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Today's Kindle Deal of the Day is the New York Times bestselling novel Damage ($1.99), by Josephine Hart.Book Description
Damage is the gripping story of a man’s desperate obsession and scandalous love affair. He is a man who appears to have everything: wealth, a beautiful wife and children, and a prestigious political career in Parliament. But his life lacks passion, and his aching emptiness drives him to an all-consuming, and ultimately catastrophic, relationship with his son’s fiancée.
Chilling and brilliant, Damage is a masterpiece—a daring look at the dangers of obsession and the depth of its shattering consequences.
The Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK is MC Beaton's Regency romance The Six Sisters series for £0.99 ($1.54) apiece. These were originally published under the author's own name, Marion Chesney, rather than the more widely recognized pseudonym used on today's editions. For those in the US, you can get any in the series for $5.69 or borrow them from the Kindle Lending Library.Minerva (Main/UK)
When the Reverend Charles Armitage, an impecunious country vicar in Regency England, announces that raven-haired Minerva, the eldest of his six daughters, is to have her coming-out in London, the news is not well received by the rest of the family. Mrs. Armitage has one of her Spasms and has to be brought round by burning a quantity of feathers under her nose. Annabelle, the nearest in age to Minerva, is clearly jealous, the boys are all surly, and the other girls just start off crying.The Taming of Annabelle (Main/UK)
Minerva is despatched to Town under the wing of the disreputable old Lady Godolphin. Her task - to find a rich husband and thereby restore the ailing family fortunes.
From the moment honey-tressed young Annabelle met her sister Minerva's intended, Lord Sylvester, she developed a secret passion for him that obsessed her. Now she was determined to take him away from Minerva - no matter what!Deirdre and Desire (Main/UK)
Red-haired, jade-eyed Deirdre is determined to marry for Love - nothing else will do. So the fact her father's candidate for her hand, Lord Harry Desire, is well bred and good looking, interests her not a jot!Daphne (Main/UK)
Black-haired, exquisite Daphne is certain she can avoid the turmoil of true love by demanding nothing more of a husband than to be an elegant companion. But when Mr Simon Garfield agitates Daphne's calm outward manner, the results are dramatic and delightful!Diana the Huntress (Main/UK)
How can plain Frederica withstand a Season's scrutiny after the five beauties before her have married so magnificently? Yet she had not counted on the Duke of Pembury; whether dressed in her finery or disguised as a chambermaid, that magnificent gentleman wanted her just the same!Frederica in Fashion (Main/UK)
With her lustrous black hair and enormous dark eyes, Diana is shy of men yet dreams of the freedom they must enjoy. And what of the gypsy, who prophesised a dark stranger, and warned of a fair one? Surprising twists and turns await Diana on the path of true love.
Just Run It! ($10.39 Kindle, $2.99 B&N), by Dick Cross, is the Nook Daily Find.Book Description
The growth engine of the global economy is no longer through mega-production and huge conglomerates, but rather through the proliferation of smaller enterprises. These smaller businesses often struggle. In America alone, tens of thousands of businesses crop up each year. Unfortunately, few will succeed, though not due to a lack of ingenuity, initiative, or even capital. Why, then? Because so few of the would-be drivers of the new economy know how to convert their dreams, their ideas, their courage, and their initiatives into successful enterprises. According to Dick Cross, author of Just Run It!: Running an Exceptional Business Is Easier Than You Think, most business owners lack not just the fundamentals, the nuts and bolts of operating a business effectively day in and day out, but the bigger picture of how to achieve business success. This shortcoming is pervasive: it handicaps most new businesses from the start and it prevents the lion's share of existing ones from ever becoming significant.
After taking dozens of mainstream companies from underperforming to high performance, Cross observed a pattern, out of which he devised a formula for success. Using his Just Run It! framework, he is now teaching small and medium-sized enterprises how to understand their mainstream businesses on "the back of an envelope" and to achieve the next level of success. The book showcases a Vision-Strategy-Execution exercise to help business owners crystallize their primary business advantage and then focus efforts to maximize performance around it. Financial reporting, management and leadership, teamwork, communicationsall skills needed to run a "one business" business are covered in detail. In closing, Cross makes the case that for "those who can't adjust their thinking to new realities, the decline in America's global standing as an industrial power is a death knell. For those who can, it's the reveille of opportunity."
Moon Mater ($2.99 Kindle, $1.99 B&N), a Cars Toons title by Disney Book Group, is the Nook Daily Find for Families and requires a NOOK Color, NOOK Tablet or NOOK Kids for iPad; the Kindle edition runs on the Kindle Fire, Kindle Cloud Reader, Kindle for iPad and Kindle for Android.Book Description
Mater is the first tow truck on the moon! When an auto-naut gets stranded on his lunar mission, it's up to Mater to venture into space and tow him back to Earth (with a little help from his friend Lightning McQueen, of course).
In this NOOK Kids Read to Me book, children can choose to hear the story read aloud, tap to enlarge text and pinch & stretch to zoom in on pictures.
