I checked with Kobo on the Romance50 (50% off Romance Bestsellers; exp Sep 9) discount code - you can buy as many of the qualifying books as you want and use the code on each one.
Today's Kindle Daily Deal is Shelter ($2.99), a young adult novel by internationally bestselling author Harlan Coben. This is the first novel in his new Mickey Bolitar series, with the next, Seconds Away, due out in September.Book Description
Mickey Bolitar's year can't get much worse. After witnessing his father's death and sending his mom to rehab, he's forced to live with his estranged uncle Myron and switch high schools.
A new school comes with new friends and new enemies, and lucky for Mickey, it also comes with a great new girlfriend, Ashley. For a while, it seems like Mickey's train-wreck of a life is finally improving - until Ashley vanishes without a trace. Unwilling to let another person walk out of his life, Mickey follows Ashley's trail into a seedy underworld that reveals that this seemingly sweet, shy girl isn't who she claimed to be. And neither was Mickey's father. Soon, Mickey learns about a conspiracy so shocking that it makes high school drama seem like a luxury - and leaves him questioning everything about the life he thought he knew.
First introduced to readers in Harlan Coben's latest adult novel, Live Wire, Mickey Bolitar is as quick-witted and clever as his uncle Myron, and eager to go to any length to save the people he cares about. With this new series, Coben introduces an entirely new generation of fans to the masterful plotting and wry humor that have made him an award-winning, internationally bestselling, and beloved author.
Nobody Loves a Ginger Baby ($1.57 / £0.99 UK), by Laura Marney , is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (no US edition).Book Description
Everybody’s on anti-depressants. They’re all suffering from Post Romantic Stress Disorder. Not being happy all the time makes them unhappy and stressed. Nowadays, not being happy is deeply unfashionable and therefore quite intolerable, and so everybody’s (secretly) on the happy pills.
Bertha chucks Donnie who goes out with Daphne and begs her not to chuck him but then he chucks her and returns to Bertha who inevitably chucks him again. Carol has uninhibited sex which ends with her panty liner stuck to the bottom of someone’s shoe. Donnie, after a mystery bite in a Third World country, thinks he’s incubating a nest of spiders up his bum. Daphne gets fat. She makes soup all the time and wonders if Woolworths sell a hosepipe to fit a Vauxhall Vectra. Pierce is a fat balding womaniser whose only steady relationship is with a cup at the sperm bank. He’s the only one not on anti-depressants, and he’s the hero.
But it’s not all sniffles and tears. After a few undignified deaths and some life-affirming events it all ends cheerily enough with Pierce saving the day and everybody taking a metaphorical shake to themselves.
Crossroads Cafe ($1.99 Kindle, B&N), by Deborah Smith, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle (and with a different cover than shown at B&N). If you've been following this blog for a while, you may find this one in your library (it was free Christmas Eve, 2009).Book Description
A beautiful woman, scarred for life. A tortured man, seeking redemption. Brought together by fate in a small town high in the majestic Appalachian mountains. Live. Love. Believe. "Beauty is in the lie of the beholder." Heartbroken and cynical, famed actress Cathyrn Deen hides from the world after a horrific accident scars her for life. Secluded in her grandmother's North Carolina mountain home, Cathyrn at first resists the friendship of the local community and the famous biscuits served up by her loyal cousin, Delta, at The Crossroads Cafe, until a neighbor, former New York architect Thomas Mitternich, reaches out to her. Thomas lost his wife and son in the World Trade Center. In the years since he's struggled with alcohol and despair. He thinks nothing and no one can make his life worth living again. Until he meets Cathyrn.
Fablehaven ($6.39 Kindle, $6.71 B&N), by Brandon Mull, is supposed to be the Nook Daily Find for Families, but it seems to be full price (and the description is in Spanish). The only real bargain I see for the series is that you can get Fablehaven: The Complete Series for $21.81, which works out to just over $4/volume.Book Description
For centuries, mystical creatures of all description were gathered to a hidden refuge called Fablehaven to prevent their extinction. The sanctuary survives today as one of the last strongholds of true magic in a cynical world. Enchanting? Absolutely. Exciting? You bet. Safe? Well, actually, quite the opposite. . .
Kendra and her brother Seth have no idea their grandfather is the current caretaker of Fablehaven. Inside the gated woods, ancient laws give relative order among greedy trolls, mischievous satyrs, plotting witches, spiteful imps, and jealous fairies. However, when the rules get broken, an arcane evil is unleashed, forcing Kendra and Seth to face the greatest challenge of their lives. To save her family, Fablehaven, and perhaps the world, Kendra must find the courage to do what she fears most.
Today's Kindle Teen Daily Deal is Flowers for Algernon ($2.99), by Daniel Keyes. This ones get a "definitely recommended" - I replaced my paperback copy during the Award-Winning Books for $1 KSO offer in January.Book Description
With more than five million copies sold, Flowers for Algernon is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In poignant diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As the experimental procedure takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment seems to be a scientific breakthrough of paramount importance--until Algernon begins his sudden, unexpected deterioration. Will the same happen to Charlie?
An American classic that inspired the award-winning movie Charly.
