The Die Hard: 25th Anniversary Collection [Blu-ray] is currently 58%; get all four movies for the price of one. Plus, this week only, get Arrested Development: Seasons 1-3 on DVD for only $24.99
Today's Kindle Romance Daily Deal is Hearts Unleashed ($2.99), the third novel in the Second Acts contemporary romance series by Julia Dumont [BroadLit].Book Description
Cynthia Amas, matchmaking guru to everyone but herself, has just opened the new offices of her highly personalized boutique dating service in Hollywood, California. One of her new clients——a gorgeous, well-connected, uber-rich widow——comes in search of a new lease on life in the form of no less than a social and sexual reawakening. The story moves across the endlessly entertaining landscape of Los Angeles——from an astonishingly erotic art exhibit to a decidedly intoxicating voyage with a wildly attractive crew of love and lust seekers via a luxury yacht up the Southern California coast.
Colorful supporting characters in this sensuous and deliciously convoluted farce include Cynthia’s best friend Lolita and her ever-mystifying pack of talented dogs; Paloma, Cynthia’s beautiful young assistant; a passionate new import from Dublin named Seamus O’Brien; baddest-of-bad-boy ex-lovers Max; and superstar screen idol Jack Stone...all seemingly hell-bent on complicating the matters of the heart beyond belief. Meanwhile, Cynthia’s lovably eccentric mother has run off to Italy with one of the biggest philanderers in Hollywood.
Throughout it all, Cynthia attempts to maintain a long distance affair with her own possible once-in-a-lifetime true love match, but as she encounters the sensual on-the-job temptations of a life in the romance business, it all seems to be slipping through her fingers.
Love and lust stir up jealousies and romantic entanglements that come to a passionate and hilarious climax, leaving the reader breathless from laughter and pretty much every other emotion.
Today's Kindle Daily Deal is 11 classic novels by Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Margaret Mitchell, John Irving, and more, for only $1.99 apiece. These are classic, but not public-domain classics, as they are generally still under copyright (at least in the US) and are published by Simon and Schuster and HarperCollins.- The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
- Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell (companion audiobook $3.99)
- Tender is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (companion audiobook $3.99)
- Cry, the Beloved Country, by Alan Paton
- The Cider House Rules, by John Irving
- The Thorn Birds, by Colleen McCullough
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.), by Betty Smith (companion audiobook $3.99)
- The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition, by Ernest Hemingway
- A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition, by Ernest Hemingway
- The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories, by Ernest Hemingway
- In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
Today's Kindle SciFi/Fantasy Daily Deal is The Body Departed ($0.99), by ex–private investigator J.R. Rain [Thomas & Mercer]. With dozens of his novels in my library, many in omnibus form, from before he was picked up by the Amazon imprint, it took me a while to determine that I did have this one in my library already (in the L.A. Rain omnibus). Now to decide, do I want the improved editing of the new edition....Book Description
When a killer broke into James Blakely’s apartment and fired twelve bullets into his body, it was the end of James’s life—but just the beginning of his journey to redemption. Sentenced to burn in hell for a crime he cannot remember, James is given the choice to proceed immediately to the afterlife or haunt the world of the living in search of his killer. Electing to return to Earth as a ghost, he attempts to solve the mystery of his own murder, visits the living—starting with his daughter and ex-wife—and confronts the sins in his past that put him on the fast track to eternal damnation.
With the help of a world-class medium, James begins to make progress. Forgiveness is possible, it seems, for a good man who made some bad choices. But with the memories of his life on Earth fading out one by one and his ghost body rapidly disintegrating, James faces the very real prospect of vanishing completely before he learns the devastating secret that kept his soul from achieving its true potential.
Today's Kindle Kids Daily Deal is Heidi Heckelbeck Has a Secret ($0.99), by Wanda Coven [Simon and Schuster].Book Description
Introducing Heidi Heckelbeck—a brand-new young chapter-book series with witchy whimsy!
Now readers between the ages of five and seven can read chapter books tailor-made for a younger level of reading comprehension. Heavily illustrated with large type, Little Simon's young chapter books let young readers feel like they are reading a “grown-up” format with subject, text, and illustrations geared specifically for their own age groups!
Heidi Heckelbeck seems like any other eight-year-old, but she has a secret: She’s a witch in disguise. Careful to keep her powers hidden (but excited to use them all the same), Heidi’s learning to live like any other kid—who just happens to be witch. And with easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, Heidi Heckelbeck chapter books are perfect for beginning readers.
Heidi and her brother Henry have always been homeschooled—until now. But Heidi is not happy about attending Brewster Elementary, especially not when meanie Melanie Maplethorpe turns Heidi’s first day of school into a nightmare by announcing that Heidi is smelly and ruining her art project. Heidi feels horrible and never wants to go back to school—but while sulking in her room at home, she remembers her special medallion and Book of Spells. With a little bit of carefully concealed magic, Heidi might be able to give Melanie a taste of her own medicine….
Age Level: 5 and up
