Free Book (EPUB) - Bang the Drum Slowly

Bang the Drum Slowly ($5.39 Kindle), by Mark Harris, is free in EPUB format over on Copia.

Book Description
Henry Wiggen, hero of The Southpaw and the best-known fictional baseball player in America, is back again, throwing a baseball "with his arm and his brain and his memory and his bluff for the sake of his pocket and his family." More than a novel about baseball, Bang the Drum Slowly is about the friendship and the lives of a group of men as they each learn that a teammate is dying of cancer.

Bang the Drum Slowly was chosen as one of the top one hundred sports books of all time by Sports Illustrated and appears on numerous other lists of best baseball fiction. In the introduction to this new Bison Books edition Mark Harris discusses the making of the classic 1973 film starring Robert DeNiro, based on his screen adaptation of the book. Also available in Bison Books editions are The Southpaw, It Looked Like For Ever.

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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

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Free Book (EPUB) - Miss Entropia and the Adam Bomb

Miss Entropia and the Adam Bomb ($9.99 Kindle), by George Rabasa, is free in EPUB format over on Copia.

Book Description
No other obsession strikes as hard as the love that hits a teenaged boy — especially if he’s the sort of kid who is no saner than he wants to be. From the moment Adam Webb sees Francine Haggard—in the van that is supposed to return them to the Institute Loiseaux—the two young mental patients are inextricably connected. Adam will never let this girl go. From hiding her in his bedroom to spiriting her away to Minnesota’s north woods, “Miss Entropia” becomes the focus of Adam’s every thought and of everything he does. He believes her to be a goddess, his own goddess. But the pyromaniacal Miss Entropia will be neither worshiped nor owned. And so Adam’s possessiveness is destined to push her to the breaking point. Theirs is an incendiary love story, an unbalanced Romeo and Juliet, that spins and arcs its way strangely toward tragedy.

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Free Book (EPUB) - Revolution in the Air

Revolution in the Air - The Songs of Bob Dylan, 1957–1973 ($14.37 Kindle), by Clinton Heylin, is free in EPUB format over on Copia.

Book Description
By far the most comprehensive book on Dylan’s words ever written, including a number of songs that no one has ever heard, this first volume will fundamentally change how these lyrics are interpreted and understood. Arranged in a surprising chronology of when they were actually written rather than when they appeared on albums—the middle verse of “Blowin’ in the Wind” was written much later than the first and third verses, and the songs on John Wesley Harding were written prior to some of the songs on The Basement Tapes—hundreds of surprising facts are uncovered in this catalog of 300 songs, spanning his career up prior to Blood on the Tracks. Newly discovered manuscripts, anecdotal evidence, and a seemingly limitless knowledge of every Bob Dylan live performance contribute to this definitive resource of the words of a celebrated American singer-songwriter.

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Kindle with Special Offers and 3G - $164

If you've been jealously reading about the special deals that those with a Kindle Wi-Fi with Special Offers have been getting, but you wanted to also have 3G service on your Kindle, then your prayers have been answered. Amazon has just released the Kindle 3G, Free 3G + Wi-Fi, 3G Works Globally, Graphite, 6" Display with New E Ink Pearl Technology - includes Special Offers & Sponsored Screensavers and priced it at $164.

In other news, Kobo/Borders and B&N have introduced their new touchscreen the last day or two, but I can't get very excited about those, after having a Sony touchscreen for the last year or two. The screen gets smudged and the keyboard interface is clunky (and I don't care for the wifi interface on the Kobo/Borders reader, especially it's insistence in downloading every single book in my library when I first sync'd). This new Kindle, though, shows that Amazon is still committed to keeping 3G service (neither of the other two have it in their latest generation readers) and making their ereaders affordable for all.