FREE/BARGAIN - Christian Interest - August 2014

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Difflugia

Understanding English Bible Translation: The Case for an Essentially Literal Approach by Leland Ryken is $.79 at Christianbook. It doesn't seem to be on sale anywhere else and Christianbook often puts books on sale just for a day.

The book is published by Crossway, publishers of the ESV Bible. The ESV was translated using an essentially literal approach.

UPDATE: I noticed that Amazon has reduced their price, also. It's $.99 there. It's pretty common for Christianbook to be a little bit cheaper like that when there is a promotion on an ebook going on that they both participate in.

Thanks, Difflugia, for the posting that you do on this thread.

This is a super deal on this book. It's rated 4 1/2 stars at Amazon. Christianbook and Amazon says that it lists for $9.99, so $.79 is a 92% reduction in price. I bought the ebook a couple of months ago at $1.99 and thought that I was getting a bargain. I'll console myself with the fact that it is in the Kindle/mobi format, where this one is ePub. I might even buy the ePub, too, since it is so inexpensive--it would save the hassle of conversion if sometime in the future I decided that I wanted ePub for some reason.

[Difflugia]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Thanks, Difflugia, for the posting that you do on this thread.

You're welcome. I can safely say that I get far more out of the MobileRead community than I put in!

[ATDrake]

Free from the author via the KDP Select exclusivity program @ Amazon for anywhere up to the next 5 days.

Promise Breaker by Robert Elmer, 1st of the Promise of Zion YA historical adventure fiction series, originally out from Bethany House in 2000.

A search for a homeland in a world darkened by war…

Dov Zalinski has nothing left in the ruins of World War 2—only the promise his mother made when she left him at a Warsaw orphanage: “I’ll come back for you, and together we’ll go to Jerusalem.” Seven hard years later, she still hasn’t returned.

On the hope that she and the rest of his family have somehow survived the terrible Nazi death camps and went on ahead of him, the thirteen-year-old sets out alone for the Promised Land. Dov is determined to be with his family again… even if it means risking his life to do it.

Emily Parkinson has it all as the spoiled only child of a British major stationed in 1947 Jerusalem. Her cozy, perfect world has cushioned her from the always-present danger that haunts the people of Palestine—until now. Tensions between Arab and Jew are growing fast as ships of illegal Jewish immigrants try to break through the British barricade. Now, not even Emily’s father will be able to protect her from what she is about to face.

ETA: also KDP-freebied from the authors @ Amazon.

City of Angels by Christy Award-winner James Scott Bell & Tracie Peterson, 1st in Trials of Kit Shannon series of historical romantic suspense originally out from Bethany House in 2001.

The courtrooms of 1903 Los Angeles are a man’s world––until Kit Shannon arrives

With shoulders squared and dreams set high, Kit Shannon arrives in Los Angeles feeling a special calling to the law. Yet under the care of her socialite aunt, Kit quickly comes to realize that few understand her burning desire to seek justice and practice a profession known only to men. When her aunt adamantly refuses to support her unconventional career aspirations, Kit questions whether she is truly following God's will. And when her growing love for a man pledged to another threatens scandal, Kit knows her days might be numbered in Los Angeles.

A chance meeting with Earl Rogers, the city's most prominent criminal lawyer, garners Kit an apprentice position. And work on a notorious murder case. Someone has been killing prostitutes in Los Angeles, but Kit is certain it is not Rogers’ client. Determined to find the truth, Kit runs full on into forces that want to stop her, forces that stretch all the way to the citadels of power in the City of Angels.

Again, KDP Select (actually price-matched via PubIt, which is nice of her to put it in multiple stores and not rely on Amazon exclusivity for all her freebie sales-boosting publicity needs) from the author now that the rights have reverted @ Amazon & B&N, but this is one we've previously received several times as an official publisher promo freebie a few years ago back when it was still being printed by one of the minor houses.

In-Between by Jenny B. Jones, 1st in the Katie Parker Production series of YA teen experience novels, originally out from NavPress in 2007.

Can we overcome our past?

Katie Parker is about to get a new life—whether she wants one or not. With her mom in prison, and her father AWOL, Katie is sent to live with a squeaky-clean family who could have their own sitcom. She launches a full-scale plan to get sent back to the girls’ home when she finds herself in over her head...and heart.

When Katie and her new "wrong crowd" get into significant trouble at school, she finds her punishment is restoring a historic theater with a crazy grandma who goes by the name of Mad Maxine. In the midst of her punishment, Katie uncovers family secrets that run deep, and realizes she's not the only one with a pain-filled past.

Katie must decide if she'll continue her own family’s messed up legacy or embrace a new beginning in this place called In Between.

[auntlee]

I searched and didn't find that this had been announced before -- several works by C. S. Lewis are public domain in Canada and available to download from Gutenberg Canada: http://www.gutenberg.ca/

All the Chronicles of Narnia, The Screwtape Letters, plus Out of the Silent Planet and The Problem of Pain.

