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The Poacher's Son by Paul Doiron from Minotaur Books is $2.99 (US Kindle)

Book Description

Set in the wilds of Maine, this is an explosive tale of an estranged son thrust into the hunt for a murderous fugitive---his own father.
Game warden Mike Bowditch returns home one evening to find an alarming voice from the past on his answering machine: his father, Jack, a hard-drinking womanizer who makes his living poaching illegal game. An even more frightening call comes the next morning from the police: They are searching for the man who killed a beloved local cop the night before---and his father is their prime suspect. Jack has escaped from police custody, and only Mike believes that his tormented father might not be guilty.

Now, alienated from the woman he loves, shunned by colleagues who have no sympathy for the suspected cop killer, Mike must come to terms with his haunted past. He knows firsthand Jack’s brutality, but is the man capable of murder? Desperate and alone, Mike strikes up an uneasy alliance with a retired warden pilot, and together the two men journey deep into the Maine wilderness in search of a runaway fugitive. There they meet a beautiful woman who claims to be Jack’s mistress but who seems to be guarding a more dangerous secret. The only way for Mike to save his father now is to find the real killer---which could mean putting everyone he loves in the line of fire.

The Poacher’s Son is a sterling debut of literary suspense. Taut and engrossing, it represents the first in a series featuring Mike Bowditch.

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The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold from Little, Brown and Company is $3.99 (US Kindle)

Book Description

Once in a generation a novel comes along that taps a vein of universal human experience, resonating with readers of all ages. The Lovely Bones is such a book - a phenomenal #1 bestseller celebrated at once for its narrative artistry, its luminous clarity of emotion, and its astoniishing power to lay claim to the hearts of millions of readers around the world.

"My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973."

So begins the story of Susie Salmon, who is adjusting to her new home in heaven, a place that is not at all what she expected, even as she is watching life on eath continue without her - her friends trading rumors about her disappearance, her killer trying to cover his tracks, her grief-stricken family unraveling.

Out of unspeakable traged and loss, The Lovely Bones succeeds, miraculously, in building a tale filled with hope, humor, suspense, even joy

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A Belated Bride (Abduction & Seduction) by Karen Hawkins from HarperCollins is $2.99 (US Kindle)

Product Description:

She’d Never Marry Him!
The last man Arabella Hadley ever wishes to see again is Lucien Deveraux, the handsome, dissolute Duke of Wexford — who broke her innocent heart years ago and disappeared to London. So when she finds an unconscious man on her deserted country road and sees that it’s Lucien, she’s tempted to leave him there. But even more appalling than his presence is the brazen kiss he plants on her shocked lips and her response! So it would be totally insane to take him home to recover — wouldn’t it?

Except For One Small Thing…
Lucien dares not reveal why he’s returned to his country estate — or why he abandoned the strong-willed beauty years ago. Especially since Arabella clearly has secrets of her own. But when her scheming, marriage-minded aunts successfully compromise them, the two are forced to become man and wife. Which makes it ever harder for both to battle the passion that never disappeared…

So Brave, Young, and Handsome by Leif Enger from Atlantic Monthly Press is $2.89 (US Kindle)

Book Description

Amazon Significant Seven, April 2008

One of Time magazine’s top-five novels of the year and a New York Times best seller, Leif Enger’s first novel, Peace Like a River, captured readers’ hearts around the nation. His new novel is a stunning successor—a touching, nimble, and rugged story of an aging train robber on a quest to reconcile the claims of love and judgment on his life, and the failed writer who goes with him.

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Dominion: A Novel by Calvin Baker from Grove Press is $2.83 (US Kindle)

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With Calvin Baker’s first two novels, Naming The New World and Once Two Heroes, he has continued to be acclaimed by the major media from the Los Angeles Times to Esquire. Now, with Dominion, Baker has written a lush, incantatory novel about three generations of an African American family in the years leading up to the Revolutionary War.

Blue Highways: A Journey into America by William Least Heat-Moon from Little, Brown and Company is $3.99 (US Kindle)

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Published in 1983 to phenomenal reviews, Blue Highways: A Journey into America became a cult classic on par with Jack Kerouac’s On the Road and John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley in Search of America.

