G5 Entertainment AB has four hidden object games for the Kindle Fire (and any other Android device) on sale for 99 cents (regularly $4.99). VeggieTales: The League of Incredible Vegetables (Kindle Tablet Edition) and SpongeBob Marbles & Slides (Kindle Tablet Edition) are also 99 cents (looks like greats choice for kids, regularly $2.99 - $3.99) and there are several Kindle Tablet Edition Kindle Tablet Edition games from Electronic Arts at the same price, such as SCRABBLE, THE GAME OF LIFE, SimCity Deluxe, MADDEN NFL 12 and NBA JAM.
This weekend's Fictionwise code is 101912 for 50% off non-Samhain books.
Today is the last day to take advantage of this KSO deal:
Today's Kindle Daily Deal is City of Women ($2.99), by David R. Gillham.Book Description
Whom do you trust, whom do you love, and who can be saved?
It is 1943—the height of the Second World War—and Berlin has essentially become a city of women. Sigrid Schröder is, for all intents and purposes, the model German soldier’s wife: She goes to work every day, does as much with her rations as she can, and dutifully cares for her meddling mother-in-law, all the while ignoring the horrific immoralities of the regime. But behind this façade is an entirely different Sigrid, a woman who dreams of her former lover, now lost in the chaos of the war. Her lover is a Jew.
But Sigrid is not the only one with secrets.
A high ranking SS officer and his family move down the hall and Sigrid finds herself pulled into their orbit. A young woman doing her duty-year is out of excuses before Sigrid can even ask her any questions. And then there’s the blind man selling pencils on the corner, whose eyes Sigrid can feel following her from behind the darkness of his goggles.
Soon Sigrid is embroiled in a world she knew nothing about, and as her eyes open to the reality around her, the carefully constructed fortress of solitude she has built over the years begins to collapse. She must choose to act on what is right and what is wrong, and what falls somewhere in the shadows between the two.
In this page-turning novel, David Gillham explores what happens to ordinary people thrust into extraordinary times, and how the choices they make can be the difference between life and death.
Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is the first four volumes of the "Brain Quest" educational series by Chris Welles Feder and Susan Bishay for $1.99 each (83% off), all revised 4th editions. All run on the Kindle Fire or any of the Kindle apps.Brain Quest Preschool: 300 Questions and Answers to Get a Smart Start
Brain Quest Kindergarten: 300 Questions and Answers to Get a Smart Start
Brain Quest Grade 1: 750 Questions and Answers to Challenge the Mind
Brain Quest Grade 2: 1,000 Questions and Answers to Challenge the Mind
Brain Quest is beloved by kids, trusted by parents, used and recommended by teachers. It’s the curriculum-based, fast-paced, question-and-answer game that challenges kids on the stuff they need to know, when they need to know it. It’s the brand that says “It’s fun to be smart!” And it delivers.
For the fourth edition every deck is thoroughly revised and includes 20 percent new material. The content aligns with national and state standards and is overseen by the Brain Quest Advisory Board, a panel of award-winning educators, each a recent state teacher-of-the-year award winner or a recipient of the prestigious Milken Educator Award. The covers and cards have a refreshed design, giving Brain Quest a cooler, updated look.
Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life ($2.99 Kindle, B&N), by Richard Paul and Linda Elder, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle. It's been free in both stores several times, so you probably already have this one in your library.Book Description
Critical Thinking is about becoming a better thinker in every aspect of your life: in your career, and as a consumer, citizen, friend, parent, and lover. Discover the core skills of effective thinking; then analyze your own thought processes, identify weaknesses, and overcome them. Learn how to translate more effective thinking into better decisions, less frustration, more wealth Ñ and above all, greater confidence to pursue and achieve your most important goals in life.
The Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham in the White House ($9.99 Kindle, $2.99 B&N), by Nancy Gibbs, is the Nook Daily Find: Election 2012. This is an Agency title and should be the same in all stores, so it should drop (and I've reported the price to Amazon).Book Description
No one man or woman has ever been in a position to see the presidents, and the presidency, so intimately, over so many years. They called him in for photo opportunities. They called for comfort. They asked about death and salvation; about sin and forgiveness.
At a time when the nation is increasingly split over the place of religion in public life, THE PREACHER AND THE PRESIDENTS reveals how the world's most powerful men and world's most famous evangelist, Billy Graham, knit faith and politics together.
An Officer and a Gentlewoman ($2.07 / £1.29 UK), by Heloise Goodley, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (no US edition).Book Description
When Heloise Goodley ditched her City job and decided to attend officer training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, she had no prior military experience. On her arrival she was a complete novice: she'd never fired a rifle, she couldn't march; she couldn't make her bed; she couldn't even shine her shoes.
An Officer and a Gentlewoman charts Goodley's absorbing journey through Sandhurst and on to Afghanistan and gives an insight into the array of bizarre military behaviours and customs at this esoteric and hidden institution. With wit and sensitivity Goodley details her experiences as a cadet and the painful transition from civilian to soldier. Moreover, she rejects lazy preconceptions and sheds new light on what has hitherto been a bastion of maleness - the British Army.
About the Author
Heloise Goodley was a City banker before she made an impulsive decision to join the Army in 2007 and undertake officer training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. She has since completed two operational tours of Afghanistan and currently holds the rank of Captain as Adjutant of an Apache helicopter regiment. She still can't march or shine shoes.
