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FYI, New Kindle App Weekly Deal: BINGO

This classic number-matching, card-filling party game is a blast on Kindle, and for one week only, it's just $0.99.

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FYI, Amazon matched the Nook deal:

Blindness by José Saramago now also $2.99

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House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East by Anthony Shadid from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is $3.99 (Price match to Google Play’s Deal of the Week)

Book Description

In spring 2011, Anthony Shadid was one of four New York Times reporters captured in Libya, cuffed and beaten, as that country was seized by revolution. When he was freed, he went home. Not to Boston or Beirut—where he lives— or to Oklahoma City, where his Lebanese-American family had settled and where he was raised. Instead, he returned to his great-grandfather’s estate, a house that, over three years earlier, Shadid had begun to rebuild.

House of Stone is the story of a battle-scarred home and a war correspondent’s jostled spirit, and of how reconstructing the one came to fortify the other.

In this poignant and resonant memoir, the author of the award-winning Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s War creates a mosaic of past and present, tracing the house’s renewal alongside his family’s flight from Lebanon and resettlement in America. In the process, Shadid memorializes a lost world, documents the shifting Middle East, and provides profound insights into this volatile landscape. House of Stone is an unforgettable meditation on war, exile, rebirth, and the universal yearning for home.

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Cain by José Saramago from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is $2.99

Book Description:

Amazon Best Books of the Month, October 2011

In this, his last novel, José Saramago daringly reimagines the characters and narratives of the Old Testament, recalling his provocative The Gospel According to Jesus Christ. His tale runs from the Garden of Eden, when God realizes he has forgotten to give Adam and Eve the gift of speech, to the moment when Noah’s Ark lands on the dry peak of Ararat. Cain, the despised, the murderer, is Saramago’s protagonist.

Condemned to wander forever after he kills his brother Abel, Cain makes his way through the world in the company of a personable donkey. He is a witness to and participant in the stories of Isaac and Abraham, the destruction of the Tower of Babel, Moses and the golden calf, the trials of Job. The rapacious Queen Lilith takes him as her lover. An old man with two sheep on a rope crosses his path. And again and again, Cain encounters a God whose actions seem callous, cruel, and unjust. He confronts Him, he argues with Him. “And one thing we know for certain,” Saramago writes, “is that they continued to argue and are arguing still.”

A startling book—sensual, funny—and in all ways a fitting end to Saramago’s extraordinary career.

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The Poacher's Son (Mike Bowditch 1) by Paul Doiron from Robinson (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (November 17) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Mike Bowditch returns home one evening to find an alarming voice from the past on his answering machine: his father Jack, a hard-drinking womanizer who makes his living from poaching illegal game. An even more frightening call comes the next morning from the police: they are searching for a cop-killer--and Mike's father is their prime suspect.

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Promise the Night by Michaela MacColl from Chronicle Books ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (November 17)

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Michaela MacColl writes a compelling and action-packed work of historical fiction, exploring the life of Beryl Markham, the very fist person to fly solo across the Atlantic from England to North America. Empowering adventure starring an overlooked real life hero from aviation's golden days.

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Freeman by Leonard Pitts from Agate Bolden ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (November 17) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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After the Confederate surrender, Sam--a runaway slave--travels south in search of his wife, the mother of his only child. At the same time, Sam's wife, Tilda, walks at gunpoint with her slave master, a Confederate officer. It's a sweeping and powerful love story set in brutal, constraining times.

Promises to the Dead by Mary Downing Hahn from Clarion Books ($1.99) is the Kindle Kids Deal of the Day (November 17) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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When Jesse went to the marsh, he expected to find a turtle for terrapin soup. Instead, he discovered a dying slave woman who made Jesse promise he'd take her young son, Perry, to a relative in Baltimore. With civil war brewing, it's a journey more treacherous than Jesse ever imagined.

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FYI, Amazon matched the Nook deal:

Promise the Night by Michaela MacColl also $1.99

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Suburgatory by Linda E Keenan from Lyons Press is $2.53

Book Description:

The title behind the new ABC TV Show, Suburgatory excoriates — through satirical local news “stories” — the mostly upper middle class American pieties and parenting obsessions that surround raising the perfect child amid the anxiety of an America in decline.

The book uses laugh out loud humor to target racism, classism, sexism, submerged suburban sexuality, class warfare, willful ignorance, and the all-around bad behavior raging underneath the surface of those obsessively-tended suburban lawns and bikini lines.

Red Flags by Juris Jurjevics from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is $2.26

Book Description:

A novel of soldiers and spies in the Highlands of Vietnam

Army cop Erik Rider is enjoying his war until he’s sent to disrupt Vietcong opium fields in a remote Highland province.

