The Way Life Should Be by Christina Baker Kline from HarperCollins ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (April 21) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "This is a novel about family, about food, about sense of place. Ultimately, it's an examination of what it takes to make a life."
Angela Russo is thirty-three years old and single, stuck in a job she doesn't love and a life that seems, somehow, to have just happened. Though she inherited a flair for Italian cooking from her grandmother, she never has the time; for the past six months, her oven has held only sweaters. Tacked to her office bulletin board is a picture torn from a magazine of a cottage on the coast of Maine, a reminder to Angela that there are other ways to live, even if she can't seem to figure them out.
One day at work, Angela clicks on a tiny advertisement in the corner of her computer screen—"Do Soulmates Exist?"—and finds herself at a dating website, where she stumbles upon "MaineCatch," a thirty-five-year-old sailing instructor with ice-blue eyes. To her great surprise, she strikes up a dizzying correspondence with MaineCatch—yet as her online relationship progresses, life in the real world takes a nosedive. Interpreting this confluence of events as a sign, Angela impulsively decides to risk it all and move to Maine.
But things don't work out quite as she expected. Far from everything familiar, and with little to return to, Angela begins to rebuild her life from the ground up, moving into a tiny cottage and finding work at a local coffee shop. To make friends and make ends meet, she leads a cooking class, slowly discovering the pleasures and secrets of her new small community, and—perhaps—a way to connect her heritage to a future she is only beginning to envision.
The Way Life Should Be is about the search for the right relationship and the right life, the difficulty of finding true love, and the yearning for the home that food represents. Laced with recipes and humor, wisdom and wit, it is at once a clear-eyed portrait of Maine, a compassionate look at modern life and love, and a compelling work of literary fiction that explores the gulf between the way life is and the way we want it to be.
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'The Fancy Lives of the Lear Sisters' series by Julia London ($1.99 each) from Montlake Romance is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (April 21)
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The Bible Repairman and Other Stories by Tim Powers from Tachyon Publications ($1.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (April 21) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "Each story is so well-crafted that it will stick in your brain, giving you odd jabs or goosebumps."
Gathering darkly fantastic short fiction previously available only in limited editions, this collection explores the mysteries of souls—whether they are sacrificed on the pinnacle of Mount Parnassus or lodged in a television cable box.
In a Kabbalistic tale of transformation, the executor of an old friend’s will is almost duped into housing his soul. In a tale of time travel between 2015 and 1975, a tragedy sparked by an angel falling onto a pizza shop is reenacted—and the event is barely, but fatally, altered. The cornerstone of the collection is a postscript to the harrowing novel of the haunting of the Romantic poets, The Stress of Her Regard. Once Byron and Shelley break free of the succubus that claimed them, their associate, Trelawny, forges an alliance with Greek rebels to reestablish the deadly connection between man and the nephilim.
Fans of Powers’s renowned secret histories will delight as he deftly weaves an array of fantastical creatures into richly layered narratives of the past.
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This Explains Everything: 150 Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works by John Brockman from Harper Perennial ($1.99) is the Kindle Science & Math Deal of the Day (April 21) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "This is perhaps the most eye-opening book I have ever read."
In This Explains Everything, John Brockman, founder and publisher of Edge.org, asked experts in numerous fields and disciplines to come up with their favorite explanations for everyday occurrences. Why do we recognize patterns? Is there such a thing as positive stress? Are we genetically programmed to be in conflict with each other? Those are just some of the 150 questions that the world's best scientific minds answer with elegant simplicity.
With contributions from Jared Diamond, Richard Dawkins, Nassim Taleb, Brian Eno, Steven Pinker, and more, everything is explained in fun, uncomplicated terms that make the most complex concepts easy to comprehend.
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When I Feel Angry (The Way I Feel Books) by Cornelia Maude Spelman from Albert Whitman & Company ($1.99) is the Kindle Kids Deal of the Day (April 21) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "An excellent book to help young children deal with feelings of anger."
Age Level: 3 - 6
Anger is a scary emotion for young children, their parents, and caregivers. As this little bunny experiences the things that make her angry, she also learns ways to deal with her anger—ways that won’t hurt others.
This is a fixed-format ebook, which preserves the design and layout of the original print book.
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