The current
Lightning Deal, for those that read my posts as they go up, is a Sublime Imprint Anti-Fatigue Cobblestone Series Comfort Mat. We have two of these in the kitchen and I truly love them for standing on while cooking or washing dishes. They are, though, a bit pricy and the current additional $20 off drops them from outrageous to just expensive
Today's Kindle Daily Deal is
In the Shadow of the Banyan (
$1.99), by Vaddey Ratner [Simon and Schuster].
Book Description
Told from the tender perspective of a young girl who comes of age amid the Cambodian killing fields, this searing first novel—based on the author’s personal story—has been hailed by Little Bee author Chris Cleave as “a masterpiece…utterly heartbreaking and impossibly beautiful.”
For seven-year-old Raami, the shattering end of childhood begins with the footsteps of her father returning home in the early dawn hours bringing details of the civil war that has overwhelmed the streets of Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital. Soon the family’s world of carefully guarded royal privilege is swept up in the chaos of revolution and forced exodus.
Over the next four years, as she endures the deaths of family members, starvation, and brutal forced labor, Raami clings to the only remaining vestige of childhood—the mythical legends and poems told to her by her father. In a climate of systematic violence where memory is sickness and justification for execution, Raami fights for her improbable survival. Displaying the author’s extraordinary gift for language, In the Shadow of the Banyan is testament to the transcendent power of narrative and a brilliantly wrought tale of human resilience.
Today's Kindle Romance Daily Deal is
Send Me No Flowers (
$1.99), by Trish Jensen [Bell Bridge Books].
Book Description
When she was known as an overweight kid from a “loony” family, he often rescued her from bullies. Now she’s come back home all grownup and gorgeous, and he’s the one who will need rescuing.
Sheriff Rob Townsend of Daredevil, South Carolina remembers Jenny Creighton as the girl mean kids called “Jumbo Jenny.” He was compelled to protect her on more than one occasion, a brand of heroic kindness Jenny never forgot. Jenny’s returned to the small town to claim an inheritance and open a flower shop. On the inside, however, she’s still the chubby girl who doesn’t want anyone to remember her humiliating past.
Rob has turned into a hunk with a painful history of his own—one that makes him the biggest heartbreaker south of the Mason-Dixon line. When he becomes her best customer—buying flowers as goodbye gifts for a growing line-up of ex-girlfriends—the women in Daredevil begin to run from Jenny and her kiss-goodbye bouquets. How can she build a business when all the single gals in town are scared to see her on their doorsteps? And what are the secrets behind her childhood hero’s love-’em-and-leave-’em lifestyle?
Today's Kindle SciFi/Fantasy Daily Deal is
Sandman Slim (
$1.99), by Richard Kadrey [HarperCollins], even though the deals page says it's still
The Map of the Sky by Felix J. Palma. The the
companion audiobook is $2.99. Not only has this first
Sandman Slim novel been issued in a reprint edition, there is a new addition to the series coming later this fall:
Kill City Blues (now available for pre-order). If you are a long-time reader, be sure to check your libraries, tho - this novel has been free twice before (2-3 years ago), both times in different editions. If you want the audiobook at the discounted price, tho, you'll need to pick up this newer edition on Kindle, as the two older editions are not linked to the Audible edition.
Book Description
Sandman Slim has arrived—a wild and weird, edge-of-your-seat supernatural roller-coaster rider that propels author Richard Kadrey to the forefront of the fantasy, thriller, and a host of other literary genres. This spellbinding, utterly remarkable tale of a vengeful magician/hitman’s return from hell is part H.P. Lovecraft, part Christopher Moore, part Jim Butcher, and totally, unabashedly dark, twisted, and hilarious.
Today's Kindle Teens Daily Deal is
Fever 1793 (
$0.99), by Laurie Halse Anderson [Simon and Schuster]. Publisher's Weekly calls this historical novel "extremely well researched" and the reader reviews are overwhelmingly five stars.
Book Description
It's late summer 1793, and the streets of Philadelphia are abuzz with mosquitoes and rumors of fever. Down near the docks, many have taken ill, and the fatalities are mounting. Now they include Polly, the serving girl at the Cook Coffeehouse. But fourteen-year-old Mattie Cook doesn't get a moment to mourn the passing of her childhood playmate. New customers have overrun her family's coffee shop, located far from the mosquito-infested river, and Mattie's concerns of fever are all but overshadowed by dreams of growing her family's small business into a thriving enterprise. But when the fever begins to strike closer to home, Mattie's struggle to build a new life must give way to a new fight-the fight to stay alive.