Rider lands in Cheo Reo, home to hard-pressed soldiers, intelligence operatives, and profiteers of all stripes. The tiny U.S. contingent and their unenthusiastic Vietnamese allies are hopelessly outnumbered by infiltrating enemy infantry. And they’re all surrounded by sixty thousand Montagnard tribespeople who want their mountain homeland back.
The Vietcong are on to Rider’s game and have placed a bounty on his head. As he hunts the opium fields, skirmishes with enemy patrols, and defends the undermanned U.S. base, Rider makes a disturbing discovery: someone close to home has a stake in the opium smuggling ring—and will kill to protect it.

Written by a master, and as authentic as Matterhorn or Dog Soldiers, Red Flags is a riveting new addition to espionage fiction.

The Miracle Detective by Randall Sullivan from Grove Press is $3.82

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A gripping investigation into the extraordinary phenomenon of Virgin Mary sightings around the world, the priests and scientists who investigate them, and a powerful examination about what constitutes the miraculous in the contemporary world

In a tiny, dilapidated trailer in northeastern Oregon, a young woman saw a vision of the Virgin Mary in an ordinary landscape painting hanging on her bedroom wall. After being met with skepticism from the local parish, the Catholic diocese officially placed the matter “under investigation.” Investigative journalist Randall Sullivan wanted to know how exactly one might conduct the official inquiry into such an incident, so he set off to interview theologians, historians, and postulators from the Sacred Congregation of the Causes for Saints. These men, dubbed by the author as “miracle detectives,” were charged by the Vatican with testing the miraculous and judging the holy.

What Sullivan didn’t know was that his own investigation would lead from the Vatican in Rome to the tiny village of Medjugorje in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where six visionaries had been receiving apparitions of the Virgin Mary. Amid a tapestry of believers, skeptics, and apostates, we meet the compassionate Father Slavko Barbaric, an intellectual priest who is known as the Medjugorje seers’ “spiritual director,” and the legendary Father Groeschel, who is continually called upon to investigate supernatural—or at least strange—phenomena across America. Sullivan’s quest turns personal, taking him from the halls of the Vatican, where Pope John Paul II counts himself among Medjugorje’s numerous believers, to Scottsdale, Arizona, site of America’s largest and most controversial instances of Virgin Mary sightings, culminating an eight-year investigation of predictions of apocalyptic events, false claims of revelation, and the search for a genuine theophony, that is, the ultimate interface between man and God.

The Miracle Detective is a gripping investigation into the extraordinary phenomenon of Virgin Mary sightings around the world and the priests and scientists who investigate them, as well as a powerful examination about what constitutes the miraculous in the contemporary world.

I Love Yous Are for White People by Lac Su from HarperCollins is $2.99

Book Description:

As a young child, Lac Su made a harrowing escape from the Communists in Vietnam. With a price on his father’s head, Lac, with his family, was forced to immigrate in 1979 to seedy West Los Angeles where squalid living conditions and a cultural fabric that refused to thread them in effectively squashed their American Dream. Lac’s search for love and acceptance amid poverty—not to mention the psychological turmoil created by a harsh and unrelenting father—turned his young life into a comedy of errors and led him to a dangerous gang experience that threatened to tear his life apart.

Heart-wrenching, irreverent, and ultimately uplifting, I Love Yous Are for White People is memoir at its most affecting, depicting the struggles that countless individuals have faced in their quest to belong and that even more have endured in pursuit of a father’s fleeting affection.

The Maytrees by Annie Dillard from HarperCollins is $2.99

Book Description:

Toby Maytree first sees Lou Bigelow on her bicycle in postwar Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her laughter and loveliness catch his breath. Maytree is a Provincetown native, an educated poet of thirty. As he courts Lou, just out of college, her stillness draws him. Hands-off, he hides his serious wooing, and idly shows her his poems.

In spare, elegant prose, Dillard traces the Maytrees’ decades of loving and longing. They live cheaply among the nonconformist artists and writers that the bare tip of Cape Cod attracts. When their son Petie appears, their innocent Bohemian friend Deary helps care for him. But years later it is Deary who causes the town to talk.

In this moving novel, Dillard intimately depicts willed bonds of loyalty, friendship, and abiding love. She presents nature’s vastness and nearness. Warm and hopeful, The Maytrees is the surprising capstone of Dillard’s original body of work.

