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The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafon from HarperCollins ($1.99) is the KOBO Daily Deal (February 18)

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Once again, internationally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author Carlos Ruiz Zafón creates a rich, labyrinthine tale of love, literature, passion, and revenge, set in a dark, gothic Barcelona, in which the heroes of The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel's Game must contend with a nemesis that threatens to destroy them.

“Gabriel García Márquez meets Umberto Eco meets Jorge Luis Borges for a sprawling magic show." —New York Times Book Review on Shadow of the Wind

Internationally acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Carlos Ruiz Zafon takes us into a dark, gothic Barcelona and creates a rich, labyrinthine tale of love, literature, passion, and revenge in which the heroes of The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel's Game must contend with a nemesis that threatens to destroy them.

Barcelona, 1957. It is Christmas, and Daniel Sempere and his wife, Bea, have much to celebrate. They have a beautiful new baby son named Julian, and their close friend Fermin Romero de Torres is about to be wed. But their joy is eclipsed when a mysterious stranger visits the Sempere bookshop and threatens to divulge a terrible secret that has been buried for two decades in the city's dark past. His appearance plunges Fermin and Daniel into a dangerous adventure that will take them back to the 1940's and the early days of Franco's dictatorship. The terrifying events of that time launch them on a search for the truth that will put into peril everything they love and ultimately transform their lives.

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The Queen of Kentucky by Alecia Whitaker from Poppy/Hachette is $2.99 (Amazon US, Amazon CA)

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Fourteen-year-old Kentucky girl Ricki Jo Winstead, who would prefer to be called Ericka, thank you very much, is eager to shed her farmer's daughter roots and and fit in with the popular crowd at her small-town high school. She trades her Bible for Seventeen magazine, buys new "sophisticated" clothes, and strikes up an unlikely flirtation with the freshman class's resident bad boy. She's on top of the world, even though her best friend and neighbor, Luke, say she misses "plain old Ricki Jo."

Caught between being a country girl and a wannabe country club girl, Ricki Jo begins to forget who she truly is: someone who doesn't care what people think and who wouldn't let a good-looking guy walk all over her.

After a serious incident on Luke's farm, Ricki Jo realizes that being a true friend is more important than being popular... and the one boy who matters most has been next door all along.

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Dead Secret by Catherine Deveney from Old Street Publishing (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (February 19) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: “I loved this book. It kept me enthralled from beginning to end.”

‘Growing up wasn’t a process; it was a moment. It was the moment I watched Daddy die. Everything began to unravel then.’ When their father dies of a sudden heart attack, sisters Rebecca and Sarah Connaghan set aside their differences and return to the family home in Glasgow. Then Rebecca finds letters between her father and the mother she barely remembers that cast doubt on everything she’s been told about her family. Reeling from confusion and grief, she sets off alone for the remote Highlands village that may hold the key to the past. Above all, she is determined to prove the innocence of her father – the beloved, silent man she once thought she knew, now accused of a terrible crime.

The 'Dragonfury Series' by Coreene Callahan from Montlake Romance (£0.99 each) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (February 19) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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The 'Dragonfury Series' by Coreene Callahan are £0.99 each.

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris from Abacus (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (February 19) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: “...really witty, had me laughing out loud -shaking with laughter - on the tube into work each day. David Sedaris is a genius.”

David Sedaris' new collection of essays - including live recordings! - tells a most unconventional life story. It begins with a North Carolina childhood filled with speech-therapy classes ("There was the lisp, of course, but more troubling than that was my voice itself, with its excitable tone and high, girlish pitch") and unwanted guitar lessons taught by a midget. From budding performance artist ("The only crimp in my plan was that I seemed to have no talent whatsoever") to "clearly unqualified" writing teacher in Chicago, Sedaris' career leads him to New York City and eventually, of all places, France. His move to Paris poses a number of challenges, chief among them his inability to speak the language. Arriving a "spooky man-child" capable of communicating only through nouns, he undertakes language instruction that leads him ever deeper into cultural confusion. Whether describing the Easter bunny to puzzled classmates or watching a group of men play soccer with a cow, Sedaris brings a view and a voice like no other to every unforgettable encounter.

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Light of the World: A Dave Robicheaux Novel (Book 20) by James Lee Burke from Simon & Schuster ($2.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (February 19) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "Mr Burke has an uncanny ability to write poetry that reads as prose."

