Today's the last day to use the surrender75 (75% off selected Romance) and GBAug04Save70 (70% off Bestsellers, UK only) coupon codes at Kobo. A new code, worth 40% off select amazing debut novels
Today's Kindle Deal of the Day is A Word Child ($1.99), by Iris Murdoch (Open Road).Book Description
A brilliant but deeply flawed man struggles to earn absolution
Hilary Burde was a rising star in academia until a tragic accident plunged him and his mentor and rival, Gunnar Jopling, into two decades of depression and guilt. Hilary, unable to overcome his pain, abandoned his promising career for an unfulfilling job as a civil servant. But at age forty-one, Hilary crosses paths again with Gunnar—initiating a series of events that will change their lives forever.
Set against a richly drawn backdrop of post-war London, A Word Child is a gripping story of passion and the redemptive power of love.
Fold ($1.55 / £0.99 UK), by Tom Campbell, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (no US edition).Book Description
Five friends. One year. All bets are off.
Reading, 2009. It may not be Vegas, but for Nick, Doug, Vijay, Alan and Simon, it’s as good as they’re going to get.
Each in their forties, and beset by anxieties, flaws and frustrations, they meet monthly in each other’s houses for a ’friendly’ game of poker, enabling Doug to show off his new-minted wealth, Simon to insist on serving only red wine and goats’ cheese and Nick - swimming in a cocktail of envy, fear, bravado and disappointment - to make increasingly desperate attempts to bring an end to his interminable losing streak.
While Vijay meticulously records every win and loss on his spreadsheet, and Alan frets about his propensity to break into sweat and his inability to get his wife pregnant, Nick becomes obsessed with the idea of engineering Doug’s downfall: Doug, who with his big house, his successful business and his appalling taste is both everything that Nick aspires to and resents. Convinced of the heroic nature of his task, he aims to triumph over Doug in poker, as well as in life, and in doing so he comes into troubling proximity to Sophia, Doug’s clever and beautiful wife ...
Spartacus: Swords and Ashes ($1.99 Kindle, B&N), by J.M. Clements, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.Book Description
Spartacus is the hit TV show which combines blood-soaked action, exotic sexuality, villainy and heroism. This original novel from the world of Spartacus: Blood and Sand tells a brand new
story of blood, sex and politics set in the uncompromising, visceral world of the arena.
The gladiator Spartacus, the new Champion of Capua, fights atthe graveside of a rich man who was brutally murdered by his own slaves. Seeing an opportunity, ambitious lanista Quintus Batiatus plots to seize the dead man’s estate.
In the arena blood and death are primetime entertainment. But not all battles are fought upon the sands...
STAR FIGHTERS 1: Alien Attack ($3.99 Kindle, $1.99 B&N), by Max Chase, is the Nook Daily Find for Families.Book Description
Peri is a first-year student at the IF Academy and has been selected for a rare unsupervised exercise in space, paired with Diesel, a half-Martian from the Academy. While performing a routine exercise, they witness Earth coming under bombardment from Xion spaceships and soon find themselves behind the controls of the Phoenix, the most advanced space vessel known to man. As the Solar System is torn apart by a war between the Xions and Meigwors, Peri and Diesel are drawn helplessly into the intergalactic conflict. Now they - along with stowaway girl Selene - must work together to find a way home.
Age Level: 7 and up
