For those with young children or grandkids, you definitely will want to check out the Dr. Seuss sale, which has a number of my childhood favorites marked down to 99 cents, regularly $4-$5. There are more than two dozen titles in the sale, with some priced at $1.99 or $2.99, so you should be able to stock up your or you kids' new Kindle Fires with a lot of entertainment at a low cost.If you "buy" any of the free apps created by Smule, Amazon will give you a $1 MP3 credit.
For those with eInk Kindles, be sure to check out the Best Kindle E Ink Games of 2012 for $0.99, which includes Uno, Scrabble, Brain Trainer and more.
At Audible, the Holiday Relief sale has 100+ books at $7.95.
At BooksonBoard, get 50% off and 5% rewards on non-Agency books using coupon code eKlaus (capitalization is important).
In the UK, the 12 Days of Kindle sale is back, with "great books from as low as £0.99 [and] at least 50 books [added] to the selection every day."
Also for those in the UK (and Australia), iTunes is having a 12 Days of Christmas givewaway, with a new gift free each day.
Today is the last day to take advantage of this KSO deal:
Today's Kindle Romance Daily Deal is The Host ($1.99), by Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight series. Audible listeners can get the companion audiobook for only $3.95.Book Description
Now available as a special edition eBook: New Bonus Chapter and Reading Group Guide, including Stephenie Meyer's Annotated Playlist for the book with linking to and back from text.
Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of human hosts while leaving their bodies intact. Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, didn't expect to find its former tenant refusing to relinquish possession of her mind.
As Melanie fills Wanderer's thoughts with visions of Jared, a human who still lives in hiding, Wanderer begins to yearn for a man she's never met. Reluctant allies, Wanderer and Melanie set off to search for the man they both love.
Featuring one of the most unusual love triangles in literature, THE HOST
is a riveting and unforgettable novel about the persistence of love and the essence of what it means to be human.
Today's Kindle Daily Deal saves up to 93% on biographies and memoirs by Caitlin Moran, Neil Young, Patti Smith, Ellen DeGeneres, and more, all $2.99 or less (up to 93% off).- When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine, by Monica Wood
- Bad Habits: Confessions of a Recovering Catholic, by Jenny McCarthy
- Washington: A Life , by Ron Chernow; companion audiobook $3.95
- Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever Who Saved Him, by Luis Carlos Montalvan; companion audiobook $3.95 (I listened to this last year; recommended)
- Just Kids, by Patti Smith
- My Horizontal Life, by Chelsea Handler; companion audiobook $3.95
- How to Be a Woman, by Caitlin Moran
- Waging Heavy Peace, by Neil Young (this one has been on our wishlist!)
- Seriously...I'm Kidding, by Ellen DeGeneres (I listened to the audiobook on this one last year and it was hilarious; from what I read, the book is different from the audiobook, but just as funny)
- Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir), by Jenny Lawson
Today's Kindle SciFi/Fantasy Daily Deal is The Handmaid's Tale ($1.99), by Margaret Atwood. Check your libraries though, as I have it in mine, but in an edition that is no longer available.Book Description
The Handmaid's Tale is not only a radical and brilliant departure for Margaret Atwood, it is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States, now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans. The regime takes the Book of Genesis absolutely at its word, with bizarre consequences for the women and men of its population.
The story is told through the eyes of Offred, one of the unfortunate Handmaids under the new social order. In condensed but eloquent prose, by turns cool-eyed, tender, despairing, passionate, and wry, she reveals to us the dark corners behind the establishment's calm facade, as certain tendencies now in existence are carried to their logical conclusions. The Handmaid's Tale is funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing. It is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force. It is Margaret Atwood at her best.
The Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK is six titles for £0.99 each (~80% off).Angels (Main/UK), by Marian Keyes (US edition $7.99)
Marian Keyes' sixth novel is a truly captivating story about a marriage that's gone wrong and a sensible girl who suddenly just wants to let her hair down.Artemis Fowl (Main/UK), by Eoin Colfer (US edition $5.69)
"We will shortly be landing at Los Angeles International Airport. Please ensure your seat is in the upright position, that you weigh less than a hundred pounds and that you have excellent teeth."
Maggie Walsh has always done everything right. Sensibly. By the book. Until the day she leaves her husband and runs away to Hollywood, that is.
Follow her on a journey of discovery, from suburbia to a suntan - taking in some heartache and lots of martinis along the way - as she discovers what she really wants in life and why she really walked out of her marriage.
Twelve-year-old villain, Artemis Fowl, is the most ingenious criminal mastermind in history. His bold and daring plan is to hold a leprechaun to ransom. But he's taking on more than he bargained for when he kidnaps Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon (Lower Elements Police Reconnaissance Unit). For a start, leprechaun technology is more advanced than our own. Add to that the fact that Holly is a true heroine and that her senior officer Commander Root will stop at nothing to get her back and you've got the mother of all sieges brewing!A Long Way Down (Main/UK), by Nick Hornby (US edition $11.99)
A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby's hilarious bestseller about strangers and secretsThe Chase: The Isaac Bell Adventures #1 (Main/UK), by Clive Cussler (US edition $9.99)
'Can I explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower block?'
For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer's pretty simple: he has, in his own words, 'pissed his life away'. And on New Year's Eve he's going to end it all . . . but not, as it happens, alone. Because first single-mum Maureen, then eighteen-year-old Jess and lastly American rock-god JJ turn up and crash Martin's private party. They've stolen his idea - but brought their own reasons.
