Last night's UK books are all free for US Kindle customers.
EPUB and nook formats are now available for
Five Free Short Stories by Daniel Orozco, while
Brand Like A Rock Star has a DRM-free PDF available (still not free on Kindle).
The Justice Game (
$1.99), by Randy Singer, is today's Kindle Deal of the Day. This one was free last Christmas, for those who have had your Kindle's for a while, courtesy of Christian publisher Tyndale House.
Book Description
After the target of an investigative report storms a Virginia Beach television station, he kills one of the anchors before the SWAT team takes him down. Following the victim’s funeral, her family files a lawsuit against the gun company who manufactured the killer’s weapon of choice. The lawyers for the plaintiff and defendant—Kelly Starling and Jason Noble—are young, charismatic, and successful. They’re also easy blackmail targets, both harboring a personal secret so devastating it could destroy their careers. Millions of dollars—and more than a few lives—are at stake. But as Kelly and Jason battle each other, they discover that the real fight is with unseen forces intent on controlling them both.
Medicus ($7.14 Kindle;
$2.99 B&N), the first in the
Medicus/Gaius Petreius Ruso Investigation series by Ruth Downie, is today's Nook Daily Find. Also published under the title
Ruso and the Disappearing Dancing Girls, this one was free at the first of the year, in most formats.
Book Description
Divorced and down on his luck, Gaius Petreius Ruso has made the rash decision to seek his fortune in an inclement outpost of the Roman Empire, namely Britannia. In a moment of weakness, after a straight thirtysix-hour shift at the army hospital, he succumbs to compassion and rescues an injured slave girl, Tilla, from the hands of her abusive owner. Now he has a new problem: a slave who wont talk and cant cook, and drags trouble in her wake. Before he knows it, Ruso is caught in the middle of an investigation into the deaths of prostitutes working out of the local bar. Now Ruso must summon all his forensic knowledge to find a killer who may be after him next. With a gift for comic timing and historical detail, Ruth Downie has conjured an ancient world as raucous and real as our own.
Nobody's Princess (
$3.99 Kindle,
B&N), by Esther Friesner
Book Description
She is beautiful, she is a princess, and Aphrodite is her favorite goddess, but something in Helen of Sparta just itches for more out of life. Not one to count on the gods—or her looks—to take care of her, Helen sets out to get what she wants with steely determination and a sassy attitude. That same attitude makes Helen a few enemies—such as the self-proclaimed "son of Zeus" Theseus—but it also intrigues, charms, and amuses those who become her friends, from the famed huntress Atalanta to the young priestess who is the Oracle of Delphi.
In Nobody's Princess, author Esther Friesner deftly weaves together history and myth as she takes a new look at the girl who will become Helen of Troy. The resulting story offers up adventure, humor, and a fresh and engaging heroine you cannot help but root for.
As a part of their recently announced
Galaxy Project, RosettaBooks has released a
number of stories that were originally published in Galaxy Magazine. These are classic SciFi, featuring authors such as Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Heinlein, Frederik Pohl and Ray Bradbury. Currently, there are 23 selections, all priced at $1.99 each.
Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone (
$3.99), by Jenni Ferrari-Adler, isn't a recipe book aimed at getting singles to cook more at home (for that, try the new Mark Bittman Single,
Cooking Solves Everything: How Time in the Kitchen Can Save Your Health, Your Budget, and Even the Planet), but a collection of essays from well known people who do cook and eat alone, at least on occasion.
Book Description
In this delightful and much buzzed-about collection of essays, 26 writers and foodies invite readers into their kitchens to reflect on the secret meals they relish when no one else is looking. Part solace, part celebration, part handbook, Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant offers a wealth of company, inspiration, and humor—and finally, recipes that require no division or subtraction.
Featuring essays by:
Steve Almond, Jonathan Ames, Jami Attenberg, Laura Calder, Mary Cantwell, Dan Chaon, Laurie Colwin, Laura Dave, Courtney Eldridge, Nora Ephron, Erin Ergenbright, M. F. K. Fisher, Colin Harrison, Marcella Hazan, Amanda Hesser, Holly Hughes, Jeremy Jackson, Rosa Jurjevics, Ben Karlin, Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Beverly Lowry, Haruki Murakami, Phoebe Nobles, Ann Patchett, Anneli Rufus and Paula Wolfert.
Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being and
Happiness & Health: 9 Choices That Unlock the Powerful Connection Between the Two Things We Want Most (
$3.99), by Greg Hicks and Rick Foster, are both part of Penquin's current sale.
Choosing Brilliant Health
Proven ways to create positive behaviors and attitudes that make us healthier.
Stepping into a new frontier of health, Choosing Brilliant Health is the first practical guide to discovering the most powerful, yet least utilized, route to good health – the thoughts and behaviors that create positive emotions.
Based on groundbreaking new studies showing that positive emotions are a root cause of good health, high immune function and better healing, the book offers a clear, concise path to unraveling the mysteries of the mind-body connection.
