Bargain Books: Cookbooks and Non-Fiction

The Best Casserole Cookbook Ever: With More Than 500 Recipes! ($3.99 Kindle), by Beatrice Ojakangas and Susie Cushner (Photographer). Just the sample for this coobook is worth reading thru - there are a couple of chapters of recipes you can use, even if you decide to skip getting the entire thing (although at under four bucks, it's a steal).

Book Description
A good cook once said, a casserole is a blend of inspiration and what s on hand. Beatrice Ojakangas must have inspiration by the gallon, along with a very big kitchen, to come up with 500 comforting and creative casseroles ideal for any occasion. The enduring beauty of casseroles is that they come together quickly and they taste great the perfect dish doesn t get much better than that. The variety and versatility of these recipes will tempt you to make a casserole for every meal. Begin with a breakfast of Eggs Florentine, followed by Sweet & Sour Chicken for lunch, Pork Chops with Apple Stuffing for dinner, and Mocha Fudge Pudding for dessert. For the big family reunion, try Baked Spaghetti and Meatballs. Having an intimate dinner for two? Individual casseroles of Chicken Breast with Morel Mushrooms will make it both special and simple. Plenty of hearty dishes for vegetarians include the Latin-inspired Cornbread-Topped Black Bean Casserole and the Autumn Vegetable Stew (loaded with eggplant, zucchini, and carrots, and potatoes). Even appetizers can come in casserole form. Yummy and totally portable treats like Jarlsburg Cheese Spread and Parmesan and Sun-Dried Tomato Quiche are just right to bring to the party. 500 Casseroles serves up comforting dishes and innovative feasts for every meal of the day, every event whether big or small, and every style from down home supper to elegant dinner.

Plenty ($2.99 Kindle, $3.99 B&N, $3.49 Kobo - coupon eligible), by Yotam Ottolenghi and Jonathan Lovekin (Photographer), is more of a vegetable cookbook than vegetarian or think of it if as Vegetarian Cooking for the non-vegan, occasional meat eater. If you are strictly vegetarian, you'll need to adjust here and there to eliminate things like Parmesan Cheese. For those looking to add a few more vegetarian meals or wanting inspiration on what to do with that eggplant in the frig, it looks to be a perfect fit.

Book Description
Yotam Ottolenghi is one of the most exciting new talents in the cooking world, with four fabulous, eponymous London restaurants and a weekly newspaper column that's read by foodies all over the world. Plenty is a must-have collection of 120 vegetarian recipes featuring exciting flavors and fresh combinations that will delight readers and eaters looking for a sparkling new take on vegetables. Yotam's food inspiration comes from his Mediterranean background and his unapologetic love of ingredients. Not a vegetarian himself, his approach to vegetable dishes is wholly original and innovative, based on freshness and seasonality, and drawn from the diverse food cultures represented in London. A vibrant photo accompanies every recipe in this visually stunning book. Essential for meat-eaters and vegetarians alike!

Dropping Acid: The Reflux Diet Cookbook & Cure ($3.99 Kindle), by Jamie Koufman and Jordan Stern

Book Description
Dropping Acid: The Reflux Diet Cookbook & Cure is the first book to offer a nontraditional diet to help cure reflux, as well as the best and worst foods for a reflux sufferer. Using her extensive research, Dr. Koufman defines this shockingly common disease and explains why a change in diet can alleviate some of the most common symptoms. Her recipes use tasty fats as flavorings, not just as main ingredients and include a variety of dishes that prove living with reflux doesn't mean living without delicious food.

EntreLeadership ($1.99 Kindle, B&N, Kobo), by Dave Ramsey

Book Description
From New York Times bestselling author and nationally syndicated talk radio host Dave Ramsey comes the secret to how he grew a multimillion dollar company from a card table in his living room.

If you’re at all responsible for your company’s success, you can’t just be a hard-charging entrepreneur or a motivating, encouraging leader. You have to be both!

Dave Ramsey, America’s trusted voice on money and business, reveals the keys that grew his company from a one-man show to a multimillion-dollar business—with no debt, low turnover, and a company culture that earns it the “Best Place to Work” award year after year.

This book presents Dave’s playbook for creating work that matters; building an incredible group of passionate, empowered team members; and winning the race with steady momentum that will roll over any obstacle.

