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The Boy from Reactor 4 by Orest Stelmach from Thomas & Mercer ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (August 23) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "A twisting tale of greed, secrets, and lies that will keep you guessing."
Nadia’s memories of her father are not happy ones. An angry, secretive man, he died when she was thirteen, leaving his past shrouded in mystery. When a stranger claims to have known her father during his early years in Eastern Europe, she agrees to meet—only to watch the man shot dead on a city sidewalk. With his last breath, he whispers a cryptic clue, one that will propel Nadia on a high-stakes treasure hunt from New York to her ancestral homeland of Ukraine. There she meets an unlikely ally: Adam, a teenage hockey prodigy who honed his skills on the abandoned cooling ponds of Chernobyl. Physically and emotionally scarred by radiation syndrome, Adam possesses a secret that could change the world—if she can keep him alive long enough to do it. A twisting tale of greed, secrets, and lies, The Boy from Reactor 4 will keep readers guessing until the final heart-stopping page.
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The Last Girlfriend on Earth: And Other Love Stories by Simon Rich from Reagan Arthur Books ($2.99) 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: "Silly, surreal, and always laugh-out-loud funny! Highly recommended."
In "Center of the Universe," God struggles to balance the demands of his career with the needs of his long-term girlfriend. In "Magical Mr. Goat," a young girl's imaginary friend yearns to become "more than friends." In "Unprotected," an unused prophylactic recalls his years spent trapped inside a teen boy's wallet. The stories in Simon Rich's new book are bizarre, funny, and yet...relatable. Rich explores love's many complications-losing it, finding it, breaking it, and making it-and turns the ordinary into the absurd. With razor-sharp humor and illustrations, and just in time for Valentine's Day, Rich takes readers for an exhilarating, hilarious ride on the rollercoaster of love.
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Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut from RosettaBooks ($1.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (August 24) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "A brilliant and deeply sarcastic look at the American ruling class."
Eugene Debs Hartke (named after the famous early 20th century Socialist working class leader) describes an odyssey from college professor to prison inmate to prison warden back again to prisoner in another of Vonnegut's bitter satirical explorations of how and where (and why) the American dream begins to die. Employing his characteristic narrative device--a retrospective diary in which the protagonist retraces his life at its end, a desperate and disconnected series of events here in Hocus Pocus show Vonnegut with his mask off and his rhetorical devices unshielded.
Debs (and Vonnegut) see academia just as imprisoning as the corrupt penal system and they regard politics as the furnishing and marketing of lies. Debs, already disillusioned by circumstance, quickly tracks his way toward resignation and then fury. As warden and prisoner, Debs (and the reader) come to understand that the roles are interchangeable; as a professor jailed for ""radical"" statements in the classroom reported by a reactionary student, he comes to see the folly of all regulation. The ""hocus pocus"" of the novel's title does not describe only the jolting reversals and seemingly motiveless circumstance which attend Debs' disillusion and suffering, but also describe the political, social, and economic system of a country built upon can't, and upon the franchising of lies.
At 68, Vonnegut had not only abandoned the sentiment and cracked optimism manifest in Slaughterhouse-Five, he had abandoned any belief in the system or faith for its recovery. This novel is another in a long series of farewells to the farmland funeral rites of childhood.
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Switchers (The Switchers Trilogy) by Kate Thompson from Open Road Media Young Readers ($1.99) is the Kindle Teens Deal of the Day (August 20) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "A thrilling story about shape-shifters with a really engaging plot."
Tess has a secret power—and it just might save the world from disaster
Thirteen-year-old Tess is a Switcher, able to change into any animal at will. No one knows her secret, or so she thinks. But one day a strange, scruffy boy follows her home from her Dublin bus stop. The boy’s name is Kevin, and he’s a Switcher too. Kevin convinces Tess that their powers are needed for something important: stopping the snowstorms rapidly advancing from the Arctic. Tess and Kevin will have to stretch their abilities to the very limit to try and save the world from frozen destruction.
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Fantasy Lover (Dark-Hunter Series Prequel) by Sherrilyn Kenyon from St. Martin's Press ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (August 20)
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Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunters are the ancient immortals who fight hard and play rough -- mad, bad, and immortal. Here, meet Julian of Macedon, a proud Spartan general, cursed now to be a love-slave for eternity, until Grace Alexander might be the one to break a 2,000-year-old curse.
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