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VeggieTales Spotisode Collection, currently an Amazon exclusive and also free today
Ice Age (
$0.99), by Brian Freemantle, is today's Kindle Deal of the Day. One thing I discovered in cleaning out my archive (if only for the Manage My Kindle page), is that I had several of his books hiding there, unread. But, until now, not this one (which I have corrected).
Book Description
A mysterious disease emerges from the Antarctic, threatening the survival of mankind
As the polar ice caps melt, scientists prepare for slowly rising sea levels. But there is a far more urgent threat, hitherto unimaginable, which in a matter of months—not decades—may destroy civilization as we know it.
A polar research station has gone quiet, and the crew that investigates finds four corpses—their bones arthritic, their skin withered, their hair reduced to tattered wisps. They are the bodies of the four scientists manning the station—none of them over forty-five years old. A terrifying virus, which causes adults to race to old age, has emerged from the ice where it has been locked since prehistoric times. Against such an ancient illness man has no immunity, and unless someone can stop it, the Earth is about to be swept clean by history’s deadliest plague.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
The White League (
$1.56 / £0.99 UK), by Thomas Zigal , is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the
US edition is $7.99 or can be borrowed from the KLL). It's has only a single one-star review on the UK Amazon site, but is averaging 4.8 on the US site.
Book Description
Blackmail, a secret organization hiding within the elite society of New Orleans, a white supremacist running for governor of Louisiana; these are the key ingredients in this fine Southern crawfish boil of a novel about guilt, privilege and racism in one of America's most exotic cities.
Murder in the Marais (
$2.99 Kindle,
B&N), the first in the
Aimee Leduc series by Cara Black, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle. This was free, ever so briefly, in Feb '09, but under a different ASIN (it was truly free for a few hours, then back to full price, then free with purchase of another book in Mar '09), so if you've had your Kindle for quite a while, be sure to check your archives first, before purchasing.
Book Description
Aimée Leduc, a Parisian private investigator, has always sworn she would stick to tech investigation—no criminal cases for her. Especially since her father, the late police detective, was killed in the line of duty. But when an old Jewish man approaches Aimée with a top-secret decoding job on behalf of a woman in his synagogue, Aimée unwittingly takes on more than she was expecting. When she goes to drop off her findings at her client's house in the Marais, Paris's historic Jewish quarter, she finds the old woman strangled to death, a swastika carved on her forehead. With the help of her partner, René, Aimée sets out to solve this horrendous crime, but finds herself in an increasingly dangerous web of ancient secrets and buried war crimes.
