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A Nurse's Duty by Maggie Hope from Ebury Digital ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (September 21)

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It's a story of a woman torn between love and duty from nurse turned author Maggie Hope. After a disastrous first marriage, Karen decided to focus on her career as a nurse caring for soldiers returning home from war. The handsome Patrick Murphy catches her eye, and could make her open her heart again except this new love could bring scandal--as Patrick is a priest.

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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford from Broadway Books is $1.99 (US Kindle)

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The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization.

Vastly more progressive than his European or Asian counterparts, Genghis Khan abolished torture, granted universal religious freedom, and smashed feudal systems of aristocratic privilege. From the story of his rise through the tribal culture to the explosion of civilization that the Mongol Empire unleashed, this brilliant work of revisionist history is nothing less than the epic story of how the modern world was made.

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American Crisis: George Washington and the Dangerous Two Years After Yorktown, 1781-1783 by William M. Fowler Jr. from Walker Books ($2.99) is the Kindle History Deal of the Day (September 21) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

This was actually $.99 for me at Amazon US,

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The Secrets of Ghosts by Sarah Painter from Carina (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (September 22) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Step back into the magical world of Pendleford with Sarah Painter’s new book The Secrets of Ghosts. Don’t miss the magical, heart-warming story from the bestselling author of The Language of Spells!
On her twenty-first birthday Katie Harper has only one wish: to become a real Harper woman. Mystical powers are passed down her family generation after generation – some even call them witches – yet every spell Katie attempts goes disastrously wrong.

When her magic does appear, it’s in a form nobody expected and suddenly Katie is thrown into a dangerous new world with shadowy consequences. For the realm of the deceased is not as peaceful as she once thought. The dead are buried with their secrets and only Katie can help the ghosts of the past finally find peace.

If that is what they are looking for…

The Ninth Orphan (The Orphan Trilogy Book 1) by James & Lance Morcan from Sterling Gate Books (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (September 22) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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How do you catch a man who is never the same man twice?

That is the question posed in The Ninth Orphan, a top-rated international thriller novel and the first book in The Orphan Trilogy.

An orphan grows up to become an assassin for a highly secretive organization. When he tries to break free and live a normal life, he is hunted by his mentor and father figure, and by a female orphan he spent his childhood with. On the run, the mysterious man's life becomes entwined with his beautiful French-African hostage and a shocking past riddled with the darkest of conspiracies is revealed.

But can the ninth-born orphan ever get off the grid?

The Moon's a Balloon by David Niven from Penguin (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Daily Deal (September 22) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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David Niven's first volume of autobiography, which has sold over 5 million copies worldwide

This book takes readers back to David Niven's childhood days, his humiliating expulsion from school and to his army years and wartime service. After the war, he returned to America and there came his Hollywood success in films such as "Wuthering Heights" and "Around the World in 80 Days".

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6 books in the 'Anna Travis Mystery' series by Lynda La Plante from Touchstone ($1.99 each) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (September 22) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Today only, 6 books in the 'Anna Travis Mystery' series by Lynda La Plante are $1.99 each.

Above Suspicion (Anna Travis Mysteries)
The Red Dahlia (Anna Travis Mysteries)
Clean Cut: An Anna Travis Mystery
Deadly Intent: An Anna Travis Mystery
Silent Scream: An Anna Travis Mystery
Blind Fury

2 books in the 'Novels of Loch Moigh' series by Barbara Longley ($1.99 each) from Montlake Romance is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (September 22)

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Today only, 2 books in the 'Novels of Loch Moigh' series by Barbara Longley are $1.99 Each.

True to the Highlander (The Novels of Loch Moigh Book 1)
The Highlander's Bargain (The Novels of Loch Moigh Book 2)

The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow by Cory Doctorow from PM Press ($0.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (September 22) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "This is a thought provoking, dark, and thrilling novella."

In a Disney-dominated future, a transhuman teenager engages in high velocity adventures until he meets the “meat girl” of his dreams and is forced to choose between immortality and sex in one of Cory Doctorow's most daring novellas. Also included in this collection is “Creativity vs. Copyright,” a transcript of Doctorow’s historic address to the 2010 World Science Fiction Convention, dramatically presenting his controversial case for open-source models not only in information but art as well, and “Outspoken Interview,” in which Doctorow reveals the surprising inspirations for his writing.

