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

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These are the newly free VOOK books. All can be read on any Kindle device or app, but any with "[Kindle Edition with Audio/Video]" will have content that is only downloaded and viewable on an Apple device (for some books, that may be the majority of the content).

1. Vegetarian Indian Cooking: The How-To Guide
2. Yoga for Stress Relief: The How-To Guide
3. Talk to Your Kids About Sex: The How-To Guide
4. Talk to Your Kids About Sex: The Video Guide [Kindle Edition with Audio/Video]
5. Switching to Mac: The How-To Guide
6. StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty: Video Game Guide [Kindle Edition with Audio/Video]
7. Videogames: A Brief History
8. Tokyo: A Brief History (Enhanced Version) [Kindle Edition with Audio/Video]
9. Shanghai: A Brief History (Enhanced Version) [Kindle Edition with Audio/Video]
10. Space Shuttle: A Brief History (Enhanced Version) [Kindle Edition with Audio/Video]
11. The 1940s: A Brief History (Enhanced Version) [Kindle Edition with Audio/Video]
12. The 1950s: A Brief History
13. The 1960s: A Brief History
14. The 1970s: A Brief History (Enhanced Version) [Kindle Edition with Audio/Video]
15. The 1980s: A Brief History
16. The 1990s: A Brief History
17. The 2000s: A Brief History
18. Yellowstone National Park: A Visitor's Quick Guide
19. Tim Pawlenty: A Politician's Journey

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The Keeper: A Short Story Prequel to Forbidden by Ted Dekker and Tosca Lee (Center Street)

Product Description
In the Russian wasteland, a man named Talus bears a secret so terrible that it will cost him no less than his life to share it... a secret so terrible that he must share it in order to find those who will help him protect the knowledge that will one day save humanity. He has chosen two brothers, both hermit monks, to join him in his quest. But time is short... and no man is ready to receive the news that Talus must now share with them both: That they are both already dead.

THE KEEPER is the short story prequel to Forbidden, the first novel in The Books of Mortals series. First there was the Circle Trilogy. Now a new stunning epic begins.

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FYI, currently just free for those in the UK

Night Birds' Reign (Dreamer's Cycle) by Holly Taylor ( Medallion Press) (Amazon Main, Amazon UK)

Product Description
The High King is dead. The land is in peril. A child has been born to save his people. But a traitor lurks with evil in his mind and murder in his heart, dogging the footsteps of those who protect the babe who would be king. But magic is at work, high magic. Gwydion the Dreamer awakes, screaming, from a prophetic dream of tragedy and loss, a dream peopled by kings of the past. Though he thinks he is not ready, the Shining Ones lay a task upon him: protect young Arthur; and locate Caladfwlch, the lost sword of the last, murdered High King of Kymru. Dodging assassins to find the woman who holds the key to unlock a horrible secret, and fighting the longings of his own shattered heart, Gwydion sets out upon his odyssey. And finds that fate cannot be fulfilled without sacrificing the life of someone he loves.

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FYI, currently just free for those in the UK

Leading from the Sandbox by T. J. Addington (Navpress) (Amazon Main, Amazon UK)

Product Description
A child’s sandbox is a place where creativity and fun are synonymous. Likewise, our ministries should be fun, inspiring, and challenging.

Leading from the Sandbox is a how-to manual for developing high-impact teams in your ministry or church. Discover what your local church, missions organization, or ministry is all about.

This leader's resource is ideal for the pastor or leader who wants to deal with team members in a positive way, determine a central ministry focus, mentor others, and much more.

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FYI, currently just free for those in the UK

The End of Religion: Encountering the Subversive Spirituality of Jesus by Bruxy Cave (Navpress) (Amazon Main, Amazon UK)

Product Description
Throughout the history of our world, religion has been a
contentious concept. Battles have been launched, people killed, and
judgments proclaimed all in the name of fervent beliefs. Even today, strife
rages around the world as groups insist they represent God's true
intentions. But what if God himself has no interest in religion?

Author Bruxy Cavey asserts that Christ came to earth not to create a new
religion but to destroy the very idea. To permanently shatter every barrier
that exists between God and people. To unite and not divide.


In The End of Religion, Cavey shares that relationship has no room for
religion. Believers and seekers alike will discover anew the wondrous
promise found in our savior. And Christ's eternal call to walk in love and
freedom will resonate with readers of all ages and denominations.