A New York Times best-selling author many times over, James Lee Burke is a two-time Edgar Award-winner whose every book is cause for excitement, especially those in the wildly popular Dave Robicheaux series.

In Light of the World, sadist and serial killer Asa Surrette narrowly escaped the death penalty for the string of heinous murders he committed while capital punishment was outlawed in Kansas. But following a series of damning articles written by Dave Robicheaux's daughter Alafair about possible other crimes committed by Surette, the killer escapes from a prison transport van and heads to Montana - where an unsuspecting Dave happens to have gone to take in the sweet summer air, accompanied by Alafair, his wife Molly, faithful partner Clete, and Clete's newfound daughter, Gretchen Horowitz, whom listeners met in Burke's most recent best seller Creole Belle.

Hawks Mountain by Elizabeth Sinclair from Bell Bridge Books ($1.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (February 19) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "This had a wonderful setting, characters I cared about, and a story I hated to see end."

Rebecca Hawks has come home to remember who she was before the lure of life as a social worker in a big city nearly destroyed her - and might, still. She's moved back to her family's namesake mountain in West Virginia, where Granny Jo Hawks can help her forget the horrors she'd seen and been unable to prevent.

Ex-Navy Corpsman, Nicholas Hart, has moved to Hawks Mountain in hope that its timeless Appalachian serenity will help him overcome his painful war memories.

Now Rebecca and Nicholas must find each other-and their chances of a life together after putting the past to rest-on Hawks Mountain.

Monster in My Closet (A Monster Haven Story) by R.L. Naquin from Carina Press ($0.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (February 19) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "I thoroughly enjoyed this urban fantasy story with unique creatures."

A Monster Haven Story, book one

I stopped believing in monsters long ago. But I knew I wasn't imagining things when I found one in my kitchen baking muffins. I'd seen him before: lurking in my closet, scaring the crap out of my five-year-old self. Turns out that was a misunderstanding, and now Maurice needs a place to stay. How could I say no?

After all, I've always been a magnet for the emotionally needy, and not just in my work as a wedding planner. Being able to sense the feelings of others can be a major pain. Don't get me wrong, I like helping people--and non-people. But this ability has turned me into a gourmet feast for an incubus, a demon that feeds off emotional energy. Now, brides are dropping dead all over town, and my home has become a safe house for the supernatural. I must learn to focus my powers and defeat the demon before he snacks on another innocent woman and comes looking for the main course...

Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm from Open Road Media ($1.99) is the Kindle Social Science Deal of the Day (February 19) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "This book offers insight into many everyday issues: thinking, feeling, and most of all, freedom."

Erich Fromm’s bestselling 1941 debut, about freedom and authoritarianism, is as relevant today as when it was first published

The pursuit of freedom has indelibly marked Western culture since Renaissance humanism and Protestantism began the fight for individualism and self-determination. This freedom, however, can make people feel unmoored, and is often accompanied by feelings of isolation, fear, and the loss of self, all leading to a desire for authoritarianism, conformity, or destructiveness.

It is not only the question of freedom that makes Fromm’s debut book a timeless classic. In this examination of the roots of Nazism and fascism in Europe, Fromm also explains how economic and social constraints can also lead to authoritarianism.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erich Fromm including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.

Origin by Jessica Khoury from Razorbill/Penguin ($2.99) is the Kindle Teens Deal of the Day (February 19) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "This really is a beautiful, well-told story that everyone should read."

Pia has always known her destiny. She is meant to start a new race, a line of descendants who will bring an end to death. She has been bred for no other purpose, genetically engineered to be immortal and raised by a team of scientists in a secret compound hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest. Now those scientists have begun to challenge her, with the goal of training her to carry on their dangerous work.

For as long as she can remember, Pia’s greatest desire has been to fulfill their expectations. But then one night she finds a hole in the impenetrable fence that surrounds her sterile home. Free in the jungle for the first time in her life, Pia meets Eio, a boy from a nearby village. Unable to resist, she continues sneaking out to see him. As they fall in love, they begin to piece together the truth about Pia’s origin—a truth with nothing less than deadly consequences that will change their lives forever.

Origin is a beautifully told, electric new way to look at an age-old desire: to live forever. But is eternal life worth living if you can’t spend it with the one you love?

