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

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FYI, currently just free for those in the UK

Wild Sight by Loucinda McGary (Amazon UK, Amazon Main)

Product Description
Sensual romantic suspense set in Ireland featuring a hero with psychic powers. Cursed with the Irish clairvoyance known as -The Sight,- Donovan O-Shea fled to America to escape his -gift.- Fifteen years later, his father-s illness has forced him to return to the family homestead where years earlier, Donovan-s mother disappeared into the fens and was never seen again. Now the same fens are offering up secrets, both ancient and recent, and restoring a terrible legacy that just may drive him mad. And if this were not trouble enough, a beautiful woman walks into his life, claiming to be his half-sister. Rylie Powell never knew her real father. Her mother would only say he was a charming Irishman who seduced her, married her, and then abandoned her and his baby daughter. But after her mother-s death, Rylie finds tantalizing clues about her father that send her off to Northern Ireland and an archeological site on Dermot O-Shea-s property, the man listed on her birth certificate as her father. Did Dermot O-Shea father both Donovan and Rylie? What is Donovan-s connection to the Celtic High King Niall of the Nine Hostages? And what secrets do the fens hold that invites murder?

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Now also free at the US Kindle store:

Best Little Stories from the Civil War: More than 100 true stories by C. Brian Kelly

Highest Stakes by Emery Lee

Wild Sight by Loucinda McGary

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Immigrants by Howard Fast is free at the US Kindle store

Product Description

The first book in bestselling author Howard Fast's beloved family saga

"A most wonderful book...there hasn't been a novel in years that can do a job on readers' emotions that the last fifty pages of The Immigrants does."
-Los Angeles Times

In this sweeping journey of love and fortune, master storyteller Howard Fast recounts the rise and fall of a family of roughneck immigrants determined to make their way in America at the turn of the century. Quick to ascend from the tragic depths of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Dan Lavette becomes the head of a powerful shipping empire and establishes himself among the city's cultural elite. But when he finds himself caught in a loveless marriage to the daughter of San Francisco's richest family, a scandalous love affair threatens to destroy the empire Dan has built for himself.

The first of a compelling family saga, The Immigrants is a fast-paced, emotional novel that captures the wide range of relationships among immigrant families during the tumultuous events that defined the early twentieth century in America.

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FYI, currently just free for those in the UK

Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman's Guide to Finding Contentment by Linda Dillow (Amazon UK, Amazon Main)

Product Description
Although many Christian women say they trust God, their lives are filled with worry and anxiety-about their children, their finances, their relationships, their jobs. They know their lives should be characterized by faith in God, but they're unsure of how to get that kind of faith. This book and twelve-week study helps women grow in contentment as they address the barriers to contentment and how to overcome them. Companion Journal available.

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Bargain book(s) $0.99:

Knitting For Dummies by Pam Allen is back to $0.99 again on the US Amazon store. In addition, Amazon also has a whole bunch of "Dummies" ebooks + mini-editions that are all priced at $0.99 under their "Don't Be a Dummy" promo for March:

Don't Be a Dummie
March is Dummies month. Celebrate by getting up to speed on topics that may seem difficult or intimidating.

[koland]

now free in the US

Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman's Guide to Finding Contentment, by Linda Dillow, is free courtesy of Christian publisher Navpress.

Book Description
Although many Christian women say they trust God, their lives are filled with worry and anxiety-about their children, their finances, their relationships, their jobs. They know their lives should be characterized by faith in God, but they're unsure of how to get that kind of faith. This book and twelve-week study helps women grow in contentment as they address the barriers to contentment and how to overcome them. Companion Journal available.


In the Line of Fire: How to Handle Tough Questions...When It Counts, by Jerry J. Weissman, is a repeat freebie (Sep '10) from FT Press. Free at B&N and slated to be free on Kindle.

