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

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Organized Teacher, Happy Classroom by Melanie S. Unger

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Inside you'll find:
Strategies for managing students' papers, curriculum material, and essential paperwork
Time management tips to maximize your instruction time and lesson planning
Organizing systems you can teach your students to improve self reliance and accountability
Checklists for starting and ending the year well organized
Helpful forms and templates you can use in your classroom
Plans for arranging a classroom that promotes positive student participation
Support to simplify your classroom
Efficient storage solutions for all teacher and student materials

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Mobile DNA: Finding Treasure in Junk by Haig H. Kazazian

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This is the eBook version of the printed book.
In Mobile DNA, leading geneticist Haig Kazazian thoroughly reviews our current understanding of the substantial role mobile genetic elements play in genome and organism evolution and function. He offers an accessible intellectual history of mobile DNA, rich and insightful perspectives on how investigators ask and answer research questions, and his predictions about future developments and research directions for this active field.

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Investor's Library: Fundamental Analysis, Technical Analysis, and Income Investing (Collection) by Harry Domash, Michael N. Kahn, Marvin Appel and Marvin N. Appel

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This is the eBook version of the printed book.

A brand new collection of essential insights for your business and career from world-renowned experts…now in a convenient e-format, at a great price!

Three outstanding investing guides packed with strategies for reducing costs and improving returns in today’s tough investment environment.

Three books packed with wealth-building, cost-cutting help for today’s investors and markets. Don’t pay someone to pick stocks! Do it better yourself, with Harry Domash’s #1 guide to stock analysis! Next, Michael Kahn completely demystifies technical analysis and shows you exactly how to apply it--easily, painlessly, profitably. Then, Marvin Appel helps you use bonds and income-producing equity strategies to meet your income needs without unacceptable risk. Advice you’ll use, from experts you can trust!

From world-renowned leaders and experts, including Harry Domash, Michael N. Kahn, and Dr. Marvin Appel.

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The Rules of Management, Expanded Edition: A Definitive Code for Managerial Success (Richard Templar's Rules) by Richard Templar

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This is the eBook version of the printed book.

You're a manager. You're expected to be a leader, innovator, magician, dynamic motivator, stern but fair judge, diplomat, politician, therapist, financial wizard, warrior, and saint. For some people, it's a breeze. What do they know that everyone else doesn't? The rules of management: rules for managing your team and managing yourself. Now, Richard Templar's brought them all together in this expanded edition.

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I'm an English Major--Now What? by Timothy Lemire

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Find a Job You Love With Your English Degree
What do Steven Spielberg, Alan Alda, Barbara Walters, Clarence Thomas, Diane Sawyer, and Stephen King have in common? That's right&#150they were English majors who now have successfu

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Robert's Rules of Writing by Robert Masello

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An award-winning journalist and author of 'The Writer's Book of Wisdom' presents 101 pithy lessons designed to assist writers in improving their work, saving time, increasing productivity, and more, from "Be a Tease" to "Strip Down to Your Briefs."

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ABC's Revenge: Pilot Episode Script by ABC Studios (Disney)

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Emily Thorne is the newest arrival in the Hamptons this summer. By all appearances, she’s a friendly and sophisticated “girl next door,” whose disarming charm and generosity allow her seamless access to the restricted circles of Hampton's high society. But the affluent, exclusive world she’s immersed herself in is tied to a dark family history, and Emily Thorne is anything but what she seems. When Emily was just nine, her father was framed for a horrific crime by neighbors he trusted, and was sentenced to life in prison. Emily never saw her father again and spent her childhood consumed by rage, loss and betrayal. 17 years later, she has returned under an assumed identity with one endgame – REVENGE -- every social overture a carefully planned chip at the foundation of her sworn enemies, until their lives come crashing down around them. Emily’s goal is unwavering, and her sharp mind is always five steps ahead. But when her past begins to catch up, her true heart may get caught in the crossfire.