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The House Girl by Tara Conklin from William Morrow ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (February 19)

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The House Girl, the historical fiction debut by Tara Conklin, is an unforgettable story of love, history, and a search for justice, set in modern-day New York and 1852 Virginia.

Weaving together the story of an escaped slave in the pre–Civil War South and a determined junior lawyer, The House Girl follows Lina Sparrow as she looks for an appropriate lead plaintiff in a lawsuit seeking compensation for families of slaves. In her research, she learns about Lu Anne Bell, a renowned prewar artist whose famous works might have actually been painted by her slave, Josephine.

Featuring two remarkable, unforgettable heroines, Tara Conklin's The House Girl is riveting and powerful, literary fiction at its very best.

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Audible Daily Deal - I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had: My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High by Tony Danza (Narrated by Tony Danza) for $2.95 (Regular Price:$17.95)

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Long before he starred on some of television’s most beloved and long-running series such as Taxi and Who’s the Boss? and went on to distinguish himself in a variety of film and stage roles, Tony Danza was a walking contradiction: an indifferent student who dreamed of being a teacher. Inspiring a classroom of students was an aspiration he put aside for decades until one day it seemed that the most meaningful thing he could do was give his dream a shot.

What followed was a year spent teaching 10th-grade English at Northeast High - Philadelphia’s largest high school with 3,600 students. Entering Northeast’s crowded halls in September 2009, Tony found his way to a classroom filled with 26 students who were determined not to cut him any slack. They cared nothing about “Mr. Danza’s” showbiz credentials, and they immediately put him on the hot seat.

It was only after experiencing abject terror for several weeks - and even dissolving into tears on several occasions - that Tony began to pick up the tricks of how to get kids to learn.

Featuring indelible portraits of students and teachers alike, I’d Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had reveals just how hard it is to keep today’s technologically savvy - and often alienated - students engaged, how impressively committed most teachers are, and the outsized role counseling plays in a teacher’s day, given the psychological burdens many students carry. The audiobook also makes vivid how a modern high school works, showing Tony in a myriad of roles - from lecturing on To Kill a Mockingbird to coaching the football team, organizing a talent show, leading far-flung field trips, and hosting teacher gripe sessions.

Inevitably, Tony’s students steal their way into our hearts - in a way that always feels authentic. A surprisingly poignant account, I’d Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had is sometimes laugh-out-loud funny but is mostly filled with hard-won wisdom and feel-good tears.

©2012 Tony Danza (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

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Stolen by Rebecca Muddiman from Moth Publishing (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (February 20) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "From beginning to the end it kept you in suspense."

When Abby Henshaw is brutally attacked by two strangers in the countryside, her first thought is for the safety of her baby daughter, Beth. But what follows is a mother’s worst nightmare: Beth is gone and Abby's world collapses around her. As DI Michael Gardner begins to investigate Abby and her family, he discovers lives built on secrets and betrayals. Under pressure from his bosses to find the missing child and to unearth the truth, Gardner finds himself struggling to stay emotionally removed from the case, and from Abby herself. After the authorities finally shelve their investigation, Abby receives a message telling her where she can find her daughter. But how can she convince those around her that the girl really is Beth when they are the very people she knows least? A gripping and haunting debut, Stolen is a richly imagined psychological thriller from an exciting new talent in crime writing.

The Beauty Chorus by Kate Lord Brown from Corvus (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Daily Deal (February 20) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "really just an incredible true story that I cant believe I knew nothing about before reading this!"

New Year's Eve, 1940: Evie Chase, the beautiful debutante daughter of an adoring ?RAF commander, gazes out at the sky as swing music drifts from the ballroom. With bombs falling nightly in London, she resolves that the coming year will bring more than just dances and tennis matches. She is determined to do her bit for the war effort.


2nd January, 1941: Evie curses her fashionable heels as they skid on the frozen ?ground of her local airfield. She is here to volunteer for 'The Beauty Chorus', the female pilots who fly much-needed planes to bases across the country. Soon, she is billeted in a tiny country cottage, sharing with an anxious young mother and a naive teenager.


Thrown together by war, these three very different women soon become friends, confidantes and fellow adventuresses. But as they take to the skies, they will also face hardship, prejudice and tragedy. Can their new-found bond survive their darkest hours?

Peterhead: Inside Scotland's Toughest Prison by Robert Jeffrey from Black & White Publishing (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (February 20) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "I found this book to be a fascinating read.It is the type of book that you can not put down once you start to read it."

