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The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo from Candlewick ($0.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Nov 15) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

This is a magical book! [I am a huge Kate DiCamillo fan] - for adults as well as children. And the illustrations are beautiful.

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FYI, new Kindle game apps:

Reversi Light (A Game for Kindle) by DQ Team ($0.99)

Product Description
Reversi Light is a board game that is simple to learn, but can take years to master.

Reversi involves abstract strategy. The objective is fairly simple - convert the opponent's pieces to your color by trapping them between two of your pieces. But while the rules are easy, they can lead to a great many combinations and strategic decisions. The situation on the game board can change drastically at every turn, so you will need to keep your strategic goals in focus while the tactical situation remains fluid. At the end of the game, the player with the majority of the pieces their color wins.

In Reversi Light, you can choose one of three difficulty levels: easy, medium or hard. You can exit the game at any time, and when you return, your previous game will be restored.

If you like to play strategic games, Reversi Light is a good choice for you.

PUZZLE KING'S Code Crunchers (A Code Breaking Puzzle for Kindle) by Route 1 Games ($1.99)

Product Description
Code Crunchers is a fun game in which you need to break a code to compete a crossword-like grid.

Code Crunchers gives you 100 puzzles of just the right difficulty for brain training and fun. Not too easy, and not too tough (but there is a handy Assist function if you get stuck). Code Crunchers has four different player profiles so different friends or family members can save progress whenever they want. You can take as long as you like to finish, but for those that are interested, the game records each player's best times. Solve the puzzles in any order you like - you're in total control.

If you like cryptogram puzzles, you should try this game!

Ultimate Casino Quiz (A Trivia Game for Kindle) by HandyX ($1.99)

Product Description
Do you know your baccarat from your blackjack?

Do you know when you should double, hit or split to achieve the highest winnings?

This casino experience covers the main casino games to teach you winning info on strategies, systems and other legitimate ways to gain the edge over the house or get the best odds when you play casino games!

The quiz features 1000 multiple choice questions ranging from basic to advanced, taking you through each game with different game play modes available to test your speed and knowledge.

This quiz tests your knowledge of the popular games, rules and casino lingo, top game-play strategies, fun facts and Las Vegas history. Among the casino games included, Poker and blackjack game-play strategies and odds are covered in-depth to give you that extra winning edge.

Questions and strategy cover:
Blackjack
Video Poker
Texas Hold'Em
Baccarat
Roulette
Craps
Stud Poker
Slot Machines
Keno

The tips alone will make you a winner.

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FYI, the UK get their own daily deals:

The Land of Later On by Anthony Weller from AmazonEncore (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Nov 16) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Anthony Weller's The Land of Later On is an utterly captivating and achingly moving novel. Funny, full of surprises and rich in history, the story explores what happens when people journey to the afterlife.

Readers will root for Kip--a suicidal jazz pianist--whose deep love for the deceased Lucy is the driving force behind the plot.

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Triangle: The Fire That Changed America by David von Drehle from Grove/Atlantic ($3.44) is the NOOK Daily Find (Nov 16)

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This harrowing yet compulsively readable tale of the infamous 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire that claimed the lives of 146 people stands not only as a chronicle of New York City history, but also as a vibrant portrait of an entire age.

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Bargains from Houghton Mifflin:

Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Miles is $2.52 at the US Kindle store ($9.99 at B&N)

Product Description

Sometimes the planes don't fly on time.

Bennie Ford, a fifty-three-year-old failed poet turned translator, is traveling to his estranged daughter’s wedding when his flight is canceled. Stuck with thousands of fuming passengers in the purgatory of O’Hare International Airport, he watches the clock tick and realizes that he will miss the ceremony. Frustrated, irate, and helpless, Bennie does the only thing he can: he starts to write a letter. But what begins as a hilariously excoriating demand for a refund soon becomes a lament for a life gone awry, for years misspent, talent wasted, and happiness lost. Bennie’s writing is infused with a sense of remorse for the actions of a lifetime—and made all the more urgent by the fading hope that if he can just make it to the wedding, he might have a chance to do something right.

A margarita blend of outrage, humor, vulnerability, intelligence, and regret, Dear American Airlines gives new meaning to the term "airport novel" and announces the emergence of a major new talent in American fiction.