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Just FYI, new Kindle app:

Finance Manager (Financial Tools for Kindle) by SwashApps ($1.99)

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Finance Manager is a financial calculator and financial calendar for your Kindle.

The financial calculator has 12 commonly used financial calculators including fixed and variable rate mortgages, term deposits with simple and compounding interest, regular deposit, monthly income deposits, and a credit card payment calculator to help you in evaluating your financial options. A unique feature of these calculators is evaluation of the impact of inflation on your finances over the tenure of your mortgage or investment.

Finance Manager also has a financial calendar on which you can schedule alerts. For example, you can add the amortization schedule from the financial calculator to the Calendar as a series of alerts. You can also create your own custom alerts with various recurrence options: Once only, Daily, Weekly, Bi-Weekly, Monthly, Semi-Yearly and Yearly. To make staying on top of things easy, you can check daily, weekly, or monthly alerts in your financial calendar.

When will you be a Millionaire? Get Finance Manager and use the 'When will I be A Millionaire?' calculator to find out! Use Finance Manager to help you get and stay on top of your finances.

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StarCrossed (bonus edition) by Elizabeth C. Bunce for $2.99 (Note, this is the special edition with bonus content; There is another kindle edition without bonus content which is priced at $9.89 right now)

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For a limited time, download this bonus edition, which includes the first chapters of LIAR'S MOON, for a special price!

The 2nd novel from the winner of the ALA's YA Debut Award is Tamora Pierce meets THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER -- a thrilling fantasy about a thief at a snowbound castle, caught in a simmering rebellion.

16-year-old Digger thrives as a spy & sneak-thief among the feuding religious factions of Gerse. But when a routine job goes horribly wrong and her partner & lover Tegen is killed, she disguises herself in a group of young nobles & sneaks out of the city. Accepted as a lady-in-waiting at the stronghold of the powerful Nemair, she finds new peace & friendship (*and* some new targets). But when an old client from the city comes to the castle, she realizes her hosts may be planning the ultimate uprising against the king - & rather than true peace, she may be at the heart of the rebellion.

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Zap Proof Your Home: A HarperOne Select by Ann Louise Gittleman (Pre-order)

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*There's also a bunch of free samplers/sneak peeks:

New Teen Voices by Various

Middle School Survival Kit by Various

The Eleventh Plague: Sneak Peek! by Jeff Hirsch

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Free from indies:

Wandering Koala challenges the Scientific Method (Black & White) 1 by Jeff Thomason and Jeff Thomason CE

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He’s done it! Brent Jakes has discovered the Unified Field Theory, the Holy Grail of Physics! It will provide unlimited energy, new medical breakthroughs, and other advances only dreamed of before. There’s just one on catch: it’ll cost three men their careers, and they've vowed to prevent it at all costs. Science is not immune to the corruption of greed and politics. Only the intervention of a silent wanderer can stop them...

Refuge by Richard Herley

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It is twelve years on from a global plague. John Suter believes himself the sole survivor. He has gradually come to terms with his fate and has settled into a steady and self-reliant daily routine.

One morning he finds a mutilated body in the river near his house. In his terror, Suter knows he has no choice but to investigate.

What he discovers upstream stretches his endurance to its limits and forces him to reassess not only his own humanity, but also his place within the human family he had once believed extinct.

WARNING: This book is not suitable for minors. It contains descriptions of violence, sexual activity and satanic worship which some readers may find disturbing.

Burly and Grum and the Secret City (A Burly and Grum Tale) by Kate Tenbeth and Rob Jones

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Burlington Bear, Grum the groblin and Max are best friends. Burly and Grum show Max a Secret City in the the middle of the forest but hunters are tracking them down. They knock out Burly, capture Max and want to turn the Secret City into a tourist attraction. Throw in some big cats, Grum's mother and brothers, Mike the Angel, a deer and a few ducks and the day becomes very exciting!

