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

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Bargain:

Alfred Habegger's My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson (biography) is $2.99 for the Kindle.

Product Description
Emily Dickinson, probably the most loved and certainly the greatest of American poets, continues to be seen as the most elusive. One reason she has become a timeless icon of mystery for many readers is that her developmental phases have not been clarified. In this exhaustively researched biography, Alfred Habegger presents the first thorough account of Dickinson’s growth–a richly contextualized story of genius in the process of formation and then in the act of overwhelming production.

Building on the work of former and contemporary scholars, My Wars Are Laid Away in Books brings to light a wide range of new material from legal archives, congregational records, contemporary women's writing, and previously unpublished fragments of Dickinson’s own letters. Habegger discovers the best available answers to the pressing questions about the poet: Was she lesbian? Who was the person she evidently loved? Why did she refuse to publish and why was this refusal so integral an aspect of her work? Habegger also illuminates many of the essential connection sin Dickinson’s story: between the decay of doctrinal Protestantism and the emergence of her riddling lyric vision; between her father’s political isolation after the Whig Party’s collapse and her private poetic vocation; between her frustrated quest for human intimacy and the tuning of her uniquely seductive voice.

The definitive treatment of Dickinson’s life and times, and of her poetic development, My Wars Are Laid Away in Books shows how she could be both a woman of her era and a timeless creator. Although many aspects of her life and work will always elude scrutiny, her living, changing profile at least comes into focus in this meticulous and magisterial biography.

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Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips by Kris Carr is now also free at Amazon UK.

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FYI, a new app for the Kindle: Easy Calculator (A Calculator for Kindle) by Mobigloo ($0.99)

Product Description
Easy Calculator is a simple and easy to use calculator for your Kindle. Whether you are calculating your restaurant tip, adding your recent expenses or just checking your math, Easy Calculator will always be traveling with you.

Specifically designed for the Kindle, Easy Calculator features all the basic operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, as well as percentage, square root, memory functions and more.

Our calculator is built around an innovative matching keyboard design which associates each key of the calculator with a key on the keyboard. This allows fast and easy keyboard input for all your calculations.

Easy Calculator is an essential tool for Kindle.

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Goodness Gracious Green, by Judy Christie, is free courtesy of Christian publisher Abingdon Press.

Book Description
Will Lois Barker put down roots in Green . . . or will small-town life be too tough? The charming and uncertain journalist is delighted with her decision to keep The Green News-Item and excited about the possibility of romance with her good-looking catfish farmer/coach neighbor and the growth of her fresh faith and friendships. Her second year in Green has scarcely been rung in, though, before Lois is wrung out. The former owners of the paper want it back. The mayor s dog bites her on the face. A series of fires threaten Lois. And while her friends blossom, Lois feels wilted. Although Lois finds fresh hopes turning stale in her second year in Green, in the midst of challenges and lessons, Lois's journey still explodes with possibilities!

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The Truth About Perfecting Your Presentation Skills (Collection), by Michael Solomon, James O'Rourke, Natalie Canavor, and Claire Meirowitz

Book Description
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!

150 powerful bite-size presentation and communication solutions for motivating any audience to action: colleagues, employees, customers, anyone!

Three full books of breakthrough techniques for presenting and communicating more effectively! Discover how to speak more confidently… prepare well, and manage anxiety… connect with any audience, especially customers… know when to sell the steak, and when to sell the sizzle… supercharge your business writing for web and print… and much more!

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Middleshift: More Power, More Purpose, and More Success for Managers Reader, by Vince Thompson

Book Description
Have you ever been maligned, misunderstood, downsized, reengineered, reorganized, or even misled? Even in the best organizations, you face brutal competition, non-stop pressure, and relentless change.

Ignited reveals the gathering forces that will offer you unprecedented opportunities to reshape your career and organization. It outlines clear, realistic steps for leveraging your networks and resources to transform your vision into reality, and accomplish powerful goals only you can achieve. This is not another diatribe on leadership or grand strategic vision written by those already at the top: the Jack Welches or Rudy Giulianis who can simply dictate their visions to the organization. Ignited is for those leading from the middle: managers who need real tools to make a real difference. If you’re ready to take back your business, your career, and your life, Ignited is for you.