Robert Jeffrey, author of the bestselling Barlinnie Story and other true crime books, now tells the remarkable story of the infamous Peterhead Prison in Scotland’s far north-east. Built in the 1880s as part of an ambitious humanitarian plan to use convict labour to construct a ‘harbour of refuge’ on the town’s wild, storm-battered coast, it became what some call Scotland’s gulag. A cold and brutal place, it has held down the years some of Scotland’s most violent criminals and most infamous prisoners, convicted of the most heinous of crimes. In the early days, convicts were controlled by men as hard as their charges. The wardens carried swords and were quick to use them if necessary. And when convict labour was used to build the harbour, they worked with rifles trained on them at all times. Peterhead’s wardens were clearly not to be crossed. Throughout the history of the prison, riots and breakouts have made headlines, with the SAS involved in restoring order at one point. Peterhead also had the reputation of being so secure that escape was impossible, with the notable exception of Johnny Ramensky, the safeblower turned war hero who went back to his criminal ways and spent more than forty years of his life in prison, many of them in Peterhead. He became the first inmate to escape and repeated the exercise four more times, often for his own satisfaction and amusement, each time being recaptured after a short taste of freedom.

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The Butterfly Sister by Amy Gail Hansen from William Morrow Paperbacks ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (February 20) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "This first person account is an eloquent mix of past indiscretions, present mysteries, and potential future decisions."

In The Butterfly Sister by Amy Gail Hansen—a moving Gothic tale that intertwines mystery, madness, betrayal, love, and literature—a fragile young woman must silence the ghosts of her past.

Ten months after dropping out of all-girl Tarble College, Ruby Rousseau is still haunted by the memories of her senior year, a time marred by an affair with her English professor and a deep depression that caused her to question her sanity.

When a mysterious suitcase arrives bearing Ruby's name and address, she tries to return it to its rightful owner, Beth—a dorm-mate at Tarble—only to learn that Beth disappeared two days earlier.

With clues found in the luggage, including a tattered copy of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One's Own, which Ruby believes instigated her madness, she sets out to uncover the truth.

Too Tough to Tame (A Wild Hearts Romance) by Deborah Camp from Amazon ($0.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (February 20) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "An enjoyable Native American/Western historical romance."

Tess Summar dares to defy the white man’s rules and goes alone to give medical aid to a Blackfoot with a price on his head. Storm-In-His-Eyes was shot by the Marshall after being framed for a murder he didn’t commit. Hidden in a mountain cave, Storm lies burning with fever, barely awake as Tess tends to him. Lost in a hazy dream, he makes love to a beautiful stranger whose body yields to him in a magical cloud of beauty.

Yet it is Tess who awakens in the dark cave to a shivering awareness of a powerful body resting intimately upon her . . . and a shameless desire that leaves her in disgrace.

As he recovers, Storm too surrenders to an unrelenting passion that may destroy them . . . or capture them forever in a forbidden love.

Steam & Sorcery (The Gaslight Chronicles) by Cindy Spencer Pape from Carina Press ($0.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (February 20) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: " I would recommend this book to anyone who loves romance, steampunk, and paranormal."

Sir Merrick Hadrian hunts monsters, both human and supernatural. A Knight of the Order of the Round Table, his use of magick and the technologies of steam power have made him both respected and feared. But his considerable skills are useless in the face of his greatest challenge, guardianship of five unusual children. At a loss, Merrick enlists the aid of a governess.

Miss Caroline Bristol is reluctant to work for a bachelor but she needs a position, and these former street children touch her heart. While she tends to break any mechanical device she touches, it never occurs to her that she might be something more than human. All she knows is that Merrick is the most dangerously attractive man she's ever met—and out of reach for a mere governess.

When conspiracy threatens to blur the distinction between humans and monsters, Caroline and Merrick must join forces, and the fate of humanity hinges upon their combined skills of steam and sorcery...

The American Home Front: 1941-1942 by Alistair Cooke from Grove Press ($1.99) is the Kindle History Deal of the Day (February 20) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "Reading this book gives you a true sense of the American people in the early years of the war."

