Free Audiobook - Go the F--k to Sleep

You can get the unabridged edition of one of the odder kid's bedtime books I've seen, Go the F--k to Sleep [Unabridged], by Adam Mansbach, for free from Audible. It's definitely not the language you'll want your kids to hear at bedtime (ok, it's actually a MOCK bedtime story and for adults, not kids), but should be appreciated by those how struggle to get their little ones to sleep (including the 4-legged little ones; I have one now sitting with his head drooping, refusing to go to sleep in the other room, so long as I am also up and about -- at least he's now past the cranky/sleepy time of the evening where he is fighting to stay awake and is chewing everything in site).

Book Description
Academy Award nominee Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction) rocks this mock bedtime story, capturing a hilarious range of emotions as the voice of a father struggling to get his child to sleep.

Go the F**k to Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don't always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland. California Book Award-winning author Adam Mansbach's profane, affectionate, and radically honest verses perfectly capture the familiar - and unspoken - tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night. In the process, he opens up a conversation about parenting, granting us permission to admit our frustrations and laugh at their absurdity.

Beautiful, subversive, and pants-wettingly funny, Go the F**k to Sleep is a book for parents new, old, and expectant. Due to its explicit language, you probably should not play it for your children.

Go the F**k to Sleep is available free for a limited time. Feel free to share the link to this page with tired parents and other people who could use a good swear and a laugh.

Kindle WiFi $114

There is a very odd listing for the Amazon Kindle, Wi-Fi, Graphite, 6" Display with New E Ink Pearl Technology in the Amazon store tonight. The price is $114, but there is no mention of Special Offers, no picture and no description. Rumor has it that it is a no-ad Kindle and the only thing missing is a power brick (so, it's likely an international Kindle; as that is the only difference between the US and non-US models). If you've been wanting that lower price, but no ads, it might be worth taking a chance and ordering it. You should get the same warranty as with a Kindle purchased on a regular order page. If it turns out to be an edition you don't want, you can always send it back.

Two Free Books and Three Free Songs

Update: 6/15/11 Ten Moments That Shook The Sports World is now free in the US Kindle store.

First, the nook only title from this morning, The Last Boy, is now free from both Amazon and Apple, both the same a/v enhanced titles that B&N will only let you see on the nookColor (Apple limits you to the iPad or iThing; Amazon's works on any Kindle device or app).

Second, Ten Moments That Shook The Sports World ($5.39 US), by Stan Isaacs, is free for UK and EU customers in the Kindle store. I expect the US to follow by tomorrow morning. (UK link/DE link)

Book Description
"The Shot Heard Round the World," in 1951. "The Fight of the Century," in 1971. The horror of the 1972 Munich Olympics. Secretariat's legendary win at the 1973 Belmont Stakes. Stan Isaacs saw them all live. Isaacs covered thousands of sports stories in his more than fifty years as a journalist. But ten moments stand out in his memory. Ten Moments That Shook the Sports World offers Isaacs's eyewitness accounts of the events that changed sports history. This collection offers those old enough to remember these events a chance to relive them, and younger sports lovers will get to hear this history from someone who was there. Isaacs makes sports history live again.

Last, but not least, zip over to the iTunes store to check out this week's free songs, which includes Forward to Love ($0.99 Amazon), by Ziggy Marley. This is a cut off of his newly released album, Wild And Free. Click HERE to get it free in iTunes.

Back in the Amazon store, Barry Manilow has a new album and a cut from it, Now It's For Real, is free to download, as is Coney Island Winter, by Garland Jeffreys. That's three songs and three completely different genres, so there should be at least one of interest in the bunch.

New Kindle Game - Futoshiki

Futoshiki ($0.99) is a new logic game for Kindle from Braintonik Games, the makers of Strimko. I have to admit I am a sucker for this type of game, so I've already downloaded it and played thru one game. It's a lot like Sudoku (but with a field of 5 or 7 and only one square), but with additional rules, where some blocks must be greater or lesser than the ones immediately adjacent to them. Definitely worth a buck and I've got 29 puzzles to go, just on the easy mode.

Book Description
Futoshiki is a Japanese number logic puzzle.

The rules of Futoshiki are deceptively simple but the game is challenging and addictive. Each row and column must be filled with unique numbers. However, Futoshiki has a twist. It adds greater-than or less-than signs between some cells. You must honor these signs in order to solve and complete the puzzles.

This collection of 120 puzzles is grouped into four different sets ranging from easy to expert. The grids are 5x5 in easy, medium, and hard modes. Expert mode holds thirty 7x7 puzzles. The game features annotations to help you keep track of possible solutions, and a hint function to help you keep playing if you get stuck.

Free Audiobook - The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Tantor Audio has a new free download this month: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. They are also having a 50% off sale on their site to celebrate Audiobook Month -- to make things simple, they just marked down every title on the site, including the CD's (not just MP3 downloads) and pre-orders!

Book Description
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close---the meeting of the great detective and Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime. When "The Final Problem" was first published, the struggle between Holmes and his arch nemesis, seemingly to the death, left many readers desolate at the loss of Holmes, but it also led to his immortality as a literary figure. The stories that precede it included two narratives from Holmes himself---on a mutiny at sea and a treasure hunt in a Sussex country house---as well as a meeting with his brilliant brother Mycroft.

Included in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are "Silver Blaze," "The Yellow Face," "The Stock-Broker's Clerk," "The 'Gloria Scott,'" "The Musgrave Ritual," "The Reigate Puzzle," "The Crooked Man," "The Resident Patient," "The Greek Interpreter," "The Naval Treaty," and "The Final Problem."

Click HERE to get the free download from Tantor. You'll need to log in before you see a download button; once you do, return to this same page and refresh - you should now see "CLICK HERE" where it did say "Log in to Download" (in red, above the title). You won't get the companion PDF ebook with the free download, but you can pick this classic book up free in the Kindle store (and elsewhere), if you like to read along.