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Paris to Die For by Maxine Kenneth from Grand Central Publishing is $1.99 (US Kindle)

Book Description

Inspired by an actual letter in the John F. Kennedy Library written by Jackie and revealing her job offer from the newly formed CIA

Young Jacqueline Bouvier's first CIA assignment was supposed to be simple: Meet with a high-ranking Russian while he's in Paris and help him defect. But when the Comrade ends up dead, and Jackie-in her black satin peep-toe stiletto heels-barely escapes his killer, it's time to get some assistance. Enter Jacques Rivage, a French photographer and freelance CIA agent who seems too brash and carefree to grapple with spies, though he's all too able to make Jackie's heart skip a beat.

Together the two infiltrate 1951 high society in the City of Lights, rubbing shoulders with the likes of the Duchess of Windsor, Audrey Hepburn, and Evelyn Waugh. Jackie, no longer a pampered debutante, draws on her quick intelligence, equestrian skills, and even her Chanel No. 5 atomizer as a weapon to stay alive in the shadowy world of international intrigue-and to keep her date with a certain up-and-coming, young Congressman from Massachusetts . . .

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It Had to Be You (Chicago Stars / Bonner Brothers) by Susan Elizabeth Phillips from HarperCollins is $0.99

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The Windy City isn't quite ready for Phoebe Somerville—the outrageous, curvaceous New York knockout who has just inherited the Chicago Stars football team. And Phoebe is definitely not ready for the Stars' head coach, former gridiron legend Dan Calebow, a sexist jock taskmaster with a one-track mind. Calebow is everything Phoebe abhors. And the sexy new boss is everything Dan despises—a meddling bimbo who doesn't know a pigskin from a pitcher's mound.

So why is Dan drawn to the shameless sexpot like a heat-seeking missile? And why does the coach's good ol' boy charm leave cosmopolitan Phoebe feeling awkward, tongue-tied...and ready to fight?

The sexy, heartwarming, and hilarious "prequel" to This Heart of Mine—Susan Elizabeth Phillips's New York Times bestselling blockbuster—It Had To Be You is an enchanting story of two stubborn people who believe in playing for keeps.

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And Only to Deceive (Lady Emily Mysteries, Book 1) by Tasha Alexander from HarperCollins is $1.99 (US Kindle)

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From gifted new writer Tasha Alexander comes a stunning novel of historical suspense set in Victorian England, meticulously researched and with a twisty plot that involves stolen antiquities, betrayal, and murder

And Only to Deceive

For Emily, accepting the proposal of Philip, the Viscount Ashton, was an easy way to escape her overbearing mother, who was set on a grand society match. So when Emily's dashing husband died on safari soon after their wedding, she felt little grief. After all, she barely knew him. Now, nearly two years later, she discovers that Philip was a far different man from the one she had married so cavalierly. His journals reveal him to have been a gentleman scholar and antiquities collector who, to her surprise, was deeply in love with his wife. Emily becomes fascinated with this new image of her dead husband and she immerses herself in all things ancient and begins to study Greek.

Emily's intellectual pursuits and her desire to learn more about Philip take her to the quiet corridors of the British Museum, one of her husband's favorite places. There, amid priceless ancient statues, she uncovers a dark, dangerous secret involving stolen artifacts from the Greco-Roman galleries. And to complicate matters, she's juggling two very prominent and wealthy suitors, one of whose intentions may go beyond the marrying kind. As she sets out to solve the crime, her search leads to more surprises about Philip and causes her to question the role in Victorian society to which she, as a woman, is relegated.

A Fatal Waltz (Lady Emily Mysteries, Book 3) by Tasha Alexander from HarperCollins is $1.99 (US Kindle)

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At her friend Ivy's behest, Emily reluctantly agrees to attend a party at the sprawling English country estate of Lord Fortescue, a man she finds as odious as he is powerful. But if Emily is expecting Lord Fortescue to be the greatest of her problems, she is wrong. Her host has also invited Kristiana von Lange, an Austrian countess who was once linked romantically with Emily's fiancé, the debonair Colin Hargreaves. What Emily believes will be a tedious evening turns deadly when Fortescue is found murdered, and his protégé, Robert Brandon—Ivy's husband—is arrested for the crime.

