Edited to add: There were some technical difficulties with Audible's
"Paperback Sale" this morning, but they have the prices back in place. Today is the final day, though, as the sale ends at midnight ET.
The
Audubon Android Apps are on sale this morning, with
Audubon Birds marked down to $2.99 and the rest of the guides down to 99 cents. There isn't room to put them all on the Kindle Fire at once (at least, not with the complete downloads), but I went ahead and picked up the ones I was missing, at this price; I can rotate the ones I want to look thru on the Fire and they will fit on my Android tablet (it has an SD card for memory expansion).
App Description
Audubon Birds
- Incorporates eBird technology to locate birds in real time, with quick access to recent sightings, locations of notable and rare birds, and maps and directions to all the birding hotspots across North America.
- Associates Field Marks for over 650 images to help with field identification
- Includes Thousands of high definition images detail each species with extraordinary clarity. Includes multiple images of each species in their natural habitat by gender, age, and seasonal plumage variations
- Contains over eight hours of audio from the best audio field naturalists in North America
- Useful 'Journal' feature allows you to track and annotate your personal sightings by location, and share with friends by email or Facebook.
Today's Kindle Deal of the Day is
After Life (
$1.99), a debut novel by Rhian Ellis that is one of librarian Nancy Pearl's
Nancy Pearl Presents Book Lust Rediscoveries (and one I apparently bought at full price just this past June...).
Book Description
Naomi Ash was born in New Orleans and raised by her mother, Patsy, a medium who schooled her young daughter in the parlor-trick chicanery of the trade. From Naomi recreating presences with table cloths to providing the voice of the dead by talking through a fan, their act is part theater, part magic, and a little too much playing with the letter of the law. Eventually they must beat a hasty—and forced—retreat from New Orleans, relocating to Train Line, New York.
A sleepy village founded and inhabited by others with a spiritualist bent, Train Line is populated with card readers, table levitators, and crystal-shop owners. Low-rent “Psychic Faires” are held at the local Holiday Inn, and Patsy’s newest creation, “The Mother Galina Psychic Hour,” is on the local radio station. The town is a curious mix between old school “table rappers” and the New Age, and it is here that Naomi comes of age, learns the trade, and falls in love. But love is not only a many splendored thing—it can be dangerous as well. And for a young woman caught between fraud and truth, between the world of the living and the world of the dead, and between the secrets and lies of her youth, the past and present will come together in a rush of truth and consequence.
Hailed as “a study of eccentricities, which rises above the merely quirky to address those issues of life, death, memory, and love that preoccupy us all,” After Life is a stunning first novel of extraordinary suspense and evocative imagery.
Bloodland (
$1.55 /£0.99 UK), by Alan Glynn, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the
US edition is $9.99; the UK edition is available in most other countries, pricing varies). Those in the UK also have a bargain price on
Winterland (Main/
UK) and
Limitless (Main/
UK), which was made into a major motion picture.
Book Description
A private security contractor loses it in the Congo, with deadly consequences, while in Ireland the ex-prime minister struggles to write his memoir. A tabloid star is killed in a helicopter crash and three years later a young journalist is warned off the story. As a news story breaks in Paris, a US senator prepares his campaign to run for office. What links these things and who controls what we know? With echoes of John Le Carré, 24 and James Ellroy, Alan Glynn has written another crime novel of and for our times - a ferocious thriller that moves from Dublin to New York via West Africa, and thrillingly explores the legacy of corruption in big business, the West's fear of China, the fate of ex-military, the role of back room political players, and the quick fix of online news.
The Dead of Summer (
$1.99 Kindle,
B&N), by Mari Jungstedt (one of Sweden’s most popular crime fiction authors), is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.
Book Description
In Mari Jungstedt’s spine-tingling novel, The Dead of Summer, the most isolated island in the Baltic Sea, Gotska Sandön, north of Gotland, serves as the setting for her perfect crime story. A husband and father of two is mysteriously murdered while on holiday, taking a morning jog. With no evidence of a motive or suspect, assistant commissioner Karin Jacobsson is assigned to her first major case to lead the investigation while her boss, Superintendent Anders Knutas is away on holiday. Meanwhile, TV reporter Johan Berg keeps pace with the police team, while at the same time distracted in trying to win back his former love and the mother of his child, Emma Winarve, who resides on the island.One of ten in her popular Anders Knutas series, Jungstedt weaves a crime story that raises the eerie question…are we ever truly alone? Or, is there always someone watching and waiting?
In Front of God and Everybody ($7.69 Kindle,
$1.99 B&N), by KD McCrite, is the Nook Daily Find for Families.
Book Description
If God wanted April Grace to be kind to her neighbors, He should have made them nicer!
Growing up in the country is never easy, but it sure is funny-especially if you happen to have a sister obsessed with being glamorous, a grandma just discovering make-up, hippie friends who never shower, and brand new neighbors from the city who test everyone's patience. From disastrous dye jobs to forced apologies and elderly date tagalongs, you'll laugh 'til you cry as you read the Confessions of April Grace!
Here are just a couple of April's thoughts: On her sister, Myra Sue: "How anyone can be that dumb and still be able to eat with a fork is beyond me." On senior citizen lovebirds: "What if they started smooching right at the table in front of God and everybody?"
In spite of all the loony characters in her life, April Grace is able to learn from her parents as they share the love of God-to even the craziest of characters!
