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The Horse Boy: A Father's Quest to Heal His Son by Rupert Isaacson from Little, Brown and Company is $3.99 (US Kindle)

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When his son Rowan was diagnosed with autism, Rupert Isaacson was devastated, afraid he might never be able to communicate with his child. But when Isaacson, a lifelong horseman, rode their neighbor's horse with Rowan, Rowan improved immeasurably. He was struck with a crazy idea: why not take Rowan to Mongolia, the one place in the world where horses and shamanic healing intersected?

THE HORSE BOY is the dramatic and heartwarming story of that impossible adventure. In Mongolia, the family found undreamed of landscapes and people, unbearable setbacks, and advances beyond their wildest dreams. This is a deeply moving, truly one-of-a-kind story--of a family willing to go to the ends of the earth to help their son, and of a boy learning to connect with the world for the first time.

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Discounted books from HarperTeen (US Kindle):

$2.99

Epic Fail by Claire LaZebnik

Deadly Cool (Hartley Featherstone) by Gemma Halliday

Love and Other Things I'm Bad At by Catherine Clark

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Vampire Kisses by Ellen Schreiber from Katherine Tegen Books is $2.99 (US Kindle)

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In her small town, dubbed "Dullsville," sixteen-year-old Raven -- a vampire-crazed goth-girl -- is an outcast. But not for long...

The intriguing and rumored-to-be haunted mansion on top of Benson Hill has stood vacant and boarded-up for years. That is, until its mysteriously strange new occupants move in. Who are these creepy people -- especially the handsome, dark, and elusive Alexander Sterling? Or rather, what are they? Could the town prattle actually ring true? Are they vampires? Raven, who secretly covets a vampire kiss, both at the risk of her own mortality and Alexander's loving trust, is dying to uncover the truth.

Ellen Schreiber's spooky and stirring romance tells the story of two outsiders who fall in love in a town where conformity reigns, and ends with a shocking surprise.

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Miss American Pie: A Diary of Love, Secrets and Growing Up in the 1970s by Margaret Sartor from Bloomsbury USA is $1.99 (US Kindle)

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Margaret Sartor, a fiercely determined girl from rural Louisiana, who is equal parts "Holden Caulfield and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" (Atlanta Journal Constitution), presents a poignant portrait of American life during the 1970s. Crafted from diaries, notebooks, and letters, this deeply personal yet universally appealing story moves with ease between the seemingly trivial concerns of hairstyles and boys to the more profound questions of faith and identity. By turns funny and poignant, heartbreaking and profound, Miss American Pie tackles all of the decade's issues-desegregation, drugs, the sexual revolution, the rise of feminism, and the spread of charismatic evangelical Christianity-with humor, frankness, and unexpected insight.

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Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis from W. W. Norton & Company is $3.99 (US Kindle, price-match to a Google Books deal)

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Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street’s premier investment firms. During the next three years, Lewis rose from callow trainee to bond salesman, raking in millions for the firm and cashing in on a modern-day gold rush. Liar’s Poker is the culmination of those heady, frenzied years—a behind-the-scenes look at a unique and turbulent time in American business. From the frat-boy camaraderie of the forty-first-floor trading room to the killer instinct that made ambitious young men gamble everything on a high-stakes game of bluffing and deception, here is Michael Lewis’s knowing and hilarious insider’s account of an unprecedented era of greed, gluttony, and outrageous fortune.

About the Author
Michael Lewis, the best-selling author of Liar’s Poker, The Money Culture, The New New Thing, Moneyball, The Blind Side, Panic, Home Game, The Big Short, and Boomerang, among other works, lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and three children.

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Partitions by Amit Majmudar from Oneworld Publications (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (May 11) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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At an overrun train station twin Hindu boys lose sight of their mother. A young Sikh girl has run away from her father. An elderly Muslim doctor is driven from the town of his birth. As the displaced face a variety of horrors, this unlikely quartet comes together, defying every rule of self-preservation to forge a future of hope.

