Kindle Bargain Ebook Roundup - SciFi/Fantasy

Dragon and Thief: A Dragonback Adventure ($4.79), by Timothy Zahn

Book Description
Fourteen-year-old orphan Jack Morgan is hiding out.

In a spaceship.

Falsely accused of a crime, he pilots his Uncle Virgil's spaceship to a remote and uninhabited planet hoping to escape capture. When another ship crashes after a fierce battle, Jack rescues the sole survivor -- a K'da warrior names Draycos. It turns out Draycos can help Jack clear his name. All they have to do is team up. No problem, right?

Until Jack learns that Draycos is not your average alien.

Ages 10 and up

Eli ($0.60), by Bill Myers

Book Description
In this techno-thriller from the best-selling author of the Fire of Heaven Trilogy, a successful TV newscaster is hurled into a parallel world exactly like ours except for one minor detail: Christ didn't come there 2,000 years ago, but today.

What If Jesus Had Not Come Until Today? Who Would Follow Him? Who Would Kill Him? A fiery car crash hurls TV journalist Conrad Davis into another world exactly like ours except for one detail-Jesus Christ did not come 2,000 years ago, but today. Starting with angels heralding a birth in the back of a motel laundry room, the skeptical Davis watches the gospel unfold in today's society as a Messiah in T-shirt and blue jeans heals, raises people from the dead, and speaks such startling truths that he captures the heart of a nation. But the young man's actions and his criticism of the religious establishment earn him enemies as ruthless as they are powerful. An intense and thought-provoking novel, Eli strips away religious tradition to present Jesus fresh and unvarnished. With gripping immediacy, Bill Myers weaves a story whose truth will refresh your faith.

The Golden Age ($2.99), by John Wright

Book Description
The Golden Age is Grand Space Opera, a large-scale SF adventure novel in the tradition of A. E. Van Vogt and Roger Zelazny (with perhaps a bit of Cordwainer Smith enriching the style). It is an astounding story of super science, a thrilling wonder story that recaptures the excitements of SF's golden age writers. Phaethon, of Radamanthus House, is attending a glorious party at his family mansion celebrating the thousand year anniversary of the High Transcendence. There he meets an old man who accuses him of being an imposter, and then an alien from Neptune (resembling a small iceberg) who claims to be an old friend. The alien tells him that essential parts of his memory were removed and stored by the very government Phaethon believes to be wholly honorable. It shakes his faith. He is an exile from himself. And so Phaethon embarks upon a quest across the transformed solar system--Jupiter is now a second sun, Mars and Venus terraformed, humanity immortal--among humans, intelligent machines, and bizarre life forms, to recover his memory, and to learn what crime he planned to warrant such preemptive punishment. His quest is to regain his true identity. The Golden Age is one of the major, ambitious SF novels of the year and the international launch of an important new figure in the genre.

Exploring Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials ($2.47), by Lois H. Gresh

Book Description
His Dark Materials is one of the most popular, award-winning fantasies of all time, a bestselling trilogy hailed as “a modern classic” by The New York Times.

Now, for the first time ever, Lois H. Gresh helps young readers examine Pullman's intricate universe with Exploring His Dark Materials, the ultimate companion guide. Gresh's fun, interactive book explores the complex science, religion, and fantastic elements of His Dark Materials in a way that's both informative and fun for younger readers. Exploring His Dark Materials is filled with sidebars, history, facts and an in-depth analysis of the books, answering questions like:
*What are daemons?
*Why is dust important to the series?
* Is Dark Material real and how does it relate to our universe?
* What are the origins of ghosts and shapeshifters?
*And much more!

Exploring His Dark Materials is a thrilling and essential guide for young adults to help them explore this fantastic and challenging fantasy world.

Tersias the Oracle ($1.50), by G. P. Taylor

Book Description
London is in the aftermath of a near-apocalypse-a comet has just missed earth, leaving the city in chaos. in this time of uncertainty, only the blind boy oracle, tersias, can see what the future holds. but awareness of his power is growing, and he is captured by solomon, a false prophet whose minions swarm london. An unlikely alliance of teenage highwaymen and a charlatan magician swear to break down solomon's Citadel and rescue tersias from the false prophet's clutches. they wonder if tersias's power can save them all. but they haven't realized the source of his second sight, and they aren't aware of a much darker force that torments his soul. . . .

Kindle Bargain Ebook Roundup - Political/War

Political books often have a short shelf-life at bookstores. A few of these are from the last election, while others are on the war in the middle east and thus mix religion and politics.

Day of Reckoning ($1.43), by Patrick J. Buchanan.

