Just quick reminder - it's the first of the month and there is a new group of
100 Kindle books for $3.99 or less available. For Prime members, the start of a new month means you can get a new book from the Kindle Lending Library (provided you return the one you have, of course). The new month also means lots of new free books, so prepare for a deluge of posts during the day, today.
Today's Kindle Deal of the Day is
The Days of Summer (
$1.99), by Jill Barnett. Looks like a good price for those who didn't get it when it was free last summer.
Book Description
In 1957, the Banning family leads a life of privilege, wealth and domestic unhappiness. At the head of this California dynasty is oil magnate Victor Banning, a man of great power and even greater obsessions, who is determined to teach his son and grandsons to be predators in his dog-eat-dog world.Jimmy Peyton is a rising star in the music business, a young man with a bright future and no connection to the Bannings, until the fateful night their cars collide on a Los Angeles street, changing the lives and future of two innocent families.Laurel Peyton, Jimmy's daughter, has lived her entire life in the shadow of grief. Though her mother, Kathryn, struggled to keep her daughter safe and secluded after the terrible accident that ruined their family, she cannot guard against the one danger she never expected: Love.In 1970, Victor's grandsons, Jud and Cale, meet the beautiful and spirited Laurel, and these two families cross paths once again, this time on a passionate course that pits brother against brother and mother against daughter--a clash of wills that gradually draws them all closer to the truth of their tragic connection.
A Dangerous Talent (An Alix London Mystery) (
$1.55 / £0.99 UK), a standalone novel by Aaron Elkins (
Gideon Oliver series) and Charlotte Elkins (
Lee Ofsted series), is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the
US edition is $4.99/KLL Eligible).
Book Description
Alix London has a promising career as an art consultant, a sumptuous condo in Seattle’s toniest neighborhood, a gorgeous figure, and a presence that exudes Ivy League breeding and old money. She has it all…or does she? Only Alix knows that the image she presents to the world is a carefully constructed mirage that veils an embarrassing truth. A brilliant, once-promising art student, the daughter of a prominent New York art conservator, her world was left in ruins when her father went to prison for art forgery. Now a Harvard dropout with an emptied bank account, she is languishing in a career that has produced little more than a lucky house-sitting gig. But all of that changes when Alix meets Christine Lemay, a novice art collector with money to burn and a hot tip on a recently discovered painting by American master Georgia O’Keeffe. Chris hires Alix to perform the authentication, an assignment that finally could launch Alix into the big leagues. But soon after her arrival in Santa Fe, she finds herself tangled up in a web of forgery, deceit—and murder. Anxious to avoid becoming the next victim, she teams up with FBI Special Agent Ted Ellesworth—and gets a little unlikely help from her roguish father—to uncover the truth behind the painting and those who would kill to have it. Sharp, witty, and devilishly fun, A Dangerous Talent offers an insider’s look into the surprisingly treacherous contemporary art world.
SEAL of My Dreams (
$1.99 Kindle,
B&N), an anthology with short stories by Cindy Gerard, Stephanie Bond, Elle Kennedy, Helen Brenna and Kylie Brantis (et al) is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle. If you read romance or just want to support a great cause, you should pick up a copy of this book today, while it is on sale.
Book Description
Honor, duty, courage, passion . . . the men of the Navy SEALs are a special breed of hero, and in these novellas by eighteen top romance authors the SEALs are celebrated not only as symbols of devoted service to their country but as the kind of men every woman wants to love. They’ll rescue a damsel in distress and her lap dog, too. They’ll battle hometown dramas and international bad guys. When it comes to giving away their hearts, they’ll risk everything.
All proceeds from sales of SEAL of My Dreams go to the Veterans Research Corporation, a non-profit fundraiser for veterans’ medical research.
Between them, the authors of SEAL of My Dreams have won dozens of writing awards including multiple RITAs from Romance Writers of America. Their nearly 600 published novels have sold at least 35 million copies worldwide. The SEAL of My Dreams roster includes many of the best-known authors in modern romance fiction. In addition, many have strong family connections to the servicemen and women of our nation’s military, and many specialize in novels featuring heroes and heroines from all branches of service.
The Arctic Incident (
$1.99 Kindle,
B&N), the second title in Eoin Colfer's
Artemis Fowl series, is the Nook Daily Find for Families, price matched on Kindle. Be careful if searching on either device, as there are multiple editions and only the one linked here is on sale today. As a bonus, at Amazon you get the Audio/Video enhanced edition at this price; you can read it on any Kindle device or app, but on the iPad/iPhone, you get additional content. I'm tempted to get this edition, even though I already have the plain text version, just to see the enhanced content. At B&N, you also are getting an enhanced edition, but this one will ONLY be viewable/readable on either the NOOK Color or NOOK Tablet, so if you want to read it on an eInk nook or your phone/PC/iPad, you'll have to buy the full price edition, instead.
Book Description
Artemis Fowl receives an urgent e-mail from Russia. In it is a plea from a man who has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafiya: his father. As Artemis rushes to his rescue, he is stopped by a familiar nemesis, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. Now, instead of battling the fairies, Artemis must join forces with them if he wants to save one of the few people in the world he loves.
When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.
Kindle Edition: Includes video footage from Eoin Colfer's one man stage show, Fairies, Fiends, & Flatulence. See different selections from the show in every Artemis Fowl eBooks 1-7.
Grade Level: 5 and up
