Nook Daily Find 6/18

The Color of Hope ($8.79 Kindle, $2.99 B&N), by Kim Tate [Thomas Nelson], is the Nook Daily Find.

Book Description
Hope shines brightest when all seems lost.

Stephanie London led a life of comfort and ease in St. Louis before feeling inexplicably drawn back to her father’s roots in the tiny Southern town of Hope Springs. Charlotte Willoughby has lived there all her life and longs to make a new life somewhere else. Stephanie doesn’t know exactly what she’s doing there—or how to occupy her time. And Charlotte doesn’t understand why, despite her overbearing family and reminders of her failed engagement, she’s suddenly led to stay.

Despite its small-town charm, Hope Springs itself is at a crossroads. After a failed reconciliation attempt by two well-meaning pastors, the town is split along racial and cultural lines, with little hope for redemption.

When a terrible tragedy puts Hope Springs on the national radar, the entire town is tested, and both Stephanie and Charlotte feel their lives unraveling. In the midst of heartache, though, they’ll discover the true color of hope . . .

Free Book - Trading Commodities and Financial Futures (K/N)

Trading Commodities and Financial Futures: A Step-by-Step Guide to Mastering the Markets, by George Kleinman, is free in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble, courtesy of publisher FT Press.

Book Description
As an asset class, commodities are now as important as stocks and bonds – and with rapid growth in demand, profit opportunities in commodities are larger than ever. But today’s computer-driven markets are volatile and chaotic. Fortunately, you can profit consistently – and this tutorial will show you how. Building on more than 30 years of market success, George Kleinman introduces powerful trend-based techniques for consistently trading in your “sweet spot” for profits.

Kleinman reveals exactly how the commodities markets have changed – and how you can use consistent discipline to avoid “shark-infested waters” and manage the market’s most dangerous risks. Ideal for every beginning-to-intermediate level trader, speculator, and investor, this guide begins with the absolute basics, and takes you all the way to highly-sophisticated strategies.

You’ll discover how futures and options trading work today, how trading psychology impacts commodity markets even in an age of high-frequency computer trading, and how to avoid the latest pitfalls. Kleinman offers extensively updated coverage of electronic trading, today’s contracts, and advanced trading techniques – including his exclusive, powerful Pivot Indicator approach.

Three previous editions of this tutorial have become international best-sellers. But the game has changed. Win it the way it’s played right now, with Trading Commodities and Financial Futures, Fourth Edition.

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Free Book - Standing Out with SEO (K/N)

Standing Out with SEO, a collection of short titles by Melanie Mitchell, is free in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble, courtesy of publisher FT Press.

Book Description
4 authoritative books teach you everything you need to know to drive maximum value from search engine optimization – and get the high-profit traffic you need!

In an era where everyone searches the web first, effective search engine optimization is indispensable. But SEO changes constantly, and the field is rife with confusion and mystification. Now, top SEO expert Melanie Mitchell explains all you need to know to succeed with SEO right now, whether you’re doing it yourself or working with pros. In Understanding SEO: Building a Foundation for Long Term Success, Mitchell helps you grab value from “low hanging fruit,” and start optimizing pages, text, keywords, images, even HTML code. Learn how to craft a strategy that reflects your specific goals… go beyond rankings to measure engagement quality and sales conversions… structure sites that are friendlier to both searchers and search engines… earn the honest external links that search algorithms love. Next, in Unleash the Power of Paid Search, Mitchell brings together complete processes, knowledge, and tools for running outstanding paid search campaigns. Mitchell explains how well-crafted paid search can help you lead the conversation, extend and deepen your coverage, and more precisely target and measure your marketing. Next, she guides you through defining goals and objectives, selecting keywords and match types, structuring accounts, scoring quality, managing ad copy, optimizing landing pages, monitoring, reporting, and more. In SEO & PPC: Better Together, Mitchell helps you integrate SEO with pay-per-click (PPC) to achieve better results than either can deliver alone. Learn how to create more engaging SEO and PPC campaigns, and use data from both to improve the performance of each. Compare paid and organic search marketing “pathways,” understanding their applications, overlaps, differences, strengths, weaknesses, and tradeoffs. Next, learn how paid search data can help you set SEO priorities, and understand what content to optimize or build based on actual ROI rather than indirect traffic estimates. Finally, in In-House SEO, Mitchell helps you take charge of SEO in your organization. Learn how to align your organization departmentally, politically and culturally around winning in search… get executive buy-in… clarify where you stand and what you can realistically achieve… build and train your SEO team, establish standards and … provide tools… accurately measure and track your progress… continually optimize your effectiveness. These in-the-trenches SEO guides are 100% realistic and completely up to date: packed with practical, actionable insights. They’ll help you focus your time, resources, and budgets, and optimize the business value of every page and campaign!

