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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Today's Deals

There are a number of new 25% off coupon codes at Kobo:
  • 1x2530au (25% off - One time use)
  • 1x2530row (25% off - One time use)
  • 1x2530uk (25% off - One time use)
  • 1x2530us (25% off - One time use)
  • 1x2590row (25% off - One time use)
  • 1x2590au (25% off - One time use)
  • 1x2590uk (25% off - One time use)
  • 1x2590us (25% off - One time use)

According to FatWallet, Walmart will have the $79 Kindle in their April 29th sale flyer, offering a $30 gift card with purchase (not that it will do you any good on books, but you might get a bargain cover at that price). No doubt there will be a number of these given away for Mother's Day, but at an effect price under $50, they are cheap enough to get one for each of the kids to use for reading over the summer (especially since the Harry Potter books automatically download to ever Kindle on your account and you can usually find a good selection of library books for kids, which means fewer trips in the car to get them reading materials).

Today's Kindle Deal of the Day is Shell Games ($1.99), the first title in the John Marquez series by Kirk Russell.
Book Description
The discovery of thousands of empty abalone shells and two murdered divers sends Lieutenant John Marquez's poaching investigation in a new and very risky direction. Former DEA agent and now head of a special operations unit of the California Department of Fish and Game, Marquez learns he himself has been targeted as the next victim. Stalking him is Kline, a vicious drug smuggler turned abalone poacher who has a vendetta against Marquez. John Marquez is supposed to protect wildlife, not solve murders, but the only way he can break the multi-million-dollar abalone-smuggling ring, as well as save his own life, is to find and stop Kline. A fast-paced crime novel set along the majestic Northern California coastline, Shell Games introduces a tough, complex, and appealing hero and a masterful new series.

The Misremembered Man ($1.60 / £0.99 UK), by Christina McKenna, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $4.99).
Book Description
Jamie McCloone's early years in a grim, cruel orphanage have left him wary of people and anxious of change. Now in his early forties, he has no dreams of changing his lonely life as a bachelor farmer until his kind-hearted neighbours, Patrick and Rose, decide he is in need of a wife.

Lydia couldn't be more different to Jamie. Rector's daughter and proper schoolteacher, she still lives at home, looking after her aged and demanding mother. She dreams constantly of changing her spinsterly fate, but has no idea how to until a friend suggests she puts an ad in the Lonely Hearts column of the Mid-Ulster Vindicator.

The result is a meeting of absolute opposites: farmer Jamie with his cavalier attitude to personal hygiene and his ignorance of the fairer sex, and Lydia Devine, for whom everything must be folded neatly and laid in its proper place including her ideal man.

The Misremembered Man is a beautifully rendered portrait of life in rural Ireland which charms and delights with its authentic characters and gentle humor. This vivid portrayal of the universal search for love brings with it a darker tale, heartbreaking in its poignancy.

Blood Work ($2.99 Kindle, B&N), the first title in Michael Connelly's Terry McCaleb series, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.
Book Description
When Graciella Rivers steps onto his boat, ex-FBI agent Terrell McCaleb has no idea he's about to come out of retirement. He's recuperating from a heart transplant and avoiding anything stressful. But when Graciella tells him the way her sister Gloria was murdered, it leaves Terry no choice. Now the man with the new heart vows to take down a predator without a soul. For Gloria's killer shatters every rule that McCaleb ever learned in his years with the Bureau--as McCaleb gets no more second chances at life...and just one shot at the truth.

Pete the Cat ($3.99 Kindle, B&N), by Eric Litwin, is the Nook Daily Find for Families (requires NOOK Color or NOOK Tablet), price matched on Kindle (requires Kindle Fire or Kindle for Android).
Book Description
Pete the Cat goes walking down the street wearing his brand new white shoes. Along the way, his shoes change from white to red to blue to brown to WET as we steps in piles of strawberries, blueberries and other big messes! But no matter what color his shoes are are, Pete keeps movin' and groovin' and singing his song...because it's all good.