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The Shining by Stephen King (Anchor) is $1.99 (Amazon US, iTunes iBooks)

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Jack Torrance’s new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he’ll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. But as the harsh winter weather sets in, the idyllic location feels ever more remote…and more sinister. And the only one to notice the strange and terrible forces gathering around the Overlook is Danny Torrance, a uniquely gifted five-year-old.

With an excerpt from the sequel, Doctor Sleep.

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Long Division by Kiese Laymon from Agate Bolden ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (December 18) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "This book is funny and will make you cry, is specific and regional, but also makes a legitimate claim to be a Great American Novel."

Kiese Laymon’s debut novel is a Twain-esque exploration of celebrity, authorship, violence, religion, and coming of age in Post-Katrina Mississippi, written in a voice that’s alternately funny, lacerating, and wise. The book contains two interwoven stories. In the first, it’s 2013: after an on-stage meltdown during a nationally televised quiz contest, 14-year-old Citoyen “City” Coldson becomes an overnight YouTube celebrity. The next day, he’s sent to stay with his grandmother in the small coastal community of Melahatchie, where a young girl named Baize Shephard has recently disappeared.

Before leaving, City is given a strange book without an author called “Long Division.” He learns that one of the book’s main characters is also named City Coldson—but “Long Division” is set in 1985. This 1985 City, along with his friend and love-object, Shalaya Crump, discovers a way to travel into the future, and steals a laptop and cellphone from an orphaned teenage rapper called...Baize Shephard. They ultimately take these with them all the way back to 1964, to help another time-traveler they meet protect his family from the Klan.

City’s two stories ultimately converge in the mysterious work shed behind his grandmother’s, where he discovers the key to Baize’s disappearance.

The Devil's Heart: The Chattan Curse by Cathy Maxwell by Cathy Maxwell from Avon ($1.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (December 18) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "A must read for anyone who enjoys Scotland, historical romance, and a great read."

New York Times bestselling author Cathy Maxwell continues the her popular historical romance series, the Chattan Curse, with The Devil’s Heart.

Lady Margret Chattan, one of the most desirable women in all of England, has no interest whatsoever in marriage. When her brother’s lives are put in danger, she travels to the Scottish Highlands, intent on saving them. There she meets Heath Macnachtan, who is trying to find out who murdered his own brother. Together, they team up to investigate the powerful curse that is behind the deaths, but instead find themselves falling in love.

Exceptionally entertaining and charming, The Devil’s Heart mixes a well-crafted love story with complex characters and pulse-pounding adventure.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams from Pocket Books ($1.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (December 18) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "The plot is delightfully complex and fascinating with laugh-out-loud humor."

There is a long tradition of Great Detectives, and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time traveler, AND the devastating secret of humankind! Detective Gently's bill for saving the human race from extinction: NO CHARGE.

War Stories of the Battle of the Bulge by Michael Green, James D. Brown from Zenith Press ($2.99) is the Kindle History Deal of the Day (December 18) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "A wonderful book for those interested in studying World War II."

The powerful German counteroffensive operation codenamed "Wacht am Rhein" (Watch on the Rhine) launched against the American First Army in the early morning hours of December 16, 1944, would result in the greatest single extended land battle of World War II. To most Americans, the fierce series of battles fought in the Ardennes Forest of Belgium and Luxembourg that winter is better known as the Battle of the Bulge. Here are the first-person stories of the American soldiers who repelled the powerful German onslaught that had threatened to turn the tide of battle in Western Europe during World War II.

Through the Ever Night (Under the Never Sky) by Veronica Rossi from HarperCollins ($1.99) is the Kindle Teens Deal of the Day (December 18) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "This book is heartbreaking, beautiful, and completely amazing. Highly recommended."

A world-defying love is put to the ultimate test in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling sequel to Veronica Rossi's "masterpiece," Under the Never Sky (Examiner.com ). In this second book in her spellbinding Under the Never Sky trilogy, bestselling author Veronica Rossi combines fantasy and dystopian elements to create a love story as perilous as it is unforgettable.

