Free Book - Christians at the Border (K/N/E)

Christians at the Border: Immigration, the Church, and the Bible, by M. Daniel Carroll R. (Rodas), is free in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble and ChristianBook, courtesy of Christian publisher Baker Academic.

Book Description
mmigration is one of the most pressing issues on the national agenda. This accessible book provides biblical and ethical guidance for readers who are looking for a Christian perspective on the immigration issue. As both a Guatemalan and an American, the author has immersed himself in this issue and is uniquely qualified to write about it. Drawing on key biblical ideas, he speaks to both the immigrant culture and the host culture, arguing that both sides have much to learn about the debate. This timely, clear, and compassionate resource will benefit all Christians who are thinking through the immigration issue.

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Free Book - Kicking at the Darkness (K/N/E)

Kicking at the Darkness: Bruce Cockburn and the Christian Imagination, by Brian J. Walsh, is free in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble and ChristianBook, courtesy of Christian publisher Brazos Press.

Book Description
For forty years, singer and songwriter Bruce Cockburn has been writing beautifully evocative music. Bestselling author and respected theologian Brian Walsh has followed Cockburn's work for years and has written and spoken often on his art. In this creative theological and cultural engagement, Walsh reveals the imaginative depth and uncompromising honesty of the artist's Christian spirituality. Cockburn offers hope in the midst of doubt, struggle, failure, and anger; indeed, the sentiment of "kicking at the darkness" is at the heart of his spirituality. This book engages the rich imagery of Cockburn's lyrics as a catalyst for shaping and igniting a renewed Christian imagination.

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Free Book - Stress Fracture (N/I)

Update: 3/24/12 Now free from iTunes.

Stress Fracture ($18.21 Hardcover; no Kindle edition), the first title in the Dub Walker series by Douglas P. Lyle, is free from Barnes & Noble, courtesy of Medallion Press.

Book Description
When Dub Walker’s close friend Sheriff Mike Savage becomes the victim of a gruesome murder, the forensic expert is called upon to track down the serial killer who's been terrorizing the county. Having been involved in more than 100 cases of foul play and witnessed the bloody remains of rape, torture, and unthinkable mutilation, Dub thought he had seen it all—yet the killer is unlike any murderer Dub has ever encountered. Vacillating between wildly divergent personalities fueled by post traumatic stress disorder—at times calm, cold, and calculating; at others maniacal and out of control—the psychopath taunts, threatens, and outmaneuvers Dub at every turn. The stakes are suddenly elevated as Dub uncovers a deadly conspiracy tainted with unrestrained greed, corruption, and ties to the military establishment and the medical community.

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A Trio of Free Mini-Books from Macmillan (K)

These three titles are mini-books, excerpted from larger works that are soon to be released by Macmillan. All are currently free to pre-order, which means you do need a credit card on file (at least when you place the order), although it won't be charged. I expect them to end up free in other stores, after the release dates.

Locavore U.S.A.: How a local-food economy is changing one community, by Katherine Gustafson, is a chapter from Change Comes to Dinner: How Vertical Farmers, Urban Growers, and Other Innovators Are Revolutionizing How America Eats.

Book Description
In 1950, at least 70 percent of Montana's food was grown in Montana. Many states used to have robust local-food economies, but that has changed drastically around the country in recent decades. National-scale food businesses beat out community-oriented small and medium-sized operations, laying waste to the infrastructure that once supported thriving local-food economies.

There is rising interest in again making food a local affair. But jump-starting a locavore economy is a tricky business. To cut down the massive distances that the vast majority of food eaten in the United States travels before it reaches dinner plates, communities must work to nurture "a cascading effect" by which each piece of a local-food economy enables and then reinforces the others to create a robust, cost-effective network.

Locavore U.S.A. introduces readers to some brave, hard-working souls in western Montana who are building their own such network piece by piece. In the process they are uncovering a key way to transform our industrially dominated food system.

