Running With the Kenyans: Discovering the secrets of the fastest people on earth by Adharanand Finn from Faber and Faber Non Fiction (£0.99) is the Amazon UK
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Customer review: "It's much more than a book about long-distance running - it's also part travel book and part personal journey."
“Completely satisfying, as well-paced and exhilarating as a good run.”—The Boston Globe
Whether running is your recreation or your religion, Adharanand Finn’s incredible journey to the elite training camps of Kenya will captivate and inspire you, as he ventures to uncover the secrets of the fastest people on earth. Finn’s mesmerizing quest combines a fresh look at barefoot running, practical advice on the sport, and the fulfillment of a lifelong dream: to run with his heroes. Uprooting his family of five, Finn traveled to a small, chaotic town in the Rift Valley province of Kenya—a mecca for long-distance runners, thanks to its high altitude, endless paths, and some of the top training schools in the world. There Finn would run side by side with Olympic champions, young hopefuls, and barefoot schoolchildren, and meet a cast of unforgettable characters. Amid the daily challenges of training and of raising a family abroad, Finn would learn invaluable lessons about running—and about life.
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Plain Jane: A Novel of Regency England - Being the Second Volume of A House for the Season by M. C. Beaton (writing as Marion Chesney) from Canvas (£0.99) is the Amazon UK
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Customer review: "I enjoyed this light hearted Regency romance with its many twists and turns, and the entertaining characters."
The second book in the Regency Romance series, The House for a Season, from the bestselling author M.C Beaton.
It's up to the servants of No. 67 Clarges Street to hatch a scheme... and arrange a match!
'Oh, to be as beautiful as Euphemia!' sighs plain Jane Hart when she joins her sister at No.67 for the Season, as then Lord Tregarthan might notice her... as she has noticed him and forever lost her heart.
And while it is Euphemia's fate to flit her way through balls and into the arms of a marquis, Jane's is to stay at home... until the Downstairs staff transform the plain Miss into the Season's sensation and send her waltzing into a daring liaison with the man of her dreams!
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Keeping Quiet: Paul Nixon The Autobiography by Jon Colman and Paul Nixon from Icon Books (£0.99) is the Amazon UK
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Customer review: "...eases you effortlessly into the some of the most complex ideas in physics by juxtaposing [with] the personal stories of the authors."
“A lucid account of quantum theory (and why you should care) combined with a gripping narrative.”—San Francisco Chronicle
Quantum theory is weird. As Niels Bohr said, if you weren’t shocked by quantum theory, you didn’t really understand it. For most people, quantum theory is synonymous with mysterious, impenetrable science. And in fact for many years it was equally baffling for scientists themselves. In this tour de force of science history, Manjit Kumar gives a dramatic and superbly written account of this fundamental scientific revolution, focusing on the central conflict between Einstein and Bohr over the nature of reality and the soul of science. This revelatory book takes a close look at the golden age of physics, the brilliant young minds at its core—and how an idea ignited the greatest intellectual debate of the twentieth century.
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The Corpse Reader by Antonio Garrido from AmazonCrossing ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (August 16) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "A harrowing novel that draws readers into an ingenious and fascinating plot."
In 2012, The Corpse Reader received the Zaragoza International Prize for best historical novel published in Spain (Premio Internacional de Novela Histórica Ciudad de Zaragoza).
After his grandfather dies, avid scholar and budding forensic investigator Cí Song begrudgingly gives up his studies to help his family. But when another tragedy strikes, he’s forced to run and also deemed a fugitive. Dishonored, he has no choice but to accept work as a lowly gravedigger, a position that allows him to sharpen his corpse-reading skills. Soon, he can deduce whether a person killed himself—or was murdered.
His prowess earns him notoriety, and Cí receives orders to unearth the perpetrator of a horrific series of mutilations and deaths at the Imperial Court. Cí’s gruesome investigation quickly grows complicated thanks to old loyalties and the presence of an alluring, enigmatic woman. But he remains driven by his passion for truth—especially once the killings threaten to take down the Emperor himself.
Inspired by Song Cí, considered to be the founding father of CSI-style forensic science, this harrowing novel set during the thirteenth-century Tsong Dynasty draws readers into a multilayered, ingenious plot as disturbing as it is fascinating.
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The Perfect Marriage by Kimberla Lawson Roby from Grand Central Publishing ($2.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (August 16) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "This book is not only fun any entertaining, but truly eye-opening!"
The New York Times bestselling novel from the author of the Reverend Curtis Black series...
ADDICTION. DECEPTION.
PRETTY PICTURES HIDE UGLY SECRETS.
Denise and Derrek Shaw are the perfect American couple. Happily married for fifteen years, they have a wonderful daughter, Mackenzie, successful careers, and a beautiful home in a posh Chicago suburb. They are attractive, respected . . . and hiding a shocking secret: a dangerous addiction to drugs.
It started innocently enough. Denise occasionally used prescription drugs to help her deal with the long hours and demanding nature of her job. Derrek, also under pressure at work, began using cocaine socially with some of his colleagues.
They can quit whenever they want to. At least, that's what Denise would like to believe . . .
As her job becomes more stressful, Denise can no longer get through the day without a fix. Derrek realizes his harmless habit has become anything but, and desperately wants to get clean. However, his attempts are derailed when there is a sudden family tragedy. Once soul mates, now this husband and wife are quickly losing the immense love that had been the cornerstone of their marriage. With her parents spiraling out of control, Mackenzie makes an unexpected move to take matters into her own hands. Is her sacrifice too late-or is there still hope? Is there a final chance to save the Shaw family?
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Transmigration by J. T. McIntosh from Prologue Books ($0.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (August 16) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "This wonderful science fiction story is a daring departure from the pulp canon."
One man’s terrifying journey out of his mind - and into many others!
Fletcher was dying. But it wasn’t that simple. His mind refused to follow his body; instead, it moved from brain to brain: young, old, healthy, ill, men, women. But now he found himself in the brain of Charles Searle, the twisted scientist who had altered Fletcher’s mind, leaving him a disembodied personality.
Fletcher now shared his brain.
And Searle was dying.
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Sherlock Bones and the Missing Cheese by Susan Stevens Crummel from Two Lions ($1.99) is the Kindle Kids Deal of the Day (August 16) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "A fun book kids and adults will enjoy!"
What’s that smell in the Dell? It comes from a cheese, a great big cheese, a smelly, scrumptious cheese, if you please, made from the milk of a cantankerous cow—oh, wow! The one-horned, two-eared, three-legged Cowabunga!
But the Cowabunga cheese has gone missing, and Sherlock Bones is on the case! That brainy bloodhound must use all five of his senses to track down the thief.
Children will have fun following the clues in this roll-off-your-tongue read-aloud inspired by the popular children’s song “The Farmer in the Dell” and illustrated with Dorothy Donohue’s lively signature cut-paper artwork.
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Little Children: A Novel by Tom Perrotta from St. Martin's Press ($3.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (August 16)
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Tom Perrotta (Nine Inches, The Leftovers) earned a Best Screenplay Oscar nomination for his work on the movie version of his captivating character study, but nothing captures the suburban grasp for fleeting happiness, willful resistance to adulthood, and roiling psychology of relationships than the original novel itself.
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Little Children: A Novel by Tom Perrotta is $2.99 (
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