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Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein is $3.99 (Scribner)

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Amazon Best of the Month, May 2008

From one of America's most talented historians and winner of a LA Times Book Prize comes a brilliant new account of Richard Nixon that reveals the riveting backstory to the red state/blue state resentments that divide our nation today.

Told with urgency and sharp political insight, Nixonland recaptures America's turbulent 1960s and early 1970s and reveals how Richard Nixon rose from the political grave to seize and hold the presidency.

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Once a Land Girl by Angela Huth from Constable (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (August 26) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "...a very optimistic story beautifully played out against a post war background."

Disasters, disappointments, dashed hopes … Doesn’t seem that easy, just to find a good man, love him and be loved back. But I shan’t give up trying.

The war is over, but life goes on for Land Girls Prue, Stella and Ag. While two of the girls are married, Prue, the incorrigible flirt, has no one and is engaged in a quest for a man to provide her with security and gold taps.

A year after the girls leave Hallows Farm, Prue finds just such a man and a marriage that protects her from the hardships of post-war Manchester. But she still hankers for the life she so loved as a Land Girl, though it’s hard to get work on the sort of farm that provided unimaginable happiness during the war.

The lives of her two old friends, Stella and Ag, have moved on and neither visit her. Additionally Prue finds that her newly wedded state and fresh horizons fail to supply the answers she seeks.

Yet, in the puzzling world beyond the fields, Prue, in her indomitable way, open as ever to each chance encounter, remains buoyant, optimistic and quite sure that the life she imagines is just round yet another corner.

Between the Sheets by Colette Caddle from Simon & Schuster UK (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Romance Daily Deal (August 26) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "I haven't previously read any of Colette Caddle's work but I will be searching out her books after reading this gripping novel."

Dana De Lacey, bestselling romance novelist, has the world at her feet. The words on the page flow easily; an exciting new book deal beckons, and life at home in Dublin is good.
But Dana's self-confidence and success depend on one person: her gorgeous husband, Gus. Without him, she has no fall-back. No children, no close family of her own to call upon. When Gus leaves her, she is devastated. The words fail to come. The alcohol flows too freely. She cannot sleep.
Then her estranged brother, Ed, arrives to take care of her out of the blue, and memories which she has buried for many years begin to surface: startling recollections of a childhood and a little girl long-forgotten, which inspire Dana at last to write from the heart.
Which Dana was it that Gus walked out on -- the glamorous party girl, whose romantic novels always have a happy ending? Or someone with a different name, whose life tells a very different story? Forced to face up to the past, can she find the real Dana, recover her career, and try to make Gus love her for the person she really is?

Farewell: The Greatest Spy Story of the Twentieth Century by Sergei Kostin, Eric Raynaud from AmazonCrossing (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Politics Daily Deal (August 26) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "An important and compelling piece of Cold War history detailing Valdimar Vetrov's spying for the French Intelligence Service."

1981. Ronald Reagan and François Mitterrand are sworn in as presidents of the Unites States and France, respectively. The tension due to Mitterrand’s French Communist support, however, is immediately defused when he gives Reagan the Farewell Dossier, a file he would later call “one of the greatest spy cases of the twentieth century.”

Vladimir Ippolitovitch Vetrov, a promising technical student, joins the KGB to work as a spy. Following a couple of murky incidents, however, Vetrov is removed from the field and placed at a desk as an analyst. Soon, burdened by a troubled marriage and frustrated at a flailing career, Vetrov turns to alcohol. Desperate and needing redemption, he offers his services to the DST. Thus Agent Farewell is born. He uses his post within the KGB to steal and photocopy files of the USSR’s plans for the West—all under Brezhnev’s nose.

Probing further into Vetrov’s psychological profile than ever before, Kostin and Raynaud provide groundbreaking insight into the man whose life helped hasten the fall of the Soviet Regime.

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A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams from Putnam Adult ($2.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (August 26) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "A smart and engrossing story that is perfect for fans of the Gossip Girl series."

Memorial Day, 1938: New York socialite Lily Dane has just returned with her family to the idyllic oceanfront community of Seaview, Rhode Island, expecting another placid summer season among the familiar traditions and friendships that sustained her after heartbreak.

That is, until Greenwalds decide to take up residence in Seaview.