QuickieChick Guide: Fit to Flirt: Get the Body You Want and the Guy You Deserve, by Laurel House, is a excerpt from QuickieChick’s Cheat Sheet to Life, Love, Food, Fitness, Fashion, and Finance on a Less Than Fabulous Budget.

Book Description
Check out Laurel’s:

• Dos and Don’ts for Online Dating to become a pro at sifting through online dating profiles to find the guy who’s right for you.
• Date Night Etiquette Overview to connect with your guy and keep him wanting more
• Top 8 Skinny Chicks’ Diet Cheats for easy ways to cut your calories
• Workouts While Watching TV or Getting Ready to Go Out for some no-sweat ways to get in shape without having to join a gym.

How Mindfulness Can Change Your Life in 10 Minutes a Day: A Guided Meditation, by Andy Puddicombe, is a excerpt from Get Some Headspace: How Mindfulness Can Change Your Life in Ten Minutes a Day.

Book Description
From one of the world’s top mindfulness experts comes the ultimate tool for clearing out mental clutter and improving every aspect of your physical and mental health.

With this ten-minute guided meditation, learn a simple yet powerful technique that’s been tested by time and now adapted to fit into even the most hectic modern lifestyle. And reap incredible benefits! Doing this exercise on a daily basis can help you relieve stress, have stronger relationships, reduce anxiety, sleep more, find a healthy weight, control your emotions, be more productive… the list goes on and on.

Free Book - Ring of Flowers (K/N/E)

Update: 4/7/12 Now free from Barnes & Noble, Kobo and Sony.

Ring of Flowers, by Brian Andrews, is free in the Kindle store, courtesy of Arcade Publishing (an imprint of SkyHorse Publishing).

Book Description
The year is 1665, England.

In the Derbyshire village of Eyam, a tailor, George Vicars orders a bolt of fabric from London to make a wedding dress for his betrothed daughter, Kathryn. To escape her fate of marrying the town’s wealthiest and most odious bachelor, she elopes with her true love, farmhand Paul Foster. Kathryn’s departure is fortuitous, because when the fabric is delivered, the parcel is infested with fleas carrying bubonic plague. First bitten and first to die, George Vicars’ misfortune becomes the community’s death sentence when the town Rector boldly imposes a quarantine on all Eyam residents. Months later, expecting a child, the newlyweds return home to find their world turned upside down. Once inside the township, they are forbidden to leave and Kathryn is forced to give birth in quarantine. Under the shadow plague, and against all odds, Will Foster’s paternal ancestor is born . . . with a genetic mutation that will change the world 345 years later.

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Free Book - The Winds of Khalakovo (K)

The Winds of Khalakovo, the first title in the Lays of Anuskaya series by Bradley P. Beaulieu (book 2 releases in April), is free in the Kindle store. This was a Free Friday book at B&N last year, but (from what I can tell), this is the first time free at Amazon. Be careful if you are searching from your Kindle - there are two editions and only one is free.

Book Description
Among inhospitable and unforgiving seas stands Khalakovo, a mountainous archipelago of seven islands, its prominent eyrie stretching a thousand feet into the sky. Serviced by windships bearing goods and dignitaries, Khalakovo's eyrie stands at the crossroads of world trade. But all is not well in Khalakovo. Conflict has erupted between the ruling Landed, the indigenous Aramahn, and the fanatical Maharraht, and a wasting disease has grown rampant over the past decade. Now, Khalakovo is to play host to the Nine Dukes, a meeting which will weigh heavily upon Khalakovo's future.

When an elemental spirit attacks an incoming windship, murdering the Grand Duke and his retinue, Prince Nikandr, heir to the scepter of Khalakovo, is tasked with finding the child prodigy believed to be behind the summoning. However, Nikandr discovers that the boy is an autistic savant who may hold the key to lifting the blight that has been sweeping the islands. Can the Dukes, thirsty for revenge, be held at bay? Can Khalakovo be saved? The elusive answer drifts upon the Winds of Khalakovo...

