FREE (and bargain) books for the Kindle - May 2011

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Now free at Amazon.co.uk:
The Career Survival Kit (Collection)

And at Amazon.de:
http://www.amazon.de/dp/B004DNWSNM?tag=discounterde-21

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Now free at the US Kindle store:

The Career Survival Kit (Collection)

Beer Is Proof God Loves Us: Reaching for the Soul of Beer and Brewing by Charles W. Bamforth

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

Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life by Richard W. Paul, Linda Elder

Connecting in Communities: Understanding the Dynamics of Small Groups by Eddie Mosley

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The Rules of Work, Expanded Edition: A Definitive Code for Personal Success by Richard Templar free again (US Kindle)

Product Description

Some people are simply great at their job. They always seem to say the right thing; do the right thing. They are mentioned in every conversation. Everybody likes them. They get promoted. They get pay rises. They get along with the boss. And somehow, they do all these things without being unpleasant, breaking much of a sweat or seeming to put in excess effort. And when they are offered another step up the corporate ladder or a fabulous new job, no one is surprised. After all, they have 'potential' written all over them. How do they do it? Do they know some secret we don't? Yes, they know The Rules of Work. These rules aren't about how to do your job, day-to-day (assuming you are pretty good at that already). The Rules of Work are about how you are seen to be doing it. They are about how you appear to others. And they are about helping you to achieve the success you richly deserve. The first edition of The Rules of Work became a global phenomenon, topping bestseller charts around the world. This new, even better, edition includes 10 brand new rules to take you further, faster. These rules are the guiding principles that will improve both what you do and how you do it, giving you the unmistakable air of confidence that will win you admiration, respect, and the next promotion. With The Rules under your belt you'll have the edge in everything you do, without having to compromise your principles.

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Bargain book:

In the Company of Angels: A Novel by Thomas E. Kennedy is discounted to $2.17 at the US Kindle store (B&N has it at $13.75)

Product Description
In the Company of Angels is the powerful story of two damaged souls trying to find their way from darkness toward light.

Imprisoned and tortured for months by Pinochet's henchmen for teaching political poetry to his students, Bernardo Greene is visited by two angels, who promise him that he will survive to experience beauty and love once again. Months later, at the Torture Rehabilitation Center in Copenhagen, the Chilean exile befriends Michela Ibsen, herself a survivor of domestic abuse. In the long nights of summer, the two of them struggle to heal, to forgive those who have left them damaged, and to trust themselves to love.

Dense with wisdom and humanity, possessed of a timeless, fable-like quality, In the Company of Angels is a riveting read and a testament to the resilience and complexity of the human heart.

The novel marks the first large-scale US publication of a major American author, known internationally but only within literary circles in his homeland.

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free at Amazon.co.uk:
Poltergeisten by Ian Woodhead

When Julie’s husband brings his new workmate, Mark Clark home, she can’t wait to get rid of him. What a weird looking creep, she felt his hot gaze on her every time she moved.
When her husband casually announces plans to take her and the creep to a new Indian restaurant, she blows her top but in the end bows to his pressure.
She soon discovers to her terror that Mark has friends waiting for them, Mark doesn’t want a curry, he wants her.
What Mark wants, Mark gets, his friends will see to that.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004Y5KWH8?tag=discounter-21

US link for your convenience:
Poltergeisten

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The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells (free edition from Simon & Schuster)

Book Description
The Time Traveller, a dreamer obsessed with traveling through time, builds himself a time machine and, much to his surprise, travels over 800,000 years into the future. He lands in the year 802701: the world has been transformed by a society living in apparent harmony and bliss, but as the Traveler stays in the future he discovers a hidden barbaric and depraved subterranean class. Wells's transparent commentary on the capitalist society was an instant bestseller and launched the time-travel genre.

The Time Machine inspired the international bestseller The Map of Time by Félix J. Palma. As a gift to our readers, we are including the first three chapters of The Map of Time in this ebook edition.

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link not working?

[DreamWriter]

Originally Posted by koland

The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells (free edition from Simon & Schuster

Karen, your link is broken and leads nowhere. There are two free editions of The Time Machine at Amazon.com, but neither are published by Simon & Schuster.

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The link is supposed to be http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004XVQ73G

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free at Amazon.de:
The Sentinels: Fortunes of War by Gordon Zuckerman

In this riveting amalgam of political intrigue, poignant romance, and bare-knuckled action, six friends risk everything to thwart an international Nazi conspiracy. In the financial devastation of the 1930s, a greedy, power-hungry group of German industrialists plot to usher in the National Socialist Party in order to rearm Germany and reap the financial rewards. Thus rises Hitler. With Hitler in power, the Six Sentinels, graduates of an elite American doctoral program, uncover the industrialists' plan to hoard hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal war profits. Using their financial and familial connections around the globe, they work to foil the machinations of the financiers of the Third Reich. In a daring strategy of Robin Hood-style thievery, the sentinels put their lives on the line to serve justice - and thus become embroiled in a dangerous and violent international conspiracy.

http://www.amazon.de/dp/B002D9ZKJW?tag=discounterde-21

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free at Amazon.de:
In the Belly of Jonah: A Liv Bergen Mystery by Sandra Brannan

