Free Book (Kindle) - Christmas is Not Your Birthday

Christmas is Not Your Birthday (US/UK), by Mike Slaughter, is free in the Kindle store, courtesy of Christian publisher Abingdon Press.

Book Description
Every year, we say we’re going to cut back, simplify, and have a family Christmas that focuses on the real reason for the season—Jesus. But every year, advertisements beckon, the children plead, and it seems easier just to indulge our wants and whims. Overspending, overeating, materialism, and busyness rob us of our peace and joy and rob Jesus of his rightful role as the center of our celebration.This Christmas, cut through the hype that leaves you exhausted and broke at the end of the year. Instead, experience the peace of knowing that God is truly with us, the joy of giving sacrificially, and the love of a Savior who gave everything he had for us. In five short, engaging chapters, Pastor Mike Slaughter inspires readers to approach Christmas differently, and be transformed in the process.

Free Book (Kindle) - Hurry Less, Worry Less at Christmastime

Update: 11/2/11 Now also free for US Kindlers.

Hurry Less, Worry Less at Christmastime: Having the Holiday Season You Long For (US/UK), by Judy Pace Christie, is free for UK customers in the Kindle store, courtesy of the Dimensions for Living imprint of Christian publisher Abingdon Press. I'll be looking for this one for US customers by morning.

Book Description
This useful book will help busy people learn to celebrate more joyfully, peacefully, and deeply during “the holiday season”—the days between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day—and on through the Christian celebration of Epiphany. Judy Pace Christie meets us where we are, in a frenzied, out-of-control frame of mind, and helps us begin to have a deeper understanding of the joy of the season and its deep meaning for our lives overall—and how that can be a starting point for a more abundant life in the new year.

Using the holiday season as an entry point, Christie guides us to a more helpful, Christian understanding of this time of year. Aspects of the liturgical calendar are introduced as part of this process, including the Christian understandings of Advent, Christmas, and Ephiphany. She gives us practical tools for coping with holiday pressures but above all stresses the need for transformation from a secular perspective to a Christian one.

Hurry Less Worry Less at Christmastime will assist in identifying what people love about the holiday season and what they want to change. The book can also be used as a study book for church small groups or Sunday school classes, leading up to the holidays.

Free Book (Kindle) - A Simple Amish Christmas

Update: 11/2/11 Now also free for US Kindlers.

A Simple Amish Christmas (US/UK), by Vannetta Chapman, is free for UK customers in the Kindle store, courtesy of Christian publisher Abingdon Press. I'll be looking for this one for US customers by morning.

Book Description
Annie Weaver always planned to return home, but the 20-year old RN has lived in Philadelphia for three years now. As her time of rumschpringe is about to come to an abrupt end, bringing for Annie an overwhelming sense of loneliness. She returns home and finds herself face-to-face with a budding romance with an Amish farmer and Annie has several important choices to make.

Free Book Updates

At least three books that were first free yesterday are no longer free today, just showing that you never know how long a free book price will last.

These all have additional formats free since they were first posted:

• Cold Turkey (Kindle/noDRM)
• I Dream of Genies (Kindle/EPUB/nook)
• 25 Savory Pie Recipes (Kindle/EPUB,iBooks)
• Kisses for Lula (Kindle/iBooks)
• Chili Con Corpses (Kindle/EPUB/nook)

Free Book (Kindle) - The Myth of the Garage

The Myth of the Garage, by Dan Heath and Chip Heath, is free to pre-order in the Kindle store.

Book Description
From Chip and Dan Heath, the bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick, comes The Myth of the Garage: And Other Minor Surprises, a collection of the authors’ best columns for Fast Company magazine — 16 pieces in all, plus a previously unpublished piece entitled “The Future Fails Again.”

In Myth, the Heath brothers tackle some of the most (and least) important issues in the modern business world:

• Why you should never buy another mutual fund (“The Horror of Mutual Funds”)
• Why your gut may be more ethical than your brain (“In Defense of Feelings”)
• How to communicate with numbers in a way that changes decisions (“The Gripping Statistic”)
• Why the “Next Big Thing” often isn’t (“The Future Fails Again”)
• Why you may someday pay $300 for a pair of socks (“The Inevitability of $300 Socks”)
• And 12 others . . . Punchy, entertaining, and full of unexpected insights, the collection is the perfect companion for a short flight (or a long meeting).