Nick and Budgie Greenwald are an unwelcome specter from Lily’s past: her former best friend and her former fiancé, now recently married—an event that set off a wildfire of gossip among the elite of Seaview, who have summered together for generations. Budgie’s arrival to restore her family’s old house puts her once more in the center of the community’s social scene, and she insinuates herself back into Lily's friendship with an overpowering talent for seduction...and an alluring acquaintance from their college days, Yankees pitcher Graham Pendleton. But the ties that bind Lily to Nick are too strong and intricate to ignore, and the two are drawn back into long-buried dreams, despite their uneasy secrets and many emotional obligations.

Under the scorching summer sun, the unexpected truth of Budgie and Nick’s marriage bubbles to the surface, and as a cataclysmic hurricane barrels unseen up the Atlantic and into New England, Lily and Nick must confront an emotional cyclone of their own, which will change their worlds forever.

Love's First Light by Jamie Carie from B&H Books ($0.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (August 26) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "This historic romance novel is emotionally charged from beginning to end."

New from Jamie Carie, today’s most awarded new Christian romance writer.

Christophé, the Count of St. Laurent, has lost his entire family to the blood-soaked French Revolution and must flee to an ancient castle along the southern border of France to survive. But the medieval city of Carcassonne proves more than a hiding place. Here Christophé meets the beautiful widow Scarlett, a complex and lionhearted woman suddenly taken by the undercover aristocrat’s passion for astronomy and its influence upon his faith. Although their acquaintance begins brightly enough, when the Count learns that Scarlett is related to the man who murdered his family, he turns from love and chooses revenge. Heaven only knows what it might take for Christophé to love again, to love his enemy, and to love unconditionally.

Overdraft: The Orion Offensive by John Jackson Miller from 47North ($1.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (August 26) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "A darkly humorous space opera with biting commentary on the current financial situation."

After an egotistical stock trader for one of the twenty-second century’s biggest corporations gets greedy and loses his employer a fortune, he has two options: go to jail or make the money back before anyone notices. Unfortunately, the only place such profits can be found is the galactic frontier, a region so dangerous it’ll take an uneasy alliance with a crew of rugged mercenaries to keep him alive and in the black.
You’d have to be insane to trade with the violent denizens of the Orion Arm, but with just one hundred days to recoup $100 billion, Jamie Sturm is feeling a little crazy. Standing between Jamie and a variety of agonizing deaths is Surge Team Sigma, the squad of power-armored mercenaries tasked with protecting him. Their last job ended in disaster thanks to Jamie’s scheming, and, led by the implacable Bridget Yang, the team is determined to keep the hapless Jamie alive long enough to fix their reputation. That is, assuming they can ignore their own growing desire to flush the annoying tagalong out of the nearest airlock.

A space opera fueled by today’s financial bravado, Overdraft: The Orion Offensive strikes a thrilling balance between desperate firefights and trenchant dark humor.

I Am Number Four (Lorien Legacies) by Pittacus Lore from HarperCollins ($2.99) is the Kindle Teens Deal of the Day (August 26) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "An edge of your seat adventure with a strong voice and lovable characters."

Amazon Best Books of the Month, August 2010

Nine of us came here. We look like you. We talk like you. We live among you. But we are not you. We can do things you dream of doing. We have powers you dream of having. We are stronger and faster than anything you have ever seen. We are the superheroes you worship in movies and comic books—but we are real.

Our plan was to grow, and train, and become strong, and become one, and fight them. But they found us and started hunting us first. Now all of us are running. Spending our lives in shadows, in places where no one would look, blending in. we have lived among you without you knowing.

But they know.

They caught Number One in Malaysia.
Number Two in England.
And Number Three in Kenya.
They killed them all.

I am Number Four.

I am next.

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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter: A Novel by Tom Franklin from HarperCollins ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (August 26)

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Award winning author Tom Franklin (The Tilted World, Poachers) delivers his most resonant story yet in this bestselling novel of two Mississippi men, once childhood friends, who are forced to confront the shared secret past they've buried and ignored for decades.

