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

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Bargain books from SkyHorse Publishing:

via @Emily Bronte from the Amazon Kindle forum:

($0.99 books)

Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl for $0.99
The Nomination by William G. Tapply for $0.99
Double Cross by Sam Giancana and Chuck Giancana for $0.99
10,001 Ways to Live Large On a Small Budget by The Writers of Wise Bread for $0.99
Six Thousand Years of Bread: Its Holy and Unholy History by H. E. Jacob (Author) and Peter Reinhart (Forward) for $0.99
Voyage Of The Damned by Gordon Thomas for $0.99
Dream On: One Hack Golfer's Challenge to Break Par in a Year by John Richardson for $0.99
Battle For Leyte Gulf by C. Vann Woodward for $0.99
Ed McGivern's Book of Fast and Fancy Revolver Shooting by Ed McGivern for $0.99
The King Of Sting by Craig Glazer for $0.99
On Leadership: Essential Principles for Success by Donald J. Palmisano for $0.99
Street Without A Name by Kapka Kassabova for $0.99
Farthest North by Fridtjof Nansen for $0.99
Buffalo Bill's Life Story by Colonel W. F. (Buffalo Bill) Cody for $0.99
No Job? No Prob!: How to Pay Your Bills, Feed Your Mind, and Have a Blast When You're Out of Work by Nicholas Nigro for $0.99
Sherlock Holmes In America by Daniel Stashower, Martin H. Greenberg, and Jon L. Lellenberg for $0.99

($1.99 books)

Goering by Heinrich Fraenkel and Roger Manvell for $1.99
The Steel Bonnets: The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers by George MacDonald Fraser for $1.99
Every Day Was Special: A Fly Fisher's Lifelong Passion by William G. Tapply for $1.99
JFK by Oliver Stone for $1.99
Run for Life: The Anti-Aging, Anti-Injury, Super-Fitness Plan to Run to 100 by Roy M. Wallack for $1.99
Triathlete Magazine's Guide To Finishing Your First Triathlon by T. J Murphy for $1.99
How to Have Kick-Ass Ideas: Shake Up Your Business, Shake Up Your Life by Chris Barez-Brown for $1.99
What If the Babe Had Kept His Red Sox?: And Other Fascinating Alternate Histories from the World of Sports by Bill Gutman for $1.99
Swimming in the Daylight by Lisa C. Paul for $1.99
You Want To Go Where?: How to Get Someone to Pay for the Trip of Your Dreams by Jeff Blumenfeld for $1.99
Eli Manning: The Making of a Quarterback by Ralph Vacchiano (Author) and Ernie Accorsi (Foreward) for $1.99
The Candlemass Road by George MacDonald Fraser for $1.99
Zombie, Ohio: A Tale of the Undead by Scott Kenmore for $1.99
Iranian Rappers And Persian Porn by Jamie Maslin for $1.99
The 80-Yard Run by Theron Hopkins for $1.99

($2.99 books)

Iron Heart by Bill Katovsky and Brian Boyle for $2.99
The Plot to Seize the White House: The Shocking True Story of the Conspiracy to Overthrow FDR by Jules Archer for $2.99
The Bloody Battle for Suribachi: The Amazing Story of Iwo Jima that Inspired Flags of Our Fathers by Richard Wheeler for $2.99
It Was Never About the Babe: The Red Sox, Racism, Mismanagement, and the Curse of the Bambino by Jerry M. Gutlon for $2.99
Expatriate Games by David Fromm for $2.99
It's Not All Black and White: From Junior High to the Sugar Bowl, an Inside Look at Football Through the Eyes of An Official by Mark Liner (Author), Rogers Reding (Foreword), Doug Hensley (Contributor) for $2.99
A Cold-Blooded Business by Marek Fuchs for $2.99
Tent Life In Siberia by George Kennan for $2.99
Complete McAuslan by George MacDonald Fraser for $2.99
Breakfast At Sally's by Richard LeMieux (Author), Michael Gordon (Illustrator) for $2.99
The Nuremberg Trial by Ann Tusa and John Tusa for $2.99

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Bargain book from Random House:

Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal is just $1.99 at the US Kindle store (B&N has it at $9.99)

Product Description
How do you conjure a life? Give the truest account of what you saw, felt, learned, loved, strived for?

For Amy Krouse Rosenthal, the surprising answer came in the form of an encyclopedia. In Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life she has ingeniously adapted this centuries-old format for conveying knowledge into a poignant, wise, often funny, fully realized memoir. Using mostly short entries organized from A to Z, many of which are cross-referenced, Rosenthal captures in wonderful and episodic detail the moments, observations, and emotions that comprise a contemporary life. Start anywhere—preferably at the beginning—and see how one young woman’s alphabetized existence can open up and define the world in new and unexpected ways.