Curious George Takes a Trip (CGTV Reader) (Curious George Early Readers) by H. A. Rey is $1.65 at the US Kindle store

Product Description
Curious George and his friend are going on vacation on an airplane. At check-in, the ticket clerk gives George a toy airplane to play with, but he soon loses it and has a few adventures trying to find it again. What an exciting start to his vacation! Learning concepts: modes of transportation Level one in Houghton's new Curious George reader line means that the text is minimal and simple, perfect for readers learning to sound out words while looking at the art for visual clues.

The Gift of Thanks: The Roots and Rituals of Gratitude by Margaret Visser is $1.84 at the US Kindle store ($14.85 at B&N)

Product Description
Known as an ‘anthropologist of everyday life,’ Margaret Visser has, in five award-winning books, uncovered and illuminated the intriguing and unexpected meanings of everyday objects and habits. Now she turns her keen eye to another custom so frequently encountered that it often escapes notice: saying ‘Thank you.’ What do we really mean by these two simple words?

This fascinating inquiry into all aspects of gratitude ranges from the unusual determination with which parents teach their children to thank, to the difference between speaking the words and feeling them, to the ways different cultures handle the complex matters of giving, receiving, and returning favors and presents. Visser illuminates the fundamental opposition in our own culture between gift-giving and commodity exchange, and the similarities between gratitude and its opposite, vengefulness. The Gift of Thanks considers cultural history, including the modern battle of social scientists to pin down the notion of thankfulness and account for it, and the newly awakened scientific interest in the biological and evolutionary roots of emotions.

With her engaging combination of curiosity and erudition, Visser once again reveals the extraordinary in the everyday.

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Tyger Tyger: A Goblin Wars Book by Kersten Hamilton is $2.99 (US Kindle, B&N) [Houghton Mifflin Harcourt] Gr 8 Up

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Teagan Wylltson's best friend, Abby, dreams that horrifying creatures--goblins, shape-shifters, and beings of unearthly beauty but terrible cruelty--are hunting Teagan. Abby is always coming up with crazy stuff, though, so Teagan isn't worried. Her life isn't in danger. In fact, it's perfect. She's on track for a college scholarship. She has a great job. She's focused on school, work, and her future. No boys, no heartaches, no problems.

Until Finn Mac Cumhaill arrives. Finn's a bit on the unearthly beautiful side himself. He has a killer accent and a knee-weakening smile. And either he's crazy or he's been haunting Abby's dreams, because he's talking about goblins, too . . . and about being The Mac Cumhaill, born to fight all goblin-kind. Finn knows a thing or two about fighting. Which is a very good thing, because this time, Abby's right. The goblins are coming.

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Originally Posted by arcadata

The Gift of Thanks: The Roots and Rituals of Gratitude by Margaret Visser is $1.84 at the US Kindle store ($14.85 at B&N)

Margaret Visser is generally quite informative and entertaining at the same time. I have some of her books in paper. This one, alas, is not available to her fellow Canadians.

But general recommend for her stuff anyway, for those who can take advantage of the deal.

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Bargains from Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers:

This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein by by Kenneth Oppel is $1.99 (US Kindle, B&N)

Product Description
Included in this edition of This Dark Endeavor, enjoy a free edition of Mary Shelley's classic Frankenstein.

The purest intentions can stir up the darkest obsessions.

In this prequel to Mary Shelley’s gothic classic, Frankenstein, 16-year-old Victor Frankenstein begins a dark journey that will change his life forever. Victor’s twin, Konrad, has fallen ill, and no doctor is able to cure him. Unwilling give up on his brother, Victor, his beautiful cousin Elizabeth, and best friend Henry begin a treacherous search for the ingredients to create the forbidden Elixir of Life.

Impossible odds, dangerous alchemy, and a bitter love triangle threaten their quest at every turn.

Victor knows he must not fail. But his success depends on how far he is willing to push the boundaries of nature, science and, love -- and how much he is willing to sacrifice.

Among the Hidden (Shadow Children) by Margaret Peterson Haddix is $3.99 (US Kindle, B&N) Grade 5-8

Product Description
Luke has never been to school. He's never had a birthday party, or gone to a friend's house for an overnight. In fact, Luke has never had a friend.

