Now free on Kindle:
- Say You Love Me (K/E/I)
- At Last (K/E/I)
- The Rules to Raise Happy, Healthy Children (K/N)
- The Mobile MBA: 112 Skills to Take You Further, Faster (K/N)
- The Secrets of Economic Indicators (K/N)
- The Truth About Winning at Work (K/N)
- Technical Analysis Trading Methods and Techniques (K/N)
- Brains (K/N)
- Allies and Enemies: How the World Depends on Bacteria (K/N)
Today's Kindle Deal of the Day is Carbs & Cadavers ($1.99), the first title in J.B. Stanley's fun looking Supper Club Mystery series. With any luck, you already have Chili Con Corpses, the third in the series, that was free last November.Book Description
James "Professor Puff" Henry may as well have "loser" stamped on his forehead. Divorced, overweight, shy, and living at home, he relies on books and his favorite snack -- cheese puffs -- for sweet relief from his problems. A former English lit professor at William and Mary, he moves back to Quincy's Gap, a small Virginia town in the Shenandoah Valley, to take care of his recently-widowed father. To improve his social life and waistline, he joins a supper club for dieters who lovingly call themselves the "Flab Five." Avoiding carbs is nearly impossible in this deep-fried potato-loving land, so a mysterious death in their small burg provides an effective, if disturbing, distraction. While dodging delectable temptations, Professor Henry and his fellow dieters work together to shed pounds and find the killer who has struck fear in this tight-knit community.
Palo Alto ($1.53 / £0.99 UK), by Hollywood actor/director James Franco, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $9.99).Book Description
Palo Alto is the debut of a powerful new literary voice. Written with an immediacy and sense of place Palo Alto traces the lives of an extended group of teenagers as they experiment with vices of all kinds, struggle with their families and one another, and succumb to self-destructive, often heartless nihilism. Franco presents his characters in all their raw humanity, while at the same time providing insight into the teenage mind.
In the classic American tradition of story-cycles such as Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, Palo Alto presents a stark, vivid, disturbing, but, above all, compassionate portrait of lives on the rough fringes of youth.
The Blue Zone ($1.99 Kindle, B&N), by Andrew Gross, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle. Check your libraries on this one, as there was a Bonus Edition on sale last summer, in both stores (now missing from the stores, but should be in your library, if you bought it then). If you missed it then, I'd recommend grabbing it now, for mystery/thriller fans.Book Description
From the number one New York Times bestselling coauthor of Judge & Jury and Lifeguard comes this electrifying solo debut, The Blue Zone.
Kate Raab's life seems almost perfect: her boyfriend, her job, her family . . . until her father runs into trouble with the law. His only recourse is to testify against his former accomplices in exchange for his family's placement in the Witness Protection Program. But one of them gets cold feet. In a flash, everything Kate can count on is gone.
Now, a year later, her worst fears have happened: Her father has disappeared—into what the WITSEC agency calls "the blue zone"—and someone close to him is found brutally murdered. With her family under surveillance, the FBI untrustworthy, and her father's menacing "friends" circling with increasing intensity, Kate sets off to find her father—and uncover the secrets someone will kill to keep buried.
The Dark Hills Divide ($4.61 Kindle, $1.99 B&N), the first title in The Land of Elyon children's series by Patrick Carman, is the Nook Daily Find for Families, price matched on Kindle.Book Description
Inquisitive twelve-year-old Alexa Daley is spending another summer in the walled town of Bridewell. This year, she is set on solving the mystery of what lies beyond the walls. Legend says the walls were built to keep out an unnamed evil that lurks in the forests and The Dark Hills. But what exactly is it that the townspeople are so afraid of?
As Alexa begins to unravel the truth, pushing beyond the protective barrier she's lived behind all her life, she discovers a strange and ancient enchantment -- and exposes a danger that could destroy everything she holds dear.
Grade Level: 4 and up
