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Author Special - Ten Martin Beck Books from Maj Sjowall, Per Wahlöö from Harper Perennial (£0.99 each) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (December 16) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Author Special - Ten Martin Beck Books from Maj Sjowall, Per Wahlöö are £0.99 each.

The Straight Razor Cure (Low Town 1) by Daniel Polansky from Hodder (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (December 16) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "The Straight Razor Cure is a clever fusion of grim fantasy and noir crime and it turns out they make excellent bedfellows."

Here, the criminal is king. The streets are filled with the screeching of fish hags, the cries of swindled merchants, the inviting murmurs of working girls. Here, people can disappear, and the lacklustre efforts of the guard ensure they are never found. Warden is an ex-soldier who has seen the worst men have to offer; now a narcotics dealer with a rich, bloody past and a way of inviting danger. You'd struggle to find someone with a soul as dark and troubled as his. But then a missing child, murdered and horribly mutilated, is discovered in an alley. And then another. With a mind as sharp as a blade and an old but powerful friend in the city, he's the only man with a hope of finding the killer. If the killer doesn't find him first.

Deborah Goes to Dover: A Novel of Regency England by MC Beaton from Robinson (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Romance Daily Deal (December 16) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "An addictive page turning series of very sweet but surprisingly well written historical romances."

Encouraged by an unruly twin brother, tomboyish Lady Deborah Western seems set on dressing and behaving in a most unladylike manner, much to the dismay of her handsome neighbour, the Earl of Ashton.

Fortunately for the Earl, Miss Pym is on hand to make sure the gorgeous girl is introduced to some more feminine pursuits.

Book five in the Travelling Matchmaker series of Regency Romances.

Romps, Tots and Boffins (The Strange Language of News) by Robert Hutton from Elliott & Thompson (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Nonfiction Daily Deal (December 16) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "An excellent insight into why journalists use the language the way they do and what they really mean."

Financial Times Gift Books of the Year
Sunday Times Books of the Year - Humour Roundup
Spectator Books of the Year - chosen by Matthew Parris

You may not recognise the phrase, but if you have ever picked up a paper you’ll have come across ‘journalese’. Essentially, it covers words and phrases that are only found in newspapers – whether tabloid or broadsheet. Without them, how would our intrepid journalists be able to describe a world in which late-night revellers go on booze-fuelled rampages, where tots in peril are saved by have-a-go heroes, and where troubled stars lash out in foul-mouthed tirades? When Rob Hutton began collecting examples of journalese online, he provoked a ‘Twitter storm’, and was ‘left reeling’ by the ‘bumper crop’ of examples that ‘flooded in’. He realized that phrases which started as shorthand to help readers have become a dialect which is often meaningless or vacuous to non-journalese speakers. In a courageous attempt both to wean journalists off their journalese habit, and provide elucidation for the rest of us, Romps, Tots and Boffins will catalogue the highs and lows of this strange language, celebrating the best examples (‘test-tube baby’, ‘mad cow disease’), marvelling at the quirky (‘boffins’, ‘frogmen’) and condemning the worst (‘rant’, ‘snub’, ‘sirs’). It will be a ‘must-read’ ‘page-turner’ that may ‘cause a stir’, ‘fuel controversy’, or even ‘spark’ ‘tough new rules’ in newsrooms.

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Audible Daily Deal - The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking UNABRIDGED by Brendan I. Koerner (Narrated by Rob Shapiro) for $3.95 (Regular Price:$27.99)

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In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of the idealism of the '60s, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets nearly once a week, using guns, bombs, and jars of acid. Some hijackers wished to escape to foreign lands, where they imagined being hailed as heroes; others aimed to swap hostages for sacks of cash.
Their criminal exploits mesmerized the country, never more so than when the young lovers at the heart of Brendan I. Koerner's The Skies Belong to Us pulled off the longest-distance hijacking in American history. A shattered Army veteran and a mischievous party girl, Roger Holder and Cathy Kerkow commandeered Western Airlines Flight 701 as a vague protest against the war. Through a combination of savvy and dumb luck, the couple managed to flee across an ocean with a half-million dollars in ransom, a feat that made them notorious around the globe. Koerner spent four years chronicling this madcap tale, which involves a cast of characters ranging from exiled Black Panthers, to African despots, to French movie stars. He combed through over 4,000 declassified documents and interviewed scores of key figures in the drama - including one of the hijackers, whom Koerner discovered living in total obscurity.
Yet The Skies Belong to Us is more than just an enthralling yarn about a spectacular heist and its bittersweet, decades-long aftermath. It is also a psychological portrait of America at its most turbulent and a testament to the madness that can grip a nation when politics fail.
©2013 Brendan I. Koerner (P)2013 Tantor

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The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (December 16) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "Her stories perplex, confuse, amaze, and just plain make you happy that people can write like this."