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Antibiotic Resistance: Understanding and Responding to an Emerging Crisis, by Karl S. Drlica and David Perlin

Book Description
Once hailed as “magic bullets,” antibiotics are now used so widely that their success is threatening their effectiveness. The natural mutability of microbes is enabling pathogens to develop bulletproof shields that make antibiotic treatments useless. Meanwhile, it has become increasingly difficult to replace failing treatments with newer, more powerful antibiotics. If we fail to address resistance, we may lose control of infectious diseases, reverting back to the dangerous era before penicillin.

Fortunately, new ideas and principles have emerged for slowing the development of antibiotic resistance, both in individual patients and in the human population as a whole. Antibiotic Resistance introduces these crucial ideas to everyone who makes decisions about antibiotic use: doctors, medical providers, and healthcare administrators; public health professionals and government regulators; farmers and agricultural providers; and especially, individual patients.

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Business and Competitive Analysis Methods, by Craig S. Fleisher and Babette E. Bensoussan (list price $72!!)

Book Description
The Definitive How-To Guide for Business and Competitive Analysis

* Transform raw data into compelling, actionable business recommendations
* Answer the questions executives ask–“What?” “So What?” and “Now What?”
* Today’s 24 most valuable techniques: how to choose them, how to use them
* For everyone who performs analysis: managers, consultants, functional specialists, and strategists
* A completely new book by the authors of the popular Strategic and Competitive Analysis

Business success begins with deep clarity about your competition and your business environment. But, even as data gathering has improved dramatically, few business professionals know the state-of-the-art techniques for analyzing their data. Now there’s a comprehensive, immensely practical guide to today’s best tools and techniques for answering tough questions and making actionable recommendations.

Business and Competitive Analysis begins with end-to-end guidance on the analysis process, including defining problems, avoiding analytical pitfalls, choosing tools, and communicating results. Next, the authors offer detailed guides on 24 of today’s most valuable analysis models: techniques that have never been brought together in one book before.They offer in-depth, step-by-step guidance for using every technique–along with realistic assessments of strengths, weaknesses, feasibility, and business value.



You are flooded with data. This book will help you transform that data into actionable insights and recommendations that enterprise decision makers cannot and will not ignore. Craig S. Fleisher and Babette E. Bensoussan begin with a practical primer on the process and context of business and competitive analysis: how it works, how to avoid pitfalls, and how to communicate results. Next, they introduce their unique FAROUT method for choosing the right tools for each assignment. The authors then present 24 of today’s most valuable analysis methods.They cover “classic” techniques, such as McKinsey 7S and industry analysis, as well as emerging techniques from multiple disciplines:economics,corporate finance, sociology, anthropology, and the intelligence and futurist communities. For each, they present clear descriptions, background context, strategic rationales, strengths, weaknesses, step-by-step instructions, and references. The result is a book you can rely on to meet any analysis challenge, no matter how complex or novel.

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How to Make Money Marketing Your Business on LinkedIn, by Jamie Turner

Book Description
Discover powerful, proven LinkedIn social networking techniques for attracting new clients and customers!

What if you’re not Apple or Nike? What if you’re a CPA, interior designer, real estate agent, architect, consultant, or insurance agent? What if you don’t have a huge marketing budget? Good news! A social media tool you’re already familiar with, LinkedIn, can attract new clients and customers–and, if you use it right, it’s much more powerful than you thought.


How the Saints Went Kicking In, by Jeff Duncan, is a business short from FT Press.

Book Description
The New Orleans Saints were already pro football’s longtime losers. And after Hurricane Katrina turned them into refugees without a home field, their wreckage seemed complete. A permanent relocation was rumored. Enter Sean Payton. Hired as head coach by the Saints in 2006, the rookie turned the hapless team around with a determined mix of inspired recruiting, motivation, discipline, flawless execution, and a willingness to take calculated and prepared risks. In Payton’s biggest gamble, the Saints won Super Bowl XLIV. Leaders on and off the field can learn from him.

On February 7, 2010, the once-forsaken New Orleans Saints shocked the football world by upsetting the seemingly invincible Indianapolis Colts. Their improbable and gutsy Super Bowl XLIV win capped perhaps the greatest turnaround ever recorded in professional sports. Sean Payton, just four years into his first job as a head coach, showed himself a model for leaders everywhere.

The Saints had long been ridiculed as one of the worst franchises in pro sports--and not without reason. It took them two decades to record their first winning season and 33 years to win a post-season playoff game. In the early years, fans wore paper bags over their heads and dubbed the team the “Ain’ts.”