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Nook Daily Find 6/17

Smart and Sexy ($1.99 Kindle, B&N), the first novel in the Sky High Air series by Jill Shalvis, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.

Book Description
FLYING SOLO IS WAY OVERRATED

Noah Fisher has worked for months to make Sky High the most prestigious charter airline in California. He’s long overdue for a break—something involving ski slopes, cold beers, and hot ski bunny babes. The itinerary doesn’t include being hijacked by Bailey Sinclair, gorgeous widow of one of Sky High’s wealthiest (ex-) clients. But here they are, and being crammed in a cockpit with the scared, stubborn, unbelievably sexy former model could get Noah in serious trouble…

Nook Daily Find 6/16

Manhood for Amateurs ($9.78 Kindle, $1.99 B&N), by Michael Chabon [HarperCollins], is the Nook Daily Find.

Book Description
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author— "an immensely gifted writer and a magical prose stylist" (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times)—offers his first major work of nonfiction, an autobiographical narrative as inventive, beautiful, and powerful as his acclaimed, award-winning fiction.

A shy manifesto, an impractical handbook, the true story of a fabulist, an entire life in parts and pieces, Manhood for Amateurs is the first sustained work of personal writing from Michael Chabon. In these insightful, provocative, slyly interlinked essays, one of our most brilliant and humane writers presents his autobiography and his vision of life in the way so many of us experience our own lives: as a series of reflections, regrets, and reexaminations, each sparked by an encounter, in the present, that holds some legacy of the past.

What does it mean to be a man today? Chabon invokes and interprets and struggles to reinvent for us, with characteristic warmth and lyric wit, the personal and family history that haunts him even as—simply because—it goes on being written every day. As a devoted son, as a passionate husband, and above all as the father of four young Americans, Chabon presents his memories of childhood, of his parents' marriage and divorce, of moments of painful adolescent comedy and giddy encounters with the popular art and literature of his own youth, as a theme played—on different instruments, with a fresh tempo and in a new key—by the mad quartet of which he now finds himself co-conductor.

At once dazzling, hilarious, and moving, Manhood for Amateurs is destined to become a classic.

Free Book - Call of the Trumpet (K/N)

Call of the Trumpet, by Helen A. Rosburg, is free in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble, courtesy of publisher Medallion Press.

Book Description
A tale of love, loyalty, and heartbreak, this book follows a young European girl, Cecile, as she travels to the Sahara desert to reconnect with her past and the memory of her mother. When she was an infant, her French father felt shattered when his Bedouin wife died in childbirth, and thus fled the desert with Cecile. As Cecile gets older, she decides to leave the country she feels lost in, and return to the Sahara and its Bedouin culture. Faced with a physical, mental, and spiritual struggle, Cecile must deal with the danger and the culture clashes as she learns about love, honor, devotion, and her past.

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Free Book - Monster Behind the Wheel (K/N)

Monster Behind the Wheel, by three-time Bram Stoker Finalist Michael McCarty and Bram Stoker Award-winner Mark McLaughlin, is free in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble, courtesy of publisher Medallion Press.

Book Description
As a child, Jeremy Carmichael fell from a Ferris wheel at a carnival. When he landed on a beautiful young woman, his fall was broken. Unfortunately, so was the woman’s spine. Years later, while delivering pizzas, Jeremy is injured in a car accident . . . that opens the gates between the worlds of the living and the dead, awakening the spirit of cruel Frank Edmondson. Frank, the policeman who arrived at the scene of that carnival accident long ago, was that woman’s lover. Now, ready for revenge, Frank devises a cunning plan. Soon Jeremy finds himself visiting the realm of the dead in dreams and visions. Is this Frank’s doing, or is there another explanation? Using a sleek muscle car called Monster, Frank gains control over Jeremy’s life. But what Frank doesn't know is that he’s tampering with the fate of the entire universe . . . because Jeremy isn't your average pizza delivery boy, and all hell is about to break loose—literally.