Luke is one of the shadow children, a third child forbidden by the Population Police. He's lived his entire life in hiding, and now, with a new housing development replacing the woods next to his family's farm, he is no longer even allowed to go outside.

Then, one day Luke sees a girl's face in the window of a house where he knows two other children already live. Finally, he's met a shadow child like himself. Jen is willing to risk everything to come out of the shadows -- does Luke dare to become involved in her dangerous plan? Can he afford not to?

The Mother-Daughter Book Club by Heather Vogel Frederick is $3.99 (US Kindle, B&N) Grade 5-8

Product Description
The book club is about to get a makeover....

Even if Megan would rather be at the mall, Cassidy is late for hockey practice, Emma's already read every book in existence, and Jess is missing her mother too much to care, the new book club is scheduled to meet every month.

But what begins as a mom-imposed ritual of reading Little Women soon helps four unlikely friends navigate the drama of middle school. From stolen journals, to secret crushes, to a fashion-fiasco first dance, the girls are up to their Wellie boots in drama. They can't help but wonder: What would Jo March do?

Acclaimed author Heather Vogel Frederick will delight daughters of all ages in a novel about the fabulousness of fiction, family, and friendship.

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Bargains from Bloomsbury USA

There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children by Melissa Fay Greene is $2.51 at the US Kindle store ($9.59 at B&N)

Product Description
There Is No Me Without You is the story of Haregewoin Tefarra, a middle-aged Ethiopian woman of modest means whose home has become a refuge for hundreds of children orphaned by AIDS. It is a story as much about the power of the bond between children and parents as about the epidemic that every year leaves millions of children, mostly healthy themselves, without family. Originally a middle-class woman with a happy family life, Haregewoin fell into a deep depression after the death of her recently married daughter. But then a priest brought her two children, AIDS orphans, with nowhere to go. Unexpectedly, the children thrived, and Haregewoin found herself drawn back into daily life. As word got out, an endless stream of children began to arrive at her door, delivered by dying parents and other relatives who begged for her help, and, pushing against the limits of her home and bank account, she took more and more in. Today, Haregewoin runs a school, a daycare system, and a shelter for sick mothers. Without medication for her charges--some HIV-positive, some uninfected, and some infants trying to fight off the virus, but almost all of whom come to her terrified and malnourished--she forges on, caring for as many as she can handle. Increasingly, she also places them for adoption with families like that of journalist Melissa Fay Greene, who has two children adopted from Ethiopia. In Haregewoin Tefarra's story, Greene gives us an astonishing portrait of a woman fighting a continent-wide epidemic.

The Actor and the Housewife: A Novel by Shannon Hale is $2.99 at the US Kindle store ($7.19 at B&N)

Product Description
A very different kind of fantasy from New York Times bestselling author Shannon Hale.

What if you were to meet the number-one person on your laminated list—you know, that list you joke about with your significant other about which five celebrities you’d be allowed to run off with if ever given the chance? And of course since it’ll never happen it doesn’t matter…

Mormon housewife Becky Jack is seven months pregnant with her fourth child when she meets celebrity hearththrob Felix Callahan. Twelve hours, one elevator ride, and one alcohol-free dinner later, something has happened…though nothing has happened. It isn’t sexual. It isn’t even quite love. But a month later Felix shows up in Salt Lake City to visit and before they know what’s hit them, Felix and Becky are best friends. Really. Becky’s husband is pretty cool about it. H er children roll their eyes. Her neighbors gossip endlessly. But Felix and Becky have something special…something unusual, something completely impossible to sustain. Or is it? A magical story, The Actor and the Housewife explores what could happen when your not-so-secret celebrity crush walks right into real life and changes everything.

Tongue: A Novel by Kyung-Ran Jo is $1.80 at the US Kindle store ($9.99 at B&N)

Product Description
An erotically charged, elegantly written novel that marks the first publication in English of author Kyung-Ran Jo, a literary star in Korea who has earned comparisons to Haruki Murakami.

