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The First of Men : A Life of George Washington by John E. Ferling from Oxford University Press is $1.35 (US Kindle)

Book Description

Written by John Ferling, one of America's leading historians of the Revolutionary era, The First of Men offers an illuminating portrait of George Washington's life, with emphasis on his military and political career.

Here is a riveting account that captures Washington in all his complexity, recounting not only Washington's familiar sterling qualities--courage, industry, ability to make difficult decisions, ceaseless striving for self-improvement, love of his family and loyalty to friends--but also his less well known character flaws. Indeed, as Ferling shows, Washington had to overcome many negative traits as he matured into a leader. The young Washington was accused of ingratitude and certain of his letters from this period read as if they were written by "a pompous martinet and a whining, petulant brat." As commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, he lost his temper more than once and indulged flatterers. Aaron Burr found him "a boring, colorless person." As president, he often believed the worst about individual officials. Ferling concludes that Washington's personality and temperament were those of "a self-centered and self-absorbed man, one who since youth had exhibited a fragile self-esteem." And yet he managed to realize virtually every grand design he ever conceived. Ferling's Washington is driven, fired by ambition, envy, and dreams of fame and fortune. Yet his leadership and character galvanized the American Revolution--probably no one else could have kept the war going until the master stroke at Yorktown--and helped the fledgling nation take, and survive, its first unsteady steps.

This superb edition makes available once again an unflinchingly honest and compelling biography of the father of our country.

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FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal:

Life of Pi by Yann Martel also $1.99!

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The new Kindle app weekly deal:

Mystery Castle: Dawn of Illusion ($0.99! - A Game for Kindle) by Runestone Games Limited

Product Description
Mystery Castle: Dawn of Illusion is a puzzle adventure featuring Monty the wizard as he attempts to save the inhabitants of the castle from an evil creature of the night.

You play Monty on his quest as he outwits fiendish puzzles on his journey deeper and deeper into the mysterious castle, to the inevitable showdown with a monster too scary to name. You must tread carefully on cracked and crumbling floors, while using teleporting staircases and magical keys to enter new areas. You may even need to push boxes into dangerous crags to make new paths and use bombs to get through walls to complete your quest. If you find the Eye of Truth, you can explore places that were once hidden as you try to uncover the identity of the creature assaulting the castle.

Mystery Castle: Dawn of Illusion is well suited for people who like puzzles and brain teasers, and contains 24 levels of excitement and adventure. Can you solve all the mystery puzzles in the castle? Monte is counting on you!

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The Curry Secret: How to Cook Real Indian Restaurant Meals at Home by Kris Dhillon from Right Way (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (June 9) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

The recipes behind Indian restaurant cuisine are a closely guarded secret. In the pages of The Curry Secret, Indian restaurateur Kris Dhillon breaks with tradition and reveals all, so that anyone can recreate those unique and authentic flavours in their own kitchen.

The Castaways: A Novel by Elin Hilderbrand from Little, Brown & Company ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (June 9)

* FYI, price-matched by Amazon. The Castaways: A Novel also $2.99 for US Kindle.

Product Description

The novels of Elin Hilderbrand are synonymous with summer. Fall in love with her novels with this tale of four close-knit couples whose serene summer is shattered with one couple's suddent death and strange revelations that follow -- then don't miss her new novel Summerland, coming soon.

Not Norman by Kelly Bennett from Candlewick Press ($1.49) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (June 9)

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Norman the Goldfish isn't the sort of pet one little boy wanted. Norman can't play fetch or curl up his owner's lap. His owner even plots to exchange Norman for a more desirable pet, but eventually the little boy discovers that just because something is unexpected doesn't mean it isn't right, this book offers an endearing take on not judging a book, or a Goldfish, by its cover.

23 world-class mysteries from Open Road are $1.99 each as the Kindle Deal of the Day (June 9) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

These page-turning debuts and first books in popular series promise something for all lovers of great mysteries and thrillers. From Edward Bunker's critically-acclaimed classic, No Beast So Fierce, to book one of Loren D. Estleman's award-winning Amos Walker series, Motor City Blue, this selection features masterfully-crafted novels for all tastes.

