The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister from Berkley ($2.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (October 7) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer Review: "An amazing book that brings the story behind the Vermeer painting to life."
A "heartbreakingly delicious" national bestseller about a chef, her students, and the evocative lessons that food teaches about life
Once a month, eight students gather in Lillian's restaurant for a cooking class. Among them is Claire, a young woman coming to terms with her new identity as a mother; Tom, a lawyer whose life has been overturned by loss; Antonia, an Italian kitchen designer adapting to life in America; and Carl and Helen, a long-married couple whose union contains surprises the rest of the class would never suspect...
The students have come to learn the art behind Lillian's soulful dishes, but it soon becomes clear that each seeks a recipe for something beyond the kitchen. And soon they are transformed by the aromas, flavors, and textures of what they create.
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Surrender Bay: A Nantucket Love Story by Denise Hunter from Thomas Nelson ($1.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (October 7) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "A beautiful, emotionally charged story with amazing chemistry between hero and heroine."
Once childhood friends, Samantha and Landon are now separated by distance and secrets. Will Samantha’s return to Nantucket bring her the peace she longs for?
Samantha Owens' estranged stepfather has died, leaving her his cottage in Nantucket—a place she fled years ago, never planning to return. As a single mom, Samantha can't afford to pass up a financial windfall like ocean-front property. So she travels home to fix up the house and sell it . . . never suspecting that Landon Reed still lives two doors down.
As their long-dormant romance begins to bud again, Samantha must face a past that separated her from the God of her childhood. And she must tell Landon why she fled the island in the first place—a secret that could tear them apart.
Is Landon’s love really as unconditional as he claims? And will Samantha finally realize that the God she found all those years ago never abandoned her?
A heart-tugging tale of shattered trust, growing faith, and love that endures . . . all in a romantic seaside setting.
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Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison from RosettaBooks ($1.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (October 7) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "An excellent and very entertaining read, with vivid characters and a neat premise."
Movie lovers might recognize Make Room! Make Room! as the basis for the 1973 film Soylent Green, which starred Charlton Heston. While Soylent Green has become a cult classic, fans of the novel have taken issue with its interpretation of what Harrison was really trying to say. Concerned about audiences losing interest, the creators of the film made cannibalism and not overpopulation (as it is in the book) the thematic focus of the story. As a result, fans of the movie and critics alike may want to visit the story in its original unbowdlerized form.
Make Room! Make Room! is set in the year 1999 and the world has become a grim and terribly overpopulated place, bleak and foreboding. This sets the premise for Harrison's novel, and fans of his earlier more comic works may be surprised at the seriousness of this novel. Although Harrison's fears did not become a reality for the inhabitants of New York or the rest of the United States, the novel remains nonetheless a gripping, thought-provoking work about privacy, deprivation, and desperation.
A teeming New York City and a detective's pursuit of a killer and nefarious racketeer comprise this novel. While the novel contains elements of classic detective fiction--the hard-boiled protagonist, the seductive mistress, the portraits of corruption and perfidy--Harrison's true concern is less the story itself and more the opportunity the story offers to give the reader a glance at a dismal and broken world. The state of overpopulation has altered life in innumerable ways, and Harrison is keenly interested in documenting the catastrophic effects of this burden on all human relationships.
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To the Moon and Timbuktu: A Trek Through the Heart of Africa by Nina Sovich from Amazon ($1.99) is the Kindle Travel Deal of the Day (October 7) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "This is an amazing story of one woman's adventure and voyage to self-discovery."
Nina Sovich had always yearned for adventures in faraway places; she imagined herself leading the life of a solitary traveler. Yet at the age of thirty-four, she found herself married and contemplating motherhood. Catching her reflection in a window spotted with Paris rain, she no longer saw the fearless woman who spent her youth travelling in Cairo, Lahore, and the West Bank staring back at her. Unwittingly, she had followed life’s script, and now she needed to cast it out.
Inspired by female explorers like Mary Kingsley, who explored Gabon’s jungle in the 1890s, and Karen Blixen, who ran a farm in Kenya during World War I, Sovich packed her bags and hopped on the next plane to Africa in search of adventure.
To the Moon and Timbuktu takes readers on a fast-paced trek through Western Sahara, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger, bringing their textures and flavors into vivid relief. On Sovich’s travels, she encounters rough-and-tumble Chinese sailors, a Venezuelan doctor working himself to death in Chinguetti, indifferent French pensioners RVing along the coast, and a close-knit circle of Nigerien women who adopt her into their fold, showing her the promise of Africa’s future.
This lyrical memoir will transport you to the breathtaking landscapes of West Africa, whose stark beauties will instill wonder in even the most experienced traveler. Sovich’s journey reveals that sometimes we must pursue that distant glimmer on the horizon in order to find the things we value most.
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Seven books in Alyxandra Harvey's Drake Chronicles series from Walker Childrens ($2.99 each) is the Kindle Kids Deal of the Day (October 7) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Today only, seven books in the Drake Chronicles series are $2.99 each.
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Death of a Unicorn by Peter Dickinson from Small Beer Press ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (October 7)
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Thirty years after the death of Lady Margaret's lover, an old colleague unearths secrets that are bound to change the world of the now flourishing romance novelist in this classic that will certainly enthrall followers of the happenings at Downton Abbey, from master of mystery Peter Dickinson (The Poison Oracle).
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