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The Upper Room by Mary Monroe from Kensington ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (Apr 26)

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Mama Ruby is known for taking things that aren't hers, like her best friend's stillborn baby --a tiny girl she named Maureen when she brought her back to life with her legendary healing hands. But when Maureen grows up to get the chance to explore the "real" world, bet she's going to take it.

Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski from Open Road ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (Apr 26)

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Winner of the 1946 Newbery Award, Strawberry Girl is a classic American tale. The story takes place in early 20th century Florida, Birdie's family is trying to start a farm, but are constantly frustrated by climate, soil, and their neighbors the Slaters.

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Blue is for Nightmares by Laurie Faria Stolarz from Llewellyn Publications ($0.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Apr 26) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Boarding school junior Stacey Brown has nightmares too real to ignore. When they come true, Stacey's shocked to find that they're about her best friend, Drea. A psychotic stalker targets Drea in Stacey's nighttime visions, and Stacey knows she'll need to summon all her magical abilities to protect her friend.

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FYI, Amazon has matched the NOOK Daily Find for Families today!

Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski now also $2.99 for US Kindle

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FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook Daily Find:

The Upper Room by Mary Monroe also $1.99

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How to Engage an Earl (Royle Sisters) by Kathryn Caskie (HarperCollins) is $1.99 (US KIndle, iTunes, Kobo)

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The last thing the Earl of MacLaren wants is a wife, so when he awakens to discover a fair-haired enchantress at the foot of his bed, he behaves as any man might by taking full advantage of the delicious situation. Then his family bursts in, and the chit brazenly announces that she is his betrothed. So he finds himself well on his way to being legshackled for life! Beautiful, reserved Anne Royle had never done anything so mad in her life. She entered the earl's bedchamber with no intention of seduction. Rather, she hoped to discover a document that could contain the truth about her heritage. But now her world is turned upside down, and while she trembles at the thought of her wedding night, she finds she longs for it in ways she never thought possible.

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Virgin Widow by Anne O'Brien from MIRA (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Apr 27) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Anne Neville, daughter of the powerful Earl of Warwick, grows up during a time when kings and queens are made and destroyed in an on-going battle for the throne of England. As a child Anne falls in love with the ambitious and proud Richard of Gloucester, but her father is branded a traitor and her family must flee to exile in France.

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Glow (Sky Chasers) by Amy Kathleen Ryan is $2.99 (US Kindle, iTunes)

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One of School Library Journal’s Best Fiction Books of 2011

If a violent battle destroyed the only world you’ve ever known, would you be brave enough to save who was left? Would love be strong enough to survive the fight? Either way, there’s no turning back.

The Empyrean is the only home 15-year-old Waverly has ever known. Part of the first generation to be successfully conceived in deep space, she and her boyfriend Kieran will be pioneers of New Earth. Waverly knows she must marry young in order to have children who can carry on the mission, and Kieran, the handsome captain-to-be, has everything Waverly could want in a husband. Everyone is sure he’s the best choice. Still, there’s a part of Waverly that wants more from life than marriage, and she is secretly intrigued by the shy, darkly brilliant Seth.

Suddenly, Waverly’s dreams are interrupted by the inconceivable – a violent betrayal by the Empyrean's sister ship, the New Horizon. The New Horizon’s leaders are desperate to populate the new planet first, and will do anything to get what they need: young girls. In one pivotal moment, Waverly and Kieran are separated, and find themselves at the helm of dangerous missions, where every move has potentially devastating consequences, and decisions of the heart may lead to disaster.

Pulse-pounding and addictive, GLOW begins the most riveting series since The Hunger Games.

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Autumn: The City by David Moody is $2.99 (US Kindle)

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A bastard hybrid of War of the Worlds and Night of the Living Dead, Autumn chronicles the struggle of a small group of survivors forced to contend with a world torn apart by a deadly disease. After 99% of the population of the planet is killed in less than 24 hours, for the very few who have managed to stay alive, things are about to get much worse. Animated by "phase two" of some unknown contagion, the dead begin to rise. At first slow, blind, dumb and lumbering, quickly the bodies regain their most basic senses and abilities... sight, hearing, locomotion... As well as the instinct toward aggression and violence. Held back only by the restraints of their rapidly decomposing flesh, the dead seem to have only one single goal - to lumber forth and destroy the sole remaining attraction in the silent, lifeless world: those who have survived the plague, who now find themselves outnumbered 1,000,000 to 1...

Without ever using the 'Z' word, Autumn offers a new perspective on the traditional zombie story. There's no flesh eating, no fast-moving corpses, no gore for gore's sake. Combining the atmosphere and tone of George Romero's classic living dead films with the attitude and awareness of 28 Days (and Weeks) later, this horrifying and suspenseful novel is filled with relentless cold, dark fear.

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Suburgatory by Linda E Keenan is $1.99 (US Kindle)

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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.

