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Today's Kindle Daily Deal is
"13" Compelling Nonfiction Singles by TED Books for
$0.99 each (67% off). I have 13 in quotes, as Amazon only lists twelve, yet claims "all" of the publisher's titles are on sale. So, I tracked down that missing title and have it listed first - check your invoice on it, though, as it keeps changing in price (I've refreshed the page about 6 times and saw 99 cents twice and $2.99 the other times).
- When I'm 164: The New Science of Radical Life Extension, and What Happens If It Succeeds, by David Ewing Duncan
- Weekday Vegetarian: Finally, a Palatable Solution, by Alex Estes and Graham Hill
- Mind Amplifier: Can Our Digital Tools Make Us Smarter? , by Howard Rheingold
- Deep Water: As Polar Ice Melts, Scientists Debate How High Our Oceans Will Rise, by Daniel Grossman
- Beware Dangerism!, by Gever Tulley
- The Happiness Manifesto, by Nic Marks
- Why School?: How Education Must Change When Learning and Information Are Everywhere, by Will Richardson
- Smile: The Astonishing Powers of a Simple Act, by Ron Gutman
- Homo Evolutis, by Steve Gullans and Juan Enriquez
- Controlling Cancer: A Powerful Plan for Taking On the World's Most Daunting Disease, by Paul Ewald and Holly Swain Ewald
- Beyond the Hole in the Wall: Discover the Power of Self-Organized Learning, by Sugata Mitra
- Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization, by Parag Khanna and Ayesha Khanna
- Cheating The Impossible: Ideas and Recipes from a Rebellious High-Wire Artist, by Philippe Petit
Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is
Larklight (
$1.99), by bestselling British author/illustrator Philip Reeve and David Wyatt (Illustrator).
Book Description
Arthur (Art) Mumby and his irritating sister Myrtle live with their father in the huge and rambling house, Larklight, travelling through space on a remote orbit far beyond the Moon. One ordinary sort of morning they receive a correspondence informing them that a gentleman is on his way to visit, a Mr Webster. Visitors to Larklight are rare if not unique, and a frenzy of preparation ensues. But it is entirely the wrong sort of preparation, as they discover when their guest arrives, and a Dreadful and Terrifying (and Marvellous) adventure begins. It takes them to the furthest reaches of Known Space, where they must battle the evil First Ones in a desperate attempt to save each other - and the Universe.
Recounted through the eyes of Art himself, Larklight is sumptuously designed and illustrated throughout.
Grade Level: 5 and up
Truth (
$1.59 / £0.99 UK), by Peter Temple, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the
US edition is $9.99).
Book Description
At the close of a long day, Inspector Stephen Villani stands in the bathroom of a luxury apartment high above the city. In the glass bath, a young woman lies dead. Villani's job as the head of the Victoria Police Homicide Squad is bathed in blood and sorrow. Incapable of constancy as a father and husband, damaged as a son, his life is his work. It is his identity, his calling, his touchstone. Now, over a few sweltering summer days, as fires burn across the state and his superiors and colleagues scheme and jostle, his soul is about to be laid bare. Truth is a novel about a man, a family, a city. It is about violence, murder, love, corruption, honour and deceit. And it is about truth.
Bite Me (
$1.99 Kindle,
B&N), the first novel of the
Demon Underground series by Parker Blue, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle. Some of you will already have this, from when it was free this past summer.
Book Description
Barely eighteen-year-old heroine Valentine Shapiro got a raw deal in the parent lottery. Her father was part incubus demon, and her mother's never forgiven her for that.Life after high school is tough enough without having to go 15 rounds with your inner demon. Thrown out of the house by her mother, Val puts one foot in front of the other and does the only thing that seems to make any sense--she takes aim at the town vampires. A stake a day, keeps the demon at bay. (But don't call her Buffy. That makes Lola, her demon, very cranky.) Her dark side makes everyday life a roller coaster, but means she's perfect for her night job as a bounty hunter. San Antonio's vampires are out of control, and it's up to Val, her faithful hellhound Fang, and her new partner, a handsome San Antonio police detective, to get the deadly fangbangers off the city streets. Soon enough she finds herself deep in the underbelly of the city, discovering the secrets of the Demon Underground and fighting to save those she loves. Whether they love her back or not.
The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted (
$2.99 Kindle,
B&N), by Mike Lofgren, is the Nook Daily Find: Election 2012, price matched on Kindle, where the
companion audiobook is $5.99.
Book Description
The New York Times bestselling exposé of what passes for business as usual in Washington today
There was a time, not so very long ago, when perfectly rational people ran the Republican Party. So how did the party of Lincoln become the party of lunatics? That is what this book aims to answer. Fear not, the Dems come in for their share of tough talk— they are zombies, a party of the living dead.
Mike Lofgren came to Washington in the early eighties—those halcyon, post–Nixonian glory days—for what he imagined would be a short stint on Capitol Hill. He has witnessed quite a few low points in his twenty-eight years on the Hill—but none quite so pitiful as the antics of the current crop of legislators whom we appear to have elected.
Based on the explosive article Lofgren wrote when he resigned in disgust after the debt ceiling crisis, The Party Is Over is a funny and impassioned exposé of everything that is wrong with Washington. Obama and his tired cohorts are no angels but they have nothing on the Republicans, whose wily strategists are bankrupting the country one craven vote at a time. Be prepared for some fireworks.
