Free Book - Organized Simplicity (K/N/E)

Update: 1/17/12 Now free from Sony.

Organized Simplicity: The Clutter-Free Approach to Intentional Living, by Tsh Oxenreider, is free in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble.

Book Description
Organized Simplicity's aim is to convince its readers that simple living is the absolute best way to live. Be it with house cleaning, family schedule management, personal finances, and managing the "stuff" you allow within your four walls, the only way to live well is to do so intentionally and simply. The first half of the book delves into the "why" behind realistic simple living, giving the reader a nail to then hang the how of living simply discussed in the second half. And by redefining the too often-used phrase "simple living," a busy home manager living in the real world can then make practical changes that work for the whole family. There are chapters for cleaning and organizing the home room-by-room, and future project ideas will inspire readers to turn their house in a haven they love.

About the Author
Tsh Oxenreider is the writer and editor of the popular blog SimpleMom.net, and is the founder of SimpleLivingMedia.com. She spends her days with her husband and young children -- exploring the world, reading and learning, and being inspired by whatever surroundings their travels take them. Simple Mom is a member of the exclusive 9 Rules network, and was nominated for Best New Blog of 2008 in the 2009 Bloggies. All five blogs in her company, Simple Living Media, are geared towards simple living and receive almost one million page views monthly.

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Free Book - Zombies Don't Cry (K/N/I)

Update: 1/17/12 Now free from iTunes.

Zombies Don't Cry: A Living Dead Love Story, by Rusty Fischer, is free in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble.

Book Description
In the sleepy small town of Barracuda Bay, Maddy Swift leads the life of a fairly typical teenager, but while attending a party one night, Maddy is struck by lightning and awakens to realize she has been reanimated and turned into a zombie. While becoming acquainted with her new "lifestyle," Maddy stumbles upon two unexpected undead chaperones, fellow students Dane and Chloe, who begin to teach her the ways of zombie life, including defending the populace from Zerkers—the bad zombies. Together, on prom night, the three teens must ultimately defend Barracuda Bay High from an all-out zombie Armageddon.

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Nine Free Books from New Word City (K)

These are all short "mini-books", so I'm grouping them all together. It's likely that one or all may only be free in the Kindle store today, as New Word City has been doing recently, and not likely to be free elsewhere.

Decadent Desserts, by Stonyfield Farm

Book Description
Dessert just got even better. Use Stonyfield’s recipes for decadent dessert to make your favorite treats a little less sinful.

What's Your Strategic Heartbeat?, by Jon L. Luther

Book Description
For close to 45 years, Jon Luther, a 2010 inductee into the Menu Masters Hall of Fame, whose members include Wolfgang Puck, Colonel Sanders, and Jacques Pepin, has been running some part of the U.S. food-service industry - from managing the cafeteria at the Wurlitzer jukebox and company to leading Dunkin’ Brands, serving 3 million customers a day around the world. Drawing on lessons learned in that long career, he describes how he overcame organizational inertia and reset the organizational inertia and reset the strategic direction of three of the companies he has led. In each case, he began by identifying the epicenter of the brand, the strategic heartbeat.

There is a trio of titles from Thomas Fleming:

John Adam's for the Defense
Here, from New York Times bestselling author and historian Thomas Fleming, is the surprising and little-known story of the trial that followed the Boston Massacre. John Adams undertook, on the eve of the American Revolution, to defend the hated British soldiers who fired into a mob, killing five. There are echoes of our own times in the events that followed.

The Imperial Congress
Today’s spectacle of an imperial Congress battling the president of the United States – be his name Barack Obama or George Bush – is unsettling to many Americans. But it should not come as a surprise. Since the earliest days of the republic, writes New York Times bestselling historian Thomas Fleming, Congress has sought to seize power for itself and diminish the presidency.

Presidents on Presidents
All American presidents have had things to say about their fellow chief executives. Once in a great while, writes New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Thomas Fleming, their comments were even flattering.

The editors of New Word City have three biographies that are free to download:

Ronald Reagan: A Life
President Ronald Reagan presided over, and had a hand in, many of the major world events of the twentieth century, from the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union to an unprecedented resurgence of the U.S. economy. Called The Great Communicator, he was reticent when it came to the story of his own life. Here’s his inspiring story.

Jack London, A Life
Jack London is best remembered for his novels White Fang and Call of the Wild. But his life was every bit as thrilling and tumultuous as his words. Born the illegitimate son of a San Francisco spiritualist, he went on to be a cannery worker, sailor, gold prospector, war correspondent, and self-made celebrity. And he published 51 books. Here’s his amazing story.

