I've picked out a few of the books to highlight that looked interesting or were especially good deals.
Arnold Palmer: A Personal Journey ($0.99), by Arnold Palmer and Thomas Hauser, is the full text that the free Reflections on the Game is the teaser for.Book Description
This eBook edition includes a foreword from Golf Channel’s Rich Lerner, a new afterword from the author and an original essay by Arnold Palmer, “Reflections on the Game.”
With the possible exception of Babe Ruth, no athlete has ever done as much for a sport as Arnold Palmer has done for golf. During the course of his professional career he won 92 tournaments, 62 of them on the PGA tour. He is the first golfer to reach the million-dollar mark in tour earnings, and the first four-time winner of the coveted Masters championship. To fans around the world he isn’t just the most exciting personality in the history of golf, he is golf.
Palmer’s impact on the sport extends far beyond the green. He is the first athlete to parlay success on the field into lucrative endorsement contracts—and in the process, he revolutionized the economics of sports, paving the way for Tiger Woods, Annika Sorenstam, Yani Tseng, and Rory Mcllroy.
Yet for all his time in the spotlight, the true Arnold Palmer has remained largely unknown. With unprecedented access to Palmer, his family, his friends and his business associates, acclaimed sports writer Thomas Hauser provides a behind-the-scenes look at the “King of Golf” who has come to exemplify the American Dream. Packed with stunning photographs from Palmer’s own archives, Arnold Palmer: A Personal Journey is both a tribute to an American hero and the most intimate portrait ever of the man behind the legend.
“I have always thought that, of all the books I have done, A Personal Journey was a particularly good one with its wonderful selection of pictures and the excellent text that accompanied the photos. I enjoyed working with Tom Hauser on the book and felt we created an interesting chronicle of my golfing career and my life.”
—Arnold Palmer
To Walk the Night ($2.99), is the first title in E.S. Moore's Kat Redding urban fantasy series from Kensington Books.Book Description
Even a vampire has to face her inner demons. . .
Kat Redding is the very thing she hunts: a vampire, thirsting for blood, capable of killing any creature unlucky enough to get in her path. The difference is, Kat kills her own kind in order to protect human Purebloods. She's good at what she does. Good enough to earn the nickname Lady Death--and the enmity of every bloodthirsty being around. But now a vampire Count is intent on merging his House with a werewolf cult to create a force of terrifying power.
Kat can't allow that to happen. Even if it means taking on a den of weres and a vampire more ruthless than any she's encountered before. She has the weapons, the skill, and a few allies. But that may not be enough to eliminate the Count before her own dark nature rises to the surface--and costs her whatever is left of her humanity. . .
It's already hot enough here that I'm can't wait try out the recipes in Perfect Pops: The 50 Best Classic and Cool Treats ($0.99), by Charity Ferreira and Leigh Beisch.Book Description
Pops are summer's freshest frozen treats, and they're showing up in all the best places, from farmers markets to fine dining restaurants. The perfect way to make the most of ripe fruit is by suspending it in sweet ice, but Perfect Pops takes popsicles beyond fruit and juice. With 50 recipes for popsicles in creative, of-the-moment flavors, this book includes creamy pops, fancy pops reminiscent of nostalgic, luscious desserts such as chocolate pudding, and alcohol-spiked pops for adults. Techniques for making striped, swirled, layered and creamy-centered pops dipped in chocolate make this book a charming resource for mothers and crafters looking for easy kitchen projects with delicious results!
I didn't see Quick & Easy Mexican Cooking: More Than 80 Everyday Recipes ($2.99) when looking thru the sale, but found it looking to see what else Leigh Beisch had written. It actually appears that she is the photographer and Cecilia Hae-Jin Lee is the author, according to the hardcover info.Book Description
-íEs verdad! You can cook Mexican food on a weeknight in under one hour. Using readily available ingredients and familiar techniques, this easy-to-use cookbook makes Mexican cuisine doable for cooks at any skill level. Tacos, taquitos, flautas, burritos, and even classic Mexican desserts like Churros and cinnamon-scented Arroz con Leche (rice pudding) are just a taste of the more than 80 straightforward recipes. With dishes for every meal of the dayGÇöplus refreshing drinks such as agua frescas and potent margaritas—Quick & Easy Mexican Cooking adds spice to any kitchen.
