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More $3.99 books for US Kindle:

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
What It Is Like to Go to War by Karl Marlantes
1984 by George Orwell
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition by Norman Maclean
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene
We Bought a Zoo: The Amazing True Story of a Young Family, a Broken Down Zoo, and the 200 Wild Animals That Change Their Lives Forever by Benjamin Mee
Midnight in Austenland: A Novel by Shannon Hale

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Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) is $3.99 (US Kindle)

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New York Times Bestseller

“Schlosser has a flair for dazzling scene-setting and an arsenal of startling facts . . . Fast Food Nation points the way but, to resurrect an old fast food slogan, the choice is yours.”—Los Angeles Times

In 2001, Fast Food Nation was published to critical acclaim and became an international bestseller. Eric Schlosser’s exposé revealed how the fast food industry has altered the landscape of America, widened the gap between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and transformed food production throughout the world. The book changed the way millions of people think about what they eat and helped to launch today’s food movement.

In a new afterword for this edition, Schlosser discusses the growing interest in local and organic food, the continued exploitation of poor workers by the food industry, and the need to ensure that every American has access to good, healthy, affordable food. Fast Food Nation is as relevant today as it was a decade ago. The book inspires readers to look beneath the surface of our food system, consider its impact on society and, most of all, think for themselves.

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More $3.99 discounted books from the US Kindle store:

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
Black Seconds (An Inspector Sejer Mystery) by Karin Fossum
Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Gran
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
The Simulacra by Philip K. Dick
Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin
Dreaming in Hindi: Coming Awake in Another Language by Katherine Russell Rich

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More $3.99 discounted books from the US Kindle store:

Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life by Sam Wang and Sandra Aamodt
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography by Jean Harvey Baker
Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie (Great Discoveries) by Barbara Goldsmith

Four Parker Novels by Richard Stark:

The Hunter: A Parker Novel (Parker Novels)
The Score (Parker Novels)
The Man with the Getaway Face: A Parker Novel (Parker Novels)
The Mourner (Parker Novels)

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The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater is $3.99 (Scholastic) for US Kindle

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Shiver and Linger comes a brand new, heartstopping novel.

Some race to win. Others race to survive.

It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line.

Some riders live. Others die.

At age nineteen, Sean Kendrick is the returning champion. He is a young man of few words, and if he has any fears, he keeps them buried deep, where no one else can see them.

Puck Connolly is different. She never meant to ride in the Scorpio Races. But fate hasn't given her much of a choice. So she enters the competition - the first girl ever to do so. She is in no way prepared for what is going to happen.

As she did in her bestselling Shiver trilogy, author Maggie Stiefvater takes us to the breaking point, where both love and life meet their greatest obstacles, and only the strong of heart can survive. The Scorpio Races is an unforgettable reading experience.

Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers is $3.99 (Scholastic) for US Kindle

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Operation Iraqi Freedom, that's the code name. But the young men and women in the military's Civil Affairs Battalion have a simpler name for it: WAR.

In this new novel, Walter Dean Myers looks at a contemporary war with the same power and searing insight he brought to the Vietnam war of his classic, FALLEN ANGELS. He creates memorable characters like the book's narrator, Birdy, a young recruit from Harlem who's questioning why he even enlisted; Marla, a blond, tough-talking, wisecracking gunner; Jonesy, a guitar-playing bluesman who just wants to make it back to Georgia and open a club;

and a whole unit of other young men and women and drops them incountry in Iraq, where they are supposed to help secure and stabilize Iraq and successfully interact with the Iraqi people. The young civil affairs soldiers soon find their definition of "winning" ever more elusive and their good intentions being replaced by terms like "survival" and "despair."

Caught in the crossfire, Myers' richly rendered characters are just beginning to understand the meaning of war in this powerful, realistic novel of our times.

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray is $3.99 (Scholastic) for US Kindle

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From bestselling, Printz Award-winning author Libba Bray, the story of a plane of beauty pageant contestants that crashes on a desert island.

