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The Quickening by Michelle Hoover from Other Press ($3.60) is the NOOK Daily Find (Mar 26)

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Enidina Current and Mary Morrow are neighbors in the flat, hardscrabble farmland of the upper Midwest during the early 1900s. Very different people, they nonetheless come to rely on one another for survival and companionship. But as the Great Depression looms, the delicate balance of their relationship shifts, pitting neighbor against neighbor, exposing dark secrets, and triggering a series of events that may destroy their their families.

Cowboy Camp by Tammi Sauer from Sterling Publishing ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (Mar 26)

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It's hard to be a cowboy, particularly if you are allergic to horses and beans, and can't lasso. Avery doesn't fit in at cowboy camp (what kind of a cowboy name is Avery), but he ends up the hero when he saves the camp from a big bad bandit. Kids will love the fantastic illustrations and charming story.

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FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal:

The Quickening by Michelle Hoover also $3.60

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Crash Into Me: A Survivor's Search for Justice by Liz Seccuro from Bloomsbury USA is $2.81 (US Kindle)

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In September 2005, Liz Seccuro’s world turned upside down when she received an apology letter from the man who had raped her twenty-two years earlier. The rape, which occurred when she was a seventeen-year-old freshman at the University of Virginia, was reported to the campus police, but their inquiry led nowhere. The man accused of raping her left the university soon after, and Seccuro tried to put the incident behind her, starting a business and a family, but like all survivors of trauma, the memory was never far from the surface.

The letter brought it all back. Seccuro bravely began an e-mail correspondence with her rapist to try to understand what happened, and why. As the correspondence continued, Seccuro found the courage to do what should have been done all those years earlier—prosecute him. She began appearing on national television and radio to talk about the case. Several crime dramas and a John Grisham novel, The Associate, were based on her experience. She had found a way to end a terrible story, but once judicial proceedings began, she found that what she thought occurred at that UV A frat party was only the tip of the iceberg. The investigation revealed at least two other assailants, numerous onlookers, and a wall of silence among the fraternity members that persisted two decades later.

Liz Seccuro’s inspiring, unflinching memoir is about experiencing terrible trauma—and the power of justice to heal.

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The Princetta by Anne-Laure Bondoux from Bloomsbury USA Childrens is $1.99 (US Kindle)

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Princess Malva -the Princetta of Galnicia- flees her kingdom and an arranged marriage, only to find herself betrayed by the very man who promised to help her. Orpheus is the son of a sea-captain-turned-pirate and is determined to make a name of his own commanding a ship in Galnicia’s royal armada. But when their paths cross on the high seas, so do their destinies. Together the Princetta and Orpheus will travel to edges of the Known World and beyond . . . a journey from which only one of them will return alive.

Shipwrecks, shark attacks, barbarians, and mysterious archipelagos await readers in this lavish fantasy-adventure written by one of France’s most celebrated authors.

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Ten Cents a Dance by Christine Fletcher from Bloomsbury USA Childrens is $2.99 (US Kindle)

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A mesmerizing look into a little known world and era.

With her mother ill, it’s up to fifteen-year-old Ruby Jacinski to support her family. But in the 1940s, the only opportunities open to a Polish-American girl from Chicago’s poor Yards is a job in one of the meat packing plants. Through a chance meeting with a local tough, Ruby lands a job as a taxi dancer and soon becomes an expert in the art of "fishing": working her patrons for meals, cash, clothes, even jewelry. Drawn ever deeper into the world of dance halls, jazz, and the mob, Ruby gradually realizes that the only one who can save her is herself.

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Call Me Princess by Sara Blaedel from Pegasus Books is $2.18 (US Kindle)

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Following in the tradition of Stieg Larsson and Camilla Läckberg—the American debut of Danish crime queen Sara Blædel’s internationally bestselling novel

A young woman in Copenhagen, Susanne Hansson, becomes the victim of an unusually brutal rape attack in her own home. Detective Inspector Louise Rick is summoned to talk to the victim, where she quickly determines that Susanne met the rapist via a dating website, a fact that Susanne shamefully tries to hide, especially from her domineering mother.

