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That Deadman Dance: A Novel by Kim Scott from Bloomsbury USA is $1.99 (US Kindle)

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WINNER: Miles Franklin Award,Victorian Prize for Literature, Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for the South East Asia and Pacific Region, Australian Literary Society Gold Medal, Adelaide Festival Award for Fiction, Adelaide Festival Premier’s Award for Best Book

Set in Western Australia in the first decades of the nineteenth century, That Deadman Dance is a vast, gorgeous novel about the first contact between the Aboriginal Noongar people and the new European settlers.

Bobby Wabalanginy is a young Noongar man, smart, resourceful, and eager to please. He befriends the European arrivals, joining them as they hunt whales, till the land, and establish their new colony. He is welcomed into a prosperous white family, and eventually finds himself falling in love with the daughter, Christine. But slowly-by design and by hazard-things begin to change. Not everyone is happy with how the colony is progressing. Livestock mysteriously start to disappear, crops are destroyed, there are “accidents” and injuries on both sides. As the Europeans impose ever-stricter rules and regulations in order to keep the peace, Bobby’s Elders decide they must respond in kind, and Bobby is forced to take sides, inexorably drawn into a series of events that will forever change the future of his country.

That Deadman Dance is inevitably tragic, as most stories of European and native contact are. But through Bobby’s life, Kim Scott exuberantly explores a moment in time when things could have been different, when black and white lived together in amazement rather than fear of the other, and when the world seemed suddenly twice as large and twice as promising. At once celebratory and heartbreaking, this novel is a unique and important contribution to the literature of native experience.

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The Towering World of Jimmy Choo: A Glamorous Story of Power, Profits, and the Pursuit of the Perfect Shoe by Lauren Goldstein Crowe and Sagra Maceira de Rosenfrom Bloomsbury USA is $3.80 (US Kindle)

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The Towering World of Jimmy Choo is Sex and the City meets Barbarians at the Gate: the story of a London society girl named Tamara Mellon who launched one of the most talked about luxury brands in the world. More than simply a well-told tale of glamorous, troubled people, The Towering World of Jimmy Choo taps into America’s seemingly insatiable appetite for luxury goods and examines an industry that has experienced explosive growth in just the past decade. Compelling to followers of both fashion and business, The Towering World of Jimmy Choo takes readers into a complex, rarified world as only seasoned financial journalist, Lauren Goldstein Crowe, and leading luxury goods equity analyst, Sagra Maceria de Rosen, can tell it. Millions of people now work in fashion, read the magazines and follow the key players–even if they can’t afford the clothes.

The story of how the Jimmy Choo brand got to where it is today is one of love, hate, sex, drugs, celebrity, power, money, intrigue and ambition. And every word of it is true.

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A Fair Maiden (Otto Penzler Books) by Joyce Carol Oates from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is $2.24 (US Kindle)

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An Otto Penzler Book

Sixteen-year-old Katya Spivak is walking with her two summer babysitting charges in Bayhead Harbor, New Jersey, when she’s approached by silver-haired courtly Marcus Kidder—a local resident of some renown. At first his interest in Katya seems innocent, even as Katya’s interest in him seems precociously manipulative. His lovely oceanside home, the children’s books he has written, his classical music, and his lavish presents to her—Mr. Kidder’s life contrasts starkly with Katya’s working-class—and marginally criminal—family background. By almost imperceptible degrees, the relationship between Katya and the gentlemanly Marcus Kidder changes, and posing for him isn’t the romantic endeavor it had seemed. What does this mysterious rich man really want from Katya, who is young enough to be his granddaughter? And what will he risk to get it?

In the tradition of Oates’s classic novella Beasts, A Fair Maiden is an unsettling, ambiguous tale of mounting suspense and gradually unfolding horror.

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The Calling by Inger Ash Wolfe from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is $2.99 (US Kindle)

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It was a small town. Sleepy, remote, safe . . . and unprepared when a deadly visitor comes calling.

Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef of Port Dundas is making her way towards retirement with something less than grace. Hobbled by a bad back and a dependence on painkillers, and blindsided by her recent divorce, sixty-one-year-old Hazel has only the constructive criticism of her old goat of a mother to buoy her up. But when a Port Dundas woman is found murdered in her home – with no sign of resistance and her mouth sculpted into a strangely meaningful shape – Hazel’s bickering department springs to life. And as more bodies are found, she must confront a clamouring press and the town’s rumour mill whilst she edges ever closer to this terrifying, gruesomely inventive serial killer.

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Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother by Tessa Dunlop from Macmillan (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (June 4) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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In the words of her official biographer, the Queen Mother was "of the last generation of aristocrats who felt able to accept their superior social position with no feeling of guilt but rather a sense of duty and obligation." Shawcross presents these virtues in a captivating account of a remarkable woman whose life spanned the entire 20th Century.