Rudyard Kipling, A Life
One of the greatest of English writers, Rudyard Kipling created a literary world teeming with unforgettable people, animals, moral quandaries, and unforgettable wisdom. But snobbish critics and a misreading of Kipling’s political views have condemned him to decades of undeserved neglect. No more. Here’s the fascinating (and surprising) story of his life.

Today's Deals

Additional formats on these free books are now available and they are now free for US Kindle customers:

• Networking to Win (K/N)
• Blood Country (K/N)
• Directed Verdict (K/N)
• Up, Down, or Sideways (K/N)
• How to Unspoil Your Child Fast (K/N)
• Northern Exposure (K/N)

SEAL of My Dreams ($0.99), an anthology by Stephanie Bond, Elle Kennedy, Helen Brenna, Kylie Brant, et al, is today's Kindle Deal of the Day. If you like military romance or short story romance, you should grab this one; it's a great price and supports a good cause.

Book Description
Honor, duty, courage, passion . . . the men of the Navy SEALs are a special breed of hero, and in these novellas by eighteen top romance authors the SEALs are celebrated not only as symbols of devoted service to their country but as the kind of men every woman wants to love. They’ll rescue a damsel in distress and her lap dog, too. They’ll battle hometown dramas and international bad guys. When it comes to giving away their hearts, they’ll risk everything.

All proceeds from sales of SEAL of My Dreams go to the Veterans Research Corporation, a non-profit fundraiser for veterans’ medical research.

Between them, the authors of SEAL of My Dreams have won dozens of writing awards including multiple RITAs from Romance Writers of America. Their nearly 600 published novels have sold at least 35 million copies worldwide. The SEAL of My Dreams roster includes many of the best-known authors in modern romance fiction. In addition, many have strong family connections to the servicemen and women of our nation’s military, and many specialize in novels featuring heroes and heroines from all branches of service.

From Aberystwyth With Love (1.53/ £0.99 UK), by AUTHOR, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (no US edition).

Book Description
It is a sweltering August in Aberystwyth. A man wearing a Soviet museum curator's uniform walks into Louie Knight's office and spins a wild and impossible tale of love, death, madness and betrayal.

Sure, Louie had heard about Hughesovka, the legendary replica of Aberystwyth built in the Ukraine by some crazy nineteenth-century czar. But he hadn't believed that it really existed until he met Uncle Vanya. Now the old man's story catapults him into the neon-drenched wilderness of Aberystwyth Prom in search of a girl who mysteriously disappeared thirty years ago. Soon Louie finds his fate depending on two most unlikely talismans - a ticket to Hughesovka and a Russia cosmonaut's sock.

The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East ($3.99 Kindle, B&N), by Sandy Tolan, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.

Book Description
In 1967, Bashir Al-Khayri, a Palestinian twenty-five-year-old, journeyed to Israel, with the goal of seeing the beloved old stone house, with the lemon tree behind it, that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when he found the house he was greeted by Dalia Ashkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college student, whose family fled Europe for Israel following the Holocaust. On the stoop of their shared home, Dalia and Bashir began a rare friendship, forged in the aftermath of war and tested over the next thirty-five years in ways that neither could imagine on that summer day in 1967. Based on extensive research, and springing from his enormously resonant documentary that aired on NPR's Fresh Air in 1998, Sandy Tolan brings the Israeli-Palestinian conflict down to its most human level, suggesting that even amid the bleakest political realities there exist stories of hope and reconciliation.
With a new introduction by the author.

Free Book - How to Unspoil Your Child Fast (K/N/E/P/I)

Update: 1/17/12 Now free from iTunes and Sourcebooks.
Update: 1/15/12 Now free in the US Kindle store.

How to Unspoil Your Child Fast: A Speedy, Complete Guide to Contented Children and Happy Parents (US/UK), by Richard Bromfield, is free for UK Kindle customers and from Barnes & Noble. It should be free for US customers later in the morning.

Book Description
You don't have to say yes to prove that you love them.

Nearly 95% of parents feel like they are overindulging their children, but feel powerless to stopping themselves.

How to Unspoil Your Child Fast offers a straightforward and practical solution to fixing and preventing the problems of spoiling your children and offers concrete tips, simple strategies, and easy action steps for reversing the effects almost immediately. Feel more confident, competent, and parent more consistently while instilling character and self-reliance in your children today.

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