Determined to right this terrible wrong and clear Robert's name, Emily begins to dig for answers, a quest that will lead her from London's glittering ballrooms to Vienna's sordid backstreets. Not until she engages a notorious anarchist in a game of wits does the shocking truth begin to emerge: the price of exonerating Robert can be paid only by placing Colin in deadly peril. To save her fiancé, Emily must do the unthinkable: bargain with her nemesis, the Countess von Lange.

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The Wife Who Ran Away by Tess Stimson from NPan (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (September 11) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Kate feels invisible: her husband ignores her, her two children have become stroppy adolescents and her boss is sidelining her into obscurity. With her 40th birthday fast approaching, all she wants to do is run away. Soon Kate is in Italy with a man half her age, where she is forced to choose between her past and her future.

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The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin from HarperCollins ($3.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (September 11)

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Gretchen Rubin wasn't really unhappy, but she felt she could be happier. And so she began a methodical, year-long project to grow in happiness. Her bestselling account of this year is inspirational and amusing, written with a keen wit that makes it the perfect uplifting read.

FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal:

The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin is also $3.99 for US Kindle

The Command: Deep Inside the President's Secret Army by Marc Ambinder and D. B. Grady from Wiley ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find: Election 2012 (September 11)

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Marc Ambinder and D. B. Grady trace the history of the most lethal weapon in the President's arsenal: The United States Joint Special Operations Command. They paint a revealing portrait of a government entity that until now has been shrouded in secrecy: dedicated to stopping terrorists, even if that means defying American law.

FYI, Amazon has also matched this Nook deal:

The Command: Deep Inside the President's Secret Army (Kindle Single) by Marc Ambinder and D. B. Grady also $1.99 for US Kindle

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Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (September 11) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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This best-selling novel set in New York City during the late 1800s follows Peter Lake as he attempts to rob a Manhattan mansion only to find the daughter of the house at home. Thus begins the love between the middle-aged Irishman and Beverly Penn, a young girl who is dying.

Catcher, Caught by Sarah Collins Honenberger from AmazonEncore ($1.99) is the Kindle Young Adult Daily Deal (September 11) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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After being diagnosed with leukemia, 15-year-old Daniel Landon sees a reflection of himself in J.D. Salinger's classic novel, The Catcher in the Rye. Inspired by its principal character, Holden Caulfield, Daniel begins questioning the intentions and authority of those around him in his search for identity as he faces death.

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Wicked with Bonus Material: Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Wicked Years) by Gregory Maguire from William Morrow is $2.99 (US Kindle)

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For a limited time at a special price, go back to where The Wicked Years all began—and read excerpts from the rest of the series, including the masterly final book, Out of Oz, available November 1.

When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious Witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil?

Gregory Maguire creates a fantasy world so rich and vivid that we will never look at Oz the same way again. Wicked is about a land where animals talk and strive to be treated like first-class citizens, Munchkinlanders seek the comfort of middle-class stability, and the Tin Man becomes a victim of domestic violence. And then there is the little green-skinned girl named Elphaba, who will grow up to become the infamous Wicked Witch of the West, a smart, prickly, and misunderstood creature who challenges all our preconceived notions about the nature of good and evil.

A Small Death in the Great Glen by A. D. Scott from Atria Books/Simon and Schuster is $2.99 (US Kindle)

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Both probing character study and a driving novel of suspense, here is a novel that will linger in your mind like mist over the Scottish glens . .
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In the Highlands of 1950s Scotland, a boy is found dead in a canal lock. Two young girls tell such a fanciful story of his disappearance that no one believes them. The local newspaper staff—including Joanne Ross, the part-time typist embroiled in an abusive marriage, and her boss, a seasoned journalist determined to revamp the paper—set out to uncover and investigate the crime. Suspicion falls on several townspeople, all of whom profess their innocence. Alongside these characters are the people of the town and neighboring glens; a refugee Polish sailor; an Italian family whose cafÉ boasts the first known cappuccino machine in the north of Scotland; and a corrupt town clerk subverting the planning laws to line his own pocket.

Together, these very different Scots harbor deep and troubling secrets underneath their polished and respectable veneers—revelations that may prevent the crime from being solved and may keep the town firmly in the clutches of its shadowy past.