Free Book - Margarita Nights OR Always Leave 'Em Dying (E)

You can pick one of the following two books from Kobo for free, using coupon code MAR12CRI, as part of their Kobo Touch Book Club. There may be some geographic restrictions and from what I can tell, the coupon code expires today (presumably at midnight, in one time zone or another).

Margarita Nights ($1.99 Kindle, Kobo), the first in the Sherri Travis Mystery series by Phyllis Smallman

Book Description
Margarita Nights is a cozy with grit -- serving Jack Daniels instead of tea.

In a small Florida beach town, Sherri Travis is a bartender with attitude and a woman with an inconveniently murdered husband who turns out to be as much trouble to her dead as he was alive.

Sifting through the debris of Jimmy's life, Sherri finds more than a few people who wanted her lying, scheming, scam artist husband gone -- but which one actually did the deed?

Always Leave 'Em Dying ($4.39 Kindle, Kobo), by Richard S. Prather, is a classic from the early 50's and the ninth title in his Shell Scott series.

Book Description
Shell Scott. He’s a guy with a pistol in his pocket and sex and violence on his mind. The crime world’s public enemy number one this Casanova is a sucker for a damsel in distress. When a pair of lovely legs saunters into his office he can’t help but take the job even when the case is a killer. In ALWAYS LEAVE ’EM DYING Shell thinks he has seen it all until he sees the cult. It sacrifices the best for the worst and when he discovers who is leading it, it almost kills him. Uniformed in black right down to the gun aimed at Shell the leader resembles an embalmed undertaker. But it isn’t just those gorgeous young girls he seeks to sacrifice. He wants Shell. Not dead or alive, just dead.

To get the book for free, you'll need an account. Click the Kobo link above, then on the blue Buy Now button; on the new page displayed, scroll down about halfway and click on the Have a gift card or promo code? Use it here link; enter the coupon code (I use cut and paste, as case often matters), click Apply and verify that the Promo credit is applied and your total is zero before clicking on the green Buy Now button.

Free Book - One Hoof In The Grave (K)

One Hoof In The Grave, the second title in the Merry Abbot Carriage-Driving Mystery series by Carolyn McSparren, is free in the Kindle store. Hopefully, you picked up the first in the series, The Cart Before The Corpse, when it was free last month (if not, it's in the Kindle Lending Library).

Book Description
Once again, Merry Abbott has to catch a killer in the high-stakes world of carriage-horse competitions.Nothing ruins an elegant Southern horse show like finding a murdered man with a tent spike through his neck. Merry’s at the top of a long list of suspects who have plenty of reason to want the victim dead. But soon it becomes obvious that she’s also at the top of the real murderer’s next-to-die list. Climb into the carriage seat for a wild ride as Merry hunts for clues, teaches her first (and maybe last) driving clinic, tries to rein in her attraction for a handsome GBI agent, and dodges a killer. Merry Abbott’s taking a new mystery out for a spin.

3 Free Books from Charles River Editors (K)

The Charles River Editors have added to their batch of free books in the Kindle store

1. How to Get Great Skin: From the Inside and Out, by Dr. E
2. Current Events: Israel and Her Enemies (Illustrated)
3. American Legends: The Life of George Washington (Illustrated)

Today's Deals

If you've been using the Readability website, they've finally launched their Readability Android App, exclusive to the Amazon store for now.

For those that enjoy the artist's contributions for the Google mainpage, apparently today is Origami day (complete with butterflies).

Over at Google Play, today's free song is I Only Want To Be Alone by James Mccartney. They also have a web page set up for the South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival, with a number of free songs by different artists. I checked a few of them against the free ones from Amazon and most of them didn't overlap, so you might want to pick them up from Google; at least one is on the new free sampler at Amazon, though.

Child Bride ($0.99), the first novel in the Stealth Commandos Trilogy series by Suzanne Forster, is today's Kindle Deal of the Day. This is a reprint edition from Open Road, so the formatting should be good (and you know it's a good author).