Book Description
In his latest New York Times bestseller, Pat Buchanan deals with the greatest crisis facing the nation today: Whether the America we knew and loved will survive many more decades. Buchanan lays out how the United States is being secretly merged with Mexico and embedded in a Global Economy by that threatens the permanent loss of American independence and sovereignty.

While free enterprise is good, the worship of “free trade” is de-industrializing America, killing the middle class, and imperiling U.S. economic independence. While America must stand for freedom, liberty and self-determination, the use of U.S. troops to police the planet or serve as advance guard is imperial folly that will bring down the republic. While America should speak out for human rights, the idea that we get in Russia’s face and hand out moral report cards to every nation on earth is moral arrogance. While we have benefited from immigration, the idea we can import limitless numbers of aliens and remain anything like a real country is absurd. To save America the first imperative is to remove from power the ideologues of both parties who have near killed the country.

Buchanan sees America in an existential crisis. In his final chapter, he lays out ideas to stop the suicide of America. He includes a bottom-up review of all America’s foreign commitments and entanglements, a plan to secure America’s borders, ideas for halting the erosion of our sovereignty and for restoring our manufacturing preeminence and economic independence. Buchanan offers a radical program, but a necessary one, for neither party is addressing the real crisis of the nation -- whether we survive much longer as one people, or disappear from history.

Jerusalem Countdown ($3.65), by John Hagee, is one of four editions on Kindle, all with the same price. As they appear to be in the topaz format, I'd check out each one, if you are interested in this title, and pick the one with the best looking sample.

Book Description
This highly anticipated ... updated edition of Jerusalem Countdown, unveils the reasons radical Islam and Israel cannot dwell peaceably together. Dr. Hagee paints a convincing picture explaining why Christians must support the State of Israel by saying, Those nations who align with God's purpose will receive His blessing. Those who follow a policy of opposition to God's purpose will receive the swift and severe judgement of God without limitation. Can anyone actually believe that the Islamic fanatics presently in charge of the Iranian government would not use nuclear weapons on Israel, America, and the World?

Breaking News ($1.45), by Martin Fletcher

Book Description
Martin Fletcher doesn’t claim to be a hero. Yet he didn’t flinch, either. During three decades covering wars, revolutions, and natural disasters, Fletcher worked his way from news agency cameraman to top network correspondent, facing down his own fears while facing up to mass killers, warlords, and murderers. With humor and elegance, Fletcher describes his growth from clueless adventurer to grizzled veteran of the world’s battlefields. His working philosophy of “Get in, get close, get out, get a drink,” put him repeatedly in harm’s way, but he never lost sight of why he did it. In a world obsessed with celebrities, leaders, and wealth, Fletcher took a different route: he focused on those left behind, those paying the price. He answers the question: Why should we care?

These extraordinary, real-life adventure stories each examine different dilemmas facing a foreign correspondent. Can you eat the food of a warlord, who stole it from the starving? Do you listen politely to a terrorist threatening to blow up your children? Do you ask the tough questions of a Khmer Rouge killer, knowing he is your only ticket out of the Cambodian jungle? And above all, how do you stay sane faced with so much pain?

Independents Day ($1.58), by Lou Dobbs

Book Description
"In A New America, Lou Dobbs examines the public policy choices over the past thirty years that have eroded individual liberties, disenfranchised the middle class, reduced worker rights and pay, and led our nation into social and political division at home as well as into conflict around the world. Dobbs lays out the folly of continuing to follow existing domestic and foreign policies that have enriched and entrenched the elites, and burdened to the breaking point the rest of America. He posits a determined course for both prosperity and the survival of the American dream in a society that is desperate for new leadership and new ideas. Most important, Dobbs explores how we must and can restore the fundamental national value of equality of rights and opportunity for all Americans. A New America is an independent populist's view of the critical issues and challenges that confront the presidential candidates and American voters as we approach the 2008 election."

The Iranian Time Bomb: The Mullah Zealots' Quest for Destruction ($4.34), by Michael A. Ledeen

Book Description
The War Against the Terror Masters is a must-read guide to the terrorist crisis. Michael A. Ledeen explains in startling detail how and why the United States was so unprepared for the September 11th catastrophe; the nature of the terror network we are fighting--including the state sponsors of that network; the role of radical Islam; and the enemy collaboration of some of our traditional Middle Eastern "allies" -- and, most convincingly, what we must do to win the war.