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Big City, Bad Blood by Sean Chercover from HarperCollins is $2.99 (US Kindle)

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A disillusioned newspaper reporter turned private detective, Ray Dudgeon isn't trying to save the world. He just wants to do an honest job, and do it well. But when doing an honest job threatens society's most powerful and corrupt, Ray's odds for survival make for a sucker's bet. . . .

While working on a movie in Chicago, Hollywood locations manager Bob Loniski saw something he shouldn't have. Now he's a prosecution witness against a suspected member of the Chicago Outfit. Petrified, he comes to Ray for protection. Ray's mob contacts insist that they have no interest in Loniski, so he takes the bodyguard gig.

Then people start dying and everything goes to hell.

Ray's investigation leads to a stash of blackmail files involving the sex trade, Washington political corruption, and a deadly power struggle among Chicago's organized crime bosses—setting the FBI, the Chicago police, and the mob on his tail. He now holds evidence against top-ranking cops and politicians . . . but with the line between good and bad blurring, he doesn't know who he can trust.

If he does the right thing, Ray is sure to die. But if he doesn't, how can he live with himself?

From the back alleys of Chicago to the man-sions of Beverly Hills to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C., Sean Chercover's Big City, Bad Blood propels readers relentlessly forward on a bullet-fast, adrenaline-pumping ride they will not soon forget.

* Trigger City also by Sean Chercover is discounted to $3.99

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FYI, Lois McMaster Bujold books (Vorkosigan Saga, The Sharing Knife series) from $0.99 to $3.99! Here's the Amazon search link

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Perfect Rigour: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of a Lifetime by Masha Gessen from Icon Books (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (September 12) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Perfect Rigour is a book about the burden of extraordinary genius. In 2000, the Poincaré Conjecture was named as one of the great unsolved mathematical problems in the world. Several years later, Grigori Perelman, a Russian mathematician, posted a solution to the puzzle, only to refuse every award and honour associated with his intellect.

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Awkward by Marni Bates from Kensington ($3.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (September 12)

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Meet Mackenzie Wellesley, a normal if somewhat clumsy teenager at Smith High. But after video of her careening into a burly football player becomes a viral internet hit, Mackenzie suddenly becomes a bona fide pop culture sensation. Life's about to get real interesting!

FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal:

Awkward by Marni Bates is also $2.99 for US Kindle

The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring On the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World by Paul Gilding from Bloomsbury USA ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find: Election 2012 (September 12)

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Stop worrying about preventing climate change, says former Greenpeace International director Paul Gilding: it's inevitable. But while his message is to brace for impact get ready for a world of scarce resources and ecological calamity. he argues that confronting these challenges will bring out the best in humanity.

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Collision of Evil by John J. Le Beau from Oceanview Publishing ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (September 12) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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American tourist Charles Hirter is murdered in the Bavarian Alps, and the German detective in charge of the case, Kommissar Franz Waldbaer, has no clues, suspects, or motives. After Waldbaer reluctantly allows the victim's brother to help, the two find themselves probing long-forgotten Nazi episodes to identify a present threat.

Corduroy by Don Freeman from Puffin ($1.99) is the Kindle Kids Daily Deal (September 12) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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This gentle, sweet, and classic children's picture book follows the nighttime adventures of a department store teddy bear that goes looking for his missing overall button after all the shoppers have gone home. Available on Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Fire, Kindle Cloud Reader, Kindle for iPad, and Kindle for Android.

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Liesl & Po by Lauren Oliver from HarperCollins is $3.79 (US Kindle)

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Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up

Liesl lives in a tiny attic bedroom, locked away by her cruel stepmother. Her only friends are the shadows and the mice—until one night a ghost appears from the darkness. It is Po, who comes from the Other Side. Both Liesl and Po are lonely, but together they are less alone.

That same night, an alchemist's apprentice, Will, bungles an important delivery. He accidentally switches a box containing the most powerful magic in the world with one containing something decidedly less remarkable

Will's mistake has tremendous consequences for Liesl and Po, and it draws the three of them together on an extraordinary journey.

From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver comes a luminous and magnificent novel that glows with rare magic, ghostly wonders, and a true friendship that lights even the darkest of places.

