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Monday, March 5, 2012

Free Book - Let's Get Real About Money! (K/N)

Update: 3/8/12 Now free from Barnes & Noble.

Let's Get Real About Money!: Profit from the Habits of the Best Personal Finance Managers, by Eric Tyson, is a repeat freebie in the Kindle store.
Book Description
Worried about money? Join the club. Now, do something about it! One of America’s best-selling personal finance authors offers real, practical solutions that work: steps you can take right now to start replacing money anxiety with financial fulfillment and happiness. Eric Tyson gets straight to the point, identifying the habits that put you at risk--and helping you replace them with the habits of financial success. Tyson offers plain-English, no-gimmick techniques you can really use: knowledge you’d have to pay a fortune for, if you could get it at all!

Financial success doesn’t just “happen”: it’s determined by your financial habits. Fortunately, you can develop good financial habits--and systematically eliminate the bad ones that stand in your way. Eric Tyson will show you how--step-by-step and hands-on.

Millions of people have benefited from Tyson’s best-selling books and award-winning columns. Now he brings together all he’s learned over two decades--including financial management secrets most professionals never tell you about.

Tyson will help you organize your finances…take control of your future…make plans you’ll actually implement…save, spend, and invest more effectively…choose the right advisors…reduce your risks…and put money where it belongs in your life (instead of making it your whole life!).
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Free Book - The Personal Credibility Factor (K/N)

Update: 3/8/12 Now free from Barnes & Noble.

The Personal Credibility Factor: How to Get It, Keep It, and Get It Back, by Sandy Allgeier , is a repeat freebie in the Kindle store.
Book Description
You'd trust your life with some people. Others, you wouldn't trust for an instant, even when the stakes are low. Why? What builds the personal credibility that some people simply exude? What do they do differently? This book shows you and helps you build your own personal credibility, the #1 attribute in earning trust and achieving success. Renowned personal coach Sandra K. Allgeier begins with a set of powerful stories that demonstrate what personal credibility really consists of, how it's earned, and how easily it can be destroyed. You'll discover how small daily actions, together with specific communication techniques and decisions, shape others' view of whether you can be trusted. Next, Allgeier illuminates three oft-neglected, crucial secrets of personal credibility. You'll find a hands-on assessment tool designed to help you bring more personal authenticity and transparency to your interactions; as well as practical guidance on suspending judgment and really listening, thereby earning others' trust even if you ultimately choose to disagree. Allgeier concludes with seven specific steps you can take every day to increase your personal credibility, and rebuild credibility you may have already lost. Following her easy-to-understand, easy-to-use guidance, you can live a life that's not just more successful, but happier and more fulfilled, too.
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Free Book - Curious Folks Ask 2 (K/N)

Update: 3/8/12 Now free from Barnes & Noble.

Curious Folks Ask 2: Our Fellow Creatures, Our Planet, and Beyond, by Sherry Seethaler, is a repeat freebie in the Kindle store.
Book Description
Why do lizards do pushups? What will happen if the Earth’s magnetic field reverses? How does water get from the roots to the tops of trees? Why and how do stars die? Is there really such a thing as the green flash? In Curious Folks Ask 2: 188 Answers about Our Fellow Creatures, Our Planet, and Beyond, gifted science explainer Sherry Seethaler presents 188 of the most fascinating new questions real people have asked about science–together with answers that are clear, accurate, honest, and a pleasure to read.

Like her previous book, Curious Folks Ask, the Q&As in this book are collected from Seethaler’s popular weekly column in the San Diego Union-Tribune. From the Earth’s strangest lifeforms to the deepest reaches of the universe. Seethaler introduces exciting areas of research, cuts through myths, offers real insight into what science has learned–and reveals the continuing mysteries scientists are still working to understand.

Written in Seethaler’s trademark style, Curious Folks Ask 2: 188 Answers about Our Fellow Creatures, Our Planet, and Beyond presents sophisticated science in a lighthearted, amusing way. Seethaler’s answers will help rekindle the wonder of science in readers of all ages and backgrounds–and help them intelligently interpret the latest news about science and medicine for years to come.
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Free Short Story - Tomorrow Is Today (K/N)

Tomorrow Is Today: A Tempest Series Bonus Short Story, by Julie Cross, is repeat freebie in the Kindle store that is also now free from Barnes & Noble.
Book Description
The year is 2009. Nineteen-year-old Jackson Meyer is a normal guy… he’s in college, throws lots of parties, is interested in a girl he can’t have, and oh yeah, he can travel back through time.
But it’s not like the movies – nothing changes in the present after his jumps, there’s no space-time continuum issues or broken flux capacitors – it’s just harmless fun.
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Sunday, March 4, 2012

Read an eBook Week - Day 1

It's that time of year again, when publishers and authors give us tons of free books, in order to entice us to read an eBook (something that made a lot more sense before the Kindle, when few people read ebooks). Some of the specials are all week long, such as the promo over at Smashwords, where you'll find hundreds of books marked down or free for the week, while others are single day offers (sometimes with a new one each day). I'll try to track down and post the daily offers, but you may want to explore the official Read an EBook Week site to see the other offers that are being posted by authors, publishers and retail outlets.

Time limited offers:
I suggest using Internet Explorer for those last three, as I had problems getting them with FireFox.