The Lord of the Rings: One Volume: Collector's Ed (
$9.99 Kindle), by J.R.R. Tolkien, appears to be the same 50th anniversary edition that Fictionwise has had for a while (I bought it a while ago), other than the cover. The description seems to imply that it has been updated, but I couldn't see any differences in the sample (which contains the TOC and a few of the forewords). Regardless, this is a good price on Kindle (and it's no longer for sale at FW)..
Book Description
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell by chance into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins.
From Sauron's fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, his power spread far and wide. Sauron gathered all the Great Rings to him, but always he searched for the One Ring that would complete his dominion.
When Bilbo reached his eleventy-first birthday he disappeared, bequeathing to his young cousin Frodo the Ruling Ring and a perilous quest: to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord, and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom.
The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the Wizard; the hobbits Merry, Pippin, and Sam; Gimli the Dwarf; Legolas the Elf; Boromir of Gondor; and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider.
This new edition includes the fiftieth-anniversary fully corrected text setting and, for the first time, an extensive new index.
J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973), beloved throughout the world as the creator of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion, was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, a fellow of Pembroke College, and a fellow of Merton College until his retirement in 1959. His chief interest was the linguistic aspects of the early English written tradition, but while he studied classic works of the past, he was creating a set of his own.
The Lamplighters (
$4.24), by Frazer Lee, is a Bram Stoker Award Finalist for Best First Novel of the Year. If you want to get it
direct from Samhain, use coupon code FIRSTBOOK for 30% off (end price $3.85), valid thru the end of the month.
Book Description
Life on Meditrine Island is luxurious…but brief.
Marla Neuborn has found the best post-grad job in the world – as a 'Lamplighter' working on Meditrine Island, an exclusive idyllic paradise owned and operated by a consortium of billionaires. All Lamplighters have to do is tend to the mansions, cook and clean, and turn on lights to make it appear the owners are home. But the job comes with conditions. Marla will not know the exact location of the island, and she will have no contact with the outside world for the duration of her stay.
Once on the island, Marla quickly learns the billionaire lifestyle is not all it is made out to be. The chief of security rules Meditrine with an iron fist. His private police force patrols the shores night and day, and CCTV cameras watch the Lamplighters relentlessly. Soon Marla will also discover first-hand that the island hides a terrible secret. She’ll meet the resident known as the Skin Mechanic. And she’ll find out why so few Lamplighters ever leave the island alive.
A Royal Mess (
$2.51), by Tyne O'Connell, looks like a nice YA romance.
Book Description
Calypso Kelly has finally joined the in-crowd at her exclusive English boarding school. She also just happens to be dating Prince Freddie himself! But balancing her social life, her prince, and her parents’ visit to London proves to be more than Calypso can handle.
Then, Freddie does the unthinkable and breaks up with Calypso--setting in motion a school-wide plan for a royal Counter Dump. Can Calypso win Freddie back just to break his heart?
All is fair in love and war . . . except, of course, if you’re in love with a prince!
It looks like
almost all of Jessica Burkhart's Canterwood Crest series of books are on sale by Simon and Schuster for $2.99 apiece (also
at B&N and
Kobo
) Skip the omnibus (vastly overpriced, even on sale) and snap up as many of these as your tweener will read. The series is aimed mostly a young girls and features Sasha Silver and her horse, Charm, amongst others.
- Take the Reins
- Chasing Blue
- Behind the Bit
- Triple Fault
- Best Enemies
- Little White Lies
- Rival Revenge
- Home Sweet Drama
- City Secrets
- Elite Ambition
- Scandals, Rumors, Lies
- Unfriendly Competition
- Initiation
- Popular ($5.99 pre-order)
- Comeback ($5.99 pre-order)
- Masquerade($5.99 pre-order)
- Chosen (Canterwood Crest Super Special)
Number the Stars (
$4.49), by Lois Lowry, is also aimed at the tweener market.
Book Description
This Newbery Medal Book describes how a ten-year-old Danish girl's bravery is tested when her best friend is threatened by Nazis in 1943.
Van Gogh's Room at Arles (
$1.99), by Stanley Elkin, is another great reprint edition from Open Road.