In nearly 3000 BBC broadcasts over 58 years, Alistair Cooke reported on America, revealing our country's complexities and idiosyncrasies to a global audience. He was one of the most widely read and widely heard chroniclers of America - the 20th century's de Tocqueville.
Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, Alistair Cooke, a newly naturalized American citizen, set out to see his country as it was undergoing monumental change. He wanted to "see what the war had done to people, to the towns I might go through, to some jobs and crops, to stretches of landscape I loved and had seen at peace."

Working throughout the war, Cooke finished The American Home Front as the atomic bomb was being dropped on Hiroshima. His publisher thought there would be little interest in books on the war, so it was stuffed in a closet. It stayed there for almost 60 years, nearly forgotten, until it was unearthed shortly before Cooke's death in 2004.

The American Home Front is a fascinating artifact, a charming travelogue, and a sharp portrait that shows America changing from civilian pursuits to military engagement, from the production of consumer goods to materials of war. It is also a unique record of American life. Cooke travels small highways, with their advertising signs and their local typography, in an age before the interstate highway system. He chronicles the regional glories he encounters, elements of long-lost culture such as his beloved soda fountains, and the reactions of the citizens, from indifference to grief, from opportunism to resilience, under military threat.

Filled with touching personal stories of the effects of war, from a Japanese family facing internment that tries to sell Cooke their car, to the experiences of the unemployed relocating in hopes of jobs in a gunpowder factory, The American Home Front is the work of an experienced, talented journalist; it is intelligent, touching, and funny.

The Gryphon Chronicles by E.G. Foley from Foley Publications ($1.99 each) is the Kindle Kids Deal of the Day (February 20) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Today only, The Gryphon Chronicles by E.G. Foley are $1.99 each.

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Audible Daily Deal - Semper Fi: Book One in The Corps Series by W. E. B. Griffin (Narrated by Dick Hill) for $4.95 (Regular Price:$11.95)

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From Shanghai to Wake Island, the Corps was America’s first line of defense as the winds of war exploded into the devastating surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. This is the story of the men of the Marine Corps, their loves and loyalties, an elite fraternity united by courage and honor, as they steel themselves for battle, prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice....
©1986 W.E.B. Griffin (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

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The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd from Penguin Books is $3.99 (Amazon US)

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Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees, a heartwarming coming of age tale set in 1960s South Carolina, a multi-million copy New York Times bestseller, now an award-winning film starring Dakota Fanning, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson and Alicia Keys

Fans of Kathryn Stockett’s The Help and Beth Hoffman’s Saving CeeCee Honeycutt will love Sue Monk Kidd’s Southern coming of age tale. The Secret Life of Bees was a New York Times bestseller for more than 125 weeks, a Good Morning America “Read This” Book Club pick and was made into an award-winning film starring Dakota Fanning, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson and Alicia Keys. Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed.

When Lily's fierce-hearted black "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the town's most vicious racists, Lily decides they should both escape to Tiburon, South Carolina—a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. There they are taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters who introduce Lily to a mesmerizing world of bees, honey, and the Black Madonna who presides over their household. This is a remarkable story about divine female power and the transforming power of love—a story that women will share and pass on to their daughters for years to come.

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23 books in the '87th Precinct Series' by Ed McBain from Thomas & Mercer (£0.99 each) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (February 21) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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23 books in the '87th Precinct Series' by Ed McBain are £0.99 each.

Follow the detectives of the 87th Precinct in Ed McBain’s hugely popular series. Choose from 23 books at just £0.99p on Kindle.

The Year I Turn…: A Quirky A-Z of Ageing by Angela Neustatter from Gibson Square (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (February 21) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "This book is a delight, I'd recommend it to anyone who finds the prospect of getting older daunting."

In this buoyant, inspirational A-Z, Angela Neustatter writes about the quirky side of ageing. The ways we learn to deal with conflicts, problems, relationships, feelings about our appearance and behaviour through the years become a delight rather than a chore. Angela Neustatter considers in a light-hearted way what you can do to celebrate growing older. She wonders about the influence of age on dress - do you need to dress differently (no) or do you yourself start to change your views (yes), relationships with colleagues and friends, love and sex. This quirky book of observations will delight anyone, and is a perfect Christmas gift.

REvolt by Qaisra Shahraz from Arcadia Books (£1.09) is the Amazon UK Kindle Daily Deal (February 21) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "It is a multi-faceted, multi-layed story of love and loss, finding and loosing"

A brilliantly incisive portrait of small-town life, exploding into a panoramic portrayal of the nature of change, freedom, pride and prejudice. Evocative, family drama and love story, rich with contemporary issues, humour, tragedy and conflict. Think Pakistani Jane Austen!

