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Saturday, October 27, 2012

Today's Deals

Looking for something different to give out for Halloween this year (or just want a free game)? Then run over to the Stop Zombie Mouth website and print off as many coupons as you want, each one good for a free copy of Plants vs. Zombies at Popcap Games (redeem Oct. 30 - Nov. 10). You can also download some wallpaper for your computer, some coloring pages for kids, invitations for a Halloween party and some masks that you can print.


Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is Eight Spooky Halloween Books, most of them for 99 cents.

Zombie Town ($0.99), by R.L. Stine, Tim Jacobus
Three Faces of Me ($0.99), by R.L. Stine, Tim Jacobus
My Alien Parents ($0.99), by R.L. Stine, Tim Jacobus
The 13th Warning ($0.99), by R.L. Stine, Tim Jacobus
The Creatures from Beyond Beyond ($0.99), by R.L. Stine, Tim Jacobus
The Adventures of Shrinkman ($0.99), by R.L. Stine, Tim Jacobus
Blackbriar ($1.99), by William Sleator
An Eyeball in My Garden: And Other Spine-Tingling Poem ($1.99), by Jennifer Cole Judd, Laura Wynkoop and Johan Olander

Today's Kindle Daily Deal is 22 Karen Kingsbury Romances for $1.99 each! That's far too many for me to list them out, so just click the link to see them all. Also, be sure to double check the prices before one-clicking, as I still don't see a price drop and it's well after midnight (PT) as I am posting this (regular prices of $8-$10 are showing). If there are several of these you want, it's probably worth a phone call to Kindle support to see if they can notify someone who can get the prices corrected before this afternoon.
Book Description
Award-winning author Karen Kingsbury is arguably America's favorite inspirational writer with more than 50 novels to her name. Today's deal features 22 of her best-selling novels covering five complete series: Bailey Flanigan, Above the Line, Sunrise, Redemption, and Firstborn.

Death and the Devil ($1.58 / £0.99 UK), by Frank Schätzing, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $7.99).
Book Description
Cologne, 1260. The great cathedral, the most ambitious building in all Christendom, is rising above the city. In its shadow seethes a society in ferment: traumatised Crusaders returning from the Holy Land, religious tensions poised to explode into violence, a burgeoning merchant class that despises the old aristocracy and is determined to seize power.Against this backdrop Jacob the Fox, a flame-haired petty thief, witnesses a murder – the cathedral's architect, pushed to his death from the scaffold by a black-clad assassin. Soon Jacob is on the run, convinced the Angel of Death is on his trail, as the killer pursues him through medieval Cologne's seedy underworld. To survive he must uncover a vengeful conspiracy that threatens to tear the city apart and stain the sacred project with blood.

Blood and Bullets ($5.38 $2.99 Kindle, B&N), the first novel in the Deacon Chalk: Occult Bounty Hunter series by James R. Tuck, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle, now price matched on Kindle.
Book Description
He lives to kill monsters. He keeps his city safe. And his silver hollow-points and back-from-the-dead abilities help him take out any kind of supernatural threat. But now an immortal evil has this bad-ass bounty hunter dead in its sights. . .

Ever since a monster murdered his family, Deacon Chalk hunts any creature that preys on the innocent. So when a pretty vampire girl "hires" him to eliminate a fellow slayer, Deacon goes to warn him--and barely escapes a vampire ambush. Now he's got a way-inexperienced newbie hunter to protect and everything from bloodsuckers to cursed immortals on his trail. There's also a malevolent force controlling the living and the undead, hellbent on turning Deacon's greatest loss into the one weapon that could destroy him. . .

1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Transformed America ($15.87 Hardcover, $1.99 B&N), by David Pietrusza, is the Nook Daily Find: Election 2012 (no Kindle edition).
Book Description
The behind-the-headline true story of Harry Truman's stunning upset!

Everyone knows the iconic news photo of jubilant underdog Harry Truman brandishing a copy of the Chicago Tribune proclaiming “DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN.” David Pietrusza goes backstage to explain how it happened, placing the brutal political battle in the context of an erupting Cold War and America's exploding storms over civil rights and domestic communism.

Pietrusza achieves for 1948's presidential race what he previously did in his acclaimed 1960--LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: bringing history to life and intrigue readers with tales of high drama while simultaneously presenting the issues, personalities, and controversies of this pivotal era with laser-like clarity.