X-link to the SF/Fantasy megathread for a Kurt Vonnegut bargain:
@ $2.99 in the US only:
Look at the Birdie: Unpublished Short Fiction, a collection of stories spanning multiple genres, illustrated with line drawings by the late author himself, and an introduction by one of his friends.
Also, bargain @ $1.99 in the US only from some Random Penguin House imprint (price should be the same at all retailers):
Tai-Pan by the late James Clavell (
Wikipedia), the 2nd novel in his very enjoyable Asian Saga of thinly-veiled historical fiction with slightly expy versions of major figures and institutions, and basis for the eponymous film co-starring Joan Chen.
It is the early 19th century, when European traders and adventurers first began to penetrate the forbidding Chinese mainland. And it is in this exciting time and exotic place that a giant of an Englishman, Dirk Straun, sets out to turn the desolate island of Hong Kong into an impregnable fortress of British power, and to make himself supreme ruler…Tai-Pan!