Regardless of your business goals, you’ll discover that anyone can lead any venture to unbelievable growth and prosperity through Dave’s common sense, counterculture, EntreLeadership principles!

This Will Make You Smarter: 150 New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking ($2.99 Kindle, B&N, Kobo), by John Brockman has been published in several print editions and looks to be interesting (despite the minimal description HarperCollins gives us for the Kindle edition).

Book Description
Edge.org presents brilliant, accessible, cutting-edge ideas to improve our decision-making skills and improve our cognitive toolkits, with contributions by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Richard Dawkins, Brian Eno, Steven Pinker, and more. Featuring a foreword by New York Times columnist David Brooks and edited by John Brockman, This Will Make You Smarter presents some of the best wisdom from today’s leading thinkers—to make better thinkers out of the leaders of tomorrow.

Thomas Jefferson ($1.99 Kindle, B&N, Kobo), by Christopher Hitchens

Book Description
In this unique biography of Thomas Jefferson, leading journalist and social critic Christopher Hitchens offers a startlingly new and provocative interpretation of our Founding Father. Situating Jefferson within the context of America's evolution and tracing his legacy over the past two hundred years, Hitchens brings the character of Jefferson to life as a man of his time and also as a symbolic figure beyond it.

Conflicted by power, Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence and acted as Minister to France yet yearned for a quieter career in the Virginia legislature. Predicting that slavery would shape the future of America's development, this professed proponent of emancipation elided the issue in the Declaration and continued to own human property. An eloquent writer, he was an awkward public speaker; a reluctant candidate, he left an indelible presidential legacy.

Jefferson's statesmanship enabled him to negotiate the Louisiana Purchase with France, doubling the size of the nation, and he authorized the Lewis and Clark expedition, opening up the American frontier for exploration and settlement. Hitchens also analyzes Jefferson's handling of the Barbary War, a lesser-known chapter of his political career, when his attempt to end the kidnapping and bribery of Americans by the Barbary states, and the subsequent war with Tripoli, led to the building of the U.S. navy and the fortification of America's reputation regarding national defense.

In the background of this sophisticated analysis is a large historical drama: the fledgling nation's struggle for independence, formed in the crucible of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, and, in its shadow, the deformation of that struggle in the excesses of the French Revolution. This artful portrait of a formative figure and a turbulent era poses a challenge to anyone interested in American history -- or in the ambiguities of human nature.

The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America ($1.99 Kindle, B&N, Kobo), by Douglas Brinkley

Book Description
From New York Times bestselling historian Douglas Brinkley comes a sweeping historical narrative and eye-opening look at the pioneering environmental policies of President Theodore Roosevelt, avid bird-watcher, naturalist, and the founding father of America’s conservation movement—now approaching its 100th anniversary.

Historian Douglas Brinkley draws on never-before-published materials to examine the life and achievements of our "naturalist president." By setting aside more than 230 million acres of wild America for posterity between 1901 and 1909, Theodore Roosevelt made conservation a universal endeavor. This crusade for the American wilderness was perhaps the greatest U.S. presidential initiative between the Civil War and World War I. Tracing the role that nature played in Roosevelt's storied career, Brinkley brilliantly analyzes the influence that the works of John James Audubon and Charles Darwin had on the young man who would become our twenty-sixth president. He also profiles Roosevelt's incredible circle of naturalist friends, including the Catskills poet John Burroughs, Boone and Crockett Club cofounder George Bird Grinnell, and Sierra Club founder John Muir, among many others. He brings to life hilarious anecdotes of wild-pig hunting in Texas and badger saving in Kansas. Even the story of the teddy bear gets its definitive treatment. Destined to become a classic, this extraordinary and timeless biography offers a penetrating and colorful look at Roosevelt's naturalist achievements, a legacy now more important than ever. As we face the problems of global warming, overpopulation, and sustainable land management, this imposing leader's stout resolution to protect our environment is an inspiration and a contemporary call to arms for us all.

Today's Deals 3/4

Today's Gold Box at Amazon is a Dyson DC40 Vacuum Cleaner with Accessories Bundle at a substantial discount. If you've been shopping for one, these usually sell out when they have a big sale on them. It looks like you get an accessory bundle and a $100 discount from the same model stand-alone.

Amazon's Android Free App of the Day is Spensa Pro, a finance program that usually sells for $9. No idea if it is worth that much, but for free, I'll take a look.