Book Description
Annie Wells travels to dusty Wyoming in search of bounty hunter Chase Beaudine, the man who saved her life—and whom she hasn’t seen since the night they were married five years ago

The first in Suzanne Forster’s Stealth Commandos trilogy, Child Bride recounts bounty hunter Chase Beaudine’s reunion with Annie Wells, a red-haired and cream-complexioned beauty from his past. When the two cross paths on the dusty steppes of Wyoming, “I’m your wife,” is not what Chase expects her to say by way of greeting.

Though Chase has no recollection of Annie and their alleged marriage, her story contains undeniable truths. When she collapses from heatstroke, he has no choice but to bring her back to his cabin. As Annie lies unconscious, Chase can’t deny his swiftly mounting desire, watching her pillowy breasts undulate in rhythm with her shortened breaths. Despite her innocence and inexperience, Annie is determined to jog his memory no matter what it takes.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Suzanne Forster including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

Super Sad True Love Story ($1.55 / £0.99 UK), by Gary Shteyngart, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $9.99).

Book Description
In a very near future, a functionally illiterate America is about to collapse. But don’t tell that to poor Lenny Abramov, proud author of what may well be the world’s last diary. Despite his job at an outfit called ‘Post-Human Services’, which attempts to provide immortality for its super-rich clientele, death is clearly stalking this cholesterol-rich morsel of a man. And why shouldn’t it? Lenny’s from a different century. He TOTALLY loves books (or ‘printed, bound media artifacts’ as they’re now known), even though most of his peers find them smelly and annoying. But even more than books, Lenny loves Eunice Park, an impossibly cute and impossibly cruel twenty-four-year-old Korean-American woman who just graduated from Elderbird College with a major in ‘Images’ and a minor in ‘Assertiveness’. When riots break out in New York’s Central Park, the city’s streets are lined with National Guard tanks and patient Chinese creditors look ready to foreclose on the whole mess, Lenny vows to convince his fickle new love that in a time without standards or stability, there is still value in being a real human being.

Crafty Superstar: Make Crafts on the Side, Earn Extra Cash, and Basically Have It All ($3.79 Kindle, B&N), by Grace Dobush, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.

Book Description
Sell Out!

If the church-basement sale isn't quite your scene, Crafty Superstar is your go-to resource for selling your crafty goods part-time. Packed with ideas for setting up and selling out, the book includes loads of advice from experts like Faythe Levine, Jenny Harada and Jenny Hart.

Want to make some dough but don't know where to start? Inside find out how to:

• Discover your expectations and motivations
• Set up shop and get paid
• Join an indie craft show
• Get some press
• Package goods and customer service
• Balance life and crafts

Plus, get business forms, lists of resources and a directory of indie craft shows so you can be on your way to becoming a Crafty Superstar!

The I Love You Book ($2.99 Kindle, B&N), by Todd Parr, is the Nook Daily Find for Families, priced matched on Kindle. The Kindle edition requires a Kindle Fire, while the nook edition requires NOOK Color, NOOK Tablet or NOOK Kids for iPad.

Book Description
I love you when you give me kisses. I love you when you need hugs… Most of all, I love you just the way you are. In his newest picture book, Todd Parr explores the meaning of unconditional love in a heartfelt, playful way. Featuring a heart-shaped die-cut and sparkling silver foil on the cover, this is the perfect way to say, "I love you!" Parents and caregivers are sure to be inspired by Todd's vibrant illustrations and tender sentiments, and will enjoy sharing this very special book with the little ones they love.

Free Book - Creola's Moonbeam (K)

Creola's Moonbeam, by Milam McGraw Propst, is free in the Kindle store.

Book Description
Honey Butler has hit middle-age and writer's block at the same time. Off she heads to a Florida beach house to get her mojo back. Her journey to renewal takes her back to memories of Creola, the wise woman who helped raise her; at the same time Honey is befriended by an Aunti Mame-ish neighbor who turns out to have the same wise world view as Creola.