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The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (May 11)

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Paul Theroux weaves a brilliant, breathtaking novel of obsession and idealism. Paranoid genius inventor Allie Fox relocates his family to the Honduran jungle, fleeing an America he sees as fated for disaster. But his utopian dream to build a better civilization turns dark and lead his family toward unimaginable danger.

The Amulet of Samarkand (Bartimaeus Volume 1) by Jonathan Stroud from Disney Book Group ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (May 11)

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Enter a world of magic and demons with The Amulet of Samarkand, the first installment of the Bartimaeus Trilogy. Nathaniel is new to magic and learning his craft as a wizard's apprentice when he is humiliated by another hot-shot wizard. To exact revenge Nathaniel summons the djinni Bartimaeus to steal the wizard's most prized magical treasure, the Amulet of Samarkand. The young apprentice soon learns that summoning Bartimaeus and controlling him are two different things.

What the Heart Knows by Mara Purl from Bellekeep Books ($0.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (May 11) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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The first book in Mara Purl's acclaimed Milford-Haven series follows privileged artist Miranda Jones as she starts a new life in a beautiful small town along California's Central Coast. It's a place filled with quirky, independent men and women, and one dark secret: the murder of journalist Christine Christian.

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Here Lies Bridget (Harlequin Teen) by Paige Harbison is $1.30 (US Kindle)

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Bridget Duke is the uncontested ruler of her school. The meanest girl with the biggest secret insecurities. And when new girl Anna Judge arrives, things start to fall apart for Bridget: friends don't worship as attentively, teachers don't fall for her wide-eyed "who me?" look, expulsion looms ahead and the one boy she's always loved—Liam Ward—can barely even look at her anymore.

When a desperate Bridget drives too fast and crashes her car, she ends up in limbo, facing everyone she's wronged and walking a few uncomfortable miles in their shoes. Now she has only one chance to make a last impression. Though she might end up dead, she has one last shot at redemption and the chance to right the wrongs she's inflicted on the people who mean the most to her.

And Bridget's about to learn that, sometimes, saying you're sorry just isn't enough….

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Sweet Valley Confidential: Ten Years Later by Francine Pascal from St. Martin's Press is $2.99 (US Kindle)

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Now with this striking new adult novel from author and creator Francine Pascal, millions of devoted fans can finally return to the idyllic Sweet Valley, home of the phenomenally successful book series and franchise. Iconic and beloved identical twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield are back and all grown up, dealing with the complicated adult world of love, careers, betrayal, and sisterhood.

WANT MORE SWEET VALLEY RIGHT NOW?? Become a fan of Sweet Valley Confidential on Facebook or Twitter.

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The Hidden Language of Baseball: How Signs and Sign-Stealing Have Influenced the Course of Our National Pastime by Paul Dickson from Walker Books is $1.99 (Amazon Weekend Deal)

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Baseball is set apart from other sports by many things, but few are more distinctive than the intricate systems of coded language that govern action on the field and give baseball its unique appeal. During a nine-inning game, more than 1,000 silent instructions are given-from catcher to pitcher, coach to batter, fielder to fielder, umpire to umpire-and without this speechless communication the game would simply not be the same. Baseball historian Paul Dickson examines for the first time the rich legacy of baseball's hidden language, offering fans everywhere a smorgasbord of history and anecdote.
Whether detailing the origins of the hit-and-run, the true story behind the home run that gave "Home Run" Baker his nickname, Bob Feller's sign-stealing telescope, Casey Stengel's improbable method of signaling his bullpen, the impact of sign stealing on the Giants' miraculous comeback in 1951, or the pitches Andy Pettitte tipped off that altered the momentum of the 2001 World Series, Dickson's research is as thorough as his stories are entertaining. A roster of baseball's greatest names and games, past and present, echoes throughout, making The Hidden Language of Baseball a unique window on the history of our national pastime.

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Kindle app Weekly Deal:

Maze A Thon ($0.99 Sale! A Game for Kindle) by A Gamz (Until May 17)

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The Kennedy Brothers: The Rise and Fall of Jack and Bobby by Richard Mahoney from Arcade Publishing is $1.99 (US Kindle)

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A thoroughly readable and historically important look at the relationship between JFK and RFK.