In this highly acclaimed, bestselling memoir, a 38-year-old laid-off college professor of Sioux and white blood drives around the U.S. on the “blue highways, ” the rural back made that are colored blue on old maps. The places he discovers during his 13,000-mile journey are unexpected, sometimes mysterious, and often full of simply the wonder of the ordinary.

Sweetsmoke by David Fuller from Hyperion is $3.99 (US Kindle)

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Screenwriter David Fuller spent eight years researching Sweetsmoke, in the process discovering that members of his family fought on both sides of the Civil War.

The year is 1862, and the Civil War rages through the South. On a Virginia tobacco plantation, another kind of battle soon begins.

Cassius Howard is a skilled slave, once his master’s favorite. But his master Hoke is now little more than a fragile old man, depressed about an ever-shrinking plantation and losing a son to war. When an old freed woman who once saved Cassius from Hoke’s wrath is killed, Cassius risks everything to avenge her death.

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The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, a Daughter, and the Town That Raised Them by Amy Dickinson from Hyperion is $3.99 (US Kindle)

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Millions of Americans know and love Amy Dickinson from reading her syndicated advice column “Ask Amy” and from hearing her wit and wisdom weekly on National Public Radio. Amy’s audience loves her for her honesty, her small-town values, and the fact that her motto is “I make the mistakes so you don’t have to.” In The Mighty Queens of Freeville, Amy Dickinson shares those mistakes and her remarkable story. This is the tale of Amy and her daughter and the people who helped raise them after Amy found herself a reluctant single parent.

Sync: How Order Emerges From Chaos In the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life by Steven H. Strogatz from Hyperion is $3.03 (US Kindle)

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The tendency to synchronize may be the most mysterious and pervasive drive in all of nature. It has intrigued some of the most brilliant minds of the 20th century, including Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Norbert Wiener, Brian Josephson, and Arthur Winfree.
At once elegant and riveting, Sync tells the story of the dawn of a new science. Steven Strogatz, a leading mathematician in the fields of chaos and complexity theory, explains how enormous systems can synchronize themselves, from the electrons in a superconductor to the pacemaker cells in our hearts. He shows that although these phenomena might seem unrelated on the surface, at a deeper level there is a connection, forged by the unifying power of mathematics.

Madness Under the Royal Palms: Love and Death Behind the Gates of Palm Beach by Laurence Leamer from Hyperion is $3.99 (US Kindle)

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Love, lust, and fatal hatreds inside America’s most exclusive enclave of wealth and privilege–Palm Beach

Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme devastated the eternally sunny world of Palm Beach, bringing down multimillionaires and destroying once wealthy widows. The South Florida island and its rarified life suddenly found itself at the epicenter of the scandal, with this strange universe of wealth and privilege under an unrelenting spotlight.

Now, in Madness Under the Royal Palms, Laurence Leamer shows us–as no one else has–this world of the megawealthy, which he calls “as hidden a place as I have ever resided.” Digging deep, he hits a dark well of conflicting ambitions–right up to and including murder–much darker than the sky-blue weather and sunny Lily Pulitzer prints most of us associate with Palm Beach.

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The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan from Canongate Books (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (June 26) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Every night, 12-year-old Gwenni Morgan flies in her sleep. Gwenni is a dreamer full of unanswerable questions and unbounded curiosity, preferring her nightly flights to school and her chores. The Earth Hums in B Flat is the charming tale of a girl with an unparalleled view of the world.

Sherlock Holmes: The Breath of God (Further Advent/Sherlock Holmes) by Guy Adams from Titan ($2.59) is the NOOK Daily Find (June 26)

FYI, Amazon has matched this Nook deal: Sherlock Holmes: The Breath of God (Further Advent/Sherlock Holmes) also $2.59

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The streets of London teem with mindless zombies, and it's up to Sherlock Holmes to investigate. Deductive genius he may be, but Holmes is no expert in the supernatural. Thankfully, his new allies -- ghost hunter Thomas Carnacki and the famous occultist Aleister Crowley -- are. But will even this trio be enough to unravel this mystery?

No Place Like Holmes by Jason Lethcoe from Thomas Nelson ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (June 26)

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When Griffin is sent to stay with his detective uncle at 221A Baker Street for the summer, he is certain that his uncle must be the great Sherlock Holmes! But Griffin is disappointed to discover that Holmes lives at 221B Baker Street and his uncle lives unit 221A. His uncle is a detective, just not a very good one. With Griffin's help, the two just might be able to give Sherlock a run for his magnifying glass.