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The Master of Disguise by Antonio J. Mendez from William Morrow Paperbacks is $0.99 (US Kindle)

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For the first time, the CIA has authorized a top-level operative to tell all in an unforgettable behind-the-scenes look at espionage in action. an undisputed genius who could create an entirely new identity for anybody, anywhere, anytime, Antonio J. Mendez combined the cunning tricks of a magician with the analytical insight of a psychologist to help hundreds of people escape potentially fatal situations. From "Wild West" adventures in East Asia to Cold War intrigue in Moscow and helping six Americans escape revolutionary Tehran in 1980, Mendez was on the scene. Here he gives us a privileged look at what really happens in the field and behind closed doors at the highest levels of international espionage, some of it shocking, frightening, and wildly inventive--all of it unforgettable.

Elizabeth: The Golden Age by Tasha Alexander from HarperCollins is $1.99 (US Kindle)

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The reign of Queen Elizabeth I was a time of war, passion, and spectacular achievement. Elizabeth: The Golden Age finds Elizabeth facing bloodlust for her throne and familial betrayal. Growing keenly aware of the changing religious and political tides of late sixteenth-century Europe, Elizabeth faces an open challenge from the Spanish King Philip II, who is determined to restore England to Catholicism with his powerful army and dominating armada.

Preparing to go to war to defend her empire, Elizabeth struggles to balance ancient royal duties with an unexpected vulnerability: her love for the seafarer Sir Walter Raleigh. But he remains forbidden for a queen who has sworn body and soul to her country.

Yet as she charts her course abroad, treachery is the rot behind the glittering royal throne. Her most trusted adviser uncovers an assassination plot that could topple the throne, and the traitors may even include Elizabeth's own cousin Mary Stuart.

Based on the sequel to the Academy Award®-winning Elizabeth, Elizabeth: The Golden Age tells the thrilling tale of an era—the story of one woman's crusade to control love, crush enemies, and secure her position as a beloved icon of the Western world.

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There's a new Kindle Kids Daily Deal for September 12:

Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney from Viking Children's is $3.99 (US Kindle)

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Tucked into bed by his mama, Baby Llama immediately starts worrying when she goes downstairs. Children will relate to Baby Llama's need for comfort, and parents will appreciate Mama Llama's reassuring message in this infectious rhyming read-aloud. Available on Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Fire, Kindle Cloud Reader, Kindle for iPad, and Kindle for Android.

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Arcadia by Lauren Groff from Hyperion is $2.99 (US Kindle)

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New York Times Bestseller

"Even the most incidental details vibrate with life ? Arcadia wends a harrowing path back to a fragile, lovely place you can believe in." --Ron Charles, The Washington Post

In the fields of western New York State in the 1970s, a few dozen idealists set out to live off the land, founding a commune centered on the grounds of a decaying mansion called Arcadia House. Arcadia follows this romantic utopian dream from its hopeful start through its heyday. Arcadia’s inhabitants include Handy, the charismatic leader; his wife, Astrid, a midwife; Abe, a master carpenter; Hannah, a baker and historian; and Abe and Hannah’s only child, Bit. While Arcadia rises and falls, Bit, too, ages and changes. He falls in love with Helle, Handy’s lovely, troubled daughter. And eventually he must face the world beyond Arcadia.

In Arcadia, Groff displays her literary gifts to stunning effect.

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Sweeping Up Glass by Carolyn D. Wall from Quercus (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (September 13) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Olivia owns a strip of mountain in Pope County, Kentucky--a land where whites and blacks eke out a living in separate, tattered kingdoms, and where silver-faced wolves howl in the night. But someone is killing the wolves of Big Foley Mountain–and Olivia is beginning to realise how much of her own bitter history she’s never understood

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Bewitching by Jill Barnett from BelleBooks ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (September 13)

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Romance and enchantment come magically alive in bestselling author Jill Barnett's historical romance. Joyous Fiona MacQuarrie, a witch with unpredictable powers, bewitches Alec, the Duke of Belmore, and soon turns his life upside-down. Are his feelings for her true, despite her sorcery? And will their love survive when he discovers her secret?

Live from the Campaign Trail: The Greatest Presidential Campaign Speeches of the Twentieth Century and How They Shaped Modern America by Michael A Cohen from Bloomsbury USA ($0.99) is the NOOK Daily Find: Election 2012 (September 13)

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In this selection of the most influential presidential stump speeches of the twentieth century, Michael A. Cohen brings the words of JFK and FDR, Nixon and Clinton to life by providing historical context for each speech while documenting the everyday American's reaction to these rousing flights of oratory.