An ordinary life, perhaps, but an extraordinary book.

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Here's a free indie book:

Cougar Cub Tales: I'm Just Like You by Sharon Cramer

Product Description
Cougar Cub Tales: I’m Just Like You is about a cougar cub brother and sister who, one day, encounter a creature very unlike themselves. They have ungrounded apprehension about whether or not the blind bobcat is “a REAL cougar cub”.

By the end of the tale, they realize that they really ARE the same, overlooking their physical differences as they embrace their new friend. It is a timeless story that deals with the everyday issue of intolerance, especially regarding physical difference and disability. It is written in a wonderful nonsensical rhyme, and the eighteen watercolors are an exquisite representation of this charming tale.

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Just FYI, new Kindle app:

Fortune Teller (Your Fortune Told on Kindle) by Sonic Boom ($1.99)

Product Description
Have your Fortune told on Kindle!

Fortune Teller for Kindle helps you look into your future in three unique ways: Fortune Teller Hectar Predicts, Fortune Cookies, and Mystic Pyramid.

Hectar the Fortune Teller will look into his crystal ball and make new predictions every day for different areas of your life: Love, Career, Friendship, Money, and Life. Fortune Cookie is inspired by Chinese fortune cookies. Each cookie may give you advice or reveal your fortune, and you may choose up to 3 cookies per day. Mystic Pyramid is a mystical Egyptian-themed pyramid. You are advised to think of personal questions that are important to you "with great reverence and intent" and press a button to get the Mystic Pyramid's answers.

Don't pass up the opportunity to take a sneak peak at your future on Kindle!

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Now free for US Kindle:

Her Best Catch by Lindi Peterson

The Leader's Checklist: 15 Mission-Critical Principles by Michael Useem

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Haint Misbehavin' by Maureen Hardegree

Product Description
The start of a fun middle-grade series, The Ghost Handlers, follows Heather Tildy, an Atlanta teen with a troublesome habit of attracting ghosts. Middle-child Heather has enough to worry about with sisters, boys and school. Now that a trouble-making girl from the 1800's is poking her nose in Heather's business, her life has taken a supernatural turn for the worse! Before her life can get better, she has to figure out how to help the ghost move on. Debut author Hardegree is a veteran short-story author for the well-known MOSSY CREEK HOMETOWN series. She plans multiple titles in this warm and funny YA series.

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The Days of Summer by Jill Barnett

Product Description
With more than five million copies of her books in print, New York Times bestselling author Jill Barnett has long been a reader favorite. Now, in her eagerly anticipated new novel set along the sultry California coast, she gives us a deeply-affecting and lyrical story about the power of forgiveness. In 1957, the Banning family leads a life of privilege, wealth and domestic unhappiness. At the head of this California dynasty is oil magnate Victor Banning, a man of great power and even greater obsessions, who is determined to teach his son and grandsons to be predators in his dog-eat-dog world. Jimmy Peyton is a rising star in the music business, a young man with a bright future and no connection to the Bannings, until the fateful night their cars collide on a Los Angeles street, changing the lives and future of two innocent families. Laurel Peyton, Jimmy's daughter, has lived her entire life in the shadow of grief. Though her mother, Kathryn, struggled to keep her daughter safe and secluded after the terrible accident that ruined their family, she cannot guard against the one danger she never expected: Love. In 1970, Victor's grandsons, Jud and Cale, meet the beautiful and spirited Laurel, and these two families cross paths once again, this time on a passionate course that pits brother against brother and mother against daughter--a clash of wills that gradually draws them all closer to the truth of their tragic connection.Spanning thirty years and three generations of Peyton women and Banning men, The Days of Summer is an epic drama that explores our deepest ties to family, the mistakes we make in the name of love, and is a reminder of our ability to hope, to forgive and to find the courage to change.

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Just FYI, here's a new Kindle app:

Kee-Ko's Quest (A Puzzle for Kindle) by A Gamz ($1.99)

Product Description
Kee-Ko's Quest is a puzzle game in which you need to rearrange objects to clear a path for Kee-Ko, a robot.

Kee-Ko works in a factory alongside other robots. Her boyfriend, F4R4W4Y, has been reassigned to a different room at the end of the factory. Kee-Ko has assigned another robot to take her place, and now intends to make her way to her boyfriend's new room. She and all the other robots in the factory are built to move only on the rails set on the factory floor, and she'll need to move other robots out of her way to exit each room.