Emotionally raw and emphatically sensual, Tongue is the story of the demise of an obsessive romance and a woman’s culinary journey toward self-restoration and revenge. When her boyfriend of seven years leaves her for another woman, the celebrated young chef Jung Ji-won shuts down the cooking school she ran from their home and sinks into deep depression, losing her will to cook, her desire to eat, and even her ability to taste. Returning to the kitchen of the I talian restaurant where her career first began, she slowly rebuilds her life, rediscovering her appreciation of food, both as nourishment and as sensual pleasure. She also starts to devise a plan for a final, vengeful act of culinary seduction.

Tongue is a voluptuous, intimate story of a gourmet relying on her food-centric worldview to emerge from heartbreak; a mesmerizing, delicately plotted novel at once shocking and profoundly familiar.

Diablerie: A Novel by Walter Mosley is $2.99 at the US Kindle store ($7.19 at B&N)

Product Description
In this icy noir from a master of American fiction, the darkest secrets are the ones we keep hidden from ourselves.

Ben Dibbuk has a good job, an accomplished wife, a bright college-age daughter, and a patient young mistress. Even as he goes through the motions of everyday life, however, inside he feels nothing. The explanation for this emotional void lies in the years he spent as a blacked-out drunk before pulling his life together—years in which he knows he committed acts he doesn’t remember. Then a woman from his past turns up at a gala for his wife’s new gig at a magazine called Diablerie and makes it clear that she remembers something he doesn’t. Their encounter sets wheels in motion that will propel Dibbuk toward new knowledge, and perhaps the chance to feel again. With the same erotic force as Killing Johnny Fry, but grounded in a far darker vision of human nature, Diablerie is a transfixing new novel from one of our most powerful writers.

Killing Johnny Fry: A Sexistential Novel by Walter Mosley is $2.99 at the US Kindle store ($7.19 at B&N)

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“A frankly pornographic novel, and I mean that as a compliment.”—New York Times Book Review

When Cordell Carmel catches his longtime girlfriend with another man, the act that he witnesses seems to dissolve all the boundaries he knows. He wants revenge, but also something more. Killing Johnny Fry is the story of Cordell’s dark, funny, soulful, and outrageously explicit sexual odyssey in search of a new way of life. It marks new territory for the bestselling author of Devil in a Blue Dress and countless other books; it will surprise, provoke, inspire, and make you blush. Above all, it is about a man questioning the rules we take for granted—and the powerful and sometimes disturbing connections that occur between people when these rules are removed.

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And here's 12 bargain Bloomsbury USA Childrens ebooks at the US Kindle store:

Pastworld by Ian Beck ($1.24)

The Mark by Jen Nadol ($1.99)

Pirates! by Celia Rees ($1.99)

The Perfect Hamburger and Other Delicious Stories by Alexander McCall Smith ($1.99)

The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp by Rick Yancey ($1.99)

The Goose Girl (Books of Bayern) by Shannon Hale ($2.24)

Faerie Wars (Faerie Wars Chronicles) by Herbie Brennan ($2.51)

Ten Cents a Dance by Christine Fletcher ($2.51)

The Frog Princess (Tales of the Frog Princess) by E. D. Baker ($2.51)

Ophelia by Lisa Klein ($2.51)

Need (Need Pixies) by Carrie Jones ($2.51)

Magic Under Glass by Jaclyn Dolamore ($2.51)

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Deadly Little Secret (Touch) by Laurie Faria Stolarz from Disney Hyperion ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Nov 16) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

From Laurie Faria Stolarz--the author of the bestselling "Blue is for Nightmares" series--comes this supernatural romance about a teen girl's attraction to the hunky, but mysterious new guy in school, whose touch has very unnerving effects.

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FYI, amazon has price-matched the Nook deal:

Triangle: The Fire That Changed America by David von Drehle now also $3.44 (US Kindle)

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FYI, the UK get their own daily deals:

Punishment (Johanne Vik) by Anna Holt from Corvus (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Nov 17) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Norwegian author Anne Holt introduces readers to former FBI profiler turned academic psychologist Johanne Vik and police inspector Adam Stubo in Punishment. When the bodies of kidnapped children turn up with notes saying "You got what you deserved", Stubo enlists Vik's help to catch the killer in this thriller that capitalises on every parent's worst nightmare.

