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Monday, May 20, 2013

Kindle Daily Deals 5/20

Amazon's Android Free App of the Day is Fraction Calculator Plus, which looks to be useful for checking the kid's homework.

I also see that Angry Birds Seasons has had an update, with 36 new levels and magic portals! If you have the Ad-Free Edition, which was a free daily app a couple of years ago, you should be able to update; I may use part of my $5 Amazon Coins credit to grab the Kindle Tablet Edition. I also see that the Bad Piggies Premium HD (Kindle Tablet Edition) is only 99 cents today; although it isn't marked as a sale, Rovio usually charges $2.99 for Tablet Editions and $0.99 for the Ad-Free Edition, which makes me think that it is.

Amazon's Digital Software Deal of the Week is 64% off two Quicken products: Quicken WillMaker Plus 2013 and Quicken Legal Business Pro 2013. Both come with updates thru the end of the year, plus WillMaker gives you free access to Nolo's Online Living Trust, a $79 value, while Legal Business includes the complete, searchable text of five Nolo business bestsellers plus a free download of Nolo's bestselling book Working With Independent Contractors, a $34.99 value, when you register.

Today's Kindle Daily Deal is Berried to the Hilt ($1.99), the fourth novel in the Gray Whale Inn Mystery series by Karen MacInerney [Midnight Ink].
Book Description
When a lobsterman discovers a sunken ship, Cranberry Island is abuzz with excitement. Is the wreck the remains of the Myra Barton, the missing ship of island sea captain Jonah Selfridge? Or the elusive Black Marguerite, which belonged to one of the most notorious pirates of the 17th century and vanished without a trace—except for the ghost ship that old-timers say roams the water on fog-shrouded nights?

Soon the island is swarming with marine archaeologists and treasure hunters. It’s good news for Natalie—and for the Gray Whale Inn—until a body turns up floating near the wreck. Natalie finds herself immersed in the world of pirates and sunken treasure, both past and present. Will she solve the mystery and find the killer in time? Or will Natalie be the next to join the lost ship’s crew, down in Davy Jones’ locker?

Today's Kindle Romance Daily Deal is Beach House No. 9 ($1.99), the first Crescent Cove CA novel by Christie Ridgway [Harlequin HQN].
Book Description
USA TODAY bestselling author Christie Ridgway introduces a sizzling new series set in Crescent Cove, California, where the magic of summer can last forever…

When Jane Pearson arrives at Griffin Lowell's beach house, she expects a brooding loner. After all, his agent hired her to help the reclusive war journalist write his stalled memoir. Instead, Jane finds a tanned, ocean-blue-eyed man in a Hawaiian shirt, hosting a beach party and surrounded by beauties. Faster than he can untie a bikini top, Griffin lets Jane know he doesn't want her. But she desperately needs this job and digs her toes in the sand.

Griffin intends to spend the coming weeks at Beach House No. 9 taking refuge from his painful memories—and from the primly sexy Jane, who wants to bare his soul. But warm nights, moonlit walks and sultry kisses just may unlock both their guarded hearts….

Today's Kindle SciFi/Fantasy Daily Deal is The Secret Hour ($1.99), the first novel in the YA Midnighters Trilogy by Scott Westerfeld [HarperCollins].
Book Description
Nobody is safe in the secret hour.

Strange things happen at midnight in the town of Bixby, Oklahoma.

Time freezes.

Nobody moves.

For one secret hour each night, the town belongs to the dark creatures that haunt the shadows. Only a small group of people know about the secret hour -- only they are free to move about the midnight time.

These people call themselves Midnighters. Each one has a different power that is strongest at midnight: Seer, Mindcaster, Acrobat, Polymath. For years the Midnighters and the dark creatures have shared the secret hour, uneasily avoiding one another. All that changes when the new girl with an unmistakablemidnight aura appears at Bixby High School.

Jessica Day is not an outsider like the other Midnighters. She acts perfectly normal in every way. But it soon becomes clear that the dark creatures sense a hidden power in Jessica . . . and they're determined to stop her beforeshe can use it.

A story of courage, shadowy perils, and unexpected destiny, the secret hour is the first volume of the mesmerizing Midnighters trilogy by acclaimed author Scott Westerfeld.

Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is A Prince among Frogs ($2.99), the seventh title in the Tales of the Frog Princess series by E. D. Baker [Bloomsbury USA Childrens].
Book Description
Princess Millie and her fiancé, Audun, are busy preparing for their wedding when trouble starts brewing in Greater Greensward. Millie's baby brother, Felix, has been kidnapped and is trapped in a swamp full of other frogs. With all the adults busy fixing problems elsewhere in the kingdom, it's up to Millie and Audun to find him-but they need all the help they can get to fight the family's oldest nemesis, the angry wizard Olebald. From the deep blue sea to the soaring skies, our two heroes will stop at nothing to get their families back together and banish all the troublemakers for good.E. D. Baker brings out all our favorite characters for this funny and ferocious finale to Tales of the Frog Princess, the best-selling series that inspired Disney's The Princess and the Frog.

Age Range: 10 and up