A Spy by Nature: A Novel (Alec Milius) by Charles Cumming from Harper (£0.99) is the Amazon UK
Kindle Deal of the Day (June 12) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
Quote:
Product Description
Spy Alec Milius has a talent for deception, however in his line of work the difference between a lie and the truth can be a matter of life or death.
|
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller from Review (£0.99) is the Amazon UK
Kindle Science Fiction & Fantasy Daily Deal (June 12) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
Quote:
Product Description
Customer review: "Not just for fans of post-apocalyptic fiction, but for anybody who likes a slightly challenging but ultimately satisfying read."
A riveting, powerful novel about a pilot living in a world filled with loss—and what he is willing to risk to rediscover, against all odds, connection, love, and grace.
Hig survived the flu that killed everyone he knows. His wife is gone, his friends are dead, he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, his only neighbor a gun-toting misanthrope. In his 1956 Cessna, Hig flies the perimeter of the airfield or sneaks off to the mountains to fish and to pretend that things are the way they used to be. But when a random transmission somehow beams through his radio, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that a better life—something like his old life—exists beyond the airport. Risking everything, he flies past his point of no return—not enough fuel to get him home—following the trail of the static-broken voice on the radio. But what he encounters and what he must face—in the people he meets, and in himself—is both better and worse than anything he could have hoped for.
Narrated by a man who is part warrior and part dreamer, a hunter with a great shot and a heart that refuses to harden, The Dog Stars is both savagely funny and achingly sad, a breathtaking story about what it means to be human.
|
-----
In Broad Daylight by Seth Harwood from Thomas & Mercer ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (June 12) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
* Also on
Amazon CA
Quote:
Product Description
Customer review: "This is a great crime novel with bits of action sprinkled in."
From the author of the acclaimed thriller novels Jack Wakes Up and Young Junius comes In Broad Daylight, a taut psychological whodunnit with Stieg Larsson's intrigue and Karin Slaughter's raw insights on strange communities.
FBI agent Jess Harding treks back to Anchorage to hunt down a sadistic killer who's reemerged from a five-year hiatus--a killer who has already slipped her grasp once before. The endless days of an Alaskan summer can't thwart the fiend's plans as he slashes his way through the rural community, where everyone knows your name and always distrusts the outside. With the help of Oscar Linstrom, an old colleague who wants to be more than friends, Jess attempts to immerse herself in the area's culture, leading her to a strange rural village inhabited by Russian Old Believers hell-bent on protecting their way of life. Even the locals are outsiders to the Old Believers, and Jess needs a safehaven in the glare of daylight because a blood-stained message left at the scene of the most recent murder says Jess is no longer the hunter--but the hunted.
Seth Harwood, named a Best of 2010 author by George Pelecanos, returns with this terrifying daydream of an expansive Great North that offers no place to hide.
|
Misfortune Cookie (Single in the City series) by Michele Gorman from Amazon ($1.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (June 12) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
* Also on
Amazon CA
Quote:
Product Description
Customer review: "I really loved that the story was set in a fun and exotic place."
Would you move 6,000 miles to be with the love of your life?
Hannah did. Unfortunately her plan isn't going terribly well. What was supposed to be a move to Hong Kong to start a wonderful new life with Sam is turning into a move to Hong Kong to spend occasional weekends with Sam, when he can get away from an unanticipated work assignment on the opposite side of the South China Sea. Still, she's optimistic, if woefully unprepared for the intricacies of Hong Kong. Stumbling through the alien city, which she loves, she starts to build a life for herself. Things definitely look up when she finds a great boss to work for, and her best friend Stacy moves to the city too. But alarm bells ring as Sam seems to be getting a bit too cozy with his boss. And when things start going wrong at work, Hannah can't help but wonder if she's made the biggest mistake of her life.
|
Crater (A Helium-3 Novel) by Homer Hickam from Candlewick ($1.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (June 12) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
* Also discounted at CDN$ 0.64 on
Amazon CA
Quote:
Product Description
Customer review: "This was a wonderful futuristic coming of age story."
A MINING COLONY ON THE MOON. A DEADLY MISSION. AND A SECRET BIGGER THAN TWO WORLDS.
It’s the 22nd Century. A tough, pioneering people mine the moon for Helium-3 to produce energy for a desperate, war-torn Earth.
Sixteen-year-old Crater Trueblood loves his job as a Helium-3 miner. But when he saves a fellow miner, his life changes forever. Impressed by his heroism, the owner of the mine orders Crater to undertake a dangerous mission. Crater doubts himself, but has no choice. He must go.
With the help of Maria, the mine owner’s frustrating but gorgeous granddaughter, and his gillie—a sentient and sometimes insubordinate clump of slime mold cells—Crater must fight both human and subhuman enemies. He’ll battle his way across a thousand miles of deadly lunar terrain and face genetically altered super warriors in his quest to recover an astonishing object that will alter the lives of everyone on the moon.
“Long-haul trucking on the Moon . . . with raiders, romance and a secret mission . . . High adventure on the space frontier.” —Kirkus Reviews
|
Two Girls of Gettysburg by Lisa Klein from Bloomsbury USA Childrens ($0.99) is the Kindle Teens Deal of the Day (June 12) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
* Also on
Amazon CA
Quote:
Product Description
Customer review: "I highly recommend this novel to teens with an interest in history."
Lizzie and Rosanna are cousins. But when the Civil War breaks out, Lizzie finds herself committed to the cause of the Union, while Rosie is swept up in the passions of the old south. Torn in their alliances, each girl finds herself grappling with the brutality of war, and the elusive promise of love, until the battle at Gettysburg brings them together once again.
|
-----
Dollars and Sex: How Economics Influences Sex and Love by Marina Adshade from Chronicle Books ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (June 12)
Quote:
Product Description
Freakonomics gone freaky! At heart, economics is the study of the choices we make to get what we want. So let's apply those principles to understand that which we most want -- love, relationships, connection, and, yes, sex. Economist and fan-favorite blogger Marina Adshade shows how we react to supply, demand, and other market forces when it to matters of love, courtship, intimacy, and marriage.
|