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The Praxis (Dread Empire's Fall) by Walter J. Williams (HarperCollins) is $2.99 (US Kindle, iTunes)

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All will must bend to the perfect truth of The Praxis

For millennia, the Shaa have subjugated the universe, forcing the myriad sentient races to bow to their joyless tyranny. But the Shaa will soon be no more. The dread empire is in its rapidly fading twilight, and with its impending fall comes the promise of a new galactic order . . . and bloody chaos.

A young Terran naval officer marked by his lowly birth, Lt. Gareth Martinez is the first to recognize the insidious plot of the Naxid -- the powerful, warlike insectoid society that was enslaved before all others -- to replace the masters’ despotic rule with their own. Barely escaping a swarming surprise attack, Martinez and Caroline Sula, a pilot whose beautiful face conceals a deadly secret, are now the last hope for freedom for every being who ever languished in Shaa chains -- as the interstellar battle begins against a merciless foe whose only perfect truth is annihilation.

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The Sirens of Titan (Kurt Vonnegut Series) by Kurt Vonnegut from RosettaBooks ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Apr 27) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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The Sirens of Titan (1959) is Vonnegut's second novel and was on the Hugo ballot with Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers but lost in what Harlan Ellison has called a monumental injustice. Sirens of Titan is a picaresque novel which almost defies being synposized; it is an interplanetary Candide (lacking perhaps Voltaire's utter bitterness), the book follows lead character Malachi Constant, a feckless but kind-hearted millionaire as he moves through the solar system on his quest for the meaning of all existence.

Constant is aided by another tycoon, Winston Rumfoord, who with the help of aliens has actually discovered the fundamental meaning of life (the retrieval of an alien artifact with an inscribed message of greetings). With the assistance of Salo, an alien root and overseeing the alien race, the Tralmafadorians (who also feature in Slaughterhouse-Five), Constant attempts to find some cosmic sense and order in the face of universal malevolence. Together Constant and Rumfoord deal with the metaphysics of ""chrono-synclastic infundibula"", they deal with the interference of the Tralmafadorians; the novel is pervaded by a goofy, episodic charm which barely shields the readers (or the characters) from the sense of a large and indifferent universe.

All of Vonnegut's themes and obsessions (which are further developed and/or recycled in later work) are evident here in this novel which is more hopeful than most of Vonnegut's canon. It is suggested that ultimately Constant learns that only it is impossible to learn, and that fate (and the Tralmafodorians) are impenetrable, unavoidable circumstance.

On the basis of this novel, Vonnegut was wholly claimed by the science fiction community (as witnessed by the Hugo nomination), but Vonnegut did not likewise wish to claim the community for himself and the feelings were not reciprocal. He felt from the outset that being identified as a science fiction writer could only limit his audience and trivialize his themes. His recurring character, the hack science fiction writer, Kilgore Trout (who also features in Slaughterhouse-Five), represented to Vonnegut the worst case scenario of the writer he did not wish to become.

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The 13th Tribe (An Immortal Files Novel) by Robert Liparulo from Thomas Nelson ($3.40) is the NOOK Daily Find (Apr 27)

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Cursed to walk the earth for all time for the crime of idolatry, a group of immortal vigilantes are desperate to find forgiveness by killing sinners. Jagger Baird, a former Army Ranger now heading security for an archaeological dig on Sinai, must face this band of twisted immortals before it is too late in this action-packed thriller that will keep you guessing until the very end.

Tiger's Curse (Tiger's Curse Series #1) by Colleen Houck from Splinter ($2.49) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (Apr 27)

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Kelsey thought this would just be another summer job, working part-time at the circus. Little did she know she would develop a relationship to a white Bengal tiger named Ren who turns out to be a cursed Indian prince. Now the two must travel back to India to break the curse and free Ren.

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FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal:

The 13th Tribe (An Immortal Files Novel) by Robert Liparulo also $3.40!

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FYI, Kindle app weekly deal:

Jewel Quest Solitaire ($0.99 Sale - A Solitaire Game for Kindle) by iWin

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Eternal Kiss of Darkness with an Exclusive Excerpt by Jeaniene Frost is $1.99 (US Kindle, Pre-order)

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For a limited time, and at a special price, discover Eternal Kiss of Darkness by New York Times bestselling paranormal romance author Jeaniene Frost. Plus, receive the first three chapters of her new Night Prince novel, Once Burned, available wherever books are sold June 26.

In Eternal Kiss of Darkness, after four thousand years among the undead, very little catches Master Vampire Mencheres off guard. So when a petite but brave-hearted private investigator interrupts his fight with a gang of ghouls, he's prepared to patch her up and erase her memory before sending her on her way. But the bronze-haired beauty's mind is impenetrable, and the seasoned vamp may just be in for a surprise or two . . .

Kira Graceling long ago promised herself that she'd never again be a victim-and she'll do her best to protect innocents around her. So when she dives head first into a brawl, and finds herself whisked away by a startlingly handsome stranger, she makes it clear she won't be at anyone's mercy.

Mencheres is also no stranger to betrayal, and as sizzling tension ignites, will the millennia-old vampire and the world weary officer finally learn to trust—or love—again?