These are all short "mini-books", so I'm grouping them all together. It's likely that one or all may only be free in the Kindle store today, as New Word City has been doing recently, and not likely to be free elsewhere.
Decadent Desserts, by Stonyfield Farm
Book Description
Dessert just got even better. Use Stonyfield’s recipes for decadent dessert to make your favorite treats a little less sinful.
What's Your Strategic Heartbeat?, by Jon L. Luther
Book Description
For close to 45 years, Jon Luther, a 2010 inductee into the Menu Masters Hall of Fame, whose members include Wolfgang Puck, Colonel Sanders, and Jacques Pepin, has been running some part of the U.S. food-service industry - from managing the cafeteria at the Wurlitzer jukebox and company to leading Dunkin’ Brands, serving 3 million customers a day around the world. Drawing on lessons learned in that long career, he describes how he overcame organizational inertia and reset the organizational inertia and reset the strategic direction of three of the companies he has led. In each case, he began by identifying the epicenter of the brand, the strategic heartbeat.
There is a trio of titles from Thomas Fleming:
John Adam's for the Defense
Here, from New York Times bestselling author and historian Thomas Fleming, is the surprising and little-known story of the trial that followed the Boston Massacre. John Adams undertook, on the eve of the American Revolution, to defend the hated British soldiers who fired into a mob, killing five. There are echoes of our own times in the events that followed.
The Imperial Congress
Today’s spectacle of an imperial Congress battling the president of the United States – be his name Barack Obama or George Bush – is unsettling to many Americans. But it should not come as a surprise. Since the earliest days of the republic, writes New York Times bestselling historian Thomas Fleming, Congress has sought to seize power for itself and diminish the presidency.
Presidents on Presidents
All American presidents have had things to say about their fellow chief executives. Once in a great while, writes New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Thomas Fleming, their comments were even flattering.
The editors of New Word City have three biographies that are free to download:
Ronald Reagan: A Life
President Ronald Reagan presided over, and had a hand in, many of the major world events of the twentieth century, from the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union to an unprecedented resurgence of the U.S. economy. Called The Great Communicator, he was reticent when it came to the story of his own life. Here’s his inspiring story.
Jack London, A Life
Jack London is best remembered for his novels White Fang and Call of the Wild. But his life was every bit as thrilling and tumultuous as his words. Born the illegitimate son of a San Francisco spiritualist, he went on to be a cannery worker, sailor, gold prospector, war correspondent, and self-made celebrity. And he published 51 books. Here’s his amazing story.
Rudyard Kipling, A Life
One of the greatest of English writers, Rudyard Kipling created a literary world teeming with unforgettable people, animals, moral quandaries, and unforgettable wisdom. But snobbish critics and a misreading of Kipling’s political views have condemned him to decades of undeserved neglect. No more. Here’s the fascinating (and surprising) story of his life.