How to be a Productivity Ninja: Worry Less, Achieve More and Love What You Do by Graham Allcott from Icon Books (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (February 21) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "The book turns traditional time management on its head."

Graham Allcott presents a new edition of How to be Productivity Ninja, published worldwide in all formats by Icon Books, in January 2014. In this age of information overload, traditional time-management techniques simply aren’t able to deal with overflowing inboxes, ever-expanding to-do lists and endless, pointless meetings that leave us all feeling panicked and overworked. The solution? Think like a Ninja! With techniques from ruthlessness to stealth to mindfulness, you can get your inbox down to zero, make the most of your attention, avoid procrastination and learn to work smarter, not harder. Fun, accessible and practical, How to be a Productivity Ninja teaches you how to stay calm, cool and collected, get more done, and love your work again.

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Two books in the PRIMAL series by Jack Silkstone from Thomas & Mercer ($1.99 each) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (February 21) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Today only, two books in the PRIMAL series by Jack Silkstone are $1.99 each.

Off The Record by Sawyer Bennett from Big Dog Books ($1.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (February 21) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "I love this series! Sawyer Bennett has a great writing style."

USA Today Best-Selling Book

Ever Montgomery suffered the ultimate betrayal by the one man who she should have been able to count on for anything. It has left her hurt, jaded and incapable of forming relationships, but it also means that she can spot a liar a mile away. These traits are earning her a reputation as a reporter with a keen nose for a good story and a complete understanding of the extreme power of the written word.

Lincoln Caldwell, is the hot goalie for the New York Rangers. At twenty-four and a rising star, he works hard and he plays even harder. He's gorgeous and carefree--the ultimate charmer. Ladies fall at his feet and the single life has never been lived the way Linc Caldwell does it.

When Ever publishes an article about Linc containing information that she received off the record, she finds herself on the receiving end of the athlete's fury. Rather than basking in the glory of exposing Linc as a shameless user of women, she finds herself at his mercy when he demands and receives retribution. Required by her editor to trail Linc for six weeks, Ever is forced to look at the real Linc Caldwell.

And she just might find that she has misjudged him.

** This book can be read as a stand alone, as can any book in the Off Series.

Black Widow: The Name of the Rose by Marjorie Liu, illustrated by Daniel Acuna, from Marvel ($1.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (February 21) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "If you want to know the Black Widow at her core, this is the story to read."

Collects Black Widow #1-5. Natasha Romanoff is the Black Widow, longtime Avengers and a spy for even longer. But now someone has tried to kill Natasha…and almost succeeded. Injured gravely, almost beyond her ability to recover, Black Widow sets out to find her attacker.

Hillbilly Heart by Billy Ray Cyrus and Todd Gold from Amazon ($1.99) is the Kindle Biography & Memoir Deal of the Day (February 21) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "This is full of lessons in being true to your heart and never giving up."

Billy Ray Cyrus is an award-winning country music legend whose “Achy Breaky Heart” propelled his debut album, “Some Gave All,” to the top of the charts for a record-breaking seventeen weeks. He’s also father of Miley Cyrus, one of Hollywood’s most successful young stars, who grew up on stage and on screen, most famously as the lead on the Disney Channel’s “Hannah Montana,” where Billy Ray Cyrus played her father. But sometimes the truth is even better than fiction. Now, for the first time, fans can read about Cyrus’s tenacious and inspiring struggle to find his own way to faith, family, and the power of music.

Hillbilly Heart opens during Cyrus’s turbulent childhood in Kentucky, where he sought refuge in music and sports after his parents’ divorce. He was a troublemaker in training, known more for pulling pranks than for following in his preacher grandfather’s much-vaunted footsteps. But when he heard a voice telling him to get a left-handed guitar and start a band, this rebel found his cause. Ten years later, after tirelessly working the club circuit and knocking on the closed doors of music executives from Nashville to Los Angeles, Cyrus finally made a stratospheric breakthrough, becoming a multi-platinum selling artist and taking his rock-and-roll twist on country music to the world’s stage.
Cyrus fans have always been able to piece together the details of his life through his lyrics—the ups and downs, adventures and disappointments—but Hillbilly Heart gives them a front row seat for his most candid performance ever.

