40 exciting romance books ($1.99 or less each) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (January 19) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker from Harper ($1.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (January 19) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "The lush heritage and history depicted are merely the jumping off point for a dazzlingly inventive fantasy."
An Amazon Best Book of the Month, April 2013
In The Golem and the Jinni, a chance meeting between mythical beings takes readers on a dazzling journey through cultures in turn-of-the-century New York.
Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life to by a disgraced rabbi who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic and dies at sea on the voyage from Poland. Chava is unmoored and adrift as the ship arrives in New York harbor in 1899.
Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fire born in the ancient Syrian desert, trapped in an old copper flask, and released in New York City, though still not entirely free
Ahmad and Chava become unlikely friends and soul mates with a mystical connection. Marvelous and compulsively readable, Helene Wecker's debut novel The Golem and the Jinni weaves strands of Yiddish and Middle Eastern literature, historical fiction and magical fable, into a wondrously inventive and unforgettable tale.
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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis from Beacon Press ($2.99) is the Kindle Biography & Memoir Deal of the Day (January 19) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "This political biography gives a much richer understanding of Mrs. Rosa Parks."
The definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades of activism, challenging perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movement
Presenting a corrective to the popular notion of Rosa Parks as the quiet seamstress who, with a single act, birthed the modern civil rights movement, Theoharis provides a revealing window into Parks’s politics and years of activism. She shows readers how this civil rights movement radical sought—for more than a half a century—to expose and eradicate the American racial-caste system in jobs, schools, public services, and criminal justice.
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Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley from Atheneum Books for Young Readers ($1.99) is the Kindle Teens Deal of the Day (January 19) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "This book immerses you into the quirky world of the small Southern town. Highly recommended."
Winner of the 2012 Michael L. Printz and William C. Morris Awards, this poignant and hilarious story of loss and redemption “explores the process of grief, second chances, and even the meaning of life” (Kirkus Reviews).
In the remarkable, bizarre, and heart-wrenching summer before Cullen Witter’s senior year of high school, he is forced to examine everything he thinks he understands about his small and painfully dull Arkansas town. His cousin overdoses; his town becomes absurdly obsessed with the alleged reappearance of an extinct woodpecker; and most troubling of all, his sensitive, gifted fifteen-year-old brother, Gabriel, suddenly and inexplicably disappears.
Meanwhile, the crisis of faith spawned by a young missionary’s disillusion in Africa prompts a frantic search for meaning that has far-reaching consequences. As distant as the two stories initially seem, they are woven together through masterful plotting and merge in a surprising and harrowing climax.
This extraordinary tale from a rare literary voice finds wonder in the ordinary and illuminates the hope of second chances.
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