This complete collection includes all the published stories of Eudora Welty. There are forty-one stories in all, including the earlier collections A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, The Golden Apples, and The Bride of the Innisfallen, as well as previously uncollected stories. With a Preface written by the Author especially for this edition.

Time Between Us by Tamara Ireland Stone from Disney Hyperion ($1.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (December 16) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "A perfectly told story with deftly drawn characters and gorgeous prose-- a must read!"

Anna and Bennett were never supposed to meet: she lives in 1995 Chicago and he lives in 2012 San Francisco. But Bennett's unique ability to travel through time and space brings him into Anna's life, and with him, a new world of adventure and possibility. As their relationship deepens, they face the reality that time might knock Bennett back where he belongs, even as a devastating crisis throws everything they believe into question. Against a ticking clock, Anna and Bennett are forced to ask themselves how far they can push the bounds of fate-and what consequences they can bear in order to stay together.

Fresh, exciting, and deeply romantic, Time Between Us is a stunning and spellbinding debut from an extraordinary new talent in YA fiction.

Pirates of the Outrigger Rift by Gary Jonas & Bill D. Allen from 47North ($1.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (December 16) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "Are you on the lookout for a good old-fashioned space opera? Here it is."

From the author team of Bill D. Allen and Gary Jonas: Pirates of the Outrigger Rift!

When the security director of the powerful corporation Nebulaco dies under mysterious circumstances, courier Sai Collins has one last top-secret delivery to make for him. But she has a secret of her own; she's a computer telepath who can connect to the grid without hardware.

It’s a talent she needs when she arrives at the drop point to make the delivery and is ambushed by heavily armed goons, barely escaping with her life. Now, caught in the crosshairs of feuding lords, unrelenting security forces, and dangerous outlaws, she’ll need some help to make it out alive. Enter a pair of unlikely allies also caught in the mix: charming, down-on-his-luck pilot Hank Jensen and jaded PI Mike Chandler. Their mission: take down the ruthless pirate who is bringing the galaxy to its knees with his bloody hijackings of corporate trade routes.

Unfolding at a break-neck pace, Pirates of the Outrigger Rift is the rollicking new sci-fi adventure of corporate espionage and interstellar piracy.

Among the Janeites by Deborah Yaffe from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ($2.99) is the Kindle Biography & Memoir Deal of the Day (December 16) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "For those who delight in all things Jane Austen, this book is a treasure chest of fun."

For anyone who has ever loved a Jane Austen novel, a warm and witty look at the passionate, thriving world of Austen fandom

They walk among us in their bonnets and Empire-waist gowns, clutching their souvenir tote bags and battered paperbacks: the Janeites, Jane Austen’s legion of devoted fans. Who are these obsessed admirers, whose passion has transformed Austen from classic novelist to pop-culture phenomenon? Deborah Yaffe, journalist and Janeite, sets out to answer this question, exploring the remarkable endurance of Austen’s stories, the unusual zeal that their author inspires, and the striking cross-section of lives she has touched.

Along the way, Yaffe meets a Florida lawyer with a byzantine theory about hidden subtexts in the novels, a writer of Austen fan fiction who found her own Mr. Darcy while reimagining Pride and Prejudice, and a lit professor whose roller-derby nom de skate is Stone Cold Jane Austen. Yaffe goes where Janeites gather, joining a pilgrimage to historic sites in Britain, chatting online with fellow fans, and attending the annual ball of the Jane Austen Society of North America—in period costume. Part chronicle of a vibrant literary community, part memoir of a lifelong love, Among the Janeites is a funny, touching meditation on the nature of fandom.

In the After by Demitria Lunetta from HarperTeen ($1.99) is the Kindle Teens Deal of the Day (December 16) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "Crisp prose and a dynamite protagonist make this one of my favorite post-apocalyptic books."

In debut author Demitria Lunetta's heart-pounding thriller, one girl must fight for her survival in a world overrun by violent, deadly creatures. Perfect for fans of New York Times bestsellers like The 5th Wave and Across the Universe.

Amy Harris's life changed forever when They took over. Her parents—vanished. The government—obsolete. Societal structure—nonexistent. No one knows where They came from, but these vicious creatures have been rapidly devouring mankind since They appeared. With fierce survivor instincts, Amy manages to stay alive—and even rescues "Baby," a toddler who was left behind. After years of hiding, they are miraculously rescued and taken to New Hope. On the surface, it appears to be a safe haven for survivors. But there are dark and twisted secrets lurking beneath that could have Amy and Baby paying with not only their freedom . . . but also their lives.

