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The King Must Die: A Novel by Mary Renault from Open Road Media ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (August 27) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "Mary Renault's historical fiction is, perhaps, the best ever written, and this book is the cream of the crop."
In myth, Theseus was the slayer of the child-devouring Minotaur in Crete. What the founder-hero might have been in real life is another question, brilliantly explored in The King Must Die. Drawing on modern scholarship and archaeological findings at Knossos, Mary Renault’s Theseus is an utterly lifelike figure—a king of immense charisma, whose boundless strivings flow from strength and weakness—but also one steered by implacable prophecy.
The story follows Theseus’s adventures from Troizen to Eleusis, where the death in the book’s title is to take place, and from Athens to Crete, where he learns to jump bulls and is named king of the victims. Richly imbued with the spirit of its time, this is a page-turner as well as a daring act of imagination.
Renault’s story of Theseus continues with the sequel The Bull from the Sea.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Mary Renault including rare images of the author.
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Temporarily Yours (A Shillings Agency Novel) by Diane Alberts from Entangled: Brazen ($0.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (August 27) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "It was a quick fun read read and I would recommend it to anyone who likes a good romance with a swoon worthy male."
This marine's the perfect hoax...if she doesn't fall for him first.
Stats whiz Kayla Moriarity knows her way around numbers and algorithms. Men, on the other hand, are unsolvable equations. Now Kayla's en route to her sister's wedding--without the fictional boyfriend she invented for her family. Fortunately, her plane comes complete with complimentary cocktails and a ridiculously hot ex-marine in the seat beside her. And that's all it takes for Kayla's inhibitions to go sailing out the airlock...
Cooper Shillings has soft spot for people in trouble, but he certainly wasn't expecting to land in it himself--and definitely not while getting naughty mid-air with a sexy southern belle. When he hears Kayla's predicament, however, he offers his services as a stand-in boyfriend. After all, he's heading overseas soon...and how could he refuse a little no-strings wickedness?
It's the perfect plan. And all Kayla has to do is ensure her family falls for the ultimate bluff, without falling for it--and Cooper--in the process...
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Echoes of Earth (The Orphans Trilogy Book 1) by Sean Williams, Shane Dix from Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy ($1.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (August 27) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "This is really good hard science fiction with lots of ideas to ponder."
On an alien world a very long way from home, Peter Alander is going out of his mind.
The Frank Tipler is just one of a thousand survey vessels sent out into the bubble of space surrounding Earth, seeking habitable worlds and signs of advanced life. Its crew has stumbled across artifacts left behind by a benevolent trader species, but the decision to study them is fraught with danger and uncertainty. The Tipler's crew consists of forty flawed electronic copies of human beings, some of them profoundly damaged—and Earth stopped responding to signals over a century ago.
Caught between madness and political machinations, Alander stands on the brink of what might be the greatest discovery humanity has ever made—and a gift that humanity can’t afford to accept.
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The Decision Maker: Unlock the Potential of Everyone in Your Organization, One Decision at a Time by Dennis Bakke from Pear Press ($1.99) is the Kindle Business & Money Deal of the Day (August 27) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "This book is an engaging and easy read, and the lessons are practical and profound."
Who makes the important decisions in your organization? Strategy, product development, budgeting, compensation—such key decisions typically are made by company leaders. That’s what bosses are for, right? But maybe the boss isn’t the best person to make the call.
That’s the conclusion Dennis Bakke came to, and he used it to build AES into a Fortune 200 global power company with 27,000 people in 27 countries. He used it again to create Imagine Schools, the largest non-profit charter-school network in the U.S.
As a student at Harvard Business School, Bakke made hundreds of decisions using the case-study method. He realized two things: decision-making is the best way to develop people; and that shouldn't stop at business school. So Bakke spread decision-making throughout his organizations, fully engaging people at all levels. Today, Bakke has given thousands of people the freedom and responsibility to make decisions that matter.
In The Decision Maker, a leadership fable loosely based on Bakke's experience, the New York Times bestselling author shows us how giving decisions to the people closest to the action can transform any organization.
The idea is simple.
The results are powerful.
When leaders put real control into the hands of their people, they tap incalculable potential. The Decision Maker, destined to be a business classic, holds the key to unlocking the potential of every person in your organization.
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The Truth about Truman School by Dori Hillestad Butler from Albert Whitman & Company ($1.99) is the Kindle Teens Deal of the Day (August 27) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "From cyberbullying to flat out name calling, Butler offers an unflattering, yet true-to-life, view of middle school social trends."
Age Level: 10 - 14
They just wanted to tell the truth.
When Zebby and Amr create the website thetruthabouttruman.com, they want it to be honest. They want it to be about the real Truman Middle School, to say things that the school newspaper would never say, and to give everyone a chance to say what they want to say, too.
But given the chance, some people will say anything—anything to hurt someone else. And when rumors about one popular student escalate to cruel new levels, it’s clear the truth about Truman School is more harrowing than anyone ever imagined.
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