Free Book (PDF ) - Baseball's Most Wanted

All three titles in the Baseball's Most Wanted(TM) Boxed Set: Baseball's Most Wanted(TM), Baseball's Most Wanted(TM) II, and The World Series' Most Wanted(TM) ($24.95 Paperback), by Floyd Conner and John Snyder, are free in DRM'd PDF format over on Copia.

Book Descriptions

• Baseball's Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of the National Pastime's Outrageous Offenders, Lucky Bounces, and Other Oddities
• Baseball's Most Wanted 2: The Top 10 Book of More Bad Hops, Screwball Players, and Other Oddities
• World Series' Most Wanted: The Top Ten Book of Championship Teams, Broken Dreams, and October Oddities

Links to the titles on Copia:

• Baseball's Most Wanted
• Baseball's Most Wanted II
• World Series' Most Wanted

For each title, make sure it still says "Your Price: $0.00" before clicking on Buy Now (don't use the cart, it doesn't show up as free). You'll need an account there, if you don't have one already, and the Copia reader to download the books (this is a requirement, no way around it). Once downloaded, though, you can move the books into Adobe ADE or onto your EPUB ereader.

Free Book (PDF) - Mojo Queen

Mojo Queen ($5.50), by Sonya Clark, is free from Books on Board, in a DRM-free PDF format.

Book Description
Hoodoo and high magic are on a collision course.

Roxanne Mathis isn't like everyone else. Not only can she see auras and spectral entities, she can mix herbs and roots for spells to do good or ill. She can even light a candle without the benefit of a match. But when she's hired to exorcise a demon from a young girl, she discovers the limits of her powers.

With her vampire cousin at her side and a sexy sorcerer chasing her on the rebound, Roxie sets out to send that evil entity back where to she came from.

Nothing is as it seems and Roxie's in over her head. It's not going to be enough for her to just be a paranormal investigator and old school root worker - to defeat this demon, she's going to have to be the Mojo Queen.

Click HERE to get the free book from Books on Board. Be sure to click to place the book in your cart, select the free PDF version, then use the cart checkout; if you click on Buy Now, BoB will select the EPUB version for you, which will cost a bit over $4 and send you straight to the payment window.

Free Book (ADE-PDF) - Chasing Science at Sea

Chasing Science at Sea: Racing Hurricanes, Stalking Sharks, and Living Undersea with Ocean Experts ($9.99 Kindle), by Ellen Prager, is free this month, directly from the University of Chicago Press.

Book Description
To the average office-dweller, marine scientists seem to have the good life: cruising at sea for weeks at a time, swimming in warm coastal waters, living in tropical paradises. But ocean scientists who go to sea will tell you that it is no vacation. Creature comforts are few and the obstacles seemingly insurmountable, yet an abundance of wonder and discovery still awaits those who take to the ocean. Chasing Science at Sea immerses readers in the world of those who regularly go to sea—aquanauts living underwater, marine biologists seeking unseen life in the deep ocean, and the tall-ship captains at the helm, among others—and tells the fascinating tale of what life—and science—is like at the mercy of Mother Nature.

With passion and wit, well-known marine scientist Ellen Prager shares her stories as well as those of her colleagues, revealing that in the field ingenuity and a good sense of humor are as essential as water, sunblock, and GPS. Serendipity is invaluable, and while collecting data is the goal, sometimes just getting back to shore means success. But despite the physical hardship and emotional duress that come with the work, optimism and adventure prompt a particularly hardy species of scientist to return again and again to the sea.

Filled with firsthand accounts of the challenges and triumphs of dealing with the extreme forces of nature and the unpredictable world of the ocean, Chasing Science at Sea is a unique glimpse below the water line at what it is like and why it is important to study, explore, and spend time in one of our planet’s most fascinating and foreign environments.

Click HERE to sign up for the free book. You'll need to enter your email address, then check your email for the link to download the book. Mine arrived within seconds -- you get a .ACSM file, which, when opened, will load the PDF book inside of Adobe ADE. This is a DRM'd PDF and is not compatible with the Kindle.

Free Book (PDF) - 36 SEEKING LOVE

36 SEEKING LOVE ($6.99 Kindle), by Barbara Cartland, can be pre-ordered for free from Books on Board and AllRomance (DRM'd PDF).

