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Eight bestselling literary novels (£0.99 each) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Aug 4) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold: A moving exploration of loss and mourning, narrated from heaven.
Room by Emma Donoghue: A beautiful and profoundly moving story about five-year-old Jack whose entire world measures 12 x 12 feet.
White Noise by Don Delillo: A highly acclaimed and funny book about humankind's preoccupation with mortality.
Last Orders by Graham Smith: Tragic, compassionate and winner of the 1996 Man Booker Prize.
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst: A sharp, era-defining satire that won the 2004 Man Booker Prize.
The Sea by John Banville: Incandescent prose and deft narrative characterise Banville's 2005 Booker winner.
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy: Cinematic and epic in scope, this is one of the great American novels.
Mother's Milk by Edward St Aubyn: The author at his very best--caustic, hilarious and irresistably profound.

Stuck With You by Trish Jensen from Bellebooks ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (Aug 4)

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Paige Hart hates divorce lawyers. Which is a bit funny, as she's an attorney herself. When her cousin askes her to help with a divorce, she can't say no, but she wasn't counting on her cousin's soon-to-be-ex-husband's attorney being exactly the reason she hates that profession. And when the two wind up quarantined together, sparks will fly.

Arthur's Pet Business (Arthur Adventures Series) by Marc Brown ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (Aug 4)

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Everyone's favorite aardvark is back,and this time he brought some furry friends. When Arthur takes on a job caring for a puppy for a week to prove he is responsible enough for a a dog of his own, things get a little out of hand.

Lucky Man by Michael J. Fox from ABC News ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Aug 4) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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World renowned actor Michael J. Fox has been battling Parkinson's disease since age 30. With an ironic sensibility and keen understanding of the absurd, Fox details his years living with the disease, from the first symptoms detected during his flourishing film career to his recent work helping find a cure.

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FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal:

Stuck With You by Trish Jensen now also $1.99

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Bozo Sapiens: Why to Err is Human by Michael Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan from Bloomsbury Press is $3.47 (US Kindle)

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The New York Times called Chances Are, the authors’ look at the application of probability in everyday life, a "dizzying, exhilarating ride." In Bozo Sapiens, they take us on a another funhouse journey, exploring the surprising, or alarming, number of ways that humans can make bad judgments and poor decisions. The Kaplans’ ability to explain everything from statistics to evolutionary biology in witty, accessible, and anecdotal style will endear this book to readers of Blink, Freakonomics, and other recent pop-social science successes.

Irreplaceable by Stephen Lovely from Hyperion is $3.49 (US Kindle)

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Alex Voormann is a cerebral thirty-year-old archaeologist married to the woman of his dreams--a beautiful, ambitious botanist named Isabel. When Isabel, an organ donor, is killed by a reckless driver, Alex reluctantly consents to donate her heart.

Janet Corcoran is a young, headstrong mother of two, an art teacher at an inner-city school in Chicago. Sick with heart disease, she is on the waiting list for a transplant, but her chances are slim. She watches the Weather Channel, secretly praying for foul weather and car accidents, a miracle. The day Isabel dies, she gets her wish.

Flash forward a year. Janet sends Alex a long letter. She'd like to learn something about the woman who saved her life. Alex isn't interested in talking to the recipient of his dead wife's heart. Since Isabel's accident, he's become grief-stricken and bewildered. His closest companion is his mother-in-law, Bernice. They spend their nights reminiscing about Isabel and hiding out from the world. Meanwhile, a local blues musician named Jasper, the man responsible for Isabel's death, attempts to atone for his misdeed. Jasper is devastated by the knowledge that he destroyed a life but attracted to the idea that he was partially responsible for saving another life--Janet's. He sees her as his ultimate salvation.

Irreplaceable is the story of what happens after the transplant--not only to Alex but within the concentric circles of family that spiral outward from him and from Janet. Stephen Lovely takes us vividly inside the lives of these characters to reveal their true intentions--however misguided--and gives us a stunning debut novel of loss and love.

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An Angel for Christmas by Heather Graham from Mira is $2.94 (US Kindle)

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Christmas has never brought out the best in the MacDougal family. Still, year after year, they gather together in the Blue Ridge Mountains to try to make the season merry and bright. But this year is an especially strained one, with Shayne's impending divorce, Morwenna's slavish devotion to work and Bobby's reluctance to face what life has to offer. They've never felt less like a family.

Then, in the midst of a snowy sibling shouting match, a mysterious stranger appears. He could be a criminal, a madman—or something far more unexpected. Despite their fears and the growing danger in the dark woods around them, the MacDougals take a leap of faith. But when another stranger arrives on the mountainside, they don't know which of them to believe. One of these men can't be trusted. And one is about to bring Christmas into their hearts.