Book Description
Jerry Weissman has made a career of coaching nearly 500 execs on their IPO roadshows, the most critical presentations of their lives. Now, he's written an indispensable guide to answering the toughest questions you'll ever face. Using compelling examples from Presidential debates to stock analyst meetings, Weissman teaches how to respond with perfect assurance. Discover how to avoid the defensive, evasive, or contentious answers that have destroyed political careers and ruin credibility. Learn to control your entire exchange with a hostile questioner: the question, answer, interactions with questioner and audience, timing, and above all, yourself. Whether an executive, politician, fundraiser, interviewee, teacher, student -- or even a family member at Thanksgiving dinner -- you're judged on how you handle these moments. Get this book: handle them brilliantly.


Lies, Damned Lies, and Science: How to Sort through the Noise around Global Warming, the Latest Health Claims, and Other Scientific Controversies, by Sherry Seethaler, is a repeat freebie (Sep '10) from FT Press. Free at B&N and slated to be free on Kindle.

Book Description
Don’t Get Hoodwinked! Make Sense of Health and Science News...and Make Smarter Decisions!

Every day, there’s a new scientific or health controversy. And every day, it seems as if there’s a new study that contradicts what you heard yesterday. What’s really going on? Who’s telling the truth? Who’s faking it? What do scientists actually know—and what don’t they know? This book will help you cut through the confusion and make sense of it all—even if you’ve never taken a science class! Leading science educator and journalist Dr. Sherry Seethaler reveals how science and health research really work...how to put scientific claims in context and understand the real tradeoffs involved...tell quality research from junk science...discover when someone’s deliberately trying to fool you...and find more information you can trust! Nobody knows what new controversy will erupt tomorrow. But one thing’s for certain: With this book, you’ll know how to figure out the real deal—and make smarter decisions for yourself and your family!

Watch the news, and you’ll be overwhelmed by snippets of badly presented science: information that’s incomplete, confusing, contradictory, out-of-context, wrong, or flat-out dishonest. Defend yourself! Dr. Sherry Seethaler gives you a powerful arsenal of tools for making sense of science. You’ll learn how to think more sensibly about everything from mad cow disease to global warming–and how to make better science-related decisions in both your personal life and as a citizen.

You’ll begin by understanding how science really works and progresses, and why scientists sometimes disagree. Seethaler helps you assess the possible biases of those who make scientific claims in the media, and place scientific issues in appropriate context, so you can intelligently assess tradeoffs. You’ll learn how to determine whether a new study is really meaningful; uncover the difference between cause and coincidence; figure out which statistics mean something, and which don’t.

Seethaler reveals the tricks self-interested players use to mislead and confuse you, and points you to sources of information you can actually rely upon. Her many examples range from genetic engineering of crops to drug treatments for depression...but the techniques she teaches you will be invaluable in understanding any scientific controversy, in any area of science or health.


So, You Want to Start a Business?: 8 Steps to Take Before Making the Leap, by Edward D. Hess and Charles D. Goetz, is a repeat freebie (Sep '10) from FT Press. Free at B&N and slated to be free on Kindle.

Book Description
More than 5,000,000 new businesses are started each year…but 70% of them will fail. Now, two renowned experts on entrepreneurship identify the 8 “killer mistakes” that cause most business failures–and give you the knowledge, tools, and hands-on advice to avoid them, so you can build a business that thrives.

Unlike other books on entrepreneurship, this book focuses on the crucial operational issues associated with consistent profitability. You’ll learn how to identify the right opportunities and customers; design winning products and services; set the right prices; overcome customer inertia; avoid common day-to-day management mistakes; find and keep good employees; and finally, smoothly manage growth.

Throughout, the authors draw on real life entrepreneurial experiences, case studies, and leading-edge research. There’s nothing theoretical here: This is fast-paced, 100% practical advice you can use to make your business dreams and goals come true–starting right now.


The Truth About Paying Fewer Taxes, by S. Kay Bell, is free at B&N and slated to be free on Kindle.