Teen beauty queens. A "Lost"-like island. Mysteries and dangers. No access to emall. And the spirit of fierce, feral competition that lives underground in girls, a savage brutality that can only be revealed by a journey into the heart of non-exfoliated darkness. Oh, the horror, the horror! Only funnier. With evening gowns. And a body count.

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Elmore Leonard Raylan Givens 3-Book Collection Elmore Leonard from HarperCollins ($4.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (Mar 7)

* FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal!

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An especially fantastic value! Elmore Leonard's U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens is hero of fan-favorite books and the hit FX series Justified. Now enjoy the first three Raylan books--Pronto, Riding the Rap, and Fire in the Hole--together in one NOOK Book, along with an excerpt from the brand new novel in the series.

Splat the Cat by Rob Scotton from HarperCollins ($4.99) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (Mar 7)

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From Rob Scotton comes everyone's favorite, Splat the Cat. Join him as he braves his first day of school and learns some valuable life lessons.

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The Circle Opens #1: Magic Steps by Tamora Pierce (Scholastic) is $3.99

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Part of the 8-book Tamora Pierce reissue for Fall 2006, this title in the Circle Opens quartet features spellbinding new cover art. Concides with the release of WILL OF THE EMPRESS in trade pb.

Lady Sandrilene fa Toren knows all about unusual magic--she herself spins and weaves it like thread. But when she witnesses a boy dancing a spell, even she is confounded. To her dismay she gets news of a mysterious murderer stalking a clan of local merchants. The killer employs the strangest magic of all: the ability to reduce essence to nothingness. As the murders mount and the killer grows bolder, Sandry's teaching takes on a grave purpose. It becomes clear to everyone that the killings can only be stopped by the combined magic of two people: the young teacher and her even younger student.

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Flawless by Lara Chapman (Bloomsbury USA Childrens) is $2.51 for US Kindle

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Sarah Burke is just about perfect. She’s got killer blue eyes, gorgeous blond hair, and impeccable grades. There’s just one tiny-all right, enormous-flaw: her nose. But even that’s not so bad. Sarah’s got the best best friend and big goals for print journalism fame.

On the first day of senior year, Rock Conway walks into her journalism class and, well, rocks her world. Problem is, her best friend, Kristen, falls for him too. And when Rock and Kristen stand together, it’s like Barbie and Ken come to life. So when Kristen begs Sarah to help her nab Rock, Sarah does the only thing a best friend can do-she agrees. For someone so smart, what was she thinking?
This hip retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac is filled with hilariously misguided matchmaking, sweet romance, and a gentle reminder that we should all embrace our flaws.

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Charming the Shrew (The Legacy of MacLeod) by Laurin Wittig from Montlake ($0.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (Mar 7) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Scottish Highlander Tayg Munro returns from fighting the English to a hero's welcome and a family ultimatum: choose a wife or we'll choose one for you. Stalling, Tayg heads into the wilderness and happens across the beautiful, sharp-witted Catriona MacLeod. Their journey together sparks passion and exposes a treacherous plot.

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The Crimson Petal and the White (Harvest Book) by Michel Faber from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is $2.99 (US Kindle)

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A New York Times Notable Book; Named a Best Book of the Year by: People, Entertainment Weekly, and The Chicago Tribune.

Meet Sugar, a nineteen-year-old prostitute in nineteenth-century London who yearns for escape to a better life. From the brothel of the terrifying Mrs. Castaway, she begins her ascent through society, meeting a host of lovable, maddening, unforgettable characters on the way. They begin with William Rackham, an egotistical perfume magnate whose empire is fueled by his lust for Sugar; his unhinged, child-like wife Agnes; his mysteriously hidden-away daughter, Sophie; and his pious brother Henry, foiled in his devotional calling by a persistently less-than-chaste love for the Widow Fox. All this is overseen by assorted preening socialites, drunken journalists, untrustworthy servants, vile guttersnipes, and whores of all stripes and persuasions.