Book Description
“No, Papa! I cannot believe that you no longer want me here.”

When Marina Fullerton’s beloved mother dies in a tragic riding accident, she is horrified when her father sends her away from the family home in Harley Street, saying he is unable to bear her near him.

She finds herself packed off to stay with family friends in Paris, chaperoned by her faithful maid, Ellen.

Soon Marina finds herself captivated by her French host’s good-looking son – but is he what he seems? And when her father’s urgent telegram summons Marina back to London, fate conspires to intervene in the shape of the very handsome and charming Sir Peter Bailey.

Love awaits Marina after she returns to France – but is it with whom she expects?

Click HERE for the free book from Books on Board (May 14 delivery).
Click HERE for the free book from Books on Board (May 14 delivery).

Free Book (EPUB/PDF) - Romeo, Romeo

Romeo, Romeo ($4.79), by Robin Kaye, is free in DRM'd EPUB or PDF format from Sourcebooks, if you join their CasaVIP program. Those of you with Kindles may already have this one, as it was free last December from Amazon.

Book Description
Rosalie Ronaldi doesn't have a domestic bone in her body ... All she cares about is her career, so she survives on take-out and dirty martinis, keeps her shoes under the dining room table, her bras on the shower curtain rod, and her clothes on the couch ... Nick Romeo is every woman's fantasy - tall, dark, handsome, rich, really good in bed, AND he loves to cook and clean ... He says he wants an independent woman, but when he meets Rosalie, all he wants to do is take care of her. Before too long, he's cleaned up her apartment, stocked her refrigerator, and adopted her dog ... So what's the problem? Just a little matter of mistaken identity, corporate theft, a hidden past in juvenile detention and one big nosy Italian family too close for comfort ...

Getting signed up is a bit involved. First, click HERE to sign up for the CasaVIP emails. You'll get an email to confirm, open it and click the confirmation link. You'll then get another email welcoming you to the program, with a coupon code to use to get the book for free; click Download Now in that email and you'll be taken to a web page to order the book (choose EPUB or PDF). You enter the coupon code during checkout (make sure you apply it and see it free, before you get to step 3, which asks for payment).

Free Book Updates (Non-Kindle)

A number of books that were free only on Kindle are now free from a number of other stores the publisher in EPUB and PDF formats. Here's a list to the posts with links for the available formats.

• Immigrants
• Best Little Stories from the Civil War
• Wild Sight
• Highest Stakes
• Moms' Ultimate Guide to the Tween Girl World

Free Book (ADE/PDF) - Isolarion: A Different Oxford Journey

Isolarion: A Different Oxford Journey ($9.99 Kindle), by James Attlee, is free this month, directly from the University of Chicago Press.

Book Description
Through the centuries, people from all walks of life have heard the siren call of a pilgrimage, the lure to journey away from the familiar in search of understanding. But is a pilgrimage even possible these days for city-dwellers enmeshed in the pressures of work and family life? Or is there a way to be a pilgrim without leaving one’s life behind? James Attlee answers these questions with Isolarion, a thoughtful, streetwise, and personal account of his pilgrimage to a place he thought he already knew—the Cowley Road in Oxford, right outside his door.

Isolarion takes its title from a type of fifteenth-century map that isolates an area in order to present it in detail, and that’s what Attlee, sharp-eyed and armed with tape recorder and notebook, provides for Cowley Road. The former site of a leper hospital, a workhouse, and a medieval well said to have miraculous healing powers, Cowley Road has little to do with the dreaming spires of the tourist’s or student’s Oxford. What Attlee presents instead is a thoroughly modern, impressively cosmopolitan, and utterly organic collection of shops, restaurants, pubs, and religious establishments teeming with life and reflecting the multicultural makeup of the surrounding neighborhood.

From a sojourn in a sensory-deprivation tank to a furtive visit to an unmarked pornography emporium, Attlee investigates every aspect of the Cowley Road’s appealingly eclectic culture, where halal shops jostle with craft jewelers and reggae clubs pulsate alongside quiet churchyards. But the very diversity that is, for Attlee, the essence of Cowley Road’s appeal is under attack from well-meaning city planners and predatory developers. His pilgrimage is thus invested with melancholy: will the messy glories of the Cowley Road be lost to creeping homogenization?

