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Saturday, October 3, 2009

Kindle Bargain Ebook Roundup

Now that you can see the prices of other editions from within the Kindle store, some people have asked why sometimes the paperback and/or hardback editions are less than the Kindle editions. Usually this happens when Amazon has overstock (due to a new edition, slow sales, the paperback coming out, etc) and one edition is marked at a BARGAIN PRICE. Sometimes, though, when Amazon marks down the paper editions, the Kindle prices fall as well. This month I'm seeing dozens of such mark downs and I'm starting a series of posts to highlight them. Hopefully I'll get them all in before the prices change once again. Today, just a sampling. The next few posts will be grouped, roughly, by genre or theme.

The Eleventh Man ($3.90), by Ivan Doig, is one I paid nearly $9 for last month. My husband went to high school with Ivan, so we end up buying nearly all of his books. I finally noticed one on the Kindle that we didn't have and it didn't look like it was going to drop in price anytime soon (so much for my psychic connection to Kindle pricing!). The rest of you get a great deal on a top-notch author.

Book Description
Driven by the memory of a fallen teammate, TSU’s 1941 starting lineup went down as legend in Montana football history, charging through the season undefeated. Two years later, the "Supreme Team" is caught up in World War II. Ten of them are scattered around the globe in the war’s various lonely and dangerous theaters. The eleventh man, Ben Reinking, has been plucked from pilot training by a military propaganda machine hungry for heroes. He is to chronicle the adventures of his teammates, man by man, for publication in small-town newspapers across the country like the one his father edits. Ready for action, he chafes at the assignment, not knowing that it will bring him love from an unexpected quarter and test the law of averages, which holds that all but one of his teammates should come through the conflict unscathed.

A deeply American story, The Eleventh Man is Ivan Doig’s most powerful novel to date.


The Emperor's Children ($1.22), by Claire Messud

Book Description
The Emperor’s Children is a richly drawn, brilliantly observed novel of fate and fortune—about the intersections in the lives of three friends, now on the cusp of their thirties, making their way--and not-- in New York City. In this tour de force, the celebrated author Claire Messud brings to life a city, a generation, and the way we live in this moment.

iPod & iTunes For Dummies, 2nd Edition ($4.38), by Tony Bove & Cheryl Rhodes

Book Description
The iPod, Apple's breakthrough MP3 music player, boasts a contact list, calendar, alarm clock, notes reader, and a handful of games. In its first year, iTunes has sold more than 70 million songs; since hitting the market in November 2001, the iPod has sold more than 3 million units. This updated edition covers cool new third-party accessories, new iTunes features, iPod functions, troubleshooting, and more
  • Covers naming an iPod, setting preferences, connecting and sharing an iPod, organizing a digital jukebox, playing music, copying files, burning an audio CD, searching for and downloading songs from the music store, and much more
  • Updated and revised to include coverage on both the Windows and Mac
  • Platforms
The Well-Adjusted Dog: Dr. Dodman's Seven Steps to Lifelong Health and Happiness for Your Best Friend ($4.22), by Nicholas H. Dodman

Book Description
One of the greatest myths in dog ownership is that once a puppy is housetrained and has graduated from a puppy training class, an owner’s work is done. In fact, that work is just beginning.

Forty-two percent of dog owners in this country report problems managing their dogs’ behavior. Our nation’s pounds and shelters are teeming with dogs who have been given up for just this reason. But it doesn’t have to be this way. As Dr. Dodman points out, almost every dog problem can either be treated or, better yet, prevented. Every dog has the potential to be happy and well adjusted.

In The Well-Adjusted Dog, Dr. Dodman shows you how, offering what he calls “continuing education” for dogs and their owners. A comprehensive, seven-step approach takes on the whole dog—his health, behavior, and environment—and lays the groundwork for the proper care and training of your best friend, for life. You will discover
  • how much exercise your dog really needs (and why)
  • how diet can affect behavior
  • how to communicate clearly with your dog and understand dog body language
  • how to lead your dog, not dominate him
  • how to prevent or deal with fearful conditions
  • how to optimize your dog’s environment
  • how to address medical problems that might underlie unwanted behavior
In this essential new book, Dr. Dodman draws on some twenty-five years of clinical experience to bring together the art—and science—of dog ownership. His approach is based on the latest research as well as a unique understanding of the whole dog. It’s also proven to work, and to work long term. Only in The Well-Adjusted Dog will you truly find what every good dog owner should know.

Feminists Say the Darndest Things ($4.94), by Mike Adams

Book Description
"What happens when a conservative Christian white male professor -- with a wicked sense of humor -- stands up to his "feminazi" colleagues? The darndest things! Professor Mike Adams at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington was an atheist and a Democrat when he entered academia over a decade ago. And as you can only imagine, he fit right in back then. But ever since he saw the light, the full-time feminists on campus have had Professor Adams in their crosshairs. Their insults, taunts, foul language, intolerance, and public declarations about their sex lives have trailed him from the campus quad to the courtroom. In this series of letters Professor Adams has written to his real-life colleagues, he exposes these real-life incidents to the general public with his trademark barbed wit. You will be praying for more professors like Adams.