Book Description
All you need to know about cutting your taxes...this year and every year!

*The truth about maximizing all your legal deductions and credits
*The truth about smart tax planning for today and for the long term
*The truth about avoiding IRS audits and costly tax penalties

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by koland

In the Line of Fire: How to Handle Tough Questions...When It Counts, by Jerry J. Weissman, is a repeat freebie (Sep '10) from FT Press. Free at B&N and slated to be free on Kindle.

Book Description
Jerry Weissman has made a career of coaching nearly 500 execs on their IPO roadshows, the most critical presentations of their lives. Now, he's written an indispensable guide to answering the toughest questions you'll ever face. Using compelling examples from Presidential debates to stock analyst meetings, Weissman teaches how to respond with perfect assurance. Discover how to avoid the defensive, evasive, or contentious answers that have destroyed political careers and ruin credibility. Learn to control your entire exchange with a hostile questioner: the question, answer, interactions with questioner and audience, timing, and above all, yourself. Whether an executive, politician, fundraiser, interviewee, teacher, student -- or even a family member at Thanksgiving dinner -- you're judged on how you handle these moments. Get this book: handle them brilliantly.

EEEEP!!!!









this is going to a different title that costs $60.79!!!!

[lunixer]

Author self-promotions have a dedicated thread: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=226

[koland]

Now free on Kindle (US):

Moms' Ultimate Guide to the Tween Girl World, by Nancy Rue, is free on Kindle and at B&N and Christian Books, courtesy of Christian publisher Zondervan.

Book Description
Today's mom is faced with the task of helping her 8-to-12-year-old daughter grow up in a society that compels her little girl to grow up too fast. Moms' Ultimate Guide to the Tween Girl Years gives mothers practical advice and spiritual inspiration that will enable them to see their mini-women into adolescence strong, confident, authentic, and God-centered, even in a morally challenged society -- without losing their childhoods before they're ready.


The End Is Now , by Rob Stennett, is free on Kindle and at B&N and Christian Books, courtesy of Christian publisher Zondervan.

Book Description
Meet the Henderson family: Jeff, a struggling salesman who lives with a constant nagging fear that something will happen to his family; Will, who's just trying to figure out life in the fifth grade; Emily whose greatest concern is that she won't be nominated homecoming queen; and Amy, who is growing stir-crazy from being a housewife of eighteen years---and is convinced this was God's plan B for her life. The Hendersons are longtime residents of Goodland, Kansas, a small Midwest town where nothing new or exciting ever happens ... until now. Are the recent 'weird' happenings and catastrophic weather mere coincidence, or more? The town spirals into chaos and confusion as its residents discover the end is no longer near---the end is now.

Rob Stennett's second novel is both a satire and a story of the apocalypse, a thriller and an exploration of family, community, belief, unbelief, and the two thousand-year-old Christian tradition of looking to the sky because the end is near

[koland]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

EEEEP!!!!

this is going to a different title that costs $60.79!!!!

SORRY!

Grabbed wrong url off clipboard. Have fixed it (I hope).

I'm watching that $60+ book to go free, as it is free at B&N right now.

[koland]

Word Soup ($2.99), by Fuzzy Bug Interactive. Like all active content so far, requires an updated K2/KDX or any K3 and only available to those in the US.

Game Description
Word Soup is a word search game with a tactical twist.

Create words within the grid of scrambled letters. Each word created is removed from the grid and the letters above fall into the gaps left behind, creating new word combinations. With careful play, letters can be strategically brought into play and used to create longer words. You score bonus points if you can successfully clear the grid of all letters. The starting grid is randomly generated, so no two games should ever be the same.

Word Soup offers two modes of play: 'Relaxed' - for those who like to take their time and try to create the longest words, and 'Timed' - where players can test themselves against the clock to see how they score under pressure. Your 'Longest Word', 'Highest Scoring Word', 'Words Made' and 'Total Score' stats are all tracked. Word Soup can be played in Portrait, as well as Landscape view.

