Free Book - One Italian Summer (DF)

Whiskey Creek Press is offering a free download of One Italian Summer (out of print, Amazon), by Janet Mills, in either PDF or HTML format (or both - but it twice) and either can be converted to Kindle using Calibre. It's their 9th "birthday" as a publisher, so they are also offering 9 books at 99 cents apiece, both on the main site and from their Torrid line.

Book Description
Could it be amore?

A middle-aged woman recently stung by betrayal and divorce meets a dashing younger man still grieving from his wife’s death. Their unlikely romance ignites in the heat of One Italian Summer.

When American Natalie Compton travels to Italy and encounters Giovanni Ragazzo in a centuries-old monastery in Florence, she never expects the handsome Italian to be interested in someone like her. She considers herself too old, too chubby, and too jaded from her failed marriage.

Gio loves Natalie's vitality, her spunk, her wit...everything about her that stands in contrast to his late wife, whose death from a long illness devastated him.

Both Natalie and Giovanni are harboring secrets that would ruin most romantic relationships. But does the truth really matter when they have only ten days to be together?

Get the free ebook from Whiskey Creek Press. You will have to set up an account, but I don't believe you have to enter any CC info (doesn't appear my old account has any) just for the free book.

5 Free Books from Infinite Ideas (K)

Infinite Ideas has added another small batch of free books in the Kindle store, which are likely to be free all month. List prices on these are all over the place, ranging from under two dollars to about $8 (presumably for longer materials). These are the one that are new (there are a number of duplicates from past freebie lists - click the cover image to get the full list).

1. Extreme sports (52 Brilliant Ideas), by Steve Shipside
2. Perfect weddings, by Lisa Helmanis
3. Healthy pregnancy (52 Brilliant Ideas), by Lynn Huggins-Cooper
4. Instant body conditioning
5. How to solve Sudoku (52 Brilliant Ideas), by Robin Wilson

Free Book - Pilgrimage to the End of the World (P)

Pilgrimage to the End of the World: The Road to Santiago de Compostela ($11.36 paperback), by Conrad Rudolph, is this month's free book from The University of Chicago Press (no Kindle edition).

Book Description
Traveling two and a half months and one thousand miles along the ancient route through southern France and northern Spain, Conrad Rudolph made the passage to the holy site of Santiago de Compostela, one of the most important modern-day pilgrimage destinations for Westerners. In this chronicle of his travels to this captivating place, Rudolph melds the ancient and the contemporary, the spiritual and the physical, in a book that is at once travel guide, literary work, historical study, and memoir.

Spring is the season for a pilgrimage, observed Chaucer. Rudolph traces the famous Camino de Santiago—the Way of St. James—a pilgrimage route from La Puy in France, through the Pyrenees, to Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain. It’s a route followed by millions from medieval times to the present (and was also followed by Martin Sheen in the 2010 film, The Way.) Rudolph’s book is at once travel guide, literary work, historical study, and memoir.

Sign up for the free book from the University of Chicago. You'll need to enter your email address, then check your email for the link to download the book. Mine arrived within seconds -- you get a .ACSM file, which, when opened, will load the PDF book inside of Adobe ADE. This is a DRM'd PDF and is not compatible with the Kindle.

Free Book - The Big Jump (DF)

The Big Jump ($4.99 Kindle), a novella by Leigh Brackett, is this month's free book from Phoenix Pick.

Book Description
What awaits us out in space?

New star-drive engines promise to open up the galaxy to human-kind. But the first ship to use the engines disappears and a sole survivor returns…alone and dying of some strange type of radiation.

No one can figure out what has happened to the ship or the crew. Nor does anyone know what happens to a ship travelling using star-drive technology.

Does some unknown horror await us out there?

The only way to find out is to go out again. And Arch Comyn is determined to be the one to solve the mystery.

But is he, and the rest of mankind, ready for whatever awaits us beyond the Big Jump?

Click HERE for the free book from Phoenix Pick. You'll need to scroll down to find the book's listing, click on "FREE EBOOK of the Month", then enter coupon code 9991393. Click thru the next page and then scroll down and get the format of your choice. They are DRM-free, so you can convert to other formats, if desired.

On the download page, you'll also find a discounted bundle for the month: THE CLASSICS COLLECTION, containing Daniel F. Galouye: Dark Universe and Simulacron-3; L. Sprague de Camp: Lest Darkness Fall (contributions by Frederik Pohl, David Drake,and Alexei Panshin), Edmond Hamilton: The Best of Edmond Hamilton, Leigh Bracket: The Long Tomorrow. Regular price separately is $43.95; regular bundle price is $26.37; this month, you can get either the EPUB or MOBI bundle for $19.78. There's no DRM (and why they don't just put them together into a single download, as Baen does, I don't know), so grab either one and they can be converted easily using Calibre. The MOBI files can be emailed to your free Kindle address for WiFi delivery and backup as a Personal Document.

You'll also find a bundle of Leigh Brackett novels at Baen. They usually raise the price to $32 after the bundle has been out for a while, but this one is still stuck at $20.