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FYI, new Kindle game apps:

Gem Quest (A Match 3 Puzzle Game for Kindle) by Applications Innovations ($1.99)

Ultimate Chemistry Quiz (A Quiz Game for Kindle) by HandyX ($1.99)

Premier Baseball Scorecard (An Interactive Score Keeping Tool for Kindle) by Premier Digital Publishing ($4.99)

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Below Zero by C.J. Box from Corvus (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (June 10) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

A simple phone message rocks the Pickett family to the core: "Tell Sherry April called." Only, April was killed six years previously in the massacre described in C.J. Box's previous thriller, Winterkill. Is this young girl April or are the Picketts the victims of a cruel hoax?

Messenger (The Giver Trilogy) by Lois Lowry from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (June 10)

Product Description

In this captivating conclusion to Lois Lower's dystopian trilogy strang things are happening in the Village. As one of the few people able to travel through the dangerous Forest, Matty convince Seer’s daughter to return with him to the Village before it’s too late.

FYI, the Nook Daily Find and the Kindle Deal of the Day for today is the same book!!!

Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy 1) by Deborah E. Harkness from Penguin ($2.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (June 10) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also $2.99 at B&N!

Product Description

This imaginative and suspenseful debut portrays a passionate tale of obsession, in which Diana Bishop--a young scholar and descendant of witches--discovers a long-lost and enchanted manuscript deep in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she navigates with her leading man, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont.

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Except When I Write : Reflections of a Recovering Critic by Arthur Krystal from Oxford University Press is $1.74 (US Kindle).

Product Description:

“I never think except when I sit down to write.” — Attributed to Montaigne by Edgar Allan Poe

From Montaigne in the sixteenth century to Orwell, Eliot, and Trilling in the twentieth, the best literary essayists combine a gift for observation with an abiding commitment to books. Although it may seem that books are becoming less essential and that a revolution in sensibility is taking place, the essays of Arthur Krystal suggest otherwise. Companionable without being chummy, engaged without being didactic, erudite without being stuffy, he demonstrates that literature, even in the digital age, remains the truest expression of the human condition.

Covering subjects as diverse as aphorisms, dueling, the night, and the 1960s, the essays gathered here offer the common reader uncommon pleasure. In prose that is both vibrant and elegant, Krystal negotiates among myriad subjects-from historical writing as exemplified by Jacques Barzun to the art of screenwriting as not so happily represented by F. Scott Fitzgerald. His cardinal rule as a writer? William Hazlitt’s “Confound it, man, don’t be insipid.” No fear of that. Except When I Write is thoughtful in the most joyful sense-brimming with ideas in order to give us the flow and cadence of someone actually thinking.

Keenly observant and death on pretension, Krystal examines the world of books without ever losing sight of the world beyond them. Literature may be the bedrock on which these essays rest, but as F. R. Leavis aptly noted, “One cannot seriously be interested in literature and remain purely literary in interests.” Except When I Write is a reminder of both the pleasure and the power of a well-tuned essay.

In Her Own Right : The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton by Elisabeth Griffith from Oxford University Press is $1.99 (US Kindle).

Product Description:

The first comprehensive, fully documented biography of the most important woman suffragist and feminist reformer in nineteenth-century America, In Her Own Right restores Elizabeth Cady Stanton to her true place in history. Griffith emphasizes the significance of role models and female friendships in Stanton’s progress toward personal and political independence.

In Her Own Right is, in the author’s words, an “unabashedly ‘great woman’ biography.”

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Hate List by Jennifer Brown from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers is $2.99 (US Kindle).

Product Description:

Five months ago, Valerie Leftman’s boyfriend, Nick, opened fire on their school cafeteria. Shot trying to stop him, Valerie inadvertently saved the life of a classmate, but was implicated in the shootings because of the list she helped create. A list of people and things she and Nick hated. The list he used to pick his targets.

Now, after a summer of seclusion, Val is forced to confront her guilt as she returns to school to complete her senior year. Haunted by the memory of the boyfriend she still loves and navigating rocky relationships with her family, former friends and the girl whose life she saved, Val must come to grips with the tragedy that took place and her role in it, in order to make amends and move on with her life.

ghostgirl by Tonya Hurley from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers is $2.99 (US Kindle).

Product Description:

Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
And if I should die before I awake,
I pray the popular attend my wake.