Today's Kindle Daily Deal is Fugue State ($1.99), by Steffan Piper, with the companion audiobook also $1.99.

Book Description
Nineteen-year-old Sebastien Ranes spends his days knocking around Eagle River, Alaska, and his nights working as a janitor. His girlfriend’s father hates him and his own parents’ opinion of him isn’t much better.

Broke and down on his luck, Sebastien robs a grocery store, making off with nearly $4,000. His image is all over the television within hours, but before Sebastien can be arrested, a drunk driver smashes into his Jeep in the middle of town. Things couldn’t get much worse until a Marine recruiter who witnesses the accident gives Sebastien a ride home…and a way out.

Embarking on an unexpected journey, the Marine Corps shows Sebastien another world—of abuse and authority, of war and compassion, of lust and consequences—and by the time he returns home, he’ll be forever changed.

Today's Kindle Romance Daily Deal is Rock Chick Rescue ($1.99), by Kristen Ashley.

Book Description
Jet McAlister has a secret. Eddie Chavez has the hots for Jet (not to mention Eddie’s just plain hot). Jet has too many problems to realize that Eddie’s interested. Eddie loses patience when Jet ends her waitressing shift at a strip club with a knife at her throat. Since Eddie’s a cop, he figures he can help. Since Jet’s used to solving everyone’s problems she doesn’t want Eddie’s help.

Throw in a Dolly Parton look-alike, a gruff but lovable strip club owner, Jet’s ne’er do well father, his ne’er do well friend, Bear, Bear’s long-suffering, chain-smoking wife Lavonne and the crew from Rock Chick and you’ve got Rock Chick Rescue.

Rock Chick Rescue takes you on a wild ride with Jet, Eddie and the gang as they wrestle bad guys in a bagel shop, hit Denver’s backstreet poker tables (with big hair), and help the strippers at Smithie’s take down a would-be murderer.

Through this, Jet’s got to learn that even when life made you give up your dreams, you can still end up with the (hot) guy. Eddie’s got to rescue Jet from a bad man (so he can do better things with her) and teach her that some dreams can come true.

Today's Kindle SciFi/Fantasy Daily Deal is Angelfall ($0.99), the first novel in the Penryn & the End of Days series by Susan Ee. This title also has a companion audiobook for $1.99.

Book Description
It’s been six weeks since angels of the apocalypse descended to demolish the modern world. Street gangs rule the day while fear and superstition rule the night. When warrior angels fly away with a helpless little girl, her seventeen-year-old sister Penryn will do anything to get her back. Anything, including making a deal with Raffe, an injured enemy angel. Traveling through a dark and twisted Northern California, they journey toward the angels’ stronghold in San Francisco, where Penryn will risk everything to rescue her sister and Raffe will put himself at the mercy of his greatest enemies for the chance to be made whole again.

The Ninth Life of Louis Drax (£0.99 UK), by Liz Jensen, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $8.99).

Book Description
Nine-year-old Louis Drax is a problem child: bright, precocious, deceitful, and dangerously, disturbingly, accident prone. When he falls off a cliff into a ravine, the accident seems almost predestined.

Louis miraculously survives - but the family has been shattered. Louis' father has vanished, his mother is paralysed by shock, and Louis lies in a deep coma from which he may never emerge.

In a clinic in Provence, Dr Pascal Dannachet tries to coax Louis back to consciousness. But the boy defies medical logic, startling Dannachet out of his safe preconceptions, and drawing him inexorably into the dark heart of Louis' buried world. Only Louis holds the key to the mystery surrounding his fall - and he can't communicate. Or can he?

Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II ($9.35 Kindle, $1.99 B&N), by Mitchell Zuckoff, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.

Book Description
Award-winning former Boston Globe reporter Mitchell Zuckoffunleashes the exhilarating, untold story of an extraordinary World War IIrescue mission, where a plane crash in the South Pacific plunged a trio of U.S.military personnel into a land that time forgot. Fans of Hampton Sides’ Ghost Soldiers, Marcus Luttrell’s Lone Survivor, and David Grann’s The Lost Cityof Z will be captivated by Zuckoff’s masterfullyrecounted, all-true story of danger, daring, determination, and discovery injungle-clad New Guinea during the final days of WWII.

Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is Soccerland ($1.99), by Beth Choat, with the companion audiobook for $4.99.