Drawing inspiration from sources ranging from Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy to contemporary art, Attlee is a charming and companionable guide who revels in the extraordinary embedded in the everyday. Isolarion is at once a road movie, a quixotic stand against uniformity, and a rousing hymn in praise of the complex, invigorating nature of the twenty-first-century city.

Click HERE to sign up for the free book. You'll need to enter your email address, then check your email for the link to download the book. Mine arrived within seconds -- you get a .ACSM file, which, when opened, will load the PDF book inside of Adobe ADE. This is a DRM'd PDF and is not compatible with the Kindle.

Free Book (ADE/PDF) - Who Wrote the Book of Love?

Who Wrote the Book of Love? ($24.99 Hardcover), by Lee Siegel, is free from the University of Chicago this month.

Book Description
Who Wrote the Book of Love? is acclaimed novelist Lee Siegel's comedic chronicle of the sexual life of an American boy in Southern California in the 1950s. Starting at the beginning of the decade, in the year that Stalin announced that the Soviet Union had developed an atomic bomb, the book opens with a child's first memory of himself. Closing at the end of the decade, when Pat Boone's guide to dating, 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty, topped the bestseller list, the book culminates just moments before the boy experiences for the first time what he had learned from a book read to him by his mother was called "coitus or sexual intercourse or sometimes, less formally, just making love." Between the initial overwhelmingly erotic recollection and the final climactic moment, all is sex—beguiling and intractable, naughty and sweet. Who Wrote the Book of Love? is about the subversive sexual imaginations of children. And, as such, it is about the origins of love.

Vignettes from the author's childhood provide the material for the construction of what is at once comic fiction, imaginative historical reportage, and an ironically nostalgic confession. The book evokes the tone and tempo of a decade during which America was blatantly happy, wholesome, and confident, and yet, at the same time, deeply fearful of communism and nuclear holocaust. Siegel recounts both the cheer and the paranoia of the period and the ways in which those sentiments informed wondering about sex and falling in love.

"Part of my plan," Mark Twain wrote in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, "has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked." With the same motive, Lee Siegel has written what Twain might have composed had he been Jewish, raised in Beverly Hills in the 1950s, and joyously obsessed with sex and love.

Click HERE to sign up for the free book. You'll need to enter your email address, then check your email for the link to download the book. Mine arrived within seconds -- you get a .ACSM file, which, when opened, will load the PDF book inside of Adobe ADE. This is a DRM'd PDF that is not compatible with the Kindle.

Free Book (PDF) - Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property

Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property ($17.49 paperback), edited by Gaëlle Krikorian and Amy Kapczynski, is free direct from the publisher Zone Books. This is a hefty book in print, at 640 pages, but the DRM-free PDF can be placed on any ereader device for easy access.

Book Description
At the end of the twentieth century, intellectual property rights collided with everyday life. Expansive copyright laws and digital rights management technologies sought to shut down new forms of copying and remixing made possible by the Internet. International laws expanding patent rights threatened the lives of millions of people around the world living with HIV/AIDS by limiting their access to cheap generic medicines. For decades, governments have tightened the grip of intellectual property law at the bidding of information industries; but recently, groups have emerged around the world to challenge this wave of enclosure with a new counter-politics of "access to knowledge" or "A2K." They include software programmers who took to the streets to defeat software patents in Europe, AIDS activists who forced multinational pharmaceutical companies to permit copies of their medicines to be sold in poor countries, subsistence farmers defending their rights to food security or access to agricultural biotechnology, and college students who created a new "free culture" movement to defend the digital commons. Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property maps this emerging field of activism as a series of historical moments, strategies, and concepts. It gathers some of the most important thinkers and advocates in the field to make the stakes and strategies at play in this new domain visible and the terms of intellectual property law intelligible in their political implications around the world.

