Stop Dead (A DI Geraldine Steel Mystery) by Leigh Russell from No Exit Press (£0.99) is the Amazon UK
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Customer review: "It was very easy to read and kept me guessing until the very end… Amazing story and great writing."
Detective Inspector Geraldine Steel returns in an exhilarating case of grisly murder in London When a successful businessman is brutally murdered, the police suspect his glamorous wife and her young lover. Then the victim’s business partner suffers the same gruesome fate and when yet another body is discovered, seemingly unrelated to the first two, the police are baffled. The only clue is DNA that leads them to two women: one dead, the other in prison. With a steady stream of bodies arriving at the morgue, can D.I. Geraldine Steel find the killer before the killer stages another deadly attack?
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I Heart New York: A Novel by Lindsey Kelk from Harper (£0.99) is the Amazon UK
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Customer review: "Fantastic easy read. Brilliant characters that we can all relate to in some way. Lovely descriptions of New York too."
Get ready to meet Angela Clark as she flees the world’s worst wedding for a new life…
It's official. Angela Clarke is in love – with the most fabulous city in the world.
Fleeing her cheating boyfriend and clutching little more than a crumpled bridesmaid dress, a pair of Louboutins and her passport, Angela jumps on a plane, destination - NYC.
Holed up in a cute hotel room, Angela gets a New York makeover from her NBFJenny and a whirlwind tour of the city that never sleeps. Before she knows it, Angela is dating two sexy guys. And, best of all, she gets to write about it in her new blog (Carrie Bradshaw eat your heart out). But it's one thing telling readers about your romantic dilemmas, it's another figuring them out for yourself …
Angela has fallen head over heels for the big apple, but does she heart New York more than home?
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The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language by Mark Forsyth from Icon Books (£0.99) is the Amazon UK
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Customer review: "The writer takes you on a whirlwind journey through a series of words and historical facts, ingeniously linking each one to the next."
Do you know why…
…a mortgage is literally a death pledge? …why guns have girls’ names? …why salt is related to soldier?
You’re about to find out…
The Etymologicon (e-t?-‘mä-lä-ji-kän) is:
*Witty (wi-te): Full of clever humor
*Erudite (er-?-dit): Showing knowledge
*Ribald (ri-b?ld): Crude, offensive
The Etymologicon is a completely unauthorized guide to the strange underpinnings of the English language. It explains: how you get from “gruntled” to “disgruntled”; why you are absolutely right to believe that your meager salary barely covers “money for salt”; how the biggest chain of coffee shops in the world (hint: Seattle) connects to whaling in Nantucket; and what precisely the Rolling Stones have to do with gardening.
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The Sky Unwashed by Irene Zabytko from Algonquin Books ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (August 5) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "A moving, haunting, and memorable portrayal of the Chernobyl catastrophe."
Marusia, in her seventies, is the matriarch of the Petrenko family. She has lived and worked all her life in starylis, a tiny town in rural Ukraine. Starylis is a place where families still live in the ancient thatched-roof cottages that have been their homes for generations. It's a place where everyone grows their own vegetables, where the old women (the babas) sweep the church steps daily and bake bread in outdoor communal clay ovens. It's a place where everyone knows everyone else, and everyone else's business. It's a little town just down the road from Chernobyl.
On April 26, 1986, the lives of Marusia, her family, and her townspeople change forever.
The air begins to taste strange, the workers don't come home from their shifts at the nearby power plant. Eventually the Soviet government orders a mandatory and permanent evacuation. But less than a year after the accident, a handful of elderly women - the first of whom is Marusia - defy the government prohibition and return, one by one, to their now deserted town. Despite their differences and their losses, they band together for survival, companionship, and to confront the Soviet officials responsible for their fate.
This is a tale of ordinary citizens who, when faced with extraordinary circumstances, become the most unexpected heroes. Inspired by a true incident and transformed by the talents of a remarkable young writer, The Sky Unwashed is a simple story told with gentle humor that redefines our notions of home and community.
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Wonderful You by Mariah Stewart from Pocket Books ($1.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (August 5) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "This charming book has romance, laughter and suspense. Highly recommended!"
Twenty-eight, single, and struggling to keep her little shop of handicrafts afloat, Zoey Enright is pleasantly surprised when a knockout audition for a home-shopping network lands her an impressive job as an on-air saleswoman. Little does she know, Delaney O'Connor, the company's CEO, is bringing his only grandson and the hero of Zoey's childhood, Ben Pierce, home from Europe to run the network.
Ben's one true passion was Grand Prix racing -- until he laid eyes on Zoey again, all grown up and more beautiful than ever. But he also must face his haunted past and the near-fatal accident that brought his driving career to a screeching halt. Confronting painful emotions he crossed an ocean to forget, Ben must barter his old dreams for new ones if he and Zoey are to claim the wonderful future they are meant to share.
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The Legend of Eli Monpress by Rachel Aaron from Orbit ($1.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (August 5) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "This book is witty and smart- a nice throwback to light, classical fantasy.”
The Legend of Eli Monpress includes the novels: The Spirit Thief, The Sprit Rebellion, and The Spirit Eater.
Eli Monpress is talented. He's charming. And he's a thief.
But not just any thief. He's the greatest thief of the age - and he's also a wizard. And with the help of his partners - a swordsman with the most powerful magic sword in the world but no magical ability of his own, and a demonseed who can step through shadows and punch through walls - he's going to put his plan into effect.
The first step is to increase the size of the bounty on his head, so he'll need to steal some big things. But he'll start small for now. He'll just steal something that no one will miss - at least for a while.
Like a king.
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Lost Horizon: A Novel by James Hilton from Two Lions ($1.99) is the Kindle Teens Deal of the Day (August 5) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "A haunting and timeless story that I consider to be a masterpiece of modern fiction"
Hilton’s bestselling classic about a man who stumbles on the world’s last great hope for peace: Shangri-La
Hugh Conway saw humanity at its worst while fighting in the trenches of the First World War. Now, more than a decade later, Conway is a British diplomat serving in Afghanistan and facing war yet again—this time, a civil conflict forces him to flee the country by plane. When his plane crashes high in the Himalaya mountains, Conway and the other survivors are found by a mysterious guide and led to a breathtaking discovery: the hidden valley of Shangri-La.
Kept secret from the world for more than two hundred years, Shangri-La is like paradise—a place whose inhabitants live for centuries amid the peace and harmony of the fertile valley. But when the leader of the Shangri-La monastery falls ill, Conway and the others must face the daunting prospect of returning home to a world about to be torn open by war.
Thrilling and passionate, Lost Horizon is a masterpiece of modern fiction, and one of the most enduring books of the twentieth century.
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June Bug by Chris Fabry from Tyndale House Publishers ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (August 5)
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Chris Fabry (Not in the Heart, Every Waking Moment) delivers a modern take on Les Miserables in the story of nine-year-old June Bug, who sees herself staring out from a missing child poster, leading her to question her "father" about their strange vagabond life and to force him to face the past he's long been running from.
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