How to Hepburn: Lessons on Living from Kate the Great by Karen Karbo from Bloomsbury USA ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (June 26) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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This contemporary reassessment of Katharine Hepburn's life aims to learn what we can from the First Lady of Cinema's enduring persona. Karen Karbo teases unexpected lessons from analyzing Hepburn, one of America's greatest icons whose freewheeling determination redefined the image of the independent woman and endeared her to the world.

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This Is How by M.J. Hyland from Canongate Books (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (June 27) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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An intelligent but disturbed young man commits a spontaneous act of violence, sending his life irreversibly out of control. This is How is a fast-paced and powerful meditation on the nature of guilt and redemption, asking whether a person's life can be judged by a single bad act.

Land's End by Marta Perry from Harlequin ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (June 27)

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Dr. Sarah Wainwright is driven to find the answers to her husband's mysterious death -- in an apparent lovers' tryst with the wife of Trent Donner, the secretive industrialist with power the thwart Sarah's search for the truth.

Chancey of the Maury River by Gigi Amateau from Candlewick ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (June 27)

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An old ailing horse finds purpose and a new life at Maury River Stables. Young Claire is trying to cope with the recent divorce of her parents. When she finds Chancey at the stables, they spark a special friendship that helps them both to heal from the wounds of the past.

Soldier's Joy (Contemporary American Fiction) by Madison Smartt Bell from Open Road ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (June 27) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Thomas Laidlaw and his childhood friend Rodney Redmon grew up in the Deep South and fought in Vietnam. After the war, they reconnect and resume their lives amid dangerous and deep-rooted prejudice. This riveting portrait of two damaged souls seeking solace is masterfully written and stunning in its emotional resonance.

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Naked by David Sedaris from Back Bay Books is $3.99 (US Kindle)

Book Description

In Naked, David Sedaris's message alternately rendered in Fakespeare, Italian, Spanish, and pidgin Greek is the same: pay attention to me.

Whether he's taking to the road with a thieving quadriplegic, sorting out the fancy from the extra-fancy in a bleak fruit-packing factory, or celebrating Christmas in the company of a recently paroled prostitute, this collection of memoirs creates a wickedly incisive portrait of an all-too-familiar world. It takes Sedaris from his humiliating bout with obsessive behavior in A Plague of Tics to the title story, where he is finally forced to face his naked self in the mirrored sunglasses of a lunatic. At this soulful and moving moment, he picks potato chip crumbs from his pubic hair and wonders what it all means.

This remarkable journey into his own life follows a path of self-effacement and a lifelong search for identity, leaving him both under suspicion and overdressed.

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FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal:

Land's End by Marta Perry also $1.99

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Eight of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey–Maturin series of novels are down to $3.99 each (US Kindle)

From Wikipedia:

Patrick O'Brian, CBE (12 December 1914 – 2 January 2000), born Richard Patrick Russ, was an English novelist and translator, best known for his Aubrey–Maturin series of novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars and centred on the friendship of English naval captain Jack Aubrey and the Irish–Catalan physician Stephen Maturin. The 20-novel series is known for its well-researched and highly detailed portrayal of early 19th-century life, as well as its authentic and evocative language. A partially finished twenty-first novel in the series was published posthumously containing facing pages of handwriting and typescript.

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Against the Light by Dave Duncan from 47North (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (June 28) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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When young student Rollo Woodbridge returns home to Albi, he is immediately arrested for heresy and treason, setting off a chain of events that plunges the kingdom into utter chaos. Together with his brother and sister, Rollo must decide whether to stay and fight or leave Albi forever.

Rip Tide (Liz Carlyle Series #6) by Stella Rimington from Bloomsbury USA ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (June 28)

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Fan favorite author Stella Rimington was the first woman appointed Director General of England's famous MI5 Special Service. Her expertise with espionage and couter-terrorism bring a ripped-from-the-headlines realism to her Liz Carlyle novels, like this pulse pounding thriller of Somali piracy on the high seas.