It's been months since Aria last saw Perry. Months since Perry was named Blood Lord of the Tides, and Aria was charged with an impossible mission. Now, finally, they are about to be reunited. But their reunion is far from perfect. The Tides don't take kindly to Aria, a former Dweller. And with the worsening Aether storms threatening the tribe's precarious existence, Aria begins to fear that leaving Perry behind might be the only way to save them both.

Threatened by false friends and powerful temptations, Aria and Perry wonder, Can their love survive through the ever night?

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What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman from HarperCollins ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (December 18)

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When a woman involved in a hit and run claims she's one of two sisters that vanished from a shopping mall thirty years ago a Baltimore cop grows suspicious and seeks to uncover the truth. It's a carefully crafted page-turner from award winning author Laura Lippman -- which shares some similarities to an actual cold case from 1975 in Baltimore.

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What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman from HarperCollins is $1.99 (Amazon US)

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The Diviners by Libba Bray from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers ($3.99) is the KOBO Daily Deal (December 18)

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Do you believe there are ghosts and demons and Diviners among us?

Evie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City--and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic. It's 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession with the occult.

Evie worries he'll discover her darkest secret: a supernatural power that has only brought her trouble so far. But when the police find a murdered girl branded with a cryptic symbol and Will is called to the scene, Evie realizes her gift could help catch a serial killer.

As Evie jumps headlong into a dance with a murderer, other stories unfurled in the city that never sleeps. A young man named Memphis is caught between two worlds. A chorus girl named Theta is running from her past. A student named Jericho hides a shocking secret. And unknown to all, something dark and evil has awakened....

Printz Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Libba Bray opens a brand-new historical series with The Diviners, where the glittering surface of the Roaring Twenties hides a mystical horror creeping across the country.

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Author Special - Five 'Emperor' series of books by Conn Iggulden from Harper (£0.99 each) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (December 19) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Author Special - Five 'Emperor' series of books from Conn Iggulden are £0.99 each.

Minding Frankie by Maeve Binchy from Orion (£1.49) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (December 19) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "If you want to suspend reality, get completely absorbed and feel cheered and uplifted, this book should work for you."

Maeve Binchy is back with a tale of joy, heartbreak and hope, about a motherless girl collectively raised by a close-knit Dublin community.

When Noel learns that his terminally ill former flame is pregnant with his child, he agrees to take guardianship of the baby girl once she’s born. But as a single father battling demons of his own, Noel can’t do it alone.

Fortunately, he has a competent, caring network of friends, family and neighbors: Lisa, his unlucky-in-love classmate, who moves in with him to help him care for little Frankie around the clock; his American cousin, Emily, always there with a pep talk; the newly retired Dr. Hat, with more time on his hands than he knows what to do with; Dr. Declan and Fiona and their baby son, Frankie’s first friend; and many eager babysitters, including old friends Signora and Aidan and Frankie’s doting grandparents, Josie and Charles.

But not everyone is pleased with the unconventional arrangement, especially a nosy social worker, Moira, who is convinced that Frankie would be better off in a foster home. Now it’s up to Noel to persuade her that everyone in town has something special to offer when it comes to minding Frankie.

Last April Fair (Betty Neels Collection - Book 47) by Betty Neels from Mills & Boon M&B (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Romance Daily Deal (December 19) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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When Phylllida Cresswell discovers a man she could love, in fact even marry...all he has to do is ask?

Making Habits, Breaking Habits: How to Make Changes that Stick by Jeremy Dean from Oneworld Publications (£1.19) is the Amazon UK Kindle Nonfiction Daily Deal (December 19) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "Straight forward, easy to understand, description of why we do what we do day after day without thinking. A scientific book without the jargon"

Say you want to start going to the gym or practicing a musical instrument. How long should it take before you stop having to force it and start doing it automatically?

The surprising answers are found in Making Habits, Breaking Habits, a psychologist’s popular examination of one of the most powerful and under-appreciated processes in the mind. Although people like to think that they are in control, much of human behavior occurs without any decision-making or conscious thought.