The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf by William C. Davis from Mariner Books ($1.99) is the Kindle Biography & Memoir Deal of the Day (September 22) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "An in-depth, thoroughly researched examination of the Laffite brothers' colorful lives."

At large during the most colorful period in New Orleans' history, from just after the Louisiana Purchase through the War of 1812, privateers Jean and Pierre Laffite made life hell for Spanish merchants on the Gulf. Pirates to the U.S. Navy officers who chased them, heroes to the private citizens who shopped for contraband at their well-publicized auctions, the brothers became important members of a filibustering syndicate that included lawyers, bankers, merchants, and corrupt U.S. officials. But this allegiance didn't stop the Laffites from becoming paid Spanish spies, disappearing into the fog of history after selling out their own associates.

William C. Davis uncovers the truth about two men who made their names synonymous with piracy and intrigue on the Gulf.

CAPTAIN AMERICA: The First Avenger (Junior Novelization) by Disney Book Group from Marvel Press ($0.99) is the Kindle Kids Deal of the Day (September 22) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "This is a full-color, action-packed depiction of Captain America's earliest adventures.

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

BIRTH OF THE SUPER-SOLDIER

All Steve Rogers ever wanted to do was join the U.S. Army and fight for his country. But he was too sick and frail to pass the required physical. His patriotic dreams were shattered...until a scret branch of the military offered him a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: Steve would be the test subject in an experiment that would transform him from a weak, unhealthy civilian into a mighty Super-Soldier!

Now known as Captain America, Steve is thrown onto the battlefields of Europe, where he must embark on a dangerous mission to stop the evil Red Skull--and his diabolical HYDRA organization--from destroying the entire world!

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Borderline by Lawrence Block from Hard Case Crime ($2.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (September 22)

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Lawrence Block is the author of the popular Matthew Scudder series as well as the bestseller, A Walk Among the Tombstones (just released in theaters this past weekend). Originally published in 1962 and now available as a NOOK Book for the first time, Borderline is Block's gruesome hard boiled story of crime and passion as the paths of five strangers cross at the border between Texas and Mexico.

Ready for more Hard Case Crime? Click here for stories of private eyes, femmes fatales and more--just $1.99 each for a limited time only!

* These Hard Case Crime discounts have also been price-matched (US Kindle)

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Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures by Virginia Morell from Crown/Random House is $1.99 (US Kindle)

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Have you ever wondered what it is like to be a fish? Or a parrot, dolphin, or an elephant? Do they experience thoughts that are similar to ours, or have feelings of grief and love?

These are tough questions, but scientists are answering them. They know that ants teach and rats love to be tickled. They’ve discovered that dogs have thousand-word vocabularies and that birds practice their songs in their sleep. But how do scientists know these things?
Animal Wise takes us on a dazzling odyssey into the inner world of animals and among the pioneering researchers who are leading the way into once-forbidden territory: the animal mind. Morell uses her formidable gifts as a storyteller to transport us to field sites and laboratories around the world, introducing us to animal-cognition scientists and their surprisingly intelligent and sensitive subjects. She explores how this rapidly evolving, controversial field has only recently overturned old notions about why animals behave as they do.

In this surprising and moving book, Morell brings the world of nature brilliantly alive in a nuanced, deeply felt appreciation of the human-animal bond.

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White Mischief: The Murder of Lord Erroll by James Fox from Open Road Media is $1.99 (US Kindle)

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The riveting true story of decadence, deception, and murder among British aristocrats in colonial Kenya

In 1941, with London burning in the Blitz, a group of hedonistic English nobles partied shamelessly in Kenya. Far removed from falling bombs, the wealthy elites of “Happy Valley” indulged in morphine, alcohol, and unrestricted sex, often with their friends’ spouses. But the party turned sinister in the early hours of a January morning for Josslyn Hay, Lord Erroll, who had been enjoying the favors of the beautiful young wife of a middle-aged neighbor. Hay was found dead, a bullet in his brain. The murder shocked the close-knit community of wealthy expatriates in Nairobi and shined a harsh light on their louche lifestyle.

Three decades later, author James Fox researched the slaying of Lord Erroll, an unsolved crime still sheathed in a thick cloud of rumor and innuendo. What he discovered was both unsettling and luridly compelling. White Mischief is a spellbinding true-crime classic, a tale of privileged excess and the wages of sin, and an account of one writer’s determined effort to crack a cold and craven killing.