Red Flags by Juris Jurjevics from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is $1.24 (US Kindle)

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Army cop Erik Rider prefers to fight his war in the saloons and streets of Saigon, so he is less than thrilled at being sent to a tiny American outpost in the remote wilderness of the Central Highlands to take down a Viet Cong opium operation hidden in the jungle. When Rider lands in Cheo Reo, things get complicated. Viet Cong battalions are gathering in the surrounding hills like storm clouds, while the corrupt South Vietnamese commander and his troops sit idle. And sixty thousand Montagnard tribespeople want their mountain homeland back.

Soon Rider is entangled with the local CIA man and an alluring doctor serving the indigenous tribes. As he closes in on the opium fields, he learns the hard way that that not all enemies are beyond the perimeter; someone in Cheo Reo wants him dead. Easy enough in a combat zone where killing is common and loyalties are for sale.

Red Flags is a masterly novel of soldiers and spies grappling with forces beyond their control and striving for the most basic goal in war—survival.

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The Vespertine by Saundra Mitchell from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is $3.74 (US Kindle)

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Age Level: 12 and up | Grade Level: 7 and up

It’s the summer of 1889, and Amelia van den Broek is new to Baltimore and eager to take in all the pleasures the city has to offer. But her gaiety is interrupted by disturbing, dreamlike visions she has only at sunset—visions that offer glimpses of the future. Soon, friends and strangers alike call on Amelia to hear her prophecies. However, a forbidden romance with Nathaniel, an artist, threatens the new life Amelia is building in Baltimore. This enigmatic young man is keeping secrets of his own—still, Amelia finds herself irrepressibly drawn to him.
When one of her darkest visions comes to pass, Amelia’s world is thrown into chaos. And those around her begin to wonder if she’s not the seer of dark portents, but the cause.
This book features a teaser chapter from Saundra Mitchell’s third novel, The Springsweet.

The Sour Lemon Score: A Parker Novel by Richard Stark from University of Chicago Press is $3.99 (US Kindle)

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“Whatever Stark writes, I read. He’s a stylist, a pro, and I thoroughly enjoy his attitude.”—Elmore Leonard

Bank robberies should run like clockwork, right? If your name’s Parker, you expect nothing less. Until, that is, one of your partners gets too greedy for his own good. The four-way split following a job leaves too small a take for George Uhl, who begins to pick off his fellow hoisters, one by one. The first mistake? That he doesn’t begin things by putting a bullet in Parker. That means he won’t get the chance to make a second. One of the darkest novels in the series, this caper proves the adage that no one crosses Parker and lives

Richard Stark was one of the many pseudonyms of Donald E. Westlake (1933-2008), a prolific author of noir crime fiction. In 1993 the Mystery Writers of America bestowed the society’s highest honor on Westlake, naming him a Grand Master.

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Scent of the Missing: Love and Partnership with a Search-and-Rescue Dog by Susannah Charleson from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is $3.99 (US Kindle)

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An unforgettable memoir from a search-and-rescue pilot and her spirited canine partner

In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, Susannah Charleson clipped a photo from the newspaper of an exhausted canine handler, face buried in the fur of his search-and-rescue dog. A dog lover and pilot with search experience herself, Susannah was so moved by the image that she decided to volunteer with a local canine team and soon discovered firsthand the long hours, nonexistent pay, and often heart-wrenching results they face. Once she qualified to train a dog of her own, she adopted Puzzle, a strong, bright Golden Retriever puppy who exhibited unique aptitudes as a working dog but who was less interested in the role of compliant house pet.

Scent of the Missing is the story of Susannah and Puzzle’s adventures as they search for the missing—a lost teen, an Alzheimer’s patient wandering in the cold, signs of the crew amid the debris of the space shuttle Columbia disaster—and unravel the mystery of the bond between humans and dogs.

Hourglass by Myra Mcentire from EgmontUSA is $1.39 (US Kindle)

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Age Level: 12 and up | Grade Level: 7 and up

One hour to rewrite the past . . .

For seventeen-year-old Emerson Cole, life is about seeing what isn’t there: swooning Southern Belles; soldiers long forgotten; a haunting jazz trio that vanishes in an instant. Plagued by phantoms since her parents’ death, she just wants the apparitions to stop so she can be normal. She’s tried everything, but the visions keep coming back.

So when her well-meaning brother brings in a consultant from a secretive organization called the Hourglass, Emerson’s willing to try one last cure. But meeting Michael Weaver may not only change her future, it may change her past.
Who is this dark, mysterious, sympathetic guy, barely older than Emerson herself, who seems to believe every crazy word she says? Why does an electric charge seem to run through the room whenever he’s around? And why is he so insistent that he needs her help to prevent a death that never should have happened?

