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The Conductor by Sarah Quigley from Head of Zeus (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (September 8) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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In the freezing Russian winter of 1941, the conductor of a second-rate orchestra must arrange a performance of a defiant new piece, to be relayed by loudspeakers to the front lines. The musicians are barely strong enough to play their instruments, and what starts as a struggle to perform becomes a struggle to survive.

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On the Line by Serena Williams from Grand Central Publishing ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (September 8)

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Celebrate the women's final of the U.S. Open with the autobiography of the queen of the court herself, Serena Williams. Faith, hard work, and a love of the game have propelled Williams to the very top. Share her inspirational story today.

FYI, Amazon has matched this deal:

On the Line by Serena Williams also $2.99 for US Kindle

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The Winston Churchill's WWII Collection from RosettaBooks ($1.99 Each) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (September 8) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Today only, the six books in Winston Churchill’s monumental account detailing the European Allied Powers fight against Germany and the Axis are $1.99 each, up to 78% off the digital list price. Churchill won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953 in part because of this awe-inspiring work.

Shannon Hale's The Books of Bayern Series from Bloomsbury USA Childrens ($1.99 Each) is the Kindle Kids Deal of the Day (September 8) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Today only, all four books of Newbery Honor-winning author Shannon Hale's young-adult fantasy series are just $1.99 each, up to 57% off yesterday's price.

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The House of Harper: The Making of a Modern Publisher by Eugene Exman from HarperCollins is $1.99 (US Kindle)

Book Description:

The epic story of a publishing giant

In 1817 four young brothers opened a printing shop in downtown Manhattan. Two centuries later, their small enterprise has grown into one of the world’s largest and most successful publishing houses. The Harper brothers and their sons and successors created a grand cultural institution that has become a cornerstone of America’s literary heritage.

Eugene Exman’s classic history, published in 1967, The House of Harper is the fascinating account of the birth and growth of a magnificent literary empire. Richly detailed, it is filled with portraits of dynamic publishers and editors, with remarkable anecdotes about the legendary artists and authors whose works they championed and brought to the general public—Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Winslow Homer, Henry James, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Thomas Wolfe, and Aldous Huxley, to name but a few. More than the enthralling saga of a successful business venture, it is a story of the shaping of American literature and culture.

Jennifer Johnson Is Sick of Being Single by Heather McElhatton from William Morrow Paperbacks is $0.99 (US Kindle)

Book Description:

A wicked comedy about the perils of making your dreams come true

Quirky, clever, cubicle-bound Jennifer Johnson is desperate. Everyone around her is getting married, while she’s still single and stuck writing ad copy about men’s dress socks.

Her life hits crisis level, launching her into a humiliating and painfully hilarious quest to find Prince Charming at any cost. This includes agonizing online dates, diet-clinic cults, drag-queen fights, and a debilitating addiction to Cinnabon icing. When she meets handsome, wealthy Brad Keller, she wonders if he’s the answer to all her dreams, or is he just too good to be true?

Darkly funny and outrageously honest, McElhatton’s wit shines in this no-holds-barred cautionary tale about getting what you want—and how it can be the worst thing for you.

Sunset Park: A Novel by Paul Auster from Henry Holt and Co./Macmillan is $3.99 (US Kindle)

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Luminous, passionate, expansive, an emotional tour de force

Sunset Park follows the hopes and fears of a cast of unforgettable characters brought together by the mysterious Miles Heller during the dark months of the 2008 economic collapse.

An enigmatic young man employed as a trash-out worker in southern Florida obsessively photographing thousands of abandoned objects left behind by the evicted families.
A group of young people squatting in an apartment in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
The Hospital for Broken Things, which specializes in repairing the artifacts of a vanished world.
William Wyler’s 1946 classic The Best Years of Our Lives.
A celebrated actress preparing to return to Broadway.
An independent publisher desperately trying to save his business and his marriage.