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The Bastard (The Kent Family Chronicles Book 1) by John Jakes from Open Road Media is $2.99 (US Kindle)

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One man’s quest for his destiny leads him to the New World and into the heart of the American Revolution

Meet Phillipe Charboneau: the illegitimate son and unrecognized heir of the Duke of Kentland. Upon the Duke’s death, Phillipe is denied his birthright and left to build a life of his own. Seeking all that the New World promises, he leaves London for America, shedding his past and preparing for the future by changing his name to Philip Kent. He arrives at the brink of the American Revolution, which tests his allegiances in ways he never imagined. The first volume of John Jakes’s wildly successful and highly addictive Kent Family Chronicles, The Bastard is a triumph of historical fiction.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of John Jakes including rare images from the author’s personal collection.

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The Hillside Stranglers by Darcy O'Brien from Open Road Media is $1.99 (US Kindle)

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For weeks that fall, the body count of sexually violated, brutally murdered young women escalated. With increasing alarm, Los Angeles newspapers headlined the deeds of a serial killer they named the Hillside Strangler. The city was held hostage to fear.

But not until January 1979, more than a year later, would the mysterious disappearance of two university students near Seattle lead police to the arrest of a security guard—the handsome, charming, fast-talking Kenny Bianchi—and the discovery that the strangler was not one man but two.

Like Truman Capote in In Cold Blood and Norman Mailer in The Executioner’s Song, Darcy O’Brien weds the narrative skill of an award-winning novelist with the detailed observations of an experienced investigator to unravel, in The Hillside Stranglers, the chilling true-crime story of Bianchi and his animally magnetic cousin Angelo Buono. Compellingly, O’Brien explores the symbiotic relationship between the two men, their lust for women as insatiable as their hate, before examining the crimes they remorselessly perpetrated and the lives of the unsuspecting victims they claimed.

Equally riveting is O’Brien’s account of the trial—one of the longest and most controversial criminal court cases in American history—with the defense team parading, one after another, expert witnesses who had been effectively duped by Bianchi’s impersonation of a man suffering multiple personality disorder. It’s one way a man might contrive to get away with murder.

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The Blooding by Joseph Wambaugh from MysteriousPress.com/Open Road Media is $1.99 (US Kindle)

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This is the suspenseful and powerful true story of the discovery of DNA identification by a university geneticist in the Midlands of England—which changed the world of forensic science and police work forever—and of its very first use in the hunt for a serial killer who terrorized a quiet English village. Playboy said, “this book holds the tension and excitement of an imaginative police novel.” Yet every word of it is true.

Fifteen-year-old Lynda Mann's savagely raped and strangled body is found along a shady footpath near the English village of Narborough. Though a massive 150-man dragnet is launched, the case remains unsolved.

Three years later the killer strikes again, raping and strangling teenager Dawn Ashforth only a stone's throw from where Lynda was so brutally murdered.

But it will take four years, a scientific breakthrough, the largest manhunt in British crime annals, and the blooding of more than 4,000 men before the real killer is found.

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White Mischief: The Murder of Lord Erroll by James Fox from Open Road Media is $1.99 (US Kindle)

I have this in paperback and the film adaptation and I can vouch for both versions as an entertaining look at colonial British East Africa and vintage upper class behaving badly scandals, if one is interested in such.

Also, if anyone's interested in Latin American literature, I noticed that award-winning Mexican-American literary fiction novelist Cecile Pineda (Wikipedia) has several of her novels included in the Amazon The Big Deal Sale upthread in post #111 for less than $2, and I just went and scooped the lot.

(I highly recommend The Love Queen of the Amazon, a very entertaining zany magical realism romp with a firm dose of social satire, which is one of my personal favourites which I still have a hardcover copy of on my bookshelf. )

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Splendour Falls by Susanna Kearsley from Tatra Press ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (September 23) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "Robertson writes a compelling tale of human drama, intrigue and relationships but wraps it in a slice of Beirut that historians and journalists would be proud of."

Lara McCauley never wanted to go to Beirut. But in 1983, when her husband’s career as a foreign correspondent brings her there in the midst of the civil war, she tries to make the best of it for the sake of her marriage. Unlike the other foreign visitors — most of whom are hard-charging journalists like her husband — Lara can’t seem to find her footing in the chaotic city. Although she’s relatively insulated from risk, she’s as terrified of the frequent eruptions of violence as she is ashamed of her fear. Bored, lonely, and afraid, Lara defies her increasingly bullying husband by befriending a mysterious Polish journalist and beginning to work part-time as a broadcast film editor. But she is an inexperienced player in a dangerous game. As the U.S. 'mission of presence' in Lebanon rapidly morphs into something far more deadly, Lara unwittingly sets in motion a chain of events with devastating consequences.

