Long Division by Kiese Laymon from Agate Bolden ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (December 18) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "This book is funny and will make you cry, is specific and regional, but also makes a legitimate claim to be a Great American Novel."
Kiese Laymon’s debut novel is a Twain-esque exploration of celebrity, authorship, violence, religion, and coming of age in Post-Katrina Mississippi, written in a voice that’s alternately funny, lacerating, and wise. The book contains two interwoven stories. In the first, it’s 2013: after an on-stage meltdown during a nationally televised quiz contest, 14-year-old Citoyen “City” Coldson becomes an overnight YouTube celebrity. The next day, he’s sent to stay with his grandmother in the small coastal community of Melahatchie, where a young girl named Baize Shephard has recently disappeared.
Before leaving, City is given a strange book without an author called “Long Division.” He learns that one of the book’s main characters is also named City Coldson—but “Long Division” is set in 1985. This 1985 City, along with his friend and love-object, Shalaya Crump, discovers a way to travel into the future, and steals a laptop and cellphone from an orphaned teenage rapper called...Baize Shephard. They ultimately take these with them all the way back to 1964, to help another time-traveler they meet protect his family from the Klan.
City’s two stories ultimately converge in the mysterious work shed behind his grandmother’s, where he discovers the key to Baize’s disappearance.
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The Devil's Heart: The Chattan Curse by Cathy Maxwell by Cathy Maxwell from Avon ($1.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (December 18) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "A must read for anyone who enjoys Scotland, historical romance, and a great read."
New York Times bestselling author Cathy Maxwell continues the her popular historical romance series, the Chattan Curse, with The Devil’s Heart.
Lady Margret Chattan, one of the most desirable women in all of England, has no interest whatsoever in marriage. When her brother’s lives are put in danger, she travels to the Scottish Highlands, intent on saving them. There she meets Heath Macnachtan, who is trying to find out who murdered his own brother. Together, they team up to investigate the powerful curse that is behind the deaths, but instead find themselves falling in love.
Exceptionally entertaining and charming, The Devil’s Heart mixes a well-crafted love story with complex characters and pulse-pounding adventure.
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams from Pocket Books ($1.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (December 18) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "The plot is delightfully complex and fascinating with laugh-out-loud humor."
There is a long tradition of Great Detectives, and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time traveler, AND the devastating secret of humankind! Detective Gently's bill for saving the human race from extinction: NO CHARGE.
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War Stories of the Battle of the Bulge by Michael Green, James D. Brown from Zenith Press ($2.99) is the Kindle History Deal of the Day (December 18) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "A wonderful book for those interested in studying World War II."
The powerful German counteroffensive operation codenamed "Wacht am Rhein" (Watch on the Rhine) launched against the American First Army in the early morning hours of December 16, 1944, would result in the greatest single extended land battle of World War II. To most Americans, the fierce series of battles fought in the Ardennes Forest of Belgium and Luxembourg that winter is better known as the Battle of the Bulge. Here are the first-person stories of the American soldiers who repelled the powerful German onslaught that had threatened to turn the tide of battle in Western Europe during World War II.
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Through the Ever Night (Under the Never Sky) by Veronica Rossi from HarperCollins ($1.99) is the Kindle Teens Deal of the Day (December 18) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "This book is heartbreaking, beautiful, and completely amazing. Highly recommended."
A world-defying love is put to the ultimate test in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling sequel to Veronica Rossi's "masterpiece," Under the Never Sky (Examiner.com ). In this second book in her spellbinding Under the Never Sky trilogy, bestselling author Veronica Rossi combines fantasy and dystopian elements to create a love story as perilous as it is unforgettable.
It's been months since Aria last saw Perry. Months since Perry was named Blood Lord of the Tides, and Aria was charged with an impossible mission. Now, finally, they are about to be reunited. But their reunion is far from perfect. The Tides don't take kindly to Aria, a former Dweller. And with the worsening Aether storms threatening the tribe's precarious existence, Aria begins to fear that leaving Perry behind might be the only way to save them both.
Threatened by false friends and powerful temptations, Aria and Perry wonder, Can their love survive through the ever night?
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