Charlotte Usher feels practically invisible at school, and then one day she really is invisible. Even worse: she’s dead. And all because she choked on a gummy bear. But being dead doesn’t stop Charlotte from wanting to be popular; it just makes her more creative about achieving her goal.

If you thought high school was a matter of life or death, wait till you see just how true that is. In this satirical, yet heartfelt novel, Hurley explores the invisibility we all feel at some times and the lengths we’ll go to be seen.

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Debbie Macomber's Cedar Cove Cookbook by Debbie Macomber from Harlequin is $3.44 (US Kindle)

Book Description

With Debbie Macomber's Cedar Cove Cookbook, you can relish the same superb meals found in Cedar Cove's households. Charlotte Rhodes, one of the series' most beloved characters, invites all fans of Cedar Cove, as well as anyone who enjoys classic home cooking, to join her in touring the town's kitchens as she shares more than 130 of her treasured family recipes. (And she's got plenty to tell you about the people of Cedar Cove, too!)
You'll find such mouthwatering dishes as:

-- Justine Gunderson's Grilled Salmon with Lime-Jalapeno Butter
-- Teri Polger's Macaroni & Cheese
-- Charlotte Rhodes's Cinnamon Rolls
-- Olivia Griffin's Creamy Tarragon Chicken Salad
-- The Pot Belly Deli's Broccoli & Cheese Soup in a Bread Bowl
-- And many more

Whether you've just discovered the world of Cedar Cove or have devoured all the books, you can now partake of the town's culinary traditions and cook just like Charlotte, her family and friends!

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FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook Daily Find for Families too:

Messenger (The Giver Trilogy) by Lois Lowry also $1.99

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A Fair Maiden by Joyce Carol Oates from Quercus (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (June 11) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Fifteen-year-old Katya Spivak is out for a walk on the streets of Bayhead Harbor, New Jersey, when she is approached by silver-haired, elegant Marcus Kidder. At first his interest in her seems harmless, and Katya agrees to pose for a painting. But by degrees something changes.

What Difference Do It Make?: Stories of Hope and Healing by Ron Hall from Thomas Nelson ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (June 11)

* FYI, Amazon has price-matched. What Difference Do It Make?: Stories of Hope and Healing is also just $2.99 for US Kindle.

Product Description

Intimate, authentic, and true stories of hope and healing from the creators of the bestselling Same Kind of Different as Me provide poignant insight into our common human condition.

The Golem's Eye (Bartimaeus Volume 2) by Jonathan Stroud from Disney Book Group ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (June 11)

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The second adventure in the Bartimaeus trilogy finds our young apprentice magician Nathaniel working his way up the ranks of the government, when crisis hits. A seemingly invulnerable clay golem is making random attacks on London. Nathaniel and the all-powerful, totally irreverent djinni, Bartimaeus, must travel to Prague to discover the source of the golem's power.

The Search for Major Plagge: The Nazi Who Saved Jews, Expanded Edition by Michael Good from Fordham University Press ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (June 11) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Part detective story, part personal quest, Michael Good unfolds the incredible true tale of WWII German commander Karl Plagge. In charge of a Lithuanian work camp, Plagge saved hundreds of Jews in the Vilna ghetto, including Good's mother. This expertly researched and well-written account reveals one man's remarkable courage.

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The Dragon and the Pearl by Jeannie Lin from Harlequin Historical is $1.99 (US Kindle, iTunes)

Book Description

***Library Journal Best Romance of 2011***

Former Emperor's consort Ling Suyin is renowned for her beauty; the ultimate seductress. Now she lives quietly alone--until the most ruthless warlord in the region comes and steals her away....

Li Tao lives life by the sword, and is trapped in the treacherous, lethal world of politics. The alluring Ling Suyin is at the center of the web. He must uncover her mystery without falling under her spell--yet her innocence calls out to him. How cruel if she, of all women, can entrance the man behind the legend....

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The Seance by John Harwood from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is $3.43 (US Kindle)

Description

Wraxford Hall, a decaying mansion in the English countryside, has a sinister reputation. Once, a family disappeared there. And now Constance Langton has inherited this dark place as well as the mysteries surrounding it.