Drawing on her years of experience as a foreign correspondent, Margaret Lowrie Robertson brings war-torn Beirut to life in this gripping debut.

2 books in the 'Love and Temptation' series by M. C. Beaton ($1.99 each) from RosettaBooks is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (September 23)

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Today only, 2 books in the 'Love and Temptation' series by M. C. Beaton are $1.99 Each.

The Original Miss Honeyford (The Love and Temptation Series, Vol.1)
At the Sign of the Golden Pineapple (The Love and Temptation Series, Vol. 2)

Galaxies Like Grains of Sand by Brian W. Aldiss from Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy ($1.99) is the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (September 23) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "This book is one-of-a-kind, for the gigantic scale on which it is projected and for its bold imagination."

In Galaxies Like Grains of Sand, Brian W. Aldiss tells the tale of mankind’s future over the course of forty million years. Each of these nine connected short stories highlights a different millennia in which man has adapted to new environments and hardships.

This ebook includes a new introduction from the author.

Happiness at Work: Be Resilient, Motivated, and Successful - No Matter What by Srikumar Rao from McGraw-Hill ($1.99) is the Kindle Business & Money Deal of the Day (September 23) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "I have read many, many personal development, self-help, and psychology books and this one ranks as one of the best."

Learn to create resilience and happiness no matter what’s going on in your life
In these tough times, there are few people who are completely happy with the current conditions. From business executives to the everyday Joe or Jane, everyone seems to be going through a rough economic and personal crunch. But acclaimed business school Professor Srikumar Rao says that we can learn to create joy no matter what else may be going on around us.

Rao shows you that it isn't the negative thing that happens to you that causes your unhappiness, it's how you see it. Happiness at Work is a thought-provoking new title that moves the mind away from negativity and forces you to resist labeling situations as "bad", but rather seeing them as neutral.

Happiness at Work provides:

Surprising ways of looking at change and problem-solving
Exercises that shift one’s perspective
Learn the vital wisdom necessary to achieving a joyful, successful life as you define it through greater resilience and a strong inner core. Get it now with The Happiness Choice.

The Whispering Town by Jennifer Elvgren and Fabio Santomauro (Illustrator) from Kar-Ben Publishing ($1.99) is the Kindle Kids Deal of the Day (September 23) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Customer review: "I recommend this book for parents that are looking for subtle, yet effective ways to teach important life lessons."

Age Level: 7 - 11

It is 1943 in Nazi-occupied Denmark. Anett and her parents are hiding a Jewish woman and her son, Carl, in their cellar until a fishing boat can take them across the sound to neutral Sweden. The soldiers patrolling their street are growing suspicious, so Carl and his mama must make their way to the harbor despite a cloudy sky with no moon to guide them. Worried about their safety, Anett devises a clever and unusual plan for their safe passage to the harbor. Based on a true story.

This fixed-layout ebook, which preserves the design and layout of the original print book, features read-along narration.

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Canada by Richard Ford from Ecco/HarperCollins ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (September 23)

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It's fair to say the life of Dell Parsons was changed drastically, when at fifteen his parents robbed a bank and his sister ran away from home. In this masterwork from award winning author Richard Ford, Dell is left behind to remake himself and whisked away from his home in Montana across the border to Saskatchewan where a family friend with a hidden dark side takes him in.

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Sabriel (Abhorsen 1) by Garth Nix from HarperTeen is $1.99 (US Kindle)

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Game of Thrones fans will love the New York Times bestselling Abhorsen series. Sabriel, the first installment in the trilogy, launched critically acclaimed author Garth Nix onto the fantasy scene as a rising star.

Since childhood, Sabriel has lived outside the walls of the Old Kingdom, away from the power of Free Magic, and away from the Dead who refuse to stay dead. But now her father, the Abhorson, is missing, and Sabriel must cross into that world to find him. With Mogget, whose feline form hides a powerful, perhaps malevolent spirit, and Touchstone, a young Charter Mage, Sabriel travels deep into the Old Kingdom. There she confronts an evil that threatens much more than her life and comes face-to-face with her own hidden destiny. . . .