These are just some of the elements Auster magically weaves together in this immensely moving novel about contemporary America and its ghosts. Sunset Park is a surprising departure that confirms Paul Auster as one of our greatest living writers.

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The Declaration: The Declaration Series, Book 1 by Gemma Malley from Bloomsbury Childrens (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (September 9) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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In a society in which ageing is no longer feared and death is no longer inevitable, children are an abomination. Anna Covey is a 'surplus'--she should not have been born. Children like her are imprisoned and forced to make amends for their parents' selfish acts. But when a new inmate arrives, Anna gets a glimpse of something more.

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The Rules of Love: A Personal Code for Happier, More Fulfilling Relationships by Richard Templar from Pearson Education ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (September 9)

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There are a hundred simple rules to live and love by, and Richard Templar lays them out for you here, helping you develop the personal code you need to achieve more fulfilling relationships with friends and family.

FYI, Amazon has matched this deal:

The Rules of Love: A Personal Code for Happier, More Fulfilling Relationships by Richard Templar also $2.99 for US Kindle

The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It by Timothy Noah from Bloomsbury USA ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find: Election 2012 (September 9)

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Over the past thirty years, Timothy Noah argues, America has become a country of haves and have-nots, with a slender few accumulating one-fifth of the nation's income. A carefully researched look the roots of economic inequality in America, the threat it poses to future generations, and the path to making a change.

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Ten Romance Novels ($1.99 Each) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (September 9) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Today only, 10 Popular romance novels featuring authors like Susan Mallery, Heather Graham, Gena Showalter, and Debbie Macomber are up to 80% off the digital list price.

Bart King's Big Book Series from Gibbs-Smith ($1.99 Each) is the Kindle Kids Deal of the Day (September 9) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Bart King is a master of balancing humor, facts, and activities for middle-school readers. His three, critically acclaimed books instruct how to build a play fort, explore the world's most disgusting jobs, expose the nitty-gritty details of international espionage, and much more. Today, they're up to 74% off yesterday's price.

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A Descent Into Hell by Kathryn Casey from HarperCollins is $0.99 (US Kindle)

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Bright, attractive, and both from good families, University of Texas college student Colton Pitonyak and vibrant redhead Jennifer Cave had the world at their beckoning. Cave, an ex-cheerleader, had just landed an exciting new job, while a big-money scholarship to UT's prestigious business school lured Pitonyak to Austin. Yet the former altar boy had a dark, unpredictable streak, one that ensnared him in the perilous underworld of drugs and guns. When Jennifer failed to show up for work on August 18, 2005, her mother became frightened. Sharon Cave's search led to Colton's West Campus apartment, where Jennifer's family discovered a scene worthy of the grisliest horror movie. Meanwhile, Colton Pitonyak was nowhere to be found.

A Descent Into Hell is the gripping true story of one of the most brutal slayings in UT history—and the wild "Bonnie and Clyde-like" flight from justice of a cold-blooded young killer and his would-be girlfriend, who claimed that her unquestioning allegiance to Pitonyak was "just the way I roll."

Simply Irresistible (A Lucky Harbor Novel) by Jill Shalvis from Forever/Hachette is $0.99 (US Kindle)

Book Description

Maddie Moore's whole life needs a makeover.

In one fell swoop, Maddie loses her boyfriend (her decision) and her job (so not her decision). But rather than drowning her sorrows in bags of potato chips, Maddie leaves L.A. to claim the inheritance left by her free-spirited mother-a ramshackle inn nestled in the little coastal town of Lucky Harbor, Washington.

Starting over won't be easy. Yet Maddie sees the potential for a new home and a new career-if only she can convince her two half-sisters to join her in the adventure. But convincing Tara and Chloe will be difficult because the inn needs a big makeover too.

The contractor Maddie hires is a tall, dark-haired hottie whose eyes-and mouth-are making it hard for her to remember that she's sworn off men. Even harder will be Maddie's struggles to overcome the past, though she's about to discover that there's no better place to call home than Lucky Harbor.

