Content FREE (and bargain) books for the Kindle - December 2010

[koland]

Completely separate from the Kindle Deal of the Day, Amazon has also added a Kindle eBooks Student Deal of the Day. The page not only shows you the current book, but the upcoming books (so you don't go buying a pricey textbook when you could have waited a few days for a better deal). Today's book is from Thomas Nelson:

Your Road Map For Success: You Can Get There from Here, by John C. Maxwell ($2.99)

Book Description
Defining success is a difficult task. Most people equate it with wealth, power, and happiness. However, true success is not a thing you acquire or achieve. Rather, it is a journey you take your whole life long.

In a refreshingly straightforward style, John Maxwell shares unique insights into what it means to be successful. And he reveals a definition that puts genuine success within your reach yet motivates you to keep striving for your dreams.

I want to help you discover your personal road map for success, teach you what it means to be on the success journey, answer many of your questions, and equip you with what you'll need to change yourself and keep growing. - John C. Maxwell

[koland]

Happily Ever After by Susan May Warren, is a contemporary romance, free courtesy of Christian publisher Tyndale House.

Book Description
God answers Mona Reynolds' prayers, giving her the chance to open her own bookstore-coffee shop in an old Victorian house. Renovations to the place leave her no time for a love life. When she hires a mysterious drifter as handyman, she finds that it isn't only fairy tales that end with "happily ever after."

[koland]

The Justice Game, by Randy Singer

Book Description
After the target of an investigative report storms a Virginia Beach news studio, he executes one of the anchors on live television before the SWAT team is able to take him down. Following the victim’s funeral, her family files a lawsuit against the gun company who manufactured the killer’s weapon of choice.

The lawyers for the plaintiff and defendant—Kelly Starling and Jason Noble—are young, charismatic, and highly successful. They’re also easy blackmail targets, each harboring a personal secret so devastating it could destroy their careers.

Millions of dollars—and more than a few lives—are at stake. But as Kelly and Jason battle each other, they discover that the real fight is with unseen forces intent on controlling them both.

[koland]

The Winners Manual: For the Game of Life by Jim Tressel, is free courtesy of Christian publisher Tyndale House.

Book Description
The Winners Manual: For the Game of Life shares Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel's “Big Ten” fundamentals for success: Attitude, Discipline, Faith, Handling Adversity & Success, Excellence, Love, Toughness, Responsibility, Team, and Hope. Peppered with personal stories from Coach Tressel’s storied coaching career, this book shares the fundamental lessons that he has been imparting to his players and coaching staffs for the past 20 years. A perfect blend of football stories, spiritual insights, motivational reading, and practical application, The Winners Manual provides an inside look at the core philosophy that has positively impacted the lives of thousands of student athletes and served as the foundation for two of the most successful college football programs of all time. Includes 8 pages of color photos and a foreword from NYT best-selling author John Maxwell. All of the proceeds from the book are being donated directly to the William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library Renovation Campaign.
Other features:

* Each chapter closes with a practical application section, where readers will be “coached” on how they can apply the lessons imparted throughout the book to their own lives, via the establishment of measurable goals.
* Provides a rare inside glimpse into the mind of one of the most respected coaches in college football history and into the huddle of one of the most successful football programs of all time.
* Filled with hundreds of inspirational stories, quotes and anecdotes.

[wvcherrybomb]

Originally Posted by desertblues

Anyone had trouble indexing Potluck Club from Linda Evans? ( free book 25-12). My Kindle got stuck on indexing that one, battery empty in one day. I tried again, but I ended up in deleting this book.

Nope. I downloaded that one a few days ago and all is well. Maybe try again? It's a very cute, light read so far.

[arcadata]

Deadly Sanctuary (Kendall O'Dell Mystery) by Sylvia Nobel is free again, but Amazon changed the link / asin so here's the new link!

[arcadata]

The New York Times is offering a 2 month free trial subscription:

Limited-Time Offer: Extended Free Trial on The New York Times
Start your subscription to The New York Times today, and your 14-day free trial will be extended to two months. Offer expires February 15, 2011.

[arcadata]

For those who were waiting for Amazon to price match Sony's $19.80 for The Collected Novels of José Saramago, the Kindle edition is now also priced at $19.80 (for a 12 novel collection).

Product Description

This collection, available exclusively in e-book form, brings together the twelve novels (and one novella) of the great Portuguese writer José Saramago, with an introductory essay by Ursula Le Guin. From Saramago's early work, like the enchanting Baltasar & Blimunda and the controversial Gospel According to Jesus Christ, through his masterpiece Blindness and its sequel Seeing, to his later fables of politics, chance, history, and love, like All the Names and Death with Interruptions, this volume showcases the range and depth of Saramago’s career, his inimitable narrative voice, and his vast reserves of invention, humor, and understanding.

[badgoodDeb]

Originally Posted by arcadata

Deadly Sanctuary (Kendall O'Dell Mystery) by Sylvia Nobel is free again, but Amazon changed the link / asin so here's the new link!

The previous version had a large duplicated block of text. Get the new one. It's a pretty good story.

[ProfCrash]

Originally Posted by arcadata

For those who were waiting for Amazon to price match Sony's $19.80 for The Collected Novels of José Saramago, the Kindle edition is now also priced at $19.80 (for a 12 novel collection).

This is a great buy folks. I love his work and am thrilled to have all of his novels for this price. It works out to $1.65 for each book.

[keeska]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

The previous version had a large duplicated block of text. Get the new one. It's a pretty good story.

Unfortunately it appears to be unavailable. The link goes to a "No such item" page and a search by title only returns the paperback version.

[wvcherrybomb]

Originally Posted by keeska

Unfortunately it appears to be unavailable. The link goes to a "No such item" page and a search by title only returns the paperback version.

This is really weird. I just downloaded this free a few days ago. I still have it, both in my archive and on my kindle, but it no longer comes up in a search.

[arcadata]

Free for UK Kindle readers:

The First Completely Electronic Robot and Science Fiction Limerick Book by Peter Salisbury (I see it as $0.99 at the US store)

Product Description
Is it possible to tell a tall tale in as few as thirty words? That would require a limerick, a five-line rhyming cartoon in words. In this case fifty-three tiny capsule science fiction stories to make you smile.

A hot little androidal miss
Who jets off her steam with a hiss
Is made out of junk
And is very steam punk
So she’s much too risky to kiss

[arcadata]

These were previously free only to those in the UK, but are now also free at the US Kindle store.

The Blood That Bonds by Christopher Buecheler

Catching Caroline by Sylvia Day

[koland]

Originally Posted by wvcherrybomb

This is really weird. I just downloaded this free a few days ago. I still have it, both in my archive and on my kindle, but it no longer comes up in a search.

The original edition was yanked and a new one popped up, also free, with a new ASIN. Was supposed to fix some formatting issues. A couple of days later, the new one was yanked, also. Most likely the publisher found more issues and hasn't figured out yet how to simply update the edition they have on file and let Amazon use the ASIN update tool to let everyone have the new version (which they have nicely automated if the publisher notifies them, it appears).