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The Goddess Of Fried Okra by Jean Brashear from BelleBooks ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (September 13) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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In Jean Brashear's novel of life in the American South, ex-cocktail waitress and "convenience store professional" Eudora O'Brien lives low on cash and all alone, but as the novel progresses, her poignant journey comprises a tale filled with grief, hope, love, sword fights, and--of course--the crisp glory of fried okra.

Mary Poppins (Odyssey Classics) by P.L. Travers from Harcourt Children's Books ($1.99) is the Kindle Kids Daily Deal (September 13) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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P. L. Travers's timeless classic has thrilled children (and adults) for almost 80 years. Follow the adventures of the most exciting nanny that England--and the world--has ever seen.

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Bone Worship: A Novel by Elizabeth Eslami from Pegasus is $2.99 (US Kindle)

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A rich and soul-searching novel about an Iranian-American girl whose enigmatic father has decided to arrange her marriage.

Jasmine Fahroodhi has always been fascinated by her enigmatic Iranian father. With his strange habits and shrouded past, she can’t fathom how he ended up marrying her prim American mother. But lately love in general feels just as incomprehensible. After a disastrous romance sends her into a tailspin, causing her to fail out of college just shy of graduation, a conflicted Jasmine returns home without any idea where her life is headed.

Her father has at least one idea–he has big plans for a hastegar, an arranged marriage. Confused, furious, but intrigued, Jasmine searches for her match, meeting suitor after suitor with increasingly disastrous (and humorous) results. As she begins to open herself up to the mysteries of familial and romantic love, Jasmine discovers the truth about her father, and an even more evasive figure–herself–in this highly original and striking debut novel.

Pilgrim by Hugh Nissenson from Sourcebooks Landmark is $2.59 (US Kindle)

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A new masterpiece from National Book Award and Pen/Faulkner Award finalist Hugh Nissenson, The Pilgrim explores the foundation myths of America, a country settled by people intoxicated by the pursuit of God and yearning for redemption and freedom.

Charles Wentworth, a heartbroken Puritan, comes to the New World from England in 1622 in search of salvation and a new beginning. Burdened with a lifelong struggle between his desire for faith and his doubts about God’s love for him, he leaves the only land he has ever known after the death of his fiancée, in hopes of being freed of the temptations that torment him.

The Ninth Day (Emma Caldridge) by Jamie Freveletti from Harper is $0.99 (US Kindle)

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In less than nine days, terror crosses the border . . .

Hiking in Arizona, biochemist Emma Caldridge inadvertently interrupts the operations of dangerous traffickers in human cargo—and is chased south into the arms of millionaire drug merchants. Suddenly a prisoner of Mexico’s most feared cartel, Emma makes a shocking discovery in the marijuana fields outside Ciudad Juarez: plants rotting with a flesh-eating toxin that causes a truly horrible death within nine days of exposure. And there is no antidote.

The cartel believes that U.S. agents contaminated the plants, and, determined to make their enemy pay, they prepare to spread their lethal product across America. Emma Caldridge searches desperately for a cure, but time is running out more quickly than she anticipated. For Emma herself has been infected—and, barring a miracle, she will die before the terrible dawning of . . .

Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill by Riki Ott from Chelsea Green Publishing is $2.86 (US Kindle)

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Shocking, factual, and inspiring, Not One Drop traces the twenty-year trail of Cordova, Alaska, residents as they cope with the largest oil spill and one of the longest-running court cases in U.S. history—and, ultimately, the failure of Exxon to come through on its promise to compensate them adequately for their losses and clean up their environment after the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

Not One Drop is a moving human tale. A fisherwoman and scientist, Riki Ott chronicles the struggles and resilience of the Cordova people as they overcome despair and find hope. Her activist heart leads her into the center of the battle forher community, and ultimately to a quest to protect other communities in America from similar harm.

Ott portrays a clash of human rights and corporate power that leaves everyAmerican vulnerable, unless we can reinvigorate our democracy and reform a legalsystem that currently holds corporations above citizens.

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FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal:

Bewitching by Jill Barnett also $1.99