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Manual of Painting and Calligraphy by Jose Saramago from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is $2.99 (US Kindle)

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Manual of Painting and Calligraphy was José Saramago’s first novel. Written eight years before the critically acclaimed Baltasar and Blimunda, it is a story of self-discovery set against the background of the last years of Salazar’s dictatorship. A struggling young artist, commissioned to paint a portrait of an influential industrialist, learns in the process about himself and the world around him. The brilliant juxtaposition of a passionate love story and the crisis of a nation foreshadows all of Saramago’s major works.

A must-have for any devotee of the great Portuguese Nobel laureate, Manual of Painting and Calligraphy is available in the United States for the first time.

*FYI, The Collected Novels of Jose Saramago by Jose Saramago is just $15.99

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Red Flags by Jurjevics Juris from No Exit Press (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (September 10) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Army cop Erik Rider is enjoying his war until he's sent to disrupt Vietcong opium fields in a remote province. His tiny contingent become surrounded by enemy infantry and 60,000 tribespeople who want their mountain back. As Rider is about to discover, someone much closer to home has interests in maintaining the opium ring.

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My American Unhappiness by Dean Bakopoulos from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (September 10)

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My American Unhappiness by Dean Bakopoulos is still $2.99 for US Kindle

The New Geography of Jobs by Enrico Moretti from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ($3.99) is the NOOK Daily Find: Election 2012 (September 10)

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As manufacturing jobs disappear and "brain hubs" like San Francisco and New York City thrive, a great redistribution of jobs, wealth, and people is underway in America. Mapping this sea change, economist Enrico Moretti confronts what he calls "the challenge of the century": fostering innovation in modern metropolises while arresting decline elsewhere.

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Night Swim by Jessica Keener from Fiction Studio Books ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (September 10) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Sixteen-year-old Sarah Kunitz lives in a posh, suburban world of 1970 Boston. From the outside, her parents’ lifestyle appears enviable, but inside their five-bedroom house, all is not well. It's a moving story filled with humor and tragedy that shows how a family, bound by heartache, learns to love again.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley from RosettaBooks ($1.99) is the other Kindle Deal of the Day (September 10) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Aldous Huxley's bleak future prophesized in Brave New World shows a capitalist civilization driven by scientific and psychological engineering, a world where people are genetically designed to be passive and useful to the ruling class. It's a forceful, reasoned indictment of blind progress and mankind's increasing appetite for simple amusement.

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The Ninth Wife: A Novel by Amy Stolls from Harper Paperbacks is $2.99 (US Kindle)

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What sane woman would consider becoming any man's ninth wife?

Bess Gray is a thirty-five-year-old folklorist and amateur martial artist living in Washington, DC. Just as she's about to give up all hope of marriage, she meets Rory, a charming Irish musician, and they fall in love. But Rory is a man with a secret, which he confesses to Bess when he asks for her hand: He's been married eight times before. Shocked, Bess embarks on a quest she feels she must undertake before she can give him an answer. With her bickering grandparents (married sixty-five years), her gay neighbor (himself a mystery), a shar-pei named Stella, and a mannequin named Peace, Bess sets out on a cross-country journey—unbeknownst to Rory—to seek out and question the wives who came before. What she discovers about her own past is far more than she bargained for.

The Ninth Wife is a smart, funny, eye-opening tale of love, marriage, and the power of stories to unlock the true meaning of home and family.

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The Red Book by Deborah Copaken Kogan from Hyperion is $3.99 (US Kindle)

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The Big Chill meets The Group in Deborah Copaken Kogan’s wry, lively, and irresistible new novel about a once-close circle of friends at their twentieth college reunion.

Clover, Addison, Mia, and Jane were roommates at Harvard until their graduation in 1989. Clover, homeschooled on a commune by mixed-race parents, felt woefully out of place. Addison yearned to shed the burden of her Mayflower heritage. Mia mined the depths of her suburban ennui to enact brilliant performances on the Harvard stage. Jane, an adopted Vietnamese war orphan, made sense of her fractured world through words.