About the author:
Annie Dillard is the author of ten books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winner Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

One More River by Mary Glickman from Open Road is $2.99

Book Description:

From the author of Home in the Morning comes this National Jewish Book Award Finalist: the sweeping story of a father and son, and of the loves that transform them amid the turbulence of the American South

Bernard Levy was always a mystery to the community of Guilford, Mississippi. He was even more of a mystery to his son, Mickey Moe, who was just four years old when his father died in World War II.

Now it’s 1962 and Mickey Moe is a grown man, who must prove his pedigree to the disapproving parents of his girlfriend, Laura Anne Needleman, to win her hand in marriage. With only a few decades-old leads to go on, Mickey Moe sets out to uncover his father’s murky past, from his travels up and down the length of the Mississippi River to his heartrending adventures during the Great Flood of 1927. Mickey

Moe’s journey, taken at the dawn of the civil rights era, leads him deep into the backwoods of Mississippi and Tennessee, where he meets with danger and unexpected revelations at every turn. As the greatest challenge of his life unfolds, he will finally discover the gripping details of his father’s life—one filled with loyalty, tragedy, and heroism in the face of great cruelty from man and nature alike.

A captivating follow-up to Mary Glickman’s bestselling Home in the Morning, One More River tells the epic tale of ordinary men caught in the grip of calamity, and inspired to extraordinary acts in the name of love.

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Site Works by Robert Davidson from Sandstone Press (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (November 18) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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On a wind lashed coast in the far north a group of men assemble on a construction site that will dominate their lives for the next few months. Within the compound a new, temporary world will form, bounded by sea, mountains and sky. Site Works is the story of the men and their work, transients creating something permanent and greater than they know.

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A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France by Georgeanne Brennan from Chronicle Books ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (November 18)

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Indulge today in food writer and cookbook author Georgeanne Brennan's memoir of life in the South of France, resplendent and redolent of one of the richest of culinary traditions. Whether it's the regional recipes she shares or her experience of local festivals or her own adventures tending to goats and pigs on her small farmhouse, A Pig in Provence will have your lips smacking.

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Silent Tears: A Journey of Hope in a Chinese Orphanage by Kay Bratt from AmazonEncore ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (November 18) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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In 2003, Kay Bratt's husband took a job oversees, and the American couple relocated to rural China. Once settled, Kay began volunteering at the local orphanage. This heroic, heartbreaking, and hopeful true story details the adversity and triumphs she experienced battling the Chinese bureaucracy to help the country’s orphaned children.

Between by Jessica WARMAN from Walker Childrens ($1.99) is the Kindle Kids Deal of the Day (November 18) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Critically acclaimed novelist Jessica Warman brings readers along on a roller-coaster ride of a mystery that surrounds the events of Elizabeth Valchar's eighteenth birthday party aboard her family's yacht. Warman's heartbreaking story of a popular girl and her friends is ultimately a hopeful tale of redemption, love, and letting go.

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FYI, Amazon matched the Nook deal:

A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France by Georgeanne Brennan also $1.99

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The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is $2.99

Book Description:

A wry, fictional account of the life of Christ by Nobel laureate José Saramago

A brilliant skeptic, José Saramago envisions the life of Jesus Christ and the story of his Passion as things of this earth: A child crying, the caress of a woman half asleep, the bleat of a goat, a prayer uttered in the grayish morning light. His idea of the Holy Family reflects the real complexities of any family, and—as only Saramago can—he imagines them with tinges of vision, dream, and omen. The result is a deft psychological portrait that moves between poetry and irony, spirituality and irreverence of a savior who is at once the Son of God and a young man. In this provocative, tender novel, the subject of wide critical discussion and wonder, Saramago questions the meaning of God, the foundations of the Church, and human existence itself.

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Ninepins by Rosy Thornton from Sandstone Press (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (November 19) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Laura, a single mother living with her 12-year-old daughter deep in the Cambridgeshire fens, takes in 17-year-old Willow at the request of a social worker. But as Willow's past is slowly revealed--it's possible she was once guilty of arson and her mother's hippy life was actually something more sinister--Laura's carefully ordered world begins to spin out of control.

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Catching Jordan by Miranda Kenneally from Sourcebooks ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (November 19)

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Jordan Woods isn't just one of the guys; she leads them as the captain and quarterback of her high school football team. Her eyes are always on her goal, but when Ty Green, an incredible quarterback, comes to her school,will she be able to keep her head in the game? Find out in this captivating novel by Miranda Kenneally (Things I Can't Forget, Stealing Parker.)

**FYI, Amazon matched this Nook deal:

Catching Jordan by Miranda Kenneally also $1.99

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Against the Law by Kat Martin from Mira ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (November 19) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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At 32, Dev is "mostly retired" from Raines Investigations, but he's back in the field after Lark Delaney seeks his help to find the baby her sister gave up for adoption. Dev uncovers a shady adoption ring, and, as the danger increases, he can't ignore his growing attraction to Lark.

