Free Audiobook - The Interpretation of Dreams

The audiobook edition of The Interpretation of Dreams ($0.99 Kindle; $24.49 Audible or $7.95 as a companion edition), by Sigmund Freud and Michael Page, is free direct from Tantor Media.

While you are over at Tantor, be sure to also check out their 50% Off Holiday Listening sale.

Book Description
What are the most common dreams and why do we have them? What does a dream about death mean? What do dreams of swimming, failing, or flying symbolize?

First published by Sigmund Freud in 1899, The Interpretation of Dreams considers why we dream and what it means in the larger picture of our psychological lives. Delving into theories of manifest and latent dream content, the special language of dreams, dreams as wish fulfillments, the significance of childhood experiences, and much more, Freud, widely considered the "father of psychoanalysis," thoroughly and thoughtfully examines dream psychology.

Encompassing dozens of case histories and detailed analyses of actual dreams, this landmark text presents Freud's legendary work as a tool for comprehending our sleeping experiences.

Get the free ebook from Tantor Media.

Today's Deals

Can you believe it's less than a week until Thanksgiving (and Black Friday)? That means it's almost time to start playing holiday music here (but not until after the first of the month) and I've found a great deal for classical with Big Christmas Box, which has over 13 hours of traditional choir music at 99 cents.

The big news this weekend is that Barnes & Noble is shutting down Fictionwise (and all it's subsidiaries, such as eReader.com). I think we've all known it was coming, after they were intentionally crippled in their selection after the acquisition, but it's sad to see them go. My first purchases from them were in early 2000, back when they were Palm/Peanut Press, with that account rolling over thru several ownership changes until FW purchased them). They'll keep selling books and magazines until Dec 4, so if you had purchases you were holding off on, now is the time to make them. US customers will then have until December 21 to download any purchases. You can use bulk download to speed that up, but only 100 books at a time. You should also have an email from them with an offer to convert your library over to a B&N account (you can use your existing account or create a new account for just this purpose - which I think I'll do, to separate them from the free B&N books, especially since there is no search ability on the B&N website version of your library). International users should be able to access their FW libraries a bit longer, but won't have the option to convert to a B&N account if their country isn't served by B&N (I think Canada and the UK are the only ones included, other than the US). Not every book will be moved, as B&N doesn't have any distribution agreement for them (see this list for the ones that don't transfer). One positive effect of the transfer may be that we'll be able to get EPUB downloads of some of the books that have been only available in EREADER format over at FW. Otherwise, the DRM on these will eventually orphan our books. You might want to also download the latest ereader apps for your PC/Mac/etc, to keep around, just in case.

In more of the minor news category, Amazon has started shipping the 8.9" Kindle Fire HD early and a lucky few of you may already have yours (mine is stuck in a truck, somewhere between TN and TX, since it shipped out of AZ, rather than one of several warehouses much closer to here). The 4G versions don't appear to be shipping yet, just the WiFi versions, but they should ship in just a few days. New orders for both models are still showing a "week of Dec 3" estimated shipping date, while the Paperwhite is still listed at Dec 21.

Today's Kindle Daily Deal is Freeman ($1.99), by Leonard Pitts.

Book Description
Freeman, the new novel by Leonard Pitts, Jr., takes place in the first few months following the Confederate surrender and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Upon learning of Lee's surrender, Sam--a runaway slave who once worked for the Union Army--decides to leave his safe haven in Philadelphia and set out on foot to return to the war-torn South. What compels him on this almost-suicidal course is the desire to find his wife, the mother of his only child, whom he and their son left behind 15 years earlier on the Mississippi farm to which they all "belonged."

At the same time, Sam's wife, Tilda, is being forced to walk at gunpoint with her owner and two of his other slaves from the charred remains of his Mississippi farm into Arkansas, in search of an undefined place that would still respect his entitlements as slaveowner and Confederate officer.

The book's third main character, Prudence, is a fearless, headstrong white woman of means who leaves her Boston home for Buford, Mississippi, to start a school for the former bondsmen, and thus honor her father’s dying wish.

At bottom, Freeman is a love story--sweeping, generous, brutal, compassionate, patient--about the feelings people were determined to honor, despite the enormous constraints of the times. It is this aspect of the book that should ensure it a strong, vocal, core audience of African-American women, who will help propel its likely critical acclaim to a wider audience. At the same time, this book addresses several themes that are still hotly debated today, some 145 years after the official end of the Civil War. Like Cold Mountain, Freeman illuminates the times and places it describes from a fresh perspective, with stunning results. It has the potential to become a classic addition to the literature dealing with this period. Few other novels so powerfully capture the pathos and possibility of the era particularly as it reflects the ordeal of the black slaves grappling with the promise--and the terror--of their new status as free men and women.

The Poacher's Son ($1.57 / £0.99 UK), the first Mike Bowditch Mystery by Paul Doiron, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $9.99).

Book Description
Set in the wilds of Maine, this is an explosive tale of an estranged son thrust into the hunt for a murderous fugitive - his own father.