Help Kee-Ko navigate all 100 rooms and get to the end of the factory. Earn badges for accomplishments, beat your previous times, see how many rooms you can solve in the minimum number of moves, or just enjoy the challenge of solving them. If you want to skip ahead, feel free. You can complete the rooms in any order you like and return to each room just the way you left it.

Help Kee-Ko find F4R4W4Y and enjoy the challenge of solving clever puzzles at the same time!

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More indie freebies:

Candy Wars: The Tooth Fairies vs The Candy King by R.G. Cordiner

Dating A Cougar (Never Too Late Series) by Donna McDonald

Chapter 1, Verse 1 by Tom Allen

Claimed (The Circulate Series) by K.R. Smith

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Bargain book:

Retail Hell: How I Sold My Soul to the Store: Confessions of a Tortured Sales Associate by Hall Freeman is $0.99 at the US Kindle store (B&N has it at $9.99)

Product Description
From Act I:
"I think you left these behind," I said, handing them to her. This happens all the time when women try to return bags they've used. Tampons, lipstick, coins, Tic Tacs, and condoms are the top treasures found.

"Greasy" let out a sigh as if I were the problem. "I really don't see what the problem is here. It's none of your business what I keep in my handbag."

It is when my commission is at stake! I'm not your Designer Handbag Rental Service! My name is not BagBorrowOrSteal.com!

This is a place Freeman Hall, a twenty-year veteran "on the floor," knows well. While delivering side-splitting stories alongside brutally cynical commentary, Freeman recounts his most shocking experiences in Retail Hell--and in this edition, readers get even more!

From the time he was attacked by a customer's four-year-old, who grabbed onto his leg like a poodle and wouldn't let go, to the day he found the fitting room walls covered in s**t, Freeman has seen and heard (smelled and felt) it all! Horrifying and hilarious, this behind-the-scenes look at what really goes on at the Big Fancy Stores is rollicking, ready-to-wear wisdom for readers everywhere. This eBook special edition contains exclusive bonus rants about even more customers behaving badly!

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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

The start of the Bridgerton series (regency style romance). Extremely good -- in fact, good enough that I guess I'll buy a copy for my kindle even though I already have a converted copy from my old Palm Pilot, which *can* run on my kindle, but isn't as easily shared with my family of kindlers.

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Bargain Book:

Lady of Mercy (The Sundered, Book 3) by Michelle Sagara West is just $0.99 (B&N has it at $9.99)

Product Description

Part of the "Sundered" series - the heroine continues her struggle against the forces of evil. The harrowing tale of Erin of Elliath, warrior and healer, continues in this episode of the battle between good and evil.

When Erin rejects her position as Lady Sara, wife to the First Servant of the Dark Heart, she escapes from her husband’s realm with the help of Darin, the Patriarch of Culverne and the last of his line. After combining forces with the deposed prince of Marantine and a mysterious old man—who has magic skills that neither Erin or Darin can identify—the foursome hatch a plan to wrestle control of the usurped kingdom of Marantine away from the priests of the Dark Heart. Meanwhile, Erin continues to struggle with her part in the betrayal of her people, the deaths of her most beloved friends, as well as her feelings for the man who doomed them for her sake.

Into The Dark Lands by Michelle Sagara West is also $0.99

Product Description

War has its cost, and the Servants of the Bright Heart and the Servants of the Dark Heart have been locked in a struggle that has defined life—and death—for millennia. But the end is coming, and only the Lady who has served the Bright Heart for the whole of her immortal life has seen it, in a vision that spans time and demands the highest of prices.

Erin is a healer, and against the nature of her birthright she has learned to wield a sword and use it to bring death to the enemies of her people. Scarred by the losses that war always demands, she is the chosen champion of Light and the enemy of darkness.

But no magical sword or simple quest awaits Erin. Her journey and her doom lie in the Dark Heart’s stronghold, and in the hands of her people’s greatest enemy.

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Bargain book:

Perfect Timing by Jill Mansell is $1.99 at the US Kindle store

Product Description
When you meet the man of your dreams on girls night out, it's hardly…Perfect Timing

In this fresh and funny contemporary romance by bestselling author Jill Mansell, Poppy Dunbar's whole life gets turned upside down after a chance encounter with a handsome stranger...

Never a troublemaker, Poppy had always been content with the way things were supposed to be done—which included marrying predictable Rob McBride. But that was before she met Tom Kennedy the night before her wedding. Could she really be falling in love with a stranger?

