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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.) by Betty Smith from HarperCollins is $2.99 (US Kindle)

Book Description

The American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century.

Francie Nolan lives with her family in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn from 1902 until 1919, where, as an imaginative, alert, and resourceful child, she grows up under the burden of suffering that is the lot of a great city's poor.

This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

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An Atlas of Impossible Longing by Anuradha Roy from MacLehose Press (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (June 19) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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This tale of three generations of an Indian family, set over the span of the 20th century, is a story to lose yourself in. Laced with scents of jasmine and written in impeccable prose, An Atlas of Impossible Longing is a love letter to India's past.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.) by Betty Smith from HarperCollins Publishers ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (June 19)

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This story of Francie Nolan and her family in the Williamsburg of the early 20th century is one of the all-time great American novels. Treat yourself to this brilliant, evocative tale today and cherish it forever.

* Amazon has matched the Nook Deal - as posted earlier, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn also $2.99 for US Kindle

Jamberry by Bruce Degen from HarperCollins ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (June 19)

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In celebration of Jamberry's 25th anniversary we've included it in the NOOK Daily Find: Families. This is an endearing tale of a boy who meets a loveable bear with whom he goes on a berry feast adventure with.

Pocket-47 (A Nicholas Colt Thriller) by Jude Hardin from Oceanview Publishing ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (June 19) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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In Jude Hardin's critically-acclaimed thriller, former rock star turned private investigator Nicholas Colt takes on the seemingly simple case of missing teenager Brittney Ryan. Soon, Colt finds himself in a web of betrayal and murder that resurrects his tortured past and the plane crash that killed his family and band.

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Red Flags by Juris Jurjevics from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is $1.48 (US Kindle)

Book Description

Army cop Erik Rider prefers to fight his war in the saloons and streets of Saigon, so he is less than thrilled at being sent to a tiny American outpost in the remote wilderness of the Central Highlands to take down a Viet Cong opium operation hidden in the jungle. When Rider lands in Cheo Reo, things get complicated. Viet Cong battalions are gathering in the surrounding hills like storm clouds, while the corrupt South Vietnamese commander and his troops sit idle. And sixty thousand Montagnard tribespeople want their mountain homeland back.

Soon Rider is entangled with the local CIA man and an alluring doctor serving the indigenous tribes. As he closes in on the opium fields, he learns the hard way that that not all enemies are beyond the perimeter; someone in Cheo Reo wants him dead. Easy enough in a combat zone where killing is common and loyalties are for sale.

Red Flags is a masterly novel of soldiers and spies grappling with forces beyond their control and striving for the most basic goal in war—survival.

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I Heart New York with Bonus Excerpt by Lindsey Kelk from Harper Perennial is $1.99 (US Kindle)

Book Description

For a limited time and at a special price, starting at the beginning with Lindsey Kelk's I Heart New York and get a free excerpt from the sequel, I Heart Paris, available wherever books are sold 8/7.

In I Heart New York, Angela Clark flees London and her cheating boyfriend, by hopping on a plane to New York City where she rediscovers her sexy, stylish, confident self while building a new life in the greatest city in the world

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FYI, for UK Kindlers:

Summer of Britain: Celebrating All Things British SALE

With the many festivities and celebrations taking place this year, people from near and far will flock to our capital and surrounding cities to witness once-in-a-lifetime events. As the excitement reaches a crescendo this summer, there really is no better time to celebrate being British. Here we honour the best of Britain, from athletes, authors and pop culture icons to food, travel and history.

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Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill from Granta Books (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (June 20) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Diana Athill made her reputation as a writer with the candour of her memoirs; now aged ninety, and freed from any inhibitions that even she may once have had, she reflects frankly on the losses and occasionally the gains that old age brings, and on the wisdom and fortitude required to face death.

Beer Is Proof God Loves Us: Reaching for the Soul of Beer and Brewing (FT Press Science) by Charles W. Bamforth ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (June 20)

Product Description

There's more to know about the world of beer and brewing that you ever realized. Kick back and enjoy this funny, thoughtful, and joyous examination of your favorite beverage.