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Burning Rose: A Novel by Shirley Kennett is $1.99 (Amazon US, Amazon CA, iTunes iBooks)

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An environmental journalist stumbles into the deadly world of mega-corporations

Burning Rose is a gripping mystery from Shirley Kennett, author of the beloved PJ Gray series. The story follows Casey Washington, a freelance journalist with environmental convictions. When she lands a rare interview with Robert Gunner, CEO of World Power, a company building a controversial dam in the Amazon rainforest, she anticipates a personal triumph—only to have the story go terribly awry.

Heads of other big corporations start dying in gruesome fashion, at the hands of a mysterious group known as “The Six.” Washington’s investigative instinct kicks in but her search is not made any easier by her improbable attraction to the reclusive CEO Gunner.

Burning Rose is an eco-thriller full of puzzles and high-gear action with global consequences.

The Beggar Bride: A Novel by Gillian White is $1.99 (Amazon US, Amazon CA, iTunes iBooks)

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Desperate for a new life, one woman engineers a cunning deception that quickly spins out of control . . .

Angela Harper’s life has never been simple. She’s an orphan who spent her childhood in foster homes. Her handsome, charming husband Billy can’t hold down a job. And they’re both stuck in a grimy London flat with no prospects for their future beyond the periodic welfare check. That is, until Ange concocts a lie that will change their lives. Her con targets the wealthy, twice-divorced businessman Fabian Ormerod, whom, with the approval of her husband, she is determined to trick into a very advantageous marriage—with a quick divorce to follow.

Gillian White’s cutting, sardonic style unfurls in The Beggar Bride, as she needles England’s stiff upper crust, the titans of business, and the idle poor below them.

Jaran: 1 (The Novels of the Jaran) by Kate Elliott is $1.99(Amazon US, Amazon CA, iTunes iBooks)

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The first book of Kate Elliott’s epic Novels of the Jaran, set in an alien-controlled galaxy where a young woman seeks to find her own life and love, but is tied to her brother’s revolutionary fate

In the future, Earth is just one of the planets ruled by the vast Chapalii empire. The volatility of these alien overlords is something with which Tess Soerensen is all too familiar. Her brother, Charles, rebelled against them at one time and was rewarded by being elevated into their interstellar system—yet there is reason to believe they murdered his and Tess’s parents.

Struggling to find her place in the world and still mending a broken heart, Tess sneaks aboard a shuttle bound for Rhui, one of her brother’s planets. On the ground, she joins up with the native jaran people, becoming immersed in their nomadic society and customs while also attempting to get to the bottom of a smuggling scheme she encountered on her journey there. As she grows ever closer to the charismatic jaran ruler, Ilya—who is inflamed by an urgent mission of his own—Tess must choose between her feelings for him and her loyalty to her brother.

Jaran is the first volume of the Novels of the Jaran, which continues with An Earthly Crown, His Conquering Sword,and The Law of Becoming.

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Chain of Voices: A Novel by Andre Brink (Sourcebooks Landmark) is $2.99 (Amazon US, iTunes iBooks)

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On a farm near the Cape Colony in the early nineteenth century, a slave rebellion kills three and leaves eleven others condemned to death. The rebellion’s leader, Galant, was raised alongside the boys who would become his masters. His first victim, Nicholas van der Merwe, might have been his brother.

As the many layers of Andre Brink’s novel unfold, it becomes clear that the violent uprising is as much a culmination of family tensions as it is an outcry against the oppression of slavery.

Spanning three generations and narrated in the voices of both the living and the dead, A Chain of Voices is reminiscent of William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!; it is a beautiful and haunting illustration of racism’s plague on South Africa.

The Kennedys Amidst The Gathering Storm: A Thousand Days In London by Will Swift (HarperCollins) is $0.99 (Amazon US, iTunes iBooks)

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In The Kennedys Amidst the Gathering Storm, Will Swift presents a fresh, empathetic interpre*tation of the ambassadorship of Joseph Kennedy and explores the intricate, often shifting relation*ships among Kennedy, Chamberlain, Churchill, and, of course, Roosevelt.