The Bride & Groom First and Forever Cookbook ($3.99), by Susie Cushner, Sara Corpening Whiteford and Mary Corpening Barber, is one of the pricier choices, but a considerable discount from the $28 list price. Even if you aren't loading it onto a Kindle to give as a wedding gift, it appears to be a good choice for the beginning cook or if you are looking for a few new, easy and fast recipes.Book Description
Here is the perfect gift for the happy couple--the first and only cookbook they will ever need. Best-selling authors Sara Corpening Whiteford and Mary Corpening Barber start the bride and groom off right with essential information on the equipment they'll need to begin cooking in their new home, as well as invaluable tips on getting the pantry stocked. Then they offer 125 recipes--those special dishes to turn to again and again. Ready to entertain the new in-laws? A weekend brunch featuring Sausage and Cheddar Cheese Strata comes together in a snap and is certain to impress. If something a little more romantic is in order, Brie and Champagne Fondue for Two shared in front of a roaring fire is as cozy as it gets. Everyday favorites like Classic Lasagna, Grilled Chicken with Roasted Red Pepper Salsa, and the impossible-to-resist Silken Chocolate Tart will have even inexperienced cooks looking like pros in the kitchen. Whether cooking on the fly with Dinners in a Dash-a meal on the table in 30 minutes or less: perfect for the working couple!--or hosting that first-ever holiday dinner, this is the cookbook newlyweds need to chop, peel, saute, and roast in harmony in the kitchen. Complete with beautiful photographs and menu ideas for special occasions (including the first anniversary), the Bride & Groom First and Forever Cookbook will have the happy couple-and their family and friends--eating well from this day forward.
Nathalie Dupree's Shrimp and Grits ($0.99), by Nathalie Dupree, obviously contains more recipes than just the one from the title. At this price, though, just one or two recipes would be enough to justify the purchase (and not all of them have shrimp in them, I'd bet, since there are promises of dessert!). I will have to agree with on reviewer, though: we never served shrimp in the shell (uncleaned), except in a boil, when I lived in SC. Only restaurants served shrimp this way (and in vastly lower quantities), to save the labor involved in cleaning.Book Description
"Breakfast shrimp and grits" has long been a staple of the South Carolina Lowcountry, the favored morning repast during the busy summer shrimp season. Now, renowned Southern cuisine maven and author Nathalie Dupree is pleased to offer an entire cookbook dedicated to this famed Southern dish that will inspire people around the world to discover its appeal and versatility for any meal!
Shrimp and grits have emerged from their humble origins to become a signature for sophisticated Southern dining. The magical combination of shrimp and grits, whether for pre-dawn breakfast on a shrimp boat or as an entrée in the finest New York restaurant can be deliriously wonderful. Nathalie Dupree, along with Marion Sullivan, present the most cherished and famous recipes for this lowcountry classic. Their colorful recipes and no-nonsense approach share essential tips about how much and what liquid to use, what kind of pan, and how long to cook grits, along with information about how to catch, clean, freeze and cook shrimp.
Recipes include:
Plus a section of recipes for using grits in breads, crackers and desserts!
- BLT Shrimp and Grits
- Short-Cook Shrimp and Grits
- New Orleans-Style Grits Cakes with Shrimp and Tasso
The Mayo Clinic Diet: Eat Well, Enjoy Life, Lose Weight ($2.99)Book Description
Here at last is the last diet you should ever need. Get a quick and gratifying start with Lose It!, the phase of the diet designed to help you lose up to six to ten pounds in just two weeks. Eat the foods you love in moderation in the Live It! phase, which is designed to help you continue to lose one to two pounds per week and keep them off.
Here is the diet that helps you accomplish real and lasting weight loss. It is no fad, but a solid, common-sense approach brought to you by an award-winning health organization. More, The Mayo Clinic Diet does not require expensive ingredients (which can make a diet difficult to maintain in the long run.)
Through simple, healthy adjustments to your lifestyle, The Mayo Clinic Diet gives you the tools you need to achieve the success you want. In two easy phases, The Mayo Clinic Diet helps you lose weight and keep it off for life.
In two simple phases you'll be on the road to a healthy weight for the rest of your life. Packed with lots of encouragement--meal planners, recipes, tips for overcoming challenges, starting an exercise plan, and much more--Mayo Clinic delivers everything you need in one book. It's time to toss the scales and calculators and pick up the foods you've always loved. At last the diet you've been waiting for.