Book Description
"One day I’m going to play for the U.S. Women’s National Team." That’s what Flora Dupre promised her mom, before her mom died of cancer. Flora and her mom had created a place called Soccerland, an escape world where they went and just talked soccer. And now Flora’s dream of playing for the U.S.A. might be coming true. Flora’s received the invitation of a lifetime: the chance to try out for the Under-15 U.S. Girls’ Soccer Team, an opportunity that could put Flora on the road to making her dream a reality and reaching the real "Soccerland." But when Flora arrives at the International Sports Academy, the level of talent there is like nothing she’s ever seen before. Flora struggles to hold her own, grappling with new positions on the pitch, injuries, a frustrating coach, and contempt from other players. But Flora is a big, strong Dupre girl—and she’s not going to go down easy.

The author of Soccerland has donated this book to the Worldreader program

Today's Deals 3/3

Today's Kindle Daily Deal is The Fifth Knight ($1.99), a historical novel by E. M. Powell, which was initially released in episodes as a Kindle Serial.

Book Description
To escape a lifetime of poverty, mercenary Sir Benedict Palmer agrees to one final, lucrative job: help King Henry II’s knights seize the traitor Archbishop Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. But what begins as a clandestine arrest ends in cold-blooded murder. And when Fitzurse, the knights’ ringleader, kidnaps Theodosia, a beautiful young nun who witnessed the crime, Palmer can sit silently by no longer. For not only is Theodosia’s virtue at stake, so too is the secret she unknowingly carries—a secret he knows Fitzurse will torture out of her. Now Palmer and Theodosia are on the run, strangers from different worlds forced to rely only on each other as they race to uncover the hidden motive behind Becket’s grisly murder—and the shocking truth that could destroy a kingdom.

Today's Kindle Romance Daily Deal is Shadow's Edge ($0.99), the first novel in the Night Prowler series by J.T. Geissinger.

Book Description
Deep within the primeval forests of southern England, a race of beautiful, savage shape-shifters lives hidden from the everyday world. Bound together by ancient bloodlines and a ruthless code of secrecy that punishes traitors with death, the Ikati send their leader Leander on a mission to capture one raised outside the tribe before she can expose their secret. When Leander tracks the unsuspecting outsider to Southern California, the hardened warrior is prepared for a fight—but not for the effect the sensual young beauty has on his heart.

Jenna spent her childhood in hiding, on the run from someone—or something—her parents refused to discuss. She trusts no one, not since her father’s mysterious disappearance, not since her mother’s sudden death, and definitely not since she began exhibiting strange, superhuman abilities. When handsome, enigmatic Leander appears, promising answers to the mysteries that shroud her past, she knows she shouldn’t trust him either. But their connection is undeniable, and as powerful as the enemy hell-bent on destroying every one of their kind…

Today's Kindle SciFi/Fantasy Daily Deal is Child of the Sword: Book 1 of The Gods Within ($0.99), by J. L. Doty.

Book Description
Rat is no ordinary thief. A feral, filthy and malnourished child; he haunts the streets of the medieval city Anistigh and survives on what he can steal. When he tries to steal a purse and bungles it, a mob wants to cut off his hand as punishment, so to save himself he slips into a convenient shadow to hide. Rat thinks it's just another warm and comfortable shadow cast by the sun, but a clan wizard sees him create the shadow with his magic, an instinctive act of which Rat is unaware. Rat's magic is subtle, but potentially quite powerful, so he is adopted into the greatest of the Lesser Clans, adopted into a family, and given the name Morgin.

Morgin quickly grows into manhood and the clan teaches him wizardry and sorcery and swordsmanship. Having survived the streets of Anistigh, Morgin is inclined to avoid conflict, would be content to remain on the sidelines in the ever present clan rivalries. But as a clansman he inherits the enemies of the clan, and his shadowmagic proves to be a potent weapon. And when he comes into possession of a powerful talismanic sword, he's thrust into the forefront of the clan rivalries. As the ancestral conflict between the Greater and Lesser Clans once again leads to war, not even the clans realize that their petty little war is spawned by the primeval battle between the righteous gods of the Celestial Plane and the fallen gods of the Nether Plane. And Morgin learns that it is upon the Mortal Plane, with mortal lives, and mortal pain and suffering and death; it is upon the Mortal Plane that the gods meet and fight their wars.