[Difflugia]

In what's looking to be a fun pattern, B&H Academic has another interesting book for $.99.

Truth Considered and Applied: Examining Postmodernism, History, and Christian Faith by Stewart E. Kelly is $.99 at Kobo (where it's eligible for coupon codes), B&N and Amazon.

For philosophy and theology students, Truth Considered and Applied examines the leading theories of truth in relation to postmodernism, history, and the Christian faith. Author Stewart E. Kelly defends Christianity in the face of postmodernist challenges that would label such religious faith as merely one version of truth among many in a pluralistic world. Likewise, in looking at Christianity as a historical faith, Kelly supports the need for Christians to develop a hermeneutic that does justice to the biblical texts and our informed understanding of the past in general; because if a genuine past cannot be recovered in some meaningful sense, the claims of Jesus being incarnate and risen from the dead are seriously jeopardized.

If you haven't used up all the 75% off Kobo coupons from the thread linked above, you can get this for a quarter.

[Loosheesh]

This has nothing to do with a bargain etc but rather a notice: Banner of Truth ebooks are here! They only have 10 for now but they say to check back weekly for new releases. I'm over the moon that The Valley of Vision is in that first batch

[Difflugia]

The NASB edition of The MacArthur Study Bible is $6.99 at various retailers.
Kobo (a 75% off coupon would make it $1.75) B&N Amazon

If you like the NASB, this edition has much better formatting than any of the Lockman editions.

[ATDrake]

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

Koala Beach Outbreak by Robert Elmer, 7th in Australia-set Adventures Down Under series of kids/YA action adventure thrillers, originally out from Bethany House in 1999.

Panic runs wild as time slips away…

While exploring the coastal sand dunes near Goolwa, Patrick McWaid and his siblings encounter a ship breaking up on the rocks. They soon learn it’s a boatload of Chinese immigrants headed for the goldfields. In a dangerous rescue, Patrick meets a boy named Jasper who seems to be hiding something. Nevertheless, Patrick vows to help the boy any way he can.

But the nasty Mr. Li, leader of the immigrant expedition, has a much different plan for Jasper. And negative attitudes in the community make it difficult for the McWaids to assist the Chinese miners. The villagers’ unfounded fears of “yellow fever” create panic and threaten the safety of both the immigrants and the McWaids’ paddle steamer, the Lady Elisabeth. Stricken by illness himself, can Patrick beat the clock to stop the unthinkable from happening?

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by auntlee

I searched and didn't find that this had been announced before -- several works by C. S. Lewis are public domain in Canada and available to download from Gutenberg Canada: http://www.gutenberg.ca/

All the Chronicles of Narnia, The Screwtape Letters, plus Out of the Silent Planet and The Problem of Pain.

Good find.

A reminder to those of us in the U.S.: it is not legal for us to download these from the Canadian site, at least if they are not in the public domain here in the U.S. I don't remember now if that applies to anyone who is physically in the U.S. (I think that that is correct) or just to U.S. citizens. We all do want to be legal, now don't we?

I wonder if Gutenberg Canada actually blocks downloads requested from foreign (to them) countries. I'm sure that that is possible--as we probably all know, that can be done, and is done all the time by other sites that we go to. I thought about testing the idea by trying to download one of the Lewis books, but then I remembered that it's illegal. ha

If it's one's physical presence that matters, I'm going to try to remember to download the books, and maybe others, if I find some more that I want, the next time that I'm in Canada. I wonder if archive.org has a Canadian site?

There was a discussion in this forum, several months ago, of the downloading-ebooks-from-foreign-websites-that-are-not-in-the-public-domain-in-the-United-States question. Someone very knowledgeable chimed in and gave some great detailed information about this issue (and maybe information that would correct something that I've written above).

[Athens80]

Saint Francis of Assisi: A Life Inspired, by Wyatt North, free at Amazon US, reportedly to September 3.

Book Description
Publication Date: July 23, 2014

St. Francis’s call is a call to return to the basics of Christianity. It is a call to Christians to reach back to their roots so that their spiritual lives can draw strength from the pure waters of the Gospel instead of being choked by manmade traditions and worldly concerns. In the words of G. K. Chesterton, the coming of Francis “marked the moment when men could be reconciled not only to God but to nature and, most difficult of all, to themselves. … his whole function [was] to tell men to start afresh and, in that sense, to tell them to forget” (124).

While St. Francis of Assisi is one of the most beloved saints in history, the relevancy of St. Francis for our times in light of the election of Pope Francis has yet to be explored. This book is written with the intention of filling that gap. While it is biographical in nature, it also freely explores themes that relate to St. Francis but are not a part of his life. This book is about more than the life of St. Francis of Assisi; it is about the impact this beloved saint has had through his imitation of Christ, his love of poverty, the Franciscan movement, and his profound influence on Pope Francis.