Arriving in London in early 1938, the Irish-Catholic Kennedys were welcomed by politicians, aristocrats, and intellectuals, all eager to court America. They finally appeared to have overcome their lifelong status as outsiders. From 1938 to 1940, the Kennedys crystallized their identity as protagonists on the world stage, making public the competitive and clannish intrafamily dynamics that would fuel their mythic rise to power. They all learned from their father’s successes—and failures. The older children—Joe Jr., Jack, and Kathleen—took an active part in England’s glittering, “last fling before the bombs fall” society, but all nine children charmed, their every move chronicled by the British and American media. John F. Kennedy’s path to the White House began in London. As his father’s political fortunes dimmed, Jack published a best-selling book and his star rose.

Drawing on recently released Kennedy family archives, Joseph P. Kennedy’s private papers, and using rare photographs of English society and the photogenic Kennedy clan, Dr. Swift, with penetrating psychological insight, brings to life this fascinating family during a dramatic one thousand day period.

Way Past Legal by Norman Green (HarperCollins) is $0.99 (Amazon US, iTunes iBooks)

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You never know, when it happens, what’s going to change your life, what’s going to bounce you out of the rut you’ve been in, send you flying off in some new direction.

Manny’s latest score left him with more money than he’s ever dreamed of, but with money comes danger — from his partner, Rosey, who might get greedy, and from the Russian mobsters they stole it from. Worse, if he’s busted again, he’ll go back to prison for life, leaving his motherless five-year-old son, Nicky, still trapped in the foster care system.

With the kind of guts born of panic and desperation, Manny grabs his son and heads for the wilds of Maine. When he discovers that the bad guys are on his trail, his impulse is, as usual, to run. But the people he’s met in Maine — including the local police chief — have become his unlikely friends and an unlikely surrogate family to his boy. Now they’re all in danger, and it’s because of him. Does Manny have what it takes to change his street-tough ways and become a real father to Nicky? And does he dare to settle into a new life, putting at stake the safety of everyone he has come to love?

Norman Green presents a gripping portrait of a man trying to break out of the stranglehold of a life of crime and create a future for himself and his son.

Going Wrong by Ruth Rendell (Open Road Media) is $1.99 (Amazon US, iTunes iBooks)

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A street hustler-turned-wealthy businessman races to extricate his childhood sweetheart from the arms of her fiancé before it’s too late

When Guy Curran, a streetwise hustler from the wrong side of the tracks, falls in love with good-girl Leonora, he knows that one day she will be his wife. But as life leads the two down different paths, Guy’s obsessive love takes a murderous turn. Convinced that Leonora’s respectable family has conspired against him, Guy struggles to extricate himself from a complex web of half-truths and artful lies—with a hit man’s bullet.

With expert pacing and rich characterization, Rendell artfully constructs an ever-widening spiral of paranoia and desire.

Wherever Grace Is Needed by Elizabeth Bass (Kensington Books) is $2.99

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In this thoroughly heartwarming novel, Elizabeth Bass – author of Miss You Most of All – creates an unforgettable story of friendship, compassion, and the extraordinary love that lies at the heart of every ordinary family.

When Grace Oliver leaves Portland for Austin, Texas, to help her father, Lou, recuperate from a car accident, she expects to stay just a few weeks. Since her mother’s divorce thirty years ago, Grace has hovered on the periphery of the Oliver family. But now she sees a chance to get closer to her half-brothers and the home she’s never forgotten.

But the Olivers are facing a crisis. Tests reveal that Lou, a retired college professor whose sharp tongue and tenderness Grace adores, is in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. Grace delays her departure to care for him, and is soon entwined in the complicated lives of her siblings – all squabbling over Lou’s future – and of the family next door…

Ray West and his three children are reeling from a recent tragedy, particularly sixteen-year-old Jordan, whose grief is heightened by guilt and anger. Amid the turmoil, Grace not only gives solace and support, but learns to receive it. And though she came to Austin to reconnect with her past, she is drawn by degrees into surprising new connections.

With wit, wisdom, and unfailing insight, Elizabeth Bass tells a story of loving and letting go, of heartache and hope, and of the joy that comes in finding a place we can truly call home.

Show No Fear: A Nina Reilly Novel by Perri O’Shaughnessy (Pocket Books) is $3.67

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A brand-new Nina Reilly thriller takes readers back to Nina’s first murder investigation, to the case that ignites her passionate commitment to fighting for justice.

