Tantor Media is having a $6.99 sale, with 137 MP3 downloads available at that price.
Today's Kindle Daily Deal is I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive ($1.99), by Steve Earle, one of Amazon's Best Books of the Month, May 2011. If you listen to any country music, you know who he is and will be familiar with the ghost in the story; combined with the rave reviews, this will be a must read.Book Description
Doc Ebersole lives with the ghost of Hank Williams—not just in the figurative sense, not just because he was one of the last people to see him alive, and not just because he is rumored to have given Hank the final morphine dose that killed him.
In 1963, ten years after Hank's death, Doc himself is wracked by addiction. Having lost his license to practice medicine, his morphine habit isn't as easy to support as it used to be. So he lives in a rented room in the red-light district on the south side of San Antonio, performing abortions and patching up the odd knife or gunshot wound. But when Graciela, a young Mexican immigrant, appears in the neighborhood in search of Doc's services, miraculous things begin to happen. Graciela sustains a wound on her wrist that never heals, yet she heals others with the touch of her hand. Everyone she meets is transformed for the better, except, maybe, for Hank's angry ghost—who isn't at all pleased to see Doc doing well.
A brilliant excavation of an obscure piece of music history, Steve Earle's I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive is also a marvelous novel in its own right, a ballad of regret and redemption, and of the ways in which we remake ourselves and our world through the smallest of miracles.
Apples ($1.55 / £0.99 UK), by Richard Milward, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $9.62).Book Description
Out of the bleakness of their Middlesbrough housing estate, fueled by cheap plonk, porn and dysfunctional families, Adam and Eve narrate this dazzling, tragicomic love story of adolescence in all its f[****]d-up glory.
As a distraction from sleazy male admirers, spiteful classmates and her mother's cancer, Eve's eyes are opened to a multicolour life of one-night stands, drug-fueled discos and cheap plonk. She barely has time to notice Adam. Adam, however, notices Eve. While contending with sexual frustration, a violent father and increasingly compulsive behaviour, is he too busy reading Razzle in the attic to make his move?
Narrated alternately by Adam and Eve, alongside a cast of delinquents, perverts and butterflies, "Apples" is an exploration of the difficulties of growing up and of getting 'f[****]d as quick as you can'.
A Short History of the World ($7.99 Kindle, $1.99 B&N), by Christopher Lascelles, is the Nook Daily Find.Book Description
There is an increasing realisation that our knowledge of world history–and how it all fits together–is far from perfect. A Short History of the World aims to fill the big gaps in our historical knowledge with a book that is easy to read and assumes little prior knowledge of past events.
The book does not aim to come up with groundbreaking new theories on why things occurred, but rather gives a broad overview of the generally accepted version of events so that non-historians will feel less ignorant when discussing the past.
To help readers put events, places and empires into context, the book includes 32 maps specially commissioned to accompany the text. The result is a book that is reassuringly epic in scope but refreshingly short in length. An excellent place to start to bring your historical knowledge up to scratch!
The Paper Bag Princess ($1.89 Kindle, $1.99 B&N), by Robert Munsch and Michael Martchenko (Illustrator), is the Nook Daily Find for Families, slightly better than price matched on Kindle. Note that the Nook edition requires a NOOK Color, NOOK Tablet or NOOK Kids for iPad, while the Kindle edition requires a Kindle Fire, Kindle Cloud Reader, Kindle for iPad or Kindle for Android.Book Description
In this bestselling modern classic, Princess Elizabeth is slated to marry Prince Ronald when a dragon attacks the castle and kidnaps Ronald. In resourceful and humorous fashion, Elizabeth finds the dragon, outsmarts him, and rescues Ronald—who is less than pleased at her un-princess-like appearance.
Grade Level: P and up. Kindle edition features Kindle Text Pop-Up on Kindle Fire and select Kindle Apps.
Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is The Amulet of Samarkand ($1.99), the first title in the Bartimaeus series by Jonathan Stroud. I've been reading this series and definitely recommend it, regardless of your age.Book Description
Nathaniel is a magician's apprentice, taking his first lessons in the arts of magic. But when a devious hot-shot wizard named Simon Lovelace ruthlessly humiliates Nathaniel in front of his elders, Nathaniel decides to kick up his education a few notches and show Lovelace who's boss. With revenge on his mind, he summons the powerful djinni, Bartimaeus. But summoning Bartimaeus and controlling him are two different things entirely, and when Nathaniel sends the djinni out to steal Lovelace's greatest treasure, the Amulet of Samarkand, he finds himself caught up in a whirlwind of magical espionage, murder, and rebellion.
Grade Level: 5 and up
The Hunger Games ($1.99 Kindle, Google), by Suzanne Collins, is today's Flash Sale eBook on Google Play, price matched on Kindle, as is the rest of the Hunger Game series ($5.99) and the Underland Chronicles ($5.24). If you missed it when it was on sale earlier in the year, grab it now, as it has gone back up to $9+ in other stores.Book Description
The astonishing bestseller...
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.
Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love.
