Free and Bargain Non-Fiction in June 2014

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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China. By Jung Chang. Rated 4 1/2 stars from 645 reviews at the present moment. Print list price $16.99; Kindle price now $1.99. http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Swans-Thr...hters+of+China. Whispersync companion available for $12.99 [ack!].

Book Description
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.

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Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig. By Jonathan Eig. Rated 4 1/2 stars from 122 reviews at the present moment. Print list price $16.00; Kindle price now $1.99. 455 pages. http://www.amazon.com/Luckiest-Man-L...+of+Lou+Gehrig.

Book Description
The definitive account of the life and tragic death of baseball legend Lou Gehrig.

Lou Gehrig was a baseball legend—the Iron Horse, the stoic New York Yankee who was the greatest first baseman in history, a man whose consecutive-games streak was ended by a horrible disease that now bears his name. But as this definitive new biography makes clear, Gehrig’s life was more complicated—and, perhaps, even more heroic—than anyone really knew.

Drawing on new interviews and more than two hundred pages of previously unpublished letters to and from Gehrig, Luckiest Man gives us an intimate portrait of the man who became an American hero: his life as a shy and awkward youth growing up in New York City, his unlikely friendship with Babe Ruth (a friendship that allegedly ended over rumors that Ruth had had an affair with Gehrig’s wife), and his stellar career with the Yankees, where his consecutive-games streak stood for more than half a century. What was not previously known, however, is that symptoms of Gehrig’s affliction began appearing in 1938, earlier than is commonly acknowledged. Later, aware that he was dying, Gehrig exhibited a perseverance that was truly inspiring; he lived the last two years of his short life with the same grace and dignity with which he gave his now-famous “luckiest man” speech.

Meticulously researched and elegantly written, Jonathan Eig’s Luckiest Man shows us one of the greatest baseball players of all time as we’ve never seen him before.

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Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig. By Jonathan Eig. Rated 4 1/2 stars from 122 reviews at the present moment. Print list price $16.00; Kindle price now $1.99. 455 pages. http://www.amazon.com/Luckiest-Man-L...+of+Lou+Gehrig.[/I]

Thanks, GtrsRGr8, for all the wonderful books you link to... I was thrilled to pick up all three of today's books at such great prices.

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For those who do not know the name "John Wooden," he was a longtime, tremendously successful basketball coach at U.C.L.A.

Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court. By John Wooden. Rated 5 stars from 184 reviews at the present moment. Print list price $19.95; digital list price $19.95; Kindle price now $1.99. http://www.amazon.com/Wooden-Lifetim...+Off+the+Court.

Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER

"I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs."--John Wooden

Evoking days gone by when coaches were respected as much for their off-court performances as for their success on the court, Wooden presents the timeless wisdom of legendary basketball coach John Wooden.

In honest and telling passages about virtually every aspect of life, Coach shares his personal philosophy on family, achievement, success, and excellence. Raised on a small farm in south-central Indiana, he offers lessons and wisdom learned throughout his career at UCLA, and life as a dedicated husband, father, and teacher.

These lessons, along with personal letters from Bill Walton, Denny Crum, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Bob Costas, among others, have made Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on and off the Court an inspirational classic.