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Night of Knives: A Novel of the Malazan Empire by Ian C. Esslemont from Tor Books is $2.99 (US Kindle)

Book Description

The small island of Malaz and its city gave the great empire its name, but now it is little more than a sleepy, backwater port. Tonight, however, things are different. Tonight the city is on edge, a hive of hurried, sometimes violent activity; its citizens bustle about, barring doors, shuttering windows, avoiding any stranger’s stare. Because tonight there is to be a convergence, the once-in-a-generation appearance of a Shadow Moon – an occasion that threatens the good people of Malaz with demon hounds and other, darker things …

It was also prophesied that this night would witness the return of Emperor Kellanved, and there are those prepared to do anything to prevent this happening. As factions within the greater Empire draw up battle lines over the imperial throne, the Shadow Moon summons a far more ancient and potent presence for an all-out assault upon the island. Witnessing these cataclysmic events are Kiska, a young girl who yearns to flee the constraints of the city, and Temper, a grizzled, battle-weary veteran who seeks simply to escape his past. Each is to play a part in a conflict that will not only determine the fate of Malaz City, but also of the world beyond …

Drawing on events touched on in the prologue of Steven Erikson’s landmark fantasy Gardens of the Moon, Night of Knives is a momentous chapter in the unfolding story of the extraordinarily imagined world of Malaz.

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The January Dancer by Michael Flynn from Tor Books is $2.99 (US Kindle)

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A triumph of the New Space Opera: fast, complicated, wonder-filled!

Hugo Award finalist and Robert A. Heinlein Award–winning SF writer Michael Flynn now turns to space opera with stunningly successful results. Full of rich echoes of space opera classics from Doc Smith to Cordwainer Smith, The January Dancer tells the fateful story of an ancient pre-human artifact of great power, and the people who found it.

Starting with Captain Amos January, who quickly loses it, and then the others who fought, schemed, and killed to get it, we travel around the complex, decadent, brawling, mongrelized interstellar human civilization the artifact might save or destroy. Collectors want the Dancer; pirates take it, rulers crave it, and they’ll all kill if necessary to get it. This is a thrilling yarn of love, revolution, music, and mystery, and it ends, as all great stories do, with shock and a beginning.

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The Winds of War by Herman Wouk from Back Bay Books is $3.99 (US Kindle)

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A Masterpiece of Historical Fiction-The Great Novel of America's "Greatest Generation"

Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II, which begins with The Winds of War and continues in War and Remembrance, stands as the crowning achievement of one of America's most celebrated storytellers. Like no other books about the war, Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of global events-and all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of World War II-as it immerses us in the lives of a single American family drawn into the very center of the war's maelstrom.

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American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880 – 1964 by William Manchester from Back Bay Books is $3.99 (US Kindle)

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MacArthur, the public figure, the private man, the soldier-hero whose mystery and appeal created a uniquely American legend, portrayed in a brilliant biography that will challenge the cherished myths of admirers and critics alike.

Forever: A Novel by Pete Hamill from Back Bay Books is $3.99 (US Kindle)

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This widely acclaimed bestseller is the magical, epic tale of an extraordinary man who arrives in New York in 1740 and remains … forever.

Through the eyes of Cormac O’Connor – granted immortality as long as he never leaves the island of Manhattan – we watch New York grow from a tiny settlement on the tip of an untamed wilderness to the thriving metropolis of today. And through Cormac’s remarkable adventures in both love and war, we come to know the city’s buried secrets – the way it has been shaped by greed, race, and waves of immigration, by the unleashing of enormous human energies, and, above all, by hope.

The Pilot’s Wife: A Novel by Anita Shreve from Back Bay Books is $3.99 (US Kindle)

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Until now, Kathryn Lyons’s life has been peaceful if unextraordinary: a satisfying job teaching high school in the New England mill town of her childhood; a picture-perfect home by the ocean; a precocious, independent-minded fifteen-year-old daughter; and a happy marriage whose occasional dull passages she attributes to the unavoidable deadening of time.

As a pilot’s wife, Kathryn has learned to expect both intense exhilaration and long periods alone – but nothing has prepared her for the late-night knock that lets her know her husband has died in a crash. As Kathryn struggles with her grief, she descends into a maelstrom of publicity stirred up by the modern hunger for the details of tragedy. Even before the plane is located in waters off the Irish coast, the relentless scrutiny of her husband’s life begins to bring a bizarre personal mystery into focus. Could there be any truth to the increasingly disturbing rumors that he had a secret life?

