Amazon has Tara Westover’s The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing ebook for Kindle for $2.99 (28 value) for a limited time.

Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling supplies and sleeping with her “head for the hills” bag. In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father’s junkyard.

Her father forbade hospitals, so Tara never saw a doctor or a nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to intervene when her brother became violent or when her father’s Mormon beliefs drifted toward the extreme.

Then, lacking any formal education, Tara began to educate herself. She ultimately taught herself enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University, where she studied history, learning for the first time about important world events such as the Holocaust. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if there was still a way home.

A riveting account of the struggle for self-invention, Educated is also a tale of fierce family loyalty and of the grief that comes with severing the closest of ties.

Amazon has Wyatt North’s J.R.R. Tolkien: A Life Inspired Kindle eBook for FREE (regularly $2.99) for a limited time.

Hillsdale College through Amazon is offering Martin Gilbert and Randolph S. Churchill’s Winston S. Churchill 8-Volume Biography Kindle eBook for FREE ($80 value) for a limited time. Deal expires April 11, 2015.

• Youth, 1874–1900 (Volume I)
• Young Statesman, 1901–1914 (Volume II)
• The Challenge of War, 1914–1916 (Volume III)
• World in Torment, 1916–1922 (Volume IV)
• The Prophet of Truth, 1922–1939 (Volume V)
• Finest Hour, 1939–1941 (Volume VI)
• Road to Victory, 1941–1945 (Volume VII)
• Never Despair, 1945–1965 (Volume VIII)

Amazon is offering David Wolcome’s No Way Home: The Decline of the World’s Great Animal Migrations for Kindle for FREE ($24.99 value) for a limited time.

Animal migration is a magnificent sight: a mile-long blanket of cranes rising from a Nebraska river and filling the sky; hundreds of thousands of wildebeests marching across the Serengeti; a blaze of orange as millions of monarch butterflies spread their wings to take flight. Nature’s great migrations have captivated countless spectators, none more so than premier ecologist David S. Wilcove. In No Way Home, his awe is palpable—as are the growing threats to migratory animals.
We may be witnessing a dying phenomenon among many species. Migration has always been arduous, but today’s travelers face unprecedented dangers. Skyscrapers and cell towers lure birds and bats to untimely deaths, fences and farms block herds of antelope, salmon are caught en route between ocean and river, breeding and wintering grounds are paved over or plowed, and global warming disrupts the synchronized schedules of predators and prey. The result is a dramatic decline in the number of migrants.

Wilcove guides us on their treacherous journeys, describing the barriers to migration and exploring what compels animals to keep on trekking. He also brings to life the adventures of scientists who study migrants. Often as bold as their subjects, researchers speed wildly along deserted roads to track birds soaring overhead, explore glaciers in search of frozen locusts, and outfit dragonflies with transmitters weighing less than one one-hundredth of an ounce.
Scientific discoveries and advanced technologies are helping us to understand migrations better, but alone, they won’t stop sea turtles and songbirds from going the way of the bison or passenger pigeon. What’s required is the commitment and cooperation of the far-flung countries migrants cross—long before extinction is a threat. As Wilcove writes, “protecting the abundance of migration is key to protecting the glory of migration.” No Way Home offers powerful inspiration to preserve those glorious journeys.

Amazon has “FREE – The future of a radical price” the Kindle edition by Chris Anderson for FREE for a limited time. You will need an Amazon Kindle or a whisper sync compliant application to read Kindle edition publications (ie. Kindle iPhone Application – iTunes Link).