Yet it's hard to jump when you've got an audience queuing impatiently behind you. A few heated words and some slices if cold pizza later and these four strangers are suddenly allies. But is their unlikely friendship a good enough reason to carry on living?
Shortlisted for the 2005 Whitbread Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, A Long Way Down is a darkly hilarious and moving novel by bestselling author Nick Hornby. If you like Jonathan Coe, David Sedaris and David Nicholls, you will love this book.
In The Chase Clive Cussler introduces a historical hero- Isaac Bell.The Kane Chronicles: The Red Pyramid (Main/UK), by Rick Riordan (US edition $7.99)
1950: the rusting hulk of a steam locomotive is raised from the depths of a Montana lake. Inside are three bodies, bloody clue to a fortune lost for over forty years . . .
1906: For two years banks across the western United States have been living in terror of the 'Butcher Bandit'. This cold-blooded bank robber empties safes and murders all witnesses, vanishing without trace. In desperation, the US Government calls in Isaac Bell, the best detective in the country. From Arizona to Colorado to the streets of San Francisco during the great quake, Bell uses all his guile and ingenuity to catch up with the murderous Bandit.
But when Bell has him almost cornered - the Bandit turns really nasty. And suddenly the stakes have changed. Bell isn't just battling to get his man. He's fighting for his very survival . . .
Bestseller Clive Cussler - author of the Dirk Pitt novels Arctic Drift and Crescent Dawn - sends hero Isaac Bell to solve a mysterious series of bank-robberies and murders in the first novel of historical thriller series The Isaac Bell Adventures. The Chase is followed by The Wrecker and The Spy.
A brilliant new adventure series from the best-selling author of Percy Jackson.Never Look Back (Main/UK), by Lesley Pearse (no US edition)
Carter and Sadie have nothing in common but their parents: their father Dr. Julius Kane, a brilliant Egyptologist, and their mother, a famed archaeologist who died under mysterious circumstances when they were young.
The siblings barely know each other, but one night, their father brings them together at the British Museum, promising a 'research experiment' that will set things right for their family.
His plans go horribly wrong.
An explosion unleashes an ancient evil - the Egyptian god Set who banishes Dr. Kane to oblivion and forces the children to flee for their lives. Now orphaned, Carter and Sadie must embark on a dangerous quest - from Cairo to Paris to the American Southwest, to save their father and stop Set from destroying everything they care about . . .
One good deed takes her into another world . . .
Sixteen-year-old Matilda is a poor Covent Garden flower girl until the day she saves the life of Tabitha, a minister's daughter. Welcomed into Tabitha's family, Matilda is offered the chance of a lifetime.
She leaves behind London's slums and enters the darkest corners of New York. And she travels across the plains to the Wild West, where San Francisco is in the grip of the gold rush.
Streetwise and strong-willed, Matilda forges a new life for herself and Tabitha among pioneers like Captain James Russell - a man to whom she is deeply attracted. Yet a civil war will soon rip apart this new nation.
Can Matilda and those she loves brave separation and carry on, never looking back?
Black List ($2.99 Kindle, B&N), the eleventh and latest thriller in Brad Thor's Scot Harvath series, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.Book Description
A stunning masterwork of action, intrigue, and ingenious plot twists.
#1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor returns with his most explosive thriller ever. Somewhere deep inside the United States government is a closely guarded list. Members of Congress never get to see it—only the President and a secret team of advisers. Once your name is on the list, it doesn’t come off . . . until you’re dead.
Someone has just added counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath’s name.
Somehow Harvath must evade the teams dispatched to kill him long enough to untangle who has targeted him and why they want him out of the way.
Somewhere, someone, somehow can put all the pieces together. The only question is, will Harvath get to that person before the United States suffers the most withering terrorist attack ever conceived?
An intense, page-turning novel that is action-packed and frighteningly real, Black List blurs the line between fiction and reality and once again reaffirms why Brad Thor “is arguably the best thriller writer of our time” (Suspense Magazine) and “America’s favorite author” (KTTX).
Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is Diary of a Wimpy Kid ($1.99), by Jeff Kinney.Book Description
Boys don't keep diaries—or do they?
The launch of an exciting and innovatively illustrated new series narrated by an unforgettable kid every family can relate to.
It's a new school year, and Greg Heffley finds himself thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings share the hallways with kids who are taller, meaner, and already shaving. The hazards of growing up before you're ready are uniquely revealed through words and drawings as Greg records them in his diary.
In book one of this debut series, Greg is happy to have Rowley, his sidekick, along for the ride. But when Rowley's star starts to rise, Greg tries to use his best friend's newfound popularity to his own advantage, kicking off a chain of events that will test their friendship in hilarious fashion.
Author/illustrator Jeff Kinney recalls the growing pains of school life and introduces a new kind of hero who epitomizes the challenges of being a kid. As Greg says in his diary, "Just don’t expect me to be all 'Dear Diary' this and 'Dear Diary' that." Luckily for us, what Greg Heffley says he won't do and what he actually does are two very different things.
Since its launch in May 2004 on Funbrain.com, the Web version of Diary of a Wimpy Kid has been viewed by 20 million unique online readers. This year, it is averaging 70,000 readers a day.