Full of atmosphere, mystery, and romance, Hourglass merges the very best of the paranormal and science-fiction genres in a seductive, remarkable young adult debut.

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The Summer of Secrets by Alison Lucy from Canvas (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Aug 5) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* A prequel short story The Summer of Secrets - The Early Years is FREE

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Set during one heady summer in glamorous Mexico, The Summer of Secrets sees three young women set off on personal adventures. Each is hoping to unlock the missing clues that will help them find out who they really are, but seeking the truth might end up tearing their lives apart.

The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe by J. Randy Taraborrelli from Grand Central Publishing ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (Aug 5)

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On this, the fiftieth anniversary of her death, commemorate the iconic life of Marilyn Monroe with this definitive biography from celebrity biographer extraordinaire J. Randy Taraborrelli.

Surprise Island (The Boxcar Children Series #2) by Gertrude Chandler Warner from Whitman, Albert & Company ($2.10) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (Aug 5)

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The Boxcar Children are back, and school is out for summer. For the Alden children, vacation on their own private island proves to be full of excitement and adventure, especially when they realize that they aren't the only ones on the island.

Mama Does Time (A Mace Bauer Mystery) by Deborah Sharp from Midnight Ink ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Aug 5) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Mace Bauer is used to helping her mother--a true southern woman with impeccable manners--get out of all kinds of trouble in their rural Florida town. But this time, the trouble is serious: Mace's mom has found a body in her car's trunk, and the police think she's guilty.

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FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal:

The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe now also $2.99

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As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto by Joan Reardon from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is $2.99 (US Kindle)

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Amazon Best Books of the Month, December 2010

With her outsize personality, Julia Child is known around the world by her first name alone. But despite that familiarity, how much do we really know of the inner Julia?

Now more than 200 letters exchanged between Julia and Avis DeVoto, her friend and unofficial literary agent memorably introduced in the hit movie Julie & Julia, open the window on Julia’s deepest thoughts and feelings. This riveting correspondence, in print for the first time, chronicles the blossoming of a unique and lifelong friendship between the two women and the turbulent process of Julia’s creation of Mastering the Art of French Cooking, one of the most influential cookbooks ever written.
Frank, bawdy, funny, exuberant, and occasionally agonized, these letters show Julia, first as a new bride in Paris, then becoming increasingly worldly and adventuresome as she follows her diplomat husband in his postings to Nice, Germany, and Norway.

With commentary by the noted food historian Joan Reardon, and covering topics as diverse as the lack of good wine in the United States, McCarthyism, and sexual mores, these astonishing letters show America on the verge of political, social, and gastronomic transformation.

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Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is $2.99 (US Kindle)

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"If your patrons liked Roddy Doyle’s Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and if they rooted for Jamal Malik in Slumdog Millionaire, they will love Harri Opuku." —Library Journal, starred review

Short-listed for the 2011 Man Booker Prize

Lying in front of Harrison Opoku is a body, the body of one of his classmates, a boy known for his crazy basketball skills, who seems to have been murdered for his dinner.

Armed with a pair of camouflage binoculars and detective techniques absorbed from television shows like CSI, Harri and his best friend, Dean, plot to bring the perpetrator to justice. They gather evidence—fingerprints lifted from windows with tape, a wallet stained with blood—and lay traps to flush out the murderer. But nothing can prepare them for what happens when a criminal feels you closing in on him.

Recently emigrated from Ghana with his sister and mother to London’s enormous housing projects, Harri is pure curiosity and ebullience—obsessed with gummy candy, a friend to the pigeon who visits his balcony, quite possibly the fastest runner in his school, and clearly also fast on the trail of a murderer. Told in Harri's infectious voice and multicultural slang, Pigeon English follows in the tradition of our great novels of friendship and adventure, as Harri finds wonder, mystery, and danger in his new, ever-expanding world.

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In a Dry Season (Inspector Banks Novels) by Peter Robinson from HarperCollins is $0.99 (US Kindle)

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Short-listed for the Edgar Award and Winner of the 2000 Anthony Award

In the blistering, dry summer, the waters of Thornfield Reservior have been depleted, revealing the ruins of the small Yorkshire village that lay at its bottom, bringing with it the unidentified bones of a brutally murdered young woman. Detective Chief Inspector Banks faces a daunting challenge: he must unmask a killer who has escaped detection for half a century. Because the dark secret of Hobb's End continue to haunt the dedicated policeman even though the town that bred then has died—and long after its former residents have been scattered to far places . . . or themselves to the grave.

