Amazon's Android Appstore spotlight today is on THE GAME OF LIFE (Kindle Tablet Edition) for 99 cents.
The Starbucks Gift special today is a sale on their red holiday mugs (these usually sell out quickly each year, so I'm headed over in just a bit to see if I can get one or two).
Don't forget to register for the gift card giveaway on Amazon's 12 Days of Book Deals promotion page. Today's book is the hardcover edition of Thinking, Fast and Slow for $2.99 (and they are going fast).
Today's Audible Daily Deal is Select Books by Preston & Child for $7.95 each. Don't forget, if you took advantage of the Listener Rewards program last month, you should have $10 or $20 in your account to use this month (if you don't, just email Audible support and they'll fix it).
At Harlequin, save 20% on any Carina Press Mystery books, today only! Use CPMYSTERY20 at checkout.
Today's Kindle Daily Deal is The Winter Rose ($1.99), by Jennifer Donnelly.Book Description
It has been twelve years since a dark, murderous figure stalked the alleys and courts of Whitechapel. And yet, in the summer of 1900, East London is still poor, still brutal, still a shadow city to its western twin. Among the reformers is an idealistic young woman named India Selwyn-Jones, recently graduated from medical school. With the help of her influential fiance--Freddie Lytton, an up-and-coming Liberal MP--she works to shut down the area's opium dens that destroy both body and soul. Her selfless activities better her patients' lives and bring her immense gratification, but unfortunately, they also bring her into direct conflict with East London's ruling crime lord--Sid Malone.
India is not good for business and at first, Malone wants her out. But against all odds, India and Sid fall in love. Different in nearly every way, they share one thing in common--they're both wounded souls. Their love is impossible and they know it, yet they cling to it desperately. Lytton, India's fiance, will stop at nothing to marry India and gain her family's fortune.
Fractious criminal underlings and rivals conspire against Sid. When Sid is finally betrayed by one of his own, he must flee London to save his life. Mistakenly thinking him dead, India, pregnant and desperate, marries Freddie to provide a father for hers and Sid's child. India and Sid must each make a terrible sacrifice--a sacrifice that will change them both forever. One that will lead them to other lives, and other places...and perhaps--one distant, bittersweet day--back to each other.
The Shoestring Club ($1.59 / £0.99 UK), by Sarah Webb, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (no US edition, but her Ask Amy Green is reasonably priced).Book Description
Join The Shoestring Club
When the love of her life, Ed, announces his surprise engagement to her best friend, Julia Schuster is distraught but determined not to let them see how much she’s hurting. She spies a remarkable dress in Shoestring, her sister’s designer second-hand shop, and knows she’ll only be able to stagger through the wedding day, showing everyone how over Ed she is, if her body is wrapped in its soft silk chiffon. Unfortunately it costs mega bucks and she’s barely hanging on to her job as it is.
Arietty Pilgrim can’t and won’t attend her fiercely competitive school reunion unless she can arrive wearing exactly the same dress. But working as an elephant keeper in Dublin Zoo does not a millionaire make.
But fate has a funny way of bringing people together. Just as Julia starts to flounder amidst family troubles, problem drinking and a broken heart, she meets Arietty and the two of them set up The Shoestring Club – time-sharing one extraordinary dress and beginning a life-altering friendship.
Christmas at Eagle Pond ($1.99 Kindle, B&N), by Donald Hall and Mary Azarian (Illustrator), is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.Book Description
Donald Hall draws on his own childhood memories and gives himself the thing he most wanted but didn't get as a boy: a Christmas at Eagle Pond.
It’s the Christmas season of 1940, and twelve-year-old Donnie takes the train to visit his grandparents' place in rural New Hampshire. Once there, he quickly settles into the farm’s routines. In the barn, Gramp milks the cows and entertains his grandson by speaking rhymed pieces, while Donnie’s eyes are drawn to an empty stall that houses a graceful, cobwebby sleigh. Now Model A's speed over the wintry roads, which must be plowed, and the beautiful sleigh has become obsolete. When the church pageant is over, the gifts are exchanged, and the remains of the Christmas feast put away, the air becomes heavy with fine snowflakes—the kind that fall at the start of a big storm—and everyone wonders, how will Donnie get back to his parents on time?
Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is The Sign of the Beaver ($1.99), by Elizabeth George Speare.Book Description
Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.
Grade Level: 5 and up
