Additional formats on free books:
- 25 Dip & Spread Recipes (K/N/E/I)
- 25 Brownie & Bar Recipes (K/N/I)
- Burning Hunger (K/N/E/DF)
- Demonic Passions (K/N/E/DF)
- Elements Unbound (K/N/E/DF)
- Cool Beans (K/N/E)
Messenger (Book Description
Strange changes are taking place in Village. Once a utopian community that prided itself on its welcome to new strangers, Village will soon be closed to all outsiders. As one of the few people able to travel through the dangerous Forest, Matty must deliver the message of Village’s closing and try to convince Seer’s daughter to return with him before it’s too late. But Forest has become hostile to Matty as well, and he must risk everything to fight his way through it, armed only with an emerging power he cannot yet explain or understand.
Grade Level: 7 and up
Today's Kindle Deal of the Day is A Discovery of Witches ($2.99 Kindle, B&N), the first title in the All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness. It's also the Nook Daily Find today (I think this is the second time they've picked the same book). I highly recommend this novel; it's one of the ones I paid full price for last year and don't regret it a bit. I've tried to get the next title, Shadow of Night, as a review copy, but Penguin hasn't said yes, yet (perhaps they know it's already on my wishlist, although I'm going to wait a bit to see if it drops from the current pre-order price).
Book Description
In a sparkling debut, A Discovery of Witches became the "it" book of early 2011, bringing Deborah Harkness into the spotlight and galvanizing fans around the world. In this tale of passion and obsession, Diana Bishop, a young scholar and the descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript deep in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she navigates with her leading man, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont. Harkness has created a universe to rival those of Anne Rice, Diana Gabaldon, and Elizabeth Kostova, and she adds a scholar's depth to this riveting story of magic and suspense.
Below Zero ($1.52 / £0.99 UK), by C.J. Box, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $7.99).Book Description
"Tell Sherry April called."
A simple phone message that shakes Joe Pickett's oldest daughter Sheridan and the rest of the family to the core. To Joe, it doesn't seem even remotely possible that April could have survived the massacre described in Winterkill six years before. He was there, and he was unable to save her. But Sheridan starts to believe there's a chance that April is still alive, and her suspicions are confirmed when the person sending texts to her cellphone is able to recall family incidents only April could know. Joe, however, remains wary of the messages. But when the texts start to refer to "bad things," and when Marybeth discovers they come from locations throughout the West where vicious murders have taken place, alarm bells go off. Desperate to discover if April is still alive and to save her from possible danger, Joe, Sheridan, and Nate Romanowski take to the road to connect the texts with the crimes. Meanwhile, a dying Chicago mobster named Stenko and a much younger girl cross the country. He's on a mission to reconcile with his extreme environmentalist son before he dies. His son is less interested in reconciliation than in getting his father to repent for the environmental crimes he's committed during his lifetime. He wants his father to become not just carbon neutral, but to reduce his carbon footprint to below zero - as if he'd never even existed. As the path of Stenko and his companions starts to cross with Joe, Sheridan, and Nate, the question is raised: Is this young girl April or are the Picketts the victims of a cruel hoax?