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Among the Janeites by Deborah Yaffe from HarperCollins ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (December 16)

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Janeites are more than just casual fans of the works of Jane Austen -- one could call them obsessed with the legendary author. Journalist Deborah Yaffe, a Janeite herself, dives in to this world for the stories behind the superfans that journey to the historic sites, dress the part, talk the talk, and read between the lines with their own take on the true meanings of Austen's works that have impacted their lives.

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Still Missing by Chevy Stevens from Allen & Unwin ($0.99) is the Amazon AU Kindle Daily Deal (December 17) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "I cannot praise this book enough - debut author Stevens skillfully weaves a story of utter horror as we follow Annie through her year of captivity, and through the days that follow as she tries to pick up the pieces of her shattered life."

On the day she was abducted, Annie O'Sullivan, a 32-year-old real estate agent, had three goals - sell a house, forget about a recent argument with her mother, and be on time for dinner with her ever-patient boyfriend. The open house is slow, but when her last visitor pulls up in a van as she's about to leave, Annie thinks it just might be her lucky day after all.

Interwoven with the story of the year Annie spent as the captive of a psychopath in a remote mountain cabin, which unfolds through sessions with her psychiatrist, is a second narrative recounting events following her escape - her struggle to piece her shattered life back together and the ongoing police investigation into the identity of her captor.

The truth doesn't always set you free.

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Four 'Stephanie Plum - Between the Numbers' books by Janet Evanovich from St. Martin's Press are $2.99 each

Visions of Sugar Plums
Plum Lovin
Plum Lucky
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(FYI, to save an extra dollar: get Between the Plums (collection of the first 3 books at $7.59) + Plum Spooky instead)

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Books 2 & 3 of Lauren Oliver's Delirium Trilogy:

Pandemonium Enhanced Edition (Delirium) is $1.99

Requiem (Delirium) is $2.99

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15 Agatha Christie books discounted to $1.99 - $2.99

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Author Special - Three 'A Hangman's Daughter Tale' Books by Oliver Pötzsch from AmazonCrossing (£0.99 each) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (December 17) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Author Special - Three 'A Hangman's Daughter Tale' Books by Oliver Pötzsch are £0.99 each.

The Surrogate (Brennan and Esposito) by Tania Carver from Sphere (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (December 17) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "What a spine chilling thrilling read this was, I was on the edge of my seat--just couldn't put it down."

Carver's international bestselling debut thriller featuring a very different kind of serial killer

A shocking double-murder scene greets Detective Inspector Philip Brennan when he is called to a flat in Colchester. Two women are viciously cut open and laying spread-eagled, one tied to the bed, one on the floor. The woman on the bed has had her stomach cut into and her unborn child is missing. But this is the third time Phil and his team have seen such an atrocity. Two other pregnant women have been killed in this way and their babies taken from them. No one can imagine what sort of person would want to commit such horrible crimes.

When psychologist Marina Esposito is brought in, Phil has to put aside his feelings about their shared past and get on with the job. But can they find the killer before another woman is targeted?

The Sheikh Who Desired Her (Mills & Boon e-Book Collections) by Abby Green, Jennifer Lewis and Tessa Radley from Mills & Boon (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Romance Daily Deal (December 17) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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A collection of three enticing romance novels, including Secrets of the Oasis by Abby Green, The Desert Prince by Jennifer Lewis and Saved by the Sheikh by Tessa Radley.

The Particle at the End of the Universe (How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World) by Sean Carroll from Oneworld Publications (£1.09) is the Amazon UK Kindle Nonfiction Daily Deal (December 17) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "A riveting read, fast-moving, well-written, funny in places, never ostentatious or presumptious."

Winner of the prestigious 2013 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books

The Higgs boson is one of our era’s most fascinating scientific frontiers and the key to understanding why mass exists. The most recent book on the subject, The God Particle, was a bestseller. Now, Caltech physicist Sean Carroll documents the doorway that is opening—after billions of dollars and the efforts of thousands of researchers at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland—into the mind-boggling world of dark matter. The Particle at the End of the Universe has it all: money and politics, jealousy and self-sacrifice, history and cutting-edge physics—all grippingly told by a rising star of science writing.

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Adé: A Love Story by Rebecca Walker from Little A ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (December 17) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "A beautiful and bittersweet novella about eternal love."

In this stunning debut novella, Rebecca Walker turns her attention to the power of love and the limitations of the human heart. When Farida, a sophisticated college student, falls in love with Adé, a young Swahili man living on an idyllic island off the coast of Kenya, the two plan to marry and envision a simple life together—free of worldly possessions and concerns. But when Farida contracts malaria and finds herself caught in the middle of a civil war, reality crashes in around them. The lovers’ solitude is interrupted by a world in the throes of massive upheaval that threatens to tear them apart, along with all they cherish.