Book Description
Three witty and poignant novellas from a twentieth-century literary master at the peak of his craft
Van Gogh’s Room at Arles is Stanley Elkin’s second collection of novellas, a razor-sharp exploration of three characters suffering under the weight of intellectual, physical, and social burdens. In the collection’s title story, Elkin writes of an insecure professor’s scholarly retreat with the most accomplished members of his field. “Her Sense of Timing” is a story of a man who, though confined to a wheelchair, attempts to throw a party without the help of his absent wife. And in “Confessions of a Princess Manque,” Elkin writes of the Prince of Wales’s love affair with a common woman in a parody of a sensationalist tabloid story.
This ebook features rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate and from the Stanley Elkin archives at Washington University in St. Louis.
Deadly Appraisal (
$2.99), is the second title in the
Josie Prescott Antiques Mysteries series by Jane K. Cleland
Book Description
Josie Prescott is settling into her new life in New Hampshire. Her antiques business is thriving, she's beginning to make some close friends, and her relationship with the local police chief is becoming more interesting. Not bad for someone who has completely uprooted her life as a New York City auction house expert in order to get a fresh start in a small New England town.
With so much suddenly to lose, Josie can't help but worry when murder invades her seemingly quiet community. Josie is sponsoring the Portsmouth Women's Guild Annual Black and Gold Gala and is looking forward to receiving a kindly worded thank-you for her efforts. Instead, the Guild representative, Maisy Gaylor, dies a horrible death in the midst of the banquet. Who could have wanted to kill earnest, drab little Maisy? "Funny, isn't it," muses the hostile Detective Rowcliff, "how a lot of people end up dead when no one has any enemies."
Everyone who had access to the wine Maisy drank, including Josie herself, soon comes under suspicion. Can Josie manage to ferret out the truth, keep her business running smoothly, and continue to put down roots in her new town, or will everything prove too much for her to handle on her own?
Looped (
$0.99), by Andrew Winston, is the first of three titles on sale from publisher Agate Bolden, as part of Black History Month.
Book Description
A remarkably assured and accomplished debut novel that encompasses the bursting life of contemporary Chicago, Looped tells the separate stories of a diverse group of Chicagoans—black, brown, and white, gay, straight, and bi—as their lives unfold in diverging and (occasionally) converging ways over the course of the year 2000. Among the characters are the family of a middle-class black postman whose runaway daughter has just learned she’s pregnant; a gifted half-Vietnamese high-schooler whose troubled father spies on the son he abandoned years earlier; a tradition-bound Greek diner owner whose upwardly mobile daughter, embarrassed by her ethnic roots, is snarled in a loveless marriage; a gay chef whose shaky relationship is strained by the visit of his closeted lover’s uncle, a Catholic priest; and the motley members of an up-and-coming band shaken by the breakup of its ambitious lead guitarist and his sexually confused songwriter girlfriend. Ambitious, sprawling, engrossing, multifaceted, insightful, and addictively readable, Looped explodes with a life and vitality that mirrors the multicultural reality of twenty-first century Chicago, where the families that sustain us are more likely to be those we’ve created than those we’re born to.
The Skull Cage Key (
$0.99), by Michel Marriott
Book Description
Chinese New Year, 2042. Armstrong, an upwardly mobile Harlem resident, is out celebrating with his boss (and lover) when they’re assaulted in her hotel room. She ends up in the Jacuzzi minus her head; the cops are convinced he’s to blame. Armstrong goes on the lam, dodging the cops while trying to figure out exactly what happened that night. Answers come in the form of Oona, a sultry sex worker with an unexpectedly deep reservoir of information. As Armstrong digs for the whole story, a disgraced ex-cop is invited back to the force to combat a powerful designer drug that’s all the rage with the young, rich, and bored. As the two men’s paths draw inexorably together, the story behind the new drug becomes clearer — and far more sinister. This absorbing debut novel is a dark, erotic thriller with a powerful sci-fi kick.
The Burning City (
$0.99) is the second in the
Spirit Binders series by Alaya Dawn Johnson; the first title,
Racing the Dark, is also on sale at $4.19.
