Free and Bargain Non-Fiction in July 2014

[GtrsRGr8]

I disagree. I think mine's better.

[GtrsRGr8]

In Search of the Fun-Forever Job: Career Strategies that Work. By Ellis Chase. Not rated at Barnes and Noble yet; rated 4 1/2 stars from 33 reviews at the present moment, for the Kindle at Amazon. Print list price $12.99 (source: Amazon.com); Barnes & Noble price now $0.00. http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/in-s...FHk-_-10:1&r=1. Not free, at the present moment, at Amazon.

Book Overview
Winner of 2014 Eric Hoffer Award for Business Books
Looking for work? Changing careers? Learn the smart way to search.
Ellis Chase, one of Manhattan’s top career management consultants and executive coaches, brings his 25-plus years of experience and expertise to this reexamination of how you can target and find a job that fits.
You’ll find strategies you can use to:
* Identify the career that’s right for you
* Build your networks
* Approach interviews
* Negotiate your salary
* Cope with the emotional roller coaster

"No matter what your career objective is, Ellis Chase has developed a process that can work for anyone."

[avantman42]

Some of Ben Macintyre's books are currently less than a pound/dollar each at Amazon and Kobo:

Amazon UK - Amazon.com - Kobo

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by avantman42

Some of Ben Macintyre's books are currently less than a pound/dollar each at Amazon and Kobo:

Amazon UK - Amazon.com - Kobo

Thanks for the post. Those look like some great books.

The sale in the U.S. looks to be over. The least expensive one of that author's books at amazon.com now looks to be $2.99 (about 1.75 pounds); that is probably a promo/markdown price. The next least expensive one that I saw was $7.59 (about 4.44 pounds).

It's pretty much the same at Kobo now.

I just checked the amazon.co.uk site and, indeed, a lot of the books are, at the moment, less than 1 pound (about $1.71).

[GtrsRGr8]

See below. Arrghhh!

[GtrsRGr8]

A lot of free or bargain non-fiction ebooks that I run across tend to be on the same handful of subjects--e.g., how to be successful, how to declutter or organize the house, how to grow vegetables, how to quit procrastinating. Blah. Blah. Blah.

Every now and then, however, I come across a book that is truly unique, or almost so, and it's one that also causes me to wonder "why hasn't someone else thought of writing a book about this before now?" It's real refreshing to see one of these.

This book fits in the latter category, and because of that I felt that I "had" to post it.

BackWords: A Backwards Word List for Gamers. By Cherie K. Miller. Rated 4 stars from 20 reviews at the present moment. Print list price $14.98; digital list price $2.99; Kindle price now $0.00. Wisdom Creek Press, LLC. 276 pages. http://www.amazon.com/BackWords-back...ist+for+gamers.

Book Description
Ever play a word game and need to find a word that ends in Q, W or Z? Most dictionaries present the word lists in alphabetical order, sorted by the first letter of a word. BackWords is unique because you can easily search words using the last letter. It's useful for school libraries and handy for building vocabularies or for playing word games and completing crossword puzzles. It's a great gift-giving idea for those word gamers you love. If you like word games, writing songs, or creating poetry, you just might love BackWords.

I can't wait to play Scrabble again; I'll smoke the competition!

[Lynx-lynx]

I checked out the MacIntyre books on Kobo Aus $1.80 or so for 3 or 4 of them and from memory 49 rupees on the India site. Codes work on both sites.

I've read his Operation Mincemeat Agent Zigzag(from memory that was the book) and it was good enough. I've got 6 of his books now.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx

I checked out the MacIntyre books on Kobo Aus $1.80 or so for 3 or 4 of them and from memory 49 rupees on the India site. Codes work on both sites.

I've read his Operation Mincemeat (from memory that was the book) and it was good enough. I've got 5 of his books now.

I checked and found out that $1 Aus. is just slightly less than $1 USD.

Is it possible and permissible for someone in the U.S. to buy from Kobo in Australia? If so, do you know how someone can do it?

(In case someone is not familiar with it, Xe.com is a good, easy-to-use currency converter site).

[Lynx-lynx]

Yep, there are a couple of ways you can go about changing your site to anogther site.

You can select the book through to the checkout page and then Edit your details, from memory top right of page. Choose Aus or India or wherever as the country. Don't change your address details, but do enter a postcode 2000, State NSW.

That method will work if the publisher is the same. The price will change and reflect AUD ior IRS or whatever.

Otherwise you can change he countrY through the Your Account and Payments section.

I'm sending from phone so can't be much more specific or post photos to illustrate what I mean.

[AnemicOak]

Night by Elie Wiesel is $3.99 at...
Amazon US | Google

A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel

Night is Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie’s wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author’s original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man’s capacity for inhumanity to man.

Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be.

[AnemicOak]

Don't have time right now to check everywhere so the links are only to Amazon US...

Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin is $3.99
Technically a kids books, but I know some adults who liked it quite a bit...