The War Against the Terror Masters examines the two sides of the war: the rise of the international terror network, and the past and current efforts of our intelligence services to destroy the terror masters in the U.S. and overseas. Ledeen's new book also visits every country in the Near East and describes the terrorist cancers in each. Among many revelations that will attract wide attention: *How the terror network survived the loss of its main sponsor, the Soviet Union. *How the FBI learned from a KGB defector--twenty years before Osama's bin Laden's murderous assault--of the existance of Arab terrorist sleeper networks inside the United States. *How moralistic guidelines straight-jacketed the FBI from even collecting a file of newspaper clippings on known terror groups operating in America. *How the internal culture of the CIA, and severe limitations on its ability to operate, blinded us to the growth of terror networks. And much more.

Thinking Beyond the Unthinkable ($4.09), by Jonathan Stevenson

Book Description
September 11 was a product of bad intelligence and wrongheaded expectations about al-Qaeda's motivations, intentions, resourcefulness, and capabilities. But it also sprang from a failure of the kind of predictive strategic thinking that kept the world from becoming atomic rubble in the fifties and sixties. In Thinking Beyond the Unthinkable, strategic analyst Jonathan Stevenson illuminates both the genius of nuclear deterrence and Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), plus the blind spots that limited the great Cold War civilian strategists' intellectual fertility and flexibility. Once the Soviet Union collapsed and the existential threat of nuclear holocaust abated, the American strategic community from intelligence officers to policymakers to think tanks lost the capacity to forecast and prepare for impending new threats to U.S. and global security. Complementing the cold eyed revelations of Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower and Thomas Ricks's Fiasco, Thinking Beyond the Unthinkable is a probing, urgent exhortation: if we are to extricate America from its current strategic predicament, we must regenerate for a new age the pragmatic creativity that once distinguished its strategic brain trust.

Presidential Anecdotes ($4.95), by Paul F. Boller Jr.

Book Description
The 2008 Presidential election is almost here and that can only mean one thing: our days are about to get a lot more entertaining. Beyond their wisdom, skill, and statesmanship, presidents are also famous for their tendency to show off horrendous manners, procrastinate on world affairs, say nonsensical things, and get into wild scandals. Clearly, being onstage all the time has its challenges and nothing proves it better than these delightful anecdotes, abridged from the critically acclaimed compendium by Oxford University Press. Including public and insider stories from 41 presidents, all the way from George Washington to Bill Clinton, it's an amusing reminder that it takes a lot more than grace-after-gaffe to be a great leader.

Rick and Bubba for President: The Two Sexiest Fat Men Alive Take on Washington ($2.84), by Rick Burgess & Bill Bussey. Does not include the CD from the print edition.

Book Description
Two-time New York Times best-selling authors and zany radio hosts Rick and Bubba return just in time for the 2008 presidential election to present their thoughts on everything political.

In Rick and Bubba for President, America's self-proclaimed "Sexiest Fat Men Alive" tackle timely campaign issues with hilarity, flair, and panache that won't be seen on the campaign trail. Readers will love Rick & Bubba's trademark humor as it is openly and honestly applied to the hot political topics politicians are so careful to avoid. Including everything from top ten campaign slogans to Rick and Bubba White House etiquette and a state dinner menu, Rick and Bubba for President is sure to delight readers of all political persuasions.

Victory for Us Is to See You Suffer: In the West Bank with the Palestinians and the Israelis ($2.78), by Philip C. Winslow

Book Description
A rare, firsthand account of life in the West Bank by a UN relief worker and journalist

During the second intifada, Philip C. Winslow worked in the West Bank with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), driving up to 600 miles a week between almost every Palestinian town, village, and refugee camp and every Israeli checkpoint in the occupied territory. He returned just before the onset of the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict.

In Victory for Us Is to See You Suffer, Winslow captures the human aspects of the conflict during the years of suicide bombings and Israeli reprisals in the West Bank—the daily struggles, fear, and anger of Palestinian farmers and teachers, and the hostility of Israeli soldiers and settlers. On this small territory, punctuated with hundreds of heavily guarded crossings and physical barriers, nervous young Israeli soldiers who believe they are fighting terrorists enforce stringent controls over the movement of Palestinians trying to live on their own land. Working with UNRWA, Winslow negotiated the delivery of humanitarian aid through army checkpoints, often finding himself the target of anger from both Palestinians and Israelis. He returned as a journalist, in the wake of the Hamas victory in Palestinian parliamentary elections, to interview people on both sides of the checkpoints and look at the decades-long destructive cycle through their eyes. From these unique multiple perspectives, Winslow offers an uncensored view of the realities on the ground that have made a just political solution and enduring peace so difficult.