As a single mom working as a paralegal and attending law school at night, Nina has her hands full fighting for custody of her young son Bob and overseeing a medical malpractice lawsuit on behalf of her mother. But when a woman falls to her death off a bridge near Big Sur and witnesses disappear, Nina suspects there is more to the “accident” than the authorities are saying. With the help of homicide cop Paul van Wagoner, she rushes to uncover the truth.

Show No Fear illumines what makes the brilliant Nina Reilly tick — and, in this fascinating prequel to an illustrious career, begins a love affair for her fans and readers of complex, gripping thrillers everywhere!

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The Somme Stations (Jim Stringer Steam Detective 7) by Andrew Martin from Faber and Faber Fiction (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (August 27) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "I cannot recommend Andrew Martin's Jim Stringer series highly enough. This latest is fully up to his very high standard."

A stunning historical novel of crime in the trenches

On the first day of the Somme enlisted railwayman Jim Stringer lies trapped in a shell hole, smoking cigarette after cigarette under the bullets and the blazing sun. He calculates his chances of survival - even before they departed for France, a member of Jim's unit had been found dead. During the stand-off that follows, Jim and his comrades must operate by night the vitally important trains carrying munitions to the Front, through a ghostly landscape of shattered trees where high explosive and shrapnel shells rain down. Close co-operation and trust are vital. Yet proof piles up of an enemy within, and as a ferocious military policeman pursues his investigation into the original killing, the finger of accusation begins to point towards Jim himself . . .

Marriage 101 by Shelley Mosley from Montlake Romance (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Romance Daily Deal (August 27) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "Loved this from start to finish. It's laugh out loud funny, sexy and entertaining."

Danny Riccuci thinks divorce is hereditary. After all, his family has been the poster child for failed marriages. The only exception is his sister, Maria, and she's married to the church. Danny's so sure he carries this divorce gene that he's never bothered to challenge the family curse. Rachel Levin's a teacher of human relationships. She knows all the scientific reasons for mutual attraction. She knows the basis of the human needs that drive people into relationships. She knows the statistics of almost every aspect of her field. In fact, Rachel knows everything about human relationships--except what it's actually like to be in one. Together, Danny and Rachel learn there's a lot more to love than what's in a textbook and that, sometimes, genetics are highly overrated.

We Are All Weird by Seth Godin from AmazonCrossing (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Politics Daily Deal (August 27) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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A celebration of choice and embracing the notion that everyone deserves the dignity and respect that comes from being heard.

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Pavilion of Women: A Novel of Life in the Women's Quarters by Pearl S. Buck from Open Road Media ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (August 26) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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** Add the professional narration (Audible.Com) of Pavilion of Women: A Novel of Life in the Women's Quarters for a reduced price of $1.99 after you buy this Kindle book.

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Customer review: "A beautiful story about family, duty, and personal growth."

The exhilarating novel of an elegant woman’s subversive new chapter in life

At forty, Madame Wu is beautiful and much respected as the wife of one of China’s oldest upper-class houses. Her birthday wish is to find a young concubine for her husband and to move to separate quarters, starting a new chapter of her life. When her wish is granted, she finds herself at leisure, no longer consumed by running a sixty-person household. Now she’s free to read books previously forbidden her, to learn English, and to discover her own mind. The family in the compound are shocked at the results, especially when she begins learning from a progressive, excommunicated Catholic priest.

In its depiction of life in the compound, Pavilion of Women includes some of Buck’s most enchanting writing about the seasons, daily rhythms, and customs of women in China. It is a delightful parable about the sexes, and of the profound and transformative effects of free thought.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Pearl S. Buck including rare images from the author’s estate.

Last Man Standing by Cindy Gerard from Pocket Books ($1.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (August 26) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "Get ready for edge of your seat action and passionate romance!"

The final “powerfully intense” (Romantic Times) Black Ops, Inc. novel from New York Times bestseller Cindy Gerard, featuring a covert private security team and electrifying romantic suspense.

Black Ops, Inc. operative Joe Green is determined to bring to justice the man responsible for former team member Bryan Tompkins’s death. He’s convinced the ambush that killed Bryan was no coincidence, but a setup. Unsure of the consequences of the battle he’s about to start, Joe distances himself from both his Black Ops, Inc. team members and the woman he loves, Bryan’s sister, Stephanie Tompkins. But Stephanie knows there must be some reason Joe broke it off, and when she hears Joe’s charged with a murder in Sierra Leone, she wastes no time in breaking him out of prison. Then they must unravel the mystery behind the ambush, and bring resolution to a long-ago betrayal….