The police suspect that the rapist may have been caught on video in the subway, so Louise and a colleague go through the tapes. They’re lucky enough to find him, but unfortunately the image is blurry and shows him only in profile. While the police investigation is making progress, things take a negative turn for Susanne, who tries to commit suicide. The rape is not the only reason.

In the meantime Louise becomes more and more immersed in the online dating world. In her search she comes across the web site “nightwatch.dk,” which allows her to upload images that show people out in the night-time scene and who they’re with. She finds a picture of the man, who is now calling himself “Prinzz.” She contacts him using the name “Princess,” and they agree to meet.

With a climax as suspenseful as it is shocking, Sara Blædel’s American debut confirms her as one of the brightest stars in the new wave of Scandinavian crime novelists that has riveted the attention of readers around the world.

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Bargains from HarperCollins (US Kindle):

($0.99)

Reckless: A Novel by Andrew Gross

($1.99)

The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell (P.S.) by Aldous Huxley
Spiritual Writings: A New Translation and Selection by George Pattison
Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation by Jennifer Hecht
Purity of Heart: Is To Will One Thing by Soren Kierkegaard
On Disobedience: 'Why Freedom Means Saying "No" to Power by Erich Fromm
On Truth and Untruth: Selected Writings by Friedrich Nietzsche
Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy (P.S.) by Jane Leavy
Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball by George Will
The Bad Guys Won by Jeff Pearlman (Repeat discount)
The Machine by Joe Posnanski
The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn

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Possessions of Doctor Forrest by Richard T. Kelly from Faber and Faber Fiction (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Mar 27) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Three respected Scottish doctors--psychiatrist Steve Hartford, paediatric surgeon Grey Lochran and cosmetic surgeon Robert Forrest--have been close friends since their Edinburgh boyhoods. But for each, midlife has brought certain discontents, especially for Forrest, a reformed womaniser who broods over his fading looks and the departure of his beautiful younger girlfriend.

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An Impartial Witness: A Bess Crawford Mystery by Charles Todd is $1.99 (US Kindle, iTunes)

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World War I nurse Bess Crawford, introduced in A Duty to the Dead, returns in an exciting new mystery in which a murder draws her inexorably into the sights of a cunning killer It is the early summer of 1917. Bess Crawford has returned to England from the trenches of France with a convoy of severely wounded men. One of her patients is a young pilot who has been burned beyond recognition, and who clings to life and the photo of his wife that is pinned to his tunic. While passing through a London train station, Bess notices a woman bidding an emotional farewell to an officer, her grief heart-wrenching. And then Bess realizes that she seems familiar. In fact, she's the woman in the pilot's photo, but the man she is seeing off is not her husband. Back on duty in France, Bess discovers a newspaper with a drawing of the woman's face on the front page. Accompanying the drawing is a plea from Scotland Yard seeking information from anyone who has seen her. For it appears that the woman was murdered on the very day Bess encountered her at the station. Granted leave to speak with Scotland Yard, Bess becomes entangled in the case. Though an arrest is made, she must delve into the depths of her very soul to decide if the police will hang an innocent man or a vicious killer. Exposing the truth is dangerous—and will put her own life on the line.

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More bargains from HarperCollins:

Lost & Found with Bonus Excerpt by Jacqueline Sheehan is $1.99 (US Kindle pre-order)

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For a limited time at a special price of $1.99, enjoy Jacqueline Sheehan's novel Lost & Found—A poignant and unforgettable tale of love, loss, and moving on . . . with the help of one not-so-little dog. As a bonus, you get an excerpt from Sheehan's new upcoming novel, Picture This, on sale May 22, 2012.

