A Gay and Melancholy Sound by Merle Miller from AmazonEncore (£0.99) is the Amazon UK
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Customer review: "...first published in 1961 but it feels very fresh, as Bland's voice is so strong and the targets of his anger so relevant."
The first book in nationally renowned librarian Nancy Pearl’s new <em>Book Lust Rediscoveries</em> series, this lost literary classic is available for the first time in decades. As funny and entertaining as it is captivating and heartrending, <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Melancholy-Sound-Pearls-Rediscoveries-ebook/dp/B006VFZPK8/?tag=skim0x3783-21" target="_blank">A Gay and Melancholy Sound</a> is a shattering depiction of modern disconnection and the tragic consequences of a life bereft of love.
Joshua Bland has lived the kind of life many would define as extraordinary. Born in a small Iowa town to a controlling, delusional mother who had always wanted a daughter rather than a son, her anger at him colors his life. His father, a compassionate drinker incapable of dealing with Joshua’s mother, walks out on his wife and son, leaving a vacuum in the family that is damagingly filled by his tutor-cum-stepfather Petrarch Pavan, scion of a wealthy New York family who has secrets of his own. Playing on Joshua’s brilliance, Petrarch trains him to win a nationwide knowledge competition, but Joshua’s disappointing results in the finals are met with anger and disbelief by both his mother and stepfather. If Petrarch was unsuccessful in teaching Joshua the information he needed to win the contest, he had more success in instilling Joshua with the cynicism, self-doubt, and self-hatred that fill his own soul.
Enlisting in the army during World War II, he serves first as an infantryman, where his irreverent letters home turn him into a best-selling author. Then, as a paratrooper, he meets the physical challenges he thought were beyond his reach and helps free the concentration camps before being wounded as the Allied forces free Buchenwald. Back home after the war, he becomes a wildly successful producer—and all of this by the age of thirty-seven. But when his production company flounders amid critical and financial woes, the reality of who he is becomes perfectly, depressingly clear: he has had a lifetime of extraordinary experiences—and no emotional connection to any of it.
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Bad Sisters by Rebecca Chance from Simon & Schuster UK (£0.99) is the Amazon UK
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Customer review: "I thoroughly enjoyed Bad Sisters and would recommend it to anyone who likes seduction, intrigue, rivalry--and murder."
Returning home to the Scottish Highlands after battling the English, Tayg Munro receives a hero’s welcome—and a shocking ultimatum. In order to take his place as heir to the chiefdom of Culrain, he must choose a wife within the month or have one chosen for him. Angered by his family's decree, Tayg delays the inevitable by volunteering for a mission for the king that takes him deep into the Highlands. Preoccupied by his marital obligation, the brooding warrior sets out with no hint of the fateful encounter that awaits him...
Catriona MacLeod is known throughout the Highlands as the Shrew of Assynt, thanks to her razor-sharp tongue and her unwillingness to yield to her five brothers. When she's told that her eldest brother has promised her hand in marriage to a man she has good reason to hate, she flees into the Scottish wilderness, determined to seek the king’s intervention in her plight. When she reluctantly joins forces with a handsome traveler, she cannot anticipate the treacherous plot that will soon embroil them—nor the passion that will ignite between them.
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Stanley: Africa's Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal from Faber and Faber Non Fiction (£1.09) is the Amazon UK
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Customer review: "This is a stunning book about the human will to survive and make something of life…a terrific unputdownable book."
Henry Morton Stanley was a cruel imperialist - a bad man of Africa. Or so we think: but as Tim Jeal brilliantly shows, the reality of Stanley's life is yet more extraordinary. Few people know of his dazzling trans-Africa journey, a heart-breaking epic of human endurance which solved virtually every one of the continent's remaining geographical puzzles. With new documentary evidence, Jeal explores the very nature of exploration and reappraises a reputation, in a way that is both moving and truly majestic.
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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk: A Novel by Ben Fountain from Ecco ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (August 19) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "A razor-sharp satire set in Texas during America's war in Iraq."
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and a finalist for the National Book Award; Amazon Best Books of the Month, May 2012
From the PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author of the critically acclaimed short story collection, Brief Encounters with Che Guevara, comes Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk ("The Catch-22 of the Iraq War" —Karl Marlantes).
A razor-sharp satire set in Texas during America's war in Iraq, it explores the gaping national disconnect between the war at home and the war abroad.
Ben Fountain’s remarkable debut novel follows the surviving members of the heroic Bravo Squad through one exhausting stop in their media-intensive "Victory Tour" at Texas Stadium, football mecca of the Dallas Cowboys, their fans, promoters, and cheerleaders.
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Princess Charming by Beth Pattillo from Bell Bridge Books ($1.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (August 19) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "I highly recommend this wildly entertaining, sweet, and hilarious twist on a classic fairy tale."
A hero’s work is never done.
Haunted by his past, Nicholas St. Germain, Crown Prince of Santadorra, has a penchant for rescuing anyone in distress—damsels as well as hapless canines. He has vowed to avoid heroism of any kind, but then Lady Lucy Charming barrels into his life, trailing trouble in her wake.
Daughter of a Duke, Lady Lucy’s life is anything but charming. Forced into drudgery by her stepmother after the Duke’s death, Lady Lucy endures her lot while plotting rebellion. She foregoes the usual balls and Society’s marriage mart, leaving those pursuits to her desperate stepsisters. Instead, Lucy continues the clandestine and often dangerous work of her late father. But to be discovered aiding the reformation efforts could mean imprisonment for Lucy. Any man who thinks to rescue her from her dedication to the cause will find himself pulling a recalcitrant Lucy from one scrape after another. And when Lucy’s passion for reform places her in jeopardy, Nick finds that a dangerously enticing wager may be the only way to save them both.
When love requires the most daring rescue of all, what’s a hero to do?
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World of Warcraft: Arthas: Rise of the Lich King by Christie Golden from Pocket Books ($1.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (August 19) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "Absolutely essential if you're a player of World of Warcraft."
The book World of Warcraft fans have been clamoring for—the true story behind one of the Warcraft universe’s most terrifying villains, Arthas the Lich King. Author Christie Golden does for Arthas what she once did for the Orc Lord Thrall in the bestselling Warcraft: Lord of the Clans, in another epic exploration of one of the key characters from the eleven-million subscriber massively multiplayer online role-playing game.
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The After Girls by Leah Konen from Merit Press ($1.99) is the Kindle Teens Deal of the Day (August 19) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "A haunting and vivid portrayal of interrupted lives and enduring friendships."
Ella, Astrid, and Sydney were planning the perfect summer after high school graduation. But when Astrid commits suicide in a lonely cabin, the other girls' worlds are shattered. How could their best friend have done this--to herself and to them? They knew everything about Astrid. Shouldn't they have seen this coming? Couldn't they have saved her?
As Ella hunts for the truth, and Sydney tries to dull the pain, a chilling Facebook message from Astrid leaves them wondering whether their beloved friend is communicating from the after life. The girls embark on a journey to uncover Astrid's dark secrets. The answers to those questions--questions they never dreamed of asking--will change their lives forever.
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The Dark Heroine: Dinner with a Vampire by Abigail Gibbs from HarperCollins ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (August 19)
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Abigail Gibbs (Autumn Rose) breathes new life into vampire romance when a chance encounter introduces Violet Lee to a hidden world -- a world of elegance, wealth, and decadence where a vampire sect exists for pleasure alone. From this world, Violet cannot escape, but in passionate surrender to the charismatic Kaspar Varn, would she want to?
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