Today's Free Android App is an interactive Children's Story Book, The Wonderful Adventures of Nils. It's an HD version, so made to work on larger tablets, but isn't restricted to those (so you can use them on your phone, if needed).
All Electronic Arts Android Apps are 50% off right now, including Monopoly and Kindle Fire editions of Scrabble, SimCity Deluxe, MADDEN NFL 12 and The Game of Life.Newly free from Sony:
- Pillow Talk (N/E) *also now marked down to $0.99 on Kindle
- The Book of the King (K/N/E)
- The Search Committee (K/N/E)
- Everything the Bible Says About Angels and Demons (K/N/E)
- More Glimpses of Heaven (K/N/E)
- Reclaiming Lily (K/N/E)
- Hollywood Nobody (N/E/DF)
- The Messenger (K/N/E)
Today's Kindle Deal of the Day is Desperate Passage ($1.99), by Ethan Rarick.Book Description
In late October 1846, the last wagon train of that year's westward migration stopped overnight before resuming its arduous climb over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, unaware that a fearsome storm was gathering force. After months of grueling travel, the 81 men, women and children would be trapped for a brutal winter with little food and only primitive shelter. The conclusion is known: by spring of the next year, the Donner Party was synonymous with the most harrowing extremes of human survival. But until now, the full story of what happened--and what it tells us about human nature and about America's westward expansion--remained shrouded in myth.
Drawing on fresh archeological evidence, recent research on topics ranging from survival rates to snowfall totals, and heartbreaking letters and diaries made public by descendants a century-and-a-half after the tragedy, Ethan Rarick offers an intimate portrait of the Donner party and their unimaginable ordeal: a mother who must divide her family, a little girl who shines with courage, a devoted wife who refuses to abandon her husband, a man who risks his life merely to keep his word. Rarick resists both the gruesomely sensationalist accounts of the Donner party as well as later attempts to turn the survivors into archetypal pioneer heroes. "The Donner Party," Rarick writes, "is a story of hard decisions that were neither heroic nor villainous. Often, the emigrants displayed a more realistic and typically human mixture of generosity and selfishness, an alloy born of necessity."
A fast-paced, heart-wrenching, clear-eyed narrative history, Desperate Passage casts new light on one of America's most horrific encounters between the dream of a better life and the harsh realities such dreams so often must confront.
Night Train to Lisbon ($1.59 / £0.99 UK), by Pascal Mercier, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $9.60).Book Description
Raimund Gregorius teaches classical languages at a Swiss lycée, and lives a life governed by routine. One day, a chance encounter with a Portuguese woman inspires him to question his life—and leads him to an extraordinary book that will open the possibility of changing it. Inspired by the words of Amadeu de Prado, a doctor whose intelligence and magnetism left a mark on everyone who met him and whose principles led him into a confrontation with Salazar’s dictatorship, Gergorius boards a train to Lisbon. As Gregorius becomes fascinated with unlocking the mystery of who Prado was, an extraordinary tale unfolds.
Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man ($1.99 Kindle, B&N), by Steve Harvey, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.Book Description
Steve Harvey, the host of the nationally syndicated Steve Harvey Morning Show, can't count the number of impressive women he's met over the years, whether it's through the "Strawberry Letters" segment of his program or while on tour for his comedy shows. These are women who can run a small business, keep a household with three kids in tiptop shape, and chair a church group all at the same time. Yet when it comes to relationships, they can't figure out what makes men tick. Why? According to Steve it's because they're asking other women for advice when no one but another man can tell them how to find and keep a man. In Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, Steve lets women inside the mindset of a man.
Sometimes funny, sometimes direct, but always truthful, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man is a book you must read if you want to understand how men think when it comes to relationships.
Grim Tuesday ($6.15 Kindle, $1.99 B&N), the second title in the Keys to the Kingdom series by Garth Nix, is the Nook Daily Find for Families. Nix has a new release today, A Confusion of Princes, which is more Science Fiction than Fantasy and is a stand-alone title, rather than a part of a series (at least, it is so far). Aimed at the Young Adult market (and adults that read Space Opera as teens). The only really negative review said it was "too much Sci-Fi", which I don't really find to be a negative for Space Opera. I've put it on my wish list, to explore later on.Book Description
Arthur Penhaligon's magical adventures continue as he faces a new grave danger -- in the form of an enemy named Grim Tuesday. More amazing fantasy from best-selling author Garth Nix.
Arthur doesn't think he will ever have to return to the strange house that nearly killed him on Monday -- the house that contains an entire world. But Tuesday brings new challenges -- in the form of an enemy named Grim Tuesday, who threatens the well-being of both Arthur's family and his world. Arthur must retrieve the Second Key from Grim Tuesday in order to save everything -- an adventure that will include stealing a Sunship, surviving a very weird work camp, befriending a bearlike spirit, fighting the voidlike Nithlings, and traveling to the scary Far Reaches for the ultimate showdown.