Tonight We Die As Men (£0.99 UK), by Ian Gardner and Roger Day, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $6.99).

Book Description
The exploits of the 3rd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment have long been overshadowed by those of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion. Yet the actions of the 3rd Battalion during the D-Day landings were every bit as incredible. This is the astounding story of how, after suffering many immediate casualties on landing, the surviving paratroopers fought on towards their objective against horrendous odds. Using fascinating first-hand accounts of the soldiers and the French civilians who witnessed the Normandy campaign, and illustrated with black and white photographs and maps throughout, the authors offer a unique and comprehensive account of the experiences of the 3rd Battalion from training through to D-Day and beyond.

This incredible story continues in Deliver Us From Darkness, the dramatic history of the unit during Operation Market Garden and the desperate attempts to hold Hell's Highway open.

The Forever Year ($1.99 Kindle, B&N), by Lou Aronica, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.

Book Description
Jesse Sienna doesn't believe that love can last. His parents’ marriage was caring but passionless, and his own romantic history tells him that love can burn bright, but that it cannot burn for long. So when his elderly father, Mickey, moves in with him and seems unable to understand Jesse's no-strings-attached relationship with Marina, his current girlfriend, Jesse barely pays attention. It's just another example of how different they are – and more evidence that he and his father will never connect on any meaningful level.

But the truth is, Mickey Sienna knows more about love than most people learn in a lifetime. More than half a century ago, he discovered the endless rewards of investing your heart and soul in someone...and he knows the devastating costs of letting the perfect someone slip by.

When Mickey sees Jesse taking an extraordinary woman for granted, he decides it's time to tell Jesse his story – a story he's never shared with any of his children before. It is a story that will change both of them profoundly.

At once a stirring family drama and a touching romance, The Forever Year is filled with richly drawn characters and powerful situations. You will respond personally to the people you meet in this novel, and you will find yourself deeply enmeshed in their stories. And you might find yourself looking at love in a new way.

PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED UNDER THE NAME RONALD ANTHONY

Today's Kindle Teen Daily Deal is Die for Me ($1.99), the first novel in Amy Plum's Revenants series. If I was browsing at the bookstore, this is one I'd definitely pick up to sample a few chapters, on the basis of the cover alone. From the reviews, it's worth reading just for the descriptions of Paris. There are a very few haters in the reviews (some of which have spoilers, so be warned), but most of them were just upset it was yet another Twilight genre YA paranormal romance (it can't really be "entirely new" and stay in the genre, after all), which is a lot like hating on a Harlequin Romance because you've already read one or two of them and the general plotlines are the same (being entirely "new" isn't really required, after all, for a good read).

Book Description
My life had always been blissfully, wonderfully normal. But it only took one moment to change everything.

Suddenly, my sister, Georgia, and I were orphans. We put our lives into storage and moved to Paris to live with my grandparents. And I knew my shattered heart, my shattered life, would never feel normal again. Then I met Vincent.

Mysterious, sexy, and unnervingly charming, Vincent Delacroix appeared out of nowhere and swept me off my feet. Just like that, I was in danger of losing my heart all over again. But I was ready to let it happen.

Of course, nothing is ever that easy. Because Vincent is no normal human. He has a terrifying destiny, one that puts his life at risk every day. He also has enemies . . . immortal, murderous enemies who are determined to destroy him and all of his kind.

While I'm fighting to piece together the remnants of my life, can I risk putting my heart—as well as my life and my family's—in jeopardy for a chance at love?

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

That's right, it's cat in the floppy hat's birthday (or, his creator, technically) and Oceanhouse Media has three dozen Dr. Seuss apps on sale 30-75% OFF this week only (ends March 7)! In addition to getting The Cat in the Hat (Kindle,iTunes) for 99 cents (down from $4), if you are getting the apps on iTunes (and they have a few exclusives), be sure to also get the Dr. Seuss Bookshelf for free (iPad only).

I know it's early to be thinking about Christmas, but now's your chance to get How The Grinch Stole Christmas! or your childhood favorites (Green Eggs and Ham anyone?) at near half-price (or even less). Those on a nook Tablet will need to search the store from there, but you should be able to test drive the apps for free (according to emails I've received from B&N, anyway), which is something Amazon doesn't have and on iTunes is only available with "lite" version of apps (which then clog up your account and devices).

