Free Book (nook) - The Devil At My Doorstep

The Devil At My Doorstep ($2.56 Kindle), by David Bego, is free to download in the Barnes and Noble ebookstore.

Book Description
A targeted family business owner dedicated to protecting his employees survives full-scale war with the powerful and politically connected Service Employees International Union and its big labor boss, Andy Stern.

Author Biography

The author, Dave Bego, is president and CEO of EMS, an industry leader in the field of environmental workplace maintenance. He is uniquely qualified to write this book, as noted on CNN’s Lou Dobbs program in Spring 2009, due to his firsthand experience while waging war with Andy Stern and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) from late 2006 until the present.


Click HERE for the free book.

Kindle 3 Sold Out! Reserve Place in Line for Next Batch

 If you've been on the fence about ordering one of the new Kindle models, you may have waited too late; especially if you wanted it before school started this fall. Log into any of the product pages for the Kindle or Kindle Wi-Fi and this is what you'll see:

Temporarily Sold Out. 
Order now to reserve your place in line

Due to strong customer demand, Kindle is temporarily sold out. Order now to reserve your place in line. Orders are prioritized on a first come, first served basis. Orders placed today are expected to ship on or before September 4th.

Ok, yes, Sept 4th is only a week after the original launch dates of August 27, but it is telling that Amazon not only sold out of the Kindle 2 once it lowered the price (no doubt a bit before they really wanted to, as it was a month before the release of the new model), but has now sold out of the production run of all models of the Kindle 3 (yes, even the white ones, which were underselling the graphite ones by a huge margin, from what I've seen).

Free Book (ADE/PDF) - We'll Always Have Paris

We'll Always Have Paris: American Tourists in France since 1930 ($35.00 Hardcover), by Harvey Levenstein, is free this month from the University of Chicago Press.

Book Description
For much of the twentieth century, Americans had a love/hate relationship with France. While many admired its beauty, culture, refinement, and famed joie de vivre, others thought of it as a dilapidated country populated by foul-smelling, mean-spirited anti-Americans driven by a keen desire to part tourists from their money. We'll Always Have Paris explores how both images came to flourish in the United States, often in the minds of the same people.

Harvey Levenstein takes us back to the 1930s, when, despite the Great Depression, France continued to be the stomping ground of the social elite of the eastern seaboard. After World War II, wealthy and famous Americans returned to the country in droves, helping to revive its old image as a wellspring of sophisticated and sybaritic pleasures. At the same time, though, thanks in large part to Communist and Gaullist campaigns against U.S. power, a growing sensitivity to French anti-Americanism began to color tourists' experiences there, strengthening the negative images of the French that were already embedded in American culture. But as the century drew on, the traditional positive images were revived, as many Americans again developed an appreciation for France's cuisine, art, and urban and rustic charms.

Levenstein, in his colorful, anecdotal style, digs into personal correspondence, journalism, and popular culture to shape a story of one nation's relationship to another, giving vivid play to Americans' changing response to such things as France's reputation for sexual freedom, haute cuisine, high fashion, and racial tolerance. He puts this tumultuous coupling of France and the United States in historical perspective, arguing that while some in Congress say we may no longer have french fries, others, like Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca, know they will always have Paris, and France, to enjoy and remember.

Click HERE to sign up for the free book. You'll need to give them an email address and then check for their message to get the download link. The book is a DRM'd PDF and will requires Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) to download and read.

Free Audiobook - Ministries of Mercy

Tim Keller's Ministries of Mercy: The Call of the Jericho Road, narrated by Sean Runnette, is this month's free audiobook at ChristianAudio.

Why would someone risk his safety, destroy his schedule, and become dirty and bloody to help a needy person of another race and social class? And why would Jesus tell us "Go and do likewise"? Like the wounded man on the Jericho road, there are needy people in our path- the widow next door, the family strapped with medical bills, the homeless man outside our place of worship. God call us to be ministers of mercy to people in need of shelter, assistance, medical care, or just friendship.

Get your free audio download HERE; lower down on the order page, you'll find discounted ($4.98) downloads for a few related titles, including one that was on special at B&N and Fictionwise (but not on Kindle) last month, The Shape of Mercy ($9.29 Kindle; $9.99 B&N; $0.99 Fictionwise), by Susan Meissner (and, yes, it's still under a dollar at Fictionwise). Double check your order before purchasing, as the priced don't seem to be updated just yet, early on a Sunday morning; the related title discounts should be good all month. Update: The discounts for the related titles are now showing up correctly.

Enter the coupon code AUG2010 during checkout. After you finishing your order, you will be asked which format you prefer to download - select MP3 if you want to be able to play the book on your Kindle.

Free miniHUGlight!

My Light, makes of the HUGlight and miniHUGlight is giving one away to everyone that Likes them on Facebook (you'll need a Facebook account) and sends them an email (at least, until they run out), as a Back to School Giveaway (can it possibly be that time, already?).

Update: The deal is over and has come down from their facebook page!

Here are the instructions from their site:


Step 1: "Like Us" on Facebook

Step 2: Send us an email so we can verify that you "Like Us"
...Send your email to info@showertek.com. Put "Facebook miniHUGlight" in the subject line. And put your first and last name (or whatever you go by on facebook) along with your shipping address.

Step 3: We'll verify that you "Like Us" and send your miniHUGlight totally FREE OF CHARGE! That's right, shipping and handling is on us!