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Life After Yes: A Novel by Aidan Donnelley Rowley from HarperCollins is $2.99 (US Kindle, iTunes)

Book Description

"Music plays. Dad appears. I walk with him, eyes fastened to the floor. When I look up, something is very wrong. There are three grooms."

This is the story of Quinn—born Prudence Quinn O'Malley—a confused young Manhattan attorney who loses her father on that tragic September morning that changed everything. Now, at an existential crossroads in her life, Quinn must confront impossible questions about commitment and career, love and loss. Her idealistic beau desperately wants a wedding, and whisks her away to Paris just to propose. But then Quinn has a dream featuring judges and handcuffs and Nietzsche and Britney . . . and far too many grooms. Suddenly, her future isn't so clear. Quinn's world has become a minefield of men—some living, some gone, and traversing it safely is going to take a lot more than numerous glasses of pinot grigio.

Life After Yes is a blisteringly honest, thoroughly modern tale of life and love in chaos, marking the arrival of a truly exciting new voice in contemporary fiction.

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FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook deal:

A Single Thread (Cobbled Quilt Series #1) by Marie Bostwick also $3.99

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City of Veils: A Novel (Katya Hijazi) by Zoë Ferraris from Little, Brown and Company is $2.99 (US Kindle, iTunes)

Description
Women in Saudi Arabia are expected to lead quiet lives circumscribed by Islamic law and tradition. But Katya, one of the few women in the medical examiner's office, is determined to make her work mean something.

When the body of a brutally beaten woman is found on the beach in Jeddah, the city's detectives are ready to dismiss the case as another unsolvable murder-chillingly common in a city where the veils of conservative Islam keep women as anonymous in life as the victim is in death. If this is another housemaid killed by her employer, finding the culprit will be all but impossible.

Only Katya is convinced that the victim can be identified and her killer found. She calls upon her friend Nayir for help, and soon discovers that the dead girl was a young filmmaker named Leila, whose controversial documentaries earned her many enemies.

With only the woman's clandestine footage as a guide, Katya and Nayir must confront the dark side of Jeddah that Leila struggled to expose: an underworld of prostitution, violence, exploitation, and jealously guarded secrets. Along the way, they form an unlikely alliance with an American woman whose husband has disappeared. Their growing search takes them from the city's car-clogged streets to the deadly vastness of the desert beyond.

In CITY OF VEILS, award-winning author Zoë Ferraris combines a thrilling, fast-paced mystery with a rare and intimate look into women's lives in the Middle East.

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Wake Up Dead: A Thriller (Cape Town Thrillers) by Roger Smith from Henry Holt and Co. is $2.99 (US Kindle, iTunes)

Description
An amphetamine-fueled thriller about a bombshell American widow on the run in Cape Town’s violent badlands—from a writer being compared to George Pelecanos and Richard Price

A split-second decision with no second chance: get it wrong and you wake up dead.

On a blowtorch-hot night in Cape Town, American ex-model Roxy Palmer and her gunrunner husband, Joe, are carjacked, leaving Joe lying in a pool of blood. As the carjackers make their getaway, Roxy makes a fateful choice that changes her life forever.

Disco and Godwynn, the ghetto g********rs who sped away in Joe’s convertible, will stop at nothing to track her down. Billy Afrika, a mixed-race ex-cop turned mercenary, won’t let her out of his sight because Joe owed him a chunk of money. And remorselessly hunting them all is Piper, a love-crazed psychopath determined to renew his vows with his jailhouse “wife,” Disco.

As these desperate lives collide and old debts are settled in blood, Roxy is caught in a wave of escalating violence in the beautiful and brutal African seaport. With savage plotting and breakneck suspense that ends in a shattering cataclysm of violence, Wake Up Dead confirms Roger Smith as one of the world’s best new thriller writers.

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Wicked Intentions (Maiden Lane) by Elizabeth Hoyt from Grand Central Publishing is $1.99 (US Kindle, iTunes)

Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of To Desire a Devil comes this thrilling tale of danger, desire, and dark passions.

A MAN CONTROLLED BY HIS DESIRES . . .