Choosing Brilliant Health provides the means for anyone to take control of their health and to thrive in spite of inevitable illness and aging. By integrating a specific and easy-to- implement set of nine attitude-driven behaviors, people can live in Brilliant Health and actually alter their physical state, boost their immune function, reduce pain, enhance their ability to fight disease, reduce stress, recover faster from surgery, and live a longer and better life.
Happiness & Health
The first practical guide to the physical benefits of positive emotions-from the national bestselling authors of How We Choose to Be Happy.
Happiness & Health unravels the mysteries of the mindbody connection as it presents clinical, scientific, and anecdotal evidence that proves that the adoption of a set of simple behaviors-known collectively as the "model of health"-can biochemically enhance health and well-being.
Validated by international studies, including those conducted at the Mayo Clinic, the "model of health" as outlined in this book sets forth nine specific attitude- driven behaviors that anyone can integrate into their lives to achieve higher levels of both recovery from and prevention of illness.
Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University (
$3.99), by Mark Kramer and Wendy Call
Book Description
Inspiring stories and practical advice from America’s most respected journalists
The country’s most prominent journalists and nonfiction authors gather each year at Harvard’s Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism. Telling True Stories presents their best advice—covering everything from finding a good topic, to structuring narrative stories, to writing and selling your first book. More than fifty well-known writers offer their most powerful tips.
The essays contain important counsel for new and career journalists, as well as for freelance writers, radio producers, and memoirists. Packed with refreshingly candid and insightful recommendations, Telling True Stories will show anyone fascinated by the art of writing nonfiction how to bring people, scenes, and ideas to life on the page.
Tracking Bear: An Ella Clah Novel (
$2.99), by Aimee Thurlo and David Thurlo
Book Description
A group of businessmen is working to open a uranium mine and nuclear power plant on the Navajo Reservation. The NEED project will provide cheap power to the Navajo nation, employ many who are out of work, and earn income for the tribe by selling surplus power to Arizona, New Mexico, and other western states. Investigating the murder of a Navajo cop during a break-in and robbery, Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah learns that the dead man's father, a retired physicist, is strongly opposed to uranium mining and nuclear plants.
Ella's mother, Rose, opposes the plans as well, taking as her cause the health of the workers and the land. Kevin Tolino, the father of Ella's daughter, hires a bodyguard after receiving threats because of his public support of the project. A Navajo community college teacher is assaulted, and his office and home ransacked-apparently by the same person who murdered the Navajo police officer.
A tribal official who opposes NEED is murdered. Clues seem to lead to a major supporter of the nuclear project, but the man insists he's being framed. Other area murders are also linked to NEED supporters-but why would a group of wealthy businessmen kill their opponents when they could just outspend them? There has to be more going on than political wrangling, but Ella is fumbling in the dark, with uncooperative witnesses and few clues.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (
$3.19 Kindle,
B&N), by Jonathan Safran Foer
Book Description
Soon to be a major motion picture, starring Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, John Goodman, and more
Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history.
Nine-year-old Oskar Schell has embarked on an urgent, secret mission that will take him through the five boroughs of New York. His goal is to find the lock that matches a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11. This seemingly impossible task will bring Oskar into contact with survivors of all sorts on an exhilarating, affecting, often hilarious, and ultimately healing journey.
Cruise Confidential: A Hit Below the Waterline (Where the Crew Lives, Eats, Wars, and Parties -- One Crazy Year Working on Cruise Ships) (
$3.99), by Brian David Bruns
Book Description
In Cruise Confidential, Brian David Bruns spills the dirt — or in this case, the dirty water — on those romantic, fun-filled vacations at sea. His hilarious chronicle of the year he spent working for Carnival Cruise Lines takes readers down into the areas where the crew works and lives, leaving readers gasping with laughter as they’re assaulted nonstop with events that range from the absurd to the utterly bizarre. Stewards fighting over food. Cutlery allowances and other nonsensical rules. What the crew calls those onboard (no, it’s not “passengers”). And of course, the sex. An abundance of ready, willing, and able bodies eager for action on a vessel replete with nooks and crannies leads to love in some mighty strange, and seemingly impossible, places. Breezy, entertaining, and informative, Cruise Confidential is essential reading for those planning a cruise or for anyone who just needs a good laugh.
The Best American Sampler (
$0.99), by
Best American Series, contains some of the best short fiction/nonfiction selections from the past year. I have a couple of the larger compilations as review copies, but there are bound to be a few titles in this one that I don't have, judging from the description. This one and the rest of the series will be released tomorrow.
Book Description
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. The guest editor then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected – and most popular – of its kind.
This special e-book contains eleven selections from the following 2011 editions:
The Best American Short Stories edited by Geraldine Brooks
The Best American Essays edited by Edwidge Danticat
The Best American Mystery Stories edited by Harlan Coben
The Best American Science and Nature Writing edited by Mary Roach
The Best American Sports Writing edited by Jane Leavy
The Best American Travel Writing edited by Sloane Crosley
Hero's Ransom ($9.49 Kindle), by Diane & David Munson, is free from ChristianBook.
