New Kindle App - My Yoga Studio

My Yoga Studio ($1.99), by Nickel Buddy, is an interesting looking app/game for the Kindle. I'd say it is just as useful as most yoga videos, after you have run thru them once or twice and are just using them as timers, and a lot more portable. Even better, you can customize the routine (try that with a DVD) and run thru the poses you have chosen (and that fit into the time you have to work out).

App Description
My Yoga Studio is like having a personal yoga teacher on your Kindle.

There are many benefits to practicing yoga. Done properly, yoga can help you increase your strength, flexibility, and balance. It can improve your posture as you become more aware of your body, and it can help you relax, even in the midst of a stressful environment.

My Yoga Studio will guide you step-by-step through a series of poses illustrated with a picture and a text description. As you move through the routine, a timer will count down, showing you how long to hold each pose before gently transitioning to the next. 25 different poses are included. You can use one of three included routines (Sun Salutation, Stress Melter, or Balance & Peace), do poses individually, or create your own custom routine. Exercises are designed to strengthen your core, and do not require any special equipment. As you can do these exercises anywhere you have floor space, My Yoga Studio is a perfect companion for frequent travelers or home use.

My Yoga Studio is ready to be your personal guide anytime you want to steal a few moments to center yourself.

If you are not in the US, you can't get My Yoga Studio. Instead, you might want to take a look at Everyday Pilates: From the Top Down ($7.99 US), by Alycea Ungaro, which is one of several Kindle Edition with Audio/Video titles in this series (the rest of which are $5.59). Best of all, if you are a UK customer (only), you can get this one for $1.16 in the US store (£5.98 in the UK store).

Book Description
No time to exercise? No problem! Alycea Ungaro's 15-Minute Everyday Pilates series gives you all the tools you need to squeeze regular exercise into your life. In the Everyday Pilates: From The Top Down Vook, Ungaro shows you how to get a toned, strong body, and graceful posture in just 15-minutes a day. This fantastic new format offers easy, step-by-step instruction, full color images and 11 videos to take you through the full Top Down routine, which focuses on centering and activating your Pilates box. You will also learn how to incorporate weights in your Pilates workout. Strengthen, stretch, and build your way to a more toned, more healthy you.

Free Book (ADE/PDF) - Isolarion: A Different Oxford Journey

Isolarion: A Different Oxford Journey ($9.99 Kindle), by James Attlee, is free this month, directly from the University of Chicago Press.

Book Description
Through the centuries, people from all walks of life have heard the siren call of a pilgrimage, the lure to journey away from the familiar in search of understanding. But is a pilgrimage even possible these days for city-dwellers enmeshed in the pressures of work and family life? Or is there a way to be a pilgrim without leaving one’s life behind? James Attlee answers these questions with Isolarion, a thoughtful, streetwise, and personal account of his pilgrimage to a place he thought he already knew—the Cowley Road in Oxford, right outside his door.

Isolarion takes its title from a type of fifteenth-century map that isolates an area in order to present it in detail, and that’s what Attlee, sharp-eyed and armed with tape recorder and notebook, provides for Cowley Road. The former site of a leper hospital, a workhouse, and a medieval well said to have miraculous healing powers, Cowley Road has little to do with the dreaming spires of the tourist’s or student’s Oxford. What Attlee presents instead is a thoroughly modern, impressively cosmopolitan, and utterly organic collection of shops, restaurants, pubs, and religious establishments teeming with life and reflecting the multicultural makeup of the surrounding neighborhood.

From a sojourn in a sensory-deprivation tank to a furtive visit to an unmarked pornography emporium, Attlee investigates every aspect of the Cowley Road’s appealingly eclectic culture, where halal shops jostle with craft jewelers and reggae clubs pulsate alongside quiet churchyards. But the very diversity that is, for Attlee, the essence of Cowley Road’s appeal is under attack from well-meaning city planners and predatory developers. His pilgrimage is thus invested with melancholy: will the messy glories of the Cowley Road be lost to creeping homogenization?

Drawing inspiration from sources ranging from Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy to contemporary art, Attlee is a charming and companionable guide who revels in the extraordinary embedded in the everyday. Isolarion is at once a road movie, a quixotic stand against uniformity, and a rousing hymn in praise of the complex, invigorating nature of the twenty-first-century city.

Click HERE to sign up for the free book. You'll need to enter your email address, then check your email for the link to download the book. Mine arrived within seconds -- you get a .ACSM file, which, when opened, will load the PDF book inside of Adobe ADE. This is a DRM'd PDF and is not compatible with the Kindle.

Free Book Updates (Non-Kindle)

Kobobooks.com, Borders.com and Sony have added some of the free books from earlier today. If you missed For the King's Favor on Kindle, better act fast to get it as an EPUB from Kobo (it isn't free from Borders).

Now free on Kobo:

• For the King's Favor, by Elizabeth Chadwick (this one can change at any moment, as it was not supposed to be free, at all.
  
• World from Rough Stones, by Malcolm Macdonald
• Darcy's Voyage: A Tale Of Uncharted Love On The Open Seas, by Kara Louise
• Antiques Roadkill: A Trash 'n' Treasures Mystery, by Barbara Allan
• Last Night's Kiss, by Hailstock Shirley
• The Secret, by Beverly Lewis
• Michal: A Novel, by Jill Eileen Smith
• She Walks In Beauty, by Siri Mitchell
• The Softwire: Virus On Orbis 1, by Pj Haarsma
• Stuck In The Middle: A Novel, by Virginia Smith
• Relentless, by Robin Parrish

Slingo under a Buck (Kindle)

Slingo on Kindle is marked down to 99 cents for the next two weeks (ending March 13). This is a surprisingly addictive game (I have it on my Kindle and on my netbook, as I picked up a PC download version of it for a dollar a while back), which you can play when you don't want to get involved in a long game and there are too many distractions to read.