Tears in Rain by Rosa Montero from AmazonCrossing ($1.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (August 26) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "An excellent science fiction story that blends fascinating concepts with intense characters."

Death is inevitable. Especially when you have an expiration date.

As a replicant, or “techno-human,” Detective Bruna Husky knows two things: humans bioengineered her to perform dangerous, undesirable tasks; and she has just ten years on the United States of Earth before her body automatically self-destructs. But with “anti-techno” rage on the rise and a rash of premature deaths striking her fellow replicants, she may have even less time than she originally thought.

Investigating the mysterious deaths, Bruna delves into the fractious, violent history shared by humans and replicants, and struggles to engage the society that fails to understand her—yet created her. The deeper she gets, the deadlier her work becomes as she uncovers a vast, terrifying conspiracy bent on changing the very course of the world. But even as the darkness of her reality closes in, Bruna clings fiercely to life.

Saving the Team (The Kicks) by Alex Morgan from Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers ($2.99) is the Kindle Kids Deal of the Day (August 26) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "A sweet and empowering story about believing in yourself and working as a team."

From star soccer player and Olympic gold medalist Alex Morgan comes the first book in an empowering, fun-filled middle grade series about believing in yourself and working as a team.

Twelve-year-old Devin loves to play soccer. If she hadn’t just left Connecticut to move across the country, she would have been named seventh-grade captain on her school soccer team.

But now that Devin is starting seventh grade in Kentville, California, all bets are off. After all, some of the best players on the US national team come from California. She’s sure to have stiff competition. Or so she thinks.

When Devin shows up for tryouts, she discovers that the Kentville Kangaroos—otherwise known as the Kicks—are an absolute mess. Their coach couldn’t care less whether the girls win or lose. And Devin is easily one of the most talented players.

The good news is, Devin quickly makes friends with funny, outgoing Jessi; shy but sweet Zoe; and klutzy Emma. Can Devin and her newfound friends pull together and save the team from itself?

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American Dream Machine by Matthew Specktor from HarperCollins ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (August 26)

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Against the backdrop of the Hollywood dream factory, Matthew Specktor (That Summertime Sound) unfurls the story of two talent agents and their three troubled boys in a sweeping narrative about fathers and sons, family business, and the seductive con game that is Tinseltown.

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Audible Daily Deal - The Black Echo: Harry Bosch Series, Book 1 by Michael Connelly (Narrated by Dick Hill) for $4.95

* Get this Audiobook for the even more reduced price of $3.49, when you buy the Kindle edition first.

Publisher's Summary

For LAPD homicide cop Harry Bosch - hero, maverick, nighthawk - the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal.
The dead man, Billy Meadows, was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who fought side by side with him in a nightmare underground war that brought them to the depths of hell. Now, Bosch is about to relive the horror of Nam. From a dangerous maze of blind alleys to a daring criminal heist beneath the city to the torturous link that must be uncovered, his survival instincts will once again be tested to their limit.
Joining with an enigmatic and seductive female FBI agent, pitted against enemies inside his own department, Bosch must make the agonizing choice between justice and vengeance, as he tracks down a killer whose true face will shock him.
Impressed? Ace detective Harry Bosch is also on the case in other exciting Michael Connelly crime-fiction novels.
©2004 Michael Connelly; (P)2004 Brilliance Audio

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American Dream Machine by Matthew Specktor is $2.99 (Amazon US)

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Murder on Cue: 1 (The Jocelyn O'Roarke Mysteries) by Jane Dentinger (Open Road Media) is $2.99 (Amazon US, Amazon CA)

Book Description

In the first book of the Jocelyn O’Roarke series, when a Broadway show’s lead actress is murdered, her understudy must race to find the killer before it’s too late

Struggling actress Jocelyn “Josh” O’Roarke just got a real offer. Well, something resembling a real offer. Her old friend Austin Frost has written a play for Broadway and cast the glamorous Harriet Weldon as the lead. Not wishing to leave his old friend Josh behind, he has invited her to be Harriet’s understudy. The role of understudy is a difficult one—and it becomes even more so when Harriet turns up dead and the police name Josh their prime suspect.