A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace from Back Bay Books is $3.99 (US Kindle)

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In this exuberantly praised book – a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner – David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity, and exhilarating verbal facility that has delighted readers of his fiction, including the bestselling Infinite Jest.

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Sun of Suns: Book One of Virga (Virga 1) by Karl Schroeder from Tor Books is $2.99 (US Kindle)

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It is the distant future. The world known as Virga is a fullerene balloon three thousand kilometers in diameter, filled with air, water, and aimlessly floating chunks of rock. The humans who live in this vast environment must build their own fusion suns and “towns” that are in the shape of enormous wood and rope wheels that are spun for gravity.

Young, fit, bitter, and friendless, Hayden Griffin is a very dangerous man. He’s come to the city of Rush in the nation of Slipstream with one thing in mind: to take murderous revenge for the deaths of his parents six years ago. His target is Admiral Chaison Fanning, head of the fleet of Slipstream, which conquered Hayden’s nation of Aerie years ago. And the fact that Hayden’s spent his adolescence living with pirates doesn’t bode well for Fanning’s chances . . .

Lady Lazarus by Michele Lang from Tor Books is $2.99 (US Kindle)

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With the romance of Twilight, the suspense of The Dresden Files, and the delicious thrills of True Blood, the enthralling saga of Magdalena Lazarus unfolds.

Descended from the legendary witch of Ein Dor, she alone holds the power to summon the angel Raziel and stop Hitler and his supernatural minions from unleashing total war in Europe. The Nazis have fighters more fearsome than soldiers, weapons more terrifying than missiles, and allies that even they are afraid of SS werewolves; the demon Asmodel who possesses a willing Adolf Hitler, and other supernatural creatures all are literally hell-bent on preventing Magda from possessing the Book of Raziel, a magical text with the power to turn the tide against Hitler’s vast war machine.

Magda, young and rebellious, grew up in the cosmopolitan city of Budapest, unaware of her family’s heritage. When her mother dies, Magda–ready or not–is the Lazarus, who must face the evil that holds Europe in an iron grip. Unready to assume the mantle of her ancient birthright, but knowing that she must fight, she sets out across Europe searching for the Book. Magda is desperate enough to endanger her soul by summoning the avenging angel Raziel. When she sees him in the glory of his celestial presence, her heart is utterly, completely lost…

Esperanza by Trish J. MacGregor from Tor Books is $2.99 (US Kindle)

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Tess Livingston met Ian Ritter at a roadside stop high in the Andes, waiting for a bus to the mysterious town of Esperanza.

Tess is an FBI agent who remembers being on the track of a group of international counterfeiters. But she doesn’t remember booking a trip to Esperanza. Ian is a journalist who was planning to vacation to the Galapagos Islands. He, too, isn’t quite sure why he has a ticket to Esperanza.

Their meeting will change their lives forever. For they have been brought together because they hold the key in a mystical war between the kind spirits of the dead who guard humanity, and the hungry ghosts who exist only to possess living human bodies, and return however briefly to life.

In the midst of this war, Tess and Ian will find a love that can transcend time, and a cause that not even death will overcome.

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Sunset Park: A Novel by Paul Auster from Henry Holt and Co is $3.99 (US Kindle)

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A New York Times Bestseller

From the bestselling author of Invisible and The New York Trilogy comes a new novel set during the 2008 economic collapse.

Sunset Park opens with twenty-eight-year-old Miles Heller trashing out foreclosed houses in Florida, the latest stop in his flight across the country. When Miles falls in love with Pilar Sanchez, he finds himself fleeing once again, going back to New York, where his family still lives, and into an abandoned house of young squatters in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

Woven together from various points of view—that of Miles’s father, an independent book publisher trying to stay afloat, Miles’s mother, a celebrated actress preparing her return to the New York stage, and the various men and women who live in the house—“Auster seems to carry all of humanity inside him” (Jan Stuart, The Boston Globe).

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If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor from Bloomsbury Paperbacks (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (June 29) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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In this elegant, lyrical debut, residents of a street in a town in the North of England are going through the motions of their everyday existence - street cricket, barbecues, painting windows, loving unrequitedly. But then a terrible event shatters the quiet of the early summer evening.

