Today is the last day to use the 30% off coupons from Kobo (see right sidebar). They work on any non-Agency book (titles tend to vary by country), so there are some good bargains with that discount.
Dead Is the New Black ($0.99), the first title in the Dead Is teen series by Marlene Perez, is today's Kindle Deal of the Day.Book Description
Welcome to Nightshade, California—a small town full of secrets. It’s home to the pyschic Giordano sisters, who have a way of getting mixed up in mysteries. During their investigations, they run across everything from pom-pom-shaking vampires to shape-shifting boyfriends to a clue-spewing jukebox. With their psychic powers and some sisterly support, they can crack any case!
Teenage girls are being mysteriously attacked all over town, including at Nightshade High School, where Daisy Giordano is a junior. When Daisy discovers that a vampire may be the culprit, she can’t help but suspect head cheerleader Samantha Devereaux, who returned from summer break with a new “look.” Samantha appears a little . . . well, dead, and all the most popular kids at school are copying her style.
Is looking dead just another fashion trend for Samantha, or is there something more sinister going on? To find out, Daisy joins the cheerleading squad.
Disappearing Home ($1.57 / £0.99 UK), by Deborah Morgan, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (no US edition).Book Description
From her parents' 1970s tenement council flat ten-year-old Robyn soon becomes so skilled at shoplifting her reputation spreads. She takes her punishment at school but is much more scared of the vicious threats of her father; and as frightened for her mother's safety as for her own. Her fun-loving grandmother offers her comfort, wisdom and hope that Robyn might be different from her parents. But as her father's random cruelty intensifies, she has to seek refuge in her nan's flat and in the homes of friends, even joining her mother in a women's shelter to escape her 'father'. All this time she is learning more about the unpredictable ways of the people around her and her own potential. She'll need all of this precocious wisdom and the assistance of Nan, to face up once and for all to the twisted violence in her home and engineer a way out of this childhood to reach a place of safety and freedom.
This moving story is told in a wonderfully vivid child's voice - her resourcefulness and courage will break your heart.
His Last Duchess ($1.99 Kindle, B&N), by Gabrielle Kimm, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.Book Description
That's my last duchess painted on the wall...
Seduced by the hot sun and blinding passions of Renaissance Italy, sixteen-year-old Lucrezia de' Medici sees a gilded life stretching ahead. Her wealthy new husband handpicked her to be his bride, and his great castle in Ferrara will be her playground. But Alfonso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara quickly proves to be just as dangerous and mysterious as he is dark and handsome, and the stone walls of the castle seem to trap Lucrezia like a prison.
Only the duke's lover Francesca seems able to tame his increasing fury, as his desperate need to produce an heir drives him deep into precarious obsession. With her head full of heartbroken dreams, Lucrezia flees from him down a dangerous path that may cost her everything.
Step into the elegant world of the Robert Browning poem "My Last Duchess," as imagined by Gabrielle Kimm, where she brings to life the passions and people of sixteenth-century Tuscany and Ferrara. It is a chilling story of forbidden love and dark decadence that will haunt you.
Quest of the Warrior Sheep ($5.20 Kindle, $1.99 B&N), by Christine Russell, is the Nook Daily Find for Families.Book Description
A super-funny, super-crazy crime caper with five rare-breed sheep. A silver object falls mysteriously from the sky and lands on Sal, a matronly Southdown ewe who lives happily with her sheep friends on Eppingham Farm. The sheep are convinced that an ancient ovine prophecy is being fulfilled. They must go North (so to Scotland, perhaps?), on a mission to aid Lord Aries, Sheep of all Sheepdom, Ram of Rams, in his battle against the powers of darkness in the shape of Lambad the Bad. Thus the Eppingham Posse of Rare Breed Warriors is born. In fact, the silver object is a mobile phone, dropped from a hot air balloon by Luke and Neil, who have been stealing bank money over the internet. They need that phone back to hide the evidence. And a couple of woolbags aren’t going to stand in their way! The chase is on . . .