The Trouble With Green by Liv James

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Josie’s life turns upside down when her earth-friendly inns get national press. Her architect husband gets a job offer on the other side of the country, the owners of her best inn disappear, and an unwanted guest drags danger to her door. As Josie is drawn deeper into her guest's twisted plan, she determines that she must fight the ghosts of her past if she has any hope of survival.

The Trouble With Green is a smart new novel from romantic suspense author Liv James. Download your copy today.

My Lady Gisborne: A Love Story (The Gisbornes) by Charlotte Hawkins

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Lady Evelyn Gisborne desires to be a proper young noble-woman, but independence runs strong in her blood. She follows her heart as well as her head, and temptation soon beckons her in the form of a handsome rogue. René Jean- Bastien is clever, bold...and forbidden, for she has been promised to another.

Simon Jean-Carré, Marquis of Laroque, is a born soldier. His life is commited to the pursuit of battle and the honor of the knight's code. When he journeys to the Gisborne estate, his only intention is to meet his promised bride. But he soon finds himself entwined in the life of a most unusual family...and falling in love with the woman he has sworn to keep at a distance.

Evelyn is torn between two loves. Will she choose the man to whom she is promised...or the dashing thief who has stolen her heart?

The Last Breath by Osman Nuri Topbas

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Each breath we take takes us closer to our last; and the last breath will be a lucid mirror reflecting the life we would have led up till then.

Each person is to his own light or darkness to the eternal land. The way we die, after all, reflects the way we have lived and the way we are resurrected reflects the way we have died.

What are we to store in our bags before that moment of no return looms? How are we to prepare for our final breath? How are we to call ourselves into account while we still have the opportunity?

The book which seeks to answer the question posed by Quran ‘to where do you flee?’ by again resorting to the Holy Book itself, over and above the last breath, talks about dhikrullah vibrant in the universe and the importance of dawn, contemplation and the Quran, inviting to the good and the Truth, repentance and tears, the morals of trade and how to be an exemplary person of iman.

If the aim of life is to arrive in the presence of the Almighty with a clean slate, then it is imperative to lead a life that would allow His Name to roll of our tongues as we exhale our final breath.

The Sorrow King by Andersen Prunty

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The papers call it “The Suicide Virus.” The teenagers of Gethsemane, Ohio, are killing themselves at an alarming rate.

Steven Wrigley is trying to survive his senior year of high school, still reeling from the death of his mother and adjusting to life with his father. Along the way, he meets a girl who becomes another kind of obsession: Elise Devon.

Elise’s secrets keep her distanced from everyone. She has a special place she calls the Obscura. She goes there when she is depressed or angry. The Obscura makes her feel like nothing she’s ever felt before. When she loses herself to the Obscura, she fears she also gives herself to something much darker, something much more powerful. Something calling itself the Sorrow King.

Who is the Sorrow King?

He is carved from wood and bone.

He smells like wax, dead leaves, and memories.

He travels by moonlight and drinks the sorrow of others.

Can love exact vengeance on a monster made from madness, depression, and misery? Or will the Sorrow King bleed the town dry before satiating himself and moving on?

The Written (Emaneska Series) by Ben Galley

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His name is Farden.
They whisper that he’s dangerous.
Dangerous is only the half of it.

Something has gone missing from the libraries of Arfell.
Something very old, and something very powerful. Five scholars are now dead, a country is once again on the brink of war, and the magick council is running out of time and options.

Entangled in a web of lies and politics and dragged halfway across icy Emaneska and back, Farden must unearth a secret even he doesn’t want to know, a secret that will shake the foundations of his world. Dragons, drugs, magick, death, and the deepest of betrayals await.

Breathtakingly vast, chillingly dark, brooding and dangerous,
The Written will leave you impatiently waiting for the next adventure…

Welcome to Emaneska.

