Today's Deals

Today is the last day to enter the Kobo daily contest. If you've missed a day, you can answer prior day's questions after the daily question (and still get another coupon code). The coupon codes won will expire at the end of the contest (presumably today).

BooksOnBoard has a 25% off publisher's price sale on all eligible Sci-Fi titles with promo code Feb29!

For a bit of Whimsy, be sure to check out the Google home page today.

Now free on Kindle:

• Blue Hole Back Home (K/N/E/DF)

I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can ($0.99), by Barbara Gordon, is today's Kindle Deal of the Day.

Book Description
Barbara had it all: a successful career as an award-winning documentary film maker, a strong relationship, and plenty of friends. But a lingering problem with anxiety drew her into a dangerous Valium addiction. Her story is an honest, gripping look into addiction, her ill-advised cold-turkey withdrawal and the hospitalizations that followed, the worst the psychiatric field has to offer, and her painful yet persistent pathway back to functioning. Through it all, Gordon is a beacon of hope, actively choosing life over the alternative, even after journeying to the darkest depths of the human psyche.This beautifully written classic is a must read for anyone battling their own psychological demons, anyone in the mental health field, and everyone in need of an inspiring survivor story.

Puppy Love ($1.57 / £0.99 UK), by Frauke Scheunemann, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (no US edition; too bad, this one looks cute).

Book Description
Hercules is a dachshund, and his new mistress Caroline is the greatest human being on earth. She's the one who rescued him from the animal shelter, who smells of summer and strawberries, and who laughs when the little pup snuggles up with her on the sofa.

So when Caroline is badly treated by her bossy, dog-hating boyfriend, Hercules decides it's high time he rescued his mistress for a change. And so begins an epic quest to find his favourite woman the perfect man...

Touching, original, and very funny, Puppy Love is a story about love, life, and the best friend a girl could ever have.

The Best American Short Stories 2011 ($1.99 Kindle, B&N), edited by Geraldine Brooks and Heidi Pitlor, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle. What you won't see on the official Daily Find page, though, is that B&N has actually dropped the price of the series to $1.99 (just as Amazon did earlier this week).

In addition, I now see that there is a Nook Daily Find Families selection, Dora Helps Diego! (Dora the Explorer) ($3.19 Kindle, $1.44 B&N), apparently a new feature at B&N, where a kid-friendly choice is also posted daily. Doesn't look like Amazon has figured this one out, as it isn't price matched.

Book Description
Baby Jaguar is missing. Read along with Dora as she looks for her friend!

Note that this title works only on the Kindle Fire if purchased from Amazon and only on the NOOK Color, NOOK Tablet or NOOK Kids for iPad app if purchased from B&N. Children’s books on Kindle Fire now feature Kindle Text Pop-Up for reading text over vivid, full-color images. Just double-tap any text region and it will expand for easy reading (A software update may be required to view this title).

All of the titles below are $1.99 at Barnes & Noble today:

• 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