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Nook Daily Find 6/15

Small Town Sinners ($7.99 Kindle, $1.99 B&N), by Melissa Walker [Bloomsbury USA Childrens], is the Nook Daily Find.

Book Description
Lacey Anne Byer is a perennial good girl and lifelong member of the House of Enlightenment, the Evangelical church in her small town. With her driver's license in hand and the chance to try out for a lead role in Hell House, her church's annual haunted house of sin, Lacey's junior year is looking promising. But when a cute new stranger comes to town, something begins to stir inside her. Ty Davis doesn't know the sweet, shy Lacey Anne Byer everyone else does. With Ty, Lacey could reinvent herself. As her feelings for Ty make Lacey test her boundaries, events surrounding Hell House make her question her religion.

Melissa Walker has crafted the perfect balance of engrossing, thought-provoking topics and relatable, likable characters. Set against the backdrop of extreme religion, Small Town Sinners is foremost a universal story of first love and finding yourself, and it will stay with readers long after the last page.

Free Book - The Last Boy (N)

The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood ($10.67 Kindle), by Jane Leavy, is free from Barnes & Noble, courtesy of publisher HarperCollins.

Book Description
Award-winning sports writer Jane Leavy follows her New York Times runaway bestseller Sandy Koufax with the definitive biography of baseball icon Mickey Mantle. The legendary Hall-of-Fame outfielder was a national hero during his record-setting career with the New York Yankees, but public revelations of alcoholism, infidelity, and family strife badly tarnished the ballplayer's reputation in his latter years. In The Last Boy, Leavy plumbs the depths of the complex athlete, using copious first-hand research as well as her own memories, to show why The Mick remains the most beloved and misunderstood Yankee slugger of all time.

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Nook Daily Find 6/14

Confessions of a Murder Suspect ($8.89 Kindle, $2.99 B&N), by James Patterson [Little, Brown and Company/Hachette], is the Nook Daily Find. It should drop in price by late morning on Kindle.

Book Description
James Patterson returns to the genre that made him famous with a thrilling teen detective series about the mysterious and magnificently wealthy Angel family . . . and the dark secrets they're keeping from one another.

On the night Malcolm and Maud Angel are murdered, Tandy Angel knows just three things: 1) She was the last person to see her parents alive. 2) The police have no suspects besides Tandy and her three siblings. 3) She can't trust anyone--maybe not even herself. Having grown up under Malcolm and Maud's intense perfectionist demands, no child comes away undamaged. Tandy decides that she will have to clear the family name, but digging deeper into her powerful parents' affairs is a dangerous-and revealing-game. Who knows what the Angels are truly capable of?

Nook Daily Find 6/13

Unlocked ($2.99 Kindle, B&N), by Karen Kingsbury [Zondervan], is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.

Book Description
Before You Take a Stand ... You Got to Take a Chance. Holden Harris is an eighteen-year-old locked in a prison of autism. Despite his quiet ways and quirky behaviors, Holden is very happy and socially normal---on the inside, in a private world all his own. In reality, he is bullied at school by kids who only see that he is very different. Ella Reynolds is part of the 'in' crowd. A cheerleader and star of the high school drama production, her life seems perfect. When she catches Holden listening to her rehearse for the school play, she is drawn to him ... the way he is drawn to the music. Then, Ella makes a dramatic discovery---she and Holden were best friends as children. Frustrated by the way Holden is bullied, and horrified at the indifference of her peers, Ella decides to take a stand against the most privileged and popular kids at school. Including her boyfriend, Jake. Ella believes miracles can happen in the unlikeliest places, and that just maybe an entire community might celebrate from the sidelines. But will Holden's praying mother and the efforts of Ella and a cast of theater kids be enough to unlock the prison that contains Holden? This time, friendship, faith, and the power of a song must be strong enough to open the doors to the miracle Holden needs.

Nook Daily Find 6/12

Dollars and Sex ($9.99 Kindle, $1.99 B&N), by Marina Adshade [Chronicle Books], is the Nook Daily Find.

Book Description
Like Freakonomics, Dollars and Sex takes economics and converts it into a sexy science by applying the principles of supply and demand, and other market forces, to matters of love, courtship, sex, and marriage. As she does in her hugely popular blog, author Marina Adshade explores the marketplace for sex and love using research, economic analysis, and humor to reveal just how central the interplay of libido, gender, love, power, and economic forces is to the most important choices we make in our lives. Call it "Sexonomics."