With the NYPD breathing down her neck, Josh must find the people responsible while ensuring that the show will go on.

Murder on Cue is the first book of the Jocelyn O’Roarke mystery series, which also includes First Hit of the Season and Death Mask.

Measure of Love: Life from Scratch Series, Book 2 by Melissa Ford (Bell Bridge Books) is $1.99 (Amazon US, Amazon CA)

Book Description

The sequel to the bestseller, Life from Scratch

Getting re-married to your ex? Piece of cake.

Rachel has made a new life from scratch with her ex-husband, but can they survive the wedding plans?

It may be her second time getting married, but Rachel Goldman is definitely navigating a sticky relationship with her former—and soon-to-be-again—mother-in-law. Plus she’s in a tug of war with the editor of her upcoming book on divorce who is begging her to keep her happy new relationship with her ex, Adam, on the down low. How can Rachel do that when her society-obsessed mother-in-law is eager to get a featured story in the wedding section of the New York Times? Throw in a sister-in-law-to-be who’s navigating her own upcoming nuptials as well as a friend who not only doesn’t want to get married, but is possibly having an affair. Rachel finds herself with too many pots simmering on a very familiar stove.

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Tidal Shift by Dora Heldt from AmazonCrossing (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (August 28) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "Fun read, which will make you smile and laugh out loud."

To Christine, her Aunt Inge and Uncle Walter are reliable fixtures in the family, dependable and destined to be together forever. So when she spies Inge in the company of a man who is most certainly not her husband, life as Christine knows it takes a turn for the unexpected. Suddenly, what began as a blissful vacation with her gorgeous boyfriend on her native island of Sylt has morphed into a family drama of epic proportions—and a rude wake-up call for Christine. Because compared to the newfound passion with which sixtysomething Inge is tackling each day, Christine’s supposedly fabulous life seems downright dull. Christine decides it’s time to make some drastic changes…but will she ruin the great life she already has in the process?

The Fancy by Monica Dickens from Bloomsbury Reader (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Romance Daily Deal (August 28) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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A romantic and gentle tale, which chronicles the lives of a group of female workers in an aircraft factory during the Second World War.

Churchill's Wizards: The British Genius for Deception 1914-1945 by Nicholas Rankin from Faber and Faber Non Fiction (£1.09) is the Amazon UK Kindle History Daily Deal (August 28) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "...these interwoven threads of history made a thoroughly enjoyable read."

In February 1942, intelligence officer Victor Jones erected 150 tents behind British lines in North Africa. "Hiding tanks in Bedouin tents was an old British trick," writes Nicholas Rankin. German general Erwin Rommel not only knew of the ploy, but had copied it himself. Jones knew that Rommel knew. In fact, he counted on it--for these tents were empty. With the deception that he was carrying out a deception, Jones made a weak point look like a trap.

In A Genius for Deception, Nicholas Rankin offers a lively and comprehensive history of how Britain bluffed, tricked, and spied its way to victory in two world wars. As Rankin shows, a coherent program of strategic deception emerged in World War I, resting on the pillars of camouflage, propaganda, secret intelligence, and special forces. All forms of deception found an avid sponsor in Winston Churchill, who carried his enthusiasm for deceiving the enemy into World War II. Rankin vividly recounts such little-known episodes as the invention of camouflage by two French artist-soldiers, the creation of dummy airfields for the Germans to bomb during the Blitz, and the fabrication of an army that would supposedly invade Greece. Strategic deception would be key to a number of WWII battles, culminating in the massive misdirection that proved critical to the success of the D-Day invasion in 1944.

Deeply researched and written with an eye for telling detail, A Genius for Deception shows how the British used craft and cunning to help win the most devastating wars in human history.

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Murder as a Fine Art by David Morrell from Open Road Media ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (August 28) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "A masterful and brilliantly plotted historical thriller that truly evokes 1854 London."

Gaslit London is brought to its knees in David Morrell's brilliant historical thriller.

Thomas De Quincey, infamous for his memoir Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, is the major suspect in a series of ferocious mass murders identical to ones that terrorized London forty-three years earlier.