Books about the Kennedys are legion. Yet missing until now has been the exploration of the bond between Jack and Bobby, and the part that it played in their rise and fall. Eight years apart in age, they were wildly different in temperament and sensibility. Jack was the born leader—charismatic, ironic, capable of extraordinary growth and reach, yet also pathologically reckless. Bobby was the fearless, hardworking Boy Scout—unafraid of dirty work and ruthless about protecting his brother and destroying their enemies. Jack, it was said, was the first Irish Brahman, Bobby the last Irish Puritan.

As Mahoney demonstrates with brilliant clarity in this impeccably documented, magisterial book, the Kennedys lived their days of power in dangerous, trackless territory. The revolution in Cuba had created a poisonous cauldron of pro- and anti-Castro forces, the CIA, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI, and the Mafia. Mahoney gives us Jack and Bobby in all their hubris and humanity, youthfulness and fatalism. Here is American history as it unfolds. The Kennedy Brothers is a fresh and masterful account of the men whose legacy continues to hold the American imagination.

Originally published under the title Sons and Brothers. 20 black-and-white photographs

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The Politician: An Insider's Account of John Edwards's Pursuit of the Presidency and the Scandal That Brought Him Down by Andrew Young from Thomas Dunne Books is $3.99 (US Kindle)

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“The greatest political saga, the one that has it all, that gets to the real heart of American politics, is the John Edwards story... This isn’t just politics, it’s literature. It’s the great American novel, the kind that isn’t written anymore.” --Michael Wolff on John Edwards's trajectory, on VanityFair.com

The underside of modern American politics -- raw ambition, manipulation, and deception -- are revealed in detail by Andrew Young’s riveting account of a presidential hopeful’s meteoric rise and scandalous fall. Like a non-fiction version of All the King’s Men, The Politician offers a truly disturbing, even shocking perspective on the risks taken and tactics employed by a man determined to rule the most powerful nation on earth.

Idealistic and ambitious, Andrew Young volunteered for the John Edwards campaign for Senate in 1998 and quickly became the candidate’s right hand man. As the senator became a national star, Young’s responsibilities grew. For a decade he was this politician’s confidant and he was assured he was ‘like family.” In time, however, Young was drawn into a series of questionable assignments that culminated with Edwards asking him to help conceal the Senator’s ongoing adultery. Days before the 2008 presidential primaries began, Young gained international notoriety when he told the world that he was the father of a child being carried by a woman named Rielle Hunter, who was actually the senator’s mistress. While Young began a life on the run, hiding from the press with his family and alleged mistress, John Edwards continued to pursue the presidency and then the Vice Presidency in the future Obama administration.

Young had been the senator’s closest aide and most trusted friend. He believed that John Edwards could be a great president, and was assured throughout the cover-up that his boss and friend would ultimately step forward to both tell the truth and protect his aide’s career. Neither promise was kept. Not only a moving personal account of Andrew Young’s political education, THE POLITICIAN offers a look at the trajectory which made John Edwards the ideal Democratic candidate for president, and the hubris which brought him down, leaving his career, his marriage and his dreams in ashes.

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The Settlers of Catan by Rebecca Gable from AmazonCrossing (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (May 12) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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In the seas of northern Europe, the small coastal village of Elasund falls prey to marauding neighbours. The villagers are left to barely survive the harsh winter and contemplate a drastic solution to their recurring hardships: leaving the only village they have ever known.

Based on the wildly popular board game of the same name designed by Klaus Teuber, Rebecca Gable’s The Settlers of Catan is a must-read adventure rich in detail and rippling with intensity.

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The Bishop of Rwanda by John Rucyahana from Thomas Nelson is $0.80 (US Kindle)

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In 1994, as his country descended into the madness of genocide, Anglican Bishop John Rucyahana underwent the mind-numbing pain of having members of his church and family butchered. John refused to become a part of the systemic hatred. He founded the Sonrise orphanage and school for children orphaned in the genocide, and he now leads reconciliation efforts between his own Tutsi people, the victims of this horrific massacre, and the perpetrators, the Hutus. His remarkable story is one that demands to be told.