Twenty years later, their lives are in free fall. Clover, once a securities broker with Lehman, is out of a job and struggling to reproduce before her fertility window slams shut. Addison’s marriage to a writer’s-blocked novelist is as stale as her so-called career as a painter. Hollywood shut its gold-plated gates to Mia, who now stays home with her four children, renovating and acquiring faster than her director husband can pay the bills. Jane, the Paris bureau chief for a newspaper whose foreign bureaus are now shuttered, is caught in a vortex of loss.

Like all Harvard grads, they’ve kept abreast of one another via the red book, a class report published every five years, containing brief autobiographical essays by fellow alumni. But there’s the story we tell the world, and then there’s the real story, as these former classmates will learn during their twentieth reunion weekend, when they arrive with their families, their histories, their dashed dreams, and their secret yearnings to a relationship-changing, score-settling, unforgettable weekend.

Included in the eBook edition: a Reading Group Guide and a Q&A with the author, Deborah Copaken Kogan.

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FYI, Ten of Paolo Coelho's books are down to $0.99 again (US Kindle) - here's an Amazon search link

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HarperCollins ($2.99 each)

The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
Labor Day (P.S.) by Joyce Maynard
Falling Together by Marisa de los Santos
Domestic Violets (P.S.) by Matthew Norman

The Map of True Places by Brunonia Barry
The Financial Lives of the Poets (P.S.) by Jess Walter
Don't Sing at the Table: Life Lessons from My Grandmothers by Adriana Trigiani

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FYI, The Madonnas of Leningrad currently shows $8.99.

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HarperCollins ($1.99 each)

The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty New Edition by Buster Olney
Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy (P.S.) by Jane Leavy
My Spiritual Journey by Dalai Lama
Purity of Heart: Is To Will One Thing by Soren Kierkegaard
Dynamics of Faith by Paul Tillich
A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living by Luc Ferry

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Chasing Miracles: The Crowley Family Journey of Strength, Hope, and Joy by John Crowley and Aileen Crowley from Newmarket Press/HarperCollins is $2.37 (US Kindle)

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When John and Aileen Crowley learned that their two youngest children had a rare and little understood genetic disorder, they didn't hope for miracles: they made them happen.

In 1998, 15-month-old Megan and 4-month-old Patrick were diagnosed with Pompe disease, a rare and fatal neuromuscular disorder that affects only a few thousand children worldwide, usually leaving them with little to no muscle function, enlarged hearts, and severe difficulty breathing. The Crowleys were told to take their children home and "enjoy their short time together...there is nothing that can be done."

Raised in a blue-collar neighborhood in northern New Jersey, John Crowley, a recent Harvard MBA graduate working at Bristol-Myers Squibb, was just beginning to taste success in corporate America. But now he was absolutely determined to find a treatment to save his children's lives. Frustrated with the pace of Pompe research, Crowley walked away from the corporate world at the age of 31 to help co-found a start-up biotech company, focused exclusively on producing a lifesaving medicine.

In Chasing Miracles, John Crowley writes from his heart about how he and his wife set out to do "whatever it takes" against phenomenal odds to help Megan and Patrick first to survive, and then to thrive—and to keep their family, including oldest son John Jr., together and their marriage strong. He tells about learning to ask for help, about not losing faith, about coping with adversity, about the generosity and kindness of others, and, most importantly, about what it means to never, never quit.

As Aileen Crowley writes in her foreword, "This book is our family's attempt to share much of what we have learned, especially from our children, who have taught us more about life and love than we have ever taught them."

The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder Mysteries) by Lawrence Block from HarperCollins is $0.99 (US Kindle)

Book Description

'This is a fine opportunity to get in on the start of what has become one of the most rewarding PI series currently in progress. - Publishers Weekly"

The pretty young prostitute is dead. Her alleged murderer—a minister's son—hanged himself in his jail cell. The case is closed. But the dead girl's fatherhas come to Matthew Scudder for answers, sending the unlicensed private investigator in search of terrible truths about a life that was lived and lost in a sordid world of perversion and pleasures.

