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Saturday, July 7, 2012

Today's Deals

Today's Kindle Deal of the Day is The Five People You Meet in Heaven ($2.99), by Mitch Albom.
Book Description
The phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller, that has sold more than eight million copies

Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life of fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. His days are a dull routine of work, loneliness, and regret.

Then, on his 83rd birthday, Eddie dies in a tragic accident, trying to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a lush Garden of Eden, but a place where your earthly life is explained to you by five people. These people may have been loved ones or distant strangers. Yet each of them changed your path forever.

One by one, Eddie's five people illuminate the unseen connections of his earthly life. As the story builds to its stunning conclusion, Eddie desperately seeks redemption in the still-unknown last act of his life: Was it a heroic success or a devastating failure The answer, which comes from the most unlikely of sources, is as inspirational as a glimpse of heaven itself.

In The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom gives us an astoundingly original story that will change everything you've ever thought about the afterlife -- and the meaning of our lives here on earth. With a timeless tale, appealing to all, this is a book that readers of fine fiction, and those who loved Tuesdays with Morrie, will treasure.

The Saturday Supper Club ($1.55 / £0.99 UK), by Amy Bratley, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (no US edition).
Book Description
Wanted: four amateur cooks to compete in a supper club contest Rules: four strangers, four weeks, four houses, four dinner parties You might win: a cash prize You might lose: your heart Eve had her world torn apart three years ago, when the love of her life Ethan disappeared, and she never found out why. But now, her life is rosy. With a lovely new boyfriend, Joe, and a cafĂ© opening on the cards, things finally seem to be falling into place. … until she agrees to take part in a supper club competition for a local newspaper. Eve is cooking the first dinner and who should turn up on her doorstep expecting a three-course meal, but her long lost love Ethan?

Twenty Wishes ($5.99 Kindle/KLL Eligible, $1.99 B&N), by Debbie Macomber, is the Nook Daily Find.
Book Description

What do you want most in the world?

What Anne Marie Roche wants is to find happiness again. At thirty-eight, she's childless, a recent widow, alone. She owns a successful bookstore on Seattle's Blossom Street, but despite her accomplishments, there's a feeling of emptiness.

On Valentine's Day, Anne Marie and several other widows get together to celebrate…hope. They each begin a list of twenty wishes—things they always wanted to do but never did.

Anne Marie's list includes learning to knit, falling in love again, doing good for someone else. When she volunteers at a local school, an eight-year-old girl named Ellen enters her life. It's a relationship that becomes far more involving—and far more important—than Anne Marie had ever imagined.

As Ellen helps Anne Marie complete her list of twenty wishes, they both learn that wishes can come true…but not necessarily in the way you expect.

A Smart Girl's Guide to Friendship Troubles (PagePerfect NOOK Book) ($8.15 Kindle, $1.99 B&N), by Patti Kelley Criswell and Angela Martini (Illustrator), is the Nook Daily Find for Families. This is a "PagePerfect™ NOOK Books" so you'll need NOOK Study or a NOOK TABLET or NOOK Color with software version 1.4 to read it (the Kindle edition works on the Kindle Fire or Kindle for Android app).
Book Description
Friendship troubles have long been the subject of thousands of the "Help!" letters received by American Girl® magazine. Now there's a book on the important issue of girls and relational aggression. This guide helps girls deal with backstabbing, bullying, betrayal, and other tough friendship problems. It features sound advice, quizzes, tips, and inspiring real-life stories about girls who have overcome their differences and strengthened their friendships.