The Mayo Clinic Diabetes Diet ($2.99)Book Description
From Mayo Clinic, a leading authority in health and nutrition, comes The Mayo Clinic Diabetes Diet, adapted here for people with pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes from the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Mayo Clinic Diet. Here is a reliable plan to help you lose weight to control your blood sugar.
The specialists at Mayo Clinic have created a special diet, a two-phase plan, to help at-risk individuals to prevent and control diabetes by losing weight quickly and safely, then maintaining that weight loss.
Health and weight management can seem overwhelming to the more than 23 million Americans who suffer from type 2 diabetes as ell as the 79 million pre-diabetic adults. The Mayo Clinic Diabetes Diet presents two easy-to-follow phases that work--Lose it! and Live It! The diet is based on principles of The Mayo Clinic Diet, which is designed to help people safely lose 6-10 pounds in two weeks then continue to lose weight until they achieve a healthy weight that can be maintained.
The Lose It! phase of the diet is a simple, straight-forward two-week plan that encourages quick but safe weight loss that can help lower blood sugar. The Live It! phase offers basic and manageable steps and lifestyle changes that are designed to help participants lose one to two pounds each week until a healthy weight is reached and can be maintained.
This book is packed with meal plans, practical solutions, specific tips on how to lose weight safely. More, The Mayo Clinic Diet tackles the familiar obstacles that get in the way of weight loss--dislike of exercise, distaste of healthy food, too little time to cook well, a too hectic schedule, struggles with cravings, minimal support from family and friends and more.
"This diabetes diet isn't a fad: it's about changing your habits for the better," says Donald Hensrud, M.D., Mayo Clinic specialist in nutrition and internal medicine and medical editor-in-chief.
Farmer Jane ($0.99), by Temra CostaBook Description
Farmer Jane profiles thirty women in the sustainable food industry, describing their agriculture and business models and illustrating the amazing changes they are making in how we connect with food. These advocates for creating a more holistic and nurturing food and agriculture system also answer questions on starting a community-supported agriculture (CSA) program, how to get involved in policy at local and national levels, and how to address the different types of renewable energy and finance them.
Temra Costa has been working with the Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF) in California for the past five years through the programs of Farm to School and Buy Fresh Buy Local in the Sacramento Valley and Bay Area. She is currently director of Buy Fresh Buy Local and lives in Sacramento.
A hands-on guide for getting involved in the sustainable food movement.
Sacred Land: Intuitive Gardening for Personal, Political and Environmental Change ($0.99), by Clea DanaanBook Description
Clea Danaan breaks new ground with Sacred Land—a fresh approach to sacred gardening that goes beyond your own backyard.
In this positive and practical handbook, Danaan shows how organic gardening can germinate environmental awareness and political change while feeding your spirit. You'll learn how to plan and plant your garden, create compost, save seeds, conserve and transmute water, connect with garden goddesses, and incorporate planetary energy in your garden.
Sacred Land explores the benefits of native plants, organic food and agriculture, buying locally, and eating seasonally. It suggests simple yet effective ways of spreading the message of ecology and sustainability to your community. You'll discover how to get along with ants, bats, bees, butterflies, fairies, frogs, gnomes, worms, and other creatures who share our gardens. This one-of-a-kind gardening guidebook also includes inspiring stories of women activists, farmers, artists, and healers who are making a difference in the world.
I bought Small Space Organizing: A Room by Room Guide to Maximizing Your Space ($2.99), by Kathryn Bechen, last Spring when it was on sale.Book Description
While we may admire the spacious rooms in large homes we see in magazines or on TV, let's face it: most of us don't live in rambling estates. Instead, we live in homes, apartments, or condos with small rooms and even smaller closets. But you can enjoy an organized, beauty-filled life no matter what the size of your space. In this practical book, readers will learn how to-perform a room-by-room audit of their space to see if it's functioning at its best-make the most of existing storage space and find clever ways to add more-find creative ways to arrange furnishings and accessories that maximize space and bring harmony and style to the home.
Whether empty nesters who are downsizing, newlyweds who are setting up their first nest, or anyone who needs creative new ideas, readers will love these strategies, tips, and solutions to maximize their space and enhance their quality of life.