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Legacy (The Sharing Knife, Book 2) by Lois McMaster Bujold from HarperCollins is $0.99 (US Kindle)

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Fawn Bluefield, the clever young farmer girl, and Dag Redwing Hickory, the seasoned Lakewalker soldier-sorcerer, have been married all of two hours when they depart her family's farm for Dag's home at Hickory Lake Camp. Having gained a hesitant acceptance from Fawn's family for their unlikely marriage, the couple hopes to find a similar reception among Dag's Lakewalker kin. But their arrival is met with prejudice and suspicion, setting many in the camp against them, including Dag's own mother and brother. A faction of Hickory Lake Camp, denying the literal bond between Dag and Fawn, woven in blood in the Lakewalker magical way, even goes so far as to threaten permanent exile for Dag.

Before their fate as a couple is decided, however, Dag is called away by an unexpected—and viciously magical—malice attack on a neighboring hinterland threatening Lakewalkers and farmers both. What his patrol discovers there will not only change Dag and his new bride, but will call into question the uneasy relationship between their peoples—and may even offer a glimmer of hope for a less divided future.

Filled with heroic deeds, wondrous magic, and rich, all-too-human characters, The Sharing Knife: Legacy is at once a gripping adventure and a poignant romance from one of the most imaginative and thoughtful writers in fantasy today.

FYI, Beguilement (The Sharing Knife, Book 1) is still $0.99

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Ella Enchanted (Trophy Newbery) by Gail Carson Levine from HarperCollins is $4.99 (US Kindle, pre-order)

Book Description
Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up

How can a fairy's
blessing be such a curse?

At her birth, Ella of Frell was the unfortunate recipient of a foolish fairy's gift -- the "gift' of obedience. Ella must obey any order given to her, whether it's hopping on one foot for a day and a half, or chopping off her own head! But strong-willed Ella does not tamely accept her fate. Against a bold backdrop of princes, ogres, giants, wicked stepsisters, and fairy godmothers, Ella goes on a quest to break the curse -- once and for all.

In this incredible debut novel comes the richly entertaining story of Ella of Frell, who at birth was given the gift of obedience by a fairy. Ella soon realizes that this gift is little better than a curse, for how can she truly be herself if at anytime anyone can order her to hop on one foot, or cut off her hand, or betray her kingdom'and she'll have to obey? Against a bold tapestry of princes, ogres, giants, wicked stepsisters, and fairy godmothers, Ella's quest to break the curse once and for all and discover who she really is is as sharply funny as Catherine, Called Birdy and as richly poignant as Beauty, and has all the marks of a classic in the making.

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A Pocket Full of Rye: A Miss Marple Mystery (Miss Marple Mysteries) by Agatha Christie from William Morrow Paperbacks is $4.74 (US Kindle)

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Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his “counting house” when he suffered an agonizing and sudden death. On later inspection, the pockets of the deceased were found to contain traces of cereals.

Yet, it was the incident in the parlor which confirmed Miss Marple’s suspicion that here she was looking at a case of crime by rhyme. . . .

A Beautiful Place to Die: An Emmanuel Cooper Mystery by Malla Nunn from Atria Books/Simon and Schuster is $2.99 (US Kindle)

Book Description

Award-winning screenwriter Malla Nunn delivers a stunning and darkly romantic crime novel set in 1950s apartheid South Africa, featuring Detective Emmanuel Cooper -- a man caught up in a time and place where racial tensions and the raw hunger for power make life very dangerous indeed.
In a morally complex tale rich with authenticity, Nunn takes readers to Jacob's Rest, a tiny town on the border between South Africa and Mozambique. It is 1952, and new apartheid laws have recently gone into effect, dividing a nation into black and white while supposedly healing the political rifts between the Afrikaners and the English. Tensions simmer as the fault line between the oppressed and the oppressors cuts deeper, but it's not until an Afrikaner police officer is found dead that emotions more dangerous than anyone thought possible boil to the surface.