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Back to free again, but currently just for Uk Kindle:


Buck-Naked Faith: A Brutally Honest Look at Stunted Christianity by Eric Sandras (Amazon Main, Amazon UK)

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The Fate of Katherine Carr (Otto Penzler Books) by Thomas H. Cook is $2.85 (still $9.99 at B&N) from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Product Description
George Gates used to be a travel writer who specialized in places where people disappeared—Judge Crater, the Lost Colony.Then his eight-year-old son was murdered, the killer never found, and Gates gave up disappearance. Now he writes stories of redemptive triviality about flower festivals and local celebrities for the town paper, and spends his evenings haunted by the image of his son’s last day.

Enter Arlo MacBride, a retired missing-persons detective still obsessed with the unsolved case of Katherine Carr. When he gives Gates the story she left behind—a story of a man stalking a woman named Katherine Carr—Gates too is drawn inexorably into a search for the missing author’s brief life and uncertain fate. And as he goes deeper, he begins to suspect that her tale holds the key not only to her fate, but to his own.

About the Author

THOMAS H. COOK was born in Fort Payne, Alabama. He has been nominated for Edgar Awards seven times in five different categories. He received the Best Novel Edgar, the Barry for Best Novel, and has been nominated for numerous other awards.

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Pig Island by Mo Hayder from Atlantic Monthly Press ($0.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Sept 19) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

A startling and uncompromising thriller of religious fanatics, hoax debunkers, and the dark side of belief, Pig Island confirms Mo Hayder as a talented and compelling author of creepy, convincing fiction.

The acclaimed author of The Devil of Nanking returns with a riveting, disturbing thriller of religious fanatics, hoax debunkers, and the dark side of belief. Journalist Joe Oakes makes a living exposing supernatural hoaxes, but when he visits a secretive religious community on a remote Scottish island, everything he thought he knew is overturned. On the trial of a strange creature caught briefly on film, so deformed it can hardly be human, Oakes crosses a border of electrical fencing, toxin-filled oil drums, and pigs’ skulls to infiltrate the territory of the groups’ isolated founder, Malachi Dove. Their confrontation, and its violent aftermath, is so catastrophic that it forces Oakes to question the nature of evil—and whether he might be responsible for the heinous crime about to unfold. Startling and uncompromising, Pig Island confirms Mo Hayder as one of the most talented, compelling thriller writers now working.

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Now also free for US:

Night Birds' Reign (Dreamer's Cycle) by Holly Taylor

Leading from the Sandbox by T. J. Addington

The End of Religion: Encountering the Subversive Spirituality of Jesus by Bruxy Cave

Buck-Naked Faith: A Brutally Honest Look at Stunted Christianity by Eric Sandras

Sarah's Diary by Tshombe Kelly

Product Description
Sarah's Diary was discovered in a home amongst the gruesome carnage of three badly decomposed bodies. She was nowhere to be found. Many years have passed since those horrible murders took place and now her story has been released to the public for review.

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Endless War: Middle-Eastern Islam vs. Western Civilization by Ralph Peters (Stackpole Books)

Product Description
Endless War features controversial strategist Ralph Peters at his most provocative and popular, raising perceptive, often shocking questions others fear to ask. In a sweeping collection that ranges from Muslim triumphs a thousand years ago through the turning of the tide between East and West to the brutal unconventional struggles of today and tomorrow, former Military Intelligence Officer Peters extends his successful series of books on strategy and security affairs that have won him diehard fans for his insight, firsthand experience, and frankness. Endless War engages the toughest security issues of our time, including,
-Does our Afghan war make sense? Do we even have a strategy?
-Has flawed military planning left our troops as virtual hostages in combat zones?
-Can Israel survive? What would an Iranian nuclear arsenal mean for the world?
-Is Islam a "religion of peace," or has the war between Islam and Western Civilization continued virtually without interruption for almost fourteen centuries?
-Why doesn't the greatest superpower in history win more often? Are we our own worst enemies?
-Have we lost our sense of warfare's reality? Why don't we fight to win?
-Do terrorist prisoners really deserve better treatment than American citizens?
-What's the true price of striking serious history courses from our schools?
-Who does deeper damage to the United States, our violent enemies or an arrogant ruling elite?

In powerful prose combining clarity with passion, Ralph Peters continues to shape our country's military and strategic thought, while standing up for our troops and American values. No book on strategy or foreign affairs this year will be fiercer or more brutally honest. As ever more dark clouds gather over the world, this is a voice we need!