The Menagerie by Tui T. Sutherland and Kari H. Sutherland from HarperCollins ($1.99) is the Kindle Kids Deal of the Day (February 21) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

* Also on Amazon CA

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Customer review: "This fantasy novel has a mythical universe of amazing creatures and stunning secrets."

Age Level: 8 - 12 | Grade Level: 3 - 7

Fans of Brandon Mull’s Fablehaven series and The Spiderwick Chronicles will dive into this magical, mythical fantasy series from Kari Sutherland and Tui T. Sutherland, author of the Wings of Fire series. Filled with unicorns, dragons, phoenixes, and other fairy tale creatures, the Menagerie is a highly guarded secret facility in the small town of Xanadu, Wyoming. At least, it was a secret—until six griffin cubs escaped.

If Logan and Zoe don’t get the cubs back fast, the entire Menagerie will be shut down. The race is on and the resulting adventure is only the beginning of a thrilling series that will leave readers wanting a magical menagerie of their very own.

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Audible Daily Deal - A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Narrated by Roxana Ortega) for $4.95 (Regular Price:$18.17)

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Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 2011
National Book Critics Circle Award, Fiction, 2011
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction!
Jennifer Egan brings her unique gifts as a novelist and short story writer to a compulsively listenable narrative that centers on Bennie Salazar, an aging punk rocker and record executive, and the beautiful Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs.
Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, but the listener does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other people whose paths intersect with theirs in the course of nearly 50 years, in settings as various as the San Francisco 1970s music scene; the demimonde of Naples; New York at many points, from the pre-internet 90s to a postwar future; and a catastrophic safari in the heart of Africa.
A Visit from the Goon Squad is a book about time, about survival, about our private terrors and how we overcome them or don't, and what happens when we fail to rebound. Brilliant, sly, suspenseful, and always surprising - one of our boldest authors at the height of her powers.
Download the accompanying reference guide.
©2010 Jennifer Egan. All rights reserved. (P)2010 BBC Audiobooks America

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Dangerous Kiss: A Lucky Santangelo Novel by Jackie Collins from Simon & Schuster ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (February 21)

* Price matched on Amazon US

Add the professional narration (Audible.Com) of Dangerous Kiss: A Novel for a reduced price of $9.49 after you buy this Kindle book.

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When a member of her family is gunned down in a car jacking, the seductive, street-smart, and stunning Lucky Santangelo is on the hunt for a killer. A story of love, lust, addiction and murder among the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, from one of the world's best selling and well-known novelists, Jackie Collins.

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A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table by Molly Wizenberg from Simon & Schuster ($1.99) is the KOBO Daily Deal (February 21)

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When Molly Wizenberg's father died of cancer, everyone told her to go easy on herself, to hold off on making any major decisions for a while. But when she tried going back to her apartment in Seattle and returning to graduate school, she knew it wasn't possible to resume life as though nothing had happened. So she went to Paris, a city that held vivid memories of a childhood trip with her father, of early morning walks on the cobbled streets of the Latin Quarter and the taste of her first pain au chocolat. She was supposed to be doing research for her dissertation, but more often, she found herself peering through the windows of chocolate shops, trekking across town to try a new pâtisserie, or tasting cheeses at outdoor markets, until one evening when she sat in the Luxembourg Gardens reading cookbooks until it was too dark to see, she realized that her heart was not in her studies but in the kitchen.

At first, it wasn't clear where this epiphany might lead. Like her long letters home describing the details of every meal and market, Molly's blog Orangette started out merely as a pleasant pastime. But it wasn't long before her writing and recipes developed an international following. Every week, devoted readers logged on to find out what Molly was cooking, eating, reading, and thinking, and it seemed she had finally found her passion. But the story wasn't over: one reader in particular, a curly-haired, food-loving composer from New York, found himself enchanted by the redhead in Seattle, and their email correspondence blossomed into a long-distance romance.

In A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table, Molly Wizenberg recounts a life with the kitchen at its center. From her mother's pound cake, a staple of summer picnics during her childhood in Oklahoma, to the eggs she cooked for her father during the weeks before his death, food and memories are intimately entwined. You won't be able to decide whether to curl up and sink into the story or to head straight to the market to fill your basket with ingredients for Cider-Glazed Salmon and Pistachio Cake with Honeyed Apricots.