If you have an iPad or iPhone, do be sure to pick up the free download of Dr. Seuss Camera - The Cat in the Hat Edition from iTunes.

Take pictures with Cat in the Hat characters or choose to become the Cat in the Hat, the playful Things or even Sally or her brother. Personalize cards with comical and colorful stamps, borders and classic Seussian text. Cat in the Hat Cards can be e-mailed to friends & family or saved to the Photo Library.

SF/Fantasy Bargain Book Trio

The first two appear to be a pricing errors on the publisher's side, as does Ben Bova'a Farside, which I mentioned in an earlier post, so grab them or gift them to the SF fans in your life fast, before they go back up.

The Hermetic Millennia ($1.99 Kindle) is John C. Wright's newly released book from Tor (>$17 Hardcover).

Book Description
Continuing from Count to a Trillion, Menelaus Illation Montrose—Texas gunslinger, idealist, and posthuman genius—has gone into cryo-suspension following the discovery that, in 8,000 years, a powerful alien intelligence will reach Earth to assess humanity’s value as slaves. Montrose intends to be alive to meet that threat, but he is awakened repeatedly throughout the centuries to confront the woes of an ever-changing and violent world, witnessing millennia of change compressed into a few years of subjective time. The result is a breathtaking vision of future history like nothing before imagined: sweeping, tumultuous, and evermore alien, as Montrose’s immortal enemies and former shipmates from the starship Hermetic harness the forces of evolution and social engineering to continuously reshape the Earth in their image, seeking to create a version of man the approaching slavers will find worthy.

At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.

Impulse ($1.99 Kindle) is Steven Gould's newly released book from Tor (~$15 Hardcover). The companion audiobook is only $4.49.

Book Description
Cent has a secret. She lives in isolation, with her parents, hiding from the people who took her father captive and tortured him to gain control over his ability to teleport, and from the government agencies who want to use his talent. Cent has seen the world, but only from the safety of her parents’ arms. She’s teleported more than anyone on Earth, except for her mother and father, but she’s never been able to do it herself. Her life has never been in danger.

Until the day when she went snowboarding without permission and triggered an avalanche. When the snow and ice thundered down on her, she suddenly found herself in her own bedroom. That was the first time.

At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.

Although you can't tell by the title, The Mongoliad: Book One ($0.99 Kindle), Greg Bear, Neal Stephenson, Mark Teppo and Erik Bear, is an updated, special "collector's edition" of the first novel in The Foreworld Saga, with the companion audiobook at $1.99. The original edition I bought last year seems to be missing form the store (and not linked to the audiobook, in any case) and since the formerly free short story included sells for the same 99 cents, this is a pretty good deal for fantasy fans that don't have these in in their libraries.

Book Description
With bonus material! This Kindle edition features extra content only found in the Collector’s Edition of The Mongoliad: Book One, including an illustrated character glossary, a Foreworld map, and Sinner, a prequel to the Mongoliad series.

The first novel to be released in The Foreworld Saga, The Mongoliad: Book One, is an epic-within-an-epic, taking place in 13th century. In it, a small band of warriors and mystics raise their swords to save Europe from a bloodthirsty Mongol invasion. Inspired by their leader (an elder of an order of warrior monks), they embark on a perilous journey and uncover the history of hidden knowledge and conflict among powerful secret societies that had been shaping world events for millennia.

But the saga reaches the modern world via a circuitous route. In the late 19th century, Sir Richard F. Burton, an expert on exotic languages and historical swordsmanship, is approached by a mysterious group of English martial arts aficionados about translating a collection of long-lost manuscripts. Burton dies before his work is finished, and his efforts were thought lost until recently rediscovered by a team of amateur archaeologists in the ruins of a mansion in Trieste, Italy. From this collection of arcana, the incredible tale of The Mongoliad was recreated.

Full of high adventure, unforgettable characters, and unflinching battle scenes, The Mongoliad ignites a dangerous quest where willpower and blades are tested and the scope of world-building is redefined.

A note on this edition: The Mongoliad began as a social media experiment, combining serial story-telling with a unique level of interaction between authors and audience during the creative process. Since its original iteration, The Mongoliad has been restructured, edited, and rewritten under the supervision of its authors to create a more cohesive reading experience and will be published as a trilogy of novels. This edition is the definitive edition and is the authors' preferred text.