A Fragile Future: An Update to Descent into Chaos ($2.40), by Ahmed Rashid

Book Description
A fascinating up-to-date look at the roots of our financial crisis from the New York Times bestselling author Kevin Phillips Descent into Chaos is Ahmed Rashid's sweeping, brilliant exploration of the failure of the United States to secure peace and nourish democracy in Pakistan and Afghanistan after the removal of the Taliban following 9/11. Thoroughly researched and powerfully written, it has been hailed from all corners as one of the most important books on the effects of American policy in the Middle East to appear in some time. In this searching update, Rashid takes stock of events in Pakistan since the book's publication, including the 2008 elections, the end of the Musharraf era, and the further resurgence of the Taliban. Up from Chaos makes the convincing case that if peace is to come to central Asia, Pakistan remains the key.

Refurbished Kindle DX - In Stock for $399

Amazon has added a listing for a Refurbished Kindle DX for $399, a savings of $90 over the new units. These are in stock, at least for now, and come with the same 30 day, no questions asked, Amazon return policy, as well as the same one-year warranty that you get with any Kindle purchase.

As some readers have seen me mention before, we have one refurbished Kindle here (an original Kindle) and it was indistinguishable from a new Kindle when it arrived and has performed flawlessly (it just got back from a one month trip to the wilds of South Dakota). And I also have a Kindle DX, which I use (mostly) for PDF's that don't convert well (or I don't feel like converting), as well as a few books from Amazon that have maps or photos that just look better on the big screen.

Kindle Bargain Ebook Roundup - Religious/Spiritual

Good Morning, Holy Spirit ($3.43), by Benny Hinn,
founder of the World Outreach Church in Orlando, Florida, and the World Healing Center in Dallas, Texas. His daily television program, This Is Your Day!, airs internationally and thousands gather at his monthly crusades. He has written several bestselling books, including Good Morning, Holy Spirit(over 1 million copies sold).

Book Description
Good Morning, Holy Spirit burst on the scene over a decade ago and immediately topped the best-seller lists and redefined the way people thought about their own relationship with the Holy Spirit. Now, in this revised and updated edition, Pastor Benny Hinn shares the same insights and truths that God has taught him through the years, as well as the impact they have had on those around him. Beginning with a dramatic encounter, the book unveils Hinn's uncommon journey to an understanding of and fellowship with the Holy Spirit. Complete with a study and discussion guide for individual or group use, Good Morning, Holy Spirit will lead readers to discover:

• How to recognize the voice of the Holy Spirit
• Seven steps to a more effective prayer life
• The source and purpose of God's anointing
• Freedom from fear of the "unpardonable" sin
• God's master plan for their lives

What the Gospels Meant ($2.60), by Garry Wills

Book Description
"New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Garry Wills interprets the four Gospels Garry Wills's recent New York Times bestselling books What Jesus Meant and What Paul Meant were tour-de-force interpretations of the teachings of Jesus and the Apostle Paul. Now Wills turns his remarkable gift for biblical analysis to the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Wills brilliantly examines the goals, methods, and styles of the evangelists and how these shaped the gospels' messages. The earliest book, Mark, emphasizes Jesus the sufferer; in Matthew, Jesus the teacher; in Luke, Jesus the reconciler; and in John, Jesus the mystic. Hailed as one of the most intellectually interesting and doctrinally heterodox Christians writing today (The New York Times Book Review), Wills guides readers through the maze of meanings that have accrued around these foundational texts, revealing their essential Christian truths. What the Gospels Meant will prove to be a valuable source of wisdom and inspiration for all."

World English Bible ($1.99) has several editions, but the latest edition is from House of Joy Books and it's also the least expensive of the group.

Book Description
The World English Bible (WEB) is the complete Old & New Testament in today's English. Carefully translated to retain the meaning and intent of the scripture, the text is easy to read and understand.

The original text used for translation is the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, also called The Stuttgart Bible, in the Old Testament, and the Byzantine Majority Text as published for use with The Online Bible in the New Testament (M-Text). This choice of Greek text is very close to what the KJV translators used, but does take advantage of some more recently discovered manuscripts. Although there are good scholarly arguments both for and against using the Byzantine Majority Text over the "Alexandrian" text based on the dating and critical editing work of Nestle and Aland and published by the United Bible Societies (UBS), we find the following to be compelling reasons:

• The UBS text has a lot of "dropout" errors relative to the M-Text. Diligent scribes with a respect for God's Word are more likely to miss copying something (i.e. by skipping a line, etc.) than to make up a line to add in.
• Different scribes copying the same passage aren't all likely to make the same mistakes at the same places, even though some mistakes are likely to be copied over many times.
• When a scribe had a choice of manuscripts to copy, he would normally copy the one that he trusted the most, thus causing the most trusted text to be copied more often.
• The UBS text relies heavily on the dating of the media upon which the text was written, but those texts that are used more and trusted more would both be copied more often and worn out from use sooner.

