and Erwin Piscator, was matched by the city's glamorously decadent night-life.
Part-politicized and part-criminal clubs thrived, the cabaret of political life sharing the same colour and exoticism as the city's underworld elements.
Anton Gill expertly describes both the political and cultural history of Berlin through those historic years.
He sketches the characters of scientists, actors and actresses, composers, conductors, painters and businessmen in an era which is arguably the nearest thing to a Renaissance revival the 20th century has seen.

Combining outstanding erudition with a compelling narrative, `A Dance Between Flames' offers a consistently fascinating overview of a key period in Germany's troubled history.

`Immensely informative and readable...Gill fills in the political history of Berlin between the wars with brilliantly evocative passages describing the cultural scene in theatre, opera, cinema, architecture, cafés and clubs' - Stephen Spender in The Times

Anton Gill has been a freelance writer since 1984, specialising in European contemporary history but latterly branching out into historical fiction. He is the winner of the H H Wingate Award for non-fiction for his study of survivors of the Nazi concentration camps, `The Journey Back From Hell'.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00S15831Y/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00S15831Y/
http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00S15831Y/