Today's Kindle Daily Deal is Tobacco Road ($1.99), by Erskine Caldwell [Open Road], with the companion audiobook for $4.99.Book Description
Caldwell’s bestselling, controversial classic: the story of a Southern sharecropper family ground down by the devastation of the Great Depression
Even before the Great Depression struck, Jeeter Lester and his family were desperately poor sharecroppers. But when hard times begin to affect the families that once helped support them, the Lesters slip completely into the abyss. Rather than hold on to each other for support, Jeeter, his wife Ada, and their twelve children are overcome by the fractured and violent society around them.
Banned and burned when first released in 1932, Tobacco Road is a brutal examination of poverty’s dehumanizing influence by one of America’s great masters of political fiction.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erskine Caldwell including rare photos and never-before-seen documents courtesy of the Dartmouth College Library.
Today's Kindle Romance Daily Deal is Love Can Be Murder ($1.99), a multi-novel anthology by Stephanie Bond [indie; Mira author].Book Description
FOUR stories--three full-length books plus a bonus short story to keep you entertained for hours!
PARTY CRASHERS--No invitation, no alibi...
IN DEEP VOODOO--A woman stabs a voodoo doll of her ex and he winds up dead!
GOT YOUR NUMBER--You can run, but your past will eventually catch up with you...
"BUMP IN THE NIGHT"--A woman finds a man dead on her couch!
LOVE CAN BE MURDER would make a great gift for a mystery lover...or treat yourself!
Note: When buying electronic books, there's always a very small chance the digital file will be corrupted during the download process depending on the integrity of your Internet connection and the speed of your device. That chance increases slightly when the file is large, such as with a boxed set of books. In the rare event that you do find your book file is garbled/corrupted, simply contact Amazon customer service to arrange for another download of the book free of charge!
Today's Kindle SciFi/Fantasy Daily Deal is Against the Fall of Night ($1.99), a novella by Arthur C. Clarke [RosettaBooks].Book Description
Living in the 10-billion-year-old city of Diaspar, Alvin is the last child born of humanity. He is intensely curious about the outside world. According to the oldest histories kept by the city fathers, however, there is no outside world—it was destroyed by the Invaders millions of years ago.
One day, Alvin finds a rock with an inscription seemingly meant for him: “There is a better way. Give my greetings to the Keeper of the Records. Alaine of Lyndar.” This cryptic message takes Alvin on a quest to discover humanity’s true past—and its future.
Originally published in the November 1948 issue of Startling Stories, Against the Fall of Night is a rich and intensely poetic vision of a distant future that’s sure to delight fans of Clarke and science fiction as a genre.
Running with the Pack: Thoughts From the Road on Meaning and Mortality (£1.30 UK), by Mark Rowlands, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (no US edition).Book Description
'Most of the serious thinking I have done over the past twenty years has been done while running.'
Mark Rowlands has run for most of his life. He has also been a professional philosopher. And for him the two - running and philosophising - are inextricably connected. In Running with the Pack he tells us about the most significant runs of his life - from the entire day he spent running as a boy in Wales, to the runs along French beaches and up Irish mountains with his beloved wolf Brenin, and through Florida swamps more recently with his dog Nina. Intertwined with this honest, passionate and witty memoir are the fascinating meditations that those runs triggered. He ends by describing running a mid-life marathon with absolutely no training. Woven throughout the book are profound meditations on mortality, midlife and the meaning of life. This is a highly original and moving book that will make the philosophically inclined want to run, and those who love running become intoxicated by philosophical ideas.
Everything Is Perfect When You're a Liar ($2.99 Kindle, B&N), by Kelly Oxford [It Books], is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle. This is a new release for this week from HarperCollins (so new, they haven't added a description to the Kindle edition, yet), so expect a sharp rise in price tomorrow (and hey, if you bought it on Kindle as a pre-order, you should have received the lower price, so check your invoice!).Book Description
Kelly Oxford is . . .
A wunderkind producer of pirated stage productions for six-year-olds
Not the queen of the world
An underage schnitzel-house dishwasher
The kid who stood up to a bully and almost passed out from the resulting adrenaline rush
A born salesman
Capable of willing her eyesight to be 20/20
That girl who peed her pants in the gas station that one time
Totally an expert on strep throat
Incapable of making Leonardo DiCaprio her boyfriend
A writer
A certified therapy assistant who heals with Metallica mixtapes
"Not fat enough to be super snuggly." —Bea, age four
Not above using raspberry-studded sh*t to get out of a speeding ticket
"Bitingly funny. But everybody knows that." —Roger Ebert
Sad that David Copperfield doesn't own a falcon
A terrible liar
Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is The Candymakers ($1.99), by Wendy Mass [Hachette], with the companion audiobook for $3.49.Book Description
Four children have been chosen to compete in a national competition to find the tastiest confection in the country. Who will invent a candy more delicious than the Oozing Crunchorama or the Neon Lightning Chew?
Logan, the Candymaker's son, who can detect the color of chocolate by touch alone?
Miles, the boy who is allergic to merry-go-rounds and the color pink?
Daisy, the cheerful girl who can lift a fifty-pound lump of taffy like it's a feather?
Or Philip, the suit-and-tie wearing boy who's always scribbling in a secret notebook?
This sweet, charming, and cleverly crafted story, told from each contestant's perspective, is filled with mystery, friendship, and juicy revelations.
Age Range: 8 and up
