Free Book (EPUB) - My Husband's Sweethearts

Random House in Australia has another free EPUB book in return for signing up for one of their newsletters: My Husband's Sweethearts ($9.99 Kindle), by Bridget Asher. Bridget also has a second book out in the Kindle store, The Pretend Wife ($9.99).

Book Description
When Lucy discovered that her charming, cheating husband was dying, she came home, opened up his little black book, and decided she wasn’t going through this alone. After all, Artie’s sweethearts were there for the good times—is it fair that Lucy should have to manage the hard times herself? In this wise, wickedly funny new novel, Lucy dials up the women in Artie’s black book and invites them for one last visit. The last thing she expects is that any will actually show up.

But one by one, they do show up: The one who hates him. The one who owes her life to him. The one he turned into a lesbian, and the one he taught to dance. And among them is a visitor with the strangest story of all: the young man who may or may not be Artie’s long-lost son.

For Lucy, the jaw-dropping procession of women is an education in the man she can’t forgive and couldn’t leave. And as the women find themselves sharing secrets and sharing tears, they start to discover kindred spirits—and even something that’s a lot like family. But Lucy knows one thing for certain: the biggest surprises are yet to come....

Full of heart, Bridget Asher’s unforgettable novel is about mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and the deep friendships between women. It’s about sweet liars and tenderhearted cheaters—about loving those we love for reasons we can’t always fully rationalize, and about the sort of forgiveness that can change someone’s entire life in the most unexpected and extraordinary ways.

Click HERE to sign up for the free book, which is not Kindle compatible and requires Adobe Digital Editions. Unlike the book last month, this one downloaded right away for me, so you shouldn't have any problems with it.

Free Game Download - Ballistik!

Sandlot Games has another game up as a free download. This week it's Ballistik ($6.99 Amazon Game Downloads); no reviews at Amazon yet, but I've played through the first level. The ball moves a bit slowly sometimes, but there are several interesting power-ups that I uncovered, letting you break up a more bricks at once, for short periods.

Game Description

• 3D Graphics And Effects
• Break Down Cool Shapes And Objects
• Over 100 Levels
• Go Ballistik With This Brick Buster.

Go Ballistik over this new brick buster! Ballistik features out of this world 3D graphics and effects, 100 hand-crafted levels, 17 unique powerups and ten intense bonus levels! Break down buildings, knights in armor, even a surfer on his surfboard! Play it today!

Click HERE to sign up for the free download. For step by step purchase and installation instructions, see this post.

Kindle Kandle on Sale

Kandle LED Book Light is currently on sale at Amazon for $25.00, with free Super Saver Shipping and handling. This booklight has been getting a lot of positive comments on the Kindle forums at Amazon and elsewhere (although not everyone loves it, so check the reviews). Looks like it is lighter weight and lights up a more even portion of the screen, but it is less adjustable than the Mighty Bright Light that I've been using (but the Mighty Bright can sometimes be difficult to convince to stay bent into the shape desired). The design matches the Kindle well (with a name that implies they have Amazon's blessing to be associated with the Kindle), but should also work on other ebook readers (and advertises itself as compatible with the Sony and "other" readers; I'd bet it works well with the nook, also). I do need another reading light (the non-LED ones I have are always using too many batteries or blowing bulbs; the two watch size batteries are estimated to last 25 hours and the LED's should last a lifetime), so I'll be ordering one myself.

Book Description

• New patent-pending WideLipTM grip that does not block the screen on the KindleTM, Sony® Reader and other eBook readers.
• Double pivoting arms allows for easy positioning and adjustment for tailored screen illumination.
• WideLipv grip also works perfectly on books without blocking text on the page.
• Powered by two lifetime x2 LEDs optimized to distribute uniform light without creating glare or eyestrain.
• Works perfectly as a stable, free-standing night light.

The Kandle features a new patent pending design that attaches to eBooks and printed books without blocking the screen or page. The perfect accessory for any eBook, the Kandle is designed for the Amazon KindleTM 1, 2, and DX, Sony® Reader Digital Books, and other eBook Readers. The Kandle boasts double pivoting arms that allow for easy positioning and adjustment to tailor the screen illumination and for avoiding any screen hot spots. The Main Pivoting Arm rotates 90 degrees from its closed position, and the Upper Pivoting Arm rotates another 90 degrees for complete customization. Unlike other eBook lights, the Kandle is powered by two lifetime x2 LEDs that are optimized to distribute light evenly without creating glare or eyestrain. Petite and light, the Kandle is ultra portable and folds into a closed position where the LEDs are fully protected from scratches or breakage. Ships with 2 CR2032 batteries included.

Free Audiobook - Religion Saves

ChristianAudio's free download this month is Religion Saves: And Nine Other Misconceptions by Mark Driscoll, narrated by Mark Driscoll ($7.99 Kindle). After adding the audiobook to your cart, enter the coupon code FEB2010 during checkout.

In his distinctively edgy—yet theologically sound—style, Pastor Mark Driscoll addresses the nine most pressing questions posed by visitors to the Mars Hill Church website.

Inspired by 1 Corinthians, in which Paul answers a series of questions posed by the people in the Corinthian church, in 2008 Pastor Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church in Seattle polled the visitors of his church's website to determine their most pressing questions. Visitors were allowed to vote up to 10 times per day, and in the end, 893 questions were asked and 343,203 votes were cast. The top nine questions are now each answered in this audio version of Religion Saves.

After an introduction devoted to the misconception that religion can save us, Driscoll tackles questions relating to birth control, humor, predestination, grace, sexual sin, faith and works, dating, the emerging church, and the regulative principle. Because the purpose of this audiobook is to address commonly asked questions, all listeners will find relevant, engaging material, presented in Driscoll's distinctively edgy - yet theologically sound - style.

Get your free audio download HERE (be sure to use the coupon code shown, so you won't get charged). After you finishing checking out, you will be asked which format you prefer - select MP3 if you want to be able to play the book on your Kindle.

Free Book (ADE/PDF) - Piracy

Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates ($23.10 Hardcover), by Adrian Johns, Tom Dreesen & Ron Rapoport, is can be downloaded for free today only, direct from the University of Chicago Press, although only in PDF format (DRM'd, not Kindle compatible; requires Adobe Digital Editions).

Book Description
Since the rise of Napster and other file sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a product of the digital age and that it threatens creative expression as never before. The Motion Picture Association of America, for instance, claimed that in 2005 the film industry lost $2.3 billion in revenue to piracy online. But here Adrian Johns shows that piracy has a much longer and more vital history than we have realized—one that has been largely forgotten and is little understood.

Piracy explores the intellectual property wars from the advent of print culture in the fifteenth century to the reign of the Internet in the twenty-first. Written with a historian’s flair for narrative and sparkling detail, the book swarms throughout with characters of genius, principle, cunning, and outright criminal intent: in the wars over piracy, it is the victims—from Charles Dickens to Bob Dylan—who have always been the best known, but the principal players—the pirates themselves—have long languished in obscurity, and it is their stories especially that Johns brings to life in these vivid pages.

Brimming with broader implications for today’s debates over open access, fair use, free culture, and the like, Johns’s book ultimately argues that piracy has always stood at the center of our attempts to reconcile creativity and commerce—and that piracy has been an engine of social, technological, and intellectual innovations as often as it has been their adversary. From Cervantes to Sonny Bono, from Maria Callas to Microsoft, from Grub Street to Google, no chapter in the story of piracy evades Johns’s graceful analysis in what will be the definitive history of the subject for years to come.

Click HERE to sign up for the free download.