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Thursday, May 10, 2012

Today's Deals

Just in time for Mother's Day, Amazon is having a 25% Off Kindle Covers Sale, with sleeves and covers for your Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch, or Kindle, including some of the pricy Kate Spade covers. It's perfect timing, too, for those that managed to snag a heavily discounted refurbished Fire on the recent Daily Deal. If you still need to order a Kindle or Kindle Fire for Mom, then you can get 30% Off selected covers if purchased in the same order.

Additional formats on free books:

Today's Kindle Deal of the Day is 7 Money Rules for Life® ($1.99), by Mary Hunt. There's nothing revolutionary about her ideas, but it does look like a good one for those starting out (or high schoolers learning how budget finances or new graduates going out on their own).
Book Description
Americans young and old are flunking their finances. A shocking 77 percent live paycheck to paycheck with no savings. And 43 percent of Americans have less than $10,000 saved for retirement, while 49 percent could cover less than one month's expenses if they lost their income. In the face of this bleak financial picture, bestselling author and finance expert Mary Hunt offers 7 Money Rules for Life®. This no-nonsense and encouraging book gives readers the keys to get their money under control and get prepared financially for the rest of their lives. In her warm and engaging style, Hunt takes everything that she's learned over the past twenty years and boils it all down. Presented in a conversational style and readable in a weekend, this book offers applications for each of the seven rules as well as practical advice for how to recover from past financial mistakes. These simple, unchanging, basic rules work in every financial situation, for every income level, and for every stage of life.

Money mastery isn't really that hard. 7 Money Rules for Life® can help readers change their futures from uncertain to rock-solid with principles they can apply right away.

Churchill's Wizards: The British Genius for Deception 1914-1945 ($1.60 / £0.99 UK), by Nicholas Rankin, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $9.58 and was the Kindle Deal of the Day during this past March).
Book Description
The story of how the British really won two world wars – by conning the Kaiser, hoaxing Hitler and using brains to outwit brawn. By June 1940, most of Europe had fallen to the Nazis and Britain stood alone. To protect itself, the nation fell back on cunning and camouflage. With Winston Churchill in charge, the British bluffed their way out of trouble – lying, pretending and dressing up in order to survive. The British had developed this uncommon talent during the trench and desert fighting of the First World War, when writers and artists created elaborate camouflages and fiendish propaganda. So successful were these deceptions they gave rise to the German belief that they hadn’t been beaten fairly – in which case why not ‘have a second go’? By the Second World War, the British were masters of the art. Churchill adored stratagems, ingenious devices and special forces: pretend German radio stations broadcast outrageous British propaganda in German. British geniuses broke German secret codes and eavesdropped on their messages. Every German spy in Britain was captured and many were used to send back false information to their controllers. Forged documents misled their Intelligence. Bogus wireless traffic from entire phantom armies, dummy airfields with model planes, disguised ships and inflatable rubber tanks created a vital illusion of strength. Culminating in the spectacular misdirection that was so essential to the success of D-Day in 1944, Churchill’s Wizards is a thrilling work of popular military history. Above all, Nicholas Rankin reveals the true stories of those brave and creative mavericks who helped win what Churchill called ‘the war of the Unknown Warriors’.

Need ($3.99 Kindle, $1.99 B&N), the first of the series by Carrie Jones, is the Nook Daily Find.
Book Description
Zara collects phobias the way other high school girls collect lipsticks. Little wonder, since she’s had a pretty rough life. Her father left when she was a baby, and her stepfather just died. Her mother’s pretty much checked out - in fact, Mom’s sent her to live with her grandmother in cold and sleepy Maine to "keep Zara safe." Whatever that means. Zara doesn’t think she’s in danger; she thinks her mother just can’t deal.

Zara’s wrong. The man she sees everywhere - the tall creepy guy who points at her from the side of the road - yeh, he’s not a figment of her imagination. He’s a pixie. And not the cute, sweet kind with little wings. Maine’s got a whole assortment of unbelievable creatures, like pixies and were-people. And they seem to need something - something from Zara...

Look for the other exciting books in the Need series: Captivate, Entice, and coming next year, Endure!

Bella ($3.74 Kindle, $1.99 B&N), the 22nd in the Puppy Place series by Ellen Miles, is the Nook Daily Find for Families.
Book Description
Welcome to the Puppy Place--where every puppy finds a home!

Charles and Lizzie Peterson love puppies. They enjoy taking care of the dogs themselves, but the best part is finding a perfect new owner for these adorable animals. Bella is an orphaned newborn cocker spaniel. She is very weak and almost doesn't survive her first night. Lizzie is determined to save the pint-sized pup. The Peterson's bottle-feed her around the clock until she's healthy enough to be adopted. But who will give this sweet little dog the home she deserves?