Unable to forget Tom, or go through with the wedding, Poppy runs off to London. Her new life and colorful friends are anything but predictable. Misunderstandings, family secrets, and jealous quarrels ensue, but can Poppy stop running long enough to figure out what—or, rather, who—is in her heart?

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New bargains from Hachette:

The New Dad's Survival Guide: Man-to-Man Advice for First-Time Fathers by Scott Mactavish for $1.99

Product Description
FATHERHOOD DEMYSTIFIED! Finally-a manual for new dads that deciphers the immensely confusing world of fatherhood and gives crucial tips and advice from a man's point of view. No psychobabble, no warm fuzzies-just a hilarious (and surprisingly practical) military-style guide to surviving and thriving through even the queasiest moments of pregnancy, birth, and babyhood. Seasoned father and master infant-tamer Scott Mactavish breaks the Baby Code down and lays it out in straight-up guyspeak. The New Dad's Survival Guide includes declassified information on such topics as: * Cutting the Cord: The Moment of Truth * Feeding and Cleaning the NFU (New Family Unit) * Surviving Sleep Deprivation * Relieving Stress Without Booze * The Great Boob Irony * Pee, Poo, Hurl, and Snot: Getting Used to the Bodily Functions * Critical Survival Tips Never Before Revealed * Sex: Let the Games Begin Again...Finally * Dozens of Essential Terms Defined, Including Binky, Onesie, Diaper Genie, Passy, and Sippy Cup GRAB YOUR BOOTS AND STRAP ON YOUR HELMET! THE BABIES ARE COMING!

Fire Up the Grill: Over 75 Recipes for Great Dining Outdoors by Editors of Woman's Day for $2.99

Product Description
This collection of grilling recipes from the trusty experts at Woman's Day is sure to please everyone from the fussiest kid to the most sophisticated foodie in your family. We show you how to make them, no mess, no fuss. Sandwiches, exotic salads, exciting entrees, even grilled fruit dessert - you name it, it's here, along with tips and tricks that make prep and cooking fast and easy. We also include the sides and add-ons you need to create a full meal, from zesty dips and salsas to refreshing drinks and delicious desserts. The possibilities are endless - you may never go back to the stove again!

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New bargains from HarperCollins:

The Abduction Of Julia by Karen Hawkins for $1.99

Product Description
What can a respectable Regency miss do when kidnapped by a nobleman intent on marriage? Why, marry him, of course.

Julia Frant has secretly loved Alec MacLean, the wild Viscount Hunterston from afar. So when he accidentally snatches her instead of her lovely, scheming cousin for an elopement to Gretna Green, Julia leaps at the chance to make her passionate dreams come true.

Alec's in no position to quibble: if he doesn't marry by midnight and live scandal-free for a year, he loses his inheritance. At least marriage with do-gooder Julia will guarantee his fortune. But as his plain brown wren transforms herself into an elegant swan, Alec suddenly can't stay away from his last-minute wife--and when he kisses her, the inheritance is the last thing on his mind. Unfortunately, scandal can occur from the best of intentions...and Julia is never short of good intentions!

Burqalicious: The Dubai Diaries by Becky Wicks for $1.99

Product Description
As a sassy young woman used to blagging, blogging and slogging her was through dreary London, the call of a glamorous, tax-free lifestyle in sunny Dubai just couldn't go unanswered. Over the course of two years, an entire city rose from the dust as Becky scaled a good few rungs of the hard-to-climb career ladder. She became a celebrity editor in a land where sex definitely does not sell and spent most nights in a five-star blur of champagne luxury. Dubai offered everything, but things soon got messy - not least because a wealthy Arab man made her his mistress. These days, shamed rule-breakers and failed entrepreneurs are a dime a dozen in Dubai, yet the city retains its allure. Becky Wicks lifts the burqa on the razzle-dazzle and reveals some of what goes on in the world's fastest up-and-coming city and shopping Mecca.

Live and Let Shop (Spy Goddess, Book 1) by Michael P. Spradlin for $1.99

Product Description

The hilarious new series Spy Goddess launches in paperback, bringing this witty combination of espionage, action, mystery, and girlpower to a wider audience.

Blackthorn Academy, meet Rachel Buchanan

I'm not a delinquent...I'm just misunderstood.

Of course, the judge didn't see it that way. She gave me a choice: juvenile detention or boarding school in Pennsylvania, of all places. That's how I wound up at freaky Blackthorn Academy. This school is clearly hiding some major secrets.

And here's something you should know about me: Rachel Buchanan never gives up when there are secrets to uncover. Watch out, Blackthorn Academy!

This new series is funny, fast–paced, and perfect for fans of Alias, Charlie's Angels, or Buffy.