The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow from Algonquin Books ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (May 14) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "I loved the arc of the story, the development of the characters, and how Durrow masterfully tied her separate plots and characters together."
Rachel, the daughter of a danish mother and a black G.I., becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy after a fateful morning on their Chicago rooftop.
Forced to move to a new city, with her strict African American grandmother as her guardian, Rachel is thrust for the first time into a mostly black community, where her light brown skin, blue eyes, and beauty bring a constant stream of attention her way. It’s there, as she grows up and tries to swallow her grief, that she comes to understand how the mystery and tragedy of her mother might be connected to her own uncertain identity.
This searing and heartwrenching portrait of a young biracial girl dealing with society’s ideas of race and class is the winner of the Bellwether Prize for best fiction manuscript addressing issues of social justice.
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Half Moon Hill: A Destiny Novel by Toni Blake from Avon/HarperCollins ($1.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (May 14) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys happy, well-deserved endings."
You never know what destiny has in store . . .
A rugged loner and ex-biker-gang member, Duke Dawson is looking for some peace and quiet while recovering from an accident. But when Anna Romo comes wandering through his woods and into his cabin, she completely rocks his world. The last thing he expected or wanted was to find himself hungering after a woman whose eyes held hurt even deeper than his own . . .
Running from a troubled past, Anna is building a new life in Destiny. When she first meets Duke, she's terrified—but something about him calls to her very soul. The hard-bodied rebel is soon helping her turn her new home into a bed and breakfast, and close quarters quickly lead them into her bed. Their passion is palpable, but can she convince a man who has turned his back on life to take the biggest leap of faith of all and fall in love?
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'The Dead Man' horror series by Lee Goldberg, William Rabkin, et al from Walker Books are $1.99 each as the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (May 14) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel from McGraw-Hill ($1.99) is the Kindle Biography & Memoir Deal of the Day (May 13) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "A fascinating book about the life of Galileo, as told from his letters to and from his daughter."
Galileo Galilei was the foremost scientist of his day. Though he never left Italy, his inventions and discoveries were heralded around the world. His telescopes allowed him to reveal the heavens and enforce the astounding argument that the earth moves around the sun. For this belief, he was brought before the Holy Office of the Inquisition, accused of heresy, and forced to spend his last years under house arrest.
Galileo's oldest child was 13 when he placed her in a convent near him in Florence, where she took the most appropriate name of Suor Maria Celeste. Her support was her father's greatest source of strength. Her presence, through letters which Sobel has translated from Italian and masterfully woven into the narrative, graces her father's life now as it did then.
GALILEO'S DAUGHTER dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishment of a mythic figure whose seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion. Moving between Galileo's public life and Maria Celeste's sequestered world, Sobel illuminates the Florence of the Medicis and the papal court in Rome during an era when humanity's perception of its place in the cosmos was overturned. With all the human drama and scientific adventure that distinguished Latitude, Galileo's Daughter is an unforgettable story.
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The Real Boy by Anne Ursu from Walden Pond Press/HarperCollins ($1.99) is the Kindle Kids Deal of the Day (May 14) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "This is a magical story with a wonderful main character. Highly recommended."
Age Level: 8 - 12 | Grade Level: 3 - 7
The Real Boy, Anne Ursu’s follow-up to her widely acclaimed and beloved middle-grade fantasy Breadcrumbs, is an unforgettable story of magic, faith, and friendship.
On an island on the edge of an immense sea there is a city, a forest, and a boy named Oscar. Oscar is a shop boy for the most powerful magician in the village, and spends his days in a small room in the dark cellar of his master’s shop grinding herbs and dreaming of the wizards who once lived on the island generations ago. Oscar’s world is small, but he likes it that way. The real world is vast, strange, and unpredictable. And Oscar does not quite fit in it.
But now that world is changing. Children in the city are falling ill, and something sinister lurks in the forest. Oscar has long been content to stay in his small room in the cellar, comforted in the knowledge that the magic that flows from the forest will keep his island safe. Now, even magic may not be enough to save it.
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