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Small Town Sinners by Melissa Walker (Bloomsbury USA Childrens) is $2.99 (US Kindle)

Book Description

Lacey Anne Byer is a perennial good girl and lifelong member of the House of Enlightenment, the Evangelical church in her small town. With her driver's license in hand and the chance to try out for a lead role in Hell House, her church's annual haunted house of sin, Lacey's junior year is looking promising. But when a cute new stranger comes to town, something begins to stir inside her. Ty Davis doesn't know the sweet, shy Lacey Anne Byer everyone else does. With Ty, Lacey could reinvent herself. As her feelings for Ty make Lacey test her boundaries, events surrounding Hell House make her question her religion.

Melissa Walker has crafted the perfect balance of engrossing, thought-provoking topics and relatable, likable characters. Set against the backdrop of extreme religion, Small Town Sinners is foremost a universal story of first love and finding yourself, and it will stay with readers long after the last page.

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FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal for today:

Ernie's Ark by Monica Wood also $0.99

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Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady by Kate Summerscale (Bloomsbury USA) is $1.99 (US Kindle, pre-order)

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"I think people marry far too much; it is such a lottery, and for a poor woman—bodily and morally the husband’s slave—a very doubtful happiness." —Queen Victoria to her recently married daughter Vicky

Headstrong, high-spirited, and already widowed, Isabella Walker became Mrs. Henry Robinson at age 31 in 1844. Her first husband had died suddenly, leaving his estate to a son from a previous marriage, so she inherited nothing. A successful civil engineer, Henry moved them, by then with two sons, to Edinburgh’s elegant society in 1850. But Henry traveled often and was cold and remote when home, leaving Isabella to her fantasies.

No doubt thousands of Victorian women faced the same circumstances, but Isabella chose to record her innermost thoughts—and especially her infatuation with a married Dr. Edward Lane—in her diary. Over five years the entries mounted—passionate, sensual, suggestive. One fateful day in 1858 Henry chanced on the diary and, broaching its privacy, read Isabella's intimate entries. Aghast at his wife’s perceived infidelity, Henry petitioned for divorce on the grounds of adultery. Until that year, divorce had been illegal in England, the marital bond being a cornerstone of English life. Their trial would be a cause celebre, threatening the foundations of Victorian society with the specter of "a new and disturbing figure: a middle class wife who was restless, unhappy, avid for arousal." Her diary, read in court, was as explosive as Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, just published in France but considered too scandalous to be translated into English until the 1880s.

As she accomplished in her award-winning and bestselling The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, Kate Summerscale brilliantly recreates the Victorian world, chronicling in exquisite and compelling detail the life of Isabella Robinson, wherein the longings of a frustrated wife collided with a society clinging to rigid ideas about sanity, the boundaries of privacy, the institution of marriage, and female sexuality.

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The Flying Sorcerers by David Gerrold and Larry Niven is $1.99 (US Kindle, iTunes)

Book Description

This funny and insightful science fiction classic introduces Shoogar, the greatest wizard ever known in his village. His spells can strike terror in the hearts of even his most powerful enemies. But the enemy he faces now is like none he has ever seen before. The stranger has come from nowhere and is ignorant of even the most basic principles of magic. But the stranger has an incredibly powerful magic of his own. There is no room in Shoogar’s world for an intruder whose powers match his own, let alone one whose powers might exceed his. So before the blue sun can cross the face of the red sun once more, Shoogar will show this stranger just who is boss.

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No Angel: The Secret Life of Bernie Ecclestone by Tom Bower from Faber and Faber Non Fiction (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Apr 24) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Bernie Ecclestone never revealed how he graduated from selling second-hand cars to becoming the major player he is today, until he revealed his secrets to the most controversial biographer of them all: Tom Bower. From the deals and the marriages to the disasters and the successes, No Angel is a unique story of a simple, driven man.

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Heroes and Monsters by Josh James Riebock from Baker Books ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Apr 24) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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In this stunningly honest book, Josh James Riebock explores issues of trust, grief, purpose, and the unexpected stops along the journey that shapes us into the people we are. Riebock shows readers that pain and beauty are so inextricably linked that to lose the former costs us the latter.

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Hopes and Prospects by Noam Chomsky from Haymarket Books ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (Apr 24)

* FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal at $2.99 too!

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These Noam Chomsky essays and lectures feature his trademark principled thinking on the challenges facing American culture and the global community. Part historical overview and part call to action, this thought-provoking book highlights some of the most important issues of our modern age.

The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) by Rick Riordan from Disney Book Group ($2.49) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (Apr 24)

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From bestselling author Rick Riordan comes the first installment in his beloved Percy Jackson and The Olympians Series: The Lightning Thief. Middle school is hard enough, but when you're father is the Greek god Poseidon, mythological creatures are chasing you, and it is your resposibility to prevent a war between the gods, how much crazier can things get? Welcome to Percy Jackson's life.