A Day at the Beach (Dora the Explorer) by Lauryn Silverhardt from Nickelodeon ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (June 20)

* Amazon has matched this Nook deal: A Day at the Beach (Dora the Explorer) by Lauryn Silverhardt also $1.99

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That famous bilingual explorer and her pal, Boots, are hitting the sand! Dora is spending time on the beach, making sand castles and playing in the water. With plenty of great beach words to learn in Spanish and lots to look at, readers will be feeling like they're on a south-of-the-border vacation!

The Eagle Has Landed by Jack Higgins from Open Road ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (June 20) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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In November 1943, an elite team of Nazi paratroopers descends on British soil with a diabolical goal: abduct Winston Churchill. Hitler's plan has only one roadblock, the quiet town of Studley Constable. When its residents uncover Hitler's plot, they realize that the fate of the war rests solely in their hands.

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FYI, Amazon matched the other Nook deal:

Beer Is Proof God Loves Us: Reaching for the Soul of Beer and Brewing also $1.99 (but you probably already have it since it's been free before)

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Beach Season by Lisa Jackson, Cathy Lamb, Holly Chamberlin and Rosalind Noonan from Kensington Booksis $1.99 (US Kindle)

Book Description

Golden sand, pounding surf, a sense of endless possibility--and four unforgettable stories of love, friendship, and second chances…

The Brass Ring by Lisa Jackson

It's a beautiful June day, perfect for a wedding--until Shawna learns that her fiancé, Parker, has been involved in a car crash. Though his injuries heal, his memories of her are gone. Yet Shawna won't stop reaching to reclaim the love they once shared…

June's Lace by Cathy Lamb

June MacKenna is done--with her high-pressure legal career, her cheating soon-to-be-ex, and the stress of city living. In her studio on the Oregon coast, she creates beautiful lace wedding dresses, with no intention of ever wearing one again herself. Then songwriter Reece rents the house next door, and sets out to change her mind…

Second Chance Sweethearts by Holly Chamberlin

Thea Foss is putting a bad marriage behind her in the pretty vacation town of Ogunquit, Maine. What's past is past….Until her first love wanders into the local diner, reminding Thea of the person she once was, and the life it's not too late to claim…

Carolina Summer by Rosalind Noonan

Jane Doyle needs to get out of New York--the farther the better. She's headed toward Florida, but thanks to a storm along North Carolina's Outer Banks, she finds herself stranded in a beautiful, remote town that soon feels a lot like home. And thanks to the local sheriff, she finds herself staying longer than she planned--and feeling less lost at sea than ever…

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The Stonecutter: A Novel (Pegasus Crime) by Camilla Läckberg from Pegasus Books is $1.99 (US Kindle)

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In the third novel from the bestselling female writer in Sweden—and for the first time in English—the mysterious drowning of a little girl threatens to tear apart the town of Fjällbacka

The remote resort town of Fjällbacka has seen its share of tragedy, though perhaps none worse than that of the young girl found in a fisherman’s net. But this was no accidental drowning . . .

Local detective Patrik Hedstrom has just become a father. It’s his grim task to discover who could be behind the murder of a child both he and his partner Erica knew well. What he does not know is how this case will reach into the dark heart of Fjällbacka, spanning generations, ripping aside its idyllic façade, perhaps forever.

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Master and Commander (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) by Patrick O'Brian from W. W. Norton & Company is $1.99 (US Kindle)

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The beginning to the sweeping Aubrey/Maturin series. "The best sea story I have ever read."—Sir Francis Chichester

This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against a thrilling backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Details of a life aboard a man-of-war are faultlessly rendered: the conversational idiom of the officers in the ward room and the men on the lower deck, the food, the floggings, the mysteries of the wind and the rigging, and the roar of broadsides as the great ships close in battle.

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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is $1.99 (Us Kindle)

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In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan’s National Book Award–winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows.

The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Timothy Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones. Brilliantly capturing the terrifying drama of catastrophe, he does equal justice to the human characters who become his heroes, “the stoic, long-suffering men and women whose lives he opens up with urgency and respect” (New York Times). In an era that promises ever-greater natural disasters, The Worst Hard Time is “arguably the best nonfiction book yet” (Austin Statesman Journal) on the greatest environmental disaster ever to be visited upon our land and a powerful reminder about the dangers of trifling with nature.