Drawing on hundreds of fascinating studies, psychologist Jeremy Dean busts the myths to finally explain why seemingly easy habits, like eating an apple a day, can be surprisingly difficult to form, and how to take charge of your brain’s natural “autopilot” to make any change stick.

Witty and intriguing, Making Habits, Breaking Habits shows how behavior is more than just a product of what you think. It is possible to bend your habits to your will—and be happier, more creative, and more productive

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The Disenchanted Widow by Christina McKenna from Amazon ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (December 19) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "The author has managed to weave the various plot lines into an enchanting tale that leaves this reader hoping for more adventures from these characters."

It’s 1981 and Belfast is burning. So, too, is freshly widowed Bessie Halstone: she burns with a desire to break with her troubled past. With her feckless husband gone, she leaves home hurriedly with her naughty nine-year-old son, Herkie, and not much else. The Dentist, an IRA enforcer, is on her tail. He’s convinced that Bessie, with her “yella hair all puffed up like Merlin Monroe’s,” has absconded with the takings from a bank heist.

But car trouble strands mother and son in Tailorstown, a sleepy Ulster village. Bessie finds temporary work as housekeeper for the handsome and mysterious parish priest.

In the meantime, Lorcan Strong, an artist and a native of the village, is summoned home. He’s been shanghaied into forging paintings for the IRA. It’s work he cannot refuse; his mother and their business are under threat.

Yet things are not what they seem in quirky Tailorstown. There is a “sleeper” in the village. But who? Bizarrely, it is young Herkie, due to his childish curiosity, who unravels the mystery and saves the day.

Someone To Love by Addison Moore from Skyscape ($1.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (December 19) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "Absolutely addictive and fun. A romantic must-read!"

A New York Times and USA Today Bestseller

“If you don’t give your heart away, you can’t get it broken.” When twenty-year-old Kendall Jordan transfers across the country to Garrison University, the last thing she’s looking for is a one-night stand. Unfortunately that’s exactly what gorgeous Cruise Elton offers. Kendall has long since come to realize that love is an illusion, and Cruise couldn’t agree more—but something deep inside her wants him all for herself. So Kendall devises a plan to “play the player” and proposes that Cruise tutor her in becoming a female version of himself—Garrison University’s own playboy. But as real feelings emerge, the game gets complicated, and Kendall and Cruise will find themselves questioning everything they thought they knew about love.

This book is intended for mature audiences due to strong language and sexual content.

Shaman by Kim Stanley Robinson from Orbit ($2.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (December 19) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "The author balances great ideas with a credible plot and strong characters."

Kim Stanley Robinson, the New York Times bestselling author of science fiction masterworks such as the Mars trilogy and 2312, has, on many occasions, imagined our future. Now, in SHAMAN, he brings our past to life as never before.

There is Thorn, a shaman himself. He lives to pass down his wisdom and his stories -- to teach those who would follow in his footsteps.

There is Heather, the healer who, in many ways, holds the clan together.

There is Elga, an outsider and the bringer of change.

And then there is Loon, the next shaman, who is determined to find his own path. But in a world so treacherous, that journey is never simple -- and where it may lead is never certain.

SHAMAN is a powerful, thrilling and heartbreaking story of one young man's journey into adulthood -- and an awe-inspiring vision of how we lived thirty thousand years ago.

Imperfect Harmony: Finding Happiness Singing with Others by Stacy Horn from Algonquin Books ($1.99) is the Kindle Art Deal of the Day (December 19) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "A wonderful book about the history of vocal music."

For Stacy Horn, regardless of what is going on in the world or her life, singing in an amateur choir—the Choral Society of Grace Church in New York—never fails to take her to a place where hope reigns and everything good is possible. She’s not particularly religious, and her voice is not exceptional (so she says), but like the 32.5 million other chorus members throughout this country, singing makes her happy. Horn brings us along as she sings some of the greatest music humanity has ever produced, delves into the dramatic stories of conductors and composers, unearths the fascinating history of group singing, and explores remarkable discoveries from the new science of singing, including all the unexpected health benefits. Imperfect Harmony is the story of one woman who has found joy and strength in the weekly ritual of singing and in the irresistible power of song.