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(Savings by the bundle)

Romance author Robyn Carr's Virgin River books 1-4 is $9.99 for the Kindle. Bundle includes the first four novels in the series: Virgin River, Shelter Mountain, Whispering Rock and A Virgin River Christmas (*each book in the bundle if bought separately is priced at $5.00-$5.69).

Product Description

The tightly knit community of Virgin River has been a safe haven for more than a few lost souls over the years--and there's always room for more-

A recently widowed nurse thinks she's made a mistake coming to Virgin River--until an abandoned baby and former marine make her feel right at home. A marine who has seen his share of pain helps a woman in need, and discovers emotions he has never allowed himself to feel. A cop longs to settle down with the woman of his dreams--but must free her from a painful past first. And a woman tracks down the soldier who once saved her husband's life-and finds an emotionally wounded man who needs her help to open his heart.

Experience all the emotion, joy and romance as the residents and visitors of the small town of Virgin River find healing and love amongst the rugged beauty of the California mountains. Bundle includes the first four novels in Robyn Carr's beloved Virgin River series: Virgin River, Shelter Mountain, Whispering Rock and A Virgin River Christmas.

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FYI for UK Kindle readers:

Amazon.Uk just added a bunch of free books for their Kindle UK site (doubling the number of freebies). The new additions were all previously just free at Amazon main.

Just click on this search link for the Kindle UK freebies (120 free books are listed right now).

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Brain Bump Literature ($0.99), by Fanmillion, is an active content App for Kindle and says it is a "Trivia Game for Book Lovers", but there is an integration with the Kindle store, allowing you to link to a book or author from the game screen, without having to navigate out and type in a search.

App Description
Brain Bump Literature is a trivia game for book lovers. Challenge your passion and knowledge of fiction with over 700 trivia questions, test your memory, and re-discover old classics.

In the game you are presented with questions, names or quotes about popular books and authors and asked to select the right answer. Play to improve your score and see how far you can take your "Brain Streak" (a Brain Streak is an additional bonus you can earn when answering multiple consecutive questions correctly).

After answering, you can navigate to the Kindle Store through a link in the game, and browse for related books and authors.

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(Savings by the bundle)

Stephanie Bond's 'sexy mysteries' Body Movers books 1-3 is $8.25 for the Kindle. The bundle includes Body Movers, Body Movers: 2 Bodies for the Price of 1, and Body Movers: 3 Men and a Body plus a bonus story & a reading guide. (each book bought separately is around $5)

Product Description

Carlotta Wren once had a privileged life in Atlanta until her family life fell apart and she ended up working as a body mover, moving bodies from crimes scenes to the morgue! And that's just the beginning of her adventures...

Get the first three books in Stephanie Bond's series of sexy mysteries Body Movers, Body Movers: 2 Bodies for the Price of 1, and Body Movers: 3 Men and a Body plus a bonus story Dirty Secrets of Daylily Drive and a Body Movers Reading Guide!

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Bargain book:

20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill is $0.99 (price just dropped from $9.99). This is a collection of fantasy-horror short stories from Joe Hill (Stephen King's son).

Product Description

Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . .

Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isn't easy to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town. . . .

Francis is unhappy. Francis was human once, but that was then. Now he's an eight-foot-tall locust and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . .

John Finney is locked in a basement that's stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. In the cellar with him is an antique telephone, long since disconnected, but which rings at night with calls from the dead. . . .

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Sudoku Unbound #1 ($2.99), is a new Kindle Active Content App from Puzzazz, the makers of Wordoku Unbound #1 ($2.99), which I have (and like) and has all 5-star reviews. Since this should be essentially the same interface, but with traditional numbers instead of words, I think I'd ignore the lone 1-star review posted (complete with a nonsense title and misspellings in the body and was not posted by a verified purchaser).

Book Description
Crazy about Sudoku? Then this book of one hundred, fun, elegant, carefully crafted Sudoku puzzles is what you're looking for - these are some of the best Sudoku puzzles you'll find anywhere.

This Unbound puzzle collection gives you a great solving experience right on the page. Of course, you can use in-cell notes as you solve, just like you do on paper. If you're having trouble, move on to a different puzzle - you can always turn back to that page later. Or, get a hint and keep going.

You'll be both challenged and delighted with this book of puzzles that fit your personal skill level, because you can change from easy to medium to hard or back at any time. Whatever your skill and solving style, you'll appreciate that each puzzle can be played at three levels of difficulty.