Waiting for Daisy by Peggy Orenstein from Bloomsbury USA ($3.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (June 4)

* FYI, cheaper on Amazon. Waiting for Daisy is just $2.99 for US Kindle.

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In this personal, provocative memoir, Peggy Orenstein details the twists and turns on her journey to motherhood. Told with her trademark wry wit, she lays bare the medical, financial, personal, and spiritual obstacles she faced until the ultimate debut of her daughter Daisy.

The Magic Half by Annie Barrows from Bloomsbury USA Childrens ($1.49) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (June 4)

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Miri and her family have just moved to an old farmhouse in a new town, where the only good thing seems to be Miri's ten-sided attic bedroom. One day when Miri is sent to her room she finds herself in the same room . . . only not quite. Without meaning to, she has found a way to travel back in time to 1935 where she discovers Molly, a girl her own age very much in need of a loving family.

Maps and Legends by Michael Chabon from Open Road ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (June 4) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon's collection of 16 essays champions the cause of sci-fi, fantasy, thrillers, westerns, and other genre novels, comics, and pulp fiction. For Chabon, stories that give us great pleasure are, in many ways, our best art, the building blocks of our shared imagination.

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Sex and Sunsets: A Novel by Tim Sandlin from Sourcebooks Landmark is $1.99 (US Kindle)

Skipped Parts was a freebie about a year ago maybe? from this same author. Loved his stuff, so funny, appalling, and touching altogether.

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The Tiger Rising by Kate Dicamillo from Candlewick is $2.99 (US Kindle)

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From the best-selling author of Because of Winn-Dixie comes the moving story of an eleven-year-old-boy, Rob Horton, who finds a caged tiger in the woods behind the hotel where he lives with his father. With the help of his new friend, Sistine Bailey, Rob must decide what to do with his discovery and at the same time come to terms with his past.

FYI, also by Kate Dicamillo - Because of Winn-Dixie and The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane are $3.50 each

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Punkzilla by Adam Rapp from Candlewick is $0.54 (US Kindle)

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For a runaway boy who goes by the name “Punkzilla,” kicking a meth habit and a life of petty crime in Portland, Oregon, is a prelude to a mission: reconnecting with his older brother, a gay man dying of cancer in Memphis.

Against a backdrop of seedy motels, dicey bus stations, and hitched rides, the desperate fourteen-year-old meets a colorful, sometimes dangerous cast of characters. And in letters to his sibling, he catalogs them all—from an abusive stranger and a ghostly girl to a kind transsexual and an old woman with an oozing eye. The language is raw and revealing, crackling with visceral details and dark humor, yet with each interstate exit Punkzilla’s journey grows more urgent; will he make it to Tennessee in time?

Told in epistolary style, this daring novel offers a narrative worthy of Kerouac and a keen insight into the power of chance encounters.

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The Anti-Prom by Abby McDonald from Candlewick is $2.99 (US Kindle)

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They’ve spent years at the same high school without speaking a word to one another, but that’s all about to change.

Popular Bliss was having the perfect prom until she found her BFF and boyfriend making out in the back of a limo. Bad girl Jolene wouldn’t be caught dead at the prom, yet here she is, trussed up in pink ruffles, risking her reputation for some guy - some guy who is forty minutes late. And shy, studious, über-planner Meg never counted on her date’s standing her up and leaving her idling in the parking lot outside the prom.

Get ready for The Anti-Prom, Abby McDonald’s hilarious, heart-tugging tale about three girls and one unforgettable prom night.

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Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult from Atria Books is $3.99 (US Kindle, iTunes)

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Before Nineteen Minutes, The Tenth Circle, and Perfect Match there was Plain Truth: “an absorbing and affecting novel” (Entertainment Weekly) about life in a bucolic setting that is anything but simple.

Not one to shy away from the tough issues that makes her novels so compelling, Jodi Picoult’s recent bestsellers tackled themes from sexual abuse to stem cell research to intense parent-child relationships. Her eager fans have come to expect hard-hitting topics, and Picoult never disappoints.

In Plain Truth, a shocking murder shatters the picturesque calm of Pennsylvania's Amish country—and tests the heart and soul of the lawyer who steps in to defend the young woman at the center of the storm.…

Moving seamlessly from psychological drama to courtroom suspense, Plain Truth is a triumph of contemporary storytelling. Jodi Picoult presents a fascinating portrait of Amish life rarely witnessed by those outside the faith—and discovers a place where circumstances are not always what they seem, where love meets lies, and where relationships grow so strong they can transcend death.

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God Save the Queen: The Spiritual Heart of the Monarchy by Ian Bradley from Continuum (£1.29) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (June 5) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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In this compelling portrait of the British Royal Family, Ian Bradley traces the religious dimension of monarchy and argues for its importance as a spiritual force in British life. Ultimately he argues that sacredness lies at the heart of royalty, and Bradley's book explores what this might mean in a society that is both multi-faith and increasingly secular.