Baby Wants Mama by Nancy Loewen from Two Lions ($1.99) is the Kindle Kids Deal of the Day (December 19) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "A very sweet and charming story."

Age Level: 1 - 5 | Grade Level: Pre-K and up
In this fun, family-themed picture book, another busy day has come to an end. Everyone in the family wants something--Baby wants Mama. Cat wants fish. Daddy wants supper. Pup wants dish. But what do they ALL want? Dinner! This bright, simple rhyming text, great for reading aloud, is paired with adorable watercolor, colored pencil, and digital artwork.

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City of Dark Magic: A Novel by Magnus Flyte from Penguin Books ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (December 19)

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When a music student arrives at Prague Castle for a summer job, she's unaware of the danger that awaits her in the city amidst Beethoven's old manuscripts and a cast of characters. Authors Meg Howrey & Christina Lynch team up under the pseudonym Magnus Flyte for a genre-bending adventure filled with music, murder, magic and time travel.

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City of Dark Magic: A Novel by Magnus Flyte from Pocket Books is $1.99 (Amazon US)

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Audible Daily Deal - Olive Kitteridge UNABRIDGED by Elizabeth Strout (Narrated by Sandra Burr) for $3.95 (Regular Price:$25.87)

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At the edge of the continent, Crosby, Maine, may seem like nowhere, but seen through this brilliant writer's eyes, it's in essence the whole world. The lives that are lived there are filled with all of the grand human dramas: desire, despair, jealousy, hope, and love.
At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town and in the world at large, but she doesn't always recognize the changes in those around her: a lounge musician haunted by a past romance; a former student who has lost the will to live; Olive's own adult child, who feels tyrannized by her irrational sensitivities; and her husband, Henry, who finds his loyalty to his marriage both a blessing and a curse.
As the townspeople grapple with their problems, mild and dire, Olive is brought to a deeper understanding of herself and her life - sometimes painfully, but always with ruthless honesty. Olive Kitteridge offers profound insights into the human condition - its conflicts, its tragedies and joys, and the endurance it requires.
©2008 Elizabeth Strout; (P)2008 Brilliance Audio

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Second Chances by Charity Norman from Allen & Unwin ($1.19) is the Amazon AU Kindle Daily Deal (December 20) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "A compelling story, Second Chances is an emotional and thought provoking read."

In the quiet of a winter's night, the rescue helicopter is sent to airlift a five-year-old boy with severe internal injuries. He's fallen from the upstairs verandah of an isolated farmhouse, and may not last the next few hours.

At first, Finn's fall looks like a horrible accident; after all, he's prone to sleepwalking. Only his frantic mother, Martha McNamara, knows how it really happened. And she isn't telling. Not yet. Maybe not ever.

Martha only wants the best for her family. That's why she moved heaven and earth to take them to the other side of the world, to start their lives afresh. And now she's faced with decisions she never dreamed she'd have to make, decisions with potentially devastating consequences. She's torn between her loyalty to her family and her need to protect them.

What do you do when your dream escape turns into a nightmare - and is there ever a way back?

Gripping, emotional and intelligent, this is a book you won't be able to put down.

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The Cooked Seed by Anchee Min is $2.99 from Bloomsbury USA (Amazon US, Amazon CA)


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In 1994, Anchee Min made her literary debut with a memoir of growing up in China during the violent trauma of the Cultural Revolution. Red Azalea became an international bestseller and propelled her career as a successful, critically acclaimed author. Twenty years later, Min returns to the story of her own life to give us the next chapter, an immigrant story that takes her from the shocking deprivations of her homeland to the sudden bounty of the promised land of America, without language, money, or a clear path. It is a hard and lonely road. She teaches herself English by watching Sesame Street, keeps herself afloat working five jobs at once, lives in unheated rooms, suffers rape, collapses from exhaustion, marries poorly and divorces.But she also gives birth to her daughter, Lauryann, who will inspire her and finally root her in her new country. Min's eventual successes-her writing career, a daughter at Stanford, a second husband she loves-are remarkable, but it is her struggle throughout toward genuine selfhood that elevates this dramatic, classic immigrant story to something powerfully universal.