Contributors: Ahmed Abdel Latif, Philippe Aigrain, Jeffrey Atteberry, Yochai Benkler, Yann Moulier Boutaing, Carlos Correa, Laura DeNardis, Sarah Deutsch, Peter Drahos, Hala Essalmawi, Rick Falkvinge, Sean Flynn, Vera Franz, Spring Gombe, Anil Gupta, Ellen 't Hoen, Charles Igwe, Eddan Katz, Kannikar Kijtiwatchakul, Gaëlle Krikorian, Lawrence Liang, Jiraporn Limpananont, James Love, Leena Menghaney, Viviana Munoz, Sisule F. Musungu, HeeSeob Nam, Chan Park, Eloan Pinheiro dos Santos, Achal Prabhala, Onno Purbo, Manon Ress, Caroline Rossini, Susan Sell, Sangeeta Shashikant, Roberto Verzola, Jo Walsh

Click HERE for the free download, then click on eBook (Open Access) Edition

Free Book - eye of the god

eye of the god ($9.99 Kindle), by Ariel Allison, is free in PDF form today from Christian publisher Abingdon Press. Rumor is that it will be free on Kindle starting tomorrow, but the PDF is one day only and DRM-free.

Book Description
When international jewel theives attempt to steal the Hope Diamond from the Simthsonian Institute, only Dr. Abigail Mitchell stands in their way. Abby soon realizes she alone holds the pieces to the complicated puzzle in this deadly game. It is in this context that her faith will be put to the ultimate test as she confronts the father who abandoned her, the betrayal of the only man she has ever loved, and the possibility that she may lose her life because of the legendary gem.

Click HERE to get the free download (use the green download button at the bottom on the web page).

Free Book (PDF) - The Elements of Investing

The Elements of Investing ($9.89 Kindle), by Charles D. Ellis and Burton G. Malkiel, both former Vanguard board members, is free courtesy of Vanguard (the investing company); it appears that this was supposed to be for their Vanguard Flagship Services members only, but the links are out in the open and no login is required.

Book Description
A timeless, easy-to-read guide on life-long investment principles that can help any investor succeed

The Elements of Investing has a single-minded goal: to teach the principles of investing in the same pared-to-bone manner that Professor William Strunk Jr. once taught composition to students at Harvard, using his classic little book, The Elements of Style. With great daring, Ellis and Malkiel imagined their own Little Red Schoolhouse course in investing for every investor around the world-and then penned this book.

The Elements of Investing hacks away at all the overtrading and over thinking so predominant in the hyperactive thought patterns of the average investor. Malkiel and Ellis offer investors a set of simple but powerful thoughts on how to challenge Mr. Market at his own game, and win by not losing. All the need-to-know rules and investment principles can be found here.

• Contains sound investment advice and simple principles of investing from two of the most respected individuals in the investment world
• Burton G. Malkiel is the bestselling author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street and Charles D. Ellis is the bestselling author of Winning the Loser's Game
• Shows how to deal with an investor's own worst enemies: fear and greed

A disciplined approach to investing, complemented by conviction, is all you need to succeed. This timely guide will help you develop these skills and make the most of your time in today's market.

Click HERE to open the download page (or get there from the Vanguard offer page), then click Download at the bottom of the page. A PDF file will open in the same window, which you can then save.

Free Book (PDF) - Debt Free For Life

David Bach's just released Debt Free For Life: The Finish Rich Plan for Financial Freedom ($9.68 Kindle) is available free, in PDF form, today only, from Walletpop.

Book Description
GOODBYE DEBT—HELLO FREEDOM!

Most of us grew up with the idea that there is good debt and there is bad debt. Good debts are generally considered to be debts you incur to buy things that can go up in value—like a home or college education. Bad debts are things like credit card balances, where you borrowed money to buy things that depreciate or go down in value, like most consumer goods.

But as America’s favorite financial coach, David Bach, points out, in difficult times there is no such thing as good debt. There is only debt. And all debt is too expensive—if what you desire is FREEDOM! In fact, Bach believes the best investment you can make today is to pay down your debt, faster and smarter than you have ever attempted before—starting today!

In Debt Free for Life, #1 New York Times bestselling author David Bach has written his most groundbreaking and important book since The Automatic Millionaire, giving us the knowledge, the tools, and the mindset we need to get out of debt and achieve financial freedom— forever! Offering a revolutionary approach to personal finance that teaches you how to pay down your debt and adopt a whole new way of living – debt free. Bach unveils the Debt Wise program that empowers you to pare down your debt automatically. You’ll learn how to calculate your Debt Freedom Day – the actual date you will be completely free of debt. And you’ll discover that when you are debt free, you need a lot less money to live on. You can retire, even with a smaller nest egg -- perhaps earlier than you expected.

