Invitation to Die (Emily Castles Mysteries) by Helen Smith from Thomas & Mercer (£0.99) is the Amazon UK
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Offbeat and engaging, this entertaining comic mystery follows amateur sleuth Emily as she attempts to solve a murder.
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Aphrodite's Workshop for Reluctant Lovers by Marika Cobbold from Bloomsbury Publishing (£0.99) is the Amazon UK
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Customer review: "This is a wonderfully written, witty novel full of insight with a feel good factor that remains long after the book has been finished."
Rebecca Finch is a successful romantic novelist who has fallen out with love. When she heads off to Paris and doesn't care that she has absent-mindedly left her boyfriend, things look bad. But when her god-daughter asks her if marriage is a good idea and she can't think of a single reason to reply yes, she realises the problem is serious. Meanwhile, on Mount Olympus, Aphrodite is fretting because divorce rates are rocketing and Eros seems to be shooting arrows carelessly without a thought for the compatibility of his victims. With her earth-bound acolyte, Rebecca, showing disillusionment, Aphrodite resolves to take drastic action...
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Something Fierce: A Memoir of a Revolutionary Daughter by Carmen Aguirre from Portobello Books (£0.99) is the Amazon UK
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A riveting memoir that chronicles Carmen's childhood as the daughter of a Chilean resistance fighter, and her adult attempts at a normal life.
• Winner of Canada Reads 2012
• Nominated for the Charles Taylor prize and the BC Award for Canadian Non-Fiction
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The Man in 3B by Carl Weber from Grand Central Publishing ($2.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (July 26) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "A drama-filled mystery novel that will keep you guessing until the end."
Meet Daryl Graham, or as his neighbors call him . . .
THE MAN IN 3B
Daryl has just moved into a Jamaica, Queens, apartment building and his neighbors, both male and female alike, can't stop talking about him. From his down-to-earth personality to his extreme attractiveness to his undeniable swag, Daryl is the man every woman wants and every man wants to be. Daryl is quickly welcomed into the building and immediately becomes a part of each of the tenants' lives.
Connie, an overweight and unhappy wife, turns to Daryl for help losing weight, hoping to try and fix her crumbling marriage. But when Daryl starts making Connie feel beautiful again, she questions whether or not her marriage is worth saving. Benny, a spoiled teenager, looks up to Daryl as a role model. When an unexpected event occurs, Benny is left questioning everything he's ever known. Krystal, Daryl's first love, wants to make things work with her current boyfriend. Yet, having Daryl back in her life sends her happy home spiraling out of control. And, Daryl but not least, Avery, Connie's husband, doesn't care about anyone or anything when a financial opportunity comes his way-that is, until he notices how much time his wife is spending with their new neighbor.
Everything seems to be going well, until someone is murdered, and everyone becomes a prime suspect.
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Storm Force by Susannah Sandlin from Montlake Romance ($1.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (July 26) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "I highly recommend this captivating and action-packed paranormal romance story."
As leader of the elite counter-terrorism team Omega Force, former army ranger Jack “Kell” Kellison is always focused on getting the job done. So when a Houston high-rise is bombed and the governor killed or missing, Kell’s mission is clear: infiltrate the group suspected of the bombing and neutralize the threat by any means necessary. But once Kell meets beautiful chief suspect Mori Chastaine, he realizes there’s more to this case than meets the eye. And more to Mori than any man—any human man—could imagine.
Mori Chastaine is running out of options. Suspected for a crime she didn’t commit, forced into a marriage she doesn’t want, she sees no escape—until Kell walks through her door. A lifetime hiding her true nature warns her Kell might not be who he seems. But he could be the only one able to help save more innocent humans from becoming pawns in an ancient paranormal power play. If Mori reveals her secret, will Kell join her fight? Or will she become his next target?
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Honeymoon in Hell by Fredric Brown from RosettaBooks ($0.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (July 26) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "A collection of imaginative, evocative, and sometimes frightening vignettes."
HONEYMOON IN HELL appeared in the second issue of GALAXY dated November 1950. (Brown’s THE LAST MARTIAN had appeared in the first issue a month previous.) Brown’s name on the table of contents of the first two issues, along with the names of other major contributors to ASTOUNDING--Clifford Simak, Isaac Asimov, Theodore Sturgeon, Fritz Leiber, Anthony Boucher--made clear that Gold was going directly after John W. Campbell’s audience and the stories which he had printed were of a different order from what these writers had sold ASTOUNDING. They were darker, more socially aware, in cases (Richard Matheson’s COMING ATTRACTION) sexually frank in a fashion inconceivable in Campbell’s magazine. This novelette, dealing frankly with copulation and its desired consequences, was managed in a way far less euphemistic than had been the Campbellian norm and Brown, as he was to do often in the stories to follow, used a satirical attack which if it did not question magazine taboos certainly parodied them. The covers of pulp magazines such as PLANET or STARTLING depicted monsters putting near-naked females in peril, but the narratives under the cover by design offered no equivalent. Brown’s hastily married couple, sent to the Moon to see if they could breed a male child (all births on Earth over recent months have been female), encounter problems emotional as well as practical. Difficult as it may be to understand sixty years later, the employment of the word “hell” in a magazine cover title was also an act of provocation. The story was a provocation in its entirety, although, of course--and as Paul di Filippo suggests in his introduction--perhaps you had to be there.
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Odette's Secrets by Maryann Macdonald from Bloomsbury USA Childrens ($2.99) is the Kindle Kids Deal of the Day (July 26) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "This beautiful and moving free-verse novel is a story of triumph over adversity."
Age Level: 10 and up
For Jews in Nazi-occupied Paris, every day brings new dangers. So when Odette's father is thrown into a work camp and the Nazis suspect her mother of helping the Resistance, Odette is sent to the French countryside until it is safe to return. On the surface, Odette leads the life of a regular girl, going to school, doing chores, even attending Catholic masses with other children. But inside, she is burning with secrets for the life she left behind, and the identity she must hide at all costs. Yet when the war ends, the cost of keeping secrets takes an unexpected toll: can Odette return to Paris as a Jew, or has she changed too much? Inspired by the life of the real Odette Meyer, this moving free-verse novel is a story of triumph over adversity.
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Capture The Wind by Virginia Brown from BelleBooks ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (July 26)
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He was a rouge pirate. She was a beautiful Englishwoman. He took her captive. She stole his heart. It's high seas historical romance from bestselling author Virginia Brown.
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