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Sunday, April 21, 2013

Kindle Daily Deals 4/21

Earth Day Deal of the Week: Up to 60% off "The National Parks: America's Best Idea" and Select Titles from National Geographic and the Discovery Channel.

Over at Kobo, play the new Unforgettable Villians Trivia Game for coupons (up to 75% off) and a chance at a free Kobo Mini. You can play once a day, but on the first day you play, don't forget to go back and answer all previous day's questions and you'll get a coupon for each one.

Today's Kindle Daily Deal is 40 Kindle Mysteries & Thrillers, Each $1.99 or Less. These are all from Amazon's publishing imprints Thomas & Mercer, 47North, AmazonCrossing and Montlake Romance (a Romantic Suspense pick), with authors such as Max Allan Collins, LJ Sellers, Jayne Ormerod, Jutta Profijt, Blair S. Walker and Barbara Warren featured in the selections. For those that prefer audiobooks, most seem to have companion editions at Audible, with prices in the $1.99 to $3.49 range, which means they are less than half the subscription credit price, even after paying for the Kindle edition first.
Deal Description
Today only, save on any of 40 riveting Kindle mysteries and thrillers. Kindle books can be read on Kindles and free Kindle reading apps, or given as gifts to anyone with an e-mail address.

Today's Kindle Romance Daily Deal is On A Night Like This ($1.99), the first title in NY Times bestselling author Barbara Freethy's Callaways series. Like many of her backlist titles, this is now self-published under her own Fog City Publishing label.
Book Description
A romantic new contemporary series about the Callaways, a big, blended Irish family born to serve and protect. 


The second oldest of the Callaway clan, Aiden Callaway veered from the family tradition of urban firefighting and became a smokejumper, never questioning his choice until the job took the life of his friend, Kyle, and left Aiden with injuries and fractured memories. Everyone blames Aiden for what happened, but he doesn't remember, nor is he sure he wants to remember. The truth may clear Aiden of blame but destroy Kyle's reputation and hurt the people he left behind. 
 


Aiden seeks help from an unlikely ally … 
 


Sara had always been untouchable, sweet, innocent, his sister's best friend, and the girl next door. But one reckless night in their youth took their relationship to a new level. Sara has never forgiven or forgotten the way Aiden brought it crashing down, but she's no longer that girl with the crazy crush. She's a woman in search of her own truth.

The sparks between Aiden and Sara have been smoldering for a very long time. Sara is afraid to take another chance on a man who broke her heart, and Aiden knows better than anyone how dangerous an intense fire can be.

As teenagers they weren't ready for each other. Are they ready now?

Today's Kindle SciFi/Fantasy Daily Deal is Sabriel ($1.99), the first title in the Old Kingdom series by Garth Nix and Leo And Diane Dillon (Illustrator) [HarperTeen].
Book Description
Since childhood, Sabriel has lived outside the walls of the Old Kingdom, away from the power of Free Magic, and away from the Dead who refuse to stay dead. But now her father, the Mage Abhorson, is missing, and Sabriel must cross into that world to find him. With Mogget, whose feline form hides a powerful, perhaps malevolent spirit, and Touchstone, a young Charter Mage, Sabriel travels deep into the Old Kingdom. There she confronts an evil that threatens much more than her life'and comes face to face with her own hidden destiny. . . Garth Nix's first young adult novel, Sabriel was recently nominated for the Aurealis Award for Excellence in Science Fiction in Australia.

Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is 2005 Newbery Medal winner Kira-Kira ($0.99), by Cynthia Kadohata [Simon and Schuster].
Book Description
kira-kira (kee' ra kee' ra): glittering; shining

Glittering. That's how Katie Takeshima's sister, Lynn, makes everything seem. The sky is kira-kira because its color is deep but see-through at the same time. The sea is kira-kira for the same reason. And so are people's eyes. When Katie and her family move from a Japanese community in Iowa to the Deep South of Georgia, it's Lynn who explains to her why people stop them on the street to stare. And it's Lynn who, with her special way of viewing the world, teaches Katie to look beyond tomorrow. But when Lynn becomes desperately ill, and the whole family begins to fall apart, it is up to Katie to find a way to remind them all that there is always something glittering -- kira-kira -- in the future.

Luminous in its persistence of love and hope, Kira-Kira is Cynthia Kadohata's stunning debut in middle-grade fiction.


Age Range: 10 and up