David Bach has coached millions to pay off their debt and now he can guide you. Whether you have home loans, student loans, car loans, credit card debt—paying down your debt is truly a game you can win, if you know the rules. Debt Free For Life will teach you the rules and give you the tools to buy back your freedom.

Click HERE to get to the Walletpop website, then click on one of the banners there to download the PDF. The banners are gone, but you can try the direct link, although it could stop working at any time.

This is a DRM-free PDf, so you should be able to load it onto your Kindle as is or convert it.

Free Book (ADE/PDF) - Thousands of Broadways

Thousands of Broadways: Dreams and Nightmares of the American Small Town ($9.99 Kindle), by Robert Pinsky, is free from the University of Chicago this month.

Book Description
Broadway, the main street that runs through Robert Pinsky’s home town of Long Branch, New Jersey, was once like thousands of other main streets in small towns across the country. But for Pinsky, one of America’s most admired poets and its former Poet Laureate, this Broadway is the point of departure for a lively journey through the small towns of the American imagination. Thousands of Broadways explores the dreams and nightmares of such small towns—their welcoming yet suffocating, warm yet prejudicial character during their heyday, from the early nineteenth century through World War II.

The citizens of quintessential small towns know one another extensively and even intimately, but fail to recognize the geniuses and criminal minds in their midst. Bringing the works of such figures as Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Alfred Hitchcock, Thornton Wilder, Willa Cather, and Preston Sturges to bear on this paradox, as well as reflections on his own time growing up in a small town, Pinsky explores how such imperfect knowledge shields communities from the anonymity and alienation of modern life. Along the way, he also considers how small towns can be small minded—in some cases viciously judgmental and oppressively provincial. Ultimately, Pinsky examines the uneasy regard that creative talents like him often have toward the small towns that either nurtured or thwarted their artistic impulses.

Of living in a small town, Sherwood Anderson once wrote that "the sensation is one never to be forgotten. On all sides are ghosts, not of the dead, but of living people." Passionate, lyrical, and intensely moving, Thousands of Broadways is a rich exploration of this crucial theme in American literature by one of its most distinguished figures.

Click HERE to sign up for the free book. You'll need to enter your email address, then check your email for the link to download the book. Mine arrived within seconds -- you get a .ACSM file, which, when opened, will load the PDF book inside of Adobe ADE. This is a DRM'd PDF that is not compatible with the Kindle.

Free Dr. Who Story, Kobo Reader Deal, Book Discounts

If you are looking for a second ereader device that will get you access to free books you find in EPUB format or your local library's ebooks, you might want to investigate the Wi-Fi Kobo Reader at Borders, currently on sale for $119.99, today and tomorrow, in black or white (lavender is not on sale, but is available) and with double borders bucks for Rewards members. This is an updated version of the Kobo reader that I have, which is a basic, but sturdy reading device. It isn't the fastest and since mine had transfer books via USB cable, not always the most convenient, but it served it's purpose, which was to let me open EPUB books I found outside the Kindle store and to read the occasional library book I managed to find (truthfully, most books I want to read aren't available in the library I joined and my local area still is just promising to add library books, so there aren't that many that I read this way).

One thing to note on the Borders Kobo reader is that it will generally sync with the Borders desktop app, but not the Kobo desktop app. I'll assume the wireless sync is the same, so if you primarily shop at Kobo instead, you might prefer their Kobo reader instead ($139 and up, various starter book bundles available). Regardless of which you get, you can load EPUB formatted books from Kobo, Borders, Sony and most other stores using Adobe Digital Editions (the exception is that B&N's nookbooks won't work on any other reader than their own, due to a proprietary DRM scheme).

Definitely, though, head over and enter the "Scratch 'n Win" Contest at Kobo. You can enter daily thru December 31 and will at least get a coupon code (for anywhere from 10% to 50% off one book), but could win a $25 gift card or a new Kobo Wireless Reader (and a grand prize of a Reader and a $500 gift card).