Free Book - Everything the Bible Says About Heaven (K/N/E)

Everything the Bible Says About Heaven, by Linda Washington, is free in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble and ChristianBook, courtesy of Christian publisher Bethany House.

Book Description
Everyone wants to know what happens after they die. Numerous authors have tried to describe and explain the mysteries of heaven, but what does God say about it? Everything the Bible Says About Heaven goes straight to the source of all Truth to give insight into the afterlife. All of the scriptural references to heaven have been collected and explained in a clear and concise format, using trustworthy commentaries to give context where needed. The book's length and focus make it perfect for readers on the go who love the Word of God.

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Today's Deals

Additional formats on free books:

• The Truth About Better Decision-Making (K/N)
• How to Keep Score in Business (K/N)
• Evolution (K/N)
• The Art of Asking (K/N)
• The Truth About the New Rules of Business Writing (K/N)

Zero Sight ($0.99), which starts a new YA urban fantasy series by B. Justin Shier, is today's Kindle Deal of the Day. Truthfully, it looks like it is self-published, as this author is the only one listed by the publisher (Astraeus Press) and there isn't a publisher web page to be found. However, it also has a lot of very good reviews (and is the type of book that Amazon sometimes picks up for their AmazonEncore imprint).

Book Description
Meet Dieter Resnick. Dieter is the sole child of an abusive single father, a perennial schoolyard brawler, and Ted Binion High's number one academic prospect. Dieter is terrified of staying poor. He has few friends and is absolutely obsessed with earning a college scholarship. He's also a latent mage--one of the few humans left that can bend the manaflows to their will.

Too bad no one told him. Now a boy is dead.

Meet Rei Acerba Bathory. Rei is a second year student at Elliot College, the premiere magical training academy in North America. She's also on an all-liquid diet. Rei acquired her odd speech and mannerisms living among her centuries-old kin--strange vampiric creatures that have carved out the Midwest as their playground. She can kill a man without blinking, but has a serious weakness for puppies. Thanks to a childhood spent living cloistered from the public, Rei knows little of modern society. She'd do well to make some friends, but her fellow trainees despise her. Rei is the first of her kind to be admitted, and many hope to make her the last.

Dieter was raised in the grimy outskirts of Las Vegas. Rei was homeschooled in a Chicago mansion. Both are on their way to Elliot College. Both believe the other is a creature of idle fantasy. In ten hours, they're going to be at the center of a war fought by shadow actors. In eleven hours, they're going to become a weft-pair, bound together by the most sacred spell in the magic canon. And in twelve hours? Well, in twelve hours, they've got to get to class...

Zero Sight is a full-length contemporary fantasy novel, 107,000 words or about 350 pages. The entire novel is provided DRM-free based on reader requests. Because of foul mouths and graphic situations, Zero Sight is only recommended for readers 16 years and older.

The Expats ($1.55 / £0.99 UK), by Chris Pavone, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $12.99).

Book Description
Can We Ever Escape Our Secrets?

Kate Moore is a working mother, struggling to make ends meet, to raise children, to keep a spark in her marriage . . . and to maintain an increasingly unbearable life-defining secret. So when her husband is offered a lucrative job in Luxembourg, she jumps at the chance to leave behind her double-life, to start anew.

She begins to reinvent herself as an expat, finding her way in a language she doesn’t speak, doing the housewifely things she’s never before done—playdates and coffee mornings, daily cooking and never-ending laundry. Meanwhile, her husband works incessantly, at a job Kate has never understood, for a banking client she’s not allowed to know. He’s becoming distant and evasive; she’s getting lonely and bored.

Then another American couple arrives. Kate soon becomes suspicious that these people are not who they say they are, and she’s terrified that her own past is catching up to her. So Kate begins to dig, to peel back the layers of deception that surround her. She discovers fake offices and shell corporations and a hidden gun, a mysterious farmhouse and numbered accounts with bewildering sums of money, and finally unravels the mind-boggling long-play con that threatens her family, her marriage, and her life.