When Detective Emmanuel Cooper, an Englishman, begins investigating the murder, his mission is preempted by the powerful police Security Branch, who are dedicated to their campaign to flush out black communist radicals. But Detective Cooper isn't interested in political expediency and has never been one for making friends. He may be modest, but he radiates intelligence and certainly won't be getting on his knees before those in power. Instead, he strikes out on his own, following a trail of clues that lead him to uncover a shocking forbidden love and the imperfect life of Captain Pretorius, a man whose relationships with the black and coloured residents of the town he ruled were more complicated and more human than anyone could have imagined.

The first in her Detective Emmanuel Cooper series, A Beautiful Place to Die marks the debut of a talented writer who reads like a brilliant combination of Raymond Chandler and Graham Greene. It is a tale of murder, passion, corruption, and the corrosive double standard that defined an apartheid nation. I

Blood Red Road by Moira Young from Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon and Schuster is $4.99 (US Kindle)

Book Description
Age Level: 14 and up

Saba has spent her whole life in Silverlake, a dried-up wasteland ravaged by constant sandstorms. The Wrecker civilization has long been destroyed, leaving only landfills for Saba and her family to scavenge from. That's fine by her, as long as her beloved twin brother Lugh is around. But when a monster sandstorm arrives, along with four cloaked horsemen, Saba's world is shattered. Lugh is captured, and Saba embarks on an epic quest to get him back.
Suddenly thrown into the lawless, ugly reality of the world outside of desolate Silverlake, Saba is lost without Lugh to guide her. So perhaps the most surprising thing of all is what Saba learns about herself: she's a fierce fighter, an unbeatable survivor, and a cunning opponent. And she has the power to take down a corrupt society from the inside. Teamed up with a handsome daredevil named Jack and a gang of girl revolutionaries called the Free Hawks, Saba stages a showdown that will change the course of her own civilization.

Blood Red Road has a searing pace, a poetically minimal writing style, violent action, and an epic love story. Moira Young is one of the most promising and startling new voices in teen fiction.

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The Tender Bar: A Memoir by J.R. Moehringer from Hyperion is $1.99 (US Kindle, price match to GooglePlay's 100 Books from $1.99 Sale)

Book Description

A moving, vividly told memoir full of heart, drama, and exquisite comic timing, about a boy striving to become a man, and his romance with a bar.

J .R. Moehringer grew up listening for a voice: It was the sound of his missing father, a disc jockey who disappeared before J.R. spoke his first words. As a boy, J.R. would press his ear to a clock radio, straining to hear in that resonant voice the secrets of masculinity, and the keys to his own identity. J.R.'s mother was his world, his anchor, but he needed something else, something more, something he couldn't name. So he turned to the bar on the corner, a grand old New York saloon that was a sanctuary for all types of men-cops and poets, actors and lawyers, gamblers and stumblebums. The flamboyant characters along the bar-including J.R.'s Uncle Charlie, a Humphrey Bogart look-alike; Colt, a Yogi Bear sound-alike; Joey D, a soft-hearted brawler; and Cager, a war hero who raised handicapping horses to an art-taught J.R., tended him, and provided a kind of fatherhood by committee. When the time came for J.R. to leave home, the bar became a way station-from his entrance to Yale, where he floundered as a scholarship student way out of his element; to his introduction to tragic romance with a woman way out of his league; to his stint as a copy boy at the New York Times, where he was a faulty cog in a vast machine way out of his control. Through it all, the bar offered shelter from failure, from rejection, and eventually from reality-until at last the bar turned J.R. away.

Riveting, moving, and achingly funny, The Tender Bar is at once an evocative portrait of one boy's struggle to become a man, and a touching depiction of how some men remain lost boys.