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The Savior Generals: How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost-From Ancient Greece to Iraq by Victor Davis Hanson is $2.99 from Bloomsbury Press (Amazon US, Amazon CA)

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Leading military historian Victor Davis Hanson returns to non-fiction in The Savior Generals, a set of brilliantly executed pocket biographies of five generals who single-handedly saved their nations from defeat in war. War is rarely a predictable enterprise--it is a mess of luck, chance, and incalculable variables. Today's sure winner can easily become tomorrow's doomed loser. Sudden, sharp changes in fortune can reverse the course of war. These intractable circumstances are sometimes mastered by leaders of genius--asked at the eleventh hour to save a hopeless conflict, created by others, often unpopular with politics and the public. These savior generals often come from outside the established power structure, employ radical strategies, and flame out quickly. Their careers often end in controversy. But their dramatic feats of leadership are vital slices of history--not merely as stirring military narrative, but as lessons on the dynamic nature of consensus, leadership, and destiny.

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What the Dog Did: Tales from a Formerly Reluctant Dog Owner by Emily Yoffe is $2.99 from Bloomsbury USA (Amazon US, Amazon CA)

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Dave Barry meets The Secret Lives of Dogs in Emily Yoffe's funny and insightful look at all things canine. Filled with adventures of heroic dogs, lovable and lazy dogs, malodorous dogs, phlegmatic and incontinent dogs, What the Dog Did delivers some of the most outlandish and certainly the funniest dog stories on record.

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The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend by Glenn Frankel is $2.99 from Bloomsbury USA (Amazon US, Amazon CA)

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In 1836 in East Texas, nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanches. She was raised by the tribe and eventually became the wife of a warrior. Twenty-four years after her capture, she was reclaimed by the U.S. cavalry and Texas Rangers and restored to her white family, to die in misery and obscurity. Cynthia Ann's story has been told and re-told over generations to become a foundational American tale. The myth gave rise to operas and one-act plays, and in the 1950s to a novel by Alan LeMay, which would be adapted into one of Hollywood's most legendary films, The Searchers, "The Biggest, Roughest, Toughest... and Most Beautiful Picture Ever Made!" directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne.

Glenn Frankel, beginning in Hollywood and then returning to the origins of the story, creates a rich and nuanced anatomy of a timeless film and a quintessentially American myth. The dominant story that has emerged departs dramatically from documented history: it is of the inevitable triumph of white civilization, underpinned by anxiety about the sullying of white women by "savages." What makes John Ford's film so powerful, and so important, Frankel argues, is that it both upholds that myth and undermines it, baring the ambiguities surrounding race, sexuality, and violence in the settling of the West and the making of America.

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The Teleportation Accident: A Novel by Ned Beauman from Bloomsbury USA (Amazon US)

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“A glorious, over-the-top production, crackling with inventive wit and seething with pitchy humour . . . It’s as if the English tradition of humorous novels (PG Wodehouse, Kingsley Amis, Evelyn Waugh) and American comic fiction (Thomas Pynchon, Kurt Vonnegut, John Barth) have had their molecules recombined . . . A beguiling success.” —The Scotsman

When you haven’t had sex in a long time, it feels like the worst thing that could ever happen.

If you’re living in Germany in the 1930s, it probably isn’t.

But that’s no consolation to Egon Loeser, whose carnal misfortunes will push him from the experimental theaters of Berlin to the absinthe bars of Paris to the physics laboratories of Los Angeles, trying all the while to solve two mysteries: Was it really a deal with Satan that claimed the life of his hero, Renaissance set designer Adriano Lavicini, creator of the so-called Teleportation Device? And why is it that a handsome, clever, modest guy like him can’t—just once in a while—get himself laid?

From Ned Beauman, the author of the acclaimed Boxer, Beetle, comes a historical novel that doesn’t know what year it is; a noir novel that turns all the lights on; a romance novel that arrives drunk to dinner; a science fiction novel that can’t remember what isotope means; a stunningly inventive, exceptionally funny, dangerously unsteady and (largely) coherent novel about sex, violence, space, time, and how the best way to deal with history is to ignore it.