Infamous for his wild, sensual needs, Lazarus Huntington, Lord Caire, is searching for a savage killer in St. Giles, London's most notorious slum. Widowed Temperance Dews knows St. Giles like the back of her hand-she's spent a lifetime caring for its inhabitants at the foundling home her family established. Now that home is at risk . . .

A WOMAN HAUNTED BY HER PAST . . .

Caire makes a simple offer-in return for Temperance's help navigating the perilous alleys of St. Giles, he will introduce her to London's high society so that she can find a benefactor for the home. But Temperance may not be the innocent she seems, and what begins as cold calculation soon falls prey to a passion that neither can control-one that may well destroy them both.

A BARGAIN NEITHER COULD REFUSE

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The Playdate by Louise Millar from Pan (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (June 7) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

When Callie moved into her new neighbourhood, she thought it would be easy for her and her daughter to make friends. But the other parents have been strangely hostile and after the police suggest someone dangerous may be living in their neighbourhood, the atmosphere becomes even more toxic.

Psych Yourself Rich: Get the Mindset and Discipline You Need to Build Your Financial Life by Farnoosh Torabi from Pearson Education ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (June 7)

Product Description

Everyone wants money, but before you get it, you need to develop the necessary mindset for success. Here, personal finance expert Farnoosh Torabi teaches you how you can develop a healthy view of money and investing that will inform your action plan toward building your wealth.

The Child in Time by Ian McEwan from RosettaBooks ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (June 7) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

Stephen Lewis, a successful children's book author, takes his three-year-old daughter, Kate, to the supermarket one Saturday morning. For a moment, he gets distracted, and when his attention turns back to Kate, she's gone. This powerful, beautifully written, and unforgettable novel earned Ian McEwan the Whitbread Novel Award in 1987.

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FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook Family deal from yesterday:

The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo also $1.99

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City of Veils: A Novel (Katya Hijazi) by Zoë Ferraris from Little, Brown and Company is $2.99 (US Kindle, iTunes)

Also available at B&N for $2.99.

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Spycatcher with a Bonus Excerpt by Matthew Dunn from William Morrow is $0.99 (US Kindle)

Book Description

For a limited time and a special price, follow intelligence agent Will Cochrane—working on a joint mission for the CIA and MI6—as he tracks and attempts to capture a brilliant and ruthless Iranian spy in this extraordinary international espionage thriller.

Plus, receive the first seven chapters of real life former field officer Matthew Dunn's new Will Cochrane thriller, Sentinel, available wherever books are sold August 7, 2012.

Come Back with a Bonus Excerpt: A Mother and Daughter's Journey Through Hell and Back by Claire Fontaine and Mia Fontaine from William Morrow Paperbacks is $0.99 (US Kindle)

Book Description

For a limited time, and at a special price, download the bestselling memoir Come Back, and receive a free excerpt from Claire and Mia Fontaine's new book, Have Mother, Will Travel, available wherever books are sold 7/17.

Come Back is an unforgettable true story of love and transformation that will resonate with mothers and daughters everywhere.

In powerful parallel stories, mother and daughter give mesmerizing first-person accounts of the nightmare that shattered their family and the amazing journey they took to find their way back to each other. Claire Fontaine's relentless cross-country search for her missing child and ultimate decision to force her into treatment in Eastern Europe is a gripping tale of dead ends, painful revelations, and, at times, miracles. Mia Fontaine describes her refuge in the seedy underworld of felons and addicts as well as the jarring shock of the extreme, if loving, school that enabled her to overcome depression and self-loathing. Both women detail their remarkable process of self-examination and healing with humor and unsparing honesty.

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Rosie's Bakery Chocolate-Packed, Jam-Filled, Butter-Rich, No-Holds-Barred Cookie Book by Judy Rosenberg from Workman Publishing Company is $2.99 (US Kindle)

Book Description

Celebrating rich, buttery, over-the-top treats, award-winning baker and author Judy Rosenberg shares 150 inspired but easy-to-make cookie recipes that never stint on the good stuff. Think chocolate chips and chocolate chunks, mounds of jam and heaps of nuts, the butter crunch of real shortbread and the tender chew of a gooey bar.