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk: A Novel by Ben Fountain from HarperCollins ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (June 5)

* FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk also $1.99.

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One of the most brilliant stories in our recent memory, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk satirizes war, celebrity, and popular culture in blistering style. Unfolding over a single day in a Texas stadium where Iraqi war hero William Lynn is to be honored before returning to the war zone, this novel is one that you'll remember long after you read its final word.

Hailey Twitch Is Not a Snitch by Lauren Barnholdt from Sourcebooks ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (June 5)

*FYI, Amazon has also matched this deal: Hailey Twitch Is Not a Snitch also $1.99

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Hailey Twitch is a pretty normal kid, she likes sparkly things and ice cream and fun, but Hailey also has a secret. Her best friend is a sprite named Maybelle that no one but Hailey can see. Maybelle is a great friend together she and Hailey have tons of fun, but they also occasionally get into a bit of trouble, can Hailey keep her friendship a secret?

The File on H. by Ismail Kadare from Arcade Publishing ($0.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (June 5) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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In the mid-1930s, two young Irish-American scholars voyage to the Albanian highlands--the last stronghold of the oral epic--with a first-generation tape recorder. Their mission? To discover how Homer composed the Iliad and the Odyssey without writing. This entertaining work is a spy novel and a comedy-of-errors combined.

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$1.99 eBooks from Alqonquin Books:

Blind Your Ponies by Stanley Gordon West

Pictures of You by Caroline Leavitt

The Orange Blossom Special by Betsy Carter

Ferris Beach by Jill McCorkle

Something for Nothing by David Anthony

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The Graduate Student by James Polster from AmazonEncore (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (June 6) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Anthropology student Blackwell James, recently returned from the Amazon, finds the City of Angels to be a far more dangerous place than the South American rainforest. Featuring cameo appearances by Sylvester Stallone, Johnny Depp and Steven Spielberg, The Graduate Student is a rivetting romp through the surreal world of movie stars, murder, and money.

A Single Thread (Cobbled Quilt Series #1) by Marie Bostwick from Kensington ($3.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (June 6)

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Marie Bostwick's splendid novel of new beginnings and deep friendships follows Evelyn Dixon, Texas émigré turned Connecticut quilt shop owner, and the three women who show up for her quilting class and stay to become her fastest friends.

The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo from Candlewick ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (June 6)

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From Kate DiCamillo, bestselling author of The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, comes The Tale of Despereaux. This is the tale of a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin.

A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin from Pegasus Books ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (June 6) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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This winner of the 1954 Edgar Award for Best First Novel set a new standard in the art of psychological suspense. It tells the shocking tale of a charming, intelligent young man willing to use everything in his power--even murder--to prevent his dreams from being derailed.

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Keeping You a Secret by Julie Anne Peters from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers is $2.99 (US Kindle, iTunes)

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With a steady boyfriend, the position of Student Council President, and a chance to go to an Ivy League college, high school life is just fine for Holland Jaeger. At least it seems to be. But when Cece Goddard comes to school, everything changes. Cece and Holland have undeniable feelings for each other, but how will others react to their developing relationship?

This moving love story between two girls is a worthy successor to Nancy Garden's classic young adult coming out novel, Annie on My Mind. With her characteristic humor and breezy style, Peters has captured the compelling emotions of young love.

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By the Blood of Heroes: The Great Undead War: Book 1 by Joseph Nassise from Harper Voyager is $2.99 (US Kindle, iTunes)

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Train them . . . Arm them . . . Then turn them loose on the zombies!

At the tail end of 1917, the Germans introduced a new type of gas to the battlefield, T-Leiche, or "corpse gas," and changed the face of the war by resurrecting the bodies of the dead, giving the enemy an almost unlimited source of fresh troops.

When the American ace Major Jack Freeman—poster boy for the war against the Kaiser's undead army of shamblers—is downed over enemy lines and taken captive, veteran Captain Michael "Madman" Burke is the only man brave and foolish enough to accept the mission to recover Freeman. Burke assembles a team of disparate members, from his right-hand man, Sergeant Moore, to big-game-hunter-turned-soldier Clayton Manning, who funds the mission for an opportunity to confront this most dangerous zombie game, to professor Dan Richards, one of Tesla's top men and the resident authority on all things supernatural. With the help of a highly advanced British dirigible war machine to infiltrate enemy territory, the team faces incredible danger as it struggles to reach the prison camp and strike at the heart of the enemy.

But they are pitted against the most deadly enemy of all: Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron. Having risen from the dead with his abilities enhanced but his mind on the brink of madness, Richthofen has plans for victory that give no quarter to soldiers or civilians.