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Here's the new thread for June (*here's a link to my May thread to check out the last bargains I posted there)

Okay, so you may know me since I posted a lot of free and bargain books in this forum. I did add affiliate links to my posts before (the links look like this-> http://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Woman-Wa...ag=arcadata-20), but I've been told that isn't allowed anymore in the main forum. I'll be allowed to continue to post my affiliate links in this personal thread though.

Basically, what happens is that I earn referral fees (starts at 4%) whenever a visitor follows my link to Amazon.com (for example) and then makes a qualifying purchase. It was a pretty good incentive for me to spend time here sharing any deals I found since I would get extra money per month to spend on books & apps!

So, hopefully, if you don't mind me getting a commission, you'll come visit this thread and click on my links when you're planning to buy something!

And here's the deal(s) for June 1!

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FYI, For UK Kindlers:

The Amazon 100 Kindle Books for £2.99 or Less is a continuing promo for Amazon UK.

We've pulled together a selection of 100 Kindle books, each for £2.99 or less, to make it easier for you to discover and try a new book or author. We'll be adding new books from time to time and titles may vary, so make sure to check back often. There's also the Kindle Daily Deal, which features a new Kindle book deal every day.

Three young adult novels by BR Collins, Herbie Brennan and Tom Pollock (£0.99 each) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (June 1) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

The Traitor Game by BR Collins
Michael and Francis are best friends, they both share a desire for fantasy world, Evgard. When Michael thinks Francis has betrayed their world he makes a cold decision of not helping Francis when he is brutally attacked. The fantasy world is a clear mirror of the boys' in the real world but with one difference in the fantasy world, one of the characters does not survive.

Faerie Wars by Herbie Brennan
Henry thinks he is simply saving a butterfly from being eaten by Mr Fogarty's cat, but he is in fact saving the life of a misdirected exiled faerie prince-- a prince who must get back to his own land in order to prevent an attack on his kingdom.

The City's Son by Tom Pollock
When Beth runs away from home, she retreats to the streets of London where she meets its ragged and cocky prince, Filius Viae. He opens her eyes to a hidden London, but one that is on the brink of destruction. To help Filius reclaim London’s skyscraper throne, Beth raises an alleyway army in this urban fable about friends, family and monsters--and how you can’t always tell which is which.

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FYI, For US Kindlers:

The Amazon 100 Kindle Books for $3.99 or Less has updated for June! Check out the new batch of discounts.

Looking for great books at a low price? Browse the newest section of our store--100 Kindle Books for $3.99 or Less--a diverse selection of deals hand-selected by our editors each month.

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Red Moon: A Novel by Benjamin Percy from Grand Central Publishing ($2.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (June 1) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also on Amazon CA

Product Description

Amazon review: "...a strikingly imaginative and terrifically detailed fantasy novel."

An Amazon Best Book of the Month, May 2013

Award -winning author Benjamin Percy presents an explosive and deeply layered literary thriller set in the American West.

They live among us. They are our neighbors, our mothers, our lovers. They change.

When government agents kick down Claire Forrester's front door and murder her parents, Claire realizes just how different she is.

Patrick Gamble was nothing special until the day he got on a plane and hours later stepped off it, the only passenger left alive, a hero.

Chase Williams has sworn to protect the people of the United States from the menace in their midst, but he is becoming the very thing he has promised to destroy.

So far, the threat has been controlled by laws and violence and drugs. But the night of the red moon is coming, when an unrecognizable world will emerge...and the battle for humanity will begin.

You Can't Plan Love by Synithia Williams from Crimson Romance ($1.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (June 1) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also on Amazon CA

Product Description

Customer review: "This was a great read. It was both passionate and mysterious."

Knowing firsthand the heartbreak that comes when desire and emotion rule a relationship, Kenyatta Copeland assumes marrying Brad Johnson will lead to a safe and secure life. But as much as she believes she can plan her future, it’s hard to ignore the way her boss, Malcolm Patterson, ignites her passions with just one look.

After Malcolm learns of her engagement, he makes a play for her heart and reminds her that passion between a man and a woman has its perks… but also its costs. When Brad confirms his suspicion that there’s more than work between Kenyatta and Malcolm, he devises a sinister plan to keep Kenyatta by his side.

Torn between her promise to marry Brad and her irrepressible longing for Malcolm, Kenyatta must decide if she can live her life in a passionless marriage of convenience or once again trust her heart. Yet Brad does not intend to let her go easily, and by the time she realizes the depths of his treachery, it may be too late.

Sensuality Level: Sensual

Bluebeard: The Autobiography of Rabo Karabekian by Kurt Vonnegut from Dial Press Trade Paperback ($1.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (June 1) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also on Amazon CA

Product Description

Published in 1987, Bluebeard is Vonnegut's meditation on art, artists, surrealism, and disaster.

Bluebeard, published in 1987, is Vonnegut's meditation on art, artists, surrealism, and disaster. Meet Rabo Karabekian, a moderately successful surrealist painter, who we meet late in life and see struggling (like all of Vonnegut's key characters), with the dregs of unresolved pain and the consequences of brutality. Loosely based on the legend of Bluebeard (best realized in Bela Bartok's one-act opera), the novel follows Karabekian through the last events in his life that is heavy with women, painting, artistic ambition, artistic fraudulence, and as of yet unknown consequence.

Vonnegut's intention here is not so much satirical (although the contemporary art scene would be easy enough to deconstruct), nor is it documentary (although Karabekian does carry elements of Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko). Instead, Vonnegut is using art for the same purpose he used science fiction cliches in Slaughterhouse-Five; as a filter through which he can illuminate the savagery, cruelty, and the essentially comic misdirection of human existence.

Readers will recognize familiar Vonnegut character types and archetypes as they drift in and out through the background; meanwhile, Karabekian, betrayed and betrayer, sinks through a bottomless haze of recollection. Like most of Vonnegut's late works, this is both science fiction and cruel contemporary realism at once, using science fiction as metaphor for human damage as well as failure to perceive. Readers will find that Vonnegut's protagonists can never really clarify for us whether they are ultimately unwitting victims or simple barbarians, leaving it up to the reader to determine in which genre this book really fits, if any at all.

The Truth About Horses, Friends & My Life As A Coward by Sarah P. Gibson from Two Lions ($1.99) is the Kindle Kids Deal of the Day (June 1) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also on Amazon CA

Product Description

Customer review: "An hysterical account of the trials... of animal ownership." (Grade 4–7)

So you think you love horses? That’s what Sophie Groves thought too. But she found out that horses are a heap of trouble. Her trials began at five years old when her mom brought home Really (a.k.a. Really Mean), the nastiest pony in Maine. Two horses later, Sophie is still learning to deal with these crafty creatures, while trying to find friends who will like her for who she is—not for her horses. Filled with hilarious horse capers and the real truth about life as a weenie, this laugh-out-loud story shows why a horse isn’t always a girl’s best friend.

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Bloodline (Sigma Force Series #8) by James Rollins from HarperCollins ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (June 1)

Product Description

In this bestselling Sigma Force novel, James Rollins (The Eye of God, The Blood Gospel) weaves cutting edge technology, modern politics, and religious history with his trademark taut storytelling that provides as much pulse-pounding action as you'd get in any two other thrillers.

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FYI, For Canadian Kindlers:

The Amazon May Monthly Deals in Kindle Books is a promo for Amazon Canada.

Each month we unveil a new collection of Kindle books for $3.99 or less in a wide variety of genres. You'll find great deals in mysteries, science fiction, romance, biographies and memoirs, and more.