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The Flying Sorcerers by David Gerrold and Larry Niven is $1.99 (US Kindle, iTunes)

Would have liked to get this, but the reviews complaining of serious formatting errors in the ebook put me off. When will publishers get that they need to do a professional and not a half-arsed job?

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Sunrise Point (Virgin River Novel) by Robyn Carr (Mira) is $1.99 (US Kindle)

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Former marine Tom Cavanaugh has come home to Virgin River, ready to take over his family's apple orchard and settle down. He knows just what the perfect woman will be like: sweet, decent, maybe a little naive. The marrying kind.

Nothing like Nora Crane. So why can't he keep his eyes off the striking single mother?

Nora may not have finished college, but she graduated with honors from the school of hard knocks. She's been through tough times and she'll do whatever it takes to support her family, including helping with harvest time at the Cavanaughs' orchard. She's always kept a single-minded focus on staying afloat…but suddenly her thoughts keep drifting back to rugged, opinionated Tom Cavanaugh.

Both Nora and Tom have their own ideas of what family means. But they're about to prove each other completely wrong.…

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Death at La Fenice: A Commissario Brunetti Mystery by Donna Leon (Grove Press) is $0.99 (US Kindle)

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During a performance of La Traviata at La Fenice, a world-renowned (and notoriously nasty) conductor is found dead, apparently poisoned by a cup of coffee. Suspects abound, but Commissario Guido Brunetti is determined to find out the truth about the death.

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America Aflame by David Goldfield (Bloomsbury Press) is $2.51 (US Kindle)

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In this spellbinding new history, David Goldfield offers the first major new interpretation of the Civil War era since James M. McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom Where past scholars have limned the war as a triumph of freedom, Goldfield sees it as America's greatest failure: the result of a breakdown caused by the infusion of evangelical religion into the public sphere. As the Second GreatAwakening surged through America, political questions became matters of good and evil to be fought to the death. The price of that failure was horrific, but the carnage accomplished what statesmen could not: It made the United States one nation and eliminated slavery as a divisive force in the Union. The victorious North became synonymous with America as a land of innovation and industrialization, whose teeming cities offered squalor and opportunity in equal measure. Religion was supplanted by science and a gospel of progress, and the South was left behind. Goldfield's panoramic narrative, sweeping from the 1840s to the end of Reconstruction, is studded with memorable details and luminaries such as HarrietBeecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, and Walt Whitman. There are lesser known yet equally compelling characters, too, including Carl Schurz-a German immigrant, warhero, and postwar reformer-and Alexander Stephens, the urbane and intellectual vice president of the Confederacy. America Aflame is a vivid portrait of the ""fiery trial""that transformed the country we live in.

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The Misremembered Man by Christina McKenna from AmazonEncore (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Apr 25) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Jamie has no plans of changing his lonely life as a bachelor farmer. Lydia dreams constantly of changing her spinsterly fate. When kind-hearted friends and neighbours place Jamie and Lydia in one another's paths, the result is a meeting of absolute opposites.

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Shell Games: A John Marquez Crime Novel by Kirk Russell from Chronicle Books ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Apr 25) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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After California Department of Fish and Game Lieutenant John Marquez finds thousands of empty abalone shells and two murdered divers, he learns he's next on the hit list. Who's the killer? Marquez suspects Kline, a vicious drug smuggler turned abalone poacher that Marquez knew while serving with the DEA.

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Blood Work (Terry McCaleb Series #1) by Michael Connelly from Little, Brown & Company ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (Apr 25)

* FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal at $2.99 too!

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Meet bestselling author Michael Connelly's fan-favorite character: ex-FBI agent Terrell McCaleb. Retired after a heart transplant, McCaleb is brought back to hunt down an elusive killer. Incredible danger awaits, but there are no second chances at life for this man with a new heart.

Pete the Cat by Eric Litwin from HarperCollins ($3.99) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (Apr 25)

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Pete the Cat just got some new white shoes. As he strolls down the street, walking through piles of strawberries, mounds of blueberries, puddles, and buckets of water his new white shoes turn all sorts of different colors, but Pete doesn't mind, he just keeps on groovin' along. Kids will love the fun illustrations and Pete's laidback demeanor.

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Farmer Buckley's Exploding Trousers: And other odd events on the way to scientific discovery by Stephanie Pain from Profile Books (£1.09) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Apr 26) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Contrary to the widespread belief that science and technology move steadily on from one discovery to the next, the fascinating stories in this entertaining collection present some of the unfamiliar characters and events that litter the path of scientific progress, where setbacks and mishaps are the norm, and breakthroughs are the exception.