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Quite Contrary by Richard Roberts from Curiosity Quills Press ($0.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (June 4) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer Review: "Once I started this, I became hooked. I recommend it to those who enjoy dark fairy tales or dark stories in general."
The secret of having an adventure is getting lost. Who ever visited an enchanted kingdom or fell into a fairy tale without wandering into the woods first?
Well, Mary is lost. Mary is lost in the story of Little Red Riding Hood, and that is a cruel and murderous story. She's put on the red hood and met the Wolf. When she gives in to her Wolf's temptations, she will die. That's how the story goes, after all.
Unfortunately for the story and unfortunately for the Wolf, this Little Red Riding Hood is Mary Stuart, and she is the most stubborn and contrary twelve year old the world has ever known.
Forget the Wolf's temptations, forget the advice of the talking rat trying to save her - she will kick her way through every myth and fairy tale ever told until she finds a way to get out of this alive. Her own way, and no one else's.
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Getting It Right (The Restoration Series) by A.M. Arthur from Carina Press ($0.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (June 4) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer Review: "Friends-to-lovers is one of my trusted tropes. With angst, emotional issues, and suspense, this was an impressive series opener."
Detective Nathan Wolf might just be a junior detective, but he tackles every case with the passion that he lacks in his personal life. A series of failed relationships with women has left him still single at thirty-four—because he's too scared to admit to his longtime crush on his best friend James.
Dr. James Taggert likes to keep his profession as a psychiatrist separate from his party-animal persona. Known around the gay clubs as "Tag", he's the guy who screws them, leaves them, and never looks back. But James's drinking is getting heavier, and when bad memories from the past resurface, he's close to becoming the worst version of himself.
After a drunken blackout ends in a hot and heavy make-out session with his very straight best friend, James has no memory of the steamy affair. But Nathan isn't sorry for the kisses that James can't remember. Nathan finally musters the courage to tell James how he really feels, but a life-altering event might force them apart before they can ever be together.
Book one of the Restoration series
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Whom the Gods Would Destroy by Brian Hodge from DarkFuse ($0.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (June 4) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "Well written, thought provoking, and mysterious, I highly recommend this novella to fans of dark fiction, science fiction, Lovecraft, or cosmic horror."
"Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from godhood."
For Damien, growing up was all about being an outsider in his own home. His mother and brother shared an unfathomable bond that left him excluded from their lives. Yet his earliest, fragmentary memory of them was so nightmarish, their lives were something he ran from as soon as he could.
Now an astronomy graduate student in Seattle, Damien is happy with his place as a speck in a cosmos vast beyond comprehension. Until his brother turns up after 13 years, to make amends and seek his expertise on a discovery that may not be of this Earth. The more the world expands to admit the possibilities of a universe stranger than even Damien has imagined, the greater is his urgency to resist being reclaimed by a past that never seemed to want him...until now.
Like a collision of galaxies between H.P. Lovecraft and Carl Sagan, Whom the Gods Would Destroy looks to the night skies as the source of our greatest wonder, and finds them swarming with our worst fears.
Winner of the DarkFuse Readers' Choice Award for Best Novella of 2013
Finalist for the 2013 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novella
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The Story of Charlotte's Web: E. B. White's Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic by Michael Sims from Walker Books ($1.99) is the Kindle Biographies & Memoirs Deal of the Day (June 4) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "If you are a big E. B. White fan--and who isn't?--then I think you will find this a truly wonderful book."
While composing what would become his most enduring and popular book, E. B. White obeyed that oft-repeated maxim: "Write what you know." Helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, greedy rats-White knew all of these characters in the barns and stables where he spent his favorite hours as a child and adult. Painfully shy, "this boy," White once wrote of himself, "felt for animals a kinship he never felt for people." It's all the more impressive, therefore, how many people have felt a kinship with E. B. White.
Michael Sims chronicles White's animal-rich childhood, his writing about urban nature for the New Yorker, his scientific research into how spiders spin webs and lay eggs, his friendship with his legendary editor, Ursula Nordstrom, the composition and publication of his masterpiece, and his ongoing quest to recapture an enchanted childhood.
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Buffalo Brenda by Jill Pinkwater from Amazon ($0.99) is the Kindle Kids Deal of the Day (June 4) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "This is an excellent book for young teenagers and older kids. They can relate to it on how to fit into to a certain group at school."
When Brenda Tuna and Inda Ink Teidlebaum meet on the first day of seventh grade, it's a case of natural affinity. . . even though Brenda is wearing an outfit reminiscent of the pages of National Geographic. Even India's ex-hippie parents find Brenda rather unusual. The girls quickly learn that in Junior High, hardly anyone admires true uniqueness.
High School promises to be different, though, and Brenda wastes no time in taking over the school newspaper and goes on to found the Buffalo Boosters, the richest--and wackiest--club in the history of Florence High School.
As India warns their fellow Student Misfits, Brenda is brilliant, creative, articulate, brave, original... and dangerous. Where she leads, trouble is sure to follow in Jill Pinkwater's hilarious story of two best friends in their never-ending battle against intolerance, conformity -- and boredom.
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