Rocky's husband Bob was just forty-two when she discovered him lying cold and lifeless on the bathroom floor . . . and Rocky's world changed forever. Quitting her job, chopping off all her hair, she leaves Massachusetts—reinventing her past and taking a job as Animal Control Warden on Peak's Island, a tiny speck off the coast of Maine and a million miles away from everything she's lost. She leaves her career as a psychologist behind, only to find friendship with a woman whose brain misfires in the most wonderful way and a young girl who is trying to disappear. Rocky, a quirky and fallible character, discovers the healing process to be agonizingly slow.

But then she meets Lloyd.

A large black Labrador retriever, Lloyd enters Rocky's world with a primitive arrow sticking out of his shoulder. And so begins a remarkable friendship between a wounded woman and a wounded, lovable beast. As the unraveling mystery of Lloyd's accident and missing owner leads Rocky to an archery instructor who draws her in even as she finds every reason to mistrust him, she discovers the life-altering revelation that grief can be transformed . . . and joy does exist in unexpected places.

Halflings (A Halflings Novel) by Heather Burch is $1.99 (US Kindle)

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Split. After being inexplicably targeted by an evil intent on harming her at any cost, seventeen-year-old Nikki finds herself under the watchful guardianship of three mysterious young men who call themselves halflings. Sworn to defend her, misfits Mace, Raven, and Vine battle to keep Nikki safe while hiding their deepest secret---and the wings that come with. A growing attraction between Nikki and two of her protectors presents a whole other danger. While she risks a broken heart, Mace and Raven could lose everything, including their souls. As the mysteries behind the boys' powers, as well as her role in a scientist's dark plan, unfold, Nikki is faced with choices that will affect the future of an entire race of heavenly beings, as well as the precarious equilibrium of the earthly world.

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Embrace by Jessica Shirvington from Sourcebooks ($6.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (Mar 27)

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A breathtaking paranormal adventure begins when Violet Eden learns the secret of her heritage. She's half human and half angel, and destined for battle against exiled angels on Earth. Struggling with her desire for a normal life and the awesome responsibility of her power, her heart is torn between the seductive Phoenix who guides her toward her new destiny and Lincoln, who hid the truth of her existance from her for years.

The Sisters Club (Sisters Club Series #1) by Megan McDonald from Candlewick ($4.91) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (Mar 27)

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Meet The Sisters Club, a top secret club with only three members, who all happen to be sisters. Author Megan McDonald brings to life an endearing story about creative family dinners, toe marshmallows, swearing in Shakespeare, and above all the bonds of sisterhood.

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A Dangerous Talent (An Alix London Mystery) by Aaron Elkins and Charlotte Elkins from Thomas & Mercer ($0.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Mar 26) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Seattle art consultant Alix London's stalled career hides a shameful secret: her father's an art forger. Catching a break, Alix is hired to authenticate a painting from an American master, but the job becomes a tangle of deadly deceit. Can her roguish father help uncover the truth behind the painting?

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Forty Lashes Less One by Elmore Leonard from HarperCollins is $3.99 (US Kindle)

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The hell called Yuma Prison can destroy the soul of any man. And it's worse for those whose damning crime is the color of their skin. The law says Chiricahua Apache Raymond San Carlos and black-as-night former soldier Harold Jackson are murderers, and they'll stay behind bars until they're dead and rotting. But even in the worst place on Earth, there's hope. And for two hard and hated inmates -- first enemies, then allies by necessity -- it waits at the end of a mad and violent contest ... on a bloody trail that winds toward Arizona's five most dangerous men.

Plus some more Elmore Leonard discounted books!

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Originally Posted by arcadata

Forty Lashes Less One by Elmore Leonard from HarperCollins is $3.99 (US Kindle)

Plus some more Elmore Leonard discounted books!

Strange, none of these titles are now available in the US. Too bad. I might have been interested in picking up a few.

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Originally Posted by Indio777

Strange, none of these titles are now available in the US. Too bad. I might have been interested in picking up a few.

The Kindle book System is down right now. Ignore the unavailable message. Every Kindle Book says that right now for those in the U.S. They are slowly fixing it.

Seems to be fixed now!