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The first set of Kindle Singles includes:
- "Lifted" by Evan Ratliff (34 pages, $1.99): Wired and New Yorker writer Ratliff recounts the inside story of a 2009 bank heist, and the race to solve it. This is an inaugural title from publisher The Atavist.
- "The Happiness Manifesto" by Nic Marks (40 pages, $2.99): Marks, founder of the London-based Centre for Well-Being, details five ways people can nurture their own happiness. One of the inaugural TEDBooks.
- "Piano Demon" by Brendan I. Koerner (37 pages, $1.99): Koerner, a Wired contributing editor and author of "Now the Hell Will Start," tells the story of a Virginia coal miner who became the jazz king of Asia.
- "Leaving Home" by Jodi Picoult (43 pages, $2.99): Best-selling novelist Picoult explores the deep pains and powerful pleasures of parenting.
- "The Dead Women of Juarez" by Robert Andrew Powell (31 pages, $1.99): Journalist Powell went to Juarez, a Mexican border town, to investigate the killings of women there.
- "Pakistan and the Mumbai Attacks" by Sebastian Rotella/ProPublica (38 pages, $0.99): The U.S. investigation of the 2008 terrorist attack on Mumbai from ProPublica, the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom.
- "The $500 Diet" by Ian Ayres (39 pages, $2.99): A look at Yale law professor Ayres' weight-loss method.
- "Darkstar" by Christopher R. Howard (44 pages, $2.99): A pre-apocalyptic love story. Howard's fiction has appeared in McSweeney's, and his first novel, "Tea of Ulaanbaatar," comes out this May.
- "Homo Evolutis" by Juan Enriquez and Steve Gullans (58 pages, $2.99): Enriquez and Gullans--two authors, researchers, and entrepreneurs--explore a world where humans increasingly shape their environment, their own selves and other species. One of the inaugural TEDBooks.
"Kindles Singles has given me the freedom to write a piece that doesn't need to be cut for a magazine article or expanded for a book," said Ayres. "It lets me more quickly and directly speak to the reader unhindered by page numbers or ad space. And I love the reach of the Kindle platform. Nowadays just about anyone can read a Kindle book on their phone or their laptop, or, of course, just on a Kindle."
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