Cookies and milk will never taste the same again. Among the old favorites and new classics: Noah's Chocolate Chocolatey Chocolate Chips, Hazelnut Crisps, Banana-Nut Chocolate Chunks, Almond Biscotti (low-fat, but don't tell anyone), Coconut Dainties, Pucker-Your-Lips Apricot Linzer Bars, and adorable little custard-filled Boston Cream Pies.

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Seven Books by MC Beaton from Robinson at £0.99 each is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (June 8) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

In this acclaimed detective series by MC Beaton, Hamish Macbeth is the sole Police Constable in a small village where there's not much to do. Join him as he investigates a series of mysterious deaths.

Life of Pi by Yann Martel from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find (June 8)

Product Description

It's the book your friends have been saying you simply must read. Life of Pi is, simply put, a masterwork of modern storytelling. On its face a survival story of young Pi Patel adrift on a lifeboat with a 450 pound tiger, the novel is so much more -- a meditation on spirituality, nature, and truth that you'll not soon forget.

The Captain's Dog: My Journey with the Lewis and Clark Tribe (Great Episodes) by Roland Smith from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ($1.99) is the NOOK Daily Find for Families (June 8)

Product Description

Born the runt of his litter and gambled away to a rusty old riverman, the Newfoundland pup Seaman doesn’t imagine his life will be marked by any kind of glory--beyond chasing down rats. But when he meets Captain Meriwether Lewis, Seaman finds himself on a path that will make history.

Stealing Trinity by Ward Larsen from Oceanview Publishing ($0.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (June 8) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

Product Description

In the last days of WWII, the Third Reich tries to retrieve a spy planted deep in the Manhattan Project, birthplace of the atomic bomb. For the mission, the Nazis choose a ruthless killer, American-born Alexander Braun. When the British find out, Major Michael Thatcher is sent to hunt Braun.

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Weekly deal vote winner (this promo ends this week):

Deja Vu (Sisterhood Novels) by Fern Michaels is $1.99

Book Description

Celebrate With The Sisterhood

Thanks to a presidential pardon, the Sisterhood can put their fugitive days behind them and resume their lives in peace. Still, all the women admit that lately things are a little too calm and peaceful. Meeting up for the first time in months to celebrate Kathryn's birthday--in the City of Sin, no less--seems like the perfect antidote.

But before they can kick up their heels something too big to pass up is dropped into their laps. The time has come to deal with Enemy #1, a/k/a Hank Jellicoe. Wanted by the FBI, the CIA, and Homeland Security for starters, President Connor herself has run out of patience with their lack of results. Only the Sisterhood, with their special blend of guts, imagination, and friends in all places are capable of pulling off the impossible--of hunting down this monster and taking him out once and for all...

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Originally Posted by arcadata

Spycatcher with a Bonus Excerpt by Matthew Dunn from William Morrow is $0.99 (US Kindle)

Also available at B&N.

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FYI, Amazon has matched the Nook find from yesterday:

Psych Yourself Rich: Get the Mindset and Discipline You Need to Build Your Financial Life by Farnoosh Torabi also $1.99

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Top Producer: A Novel by Norb Vonnegut from Minotaur Books is $2.99 (US Kindle, iTunes)

Book Description

In a world that moves as fast as finance does, top producers have to think three steps ahead and make snap decisions. Theirs is a blurred version of reality, one that conceals moves as much as it rewards the bold ones. All too easily, scams can be disguised as success; plotting can be mistaken for killer instincts. And as Grove O’Rourke finds out, “Nothing obscures vulnerability like success. Nothing that is, except for friendships.”

But this book isn’t about stocks and bonds—it’s about people. About Grove O’Rourke, top producer at the investment firm of Sachs, Kidder, and Carnegie, and about his best friend, Charlie Kelemen, whose spectacular murder is carried out in front of hundreds of horrified party-goers at the opening of the novel. It’s about Charlie’s widow, who comes to Grove for help after her husband’s death, even though she’s hiding a dark secret. And it’s about how money—vast sums of money—can cover up even the most glaring imper fections in relationships, and fool everyone.

Well, almost everyone.
With the ease of someone who has lived in the world of top producers, NorbVonnegut has crafted a sharp, dark thriller that will make you think—and then double-check your investments.