The Mistress's Daughter ($3.61), by A.M. Homes

Book Description

"An acclaimed novelist's riveting memoir about what it means to be adopted and how all of us construct our sense of self and family Before A.M. Homes was born, she was put up for adoption. Her birth mother was a twenty-two- year-old single woman who was having an affair with a much older married man with children of his own. The Mistress's Daughter is the story of what happened when, thirty years later, her birth parents came looking for her. Homes, renowned for the psychological accuracy and emotional intensity of her storytelling, tells how her birth parents initially made contact with her and what happened afterward (her mother stalked her and appeared unannounced at a reading) and what she was able to reconstruct about the story of their lives and their families. Her birth mother, a complex and lonely woman, never married or had another child, and died of kidney failure in 1998; her birth father, who initially made overtures about inviting her into his family, never did. Then the story jumps forward several years to when Homes opens the boxes of her mother's memorabilia. She had hoped to find her mother in those boxes, to know her secrets, but no relief came. She became increasingly obsessed with finding out as much as she could about all four parents and their families, hiring researchers and spending hours poring through newspaper morgues, municipal archives and genealogical Web sites. This brave, daring, and funny book is a story about what it means to be adopted, but it is also about identity and how all of us define our sense of self and family."

Friday, October 2, 2009

Free Book - Get Rich Slowly Guide to Roth IRAs

The Get Rich Slowly Guide to Roth IRAs, by J.D. Roth, is a short book, about 30 pages, and most of it has been on his blog over the last few years, but he gathered together into one volume last year, edited it a bit and offered it as a $7 download on the Web Warriors website.Now it is available for free (no signup required, either) on his website, HERE.

J.D. has also gathered together some links for what he considers the Essential Personal Finance E-books, including Robert Pagliarini's Plan Z: How to Survive the Financial Crisis, the free e-books Thriving on Less in a Tough Economy and Tips for Change into a blog post, HERE. He mentions Investing Made Simple, which is no longer available for free, so hopefully you grabbed it last month, when I mentioned it here. And although he's included in the the not-quite-free section of the post, you can get The Insider’s Guide To Frugal Food & Fitness! as a free download as well, HERE.

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Free Book - The Demon Awakens

The Demon Awakens, by R.A. Salvatore

Book Description
In THE DEMON AWAKENS, bestselling author R. A. Salvatore creates an astonishing new world for readers to explore--and an intrepid hero to lead the way: Elbryan Wynden, who must confront the dark tides of destiny in his epic search for justice and peace . . .

A great evil has awakened in the land of Corona, a terrible demon determined to spread death and misery. His goblin armies and fearsome giants ravage the settlements of the frontier, and in the small village of Dundallis their merciless attack leaves behind two shattered orphans: Pony and her lifelong friend, the youth Elbryan. Taken in by elves, Elbryan is raised to become a formidable ranger--a fateful role that will lead him into harrowing confrontation.

Meanwhile, on a far-off island, a shower of gemstones will fall onto the black sand shores. These heaven-sent stones carry within them an incredible power--the key to all that is good in the world and all that is evil, and it is up to one young monk to liberate them from the corrupt monastery that harvests them. Pray that they don't fall into the wrong, clawed hands . . .


Also free in the Sony eBookstore.

Free Book - The Templar Legacy

The Templar Legacy, by Steve Berry

Book Description
The ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and popes . . . until the Inquisition, when they were wiped from the face of the earth, their hidden riches lost. But now two forces vying for the treasure have learned that it is not at all what they thought it was–and its true nature could change the modern world.

Cotton Malone, one-time top operative for the U.S. Justice Department, is enjoying his quiet new life as an antiquarian book dealer in Copenhagen when an unexpected call to action reawakens his hair-trigger instincts–and plunges him back into the cloak-and-dagger world he thought he’d left behind.

It begins with a violent robbery attempt on Cotton’s former supervisor, Stephanie Nelle, who’s far from home on a mission that has nothing to do with national security. Armed with vital clues to a series of centuries-old puzzles scattered across Europe, she means to crack a mystery that has tantalized scholars and fortune-hunters through the ages by finding the legendary cache of wealth and forbidden knowledge thought to have been lost forever when the order of the Knights Templar was exterminated in the fourteenth century. But she’s not alone. Competing for the historic prize–and desperate for the crucial information Stephanie possesses–is Raymond de Roquefort, a shadowy zealot with an army of assassins at his command.

Welcome or not, Cotton seeks to even the odds in the perilous race. But the more he learns about the ancient conspiracy surrounding the Knights Templar, the more he realizes that even more than lives are at stake. At the end of a lethal game of conquest, rife with intrigue, treachery, and craven lust for power, lies a shattering discovery that could rock the civilized world–and, in the wrong hands, bring it to its knees.


Also free in the Sony eBookstore.

Free Book - Starfist: First to Fight

Starfist: First to Fight , by David Sherman & Dan Cragg

Book Description
"Marines, we have just become a low-tech deep recon patrol . . ."

Stranded in a hellish alien desert, stripped of their strategic systems, quick reaction force, and supporting arms, and carrying only a day's water ration, Marine Staff Sergeant Charlie Bass and his seven-man team faced a grim future seventy-five light-years from home. The only thing between his Marines and safety was eighty-five miles of uncharted, waterless terrain and two thousand bloodthirsty savages with state-of-the-art weapons in their hands and murder on their minds.

But the enemy didn't reckon on the warrior cunning of Marines' Marine Charlie Bass and the courage of the few good men who would follow him anywhere--even to death. . .


Also free in the Sony eBookstore.