Game warden Mike Bowditch returns home one evening to find an alarming voice from the past on his answering machine: his father Jack, a hard-drinking womanizer who makes his living from poaching illegal game. An even more frightening call comes the next morning from the police: they are searching for a cop-killer - and Mike's father is their prime suspect.

Now, alienated from the woman he loves and shunned by colleagues who have no sympathy for the suspected cop killer, Mike must come to terms with his haunted past. He knows firsthand of his father's brutality, but is he capable of murder? Desperate and alone, the only way for Mike to save his father is to find the real killer - which could mean putting everyone he loves into the line of fire...

Promise the Night ($1.99 Kindle, B&N), by Michaela MacColl, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.

Book Description
This fascinating story will capture any young reader with a thirst for adventure. Like MacColl s Prisoners in the Palace, Promise the Night propels the reader into an evocative story with an unforgettable protagonist, while bringing the setting and time period to life. Immediately compelling and action-packed, this work of historical fiction explores the life of Beryl Markham, the fist person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west from England to North America. From raising horses and hunting during her childhood in Africa to learning to fly as a young woman, Beryl s inspiring life and adventures will keep readers voraciously turning the pages.

Grade Level: 4 and up

Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is Promises to the Dead ($1.99), by Mary Downing Hahn.

Book Description
When Jesse went down to the marsh on that fateful day, he expected to find a turtle for terrapin soup. Instead, he comes across a dying slave woman who makes Jesse promise he’ll take her young son, Perry, to a relative in Baltimore. Aiding and abetting a slave is against the law, and it also goes against everything Jesse has been taught to believe. But he can’t break a promise to the dead, and, more important, he has to follow what he knows in his heart to be right.

The journey is more treacherous than Jesse ever imagined. At the crossroads of a country about to plunge into civil war, danger lurks around every corner. Will these boys on the run ever find a safe haven?

Grade Level: 5 and up

Get 1 of 10 Romance for $1 (KSO)

This offer is only for those with a Kindle with Special Offers (including any Kindle Touch or Kindle Keyboard that opts in to Special Offers, but not the Kindle Fire with Special Offers):

Get 1 of 10 Kindle Romances for $1

Click on the offer, then click on the link on the offer page sign up and you'll get an email(right away) with the promotion code. This offer is good for one book and only one per account (if you have multiple KSO devices, they need to be registered to different accounts before you sign up to get the promotion code emails; every Kindle on an account gets flagged when you sign up for the special offer and they will all get the same code for that promotion from then on). Sign-up for this offer expires November 28, 2012.

The email will contain a link to the promotion page. This one works like a gift card and you need to apply the credit to your account first, before going shopping. You can shop from your Kindle or desktop, after you have applied the promotion code and can gift the book to someone else, if there isn't one you want yourself (the full price shows all the way thru, but on the invoice summary, you will see the $1 promotional price). Once you have entered the promotional code, you have until November 28, 2012 to complete your purchases (the same day as the sign-up deadline).

So far, I don't see an equivalent offer on my Kindle Fire (which seems to be taking a week off from offers, at least here). Compared to some of last year's offers, this one has a disappointing selection range. Any suggestions out there from Romance fans?

The good news? If you don't have a KSO or want more than one of the books, they are all $2.99 normal price, currently.

Today's Deals

Today's Kindle Daily Deal is The Past Came Hunting ($1.99), by Donnell Bell. Long time readers will have picked this up when it was free last year, but this is a good price on it, if you missed that sale.

Book Description
Fifteen years ago a young Colorado Springs police officer arrested a teen runaway accused of aiding a convenience store robbery and attempted murder. She was innocent, but still served prison time briefly. Her testimony sent the real thief to jail for much longer. Now she’s a young widow raising a son, and the man she put in prison is free and seeking revenge. She moves to a home in a new neighborhood—then learns that her next-door neighbor is the by-the-book officer who arrested her. Now he’s a Colorado Springs P.D. Lieutenant. Like it or not, he may be the only one who can protect her and her son from the past he helped create. Donnell Ann Bell is the recipient of numerous awards for her fiction writing and the co-owner of Crimescenewriters, a Yahoo group for mystery/suspense writers, which is 2,000 members strong. Donnell was raised in New Mexico’s Land of Enchantment and today calls Colorado home.

Findings ($1.57 / £0.99 UK), by Kathleen Jamie, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (no US edition).

Book Description
Between the laundry and the fetching kids from school, that’s how birds enter my life. I listen. During a lull in the traffic: oyster-catchers; in the school-playground, sparrows.

It’s surprising what you can find by simply stepping out to look. Award-winning poet Kathleen Jamie has an eye and an ease with the nature and landscapes of Scotland as well as an incisive sense of our domestic realities. In Findings she draws together these themes to describe travels like no other contemporary writer.

Whether she is following the call of a peregrine in the hills above her home in Fife, sailing into a dark winter solstice on the Orkney islands, or pacing around the carcass of a whale on a rain-swept Hebridean beach, she creates a subtle and modern narrative, peculiarly alive to her connections and surroundings.

Blindness ($8.10 $2.99Kindle, B&N), by Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago, is the Nook Daily Find. Update: Now price matched on Kindle.