THE WRITTEN is the first book in the thrilling and fast-paced Emaneska Series and the debut book of Ben Galley, a young upcoming author from the UK. The eagerly-awaited sequel and second in the series, PALE KINGS, is due for release in 2012. If you would like to know more about either of these books, or more about Ben, then you can find it all at www.bengalley.com

Novellas/Short stories:

Lust, Money & Murder - Book 1 by Mike Wells

Broken Bulbs by Eddie Wright

The Lonely Engineer (Spacer Tales) by S J MacDonald

Money for Sorrow, Made Joy by M.C.A. Hogarth

19 (A Digital Short) by Aaron Patterson

Snapshots: Of the Valley of the Shadow by David Andrew

All over Again by Lynette Ferreira

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There's a $0.99 sale for some Kindle apps until Aug 29:

Ultimate Math Skills Quiz (A Math Game for Kindle) by HandyX

Ultimate Shakespeare Quiz (A Shakespeare Trivia Quiz) by HandyX

Spelling Star Spanish Edition (A Learning Game for Kindle) by puzzle.tv

Spelling Star (A Learning Game for Kindle) by puzzle.tv

Math Star (A Learning Game for Kindle) by puzzle.tv

Flash Cards: Foods for Kids (A Learning Tool for Kindle) by Digi Ronin Games

Flash Cards: Animals for Kids (A Learning Tool for Kindle) by Digi Ronin Games

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

Flash Cards: Fractions for Kids (A Learning Tool for Kindle) by Digi Ronin Games

Flash Cards: Basic Math for Kids (A Learning Tool for Kindle) by Digi Ronin Games

Letter Landers (An Early Reader Game for Kindle) by Gameblend Studios

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More free HarperOne Select pre-orders (that have no book info):

Accepting the Invitation to Live an Authentic Life: A HarperOne Select by Oriah

The Art of Mindfulness: A HarperOne Select by Thich Nhat Hanh

The Beauty of Slowing Down: A HarperOne Select by Carl Honore

Eating with Peace and Moderation: A HarperOne Select by Mariel Hemingway

How Adults Are Hijacking Childhood: A HarperOne Select by Carl Honore

Mindful Eating: A HarperOne Select by Thich Nhat Hanh and Lilian Cheung

Preventing Damage to Children During Divorce: A HarperOne Select by Michele Lowrance

Talking to Your Daughter About Sex: A HarperOne Select by Charles Sophy and Brown Kogen

Try Me Vegan Weekend: A HarperOne Select by Kim Barnouin

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Frost Moon by Anthony Francis

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In an alternate Atlanta where magic is practiced openly, where witches sip coffee at local cafes, shapeshifters party at urban clubs, vampires rule the southern night like gangsters, and mysterious creatures command dark caverns beneath the city, Dakota Frost's talents are coveted by all. She's the best magical tattooist in the southeast, a Skindancer, able to bring her amazing tats to life. When a serial killer begins stalking Atlanta's tattooed elite, the police and the Feds seek Dakota's help. Can she find the killer on the dark fringe of the city's Edgeworld? Among its powerful outcasts and tortured loners, what kind of enemies and allies will she attract? Will they see her as an invader, as a seducer, as an unexpected champion ... or as delicious prey? FROST MOON is Book One of the SKINDANCER fantasy series by debut author Anthony Francis. Filled with unforgettable characters, spine-tingling action, kinky rebellion and edgy love, FROST MOON is classic storytelling at its best, and Dakota Frost is an irresistible new star of fantasy fiction. Anthony Francis is a computer scientist who works at the 'Search Engine That Starts With A G'. By day he studies human and other minds to design intelligent machines and emotional robots; by night he writes fiction and draws comic books. He received his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from Georgia Tech. He lives in San Jose with his wife and cats but his heart will always belong in Atlanta.

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Your Gay Friend's Guide To Understanding Men by Bo Sebastian

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Girlfriends, get ready for some straight-talk about straight men from a gay friend. What do men really want from women? How do you avoid Mr. Wrong in your search for Mr. Right? What kind of emotional baggage is likely to send a man packing? Is your heartthrob a deadbeat? Where are the best places to search for the man of your dreams? Explore all these questions and more with renowned Life Coach, Bo Sebastian. Find ways to make your life and relationships better.