Audible's
Shock-tober Sale continues with Werewolves this week. I've read Kelley Armstrong's
Women of the Underworld, Ilona Andrews'
Kate Daniels and Carrie Vaughn's
Kitty Norville series in print and can recommend it and the start of Molly Harper's series (which I've also read and enjoyed) is only $3.95, while most of the others are $6.95. I also see David Wellington's series, which I haven't started, although I do have the first title in my TBR list. Like most sales, it's limited to subscribers, but you can always use a
trial membership, then cancel and choose the $10/year membership to get access to sales after the trial is over.
Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is
Little Hoot (
$1.99), by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Abby Sher.
Book Description
It's not fair! All Little Owl wants is to go to bed at a reasonable hour, like his friends do. But no . . . Mama and Papa say little owls have to stay up late and play. So Little Owl spends all night jumping on his bed, playing on the jungle gym, and doing tricks on his skateboard - but he's hooting mad about it ! Children who have a hard time going to bed will love this fun twist on the universal dilemma.
Grade Level: P and up
Today's Kindle Daily Deal is
Six Days of War (
$1.99 Kindle; $7.95
companion audiobook), by Michael B. Oren.
Book Description
For six tense days between June 5 and 10, 1967, war raged between Israel and its neighbors, Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. There are many contexts in which this story makes sense, but only Michael Oren, a widely published American-born Israel scholar and historian, has so far knitted the diverse strands into a cohesive fabric that remains vital and relevant today. With educated authority and authorial integrity, Oren manages to sketch out facts and motives with the same intrigue as battles and strategies.
Escalating territorial and populist tensions in the Middle East only serve to make this title more relevant. Anyone who wants to have a grasp of Middle Eastern politics or political tensions involving Israel must read this title. Six Days of War was a New York Times Bestseller and Washington Post Best Book Award Winner in 2002 and has gone on to be an internationally acclaimed bestseller. The book has been widely recognized as the definitive telling of the Six Day War.
The Museum of Abandoned Secrets (
$1.59 / £0.99 UK), by Oksana Zabuzhko and Nina Shevchuk-Murray (Translator), is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the
US edition is $4.99/KLL Eligible). This is an AmazonCrossing exclusive translation, so not available in other stores.
Book Description
Spanning sixty tumultuous years of Ukrainian history, this multigenerational saga weaves a dramatic and intricate web of love, sex, friendship, and death. At its center: three women linked by the abandoned secrets of the past—secrets that refuse to remain hidden.
While researching a story, journalist Daryna unearths a worn photograph of Olena Dovgan, a member of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army killed in 1947 by Stalin’s secret police. Intrigued, Daryna sets out to make a documentary about the extraordinary woman—and unwittingly opens a door to the past that will change the course of the future. For even as she delves into the secrets of Olena’s life, Daryna grapples with the suspicious death of a painter who just may be the latest victim of a corrupt political power play.
From the dim days of World War II to the eve of Orange Revolution, The Museum of Abandoned Secrets is an “epic of enlightening force” that explores the enduring power of the dead over the living.
A Time to Dance (
$4.74 $2.99 Kindle,
B&N), the first novel in bestselling author Karen Kingsbury's
Timeless Love series, is the Nook Daily Find. This is an updated edition (both are available on Kindle, so be careful searching) and I've reported the lower price to Amazon in hopes it will drop there.
Update: Now price matched on Kindle!
Book Description
They celebrated their love with a dance. But will it end in divorce?
John and Abby Reynolds were the perfect couple, sharing a love born of childhood friendship and deep family ties. They are envied by their friends, cherished by their children, admired by their peers. But John and Abbey are about to lose it all. On the verge of having an affair, John is no more the man Abby married than she is the long-ago girl of his dreams. They are strangers whose days of dancing seem gone forever.
They gather their three children to announce their plans, but before they can speak, their daughter makes an announcement of her own; she's getting married in the summer.
Abby and John determine not to ruin their daughter's season of happiness, but as the wedding nears they are haunted by questions. Is the decision they've made irreversible? Are there times when marriage--even the marriage between two people of faith--is truly beyond repair? And is it possible, alone in the moonlight on an old wooden pier, to once more find...a time to dance?
Discover the resiliency of boundless love, the power of commitment, and the amazing faithfulness of God in A Time to Dance.
It's the Middle Class, Stupid! (
$2.99 Kindle,
B&N), by James Carville and Stan Greenberg, is the Nook Daily Find: Election 2012, price matched on Kindle.
Book Description
It’s the Middle Class, Stupid! confirms what we have all suspected: Washington and Wall Street have really screwed things up for the average American. Work has been devalued. Education costs are out of sight. Effort and ambition have never been so scantily rewarded. Political guru James Carville and pollster extraordinaire Stan Greenberg argue that our political parties must admit their failures and the electorate must reclaim its voice, because taking on the wealthy and the privileged is not class warfare—it is a matter of survival. Told in the alternating voices of these two top political strategists, It’s the Middle Class, Stupid! provides eye-opening and provocative arguments on where our government—including the White House—has gone wrong, and what voters can do about it.
Controversial and outspoken, authoritative and shrewd, It’s the Middle Class, Stupid! is destined to make waves during the 2012 presidential campaign, and will set the agenda for legislative battles and political dust-ups during the next administration.