Ralph Tells a Story by Abby Hanlon from Amazon Children's Publishing ($1.99) is the Kindle Kids Deal of the Day (November 19) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Debut author and illustrator Abby Hanlon’s endearing text and charming illustrations show how fun writing can be when Ralph, with the help of his classmates, realizes that a great story can be about something very little. (Available on Kindle Fire, Kindle Cloud Reader, Kindle for iPad, and Kindle for Android).

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The Bronze Horseman with Bonus Material by Paullina Simons from William Morrow/HarperCollins is $1.99

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For a limited time, and at a special price, discover Paulina Simons' The Bronze Horseman. Plus, receive an excerpt from Simons' new novel Children of Liberty available February 26th.

Called "a Russian Thorn Birds." The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons is a sweeping saga of love and war that has been a monumental bestseller all over the world. The acclaimed author of Tully, Simons has written a stirring tale of devotion, passion, secrets, betray, and sacrifice. "A love story both tender and fierce" (Publishers Weekly) that "Recalls Dr. Zhivago" (People Magazine), The Bronze Horseman is rich and vivid historical fiction at its finest.

The golden skies, the translucent twilight, the white nights, all hold the promise of youth, of love, of eternal renewal. The war has not yet touched this city of fallen grandeur, or the lives of two sisters, Tatiana and Dasha Metanova, who share a single room in a cramped apartment with their brother and parents. Their world is turned upside down when Hitler's armies attack Russia and begin their unstoppable blitz to Leningrad.

Yet there is light in the darkness. Tatiana meets Alexander, a brave young officer in the Red Army. Strong and self-confident, yet guarding a mysterious and troubled past, he is drawn to Tatiana—and she to him. Starvation, desperation, and fear soon grip their city during the terrible winter of the merciless German siege. Tatiana and Alexander's impossible love threatens to tear the Metanova family apart and expose the dangerous secret Alexander so carefully protects—a secret as devastating as the war itself—as the lovers are swept up in the brutal tides that will change the world and their lives forever.

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Time's Echo by Pamela Hartshorne from Pan (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (November 20) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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In Elizabethan York, Hawise Aske smiles at a stranger in the market and pays for it with her life. Four and a half centuries later, Grace Trewe travels to York to outrun the memories of being caught up in the Boxing Day tsunami. Her stay is meant to be a brief one, but Grace is drawn inexorably into Hawise's life and finds that this time she cannot move on.

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The River by Michael Neale from Thomas Nelson ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (November 20)

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The River that beckons Gabriel Clarke represents many things. An invitation to adventure and freedom. A frightening, angry reminder of the terribly memories he's locked away since boyhood. And, ultimately, a path past fear that he can trust to guide him safely on his way. Share this redemptive story today.

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Berlin Diary by William L. Shirer from RosettaBooks ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (November 20) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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A radio broadcaster and journalist for Edward R. Murrow at CBS, William Shirer began keeping a diary while in Europe during the 1930s. His honest and passionate chronicle is considered the first full record of the rise of the Third Reich and the brutality with which Hitler came to power.

Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes from Harcourt Children's Books ($1.99) is the Kindle Kids Deal of the Day (November 20) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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This 1952 Newbery Medal winner is a warm, witty mystery perfect for young readers. Set in a small town, the story follows the adventures of 10-year-old Jerry Pye, his sister Rachel, and Ginger, Jerry's smart and loyal terrier. Ginger steals the hearts of everyone he meets, until someone steals him!

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The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by Jose Saramago from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is $2.99

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The year: 1936. Europe dances while an invidious dictator establishes himself in Portugal. The city: Lisbon-gray, colorless, chimerical. Ricardo Reis, a doctor and poet, has just come home after sixteen years in Brazil. Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.

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$2.99 Biography/Memoirs from HarperCollins:

Abraham Lincoln: The Man Behind the Myths by Stephen B. Oates

John Lennon: The Life by Philip Norman

Booky Wook 2: This Time It’s Personal by Russell Brand

My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up by Russell Brand

Slash by Slash and Anthony Bozza

Dear Cary: My Life with Cary Grant by Dyan Cannon

The Long Hard Road Out of Hell by Marilyn Manson and Neil Strauss

How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale by Jenna Jameson and Neil Strauss

Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir by Dave Mustaine and Joe Layden

Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock by Sammy Hagar

My Appetite for Destruction: Sex, and Drugs, and Guns N’ Roses by Steven Adler, Lawrence J. Spagnola