If you like word games, you'll love Word Soup.

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Admit One: My Life in Film by Emmett James is free again

Product Description
Set in Croydon, South London, in the 1980s, Admit One details how self-deprecating writer Emmett James escaped from the pains of adolescence by going to the cinema. Through wry wit and observation, the writer reflects, obsesses, and rages about film and its correlation to our pasts. Life soon imitates art, and the narrator finds that his true calling is in transcendence from one side of the screen to the other. He decides to leave England for the only place where he can realize his dream of becoming an actor--Hollywood.

We follow the narrator on his numerous adventures: as he jumps from forgery to pornography to crashing the Academy Awards under the alias of a nominated writer. All the while, the films that inspired each tale contextualize this humorous collection of stories. The narrator ultimately provides a unique insight into the fascinating industry of film, eventually himself stumbling into the biggest box-office grossing film of all time.

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FYI, bargain only for those in the U.K.

The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home [Kindle Edition with Audio/Video] by Dan Ariely is just $1.18 for those registered in the UK (It's $14.99 for US Kindlers)

Product Description

This enhanced e-book of The Upside of Irrationality contains more than 50 minutes of video. Each chapter includes a video summary from the author as he explores the many ways in which our behavior often leads us astray in terms of our romantic relationships, our experiences in the workplace, and our temptations to cheat.

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Bargain book:

Collider: The Search for the World's Smallest Particles by Paul Halpern is $1.74 at the US Kindle store (B&N still has it listed at $9.99)

Product Description
An accessible look at the hottest topic in physics and the experiments that will transform our understanding of the universe

The biggest news in science today is the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle-smasher, and the anticipation of finally discovering the Higgs boson particle. But what is the Higgs boson and why is it often referred to as the God Particle? Why are the Higgs and the LHC so important? Getting a handle on the science behind the LHC can be difficult for anyone without an advanced degree in particle physics, but you don't need to go back to school to learn about it. In Collider, award-winning physicist Paul Halpern provides you with the tools you need to understand what the LHC is and what it hopes to discover.
• Comprehensive, accessible guide to the theory, history, and science behind experimental high-energy physics
• Explains why particle physics could well be on the verge of some of its greatest breakthroughs, changing what we think we know about quarks, string theory, dark matter, dark energy, and the fundamentals of modern physics
• Tells you why the theoretical Higgs boson is often referred to as the God particle and how its discovery could change our understanding of the universe
• Clearly explains why fears that the LHC could create a miniature black hole that could swallow up the Earth amount to a tempest in a very tiny teapot
• "Best of 2009 Sci-Tech Books (Physics)"-Library Journal
• "Halpern makes the search for mysterious particles pertinent and exciting by explaining clearly what we don't know about the universe, and offering a hopeful outlook for future research."-Publishers Weekly
• Includes a new author preface, "The Fate of the Large Hadron Collider and the Future of High-Energy Physics"

The world will not come to an end any time soon, but we may learn a lot more about it in the blink of an eye. Read Collider and find out what, when, and how.

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Here's a few bargains for Kindle -

Serial killer in Northumberland stalking a remote community - Sinema by Rod Glenn http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...pf_rd_i=468294 only 71p and currently number 8 in the Thriller chart with 21 five star ratings and The Crack Magazine described it as, "One the most heart racing, jaw-dropping novels that I have ever dared to finish."

Unlikely Killer by Ricki Thomas - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Unlikely-Kil...9581709&sr=8-1 also 71p and at number 15.

11:59 by David Williams - http://www.amazon.co.uk/11-59/dp/B00...9581802&sr=1-1 only 71p

Darkroom by Poppet http://www.amazon.co.uk/Darkroom/dp/...9581843&sr=1-1 only 71p

They are all dark and edgy thrillers. Enjoy!