It's the AppStore's birthday and all week Amazon has a number of
apps at 50% or better off. Included are favorites such as Scrabble (which only works on the Kindle Fire and Fire HD, but not generic tablets/phones or the HD 8.9"), Angry Birds Space, Angry Birds Star Wars, The Game of Life, a Sesame Street App, Goodnight Moon (an interactive book), OfficeSuite Professional 7 and more.
Today's Kindle Daily Deal is
Everyone Leaves (
$1.99), by Wendy Guerra and Achy Obejas (Translator), with the
companion audiobook for $1.99 [AmazonCrossing].
Book Description
Nieve Guerra finds herself caught between the tides of her parents’ rocky relationship and a country in the midst of a revolution. Recording her daily thoughts and accounts of living with her abusive father, an alcoholic theater actor, Nieve uses her diary to express herself. From being sent away from her mother, her mother’s free-spirited and loving boyfriend, and her childhood city of Cienfuegos to being forced to call herself a Cuban “revolutionary Pioneer,” Nieve records in honest detail a life in which she loses those she loves the most—and can do nothing about it.
Through her diary entries, Nieve reveals the intimate details of a turbulent family life while painting an authentic portrait of the social and political unrest in Cuba under the rule of Castro.
Today's Kindle Romance Daily Deal is
The Privateer (
$0.99), by Dawn Mactavish [Montlake].
Book Description
Lark at first hoped it was a simple nightmare: If she closed her eyes, she would be back in the mahogany bed of her spacious boudoir at Eddington Hall, and all would be well. Her father, the earl of Roxburgh, would not be dead by his own hand, and she would not be in Marshalsea debtor's prison.
Such was not to be. Ere the Marshalsea could do its worst, the earl of Grayshire intervened. Lark shivered, considering the mysterious stone-faced noble. He'd paid her bond while the rest of London turned an eye as blind as the one beneath his eye patch. But while his touch was electric and his gaze piercing, for what purpose had he bought her freedom? A plan including Cornwall, return to the world of the haute ton, and embroilment in a struggle against both England's own Admiralty and the French. But even more perilous, the ex-sea captain might plunder her heart. No, this was not a dream. As Lark would soon learn, her dreams had never ended so well.
Today's Kindle SciFi/Fantasy Daily Deal is
Extinction (
$1.99), the second novel in the
Star Force series by B. V. Larson, with the
companion audiobook also $1.99.
Book Description
Earth's Star Force Marines invade an alien world!
In the second book of the Star Force series, Kyle Riggs has another bad year. The Nano ships have a new mission--one that sentences their pilots to death. Meanwhile, the governments of Earth want to steal Star Force's Nano technology for their own. Worst of all, Earth has made a promise to the Macros, and the machines are coming to collect.
EXTINCTION is the story of Earth's entry into an interstellar war between living creatures and machines. To buy the peace, we've signed up with the machines.... EXTINCTION is an 111,000 word novel of science fiction by bestselling author B. V. Larson.
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy (
£1.09 UK), by Richard Rumelt, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the
US edition is $4.99).
Book Description
Even though everyone is talking about it, there is no concept in business today more muddled than 'strategy'. Richard Rumelt, described by McKinsey Quarterly as 'a giant in the field of strategy' and 'strategy's strategist', tackles this problem head-on in a jargon-free explanation of how to develop and take action on strategy, in business, politics and beyond. Rumelt dispels popular misconceptions about strategy - such as confusing it with ambitions, visions or financial goals - by very practically showing that a good strategy focuses on the challenges a business faces, and providing an insightful new approach for overcoming them. His sharp analysis and his brilliant, bold style make his book stand out from its competitors (something that Rumelt himself says is crucial). Rumelt has always challenged dominant thinking, ever since, in 1972, he was the first person to uncover a statistical link between corporate strategy and profitability - and this is his long-awaited tour de force.
Kiss Me Deadly (
$9.85 $1.99 Kindle,
B&N), by Susan Kearney, is the Nook Daily Find.
Update: Now price matched on Kindle.
Book Description
Her luck may have just run out . . .
Dedicated family attorney Amanda "Mandy" Newman may have survived an attempted drowning and, along with co-workers, just won the biggest lottery in history, but before she can collect, the ticket is stolen. Now, her co-workers are being murdered one by one.
She needs help, and that puts her between a rock and a hard man—the brother of a co-worker.
DEA officer Zack Taylor was a one-night stand who'd turned into so much more. Now that his family and Mandy are in danger, he is back in the picture. The attraction between them still simmers; Zack can feel it. But can he resist his desire for her long enough to discover her secret?
With her life on the line, the attraction between them should be kept on ice. After all, under the circumstances, a kiss could be deadly.
Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is
No Other Story (
$1.99), a part of the Whole Nother Story series by Dr. Cuthbert Soup [Bloomsbury USA Childrens].
Book Description
The Cheeseman family is back from back in time. In other words, they're in the present time. Well, presently, at least. They're soon to journey back again -- only just a few years this time -- to save the life of their beloved mother. But when they get to the not-so-distant-past, they meet something utterly surprising. Something wilder than anything they've seen before -- including cowboy poets and good-natured pirates. They are about to meet... The alternate versions of themselves!
