Today's free MP3 is a Tex-Mex album that is an Amazon exclusive by The Krayolas (a San Antonio band you can hear on Little Steven's Underground Garage show, quite often) and features Flaco Jimenez - both are pretty popular artists in their own right and fans won't want to miss this one. You can get another free song (Honeybee of Love, which will be on their next album) from the band on their website, as well as listen to their birthday song recorded for Bob Dylan and check out a several music videos.
Blood of the Wicked ($2.99 Kindle, B&N), the first title in the Chief Inspector Mario Silva series by Leighton Gage, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle. Check your libraries on this one, as it was free in Dec '10 under a different ASIN (I have not idea if it's a new listing at B&N, as they don't indicate on a book page that you've bought it, but it's in my library there, too).Book Description
In the remote Brazilian town of Cascatas do Pontal, where landless peasants are confronting the owners of vast estates, the bishop arrives by helicopter to consecrate a new church and is assassinated.
Mario Silva, chief inspector for criminal matters of the federal police of Brazil, is dispatched to the interior to find the killer. The pope himself has called Brazil’s president; the pressure is on Silva to perform. Assisted by his nephew, Hector Costa, also a federal policeman, Silva must battle the state police and a corrupt judiciary as well as criminals who prey on street kids, the warring factions of the Landless League, the big landowners, and the church itself, in order to solve the initial murder and several brutal killings that follow. Justice is hard to come by. An old priest, a secret liberation theologist, finally metes it out. Here is a Brazil that tourists never encounter.
Today's Kindle Deal of the Day features all titles in the 2011 The Best American Series for $1.99 each. These are great short story and essay compilations and definitely recommended (although the last one seems a bit controversial this year). I've been lucky enough to get a couple of them for review and will be using this sale to add them to my permanent library.
- The Best American Short Stories 2011, edited by Geraldine Brooks and Heidi Pitlor
Includes: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Megan Mayhew Bergman, Jennifer Egan, Nathan Englander, Allegra Goodman, Ehud Havazelet, Rebecca Makkai, Steven Millhauser, George Saunders, Mark Slouka, and others- The Best American Mystery Stories 2011, edited by Harlan Coben and Otto Penzler
Includes: Lawrence Block, Brendan DuBois, Loren D. Estleman, Beth Ann Fennelly and Tom Franklin, Ed Gorman, Richard Lange, S. J. Rozan, Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins, and others- The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011, edited by Mary Roach and Tim Folger
Includes: Atul Gawande, Jonathan Franzen, Deborah Blum, Malcolm Gladwell, Oliver Sacks, Jon Mooallem, Jon Cohen, Luke Dittrich, and others- The Best American Essays 2011, edited by Edwidge Danticat and Robert Atwan
Includes: Hilton Als, Katy Butler, Toi Derricotte, Christopher Hitchens, Pico Iyer, Charlie LeDuff, Chang-Rae Lee, Lia Purpura, Zadie Smith, Reshma Memon Yaqub, and others- The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011, edited by Dave Eggers
Includes: Daniel Alarcón, Clare Beams, Sloane Crosley, Anthony Doerr, Neil Gaiman, Mohammed Hanif, Mac McClelland, Michael Paterniti, Olivier Schrauwen, Gary Shteyngart, and others- The Best American Travel Writing 2011, edited by Sloane Crosley and Jason Wilson
Includes: André Aciman, Christopher Buckley, Maureen Dowd, Verlyn Klinkenborg, Ariel Levy, Téa Obreht, Annie Proulx, Gary Shteyngart, William T. Vollmann, Emily Witt, and others- The Best American Sports Writing 2011, edited by Glenn Stout and Jane Leavy
Includes: Paul Solotaroff, Sally Jenkins, Wells Tower, John McPhee, David Dobbs, Wright Thompson, P. J. O’Rourke, Selena Roberts, and others
Paw Tracks in the Moonlight ($1.56 / £0.99 UK), by Denis O'Connor, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $7.99).Book Description
When Denis O'Connor rescues a three-week-old kitten from certain death during a snowstorm, little does he know how this tiny creature will change his life forever. Against all odds the kitten - who he names Toby Jug - survives and forms an unusually strong bond with his rescuer. Set against the rural splendour of Northumberland, Paw Tracks in the Moonlight charmingly chronicles the adventures of one man and his Maine Coone cat.
From an invasion of bees at Owl Cottage to the case of the disappearing tomatoes, life with Toby Jug - who believes himself to be human - is never dull. Nevertheless, it is only when Denis and Toby Jug embark on a summer camping trip on horseback in the Cheviot Hills that a new world opens up for them both.
