New coupon code at Kobo, good for 25% off select eBooks
If you go to Google's Music store in the US, today's free song (about half way down the page) is Don McLean's American Pie. You do have to have a credit card on file to get it, but you won't be charged (Google's free music sometimes requires a card on file, sometimes not, but I haven't been charged for any of the free ones I've grabbed over the last few months). There are several free Indie Rock cuts reachable from the sliding menu at top and a a few free Metal cuts reached from the graphic at the bottom of the page.
Now free on Kindle:
- Red, Green, or Murder (K/DF)
- Heartshot (K/DF)
Today's Kindle Deal of the Day is The Minotaur ($1.99), the third title in the Jake Grafton series by New York Times bestselling author Stephen Coonts. Another Open Road re-issue, this would be a must-buy for me, but it's already in my library.Book Description
At the height of the Cold War, Captain Jake Grafton becomes entangled in the hunt for a spy selling high-tech military secrets to the Soviet Union
Naval pilot Jake Grafton flies fighter jets with ice water in his veins. But when he’s assigned a desk job in the Pentagon as the head of a top-secret stealth bomber program, his nerve is tested as never before. Colleagues start dying mysteriously, test flights are sabotaged, and the program is threatened at every level. If Grafton can’t infiltrate a web of espionage and counter-espionage centered round the deadly traitor, code-named the Minotaur, he stands to lose much more than just his career.
The Minotaur is an exhilarating thriller and fascinating procedural, revealing the complexities of military technology R&D.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Stephen Coonts, including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
The UK Daily deal is Three Teen/Young Adult Books for £0.99 (1.55) apiece and one of the titles is also a great bargain for those in the US!Witch Child (Main/UK), the first in the series by Celia Rees (no US edition)
When Mary sees her grandmother accused of witchcraft and hanged for the crime, she is silently hurried to safety by an unknown woman. The woman gives her tools to keep the record of her days - paper and ink. Mary is taken to a boat in Plymouth and from there sails to the New World where she hopes to make a new life among the pilgrims. But old superstitions die hard and soon Mary finds that she, like her grandmother, is the victim of ignorance and stupidity, and once more she faces important choices to ensure her survival. With a vividly evoked environment and characters skilfully and patiently drawn, this is a powerful literary achievement by Celia Rees that is utterly engrossing from start to finish.
Bleeding Hearts: True love bites... (Main/UK), the third title in the Drake Chronicles by Alyxandra Harvey (US edition $6.39)Lucy's cousin Christabel has come to live in Violet Hill, and adjusting to the difference between life in a small mountain town and her home in the city is difficult. The strict curfew that Lucy's parents enforce is hard to respect. Surely something really dangerous couldn't possibly happen in this tiny town.
But Christabel starts to notice some mysterious happenings, and it seems like Lucy, her boyfriend Nicholas and his brother Connor are all in on a secret that Christabel doesn't understand - one that seems deadly serious. Although she won't admit it, Christabel would love to be in on any secret with Connor Drake. When Christabel is kidnapped by the ruthless Hel-Blar vampires, Lucy and Connor finally fill her in on all the undead drama. Together, they must find a way to stamp out the Hel-Blar for good.
Magyk (Main/UK), the first title in Angie Sage's Septimus Heap series (US edition $1.99). Check your libraries on this one, as there was a bonus edition free on most platforms in January of last year and it was marked down to £0.74 for those in the UK at that time. If you didn't manage to get a copy then, this is an excellent price in both countries, today, for an excellent series for those with middle-grade children.Enter the world of Septimus Heap, Wizard Apprentice. Magyk is his destiny.
A powerful necromancer plans to seize control of all things Magykal. He has killed the Queen and locked up the Extraordinary Wizard. Now with Darke Magyk he will create a world filled with Darke creatures. But the Necromancer made one mistake. A vital detail he has overlooked means there is a boy who can stop him - the only problem is, the boy doesn’t know it yet.
For the Heap family, life as they know is about to change, and the most fantastically fast-paced adventure of confused identities, magyk and mayhem, begin.
Grade Level: 4 and up
Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll ($3.99 Kindle, B&N), by M. G. Lord, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.Book Description
Since Barbie's introduction in 1959, her impact on baby boomers has been revolutionary. Far from being a toy designed by men to enslave women, she was a toy invented by women to teach women what-- for better or worse-- was expected of them. In telling Barbie's fascinating story, cultural critic and investigative journalist M. G. Lord, herself a first-generation Barbie owner, has written a provocative, zany, occasionally shocking book that will change how you look at the doll and the world.
The Pox Party ($8.35 Kindle, $1.99 B&N), the first title in The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation series by M. T. Anderson and winner of the National Book Award, is the Nook Daily Find for Families.Book Description
This deeply provocative novel reimagines the past as an eerie place that has startling resonance for readers today.
Young Octavian is being raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers — but it is only after he opens a forbidden door that learns the hideous nature of their experiments, and his own chilling role them. Set in Revolutionary Boston, M. T. Anderson’s mesmerizing novel takes place at a time when Patriots battled to win liberty while African slaves were entreated to risk their lives for a freedom they would never claim. The first of two parts, this deeply provocative novel reimagines past as an eerie place that has startling resonance for readers today.
Grade Level: 9 and up
