HAPPY MAY DAY & INTERNATIONAL WORKERS DAY, everyone!
They're out! Here are the May 2018 Samsung Book Deals selections (in the order in which the Amazon Kindle for Samsung app presented them). I've also posted each selection's series (if any), usual Kindle book price, book description, Amazon rank, and genre(s).
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Tidewater: A Novel, by Libbie Hawker (normally $3.99)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #110,671 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
#249 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > United States > Native American
#295 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Biographical
#355 in Books > Literature & Fiction > United States > Native American
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A clash of desire and hatred, of friendship and fear, of stark ambition and desperate survival.
In 1607, three ships arrive on the coast of Virginia to establish Jamestown Colony. Their only hope of survival lies with the Powhatan tribe. John Smith knows this. He knows, too, that the Powhatans would rather see the English starve to death than yield their homeland to invaders. In the midst of this struggle, Pocahontas, the daughter of the great chief, forges an unlikely friendship with Smith. Their bond preserves a wary peace—but as each seeks to fulfill their own ambitions, their delicate truce begins to crack. Soon the colonists and Powhatans are locked in battle, and Pocahontas must choose between power and servitude—between self and sacrifice—for the sake of her people and her land.
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No Peace for the Damned (Magnolia Kelch Series Book 1), by Megan Powell (normally $1.49)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #123,600 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
#44 in Kindle Store > Prime Reading > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy
#3109 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Romance > Fantasy
#4373 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Paranormal & Urban
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Magnolia Kelch is no stranger to pain. Beautiful and powerful, she’s spent her entire life at the mercy of her sadistic father and the rest of the Kelch clan, who have tortured her and tested the limits of her powers. After one particularly heinous night that leaves Magnolia nearly dead, she finally sees her chance for escape…
But this first taste of freedom is short-lived when she collides with Thirteen, head of the Network—a secret organization dedicated to fighting supernatural criminals—who recruits her into the group. Even as she’s coming to grips with this new life and the horrific memories that still haunt her, she’s conflicted by her growing attraction to fellow team member Theo and the emergence of new, untested abilities. After months of grueling training, her loyalty to the team is tested when she learns her target is the Network’s most wanted: the Kelch family.
Revenge may course through her veins, but so does the blood of the Kelches. And opposing her family may cost her the thing she treasures most. After all, Magnolia is still a Kelch. And the Kelch are damned.
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Old Gold (An Eoin Miller Mystery Book 1), by Jay Stringer (normally $1.49)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #42,260 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
#350 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Mystery > Hard-Boiled
#1142 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Mystery > Police Procedurals
#3939 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Thrillers
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Half-gypsy detective Eoin Miller finds people for a living—usually people who would do anything to remain hidden. Ironic considering Eoin has done all he can to lose himself in a downward spiral that has cost him his job, his respect, his wife, and anything else that ever mattered. But he’s not inclined to dwell on what he’s given up, and Eoin prefers it that way.
Then he meets Mary, a hard-drinking woman on the run who confides that she’s stolen a valuable item, one that certain people would kill to get back. The two of them seek a temporary—and incomplete—solace in each other’s arms, only for Mary to turn up as a corpse in Eoin’s bed the next morning, him asleep on the sofa.
Recalling his father’s aversion to authority, Eoin runs from the body, but he hates a mystery and is driven to discover the truth behind Mary’s murder,
even if it means putting his own life on the line. Before long, Eoin’s tangled up in a ferocious turf war that has him playing his former allies and employers—crime lords, drug dealers, cops, and politicians—against each other.
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Portrait of a Girl, by Dörthe Binkert (Author), Margot Bettauer Dembo (Translator) (normally $1.99)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #68,674 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
#27 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > World Literature > German
#57 in Books > Literature & Fiction > World Literature > European > German
#175 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Historical Fiction > German
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In the summer of 1896, a grand Swiss spa hotel becomes a refuge for Nika, a penniless beauty whose tortured past has left her unable to speak. While working in the manicured gardens, she becomes a muse to the celebrated painter Giovanni Segantini, who takes her under his wing.
Although he’s married, the two bond closely, and beneath his gaze Nika blossoms. She opens her heart to Segantini, serving as the muse for his luminous masterwork La Vanità, and through his patience recovers her voice. The secret between them is her sole material possession: a golden locket with clues to her mysterious heritage.
How will Nika learn the hidden secrets of the locket and uncover her origins? And what path awaits her once the facts are revealed? As her ties to Segantini grow ever more complex, her search for love and truth becomes as perilous as the quest for an alpine summit—and her destiny is rewritten on the journey.
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