The blueprint for the killings seems to be De Quincey's essay "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts." Desperate to clear his name but crippled by opium addiction, De Quincey is aided by his devoted daughter Emily and a pair of determined Scotland Yard detectives.

In Murder as a Fine Art, David Morrell plucks De Quincey, Victorian London, and the Ratcliffe Highway murders from history. Fogbound streets become a battleground between a literary star and a brilliant murderer, whose lives are linked by secrets long buried but never forgotten.

The Outcast by Jolina Petersheim from Tyndale House Publishers ($1.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (August 28) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "I loved this fresh, exciting, and inspirational retelling of The Scarlet Letter."

Raised in an Old Order Mennonite community, Rachel Stoltzfus is a strong-willed single woman, content living apart from mainstream society until whispers stir the moment her belly swells with new life. Refusing to repent and name the partner in her sin, Rachel feels the wrath of the religious sect as she is shunned by those she loves most. She is eventually coerced into leaving by her brother-in-law, the bishop.

But secrets run deep in this cloistered community, and the bishop is hiding some of his own, threatening his conscience and his very soul. When the life of Rachel’s baby is at stake, however, choices must be made that will bring the darkness to light, forever changing the lives of those who call Copper Creek home.

Kelly Country: A John Grimes Novel by A. Bertram Chandler from Prologue Books ($1.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (August 28) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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** Add the professional narration (Audible.Com) of Kelly Country: A John Grimes Novel for a reduced price of $0.99 after you buy this Kindle book.

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Customer review: "A fun and exciting time travel story. Highly recommended."

An If-Of-History Novel

The United States won its independence in 1776, and the world has never been the same since. What if Australia had followed suit? How would our world have been different? That’s the theme that fascinated A. Bertram Chandler who saw, in the famous Ned Kelly, the possibility of an Australian Washington.

For Ned Kelly was not just a lawless bushranger. He was a man of unusual imagination who created his own armor, gathered a band of Irish rebels, and took arms against the frontier law of old Australia. Now, by time machine and calculated interference, a certain 20th Century John Grimes goes back and alters history. Kelly survives!

Utilizing the hidden discoveries of science, Kelly helps an Austrailian-Irish Republic rise from Down Under!

Karoo Boy: A Novel by Troy Blacklaws from Open Road Media ($1.99) is the Kindle Teens Deal of the Day (August 28) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "A story about a young man finding his way in the midst of chaos and loss."

From star soccer player and Olympic gold medalist Alex Morgan comes the first book in an empowering, fun-filled middle grade series about believing in yourself and working as a team.

Twelve-year-old Devin loves to play soccer. If she hadn’t just left Connecticut to move across the country, she would have been named seventh-grade captain on her school soccer team.

But now that Devin is starting seventh grade in Kentville, California, all bets are off. After all, some of the best players on the US national team come from California. She’s sure to have stiff competition. Or so she thinks.

When Devin shows up for tryouts, she discovers that the Kentville Kangaroos—otherwise known as the Kicks—are an absolute mess. Their coach couldn’t care less whether the girls win or lose. And Devin is easily one of the most talented players.

The good news is, Devin quickly makes friends with funny, outgoing Jessi; shy but sweet Zoe; and klutzy Emma. Can Devin and her newfound friends pull together and save the team from itself?

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Audible Daily Deal - The Five Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts by Gary Chapman (Narrated by Gary Chapman) for $1.95

Publisher's Summary

Dr. Gary Chapman identifies five basic languages of love and then guides couples towards a better understanding of their unique languages of love. Learn to speak and understand your mate's love language, and in no time you will be able to effectively love and truly feel loved in return. Skillful communication is within your grasp!

©2005 Gary Chapman; (P)2005 Oasis Audio LLC

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Justice League $0.99 Sale

Justice League For a limited time, 24 issues across the Justice League series are $0.99 each.

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Water Wars by Cameron Stracher from Sourcebooks Fire ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (August 28)

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In a future where water has become a scarce and rationed black market commodity, one boy claims to know of the government's involvement. When he's kidnapped, Will and Vera must resuce him, battling pirates, ecoterrorists, and conspirators in this pulse-pounding cautionary tale from Cameron Stracher (Kings of the Road, Double Billing.)

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Water Wars by Cameron Stracher is $1.99 (Amazon US)

and Amazon CA