A great translation for study, and general daily reading, the World English Bible should be a part of everyone's library. Completely searchable text, extensive Table of Contents, easy to read on portable devices!

WISDOM OF THE BUDDHA: The Unabridged Dhammapada ($2.50), by Friedrich Max Müller

Book Description
Few sacred texts present their wisdom with the clarity of the Buddhist Dhammapada, or Path to Virtue. These ancient verses offer a compelling introduction to Buddhist thought, revealing the Four Truths—concerning the nature of the world and our lot in it—and the Eightfold Path to enlightenment, the means by which to overcome the essential suffering revealed by the Four Truths as the essence of life. Expressed with great beauty and translated with painstaking scholarship, this volume offers stimulating, challenging, and inspiring reading.

Moses and the Journey to Leadership: Timeless Lessons of Effective Management from the Bible and Today's Leaders ($3.49), by Norman J. Cohen

Book Description
Leaders are not simply born; they are molded through life's victories and failures, triumphs and defeats. No one exemplifies this process better than Moses, the most important and celebrated character in the Hebrew Bible. Faced with great internal and external challenges, he was sculpted into a great leader not only by circumstance, but also by his own determination and devotion to his people.

In this powerful and probing examination of the enduring texts in the biblical tradition, scholar and popular teacher Dr. Norman Cohen examines Moses's journey to leadership and what he can teach you about the vision, action and skills you need to be a successful leader. Cohen relives Moses's development from lonely shepherd to founder of a nation, emphasizing the salient points you can use to enrich the different leadership roles you are called on to play in your daily life, whether it be in business, religion, politics, education or other arenas.

Drawing from Moses's life, you will learn to:

• Articulate your expectations of others, as a group and as individuals
• Empower those around you to lead more responsible, ethical lives
• Support your co-workers and family even when they fail
• Challenge others to reach their highest potential

Let the Servant Church Arise! ($1.02), by Barbara Degrote-Sorensen & David Allen Sorensen

Book Description
Let the Servant Church Arise! explores all aspect of Christian servanthood and how it can have a profound effect on both church and civil communities. Encourages readers to discover purpose and meaning in life through serving others. If the servant church is to arise it will not come as a wordy edict from powers in high places. It will not come through a well-written curriculum, an increased budget or improved infrastructure. The servant church will arise as it always has, fueled by the gracious acts of individual believers who have heard the invitation and been faithful to the call.

Ask Billy Graham: The World's Best-Loved Preacher Answers Your Most Important Questions ($4.75), by Bill Adler

Book Description
Would you like to know what Billy Graham thinks about the most important issues of daily life? What about politics, presidents and terrorism? This book contains answers to questions many of us would ask Billy Graham if we had the good fortune to sit down with the person many call "America's Pastor". Best-selling author Bill Adler arranges topics from Graham's sermons, speeches, interviews, television appearances and writings in an easy to follow Q and A format.

Topics include Billy Graham on: Humor, Politics, Prayer, Technology and Religion, Race, Money, the Church, and Growing Older.

Hear Graham's responses to questions like

• What will heaven be like?
• Why does God bring on natural disasters?
• What do you think about the mixing of religion and politics?
• What do you say to an atheist who doesn't think there is a God?
• What is the greatest spiritual threat facing the United States?
• How can we achieve world peace?

Legacy Now ($4.99), by Phil Munsey

Book Description
Life is more than a string of events--it is part of a chain that links you to the eternal purpose of God. Taking responsibility for your legacy is simply assuring your relationships and resources will outlive and outlast your time on this earth. Legacy Now helps readers look at their lives from a personal, generational, and eternal perspective. It shows them how their destiny is in their DNA and takes them on a stepby-step journey to build a legacy that lasts. This compelling, well-written book is packed with practical ideas and action steps and contains compelling stories to illustrate the principles of a legacy, which include:

• Faith: leaving behind what you believe
• Family: the seed in every action
• Finances: your treasure is not just for your pleasure
• Former life: dealing with and healing iniquity
• Future life: living for generations to come

Phillip Munsey is senior pastor of The Life Church, a thriving church in Mission Viejo, California, which he and his wife, Jeannie, founded in January 1985. He travels as a conference speaker and works with John Maxwell's Equip Ministry. Phil and Jeannie have been frequent guests and hosts on TBN's Praise the Lord program (over 100 appearances).

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."