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Free again for US Kindle:

The Truth About Negotiations by by Leigh L. Thompson (FT Press)

Product Description
You can learn to be a world-class negotiator and get what you want!

• The truth about how to prepare within one hour
• The truth about negotiating with friends, colleagues, and spouses
• The truth about the win-win litmus test

This book reveals 53 PROVEN NEGOTIATION PRINCIPLES and bite-size, easy-to-use techniques that work.

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The Power of Impossible Thinking: Transform the Business of Your Life and the Life of Your Business by Colin Crook, Robert E. Gunther and Yoram (Jerry) Wind (Pearson Prentice Hall)

Product Description
This book is about getting better at making sense of the world...so you can make decisions that respond to reality, not some obsolete model of reality.
Drawing on the latest neuroscientific research and their experience with corporate transformations, Jerry Wind and Colin Crook explain how your mental models stand between you and reality, distorting all your perceptions...and how they create both limits and opportunities.
You'll learn how to develop new ways of seeing...how to keep your mental models fresh and relevant...when to change to a new model...how to build a portfolio of models...and improving your models through constant experimentation.
Better mental models = smarter decisions
Understand what's real, so you can act on it
How people get "stuck," and what to do about it
How obsolete mental models keep you from making changes
The neuroscience of mental models
What scientists can teach us about perception–and reality
Creating new models
Practical ways to see things in new ways–fast

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Investing with Volume Analysis: Identify, Follow, and Profit from Trends by by Buff Pelz Dormeier (FT Press)

Product Description
If price is the market’s testimony, then volume is the market’s polygraph. More than any other indicator, volume tells you the real force and extent of investors’ convictions about prices. By analyzing the market’s volume-oriented “lie detector tests,” you can uncover trends sooner with more reliability–and thus be better positioned to capture the profits those trends might deliver.

In Investing with Volume Analysis, award-winning technical analyst Buff Dormeier reveals how volume validates, interprets, and leads price. Using volume analysis, you’ll learn to uncover surprising shifts in investor enthusiasm, identify disparities in market opinion, and sniff out coming trend reversals.

Dormeier reviews many traditional volume indicators, introduces his own groundbreaking approaches, and shows you exactly how to apply them. You’ll learn how to assess strength and weakness in both supply and demand; identify common market narratives buried beneath volume data; integrate volume analysis with other portfolio allocation techniques; and much more.

Volume analysis speaks volumes. Read this book and discover what the market has been telling you if only you had turned on the volume!

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Passionate Brood: A Novel of Richard the Lionheart and the Man Who Became Robin Hood by Margaret Campbell Barnes is $2.27 (still $9.99 at B&N) from Sourcebooks Landmark

Product Description
A Spirited Retelling of King Richard the Lionheart and the Third Crusade

"Margaret Campbell Barnes has been one of the most reliable of England's historical novelists."
-Chicago Tribune

In this compelling novel of love, loyalty, and lost chances, Margaret Campbell Barnes gives readers a new perspective on Richard the Lionheart's triumphs and tragedies. Drawing on folklore, Barnes explores what might have happened if King Richard's foster brother were none other than Robin Hood, a legendary figure more vibrant than most in authentic history. Thick as thieves as Richard builds a kingdom and marshals a crusade, the two clash when Robin Hood so provokes the king's white hot temper that Richard banishes him. The Passionate Brood is a tale of a man driven to win back the Holy Land, beset by the guilt of casting out his childhood friend, and shouldering the burden of being the lionhearted leader of the Plantagenets.

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The Shadowing: Hunted: Shadowing Series, Book 1 by Adam Slater (Egmont) (Amazon Main, Amazon UK)

Product Description
The girl lies by the canal, her face turned upwards like a stargazer. But she will never see the stars again. Her eyes have been torn out. The rain fills the empty sockets until they brim over, spilling bloody tears down her cold, white cheeks. Once every century, the boundary between the demon Netherworld and the human world weakens. Legions of creatures gather, preparing to cross over, to bring death and destruction. This time is called The Shadowing. Callum has always known that there is something beyond the mortal world - he can see ghosts. Lately, he's started to have horrific visions of children murdered by some terrible, unseen creature. And then the visions start to come true - and Callum realises he is being hunted too. But Callum must stay alive. He is bound by a dark destiny, and must stand against the demon forces that threaten our world forever. For it is nearly time. The Shadowing is coming...