Hopefully you managed to catch the Dr. Who Christmas show last night (if not, hunt for the next showing, before it's gone). You can get a bonus Dr. Who Christmas book, Snowfall, in PDF form, on the BBC site. Some of the other content there, including watching past episodes in iplayer, are restricted to those in the UK. Those of you that are, no doubt know that you can play games, such as Dr. Who: The Adventure Games, and download content related to the shows (I found character masks, wallpaper, Christmas cards and posters that could all be accessed from outside the UK). Those past episodes are blocked for those of us in the states, but it looks like Amazon is having a sale: $9.99 per season on Video on Demand ($12.68 for Season 5 in HD).

Book Description
From a family visit to a spooky theatre that goes terribly wrong to the Doctor battling an army of Vampire Warriors high over London, Snowfall is a saga stretching across the centuries and the universe. When two men meet in a mysterious, abandoned railway station, it soon becomes clear they hold a grudge against each other. But they have something else in common - they have both met the Doctor. As they swap stories about their adventures with the Time Lord they're watched by a girl with red hair and her friend... But where is the Doctor and what danger is he facing?

Doctor Who: Snowfall continues our tradition of festive short stories featuring the Doctor at Christmas. But this time the tales are linked and build to an unexpected Christmas conclusion!

As for discount codes, today is the last day for Fictionwise's 60% off sale using coupon code merryxmas2010. If you are new to the site, the "multi-format" books are DRM-free and can be used or converted for any reader, while the EReader books are DRM'd and work only in their app, the B&N apps and the nook (but not the NOOKcolor).

Kobo still has these promotion codes: firstbook (35%) and iOS4 (30%), each good for one non-Agency title.

Rainbow eBooks is running a 30% off sale, thru Jan 2, on every single ebook on the site. They offer LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) books only, all DRM free.

Free Books (PDF) - The 4-Hour Workweek & The Slow-Carb Cookbook

Timothy Ferriss has really been publicizing this latest book, The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman ($9.99), which is why it is currently #4 in Kindle Non-Fiction, #2 in Diet Books and #1 in Kindle Health, Mind & Body. As part of that push, he is giving away PDF copies of his previous bestseller, The 4-Hour Workweek ($9.02) and a 38 page low-carb cookbook.

Book Description
Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan–there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, or just living more and working less, The 4-Hour Workweek is the blueprint.

This step-by-step guide to luxury lifestyle design teaches:

• How Tim went from $40,000 per year and 80 hours per week to $40,000 per month and 4 hours per week
• How to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you want
• How blue-chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobs
• How to eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economist
• How to trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and frequent “mini-retirements”

The new expanded edition of Tim Ferriss’ The 4-Hour Workweek includes:

• More than 50 practical tips and case studies from readers (including families) who have doubled income, overcome common sticking points, and reinvented themselves using the original book as a starting point
• Real-world templates you can copy for eliminating e-mail, negotiating with bosses and clients, or getting a private chef for less than $8 a meal
• How Lifestyle Design principles can be suited to unpredictable economic times
• The latest tools and tricks, as well as high-tech shortcuts, for living like a diplomat or millionaire without being either

Here are the details on how to get the free books from slickdeals:

To celebrate the release of Tim Feriss's new book the 4-Hour-Body, he's giving away digital copies of his previous NYT best selling book.

• Digital copy of 'The 4-Hour Workweek' (Retail $27.00)
• The Slow-Carb Cookbook (priceless)

To download the first two gifts (4HWW + Cookbook), follow these instructions:

1. Click HERE. You'll only see one item in the check out cart - that's OK.
2. Hit the 'Checkout' button.
3. Fill out the form with any name and email address, then hit the 'Complete Free Checkout' button.
4. On the final page, you'll have access to The 4HWW and Slow-Carb Cookbook.*

IMPORTANT: The above link will be active until December 26th. After that, it's gone!

Personally, I think this deal was supposed to end earlier, but it's still up (I just checked), so grab your copy quick, before it disappears.

Free Book - Hero

Hero ($5.59 Kindle), by Cheryl Brooks, the sixth in her Cat Star Chronicles series, is free from AllRomance today.

Book Description
She’s the last of her kind … and the only one for him.

He is the sexiest, most irksome man she’s ever encountered...
Micayla is the last Zetithian female left in the universe. She doesn’t know what’s normal for her species, but she knows when she sees Trag that all she wants to do is bite him….