Book Description
A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation and a vivid evocation of the horrors of the twentieth century, Blindness has swept the reading public with its powerful portrayal of man's worst appetites and weaknesses-and man's ultimately exhilarating spirit. The stunningly powerful novel of man's will to survive against all odds, by the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature

The e-book includes a sample chapter from the late author's final work, CAIN.

Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is Winnie's War ($1.99), by Jenny Moss.

Book Description
Life in Winnie's sleepy town of Coward Creek, Texas, is just fine for her. Although her troubled mother's distant behavior has always worried Winnie, she's plenty busy caring for her younger sisters, going to school, playing chess with Mr. Levy, and avoiding her testy grandmother. Plus, her sweetheart Nolan is always there to make her smile when she's feeling low. But when the Spanish Influenza claims its first victim, lives are suddenly at stake, and Winnie has never felt so helpless. She must find a way to save the people she loves most, even if doing so means putting her own life at risk.

Winnie's take-charge attitude will empower and inspire readers, as Jenny Moss's lyrical writing beautifully captures the big-time worries of a small-town girl.

Grade Level: 5 and up

Today's Deals

Today's Kindle Daily Deal is No Mark upon Her ($1.99), the fourteenth (and latest) novel in the Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James series by Deborah Crombie. I've slowly been collecting this author's ebooks, to replace the paper copies on my shelves, but I didn't have this one at all; there are five more in the series under the $5 mark (three of which I'm missing; there goes my gift balance!), in addition to the pre-order for her latest novel, The Sound of Broken Glass, which appears to be the start of a new series.

Book Description
New York Times bestselling author Deborah Crombie makes her mark with this absorbing, finely hued tale of suspense—a deeply atmospheric and twisting mystery full of deadly secrets, salacious lies, and unexpected betrayals involving the mysterious drowning of a Met detective—an accomplished rower—on the Thames.

When a K9 search-and-rescue team discovers a woman's body tangled up with debris in the river, Scotland Yard superintendent Duncan Kincaid finds himself heading an investigation fraught with complications. The victim, Rebecca Meredith, was a talented but difficult woman with many admirers—and just as many enemies. An Olympic contender on the verge of a controversial comeback, she was also a high-ranking detective with the Met—a fact that raises a host of political and ethical issues in an already sensitive case.

To further complicate the situation, a separate investigation, led by Detective Inspector Gemma James, Kincaid's wife, soon reveals a disturbing—and possibly related—series of crimes, widening the field of suspects. But when someone tries to kill the search-and-rescue team member who found Rebecca's body, the case becomes even more complex and dangerous, involving powerful interests with tentacles that reach deep into the heart of the Met itself.

Surrounded by enemies with friendly faces, pressured to find answers quickly while protecting the Yard at all costs, his career and reputation on the line, Kincaid must race to catch the killer before more innocent lives are lost—including his own.

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 ($1.57 / £0.99 UK), by Sue Townsend, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (no US Kindle edition, although there are two Audible editions).

Book Description
The 30th anniversary edition of the bestselling novel of the 1980s: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 and 3/4 by comic genius Sue Townsend. Featuring a new introduction by comedian and actor David Walliams as well as over sixty pages of extra material about Adrian Mole, his friends and family.

Friday January 2nd.

I felt rotten today. It's my mother's fault for singing 'My Way' at two o'clock in the morning at the top of the stairs. Just my luck to have a mother like her. There is a chance my parents could be alcoholics. Next year I could be in a children's home.

Meet Adrian Mole, a hapless teenager providing an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life. Writing candidly about his parents' marital troubles, the dog, his life as a tortured poet and 'misunderstood intellectual', Adrian's painfully honest diary is still hilarious and compelling reading thirty years after it first appeared.

Death in Breslau ($3.99 Kindle, B&N), the first title in the Inspector Eberhard Mock series by Marek Krajewski and Danusia Stok (Translator), is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.

Book Description
Introducing one of the most stylish and moody historic detective series ever: The Inspector Eberhard Mock Quartet

Occupied Breslau, 1933: Two young women are found murdered on a train, scorpions writhing on their bodies, an indecipherable note in an apparently oriental language nearby ...Police Inspector Eberhard Mock's weekly assignation with two ladies of the night is interrupted as he is called to investigate.

But uncovering the truth is no straightforward matter in Breslau. The city is in the grip of the Gestapo, and has become a place where spies are everywhere, corrupt ministers torture confessions from Jewish merchants, and Freemasons guard their secrets with blackmail and violence.

And as Mock and his young assistant Herbert Anwaldt plunge into the city's squalid underbelly the case takes on a dark twist of the occult when the mysterious note seems to indicate a ritual killing with roots in the Crusades ...

Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is Chalk ($1.99), by Bill Thomson.

Book Description
A rainy day. Three kids in a park. A dinosaur spring rider. A bag of chalk. The kids begin to draw. . . and then . . . magic! The children draw the sun, butterflies, and a dinosaur that amazingly come to life. Children will never feel the same about the playground after they experience this astounding wordless picture book and the power of the imagination. Bill Thomson embraced traditional painting techniques and meticulously painted each illustration by hand, using acrylic paint and colored pencils.

Grade Level: 1st and up