Best of Archie Comics ($9.99 paperback, no Kindle edition; $2.99 B&N) is the Nook Daily Find. Note: This title requires NOOK TABLET or NOOK Color with software version 1.4.

Book Description
Celebrate 70 years of Archie Comics fun with this massive full-color collection of over 50 favorite comic book stories hand-selected by noted Archie writers, artists, editors and historians. Also included are loads of entertaining behind-the-scenes anecdotes about the comics, their creators, and Archie's unique impact on America's pop culture!

Designed for young and old alike, this is both a must-have companion for anyone who has grown up with Archie and a perfect introduction for new readers.

The Adventures of Tintin ($3.99 Kindle, B&N), by Alex Irvine, is the Nook Daily Find for Families, price matched on Kindle.

Book Description
Don't miss this expanded novelization of the action-packed film! Tintin stumbles across a model ship at the Old Street Market. Only it isn't any model ship--it holds a piece of the puzzle to finding the resting place of Red Rackham's treasure! But Tintin isn't the only one after the notorious pirate's booty. With dangerous treasure seekers at their heels, Tintin and his dog Snowy are on a high-stakes thrill ride that takes them from land to sea, from open air to the ocean floor!

Free Book - Glorious Mess (K/N/E)

Glorious Mess, by Mike Howerton, is free in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble, courtesy of Christian publisher Baker Books.

Book Description
Despite God's call on our lives, most of us spend a fair amount of time running in the other direction, chasing after our own plans and desires. Like Jonah, however, we eventually discover we've made a mess of things; we're rowing against the storms God is using to pull us back on course.

In Glorious Mess, Mike Howerton shows how God's relentless grace extends into all the messes we make in our lives, that God clearly reveals his love for imperfect people no matter how far we've strayed. He shows readers how to hear God's voice, how to embrace God's calling on their lives, how to get out of their messes, and how to see God working. The result is not just forgiveness and direction for life, but also encouragement and inspiration to be our best selves before God and others.

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Free Book - Women and Stress (K/N/E)

Women and Stress, by Pam Vredevelt and Jean Lush, is free in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble and ChristianBook, courtesy of Christian publisher Revell.

Book Description
You can live a peaceful, balanced life!

We all have to manage tension and stress--from balancing work and family to cultivating relationships and dealing with personal issues. And how we do it can determine the quality of our lives.

Women and Stress shows you how to deal with stress that is unique to women in healthy, productive ways. You'll discover practical, tried-and-true methods to manage tension, as well as reassuring advice for handling common sources of stress and their manifestations, such as

• fear
• mood swings
• jealousy and anger
• perfectionism
• unmet needs
• and more

In our high-stress times, Women and Stress can help you go beyond coping to truly rising above the chaos to a peaceful, balanced life.

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Free Book - Everything the Bible Says About Money (K/N/E)

Everything the Bible Says About Money, by Lin Johnson, is free in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble and ChristianBook, courtesy of Christian publisher Bethany House.

Book Description
How people deal with money matters to God. In fact, it is one of the most frequently mentioned subjects in the Bible. Numerous authors have given readers their ideas about how they should handle money, but it's time to hear what God has to say. Topics include everything from working, saving, and tithing to how God wants people to treat the poor. All the scriptural references to money have been collected and explained in a clear a concise format. The book's length and focus make it perfect for readers on the go who love the Word of God.

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Free Book - I Love Mormons (K/N/E)

I Love Mormons: A New Way to Share Christ with Latter-day Saints, by David L. Rowe, is free in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble and ChristianBook, courtesy of Christian publisher Baker Books.

Book Description
David L. Rowe asserts that many Mormons view Christian witnessing as Bible bashing. What Christians need to understand, he suggests, is that Latter-day Saints are an entirely separate ethnic group with their own history, values, and customs. Evangelizing Mormons can be so much more effective if Christians first know, understand, and respect Mormon heritage.