Having grown up in a house marked by the death of her sister, Constance is no stranger to mystery, secrets, and the dark magic around us. Her father was distant. Her mother was in perpetual morning for her lost child. In a desperate atempt to coax her mother back to health, Constance took her to a seance hoping she would find supernatural comfort. But tragic consequences followed, leaving her alone in the world-- alone with Wraxford Hall. Saddled with this questionable bequest, she must find the truth at the heart of all these disappearances, apparitions, betrayal, blackmail, and villainy, even if it costs her life.

John Harwood's second novel delivers on the great promise proven by his first with this gripping mystery set in the heart of Victorian England.

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$3.99 books from John Connelly (US Kindle)

Every Dead Thing

Book Description

The first installment of the Charlie Parker series by internationally bestselling author John Connolly.

Haunted by the unsolved slayings of his wife and daughter, former New York City detective Charlie Parker is a man consumed by guilt, regret, and the desire for revenge. When his search for a missing woman leads him to the killer who destroyed his family, Parker knows payback time has come at last.

Aided by a beautiful young psychologist and two career criminals, Parker soon becomes the bait in a trap set in the balmy bayous of Louisiana to catch a murderer unlike any other—a monster who believes himself to be an artist and uses the human body as his canvas. Driven by his visions of the dead and the voice of an old Creole psychic, Parker must seek—and win—a final brutal confrontation with the serial killer known as the Traveling Man.

Every Dead Thing is a richly textured, intricately plotted novel that probes the mind of a tormented man whose buried instincts—for love, survival, and even killing—awaken as he confronts a monster beyond imagining and relentlessly pursues justice for the murder of his family.

Dark Hollow

Book Description

When John Connolly burst upon the literary suspense scene in 1999, he was an immediate international sensation. His Every Dead Thing became an instantaneous bestseller in England, and here in America, his writing was greeted with extraordinary accolades. He won the prestigious Shamus Award for Best First Private Eye Novel, and, as the San Francisco Examiner wrote, "John Connolly's tale is as riveting and chilling as Thomas Harris's The Silence of the Lambs and James Patterson's Kiss the Girls."

Now, Connolly returns with Dark Hollow, a terrifying and ingenious novel of a murderous spree that reaches back decades into the victims' pasts. Back again is ex-New York Police Detective Charlie "Bird" Parker, who has returned to his hometown of Scarborough, Maine, after the vicious killings of his wife and daughter; it is time to leave the bloodstained streets of Manhattan and rebuild his family's house -- as well as his own life. But for Bird, returning to his roots means digging through a mountain of terror, as memories of his father's and grandfather's untimely deaths resurface and drive him to join the manhunt for the killer of yet another mother and child. Though the obvious suspect is Billy Purdue, the violent former husband of the murdered young woman, another player lurks in this disturbing drama, someone entangled in the dark hollow of Bird's past.

Darkly atmospheric, tense and imbued with the page-turning ferocity that only the finest crime fiction offers, Dark Hollow is a stunning successor to Every Dead Thing, a testament to the burgeoning power of John Connolly to tell stories that thrill, frighten and haunt the soul.

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$3.99 books from Jeffery Deaver (US Kindle)

The Cold Moon (Lincoln Rhyme Novels)

Book Description

On a frigid December night, an eerie pattern emerges from two equally brutal murder scenes, where a killer’s calling card is a moon-faced clock that seemingly ticked away the victims’ last moments. From his wheelchair, criminologist Lincoln Rhyme tracks the Watchmaker, a time-obsessed genius. With every passing second, the Watchmaker is moving with razor-sharp precision to his next act of perfectly orchestrated violence—and Rhyme can’t afford to have his trusted partner, Amelia Sachs, distracted by a daunting homicide case of her own. Up against a brilliant madman, Rhyme and Sachs are locked in a blood-chilling race with their deadliest enemy: time itself. . . .

The Stone Monkey (Lincoln Rhyme Novels)

Book Description

The page-turning New York Times bestseller from Jeffery Deaver’s “simply outstanding” (San Jose Mercury News) Lincoln Rhyme series!

The FBI has recruited forensics expert Lincoln Rhyme and his protégée, Amelia Sachs, to capture “the Ghost,” a homicidal immigrant smuggler. But when they corner him aboard a cargo ship, the bust goes disastrously wrong and the Ghost escapes. Now the killer must eliminate two families who witnessed his flight before they jumped ship and vanished. . . . Searching New York City’s Chinatown, can Rhyme and Sachs find the Ghost’s targets before he does?