From an acknowledged master writing at the peak of his storytelling powers comes a powerful, insightful, evocative, and searingly suspenseful novel of past crimes and present evil.

The Second Objective by Mark Frost from Hyperion is $3.99 (US Kindle)

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Bestselling author Mark Frost makes a triumphant return to fiction with this riveting World War II thriller, based on a shocking real-life German operation run by "the most dangerous man in Europe"

Fall 1944. Germany is losing, and the Americans are starting to hope theyll be home for Christmas. Lieutenant Colonel Otto Skorzeny, "Hitler's Commando," famed for his daring rescue of the imprisoned Mussolini, has just received orders for Operation Greif: He is to assemble a new brigade of 2,000 men, all of whom speak English, and send them behind Allied lines disguised as GIs, where they will wreak havoc in advance of a savage new offensive. And from those men, Skorzeny is to select a smaller group, made up of the twenty most highly skilled commandos fluent in American culture, to attempt an even more sinister mission -- the second objective -- which, if completed, not only would change the course of the war, but would change the course of history.

Filled with real characters and details only recently released by the United States military, The Second Objective is historical fiction at its most pulse-pounding, its most unpredictable, and its most compulsively readable.

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The Choiring Of The Trees by Donald Harington from AmazonEncore (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Aug 6) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Based on a true story, The Choiring of the Trees is a dramatic literary tale about an unfairly convicted man and the woman who risked everything to love him. Challenging readers' notions of justice and fairness, this is an elegant and unforgettable novel.

Harry Houdini Mysteries: The Dime Museum Murders by Daniel Stashower from Titan ($1.59) is the NOOK Daily Find (Aug 6)

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What if Harry Houdini was not only an entertainer, but also an detective? That's the exciting premise of Daniel Stashower's Harry Houdini mysteries, featuring Harry and his brother Dash as they solve crimes in old New York. Thrill to their adventures as they're called to a stately mansion to investigate the millionaire's murder at the hands of a turn-of-the-century articificial man. Is it murderer or murder weapon?

* FYI, Amazon has matched this Nook deal:

Harry Houdini Mysteries: The Dime Museum Murders is also $1.59 for US Kindle

The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ($2.49) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (Aug 6)

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Gary D. Schmidt was awarded a Newbery Honor in 2008 for The Wednesday Wars, the story of seventh grader Holling Hoodhood from suburban Long Island in 1967 who is stuck spending his Wednesday afternoons with his teacher Mrs. Baker… who is clearly trying to kill him with Shakespeare.

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EASTERN INFERNO: The Journals of a German Panzerjager on the Eastern Front, 1941-43 by Hans Roth from Casemate Publishing ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Aug 6) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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While fighting with Germany's anti-tank battalion as they deployed along the Soviet frontier in June 1941, Hans Roth kept a series of remarkable journals before he went missing in action. Written with an honest, private style as events transpired, Roth's gripping account lays bare the horrific war Germany waged in Russia.

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Two for Sorrow: A New Mystery Featuring Josephine Tey by Nicola Upson from HarperCollins is $0.99 (US Kindle)

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They were the most horrific crimes of a new century: the murders of newborn innocents for which two British women were hanged at Holloway Prison in1903. Decades later, mystery writer Josephine Tey has decided to write a novel based on Amelia Sach and Annie Walters, the notorious “Finchley baby farmers,” unaware that her research will entangle her in the desperate hunt for a modern-day killer.

A young seamstress—an ex-convict determined to reform—has been found brutally slain in the studio of Tey’s friends, the Motley sisters, amid preparations for a star-studded charity gala. Despite initial appearances, Inspector Archie Penrose is not convinced this murder is the result of a long-standing domestic feud—and a horrific accident involving a second young woman soon after supports his convictions. Now he and his friend Josephine must unmask a sadistic killer before more blood flows—as the repercussions of unthinkable crimes of the past reach out to destroy those left behind long after justice has been served.

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Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager by Buzz Bissinger from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is $1.99 (US Kindle)

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Three Nights in August captures the strategic and emotional complexities of baseball's quintessential form, the three-game series. As the St. Louis Cardinals battle their archrival Chicago Cubs, we watch from the dugout through the eyes of the legendary Tony La Russa, considered by many to be the greatest manager of the modern era. In his thirty-three years of managing, La Russa won three World Series titles and was named Manager of the Year a record five times. He now stands as the third-winningest manager in the history of baseball. A great leader, he built his success on the conviction that ball games are won not only by the numbers but also by the hearts and minds of those who play.

Drawing on unprecedented access to a major league skipper and his team, Buzz Bissinger portrays baseball with a revelatory intimacy and offers many surprising tactical insights. Bissinger also furthers the debate on major league managerial style and strategy in his provocative Afterword.