The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is the NOOK Daily Find (June 29)

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This evocative novel of motherhood and memory connects two women living in London fifty years apart. In post-WW2 London, Lexie seeks to build an exciting new life for herself. In the modern day, artist Elina is dazed by the early days of motherhood and her tenuous relationship with her boyfriend and the father of her child. What tragedy -- and what beauty -- links the two?

Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke from Scholastic ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (June 29)

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In this enchanting adventure about the true meaning of home, a lonely boy named Ben and the brave young dragon Firedrake set out on a magical journey to find the mythical place where silver dragons can live in peace forever.

Where Are They Buried: How Did They Die? Fitting Ends and Final Resting Places of the Famous, Infamous, and Noteworthy by Tod Benoit from Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (June 29) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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This fascinating guide to the lives, deaths, and final resting places of the world's most influential figures has been revised with dozens of entries. From Kurt Cobain to Rosa Parks, each entry includes a capsule biography with little-known facts, a description of the subject's death, and directions to their grave.

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The Best American Mystery Stories 2011: The Best American Series by Harlan Coben, Otto Penzler from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (US Kindle)

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The Best American Series®
First, Best, and Best-Selling

The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected—and most popular—of its kind.
The Best American Mystery Stories 2011 includes

Lawrence Block, Brendan DuBois, Loren D. Estleman, Beth Ann Fennelly and Tom Franklin, Ed Gorman, Richard Lange, S. J. Rozan, Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins, and others

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Christine Falls: A Novel by Benjamin Black from Henry Holt and Co. is $3.99 (US Kindle)

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In the debut crime novel from the Booker-winning author, a Dublin pathologist follows the corpse of a mysterious woman into the heart of a conspiracy among the city's high Catholic society

It's not the dead that seem strange to Quirke. It's the living. One night, after a few drinks at an office party, Quirke shuffles down into the morgue where he works and finds his brother-in-law, Malachy, altering a file he has no business even reading. Odd enough in itself to find Malachy there, but the next morning, when the haze has lifted, it looks an awful lot like his brother-in-law, the esteemed doctor, was in fact tampering with a corpse--and concealing the cause of death.

It turns out the body belonged to a young woman named Christine Falls. And as Quirke reluctantly presses on toward the true facts behind her death, he comes up against some insidious--and very well-guarded--secrets of Dublin's high Catholic society, among them members of his own family.

Set in Dublin and Boston in the 1950s, the first novel in the Quirke series brings all the vividness and psychological insight of Booker Prize winner John Banville's fiction to a thrilling, atmospheric crime story. Quirke is a fascinating and subtly drawn hero, Christine Falls is a classic tale of suspense, and Benjamin Black's debut marks him as a true master of the form.

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FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal:

The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell also $3.99

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City of Bones (Mortal Instruments) by Cassandra Clare from Margaret K. McElderry Books is $0.99 (US Kindle)

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Age Level: 14 and up

When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder -- much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing -- not even a smear of blood -- to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?

This is Clary's first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It's also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace's world with a vengeance, when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know. . . .

Exotic and gritty, exhilarating and utterly gripping, Cassandra Clare's ferociously entertaining fantasy takes readers on a wild ride that they will never want to end.

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Meltwater (Fire and Ice) by Michael Ridpath from Corvus (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (June 30) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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A group of internet activists committed to freedom of information have video evidence of a military atrocity in the Middle East. They've chosen Iceland as their HQ while they prepare to unleash their greatest coup on the world's media. But they are not the only ones with secrets.

The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily by Nancy Goldstone from Walker Books ($3.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (June 30)

* FYI, The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily is cheaper for US Kindle at $1.24

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In the fourteenth century, Queen Joanna of Naples faced financial devestation, murder accusation, and political -- and papal -- intrigue, all before her 22nd birthday. Here, Nancy Goldstone details the life of one of history's most accomplished royals, a story packed with action and thrills to rival any summer beach read.

The Journey: Guardians of Ga'Hoole, Book Two by Kathryn Lasky from Scholastic ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (June 30)

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In the second book in the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series, the gang travels to the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, a mythical place where an order of owls rises each night to perform noble deeds.There they recieve training from the elders so that they might help fight the evil they discovered in Book One.

Five CJ Lyons Romantic Thrillers ($0.99 Each) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (June 30) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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If you love sensual, suspense-filled reads, the five novels of the "Hart and Drake" and "Shadow Ops" series by CJ Lyons's will not disappoint. A pediatric ER doctor in addition to a best-selling author, Lyons expertly writes what she knows and consistently creates riveting, fast-paced stories filled with engaging characters.

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