In the Belly of Jonah is a fast-paced mystery with a likable protagonist and an intricately woven narrative brimming with bizarre yet believable twists. The first in a series, the book expertly lays the groundwork for Liv Bergen, amateur sleuth, and her love interest, FBI Agent Streeter Pierce. Liv becomes involved in the investigation of the murder of Jill Brannigan, a summer intern at the limestone mine Liv manages near Fort Collins, Colorado (a breathtaking setting that unwittingly becomes an accessory to crime). In doing so, she inadvertently puts her friends, her family, and herself at risk of being swallowed in the belly of a madman bloated with perverse appetites for women, surrealistic art, and renown. Perhaps a bit too daring (and at times irreverent) for her own good, “Boots,” as Liv’s eight siblings call her, soon realizes she has a knack for outsmarting and tracking down the Venus de Milo murderer—and she enjoys it! As the gripping plot of In the Belly of Jonah unfolds, Liv Bergen takes her place alongside the best female crime-solvers as a woman with smarts, self-confidence, and intuitive savvy.

http://www.amazon.de/dp/B0044BBUHI?tag=discounterde-21

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free at Amazon.de:
The Voyage of Promise by KAY MARSHALL STROM

She is safe, and she is free . . . but she is still alone.

Slavers burst into Grace Winslow's life with guns blazing and tear her family apart forever. She watches in anguish as her husband is led in chains aboard a tightly packed slave ship bound for America. An old enemy has a more sinister plan for Grace and prepares her for a different kind of servitude in London. But Grace will not be enslaved. And she will not give up on the man she loves. In her determination to be reunited with her husband, she finds God reaching out to her.

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Originally Posted by DreamWriter

Karen, your link is broken and leads nowhere. There are two free editions of The Time Machine at Amazon.com, but neither are published by Simon & Schuster.

I downloaded the one by atria paperback and in the ebook it states that atria paperback is a trademark of simon & schuster.

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free at Amazon.de:
Solitary: A Novel by Travis Thrasher

His Loneliness Will Soon Turn to Fear…. When Chris Buckley moves to Solitary, North Carolina, he faces the reality of his parents’ divorce, a school full of nameless faces—and Jocelyn Evans. Jocelyn is beautiful and mysterious enough to leave Chris speechless. But the more Jocelyn resists him, the more the two are drawn together. Chris soon learns that Jocelyn has secrets as deep as the town itself. Secrets more terrifying than the bullies he faces in the locker room or his mother’s unexplained nightmares. He slowly begins to understand the horrific answers. The question is whether he can save Jocelyn in time. This first book in the Solitary Tales series will take you from the cold halls of high school to the dark rooms of an abandoned cabin—and remind you what it means to believe in what you cannot see.

http://www.amazon.de/dp/B0040GIZPC?tag=discounterde-21

US link for your convenience:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0040GIZPC?tag=discounter-20

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Just FYI, new apps for the Kindle:

Scripps Spelling Bee: Word Games (A Word Game for Kindle) by THQ ($2.99)

Product Description
Scripps Spelling Bee on Kindle offers three word games: Word Search, Honeycomb Hunt and Mystery Bee.

In Word Search, the game displays a word box with words hidden among a grid of letters. The round is completed once you've found all the words or 10 minutes have passed.

Honeycomb Hunt is a word scramble game. You are given a list of words and a grid of hexagon blocks containing letters. The object of the game is to rotate clusters of letters until all the words on the list are found. The trick is that you must move letters by rotating them without disturbing a word you had previously created.

Mystery Bee is a hangman-style game. For each wrong guess, a body part is filled in on a picture of a bee. If you need them, you can get clues such as the definition of the word, or word's origin.

Scripps Spelling Bee can be used to learn new words in 4 different levels of difficulty, and Spelling Bee can also help you learn your own word lists. Just type your study words into a word list and you can use those words in the games.

Scripps Spelling Bee will help make it fun to learn new words or to study your personal word lists. Get it today so you can truly "Bee" a champion!

Flash Cards: Alphabet and Spelling for Kids (A Learning Tool for Kindle) by Digi Ronin Games ($1.99)

Product Description
Flash Cards: Alphabet and Spelling for Kids uses flash cards to help children study the alphabet and practice the spelling of 76 US English words. Children can review words that are new to them, practice with multiple-choice options, or fill in answers directly.

The title has two different play modes, each designed for a different level of basic proficiency. The first mode focuses on early learners, and shows an image and asks the child to identify the first letter of the object shown. The second mode is more challenging; it displays an image and asks the child to spell out the name of the object shown.

To give students timely feedback, correct answers are acknowledged and incorrect answers are corrected immediately. A high score table lists the ten highest scores to help track improvement.

Turn your Kindle into an alphabet and spelling learning tool today!

Choice of the Vampire (A Text-Based Adventure) by Choice of Games ($2.99)

Product Description
Choice of the Vampire is a text-based game where your choices control the story.

Play as a newly created vampire, struggling to survive your first nights of immortality. Begin your two-hundred-year journey as a vampire in New Orleans of 1815, and choose whether to seek love, power, or redemption as you negotiate the growing pains of the young Republic.

Throughout the game you'll choose between a set of options which decide the action your vampire will take next. Will you embroil yourself in the intrigues of elder vampires? Can an undead creature find true love? How will you balance your waning humanity against your thirst for blood?

If you love gamebooks, you'll love Choice of the Vampire. Its unique approach to interactive fiction allows larger, deeper, and richer stories than traditional gamebooks. Will you discover all of the hidden endings?

Please note: Choice of the Vampire contains content that may be inappropriate for children.