Tiger's Voyage (Tiger's Curse Series #3) by Colleen Houck from Splinter ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (June 28)

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In the third installment of the Tiger's Curse Series, Kelsey must confront a new heartbreak; her beloved tiger prince Ren no longer remembers who she is. To make matters more complicated, Ren's brother Kishan is once again in pursuit of Kelsey's affection, and the three of them must do battle against a quintet of dragons in their quest to lift the Tiger's Curse.

Devil Wind: A Sammy Greene Thriller by Deborah Shlian and Linda Reid from Oceanview Publishing ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (June 28) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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From the award-winning team of Deborah Shlian and Linda Reid comes a fast-paced thriller set in Los Angeles during a wind-whipped fire season. Stoking the city's heated tension is late-night radio personality Sammy Greene, who's targeting a popular politician. When someone Sammy knows is found dead, Sammy worries she's next.

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FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal:

Rip Tide (Liz Carlyle Series #6) also $2.99

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Gardens of the Moon: Book One of The Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson from Tor Books is $2.99 (US Kindle)

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The Malazan Empire simmers with discontent, bled dry by interminable warfare, bitter infighting and bloody confrontations with the formidable Anomander Rake and his Tiste Andii, ancient and implacable sorcerers. Even the imperial legions, long inured to the bloodshed, yearn for some respite. Yet Empress Laseen's rule remains absolute, enforced by her dread Claw assassins.

For Sergeant Whiskeyjack and his squad of Bridgeburners, and for Tattersail, surviving cadre mage of the Second Legion, the aftermath of the siege of Pale should have been a time to mourn the many dead. But Darujhistan, last of the Free Cities of Genabackis, yet holds out. It is to this ancient citadel that Laseen turns her predatory gaze.

However, it would appear that the Empire is not alone in this great game. Sinister, shadowbound forces are gathering as the gods themselves prepare to play their hand...

Conceived and written on a panoramic scale, Gardens of the Moon is epic fantasy of the highest order--an enthralling adventure by an outstanding new voice.

Deadhouse Gates: Book Two of The Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson from Tor Books is $2.99 (US Kindle)

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In the vast dominion of Seven Cities, in the Holy Desert Raraku, the seer Sha'ik and her followers prepare for the long-prophesied uprising known as the Whirlwind.

Unprecedented in size and savagery, this maelstrom of fanaticism and bloodlust will embroil the Malazan Empire in one of the bloodiest conflicts it has ever known, shaping destinies and giving birth to legends . . .

Set in a brilliantly realized world ravaged by dark, uncontrollable magic, this thrilling novel of war, intrigue and betrayal confirms Steven Eirkson as a storyteller of breathtaking skill, imagination and originality--a new master of epic fantasy.

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They're Watching by Gregg Hurwitz from St. Martin's Press is $2.99 (US Kindle)

Book Description

Patrick Davis is a man with troubles. First his Hollywood dreams crumble and then his storybook marriage hits a snag. Now, DVDs start being delivered to his house—DVDs which show that someone is watching him and his wife, that the two of them are being stalked and recorded by cameras hidden in their house. Then the e-mails start, and someone offers to fix everything, to take the mess his life has become and make it all right. Patrick figures it’s the offer of a lifetime.

But Patrick couldn’t be more wrong. With every step he falls deeper into a web of intrigue that threatens everything he values in this world. Before he knows it, he’s in and in deep—and his only escape is to outwit and outplay his unseen opponents at their own game.

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Rainshadow Road (Friday Harbor) by Lisa Kleypas from St. Martin's Griffin is $2.99 (US Kindle)

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Lucy Marinn is a glass artist living in mystical, beautiful, Friday Harbor, Washington. She is stunned and blindsided by the most bitter kind of betrayal: her fiancé Kevin has left her. His new lover is Lucy’s own sister. Lucy's bitterness over being dumped is multiplied by the fact that she has constantly made the wrong choices in her romantic life. Facing the severe disapproval of Lucy's parents, Kevin asks his friend Sam Nolan, a local vineyard owner on San Juan Island, to "romance" Lucy and hopefully loosen her up and get her over her anger. Complications ensue when Sam and Lucy begin to fall in love, Kevin has second thoughts, and Lucy discovers that the new relationship in her life began under false pretenses. Questions about love, loyalty, old patterns, mistakes, and new beginnings are explored as Lucy learns that some things in life—even after being broken—can be made into something new and beautiful.