Teeming with life, this is a big, juicy must-read of a novel that has enthralled hundreds of thousands of readers-and will continue to do so for years to come.

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Daring the Highlander (The Legacy of MacLeod) by Laurin Wittig from Montlake Romance (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (Mar 8) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

*The US Kindle edition price is $2.99

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The sweeping Scottish saga that began in Laurin Wittig's Charming the Shrew continues in this romantic sequel. Determined to bring his clan to order, Ailig calls on beautiful young widow Morainn to serve as chatelaine of his castle. Together they restore the MacLeod clan's legacy, rebuild Castle Assynt and discover a love unlike any they ever imagined.

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Altar of Eden by James Rollins (HarperCollins) is $1.99 (US Kindle, B&N, iTunes)

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Following the fall of Baghdad, two Iraqi boys stumble upon armed men looting the city zoo. The floodgates have been opened for the smuggling of hundreds of exotic birds, mammals, and reptiles to Western nations, but this crime hides a deeper secret. Amid a hail of bullets, a concealed underground weapons lab is ransacked—and something even more horrific is set free.

Seven years later, Louisiana state veterinarian Lorna Polk stumbles upon a fishing trawler shipwrecked on a barrier island. The crew is missing or dead, but the boat holds a frightening cargo: a caged group of exotic animals, clearly part of a black market smuggling ring.

Yet, something is wrong with these beasts, disturbing deformities that make no sense: a parrot with no feathers, a pair of Capuchin monkeys conjoined at the hip, a jaguar cub with the dentition of a saber-toothed tiger. They also all share one uncanny trait—a disturbingly heightened intelligence.

To uncover the truth about the origin of this strange cargo and the terrorist threat it poses, Lorna must team up with a man who shares a dark and bloody past with her and is now an agent with the U.S. Border Patrol, Jack Menard.

Together, the two must hunt for a beast that escaped the shipwreck while uncovering a mystery tied to fractal science and genetic engineering, all to expose a horrifying secret that traces back to humankind's earliest roots.

But can Lorna stop what is about to be born upon the altar of Eden before it threatens not only the world but also the very foundation of what it means to be human?

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The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun by J.R.R. Tolkien is $2.91 (US Kindle)

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Many years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien composed his own version of the great legend of Northern antiquity, recounted here in The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún.

In the Lay of the Völsungs is told the ancestry of the great hero Sigurd, the slayer of Fáfnir, most celebrated of dragons; of his awakening of the Valkyrie Brynhild, who slept surrounded by a wall of fire, and of their betrothal; and of his coming to the court of the great princes who were named the Niflungs (or Nibelungs), with whom he entered into blood-brotherhood.

In scenes of dramatic intensity, of confusion of identity, thwarted passion, jealousy, and bitter strife, the tragedy of Sigurd and Brynhild, of Gunnar the Niflung and Gudrún his sister, mounts to its end in the murder of Sigurd, the suicide of Brynhild, and the despair of Gudrún.

The Lay of Gudrún recounts her fate after the death of Sigurd, her marriage against her will to the mighty Atli, ruler of the Huns (the Attila of history), his murder of her brothers, and her hideous revenge.

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The NOOK Book: An Unofficial Guide: Everything you need to know about the NOOK Tablet, NOOK Color, and the NOOK Simple Touch by Patrick Kanouse from Pearson Education ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (Mar 8)

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This is the eBook version of the printed book.

#1 Bestseller!

Make the Most of Any B&N NOOK--Including NOOK Tablet, NOOK Color, or NOOK Simple Touch!

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Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (Mar 8)

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From Karen Cushman comes the Newbery Honor winning story of Catherine (called Birdy because of her caged pets), a thriteenth century English knight's daughter. The story is structured as Birdy's journal and expresses the frustrations and aspirations of a young woman in medieval society.