Aging Our Way: Lessons for Living from 85 and Beyond ($0.99), by Meika LoeBook Description
In 1998, Hallmark unveiled their new "One-Hundredth-Birthday" cards, and by 2007 annual sales were at 85,000. America is rapidly graying: between now and 2030, the number of people in the U.S. over the age of 80 is expected to almost triple. But how long people live raises the question of how well they live. Aging Our Way follows the everyday lives of 30 elders (ages 85-102) living at home and mostly alone to understand how they create and maintain meaningful lives for themselves. Drawing on the latest interdisciplinary scholarship on aging and three years of interviews with the elders, Meika Loe explores how elders navigate the practical challenges of living as independently as possible while staying healthy, connected, and comfortable. While most books on the subject treat old age as a social problem and elders as simply diminished versions of their former selves, Aging Our Way views them as they really are: lively, complicated, engaging people finding creative ways to make their aging as meaningful and manageable as possible. In their own voices, elders describe how they manage everything from grocery shopping, doctor appointments, and disability, to creating networks of friends and maintaining their autonomy. In many ways, these elders can serve as role models. The lessons they have learned about living in moderation, taking time for themselves, asking for help, keeping a sense of humor, caring for others, and preparing for death provide an invaluable source of wisdom for anyone hoping to live a long and fulfilling life. Through their stories, Loe helps us to think about aging, well-being, and the value of human relationships in new ways. Written with remarkable warmth and depth of understanding, Aging Our Way offers a vivid look at a group of people who too often remain invisible--those who have lived the longest--and all they have to teach us.
Jazz Anecdotes: Second Time Around ($0.99), by Bill CrowBook Description
When jazz musicians get together, they often delight one another with stories about the great, or merely remarkable, players and singers they've worked with. One good story leads to another until someone says, "Somebody ought to wrie these down!" With Jazz Anecdotes, somebody finally has. Drawing on a rich verbal tradition, bassist and jazz writer Bill Crow has culled stories from a wide variety of sources, including interviews, biographies and a remarkable oral history collection, which resides at the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University, to paint fascinating and very human portraits of jazz musicians. Organized around general topics--teaching and learning, life on the road, prejudice and discrimination, and the importance of a good nickname--Jazz Anecdotes shows the jazz world as it really is. In this fully updated edition, which contains over 150 new anecdotes and new topics like Hiring and Firing, Crow regales us with new stories of such jazz greats as Benny Goodman, Chet Baker, Ravi Coltrane, Buddy Rich and Paul Desmond. He offers extended sections on old favorites--Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, and the fabulous Eddie Condon, who seems to have lived his entire life with the anecdotist in mind. With its unique blend of sparkling dialogue and historical and social insight, Jazz Anecdotes will delight anyone who loves a good story. It offers a fresh perspective on the joys and hardships of a musician's life as well as a rare glimpse of the personalities who created America's most distinctive music.
Listen to Bob Marley: The Man, the Music, the Revolution ($0.99), by Bob MarleyBook Description
An inspiring collection of poems, meditations, and lyrics by one of the world’s most revered musical legends
Bob Marley’s music defined a movement and forever changed a nation. Known worldwide for their message of peace and unity, Marley’s songs—from “One Love” to “Redemption Song” to “Three Little Birds”—have touched millions of lives. This collection is the best of Bob Marley presented in three parts: “The Man,” giving an in-depth look into the life of Bob Marley; “The Music,” comprising his most memorable lyrics as well as links to many of his songs on Amazon.com; and “The Revolution,” containing his meditations on social equality and the Rastafari movement. Enriched with iconic photographs, Listen to Bob Marley provides insight into a reggae legend, the inspirational man behind the music.
This ebook features an introduction by daughter Cedella Marley and an illustrated biography of Cedella including rare photographs from her personal collection.
One Love ($3.99), by Cedella Marley and Vanessa Newton(Author, Illustrator), is a children's book for grade level P and up.Book Description
This heartwarming picture book adapted from one of Bob Marley's most beloved songs brings the joyful spirit and unforgettable lyrics of his music to life for a new generation. Readers will delight in dancing to the beat and feeling the positive groove of change when one girl enlists her friends, family, and community to help transform her neighborhood for the better.