Nook Daily Find 6/11

The Silver Boat ($12.99 Kindle, $2.99 B&N), by Luanne Rice [Penguin], is the Nook Daily Find; the price should drop on Kindle sometime later this morning, since this is an Agency pricing publisher.

Book Description
From New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice, a moving family story that "will strike a chord in every mother, daughter, or sister" (Marie Claire)

In The Silver Boat, New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice has written a heart-wrenching yet heartwarming portrait of a family in all its flawed complexity. The McCarthy sisters have come to Martha's Vineyard to say good-bye to their family's beach house—the place they were happiest together. Each has her own complicated issues and is struggling with the difficult process of letting go, but when a cache of old letters spurs them to visit Ireland, each woman comes to see herself in a new light. True-to-life sisters, the beach, laughter, and passionate love—The Silver Boat is Luanne Rice at her very best.

Free Short Story - The Girl from the Blood Coven (K/N/DF)

The Girl from the Blood Coven, a short story by Brian Moreland, is free pre-order in the Kindle store, from Barnes & Noble and direct from publisher Samhain Publishing.

Book Description
Who—or what—killed them all?

In this short story prelude to The Witching House, the year is 1972. Sheriff Travis Keagan is enjoying a beer at the local roadhouse when a blood-soaked girl enters the bar. Terrified and trembling, Abigail Blackwood claims her entire family was massacred at the nearby hippy commune in the woods. But when Sheriff Keagan and his deputies investigate the Blevins House, they discover there’s more to Abigail’s story than she’s told them. Much more.

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Free Book - Dragonborn (N)

Dragonborn ($3.79 Kindle), the first title of The Jade Lee Romantic Fantasies series, is free from Barnes & Noble, courtesy of small publisher ePublishing Works!.

Book Description
When dragon power flows through your veins and dragon thoughts burn in your mind, you can accomplish anything. Natiya knows. She carries the last dragon egg in the land, disguised as a jewel in her navel.

Day by day the Unhatched grows. Upon its birth Natiya and the dragon will be joined. No longer will Natiya be forced to dance for pennies as a barmaid; she will become Dag Natiya, revered Queen.

Kiril, the king's warrior dragon slayer, knows what happens when dragon power flows through your veins and dragon emotions trample your soul. You become a monster. He watched as one destroyed his cousin. That is why Kiril vowed to destroy all of dragonkind.

Now, only one egg remains. But an obstacle Kiril did not foresee stands in his way: love.

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Free Book - Untamed (N)

Untamed ($2.99 Kindle), the first title in The Wild Women series by Sharon Ihle, is free from Barnes & Noble, courtesy of small publisher ePublishing Works!.

Book Description
Josie Baum is as a laundress at Lola's Pleasure Palace not a nursemaid. But when a Cheyenne warrior whisks her off to care for his friend, Daniel McCord, she must quickly learn.

Suddenly alone in a remote mountain cabin, Josie is tasked with the household chores plus catering to Daniel's every whim. After years of cooking and cleaning for her fifteen step-brothers and father, Josie isn’t about to spend the rest of her days serving the pompous Daniel McCord... even if he does quicken her pulse every time he nears.

Half-white and half-Cheyenne, Daniel McCord is a proud man on the mend with only one desire—to right the wrongs done to his people. He isn’t ready for the new hunger Josie’s glowing fair-skin stirs within him or her resistance to his charms. Growing more determined to melt the heart of this willful, wild beauty, Daniel will use every skill of seduction to make Josie his.

Newly edited and revised.

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Free Book - Lovers and Strangers (N)

Lovers and Strangers ($2.99 Kindle), the first title in The Hollywood Nights series by Candace Schuler, is free from Barnes & Noble, courtesy of small publisher ePublishing Works!.

Book Description
World-weary and heart-sore, Jack Shannon has returned to his old stomping grounds in LA and the Wilshire Arms Apartments to make one last-ditch effort to lay the ghost of his long-dead brother to rest. There he meets sweet, angelic Faith McCray.

Faith is everything Jack wants—and everything he's convinced he doesn't deserve.

But Faith isn't as guileless as she seems, and she's far stronger than anyone gives her credit for. Having broken free from overly-strict upbringing and a sin that's not her own, Faith has arrived in LA with her sights set on finally doing what's right for her—and what's right is Jack.

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Free Book - Find (and Keep) Top Talent for Your Business (K/N)

Find (and Keep) Top Talent for Your Business, a collection of titles by Vince Thompson, David I. Russo, Rusty Rueff, Hank Stringer and Cathy Fyock, is free in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble, courtesy of publisher FT Press.

