The companion mini-book,
Brand Like A Rock Star (EPUB/nook/noDRM), is now free on Kindle.
Blood Country (Kindle/EPUB/nook) is now free at B&N. Also, O'Reilly has added four more free computer publications:
For those using EPUB, there are a couple of new coupon codes at
Kobo:
save20oct29 (20% off) and
save30oct90 (30% off). Both are one-use and expire October 26.
Kobo has also introduced their own new tablet reader, the
Kobo Vox
, which will be released in about a week. I have one on order, so should be able to give you a comparison between it, the nookColor and the Fire (which should release a couple of weeks later). Every book you purchase at Kobo between now and Oct 31 gives you a chance to win one of their new ereaders.
The Human Stain ($9.99 Kindle;
$3.60 B&N), by Philip Roth, is the Nook Daily Find.
Book Description
It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Silk would have astonished his most virulent accuser. Coleman Silk has a secret. But it's not the secret of his affair, at seventy-one, with Faunia Farley, a woman half his age with a savagely wrecked past - a part-time farmhand and a janitor at the college where, until recently, he was the powerful dean of faculty. And it's not the secret of Coleman's alleged racism, which provoked the college witch-hunt that cost him his job and, to his mind, killed his wife. Nor is it the secret of misogyny, despite the best efforts of his ambitious young colleague, Professor Delphine Roux, to expose him as a fiend. Coleman's secret has been kept for fifty years: from his wife, his four children, his colleagues, and his friends, including the writer Nathan Zuckerman, who sets out to understand how this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, had fabricated his identity and how that cannily controlled life came unraveled. Set in 1990s America, where conflicting moralities and ideological divisions are made manifest through public denunciation and rituals of purification, The Human Stain concludes Philip Roth's eloquent trilogy of postwar American lives that are as tragically determined by the nation's fate as by the "human stain" that so ineradicably marks human nature. This harrowing, deeply compassionate, and completely absorbing novel is a magnificent successor to his Vietnam-era novel, American Pastoral, and his McCarthy-era novel, I MARRIED A COMMUNIST.
The Intruders: A Jake Grafton Novel (
$1.99), by Stephen Coonts, is today's Kindle Deal of the Day.
Book Description
A war-weary Navy pilot confronts the deadly skies of the South Pacific, training Marine pilots and battling Soviets MiGs in the wake of the Vietnam War
Fighter pilot Jake Grafton is adrift following combat in Vietnam. With no place in the States to call home, Grafton sticks to what he knows best: taking on the world’s most treacherous skies from the cockpit of a Grumman A-6 Intruder.
Now, stationed in the South Pacific on the U.S.S. Columbia, Grafton must teach the Marines aboard the art of flying from an aircraft carrier—a mission that, thanks to the unruly Marine Captain Le Beau, is as joyless as it is dangerous. But when an unexpected enemy appears from above, Grafton and Le Beau must put aside their differences and work together to save the lives of all onboard.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Stephen Coonts, including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