Game Description
The objective of Slingo is to accumulate the highest number of points. Spin and match the reel numbers to the numbers on the 5x5 card, trying to cover all the numbers in 20 spins or less. Earn a "Slingo" and huge bonus points when you match 5 numbers in a row. Slingos can be horizontal, vertical or diagonal.

In addition to number matches, players can earn special reel icons. The joker can match any number in the column, coins earn bonus points, and free spins will save you points. But watch out for the devil, who takes half your score...

Slingo for Kindle is perfect for a quick play or long sessions. All game stats and high scores are tracked, and unique award challenges will keep you coming back for more.

Can you top the high score? Try your luck and take a spin today!

Bargain Book List

A list of some bargain books, some of which are bound to change in price by morning (and some of which will not):

• Poke the Box ($1.00), by Seth Godin
• No More Joint Pain ($1.98), by Dr. Joseph A. Abboud M.D. and Soo Kim Abboud
• The Overnight Socialite ($2.96), by Bridie Clark
• Hot Westmoreland Nights ($0.81), by Brenda Jackson
• What a Westmoreland Wants ($0.81), by Brenda Jackson
• Take Care Of Yourself 8E: The Complete Illustrated Guide To Medical Self-care ($1.33), by James F. Fries
• Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong ($4.51), by James W. Loewen
• Hardly Knew Her ($0.99), by Laura Lippman
• The Next World War: What Prophecy Reveals about Extreme Islam and the West ($0.99), by Grant R. Jeffrey
• The Veritas Conflict ($0.99), by Shaunti Feldhahn
• My Favorite Midlife Crisis (Yet) ($2.99), by Toby Devens
• Love in Condition Yellow: A Memoir of an Unlikely Marriage ($1.91), by Sophia Raday
• The Perfect Christmas ($2.53), by Debbie Macomber
• Genghis: Birth of an Empire ($0.76), by Conn Iggulden
• Hook, Line, and Single ($1.43), by Marcia King-Gamble
• Metamorphosis and Other Stories ($1.90), by Franz Kafka
• How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood ($2.95), by William J. Mann
• Too Close to the Sun ($1.95), by Curtis Roosevelt
• Daniel: A Novel ($3.73), by Henning Mankell
• Beyond the Revolution ($3.60), by William H. Goetzmann
• Third Wish ($3.94), by Robert Fulghum
• The Gift ($3.93), by Deb Stover
• Murder Alfresco: A Sunny McCoskey Napa Valley Mystery ($3.99), by Nadia Gordon
• Absalom, Absalom! ($3.96), by William Faulkner
• Light in August ($3.75), by William Faulkner
• The Sound and the Fury ($6.75), by William Faulkner
• The Book Thief ($5.00), by Markus Zusak
• Death (and Further Adventures) of Silas Winterbottom: The Body Thief ($2.33), by Stephen Giles
• The Lost Summer ($2.53), by Williams Kathryn
• Atlantis ($1.59), by David Gibbins
• Silence ($1.93), by Thomas Perry
• Little Miss Straight Lace ($1.89), by Maria Elizabeth Romana
• Tinsel: A Search for America's Christmas Present ($1.67), by Hank Stuever
• The Age of Shiva: A Novel ($1.59), by Manil Suri
• Knight of Desire ($1.99), by Margaret Mallory
• That's (Not Exactly) Amore: A Novel ($1.99), by Tracey Bateman
• Radiance: A Riley Bloom Book ($1.99), by Alyson Noël
• The Cherry Orchard ($1.90), by Anton Chekhov
• The Earth Moves: Galileo and the Roman Inquisition ($1.45), by Dan Hofstadter
• A Vote of Confidence ($1.99), by Robin Lee Hatcher
• A Grave in Gaza ($1.94), by Matt Beynon Rees
• Sarah from Alaska: The Sudden Rise and Brutal Education of a New Conservative Superstar ($1.33), by Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe
• In Defense of Israel ($1.33), by John Hagee
• Ultimate Weapon ($1.43), by Chris Ryan
• Blunt Trauma ($1.48), by Ivy Bannister
• Seeing Sky-Blue Pink ($1.38), by Candice F. Ransom
• Ask Billy Graham: The World's Best-Loved Preacher Answers Your Most Important Questions ($1.66), by Bill Adler Sr.
• The Economic Naturalist's Field Guide: Common Sense Principles for Troubled Times ($1.77), by Robert H. Frank
• April 4, 19681 ($1.33), by Michael Eric Dyson
• Life is One Big To-Do List: A Woman's Life after 40 ($1.24), by Terri Lee Ryan
• Social Blunders ($1.98), by Tim Sandlin
• Humble Pie ($1.91), by Gordon Ramsay
• Dr. Susans Fit and Fun Family Action Plan ($1.54), by Susan Bartell
• The End of the Matter ($1.80), by Alan Dean Foster
• Good Date, Bad Date: The Matchmaker's Guide to Where the Boys Are and How to Get Them ($1.24), by Marla Martenson
• The Gift of Thanks: The Roots and Rituals of Gratitude ($1.48), by Margaret Visser