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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Today's Deals

Today only, get a $25 gift card when you buy any nook model using your Mastercard. You can also get a gift card with the purchase of a Kindle Fire at Walmart (and it's for $50), according to an ad I just saw. That's a pretty good deal if you shop at Walmart (or Sam's Club) anyway, as you are essentially getting the Fire for $149 (if you don't usually shop there, turn around and use the gift card to get a good case and stylus, before you leave).

Another 3-day sale at Comixology, this time on the Archaia series. You can get three issues ( Awakening #1, Feeding Ground #1 (English or Spanish) and Killing Pickman #1) for free, with the remainder at 99 cents each OR get each series as a collected work for $2.99 or $3.99 (the better deal) and just use the first issue as an extended sample.

Several additional formats for Candy Cookbook (K/N/E/I) are now available (and free). In addition, the following Christian published titles are repeating free, in the Barnes & Noble store, only:
Today is the last day to take advantage of this KSO deal (assuming you signed up for it, last month):

What It Takes: The Way to the White House ($1.99), by Richard Ben Cramer, is today's Kindle Deal of the Day.
Book Description
A masterpiece of political reportage that exposes the emotional reality of the modern American campaign system

Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Richard Ben Cramer cracks open the heart of the American political system in this classic exploration of the 1988 presidential campaign. Cramer delves into the personal, intimate lives of the key candidates, including George H. W. Bush, Bob Dole, Joe Biden, and Michael Dukakis, as he seeks to understand the drives, passions, egos, and failings that transform an individual into a president.

Exhaustively researched from thousands of hours of interviews, What It Takes creates powerful portraits of the men who would be president, and how the campaign for the highest office transforms them.

I've Said It Before... ($1.88 / £1.19 UK), by Andy Simpson, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (no US edition).
Book Description
'I read that a woman has left her husband and children to go and live with a Red Indian she met on the internet. Could it be said that her marriage was going through a bad Apache?'

Thousands of letters to the Daily Mail go unpublished every week - until now. Included in this collection of 'the best of the rest' are pithy notes from grammar pedants, serious contributions to debates of the day and hilarious misunderstandings, observations and experiences.

Corresponding on themes as diverse as Australian tree frogs, the legalisation of cannabis and Camilla Parker-Bowles, the letters of these Daily Mail readers chronicle life in an unmistakeably British way. Some were too oddball, some too polemical, obscure, outrageous or whimsical for initial publication, but all are remarkable for their unique insights into the way we live now...

Jade Lady Burning ($2.99 Kindle, B&N), the first title in the Sergeants Sueno and Bascom Series series by Martin Limon, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.
Book Description
Almost twenty years after the end of the Korean War, the U.S. Military is still present throughout South Korea, and tensions run high. Koreans look for any opportunity to hate the soldiers who drink at their bars and carouse with their women. When Pak Ok-Suk, a young Korean woman, is found brutally murdered in a torched apartment in the Itaewon red-light district of Seoul, it looks like it might be the work of her American soldier boyfriend. Sergeants George SueƱo and Ernie Bascom, Military Police for the U.S. 8th Army, are assigned to the case, but they have nothing to go on other than a tenuous connection to an infamous prostitute. As repressed resentments erupt around them, the pair sets out on an increasingly dangerous quest to find evidence that will absolve their countryman.