Haunting, exquisite, and certain to become a classic, Adé will stay with you long after you put it down. This is a timeless love story set perfectly, heartbreakingly, in our time.

The Magic Knot by Helen Scott Taylor from Montlake Romance ($0.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (December 17) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "This was an excellent story balanced with just the right amount of romance!"

Winner of American Title IV! & Booklist Top Ten Romance 2009

HE'S A BIKER WITH AN ATTITUDE
What woman wouldn't be attracted to Niall O'Connor's soft Irish brogue and dark good looks? But Rosenwyn Tremain must find her father, and she isn't going to let a sexy, stubborn Irishman and his motorcycle distract her. Rose's intuition tells her he's hiding something, a secret even the cards cannot divine. Her tarot deck always reads true, but how can one man represent both Justice and Betrayal?

SHE'S A WOMAN ON A MISSION
Magic. Niall's body tingles with it when he finds the woman snooping in his room. Rosenwyn might believe she's a no-nonsense accountant, but her essence whispers to him of ancient fairy magic that enslaves even as it seduces. Her heritage could endanger those he'd die to protect, but her powers and her passion, if properly awakened, might be the only thing that can save both their families, vanquish a fairy queen bent on revenge, and fulfill a prophecy that will bind their hearts together with... THE MAGIC KNOT

Nine World of Warcraft books (Gallery Books/Simon and Schuster) are $1.99 each as the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (December 17) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Today only, nine World of Warcraft books are $1.99 each.

Henry and June by Anaïs Nin from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ($2.99) is the Kindle Biography & Memoir Deal of the Day (December 17) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "A truly liberating book about the emotions and desires all women have."

This bestseller covers a single momentous year during Nin’s life in Paris, when she met Henry Miller and his wife, June. “Closer to what many sexually adventuresome women experience than almost anything I’ve ever read....I found it a very erotic book and profoundly liberating” (Alice Walker). The source of a major motion picture from Universal. Preface by Rupert Pole; Index.

Snow Dog, Go Dog by Deborah Heiligman, illustrated by Tim Bowers, from Two Lions ($1.99) is the Kindle Kids Deal of the Day (December 17) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "A very sweet story."

This book features Kindle Text Pop-Up for reading text over vivid, full-color images when using Kindle Fire or select Kindle Reading Apps.

Age Level: 3 - 6 | Grade Level: Pre-K and up

Snow doesn't stop the Golden Retriever, Tinka. She runs and plays and sleds with her boy. But when her friend Millie the beagle shows up, off races Tinka. And she gets lost—till her boy finally rescues her. A companion to Fun Dog, Sun Dog and Cool Dog, School Dog,.

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The Runaway Princess by Hester Browne from Pocket Books ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (December 17)

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Girl falls in love with boy, they start dating. Girl thinks she's met her Prince Charming and finds out boy is actually a prince (and one of the most eligible royal bachelors in the world). Life becomes a bit more complicated for London working girl Amy as their relationship develops in this fun and amusing novel from bestselling author Hester Browne.

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The Runaway Princess by Hester Browne from Pocket Books is $2.99 (Amazon US)

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Audible Daily Deal - Persuader (Jack Reacher, Book 7) UNABRIDGED by Lee Child (Narrated by Dick Hill) for $4.95 (Regular Price:$27.27)

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Jack Reacher.
The ultimate loner.
An elite ex-military cop who left the service years ago, he's moved from place to place...without family...without possessions...without commitments.
And without fear. Which is good, because trouble - big, violent, complicated trouble - finds Reacher wherever he goes. And when trouble finds him, Reacher does not quit, not once...not ever.
But some unfinished business has now found Reacher. And Reacher is a man who hates unfinished business.
Ten years ago, a key investigation went sour and someone got away with murder. Now a chance encounter brings it all back. Now Reacher sees his one last shot. Some would call it vengeance. Some would call it redemption. Reacher would call it...justice.
Don't miss any of Jack Reacher's adventures.
©2004 Lee Child; (P)2004 Brilliance Audio

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Prayers for Rain (Kenzie and Gennaro) by Dennis Lehane from HarperCollins is $2.99

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When a former client jumps naked from a Boston landmark, Private Investigator Patrick Kenzie wants to know why. Once a perky young woman in love with life, her suicide is the final fall in a spiral of self-destruction.

What Kenzie discovers is a sadistic stalker who targeted the woman and methodically drove her to her death – a monster that the law can’t touch. But Kenzie can. He and his former partner, Angela Gennaro, will fight a mind-twisting battle against the psychopath, even as he turns tricks on them…

Prayers for Rain is another superior thriller from Dennis Lehane, the bestselling and acclaimed author of Mystic River, Shutter Island, and Gone, Baby, Gone.

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FYI, 18 Stephanie Plum novels by Janet Evanovich for $2.99 each