On
B&N's Facebook page, you can now vote for this weekend's $3.99 deal:
Mike Hammer: Lady, Go Die! by Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins vs.
The Monkey and the Tiger (Judge Dee Mysteries) by Robert Van Gulik. The former is Spillane's lost novel from the 40's, now in print, while the latter is a two-short-story anthology.
Today's Kindle Deal of the Day is
Dark River Road (
$1.99), by Virginia Brown. It's a good price, if you missed it during the brief free promo in February.
Book Description
One powerful man . . .has always controlled this small Southern town.
Unchallenged, until now.
Like everyone else in Cane Creek, Mississippi, Chantry Callahan grew up in the shadow of town boss Bert Quinton. Quinton held the lives of local people in his harsh grasp, never letting go. He knew where all their secrets were buried, along with the bodies of anyone who had dared to defy him.
As a boy, Chantry couldn't best Quinton. Couldn't protect the people he loved, including his own mother. But now Chantry is grown. He's come back for answers.
And for justice.
This Holey Life (
$1.55 / £0.99 UK), by Sophie Duffy, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the
US edition is $6.39).
Book Description
... that was the point at which I should've put my foot down. Stamped it hard. Stopped the past repeating itself. But what did I do? I did what Mum used to do in times of crisis. I left the room and went to put the kettle on.
Vicky is a reluctant curate's wife, struggling to come to terms with her own bereavement and her husband's new-found faith. Then, one Boxing Day, a knock on the door brings her annoying big brother, his teenage son and a cello into her life, turning her world upside down.
With her small terrace house in Penge now fit to burst, Vicky struggles to manage her three children and the joys of everyday family life. As a new threat lurks behind every corner, hope appears in the most unlikely of circumstances.
The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed ($9.39 Kindle,
$3.99 B&N), by Michael Meyer, is the Nook Daily Find.
Book Description
Journalist Michael Meyer has spent his adult life in China, first in a small village as a Peace Corps volunteer, the last decade in Beijing--where he has witnessed the extraordinary transformation the country has experienced in that time. For the past two years he has been completely immersed in the ancient city, living on one of its famed hutong in a century-old courtyard home he shares with several families, teaching English at a local elementary school--while all around him "progress" closes in as the neighborhood is methodically destroyed to make way for high-rise buildings, shopping malls, and other symbols of modern, urban life. The city, he shows, has been demolished many times before; however, he writes, "the epitaph for Beijing will read: born 1280, died 2008...what emperors, warlords, Japanese invaders, and Communist planners couldn’t eradicate, the market economy can."
The Last Days of Old Beijing tells the story of this historic city from the inside out-through the eyes of those whose lives are in the balance: the Widow who takes care of Meyer; his students and fellow teachers, the first-ever description of what goes on in a Chinese public school; the local historian who rallies against the government. The tension of preservation vs. modernization--the question of what, in an ancient civilization, counts as heritage, and what happens when a billion people want to live the way Americans do--suffuse Meyer’s story.
Miss Child Has Gone Wild! (
$1.99 Kindle,
B&N), the first title in Dan Gutman's
My Weirder School series, is the Nook Daily Find for Families, price matched on Kindle.
Book Description
My Weirder School weirder than ever! The third grade has won a weird contest, so they get to go on a field trip to the zoo. That's how they meet Miss Child, the weirdest zookeeper in the history of the world. She thinks animals are smarter than people! She thinks elephants can paint pictures! She keeps snakes in her pockets for fun! Guess who's going to wind up in a cage with a lion?
Grade Level: 2 and up
