Today is the last day for the 20% off coupons (on sidebar) for
KoboBooks; for those shopping at
Fictionwise, you can still use coupon code 020312 for 30% off all but Samhain titles.
Prisoners in the Palace: How Princess Victoria became Queen with the Help of Her Maid, a Reporter, and a Scoundrel (
$1.99), by Michaela MacColl, is today's Kindle Deal of the Day.
Book Description
YA (12 and up) debut novel set in Victorian England and based on newfound knowledge of the childhood and adolescence of Queen Victoria.
London, 1838. Sixteen-year-old Liza's dreams of her society debut are dashed when her parents are killed in an accident. Penniless, she accepts the position of lady's maid to young Princess Victoria and steps unwittingly into the gossipy intrigue of the servant's world below-stairs as well as the trickery above. Is it possible that her changing circumstances may offer Liza the chance to determine her own fate, find true love, and secure the throne for her future queen?
Meticulously based on newly discovered information, this riveting novel is as rich in historical detail as Catherine, Called Birdy, and as sizzling with intrigue as The Luxe.
Let Us Build Us a City: Eleven Lost Towns (
$1.57 / £0.99 UK), by Donald Harington, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the
US edition is $7.99, but is KLL Lending eligible).
Book Description
This work brilliantly fuses travel narrative with history and cultural studies—yet reads like a novel. It’s also a love story that is in no way fictional. A fan letter to the author from a woman named Kim starts a correspondence which details research she’s conducting in one-horse towns throughout Arkansas.
In the years of rural decline many of these towns dwindled to church, post office, general store, gas station, and a few rundown houses—but every house has a porch, every porch a rocker, and every rocker an old man or woman with a story.
Kim and Don agree to collaborate on a book—this one—creating a unique and enchanting work about towns that will never again be their old selves and towns that never fulfilled the brave dreams of their founders. And at the end of the adventure the author and Kim meet, having learned something of expectation and hope—and love. With photos and maps.
Gossip Girl (
$1.99 Kindle,
B&N), the first in the popular YA series by Cecily von Ziegesar, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.
Book Description
Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where my friends and I live, go to school, play, and sleep--sometimes with each other.
S is back from boarding school, and if we aren't careful, she's going to win over our teachers, wear that dress we couldn't fit into, steal our boyfriends' hearts, and basically ruin our lives in a major way. I'll be watching closely...
You know you love me,
gossip girl
A different sort of list of free books today.... The books below are all listed on the Amazon Limited Time Offers list, which implies that it is Amazon, in conjunction with the "publisher" (often the author, from what it looks like, or a micro-press), who has made the books free. This isn't the same method used for the KDP free books (the usual route used by indie/backlist authors and small presses). I'm not sure if any are especially worth reading and the last ones on the list are from a strange "franchise" home bookstore concept company,
In10city Pte Ltd in Singapore, with an author of "33.3 IM Readio”, which they describe as "the first ever radio on print."
- Never Yours, by Connie Smith
- The Gang That Shot Up Hollywood: Chronicles of a Chronicle Writer: Vol. 1, by John Stanley
- Teach Anyone to Read: A No-Nonsense Guide, by Lillie Pope
- The Obesity Cure: Weight Control, Metabolic Health, Revitalized Youth With Power Amino Acids, by George Scheele
- Do You See What I See?, by James Sallie
- The Road Trip: Sidecar Adventures With God, by Jo Lynn Crozier
- Smokers or Non-smokers: Who owns the World?, by 33.3 IM READIO
- Arranged Marriage, by 33.3 IM READIO
- Troubled Parenting, by 33.3 IM READIO
- Wisdom & Withering, by 33.3 IM READIO