He has searched all over the galaxy for a woman like her…
Trag has sworn he’ll never marry unless he can find a Zetithian female. But now that he’s finally found Micayla, she may be more of a challenge than even he’s able to take on….

Click HERE for the free book. This one is Adobe Acrobat only; however, the book is DRM-free, so you can convert after download using Calibre or Amazon.

Available formats: Adobe Acrobat

Free Book (PDF) - Sudan

Sudan ($6.99 Kindle), by Art Ayris and Ninie Hammon, is Wowio's free book of the month. It's in PDF format, but no DRM, so it should be readable on (or convertable for) any ereader out there.

Book Description
Sudan 2000. The largest nation in Africa has been turned into an immense killing field, with over two million lives destroyed in a brutal and ongoing civil war. Human rights journalist Ron Wolfson travels to the heart of Africa to investigate reports of modern-day slavery. When a raid by Bedayene guerrillas results in the capture of a young girl, her father, a simple village farmer, mounts an against-all-odds attempt to redeem his daughter. While Ron's brother, a U.S. congressman, seeks to force international political pressure, Ron becomes an eyewitness to the horrors of slavery. His life will never be the same as he joins the father in his desperate search for the young girl--before it's too late. Based on a true story.

Click HERE to get the free download.

Free Book (PDF) - Martha Stewart Living Thanksgiving Recipes

Sirius XM's Martha Stewart Living Radio is once again offering a free PDF of Thanksgiving Hotline Recipes for free. All new recipes this year, with some yummy looking recipes from Martha, Emeril, Rick Bayless and more. There are some strange ones, as well (anyone up for Turkey roasted with coffee beans inside?). After a quick glance, I don't think there is any overlap from last year's book, so be sure to save it with the year in the name, so you don't think it is a duplicate.

Click HERE for the free book, the holiday program schedule at Sirius XM and some tips on a stress free Thanksgiving. If you missed last year's book, I tracked down a link for you to get it, as well.

Free Book (PDF) - Reaper

You can get Rachel Vincent's Reaper ($2.39 Kindle pre-order), in PDF form, free from Books on Board. Since the $3 off coupon code is still working at Kobo, you can also get My Soul To Lose there, if you missed it any of the times it has been free elsewhere. Both are novellas, but it looks like the coupon code at Kobo works on all of her novels, as well.

Book Description
This eBook title is brought to you two weeks early by Harlequin and BooksOnBoard. It is due to be released everywhere else on December 2, 2010. Now, for the first time, with BooksOnBoard and Bluefire Reader app, you can read this ebook format on iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.

The story of how Tod died and was recruited as a reaper . . .

Tod Hudson was a typical teenager. He liked girls, sports, food and tolerated his younger brother, Nash. In fact, he had his whole life in front of him--and due to his bean sidhe heritage, it was going to be a very long life indeed. And then the car accident occurred.

Suddenly Tod's future wasn't so sure, and he had to make a choice. Life . . . Death . . . or something Between . . . .

"Reaper" is not a novel. It's a novella, about 17,000 words in length.

A novella in the Soul Screamer series

Click HERE for the free book. I just checked my copy annd it's DRM free, so you can convert/read it on any of the ereaders.

Free Book (PDF) - Formera

A PDF version of Formera Volume 1 ($9.95 Paperback), by Andrew Dobson (Author, Illustrator), can downloaded for free from Wowio's Facebook page. You'll have to have a Facebook account, "Like" them on Facebook, then click on their Offer tab. This is a graphic novel and is 57 pages in the PDF, although the print edition claims 186. Since there are only two volumes in paper and apparently 5 as ebooks from Wowio, combined with the pagecount discrepancy, I'm assuming that you'd need about two ebooks to equal the one paper volume that they linked to at the end.

Book Description
A young boy named Darian discovers he's ended up on the planet Formera and his only companion is a girl named Keisha that speaks an unknown language. A mysterious and powerful stranger seeks to put an end to Darian's search for home and Keisha must find a way to protect her new friend.

Click HERE to get the free book. You'll need a Facebook account and you'll need to click that you Like them first. If you've done that in the past, you'll see the download link right away and need do nothing extra.