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Heat Rises (Nikki Heat) by Richard Castle from Disney is $1.99 (US Kindle)

Book Description

“Richard Castle proves as adept at writing thrillers as he is at solving crimes. HEAT rises to the occasion.” –Dennis Lehane, bestselling author

Fast-paced and full of intrigue, Heat Rises pairs the tough and sexy NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat with hotshot reporter Jameson Rook in New York Times bestselling author Richard Castle's most thrilling mystery yet.

The bizarre murder of a parish priest at a New York bondage club opens Nikki Heat’s most thrilling and dangerous case so far, pitting her against New York’s most vicious drug lord, an arrogant CIA contractor, and a shadowy death squad out to gun her down. And that is just the tip of an iceberg that leads to a dark conspiracy reaching all the way to the highest level of the NYPD.

But when she gets too close to the truth, Nikki finds herself disgraced, stripped of her badge, and out on her own as a target for killers, with nobody she can trust. Except maybe the one man in her life who’s not a cop: reporter Jameson Rook.

In the midst of New York’s coldest winter in a hundred years, there’s one thing Nikki is determined to prove: Heat Rises. This ebook includes an alternate cover created by one of Richard Castle's biggest fans!

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Beastly Things: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery (Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries) by Donna Leon from Atlantic Monthly Press is $1.99 (US Kindle)

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When the body of man is found in a canal, damaged by the tides, carrying no wallet, and wearing only one shoe, Brunetti has little to work with. No local has filed a missing-person report, and no hotel guests have disappeared. Where was the crime scene? And how can Brunetti identify the man when he can’t show pictures of his face? The autopsy shows a way forward: it turns out the man was suffering from a rare, disfiguring disease. With Inspector Vianello, Brunetti canvasses shoe stores, and winds up on the mainland in Mestre, outside of his usual sphere. From a shopkeeper, they learn that the man had a kindly way with animals.

At the same time, animal rights and meat consumption are quickly becoming preoccupying issues at the Venice Questura, and in Brunetti’s home, where conversation at family meals offer a window into the joys and conflicts of Italian life. Perhaps with the help of Signorina Elettra, Brunetti and Vianello can identify the man and understand why someone wanted him dead. As subtle and engrossing as ever, Leon’s Beastly Things is immensely enjoyable, intriguing, and ultimately moving.

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Witches of East End (The Beauchamp Family) by Melissa de la Cruz from Hyperion is $1.99 (US Kindle)

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From the author of the highly addictive and bestselling Blue Bloods series, with almost 3 million copies sold, comes a new novel, Melissa de la Cruz's first for adults, featuring a family of formidable and beguiling witches.

The three Beauchamp women--Joanna and her daughters Freya and Ingrid--live in North Hampton, out on the tip of Long Island. Their beautiful, mist-shrouded town seems almost stuck in time, and all three women lead seemingly quiet, uneventful existences. But they are harboring a mighty secret--they are powerful witches banned from using their magic. Joanna can resurrect people from the dead and heal the most serious of injuries. Ingrid, her bookish daughter, has the ability to predict the future and weave knots that can solve anything from infertility to infidelity. And finally, there's Freya, the wild child, who has a charm or a potion that can cure most any heartache.

For centuries, all three women have been forced to suppress their abilities. But then Freya, who is about to get married to the wealthy and mysterious Bran Gardiner, finds that her increasingly complicated romantic life makes it more difficult than ever to hide her secret. Soon Ingrid and Joanna confront similar dilemmas, and the Beauchamp women realize they can no longer conceal their true selves. They unearth their wands from the attic, dust off their broomsticks, and begin casting spells on the townspeople. It all seems like a bit of good-natured, innocent magic, but then mysterious, violent attacks begin to plague the town. When a young girl disappears over the Fourth of July weekend, they realize it's time to uncover who and what dark forces are working against them.

With a brand-new cast of characters, a fascinating and fresh world to discover, and a few surprise appearances from some of the Blue Blood fan favorites, this is a page-turning, deliciously fun, magical summer read fraught with love affairs, witchcraft, and an unforgettable battle between good and evil.