Book Description
A brand new collection of state-of-the-art talent management techniques

Breakthrough talent management techniques! 5 authoritative books bring together the state-of-the-art in finding, growing, and keeping world-class people!

Talent is everything — and finding, growing, and keeping the best talent has never been more difficult. This 5-book collection brings together powerful new insights, techniques, practices, and skills for improving the way you manage talent in any organization, industry, or environment… including the talent that matters most. (Yours!) In 17 Rules Successful Companies Use to Attract and Keep Top Talent, renowned workforce expert David Russo identifies exactly what great organizations do differently when it comes to managing their people. He distills these differences into 17 rules for everything from resourcing and compensation to leadership development, risk-taking to change management. Next, he shows how to apply these rules in your organization, whether you’re large or small, high-tech or low-tech, for-profit or non-profit. Then, in Talent Force, Rusty Rueff and Hank Springer help you systematically get the right talent into the right place at the right time. You’ll learn how to develop and implement a world-class talent plan that aligns with business objectives, and identify metrics for tracking and optimizing progress. Discover how candidates are using technology to evaluate new opportunities, benchmark compensation, and create new back-channels of communication about worklife — and learn how to use these technologies yourself to grow the world’s best Talent Force. In The Truth About Hiring the Best, Cathy Fyock reveals 53 proven hiring principles for identifying, reaching, and recruiting the very best. Fyock helps you find hidden talent sources… make great people want to work with you… choose amongst the great new people you’ve found, while building great relationships with strong candidates you don’t hire. Next, in The Truth About Getting the Best From People, Second Edition, Martha Finney 60+ proven principles for achieving unprecedented levels of employee engagement. This new edition features more than 15 new truths including: managing virtual teams, building persuasive skills, tuning into your own unconscious biases, managing multiple generations, and identifying and cultivating individual high performers. Not feeling empowered enough to do all this? Vince Thompson’s Ignited! reveals gathering forces that are re-empowering you right now. Thompson outlines realistic steps for leveraging networks and resources to transform your own visions into reality, and accomplishing powerful goals only you can achieve. He offers new tools for leading “from the middle”… expanding your influence and overcoming traps… connecting your passions with business goals… mastering all your new roles: linkmaker, process master, pilot, healer, bard, scout, and translator!

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Nook Daily Find 6/10

The Iron King ($1.99 Kindle, B&N), the first novel in Maurice Druon's The Accursed Kings series [HarperCollins], is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle, with the companion audiobook for $3.99. There is a foreword by George R.R. Martin, but this is epic historical fiction, not fantasy; the second in the series, The Strangled Queen, can now be pre-ordered (Nov 12 release).

Book Description
From the publishers that brought you A Game of Thrones comes the series that inspired George R.R. Martin’s epic work.

“Accursed! Accursed! You shall be accursed to the thirteenth generation!”

The Iron King – Philip the Fair – is as cold and silent, as handsome and unblinking as a statue. He governs his realm with an iron hand, but he cannot rule his own family: his sons are weak and their wives adulterous; while his red-blooded daughter Isabella is unhappily married to an English king who prefers the company of men.

A web of scandal, murder and intrigue is weaving itself around the Iron King; but his downfall will come from an unexpected quarter. Bent on the persecution of the rich and powerful Knights Templar, Philip sentences Grand Master Jacques Molay to be burned at the stake, thus drawing down upon himself a curse that will destroy his entire dynasty…

Nook Daily Find 6/9

The Witch of Blackbird Pond ($1.99 Kindle, B&N), by Elizabeth George Speare [Houghton Mifflin Books for Children], is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.

Book Description
Kit Tyler is marked by suspicion and disapproval from the moment she arrives on the unfamiliar shores of colonial Connecticut in 1867. Alone and desperate, she has been forced to leave her beloved home on the island of Barbados and join a family she has never met. Torn between her quest for belonging and her desire to be true to herself, Kit struggles to survive in a hostile place. Just when it seems she must give up, she finds a kindred spirit. But Kit’s friendship with Hannah Tupper, believed by the colonists to be a witch, proves more taboo than she could have imagined and ultimately forces Kit to choose between her heart and her duty.

Elizabeth George Speare’s Newbery Award–winning novel portrays a heroine whom readers will admire for her unwavering sense of truth as well as her infinite capacity to love.