With helpful illustrations and discussions of Mormon values and theology, Rowe calls Christians away from confrontational evangelism and instead suggests active listening and respect as a way to bridge Christian beliefs and Mormon culture. A glossary in the back of the book and discussion questions at the end of each chapter will help readers apply these concepts in their own witnessing experiences. In the end, Christians will be more approachable representatives of Christ.

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Free TextBooks from CK-12 Foundation (K)

The CK-12 Foundation have added to their list of free textbooks. I've included links below for the new titles on Kindle (6 new, 14 total), but I understand you can get these from iTunes, also, if you prefer that venue, as well as get them from the Foundation's website (some are online only or PDF, those that are more finalized are in EPUB or MOBI). These are quite large files (up to 100MB, >1,000 pages, for some), so you may want to transfer via USB at Amazon (or read them on your PC) and not try to get every volume at once on their website (or they'll be hammered for days on their bandwidth). With iTunes, I'd consider buying via the desktop app and transferring via USB, just to keep from timing out on a WiFi connection to your tablet or phone (or driving your cellular bill sky high if using it for the data transfer). I did check one book from Amazon - there was no DRM and I don't expect it on any of the others.

1. CK-12 People's Physics Book, Version 3
2. CK-12 Biology
3. CK-12 Trigonometry - Second Edition
4. CK-12 Earth Science For High School
5. CK-12 Earth Science For Middle School
6. CK-12 Probability and Statistics - Basic (A Full Course)

36 Free Books from Charles River Editors (K)

The Charles River Editors have another batch of free books in the Kindle store

1. The Christmas Stories of Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol and 13 Other Classic Stories (Illustrated)
2. Current Events: Arab Spring (Illustrated) *repeat
3. Consulting Interview Case Preparation: Frameworks and Practice Cases
4. The Law, by Frederic Bastiat
5. 25 Classic Christmas Poems (Illustrated), by Walt Whitman, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert Frost and Sir Walter Scott
6. Christmas Short Stories (Illustrated), by Stephen Leacock
7. A Kidnapped Santa Claus (Illustrated), by L. Frank Baum
8. A Christmas Story: The Story of Three Wise Men (Illustrated), by William J. Locke
9. Christmas Every Day (Illustrated), by William Dean Howells
10. Timeless Classics: The Overcoat (Illustrated), by Nikolai Gogol
11. Balancing the Chakras: The Body's Energetic Channels, by Michael Solis *repeat
12. Timeless Classics: Rip Van Winkle, by Washington Irving
13. How to Craft the Perfect Admissions Essay for an Ivy League School, by Michael Solis *repeat
14. Timeless Classics: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving
15. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Battle of Shiloh (Illustrated), by Ulysses S. Grant
16. Timeless Classics: The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith
17. How to Get Into an Ivy League School, by Michael Solis *repeat
18. Master the Tricks of the S.A.T., by Michael Solis *repeat
19. Timeless Classics: Antigone (Illustrated), by Sophocles
20. Timeless Classics: Oedipus the King (Illustrated), by Sophocles
21. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Confederate Cavalry in the Gettysburg Campaign (Illustrated), by John S. Mosby
22. Timeless Classics: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Illustrated), by Henry David Thoreau
23. Timeless Classics: The Best Russian Short Stories (Illustrated), by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov
24. Timeless Classics: The Theban Plays (Illustrated), by Sophocles
25. Timeless Classics: The Nose, by Nikolai Gogol
26. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Cavalry Battle near Gettysburg (Illustrated), by William E. Miller
27. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Chancellorsville Campaign (Illustrated), by Darius N. Couch
28. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Invasion of Maryland (Illustrated), by James Longstreet
29. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Struggle for Round Top (Illustrated), by Evander M. Law
30. Timeless Classics: Dead Souls, by Nikolai Gogol
31. Timeless Classics: Oedipus at Colonus (Illustrated), by Sophocles
32. Timeless Classics: Philoctetes (Illustrated), by Sophocles
33. Timeless Classics: The Iliad (Illustrated), by Homer
34. Timeless Classics: The Iliad and The Odyssey (Illustrated), by Homer
35. Timeless Classics: The Odyssey (Illustrated), by Homer
36. Timeless Classics: The Trachiniae (Illustrated), by Sophocles

