A veritable plethora of cheap Kindle books that as a reader of this blog, you may enjoy if you don’t have them already. Some classics, and a wide range of topics. I’ll give you the title, link, the description. Some prices are for today only (supposedly) and they range from $0.99 to about $2.50, but most under $2.00.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Neil Gaiman, many other authors, Stephen Jones editing: <\/strong>The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories: Terrifying Tales Set on the Scariest Night of the Year!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Treat yourself to some very tricky stories! Halloween . . . All Hallows\u2019 Eve . . . Samhain . . . D\u00eda de los Muertos . . . the Day the Dead Come Back . . . When the barriers between the worlds are at their weakest\u2014when ghosts, goblins, and grisly things can cross over into our dimension\u2014then for a single night each year the natural becomes the supernatural, the normal becomes the paranormal, and nobody is safe from their most intimate and terrifying fears.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n James Gleick’s <\/strong>Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n New York Times<\/em>\u00a0Bestseller: This life story of the quirky physicist is \u201ca thorough and masterful portrait of one of the great minds of the century\u201d (The New York Review of Books<\/em>).<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Raised in Depression-era Rockaway Beach, physicist Richard Feynman was irreverent, eccentric, and childishly enthusiastic\u2014a new kind of scientist in a field that was in its infancy. His quick mastery of quantum mechanics earned him a place at Los Alamos working on the Manhattan Project under J. Robert Oppenheimer, where the giddy young man held his own among the nation\u2019s greatest minds. There, Feynman turned theory into practice, culminating in the Trinity test, on July 16, 1945, when the Atomic Age was born. He was only twenty-seven. And he was just getting started.\u00a0In this sweeping biography, James Gleick captures the forceful personality of a great man, integrating Feynman\u2019s work and life in a way that is accessible to laymen and fascinating for the scientists who follow in his footsteps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also by James Gleick, <\/strong>Chaos: Making a New Science<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n For centuries, scientific thought was focused on bringing order to the natural world. But even as relativity and quantum mechanics undermined that rigid certainty in the first half of the twentieth century, the scientific community clung to the idea that any system, no matter how complex, could be reduced to a simple pattern. In the 1960s, a small group of radical thinkers began to take that notion apart, placing new importance on the tiny experimental irregularities that scientists had long learned to ignore. Miniscule differences in data, they said, would eventually produce massive ones\u2014and complex systems like the weather, economics, and human behavior suddenly became clearer and more beautiful than they had ever been before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m not sure about this book, I’ve not read or seen it, but I thought I should include it because it could be interesting: <\/strong>Inside Animal Hearts and Minds: Bears That Count, Goats That Surf, and Other True Stories of Animal Intelligence and Emotion<\/strong><\/a> by Belinda Recio.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n As Charles Darwin suggested more than a century ago, the differences between animals and humans are \u201cof degree and not of kind.\u201d Not long ago, ethologists denied that animals had emotions or true intelligence. Now, we know that rats laugh when tickled, magpies mourn as they cover the departed with greenery, female whales travel thousands of miles for annual reunions with their gal pals, seals navigate by the stars, bears hum when happy, and crows slide down snowy rooftops for fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In engaging text, photographs, and infographics, Inside Animal Hearts and Minds<\/em> showcases fascinating and heart-warming examples of animal emotion and cognition that will foster wonder and empathy. Learn about an orangutan who does \u201cmacram\u00c3\u00a9,\u201d monkeys that understand the concept of money, and rats that choose friendship over food. Even language, math, and logic are no longer exclusive to humans. Prairie dogs have their own complex vocabularies to describe human intruders, parrots name their chicks, sea lions appear capable of deductive thinking akin to a ten-year-old child\u2019s, and bears, lemurs, parrots, and other animals demonstrate numerical cognition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a world where a growing body of scientific research is closing the gap between the human and non-human,\u00a0Inside Animal Hearts and Minds<\/em>\u00a0invites us to change the way we view animals, the world, and our place in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Bone Tree: A Novel (Penn Cage Book 5)<\/strong><\/a> by Greg Iles.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n I am told this is a good series, do you know it? Is it? Do you want Book Five for $.099? The description: <\/p>\n\n\n\n Former prosecutor Penn Cage and his fianc\u00e9e, reporter and publisher Caitlin Masters, have barely escaped with their lives after being attacked by wealthy businessman Brody Royal and his Double Eagles, a KKK sect with ties to some of Mississippi\u2019s most powerful men. But the real danger has only begun as FBI Special Agent John Kaiser warns Penn that Brody wasn\u2019t the true leader of the Double Eagles. The puppeteer who actually controls the terrorist group is a man far more fearsome: the chief of the state police\u2019s Criminal Investigations Bureau, Forrest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thrawn: Alliances (Star Wars) (Star Wars: Thrawn Book 2<\/strong><\/a> by Timothy Zahn. Nestled between the not discounted <\/strong>Heir to the Empire: Star Wars Legends (The Thrawn Trilogy) (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy Book 1)<\/strong><\/a> and <\/strong>Thrawn: Treason (Star Wars) (Star Wars: Thrawn Book 3)<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI have sensed a disturbance in the Force.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Ominous words under any circumstances, but all the more so when uttered by Emperor Palpatine. On Batuu, at the edges of the Unknown Regions, a threat to the Empire is taking root\u2014its existence little more than a glimmer, its consequences as yet unknowable. But it is troubling enough to the Imperial leader to warrant investigation by his most powerful agents: ruthless enforcer Lord Darth Vader and brilliant strategist Grand Admiral Thrawn. Fierce rivals for the emperor\u2019s favor, and outspoken adversaries on Imperial affairs\u2014including the Death Star project\u2014the formidable pair seem unlikely partners for such a crucial mission. But the Emperor knows it\u2019s not the first time Vader and Thrawn have joined forces. And there\u2019s more behind his royal command than either man suspects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And now for something completely different: Imbolo Mbue’s <\/strong>Behold the Dreamers: A Novel<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY However, the world of great power and privilege conceals troubling secrets, and soon Jende and Neni notice cracks in their employers\u2019 fa\u00e7ades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When the financial world is rocked by the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the Jongas are desperate to keep Jende\u2019s job\u2014even as their marriage threatens to fall apart. As all four lives are dramatically upended, Jende and Neni are forced to make an impossible choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Honorable mentions (mainly because I’ve listed them here on previous sales several times so you probably have them, or because I’m not sure of the interest level:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain<\/a> by Maryanne Wolf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Brave Companions<\/a> by David McCollough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Lathe of Heaven<\/a> by Ursula Le Guin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Reamde: A Novel<\/a> by Neal Stephenson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marvel Comics: The Untold Story<\/a> by Sean Howe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A veritable plethora of cheap Kindle books that as a reader of this blog, you may enjoy if you don’t have them already. Some classics, and a wide range of topics. I’ll give you the title, link, the description. 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Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself, his wife, Neni, and their six-year-old son. In the fall of 2007, Jende can hardly believe his luck when he lands a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers. Clark demands punctuality, discretion, and loyalty\u2014and Jende is eager to please. Clark\u2019s wife, Cindy, even offers Neni temporary work at the Edwardses\u2019 summer home in the Hamptons. With these opportunities, Jende and Neni can at last gain a foothold in America and imagine a brighter future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n