In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next to radioactive material, a Uranium atom split in two. That simple discovery launched a scientific race that spanned 3 continents. In Great Britain and the United States, Soviet spies worked their way into the scientific community; in Norway, a commando force slipped behind enemy lines to attack German heavy-water manufacturing; and deep in the desert, one brilliant group of scientists was hidden away at a remote site at Los Alamos. This is the story of the plotting, the risk-taking, the deceit, and genius that created the world's most formidable weapon. This is the story of the atomic bomb.

Bomb is a 2012 National Book Awards finalist for Young People’s Literature.

Bomb is a 2012 Washington Post Best Kids Books of the Year title.

Bomb is a 2013 Newbery Honor book.

All But My Life: A Memoir by Gerda Weissmann Klein is $3.79 (add Whispersync for Voice audio for $3.99)

All But My Life is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty. From her comfortable home in Bielitz (present-day Bielsko) in Poland to her miraculous survival and her liberation by American troops--including the man who was to become her husband--in Volary, Czechoslovakia, in 1945, Gerda takes the reader on a terrifying journey.

Gerda's serene and idyllic childhood is shattered when Nazis march into Poland on September 3, 1939. Although the Weissmanns were permitted to live for a while in the basement of their home, they were eventually separated and sent to German labor camps. Over the next few years Gerda experienced the slow, inexorable stripping away of "all but her life." By the end of the war she had lost her parents, brother, home, possessions, and community; even the dear friends she made in the labor camps, with whom she had shared so many hardships, were dead.

Despite her horrifying experiences, Klein conveys great strength of spirit and faith in humanity. In the darkness of the camps, Gerda and her young friends manage to create a community of friendship and love. Although stripped of the essence of life, they were able to survive the barbarity of their captors. Gerda's beautifully written story gives an invaluable message to everyone. It introduces them to last century's terrible history of devastation and prejudice, yet offers them hope that the effects of hatred can be overcome.

[Loosheesh]

Wild Swans, one of my favorite(st) books ever, is now available for $1.99 at Amazon (and Kobo as well). I'd given up hope on this ever becoming available as an ebook and I discovered it quite by accident tonight. So thrilled!

The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author

An engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love, Jung Chang describes the extraordinary lives and experiences of her family members: her grandmother, a warlord’s concubine; her mother’s struggles as a young idealistic Communist; and her parents’ experience as members of the Communist elite and their ordeal during the Cultural Revolution. Chang was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen, then worked as a peasant, a “barefoot doctor,” a steelworker, and an electrician. As the story of each generation unfolds, Chang captures in gripping, moving—and ultimately uplifting—detail the cycles of violent drama visited on her own family and millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history.

[mitford13]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I checked and found out that $1 Aus. is just slightly less than $1 USD.

Is it possible and permissible for someone in the U.S. to buy from Kobo in Australia? If so, do you know how someone can do it?

(In case someone is not familiar with it, Xe.com is a good, easy-to-use currency converter site).

If you're going to switch countries anyway, you may prefer to choose a site like India, where basically all books are couponable (as opposed to UK or Australia, where big 5 and some other publishers can't be discounted.) Just a thought.

ROM conversion is India RS600 = $10 US
As with purchases from any overseas location, you need to anticipate international/conversion charges from.your bank - mine charges .50 per transaction. Also maybe keep an eye on how your bank reacts, esp. if you haven't had many international charges lately. Mine alerts me (electronically), off and on, for both UK and India charges.

[GtrsRGr8]

The First Clash: The Miraculous Greek Victory at Marathon and Its Impact on Western Civilization. By Jim Lacey. Rated 4 1/2 stars from 46 reviews at the present moment. Random House LLC. 272 pages. Print list price $17.00; Kindle price now $0.99. http://www.amazon.com/First-Clash-Mi...n+Civilization. If you need ePub, I noticed that it is 99 cents at Kobo also: http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/the-first-clash.

Book Description
Marathon—one of history’s most pivotal battles. Its name evokes images of almost superhuman courage, endurance, and fighting spirit. In this eye-opening book, military analyst James Lacey takes a fresh look at Marathon and reveals why the battle happened, how it was fought, and whether, in fact, it saved Western civilization. Lacey brilliantly reconstructs the world of the fifth century B.C. leading up to the astonishing military defeat of the Persian Empire by the vastly undermanned Greek defenders. With the kind of vivid detail that characterizes the best modern war reportage, he shows how the heavily armed Persian army was shocked and demoralized by the relentless assault of the Athenian phalanx. He reveals the fascinating aftermath of Marathon, how its fighters became the equivalent of our “Greatest Generation,” and challenges the legacy and lessons that have often been misunderstood—perhaps, now more than ever, at our own peril.

Immediate, visceral, and full of new analyses that defy decades of conventional wisdom, The First Clash is a superb interpretation of a conflict that indeed made the world safe for Aristotle, Plato, and our own modern democracy.

[avantman42]

The Battle for the Rhine 1944: Arnhem and the Ardennes, the Campaign in Europe

Free at Amazon UK / Amazon.com