Today's Deals

Get 30% off this weekend at Kobo, to get you ready for Read an EBook Week (more details on free books from this promotion, next week), using coupon code mar2us30 (and the usual country variations).

Karen Kingsbury's Bailey Flanigan series is today's Kindle Deal of the Day and the first three novels in the series are discounted to $2.99 each.

Leaving
The Bailey Flanigan series begins with Bailey leaving Bloomington for the adventure of a lifetime. She has won an audition for the ensemble of a Broadway musical in New York City. She's determined to take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, but is she really ready to leave family and friends for the loneliness of the city? And what of Cody? His disappearance has her worried about their future and praying that their love can survive. In order to be closer to his mother in jail, Cody takes a coaching job in a small community outside Indianapolis. New friends, distance, and circumstances expose cracks in his relationship with Bailey Flanigan. Love, loneliness, big opportunities, and even bigger decisions highlight the first book in the new Bailey Flanigan series that features members of the popular Baxter family and finally completes the Bailey Flanigan/Cody Coleman story.

Learning
Bailey Flanigan is growing closer to her dream to be an actress and dancer in New York while Cody coaches a small high school football team ... on and off the field. But neither feels complete without the chance to share their dreams with one other. Can distance truly make the heart grow fonder? Or will Cody learn to turn to others to share in his happiness? And when tragedy strikes? Who will be there to provide comfort in the face of loss? As Cody's past catches up with him, he must learn to reach out for help or risk withdrawing permanently inside himself. Both Bailey and Cody find themselves learning significant life lessons in this poignant love story, featuring members from Karen Kingsbury's popular Baxter family.

Longing
Longing, book three in the Bailey Flanigan Series, picks up where Learning ended. After a long and lonely silence from Cody Coleman, Bailey Flanigan becomes closer to her one-time Hollywood co-star, Brandon Paul. Nights on the town in New York City and long talks on the balcony of Brandon's Malibu Beach home make Bailey dizzy with new feelings and cause her to wonder if her days with Cody are over forever. Meanwhile, Cody's work coaching a small-town football team has brought him and his players national attention. In the midst of the celebration and success, Cody finds himself much closer to a woman who seems to better understand him and his new life. Even so, never does much time go by without Bailey and Cody experiencing deep feelings of longing for each other, longing both for the past and for answers before they can move forward. Will an unexpected loss be the turning point for Cody? Will Cody and Bailey find a way back together again for the first time in more than a year? And if they do, will their brief time together be enough to help them remember all they've been longing for?

The Gentleman's Instant Genius Guide: Become an Expert in Everything ($1.57 / £0.99 UK), by Tom Cutler, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $8.79).

Book Description
Who has time nowadays to put in the graft to succeed? And why bother, when the truly important things in life only take a quarter of an hour to master?

Here, Tom Cutler proves that following the path to becoming disgustingly rich, stylish, intelligent, thin, happy, classy, successful and a legend in the bedroom need take no longer than it does to cut your toenails, or listen to The Archers.

• Learn how to become as popular as your dog.
• Which sports car suits your personality?
• How to work out the date of your death.

Are you a genius? With Tom Cutler's help you will soon find inner perfection and hugely impress your family, friends and work colleagues. From the author of the brilliant A Gentleman's Bedside Book, this is a hilariously funny but deeply practical guide to self-improvement.

The Art of Manliness: Classic Skills and Manners for the Modern Man ($3.79 Kindle, B&N), by Brett McKay, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.

Book Description
While it's definitely more than just monster trucks, grilling and six-pack abs, true manliness is hard to define. The words macho and manly are not synonymous.

Taking lessons from classic gentlemen such as Benjamin Franklin and Theodore Roosevelt, authors Brett and Kate McKay have created a collection of the most useful advice every man needs to know to live life to its full potential.

This book contains a wealth of information that ranges from survival skills to social skills to advice on how to improve your character. Whether you are braving the wilds with your friends, courting your girlfriend or raising a family, inside you'll find practical information and inspiration for every area of life. You'll learn the basics all modern men should know.

So jump in today and gain the skills and knowledge you need to be a real man in the 21st century.

Judy Moody Predicts the Future (Judy Moody Series #4) ($4.79 Kindle, $0.99 B&N), by Megan McDonald, is the Nook Daily Find for Families, not price matched on Kindle.

Book Description
With the help of a mood ring, a Magic 8 Ball, and some old-fashioned intuition, Judy Moody is convinced that she can foretell the future in a new episode that’s funnier than ever.

Judy Moody ate one, two, three bowls of cereal. No prize. She poured four, five, six bowls of cereal. Nothing. Seven. Out fell the Mystery Prize. . . .

Judy definitely has a mood for every occasion. And now she has a mood ring to prove it! The mood ring’s Extra Special Powers have put Judy in a predicting mood, and her outrageous predictions have everyone wondering if Judy really is psychic. According to "Madame M" (for Moody), the Toad Pee Club’s long-lost mascot will reappear, Judy will earn the coveted Thomas Jefferson tricorn-hat sticker for Great Job, Good Thinking—and love may be the real reason behind her teacher’s new eyeglasses. Will Judy’s latest adventures put kids in a very Judy Moody mood? (Signs point to yes!)

Grades 2-4