Over at Kobo eBooks, we have a new set of 25% off coupon codes: feb10us25, feb10ca25, feb10au25 and feb10row25 (sorry UK and NZ, you got left out this time, it seems).
Additional formats on these free books are now available (be careful at B&N if not using the links, as some have multiple editions, not all of which are free):
- It Takes a Genome (K/N)
- Beyond the Keynesian Endpoint (K/N)
- Essential Rules from Richard Templar (K/N)
- Presentations in Action (K/N)
- Lead with LUV (K/N)
- Traveller's Refuge (K/N/E/DF)
- Holding the Cards (K/N/E/DF)
- 50 Ways to Hex Your Lover (K/N/E/P/I)
- Scream (K/N/E)
- Success Is Not an Accident (K/N/E)
- 40 Unforgettable Dates with Your Mate (K/N/E)
- Us: A User's Guide (K/N/E)
- Success Is Not an Accident (K/N/E)
Not Comin' Home to You ($0.99), by Lawrence Block, is today's Kindle Deal of the Day. In addition, Open Road seems to have put several more of his titles on sale, many of them originally published under various pseudonyms, including "Jill Emerson". A couple, though, appear to have been published under his own name:- The Specialists ($3.82)
- Random Walk ($3.99)
Book Description
A pair of disaffected Midwestern youths meet, fall in love, and light out on a cross-country killing spree...
Jimmie John Hall wasn’t anything until he was a killer, and Betty Dienhardt wasn’t anything until she met Jimmie John Hall. When they get together, sparks fly and bullets follow. The first to go are Betty’s parents, but Betty isn’t bothered. She only wants to be with her man—the first person to ever make her feel special. They set off on a cross-country spree, killing for gas money and food, killing to swap their car for one the police aren’t looking for. As the dragnet draws tighter they only grow closer, riding a road that leads to death because death has surrounded them all the time.
Taking inspiration from the true story of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate—the murderous teenage couple whose rampage inspired the film Badlands—Lawrence Block has crafted a pulsating narrative, as enthralling and terrifying as only young love can be.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Lawrence Block, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from his personal collection, and a new afterword written by the author.
Look at Me ($1.57 / £0.99 UK), by Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Egan, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $11.99).Book Description
Reconstructive facial surgery after a car crash so alters Manhattan model Charlotte that, within the fashion world, where one's look is oneself, she is unrecognizable. Seeking a new image, Charlotte engages in an Internet experiment that may both save and damn her. As her story eerily converges with that of a plain, unhappy teenager - another Charlotte - it raises tantalizing questions about identity and reality in contemporary Western culture.
Jennifer Egan's bold, innovative novel, demonstrating her virtuosity at weaving a spellbinding, ambitious tale with language that dazzles, captures the spirit of our times and offers an unsettling glimpse of the future.
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time ($2.99 Kindle, B&N), by Dava Sobel, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle. If you missed it when it was the Kindle Deal of the Day just after New Year's, then this is a good price to pick it up.Book Description
Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that “the longitude problem” was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day-and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. Thousands of lives, and the increasing fortunes of nations, hung on a resolution. The scientific establishment of Europe-from Galileo to Sir Isaac Newton-had mapped the heavens in both hemispheres in its certain pursuit of a celestial answer. In stark contrast, one man, John Harrison, dared to imagine a mechanical solution-a clock that would keep precise time at sea, something no clock had ever been able to do on land. Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest, and of Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer. Full of heroism and chicanery, it is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation, and clockmaking, and opens a new window on our world.
