Fictionwise has a good coupon code this weekend (it usually works at least thru Wed of the week),
070712, which gets you 55% off lowest price (combines with member discount and 15% off new books discount). This is close to the best coupon code they have, so it's a good time to stock up on any missing magazine issues. In the new releases, I see a novel Dave Duncan, an anthology by Fritz Leiber and a short story from Elisabeth Waters that might be worth getting.
Today's Kindle Deal of the Day is
The Chaperone (
$2.99), by Laura Moriarty.
Book Description
USA Today's #1 Hot Fiction Pick for the summer, The Chaperone is a captivating novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in 1922 and the summer that would change them both.
Only a few years before becoming a famous silent-film star and an icon of her generation, a fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks leaves Wichita, Kansas, to study with the prestigious Denishawn School of Dancing in New York. Much to her annoyance, she is accompanied by a thirty-six-year-old chaperone, who is neither mother nor friend. Cora Carlisle, a complicated but traditional woman with her own reasons for making the trip, has no idea what she’s in for. Young Louise, already stunningly beautiful and sporting her famous black bob with blunt bangs, is known for her arrogance and her lack of respect for convention. Ultimately, the five weeks they spend together will transform their lives forever.
For Cora, the city holds the promise of discovery that might answer the question at the core of her being, and even as she does her best to watch over Louise in this strange and bustling place she embarks on a mission of her own. And while what she finds isn’t what she anticipated, she is liberated in a way she could not have imagined. Over the course of Cora’s relationship with Louise, her eyes are opened to the promise of the twentieth century and a new understanding of the possibilities for being fully alive.
Drawing on the rich history of the 1920s,’30s, and beyond—from the orphan trains to Prohibition, flappers, and the onset of the Great Depression to the burgeoning movement for equal rights and new opportunities for women—Laura Moriarty’s The Chaperone illustrates how rapidly everything, from fashion and hemlines to values and attitudes, was changing at this time and what a vast difference it all made for Louise Brooks, Cora Carlisle, and others like them.
Macbeth: A Novel (
$1.55 / £0.99 UK), by A.J. Hartley and David Hewson, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the
US edition is $4.99/KLL Eligible and was recently the US Kindle Daily Deal pick).
Book Description
This is not your parents’ Macbeth or the one you read in high-school English class. A dark and bloody tale of a Scottish lord and his beloved wife, Macbeth: A Novel hurtles toward readers in gripping contemporary prose, thanks to novelists David Hewson and A. J. Hartley.
Set in eleventh-century Scotland, Macbeth: A Novel is rich with ancient clans battling fiercely against one another and against the foreign marauders raiding their borders. Macbeth, Lord of Moray, and his wife, Skena, are loyal patriots, willing to kill or be killed to protect the Scottish kingdom. Yet the greatest danger to their beloved homeland is proving to be the king himself, Duncan, whose corrupt, bloody reign threatens to destroy the country. After Macbeth meets a trio of witches, the frustrated hero begins to think that perhaps Scotland needs a new king—him. But what begins as a plan fueled by the best of intentions soon spirals into murder, treachery, and personal collapse. In the language of today’s fast-paced thrillers, Hewson and Hartley create an electrifying tapestry out of Shakespeare’s tale, relaunching two of the most powerful characters ever created.
The Unruly Passions of Eugénie R. (
$2.99 Kindle,
B&N), by Carole DeSanti, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.
Book Description
Love and war converge in this lush, epic story of a young woman’s coming of age during and after France’s Second Empire (1860–1871), an era that was absinthe-soaked, fueled by railway money and prostitution, and transformed by cataclysmic social upheaval.
Eugénie R., born in foie gras country, follows the man she loves to Paris but soon finds herself marooned. An outcast, she charts the treacherous waters of sexual commerce on a journey through artists’ ateliers and pawnshops, zinc bars and luxurious bordellos. Giving birth to a daughter she is forced to abandon, Eugénie spends the next ten years fighting to get her back, falling in love along the way with an artist, a woman, and a revolutionary. Then, as the gates of the city close on the eve of the Siege of Paris, Eugénie comes face to face with her past. Drawn into a net of desire and need, promises and lies, she must make a choice and find her way to a life that she can call her own.
Ptolemy's Gate (Bartimaeus Volume 3) ($6.29 Kindle,
$2.99 B&N), by Jonathan Stroud, is the Nook Daily Find for Families. Guess I should have waited, as I bought
this title
and
The Ring of Solomon
(#4 in the series) from Kobo, using two of the 45% off coupons, immediately after reading the first in the series,
The Amulet of Samarkand, which I received as a review copy from the publisher and grabbing
The Golem's Eye when it was the Nook Daily Find last month. Based on the dates they've had the first two in the four-book trilogy on sale, the fourth title should be discounted at B&N (but not Amazon) sometime in the second week of next month. Of course, buying them at Kobo gets you truly device independent EPUBs, rather than locking you into the B&N format, for those that don't have nook devices (although their reader app isn't the worst one out there and I do use it some on my Kindle Fire).
Book Description
In Book 3 of the series, Bartimaeus, Nathaniel, and Kitty must test the limits of this world, question the deepest parts of themselves -- and trust one another if they hope to survive.