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A Test of Wills with Bonus Material by Charles Todd is $1.99 for US Kindle [HarperCollins] pre-order

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For a limited time, experience the first Ian Rutledge novel from Charles Todd at a special price, including an exclusive excerpt from The Confession, a new Rutledge mystery, available this January.

In A Test of Wills, It is 1919, and the War to End All Wars has been won. But for Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge, recently returned from the battlefields of France, there is no peace. Suffering from shell shock, tormented by the mocking, ever-present voice of the young Scot he had executed for refusing to fight, Rutledge plunges into his work to save his sanity. But his first assignment is a case certain to spell both personal and professional disaster.

A popular colonel has been murdered in Warwickshire, and the main suspect is a decorated war hero and close friend of the Prince of Wales. The case is a political minefield, and no matter what the outcome, Rutledge may not escape with his career intact. And, win or lose, the cost could be even higher: The one witness who could break the case is himself a shell shock victim, teetering on the edge of reality. In this war-ravaged man, Rutledge sees his own possible future, should he fail.

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More Bargains from HarperCollins:

Nation by Terry Pratchett is $0.99 (US Kindle, B&N)

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When a giant wave destroys his village, Mau is the only one left. Daphne—a traveler from the other side of the globe—is the sole survivor of a shipwreck. Separated by language and customs, the two are united by catastrophe. Slowly, they are joined by other refugees. And as they struggle to protect the small band, Mau and Daphne defy ancestral spirits, challenge death himself, and uncover a long-hidden secret that literally turns the world upside down.

The Air Between Us by Deborah Johnson is is $0.99 (US Kindle, B&N)

Product Description

Revere, Mississippi, with its population of "20,000 and sinking" is not unlike most Southern towns in the sixties. Black people live on one side of town and whites live on the other. The two rarely mix, or so everyone believes. But the truth is brought to the forefront when Billy Ray Puckett, a white man wounded while hunting, shows up at the segregated Doctors Hospital. No one thinks much of his death—just a typical hunting accident—until the sheriff orders an investigation.

Suddenly the connections between whites and blacks are revealed to be deeper than anyone expected, which makes the town's struggle with integration that much more complicated. Dr. Cooper Connelly, who hails from a prominent white family, takes an unexpectedly progressive view toward school integration; while the esteemed Dr. Reese Jackson, so prominent he has garnered an Ebony profile, tries to stay above the fray. With fully realized characters and a mystery that will keep readers turning pages until the end, The Air Between Us is a heart-filled, endearing tale.

Mrs. Kimble (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Jennifer Haigh is is $1.99 (US Kindle, B&N)

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In her masterful first novel Mrs. Kimble, Jennifer Haigh delivers the riveting story of three women who marry the same man.

Ken Kimble is revealed through the eyes of the women he seduces: his first wife, Birdie, who struggles to hold herself together following his desertion; his second wife, Joan, a lonely heiress shaken by personal tragedy, who sees in Kimble her last chance at happiness; and finally Dinah, a beautiful but damaged woman half his age. Woven throughout is the story of Kimble's son, Charlie, whose life is forever affected by the father he barely remembers. Kimble is a chameleon, a man able to become, at least for a while, all things to all women -- a hero to whom powerful needs and nameless longings may be attached. Only later do they glimpse the truth about this enigmatic, unknowable man.

Tangled by Carolyn Mackler is is $1.99 (US Kindle, B&N)

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Paradise wasn't supposed to suck. Not the state of being, but a resort in the Caribbean.

Jena, Dakota, Skye, and Owen are all there for different reasons, but at Paradise their lives become tangled together in ways none of them can predict. Paradise will change them all.

It will change Jena, whose first brush with romance takes her that much closer to having a life, and not just reading about those infinitely cooler and more exciting.

It will change Dakota, who needs the devastating truth about his past to make him realize that he doesn't have to be a jerk just because people think he's one.

It will change Skye, a heartbreakingly beautiful actress, who must come to terms with the fact that for once she has to stop playing a role or face the consequences.

And it will change Owen, who has never risked anything before and who will take the leap from his online life to a real one all because of a girl he met at Paradise. . . .

From confused to confident and back again, one thing's certain: Four months after it all begins, none of them will ever be the same.