Today's Deals

Additional formats on free books:

• Hose Monkey (K-US/N)
• The Myths, Legends, and Lore of Ireland (K-US/N)
• Living Successfully with Screwed-Up People (K-US/N/E)
• Make It Last (K-US)

Today is the last day to take advantage of this KSO deals:

• Buy some Romance for $1

The Flatey Enigma ($0.99), by Viktor Arnar Ingolfsson and Brian FitzGibbon (Translator),an AmazonCrossing exclusive translation, is today's Kindle Deal of the Day.

Book Description
Near a deserted island off the western coast of Iceland in 1960, the dawning of spring brings new life for the local wildlife. But for the body discovered by three seal hunters, winter is a matter of permanence. After it is found to be a missing Danish cryptographer, the ensuing investigation uncovers a mysterious link between the researcher and a medieval manuscript known as The Book of Flatey.

Before long another body is found on the tiny island. This time, in the ancient Viking tradition, the victim’s back has been mutilated with the so-called blood eagle. Kjartan, the district magistrate’s representative sent to investigate the crime, soon finds himself descending into a dark, dangerous world of ancient legends, symbolism, and secret societies to find a killer.

Nominated for the prestigious Glass Key award for Nordic crime fiction, The Flatey Enigma will keep you guessing until Kjartan has cracked the code.

The Legacy of Eden ($1.55 / £0.99 UK), by Nelle Davy, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $8.09).

Book Description
If only I had never opened that letter…and let the devil in

Meredith Hathaway has spent the last seventeen years pretending to forget. Until she gets a letter and her world is shattered in an instant. She must finally confront the rise and fall of the Hathaway dynasty…and her own part in their devastating history. 1946 Iowa. One woman is determined to change her fate. With unwavering ambition Lavinia Hathaway will stop at nothing to ensure that her family succeeds at all costs. Now Lavinia’s legacy Aurelia, the once magnificent family home, lies empty, a husk of its former self, a gaping wound of the Hathaways. Unable to resist the lure of buried secrets and bitter memories, Meredith must now face the truth or be destroyed by it. The door is open…dare she walk into the past?

Hell to Pay ($2.99 Kindle, B&N), the second novel in the Derek Strange & Terry Quinn series by George Pelecanos, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.

Book Description
Derek Strange and Terry Quinn, the team of private investigators who made their stunning debut in Right As Rain, are hired to find a 14-year-old white girl from the suburbs who's run away from home and is now working as a prostitute. The two ex-cops think they know D.C.'s dangers, but nothing in their experience has prepared them for Worldwide Wilson, the pimp whose territory they're intruding upon.

Combining inimitable neighborhood flavor, action scenes that rank among the best in fiction, and a clear-eyed view of morality in a world with few rules, "Hell to Pay" is another Pelecanos masterpiece for his ever-expanding audience to savor.

McKenna ($5.56 Kindle, $2.49 B&N), by Mary Casanova and Brian Hailes, is the Nook Daily Find for Families. This is part of the American Girl Today children's series, which has multiple authors.

Book Description
McKenna has always excelled at school and in gymnastics, but now that she's entering fourth grade, school suddenly feels hard to her. When McKenna’s teacher suggests she get a reading tutor, she's horrified - until she gets to know her tutor, Josie, who is super-confident and who also happens to be in a wheelchair. Josie helps McKenna realize that what might seem like a giant roadblock is really just a series of small obstacles that can be overcome one by one, day by day. McKenna’s confidence starts to blossom, but then something happens at the gym that sidelines her completely. Will she recover in time to join the competitive team in the spring?