Book Description
In The Burning City, Alaya Dawn Johnson continues the trilogy begun with her debut, Racing the Dark, delving deeper into the world of magic wielded by women who understand the dark trade-offs of power and sacrifice. Lana, the heroine, has become the black angel —a harbinger of destruction unheard of in the islands for 500 years. Nui'ahi, the sleeping volcano of the great city Essel, has erupted. In the chaos, the city is reshaping itself and violence threatens from all corners. A rebel movement has formed in the destroyed heart of the city, determined to oust Kohaku, the mad Mo'i of Essel. Lana wants no part of the rebels' cause — the death spirit still chases her, and the great witch Akua has kidnapped Lana's mother. But the more Lana looks for her mother, the more she is drawn into the city's political conflicts. As Kohaku descends deeper into madness, determined to subdue the city by any means necessary, his wife has run away to the fire temple, where she too is slowly converted to the rebel's cause. When long-running tensions spill over into civil war, Lana must make her hardest decision yet: her mother's life, or a city's freedom?
The 25 Most Common Sales Mistakes: . . . And How to Avoid Them and
The 25 Sales Skills: They Don't Teach at Business School (
$1.99 ea), by Stephan Schiffman
The 25 Most Common Sales Mistakes: . . . And How to Avoid Them
In the newest edition of this valuable manual, Stephan Schiffman offers updated advice to salespeople about getting prospects and making the sale. It's not just what you do--it's what you don't do: Don't sell against a competitor; Don't be satisfied; Don't stop getting ideas; Don't use boilerplate proposals; Don't overuse e-mail. The book also includes a new introduction and updated text. Schiffman offers salespeople the kind of advice--from listening to the client to following up on the sale--that has made him the best corporate sales trainer today. With Schiffman's book in their pocket, salepeople can avoid common blunders and make the sale.
The 25 Sales Skills: They Don't Teach at Business School
America's top sales trainer Stephan Schiffman provides you with a unique syllabus that will help you land a coveted sales position-and lead the force in sales once you're there. Schiffman takes you out of the stuffy, insulated classroom and shows you "the hidden curriculum," all the skills business school professors don't know or simply don't know how to teach. Such as how to: Determine when a "prospect" is really that, and not just a waste of time; Flip a meeting's negative momentum on its head with disarming questions; Avoid the hazards of preconceptions of a client's needs; Get past "screeners" to get the ear of the real decision makers; Filter the good advice from the bad on the Internet; Impress a buyer deeply by demonstrating your focus. The 25 Sales Skills They Don't Teach at Business School is your key to the vault of sales success and personal wealth! Stephan Schiffman is America's most renowned sales trainer and is the bestselling author of numerous sales books, such as Cold Calling Techniques (That Really Work!) and The 25 Most Common Sales Mistakes. He is the president of DEI Management Group, Inc., and has trained over 300,000 salespeople.
The Simulacra (
$3.99), by Philip K. Dick
Book Description
On a ravaged Earth, fate and circumstances bring together a disparate group of characters, including a fascist with dreams of a coup, a composer who plays his instrument with his mind, a First Lady who calls all the shots, and the world’s last practicing therapist. And they all must contend with an underclass that is beginning to ask a few too many questions, aided by a man called Loony Luke and his very persuasive pet alien.
In classic Philip K. Dick fashion, The Simulacra combines time travel, psychotherapy, telekinesis, androids, and Neanderthal-like mutants to create a rousing, mind-bending story where there are conspiracies within conspiracies and nothing is ever what it seems.
It Was Love When...: Tales from the Beginning of Love (
$2.51), by Robert Elder
Book Description
He told me I was a penguin: "tiny, adorable, and loved by everyone."
TALES FROM THE BEGINNING OF LOVE
It may be after three days together, or after three months-it's that moment when it all falls together. From heartfelt declarations to all-knowing smiles, It Was Love When .. captures that moment when love is just beginning.
- I thought to myself, "I love him more than Spider-Man loves Mary Jane."
- I was looking through his iTunes when I realized that our playlists were nearly identical.
- Suddenly he turned off the lights and told me to look up at the ceiling. Glow-in-the-dark stars covered the entire ceiling, spelling out "I love you."
Both addictive and heartwarming, It Was Love When .. is a freeze frame of that moment when you realize that you're truly,completely in love.