Adapted by Cedella Marley, Bob Marley s first child, and gorgeously illustrated by the talented Vanessa Newton, One Love is a colorful and upbeat testament to the amazing things that can happen when we all get together with one love in our hearts.
Going to Extremes: How Like Minds Unite and Divide ($1.99), by Cass R. SunsteinBook Description
Why do people become extremists? What makes people become so dismissive of opposing views? Why is political and cultural polarization so pervasive in America? In Going to Extremes, renowned legal scholar and best-selling author Cass R. Sunstein offers startling insights into why and when people gravitate toward extremism. Sunstein marshals a wealth of evidence that shows that when like-minded people gather in groups, they tend to become more extreme in their views than they were before. Thus when liberals group get together to debate climate change, they end up more alarmed about climate change, while conservatives brought together to discuss same-sex unions become more set against same-sex unions. In courtrooms, radio stations, and chatrooms, enclaves of like-minded people are breeding ground for extreme movements. Indeed, Sunstein shows that a good way to create an extremist group, or a cult of any kind, is to separate members from the rest of society, either physically or psychologically. Sunstein's findings help to explain such diverse phenomena as political outrage on the Internet, unanticipated "blockbusters" in the film and music industry, the success of the disability rights movement, ethnic conflict in Iraq and former Yugoslavia, and Islamic terrorism. Providing a wealth of real-world examples--sometimes entertaining, sometimes alarming--Sunstein offers a fresh explanation of why partisanship has become so bitter and debate so rancorous in America and abroad.
I bought the YA novel Water Wars ($1.99), by Cameron Stracher, early last year and it was lost in my TBR list; I'm glad it was on this sale (even if it is less than I paid), as I've moved it back near the top.Book Description
Would you risk everything for someone you just met?
What if he had a secret worth killing for?
Welcome to a future where water is more precious than oil or gold...
Hundreds of millions of people have already died, and millions more will soon fall—victims of disease, hunger, and dehydration. It is a time of drought and war. The rivers have dried up, the polar caps have melted, and drinkable water is now in the hands of the powerful few. There are fines for wasting it and prison sentences for exceeding the quotas.
But Kai didn’t seem to care about any of this. He stood in the open road drinking water from a plastic cup, then spilled the remaining drops into the dirt. He didn’t go to school, and he traveled with armed guards. Kai claimed he knew a secret—something the government is keeping from us...
And then he was gone. Vanished in the middle of the night. Was he kidnapped? Did he flee? Is he alive or dead? There are no clues, only questions. And no one can guess the lengths to which they will go to keep him silent. We have to find him—and the truth—before it is too late for all of us.
If the kids in your house aren't quite ready for Water Wars, they may want to check out The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Weird Junior Edition ($0.99), by David Borgenicht and Justin Heimberg, which concentrates on some of the more weird (and unlikely) situations one might need to survive.Book Description
Vampires, zombies, aliens, mummies, dragons. Yes, even the weird, unexplained, and other-worldly need to be survived! The authors of the best-selling Worst-Case Scenario series are back with a hilarious (and helpful!) handbook that's a blast through space, time, history, and the imagination. Find out how to survive a Mars landing, fight a werewolf, deal with a Bigfoot sighting, outwit a leprechaun, prepare for time travel, and more. Peppered with historical and scientific facts, this book will amaze, amuse, and delight. Kids will get the scoop on how to handle the weirdest situations Worst-Case Scenario-style!
The Scouter's Companion ($0.99), by David Witt, can be read by scouts of all ages; although it it's mostly aimed at Scoutmasters, I suspect many who were Scouts in their younger years will enjoy revisiting the stories and song it contains. If your kids (or grandkids) are too young for any of the Scouting programs, though, you might want to pre-order A Camping Spree with Mr. Magee and Down to the Sea with Mr. Magee ($0.99 each), by Chris Van Dusen, which appears as if they will be quite cute, following Mr. Magee and his dog Dee thru their misadventures (grade level P and up).Book Description
The Scoutmaster Companion Tips and Stories Celebrating 100 Years of Scouting
For the past 100 years, boys of all ages have explored the mountains, forests, streams, and seas in the quest of fun, exploration, and service that the Boy Scouts of America has offered. From campfire songs and survival skills, to classic quips from Boys' Life and sage advice, The Scoutmaster Companion is a must-have for campers of all ages.
Time-tested advice and skills for the outdoor enthusiast.
