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Today's Kindle Deal of the Day is
The Tea-Olive Bird Watching Society (
$1.99), by Augusta Trobaugh.
Book Description
A modern spin on the classic film Arsenic and Old Lace
The women of a small town’s bird watching society secretly plan to “eliminate” the husband of one of their members in this new novel written by the beloved author of Sophie and the Rising Sun.
In a story replete with coconut cake, grits, and poisoned turtle stew, the founding members of the Tea-Olive Bird Watching Society in tiny Tea-Olive, Georgia, are conspiring to murder retired judge L. Hyson Breed, a newcomer to Tea-Olive. It all begins when the judge tricks one of them into marriage, steals her land for a development project, and sweet talks his way right onto the town council. By the time they discover his evil plans the judge is already a permanent fixture in town. Or is he?
The Shrink and the Sage (
$1.55 / £0.99 UK), by Julian Baggini and Antonia Macaro, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (no US edition). One the UK's best-known philosophers, Baggini's
The Ego Trick (
$1.71 / £1.09 UK) is also on sale for those in the UK, while his
Complaint: From Minor Moans to Principled Protests (
$1.50) is on sale for US customers.
Book Description
- Can infidelity be good for you?
- What does it mean to stay true to yourself?
- Must we fulfill our potential?
Self-help with a distinctly cerebral edge, the shrink and the sage – aka Julian Baggini and Antonia Macaro – have been dispensing advice through their FT column since October 2010. Combining practical advice on personal dilemmas with meditations on the meaning of concepts like free will, spirituality and independence, this book – their first together – expands on these columns and adds much more. Through questions of existential unease, metaphysical trauma and – for instance – how much we should care about our appearance, intellectual agony uncle and aunt team Baggini and Macaro begin to piece together the answer that we’d all like to hear: what is the good life, and how we can live it?
Breaking Free: Discover the Victory of Total Surrender (
$3.99 Kindle,
B&N), by Beth Moore, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.
Book Description
Do you want to know God and really believe Him? Do you want to find satisfaction in God, experience His peace, and enjoy His presence? Do you want to make the freedom Christ promised a reality in your daily life?
In Breaking Free, Beth Moore embarks on a study of selected passages from the book of Isaiah, drawing several parallels between the captive Israelites and today's Christians, in order to show how to make freedom in Christ a daily reality. Moore teaches readers to remove obstacles that hinder freedom by identifying spiritual strongholds in their lives and overcoming them through the truth of God's Word--truth that will set us free.
Attack of the Vampire Weenies: And Other Warped and Creepy Tales ($5.99 Kindle,
$3.60 B&N), by David Lubar, is the Nook Daily Find for Families. This is an Agency publisher, so should be price matched (eventually, it probably will be). According to the synopsis in both stores, this is being sold DRM-free, so you should be able to buy the EPUB from B&N and convert it for Kindle, but it isn't something I've tried with a heavily illustrated children's book.
Book Description
A boy steals a ticket to an amusement park and gets the ride of a lifetime—literally. The first day of middle school turns into a free-for-all when the gym teacher offers a “get-out-of-gym-free” card. Sick of his sister’s vampire wannabe friends, a kid decides to teach them a lesson at their next party. But the tables are turned when some surprise guests show up.
Critically acclaimed author and master of the macabre, David Lubar, is back with thirty more warped and creepy tales for fans of his bestselling Weenies story collections, which have sold more than 1.7 million copies to date.
Don’t be a weenie. Read these stories. If you dare!
Grade Level: 4 and up
Shatter Me (
$3.99 Kindle,
B&N), by Tahereh Mafi, is the Nook Weekend Deal, price matched on Kindle.
Book Description
"You can't touch me," I whisper. I'm lying, is what I don't tell him. He can touch me, is what I'll never tell him. But things happen when people touch me. Strange things. Bad things. No one knows why Juliette's touch is fatal, but The Reestablishment has plans for her. Plans to use her as a weapon. But Juliette has plans of her own. After a lifetime without freedom, she's finally discovering a strength to fight back for the very first time—and to find a future with the one boy she thought she'd lost forever.
Grade Level: 9 and up