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Don't Look Back (Inspector Sejer) by Karin Fossum from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is $1.99 (US Kindle)

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Don't Look Back heralds the arrival of an exotic new crime series featuring Inspector Sejer, a smart and enigmatic hero, tough but fair. The setting is a small, idyllic village at the foot of Norway's Kollen Mountain, where neighbors know neighbors and children play happily in the streets. But when the body of a teenage girl is found by the lake at the mountaintop, the town's tranquillity is shattered forever. Annie was strong, intelligent, and loved by everyone. What went so terribly wrong? Doggedly, yet subtly, Inspector Sejer uncovers layer upon layer of distrust and lies beneath the town's seemingly perfect facade.

Critically acclaimed across Europe, Karin Fossum's Inspector Sejer novels are masterfully constructed, psychologically convincing, and compulsively readable, and are now available in the United States for the first time.

Endure (Need) by Carrie Jones from Bloomsbury USA Childrens is $1.99 (US Kindle)

Book Description

Rescuing Nick should have made all of Zara’s problems disappear. Bedford’s greatest warrior is back, not to mention Zara’s true soul mate. But it seems it isn’t enough. Nick isn’t enough. Bedford is being ravaged by evil pixies and they need much more than one great warrior; they need an army to stop the impended apocalypse. Zara isn’t sure what her role is anymore. She’s not just fighting for her friends, she’s also a pixie queen. And to align her team of pixies with the humans she loves will be one of her greatest battles yet. Especially since she can’t even reconcile her growing, heart-pounding feelings for her pixie king. . . . Unexpected turns, surprising revelations, and one utterly satisfying romantic finale make Endure a thrilling end to this acclaimed series.

One Shot at Forever: A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season by Chris Ballard from ABC News is $1.99 (US Kindle)

Book Description

The Inspirational Story of a Coach, a Baseball Team, and the Season They'll Never Forget
In 1971, a small-town high school baseball team from rural Illinois playing with hand-me-down uniforms and peace signs on their hats defied convention and the odds. Led by an English teacher with no coaching experience, the Macon Ironmen emerged from a field of 370 teams to represent the smallest school in Illinois history to make the state final, a distinction that still stands. There, sporting long hair and warming up to Jesus Christ Superstar, the Ironmen would play a dramatic game against a Chicago powerhouse that would change their lives forever.

In this gripping, cinematic narrative, Sports Illustrated writer Chris Ballard tells the story of the team and its coach, Lynn Sweet, a hippie, dreamer, and intellectual who arrived in Macon in 1966, bringing progressive ideas to a town stuck in the Eisenhower era. Beloved by students but not administration, Sweet reluctantly took over the ragtag team, intent on teaching the boys as much about life as baseball. Inspired by Sweet's unconventional methods, the undersized, undermanned Macon Ironmen embarked on an improbable postseason run that infuriated rival coaches and buoyed a town suffering from a damaging drought and the shadow of the Vietnam War--one in desperate need of something to celebrate.

In a final grace note, Ballard returns to the present day, revisiting the 1971 Ironmen to explore the effect the game had on their lives' trajectories--and the men they've become because of it. Engaging and poignant, One Shot at Forever is a testament to the power of high school sports to shape the lives of those who play them, and it reminds us that there are few bonds more sacred than that among a coach, a team, and a town.

How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is $1.99 (US Kindle)

Book Description

The first book to use the unexpected discoveries of neuroscience to help us make the best decisions

Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision-making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate, or we “blink” and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind’s black box with the latest tools of neuroscience, they’re discovering that this is not how the mind works. Our best decisions are a finely tuned blend of both feeling and reason—and the precise mix depends on the situation. When buying a house, for example, it’s best to let our unconscious mull over the many variables. But when we’re picking a stock, intuition often leads us astray. The trick is to determine when to use the different parts of the brain, and to do this, we need to think harder (and smarter) about how we think.

Jonah Lehrer arms us with the tools we need, drawing on cutting-edge research as well as the real-world experiences of a wide range of “deciders”—from airplane pilots and hedge fund investors to serial killers and poker players.

Lehrer shows how people are taking advantage of the new science to make better television shows, win more football games, and improve military intelligence. His goal is to answer two questions that are of interest to just about anyone, from CEOs to firefighters: How does the human mind make decisions? And how can we make those decisions better?

This book features a teaser chapter from Lehrer’s blockbuster book on creativity, Imagine.