This Book Will Save Your Life by AM Homes from Granta Books (£0.99) is the Amazon UK
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Customer review: " ...a surprisingly moving, heartfelt tale, which is simple without being simplistic."
Since her debut in 1989, A. M. Homes has been among the boldest and most original voices of her generation, acclaimed for the psychological accuracy and unnerving emotional intensity of her storytelling. Her ability to explore how extraordinary the ordinary can be is at the heart of her touching and funny new novel, her first in six years. This Book Will Save Your Life is a vivid, uplifting, and revealing story about compassion, transformation, and what can happen if you are willing to lose yourself and open up to the world around you.
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Lover's Leap by Martin Armstrong from Bloomsbury Reader (£0.99) is the Amazon UK
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A delicate study of emotional relationships, this is an unusual and subtle stufy of the human mind and heart.
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Mao's Great Famine by Frank Dikötter from Bloomsbury Publishing (£0.99) is the Amazon UK
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Customer review: "It is thoroughly researched, well-constructed, insghtful, very well written and very involving for the reader. Very highly recommended."
An unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China's Great Famine
Winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize 2011
“Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up to and overtake Britain in less than 15 years The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of millions of lives."
So opens Frank Dikötter's riveting, magnificently detailed chronicle of an era in Chinese history much speculated about but never before fully documented because access to Communist Party archives has long been restricted to all but the most trusted historians. A new archive law has opened up thousands of central and provincial documents that "fundamentally change the way one can study the Maoist era." Dikötter makes clear, as nobody has before, that far from being the program that would lift the country among the world's superpowers and prove the power of Communism, as Mao imagined, the Great Leap Forward transformed the country in the other direction. It became the site not only of "one of the most deadly mass killings of human history,"--at least 45 million people were worked, starved, or beaten to death--but also of "the greatest demolition of real estate in human history," as up to one-third of all housing was turned into rubble.
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The Importance of Being Wicked by Miranda Neville from Avon ($0.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (August 9) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "A captivating historical romance filled with brilliant intrigue."
The rules of society don't apply to Caro and her coterie of bold men and daring women. But when passions flare, even the strongest will surrender to the law of love . . .
Thomas, Duke of Castleton, has every intention of wedding a prim and proper heiress. That is, until he sets eyes on the heiress's cousin, easily the least proper woman he's ever met. His devotion to family duty is no defense against the red-headed vixen whose greatest asset seems to be a talent for trouble . . .
Caroline Townsend has no patience for the oh-so-suitable (and boring) men of the ton. So when the handsome but stuffy duke arrives at her doorstep, she decides to put him to the test. But her scandalous exploits awaken a desire in Thomas he never knew he had. Suddenly Caro finds herself falling for this most proper duke…while Thomas discovers there's a great deal of fun in a little bit of wickedness.
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Blood of Dragons (Rain Wilds Chronicles, Book 4) by Robin Hobb from Harper Voyager ($1.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (August 11) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "This contemporary dragon lore story has one of the most gripping settings in modern fantasy."
The final volume in Robin Hobb's popular Rain Wilds fantasy series, Blood of Dragons completes the story of the dragons, their keepers, and their quest to find the lost city of Kelsingra—and the mythical silver wells that the dragons need to survive.
Can Tintaglia and the Elderlings unlock the secrets of the ancient city? Or are they doomed to extinction?
The world of Robin Hobb’s Rain Wilds series has been praised by Booklist as "one of the most gripping settings in modern fantasy," and Publishers Weekly called the Rain Wilds books "a meticulously realized fantasy tale" and "a welcome addition to contemporary dragon lore."
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There Was an Old Pirate Who Swallowed a Fish by Jennifer Ward from Two Lions ($1.99) is the Kindle Kids Deal of the Day (August 11) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "This story will make you smile!"
Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: Pre-K and up
There was an old pirate . . . who swallowed a fish, a bird, a map, some gold, and even a whole pirate ship! Will the Old Pirate sink to the bottom of the deep, dark sea? Yo ho ho! Watch his belly grow! Jennifer Ward’s take on the “Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly” song is perfectly matched with Steve Gray’s zany digital illustrations.
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So This Is Love (Callaways #2) by Barbara Freethy from Fog City Publishing ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (August 11)
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Bestselling author Barbara Freethy turns up the heat--in more ways than one. Emma Callaway is a fire investigator who'll risk her life in burning buildings before she's risk her heart again. Max Harrison is a homicide detective who no longer believes in love. But when they meet, they'll ignite passions more blazing than anyone could imagine.
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