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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Free Book (Kindle/nook/iBooks/EPUB) - Into the Wild

Into the Wild, the first title in the Warriors series for middle-grade readers by Erin Hunter, is free in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble, iTunes and Kobo.
Book Description
Fire alone can save our Clan...

For generations, four Clans of wild cats have shared the forest according to the laws laid down by the powerful ancestors. But the warrior code is threatened, and the ThunderClan cats are in grave danger. The sinister ShadowClan grows stronger every day. Noble warriors are dying -- and some deaths are more mysterious than others.

In the midst of this turmoil appears an ordinary housecat named Rusty . . . Who may yet turn out to be the bravest warrior of them all.
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Free Short Story (Kindle/nook/iBooks/EPUB) - Master and Man

The Harper Perennial Classic edition of the classic Master and Man, a short story by Leo Tolstoy, is free in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble, iTunes and Kobo.
Book Description (Kobo)
Tolstoy (1828-1910) wrote Master and Man in 1894, from an idea which originated two years earlier while he was organising food centres in the famine-stricken areas of central Russia. The story is of two individuals caught in a snowstorm. By showing how they react when faced with danger and lonely death, Tolstoy expressed implicitly what he felt to be essential to man for his understanding of the meaning of life and his acceptance of death. Mrs. Aitken has stressed the Russian text first published in 1895. She includes a brief introductory essay on Tolstoy and Master and Man and provides notes on the text and a full vocabulary.
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Free Book (nook/EPUB) - Your Dream Wedding on a Budget

Update: 12/22/11 Now free from Kobo.

Your Dream Wedding on a Budget ($2.39 Kindle), a Workman Short (45 pages) by Mindy Weiss, is free from Barnes & Noble. It's likely that it will be free on Kindle as well, in a day or so.
Book Description
No one knows how to plan a wedding like Mindy Weiss, the “mega-star wedding planner” (People magazine) whose wide-ranging clientele includes actors, artists, and musicians. In The Wedding Book, she created the ultimate all-in-one guide; from that, she’s now culled an invaluable digest on how to plan your very best wedding possible while adhering to a budget. Here’s a general wedding budget overview: an at-a-glance chart of what traditionally consumes most of the budget, and what should cost the least. Guidelines to figure out who’s paying for what. The ten best ways to cut costs, beginning with trimming the guest list, and the five best splurges—the kind of things that make a big difference for little cost. Dozens of tips throughout show how to save money on food, drinks, flowers, photography, music, the wedding dress, and more—guaranteeing that you’ll not only wind up with a dream wedding, but also with the satisfaction of knowing it was a smart wedding. About this title: Workman Shorts is a lively line of subject-specific e-books curated from our library of trusted books and authors.
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Free Book (EPUB/nook) - Rules to Live By

Rules to Live By: 52 Principles for a Better Life ($9.99 Kindle), by Jerry White, is free from Barnes & Noble and Sony, courtesy of Christian publisher NavPress. It's likely to end up free at Amazon as well, but I don't see any price drop yet in the UK or EU stores and NavPress is usually good about hitting all the markets.
Book Description
Determine your priorities, grow in character, and develop a Christlike outlook on life.

Taken from his years in the military, at NASA, and with The Navigators, Dr. Jerry White shares insights and wisdom to point you toward a more balanced life. His 52 guiding principles do more than just tell you what you should do--they outline the godly life you can have today.

In our hectic and pressured lives, most of us long for less stumbling around and more consistency and order. At the same time, we want to be flexible and responsive to the needs of our family, friends, and coworkers. To achieve this sense of order, we rustle through self-help books, retool our schedules and priorities, and explore ideas on reinventing ourselves, our marriages, and our families.

Jerry White says he tried all these options but something else has been more helpful: From his early days at the space program in Mission Control at Cape Canaveral, he developed, pursued, and practiced a set of “rules” that have helped him respond to life without having to figure out every situation anew as it arises. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist as Jerry was. Through these fifty-two practical principles, learn how to live a more organized and successful life.
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Monday, December 19, 2011

Free Book Updates

Several new formats on free books, the first three of of which I expect to go back up in price soon.